chapter 25
25 – Sniffer(2)
Boom!
The firecrackers set by the host exploded.
The battle has begun.
Sniffer quickly fired three arrows. It was an arrow that was fired without enchanting for quick shooting.
The three arrows fired in that way flew towards Jose at high speed.
You might be surprised by the arrows flying without warning. As if being in the upper class was not a lie, José did not panic and calmly displayed his magic.
“Shield.”
A translucent membrane formed around Jose’s body. The arrow shot by the sniffer collided with the transparent membrane.
Tung. Blank. Blank.
The three arrows shot by the sniffer were blocked by Jose’s shield and fell helplessly to the floor.
“Chit.”
He was a sniffer who already knew this was going to happen.
However, I didn’t expect that he would bounce so weakly without doing any damage.
The sniffer looked at the bounced arrows, clicked his tongue lightly, and prepared for the next attack.
Seeing that, Jose kept his shield up and sneered.
“Hey. You can’t beat me anyway Don’t make me lose my strength for nothing, just abstain.”
At that, the sniffer frowned and said.
“Are you going to ask me to abstain? Abstain from you You bastard!”
After that. Sniffer fired an arrow containing magic power.
“…… To bother.”
Jose, noticing that the arrows flying towards him this time was unusual, manifested his magic.
“Shield.”
A new shield was born on top of Jose’s shield.
Boom!
The arrow fired by the sniffer collided with Jose’s shield and made a loud explosion.
Visibility was blocked by smoke from the explosion.
The sniffer waited for the smoke to clear with the bowstring drawn.
‘Has it been pierced?’
Sniffer, who had the experience of piercing Veronica and Tricia’s shield countless times during training, thought that the arrow he had just shot pierced the shield.
However, the smoke cleared and the sniffer could not help but be surprised.
“For a class of failing students…… Well, I can say that I did well.”
Because in the midst of the explosion, José stood there, not covered in dust, as if nothing had happened.
The arrow shot by the sniffer only pierced one shield.
“Did you enjoy it enough? Let’s finish it.”
Jose, who thought that he had no means to threaten him any more, leisurely manifested his magic.
A rough wind began to blow around Jose. The raging winds gathered together and began to form.
It was the rough winds that created a shape in the shape of a blade.
“Wind Cutter.”
The magic that José manifests is the wind that rips apart anything that blocks it. It was a wind cutter.
After completing the magic, José didn’t fire right away and said to Sniffer while maintaining the magic.
“Hey, I’m in the middle of a failed student…… What was your name? What a good name. Is it really dangerous if you get hit like this? Why don’t we just abstain from ISM and go down?”
Angrily at José’s attitude of ignoring him until the end, Sniffer raised his middle finger and said.
“Eat sh*t.”
“…… Even if you become crippled, do not resent it.”
As Jose gestured, three wind blades flew towards the sniffer at high speed.
At this rate, as José said, Sniffer might become crippled.
However, the sniffer did not dodge and looked straight at the wind cutter flying towards him.
Sniffer calmly hung three arrows on the bowstring and drew.
And fired.
Three arrows left the sniffer’s hand and started flying.
They hit the wind cutter exactly.
Jose, who was watching that scene, found the sniffer’s behavior ridiculous.
There was no way that an arrow made of a small amount of iron and wood could defeat the blade of the wind made with magical power.
An arrow that collides with the wind cutter will leave no trace, and the wind cutter will fly away and attack the sniffer.
It should have been.
“What, what!”
Jose didn’t understand the current situation.
The wind cutters that were supposed to break the arrows and hit the sniffer were all gone.
“What are you staring at? The fight isn’t over yet.”
Jose is panicking when his magic suddenly disappears without a trace. The sniffer, who didn’t miss the chance, was approaching Jose’s nose before he knew it.
“Ah, at some point!”
“It’s late. Child.”
As a mage, allowing the opponent’s approach is a huge mistake.
As a result, Jose was hit by the sniffer’s kick and fell down without much resistance.
“Keuugh.”
“Eat this.”
Sniffer climbed on top of the fallen Jose and fired an arrow filled with magical power while still in close proximity.
