episode_0103

Berador, who drew his sword at his waist, could not be blocked by the bones of an ordinary skeleton.

-Squeak!

I cut down the skull of a skeleton I can’t remember how many times.

After delivering the final sword strike, I took a moment to catch my breath.

There was only one skeleton left around.

Just the skeleton that broke the ice wall earlier.

I looked at the skeleton that was finally starting to move, as if it had been waiting.

Once again, they clashed with their swords covered in mana.

-Kagagagagagak!!!

As expected, the sword was unable to cut through the skeleton’s bones and was pushed back.

-Kagagak!

-Quaaang!!

The more times I did it, the longer I was pushed out, and I even got stuck in the wall of the cave.

The grip holding the sword was torn and then recovered again.

My back, which had been smashed against the wall, was sore, but before I knew it, the wound had healed.

“Tsk.”

I spat out the blood that had accumulated in my mouth and wiped the area around my mouth with the back of my hand.

The backs of my hands were also cold, perhaps because I was constantly emitting cold air.

The opponent is a skeleton that can’t even use mana.

But the difference in combat power was so overwhelming.

If we fought like this with strength versus strength, the future was very obvious.

“Let’s go, Tess too.”

“쏨.”

My heart is a little throbbing from using too much mana, but I can’t do it.

Professor Zhan will not stop this battle.

Berador, who accurately understood Professor Zan’s psychology, gripped the handle of the sword so hard that it felt like it would break, and spewed out more and more mana.

With the help of Tesdo, the water spirit, the cold was much colder than usual.

– Coo coo coo coo!!!

Berador, fully prepared, shot towards the last remaining skeleton.

A battle of strength began with the skeleton that took even that.

Although I did not tolerate it, I gathered almost all my strength except for that, but it was still not enough.

As I was thinking about whether I should finally accept it, a bright light suddenly emanated from the skeleton’s body.

-Whaaa

“What..!”

Berador took a large step back, slightly covering his eyes with his left arm, and peeked.

The light became lighter little by little, and a blue body appeared above the skeleton’s bones.

A little lighter than the color of the sky.

Yes, blue like ice.

Rather, I think it would be more appropriate to have a little bit of blue mixed in with a white background.

As the light disappeared and preparations were made for a possible attack, the skeleton shed tears.

“.. Um..?”

The skeleton’s blue eyes, shedding a single tear, turned to Berador.

-Hwiiing.

Feeling a tingling sensation, Berador took a step back.

The moment he didn’t even realize it, the skeleton came right in front of him.

In response to the sudden attack, Berador continued to perform a horizontal slash, but the skeleton ducked down to avoid it.

Berador, who was hurriedly preparing for the next attack, stopped when he saw the skeleton kneeling in front of him.

“Congratulations. I got the second spirit.”

At that time, Professor Jeanne, who had been watching from afar, came closer and congratulated the dumbfounded Berador.

Normally, Berador would have expressed his gratitude, but now there were too many things he did not understand.

One of them.

“.. Are you saying that skeleton is a spirit?”

The thing that was a motionless skeleton kneeling in front of Berador was called a spirit.

Although Berador already possessed one spirit and had studied it in his own way, the idea of a spirit in human form was something he had never heard of.

To put it simply, what Professor Zan is saying now is that the spirit in front of us is non-existent.

After hearing those words, Berador was immediately able to recall how such a being appeared.

‘Deification.’

What is currently going on in Berador’s Mana.

In other words, what is happening now was committed unknowingly by Berador, who has the power of creation, which can be considered the exclusive property of the gods.

“That’s right. Since he is an ice spirit, he might be better suited than a water spirit.”

“.. Wow!”

When Professor Jan objectively compared the two spirits, Tesdo shouted as if he was angry.

Such behavior felt like he was saying he was a senior.

As if that wasn’t enough to calm his anger, Tesdo grabbed the ice spirit’s white hair and pulled it.

However, the problem is that the behavior appears to be cute rather than an expression of anger.

“.. I also want to raise at least one spirit. Sounds fun.”

To put it mildly, Professor Zahn said this.

Berador, Tesdo’s owner, also acknowledged that Tesdo was cute.

That passed, and Berador’s eyes turned to the ice spirit again.

And I was worried about what to do with the ice spirit that was still immobile.

If you can take it, the problem with taking it is that the spirit’s form is similar to that of a human.

