EP.182 Omen (1)
The duel is over.
The duel was over, but the heat did not cool down. This is because the duel that took place in front of everyone was so shocking.
『The Essence of a Battle Mage.』
『The essence of a wizard.』
That’s how professors evaluate duels.
Even for those who had seen duels between numerous wizards, this duel was a refreshing shock. The professors are amazed at the duel shown by the two young wizards.
『Utilization of circuits reached their limit. A truly ideal wizard who responds by changing his circuitry according to the situation.』
This is the Wizard’s ideal fighting method.
Professors also know that such a response method exists in theory, but theory and practice are different. That’s why it’s called ideal…
『Extreme use, shown only as a basic spell.』
Professor Rutia brought it to reality.
This means that the ideal has been proven in reality.
For that fact, professors expressed respect to him.
『It was a battle faithful to the basics of combat magic.』
Rania van Trias.
Her name is once again on the lips of professors. She knew that she was an excellent wizard. She, for one, never expected that she would be so well-versed even in the Battle Mage class.
『Continue to narrow the gap. Push your opponent. push into a corner It is the essence of the Battle Mage’s fighting method that always takes the initiative.』
While only Professor McHart of the Combat Magic Department, who knew of her skills, evaluated her as ‘this was a natural result,’ the professors were silent about another side of her.
‘It’s difficult to master even one class…’
That girl, who has just turned 20 and is only 21, handles two classes. More skillful than those who devoted their entire lives to one class.
‘It just surprises me every time.’
I don’t feel any trivial emotions like jealousy.
The professors just exclaim in admiration at her amazing appearance every time.
“You saw the duel too, right?”
“Yes, I’ve seen everything. I’m a combat magician. “Because I made a bet with the elemental magicians…”
“So the result…”
While professors pay attention to the process of a duel, students pay attention to the results of a duel. Of course, the process was also surprising, and there was a lot to learn… but it is a duel in which there is a winner and a loser.
『Duel between Wizard and Battle Mage.』
Elemental magic and combat magic.
It is a duel that occurred while a confrontational structure was established between the two departments. It was perhaps natural for students to pay attention to wins and losses.
So, what was the result?
“Professor Rania won…”
“I won, but…”
“First of all, Professor Rania won…”
‘for now.’
From the fact that such a word was used, it can be inferred that there was no clear distinction between winners and losers.
“Something, a little something…”
The winner by decision is Professor Rania.
However, did Professor Rania completely win? If you ask… that wasn’t it.
“So the Department of Combat Magic won the bet?”
“No, I just decided to pretend it wasn’t there…”
“uh? why?”
“You would know if you saw it. “That one at the end…”
The combat magic students lower their heads as if they are embarrassed. Professor Rania won. She did win. However, it was a difficult victory to proudly say in front of others.
“Oh, let go of this! I, I will abstain! “I would rather abstain!”
Unlike Professor Rutia, who calmly and neatly accepted the result of the duel and came down from the duel arena… Professor Rania was screaming loudly.
“I lost! I lost! “I lost!”
That was the image of an ugly winner who couldn’t accept victory and screamed in the end.
“Shoot! Shoot! Who greeted me? “Even if I didn’t abstain, I still won, I won!”
“Ah, let’s go! Let’s go! please! moderator! Why don’t I report the results quickly!”
In the end, the sight of Professor Rania being dragged in front of everyone by the Hound who broke into the duel arena… made the students share one impression.
‘It’s ugly. So much…!’
Combat magic students were forced to realize that the winner, not the loser, could look ugly.
“If you look at the duel alone, you were really cool.”
“Yes, you were really cool, with your hair flying and hitting hard in the air.”
“You looked pretty with your hair tied up.”
“Yes… really…”
The one who won the duel was the Battle Mage.
However, combat magic students actually focus on the process of a duel rather than its results. We end up averting our eyes from the excessively ugly results.
Professor Rania won but lost.
Professor Letia lost but won.
