“Rudy, how have you been?”
“Please show me your face from time to time. What have you been doing these days?”
“I just trained by myself.”
10 minutes before Jeffrey arrives.
I met Astina.
It felt like we met a little late, but there was nothing to prepare in advance, so it didn’t matter much.
We hid in the trees and chatted.
“Did you hear about the operation?”
“Yeah, actually, it doesn’t seem like there’s any such thing as an operation.”
Astina was right.
In fact, it was a problem to bring the rebels to this place, and it wouldn’t be a big deal if it wasn’t that much if Aryandor was coming.
This is the city right in front of the Academy.
There are too many people to ask for help.
So, as long as you succeed in attracting the other party, you can see that everything has already been done.
“You seem a bit weird these days than that.”
“… … I?”
“Yes, I still want to ask… … .”
quaang-
Then there was a big explosion.
Without speaking, I jumped up from my seat.
The location of the explosion was the hut where Evan and the rebels were supposed to meet.
This was not the time to chat like this.
“Astina-senpai!”
“Know. Gravity.”
Astina immediately moved her mana and lifted her body into the air, flying at high speed.
When I arrived near the hut, I saw nothing but a hut that had been turned to ashes.
“What happened?”
“I don’t know either. First.”
I looked towards the forest.
Evan probably wasn’t the cause of this explosion.
Knowing that we were some distance away, we couldn’t have done anything reckless.
Even more so because he was still wearing an inner suit.
“Did the rebel side attack first?”
I couldn’t figure out why, but I could tell who was coming by looking at the front of the forest.
A magic tool placed in front of the forest.
Its appearance was similar to the magic tool used by the rebels when they attacked the academy.
Then I could barely notice who came here.
“Is that Jeffrey?”
These installation type magic tools had to be in the correct coordinates, so the right person could not install them.
Among the leaders of the rebels that we know of, the only person who can use such magic tools is Jeffrin.
In case new characters were recruited, in the current situation, only Jeffrin came to mind.
“Let’s go find Evan.”
Astina said so and tried to enter the forest.
I grabbed Astina’s arm like that.
“no. I don’t know what will happen if I go into the woods.”
If the magic tool is already installed, it means that hallucinatory magic is being activated in the forest.
You never know what will happen if you go in.
“I look for Evan in the sky.”
“From heaven?”
Astina tilted her head at my words.
It doesn’t make sense to fly over the forest and look for someone under a tree.
I knew it well too.
However, when it is found with the naked eye.
I had another way.
“I don’t have time to explain.”
“… … i get it.”
Astina lifted me into the air again.
At the same time I closed my eyes.
What I practiced the most during that time was how to feel the flow of mana.
When I returned to the academy from the Railer family, Robert taught me how to feel the flow of mana and defeat necromantic magic.
Robert doesn’t tell us anything in vain.
He was a teacher who gave me the skills I really needed when I really needed it.
So, I thought it was the skill I needed the most, and it must have been that he taught me this ability.
Since returning to the academy, I have not been lazy for a day, honing this technique.
Read the overall flow of mana.
He couldn’t pinpoint the distant space, but he could tell if there was a person under the tree.
no sound.
even if you don’t see anything.
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Mana moves.
It reads the movement of that mana.
There are people there.
As I read the mana like that, a strange thing happened all of a sudden.
A strong mana reaction occurred in the west.
It didn’t happen to people.
The trees were moving mana.
Evan’s magic.
A skill that receives mana from a tree and uses it.
I quickly noticed
I opened my closed eyes and looked in the direction I felt the mana.
If it was Evan’s ability, the trees would have shone brilliantly, but there was no such thing.
I couldn’t see it with the naked eye, but I could definitely feel the movement of mana there.
“… … Astina senior. Would you like to go west?”
“West?”
Astina turned the direction she was flying in to the west.
When I arrived at the place where Mana had moved, I looked at Astina.
“I will go down.”
“What? I will go down too.”
“no. Just in case, Astina-senpai, stay outside. There’s nothing good about going into psychedelic magic together.”
Astina is stronger than me, so it might be better to go down, but I can’t stay in the air.
It was better for Astina to remain to keep an eye on the situation from the sky.
“Then I will go.”
“Rudy Astria.”
Astina suddenly grabbed my arm.
Then he bit his lower lip.
“not. have a good trip Don’t get hurt.”
I tilted my head as I didn’t say anything after holding it.
I couldn’t ask for it now, so I nodded my head for a moment.
“I will go.”
Astina dispelled the magic that held me, and I fell.
