episode_0046
by adminAs soon as I got out of the barrier I had set up, Ceria Alfheim flew straight towards me.
The corners of my mouth twitching in exasperation and my cruel smile made me realize that the situation I was in was very serious.
‘What should I do now?’
As I continued towards the finish line, I used the detection barrier to understand the surrounding situation.
On the ground, the cadets were racing towards the finish line, and in the air, Ceria Alfheim was chasing me alone.
She, who was just flying around with a whirling green wind around her, suddenly took some of the wind from around her body and put it on her finger.
With the fingers caught in the wind, the fingers of the other hand overlap. As if pulling a bow string, the folded fingers followed the arm’s path and pulled up toward the shoulder, creating a long stream of green wind.
Of course, I didn’t just stare at the scene. No matter what, the most important thing for me right now was to reach the finish line.
‘Without Cheon Yu-hwa’s help, Ceria Alfheim would also need a considerable amount of time to destroy the barrier.’
Remembering what he had learned from his previous attempt, he once again set up a barrier to trap Seria Alfheim.
Both the caster and Seria Alfheim, the target of the spell, are quickly flying across the sky.
Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to properly specify the location and deploy the barrier. But now that I was ahead of her, I had a way to solve that problem.
‘If it comes after me, it will naturally create a barrier right behind me and block the path.’
There is no need to add additional techniques to the barrier.
According to the rules, attack techniques that cause direct damage are prohibited, and above all, the barrier, which has enough durability to stop Ceria Alfheim, was an excellent defensive wall in itself.
It is more advantageous to save the magic power and time required to inscribe such a spell, and expand one more barrier or increase the movement speed further.
My goal was only to reach the finish line, not to completely neutralize Seria Alfheim.
Wow!
“Again! Do you think I’ll just watch that?!”
The barrier that began to unfold in a circular shape from behind me attacked towards Seria Alfheim.
At first glance, it looked like the head of an animal that had opened its mouth to swallow her, but Ceria Alfheim frowned and aimed the arrow of wind.
‘… ‘Where are you aiming?’
However, rather than aiming at the unfolding barrier, it was just aimed at the distant sky that had not yet been covered by the barrier.
Her movements, which were continuously read by the detection barrier, finally burst out with magical power and she snapped her finger.
Sigh-!
The moment she let go of the magic and energy contained in the arrow, the sound of the explosion was rather shabby compared to the magic that burst out of Seria Alfheim’s body.
But rather, my eyes narrowed even more at her incomprehensible behavior.
‘What were you aiming for?’
Seria Alfheim never does anything foolish. Just do your best to solve the problems that come your way.
It must be there. This is why the arrow, filled with the energy of the spirit and her pure magic, pierced through the elusive cloud and not my barrier.
And finally, the barrier was completed.
‘What are you aiming for?’
The completed spherical barrier trapped Seria Alfheim. What on earth were you aiming for? While moving forward with such questions, I focused my attention towards Ceria Alfheim.
Then, a strange thing was transmitted to my mind through the detection barrier technique.
The arrow did not disappear.
“… Without Miss Chen Yu-hwa’s help, it would be impossible for me to break this barrier in a short period of time. You must have thought so.”
Like a string, the stream of magical energy rose high into the sky following the trajectory of the arrow that was fired, and remained in place without being affected by the barrier.
That fact means one thing.
‘You made a hole in the barrier?!’
The stem of magical power had overcome the erosion of the barrier and firmly maintained its position.
“As Seong Yu-jin thinks, it would be difficult for me to destroy a barrier that has already been fully developed in a short period of time.”
Her voice, which had gradually begun to fade due to the increasing distance, began to murmur softly as if she wanted me to hear it clearly.
“But, if a loophole is created to prevent it from fully unfolding in the first place, even I can destroy it.”
Is it big enough to fit a finger? The green stem created by Ceria Alfheim’s magic began to violently cut through the gap and emit magic power, leaving a gap that the barrier could not swallow.
Only then did I realize how she had broken my barrier.
