episode_0067
by fnovelpiaSharp red eyes quickly scan the surroundings.
All the rest of the team members except for the one designated as the king were incapacitated. Since this was something she had already expected, Laura didn’t make a fuss. She just stood still among the students she had defeated and observed the battle situation.
“Hey! Attack Adelheid Youngae first!”
“This is such a monster…!”
“Forel! You go back! It’s a joint attack!”
Three students rushed towards Laura from all directions at once. Laura raised her cane.
Quick, concise and elegant at the same time.
The magic circle was quickly drawn along her hand. With the surrounding air starting to turn white, her magic circle was completed in an instant.
“Aspiration, targeting, liquid, conversion, amplification, absolute zero.”
The time it takes to deploy the spell, calculate direction and firepower, and activate the magic circle is just 4 seconds.
Even that was an increase of 1 second because it was caused by using traces of water attribute elemental magic used by another student.
“Blizzard(χιονοθύελλα).”
As Laura finished casting the magic circle, the pure white frozen magic circle began to glow.
Soon, a blizzard with large pieces of ice swirling violently appeared in the training ground.
No, it was just a blizzard. It was more like a storm.
And that naturally blinded the three students who were attacking Laura.
“Ugh, ugh… !”
“Vision…!”
“Fuck! Just attack!”
A female student named Forel, who was leading the other two students, was barely able to regain her sight through the blizzard that was swirling around without giving her time to blink.
That’s what Forel saw after reaching the eye of the storm after going through many twists and turns, almost dropping the spear he was holding in his hand.
“Uh, uh… ?”
Two of her friends who had been following her were lying unconscious on the floor. Forel looked at them with a puzzled expression.
“You can’t take your eyes off of it.”
Suddenly, a soft voice whispered behind her. Forel quickly turned around and lowered her spear.
– Kaang—!
And her attack was blocked so easily.
What on earth? Forel blinked as he faced the incomprehensible situation.
What Forel sees is a trembling window and a translucent membrane touching its end.
“Magic power room… !”
“Manipulation, Gravity, Targeting.”
Forel, who was trying to hurriedly retrieve the spear that had been thrown out, clearly saw Laura’s hand tightly holding the spear shaft.
“Be crushed(συντριβή).”
And that was the end of it.
A heavy feeling is pressing down on his shoulders. He feels the power of the world’s laws that cannot be defied with his whole body, and Forel’s vision darkens.
It was the same ending as the other two friends who fell first.
* * * * *
“Be crushed (συντριβή)!”
With a strange, creaking sound, a male student who had been running towards Chloe fainted in front of her.
Chloe was able to avoid the physical attack of the unconscious male student by taking a step to the side. Chloe let out a small sigh of relief, frowned, and began to assess the situation.
‘What happened? Where is Elin?’
Elin was nowhere to be seen. The dusty clouds were one reason, but the real problem was something else.
-Whiooo—!
A heavy snowstorm was swirling in the center of the training ground. It was obscuring the vision of all the students conducting the training.
In the face of that overwhelming power, Chloe finds herself thinking.
‘I also used cold magic during the entrance exam… . It’s on a different level from the magic I use… .’
It was a pure difference in power. Chloe felt a sense of wonder at the overwhelming power that came from Laura’s magic.
‘… This is not the time!’
Chloe, who had been absentmindedly admiring the snowstorm for a moment, shook her head and opened her eyes with difficulty, quickly catching sight of the students who remained by her side.
There was only Owen by Chloe’s side. Hubert was wandering around the training grounds to attack the king of the other team. Chloe clicked her tongue involuntarily when she saw the situation of the team with only two people left, and then quickly covered her mouth.
‘What did I do… .’
It was an act that was insulting to the teammates who had fallen first. Chloe smacked her lips and promised herself not to focus too much on the sparring.
‘He fell to protect me. I should be grateful.’
As Chloe thought, the team members who fell first were not simply lacking in skill. While Chloe was trying to prevent the crown from being stolen, she also had to take care of herself and her team members, and even attack the king of the other team, so even ten bodies were not enough.
“Chloe. Are you okay?”
“Yes, no?!”
Chloe was startled by Owen’s indifferent voice calling her, like a child caught doing something bad.
“… Chloe. Come to your senses. You can’t just stand there blankly. ”
“Sorry, I’m sorry… .”
Owen’s soft reprimand to Chloe was a bonus. Chloe smiled bitterly and nodded.
‘Me too, what am I doing… .’
To think that I was lost in my thoughts during a duel? It was a pathetic thing to do, even if I thought about it myself, but there was no time to blame myself. Chloe quickly began to form a magic circle.
“Manipulation, gravity, auto-specify, simplification.”
It was a magic that was stored in the staff in advance for use as a backup. As the size of the magic circle decreased, its power decreased, but it was still the best for use in an emergency situation.
The magic circle, which had been forming into a normal size, began to shrink in size as it threw additional spells into the air. Soon, the magic circle, which had become the size of a small ball, melted into the tip of Chloe’s wand.
“… It’s over.”
“Yes?”
As soon as Owen finished speaking, the blizzard Laura had created exploded in an instant and disappeared into thin air.
“… what the heck.”
Chloe’s mouth fell open. The situation in the training ground was so dire that it was hard to look at with open eyes.
The training ground that had been swept by a snowstorm was torn and dented in places, and many students were lying helpless on the ground, struck by these cruel and ruthless pieces of ice.
Fortunately, Elin was among the surviving students. Chloe exchanged glances with her, then turned her gaze to find Hubert.
