〈 Episode 330 〉 Gathering (3)
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Twisted circuits float.
It is a circuit that Raniel has never encountered before, and a circuit that he has only shallow knowledge of. So, the circuit of Arcadia created in ancient times.
Magic erased from human history.
A spell that has disappeared into the back of history.
The ancient magician lost to mankind has now appeared in this place. As a magician, he wants to be amazed by this situation, but Raniel knows that he can’t. Raniel’s expression hardened.
‘···It’s annoying.’
Ancient circuit.
Although I encountered it a few times while dealing with Skebal, the circuit I came up with now is more complete than Skebal’s. The roots are the same, but the number of branches extending out is different.
It’s unpredictable.
Since it is unpredictable, we cannot move hastily.
It is unknown in what direction and ‘how’ the ancient circuit may have created the trap. There was a need to be careful…
‘For that reason, the condition is not good.’
Coming here, I burned many demonic beasts.
In order to end the battle with Skebal quickly, I used up a lot of mana. Her mana is rapidly dropping as she overheats the circuitry carved into her heart.
Moreover, there is not much time given.
“······.”
Raniel was silent.
The opponent is a wizard who knows how to handle at least 4 classes. The opponent’s limits are not known yet. I don’t even know what function that circuit that came up with will work.
Unknown(？？).
What you don’t know yet.
What move should you choose against it, and what should you do here? Raniel derives the answer. Raniel’s eyes move quickly and discover a seed wriggling in the middle of the top layer.
“You crazy bastard.”
Raniel muttered inadvertently.
The madman who heard the muttering nodded.
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Immediately afterwards, the circuits began emitting light one after another.
As a flash of light erupts, Raniel lightly steps to the side. He then stretched out his arms. Raniel grabbed a clue that would lead this fight to his advantage.
The girl was holding her breath and leaning against the wall.
Raniel caught Resty Eleanoa.
2.
Resty Eleanor is confused.
What did you just hear?
Lesti was relieved when she opened the tightly closed door and Professor Rania appeared. Because I felt like anything would be possible if Professor Rania was there. However, Lesti remained silent at the madman’s words that followed.
“Raniel van Trias.”
“I was waiting for you, gray wizard.”
Raniel, not Rania.
A gray wizard, not a descendant.
The madman clearly said so, but Raniel did not specifically deny it. It was like an affirmation. Resty glanced at Raniel’s profile. Her expression still remains unchanged.
…Professor Rania is Raniel?
For a moment, Resty cannot accept that information.
This is Resty, who has been compared and looked down on by Raniel for a long time. It would be a lie if there was no sediment sprouting within it. Although it has been diluted a lot now…
Still, Resty Eleanoa does not have a very good impression of the gray wizard.
For Resti, Raniel Van Trias is a wall that he must overcome one day. But what kind of existence is Rania to Resti? She is the person who became my second teacher. She is also a lifesaver.
In the gap, Resty is embarrassed.
Resty is out of breath and unable to accept the information. “Whoop,” someone grabbed his wrist.
“···professor?”
It was Rania.
Rania doesn’t say anything. She pulled Resty’s arm around her and lifted her into a hug. Then, with a thud, he kicks the ground and starts running.
Flash!
Immediately afterwards, a flash of light erupted.
A spell of unknown shape sweeps through the area. Raniel uses his intuition to avoid the spell and begins to run up the wall.
The top floor of the Magic Tower.
Running through the place where all the walls had collapsed and become a huge cavity, Raniel snapped his fingers. The ground shakes and the terrain changes. The Magic Tower is a building made of magic stones (??).
Kugugugugugugung!
The joint between magic stone and magic stone.
Although not the entire Magic Tower, Raniel knows how the magic stones on the top floor are connected. Release that connection now.
The magic stone and magic stone are separated.
Magic stones float in the flow of mana.
The collapsed floor rises into the air, and the ceiling collapses, letting in sunlight. Raniel evades the spell by stepping on the floating ground.
Kiiiiing!
Heat rays pass by.
Dozens of awls fall from above my head.