That green magic stem contains an absurd amount of magic power and elemental magic that has been extremely compressed.
In other words, the density of magical power occupying one space was ridiculously high.
‘Basically, a barrier is a method of spreading magical power like pizza dough and covering space. ‘It is structurally difficult to overwrite the density of magical power concentrated at one point like that.’
One of the methods of destruction of the barrier art that she had not paid attention to because it was an EX rank barrier art, appeared at Seria Alfheim’s fingertips.
Sigh-!
The stream of magic power that was high in the sky was drawn downward following the gesture of her hand from inside the barrier.
The extremely compressed magic power used its density to press down on the magic power that made up the barrier and cut the barrier in two.
Paang-!
Then it flew straight towards me, bursting with air. The speed was so fast that the surrounding terrain shook and a dust storm occurred.
However, the expression on Seria Alfheim’s face as she followed me was becoming more and more anxious.
Meanwhile, a small smile on my face was gradually spreading into laughter.
‘It was dizzying.’
The place where there was a deadlock with Seria Alfheim was about 4km away from the finish line.
Ceria Alfheim, who was trapped in the barrier along the way, had no choice but to stop for a moment, but I continued to move without stopping even for a moment.
So, I won this match.
He did a flip and somersaulted, creating a scaffolding barrier in the sky at an angle.
I placed both legs on the barrier and bent my knees. It was a position to receive maximum momentum.
The tip of the toes pointed towards the sky, the body tilted diagonally, and the head pointed towards the finish line, gathering magical energy.
And then, boom!
I exploded magical power from the tips of my feet and straightened my knees. The moment I hit the barrier, the combination of the momentum of the magical explosion and the gravity pulling my body to the ground further increased my falling speed.
It was a charge so fast that her expression was instantly colored with shock, surpassing even Ceria Alfheim, who was flying with the wind wrapped around her using elemental magic.
‘You won first place, now you have to land!’
It is a fall from high enough to easily fall at least 100 meters from the ground.
It’s not just a free fall; it’s actually falling toward the ground because it’s receiving all the momentum it can.
‘Should I have thought about it before moving!?’
I gritted my teeth and made a hand sign.
Using rigid body techniques to the maximum, we created a shield by weaving together all the barriers related to physical defense.
So, I, who was currently crouched in a 5m-sized sphere, passed the finish line and collided with the ground beyond.
Thump-!
“Whew… .”
Should I say I am fortunate?
My body, which hit the ground as if a meteorite had hit it, sending up huge shock waves and dust in all directions, was more intact than I thought.
But I couldn’t help but laugh at the fact that I landed safely.
This is because I fell like a meteorite wearing a barrier and a strong body technique, so there was a crater at the impact point where my barrier met the ground.
“Cadet Yujin Seong, congratulations on your first place.”
“Uh, yes?”
In the thick dust, a familiar voice came closer, congratulating me on my first place.
I was momentarily in a rush to shake off the aftermath of the collision, so I couldn’t tell who it was, but soon the magic felt as a detection barrier revealed her identity.
“Was Professor Raina in charge of the raid?”
“Yes! I was in charge of this year’s raid.”
As we gathered ourselves in the dust and exchanged a few words, Ceria Alfheim followed behind me and crossed the finish line.
… Unlike me, who came in a bit aggressively, he came down like a fairy, lightly blowing away the breeze.
Thanks to this, the thick dust dispersed in all directions, making breathing much easier.
“Congratulations to Ms. Seria for second place. It will likely take a while for other cadets, so please rest for a while at the base camp set up over there.”
Leaving behind Professor Raina, who continued to say, “We will move once the number of players for the second game is selected,” Ceria Alfheim and I walked to the prepared base camp.
How many minutes had passed since I started talking to Ceria Alfheim about various things in the break room and fully dealing with her anger at being blocked?
I saw many familiar faces I had said hello to several times, and many awkward faces I had never seen before.
The number of people started to increase one by one, and finally reached 40 people.
─First race, marathon is over!!
Now it’s time to move on to the second game.
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