109 – Gray Rat (1)
Nobles do not make noise in the assembly.
Unlike commoners, nobles always shine like the sun, waking people up just by standing there.
Yelling and yelling for you to take care of yourself is what only filthy rats in Gray Town do.
When they scream, people frown and scream, but no one screams or frowns at the sun.
It makes them realize what mistakes they have been making unconsciously until now, even without trying.
Those ignorant knights passing by and the instructors who live with money just do what they are told.
they don’t think
So we have to step in and wake them up.
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Just as the sun rips through the night curtain and wakes up humans, we need to tear down the door of their closed thoughts and make them into thinking humans.Because that is the role of our nobles and wizards who deal with huge mana.
Thein von Harryford, the head of the Department of Elemental Magic at the Faculty of Magic, thought so.
But I didn’t know that the sun can wake up people, but also giants.
“Thane von Harryford, the second son of Viscount Harryford, right? Would you like to follow me for a moment?”
At the call of Princess Rain Rover, Tane spit.
If it were not for the students of the Imperial University, the golden clan would never have seen their faces.
I thought about wanting to have a conversation sometime, but I never dreamed that I would be able to have a conversation like this.
‘I’m not wrong. Wake.’
Tane took a small deep breath and followed the princess in etiquette.
And I drew a simulation in my head.
The princess will definitely warn you not to go against the will of the Empire.
Then, how should Tane react?
In the midst of a fierce battle over countless expected questions and answers, the princess and Tane arrived at the magic arena.
‘uh······?’
Tane’s head turned as white as a blank sheet of paper in an instant.
Thein unwittingly stopped in front of the entrance to the magic arena.
“I’m sorry, Princess, but can you tell me why I’m here?”
“I’ll tell you that inside.”
The princess said those words and entered the arena.
Thein took a deep breath.
Are you going to have a duel with the princess?
No, you’re going to solve this problem in such an ignorant way?
Or does it mean something else?
Thein barely moved his feet, which did not fall, and headed for the arena.
Not only was there a princess there, but there was also a man whom Thane knew.
A commoner studying magic in the subject of the swordsmanship department.
It was Rakan Wood.
“Rakan, I’m sorry for asking you an unreasonable request.”
“no. Her Majesty the Princess.”
“I’m not a princess now, but because I’m a student, so I call her senior. Rakan.”
“Ah yes. Seniors.”
Tane doubted his eyes.
The commoners call the princess a senior.
I haven’t even called Thein like that yet, so how can you get permission so easily?
‘Can I call you like that too?’
A useless thought flashed through my mind for a moment, but I soon came to my senses.
The reason he’s here isn’t to make friends with the princess, is he?
“Your Majesty, can you understand why I came to the magic arena?”
“Why would you? I’m here for a magic duel.”
Thein swallowed dry saliva.
“If I had damaged the honor of the Crown Princess without my knowledge…”
“It’s not like that. I just heard that Thein had doubts about the launch of Trinity. So I’m here to show you why you’re trying to build Trinity.”
“No, not because of Trinity, but because of the unverified people…”
“Tane. Do you think I took precious time to listen to those excuses?”
“·················ogue.”
Rain Rover’s bloody eyes made Tane unable to speak.
“Be honest. Why are you against Trinity?”
“······The aristocratic wizards are controlled by the family before they learn magic. However, commoners and prisoners rarely have the opportunity to receive such an education. Unless it’s commoners who knock on the door of noble families to learn magic.”
“So you mean to teach magic to people with the right personality and beasts?”
“yes. That’s right.”
“Then do you think you are a good person? Tane?”
“At least I’m pretty sure I’m not going to be a maniac mage.”
“Then you are judging that Trinity is not equipped with a system to properly educate character unlike Harryford’s own writers.”
Tane paused for a moment, but nodded slightly.
“The author of Harryford has been tested for a long time, but Trinity has no proof yet.”
“It’s amazing that you’re pointing out a point that no other head of a family has been talking about until now. The Empire is not qualified to guide young wizards on the right path. Do you know what he is talking about right now?”
