636.
Lil charged forward at an incredible speed.
A massive steel spike erupted from the ground, covering the charging Lil.
Crash-!
The sharp tip of the spike bent and shattered into pieces.
But Lil, gripping the battle hammer, showed no sign of slowing down.
“It’s no use!”
“Agghhhhh!”
“Stop her! Somehow, stop her!”
The Department of Magic students screamed.
The Department of Knights students who had stood up to block Lil were long gone, having been struck by her hammer and sent flying far away.
At that moment, one of the Department of Knights students stepped forward with a large and thick shield, blocking Lil’s path.
“Oh!”
“Rex!”
Rex Stoner.
A student excelling in the third year of the Department of Knights.
His most notable feature is being a typical vanguard.
He is slow in mobility and his attacks are straightforward.
However, his defense is the best among the third-year students of the Department of Knights.
He is literally the third-year male student with the highest defense.
The number one priority for Wizards to recruit into their party!
The mighty presence of Rex had blocked Lil.
“I’m Rex Stoner! I’ll defend this spot with my life!”
“Wow! That’s impressive! Rex! I’ll go on a date with you later!”
“Men, get lost!”
Rex, who snarled and looked towards the charging Lil, slammed his shield into the ground.
Boom-!
“Gasp!”
With the shield planted into the ground, Rex charged forward.
Lil swung her hammer towards Rex’s shield.
Clang-! Dented! Crrrrk-!
The hammer and shield collided, creating an immense sound.
The ground beneath Rex’s feet cracked indented.
The aftermath caused the surrounding area to split apart.
“He held on!”
“Of course, it’s Rex!”
“Of course! Rex can even withstand attacks from Celia and Duran!”
Although lacking in attack means, making his success rate in duels lower compared to the top-tier students, in the mission of enduring attacks, there is no one who can match Rex.
Rex, confident in the force transmitted through his shield, spoke.
“Senior! Further progress is impossible…”
Clang-!
Lil’s follow-up attack continued.
Boom! Boom! BoomBoomBoomBoomBoom!
“Ughhhhhhh?!?!”
A tremendously heavy and powerful series of attacks followed.
Rex’s body, struck with incredulity, began to sink into the ground.
Waaahhh! Crrack-!
With only the shield remaining above ground, Lil delivered a final powerful blow as if hammering a nail into the ground.
Rex, stuck like a nail into the ground, lost consciousness from the impact.
Rex, judged combat ineffective, was instantly teleported away.
Lil’s single strike, although lacking compared to Celia’s and Duran’s finishing blow, turned into an incredible chain attack.
Having rendered Rex combat ineffective, Lil charged forward once more.
“What is this! It’s not even a tank!”
The third-years screamed.
Every time Lil swung her hammer, third-years were sent flying in all directions.
What stopped this unstoppable Lil was none other than Warden.
Bang-!
Lil’s hammer was caught by Warden’s arm.
The two Spirit Masters engaged in a battle of strength.
“Hmm, impressive.”
Warden clicked his tongue.
“I now see why you are called the ‘Monster.'”
“Even Warden is a monster!”
“Then this is a Monster Match!”
“That’s an inappropriate way to address a senior!”
Lil’s eyes widened as she pushed Warden back.
Flame-!
“Warden, hold on to her!”
Celia, hovering in the sky, aimed her sword at Lil.
Seeing this, Lil shook off Warden.
She then kicked the ground to evade Celia’s attack.
“Too late!”
Kaaangaaang-!
Flame aura enveloped Lil.
However, before the flame aura could reach her, Lil accelerated at an incredible speed, dodging the attack.
“Faster?!”
Celia was taken aback by the speed far exceeding her expectations.
At that moment,
Swooshhhhh-!
The surrounding temperature plummeted drastically.
“Ice World.”
Crrrrrrink-!
As Chloe’s spell was completed, an immense cold enveloped Lil.
Crrrrk-!
Before Lil could react, she was trapped in ice.
“Truly, Chloe’s skills.”
