Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent

77 – … Aren’t you leaving?

Igor, the youngest of four siblings, was sitting in the waiting room. Even though he was breathing quietly, his huge body was easily noticeable.

“It wasn’t much by my standards.”

Igor murmured softly.

“What is your standard?”

The third, Cassel, who was standing sideways with his back against the wall, accepted his words to himself.

“If you run into them, you can just beat them up. I don’t have too many cheap things. A bastard that would break if folded in half.”

“When were you going to be a wizard?”

“What if I don’t cover it?”

Igor’s voice rose sharply like a thorn. Cassel also narrowed his brows a little.

“… Igor, by the way, why are you angry with me?”

“You don’t look angry. You saw his attitude in the conference room. I should have just cut my throat there….”

There were already veins on Igor’s forehead as he murmured that.

He was very happy when he heard the news that he had been pardoned as a condition of participating in the qualifiers, but his mood changed as soon as he saw Plan’s attitude in the conference room.

He was walking a tightrope between reason and instinct.

It was then.

“I don’t like it.”

Ella, who had been sitting still, opened her mouth. Igor asked with delight.

“Isn’t it? Isn’t that what you see, Ella?”

“I mean you. Please stay still.”

“….”

Four siblings from the Knights Faculty gathered together.

Those who were excluded due to discipline are now able to participate in the preliminaries as originally planned, so at first glance, it seems like the perfect situation.

… Rather, it was scratching Ella’s planting.

“With what kind of confidence.”

Three of the representatives were urgently replaced. From the point of view of the Faculty of Magic, it must have been a delightful event.

However, Plan rejected that ‘luck’ proudly.

Because I am certain of victory, I can act like that.

The two sides initially had different school years. Still, having such a heart, and acting like that. It’s even more distasteful to Ella.

Cassel looked at Ella and opened her mouth.

“Ella, don’t worry too much.”

“What?”

“In the end, what matters is the result. No matter how flashy you decorate the outside, if you lose, you will be ridiculed just as much.”

Shrugging her shoulders, Cassel continued her words.

“Can’t we just win?”

“You are not wrong. But.”

Ella rose slowly from her seat.

“I can’t just win normally.”

Even with her eyes closed, her siblings felt Ella looking down on them.

“He has a bit of a smart side.”

“… ?”

The rest of the siblings tilted their heads at her. Be smart…. Are you talking about that guy?

Cassel opened her mouth.

“Smart, you mean flan?”

“Yes.”

In the end, Igor intervened, slamming the wall.

“Give him to me. I’m going to break your head off.”

A whole wall in the waiting room had collapsed, but Ella didn’t care.

“You guys are so shallow. Like a kid.”

“… ?”

Question spread across the faces of the other three.

“Flan rang the bell quickly. You must have seen it too.”

“Yes.”

“It cuts out all of our gains. Why did you hide away for three days, what did you do with Ivan, why did you say such a thing…. So that all those questions and answers are not recorded.”

Ella continued her words while fiddling with her sword.

“And looking at the face of the president, I can see that he has quite a bit of trust in him. But it’s not just the president, did you see a lot of wizards wandering around in the morning?”

“I saw it. I was annoyed, so I lost a few people.”

As if it were a badge of honor, Cassel held up his handcuffs.

Toward him, Ella asks.

“If you saw it, would you know why I said I was smart?”

“… I don’t know about that. There is no such thing as the best ever?”

“This guy knows how to get people interested. That’s smart.”

Igor’s expression crumpled even more.

“Uh. What’s so great about that? Just catch the rat and stop….”

“… Igor.”

Ella put Igor’s name in her mouth.

The power is tight in Ella’s hands as she sings like that. She, too, was desperately enduring it in her own way.

“Haaa.”

In the end, Igor slightly turned his head.

“Looking at the results of the subjugation system in the Faculty of Magic, it is normal for these guys not to be interested in the Sword Mastery system. And yet, the heat is so hot right now.”