Boom!
A loud explosion rang out.
However, the sniffer’s arrows could not pierce Jose’s double shield.
“Isn’t that okay too?”
“Ha ha ha ha ha, yeah, there’s no way my shield could be pierced by that arrow.”
“It’s okay. Because there is still a lot left.”
“What?”
No matter what Jose said, the sniffer continued to shoot arrows.
Boom! Bang! Bang!
José couldn’t even counterattack against Sniffer’s continuous arrow attacks. He was preoccupied with repairing the broken shield.
Boom!
‘My, damn magic.’
While restoring the shield that was broken by the continuous attacks, Jose lost his magic power and was unable to open the shield anymore.
Jose closed his eyes, thinking that it was really over.
‘Has the attack stopped?’
But no more arrows flew.
When José gently opened his eyes, he saw a sniffer looking at the empty quiver with a puzzled expression.
“Ha, ha, I won.”
A sniffer with no means left to attack. On the other hand, he himself is in a situation where his magic power recovers after a while.
It was Jose who did not doubt his own victory.
However, the situation went in a completely different direction than Jose thought.
Sniffer kicked Jose and knocked him over as he tried to stand up while recovering his magic.
“I still have a bow. You bastard!”
Sniffer started beating Jose with magic wrapped around his entire bow.
Puck! Puck! Puck!
Jose, whose last remaining shield was shattered, was attacked by a sniffer with his bare body.
It hurts even if it was just hit, and the magic was added to the attack. For Jose, who had never been hit before, the pain he is experiencing now is like going to hell.
“Quaaa! Ha, surrender, surrender!”
The first match at Mars Arena, which boasts such a history and tradition, turned out to be a victory for a classmate who failed.
“Su, the winner is the sniffer student in the failing class. Congratulations everyone with a big round of applause!”
After the emcee’s cry ended, a tremendous cheer rang out from the audience.
“Waaa!”
“With that skill, why are you in the failing class!”
“Go back to the advanced class!”
“Awesome!”
“Huh.”
The sniffer, who was watching them, collapsed on the spot. The symptoms of magical exhaustion came.
Seeing that Sniffer fell, Derahn quickly ran into the arena and slapped Sniffer on the face.
Snap. Slap.
Then the sniffer, who had been sleeping as if he had passed out, opened his eyes.
“Turn it off.”
“Are you awake?”
“Sir, why are you here?”
“I came to tell you that you did well. Good job.”
At Derian’s praise, Sniffer said awkwardly.
“This sniffer, who is the strongest in the class of failing students, needs to do this to save face.”
It was a sniffer who spoke nonsensically even when exhausted from the symptoms of magical exhaustion. At those words, Derian smiled and said.
“Stop talking nonsense and get some rest until the next match.”
After Derian’s words, Sniffer closed his eyes again and fell asleep.
Derian looked at the sniffer who had fallen asleep and was lost in thought.
‘I underestimated the students too much.’
Derian thought only of Zeke and Gilbert as the top 5 students.
However, Sniffer broke Derahn’s thoughts with today’s match.
‘I know the disciples’ growth, but I don’t know.’
Derian took the sniffer out of the arena for the next match while being surprised by the frightening speed of his students’ growth.
After the sniffer’s match. All the matches of the failing class were held that day.
A child named Belheim, a lower class magician that Trisha had to deal with, flew away without a proper resistance to the magic Trisha cast.
Utilizing the method of reducing the power and increasing the speed of the chanting that Derian had taught him, he defeated the opponent before he could react.
The student Veronica was dealing with was no different from Trisha.
Hey Gilbert, he won easily because he wasn’t the type to struggle against the lower class students.
Different from the other students, Zeke, who was a little worried, had a brief exploration match against the intermediate class martial arts guy, and the moment he thought the search was over, he activated his core and knocked the opponent down in an instant.
Deruan, who watched everyone from the stands, was lost in thought.
‘…… Did I make a bet for nothing?’
These were students who achieved all the conditions set out by the president in the first place.
A bet that I thought was reckless at the time I accepted the bet.
Now it has become embarrassing to dismiss it as a bet.