episode_0019

After Arthur’s duel was over, Adele began to praise Arthur.

“What an incredible talent! Dispel in the first year, I’ve never even heard of it!”

‘Dispel is something that only a very small number of wizards can do. I’ll definitely bring him to our side when I become a battle wizard later!’

Adele’s reaction was natural.

Dispel, a technique to destroy magic that has already been manifested, is simple in its method. In all manifested magic, there is a ‘center’ that maintains the magic. In other words, if you find it and destroy it, you can destroy the magic.

However, even with the easiest magic, finding the center is not easy, and the higher the level of magic, the closer it gets to impossible, so the difficulty increases exponentially.

Even if you are lucky enough to find it, ‘directly’ destroying the center of the manifested magic is another story.

Of course, if you are at the level of a battle magician fighting on the front lines, you can easily destroy the magic of these rookies, but it is nearly impossible to dispel an opponent of a similar level as Arthur.

‘The talent to find the center of magic as soon as you see it and the ability to put it into action and destroy it!’

Adele, who continued to admire inwardly, sent Arthur into the audience.

After that, a showdown ensued between the winners.

Arthur also played a few more matches. And no one could stop Arthur’s dispel, and Arthur continued to win, eventually reaching the semi-finals.

At that moment, Arthur heard Adele’s voice announcing the start of the semi-finals, and he could see his vision change to the stadium.

Looking to the other side, I could see Anthony standing there.

Arthur immediately drew a line on the floor, and at the same time two magic missiles flew out.

-Crunch!

Arthur, who had dispelled two magic missiles with a single horizontal slash, looked straight ahead and heard Anthony’s voice in his ear.

“Ha.. Surprise attacks don’t work after all..”

“But I can’t lose.”

Anthony double-clicked and fired two fireballs, while Arthur waited for them to cross the line so he could dispel them.

“!!”

But contrary to Arthur’s expectations, the fireball was aimed not at Arthur, but at the dirt ground in front of him.

-Kwaang!

A cloud of dust began to rise before Arthur’s eyes, obscuring his vision.

“Magic Missile.”

With the sound coming from the door and the sight not being seen, Arthur eventually threw himself to the right to evade.

-Shoot!

A magic missile was seen hitting the spot where Arthur had just been standing.

‘Whew… The other person can’t see either. Now is the time to gamble!’

Arthur, determined, began to charge through the dust, and Anthony, whose vision was obscured, continued to fire his magic missiles, but they failed to hit Arthur.

Eventually, Anthony allowed the distance to be allowed and was left defenseless against Arthur’s sword strikes.

“The end.”

The sword moved horizontally at the same time as Arthur’s words, but Anthony’s expression was calm. As if he was sure that he would not be cut.

“Protect.”

-Kang!

Arthur saw his own sword bouncing off his sight. Looking ahead, he saw a shield created by Anthony, blocking his sword perfectly.

“Huh..?”

Looking at the bewildered Arthur, Anthony said.

“I’m sorry. This cowardly method was the only way to beat you.”

A wand pointed at Arthur at the same time as the words were spoken.

“Fire Ball.”

Arthur saw a magic circle forming around the wand in an instant.

“..?”

But as time passed, the fireball did not appear, and in Anthony’s sight, Arthur was suddenly seen stabbing his magic circle with his sword.

-Passus…

Anthony saw a magic circle disappearing around Arthur’s sword.

“… In that short time, you can reverse the magic circle and attack the weak points.”

“A complete defeat..I didn’t think there was anyone who could do this…”

Of course, Anthony, who did not give up the match until the end, swung his fist at Arthur, but Arthur was able to avoid the punch and break the protector, and win against Anthony.

-Beep!

“That was a really great game. If you look at the psychological warfare alone, I don’t think it would have been inferior to the active players..?”

Arthur returned to the audience with Adele’s praise and was watching the next game.

‘Fabian..’

Up until now, Fabian had never used any magic other than Magic Missile. However, due to the overwhelming firepower difference of the triple chant, no one could win against Fabian.

-Beep!

This time, it seemed like the opponent would hold out for a while, but in the end, he was defeated by Fabian’s magic missile.

At that moment, Adele’s voice was heard, very excited.

