266 – Final Chapter (19): Danya Katsnesia
It is a dark tunnel.
Not a single ray of light is visible.
A group of monsters filled the land.
An unknown entity slowly approaching beyond the horizon.
It is meaningless to even sing about hope.
Everyone trapped in the academy thought so.
But no one said it out loud.
“Gather everything in the building! Chairs, desks! Anything goes!”
There was a lady at the top who ran from place to place and gave command.
Silvia Laurent.
She tore off her beloved dress up to her thighs to make it easier to move, and distributed the work to everyone with infinite clarity and precision.
A firm command.
There was power within it.
It’s as if anything can be solved if one follows her orders.
“Okay, let’s give it a little more strength! There’s not much left!”
Also, she believed in something.
I could feel her firm belief that someone would come to save us in each of her words.
That’s why it moves.
Even without knowing what hope she was seeing, it seemed brilliant enough for everyone who had lost hope in her.
— Kwaaang!
A desperate atmosphere with all kinds of monsters hitting their heads against the barrier.
Everyone, regardless of age or gender, moves as if seeing a wild flower blooming from a pile of ruins.
When she turned her head, it wasn’t just Sylvia.
“You have to hold the bow like this. That’s right. Well done! Please take care of me!”
Danya walked around with her ears pricked up, teaching those who were inexperienced in using weapons.
Elena taught the priests how to effectively attack monsters.
Lina walked around her, calming people down and boosting her morale.
Asilia gave everyone strength just by standing at the forefront in front of the barrier with a calm smile.
Those who face the future without giving up in despair.
It was natural that they had something in common in their hearts.
Ian Black Angus.
Faith in their colleagues or students.
It spread quickly and gave everyone who had taken refuge inside the academy the courage to take up arms once again.
— Kwaaang!
There is a crack in the barrier.
Now the durability of the barrier is about 20%.
“Let’s all go up.”
A separate team, including Sylvia, quickly headed to the rooftop of the student center.
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Academy Student Center.
Pink hair leaves a long trace.
Danya quickly climbed the stairs of the building.
Her steps were extremely precise and fast, but her hands were clenched tightly for some reason. Because whenever she relaxed her strength even a little, she trembled.
Her task given to her was by no means small.
It was the final operation that would decide the fate of everyone in the academy.
The moment the barrier is broken, she fires as powerful a grass arrow into the air as possible.
Explodes it in the air, covering as wide an area as possible with a shower of grass.
Use Lina’s flame to burn all the monsters in the area.
Operation name ‘Fireworks’.
No matter what anyone says, Danya was the key.
If she doesn’t disperse her grass element properly, Lina’s magic that has to react to her grass element will also be restricted.
“… I will make it.”
I squeezed her shaking hand.
I jumped a few more steps and found myself on the rooftop.
The student center building is the tallest in the academy.
The surrounding scenery was captured at a glance.
Bright red sky.
Monsters swarming around the academy.
And even the half-cracked barrier…
Gulp.
Danya swallowed her saliva.
It certainly looked quite dangerous.
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A scenery that makes it difficult to have good thoughts.
“Everyone, please concentrate.”
Sylvia sharply cut into the gloomy atmosphere that was slowly spreading.
“Miss Cristana, get ready.”
“It’s done!”
A red-haired girl wearing a white lab coat shouted.
She was inside a large device.
It was a device of this type that I had never seen before, consisting of three huge, golden circular rings lined up three stories high in a building.
Should we say it looks like three giant magnifying glasses lined up vertically?
— Squeak!
A girl who tightened golden screws using a mechanical arm mounted on her back. She walked out.
“I poured everything I could into this device. The mana-to-magic conversion efficiency will be close to 100%. Because I used all the floating stones I developed with Ian. The mana amplification rate is also at its maximum…”
“Sorry to interrupt, but you’re saying it’s all finished?”
“Okay then!”
Christina, with dark circles under her eyes, shouted majestically.
— Coo!
Immediately, a large screw fell behind her, but she spoke.
“”……””
Instantly, doubt filled people’s eyes.
Christina scratched the back of her head and lifted the screw.
“Oops. I guess I tightened it the other way. Fix this right away.”
She stretches out her mechanical arm and tightens the screw.
Kiririk.
For some reason, it made an unsettling sound, but somehow I had the feeling that something was tightening.
‘It’s okay, right…?’
