118 – Rivals
A guy with heat all over his head.
I swallowed dry saliva in a completely different atmosphere from the first time.
Using the magic cutting card, you could gain an advantage in terms of compatibility, but you couldn’t hastily conclude victory just that much.
Above all, that guy is the strongest in the first year. Because he was a genius who was born with all kinds of talents, such as a magical sense and quickness, as well as a simple personality.
“Why don’t you stop this once!?”
This time, he brought out a summoned beast of a completely different nature.
Contrary to the previous shark, it is not a single strong individual, but a population consisting of countless groups.
Booooong!!
From the sound of their wings, it was a very bloody swarm of wasps.
Such small summons cannot be slashed with cards one by one. The opponent found a way to destroy my ability with just one attack.
‘Am I not a genius for nothing?’
A swarm of wasps flew here furiously.
If you allow even one attack, the outcome will be decided immediately. That’s why Granger’s summoned beast was a threat.
How will you cope when the prepared card is blocked?
My decision was quick and swift.
I took out a new card and laid it on the floor of the wasp’s path. Soon after, a hole formed in the card and began sucking wasps.
If the opponent comes up with a custom strategy, I respond in the same way.
If it was a single entity as strong as a shark, it wouldn’t even budge, but the wasps were weak as individuals, so they couldn’t stand my wind blood and were sucked in as a group.
“··· Ha. Let’s try this, shall we?”
Somehow, the flow of sparring came to be determined by how many different types of magic were used.
Magic Summons and Card Magic.
Which of each other’s personality magic has more infinite possibilities?
In fact, it was more a matter of the skill of the caster than the magic itself.
The person with a higher level of understanding of their own magic has no choice but to win.
If it goes like that, it’s worth it even for me.
Even if you don’t know anything else, you can be confident that you can handle magic better than anyone else.
Although there is a problem that my fighting ability is low, it is not strange to say that I am more advantageous in terms of compatibility.
“Where did you block this!!”
But his choice was different.
Contrary to my expectations, he took a much more radical and extreme method.
If you can’t break through with one summon, you can take out two at the same time.
No, he showed a huge scale by summoning four monsters at once instead of two.
A shark, a swarm of wasps, three wolves and a giant bull.
“hahahaha…”
When your summoner glared at you, you burst out laughing.
How absurd is the amount of magic power that can do something like this? As of right now, the reality is that I am still far from reaching that level.
Gringer said horrified as he glared this way with his deadly eyes.
“Now just search.”
According to the master’s order, the summoned beasts rushed at the same time with only one thought to kill me.
Can I block this attack?
Conclusions were drawn quickly after a sober judgment.
“Ah, I will abstain.”
“End of sparring. Well done to both of you.”
“…Eh?”
Without hesitation, the declaration of abstention immediately ended the Dalian test, and each examiner began scoring.
At such a situation, Granger blinked with a rather bewildered expression.
Maybe it’s because he looks nice, but that’s why he looks cute for no reason.
It would have been much better if he had a more normal personality. I’m sorry in so many ways.
“What, what!?”
“What? The test is over.”
“Are you kidding me?! You did that and ran away in the middle!?”
No, it’s not a run away, it’s just a strategic declaration of abstention.
To be honest, it wasn’t impossible to stop it. However, in order to do that, I have to give 100% of my strength, but if I do, there is a risk that I will be discovered as the Phantom Thief Raven.
It was for the same reason that he only used card magic when he was a Crow.
Anyway, the previous workshop would have been enough to get a good score in the exam.
Moreover, the opponent is the first in the entire school, but since he did well, the evaluation will go up even more.
That means there was no need to continue the sparring even at the risk.
The problem is that he seems to have noticed that I didn’t do my best.
I muttered something while glaring at this direction with 300 terrifying eyes, but it was quite scary.
At times like this, the 36-gye line is the best.
“Well then, I’ll be on my way! Great job!”
