Descending Into A Novel-Chapter 99:Attunement Reveal

This whole situation took place sometime during the four years Raymond lived at the Grace estate.

At the time, Ellen had asked him. "Raymond. Why do you always refer to our dimension as a lower tier dimension?"

He tutted, "Because your dimension is a lower tier one. What else is there to explain?"

"But what does that mean exactly?"

He rubbed his chin, thinking on how he could best simplify this to a level where Ellen—someone who had never even touched magic could understand.

"Well. Imagine it like this. This entire dimension, that I call Terra is one floor on a building. The building has one hundred floors above ground and one hundred floors below ground."

Technically, Terra only referred to the human realm that they lived in. Not the entire dimension as a whole. But every dimension was extremely different from each other, and Raymond disliked simply calling it dimension 1 or dimension 67.

"Terra, would be basement floor ten."

She cocked her head, "Basement floor ten? What would be the ground floor then?"

"Earth."

"Didn’t you say Earth has no mana?"

"To be honest. I’m still unsure of the exact aspects why. This entire tier system was designed by me after all. But I base it on the difficulty of entering and leaving the dimension. It’s easy to enter lower tier dimensions, but harder to exit. It’s hard to enter higher tier dimensions but easy to leave."

Using the same building analogy, if Raymond was on floor ten and wanted to move to floor nine. It was easy to just smash a hole in the floor and drop down to floor nine. But harder for him to smash a hole in the roof and climb back up to floor ten. (Just pretend the building has no stairs or elevators)

Lounging back on the beanbags in her room, Raymond sighed a little. Oh the struggles of being a pioneer in something!

"The mana quality here is honestly mediocre. No wonder the limit is only the tenth level."

"Limit? What does that mean?"

"Well a limit is a restriction on the maxi-

"I know what the word limit means! What do you mean the limit of here is only the tenth level?"

Ellen mentally added a reminder to go ask dad to take away ice cream from him for a bit longer.

"The highest level this world can withstand is the tenth level. Why do you think no one has ever managed to make it past that level? Why do you think individuals always stagnate at the eight level?"

It was basically a known fact, you could blitz through the first seven levels in two decades. But the moment you reached the eight level, your progress would immediately slow down to a crawl.

"You said your home dimension is a higher tier one right? What’s the limit there then?"

"Sixteen."

Her eyes widened.

A whole six levels higher then them. From what little Raymond spoke about his home dimension, SSS-rank individuals there were about as common as B-rank individuals here.

"Wait, if you say that the mana quality here is way worse. Then why did it take you so long just to reach your current level?"

He rolled his eyes, "Ellen. It may have taken me way longer to reach my current level. But I can guarantee you that any native from my home dimension could wiple the floor with a Terra native, even if at the same level."

It was like comparing adults to babies. Any eighth level knight or mage in his home dimension could probably be considered the strongest in Terra. As long as there wasn’t any SSS-rank.

Not that any SSS-rank individuals had appeared in Terra for a long time anyways. The last were Casper and Viviana of the party of heroes.

In that case, then any tenth level knight or mage from his home dimension would be required.

"Even with the lower level, you guys have done pretty well anyways. Although, your advancements in magic are really lacking."

"Then why don’t you contribute your precious knowledge Mr. Archmage?"

**

Back to the present.

Right now, Raymond was like a pro smurfing in lower ranked lobbies.

Even his teacher’s original scrutinizing gaze disappeared. Turning into one of pure astonishment at Raymond’s feat.

He discreetly glanced at Ellen, flashing a wink at her which she responded with by rolling her eyes.

Their secret signal if you will. Raymond had gotten sick of hiding his attunement already, enough time had passed so it wouldn’t be as suspicious if he and Ellen revealed theirs.

"As a side note. While doing my research on this topic. I believe that I have identified my mana attunement."

Raising a palm to the ceiling, Raymond controlled his time-attuned mana to flow out of him and into the air. Letting everyone see the colour clearly.

