49 – 1. Academy (49)

#49

Aim the sword forward. At that moment, the world moves slowly. This is because the skill [Focused on Combat] Recognized the action just now as a battle.

As I consciously loosened my magical power, the world, which seemed to flow slowly forever, began to flow quickly again. Watching the bullets of bones flying between them, I generate magical energy.

“Echidna”

“Yes!”

Tiung!

The tip of the spear of the halberd bounced off the bone bullets that flew right in front of the nose.

Awesome!!

As if the curse of ignition was contained inside the bone bullet, an ominous dark green curse burned from the tip of the spear that bounced off.

However, rather than the flame consuming Echidna’s body, the halo on top of Echidna’s head shimmered and quickly extinguished the flames.

It was the effect of removing the curse inherent in the skill [Divine Aura]. It’s weak, but if you can endure it at the point of removal rather than resistance, the effect is no different from 100%.

In other words, Echidna, the summoned beast, can theoretically withstand any curse attack, assuming that my magic power is sufficient.

“Go.”

“Yes!”

“Yes!!”

At my signal, Ban Tae-woong and Echidna quickly ran forward as if competing. I also ran a step slower and at the same time focused my magical energy and activated the trap of shadows placed under the old man’s feet.

“Keugh?!”

The old man, who lost his balance due to the sudden earthquake-like movement of the ground, took hold of the head of a nearby skeleton while panicking, and then performed his magic.

“!!”

It was the practice of magic using riches, the most basic method of black magic. A typical textbook of black magic, in which magic is executed immediately by consuming a skeleton as a medium.

A group of bones rose from the ground and intertwined to take the shape of a huge wall. It was natural that the curse was inherent in it.

The scary thing about curses is that each one is terrifying, but they overlap to create a more terrible and powerful effect.

However, that is a story that only applies to those who cannot curse themselves.

Ban Tae-woong swung his sword and fired. The sword that flew in a straight line immediately hit the wall of the bone and created a crack. Echidna, aiming for that gap, condensed his mana all over his body into the ax of the halberd. The magic that flows naturally like water flows is shimmering with weak divine power, adding strength to the destructive power.

Quad Deuk!!!

Following the trajectory of the swinging spear, it smashed beyond what was broken. The traces of the sword energy fired beforehand became perforated lines and pulverized the bone walls. Aiming at the crack in the wall, I changed the sword of shadow to a harpoon equipped with a wire.

Since he never doubted that Echidna would destroy that wall from the beginning, he condensed his mana and fired it without hesitation.

Tooung!!

Aiming for the gap, it was shot, but the bony hand that protruded along the way brushed against the spear, reducing its power.

I retrieved the harpoon of the shadow that was blocked by the belatedly developed barrier and pulled it at the same time as transforming it.

I jumped high as if I was doing a pole vault, and I transformed the shadow into a bow, fired several shots for containment, and then transformed into a huge greatsword. Since there is no weight, the greatsword, which was forged with the greatest emphasis on sharpness, was in fact no different from a large sword.

“hahahaha! Flying into the air is sooooo…?!

Boom! Cagan!!

An old man who couldn’t pay attention to Ban Tae-woong and Echidna, who reached right next to me while paying attention to me, made his flagship. No matter how much mana he injected into the barrier, the two attackers from both sides were actually thrown back by the rebound force.

Booooong. Kang!

I also swung my sword straight down, but it only cracked the barrier, and I couldn’t deliver any significant damage.

I was puzzled by the appearance of the barrier that had begun to recover in real time, so I hurriedly stepped back and looked around.

‘Is it application of property?’

By using the undead as material, it connected the lifespan of the barrier and those undead.

As long as they don’t all fall down, the barrier won’t break. Although Lili said she was suppressing her half, she felt in real time that the number of undead was increasing around her as time passed.

“Keugh…! There is no end…”

“Che, hahahaha!!! Do you know the difference now!! This is the power of this body!!!”

The old man began to laugh while secretly stealing a cold sweat, as if he had finally regained his composure at Ban Tae-woong’s sobbing. Although he added Raul as a defense, there was a limit to blocking only Lucia as there were a number of them.

