Shabby Circles
“Hey, Master Leon over there? We will put on protective gear before we start the match.”
When Leon challenged Eren Freers to a match, a soldier from the Parostel family approached Leon with a slumped posture.
I didn’t know the name, but seeing the familiar face, it looked like someone I had met a few times in the past.
He seemed confused about how to deal with Leon in this sudden situation.
Even so, Leon was a person who had never existed before.
Looking at his face like that, Leon could feel the fact that he was standing at a crossroads in life.
“Hey. mister.”
“Yes Yes? yes!”
The soldier was startled by not putting on protective gear on Leon.
“This protective gear looks like an artifact, but how does the friendly match work? Can I use artifacts?”
“Hey, well, basically, the use of artifacts in friendly matches is forbidden. However, for the sake of safety, special protective gear for Dalian is provided. In this way, it is worn on both elbows and knees, and is used in the form of absorbing the wearer’s magical power to create a local barrier. However, this protective gear is designed to stop using when a certain amount of magical power flows, so when damage accumulates, a red light is emitted. In that case, you lose the match.”
Was it really that way?
From the looks of it, it seemed like something that was often used in magic battles, but I didn’t know about that detail because I had never trained in a gym.
“Well? So what happens if I don’t use this protective gear?”
If the red light on the protective gear is on to lose, then what happens if you don’t use the protective gear?
“The person standing over there is the commander of the Farostel Magic Corps. He will be the judge of this match and will decide whether to win or lose when either side is in a state of unsustainable combat.”
It seems that Silen was probably defeated that way.
Because when she was lying on the dance floor, the siren’s armor didn’t glow red.
The family soldier went on to explain.
“Similarly, the general manager who sees the referee will give the signal to start the match. Before that, players are given 10 seconds to prepare their spell before the battle begins. In the meantime, the player casts a spell, and after a 10-second countdown, the battle begins and so on.”
Leon tilted his head for a moment, but decided it was reasonable enough.
In the case of a sudden battle, the magician protects himself with armor such as artifacts to earn casting time, but the use of those artifacts was prohibited in Dalian.
Then, of course, the magic match will be reduced to a quick-fire battle of who can deploy the magic first and hit the opponent.
As the purpose of the magic match was to test and elevate the actual ability of the wizard, it seemed to give 10 seconds just before the start of the battle to give time to respond to the situation.
‘Well, in a real battle, there is no one waiting for no artifacts.’
With the help of the soldiers, Leon was able to go to the gym after putting on the protective gear.
Then Eren Freers mumbled a little with a polite sneer on her face.
“Don’t kill me.”
Saying that, Eren’s eyes were shining with life.
Even though he felt the pickpocket incident a few days ago, Eren had no hesitation in attacking people.
According to the information purchased from the information guild, Eren Freers has already killed several servants in the process of giving corporal punishment because he does not like it, and there is no evidence that he may have already killed a large number of commoners.
Is it because of that?
Eren’s life was not the momentum that a 15-year-old kid could have.
Of course, saying that he would kill me would be just a simple threat, but if he was a normal opponent, he might be overwhelmed just by looking into his eyes.
Living was a kind of dragon peer.
A magical action that shrinks the opponent’s mental wave.
But in that sense, Leon was by no means an ordinary kid.
Gently close your eyes
‘Live. You must live.’
The words of my mother that I always remember when I go to the battlefield.
With that single word, the experiences engraved in Leon’s soul as he rolls through countless battlefields become conditioned reflexes, sharpening his consciousness.
Leon was taken to the battlefield when he was 14 years old.
At most 1 circle, at most an ordinary soldier.
In order for Leon to survive on the battlefield for five years, he had to do anything.
In order for Leon, who was naive who did not know the world, to survive so desperately, he had no choice but to make up his mind, and in the process, Leon had to naturally learn the know-how to straighten his mind.
Otherwise, Leon’s spirit would have been shattered from the heart.
When he opened his eyes again, there was no 10-year-old Leon there.
It wasn’t even the 45-year-old Won-hyung Lee.
It was just a beast wandering the battlefield.
Eren’s face, who made eye contact with Leon like that, stiffened noticeably.
No matter how much experience he had in killing people, he would have needed his own talent to embrace life as a young 15-year-old.
However, Eren could never reach Leon in the realm of talent.
“After the countdown of 10 seconds, the match starts!”
After the referee’s declaration, the audience raised their voices and counted the numbers.
10! 9! 8······!
Leon spread both his hands at the same time.
The fireball that rises at the same time is the symbol of 3 circle flame magic.
“You’re called Moo Young-chang?!”
“To reach the level of 3 circles at such a young age!”
“How the hell is casting so fast? Two fireballs appeared almost simultaneously.”
Eren Freers, on the other hand, stuttered and stuttered with a blue tired face.
It seemed that the casting was not going smoothly as Leon’s mental power was atrophied due to the life he exuded.
Nevertheless, Eren developed an ice sphere, a clear and transparent igloo-type ice barrier, and an ice shelter within 10 seconds.
Both spells were 3 circles of freezing magic, and for a 15-year-old magician, it was undoubtedly a great state.
“But to no avail.”
“The battle begins!”
As soon as the referee’s signal fell, Leon immediately fired a fireball.
In response, Eren collides with the Ice Spear.
Quang!
An intense blast erupted, and the heat and frost scattered and obscured the view.
At that moment, an Ice Arrow flew in, aiming for Leon’s head.