“… it was never meant to disparage the Empire.”
“Then can you explain it well so that I don’t misunderstand you?”
Tane bit her lip.
I didn’t know that if I misplayed my mouth here, I might be hung up on my neck for insulting the Empire.
Thein decided to change the point.
“Actually, I thought that the standard of being a genius was vague. I couldn’t believe the technology that could confirm that talent.”
The princess did not hesitate to ask that she changed the point.
If we talked more like this, I didn’t know that Thane would really be hanged by the neck for insulting the Empire.
The princess thought that Tane wasn’t that bad.
“Then do you think Sir Thane is a genius?”
“I recently succeeded in the 3rd circle magic. If I work hard for another year or two, I think I will be able to master all 3 circles of common magic.”
He looked around, but he seemed to be thinking, ‘Aren’t I a genius enough to be me?’
“That’s not what we call genius.”
The princess pointed to Rakan.
“To call a person like Instructor Tigris or Rakan a genius.”
“yes······?”
“Can’t you believe it? It hurts my mouth to keep talking, so I think I can solve it in a very intuitive way. Please stick with it.”
Princess Rain Rover received a shield artifact from the arena manager and handed it to the two of them.
Thein chuckled involuntarily.
“My Majesty the Princess. I am a wizard who has studied magic for 10 years. And Rakan is a novice wizard who has only learned magic for about six months now.”
“So, stick with it. Oh, by the way, did you lose once? In the last sequence match, Rakan took 2nd place. Thein must have been 15th, right?”
“That’s because Irene is also…”
“You know that Irene is also a freshman, right?”
Thane gritted his teeth and looked at Rakan.
Rakan was looking at Tane with a blank look.
Thane seemed to be ignoring him, so his fists tightened.
“good. Let’s stick together.”
Thein wore a shield artifact.
‘I heard that you had just learned the common magic of the 1st circle during the rank-and-file battle?’
No matter how much Rakan flew and crawled, after that, he would have only learned circle 1 combat type magic or elemental magic.
On the other hand, Thane is a 2nd circle wizard.
Even the Viscount Harryfords are a magical family famous for developing combat magic using elemental magic.
As Tane inherited the blood of the Viscount Harryford family, he was proud of himself as a professional in magic battles.
“You know how to duel, but when the shield magic on the artifact is activated, that person loses.”
“yes. All right.”
Rakan and Thane fell apart from each other.
Tane took the wand out of his arms and lifted it up.
Rakan also took the wand out of his sleeve.
‘That’s…!’
That wand was one of the masterpieces specially produced by the Rod Elim family.
It was not made of any wood, but only from the heartwood of the ‘manawood’, which is rarely found in the mana-rich Fogwood area.
In addition, it was made with the special technique of the Rod Elim family, which contains the know-how of 570 years of history, and was equipped with ‘automatic correction of magic’ and ‘mana reduction’ functions.
‘How can Rakan do that…’
Rain Rover raised his hand.
“Then get ready.”
Thein shook his head and came to his senses.
The battle between wizards is a mental battle.
No matter how much he wields the wand of the Lord Elim family, it is meaningless if he does not have basic skills.
Thein raised his wand towards Rakan.
“start!”
Thein crafted the magic right away.
The preparation method is the most basic magic bullet.
In the original battle between wizards, the key was to distract the opponent’s concentration and attack with the best magic that could not be defended before the opponent with the most basic check magic.
Thein was planning to use the magic bullet to distract Rakan’s calculations and use the best 2nd circle magic that he knew of, ‘Squeezing Flame’.
Tung-!
‘What is this…!’
Thein opened his eyes at Rakan’s magic bullets that were flying right away.
The speed at which the 2nd circle wizard, Thein, creates magic bullets is about 1 second.
However, Rakan created a magic bullet in only 0.5 seconds and shot it.
Thein fired magic bullets at the flying magic bullets.
pop-!
The magic bullet exploded in the air and disappeared.
‘This child!’
There is no way a circle 1 wizard can create magic bullets so quickly.
It must have been crafted so quickly because of the wand of the Rod Elim family.
