Episode 86. 1st semester midterm exam (5)
Schlusus just stood there, silently, without saying anything.
At first, I thought I was making a drink or something, but-
Quang!
“uh?!”
As soon as a yellow flash of light struck him, Trier’s eyes widened.
right.
He is well-versed in the heat enough to melt even rocks.
No, to be precise, the hologram that reproduced the flame magic.
‘Lord, are you dead?!’
It is impossible to survive being hit by such a fire.
I don’t know if there was such a thing as a separate barrier.
However, as a result of examining Treer’s weak sensing ability, there was no barrier felt.
In order to block that level of firepower, the barrier would have to be high enough that I could detect it.
“Schlus Heinkel! Injured!”
“What······?”
However, Tree was startled by the mechanical sound that Artifact uttered.
injury?
Isn’t it a death sentence?
For a moment, I suspected that it might have been broken.
“What is that….”
But when he saw Sergei with his mouth wide open as well, his doubts subsided.
Sergei calmly looked at all the operations of the Artifact.
The magic that Einz poured out. form of drinking. And even the effect of magical events taking into account the surrounding environment.
Everything was accurately projected into reality.
Kugugugu…
“Huh. Heh heh. Heh heh. hahahahaha!”
In the smoke, the black man finally appeared.
Schlus Heinkel, as it was at the time of the flash, stood there without changing his posture at all.
There wasn’t even a change in his expression.
He looked carefree, as if nothing had happened.
Sergei doubted his eyes and looked at the artifact again.
This time, the focus was not on Einz’s magic, but on Schlus’s physical condition.
And according to the artifact…
“Is this possible?”
for just one second.
Schlust’s body strength soared to unmeasurable levels.
It wasn’t a barrier or magic.
It was just that he had received the magic with his body.
I’ve heard something like this before.
‘Geumgang Buddha Bullion…!’
Gold River Fire.
A legendary technique that makes the body infinitely hard.
In fact, there was also a hypothesis that it was a false rumor that was made by mistakenly mistaken for a demon pretending to be human, but now I had no choice but to believe it.
That the technology in the legend actually exists.
***
was careless
No, I didn’t really care.
It was just that Einz was smarter than me.
If it was Einz in the past, he would have been recklessly trying to put fire magic of maximum output into me.
Then I would have dismantled the spell in an instant, approached and knocked him over.
But I couldn’t.
Because I didn’t even understand the existence of the magic trick.
‘sh*t······.’
It is virtually impossible to completely hide the magic from me.
Einz was also aware of that.
So I used a clever trick.
That is, a technique was devised to emit a wavelength similar to that emitted by the simulation artifact.
He chose to put the trees in the forest to hide them.
Thanks to that, I was trapped in the barrier at the same time as the start.
In the barrier of mana vacuum.
It must have been a barrier I had created to limit my magic, but it made me blind and deaf.
I felt strong, so I used ‘selection and concentration’ for the intensity for just one second.
Unsurprisingly, the effect of the flame magic, no, the projection of the flame magic, immediately hit my body.
‘You can only survive.’
As a result of the injury, he began to tingle as if he had been burned all over his body.
Even if you have a strength that exceeds the stat 100, you can’t help but get hurt by Einz’s fire magic…
Once again, I realized just how monstrous he was.
Because if you can hit it, you can do enough damage to the demons too.
‘found.’
When I wasn’t paying attention, I didn’t even notice.
As I concentrated, I seemed to know which was the wavelength of the artifact and which was Einz’s technique.
In an instant, the barrier was lifted.
Then there was smoke all around.
And Einz with a blank expression came into view.
“Hey, this is too big a gap…”
As if bewildered, Einz just slapped the butt wheel behind him.
one step.
one more step.
Every time he took a step, a magic trick was created, and then it was forcibly dismantled.
After repeating that one or ten times, there was no more magic engraved on mana.
It seemed that Einz’s magical power had run out.
“How about. Would you like to try a bare-handed fight?”
“Damn. I know you fight that muscular girl every day. Will I be your opponent? Surrender.”
Beep profit!
A whistle sounded.
This meant that all matches were over.
Apparently, this was the fight that lasted the longest.
I grabbed Einz’s hand and pulled him up.
“Good work.”
“Oh, yes. That’s great. Really. I can’t win…”
Passing by me, Einz did not make eye contact with me.
Something felt strange.
Einz could feel much respect for me, but fear was difficult.