"I formed my mana attunement last year. Thanks to these test I conducted, there is an extremely high likelihood that I and Ellen have formed a time-attunement. Anyway, back to what I was saying previously. When the ratio of the mana reach-

Casually throwing it out there that he and Ellen formed a time-attunement. He continued explaining the basics of dimension and well-attuned mana.

Raymond was reminded of the joy of teaching once again. He had often held lectures back when he was a temporary Magic Marshal teaching the few mages who decided to pursue these two magic disciplines, and of course. He had taught Anna everything she knew about magic.

Now, Raymond was once again introducing two entire new magic disciplines into the world. Like how Anna once did back then.

’...I miss her...’

Keeping his face still, Raymond carried on. After this, several spells would likely have to be reclassified.

Spells like teleport and spatial storages (similar to Raymond’s storage dimension) would be reclassified as under the space/dimension magic discipline. When they were previously under the grey magic discipline, which encompassed the more odd and neutral spells which didn’t fit under other categories.

Running out of slides, he clapped his hands and asked out loudly to end his presentation.

"That’s the end of my presentation. So to sum it up, I found proof of two new different mana attunements. Any questions?"

His teacher, Camila was the only one to ask. The rest of his classmates still too busy being stunned and whispering go each other.

"Raymond. While you have done an amazing feat. I have one question I want to ask."

He confidently gestured to let her continue.

"This is a group project. Have any of your group mates actually done any work?"

"..."

Damn!

Raymond had done something that made him worthy if being remembered throughout history. So why were you focused on this?!

He heard a sharp breath from where his group mates were standing. It seemed like he could hear Ellen’s as well?

His confident grin stiffened slightly as he answered with a small cough. "Ahem, Ellen helped by offering support?"

"What kind of help?"

"emotional..?"

"I see..."

She let out a hum as she tapped her pen on the table. Clearly in deep thought.

"I’ll give you a perfect score. But group projects exist to help develop team work. Not for one person to do all the work."

"Thank you teacher."

Perfect score! Now Ellen owed him ice cream!

Raymond completely erased all those hours of hard work spent on this presentation. The payoff was all worth it!

If he knew of the storm that was currently raging in the awakened community outside the academy due to his reveal. He likely would have regretted it, so it was a good thing he didn’t!

He was already planning on resting for the next two, no three weeks. Visit his favorite restaurant, maybe go for a walk,play some videogames, he still had another photoshoot coming up soon. Plus there was another Mages For Life lecture, with a figure that Raymond really respected holding the lecture so he wanted to attend that as well.

Oh and his Coffee Club meetings as well. Raymond also just received the first batch of grade four materials—equivalent to the E-rank, so he would try to reactivate his first circle soon. Ellen herself, after forming her core had blitzed through mana cultivation and was nearing the first tempering. He couldn’t let himself get left behind in the dust by Ellen of all people!

Sigh, but then they also had a mission coming up soon. Considering how bloated the special class was, with Raymond, Lucy and Cador. They were definitely going to be assigned some horrible mission.

They even had their first term exams coming up soon, although thruth be told. Raymond didn’t really care about the exams.

If Raymond didn’t have his perfect memory, he might even have forgotten the fact that they had exams. Why you ask?

Because although exams were a stressful day to any other student. To Raymond, it was just another monday, and who would remember a random monday last year?

Written exams? Perfect score.

Projects and assignments? Perfect score.

Sparring exams? Please, he easily bulldozed his way through any poor bastard that was thrown at him.

Even his fellow special class students were helpless against him. Since at the time, they had still yet to form a core and were only G+-ranks. While Raymond could easily beat all of them. Heck, he could still beat them all without a core!

But alas, being first place in terms of grades held no actual benefit.

You might get a few better job offers, and it would look good on a resume. But that was it. Humanity had plenty of brilliant minds already, no one went to the Academy For Heroes looking for a scientist.

While Raymond was still lost in thought, taking his seat with Ellen at the back of the class. One of his classmates discreetly took out a small pen, clicking it repeatedly as if they were simply hyperactive or bored. Sometimes long, sometimes short. With a few breaks in between every once in a while.