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XXXIII.

I did it? That phenomenon? Anyway, I witnessed something unusual when Eva de Evian, a candidate for spirit master with the nickname Windflower, died.

I thought it was a mistake in the case of the third candidate, who ran first and did poorly and was defeated by Richie.

After he died, something rose from his body and formed like a bubble, covering the air like the roof of a dome stadium. I discovered that pure white beads were absorbed among the bubbles.

This was inevitable because the walls and roof were made of bubbles of light, so every action taken inside brought about a visual effect like a sparkly fairyland, and Dean Hu was pouring out the incredible magic of Circle 8. .

However, the moment Eva de Evian died and her body disappeared in a pillar of light, this time I saw a sparkling bead of light green light included in the pillar of light and entering the bubbles that formed the roof.

“It’s strange?”

“Huh? self? What?”

Watching what the clown does next to me,

“Huh? gray? What?”

My worries were blown away when Lina did the same and buried my left arm between her two breasts.

“Why you?”

“Huh?”

I asked Lina ‘Why?’ with many words omitted, but this small-sized guy with big breasts looked up at me with an expression on his face that said he knew nothing.

“No.”

Why didn’t you just say no and not take your arm away?

Do you have to say that to know it?

“Preparation for next candidate.”

After that moment, I heard the dean’s voice full of disapproval.

“Huh?”

The warmth disappeared from my left arm and I felt empty.

Lina, who was next to me just a moment ago, was sitting inside the stadium.

“Is that really shaking at me?”

When I asked the clown about the way he raised his right hand and waved it cutely, the clown gave me a ‘ho-ho-ho’ and waved my hand cutely.

“Candidates should prepare.”

“Yes. That’s it.”

The moment Lina nodded, holding a staff as tall as herself with a large red ruby embedded in it, holding it cutely with both hands.

“Huh? What is it?”

An old man with wild hair appeared in front of her.

“The method of this evaluation match is “annihilation.””

◈ ◈ ◈

Up to that point, it didn’t seem much different from the battle so far. Until the identity of Lina’s partner came out from someone’s mouth.

“That, that, that! Necromancer, Albert Fish?”

Albert Fish.

As you might guess from his name, he was a ‘notorious’ necromancer.

However, the notoriety he gained was not simply due to being a necromancer.

Albert Fish’s other nicknames are:

“He, he, Brookle’s vampire?”

Brookle’s Vampire. He is a hero to the continent who commits cruel acts such as drinking human blood and bathing in it.

The reason why we haven’t been able to catch him until now even though he is a public figure on the continent is because he is so mysterious and lurking,

“Ha, but he’s a necromancer of the Circle 7 master?!”

Because it is strong.

In the same circle, a necromancer is stronger than an average wizard.

Therefore, the candidates thought that Dean Hu’s evaluation method was strange, no, it was ridiculous.

It’s not “sparring” or “defense,” it’s “annihilation,” which only ends when someone dies!

“Assholes.”

Gray’s sentiment was enough to give the candidates an opportunity to explode with anger, as two of them had already died and one more was on the verge of death.

“What?! You lowly bastard!”

The man, with his luscious blonde hair tousled, roughly took off his clear glasses and growled at Gray.

“Don’t call a lowly bastard a lowly bastard. Because he is a lowly bastard, I can rip off his snout regardless.”

The seventh candidate, Callum Emprian, who had gotten up excited by Gray’s trivial remark, was startled and took a step back.

“Don’t bark like a scared dog for no reason, but keep your eyes wide open. You idiots. While you were shoveling, what state did that little thing go?”

As if hearing Gray’s rant, loud noises can be heard inside the stadium where the evaluation is taking place.

“Pfft! This bitch!”

When the candidates turned their eyes to the stadium in surprise, they only saw the remains of the undead summoned by Albert Fish that had been melted by Lina’s magic.

“Reinforce Explosion.”

In the brief moment Albert Fish was swearing, Lina completed the magic by moving her cute fingers and making a hand sign.

Flame-type magic at the edge of Circle 6.

Grrrr-.

“What the fuck!?”

The moment I visually saw that a bright, ominous, burning red flame was created above Lina’s head,

Kwaaa!

The magic had already reached Albert Fish’s face and was exploding.

Rumble-.

In the aftermath of the explosion, the ground near the stadium where the candidate is located trembles and trembles slightly.

A magic that struck the opponent before he could defend himself. Under normal circumstances, one would let one’s guard down, thinking that the opponent had been killed here, but Lina’s small, red lips were moving busily as she glared at the place where the dust had not cleared.