Erika Onohara had to maintain her defense wall so that her sea poison would not invade, and at the same time, she had to cure her ceiling beauty and Lucia’s curse, and Lili, as she did, broke the old man’s magic and at the same time changed the way of her attack. Because I had to find it.

Inevitably, Ban Tae-woong couldn’t use his full power because he was paying attention to the back, and Echidna was doing her best to handle the divine power she had just acquired through a job change.

Me? I am deliberately watching and making adjustments so that the enemy can wake up and demonstrate his skills. If it was going to be slick from the start, I wouldn’t have sent Carrion to another place.

The reason why I excluded Kalion from this fight is to give the enemy the illusion that he doesn’t have the strength to attack earlier.

‘Be a little more vigilant.’

Enjoy yourself until you erase the option of running away from your head. Because that moment will be the last pleasure.

These are the guys who will openly commit terrorism in a place like this. There is no way that the means for retreat were not prepared. In order to figure it out, even now, the shadow crows of the hive are walking around the wide academy grounds and looking around.

The amount of information transmitted from the crows of shadows occupying all directions is enough to make my head pound.

Of course, that’s not all. At the same time as provoking him, I decided to make this place a place for Ban Tae-woong and Echidna to grow. Because there is nothing that improves your skills faster than in real life.

This is a given situation. If you don’t use it surely, the damage is not the only one. This is where you spend your important weekend time. If you don’t move properly, you’ll get into trouble. Mainly me

In that respect, that old man is fulfilling the role of a monster very well.

“hehehehe! That’s right, at least there’s no way a cadet can beat this body… Ah!!”

Since I was reciting the lines of a typical trash mob to the point where I wondered if they were sharing a dialogue book of a third-rate villain somewhere, I got goosebumps in a different way. Aren’t you ashamed to say things like that with your own mouth?

No, if I had been embarrassed by that in the first place, I wouldn’t have even paired up with a corpse. This is the reason why I said that he is a third-rate.

He’s nothing more than a black magician who imitates a necromancer.

If he was a Jintung Necromancer, he would have created undead and incapacitated enemies by repeatedly exploding corpses at the same time, rather than doing the inefficient work of putting curses on the undead one by one.

Apart from other things, he has no obsession with blood or corpses. To the Necromancer, blood and corpses are nothing but means of attack. At the point of not obsessing over him, it is as if his fund has been revealed.

“Ha!”

“Suck!”

Did you know that the breathing between the two of them is getting better every time they carelessly pick out the undead?

Attacks including curses are excluded by blowing sword energy in advance, or Echidna takes the lead in attacking and defending. Even if Ban Tae-woong is cursed and there is a gap, Echidna’s assistant comes in immediately and adds divine power to shake off the curse. If Echidna can’t afford it, Ban Tae-woong buys time by sweeping the surroundings with an attack with increased sword strength.

I also gave the two of them time to catch their breath with various attacks in the middle, but the impact felt between doing it moderately and doing it with all my might is different.

A riot of spears and swords pulverizes approaching enemies and attacks and blocks the old man who builds magic. Slowly but steadily, the two are advancing.

In the case of me and Ban Tae-woong, there is nothing to say because I taught them myself, but in the case of Echidna and Ban Tae-woong, it is a little different. The two met for the first time today. No, in the case of Echidna, it can be seen that cooperation with humans is the first time.

Nevertheless, we are doing that level of cooperation. You can see it’s great enough.

Although Echidna’s movements were based on mine, most of them were self-learning and mastered. It was probably changed to be optimized to suit the soft movements unique to women.

With the addition of a sharp blow enhanced by magic and divine power to her graceful movements, she displayed proficient skills that were not inferior to that of a warrior, even though she had no weapon-related skills.

“Keuhehehe, it’s really nice to see him struggling!! Yes, agonize more! And despair!! That is the difference between you and me!!!”

Of course, that guy’s eyes are buttonholes, so he doesn’t seem to be able to see the growth of the two. Anyway, that’s why I can spit out such nonsense-filled words calmly.

It’s as if they’re already benefiting from just pushing Echidna and Ban Tae-woong into the enemy camp while jolting from behind, sometimes rushing forward, and giving them the improbable distance.

I smiled with satisfaction when I saw Echidna, whose method of dealing with divine power in real time became more natural, and Ban Tae-woong, who was learning with his body, not his head, that he would fight while protecting someone.

