Chapter 40 – Ranking of Class Representatives (4)

… If I apologize from now on, will you shoot me with magic?

It’s been a while since I’ve been staring blankly at Elisha, who is running wild like a wolf among sheep.

In any case, Wilhelm must be finished first.

“Water ball.”

“Ugh… Town… !”

A mass of water surrounds Wilhelm’s nose and mouth.

He was Wilhelm who struggled for a while, but he passed out shortly after, as if he couldn’t help but suffocate.

And Wilhelm, who is retrieved by Iona along with the other dropouts.

I can’t help it. Shield… No, now that my friend is gone, I have no choice but to jump into that shit.

He used quite a lot of magic, but most of it was basic magic, so there was still plenty of magic power.

There were four of them, and thanks to getting used to the melee, I came to know something.

In the current situation, it is inefficient to emit magic.

After shooting it once, shouldn’t it be chanted again to load the magic?

It would be better to hold it in your hand and wield it as if you were charging it, and then shoot it when you are saturated with mana or when the need arises.

I can’t hold and wield it like a real sword, but… It is the same that it cuts just by brushing against it.

Well, what’s lacking is the help of daggers and poor weapon skills.

Now that my level of magic is low, knowing how to use my body, albeit poorly, was a big advantage.

If you think of it, you should put it into action right away.

“It’s the wind.”

Huung.

I still only shouted one line, but the wind formed at the end of the staff.

The rest of the chant runs and continues.

“The invisible blade.”

The target is a tall male student running away from Elisha.

He is panting and running hard, but he is already staggering, perhaps because of his lack of stamina.

“You will become even sharper in my hands.”

Whoa-!

It charged forward with a wind cutter in the shape of a crescent moon.

“Uh? Uh huh?”

Concentrating on getting away from Elisha, the guy who found me belatedly raised his wand in awe.

“Show, shock!”

It seems like he’s trying to escape the current situation by using basic magic as soon as possible… Was a little hasty

Even though shock is a basic magic, it can give a momentary stiffness like a lightning class. But that’s all.

As if I would stab Wilhelm in the side, it was said that nothing would change in the end if I couldn’t come up with something in a moment of hesitation.

Paperweight!

The feeling of hair standing on end and muscles contracting uncontrollably.

In the middle of running, his feet got twisted and he almost fell, but he managed to hold on and stretched out his arms.

The long-awaited staff. It is a magic created in a part far away from the end.

The waist of a tall student who could not get out of a considerable range was cut.

“Haaaaagh!”

He didn’t roll around on the floor like the guy who shouted “Have you done it?”, But instead he jumped up and down screaming.

He hurriedly groped his stomach to check the injured part… Iona’s magic can’t be pierced to this extent.

The hem of the dress is slightly cut, but there are no scratches. Instead of just dropping out.

He let out a sigh at his red-blinking body and flew to Iona’s side shortly thereafter.

When I dropped one more person and looked around, a completely different scenery was unfolding.

People running away from Elisha like the tall student from earlier.

Maybe he thought that he wouldn’t be able to get the score properly, but the student who puts magic on those who run away and the counterattack they unfold.

As if he had no interest in me or Elisha from the beginning, of course the one who hides in her corner and finishes all preparations and now comes out.

I can’t leave out Elisha, who fires low-level magic from the other end as if breathing.

Nearly half of them were eliminated, and now there are less than ten people left, but perhaps because more magic is coming and going, the number of people seems to be many times greater.

Confusion spreading to where I am. Among them, holding a staff and a dagger in both hands, she raised her mana.

Students collide with each other’s magic in the air, and sometimes even fight fists because they don’t have enough time to cast.

The sound of breaking shields can be heard here and there, and more starters for basic magic that can be used right away than for low-level magic begin to be heard.

I also kicked someone and swung my staff, knocked someone else down and threw a wind cutter into the back of someone who was happy.

He made a small lump of earth made of Terra and walked on the feet of those who ran, and even cut their backs with a dagger.

Truly abysmal.

In the game, it was a battle without anything special, just managing blood and mana and mixing skills and normal hits.

How can you be so desperate for one reason that it has become a reality? It’s not even a real fight, it’s just sparring.

Thanks to this, Iona was able to understand what she intended with this class.

The urgency, excitement, pain, and magic that cannot be used at will. And death.

Maybe you’re trying to experience something like this yourself?

It’s often used for training by wealthy families, and the monster illusions you’ve faced during the entrance exam aren’t that realistic.

… This is why the academy age limit was 20 years old.

If you practiced this kind of training at a young age, it would be enough to ruin one place.

The academy is a place to raise talented people to completely drive out the remnants of evil spirits, not a place to make murderous weapons, so there must be an age limit.

I thought it was just a setting that was put in for the same reason as ‘All the characters in this game are over 20 years old’, but there was a more reasonable reason than I thought.