It only hurts my mouth to say which one will be the true winner. As the duel incident that produced an ugly winner and a wonderful loser comes to an end…
“···I won.”
The ugly winner had his head down with a sullen expression and was repeating the same words.
“I, I won.”
“Yes, you won in the end. “It’s really ugly and shameful.”
“No, I just won? Since we have proven our superiority over the Wizard, this is not ugly…”
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“Senior, are you truly amazing?”
Kalt, who had been listening to Rania’s nonsense, clapped his hands.
“The Hounds who saw the duel stopped being suspicious. What I’m saying is that I’ve stopped doubting my senior’s identity. “In fact, you won a duel with a superhuman, but aren’t you curious why the hounds were suspicious?”
Kalt said as if he was dumbfounded.
“It’s because it’s ugly. Because it’s ugly. There’s no way such a light, kid-like wizard could be the ‘wise man’ Raniel. “The Hounds said that it was very rude to be suspicious like that.”
Rania was silent.
Kalt rested his chin and sighed.
“You are truly amazing. “Are you targeting me?”
“······.”
“Yes. If you have a conscience, you won’t be able to say that I was after you. I can’t raise my head because I’m embarrassed because of you. “Really.”
It is a victory that only leaves scars.
Rania looked like she was about to cry a little.
“Go and do your work.”
“huh···.”
In the midst of an extremely surprising scene of subordinates giving orders to their superiors… Rania trudged along feebly. The ugly winner, worse than the loser, was silent.
2.
won the duel
Although it was a painful victory, we won.
What was important was that we won, and the fact that we conquered the fundamentals by winning was important.
‘Yes, I won…’
Meaningless victory.
A victory that only hurts.
“Ugh…”
I sighed and walked away.
The direction I had envisioned failed, and the role of the ‘great loser’ that I was supposed to play was taken by Kelhalm. All plans made before the duel were ruined.
···Still, the above objective was achieved.
‘Victory or defeat, not such secondary things, but the original goal.’
Reading Kelhalm’s Constraints.
The original purpose of the duel was perfectly achieved. During the duel, I took time to read the restrictions that Kelhalm had placed on my body.
“All that’s left is to guess the answer.”
I stopped walking.
“yes? “Kelhalm.”
A little far from Aplia.
A clearing in the forest that Kalt and I often use. The guest who arrived there first looked at me.
“···As expected, that was the purpose.”
The madman, Kelhalm.
He let out a short breath as if he had expected it. Kelhalm, who had been leaning against a tree, turned his back on the tree.
“I had a vague guess from the moment he challenged me to a duel.”
He narrowed his eyes.
“You’re doing the same thing as the Gray Wizard. Who told me how to do that? “Did the Gray Wizard tell you directly?”
“then?”
“If you say that, I have no choice but to believe it. “Because I didn’t include a condition in the contract that even the method of reading the chain of constraints would be kept secret from me.”
I said, shrugging my shoulders.
“You don’t sound very trusting.”
“It has to be that way. “There are more than one suspicious thing.”
Kelhalm looked at me.
They were inorganic eyes that showed no emotion.
“It is difficult to find similarities in appearance other than the characteristic color. However, custom features. Mana flow. Take action. Ability to handle spells. “If I think about those factors… I can’t help but have doubts.”
I was silent. Even if his senses as a superhuman are sealed, Kelhalm is also a superhuman. He never intended to hide his identity from him for long in the first place.
“so?”
Neither positive nor negative.
Because there was no need for that. If you say it this way, the answer must have already been decided within Kelhalm.
“I am the Gray Wizard, is that what you think?”
“I’m not sure.”
Kelhalm answered.
“Gender reversal. transformation of the body. deterioration of the soul. It is providentially impossible. So, if it were normal, I wouldn’t even make this assumption…”
He smoothed the back of his neck.
The nape of the neck where the chains would be restrained. It is filled with chains to control the madness that comes as a result of reaching for the impossible. Kelhalm said while smoothing it.