As I entered the forest, I saw Evan surrounded by people.
“Well?”
Everyone around Evan had my face on it.
“What is that? feel bad.”
I frowned and looked at Evan.
Evan looked up at the sky as if he had given up on something.
“Evan.”
I called Evan like that.
Then he smiled.
“It held up well.”
I moved my mana.
The first thing to do is to distract the other person’s gaze.
“The devil’s finger.”
Black pillars were dropped from the sky.
Those below me heard my voice and spread around me.
It didn’t mean that all of my magic could be avoided just because it spread around.
A few people in my form were orthodox to my magic.
But they disappeared like smoke.
“Is it a hallucination?”
Then it is said that among the escaped ones, there are hallucinations.
It would have been more trouble if all the guys under here were human, but there was nothing to be afraid of more than knowing that it was a hallucination.
“Rudy Astria… … !”
“You stay quiet.”
I spoke to Evan and took a deep breath.
Concentrate.
Distinguish between illusion and reality.
It is said that perfect psychedelic magic is indistinguishable from reality, but there was a completely different point.
Among the visible people, hallucinations are blurring the flow of mana.
Humans and hallucinations couldn’t be the same.
In order for hallucinations to have as much mana as a human, the amount of mana allocated to it must be enormous.
I couldn’t create so many hallucinations.
“Right side… … two… … Three on the left, one on the top.”
I read the flow to figure out the number of people and moved.
It doesn’t give me information that I can detect hallucinations.
Defeat everything before the opponent knows the situation.
I hit the ground and went out.
The movement is simple.
only what you need.
The number of attacks is as low as possible.
thump-
I kicked the ground
“ah.”
“one person.”
It hit the stomach of a person in front and moved its legs again.
“Two, three, four.”
The opponent had no bird to react.
Even with the help of hallucinogenic magic, the opponent is an assassin.
He was an ordinary assassin.
Their fights were always guys fighting using gaps outside the opponent’s line of sight, so I couldn’t see my movements head-on.
“last.”
“Gagging… … !”
I knocked down the last opponent and stared at them.
It didn’t feel right to see them lying down with my face on them.
“I need to release it soon.”
I took a small box out of my pocket.
A magic tool that Maguire prepared in advance.
It was a magic tool to dispel hallucinatory magic.
Instead of being able to help directly, Maguire prepared magical tools to counteract the leadership.
A magic tool that makes you hallucinate.
It was a magic tool prepared to respond to Jeffrin.
I put my magic tools at them.
Then they began to return to their original form.
I looked at their faces.
“No.”
There was no Jeffrin among them.
I narrowed my brow and looked around.
There was no one around that could be called Jeffrin.
Could it be that only these assassins were sent?
However, there was no other person other than Jeffrey who could wield such hallucinatory magic.
I looked at Evan.
“Evan, were these people the only ones here?”
Evan, who was breathing heavily, shook his head.
“not! Jeffrey is still there.”
I nodded and looked straight up at the sky.
“Astina-senpai! Find a place with horses and carriages nearby!”
“i get it. Don’t check it out.”
“Evan, you are resting here. Priscilla.”
I summoned Priscilla and opened my mouth.
“I’m after Jeffrey.”
***
Jeffrey was hiding in a forest.
“ha… … ha… … .”
I could feel the hallucination magic that I had just put on the assassins had been lifted.
Jeffrin realized they had arrived when Rudy Astria and Astina arrived near the hut.
He had deliberately left his magic tools to find out.
That didn’t mean Jeffrin could escape.
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Jeffrey looked at his hand.
His hands were getting wrinkled.
The magic that Aryandor had cast is released.
Aryandor cast the time magic on Jeffrin, but it was Zephrin’s mana that maintained the magic.
As Jeffrin’s mana gradually drains, his body returns to its former state.
Jeffrey sat down on the floor.
The stamina disappears according to the stamina, and the state of mana is unstable.
If this is the case, it is only a matter of time before you get caught.
“ha… … . I was stupid too.”
Jeffrey lamented.
He didn’t come all the way here just to bring in one person he barely showed a sense of identity with.
He wasn’t in good shape, so he should have saved himself a little bit.
‘Even if I regret like this, nothing will change.’
Jeffrin asked this.
If he had stayed in the rebels anyway, there would have been nothing he could have done.
There is no reason to be alive if you barely survive.
‘A meaningful death is better than such a garbage life.’
Jeffrin took a potion from his pocket and poured it into his mouth.
So the hand returned to its original state.
Jeffrin exhaled a sharp sting and stood up.
“I need at least one comrade.”