chapter 50
50 – Too much power leads to futile results
“Reset Arcane Golem!!”
“Players, go to the temporary waiting room over there and wait! When the staff goes and guides you, then you can go out to the stage in turn and proceed with the preliminaries!”
Dayman and Seria enter the temporary waiting room for athletes after passing through a busy field. Numbers 215 and 216 were side by side.
“Seria will leave before me! hahahaha!!”
“That’s right, Dayman. I am so nervous.”
When Seria enters the waiting room, her hand trembles slightly, and Dayman holds her hand. Naturally, Seria’s expression suddenly heated up.
“Don’t be afraid. Reminds me of what I’ve been training for. Do you know the location of the arcane golem’s core?”
“Oh, you know. Checkers told me.”
“Yes. Remember that well and just do what we prepared. Since the cardiom material has the property of dissipating mana, it will be difficult to inflict sufficient damage with normal magic bullets. Let’s shoot with that in mind.”
“Ah, okay, let go of this hand!!!”
She hurriedly removes her hand and hurriedly slams into the corner of her makeshift waiting room. Dayman looked at her blankly and smiled as he approached her side.
“It’s just a spitting device. I like a blushing face too.”
“……Just shut up and sit next to me.”
“That’s good. You don’t like it Draw a woman as a very complex creature.”
Seeing Dayman sitting next to her giggling, Seria looked at him with a blushing face. When Dayman made a funny face, she immediately smiled at him. Anyway, while the two of them are waiting like that.
“Oh f*ck!! f*ck!!”
“To be eliminated by 3 seconds is like a dog!!!!!”
“The magic won’t work because I’m covered with cardiom!! It’s the same with Auror!!!”
The team that was eliminated and the team that passed began to pass by them together. A structure created to bring dropouts and challengers together. It was already a place where the bloody intention of the organizers to shake the will of the challengers could be read.
Daman was examining those participants carefully.
“How do you look?”
“Excellent. All together The energy emanating from your body is unusual.”
Daman stopped staring and burst out laughing.
“I think this is the first time in my life that I have seen so many hwagyeong masters and 10th circle and 7th class or higher wizards.”
At Dayman’s words, Seria lowered her voice and carefully asked.
“Does everyone seem to have the same problem as Octavia?”
“It’s worse than that. There’s a certain level that the body and mind play separately. Just see Seria. The strongest among them. Is there anyone who feels like he’s about to collapse just from his energy? Is there anyone who feels overwhelming like a master of hwagyeong?”
No. Dayman clicked his tongue.
“Except for the Blessed One, there are no people worthy of being our opponents. Don’t dare tell me So feel free to come and go. The qualifiers are yours.”
“Okay. I’ll check one last time and go. The golem’s cardiom armor has the property of dissipating mana, so it’s hard for me to deal with magic bullets.”
“Yes!”
“So, although the casting speed is lower than that of magic bullets, it is suppressed with a penetrating flash that does not easily scatter by proceeding with conversion and imbuing several times.”
“You are right!”
“Three nuclei are in the chest. 1 At the waist. One for each limb, for a total of 8. Right?”
“Yes. I’m a cardiome and a f*ck, I can just chew and suppress it with magic bullets, but Seria doesn’t have as much output as me. A piercing flash should be enough to subdue it.”
“Okay. And skip the greetings and performances and process it as quickly as possible. It will leave a lasting impression on the audience. Right?”
“Exactly. Take a deep breath when you’re nervous. The breathing method I taught you. Do you remember?”
Seria quietly nodded her head at those words. While she lets out a long deep breath to see if her tension doesn’t go away, she controls her mind.
“Participation number 215!! I will enter!!”
The time has come for Seria to hold the preliminaries. Dayman smiles at the sudden voice of the staff and pushes Seria’s back.
“Go out and run wild. And don’t be nervous. You can easily win.”
“Okay.”
Dayman shakes his hand. As she is seen off by him, Seria enters.
The staff in charge of her guidance seemed surprised to see Seria. He looked at the documents for a while, then asked again to confirm.
“Party for one. Ceria. Is that correct?”
“Yes. You’re right.”
“……Let’s compete.”
Following the staff’s guidance, Seria slowly headed towards her stage. And.
“Good luck. Just defeat her golem within the three-minute time limit.”
“Thank you.”
She was finally able to get on her stage where she had no one else, only her golem and her her. Her dozens of cameras were floating in the air, focusing on her, and thousands of people were buzzing around her stage in her audience.
“What is that outfit?”
“Looks like a training suit?”
“Are you a knight or a wizard? What the hell is that?”
The first outfit. This alone was a novelty itself, but the introduction that followed immediately made the audience’s murmur even louder.
“Participation number 215!! 1 Person party!! Seria!!”
“A one person party??”
“Even with a 7-person party system, it is rare to catch a party within 3 minutes, so you are participating as a 1-person party?”
“I don’t know how many bluffs I participated in as a one-man party, really. Does she really think she can be anything?”
Laugh.
A surprise.
Curiosity and sarcasm.
Seria was a bit frightened by the mixed reactions of her audience, but she soon got her mind together and she slowly brought her wand to her body at a 45-degree angle and slowly pushed the wand forward.
“I can do it.”
As soon as she seems ready, the countdown begins for all to see through her hologram.
[Start of qualifying.]
And Beep!! The three-minute countdown began with the start sound. The gigantic arcane golem in the center of her stage started to work with her majestic maneuvering sound, then looked at her Seria and began to thump towards her.