Nella, who was healing the injured, sighed in admiration.
Until now, the third-years had been building a defensive formation to stop Lil from targeting Chloe.
“To be chased while we’re the ones who should be chasing. It seems we underestimated our senior.”
Chloe wiped away her cold sweat as she spoke.
In fact, I wasn’t able to bring out my full strength.
With Lil’s overwhelming momentum, if I gave her the time, her attack would have reached me before my spell was completed.
“She had us completely figured out.”
Thinking back on Lil’s movements, Chloe shook her head.
Though it seemed like Lil was making reckless charges, she had thoroughly exploited the weaknesses of each of the third-years.
It was impossible unless she had thoroughly studied the characteristics of the entire third-year group.
“Undoubtedly, that’s something we need to learn…”
Crrrrk-!
While Celia agreed with Chloe’s words, cracks began to form in the ice where Lil was trapped.
Seeing this, the third-years’ faces froze stiff.
Crash-!
Breaking out of the ice, Lil hurled her battle hammer straight into the sky.
Whirrr-!
The third-years looked at Lil staring at the sky in shock.
“Attack power, speed, and defense as well? There’s no flaw!”
“We have to overwhelm her with numbers!”
“At least for now, she doesn’t have her weapon!”
“Did you say she doesn’t have a weapon?”
Lil grinned.
“What about the spirits, the strongest weapon for a Spirit Master?”
Having lost her weapon, Lil began summoning spirits.
Lil looked at the shocked third-years and said firmly.
“It’s not over yet.”
“Great! I caught you… TTTTIIIIIEEEERRRRRR?!?!”
Iliana, moving at an incredible speed, caught up with Elena from behind and was jubilant.
The moment she did, she was startled and had to retreat as Lil’s battle hammer whizzed by just in front of her.
And within that split second.
Shiiiiirrrrk-!
Clang! Boom!
“Iliana!”
Made of mana, a chain of light coiled around Iliana’s wrists and ankles.
“Owww!”
Iliana screamed under the force pulling her arms and legs.
As Chelsea approached to help Iliana,
Magic circles erupted with light chains.
Chelsea clicked her tongue and dodged the chains.
Iliana, who had been screaming, frowned when she saw a wand thrust in front of her face.
“Please take a look.”
“No.”
In an instant,
The tip of Elena’s wand released a powerful surge of mana.
Iliana, judged combat ineffective, was immediately teleported away.
A massive gale swirled around Elena.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh-!
Elena, who noticed the gale closing in on her, unleashed a formidable surge of mana.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh-! Pereng-!
“Did she nullify brother’s magic with sheer power?!”
Chelsea gasped in astonishment.
“Isn’t that…?”
“…!?”
Chelsea felt a chill run down her spine at the voice from behind.
“Who in Lumeran is the best in raw mana?”
Looking behind her, Chelsea saw Elena sitting cross-legged with a relaxed expression, looking down at Chelsea.
“I’ve been the best for five years now.”
Elena smiled gently.
Another nickname associated with Elena, called “Queen of Lumeran,” was “Slacker.”
She was always lackadaisical and showed little interest in school lessons.
But with just the talent given to her, she was the strongest in her year, and quickly reached the top tier in the school.
It was after Leo became the Student Council President that Elena started to put in effort.
Flash-! Fzzzzt-!
Hoooooo-!
Flanking Elena in the sky were Duran and Eliza appearing.
The purpose in the sky was singular: to prevent Elena from casting area-of-effect spells.
Thus, agile students synchronized their movements.
Chelsea, Duran, Eliza, and Iliana.
And among the wizards, Abad.
A card set to suppress and keep watch on Elena from the skies.
“The lineup wasn’t bad.”
Elena who performed a short-range warp flicked her hair slightly.
“If you had observed Nana and Lil as much as you did Leo, it would have been your victory. But…”
Elena smiled faintly.
“Did you even care about us as we did for you?”
…
No one answered her sharp question.
“Both Nana and Lil have been watching you since your freshman year. We know you well. Your fighting methods, habits, your strengths and weaknesses.”
