(EP.178)Sand #3
178 – Wind and Sand #3
There was no reason for me to call Kasim while enduring Aira’s disgust.
It was because he was going to a duel or a duel with him.
The one who teaches me is the 5th rank of the Archmage Hynax. He was too old and gentle. So, I must say that it was difficult to do something like Dalian.
But Kasim was a young, talented man. The problem is that he is royalty. First of all, there is no way for me, a commoner, to request Dalian from him.
I don’t know if I can make them walk from there. Of course, he had his own way.
In fact, I was going to provoke him, either by touching his arrogant pride or by making him challenge me to a duel.
However, the Kasim I met today was surprisingly gentle and particularly friendly to me.
“Why don’t you try fighting this body? How is it?”
First of all, I even give out what I want.
Has he moved away from the throne and made a man more cheerful?
If I had a good-looking cousin, I would have felt this way. In fact, he and I, descendants of Angmar, are distant relatives, so it is not a very wrong analogy.
Anyway, I was thinking about what to do with the story, but that side first figured out my magic skills and applied for an exchange match.
It wasn’t a bad story for me.
“good. But I’m not very good at fighting, so I’ll need to give you some guesswork.”
“Heh, this body takes care of that.”
Our match was held in the empty lot behind the Great Hall, where there were no people. Aira, who had been out for a walk somewhere, came back and sat down on a bench with her legs crossed.
“It’s Dalian in front of the Queen. This is stressful.”
As Kasim said so, he pulled out a long, thin wand from his waist. A luxury item with a large pearl studded at the tip of a golden staff. It looks very good to pretend.
At that, I also pulled out the Imp’s tail wand.
“The tail of an imp. It’s a good thing to use as a wand because it has a very high magic conductivity. But wouldn’t it have been easy to get?”
“I got it as a gift from an Imp I know.”
“Oh, right. But in its raw state, you can only use half the power of the material.”
“Is that real?”
“Yeah, isn’t this a story that all wizards know?”
It was the first story I had ever heard. Because neither Hynax nor Ai never told me that. So I glanced at Ira, and she smiled and said,
“Tae-oh, you have to realize that by yourself.”
That’s right. Then Prince Qasim spoke as if showing favor.
“If you put on a satisfactory match, this body will specially craft that wand as a jewel.”
what craftsmanship. When I felt my doubts, Ira, who was sitting there, lit up her eyes.
“You seem to be making a decent offer for a small group Kasim. The craftsmanship of the Tanak royal family has a long history on the continent.”
“Yes. So let’s get your posture right now. Where would you like to see your skills?”
At Kasim’s words, I made a shield made of magical power with one hand.
—Mana Shield.
Woo woo woof, woo woo woof.
It also meant that it had a shape of five thin, blue petals that would prevent a total of five major impacts. At that sight, Kasim’s blue eyes lit up.
“Five shields in a light chant. The basics are very good. Mana shield in one hand, wand in the other. His attitude is also very polite. A friend’s teacher, Hyenax, is a classic wizard.”
“But he said there is a reason why classics and classics have been around for a long time.”
“It is not. Indeed, I can see why the Queen called me. Probably, you’ve never seen a wizard like me. It will be a good experience.”
Sreung.
The red wizard drew a sword from his right waist.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Now, in one hand he holds a curved sword that glows with a strange blue blade, and in the other he holds a wand. Seeing that, I felt a strange cognitive dissonance. A wizard with a sword.
“Haste-.”
He chanted a short spell. I know that’s the magic of the third hierarchy. Obviously, the effect was to lighten the body.
Sasak-.
In fact, Kasim’s body was as fast as the wind, and it approached me so quickly that I didn’t even think of it as the speed of a wizard.
“what-.”
“Your friend probably thinks like this. For a wizard, it’s fast-“
shh-. Soon, the blade held in my left hand was drawn vigorously from my right side to the nape of my neck. All I can do is push the mana shield forward and widen the distance.
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Clink.
One petal of the mana shield is broken. He did not dwell on it and immediately slashed the sword that had been cut in an oblique line from top to bottom.
“Are you going to stop this too?”
“Suck-!”
I raised my arm to block the sword attack. At the same time, it clinks and one more petal is broken. Now there are 3 chapters left.
If it stays like this, you might lose all your mana shields due to a one-sided attack. So I quickly backtracked and widened the distance.
Instead of chasing after me, Kasim aimed his golden wand.
“Spread the distance-. Good idea. But my friend, this body is a wizard. Is it okay if I keep my distance from the wizard?”
—Sand icicles.
self.
Soon the garden was dug up, and sand and soil gathered at the bottom in the form of icicles. Long, round cone. It comes to me with physical substance and murderous intent.
Push-shush-.
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Clink, clink.
“There is no sand anywhere in the world. Come on, friend. What would you do? Isn’t it completely different from the monsters in the underground dungeon you’ve been dealing with?”