Because the wands of the Rod Elim family were equipped with the ability to ‘memory past magic’.
Thein was waiting for the magic bullet to come back right away.
I can’t help it, but this time I have to avoid it with my body.
However, it was not the magic bullet that flew from Rakan’s wand.
It was the 2nd circle fireball magic.
bang!
Fireball magic exploded in front of Tane’s nose, shaking Tane’s barrier.
Thein slumped backwards mischievously at the impact of the explosion.
“Rakan wins.”
Thein jumped up and looked at Rakan.
“This is a scam!”
Rain Rover tilted his head.
“Why is this a scam?”
“This is a scam! If Rakan hadn’t been wielding the wand of House Lord Elim, I could have won!”
Rain Rover let out a small sigh.
“So, is it because of the wand? So what happens to Rakan using his fireball magic in one second?”
“that······! that!”
“no. It doesn’t seem to make sense, so I’ll try again. Put your wands in both.”
Rakan tucked the wand back into his sleeve, and Thane threw the wand to the floor.
‘I can’t do this.’
‘I can’t do this.’
‘I can’t do this.’
Thein took another deep breath.
This is obviously a device difference.
Even if Rakan was a 2nd circle mage with a hundred concessions, there was no way he could create fireball magic so quickly.
Even if Thane is really focused, it takes 2 seconds to fire the fireball magic.
But by what means does Rakan cast in 1 second?
Thein couldn’t believe that he was worse than Rakan.
Rain Rover raised his hand again.
“Then get ready.”
Thein quickly calculated the formula in his head.
So that when the start sign appears, the magic bullet can be fired immediately.
“start!”
Tung-!
Thein fired a magic bullet.
But again, Rakan fired magic bullets in less than a second.
The magic bullet exploded in the air, spitting out a hazy smoke, and Thein immediately formed the next magic bullet.
Then, he calculated the magic of his treasury, ‘Fire that tightens’.
However, Rakan’s magic bullets flew faster.
pop-!
The speed it takes for Thane to fire magic bullets is about 1.5 seconds.
It takes about 0.7 seconds for Rakan to fire magic bullets.
There was very little difference between lifting the wand and not lifting the wand.
Gradually, the explosion drew closer to Thane.
The more he did it, the more he choked as if someone was strangling his neck.
pop-!
The fourth explosion exploded right in front of Thane’s nose.
Fortunately, the barrier didn’t work, but now you only have to get hit by magic bullets one more time and you lose.
However, Tane completed ‘The Tightening Flame’.
This time, if you dodge the flying magic bullet with your body and cast the ‘tightening flame’, you win.
Hung-!
Thein turned to dodge Rakan’s magic bullet.
And made a drink.
“Look around!”
However, while drawing a magic circle of tightening flames, it suddenly fluctuated greatly and disappeared.
“What is this…”
Thein didn’t understand for a moment.
But he knew very well what this was.
Dispel.
It had completely ruined the magic of the flames tightening through the security technique of Thein.
Matan flies after.
pop!
Thein tumbled backwards mischievously again.
* * *
“This is it.”
[Complete 100% understanding of security techniques.]
Rakan removed the message that appeared in front of him.
Rakan, who was instantly enamored with the dispel magic shown by the Rain Rover two weeks ago, devoted himself to studying security techniques.
Even the dispel magic received a large correction to the ‘search’ ability, and the more Rakan studied magic, the more detailed information it gave.
In the original second duel, he was able to quickly defeat Tane with a fireball.
However, the ‘search’ ability informed that thein’s security technique was weaker than expected, and when it was like this, he cast Dispel with the thought of perfectly winning with dispel magic.
Rain Rover’s eyes widened like rabbits, as if he didn’t know that Rakan could dispel the magic of Thane.
“Rakan wins.”
Thein jumped up and spoke again.
“again! again!”
Thein screamed in disbelief that his magic had been completely broken.
However, Rakan already has the security trick, how are you going to do a magic battle?
The security spell was like a door lock on the front door, so if it was broken once, all other magic could be dispelled.
