Chapter 38 – Class Ranking Competition (2)

Kwaaaaang!!

A powerful explosion covers students who have not prepared their equipment yet.

Magic explosion.

Instead of creating concentrated magic with magic, it is a catch technique that causes a grand explosion by making it go wild.

It has a short range, is not a proper magic, has no protection against the caster, and consumes a lot of mana, so it is a skill that is not often used in practice.

However, it is a perfect tactic to ambush the same wizard at close range.

Not to mention, he was directly hit by Yandel’s magic explosion, who was born with an amount of magic comparable to that of a lieutenant mage.

The protection magic would have worked, so there would be no actual injuries, but dropping out would be inevitable.

Iona, who had taken out the hardened bare-handed student with a blank look on her face with telekinesis magic, jumped up and down and clapped her hands.

“Wow… Great! Great! You understand the benefits of magic blast! If you can handle one person with certainty, what’s the point of miscellaneous disadvantages! Did you teach me, Carla? Looking at the materials from the entrance exam, it was written that Yandel-kun’s ability to apply magic is amazing compared to his level of magic!”

“Yes? Uh… As for the usage and characteristics of Magical Explosion, what I taught you is correct. Ha, but the owner himself realized that he had to use it at the same timing. In the first place, Master has only been learning magic for less than a month….”

Carla reflexively responded to Iona’s sudden question.

He looks like a loyal slave as he hurriedly keeps talking behind his back just in case it might become a negative for Yandel.

But Iona grinned as if she didn’t mind the change of her former apprentice from a gifted schoolboy to a loyal slave.

“A wizard should be able to learn from slaves if necessary. Yes! No way!”

Was it rather relieved that he treated himself with the same attitude as in the past and now?

Carla, who was very nervous, tried to release her power from her shoulder only after seeing Iona’s calm reaction.

Iona, who had not taken her eyes off her in the arena, suddenly gave out an embarrassed voice.

“Yes? Yes? What? Yandel-kun, why are you fighting so terrifyingly?! Unlike your pretty appearance, where did you come from as a mercenary?!”

It was Karla who reflexively followed Yandel above the arena with her eyes, but she also had no choice but to tilt her head.

“Uh… Iknow, right? Why are you fighting so well… ?”

The result of cramming couldn’t be this good?

***

Wow!

The entire body of the student caught in the explosion was stained red.

Not blood Iona’s protection magic, which absorbed more than a certain amount of shock, was probably glowing red.

Perhaps that was some kind of elimination signal, the dropout who floated and flew to Iona’s side.

She watched it for a moment, then looked around her.

The guy who was startled by my relentless first bread and widened his distance, the guy who calmly memorized the shield first. And the one who prepares attack magic in the current chaos.

Among them, I jumped at the guy who was aiming at me with courage.

“… So, burn up. The fire of eternity is in these hands!”

Perhaps he was thinking of sending me away in one shot, the chant is quite grandiose. Anyway, it seems like a fireball.

I wonder if I didn’t know that the wizard would come this far when I approached the guy’s nose avoiding the fireball that was made.

“Fire… Ugh!”

A guy who gasped and gasped.

Even in the middle of this, the cast doesn’t stop, so you know that your skills are considerable… That’s it.

The most important thing when dealing with a wizard is not to give him time to prepare his magic.

This is an unchanging rule even if I am a wizard.

Realizing his mistake, he hurriedly tried to complete his spell, but I was a step faster than him.

I swung my staff at the opponent’s head with all my might.

“Be quiet!”

Kang!

“Keuk!”

Where to recite the starting language?

Judging from the fact that the body of the guy who was caught in the magical explosion a while ago was charred, Iona’s protection magic doesn’t block the attack itself, but rather a magic that feels like paying for the life force damaged by the attack.

Maybe Blood Shift, a type of blood magic.

In that you can feel the pain to some extent, it will be even closer to real life.

It’s a magic that Cham Academy would like.

“Ah, uh….”

As if my prediction was correct, the opponent who had been hit in the head staggered back.

It was a bonus that the magic he was casting was canceled by the shock.

I grabbed the head of the guy who had been hit by Dispel (physical) with one free hand. Next.

“Tinder!”

“Ah!”

Basic magic that didn’t require any special chanting was fired.

“Tinder! Tinder! Tinder! Tinder!”

Again and again Continue. Until incapacitated.

Due to the nature of basic magic, which lacks firepower, it must be difficult to inflict damage that exceeds the criterion for incapacitation in a short period of time, as in a magical explosion.