“…Um? To laugh all of a sudden, did you go mad at the overwhelming difference? Ahahahaha.”

Everything is good, but the only thing that bothers me is the idiot who doesn’t know that he is a lump of living experience and smiles and likes it.

I wonder if I forgot the image of myself that was flustered just a moment ago. Or do you only remember what you want to remember? Either way, it seemed like they had a very convenient brain, so it was just amazing.

If you see that a guy like that can become strong, it’s certain that this world is crazy.

If you’re a guy with a well-rounded head, it’s normal to feel strange in the state of being stuck, not to be overpowered.

‘I’m going to need to peck you here.’

That way, the more desperate guy will change his tactics.

It was because I could see that Echidna and Ban Tae-woong were getting used to the current situation. Repetition that is too consistent is only an obstacle to growth in practice.

Thump!

Take a posture as if you are rolling on the ground with your legs stretched out at shoulder width. The optimal posture to swing with maximum strength from the lower back.

Extends the sword in your grip into a spear and turns it into a sword again. It was an eccentricity to receive the effect of the title [Transformation material].

Let’s sweep it up with a passion. To be honest, I didn’t like the rotting corpse that started to vibrate a little while ago. It makes me feel bad because it reminds me of my previous life.

In order to relieve that resentment, let’s do our best to wipe out the bugs in front of us now.

“Damage.”

“Do you think you’re going to let me… do something stupid!!”

At my words, the two of them launched an attack with a wide gap, defeating as many undead as possible, and at the same time blocking the attack of the bones that were aiming at me. Then, instead of attacking the old man, he quickly started moving out of my attack range. Bone attacks rained down on me from all sides to stop me, but I didn’t care.

I even admired the perfect movements of the two as if they had promised in advance. To be precise, based on the information transmitted to Echidna through the passage, she moves and Ban Tae-woong agrees with it.

Perhaps it was because both of them had taught me something, but one notice was really good.

After confirming that, I sharpened the sword of shadow, which was created by condensing magical power at once, to make it longer and sharper. A tactic that is possible because the shadow’s weapon has no weight. It is several times more efficient to increase weapons without having to pump out sword steel to grow them.

The image is the long-distance trail of a sword that cuts through the heavens and the earth that I once saw.

Magic power can exert more intense power the more you solidify your image. Because the first thing people who learn magic learn is the belief that they can make their imaginations manifest in reality.

Magic power, the basis of magic, also has similar properties.

Strongly salted. Just that is not enough. More definitely, beyond thinking firmly, to believe beyond doubt. That is the true use of magical power.

‘Be sure to cut.’

No, it will be cut down unconditionally.

I confirmed the result in advance and swung the sword of shadow.

Chiiik!

A strange sound resounded, like tearing paper. He frowned at the faint repulsive force he felt in his hand.

‘I cut too much’

I made a mistake in adjusting the knife as the knife lifted better than expected.

Poogwak…!!

“Oh?”

The old man, whose arm was split in half by the cane of the corpse he was holding out to attack, let out a futile groan. Slowly lower your gaze, as if rejecting what your brain is accepting from the visual information.

There, like dried fish, the shells had been cut in half, and their dangling arms were gushing blood like a broken faucet.

“….!!?!?!?!”

A belatedly echoing iron scream engulfed the air. The screams filled with dark magic made my ears tingle with just that. The figure of desperately stepping back while grabbing my arm was below the 3rd class.

I have used up the accumulated [Sadism] Tokens from the old man.

Intellect has increased and [Increased pain] Has been granted to the magic nature itself. The effect of [Torture] And [Sadism] Being applied in real time, the old man’s screams became more desperate.

Aiming for the moment when something blue flashed light from around his neck, I concentrated all my mana and activated the skill [Focus on Combat].

Pendant. The pendant that reacted to the monster’s magic was emitting light and trying to execute some kind of magic. It’s probably some kind of magic tool.

In the midst of a world that flows so slowly that it is doubtful that the world has completely stopped, I handed over my magic to Hive and gave an order at the same time.

‘Take it away.’

An act that suits a crow more than anything else.

