Ch.249244 – Columbus’s Egg

“Resonance” and the principle of “Fatigue Intensity Control” magic applied to 1st Circle Innate Magic Adella.

Due to pronunciation issues in the neighboring country, this unfortunate fatigue-destruction magic has now become “Adera (アデラ)” – an innate magic I meticulously designed with Hiasen to defeat our enemies.

Those enemies were none other than 1st Prince Jade and 2nd Prince Fayran.

I believe they were 17 and 15 years old at the time.

To overwhelmingly crush opponents with talent already considered the empire’s finest in magic and swordsmanship, I needed a flash of brilliance.

A flash of brilliance is, in other words, a cunning trick.

Actually, my 1st Form innate magic could detonate the gears imprinted on an opponent’s body from a distance, as long as the direction aligned.

No matter how far the opponent is, it doesn’t matter because all impact points are summoned within a 3m radius of the caster.

An attack that could be dodged with a slight twist of the body at close range would require five times more movement from 15m away, and ten times more from 30m away.

The imprinting process is also very simple.

[Innate Magic – Estasha Style 1st Form]

I concentrated mana into a single point at the tip of my sword and thrust it toward a wooden dummy in the distance.

As the sword passed through the magic circle, a gear flew at terrifying speed and embedded itself in the dummy’s body.

Immediately, identical gears appeared along the path to the dummy around Adella, who was acting as my assistant.

“The principle is exactly the same.”

“Yes…!”

At the moment the gear completed one rotation, Adella extended her arm in the same posture as mine and thrust her sword.

Clang-!

Though her sword merely cut through the air, Adella’s arm trembled from the recoil as if she’d struck a heavy rock.

Let me demonstrate simply by doing it ten times.

“Break.”

Woong-!

The spent gears simultaneously flew toward the wooden dummy and embedded themselves like thorns.

Then, with a massive shockwave, the dummy’s chest area shattered into pieces, with fragments flying high into the air.

“Whoa…!”

Adella blinked her eyes, watching the result of the magic in disbelief.

“This is what happens when you try to run away.”

Unless the target flees with all their might until completely out of sight from the caster, this magic is truly useful in a limited arena.

The fact that it forces swordsmen to stay close already proves this magic’s unfairness, but its greatest advantage lies elsewhere.

“What if the opponent approaches quickly during casting to interfere?”

“It has exactly the same structure as the magic I showed you first. It’s actually better if they come close.”

If there’s one unsolvable problem for mages, it’s that every spell has a counter.

If an opponent knows in advance what magic you’ll use, it’s not difficult to counter it.

When facing close-range magic, create distance temporarily; when facing long-range magic, immediately harass the caster – it sounds simple in theory.

Unfair as it may be, that’s the cold reality of competition – a world of deception.

However, innate magic “Adera” has excellent versatility because it’s an “indefinite form” where the caster freely sets the power, and a “divergent form” that uses angle rather than distance as a parameter.

In other words, from a distance, countering is impossible, and up close, it becomes even more dangerous.

“Then does this magic have no weaknesses? Any countermeasures?”

Adella and I were approaching the final page of our prepared “Innate Magic Introduction” script.

“The weakness is that maintaining this magic circle isn’t as easy as it seems.”

Even I wasn’t particularly familiar with this magic in my previous life, so there were quite a few areas where I lacked proficiency.

Especially on this Earth, where there’s only one mana trunk, making atmospheric mana very unstable, maintaining the magic circle requires the caster’s exceptional sensitivity.

“As for countermeasures… of course they exist. But revealing those wouldn’t help promote the magic, would it?”

“Hehe, I guess that’s true!”

“That’s all I’ll show today.”

“Well then…! That was NoName unnie and Asaneko Adella! Everyone, please use unnie’s innate magic a lot! Hurry up and spend your money so I can-“

Click-

The filming ended there.

* * *

In Japan, the entire history of magic begins and ends with the sword to such an extent that the sword is both national identity and pride.

For thousands of years, magic has developed through thesis-antithesis-synthesis, and in the modern 21st century, everything possible with a sword can be enjoyed.

Unlike ancient China, you don’t need to belong to a specific sect to access secret techniques.

Knowledge pours like a waterfall after browsing a few archives on the internet – in fact, the sheer volume makes finding quality information difficult.

In that sense, there were an overwhelming number of long-range innate magics.

Starting with the most easily imaginable sword energy projection, to creating whirlwind storms, to magic that causes explosions with swords.

Magic that controls the sword itself in mid-air like a guided missile was also developed, but was quietly removed from Japanese society with the obvious reasoning that “this isn’t swordsmanship.”

Anyway, Japanese mages ultimately couldn’t overcome the fundamental limitation of “distance” inherent to swords.

It’s far more efficient to study fluid dynamics than to awaken the mysteries of wind with a sword.

Above all, simply rushing to an opponent and swinging a sword a few times is most cost-effective, so even theoretical magic scholars found no reason to develop long-range magic.

But a new wind began blowing in the Japanese magic community.

[New Paradigm Presented by 1st Circle Magic: Long-range Strikes Even at Close Range?]

“Why… why haven’t we thought of this until now?”

Why did we keep thinking only about projecting sword energy and creating wind?

What matters is the energy itself.

So if you generate energy at close range and make it hit the opponent properly, isn’t that essentially long-range magic?

1st Circle innate magic “Adera” was something Katsuhata Emika had been actively ignoring, especially since it was trending among those annoying TikTok influencers.

But when Name attached an explanatory video on her VTube, public opinion changed 180 degrees.

