Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent

97 – Too Much….

Becky had a dream.

Blue sky.

Objects on the ground look like mere toys, and the height is so far that you can jump and play using the clouds as a stepping stone. The canvas of the world dyed in ultramarine blue.

“hehehe….”

The girl sits side by side with flan, using a cloud as a chair. He rests his head on his shoulder, and he forgets all his usual cares and worries.

It was a time when I was enjoying my free time.

Wheein.

A small voice interrupted her peace.

The coolness that tickles the ears is strangely vivid.

“Hmm….”

Wheeying.

Then the sound got a little louder. Suddenly, at some point, Becky realized that her hair was flying.

“… ?”

I feel my senses gradually become clearer. The wind is fierce as if swept away by a typhoon. To the point where I can’t even open my eyes.

And then. I heard Trixie’s voice.

“What are you doing?”

“Huh?”

“Unleash the magic. Unless you want to die.”

After those words, I heard the sound of fire and flames from the side. It was about that time that Becky managed to barely open her eyes.

“Magic… ? Suddenly, some magic….”

Why do you need to use magic? Doubts about him were quickly dispelled.

“….”

The sky. Sky all over.

It is so high that even the altitude is unknown. Becky’s body was falling vertically from the sky.

“Eh, Eek? Ehehehe!”

Becky freaked out and gave him the strength he had in his body. First of all, I was going to try to center it somehow.

If you fall like this, you will die. Never survive

“Sal, save me! I fall! If you fall like this, you will surely die! Aww!”

The girl waved her arms randomly. At one point, Trixie’s thin calf was caught in her hand, and Trixie frowned.

“What, what are you doing? Why are you clinging to me?”

“Help me! You’re a representative like us! Aww!”

“Live on your own. A little!”

Closing my eyes comfortably in a warm room. That was Becky’s last memory.

But when he came to his senses, he found himself falling from the sky. What the hell had happened was impossible to understand, at least not with Becky’s common sense.

“Aagh!”

But he had no time to dwell on other thoughts. The distance from the ground was getting closer at a terrifying speed even in the midst of this.

“You. Never look up.”

“Trixie! I’m alive too….”

Crack!

Involuntarily, Becky looked up and found Trixie’s footprints on her face. Becky lowered his head again with tears in his eyes.

‘I’m dying of pain!’

Why are you stepping on it so hard? I have no interest in your teddy bear’s underwear….

Wheeying!

The ground is really close now. Things that used to be mere dots grow enormously in real time.

“aaa! I don’t want to die!”

Becky drew a spell in her head.

When the calculation got stuck, he approached while muttering with his mouth, corrected the wrong part by writing it on his palm, and did his best.

“Please, please, Jebaaal!”

Becky saw the floor in front of her eyes. To make sure that place doesn’t turn into a dead end, Becky squeezed out her last bit of energy and used her magic as much as she could.

“Ugh!”

A giant ice slide was finally created.

Becky jumps on it, which curves like the corner of his mouth, and bounces into the air once again. He builds another slide, this time bouncing lower…. He repeated the process frantically.

And finally.

Kudangtangtang!

Becky’s body rolled on the floor several times. Fortunately, I didn’t feel any great pain.

‘Enough!’

The method was quite noisy and covered in dirt, but if you survived, that’s good enough. He was able to breathe normally, and his body moved without any problems.

“This is stronger than I thought.”

Becky tapped the cone-shaped hat on his head with her index finger. Come to think of it, this guy stuck to his head from the time he fell and didn’t fall off.

Becky brushed away the dust with the palm of her hand, slowly examining her surroundings.

“… Was there an explosion?”

She was standing at the edge of a broken railroad track.

Looking at it now, the head of the train was smashed. To make matters worse, the entire railroad was cut off.

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Becky thought quietly. If she hadn’t landed properly and had fallen down that cliff of unfathomable height….

“Woo-wook….”

Unbeknownst to me, I covered my mouth with one hand. Just looking down like this makes me dizzy, but imagining what would have happened if I had fallen was terrifying.

“… !”

And then. He was shocked again.

“What, what is that?”

The train stretched vertically into the sky.

It has a strange shape with its head attached to the floor, but its tail pointing upward as if someone pulled it.

A state of art that seems to stretch endlessly into the sky, free from the gravity that binds oneself.

A wizard capable of making this possible.

Becky could only think of one person.

“Flan….”

At the same time, I realized he wasn’t around. The girl called out his name in a loud voice.

“Flan—!”

