Chapter 251 – It’s Not Like That…(4)

Iona whispered in her ear.

“If you win, I’ll let you play as a vampire captured by a vampire hunter tonight.”

“Is it okay to knock them all down?”

For that reason, Yandel Reid was suddenly decided.

The students of the Faculty of Engineering frowned or glared at something they didn’t like. He was blatantly dissatisfied.

Haha Students in class A have strong egos by default. It’s only natural that he’s been praised as a genius since he was young.

However, since only the best people on the continent gather at the academy, there is nothing as useless as the pride of being a genius.

Everyone will know by the second semester, but… Even so, it would sound insulting to have a total of close to 30 people rushing to catch me.

Of course, my friends from the Faculty of Magic, who usually suffered a lot during the sparring, were preparing for the sparring by casting shields and various auxiliary magic on themselves.

For a while, I nodded my head at the thought that since wizards usually have stronger egos, this is fresh as it is.

Eventually, one of the engineering students raised his hand and started protesting against Professor Jason.

“Professor Jason!”

“What is it, Alberto?”

“Isn’t this too much!”

“Tell me what is too much.”

Jason scratches his head as if it’s annoying and replies. At this, Alberto spoke even more feverishly.

“I know that the opponent is much stronger than us. But I don’t understand why everyone here has to step up.”

“Are you saying that Yandel student knows that he has risen to the level of a lieutenant mage?”

“Sure. I don’t mean to belittle Yandel. I just wondered if the professor was ignoring us too much.”

“No. It seems to me that you are belittling it. First of all, if you’re a middle-ranking wizard, you’re the executive level of a large magic tower. In small and medium magic towers, it is a level where you can also aim for the position of the tower owner. For an adventurer, it’s the minimum gold level, and the professors at this academy, except for a few, are middle-level wizards or equivalent.”

It was Jason who had a gloomy expression on his hair that had fallen out while scratching, but then he brushed off the hair that had come off his hand and continued.

“Alberto. Do you seriously think that if all of you come together, you can defeat the professors?”

“That…”

“Oh yeah. A professor from the Faculty of Production might be able to win.”

A calm tone, not mixed with sarcasm. But did that rather hurt the pride of the students of the Faculty of Engineering?

I didn’t say it, but some students kept their mouths shut and started staring at me.

Hmm. It’s cute. It’s a time when you’re full of ambition.

Alberto nodded his head in a low voice.

“All right. Then I will prove it myself.”

“Sure.”

Jason waved his hand as if telling him to go now. Alberto returned to his seat and our eyes met. Then he is a guy who nods lightly even when he faces this way.

Well, even if he looks like that, he’s not a bad guy. He’s just the kind of guy with a lot of pride.

Although he appears as a fellow character in H&A, he was a guy who was rarely recruited due to his disliked personality and subtle performance.

… Maybe it’s because the image got worse because some superfans were messing around at the strategy cafe.

After thinking about the past for a moment, I smiled and took out the staff from the inventory.

“Can I start right away?”

“Yep. Oh, do you need time to prepare something? The other students also used shields beforehand.”

“No. It doesn’t matter as it is now.”

“Okay okay!”

Iona, who lifted me up, swept away backwards. In an instant, it fell to a perfect position for sparring.

After estimating the distance, Iona nodded happily and went back to her place.

After briefly conversing with Jason, he put his hands to his mouth and shouted loudly.

“From now on, from now on! On the count of three, sparring starts right away?”

After saying that, Iona applied the safety device, Blood Shift, to all students, including me.

“One!”

As soon as the counting started, the momentum of the students who had been a little confused was neatly organized.

The guys from the Knights Faculty showed unwilling expressions and steadily drew their swords.

The Faculty of Magic raised their mana with a resigned expression.

And I was just looking at the students in front of me without doing anything.

“Two!”

There was no time for a separate strategy meeting, but it was only natural for the knight to be in the forefront and the mage to be in the rearguard.

Those with blades took a step forward on their own, and those wearing robes took one step back.

I’m still just watching.

However, this was neither a willingness to surrender nor a mistake made by excessive arrogance.

In the first place, considering the prizes involved in this Dalian, isn’t it a Dalian that you should never lose?

It’s just a natural leisure that comes out because there is such a gap between me and them now.

“Three!”

As soon as Iona’s count was over, the Faculty of Engineering students quickly kicked off the ground and closed the distance.