“.. Can I take this spirit to the academy?”

“There’s nothing that can’t be done, right? why. Are you afraid that there will be some strange rumor that you are a man of stamina?”

“That’s not true. However..”

After answering immediately, Berador trailed off and stretched out his right hand toward Tesdo.

At the same time as that action, Tesdo was reverse summoned and returned to the spirit world.

Professor Zahn, who was watching Tesdo being reverse summoned, was tilting his head as he still did not understand the intention.

This time, Berador’s palm turned towards the ice spirit.

“.. Huh?”

As a result, a voice full of doubts came out of Professor Zhan’s mouth.

“Reverse summoning is not possible.”

***

Externally, spirit masters do not exist in the empire, and even if they did become spirit masters, they are not widely publicized.

There are many reasons, but the biggest reason is to avoid being assassinated.

Those attempting assassination are none other than elves.

They are the closest race to spirits and are famous for taking pride in handling them.

Therefore, while deceiving races other than elves, he came to his senses after being severely attacked by humans.

However, those who came to their senses at that time have already disappeared and only their descendants remain.

The original act of deceiving other races had returned to tradition.

As a result, they cannot help but feel an instinctive aversion to the treatment of spirits, which can only be handled by a superior race called elves, by other uncivilized races.

Those who went too far are now the royal families of the elves.

If they heard that a race other than elves was dealing with spirits, it was natural for them to send assassins.

It’s not speculation.

In fact, there are more than hundreds of such cases.

‘That’s why Master also asked me to do this several times.’

Make sure that the fact that you are dealing with spirits is not spread abroad.

“.. Is this the only way..”

The lecture is not over yet.

Berador arrived at the dormitory before the other cadets and was looking at the ice spirit.

An ice spirit wearing a black suit (maid’s uniform) made separately at the request of Anne, her maid.

Its size had changed to barely the size of a palm.

Although the reverse summoning failed, fortunately it was possible to adjust its size.

If that were impossible, I would have no choice but to accept her as a new maid, but I’m glad that’s not the case.

“Then.. you came back early because of the interest. When I opened the door, I was a little surprised to see a naked woman with me.”

“.. It’s a woman.. It’s as big as the palm of your hand and has no genitals.”

In the cave, Professor Zan teased him, saying he was a spirit, but in reality, spirits do not have genitals.

Not only that, we couldn’t even have a conversation.

Professor Jan, who clearly knew this but made fun of it, is also evil…

Even if the spirit is in human form, if you have a normal way of thinking, you will not regard the spirit as rational.

“It’s a matter of mood. Other than that, it’s no different from a woman’s body.”

“Yes, yes..”

However, since psychological matters cannot be forced, Berador had no choice but to take a step back.

Anyway, if Anne reacts this way, what about other people?

Berador, who thought for a moment about what would happen later, hurriedly came out of the dormitory and ran towards the forest.

Of course, I didn’t forget to ask Anne to keep it a secret on the way out.

In return, he was briefly captured, but it was a harmless exchange for Berador.

***

Instead of going anywhere else, I ran from the dormitory to the forest clearing and took out the ice spirit that I had hidden in both hands.

The spirit, which had been crouching down even further, stretched out its body and flapped the small wings on its back.

Blue wings that appear when the body shrinks beyond a certain limit.

It reminded me of a fairy from a fairy tale I saw as a child.

As I stroked the spirit’s head with my index finger, it closed its eyes and stayed still so that it was comfortable to stroke.

I continued stroking it for a moment because of its cuteness, which was different from Tesdo, and then took my hand away.

-Swoosh swoosh.

After being stroked for a while, he stopped stroking my head as if he felt empty.

He chuckled at that and sent Mana out to achieve his purpose for coming here.

“.. It’s definitely different..”

Tess, the water spirit, was also helpful in using ice magic, but the ice spirit was more than helpful.

The evidence could be confirmed by the thickening concentration of cold air.

The cold air that had been blue as if mixed with water turned white.

As if the whole world was covered with snow.

-Cha la la la la la.

Even with Berador’s light gesture, which was nothing more than a flick of his hand, pure white cold air flew away.

Berador, who was staring blankly and repeating the action several times, remembered a document he had seen in the past.

Along with the document that had the magic that was his current goal written on it.

I had a really crazy idea.

perhaps.

Even if you don’t have advanced ice magic, you might be able to fully use superconductivity.