I tried to leave in a hurry, but Granger didn’t just watch.
“Hey. Are you kidding me?”
“…You’re kidding. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
As the guy raised his mana, the examiner who was watching in the middle stepped forward like a knife to stop him.
“Student there. If you recklessly use magic outside of sparring time, it could be considered cheating.”
“sh*t…!”
No matter how much Granger you are, unless you are an idiot, you cannot openly go against the will of the examiner.
Befitting a tight academy, if you commit cheating during the exam, you will be immediately disqualified from taking this exam and will be expelled. There is no exception even if it is taken only once without a first warning.
So, even if you end up in last place, it’s better not to even dream of cheating like cheating.
Of course, if you’re confident that you won’t get caught, you can try it, but it’s not a recommended method.
Even a guy with a high nose had no choice but to obey the authority of the examiner as long as he was an academy student.
It is a fact that can be known just by looking at the guy who used to growl as if he was going to jump right into it, but became calm as if he died at the examiner’s warning.
Gringer walked this way with a bloody look. Then, deliberately colliding with my body, I muttered a few words so that only I could hear.
“Baby. Look forward to it later.”
“·······.”
Oh. Maybe I…
Did he take pictures of you?
Are you going to be bullied at school?
No, I did something so bad. If it’s my fault, it’s just that I worked hard in sparring.
After staring at the back of the guy leaving the arena for a while, I decided to go back to class.
Anyway, what can I say? I must say that I felt a strange sense of déjà vu from earlier.
It wasn’t long before I realized what it was.
‘Isn’t this the same as what the main character used to do?’
The layered guy did the same thing at first, saying that he looked after him in Dalian.
I wonder if it resembles a rival after all. Granger seems to be doing the exact same thing.
“Um…”
I was going to go back to Ban right away, but there was nothing to do right away anyway, so I decided to visit Dalian or something.
As expected, most kids were worse than me.
I’m not conceited, what can I do with the truth? I became famous as a phantom thief, and suddenly my magic skills improved considerably.
It has reached an embarrassing level compared to the newbies who have just entered high school.
Still, except for Granger, who is stronger than me, because he’s an out-of-standard genius, it’s worth comparing with Rachel or Yulia, who are at the top of the list objectively.
Didn’t you actually beat Rachel in the last sparring?
It’s said that he was aiming for a loophole, but it’s safe to say that it’s definitely part of his skills.
“Oh. I’d like to see that.”
Looking at the faces of the practitioners who were about to start over there, I was excited.
It was none other than the turn of Layard, the protagonist of the original work.
That guy is also a great genius, but unlike Granger, he was more of a growth genius.
It’s a bit ambiguous level to call it the top level even within the first year now, since it’s the beginning of the work.
That guy grows rapidly only when he goes through the events in the story over time.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that the current layering is weak.
Rather, tolerable guys have no choice but to suffer from the main character’s tricky fighting style.
A romantic swordsman who mainly uses a sword in a fantasy background where magic is the main material.
Isn’t it enough personality and charm to be the main character?
I watched him fight from nearby.
The opponent also seemed to be a fairly strong student with a high ranking in the overall ability evaluation, but the main character won 1 victory without any major surprises.
It was quite cool to see him swinging his sword and slicing through it.
Should I use a sword too?
The moment you leave the arena, immersed in nonsensical imagination.
I bumped into a psycho guy who was waiting for me to come out outside.
“I finally crawled out. Didn’t I say see you later?”
As tenacious as a real leech. To keep the word he threw while waiting like this. Do it very well.
“Dalian is already over. What do you want me to do?”
“Are you trying to slip away and sneak away again? Do you think I will let you go?”
No, when the heck did I get pulled over?
The moment I let out a deep sigh, someone from behind came up to me and intervened.
“Cro. . . . And the unlucky one.”
“Ha. After the skinny guy, the country boy has also appeared.”
Layered and Granger.
The two rivals from the original fight again.