No, it’s a feeling of inferiority rather than fear.
Whatever it was, it was a problem that Einz had to overcome on his own.
Because Einz who has awakened has the potential to grow beyond even Hurt Lockers.
“In the tree….”
also won
It would have been really nice if a miracle happened and I lost.
It seemed that in the end, I would end up with Tree.
Of course, if I make it through both games going forward.
I succeeded in passing the battle with Einz with only 1 second of ‘selection and concentration’, but-
“The injury suffered in the first game will last until the end, meaning that the pain that is being inflicted will continue.”
“under······.”
The penalty was an injury effect.
I feel like I’m going to burn because my whole body is so hot.
You have to feel this all the time…
I felt like I wanted to destroy the artifact that was giving me this pain.
“Let’s start the second game right away!”
“hehehe… ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…”
If I eat more injury penalties here, I really don’t think I’ll be able to move.
I took a deep breath and climbed back onto the pitch.
When it comes to who the opponent is…
It was an extra whose name I didn’t know.
You can’t be vigilant, but at least it won’t be faster than Trie or stronger than Einz.
“I’m counting on you.”
“Hey!”
For some reason, I shook hands with the person who seemed to be very surprised and returned to the starting position.
finish it off
***
Both games 2 and 3 are over.
There was no change.
In the end, Schlus Heinkel and Edengart Trier von dem Schulzenberg were up in the final.
Trie approached all the matches before the ceremony was even triggered and finished it in less than a second.
In the case of Schlus, it was a little different.
In Game 2, he dismantled all of his opponent’s techniques and rushed in, making the sound of surrender come out of his mouth with bare-handed fighting.
It is said that if you repeat the same tactics too often, you will be countered, but…
No matter how many times he repeats Schlus’s ability to break the spell, there must be no way for students to deal with it?
Sergei couldn’t understand why he wasted his magical power.
“We’ll start the finals soon. Well, the difference between first and second places isn’t that big, so don’t get hung up on it too much.”
It was meant to relieve tension, but Schlust’s condition was still not good.
His breathing was uneven and irregular, and a cold sweat was running down his forehead.
It was due to the injury penalty Artifact was inflicting on him.
However, he did not complain of any pain, and stood as upright as the tree.
“Professor. Can’t you give me time to bring my weapons?”
“No. You can’t bring in weapons from outside as long as the test has started.”
Sergei immediately ignored Trier’s request.
Having a weapon is the easiest way to always maintain high combat power.
It was this test that evaluated such readiness.
Because you can’t turn your back on the battlefield to suddenly pick up a weapon.
“Let’s face each other.”
While the other students are sitting around and watching.
The final was about to begin.
Sergei didn’t know what it would look like this time.
Treer prefers to strengthen the body by rotating the internal circuits rather than magic, so there will be no use in breaking the spell.
There was a high possibility that it would be a battle of whether Schlusus’s magic development was faster or Tree’s charge was faster.
No matter how strong Schlusus was in close combat, it would be difficult to defeat Gawain’s daughter with a sword.
‘Maybe I’ll show you something weird this time too.’
Sergei swallowed his saliva.
Schlus was just right.
He publicly demonstrated a technique that appeared to be a golden bullion in front of the students.
It was quite different from the one he had in the past, who showed only restrained force.
Perhaps after using that magic in the Wrist Forest, he has given up on hiding his powers.
If so, maybe there is still more left to show.
I wondered if this was what I was trying to show.
“It starts when you signal.”
“············”.
“············”.
Trier lowered his stance to jump out, and Schlust stood upright.
It was as expected.
Approaching the tree, Schlusus ended up with magic before that.
A suffocating silence fell for a moment in the examination hall.
The moment when everyone forgot to breathe and concentrated…
“start!”
The match started.
At the same time, all of the physical abilities of the tree displayed in the artifact surged.
The internal circuit was activated.
Tree had already crossed half of the arena, but there was no magic unfolding until then.
Could it be that Schlus had given up?
There was a moment when I thought the match had been decided like this.
“What?!”
Tree opened her eyes and suddenly braked to stop.
Stop against Schlus? Are you sane?
Tilting his head in incomprehension, Sergei looked at Schlust.
And likewise, he widened his eyes.
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his right hand.
Blue light beams were coming out of his palms.
It wasn’t magic.
There was no magic that was developed in the surrounding mana.
It was not magic, so it was something that could not be destroyed.
Sergei gave up on predicting the future of the match.