Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent

75 – What’s different about the Sword Matthew Festival?

“Sir.”

The president of the Faculty of Magic, Cornette, moved only the chess pieces without saying a word even when he was called.

Inside the president’s office, for a while, only the sound of the chess board and pieces colliding could be heard.

“The preliminaries for the Punishment Festival will begin soon.”

Violet politely posted the report. Prior to the game, she visited this place to report the situation to the president.

“Oops, that’s already happened. Are you ready?”

“There is no problem with participation. In the morning, we added one representative…. He still looked full of confidence.”

“Thank God.”

Violet let out a low sigh.

‘It’s fortunate that I’m overflowing with confidence.’

Defeat is also defeat, but what upset Violet the most was the mage’s attitude.

The representative position they are trying to pass on to each other, the will to hit the floor, the skills that they can’t even demonstrate in real life because they are intimidated….

Whenever I see such things, my heart aches as a wizard before being a professor.

Then, Rector Cornette opened his mouth.

“It’s really amazing. Plan, thanks to that one…. We have come this far.”

Violet nodded her head quietly.

No matter how well you cry out for something, people won’t listen if it doesn’t work. That is the harsh reality.

However, Plan made that achievement.

Plan boasted victory in the first event and saved the face of the Faculty of Magic. So what the president said is absolutely right.

Cornette’s bizarre reverse eye is still facing the chessboard.

The president suddenly asked.

“At this point, I wonder what Professor Violet thinks.”

“I think…. Are you talking?”

“Yes. Like last time, just let me know what you think. What are your thoughts on this qualifier?”

At those words, Violet’s face darkened a bit.

“President.”

“I am listening.”

“To be honest, I am afraid too.”

“That would be the case for most of them. Let’s hear why.”

Violet looked at her toes and continued.

“Thanks to Plan, many young wizards have been motivated. But because of that, I also think it will hurt even more if I break it this time.”

“Oh, you are expecting defeat.”

“I also want to only hope for victory. But, as you know, the subjugation system….”

Violet couldn’t finish his words.

It is a fact that the president knows now and Violet also knows that Plan is amazing.

However, the subjugation system is not an event to overcome alone.

It consists of four people, and even the Magic Faculty has all been selected as first-year students.

Even with Plan, it was too difficult for the remaining three to beat the 2nd year of the Knights Faculty.

Violet is worried.

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I’m afraid that the young wizards, who are just starting to have hope, will never get up again because they’re broken in so much pain.

Cornette nodded quietly. It was quite understandable.

“Well, I doubt whether the preparation was well done.”

When Cornette snapped his fingers, several pages of the Marchen Daily were spread out in the air.

The disappearing flan and his representatives, the empty 3 days thanks to that, countless articles about him….

It had the format of a newspaper, but in reality it was just content mocking the Faculty of Magic and Plan.

Violet was amazed at Cornette’s attitude.

Perhaps he has given up completely and abandoned his greed, and from the moment we first met in the president’s office until now, there is no sign of nervousness at all.

This time Violet broke the silence first.

“Hey, President. If you don’t mind.”

“Yes.”

“… I dare to hear what the president thinks.”

“Aha.”

The president is still looking at the chessboard. Cornette parted his lips.

“Before that, why do I like chess? Do you know?”

“… Yes?”

Violet’s head tilted slightly at the sudden chess story.

“If it is difficult, ask differently. In chess, how many moves do you need to reverse a very bad situation?”

Violet thought for herself before opening her mouth.

“At least…. Wash face?”

“One move.”

Cornette firmly cut Violet off.

“One trick is enough. In that respect, I really like chess. I am.”

Cornette smiled and continued.

“How is it different from the Sword Mating Festival?”

The president’s fingers pushed the knight down.

“… Let’s see. What kind of trick did Plan play?”

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“Not even little kids…. Anyway.”

A female knight with jet-black bangs that completely covered her eyes. Ella, the first of the “Four siblings” Of the Knights Faculty, expressed her dissatisfaction.

With the preliminaries just around the corner, a variable suddenly appeared.

“I can’t stand it and start a group fight….”

This morning, when the academy was full of festivities, there was a serious gang fight between students at the bar.

The cause is, of course, the three siblings from the Knights Faculty excluding Ella.

The entire store building was destroyed and all the students inside were seriously injured. It hurts to say that the situation was so serious.

Even the level of crime was bad because he only picked out wizard students and hit them. You will not be able to avoid severe punishment.

“To think I was representing… I couldn’t have imagined it.”

“Still, I am not nervous. The opponent is a first year wizard.”

I can hear the chatter of the knight cadets. This is the result of the gang fight.

With the exception of Ella, all three of her siblings had been taken to the disciplinary committee, so she found three new members of her group in the morning.

“But…. Why are you holding a press conference right before the match at the Magic Tower?”

Someone muttered something absurd.

Of course, the impressions of the rest were not very different.

It was considered a tradition to hold a press conference with players from both sides right before the preliminary round of the subjugation system at the Knights Faculty.