He gave a light nod to Carla and Elisha, who were waving in the corner of the arena, and lifted the staff.

“Shield.”

A translucent force field that wraps around my body. Shortly thereafter, a sword from the Knights Faculty arrived and hacked at him.

Cadeuk! Kak! Kwajik!

A sword that bends in a bizarre trajectory, a spear aiming at a single point, an outstretched fist rolling forward, and a giant hammer that strikes down with enormous weight.

However, nothing could penetrate my shield.

No wonder. Wasn’t the protection magic itself created in the first place assuming an attack from an enemy of the same rank?

Oh runner… So, the attacks of those who have just started to strengthen their bodies with Auras, and are about the level of low-ranking wizards in terms of wizards, can be blocked with a roughly cast shield.

It would not be difficult to block the various magics that arrived belatedly from far away.

By the way, it’s the first time we’ve fought together, so our hands and feet seem a bit out of sync. At this rate, the magic’s aftermath would also affect the guys from the Knights Faculty.

The swordsmen hurriedly retreated after noticing the flying magic even though they were astonished at the shield not even moving.

As they opened the distance, a bombardment of magic fell over my head.

Bang! Kwaaang! Tuquaang!

Loud noise.

Flames and lightning exploding before my eyes. Huge boulders are shattered, water loses its power and runs down the floor, and the wind whirls around in vain.

As expected, the shield is impenetrable to attacks of this magnitude. However, the surface was slightly cracked.

If you continue to receive concentrated attacks like this a few more times, it will break. However, in the meantime, time to prepare the magic will be given.

A pitch-black fog obscures the vision. Beyond that, Alberto’s voice, which had been protesting against Professor Jason a while ago, can be heard.

“Have you done it… ?”

No, that line here? Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to live up to expectations and show fancy magic.

I canceled the magic I was trying to cast and built up a new image.

“Fire. I breathe life into you. This is the birth of one and the end of many.”

The core beats like crazy, raising a huge amount of mana.

“Blooming in the dark. Soar from the ashes.”

Spheres of prominence that intermittently peep through the black smoke.

The students of the Faculty of Engineering felt that something was wrong and tried to rush before the smoke cleared, but… It’s already late.

Because before I knew it, only the last line of the order was left.

“Wake up Fire Phoenix.”

A glimpse of flame splits on both sides. The ferocious heat that came from that gap swept the surroundings.

Whoaaah-!

Smoke blown away by the wind.

What took its place was a huge firebird that burned like the sun.

“Eh, what is this… How…”

Alberto stopped running and stopped. A drop of sweat runs down his forehead.

A confident figure that seems to set the sky on fire, and a heat that heats up the ground just by existing.

And above all, the eyes that burn with clear hostility.

Everyone who was sparring hardened at the pressure so intense that it was difficult to even breathe.

The professors, Iona and Jason, were also surprised and stared blankly this way with their mouths open.

The only nonchalant people were Carla and Elisha, who had seen this magic yesterday.

However, the fire phoenix seen yesterday and now will be completely different magic.

In the meantime, I’ve been thinking and thinking about how to use this wonderful but ambiguous magic against magical power.

Fire Phoenix’s greatest strengths are its persistence and operability. There is only one way to fight and save it as much as possible.

I’ll keep the fire phoenix right and fight on my own. Ultimately, it is planned to be improved with autonomous magic.

Of course it won’t be easy. I only thought about it in my head, but I’ve never checked whether it’s actually possible or not.

So try it now.

“Whoa.”

After taking a light breath. I rushed the fire phoenix towards the fascinated students of the Faculty of Knights.

“Good!”

The phoenix, which greatly inflated the flames that wrapped around its body, flew quickly.

From the wildly beating wings, hot air and blazing feathers shot toward the ground, making it difficult to breathe.

Perhaps because the main body itself is at the level of ordinary intermediate magic, the power of the attack derived from it is at most a level of low-level magic that is rather strong.

However, apart from its actual power, it is a very majestic sight.

To the extent that some students, overwhelmed by the atmosphere, turned their backs.

“Eh, run away!”
“Such magic… I’ve never heard of it!”
“No matter how hard they do it in Dalian?!”

Of course!

It’s one of the few opportunities to harass Iona from my side, how can I put up with this!

I will destroy it with all my might!