But it’s not just the flan that can’t be seen. So did Trixie and Louise.

“Flan! Trixie! Louis—!”

The answer is not coming back.

A feeling of uneasiness prevailed. Did Becky leave alone?

I couldn’t think of that. First of all, they’re not like that, and secondly, there’s nowhere to go in this situation where the railroads and trains are cut off.

If so, maybe, maybe….

“I was the only one who survived… ?”

Guilt and shock rushes like a wave. Becky couldn’t get over it and his shoulders trembled.

I thought I had gotten a little closer with the representatives. Besides, Becky had never imagined life at the academy without Plan.

“Flan, everyone….”

But then.

“Wow!”

With a bang, a pebble hit Becky in the back of the head. Becky’s head reflexively turns toward it.

There were all three delegates there.

“… Hey guys!”

Becky smiled with tears in her eyes.

“Everyone is alive!”

But the girl’s joy did not last long.

“Becky, are you still awake?”

“What is he doing over there?”

“Ahahahaha…. Becky, are you okay? It is completely muddy.”

“….”

My heart, which had been touched, cooled down in an instant.

With tears in her eyes, Becky trudged on.

“It’s too much….”

◈

We gathered at the head of the half-broken train.

It was Louis who broke the silence first.

“Ummm…. Does that mean she caused the explosion on purpose? Prevent us from reaching Berkel?”

“I didn’t cause it, but I didn’t bother to avoid or block it. Because this is also a necessary process.”

I rolled my eyes and peered down the cliff covered in darkness. Soon after, the energy of countless ‘ghosts’ was sensed.

As expected, it was the same as the previous investigation.

Becky gulped and asked.

“Then what are you going to do from now on? Direct walk to Berkel…. Isn’t that what?”

I shook my head. Because I had no intention of making him suffer without any meaning or reward.

However, I asked them this way.

“You have never killed a person before.”

As I said that, something started climbing up from the bottom of the cliff. Soon, they fill up the tracks step by step.

“… !”

The eyes of the representatives widened.

“What, what is that? Person… ?”

“Are you a human? I climbed the cliff with my bare hands.”

Its identity is a ghost.

The Ghost of the Fog Cliff is very different from the ‘translucent and fluffy floating thing’ commonly talked about in the world.

They have humanoid bodies. Not at the level of clumsy imitation, but exactly the same.

They gradually began to surround us. Before long, we became like a lonely island floating in the open sea.

The ghosts smiled. With an expression as if facing an old friend, he slowly began to close the distance.

“It’s just a ghost, so just kill it. This will be added to the score of the subjugation system.”

I muttered lowly. It was not difficult to understand, so the representatives also nodded.

But one second. This second. Three seconds…. Even though the ghosts kept coming, no one was able to use magic.

“After….”

Trixie stretches out an arm with a cold expression.

I took a few deep breaths and finally withdrew my hand.

“… You are so childish.”

Trixie murmured lowly.

What made the delegates hesitate was the appearance of the ghost. Even just looking at the ghost of the girl in the front right now.

Small height that barely reached his waist, eyes as big as a deer, and his small hands, it seems that he can’t even hold a fork, let alone a weapon, properly.

“What are you waiting for?”

“….”

I urged the three of them.

Even with that appearance, you have to kill it. Without any hesitation. Easily.

The reason for Berkel’s notoriety is simple.

This is because the place where the majority of monsters created by demons are swarming with ‘humanoid’ beasts.

As long as he has human origins, it’s understandable that he would be hesitant about dealing with something humanoid.

However.

That’s a hesitation that doesn’t help win the championship, and it’s also not helpful at all for the representatives to defend themselves going forward.

I don’t want to become a killer who doesn’t hesitate to kill, but I just don’t want to see my opponent devour fear or waver, no matter how they look.

“Sister, sister….”

The girl toddled towards Trixie.

And the next moment.

The girl’s face was deformed. The four-pronged mouth tried to swallow the three representatives at once.

f*ck—!

I snapped my fingers. And at the same time, mana in the form of a needle pierced the girl’s forehead.

“Ugh… ?”

The ghost reverted back to the girl’s form as if it had never happened, and collapsed in all sorts of ways to arouse her sympathy.

The faces of the representatives were shocked.

“How pitiful. Things that make you hesitate will appear countless times in the future.”

I tut and clicked my tongue.

“The price of hesitation is life. Don’t you know?”

I continued talking to the frozen ones.

“Of course, you can hesitate. If life was not a waste, if resolution was only that much…. I will not stop.”

“….”