“────, ────, ────────.”

Crash-. Slam!

And as if in an illusion, two red magic circles resembling rubies appeared behind Lina’s back and began to slowly rotate.

“Seo, Circle 7?!”

The level of Circle 7, known to be comparable to the master level and the highest level.

Additionally, it is a minimum level where the melee weaknesses that arise while the magician is casting disappear to some extent due to the influence of the magic circle created around the magician.

The candidates are tasting and feeling all kinds of emotions at the same time as they look at Lina, who has reached the point where it has only been a little over 100 days since she became a candidate.

Feelings of self-destruction, jealousy, envy, envy, and even resentment(?).

Kiiing!

The rotation speed of the red magic circle gradually increases, and soon the magic circle disappears and only two red bands are visible.

“Ragna―.”

“Crazy?! Soul Shield!”

Even though I only uttered part of the magic starter word, the opponent seemed to have guessed the magic and started swearing and using defensive magic.

“―Blast (Lagna Blast)!”

The Reverse Pentagram is created centered on the place where an old man’s scream-like curse was heard, and flames rise from the apex of the inverted star.

“Keuuk!”

A fire as destructive as its vivid and brilliant red color. and,

“Decreased.”

As if that wasn’t the end, the magic that had already been manifested reacted to the command that flowed from Lina’s mouth, and the reverse pentagram quickly decreased in size.

It may seem obvious, but the flames gradually gathered toward the center as the size of the inverted pentagram decreased. To the place where Albert Fish is thought to be.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!

The sound, reminiscent of a roar, like water flowing from a dam with open floodgates, gets louder as the five flames get closer to each other.

“Pfft! Escape!”

“Yes. No.”

As one of the unique powers possessed only by necromancers, the emergency evasive maneuver using necromancers was canceled by one decisive word from Lina.

The magic spell is ‘Dispel’.

If there had been no ceiling, the pillar of fire would have risen without knowing that it was high in the sky.

As they rubbed their bodies against each other, emitting destructive heat, Lina looked at them with calm eyes and seemed like a different person from Lina, who usually begged Gray to make a baby.

A cruel sage, yes, the eyes of a cruel sage would be like that.

Because they are well-versed in world affairs, they can become cruel because they do not distinguish between humans and ants.

“Hmph. Pretend to be dead. Tee Nam.”

Staring at the space where the five pillars of fire were violently clashing with each other, the words Lina said caused the pillars of fire to shake violently.

“You. I’m dying. Soon.”

“Profit!!”

The reason why necromancers have an advantage over wizards of the same circle is because of quantity.

In other words, if Lina’s current opponent, Albert Fish, had brought out a top-level undead like the Death Knight he created from the beginning instead of zombies or ghouls, the situation would not have developed so one-sidedly.

And the moment Albert Fish caught Lina off guard and chose the highest fire magic among the Circle 6 magic that could be activated relatively immediately,

“It’s already over.”

That’s it.

If you get hit like that, you have to attack actively, but I don’t know what the guy was trying to do, but he didn’t attack or interfere with Lina’s spell before it ended.

Furthermore,

Crash-. Slam!

“────────, ㅡ, ────, ────.”

If the magic expression and power are the same as that of an ordinary wizard, then there is no reason for him to be given the nickname ‘candidate’.

Circle 7 User (Circle 7) On the subject, he shows off an odd technique of maintaining Circle 7 magic while simultaneously manifesting Circle 7 magic.

“Sonic Buster!”

Kwakwakwakwa!

As the word suggests, the non-attribute magic of Circle 7, which destroys everything at the speed of sound, penetrates the stadium.

Huuu.

After the aftermath has already swept away the flames and the stadium, the sound of the air groaning gives us a good idea of the outcome.

“Evaluation completed.”

As if what had been seen so far was not a lie, Dean Hu’s voice awakened the candidates from their dazed state.

“Candidate Lina Inverse. Passed.”

“Yes!”

Lina, who has moved next to me again, looks up at me while cutely clenching her fists. Like a child hoping for a reward.

“Why? What?”

“Head.”

“… … .”

“Hohoho. Honey, I think you want me to pat your head? Please do it quickly. Isn’t it cute~?”

Even without the clown explaining, I could guess what he wanted from the way he was pushing the top of his head towards me. The plan to pretend not to know ended in failure.

Sigh… Sze-.

When I stroked her soft red hair, I had to stroke Lina for a long time as she let out a purring moan like a cat hanging out in the spring sun.