“Did you work hard in the Faculty of Magic?”

“They say where is their strength.”

“That’s right. So, are you going to do it at the Mage Tower?”

While listening silently, Ella suddenly felt a golden feeling.

A thing with this kind of energy…. None except for Ivan.

“… Why is he here whoever you like.”

To Ella’s sharp voice, someone else answered.

“I heard that Ivan will participate in the press conference. You were defeated in combat. I guess I’m going to ask you a question about that.”

“….”

Ella quietly ran her tongue over her lower lip. For a moment she seemed to suppress her anger.

After a while, they set off for the magic tower.

“There is really nothing special here.”

As soon as I stepped into the Faculty of Magic, someone muttered. A subtle sneer hung over the lips of the knights.

Libraries, books, papers…. The Faculty of Magic, which was dominated by these things, seemed infinitely shabby to them, who were knights.

A knight cadet asked Ella.

“Ella, you know the story? That the Faculty of Magic once placed second in a subjugation event.”

“I know.”

“That sounds absurd. Nothing really matters here.”

Ella walks silently.

Her bangs covered her eyes all over, and even with her eyes closed, she showed no sign of staggering.

Another article opened his mouth this time.

“The Faculty of Magic is the opponent…. It’s a free victory, so it’s good for us, but I don’t know why they bother to include the magic department in the subjugation system. Is not it?”

“That’s what everyone would think. What’s the point of catching and defeating wizards who don’t even know swords? It would be beneficial to cut the scarecrow a few more times.”

Finally Ella opened her mouth.

“It’s an issue that the Knight of Zandfire also accepted, but you guys seem to be dissatisfied with it. Does that mean now?”

“….”

As soon as they met Ella’s closed eyes, the two felt goosebumps rising over their bodies. Change words quickly

“That, I don’t mean that. What do we….”

“Just shut up. If you’re lucky enough to fill in the number of people, know the fraction.”

“Okay. Okay because….”

Ella tutted and clicked her tongue at her sweaty cadet.

But after a while, Ella slowly raised the corner of her mouth as if she remembered something about her.

She opened her mouth again.

“By the way, why do you guys think the knight of the flames allowed this match? I guess everything.”

Ella grabbed her scabbard.

Then she poked her target’s cheek with her handle.

“Since the disgrace of the Knights Faculty has arisen, they are telling me to go and pay them back. What other reason could there be?”

It was an open provocation and sarcasm.

“….”

However, Ivan Rose, the person who received the criticism, only kept silent with a nonchalant attitude.

Ella narrowed her brow slightly before opening her mouth again.

“No response. Did you let go of your mind when you let go of her sword? Even I, who can’t see, never let go of the sword by mistake. Huh?”

Ivan doesn’t react even when he is stabbed in succession. Even until it hurts.

Ella’s expression visibly wrinkled.

“I heard that you stayed in the Magic Faculty Dormitory until dawn, are those rumors true? You mean you went to see Plan and gave it to him?”

Everyone in Marchen Academy knew that Ivan had been defeated in the first event battle.

It was only natural that the eyes of the knights toward Ivan, the cause that made the Faculty of Magic stand up, were not good.

“Hey. Answer.”

Ella stabbed Ivan’s cheek again and again with the handle of her sword.

“Answer me.”

It has already passed the level of simply touching. Right now, he was at the level of pushing Ivan’s head with all his might.

“….”

However, Ivan still had no reaction.

“Ha, no fun….”

In the end, Ella quit first.

After the defeat, Ivan became a completely different person.

Being serious in everything was always the case in the past, but now it’s beyond that and it’s as if you’re possessed by something.

And then.

“Oh, here.”

A reporter who was waiting greeted them.

Grim Reaper, Reaper, Mad Dog…. Possessing various nicknames, she is a reporter at the Knights Faculty. She was Elijah.

“As I said before, we will do a short interview right before the game. Please speak as unfiltered as possible.”

Ella asked back.

“The kids from the Faculty of Magic.”

“Not yet. There is also a change to the representative list. But it’s not because of discipline like the Knights Faculty…. Let’s go in and talk.”

Eliza pointed at the magic tower behind her.

Ella burst out laughing.

“Not yet… ? Did she roll the rice and eat it….”

As the party entered the meeting room one by one, Ivan stood tall.

Suddenly, Ivan raised his head and looked up at the magic tower.

‘Wizard.’

There was a time when I wasn’t conscious of that word.

But now, when she hears this word, she naturally thinks of a man.

‘Flan.’

The reason why Ivan is now dazed is also that.

Opportunity to fight against Plan obtained in exchange for dealing with the three representatives in the world of Huazhong, and the new magic of Plan encountered there.

“That….”

Something as deep as the abyss and as far away as the sea.

Something that makes you unable to find your way around even if you try to keep your balance and lose your way even if you try to concentrate.

Beyond thousands and hundreds…. The feeling of being controlled by hundreds of thousands of things elaborately interlocking.

“… Flan.”

The female knight muttered that name for no reason.

It felt like I had seen something I shouldn’t have seen.