The faces of the representatives became more determined.

“I’ll give you another chance. To deal with it.”

The same order as before. But this time, the reaction of the representatives is different. All three began to raise their mana as much as possible.

—!

The death of the girl ghost became a signal flare, and the ghosts attacked us all at once.

But the representatives do not hesitate any longer.

They realized the price of hesitation, and although they were nervous, they made sure that the magic manifested without error.

Kwaaang—!

In one explosion, a bunch of ghosts fall down the cliff.

I quietly raised my head and looked up.

Something shiny in the tail section. Journalists’ Crystal Ball We are capturing our image.

“Put it straight.”

We will show you remarkable growth right in front of your eyes.

◈

[I am currently in Berkel. After a while, this place will become the stage of the subjugation festival and heat up—]

The leader’s office of the 1st place guild, ‘Mysterious Gorge’.

In a space too large to write alone, Captain Elesis was examining the types of records.

“Hmm….”

Thanks to the crystal ball that reporters have, they can now see not only the typeface but also the “Image of the scene.” Even though I couldn’t hear the sound, it was enough to immerse myself while watching.

She looked at the eight or so papers pasted on her wall one after another.

[Record Sheet No. 3]

─The knight of the flames has appeared! How many times will you swing your sword this year….

[Record Sheet No. 5]

─The most likely winner is….

─Isn’t that Tianchuk?

─Yes. There are so many surprises this year, but even so, Tianchuk is Tianchuk.

Subjugation, subjugation, subjugation.

Since the finals began, everything that can be called ‘mass media’ has been occupied by the subjugation system.

“You should do well.”

Of course, there were several reasons for Elesis’ interest in the subjugation system besides simple fun.

One of them is, of course, ‘Tianchuk’.

The Cadet Knights have a close relationship with the Mystic Gorge. Elesis hoped that they would use the subjugation system as a stage to play a bigger role.

The time when I was soaked in thoughts.

“Captain!”

One member opened the door of the leader’s office blindly. Originally, it would be a big scolding, but his expression looked really urgent, so I decided to listen to the report first.

“What’s up?”

“I-I mean. That is… !”

He took several deep breaths before spitting out what could be called words.

“Train number 4 to Berkel was caught in a huge explosion. It is said that the entire track was cut off!”

“Explosion…. No way.”

There was something in Elesis’ head.

“If you take the 4th train…. Are you a ghost again?”

“Yes. Foggy Cliffs. Mass hauntings of ghosts have also been confirmed.”

“Ehh….”

Elesis let out a deep sigh. What happened to this guy’s ghost?

“Hey, and Captain….”

A tense expression was evident on the member’s face. As if, from now on, what I am talking about is the main topic.

“On train number 4, the representatives of the Faculty of Magic were riding.”

“… Hmm?”

Elesis widened her eyes.

Train number 4 is not for ordinary passengers in the first place. From the beginning, it was for those full of purpose to encounter demons, mercenaries who were willing to set foot in rough terrain.

In a short amount of time, she wondered why Plan had boarded the number 4 train.

“There’s no way he didn’t know.”

A grand and meticulous plan, certainty…. The plan Elesis saw was a wizard full of such things.

I didn’t think that I was in danger just because of ‘missing information’.

“… Then, maybe it was on purpose.”

Dealing with the Ghosts of the Mist Cliffs is not easy.

First of all, the human appearance. When dealing with them in large numbers, sometimes even Elesis felt exhausted.

And secondly, terrain. Anyone who wants to live will never welcome a battle on the cliff.

This was the reason why the representatives chose the safe route. The risk of getting rid of the ghosts was too great because they were added to the score of the subjugation system.

“Prepare. Leave immediately.”

Either way, you’ll have to see for yourself.

Plan is also one of Elesis’s students. Her movement to pack her armor quickened.

But then.

“Captain!”

One additional member visited the leader’s office. Even, he seemed even more urgent than the one who had come before him.

Elesis shook her hand.

“I already heard it all. Get ready to go.”

“No, no!”

“No, what is it? Get ready to go.”

Elesis even wrinkled her expression, but the member just shook her head vigorously.

“Ah, that means you don’t have to go out!”

“… ?”

The movement of Elesis, who was preparing, suddenly stopped.

She asked the member.

“What are you talking about?”

“The situation…. They say it’s already over!”

Exit.

At those two letters, the leader’s expression became serious.

“To say it’s over, you said you’ve been attacked by ghosts?”

The member answered with a bewildered expression.

“The ghost subjugation…. That means it’s over.”

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