“Ugh, Mr. Hubert…?”
“There he is. That idiot.”
Chloe followed Owen’s fingers and looked. There, Hubert was standing there, like a ghost, with two swords sheathed in their scabbards.
Hubert held a battered student in one hand, and a frozen crown in the other.
“With this, you get one crown.”
Hubert whistled as he hung the crown he was holding on his waist. Then, Chloe, who was watching him, looked closely at the face of the student who was being subdued by Hubert.
“That person… isn’t he a student from class A?”
“That’s right. I don’t know the name either. That guy is a wizard too.”
Chloe swallowed dryly after hearing Owen’s explanation. If she had become a student in Class A of the Faculty of Magic, it would be safe to say that her skills were on par with Chloe’s.
However, Hubert defeated such a wizard. Of course, Hubert was also covered in wounds all over his body.
The boy who was grabbed by Hubert’s collar made an evil expression.
“Ugh, hiding in the blizzard like a coward… !”
“What are you talking about? You said you couldn’t see ahead, so you carelessly used area magic. That’s like exposing your location, right?”
Hubert shrugged his shoulders and brought down the pommel of his sword, knocking out the male student he was holding. Another victim was left sprawled on the floor of the training ground.
“If it becomes like this… .”
There are three sparkling crowns in the students’ hands. And, there are five teams left.
If just one team is eliminated, the remaining teams will advance to the next match.
The previous matches were just a taste. It was just a system that allowed even the lower ranked students to surpass the rankings.
If we can get through this duel, we can finally enter the real duel where the best players will compete against each other. The eyes of all the students, including Chloe, lit up strangely.
And all those gazes were directed only at the tiara-shaped crown gently placed on Laura’s head.
It was only natural that the surviving students’ eyes were focused on Laura von Adelheid, who was standing blankly in the middle of the training ground.
A sparkling crown. The girl who owns the crown, Laura von Adelheid.
If she survives this duel, she will have to face her in earnest in the next duel. This fact was keenly felt by Chloe and all the students in the training hall.
That was the reason why the students attacked Laura from the beginning of the training. When there were many students who hadn’t fallen, they wanted to drag them into a melee as much as possible and take advantage of Laura’s weakness.
It was also a big factor that Laura was the only student in Class A on her team.
Of course, all of that ended up being in vain, but most of the students who survived until now are among the most talented. In other words, out of the twenty-five survivors, excluding Laura, eighteen are students from Class A.
It meant that the strength of the Class A students to deal with Laura von Adelheid was still intact.
‘then….’
‘Wouldn’t it be worth a try…?’
The students of Class A, who were communicating with each other through glances and gestures, looked at the crown on Laura’s head with eyes filled with desire.
Laura didn’t even bat an eyelash, even though she was the center of attention of those students. She was that confident.
No wonder, she is Adelheid. A golden bloodline that has inherited Adelheid’s noble and outstanding talents in their entirety.
That’s her. A lioness standing alone in a meadow where wild dogs run around.
“… Huh.”
Just because a pack of savage dogs bared their teeth, it was no way to lower one’s head. Laura knew all too well that she was the ruler of the prairie.
“Oh my gosh—!!”
At that very moment, a male student who was not part of Class A grabbed the sword in his hand and rushed towards Laura. Everyone in the training ground knew that this was an act bordering on madness.
Laura sighed and began to conjure a magic circle.
“Aspiration, compression, shape retention, simplification.”
It took less than three seconds for the unfolding spell to be covered with a shell and for the quickly completed magic circle to be placed on Laura’s hand.
“Only you…! I just need you to be gone—!”
“trigger(κρούση).”
– Phew!
With an eerie sound, the boy who had been running towards her collapsed on the spot before he could even take five steps.
Laura laughed at the sight and openly mocked him.
“How dare you look down on me.”
Laura held her chin high. Her pride was high, and she had the talent and skills to do so.
The sight of him standing there wearing a crown, surrounded by students with a fierce aura… .
“… Queen.”
It was as if she was a queen who commanded this training ground.
Laura moved her hands slowly. Her movements were so leisurely that it seemed as if she was asking me to attack her if I wanted to.
“I have to finish this. I’m starting to get tired.”
The time limit for this match was one hour, just like yesterday. There was still plenty of time left, but Laura preferred to secure a clear victory rather than simply give up in a fight where she was sure she would win.
“Liquid, conversion, amplification, absolute zero… .”
The expressions of the students standing on their two feet were filled with impatience. It was obvious that she was trying to conjure up some kind of magic circle.
“It’s a snowstorm!!”
“Profit… !”
Chloe quickly raised her wand and aimed it at Laura. It was a small amount of power, but it would be enough to disrupt the magic circle.
“Block it—!!”
“Snow cover… .”
In the midst of students rushing towards Laura in an instant, at the very moment Laura’s magic circle was about to be completed.
– The match is over! Ahh—!!
With the familiar shout of Professor Andres, the illusionary magic that had surrounded the training grounds to prevent anyone from seeing outside suddenly disappeared.
In a situation where the sparring suddenly ended, the rest of the students, including Laura, looked dumbfounded. And then, at that moment.
“Huh? That guy… .”
In Chloe’s eyes, the boy who had been knocked down by Laura’s magic a moment ago entered.
On his head was a crown made of pale glass.
“… Ah.”
Like Chloe, Laura, who had witnessed the crown, stared blankly at it.
“… So, is this the end?”
There were four surviving kings. That meant the duel was over.
It was the moment when the first-year students who would advance to the next competition were decided.
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