Chapter 69
“Did you stop the magic!?”
“By what means?!”
“No, no way! No way!”
While all the students at the academy looked on in amazement and amazement, and some of the warriors even laughed as if they were dreaming, Ragnis had to put a lot of effort into pretending to be calm.
‘What kind of nonsense did he commit again!’
It wasn’t even that magic was broken with magic. Apparently, the magic that Siegfried was creating was destroyed within seconds just by drawing the sword into the air without any movement of mana. It wasn’t just destroyed, it was completely blown up.
Unlike the warriors, the wizards had no choice but to freeze as if they had seen the scene where the sky and the earth were turned upside down.
Just because it can be shortened and used as an infinite window doesn’t mean you can activate magic at will. That’s why everyone was in awe of Ragnis’ one-time chanting, and even Eselua, her opponent in sparring, couldn’t stop praising with her eyes shining.
The faster you use it, the harder the magic becomes. What is already complex and difficult becomes doubly difficult.
The same was true of the magic that the hero condensed into words and invoked. In terms of scale, even Ragnis couldn’t activate that level of magic with words.
However, if I hadn’t seen it in person, I would have dismissed it as a bad joke or nonsense from someone ignorant of magic. It was no different from seeing a dragon stabbed to death with a wooden sword.
Even so, it seemed that Eldmia did not feel any difficulties. as if of course With the conviction that he would succeed, he swung his sword and fired the magic.
Unlike the other mages, Ragnis was not aghast at the sight.
I forcibly held the corners of my mouth that were about to go up to my ears and just looked at Eldmia with a feeling that my heart was about to burst.
Even with the real hero in front of him, he only looked at his own brilliant light with watery eyes.
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“As expected, the larger the scale of the magic, the better it explodes.”
Even though this fact has already been proven by demons’ bead bombs, it’s different when you see it with your own eyes. I have limited knowledge of magic, so I have no idea what kind of magic was trying to fly, but it wouldn’t have been comfortable if it had been activated.
I instinctively knew that the wind blowing around the hero was not just wind, but a blade made of wind, so I focused my senses as much as possible and moved my magic.
I slowly put magic on the sword and my body, just like the feeling of wrapping magic around the sword from beyond the gate. It was a completely different sensation from what I usually do, and I felt another layer of mana being added.
And in line with that, the senses of the whole body sharpened, and a scene full of crazy colors began to unfold before my eyes again.
It was a really crazy sight, but now I understand.
Magical power, mana aura, and energy of spirits that are artificially moved are all classified by color.
“It’s worth it.”
Blade wind flickers blue light and sweeps around the hero. And it wasn’t as detailed as it seemed.
Literally, it’s like a floating blade. If it’s in a strengthened state like now, it’s not difficult to avoid, and even if it’s cut, it’s worth surviving.
“What a well-crafted fantasy.”
It wasn’t that I was changing what wasn’t there into what was, and what was being changed into what wasn’t. The core of the magic surrounded by the sense of touch and the arena was space magic.
That blade wind is real. If you get cut by that, the flesh will really fall off.
Before doing so, it creates a distortion in the space so that it does not touch the human body, and instead overlays it with illusion to create pain and wounds. In terms of technology, it is absurd magic that can be called overtechnology.
Even so, the Empire was putting its heart and soul into nurturing human resources.
“Keuheuk! What the hell did you do!”
“Everyone has at least one trump number, right?”
Above all, at some point, you even slightly forget that all of this is an illusion. It is designed so that if you are not forcibly aware and reminded of it, you will keep forgetting it and you will not be able to think complacently, such as ‘it’s an illusion anyway’.
Even though there are many people who are exceptional enough to pour this level of magic science into education, the beings of the demon king and demons are threatening.
“It’s so good! Let’s see the match with the body!”
The hero, who suddenly showed his teeth again and smiled, jumped with a different movement than before. Judging from the insignificant aura, it must have been that he was trying to mobilize all means, from spiritism to magic.
I thought I was going to hit and fuck something in earnest, but am I crazy?
“Would you like to see such an ignorant match against a hero?”
“what?”
“Humans are human because they use tools and technology.”
I narrowly avoid the horizontal slash of the great sword that is being swung with all my might, sliding with my knees as if sliding. In the meantime, two blades of wind passed through my stomach with a difference of a piece of paper, but fortunately there were no injuries.
As the face of the huge blade brushed past the tip of my nose, I stretched out my right hand, clad in magic as much as possible, grabbed the blade, and spurred the ground as it was swung by the hero along with the sword. I don’t know how strong it is, but in that short moment, as if riding a roller coaster, my body was hooked and flew away.
