The Tales of Draconic Warlock

I returned home promptly as the academy announced the end of the semester and the start of the holidays.

I felt weird because, even back on Earth, there are always exams before holidays but in the third year and this year, there are no exams for semesters but a final exam would be conducted at the end of the year. This would continue to the fifth year but the year-end exam would become the graduation exam in the fifth year.

Though I felt weird, it didn't bother me much as I used to suck at exams. These were the times when I would pull my hair if I could remember an answer to the questions.

Though exams were supposed to check the quality of a student, they were too burdensome in my opinion. They cause a lot of depression in many of the children but it was something we can't get rid of.

Exams are important, otherwise, how would one check the progress of their civilization?

By having talent in the forefront, the progress of any nation would be faster. If an uneducated, lazy fellow takes the reins, the chances of that happening are slim to none.

I should say that the chances are none but even sometimes an uneducated one can surprise. They can lead and let other talented to take over the work.

In any case, absence of the talent would lead to the downfall of nations and civilizations.

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After returning home, I greeted my father. We chatted for a while but as he was busy I had to leave.

I went to my room to freshen up and later returned for dinner, but my father was not present. I had to have my dinner by myself, as I was informed sometimes my father would have his meals while working in his office.

With my mother away, the workload of the viscounty fully falls on his shoulders.

If there were enough trusted ones in the family, he might not have been burdened like that but due to recent scenarios, most of the important work was handled by him.

He would only relegate unimportant work to others. Even if he did give someone the chance to work on something that is considered important, he would check the work personally. This only added more work for him, rather than reducing it.

If this continues like this, then he won't have a day to rest and enjoy life. I should speak with him when I have the chance.

I mean, there should be someone that he could count on to take on the burdens, rather than bearing all the burden by himself.

Micromanaging is the worst way of managing work.

It not only wastes the precious time of the ones at the top but also the time of the ones working under them. Moreover, micromanaging everything would lead to a rift between the employer and the employee.

Sure it may appear as a good thing, that the employer watching everything and making sure that no mistakes are made but that would make things move slowly and that's something that everyone hates.

It decreases the efficiency of any organization and that's exactly what my father was doing.

Even though he doesn't trust everyone, the elders that stood with my father and other neutral elders who are not against him, could help him a lot in this endeavour.

Maybe I should speak with my mother who could make my father think properly.

Mmm, that's exactly what I actually should do.

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My Bedroom, In the Night...

Hmm, Time...Time...

Huh, I never thought about that. I didn't have enough spare time to allot more time to the training. So the best way to improve was finding better methods to improve but what I use are the best methods that I know.

The Royal Academy already has the best available methods and resources to improve the skills. Moreover, I use what's available in the Nexus which is much better than what's available in the kingdom.

Where can I find methods that are much better than what I already have in Nexus?

There is only a single possibility where I can increase my skills at a much more rapid pace than what's possible at this moment.

The possibility is to increase the time I have on my hands.

I have read about time magic in many novels, where the MC gets a legendary item that can alter time. While inside the item's dominion, a hundred years might have passed, but outside, it would have only been a year or so.

The problem was that I didn't have any such item.

Of course, I can remedy that if I learn Time Magic but in the books that read, there were no mentions of such possibilities. There are mentions of Time Magic and how convenient or powerful it could be if it was wielded properly.

That's the maximum mention of the Time Magic and there was nothing else besides the theories about its usage. There are mentions of how people tried to find Time Magic but none were successful.

The world was not helping either. In its thousands of years of records, there was no mention of any skill book related to time dropping ever.

Without the help of the world, there is no way that anyone could find out about it. Maybe there are records of Time Magic in ancient civilizations. If there were, none were made public or nothing was found as of now.

Maybe there was something in the sections of the library that I was unable to access for now. There is a chance that there is something about Time Magic and many things that could change the world but the question was how to access them.

There was nothing in the guidebook about this. I searched the entire book, word to word to see if there was something when I couldn't enter some parts of the library.

Hmm, wait, was the answer so obvious?

Maybe.

This changes everything that I planned for the next year and so. I have no other choice but to see if that is the solution to my problem. I won't lose anything anyway.