228 – That thing you took…
“Huh?”
As the atmosphere in the stadium changed completely, the eyes of the representatives watching from the side widened slightly.
Becky was the first to break the silence.
“It looks like you’re trying to do something?”
“You have always learned magic.”
Even Flan, who always seemed apathetic, was now staring intently at Maiev in the stadium. Everyone focused on his words.
“But magic is not just a study to learn. It is also possible to create it. “Everyone knows it, but they live each day forgetting it.”
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Flann nodded his head very slightly.
“The moment when new magic is created is so beautiful.”
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“Whoa, hahahaha.”
My palms feel like they are on fire. A blue energy that is still quite unfamiliar to me. Maiev took several deep breaths and took note of this.
“….”
Selpen is watching himself in silence.
An expression as if I could easily defeat even your best. As if that wasn’t a bluff, the energy radiating from Selpen was actually enormous.
‘The basics of being a knight are also amazing.’
Selpen was full of love and trust for his unique abilities, but in fact, he was a person who had a solid grasp of the basics of swordsmanship.
You can tell just by looking at the movement and the path of swinging the sword. The more I understood each and every element of the war situation, the more I felt that Maiev had an advantage.
But.
‘I am no longer a puppet.’
Suddenly, I remember the time I competed with Flan.
Like looking up at a mountain whose height you can never climb. I still remember the feeling that it was ‘a different dimension.’
But now that I think about it, it wasn’t defeat.
It was like cutting off all the doll threads that were binding him, and looking back, it was truly a blessing and a victory.
‘It’s still the same now as it was then.’
Maiev doesn’t care if her own body is broken.
For her, who abandoned her blood demon origin and was reborn, winning or losing with her life no longer had any meaning. What matters is what you realize.
“Hwajungdaemagyeong.”
Maiev muttered her name once more.
Huazhong Daemagyeong. A technique that unfolded the Chinese world at a high level. What she had failed to do with black magic, she was now going to solve with blue mana.
Selpen cracked her neck and opened her mouth to make a sound.
“Is everything going well? “It looks unstable?”
Maiev nodded her head quietly.
This is my first time trying it, so of course it is unstable. This is a fact you know better than anyone else. However.
“It’s not a skill you use to achieve success.”
As Maiev recited that, Selpen twitched one of his eyebrows.
“It’s not a skill you need to use to succeed? Then?”
Maiev removed the palm of her hand that had been attached to her the whole time, and slowly opened her eyes that had been closed.
“It’s a technique I use to avoid regrets.”
The corners of Maiev’s mouth turned up slightly. The evil energy of her cell pen subsided ever so slightly.
‘… ‘You’re not a thoughtless fool.’
As Selpen looked at Maiev, she suddenly thought that it would have been nice if she had been born as a knight.
Intention not to regret. She could be called a type of chivalry. Her thoughts about her plan are cleared a little and she becomes focused on Maiev.
‘Let’s collide. ‘Your best and my best.’
Pot─!
Finally, Selpen kicked the ground.
Selpen jumps into Maiev’s blue energy, like a lake. Soon the entire lake began to shake violently.
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The Hwajung Great Demon Scenery unfolds with human mana.
A unique world where Maiev’s blue mana spreads like paint.
When her blue mana spreads like paint, the dull stadium decays. Maiev, the caster, does not just say that it must succeed. She just says she doesn’t want to have any regrets.
Quaddeudeudeuk─!
Selpen rushes inside and digs in nicely. The destination of the sharp blade was Maiev’s heart.
Slurp—!
Numerous blue lines are drawn inside the Huazhong Great Demon Mirror. They soon take the shape of her long arms and hands and bind Selpen’s limbs.
Swish─!
But when Selpen twists his body once, they break very easily. Every time that happened, Maiev had to feel intense pain.
It feels like it’s being crushed.
Feeling as if the whole body cannot withstand great pressure and is crushed. Even though her cell pen only touched her own unique barrier.
‘But….’
Maiev actually increased the degree of synchronization between her own barrier and her own. Her blue mana continues to spurt through her body, and her great magic power becomes increasingly darker.
A humble beginning made with life force and blood.
Now, it is producing green and grand results.
Quaaa!
By weaving her mana into the shape of a snake, she barely managed to block Selpen’s blow. Her feet dug into the ground, her whole body seemed to sink below the ground.
“Uh….”
Her burden was so great that she had to grit her teeth.
