Chapter 79 – Summer Vacation at the Academy (16)

Chris Roanna, who saw me changing the mana in my body into negative mana, told me that I wasn’t just playing around.

“It’s negative mana. It’s mana that I can’t handle yet.”

“I thought you could handle it all.”

“Of course, I dream of becoming a magic play, but I haven’t learned all the attributes yet. Have you forgotten that it’s been less than half a year since I entered the Global Academy?”

I didn’t really feel it because the quest holder grew up so quickly, but Chris Roanna was in the same first year.

“That is correct.”

“So is that the end? It’s still not enough to be called class Q.”

Could we possibly get a clue about shadow magic from Chris Roanna?

Even if she can’t learn Yu Xian, she might be able to make progress if she possesses Xian Raven.

First of all, since it is a library, using Shadow Craft seemed a bit problematic, so I decided to show Shadow Armor.

I created shadow armor by covering the back of her left hand with the back of my right hand.

The shadow became darker and gained physical power.

“Some kind of shield? Or it appears to simply be a concentration of negative mana.”

“Instead, I’m a bit more liberal.”

In the case of barriers and shields used by wizards, they were often fixed in position and protected.

Compared to that, Shadow Armor is a technology based on one-person, rapid creation.

When I was hit by a slow spell from a goblin shaman as Cyan Raven before, my body did not move, but I would have been able to block the hobgoblin’s attack using shadow armor.

If he had to keep getting hit while his body slowed down, he would have had a problem, but he could certainly withstand the blow even without Princess Rosette.

“So can you do anything else?”

“It exists, but I can’t show it here.”

Chris Roanaga looked back and forth between the book and me a few times and waved her right hand in the air.

With that short movement, he scattered mana on the book and then placed it in an empty spot on the bookshelf.

I think I can do five books at once, but the amount of books is a bit large, so I repeated it four times and all the books on the desk disappeared.

“Okay. Let’s go to the sparring room. Instead, if I’m not satisfied with the level, we’ll continue the sparring exam from the final.”

Chris Roanna got up from her seat, folded her glasses and put them in her glasses case that she took out of her bag.

When I take off her glasses, it’s the Chris Roanna I know.

And she put the goblin tattoo I drew earlier into her bag.

“Are you planning on taking that with you?”

“Why? Did you think I could remember it all at once?”

“I thought it wasn’t necessary at your level.”

“Didn’t I tell you? This is an improved magic circle that allows even people with low intelligence and low mana skills to use magic. It requires vitality and certain items as prerequisites, but that alone is enough to pose a threat. The way to deal with it is simple, too. I don’t want to give a chance to those who only superficially learned magic.”

I don’t know if I was defeated by a wizard whose skills were significantly different, but I was very embarrassed when I was defeated by a goblin shaman, especially one who relied on tattoos.

I was able to sensibly avoid the purple flame as it took a while to activate, but I couldn’t avoid that slow attack.

“I wish you could tell me how to deal with it.”

“You can already solve it. You just need to make good use of negative mana.”

With that said, Chris Roanna started walking out of her library and I followed her.

Already solved it? What does that mean?

All I showed was two things: creating negative mana and shadow armor.

What if I said I could fight back after seeing that?

As I followed Chris Roanna to the sparring room, I kept getting lost in thought.

*

“So what technology do you think is difficult to use in the library?”

As soon as I entered the sparring room, Chris Roanna put on a protective shield and asked me.

“This is it.”

Using Shadow Craft, I created a sword that compressed shadows.

As I made the sword, Chris Roanna came close to her and touched it with her hand and inspected it with her mana.

“Could it be considered the materialization of mana? I can sense that you are using your mana to maintain the form. It seems like there is almost no mana consumption when you are still.”

I think it’s a technology that goes several steps beyond, but he said it as if it was nothing special.

And as if to prove that point, Chris Roanna, who stepped back a little, created a sword made of almost transparent mana and swung it in the air a few times before destroying it.

“I don’t particularly like close combat, but I can do this too. However, even though I can materialize mana, it seems like I didn’t figure out how to deal with slow until I came here. Did you acquire the skills you showed me right away through the quest?”

“Did you notice? It’s like you learned the principle without knowing it.”