But pain is different.

Burning your face with fire, how can it not hurt?

“Kwaaaaa!!”

In the end, the guy screamed to be swept away from the arena and passed out from the pain.

Normal hit + melee Tinder barrage.

In fact, this is a good combo for the early stages that was often used in H&A.

As a way to actively utilize the fear level, a concept that is not displayed in the status window like the aggro level.

It’s a combo that can be said to be almost deadly against low-level wizards whose chanting time is long and the magic is canceled at the slightest shock….

Actually, it’s too harsh.

I don’t know if it’s a real enemy, but it’s a bit too much to write to a classmate you’ll see again and again.

Watching the guy drooping down and being dragged outside by Iona’s psychokinesis magic, I thought that I should seal it for a while.

Suddenly, when I came to my senses, everyone in the arena, including Elisha, was looking at me with astonished eyes.

“Ah.”

The moment I saw that gaze, I realized.

That there was an unspoken agreement to drop me first.

“The winding waters.”
“Burn up.”
“Keep your blade sharp.”

The sound of a chant echoing here and there at the same time. Elisha was the only one who did not participate in this terrible tea ceremony.

She doesn’t think she needs to go out on her own, so she’s just stacking her shields several times as if she’s going to strengthen her own defense.

I can’t help it.

Resolving my resolve, I took out a shining lion dagger from my inventory and held it with my free hand.

With that alone, the crude weapon skills were activated and the body became much lighter.

Trusting her body’s ease of movement, she ran toward the most easy-going female student nearby.

“Hee! Water Cannon!”

Maybe it’s because I saw clearly how my opponent just got eliminated.

He was appalled at the fact that he had become my target, and fired the magic he had prepared.

A high-pressure water stream aimed at my head.

If it were H&A, I would have believed in the defense and evasion stats and rushed, or responded with special methods such as protective magic or magic parry… You don’t even have to do that this time.

Because there was something useful in the current situation among the contents of her cramming that I learned from Karla yesterday.

All magic is manifested based on imagination and will, and is assisted by intuition and formulas.

Therefore, it is important for projection-type magic to see the target accurately with your eyes and point out the direction to be shot with a staff or finger.

That way, you can intuitively imagine how to fly and how to collide.

Of course, if the level is raised later, it can be omitted, or conversely, it can be a feint move to deceive the opponent… At least not at the freshman level.

The center of gravity leaned forward and leaned as if it was about to fall.

Then, in the direction the staff was aiming for, a water cannon passed by where my head was.

It’s definitely an experience that should make your spine tingle, but the corners of my mouth wriggled and smiled.

It must have been because he succeeded in avoiding the direction of the staff he practiced with Karla.

“Ah… !”

The schoolgirl’s face darkened rapidly as her own attack was undone.

She closed her eyes tightly, prepared for the shock that would follow, but… I never hit that little head with a staff.

“…… ?”

Around the time when the other person opened his eyes that had been closed in wonder.

I had already gone behind her, and had her arm around her neck, holding her dagger.

“Ouch!”

At that moment, the girl, who was embarrassed by her strangulation, pounded on my arm and continued her words with difficulty.

“Oh, magic… Magic sparring….”

“Why don’t students from the Faculty of Magic use magic during sparring?”

Nod.

I decided to explain myself for the female student who shook her head as if it was unfair.

I will continue to take the same classes in the same classroom, but I have to do this.

“Look over there.”

“?”

He extended his staff and pointed to her side.

I mean the direction in which I can see the magic that was belatedly fired at me.

“Hick… !”

There are only 10 people in class A, and there are people like Elisha who didn’t dare to join me in killing me….

Even so, six or seven low-level magics were targeting me.

In the case of offensive magic, magic sufficient to kill an ordinary person is called low-level magic.

In other words, there is a magic that can kill me six or seven times.

No matter how much I have extremely high chanting speed and stability thanks to the system calibration, at most it will be all I can do to shoot down one or two magics.

I don’t know if I know how to use shield magic, because the wind cutter is still the only low-level magic I can use.

“But voila! Here’s a good shield!”

“… What?”

Professor Iona’s magic is never broken by a few shots of low-level magic.

I wouldn’t know if it was pain enough to faint, but pain enough to cause shock wouldn’t be transmitted. That’s what protection magic is all about.

An unknown female student gritted her teeth after realizing that I was going to use her as a shield.

“You… This dog….”

“Uh huh. No nabbun talk!”

The magic flew right in front of me in an instant.

I crouched as far as I could and hid behind her narrow back.