Ch.251251 – Swollen Livers

<251 – Swollen Livers>

Three of the Four Heavenly Kings from the freshman and sophomore years have been defeated.

Freshman year.

Imperial Second Princess Massgakki.

Sophomore year.

The terrifying Deadcat.

The White Holy Knight Roo.

And now, while Oknodie’s gaze was elsewhere, another elimination occurred at the upper part of the court.

Crackle-zzzap!

Sparks and lightning erupted in the air, ignoring the boundaries of the court.

With Cassia, who primarily manipulates electricity, facing off against Io of the Blue Fist, an electrical hell was inevitable.

“Ouch, that’s hot!”

“I wasn’t even close and it’s this bad?”

“Ugh. I’ve got burn marks on the back of my hand.”

“Someone’s going to die at this rate. I forfeit!”

“I forfeit too.”

The spectators and bystanders had long since withdrawn.

The dodgeball match between these two, who had driven away three hundred students by themselves, possessed a different kind of deadliness than the confrontations involving Oknodie or other students.

“I heard from the instructor. They said an experimental subject from a research facility who can handle tremendous lightning power entered as a freshman.”

“…Don’t call me an experimental subject.”

“Do you want to wash away your past? Then you should be careful. Even if you wish to escape everyone’s attention, there will certainly be organizations watching only you. The moment the world’s attention turns away from you, they’ll snatch you up in an instant.”

Exorcist Io.

One who walks the path of faith and has made the destruction of all immoral beings his life’s work.

Due to his profession, he had grown up witnessing the darkness of the underworld that ordinary people know nothing about, even before entering the Academy.

What he had seen most often was the fate of sacrificial lambs captured by evil beings.

Or watchdogs forcibly leashed.

Cassia’s abilities and combat power would be highly coveted by notorious evil organizations.

“You should worry about yourself, senior. I’m lucky. I have Oknodie in my freshman year.”

“…Oknodie. A child unpleasantly strong. One such freshman is enough.”

Electrostatic phenomena where the instantaneous current exceeds 1 ampere (A).

Just 0.1A is enough to kill a person.

Normally, static electricity occurs and disappears in an extremely short moment, but what if an electricity manipulator artificially creates an electrostatic phenomenon?

Indeed.

Static electricity becomes fully capable of killing people.

<Raging Thunderstorm>

<Blue Fist>

As savage lightning that could instantly kill a person with a direct hit came crashing down from the air, Exorcist Io absorbed it by charging his two fists with blue lightning.

Charging his fists with currents that could kill him if his control slipped, adding to their power!

Cassia’s lips curled into a smirk.

So confident in your skills?

Well then, try receiving this.

<Thunder Calling>

A massive bolt of lightning struck Io’s body.

Boom!

The ground exploded and a dodgeball bounced up.

<Yellow Metal Ball>

Despite its name suggesting good electrical conductivity, this ball was an electrical insulator.

Io unleashed all the electricity he had charged toward the ball made of a high electrical resistance alloy that doesn’t conduct electricity.

<Insulation Breakdown>

<Superconductivity>

An insulating non-conductor is a ball that normally doesn’t conduct electricity, allowing even electric ability users to hold it without worry.

However, under certain conditions, that property can be destroyed, forcing it to contain electricity.

For instance, high temperature and high pressure.

A ball shot like a meteor by a fist containing energy rivaling lightning loses its insulating properties.

Yellow electricity rises like afterimages, with sparks occurring along its trajectory.

An ordinary freshman would die instantly just from a graze.

Cassia stood at the end of the ball’s trajectory.

She felt no fear.

‘Since he can’t win with electricity, he’s trying to push me out of the court with the physical force behind the ball… Such a kind yet shallow calculation, I don’t dislike it.’

But she is not a freshman who deserves such consideration.

Moreover, the energy occurring above her made any such thoughts disappear.

“Dark mana…? The Imperial Princess, the next generation power player, is openly revealing her energy without even trying to hide it?”

Muttering.

Hero Ishtar stood with an unpleasant expression.

Seeing the anger emanating from her, the sophomore class president Mandela’s expression completely crumbled as he faced the hero.

If that anger were directed solely at the sophomore, he wouldn’t need to worry about the hero.

The problem was that this killing intent seemed to be directed at Oknodie instead of the princess who had triggered the anger.

‘Is she planning to take out her frustration? Does she think Oknodie enticed the princess?’

The reason didn’t matter.

The hero’s killing intent made it clear.

She intended to strike Oknodie.

Certainly, there was no rule against attacking someone from the same year.

This hero didn’t care about her reputation or position at all.

With a hero going this far, there was no telling what might happen.

So she abandoned her original plan to naturally drop out through kind consideration.

<Magnetic hysteresis loop>

<Force Polarization>

<Multi-Polarization Domain>

Detestable research facility life.

