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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Ah……!”
Rin’s expression, which had been glaring at the leader of the Tudogs with a cold and expressionless face, brightened.
‘What? The Earliest Apocalypse is making that kind of expression?’
I thought it might be support that arrived through warp, but the presence I actually felt was only three people.
And one of them seemed to be a different race, not human.
“What is it?”
The leader of the Tudogs kept his eyes on Rin while starting to sense the beings who had come through warp.
It wasn’t very difficult for him, a mage who couldn’t be simply described as outstanding.
One person began to go elsewhere, and the remaining two were running towards this direction.
‘What speed……’
The speed was quite astonishing.
Approaching at a tremendous speed, it was on par with Horan, who had the most outstanding physical abilities among the Tudogs.
‘No, it’s above that.’
One person was falling behind, unable to keep up, but the being in the lead was approaching without losing momentum.
‘I’ll kill them right away!’
Anyway, his goal was the ‘Earliest Apocalypse’ in front of him right now. If he killed her, everything he had done so far would become meaningless.
Rather, that was what he wanted.
Huge dogs made of mana flew towards Rin, who was emitting dark energy.
It was a magic befitting the name of the Tudogs, but it didn’t end with simply rushing in. Like real fierce dogs, they wouldn’t let go of their prey.
Then, the mana would naturally enter the bitten person’s body through the wound, and if the amount was large, the leader who was the owner of the mana could detonate it.
It looked like a light magic, but it was actually a fatal move that could surely kill the enemy.
However, the dark energy pouring out from Rin began to devour the mana dogs instead.
“……!”
“So magic can be eaten too.”
Rin nodded, saying she learned it for the first time.
Tana and Eve, who were behind Rin, wanted to help somehow and were holding a club or pipe from May’s room, but it wasn’t very helpful.
“I have no choice.”
The leader began to gather mana as it was.
A huge mana that felt like a storm was blowing began to condense, shaking the atmosphere.
The blue flower drawn in the sky.
It was such a beautiful sight that they realized a little late that it was a lightning strike aimed at the dormitory.
“It’s an amount of magic that can’t be blocked.”
The moment he was about to unleash what was truly a disaster.
“……!”
Something flew in from behind.
The conviction that if he hadn’t twisted his body, his neck would have been cut off.
A chilling sword grazed his cheek, and droplets of blood spilled.
“You have good senses.”
Daniel McLean, who landed in the room where Rin was, blocked the two.
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‘That was close.’
If the lightning magic from earlier had poured down, everyone would have died along with the dormitory. If that happened, the ‘Earliest Apocalypse’ would be revived.
A situation where the end of the world was barely prevented.
Although he managed to stop it, he was getting annoyed at these bastards.
‘I felt an unusual mana from the academy and rushed over, but……’
What kind of situation is this?
After clearing one of the Tudogs’ bases that Keyalmirec had informed him about and returning to Elgrid before dawn.
He didn’t expect such a mess to unfold.
“Daniel! You’re back!”
“Who are those guys?”
Rin smiled brightly and fussed.
Her bright smile didn’t seem at all like she was using the power given by the god of death until just now.
Eve and Tana, who were behind me, answered my question.
“They’re the Tudogs. I think we stirred up a hornet’s nest.”
“Actually, after you left, we kind of raided the nearby Tudog bases and their errand runners.”
“……!”
I didn’t expect them to do such a thing.
I knew it was for me and my sister Diana, but it was too dangerous.
But I couldn’t say anything about it now, and in a way, it was true that they had brought them here well.
“Leave it to me now.”
“Okay.”
Rin nodded, turned her body, and left the room with Eve and Tana. The mage was glaring at me and raising his mana.
“You’re Daniel McLean, the one Hare mentioned.”
“She came too?”
I glanced down and saw her.
I saw her flinching and hiding behind the boy next to her, so I waved my hand.
“Then you must know that I also crushed one of your executives.”
“……”
I smirked and slung my sword over my shoulder.
“He left a will for you guys, and I got a chance to deliver it like this.”
“A will?”
I smiled and told the mage who seemed interested.
“He said there’s a monster living in Aios Academy, so you should never come here.”
“……”
“Personally, from the perspective of an Aios Academy student, I don’t really know. How could there be a monster in a place where students study?”
The moment I shrugged, the lightning he had gathered was shot at me.
The power was greatly reduced because I had interrupted in the middle, but it was still a potent force.
But I was already leaping towards him.
“I was waiting to use this.”
I, who could handle only a very small amount of mana, had devised various ways to deal with mages.
Among them, provoking them like this and making them use magic was the most basic method, and at the same time, it was a very effective tactic depending on the enemy.