It feels like closing a large hole in a dam with a single brick. Yes, this was an impossible endeavor.
‘Flan, if you are Flan.’
I wanted to turn her head and look at him. She wanted to take a hint by looking at the expression, but the situation did not allow her.
No, actually, there was no need to see it. It was so obvious and obvious what kind of expression Flan was making and what he was thinking.
You probably tried.
And it must have been successful.
A miracle has occurred that makes the impossible possible.
Kugugugugu—!
Selpen’s strike was more powerful than expected. Moreover, even at this moment, Maiev’s legs were scraping all over and sinking into the ground.
He does not possess Flann’s genius and cool-headedness.
“I…” .”
I thought that as he lived as a human being, he would resent such things countless times, but that was not necessarily the case.
“Maiev.”
It is a name given to me by someone else. However, from now on, you can decide for yourself what kind of meaning you put in it. That’s why I increased my strength by coughing up blood.
Ordinary.
Maiev once hated mediocrity.
Therefore, he always thought that he was special and that there was nothing more pitiful than ordinary people.
But….
‘For now, being ordinary is enough for me.’
A person who does not stand out, does not stand out, and does not attract everyone’s attention, but quietly does his job. A person who fills his life with the little things.
I want to become an ordinary human being. Hello!
What she is showing from now on is, above all, ‘the best normality’ that seems to be faithful to her basics.
“Cough!”
This is a strange thing. Even though my legs felt like they were twisting and I was vomiting blood, my concentration was increasing.
Pop!
In the end, my left shoulder was broken along with a stroke. One of Maiev’s arms hangs limply down like a fallen leaf.
But I don’t give up. Do not rely on black magic.
I will truly risk my life and move forward, spitting out blue mana until the moment I take my last breath.
Wow!
Even the wrist of my remaining arm seemed to be broken.
It looked like a corpse standing tall, but Maiev just muttered the same words again.
I will unfold my colors.
Expand. Spread it out. I will unfold it again.
Until my painting is completed.
“… Huazhong Great Demon Sutra.”
Now that I have cried out that name for the third time. Finally.
Like volcanic magma erupting out of the ground, blue paint began to gush out here and there.
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Suddenly! Suddenly!
Selpen’s current physical condition was excellent. It was natural. He was determined to show off his best skills, and he actually fought like that.
The situation was extremely favorable to him, and there was not even the slightest tremor in the sword he was swinging.
Even Maiev’s magic did not do her any harm. Just like cutting the threads of her spider web, you can just touch it and it will break.
By the way.
A question rose in Selpen’s mind.
‘Why doesn’t the game end?’
It was a simple but big question. Maiev was still standing, even though one of her arms was crippled and the other was as precarious as a broken flower.
A situation where victory is certain and a situation where victory is achieved. There was a very clear difference between the two.
However, the situation that was certain from earlier is not progressing. The question mark surrounding Selpen is growing bigger and bigger.
Cough!
At that time, Maiev coughed up blood once more. At the same time, blue liquid rises like lava from below her.
‘There was this much strength left?’
Selpen widened her eyes for a moment.
She quickly regained her composure, but it wasn’t easy. She feels like she’s going to fall but doesn’t fall, she feels like she’s going to die but she doesn’t die. How can she not panic?
Selpen quickly activated her unique ability.
‘If you take away the initiative again, that’s it.’
Anyway, that will be Maiev’s last struggle. If even this is confiscated, victory will finally come.
So, usurping the initiative….
But it was that moment.
Blue waves that were writhing like several dragons suddenly began rushing towards Selpen. The initiative was taken away, but it was something I couldn’t understand.
‘What is it?’
The hand reacts first rather than the question.
Quaaa!
Selpen’s sword and the blue dragon clash.
Maiev’s magic was all her own, and surprisingly, it was the most powerful magic she had ever unleashed.
The blue color seemed to spread even with the slightest touch with her hand, to be erased in the presence of water, and to gradually fade if left alone.
But it is painted over.
Every time Selpen cuts down a dragon, the cut part becomes another dragon and attacks Selpen.
Selpen said in astonishment.
“What, what! Why are you attacking me… !”
“I told you so.”
At that time, Maiev’s voice pierced her ears, not even knowing if her eyes were open properly.
“It’s a pity that there is no understanding and no concern. “You definitely said that.”
And what you see is Maiev’s bright smile.
The ‘human’ wizard added just one word.
“That’s what you took. “It’s a suicide spell.”