A surprise attack that flew in from the beginning, aiming for the moment when the sight was blocked by the clash between the fireball and the ice sphere.
If you do it wrong, your opponent’s life could be at risk.
However, Leon had been expecting it from the beginning, and was able to easily avoid it just by raising his head.
At the same time, he kicked the floor and jumped.
“Linforce Blade.”
At that moment, a translucent blue blade spurted out of Leon’s fingertips.
If the structure of air is reinforced with Linforce, it will take on the properties of a liquid.
In that state, the liquid air is molded into the shape of a blade, and by using Linforce once again, a wall of air with solid properties can be created.
I put my weight on it and stabbed it into the ice shelter.
However, no matter how powerful the magical powers were, at the most, it was impossible for a 10-year-old child to drill a hole in the Ice Shelter, the 3rd circle’s defensive magic.
So Leon was left with one of the two fireballs in the first place.
After confirming that the tip of the Linforce blade was stuck in the ice wall, Leon separated the blade from his arm and fired a fireball.
“File Driver!”
It traps the explosive power that spreads in all directions and converts all energy into kinetic energy that drives the stake.
Bang!
A stake pierced through the ice shelter, which looked very sturdy, and drilled a huge hole.
The moment I jumped into the hole, three arrows of ice flew in.
Even if it was a huge hole, it was difficult to avoid all of it because the width of its movement had to be reduced the moment it passed through it.
Leon was able to dislodge the Ice Arrow by swinging his arm, which had been strengthened with the stone skin in advance.
In the interim, Eren continued casting.
Leon wasn’t the one to let it go.
He jumped right in and swung his fist at him.
Whoops!
In an instant, the shield that Eren created by infusing magical power into the protective gear blocked Leon’s fist, but that wasn’t the real attack in the first place.
“Fire Arrow.”
perk.
“Aww!”
At the same time as he swung his fists, the arrows of flame he had cast were lodged in his thighs.
An arrow of ice that was forming above his head in that terrible pain fell to the floor and melted.
Leon stood stunned and looked down at Eren, who was moaning in pain.
“Didn’t you say that you would kill me?”
Eren struggled in pain at that cold voice, but looked up at Leon in surprise.
He thought Leon was really going to kill him.
In the first place, Leon was in a state of exhaustion, and above all, even if he was in Leon’s position, he would not have saved the person who threatened to kill him.
“don’t worry. I have no intention of killing you.”
If this was a battlefield, I would have killed him without hesitation, but this was a battlefield.
Above all, if you kill him, there is no way you can sit still at the Water Tower or the Baron Freers family, but Leon was not yet in a position to handle it.
But I had no intention of letting it go.
I was able to get a good idea of how he lived.
The fact that he is the kind of person who takes pleasure in tormenting and killing those who are weaker than himself.
Leon placed his hand on Eren’s heart.
He couldn’t get over with the pain yet, so he had no choice but to entrust himself to Leon.
In the meantime, close your eyes and interpret.
He feels the circle formed in his heart, and calculates the frequency by analyzing the size, thickness, and number of rotations of the circle.
Then, he poured his magic power and broke the circle.
After all, it’s a temporary phenomenon, so the circle synchronized with his psychic wave will soon restore its original form, but what if a new circle is formed in the meantime?
Originally, circles were very difficult even to create their own.
Of course, it is close to impossible to make someone else’s circle.
But quantum magic was different.
All that was needed to create a circle was information about the frequency of the person’s mental wave.
In the circle of Eren’s heart, inverting his mental wave was simpler than eating porridge in quantum magic.
And on the spot he designed the ugliest circle he could make with that frequency and engraved it into his heart.
“Heh heh!”
Eren instinctively sensed that something was seriously wrong and shook off Leon’s hand.
“no. no! This cannot be!”
Then, desperately, he started crawling on the floor and running away, but Leon did not catch him.
The three circles that were engraved on his heart had already been re-engraved.
Now, his magical power was at a level lower than that of an ordinary wizard’s 1st circle.
Probably, no matter how much training you accumulate in the future, it will be impossible to achieve the realm of magic.
As Leon followed Eren out of the ice shelter, he could feel the vain gazes of the wizards belonging to the Water Tower.
Second to Eren Freers’ loss, he never had imagined that he would lose so horribly.
On the other hand, the faces of the soldiers belonging to the Parostel family were very reminiscent of them.
The judgment’s declaration fell as if to release that feeling.
“Eren Freers judges that the battle cannot continue, so we recognize the winner of this match as Leon Farostel!”
wow!
The atmosphere was reversed.
Leon, the genius of the Parostel family, has regained the honor lost in the defeat of Silen.
However, at the Water Tower, it seemed that he could not yet comprehend defeat.
“for a moment! Eren Freers admits defeat, but the winner of the friendly match has yet to be determined. Because there are still undefeated players in our water tower!”
The cheers subsided with him, and a girl walked out of the water tower.
Blue hair waving beautifully in the breeze.
Even as she intervened in the heated atmosphere of both sides, her expression did not waver.
“My name is Arya Rothbane. She is the third daughter of Marquis Rothbane, the owner of the Water Tower and the ruler of Freud. That Arya Rothbane challenges Leon Farostel to a duel.”
Leon stood facing her.
From the beginning, Leon’s purpose was her, so there was no reason to refuse the confrontation.
“Leon Farostel, I will accept the duel request.”