“… Mmm.”

Kassel’s head tilted.

“But after all, isn’t Igor right? If we win, won’t that interest cool down on its own?”

“Having attention, itself, is dangerous, you idiot.”

Ella stabbed Cassel in the chest with the handle of her sword.

“It is unacceptable that there is a possibility of watching with interest and having hope. We cut the buds altogether. Okay?”

“Ah. Yes, now I understand what you mean.”

Kassel nodded.

“Then tell me you’re proud. To prune…. How much should I step on?”

“No, I ask the questions.”

Ella’s body was young.

She asked the three of them quietly.

“Among us, the one who fears punishment…. Isn’t it?”

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I didn’t just spend time teaching three people in the world of Chinese. I wanted to solve the problem of the total amount of mana, so I worked hard.

[Master, don’t you think we’ve gotten pretty close? ]

The result is this. The total amount of mana honestly increased, and the sensitivity with Hera also increased significantly.

As such, many of the elements that I found frustrating are rapidly being resolved recently.

And finally, we stood in the arena of the Knights Faculty.

The start of the preliminaries has arrived.

But then.

“Wow!”

With a thump, Becky stomped his butt. Looking at the situation, it seemed that the head of the Knights Faculty had been pushed.

“What, was there? It’s too tight.”

Igor.

That was written on the knight cadet’s name tag. I deliberately did not get involved in the situation.

To Becky now…. It takes a process of getting used to this nervous warfare.

But Louis came out in a fit of fuss. Block Igor’s way.

“Hey, you just pushed me on purpose.”

“If it was intentional, he would have died. Why are you kidding me?”

“You….”

“Attention everyone.”

While the two men were in a tense confrontation, a firm tone separated them. It was a regular article in charge of progress.

“… Fight when the game starts. Especially you, Igor.”

He naturally intervened in the middle and naturally widened the distance between the two representatives.

While the snowball fight between Louis and Igor continued, the regular knight opened his mouth again.

“I will check safety. Song Hwan-seok must have been rationed.”

He started to check the safety of the delegates, and I took a closer look at the stadium. The interest was there.

First of all, the height difference between the stadium and the spectators is enormous.

The size is about three times the size of the arena where the fighting events were held, and the structure allows spectators to see the two groups at a glance from a very high place.

In other words, it was a place designed solely for the entertainment of the spectators.

A murmur continues to pour in from above, but I don’t bother looking up.

Because I don’t allow myself to look up at someone.

‘Did I put a lot of effort into it?’

Rather, my interest is toward the ground. Numerous spells that live and breathe deep under the earth…. This arena clearly has several effects.

“… Why don’t you put something like this in the Faculty of Magic?”

The time when I was about to segment some of the spells.

“Hey. You.”

The regular knight who was checking me looked fierce. As he escaped from his thoughts, he frowned in regret.

“Song Hwan-seok. Did you take it?”

The gazes of our representatives as well as representatives of the engineering faculty also turned this way. I answered calmly.

“No need. Something like that.”

I presented a memorandum of arms. It was a pretty unconventional piece of paper that contained the message that it was okay to lose one’s life in the preliminaries.

It is certainly possible, but no one adopts it. I had to find these and adopt them.

Belief in oneself is also faith, but each and every one of these trivial facts will turn each department upside down later.

“… You’re acting like a guest.”

The regular knight smiled and accepted the memorandum.

After my inspection, the ceiling of the stadium was covered like a mirror, making it impossible to see the spectators.

‘… One-way transmission.’

The audience will still be able to see us. Is it really a consideration for the players or an element for the fun of the viewer?

At the same time, several sheets of paper folded in the shape of sparrows fly through the air. After looking at it, the essence was a recording paper.

Those who are waiting for news outside the stadium will be informed of the situation. It feels new that the scale is different from that of the first event.

“I will explain the preliminary round method.”

The regular knight solemnly opened his mouth.