It was only then that I realized that this man’s fighting style was very different from the monsters I had fought with and from the classic wizards I knew.
If I close the distance, a sharp and curved sword strikes my neck, and if I widen the distance, the sand rushes in like an arrow.
“Ugh-.”
If the last remaining mana shield is broken, this fight is like my defeat. How do I defeat this well-balanced wizard? Are there any weaknesses?
What suddenly came to my mind was that his hands were dual wielding a weapon.
Most of the game characters who use dual-wielding weapons specialize in attack. Therefore, the defense is bound to be weak.
In fact, Cassim didn’t have a mana shield. It is said that if you counterattack, it will eat well.
So I managed to block the continuous sand icicles with my mana shield, aiming at the tail wand, and gathering magic power.
woo woo woo-.
Frenzied magic that gathers at the tip of its tail. A wizard’s showdown usually ends in a one-shot fight after a small battle between exchanges.
At this point, I put everything on my forehead as a yoyo. Seeing that, Kasim smiled leisurely.
“Is it death magic? I want to disturb the chanting, but it’s been a long time coming, so I’ll have to fight this body as well. Then this body will show you a great trick.”
—The eight-headed dragon of the desert.
An eight-headed sand serpent soared high into the sky from the ground.
-aaah
Its size was bigger than any other building, so if I was swept away by something like that, it was clear that my body would be torn to pieces by the cutting power of sand and small gemstones.
“Can the one remaining mana shield be able to withstand these berserk snakes?”
I wouldn’t be able to stand it However, my chanting is almost complete. So I finished the chanting of the spell as if stamping a seal on the completed letter.
─Sura Gwangpung-!
aaah-!!!!
From the tip of the wand I aimed at, something that could be called a dolphin wind or dragon volcanic cone spewed out horizontally.
Its power is enough to plow the ground and pull out trees.
Although I did not reach the 4.5th hierarchy, the Archmage, the power of the high-ranking destruction magic, Paimon, which is the basis of my secret frenzy, was basically very powerful, so this alone was enough to not envy other wizards’ great magic.
Qaaa-.
A whirlpool of wind gushes from the tip of my wand, ripping the snakes of sand in all directions. It soon shredded the serpent’s form itself, and then turned to Kasim.
“It’s beyond my imagination… ! I’m pissed… !”
Kasim shouted with a calm expression.
“jin-!”
quaw-. At the same time, the stone wall that rises from the floor becomes a wall that blocks my whirlpool.
The magic that hit the solid stone wall was torn to shreds, and countless small blades of wind scattered like iron beads scattered everywhere.
Paba Baba.
The problem was that backlash, something that could be called recoil also flooded me.
I was greatly taken aback as I watched the unbearably powerful magical tornadoes swept towards me like blades of blades. Because I only had one mana shield left.
“Hey-!”
I’m going to get seriously hurt now. As I was thinking about that and closing my eyes tightly, I heard the sound of someone snapping their fingers.
It was Aira, who was sitting on the bench, and she was clapping as if she had seen something interesting.
“It was great magic, Tae-oh.”
“That’s right.”
The duel between me and Kasim ended with this.
It was very vague because I felt like I was being beaten unilaterally, but Kasim, my opponent, spoke as if very surprised.
“I had no idea that this body would even use its own magic. If it had been a decent opponent, it would have already ended in the Sand Beast Dragon. It’s wind magic. It wasn’t a good match.”
It must mean that my magic was the worst match for him with sand.
“It is the nature of the wind. Mixed with fairies’ blood, I vaguely expected to use water-related magic, but it wasn’t. It has pretty rare attributes, yes.”
Kasim evaluated my magical properties that way. I immediately remembered one thing I learned from Hynax.
Magic is mainly to boil the mana spread in nature. So, each person has one attribute that resembles nature.
It was also the reason that the nymphs, the water nymphs, mainly used water-related magic.
By the way, I dealt with wind magic, which is pretty rare. That is why the high-ranking magic Pymon flies in the form of air bullets.
If it had been more suitable for the mana of fire, the flame would have flown.
At that time, the words that the experience of a professional wizard had risen before my eyes came to mind.
The figure is 50. I decided to be purely happy no matter the victory or defeat of the confrontation as the experience points that had been stagnant recently went up.
That was then.
“He’s like a useless little brother. I told you not to cause trouble like that. Could it be that you couldn’t stand it and caused problems? The sand was scattered everywhere and it became cloudy!”
Someone came up to us screaming.
It was a woman, a beautiful woman with red hair, copper skin, and elegantly dressed in a black dress. However, despite wearing high-heeled shoes, her height barely touched Aira.
She has a young face and a small chest.
I thought it was a nymph
But she is not a nymph. She’s just a girl with a young adolescent look. Seeing such a woman, Aira frowned as if she had really felt bad.
“… Serazade!”
Then, a woman with a head shorter than Aira did not lose and shouted proudly.
“Call me Empress-! And the empress is higher than the queen-!”