“Now it’s the finals? I’m really excited to see who will win! Then let’s get started. Yay!”

With Adele’s words, his vision began to change once again, and Arthur, thinking of Fabian’s surprise attack, quickly drew a line on the floor.

-Pishung!

-Pishung!

-Pishung!

As expected, the flying magic missiles arrived with a delay, but Arthur calmly dispelled them all.

Let’s block everything, Fabian’s voice was heard.

“I’ve never heard of talent like yours, even in my family. If you could use magic, I wouldn’t know who won or lost.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Fabian’s expression became serious, and a voice came into view.

“Ice Spear.”

A spear of ice appeared in the air and flew towards Arthur at high speed.

‘This, this! It’s too fast to stop! I have to dodge it.’

Arthur quickly threw himself to the side and barely managed to avoid it. But the sound of the chanting was heard once again.

“Ice Spear.”

“Huh!”

‘If I keep avoiding things like this, there’ll be no end to it. What should I do?’

At that moment, Arthur caught sight of the Ice Spear.

‘You can’t dispel it because of its speed, but it looks light and thin, so you might be able to deflect it with a sword if you’re good.’

Arthur immediately put the idea into action.

“Ice Spear.”

-Wow!

Arthur and Fabian, who successfully deflected the ice spear flying towards them with their swords, seemed to be taken aback, perhaps because they had not expected this.

-Wow!

-Wow!

Arthur deflects the attacks and approaches Fabian step by step.

But Fabian didn’t just sit back and watch.

“Then I should do it sincerely too.”

“Freezing.”

The ground beneath Arthur’s feet began to freeze in Fabian’s presence, and in an instant the floor became slippery, rendering Arthur unable to move.

At that moment, a desperate sound reached Arthur’s ears.

“Ice Spear.”

Unlike before, three ice spears were seen emerging.

Eventually, Arthur, who had been moving around violently and dodging or blocking, ran out of stamina and allowed Fabian to attack.

-Beep!

“The winner is Fabian! That was a really good game~”

As she spoke, Adele moved her wand, and the surrounding area began to turn into an empty lot again.

“Then, starting tomorrow, I will teach you according to your level! That’s all for today’s class! See you tomorrow~”

After saying that, Adele hummed and disappeared.

Arthur sat down on the floor, exhausted.

“Wow…it was really hard..”

Just then I heard someone approaching from the side.

“..Fabian?”

Fabian speaks, extending his hand to Arthur.

“It was a good match.”

Arthur, holding her hand, stood up and spoke.

“What…you’re more amazing? You can already use such magic.”

Looking around, I noticed that the way other students looked at Arthur had also changed a lot.

Negative views such as ridicule and contempt were transformed into surprise, envy, and admiration.

From that day on, no one ever teased or ignored Arthur again.

… … …

“Arthur? You seem to be in a good mood these days?”

“Yeah! Academy life is so much fun these days, I even have friends now!”

“Yeah? What’s your name?”

“Fabian and Anthony are here!”

“I see. That’s fortunate.”

“…what?”

“Because there’s no girl’s name?”

“…”

Alice stroked Arthur’s head and whispered in his ear.

“Arthur, you know all women are wolves, right? Everyone but me needs to be careful.”

“…I think you should be careful these days too..?”

“?? It’s okay because I’m your girlfriend. And you’re mine.”

Arthur looked at Alice with a dumbfounded expression.

“Since when was I yours?”

“From the beginning..? And Arthur, if you get close to another woman, I don’t know how I’ll change. So be careful?”

“Yeah…”

Arthur lamented to himself that he would never be able to make friends of the opposite sex in this life. Alice continued to speak, seemingly unaware of Arthur’s feelings.

“That’s right! Arthur, remember that day is coming soon?”

Arthur tilted his head at Alice’s incomprehensible voice.

“Soon..? I don’t know.. What day is it?”

At Arthur’s answer, Alice looked surprised and said:

“Don’t you remember? It’s the day you mentioned.”

“???”

“I don’t know, so tell me quickly!”

“You really don’t know? Then I should keep it to myself~”

Then, I saw Alice starting to giggle by herself.

‘Well, it’s probably just an anniversary, right?’

Arthur, who thought that it wasn’t such an important day, quickly forgot about Alice’s words.