“In 10 minutes, the stadium will be divided into two zones.”

Random. At that, Becky, who was next to her, swallowed.

“The test method is simple. Monsters will appear step by step, and if you defeat them, points are calculated according to their grade.”

His explanation went on for a while.

It was long, but the gist was simple.

The ranking of each group is determined by summing up the hunting points, and the monsters become stronger one by one and appear in each other’s zones.

Of course, battles between representatives are permitted in this process.

“From the 5th level, battles between representatives are allowed, but…. Do it in moderation Got it? Moderately.”

The regular knight’s eyes were on the four siblings. The knight with “Kassel” Written on his name tag shrugs her shoulders and replies.

“Okay. Why do you keep looking at me like that?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know? Keep in mind that you guys are special pardons. Don’t do anything to discredit the knight.”

“Yes, yes.”

This provision was then emphasized twice more for the four siblings. It was not difficult to guess what they usually did.

The regular driver gave me a bracelet. To Ella.

“Now let’s talk about exceptions. If you take the opponent’s leader’s bracelet without causing any damage, it counts as 300 points.”

It was an absurd level of scoring, but the atmosphere was that everyone was listening with one ear and letting it go with the other.

Snatch the bracelet without causing any harm.

It’s probably because this part seems impossible. But I was rather interested.

“Finally, giving up halfway is impossible. Either hide well until the end of the game, or be sent back with your head broken by the Witchbeast on purpose.”

That’s how the explanation ended.

We parted ways to the east and west sides of the stadium, respectively, without speaking to the opposing representatives.

“Ji, are you really doing it? Why am I standing in the arena? Huh?”

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While walking, I heard a restless sound. It was Becky’s.

“Stop being stupid.”

“Trixie…. Aren’t you nervous?”

Then blue eyes turned to Becky. Trixie asked lowly.

“You. So when are we going to talk?”

“Huh? Ah. Because I said it wrong.”

“I don’t say I don’t know. Agora board.”

“… To.”

Becky started sweating profusely. I can’t meet Trixie’s eyes.

“No, I will tell you. I’ll tell you~”

“Tell me.”

“If we pass the preliminaries with first place, then I will really tell you. Huh?”

“….”

Trixie looked at Becky with eyes as if she were in her right mind, then let out a deep sigh.

“It’s okay.”

Two girls walking in front of each other chatting incomprehensibly. I asked calmly.

“You…. What is so noisy?”

Becky looked back and he hurriedly shook his hand.

“Uh, huh? No! Preliminary match, it’s because I’m nervous!”

“Tense.”

─The preliminaries begin now.

The preliminaries started without a chance to say anything. I watched the rapidly changing scene in silence for a while.

Combination, Harmony, Manipulation…. It was an interesting change. Not a single movement was missed.

Violent flowers and trees formed a forest, and a very thick line was drawn on the floor to divide the stadium into two zones.

Even the weather changes.

As if to encourage the representative players, a group of lights gently descended from the mirror ceiling.

The concept of a ‘stadium’ has long since been transcended, and is in fact close to moving to another place.

In the meantime, I feel the energy of Cornette, the president of the Faculty of Magic.

─Phase 1 begins.

“Flan.”

After the scenery was fixed, Lewis called my name. The eyes of the other two are also fixed on me.

“Give me instructions. What should I do first?”

I quietly used a nearby sapling as material. A chair was completed by manipulating its stem at will.

I sat down on it and took out a paper and a pen.

“Let the hunt begin. You should know all the qualifying rules.”

“Ummm, I need specific instructions. How to distribute roles. You are the foreman.”

“Do it yourself. I grade you here.”

Also, I added one more thing.

“It would be better to throw away halfway resolutions. Unless you advance to the finals with 1st place…. I will gladly abstain.”

There was silence for a while.

“….”

The three of them looked at me blankly.

They exchanged glances.

He stared at me again.

I made a face and said a word.

“… Aren’t you leaving?”