Danya watched Christina’s work with confusion.
No matter what anyone says, Danya is the one who has to go into that mechanical device and use magic.
“Are you nervous?”
Silvia approached us before we knew it and asked quietly.
No-.
She was about to answer
, But Danya squeezed her hand.
The lives of so many people are in her hands.
This was my first time experiencing something like this.
Until she met Ian, she was worried about whether she should quit the academy or not. When she thought about it, there was a time when she was completely childish.
A lot has changed since I met Ian.
Under his guidance, the overly sensitive mana sensitivity suddenly became a huge advantage. For some reason, the once ambiguous grass element property has become a wonderful element that can interact with other elements.
So where am I now?
Where does Dania Katsnesia, who was contemplating whether to quit the academy or not, stand?
Danya looked down at her tensely clenched hands.
After looking at her quietly, she opened her mouth.
“Yeah, I’m nervous.”
“I see.”
Silvia looks worried.
This child was once a rival fighting over Ian. Although I feel strongly that she is a colleague now.
But if peace comes again someday, Danya planned to compete again.
I will look forward to that day coming.
Danya opened her mouth.
“But it’s not scary.”
It was a bright smile that brightened the surroundings.
Even Sylvia, who was watching, acknowledged Danya’s charm.
“After meeting Ian, I am no longer childish-.”
Sarak.
Danya’s tail, which had been twitching due to tension, calmed down.
What weighed down Danya was always a sense of burden.
The greatest genius of the tribe.
Entered into the Academy’s Department of Magic for the first time.
But for some reason, things didn’t work out.
The burden continues to weigh on me.
Those things were no more.
No. I didn’t mind.
Because now I am.
“I just like magic.”
It is good to feel the elements of nature.
I am happy to bring it in and interact with it.
Meeting Ian’s earth and reacting violently with Lina’s flame.
I am just so happy with this itself.
So.
“I can do it.”
Danya’s promise rang out clearly.
That moment.
— Kwaaa!
An unusually loud crash sound was heard.
The sky of the barrier. It was dead center.
It was almost like the building was shaking.
Jikjik!
Thick cracks appeared throughout the barrier.
Anyone could see that it was serious.
Hoo-duk-duk—
Pieces of the fallen barrier fall.
“It’s on the verge of complete destruction.”
Silvia spoke calmly.
Gulp.
The sound of swallowing was heard here and there.
“Operation ‘Fireworks’ will begin as soon as the barrier is broken. Are you ready… Miss Danya?”
“Yes.”
Danya nodded her head.
And then walked towards the device.
“Fighting.”
Danya smiled at Christina who whispered softly to her.
“I believe it.”
“Of course. Who made it?”
Danya lightly touched her hands and stood under the magic device.
Three large golden rings visible above her head.
A gate that recognizes magic passing through.
A summation machine that combines the magical power of others.
An amplifier that uses that magic power to strengthen Danya’s magic.
The magic will become stronger as it goes by.
I heard that explanation.
I didn’t know the detailed theory.
It wasn’t even important.
I just trust Christina who created this.
Danya summoned a bow.
It was a long green bow that reached up to her knees.
Slowly raises the body’s magical power.
Fires the moment the barrier is broken.
— Couuuck!
The barrier is broken.
It was in the center of the hemisphere, right in the middle of the sky above the Academy.
A huge crow-shaped monster was poking its head into the barrier.
“We have to deal with that!”
Someone is shouting.
Danya shook her head.
“I’ll just shoot it like that.”
This is an arrow that will be fired with everyone’s help.
It can be pierced.
Silvia gestured toward Christina.
The three rings floating above the head begin to spin rapidly.
— Gate operational complete!
— The totalizer is operational!
— Amplifier up and running!
Looking up from below, the rings look like targets.
Danya pulled her bow toward the sky.
— Woo!
One more time, with all my might
— Oooh!
To the extent that the arm’s range of motion no longer allows it.
An arrowhead shining more brilliantly than ever.
Everyone’s magical power was contained there.
Kkisssss—
The monster that broke through the barrier rushes straight towards Danya.
Danya poured out all of her magic without even blinking.
Blame!
The bowstring was set.
— Wow!
An arrow is shot through the wind.
The sky covered in red.
A brilliant green arrow fired like hope.
— Paaat!
It soared high into the sky, penetrating the monster overhead.