“That’s why exploring skills is the most important. Other than you, the other students in Class Q are busy digesting what they gained in the first semester. To the point where they don’t pay much attention to you.”

“Was it like that?”

When I entered the class, most people showed indifference and I often felt like I could do something like open the window or clean up after myself.

When I think about it that way, even though I only did a few chores, I strangely feel like I had an inferiority complex and kept a distance from my classmates in Q.

Vulcan Ludrick and Chris Roanna also responded well when I approached them and spoke to them first.

“And you are very lacking in exploration. I said that it was enough to have physical power by condensing negative attribute mana and shadow, and to be able to use those two, but even though you can do more than that, you still haven’t figured out how to deal with slow. ?”

“Isn’t it because I don’t know much about the slow? Even if I found out, there was no way to respond because I couldn’t move my body.”

“Why didn’t you think of moving?”

“You’re thinking of moving. You said that, right? My head was giving orders to my body, but my body wouldn’t move.”

“I can move things other than my body?”

Was it possible to fight back by moving mana?

After I put down the sword I had made and got rid of it, I thought about it again.

When you still don’t have a clue, Chris Roanna gives you a hint.

“That kind of crude magic breaks with the slightest impact. I can use the negative mana characteristics I know, so what’s wrong with that?”

I said something that I didn’t think was possible because it was such a simple method.

“Are you saying that if you just concentrated negative mana anywhere on your body, it would break due to its ability to absorb mana?”

“Yes. You really don’t know anything about magic? This is out of your league. Such crude magic can be broken even if you focus your mana anywhere.”

Chris Roanna shook her head as if she was disappointed in me.

I had never delved deeply into swordsmanship or magic, so there were a lot of things I didn’t know.

Cian Raven, a possessed body that can be used as a reference, also focused on a sword for assassination using physics using shadow craft.

“Then, since you’re at leisure, I’d like you to hang out a little. Try blocking with your sword. I’ll shoot.”

As she said that, Kris Roanna twirled her right hand and several arrows with condensed mana appeared in the air.

I’ve only thought about cutting through magic, so I thought it would be good to actually experience it, but now is it?

The moment I used Shadow Craft again to create a sword, Chris Roanna’s hand moved and arrows of mana flew out sequentially.

He used his vision to read the arrow’s trajectory, and then cut it down in one go along the trace with his sword.

“Okay. Let’s keep going.”

Each time Kris Roanna gently waved her hand, five arrows of mana were created.

And after the arrow was shot at me, it appeared again.

That kind of magic was possible with just a simple wave of the hand.

Instead of trying to knock me out with one blow like in the final exam, he kept shooting arrows of mana as if he was testing something.

I continued to use Insight and erased the Mana Arrows over and over again.

When I dealt with it in person, it took less mana to offset the magic than I thought, perhaps because it was basic magic.

Like when we talked about countering slow magic, is it possible to counter magic by breaking the balance of magic?

When I used Insight to calculate the trajectories of multiple objects at once, I felt more dizzy than usual, but it was still okay.

“I understand now.”

The barrage of mana arrows that Chris Roanna was shooting at me stopped.

“What did you know?”

“Try blocking again.”

Five arrows of mana flew towards me again.

You said you figured something out, but you don’t see a big difference?

Using the same insight, I swung my sword after checking the trajectory that would allow me to cut in an instant.

Burbubbubbuk!

When I first cut down the Magic Arrow, I knew something was wrong.

Like before, the arrow of mana did not disappear even if a slight shock was applied.

“How?!”

Of the five, I got rid of one, but I guess I was lucky with that one.

“Thanks to you, I have also improved. I still used the Magic Arrow, which breaks even with the slightest impact, but I slightly modified the structure and made the center of gravity in a different place. Now that we have something to take away, I can finally say that I had a good time. “

After saying that, Chris Roanna walked out of her sparring room first.

Of course, considering that I cleared the quest through the sparring we just had, it is true that my combat power has increased, but didn’t Chris Roanna gain something more?

“Class Q is ridiculous as expected.”

I also need to do a little more research on magic resistance through the detection of various objects that happened today and the concentration of negative mana through shadow armor.

*

『Quest』

〈Achieve combat power of 400.〉

-Completed: 1 possession slot added

【1. Cyan Lee】【2. Cyan Raven】【3. 】