The wild fist shot straight towards Jack leaving him no time to dodge. His body flew across the wide cave and slammed into the rocky wall. Blood quickly dripped down and when the dust settled the 3 other students that were looking at Jack panicked, because of this a stray piece of magic flew towards him.
With no working limbs he had nothing to do but wait for his death.
Then black.
Beep Beep
Beep Beep
Beep Beep
Jack shot up in his bed, clutching his chest. The pain of the magic piercing his organs was both there and not, it existed in his mind but his body was completely fine. He felt like this situation had happened before but had no way of being sure.
With his free hand he slammed the alarm clock on the side of his bed finally ceasing the beeps.
"How am I alive? I got flung by a goblin and hit by magic, yet I am in my bed with no injuries."
There were two answers to his question, only one was seemingly reasonable.
'My classmates must had dragged me out of the dungeon and got me to the academy head healer.'
The only problem was the academies head healer does not perform on 1st year students, meaning either there was an exception or the other theory was true.
'I died and came back to life.'
This would be a completely insane thought if not for the strange development he remembered on his status screen.
Echo Spell System
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[Jack Rennard]
[Spells: N/A]
[Martial Arts: N/A]
[Echos: Memory Remembrance]
[Stats]
[Mana: 7]
[Qi: 1]
[Clarity: 10]
[Echo Points: 1]
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There was multiple things wrong with his status, the main one being the [Echos] tab, but also the [Echo Points] and the title was changed from [Academy System] to the [Echo Spell System].
In the [Echos] tab was a spell that he had never heard before nor had any of the teachers.
[Memory Remembrance: This Echo allows the user to remember their memories even after Death]
[Rank: ???]
[Echo Loop: Obtained from Loop 99]
The reason why he was so willing to believe the latter of the two reasons was because of the description of this spell. Being able to retain memories after death was pretty useless, but what if you were in a time loop?
This familiar scenario is exactly like when he woke up for his first day of classes, he felt the pain of dying, and he had a strange skill that talked about loops and death. Is there anything he could assume other than being in a time loop?
To prove his theory he decided to act on his memories. Jack put on the academy uniform, it was a simple black under shirt with a gray blazer on top and some gray dress pants. All of the clothes had temperature enchants on them making them perfect for attending classes as well as physical training.
He exited his dorm room and walked down the hallway and to a door at the end of the hallway that had a red 'Exit' sign on it. Even though he had opened it so many times the magic used on it was always fascinating.
The whole dormitory building had endless amounts of rooms and floors, due to a spatial magic device that was found in a dungeon; A rank 7 dungeon at that. Somehow the device was able to use the intent of the person to take them anywhere in the building through the large oak doors at the end of the hallways.
Jack had no idea of the magic world before he had come to the academy, but it took him almost the whole time he had lived in the dorms to adjust to the omnipotent power that the building had.
When he walked through the door he found himself in the small lobby of the building. There was no attendant on duty as it was only 5:30 in the morning. Jack was happy about avoiding at least one of the hundred interactions he would have to go through during the first day of school.
When he exited he found himself on a familiar college campus. He had lived on campus for a month before he had to participate in the first test for his 'Intro to Battle Magic' course.
"Who in their right mind put students in a dungeon and called it a test.'
Jack wanted to find the person responsible but knew that he couldn't kill a goblin let alone a mage multiple ranks higher than him.
His thoughts stopped when he reached a large building that had it's whole front made out of glass. A large sign in front read: "Yuner's Mess Hall".
Vladimir Yuner was the only mage to reach Grand Master and also founded the Western Academy of Magic. Jack wondered what his thoughts would have been if he was alive to see his Academy be merged with the enemies of his time period, the Eastern Continent.
He watched as a few people entered the Mess Hall before entering himself. Inside was rows and rows of long tables. There was at least 20 tables and each of them had to seat at least 400 students. The seats were the least important part of his trip to the mess hall as he quickly moved towards the buffet of food.
It took 2 minutes for him to fill up his plate with breakfast items and take a seat. Jack remembered a situation from his first day at the academy and knew if it happened again he would be able to tell for sure he was, at the very least, back in time.
30 minutes went by before the situation started to unfold. Food Magic was not only rare but also mana intensive so the academy actually prepares the food in the kitchen, meaning they were prone to running out of items.
"Hey, you pig like bastard, the piece of bacon is mine. Cannibalism is not fine even if you are an animal."
It had started.