Because just from the simple motion of reaching out their hand to use magic, the trajectory of the attack could be easily read.
Having already dodged the lightning before it poured down, I swung my sword hard at his shoulder.
“……!”
He hurriedly put up a magical shield, but I could shatter a hastily created protective magic with pure strength anyway.
This time, instead of just a single drop like the first blow, enough blood to wet half a hand gushed out.
The guy who had been levitating finally couldn’t hold on and began to fall to the ground. I rode on top of him and kept stabbing my sword deeply.
“You son of a bitch!”
The woman with tiger ears who was below rushed in and snatched the mage away.
“Leader! Leader, are you okay?”
“Ho-Horan! First, we need to heal him!”
Horan, the woman who was clinging to the mage and sobbing, and Hare, who hurriedly brought a potion.
“Leader?”
Although it was a shame that I couldn’t kill the quite outstanding mage right away, an even more interesting word was heard.
He’s the leader?
“You mean that guy is the boss of the Tudogs.”
The moment I tried to approach, I saw a man with a green light coming from his right sleeve.
A skinny and thin appearance.
I could tell he was also a Tudog.
But the important thing was that glowing hand.
“So that’s why mana couldn’t be used.”
I thought if the dean or other outstanding professors used magic, they could subdue this number of people, but I wondered why they couldn’t do it.
The miracle flower that made any mage powerless.
A treasure among treasures, extremely rare even in the Demon Realm Forest, which contained numerous precious herbs and gems.
“It’s Arianne’s Flower, isn’t it?”
“……!”
I wondered how he had such a precious flower that erased the surrounding mana just by existing, but a smile unknowingly formed on my lips.
“It’s good that I didn’t bother to go get it.”
One of the easiest and most commonly used methods I mentioned for hunting mages was using Arianne’s Flower.
Mages who couldn’t handle mana were no different from people carrying sticks.
It was a useful item that I used frequently.
‘But how does that guy have it?’
There couldn’t be two Arianne’s Flowers blooming, and I received that flower after being recognized by ‘that guy’……
Well, anyway.
“Eris!”
When I called her name with all the attention focused on me, Eris’ sword appeared behind the man holding the flower, piercing his shoulder and emerging.
“Ugh!”
“Wh-What!”
I had told her to prepare for a surprise attack when she arrived just in case, and she appeared at the perfect moment.
Passing by the confused Tudog guys, I also rushed towards the man holding the flower.
If we solved this first, the next battle would be easy.
Starting with the dean, numerous mages were waiting for this strange phenomenon where mana disappeared as if their toes were on fire to be resolved.
But then,
“What?”
The guy stabbed by Eris’ sword writhed in pain, and the sleeve he had been hiding was revealed.
I naturally thought he was holding Arianne’s Flower in his hand, but that wasn’t the case.
“The flower was transplanted into his hand?”
The guy’s hand had completely turned into a flower.
Of course, I cut off his hand without hesitation.
“Aaaargh!”
Ignoring the guy writhing in pain and rolling on the ground, I examined the flower that had been his hand.
“That flower was erasing the mana, right?”
“Yeah, that’s right, but…… it’s a dud.”
“A dud?”
“Look, the stem is starting to wither.”
It seemed that the moment it was separated from the guy’s body, it began to die.
The mana that had disappeared didn’t return immediately, but anyway, since the flower was plucked, it would be our victory after some time passed.
There were so many questions.
Starting from how he was able to plant Arianne’s Flower in his hand to how that leader guy was able to use magic despite having this flower.
“They can all explain it nicely in prison.”
As I smiled and began to approach them, the leader, who had regained his senses and was being supported, shouted.
“You foolish one! Do you know what you are embracing right now!”
“The Earliest Apocalypse?”
When I answered, thinking he might not know, the leader was startled.
I thought he would naturally recognize Rin if he saw her, just like I had obtained information from the witches of the Black Forest.
“I also want to ask you something. What do you know about Rin?”
Judging from the fact that he tried to kill Rin, he seemed to not know that the moment she died, the end would begin, like I did.
At my question, the leader’s expression was tinged with fear, and then he shouted with the face of a martyr proclaiming the gospel to frustrated believers.
“I saw it! The tremendous devastation that girl will create in 10 years! Corpses cover the world! The dead rise again and kill the living! That living hell! Do you know that!”
“……What?”
A shock as if hit by a hammer.
How the hell did he know that fact?
“You, how……”
The moment I stepped forward and tried to ask him again.
Something descended between us.
Huge horns protruding from the forehead, fully spread wings, and a tail sweeping the ground.
“Sister?”
Diana McLean.
My sister growled like a beast and reached out her claws towards me.
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