Elena continued as she absentmindedly twirled her hair.
“How far we can endure your attacks. How we can win. I’ve even considered possible strategies naturally.”
Elena let go of her hair and looked bored.
“It wasn’t that you looked down on us. We appreciate that you respected and treated us as seniors. But…”
Elena narrowed her eyes and asked.
“Did you ever think about surpassing us even once?”
…
“Did you ever think about catching up to us?”
The juniors, unable to answer, were met with Elena’s sharp smile.
“We are your seniors. While I’m on this opportunity, I’ll say it clearly.”
Lifting her right hand with her index finger extended above her head.
“We are not entities that go alongside you following Leo. We are entities that you must catch up to, ones ahead of you.”
Whoosh-!
A fiery orb resembling a small sun flickered at the tip of Elena’s finger.
“When did she learn such magic?”
“Is that… Shadow Incantation?!”
The juniors stared in astonishment as Elena smiled gently.
“It’s nothing much. It’s Multi-Incantation.”
“Can Multi-Incantation complete a spell of this magnitude?”
Chelsea stared in disbelief and asked. To which, Elena shrugged her shoulders.
“Apparently so?”
Surely the third-years had never properly seen Elena and Lil in action.
Because of the dazzling goal of Leo in the same year, they had merely thought of them as people who were good because they were called that.
How extraordinary Elena’s magical power and genius truly are.
Why Lil is called a monster by graduates and an unblemished Spirit Master without flaws.
They had only considered that it must be true since they were called that.
And the price was severe.
Elena and Lil, who had been keenly observing the third-years.
Third-years who had only their eyes on Leo.
The result of a battle between the thoroughly prepared and the not-so-prepared was obvious.
Before releasing her magic, Elena told Chelsea,
“The Hero of Beginning has not chosen only you.”
Chelsea’s eyes opened wide.
Flash-!
Whoosh whoosh whoooosh strong-!
As the magic was unleashed, everyone except Elena was swept away by it.
Cries of pain erupted from everywhere.
Elena spoke with a bored tone as she observed the scene.
“Even if Kall or Sia were here, it would have been dangerous.”
Recalling the strategic Kall and cautious Chen Sia, Elena smirked.
“Our professors are strict, too, right?”
At that moment, a voice of complaint echoed.
“Senior Elena! Why even me-aiiiii-!”
“It’s because you didn’t fall with just this, right?”
“Too muchhhhhh-!”
Lil’s cries resounded through the air.
Pfft-!
“Over there! They went over there!”
“Capture them! Hurry!”
“What are the Department of Knights doing?”
“Why are you giving us orders?”
Upon hearing the cries from behind, Kall slightly emerged from the bushes.
“Looks like the Freshmen were easy, after all!”
Kall, who camouflaged himself by attaching foliage to his hair tie and wearing an invisibility cloak, grinned wickedly.
And after waiting for the Department of Knights students to pass, as the soon-to-follow Department of Magic juniors passed by him,
“Boo?”
“Huh! Senior Kall is…here…”
Whish-!
Kall threw the long potion bottles attached to his fingers at the Department of Magic students.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh bang-!
“Ha ha ha ha! So easy! You run away and then chase us, and then you even do individual plays thinking we’re weak!”
As Kall watched the Department of Magic students rendered combat ineffective by the explosion, he burst into laughter.
“There, there!”
The panicking Department of Knights students rushed Kall from the front.
“Looks like these friends have zero learning capabilities!”
Kall pulled out a crystal orb from his bosom and pressed it with his finger.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh bang-!
“Ah, ahhh!”
“Trap!”
An explosion occurred on the road where the Department of Knights students had unsuspectingly passed through.
“There’s been a big noise!”
“Heck. Let’s run.”
Having annihilated the party, Kall quickly fled hearing the sound from afar.
An armed male student from the Department of Knights muttered watching Kall.
“Dis-, disgraceful…”
“Where is there ‘disgrace’ in the world of Lumeran! Survival is the truth!”
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