This wasn’t simply magic that stacked impacts.

The close and long-range magic circles were so similar that opponents couldn’t predict which type would be cast until the magic was activated.

Guessing wrong meant exposing a weakness.

Even if guessed correctly, being only 1st Circle magic meant minimal recoil if the caster canceled casting.

Katsuhata Emika thought it was revolutionary magic in giving swordsmen psychological advantage in battle.

“The principle is too simple. Why couldn’t we think of something this easy…!”

Some Japanese people fell into complete despair.

While the magic circle itself was incredibly complex, the principle was so easy that anyone could understand it.

Rather, it was more puzzling that not a single magic of this type had existed until now.

“Columbus’s egg.”

BOOM-!

Katsuhata Emika successfully landed 30 strikes, toppling a 40-meter cedar tree.

She only covered her face with her snow-white uniform, not minding the flying dust.

A young girl watching the Katsuhata style successor in amazement took a boiled egg from her pocket and handed it to her.

“What’s that, Emika?”

“Yui, do you know how to stand a raw egg upright? Without using aura.”

“Um… I guess if you try hard enough, you could stand it up?”

“You can crack the bottom slightly.”

“What? That’s kind of disappointing, isn’t it?”

Emika was about to peel the egg but stopped at her sister’s sarcastic remark.

“Then how do you stand it without cracking it?”

“Hmm… well…”

“You can also shake the egg to break the yolk inside and stand it like a roly-poly toy.”

“Wow! That’s a pretty clever idea. But I think I could do that too!”

“Right, anyone can do it.”

She sighed softly.

Next week, the Emperor’s Cup for those under 16 would be held in Japan.

Whether to learn Adera or not was now meaningless.

The question was how well one could utilize it.

Emika strongly sensed that while it might not matter in the preliminaries, almost everyone would know about this magic by the main tournament.

‘I just need to practice hard from now on.’

Crack!

Drip-

As she hit the egg against her forehead to eat it, yellow liquid ran down her eyes and cheeks.

It was a raw egg.

“Yui, you said this was a boiled egg-“

“Eep! S-sorry, sis! I must have grabbed the wrong one! I really didn’t know!”

* * *

[VIDEOTELLING] [1.81 million subscribers]

[1st Circle magic trending among Japanese youth… but the original creator is Korean?]

“Ryoiki Tenkai (Domain Expansion)!”

In the VTube video, a Japanese person with pink hair took a strange pose, clasped their hands together, and chanted a spell.

Then a perfectly fine Lamborghini was crushed and crumpled beyond recognition.

This was quoted from the broadcast of “Soramochi,” a famous VTuber and former military mage from Japan.

All “indefinite form magic” requires a “termination incantation,” which can be freely set like the magic’s name, allowing the use of popular animation catchphrases.

After explaining this, the reporter visited the Applied Magic Research Institute of the Korean Magical Technology Institute to learn how to use the 1st Circle magic “Adera.”

“Now the preparations are complete.”

“Can I really say anything?”

“Yes, of course.”

“T-then… HAH!”

The magic circle resonated with the reporter’s shout, who blushed with embarrassment at her own exclamation.

Then with a strong explosion, the watermelon just bought from the market shattered into pieces.

After the introduction to the magic, shocking details about the original creator followed.

It was “NoName,” a 2nd grader at Cephiron Academy Elementary Division who almost became Korea’s youngest theoretical magic scholar.

Why “almost” and not actually?

Because she registered her developed innate magic with the Japanese Magic Copyright Association.

People who didn’t watch the video to the end rushed to the comments section to burn their opinions from this point.

-Seems like there are outside forces trying to take NoName abroad. Nothing else explains this.

-Since she’s already decided to leave Korea, there’s no need to hold her back. Just let her go.

-Did her adoptive parents sell her for a large sum?

Next, Name’s “Genius Discovery” broadcast was introduced.

Artificial intelligence Adella, a gift from Wearsoft.

To a child who lost her parents to terrorists and had seven years of her life completely taken away, Adella was like family.

And NoName was a child with exceptional drive.

Not stopping at the admirable desire to make Adella her family, she actively sought ways to get her an actual ID card.

But when she couldn’t find a solution in Korea, she turned her attention abroad.

In the process, she also handed over her innate magic – that was the whole story.

-I watched the second part of Genius Discovery after seeing this😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

└ Truly one of the saddest episodes ever…

└ I couldn’t bear to watch the rescue situation reenactment, just skipped through it;;

└ If you watch that and then NoName’s game competition interview, I guarantee you’ll shed all your tears for the year in advance.

-What is this kid? Seems like one of the all-time greats among Genius Discovery kids?

└ It’s not about being on Ham Chorong’s level, honestly even Ham Chorong probably couldn’t do this now.

-Creating innate magic at 8 is genius enough, but being A-grade is even more amazing.

-She’s going to rake in so much money. Incredible.

-Am I the only one angry at how those detectives were treated?

└ 22222

└ This country is completely messed up lol

└ They can’t say a word to congressmen so they always pick on innocent public servants lol

The climax came when the reporter explained what would have happened if Name had registered her innate magic in Korea.

Unlike magic classified as public goods like light magic or cold wind magic, most innate magic with individual copyright is sold abroad with a very expensive premium.

If innate magic registered in Korea is used in Japan, the Japanese Mana Corporation must pay several times the price to the Korean Mana Corporation.

The estimated tax revenue that could have been earned, considering the current sword magic syndrome in Japan, would exceed 10 billion won per year.

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