The fact that I knew a behind-the-scenes setting of H&A that no one else knew, made me feel a little better, and continued the sparring.

Accurate body movements and stable casting while running.

Is it because of the system calibration that is particularly strong in melee?

When I came to my senses, the surroundings were quiet.

The only thing left is me and Elisha.

I’ve never been hit directly, but it’s tattered from rolling on her floor several times, and she’s out of breath.

Unlike me, Elisha made a surprising expression with her usual neat outfit.

“Oh? Yandel I didn’t know you could fight this well.”

“Thank you for a good look. Because someone told me to fight with all my strength….”

“Why did someone who was so interested in my words say such nonsense earlier?”

“Are you curious?”

“Sure. But I don’t want to give you time to recover.”

Be quick to notice

I never thought I’d find out right away that I was holding my breath while continuing the conversation.

“Are you having a hard time?”

“What is it? I’m not in the engineering department, so if I run around like this, it’s bound to be difficult.”

“Don’t worry. I will finish it soon.”

After saying that, two translucent spheres appeared behind Elisha’s head.

The shape seems to symbolize water and wind.

“Write.”

In my head, dozens of countermeasures come and go repeatedly, but there are only a few that I can use.

This happened at the right time when there were so many types of magic that could be used.

Well, I can’t help it In the end, I have no choice but to do something with what I have now.

With that in mind, I glared at the translucent sphere that Elisha had created.

Every mana core has its own unique abilities.

For example, in the case of the Lint Bloom core, it has a unique ability called resonance.

Originally, the breathing method started with the idea that if the mana in the body and the mana in the atmosphere resonate and make it boil violently, you might be able to feel the mana yourself.

When it reaches the limit, it has the effect of amplifying the power and range of magic by resonating with its own mana and the mana around it.

All mana cores of a certain level have one of these unique abilities.

The same goes for the Elementus Core created by the Sylvan Magic Tower’s arcane breathing method.

The translucent sphere that has now risen behind Elisha’s head is the essence of the Sylvan Magic Tower. Elemental shadows.

There is no reality in that sphere. It must have been a setting that the element inscribed in his core would reflect like a shadow whenever he used magic.

In fact, such a principle doesn’t matter at all.

The important thing is that floating the shadow of an element means that the element has been imprinted on one’s core.

In other words, in this case, you can see that you are receiving a huge bonus to water and wind magic.

It must be because of that that Elisha, who is not a middle-ranking magician like Karla, has been constantly using her low-level magic.

It’s because I’m receiving bonuses in all areas, such as power consumption and activation speed, of course.

In the future, it’s not enough to engrave all four elements, and even the derived elements can be freely manipulated and become a living disaster… Is it still like this?

Fortunately, the activation speed is something I am confident about. System calibration brings magic down to the realm of instinct.

It is also a while to raise the tension and increase the magic power.

Elisha opened her mouth, extending her staff towards her.

“Ah, I will cancel my words that I will finish soon.”

“Her. Are you afraid of me?”

“Please. I just want to keep my word to show the gap.”

“Unless it is necessary….”

“Bend over.”

As soon as she checked the water condensing in front of Elisha’s staff, she kicked the ground.

She zigzags, messing with Elisha’s aim, putting her chant in her mouth.

“A sharp wind. Invisible blade. This is heartlessness in my hands.”

He’d be wearing a shield anyway, so it wouldn’t work with normal magic. You have to charge it as much as possible through the strengthening chant in order to break through the shield.

At first, I didn’t like it because it was a bit cheesy, but after doing this several times, I got used to it.

… And I seemed to know a little bit why I memorized the chant.

All magic eventually comes from imagination and will. It is said that the intense image protruding from within oneself is endowed with magic and becomes a phenomenon.

The chant serves to help the wizard become immersed in his own image.

That’s why it doesn’t matter if the contents change, and if you memorize a grandiose spell, the power is a little stronger.

It’s not just a show, it’s an element that supports magic in a way different from intuition or calculation. That was Young Chang.

Tring!

【Lesser Magic: Wind Cutter (E) has been fully understood.】

【Skill level up!】

【The rank of Wind Cutter (E) has risen by one level, and has become Wind Cutter (D)!】

Does it prove that my guess is right, or is it because I just use the wind cutter that I am talking about all the time.

With a short beep, the system announced the wind cutter’s grade increase.

Whoops-

As if to prove this, a clearer wind than before began to gather.

A sharp, crescent-shaped blade.

Now, all that remains is to somehow avoid Elisha’s magic and continue the charge, and then give it a shot with a full charge wind cutter… !

“Haaaaa!!”

I screamed and squeezed all my remaining stamina and mana.

And….

Like a lie, I was beaten and then eliminated.

… It hurts so much that I just couldn’t die.

I felt a little sorry for those I eliminated.