Chapter 124 – The Incubus Wizard Conquers the Church

In the past month, I have learned a total of four new spells.

Earth attribute basic magic stone.
Earth attribute beginner magic stone wall.
Earth attribute beginner magic, mud throwing.
Liquid ring, beginner water attribute enhancement magic.

Stone, the basic magic, simply summons stones, so it lacks practicality.
So, you can say that the total number of spells that can be used for combat has increased by three.
Earth attribute magic has a strong defensive nature, so it can play an excellent role in protecting the wizard’s body.
I cast earth magic to stop the paladin from rushing furiously.

“Stone Wall.”

As I recited the starting language, I vividly recalled the magic rune in my head. Squiggly strokes were drawn one after another until finally one rune was completed.
After completing the instant casting, I cast magic while facing the front.

Stone Wall.
A magic that summons a magical wall around the caster.

A stone wall towered in front of Jake as he charged.

“Keugh!”

Thud! Because of Jake’s sprint, he couldn’t overcome his inertia and crashed into the stone wall.
When the huge paladin collided, the stone wall was shattered horribly, scattering debris.
But the stone wall did its job by stopping Jake for a moment.

“That incubus wizard! I built a wall with magic!”
“But Paladin-nim will win!”

I hear the voices of the church members talking loudly around me.
I quickly recited an incantation and launched the magic spheres at Jake. By quickly reciting an incantation, three consecutive magic spheres flew and lodged in Jake’s body.

Awesome!
One deftly aimed at the forehead, but Jake swung his sword and split his orb of magic.

“It’s a shame. I could have broken the head.”
“…Huh.”

When Jake saw the power of my spell, he couldn’t afford it anymore. At some point, Jake’s words lessened, unlike when he had been working on Kate.
Jake was only staring at me with cold eyes.
After a brief confrontation, at some point, Jake suddenly recited a prayer.

“The great Baldur will bestow divine power upon his followers under the glory of Asgard.”

After the prayer, a dazzling aura bloomed from Jake’s body wearing plate armor.
In the distance, Kate’s voice could be heard screaming and screaming while being held by the nuns.

“Be careful, dreamer! Paladins’ divine spell, ‘Divine Aura’! If you use that aura, your physical abilities will be doubled!”
“Sister Kate! Who are you helping now!”
“Eup!”

The nuns blocked Kate’s mouth.
However, thanks to Kate, I was able to find out what the dazzling aura really was.

‘It’s a divine spell that strengthens the physical ability.’

However, Jake’s physical ability, which was strengthened beyond simply listening to words, was beyond imagination. The moment Jake caught his breath and started kicking the ground, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

“Suck.”

Thump thump thump! A large paladin ran toward me. Even though he was clad in dozens of pounds of plate armor, he ran at the speed of a runner.

If caught, die.

“Stone Wall!”

Although he built a stone wall, Jake, who was clad in a divine aura, broke the wall with his body and ran tough without slowing down.
I fired magic spheres while swinging a water whip, but it was not enough to stop the bull-like charge.
Finally Jake got right in front of me.

“You broke through.”

The voice of a terrifying paladin.
The paladin swung a holy blade at my neck. As the blade filled with divine power flew in, his downy hair stood on end and goosebumps rose.
If it hadn’t been for the newly learned spell, I would have been beheaded right here.

“Mud Throwing!”

Mud Throwing is a magic that throws mud formed by magic toward the front.
Honestly, it’s soft mud and the amount thrown is small, so even if you throw it, you can’t do anything.
However, there was no magic as good as this for the purpose of temporarily blocking the enemy’s view.

Cheer up! A small amount of mud splattered onto the paladin’s face. The paladin avoided getting mud in his eyes with phenomenal reaction speed, but the angle of his sword was twisted.
I managed to dodge the blade that was precisely aimed at my throat.

Tadak! As he uttered an incantation as he flung to the side, the wriggling water whip changed its course in the air and struck Jake across the back.

“Kuk!”

Jake’s huge body trembled in shock as the first magic attack went straight.
No matter how much armor you put on, you can’t stop the impact of the whipping from being transmitted to your body.
I gave Jake an extra blow by swinging my whip to kill Jake for revealing his gap.

Phut! Phut! Phut! Phut! Phut!
The iron plate armor was distorted. However, Jake, who had silently endured the whipping without even groaning, at one point called out the name of God with power in his entire body.

“Baldur!”

At that moment, the range of the dazzling aura surrounding Jake increased. What had just wrapped around her body now spread divine aura in all directions.

‘I’ve strengthened my physical abilities.’

Presumably, Jake was using his Divine Aura to the limit to further enhance his physical abilities.
The handsome guy’s face now has blood vessels sprouting like an addict who overdosed on steroids.
The intelligent and cool-headed Jake from earlier was nowhere to be found.
Is it a side effect of using the aura to the limit?
Empowered Jake let out a growl as he approached me.

“Incubus uuuuu!!”

A shout full of life.
I erected a stone wall and whipped it up, but Jake no longer seemed to have lost even the intelligence to block attacks.
Just screaming in anger, he broke through everything and came to me, brandishing his sword.

Bang! As he evaded the slash by rolling on the ground, the longsword cut the ground cracking with a roar.
His power has grown stronger than before, but his accuracy seems to have declined due to his loss of intellect.
However, I was surprised to see Jake’s actions that followed.

“That’s your followers, you asshole!”
“Keuuuuu!!”