Narrowly avoiding all of that, Raniel opened his mouth.
“Listen carefully, Resty.”
Resty looks up at Raniel.
“In ten seconds, all the floating magic stones will be put back in place.”
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Raniel is running while looking only ahead.
“That’s your chance.”
She took a big leap.
Raniel landed with his chain hanging in the air and took a short breath. He looked at Resty. Blue eyes looked at Resty.
“It’s crazy, but this is the only answer.”
Raniel said something.
The moment Resty heard that, his eyes widened. It was crazy. At least, it wasn’t a useful tool in this situation.
“···Are you serious?”
Raniel nodded.
Resty swallowed dry saliva.
My mind is confused. After suddenly discovering the truth, Resti did not know how to deal with the woman in front of her. She was so confused…
“I trust you.”
The moment Lesti looks into Raniel’s eyes, she feels her mind becoming clearer. Bluish eyes. Out of all the countless eyes, only those eyes looked at her.
“You can do it, right?”
“Believe.”
These are eyes that looked at not the next gray magic tower lord, but a human named Resty Eleanoa. With those eyes looking the same as always, Resty eventually realizes that what she has to do hasn’t changed either.
Responding to the faith that was sent to me.
Resty nodded.
Raniel laughed.
“thanks.”
Raniel stamped his foot.
The magic stones that emerged began to settle in an instant. The structure of the Magic Tower, which adjusts as if time has gone back, obscures the madman’s vision.
When everything falls into place.
Resty stood with his feet on the ground.
She slowly opened her eyes.
A platinum ring overlaps Resty’s widened eyes. One, two, three.
“···That?”
For a moment, the madman panics.
There are three platinum rings overlapping the eyes.
The madman loses his breath in front of the girl whose eyes are like a magician’s god.
And, the madman realizes another fact.
Raniel van Trias closes his eyes.
With her posture low, she doesn’t even think about opening her closed eyes. The spell used by Raniel can be seen in the madman’s narrowed eyes.
Share your view.
Just as the Summoner connects his vision with his familiar, Raniel connected his vision with Resti. The madman realizes what it means.
Resty closes one eye.
Raniel opens one eye.
“Hey f*ck.”
Raniel burst out laughing.
“Is this what it feels like?”
Grumble.
Blood flowed from Raniel’s nose and eyes. Without the talent of a watcher, he coveted the sight of the stars. As if he was paying the price, Raniel’s eyes became bloodshot.
But I don’t close my eyes.
Raniel, enduring the load, takes a step forward.
“You fell behind.”
3.
The Watcher’s mind is bombarded with information about the nature of everything that enters its field of vision. There is no way the human body could maintain this vision for long.
‘About 10 seconds at most.’
That is the limit given to Resty and himself.
Raniel ponders that fact and moves on.
The moment I took a step, ash flew out like crazy from my body. Raniel resolves to risk everything in those 10 seconds.
Burns all remaining mana.
Raniel begins to run, clad in ashen mana. The madman’s circuit fills the entire area and shines. It was an ancient circuit that was incomprehensible a while ago… but not for the current Raniel.
‘see.’
The moment you see it, you understand it.
Raniel extends his hand toward the circuit emitting light. Although this is clearly a circuit he has never seen before, Raniel completely understands its structure.
Hook your bent finger onto the circuit as if it were a hook, and pull it straight.
Clap la la la rock!
The circuit is dismantled.
The moment one circuit is dismantled, Raniel learns the trick. He puts his knowledge to use straight away. Raniel fires dozens of hard blows in all directions.
Kwasik!
A hard blow hits the core of the circuit.
The gray mana contained in the struck blow interferes with the completion of the circuit. Dozens of circuits are disabled at once. The remaining circuits emit light targeting Raniel…
Its trajectory and the path it moves can be fully read by the watcher’s eyes. Amid pain that felt as if his cornea was burning, Raniel squeezed his eyes harder.
Don’t close it. See it all. Understand.
The madman gathers all his familiars.
The soaring knights and the dragon entangled in the debris let out a roar, but it doesn’t last long. A gray seal passes between them. An explosion follows with a belated squeaking sound.
