"Flame!

　The magic language reacts with the magical power in the air and releases the power hidden in the spirit of the word.
　Immediately, a red-burning flame appears in front of me.

　It burns in the air for a while, then it consumes the power and disappears.

　This is the 'flame', one of the witchcraft recorded in the grimoire.

The "flame" is a magic that sets fire to any place, object or magical object by chanting the magic language that means fire.
　In order to use this magic, it is essential to learn and understand the magic language and to be able to read the meaning of the words accurately.

　In addition, the magic language reacts with the "magic power" in the atmosphere to release the phenomena hidden in the spirit of the word to manifest as "magic". For this reason, the ability to sense the magical power in the air is also important.

　It is said that most humans have the ability to sense magic in the atmosphere, although there are individual differences.
　In the first place, it is not uncommon for humans to benefit from magical power on a daily basis. The soil in which crops grow, the rivers in which there is plenty of water, and the food we eat on a daily basis all contain magical power.

　In that sense, it should be possible for "every human being born into this world" to control magic, potentially.

　But even so, the number of sorcerers is still very small even in my reincarnated country, the Kingdom of Halkeniya.
　The only reason for this is because it is extremely difficult to learn the magic language.


　Naturally, the pronunciation of magical language is completely different from the words we use in our daily lives.
　Magical languages have only five vowels, unlike languages used in this world. However, there are more than fifty basic 'sounds', and one must be able to pronounce them all correctly.
　Some of these sounds are not in the language we usually use.

　Moreover, there are words that mean different things but are pronounced and vocalized exactly the same.
　They change minutely depending on the context and phraseology, and their meanings change, even within a series of sentences.

　That's why there are very few magicians. First of all, they don't come from the commoners who can't even be satisfied with general education.
　The only people who can use magic properly are the nobles and others who have a talent for magic language and have gone to the school of magic.

　The graduation rate of the Academy of Magic is also less than five percent. Even if a hundred students are admitted to the school every year, only five students will graduate - in other words, only five students will be recognized as magicians.

　In fact, the number of students per year rarely exceeds 100, so the number of people who can graduate is even smaller.
　Even within the Kingdom of Halkesia, there are less than fifty people who are recognized as magicians and by the royal family.
　And because there are so few of them, they receive enormous wealth, glory, and respect just by being a magician.

　It is precisely because of such an existence that becoming a sorcerer is an extremely difficult path.
　


　My name is Gerald. I'm the one who will be the first magician in the Halkenian Kingdom in the near future.

　My other name is Ogata Kazuhiko. This is a name from a previous life, and in my previous life I was a young man who grew up in a country called Japan on the planet Earth, and died at the young age of 19.