Because Jake swung his sword at random, not at me, but at the church members around him.
I quickly stretched out my water whip and wrapped it around the arm of the gauntlet.
I was able to narrowly stop one member of the church from being blown off.

“Quaaaaah”
“Paladin has gone mad!”
“Hhhhh!”

I tied Jake’s arms for a moment, and it felt like all the energy was draining from his body.
I yelled at the church members who were clenching their molars and screaming.

“Don’t stay there, run away! You bastard paladin has let go of his mind to kill me!”
“Oh, I see!”

The church members who had gathered on the church grounds to watch the fight finally came to their senses and began to evacuate.
When Jake tore off the water whip with his other hand, the liquid whip snapped off.
However, it was fortunate that people’s lives were saved.
If it’s a water whip, you can recreate it any number of times.

“Liquid.”

While I was restoring the water whip, Jake started destroying the church grounds, chasing me as I fled.

Today is Baldur’s birthday, so it’s a big event.
A table laid out with a delicious dinner, statues depicting the gods of Asgard, decorations installed in many places, and countless churchgoers running away from Paladins rampaging like monkeys.

All of which Jake smashed within his reach.

“Bitch! Those are your followers!”
“It’s big!

Every time he tried to target the church members, I fired a magic orb to turn his attention to me.
The experience of being chased by a paladin who had been reborn as a complete fanatic in the church was truly thrilling.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Objects in my escape route were horribly smashed. Although he succeeded in restoring the water whip, Jake was no longer able to use normal magic attacks.
The only thing I could hope for now was the third and final spell I learned.

‘Liquid ring.’

An enhanced form of liquid magic that controls liquids.
It’s a magic I’ve never used in real combat. I’ve shown it to my lovers a few times as a spectacle when doing quests, but I failed to cast a spell due to lack of proficiency.
But now I feel confident that I can cast spells.

‘I can do it. After taking lessons from Rumi, my understanding of runes has improved.’

Casting magic is, after all, drawing a rune into a perfect form in my head.
After learning the primitive runes, the overall skill of drawing other runes also improved. Because the primordial runes contained fundamental knowledge of how all the runes in the world were constructed.
I believed in the magic theory Rumi taught me.

“Haha, haha.”

After running for a while, I ran out of stamina.
I looked around as I felt my running speed slow down.
All the members of the church were evacuated out of the church, and no one was left around.

‘Did Kate run away well? Wouldn’t she be hurt?’

I was worried about Kate for a moment, but I immediately focused on the duel with Paladin.
The priority is to get rid of that fanatical crusader chasing me behind my back.
In order to survive and meet your lover again.

“Hoo-wook. Whoo-wook.”

They built stone walls, sprinkled mud, and fired magic spheres to keep them in check, but the distance from Jake gradually narrowed.
I stopped running when I finally reached the fountain right in front of the church nave.

“Geuuuuu.”

Jake, who was pursuing me, let out a maniacal laugh as I stopped. Thinking he could finally catch me, he sped up his run even more.
It felt like a bull rushing at me.

Thump thump thump thump!!
I focused my mind while listening to the sound of the ground shaking in one ear. In my head, I began to draw complex runes of 120 strokes at high speed.
There are a total of 10 runes for the basic spell water.
A total of 40 runes for the beginner spell Liquid.
Beginner spells usually end around 40 strokes of the runes that make up the base of the spell. This is because the difficulty of drawing runes increases exponentially as the number of strokes increases.

If the order of the magic strokes is wrong, the spell itself will not be cast.
If the stroke direction and thickness are out of sync, the power of the spell is terribly low.
All of these tasks must be performed simply by relying on the caster’s concentration. The ignorant number of strokes of 120 was never an area that a third-class wizard could touch.
So among the beginner spells, the liquid ring was special.

‘Because it’s a spell created by wandering wizards to overcome their limitations.’

Most wandering wizards end their lives at the third-rate level.
It’s fate that I can only use beginner spells for the rest of my life.
Some wandering mages chose to improve and strengthen the spell itself by forcibly increasing the number of strokes.
The result of such bloody efforts is the enhanced form of the liquid spell I learned.
Instead of taking the risk of casting failure due to incorrect strokes, the ability to control flying liquids is now many times stronger.

Haha!”

In the blink of an eye, Jake was right in front of him.
At that moment, I completed the 120 runes and cast the spell.

“Liquid ring.”

Kwak Kwa Kwak!
The moment I recited the start language, the fountain that spouted water splendidly burst.
According to my will, the large amount of water in the fountain raged in all directions.
Because it was a church, the water in the fountain was also holy water, so it was a liquid containing divine energy.
A large amount of water, rolling like a wave, swept across the ground in an instant and hit me and Jake.

“Keuuuuu!”

Unable to withstand the water pressure, Jake fell terribly.
But equally swept away by the waves, I stood still.
As a spellcaster, he deftly deflected the waves by deftly twisting the fluid direction.

“Useful.”

I smiled contentedly at the sight of the magic waves rolling over the land.
I really liked the merciless water pressure that even the paladins bounced off.

“Cheheuk. Cuckheuk.”

The huge paladin that was chasing me was like a wet mouse and was giggling ferociously.
I concentrated and sent a wave of magic at Jake.
The tide of magic, spreading like an ebb tide, advanced greedily, wiping out everything within the church grounds.

Shoot aaaaa!
Before long, a wave of magic swallowed Jake.

It was the moment when the long duel that started over my lover ended.