I wonder if the instinct to pursue shiny things remains even after being summoned as a summoned beast and undergoing evolution once. The figure of the hive flying as if permeating through the shadow I stretched moved so fast that it could be seen moving even in a stationary world.

Skill [Dark Rush].

You can hide in the dark and move, and by adding magical power, you can move quickly enough to be close to teleportation. There is a restriction of being in the dark, but for me now, that level is not a restriction or anything.

“Kaaa —-“

The hive’s cries echoed in the slow world. The hive, burrowing into the shadows, soared up as if showing a sudden rise that defies the laws of physics.

“—-aaa!!!”

The old man’s clothes were torn, and a pendant with a sparkling blue light was nestled in Hive’s mouth.

Before I could give my command, the hive was moving his beak to place in the shadows under his wings what he had gathered according to his own instincts. After checking that point, I unlocked the [Focus on Combat] Skill.

Choo!

“No, no, no, no, no———!!!!!”

The duet of the belated ripping sound and the old man’s desperate scream cut through the air. For the first time in his eyes, beyond nervousness, fear began to settle.

As expected, this was a means of escape.

If you give up the request and choose to run away to the extent that your arm is blown off, it’s like a third-rate, but unfortunately, we can’t allow that.

You will die here no matter what. Will definitely kill So try to be as ugly as possible. Die struggling with the energy to burn everything in yourself.

And it becomes the main character’s experience.

I received the pendant from Hive, who approached me. After it swayed so that it could be seen by the old man, I opened my mouth with the utmost sarcasm.

“Oops, I tried to run away unsightly, but what if I failed?”

“Kreukreuk…! My, let me go!!! It’s not something you guys can touch!!!”

“…Ah, is that so?”

The old man started screaming desperately even while boiling blood bubbles as if he had chewed his tongue while screaming.

It is worth acknowledging the grit that arises while holding his fluttering arms firmly with bones, but at the same time, he is acting like that and sticking to that attitude. It was about these.

“Then take it.”

At my words, the old man opened his eyes as if he saw something strange, but then he saw my expression with a fishy smile and twisted his forehead.

Anyone can see it is a prank to fool themselves, but the old man desperately needed a pendant more than anything, so he slowly but surely crawled towards me. I was busy running away until just now, but now I crawl back and fall. If this is not a gag, then what is a gag?

After confirming that he had reached close range, I deliberately dropped the fluttering pendant to the floor as if to show off.

“If you can take it.”

Then he slowly raised his foot. While condensing mana into his legs to the point where he could see it with his eyes.

“That, stop…”

The old man shouted and stretched out his hand, but I didn’t stop. My steps became faster and I even threw myself away, but my feet were falling faster.

That brief moment when the pendant was hidden in the shadows. He ordered Hive, who was hiding in the shadows, to take out a magic stone of the same color as his hand card to retrieve it.

It’s an important clue to figure out the enemy’s stronghold, but how do you break it?

I have to do it like this so I won’t lose to the academy, so I’m just bluffing. With this, there is a testimony that I took the magic tool and destroyed it.

I plan to deliver this separately to Se-Rin Lee. Regarding [Her dark horse tower], She was also concerned about it, so she would gladly accept it. Wasn’t it because he had so much free time that he deliberately made the trip himself to harass a good citizen like me on a golden weekend? So, if you give them a job, they will use it well.

Of course, this act is also meant to make the old man struggle even more desperately. If you become incompetent for no reason, you can’t even kill openly. The best is for the old man to run wild of his own magic at my teasing, and prepare for a return.

Because timing is the key, I even used [Focus on combat] To make it work.

Kwaduk!

“Ah”

As soon as I received the information that it had been retrieved from the hive, I released [Focus on Combat] And stepped on the magic stone under my feet. Then, the magical power inherent in the magic stone was scattered in all directions as if bursting.

Although it was mixed with my magic, the old man’s face was filled with futility and fear at the same time in the appearance of a definite third magic.

“Oops, it’s broken. What to do with this?”

I looked at the old man with the utmost sarcasm. Even though I flew my body, it was a long distance. There was a shabby old man covered in dust.

“It doesn’t matter though, does it? Are you a great black magician? It’s a self-proclaimed thing, but isn’t it possible to make something like this quickly as much as you cried out for yourself? Huh?”