At most parties, she would already have a nervous expression, but Seria was surprisingly calm.
“As expected.”
Based on the analysis of the checker, she had run her simulation several times, so she was a familiar golem speed to Seria. She moved as she normally trained. Before her golem could even reach her, she cast one of her spells.
As if to shoot her bow, she held out the wand in her left hand, then brought the tip of her wand to the tip of her wand. And as she pulls the wand, her blue horse spirals all the way.
“……What is it? That?”
“What magic?”
“You’re in the posture of shooting a bow? Something is wrong.”
Whether or not the crowd was buzzing. Seria calmly pulled the wand and brought it to the bottom of her cheek, and when the right moment came, she let go of the wand.
Pankration combat system’s long range sniper magic.
It was .
Along with that, something was ejected from the tip of the wand at a speed several times faster than magic bullets and flew to the golem, and soon Puck!! With a roar, it pierced a large hole in the boy’s body.
[The first hack. Neutralize.]
“……Huh?”
“Wait a minute. What happened?”
It was so fleeting, and it happened to Seria’s normal, unremarkable magic, so the audience just stared at it in a daze.
Long chanting.
There wasn’t even a nice effect that made the chest look grand.
I just pulled and released the wand like shooting an arrow, and there was a hole in it.
Seria repeated the same behavior after that.
The 8 cores in the golem’s body began to break through at a tremendous speed.
The golem seemed to be in a hurry and hurriedly approached Seria and tried to swing her fist, but Seria used only her piercing flash, lightly dodging backwards with her ghostly steps each time.
So how did it go?
Before 20 seconds had elapsed, the golem writhed with 8 holes in her body and met the end of falling apart.
[Takes 21 seconds. Passed the preliminary round.]
Seria smiled brightly at that figure.
“Okay!! I made it 12 seconds shorter than usual!!!”
It was a huge result, but the reaction of the crowd was just dazed.
“……What is it?”
“Are you finished?”
As other parties do, great performances.
Relief map.
Without anything to see, I just shot the magic 8 times and it ended.
After Seria greets her and leaves her exit, the audience’s reaction explodes as the staff come up and reset her golem with equally absurd expressions.
“What! This!! Is it really the end???”
“You neutralized a golem by yourself in 20 seconds!! Who is that??”
“What happened!! What is this!!!!”
Where are the spectators?
Numerous viewers who watched the whole process live on camera were also in a mental breakdown.
-Aren’t you crazy?
-What kind of magic is that?
-Even with 7 people, it is difficult to clear within 3 minutes, so you throw away a 20 second cut by yourself?
-How can I say it? Not cool
-But it’s f*cking efficient.
At the time when everyone’s excitement and buzz were heating up the atmosphere.
“All, next!! No. 216!!! Just like a one person party!! Dayman!!!”
“Heh heh!! It’s finally me!!!”
Then the batter came up to the stage.
“Are you crazy about Calidos?”
“Why did that guy come up here?”
“Isn’t it Romellen’s famous bane?”
The buzz multiplied. But that murmur soon turned into a chilling silence.
[Start of qualifying.]
“Yap.”
With a meaningless word, 8 magic bullets are simultaneously cast from the swung staff and fly away. Bang!!! With a roar, 8 holes were pierced through the golem’s body at the same time.
[Takes 1 second. Passed the preliminary round.]
“Thank you!!! It was Deiman’s pankration combat system!!! Thank you very much!!!!!”
Dayman playfully greeted the audience, but no one answered. Everyone was staring blankly at the arena with their eyes wide open. When there was no answer, Dayman shamelessly scratched the back of his head and went back to the waiting room.
“I’ve tried doing that, but I’m embarrassed……”
It was the same as Seria.
People only started spewing out their astonishment after seeing the reactions of the staff who urgently came to inspect the golem with shocked expressions after Dayman disappeared.
“What is this!!! What!!!! What’s happening!!!”
“One second cut?”
“What did I just see?”
It was the same with the Internet.
– No, wait a minute!!!!
-What now?
-Put this on social media quickly!!!
-Who was it just now?
-Deman and Seria?
-What are they doing, investigate!!!
Indeed, everyone was expressing their astonishment and surprise, but no one.
“Me, that……that!……”
Not as surprised as Cassian de Calidos and Horace de Heperion.
“Check the mana reaction on the cardiom armor!!”
“It is not a foul!!! Sat, declare pass!!”
As the staff rushes in and declares that the result of the detailed inspection of the golem is not a foul play, Cassian bursts out laughing.
“It seems to be worse than the midterm evaluation.”
Horace stutters at Cassian’s words and spits out his words. He seemed a bit surprised.
“This… Can this be possible…”
“It is possible. Horace Youngsik. Was it possible for one of the undergraduate students to knock down three professors in the first place? As I said, you will see things like that often in the future.”
Kasian was genuinely in admiration.
Although it was clear that he was an enemy and a younger sister trying to destroy the stronghold of the 1st princess, I had to admit it.
“I hate to admit it, but the preliminaries belong to my younger brother. No matter who comes and shows what kind of performance, you won’t be able to surpass that.”
Cassian couldn’t convince himself even after making the judgment, so he temporarily stopped the preliminaries and looked at the staff who checked the results twice and three times with a fearful expression on his face.
“He is a clever and scary guy. I mean, you’ve been hiding that completely until now.”
And again, it was Cassian who inhaled heavily from the misunderstood bowl.