The speed was much faster than expected, so the palm holding the blade was finely scratched and the pain was felt, but it was at an acceptable level.
“uh?”
Since I showed you earlier, of course I can see the back of the warrior’s head, thinking that I would hide in the sword and aim for his side. Even though I’m holding my sword and floating in the air, don’t you feel any weight? It’s a truly unbelievable force.
I wonder when he’ll find out, but it’s disgraceful to delay and lose.
I just got on the blade of the sword like I was riding a skateboard and stabbed the sword.
The warrior’s head turned around as if he had noticed the change in the weight of the sword belatedly, but it was already too late. Since only a normal height was assumed, even the sharp wind is not restricted at this height.
There was no resistance. Because that’s an illusion
However, my sword definitely pierced the hero’s stomach.
“That’s it! The winner is Eldmia!”
Along with Jidley’s shout, cheers erupted from the students.
“I beat the hero!!”
“Yes! Swordsmanship! Fuck swordsmanship is not wrong!!”
“Aaaah! Look at the hero! The technology built by humans is not wrong!!”
Nearly 80% of the warriors, both men and women, went crazy as if they were crazy, and they ran amok like crazy, so I was terrified.
The problem is that even that person, Jidley, is participating in it.
“That’s absurd.”
The warrior who was looking down at my sword, which had not yet disappeared, stuck in his chest, burst into laughter. Surprisingly, there was no irritation or ridicule in it. As if he had eaten something wrong, the warrior who suddenly hit me in the face looked at me.
“What have you become so strong for?”
It was a completely different look from what I had shown before.
To be honest, I kind of liked the calm look in his eyes, to the point where I wondered if he had become a completely different person.
“When I was 8 years old, the village was burned and my whole family died in the monumental first raid of the demon king?”
That’s why I put off the pretense I had shown so far and answered only with a voice that was enough to cover the cheers. Anyway, if you see him commanding a wind spirit or something, you’ll hear it all.
“I don’t want to go through that unfair experience twice in my life. So, first of all, I want to be strong enough to split the head of the Demon Cub that ordered it.”
“You’re going to leave the hero alone?”
I feel like I’m talking about something else, whether it’s lack of understanding or not being able to understand the words. Why do you entrust my revenge to Ji?
“Leave it alone. They say you split the head of the demon king. I only target the one who gave the order. I have no complaints about the demon itself. It’s just that the target is the demon.”
“…? It’s because I don’t know, but after all, isn’t that an order from the Demon King?”
“If the demon king does not have military knowledge, the commander will be given. The current demon king is of that type.”
It was a fact that I found out by scratching the information without information that really exists. Each demon has different characteristics. A very tough guy. He’s so weak, but he’s got an extraordinary head. Those who are only physical, those who only use magic, and so on.
The current demon king was a person who reached the demon king only with his own strength.
“So you and I have different things to do. You fight the demons. I simply seek revenge.”
As I approached the hero and held out my hand, I continued.
“If I kill a guy like that, wouldn’t anyone think of touching me easily?”
“… ha. You were a person with a funny idea while trembling.”
Holding my outstretched hand, the warrior smiled fiercely again.
“Of all the boys I’ve ever met, I like you the most.”
My first impression was that he was useless, but I think he has room to wait and see.
“I thought the warrior also got sick, but I think some of it was acting.”
“It’s the warrior’s deep meaning, so just pretend you don’t know.”
“Even if it’s meaningful, isn’t it at the level of being a bitch during break time? I’m embarrassed to listen to it. It’s not a monkey, but what is that?”
“You bastard, are you going to have a good fight? Fuck you, even the spirit keeps sympathizing with me and scolding me.”
It’s a fight, dude, unless Ji is wrong. Still, the spirit seems to have been properly entrenched.
“You have to know how to distinguish between public and private affairs.
“…Fun. Let’s talk about that later.”
I thought he was a careless second grade patient, but he was surprisingly a hero with a normal reaction. This guy might be unexpectedly fake madness.
“Eldmia!!! Eldmiaaaaaaa!!”
“Eldmia!! Take me!!”
“Aagh! Kingdom Knight! Kingdom Knight!”
okay. That’s real madness.
It’s really noisy. Thanks to that, I didn’t have to worry about the conversation with the hero leaking into anyone’s ears, but the heat showed no sign of cooling down.
Today is the first day, and I have no idea what will happen in the future, so my head starts pounding.