Then, anger slowly began to form in the eyes of the depressed old man. I smiled even more deeply at the appearance of the black magic power that was about to explode at any moment.

“Ah~ I’m really sorry if I can’t. I didn’t even know that and just broke it. So, why not? Or can you?”

“Noom…! Oh no oh oh oh…! Yes nooooo!!!!!”

Tears of blood flowed from the eyes of the old man who raised his anger with a gradation at the deliberately deliberately posed question even though he knew everything.

At the same time, black magic power like muddy tar began to eat away at the old man’s feet.

Pugak! Pugguk…!!

He sighed when he saw the group of undead crawling out of the swamp of black magic. In the end, even at the end of the last, is it imitation of a necromancer?

No, it must have been hired for this job because it was the lowest level that could only do this in the first place. As long as he carried the name of the [Dark Magic Tower], He would have received support to some extent, but that was just the limit of this old man.

Those bloody tears are literally the last outrage. Evidence that you have put yourself on the scale beyond making others your property. It can be seen as the last resort a black magician can take.

Of course, a real person can use that power without putting himself on the scale, but to that old man, it is no different from the story of a distant island country.

Even though he put himself on the scale in the first place, it was a part that showed how insignificant the old man’s achievement was, just by looking at the way he only eroded his surroundings.

“Only you!! If it wasn’t for you, I would…!!!!”

I erased my smile and replied coldly to the appearance of magical power that began to sway as if it was going to knock me down.

“Aren’t you ashamed of blaming others for your incompetence?”

It is important to take the initiative in a fight. Anger is a good condiment, but the moment emotions that exceed it dominate it, it gives up so easily.

What I want is not a simple resentment, but a desperate struggle that comes from a sincere desire to live.

Generate magic. The stats that have increased primarily due to the effect of [Subjugator] Are strengthened once more with the tokens of [Advisor] That are accumulating in real time.

When the number reached 10, the dark red mana began to burn to the point where it could not lag behind him.

As if grabbing the magical power that oppresses me and breaking it, I press it in reverse.

“Turn it off…!!!!”

While staggering, the old man squeezed his mana to somehow endure.

All of the blood vessels had burst, and her eyes turned bright red, and blood was continuously regurgitating from her mouth. Mysteriously, as his body became more and more like a rag, the old man’s body began to stand upright.

The old man, who had stopped trembling while confronting my magical power, trembled once. Even after all this, it still didn’t seem like he could beat me.

It was unfair. It is the fact that I have achieved the level I barely achieved through hardships as I grow old like this, as easily as twisting the wrist of a baby with a ball of blood in front of me.

Inferiority.

As the skin that had been painted with pride was peeled off, the feelings that had been slowly rising were revealed. Not even trying to hide his feelings, the old man gnashed his teeth.

Curse me. Hate. I want to kill that brilliant sprout with my own hands. If you use them as your property, you can definitely reach a higher realm.

So come on. Sooner rather than later.

The old man’s eyes went back to Echidna’s words whispered through magic. She began to scream at random, tearing off the skin of her face.

“Quaaa!!!!! Die!!!! Die!!!! To die and become my food!!!!!!”

Reveals the true nature of people. Elicit emotions Echidna, who performed the devilish thing for the first time, calmly opened her eyes to the last and raised her prayers.

The body of the elderly is enlarged. The undead around him began to gather around him. A chunk of his flesh is forcibly grafted onto a piece of bone. If one sticks, then the next, if the next sticks, then the next.

What was completed like that was a huge flesh giant composed of undead. Everyone, including Ban Tae-woong, was distorted at the gloomy figure of the old man, who had become nothing more than a part of a giant.

“Guuuaaa———–!!!!!!!!!!”

Ban Tae-woong fixed his sword even more strongly at the sight of the giant vomiting the screams of a beast, no longer human words.

Something that made the air heavy disappeared, probably because the subject of the curse was concentrated in one place.

Erika Onohara sighed, released her barrier, and began to devote herself to the curse of the thousand roses. Happened in

Lili also sat on top of her magic book, which she pulled out of the air as she did, and began to prepare her magic.

When I saw them start preparing for a battle with the giants one by one without me saying anything, I let out a small sigh and saved my magic.

The end was slowly approaching.

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