“He is a gray wizard who has fought closest to those who directly defy providence. “You can’t just say it’s impossible.”
“then···.”
“So I guess.”
“Chuck,” he said, approaching me.
“You are either the Gray Wizard himself, or else… you are actually interacting with the Gray Wizard and have equivalent skills.”
“You’re not sure?”
“There is nothing you can be sure of.”
If that’s the case, it was a downright remark.
“Actually, it doesn’t really matter to me either way. “What I am going to tell you from now on is a warning.”
warning.
“You must have seen it. “My constraints.”
“I saw it.”
I nodded.
The center of Kelrhalm’s restrictions, and what was originally there, were three sentences.
『Make the stars fall.』
『Control the madness.』
『Kill the apostate.』
That is the core of Kelhalm that I saw on the battlefield. However, now one more sentence has been added to it.
『Track ■■.』
A sentence hidden behind chains and chains.
Two letters that cannot be known until the chains are all released.
“Trace it.”
I pronounced the sentence it was written in.
“Follow after me. Make a prediction. and···.”
I spoke of the small restrictions placed next to it one by one. What was placed at the end was one word.
“Swallow.”
I narrowed my eyes.
Swallow, I couldn’t understand what the word meant.
“What on earth?”
That’s why I asked Kelhalm a question.
“If you had read that far, you would speak faster.”
Kelhalm did not answer my question.
“I’m warning you. Whatever you do, stay away from it.”
Instead of answering, he warned me.
“It will definitely come. This place was ‘chosen’. Where stars gather, they ‘inevitably’ appear. “Soon it will appear here in the concentration of stars.”
A fire appeared in his gray eyes.
“Just like Artia did in the past.”
A city of science that burned down.
“When it came, when I stepped forward…”
Kelhalm pointed at me.
“You get out of Aplia. Even if you are not an Ashen Wizard, you should not approach it if you have equivalent skills. “If you are the Gray Wizard yourself… you should keep your distance even more.”
These were unknown words.
I said with a frown.
“You have to know what it is so you can avoid it or not.”
“···This statement is bound by restrictions. “If you don’t get permission, you won’t be heard.”
That’s what I heard from Cardi, and it was a limitation I also came to have as I encountered records of the past. I gestured as if asking him to tell me something, and Kelhalm let out a short sigh.
“I will say this only once. “If you can’t hear me, don’t ask again.”
He took a breath and pronounced something.
“Have you ever heard the word ■■?”
■■.
The word itself is imbued with mana, so an unqualified person cannot even hear it. I frowned and Kelhalm sighed.
“It’s natural that you don’t understand.”
He sighed and walked past me.
“When it shows up, you will know it even if you don’t want to know it. Because all the light will disappear. When that time comes, get as far away as possible. “It’s better that way.”
With those words, Kelhalm left.
Left alone in the forest, I spoke briefly.
“■■.”
The word Kelhalm pronounced a moment ago.
Since it was inaudible to those who were not qualified, he probably thought I couldn’t hear it… but that was Kelrhalm’s mistake.
A two-letter word.
I frowned because I knew what that word meant.
“shade.”
The shade appears here.
That’s what Kelhalm was saying.
3.
“Senior, please take a look at this.”
“What?”
“Didn’t you say last time that an ‘altar’ was discovered in an underground waterway? Since then, we have been constantly monitoring the underground waterway… and this was discovered last night.”
Rattling.
“I don’t feel anything. It doesn’t look like there’s anything inside… it’s just empty. Something was strange. “It just appeared overnight.”
“···marble? “Magic sphere?”
“It’s like a magic ball.”
“It’s a black bead. “It looks like a magic tool.”
“Shall we leave the detailed inspection to the Magic Tower?”
“No, that’s enough. I’ll find out separately. Go. “Underground water is constantly monitored.”
“Yes, I understand.”
The subordinate left. Alone in her office, Kalt looked at the crystal ball in front of her.
“What is this?”
It was an ominous black crystal ball.
It looked like a tool to trap something.
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