But the knowledge they implanted was real.

Cassia opened the door.

The door to knowledge she had known but refused to use and turned away from.

She arbitrarily changed a certain part of the ground to have a specific polarity.

What if she converted the opponent’s electricity into either an opposing or matching force, as if marking it?

She could exploit the property that like poles repel each other and opposite poles attract.

<Absolute Separation>

The fist charged with lightning-level power couldn’t overcome the repulsive force generated by the polarized ground and rose up, and the floating ball made a large circle around her following her outstretched hand.

<Magnetic Field>

<Counter Shot>

A counterattack unfolding as naturally as breathing.

The power that Blue Fist Io had unleashed was now under Cassia’s command, shooting back at Io along with the dodgeball.

<Magic Field>

<Switch>

<Polarity Reversal>

When the ball approaches, it exerts an attractive force between opposite poles, and the moment the ball crosses the invisible magic field, the force reverses to create a repulsive force between like poles.

The strike and dodgeball that hit Io like a horizontal lightning bolt were accelerated by this double force.

Kwagwang!

The dazzling flash and explosion drew the attention of all students, instructors, and professors, halting all other fights on the field.

That kid’s got quite the talent!

A strike worthy of praise from Dragon Principal!

“Senior Io… is he dead?”

“Look how black the ground is.”

“The ground is torn up like it was whipped.”

The students trembled in fear, wondering how these could be fellow students.

“Could we have stopped that if we had intervened?”

“Impossible.”

“No chance unless it was Alexo who’s specifically assigned to her.”

The instructors looked at Alexo, Cassia’s dedicated instructor, and murmured.

“How boring. There’s nothing to teach.”

“Good performance, but skills that even professors find burdensome.”

Even the professors expressed reluctance!

“Is Cassia that exceptional? Enough for the principal to covet her as much as Oknodie?”

What are you talking about?

I was obviously referring to that mischievous one.

“Pardon?”

In response to Freshman Student President Mahabharata’s question, Dragon Principal pointed to the final destination of the ball that no one had noticed.

“Cassia! Since the senior is eliminated, can I use this?”

“Oknodie… that thing will kill you if you handle it wrong.”

“It’s fine, I won’t die!”

With some trick, she had pulled in and grasped a ball that no one without a swollen liver would dare attempt to catch, then threw it into an infinite loop zone where four balls were floating.

Unlike her ambitious plan to extract the ball by exploding electricity for impact, the infinite loop zone became a hell of insane lightning-rainbow-ice-balls accelerating with electric charges on random orbits due to the explosion’s aftermath.

The principal roared with laughter while Mahabharata was dumbfounded.

The balls now moved at such insane speeds that containing and eliminating them safely was a greater challenge than extracting them.

“Should I stop it?”

Leave it be.

That’s what makes her a match for the hero.

But they’re in the same freshman year…?

Mahabharata’s empty words didn’t even reach the ears of Dragon Principal, who no longer cared about year distinctions.

Of course, neither did they reach Hero Ishtar, who was displaying obvious killing intent toward Oknodie.

* *

The princess used dark mana.

This was a problem of a different dimension than Oknodie using dark mana.

The Empire was beginning to be tainted by darkness.

Starting from the very top.

Admiration was already swirling in the nobles’ eyes.

If the absolute amount and safety of dark mana were issues, couldn’t they be solved with the power of money?

Princess Massgakki had shown the answer.

Who would dominate a princess who had gathered more mana than Ma’in who desperately collected dark mana their entire lives?

Even if the nobles following her couldn’t surpass the princess’s dark mana, what was wrong with nobles following the princess’s orders?

It only added strength to the loyalty they should rightfully offer.

All the students.

All the nobles.

Thus, wariness toward dark mana disappeared.

The hero felt even fear.

Because she knew how reckless this thinking was.

Let’s say the Ma’in are one thing.

But what about the demons who tempted people onto the path of Ma?

What about non-human races tainted by Ma?

Their lifespans far exceed the human lifespan of at most 60 years.

Dwarves live 200 years and elves live 500 years.

Dryads live 1,000 years and dragons live 5,000 years.

Can they really claim superiority against beings who have gathered dark mana over such vast periods of time?

‘They’ll become enemies.’

The moment a major figure from the Demon King’s army appears in the human realm.

Someday, all of them will become enemies.

From the Imperial Princess to her subordinate nobles, the Wiheomhae Foundation’s scholarship students and everyone else.

There is only one way to stop this.

To show with her own skills how meaningless it is to immerse oneself in dark mana.

The showdown with sophomore Mandela no longer mattered.

Ishtar had set her goal.

Today, within this game, she would defeat Oknodie.

Thoroughly enough that Imperial nobles wouldn’t dare even think of embracing dark mana.