Of course, it would be a different story if you quickly fix the security technique, but magic isn’t something that can be easily fixed.
When the security technique was fixed, the balance of the magic itself was completely broken, so the magic itself had to be changed entirely.
Of course, in case of being dispelled, the wizards prepared several security techniques, but Tane did not appear to be a thorough wizard enough to prepare several security techniques.
Rakan looked at the Rain Rover.
“Do you want to do it again?”
“yes. senior.”
Rakan’s quest hasn’t been completed yet.
Rakan’s quest isn’t ‘Defeat Tain’, but ‘Convince Tain’.
If you win a few more times, thein will self-destruct.
So the duel started again.
As soon as the rain rover’s start sign appeared, thein immediately crafted magic bullets.
But Rakan immediately dispelled it.
Again, the security technique was not fixed.
pop!
Rakan threw a magic bullet.
The magic bullet flew and landed in Tain’s chin.
Zeng-!
The barrier was shattered because of its durability.
“Ahhh!”
Thein groaned as he lay down.
He seemed to struggle as if he did not want to admit that he had lost.
Rain Rover said to Thein, who had gone mental.
“Tane.”
Thein got up pretending not to win at Rain Rover’s call.
Tane’s eyes were dyed red.
“Trinity is not just a place to teach magic to commoners. It is a place where geniuses who are different from other ordinary people are properly raised.”
Thein gritted his teeth and shot Rakan.
“A monster like that shouldn’t be taught magic.”
“What does that mean?”
“Do you not know how dangerous such a monster would be if it learned magic? It may be controlled by the Empire for now, but over time it will become a threat to the Empire!”
Thein’s eyes looked dangerous as if they were written on a ghost.
“I know one such monstrous bastard. The monster who took my father’s right eye and mercilessly killed the Gasols. Although he was a commoner, he accepted it because he was savvy, but in the end he went crazy!”
Rakan was startled by the message that appeared in front of him.
[Search Results]
1. You seem to have been brainwashed like the ‘gray rats’.
2. I feel like I’m going to do something right now.
3. It seems to have fallen into trauma.
Tane took the wand out of his arms and lifted it up.
“He must die…!”
It seemed that thein was going to fire magic right away, so Rain Rover moved first.
The Rain Rover quickly formed a magic bullet and inserted it into the temple of Thane.
“Uh-huh!”
Thein just fainted.
Rain Rover and Rakan looked at each other.
“Thane seems a bit strange, am I not the only one who felt that way?”
Rakan carefully selected his words for a moment.
and opened his mouth.
“yes. I felt the same way. Maybe Thane had some sort of mental problem.”
“Mentally?”
“yes. In my eyes, I feel like I’ve been brainwashed… No, I think I’ve been brainwashed.”
The system can’t lie, so they are rightly brainwashed like the ‘gray rats’ in Gray Town.
“What is the basis for that?”
“It is the same as ‘gray rats’ when it comes to irrational, or extreme, behavior when confronted with a theory.”
Rain Rover swallowed his saliva at the word “gray rat”.
They are a newly emerging group that calls themselves ‘Gray Rat’ and believes in ‘Tigris’ rather than Lux.
“But if Thane was a ‘gray rat’, he wouldn’t have held a meeting in front of Instructor Tigris’ office, right? Even Trinity has no objection.”
“I was brainwashed like the gray rats. No gray rats at all. I think I was brainwashed by the same person.”
Rakan let out a small sigh.
For some reason, the quest reward was a whopping 1,000 points, but I never dreamed that Tane would have been brainwashed.
“Then other wizards might have been brainwashed too?”
“There is a possibility. But Sir Tigris, do you know about the ‘Gray Rat’?”
Rain Rover shook his head.
“Today, Nadal and the three of us were having lunch together, and we were going to talk, but things have become more serious than I thought.”
Rain Rover saw the duel manager running in the distance.
Thein suddenly fainted, and he ran to see if there was something wrong.
“First, we will take Thein and take him to the principal of Bastian. Maybe there is a way to undo the brainwashing of Thane.”