“···Sounds like a berserker.”
The madman mumbles and leaps backwards.
As if to prove that he was not called an archmage for nothing, the madman wields four categories of spells at the same time.
Necromancy, sorcery, elemental spells, summoning.
He sacrifices the vengeful spirits of those who have died with a spell, and uses the replaced mana to unleash an extra-large elemental spell. She scatters summoned beasts to tie up Raniel’s footsteps.
The completed order is punished by heaven.
Crumbling!
A huge flash of light fell from the sky and shattered the ceiling of the Magic Tower. The resistance spells applied in layers on the magic tower are torn apart like sheets of paper, and the flash of light engulfs Raniel’s body.
It is the highest level of magic.
Several restriction circuits were applied to the spell that annihilated the entire area to limit its range. However, there is someone who sees through that flash and jumps out.
Spattering blood.
I don’t care about my body.
There is a wizard who runs only looking ahead.
The madman senses some kind of madness in those bloodshot eyes. She believed in only the gray mana that resisted mana and pierced her highest level spell with her bare body.
The distance narrows.
The madman clicks his tongue and tries to disturb his form. A madman is essentially a shapeless shadow. If you abandon your body for a moment and run away…
This is the moment to think like that.
Shut up.
A familiar came out of the air and bit into the madman’s body. Physical attacks from familiars have no effect on one who is made up of shadows. The madman who thought so did not avoid the attack.
However, it is a mistake.
The madman opens his eyes wide.
I feel the burning pain. The teeth of the wolf that bit him. Gray mana is swaying there. The madman looks at the girl standing behind Raniel with her eyes wide open.
The mana that was thought only the Gray Mage could handle, even though it was feeble, that girl was also able to handle it.
The gray mana flowing from the wolf’s teeth holds the madman in place to prevent him from escaping. The madman who could not turn into a shadow bursts into laughter.
“her···.”
Before we knew it, the distance had completely narrowed.
The gray wizard is right in front of me, blood is spraying out and his hands are stretched out. The grasp, wrapped in gray mana, finally reaches the madman.
“Gotcha.”
Raniel bursts into laughter.
While grabbing the madman’s head, Raniel slams the madman’s head towards the floor. He releases all the mana he has gathered in an instant.
Ashes to Ashes.
A flash of light.
A flash more dazzling than when the Heavenly Punishment was struck fills the area, followed by a roar.
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The floor collapses.
The ground explodes and the two fall towards the level below. The madman tries to repair his tattered body, but it is difficult to do so. Damn gray mana is preventing regeneration.
‘but···.’
Unlike Ash, who poured everything into one strike, he had mana left. This is the moment when the madman reaches out his hand towards the gray light that falls with him.
Gray is laughing.
Even in a situation where defeat is dark, she is smiling.
Could it be hidden? There won’t be any?
While thinking about this, the madman realizes that his field of vision has become narrow. Out of sight, someone kicked the ground and jumped into the air.
Guarder, Kalt.
He catches Raniel’s falling body and lands glidingly. In contrast, the madman who was stuck on the ground slowly raised himself up.
“···huh.”
And then, the madman bursts into laughter.
Raniel barely stood up with the help of a superhuman.
Several figures are stepping forward as if to protect her. Reading the colors of their souls, the madman bursts into laughter.
Lark Van Grace.
With the ax stuck in the ground, he grasps at the air. As if answering the master’s call, the holy sword held by the first hero is placed in Lark’s hands.
Belnoa Van Dragonic.
A dry wind hovers around the boy who made a contract with the god of the beginning. At their feet hovers the shadow of a birth whose nature is different from that of a madman.
Stella, Ayla.
She is loved by the stars and the blessings of the stars surround her. The madman’s shadow cannot reach Ayla. A madman feels an instinctive resistance to the life that was created to stop him.
And, a hero with two radiances.
“The hero, Chloe.”
Chloe, the hero of the castle.
“I will join you.”
Those who will lead the next generation have gathered.
The table has been turned upside down.
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