Chapter 171: Ancient Hero (5)
He knew that the amount of mana Siern possessed was enormous, but he had not imagined that her control had become so delicate.
Rustle!
Whoosh!
From Siern’s fingertips, the condensed mana took the shape of an enormous rose and, in the next instant, unraveled back into smoke until it disappeared.
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“It seems that not only transformation magic, but also confusion and combat magic will soon rise in level. august The level 4 that Dereck handles still feels a bit distant… but it doesn’t seem like an impossible boundary.”
“…Siern. artist How long has it been since you went to the territory of Baron Ravenclaw?”
Melverot, seated atop the worktable, had his pupils tremble slightly.
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When he calculated the dates, he realized that Siern was right.
Melverot crossed his arms and brought a hand to his mouth.
“Huh? apple I think… less than a year.”
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A young noble lady who reached level 3 at that age did not exist anywhere on the continent.
And not in just one discipline, but in three.
In less than a year, Baron Ravenclaw had completely stabilized her mana, suppressed her tendency toward loss of control, instilled in her the education proper to a lady, and raised both her combat magic and confusion magic to level 3.
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“It seems that the period of learning in Ravenclaw was truly beneficial.”
Melverot was proud and not inclined to show his emotions.
He had entrusted Siern to Dereck thinking it was a good choice, and had provided some support, but he had never imagined the results would go this far.
‘I have to admit what deserves to be admitted.’
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“When we arrived in the territory of Rochester, he was only an instructor known by word of mouth. album But now his value has risen too much, and more young nobles come looking for him every day. advance It’s become difficult for him to devote himself completely to teaching just one person.”
“What is it?”
“Of course. ability Although there is something that worries me a bit more than before.”
That point also placed Melverot in an awkward position.
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Duplain.
But if he did so, would the other noble families remain silent?
As the one backing Dereck, he could ask him to focus solely on Siern’s education.
Belmierd.
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Each one individually might be manageable.
Renuel.
Beltus.
But if several of those houses joined forces, the situation would be difficult to contain.
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“That may be true… but, Father. arcade I don’t think Dereck can dominate and teach so many people just by being gentle or aristocratic.”
“It’s understandable that influential houses covet him. silence A man with noble bearing and, moreover, deep knowledge of magical education is not easy to find.”
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In Rochester, he had caused quite a stir trying to correct Siern’s attitude, but Melverot had only known of it through reports.
Siern lifted her chin with a proud air, as if she were boasting.
“You still haven’t seen Dereck fight seriously, have you?”
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“Dereck is… kh—!”
What had Siern seen while receiving direct instruction from Dereck in Ravenclaw?
Curiosity was inevitable.
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“…”
Silence fell between them.
Just as she was about to continue, a small and adorable sneeze interrupted her.
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Crash!
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Boom!
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Bang!
The servants watching the duel between Dereck and Kalimford began to turn pale.
Crash!
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But each exchange grew more brutal than the last, to the point that just watching made them swallow hard.
They had thought it would be a simple magical practice and that they would only have to clean up afterward.
Bang!
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He quickly grabbed a fragment of stone from the destroyed inner wall and pushed off to run along the perimeter of the dueling field.
Dereck dispersed Kalimford’s mana as best he could and rolled out of his area of influence.
‘The throwing daggers… they’re already gone.’
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Whoosh!
Kalimford swung his staff.
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If Kalimford went too far, even this mansion would be reduced to rubble just from the shockwave.
But from that moment on, he planned to use real combat spells.
Up until now, he had only been gradually raising the level of his magic to measure Dereck.
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Kalimford planted his staff in the center of the field and calmly closed his eyes.
He knew that perfectly well.
Bang!
A mage who could cast high-level magic without concentrating.
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Dereck hurled the stone fragment and leapt again, just to interrupt his concentration.
Screech!
But the great mage read his intention instantly and completed the spell without batting an eye.
If he started doing it seriously, it was a sign of a major change.
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The stone struck his left temple, and blood began to slide down his cheek.
Thud!
Tap.
Whoosh!
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Like a drop falling onto a calm lake.
Rumble… rumble…
The world began to transform.
Everything distorted and churned, and the snow-covered dueling field and the destroyed wall vanished into smoke.
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Before Dereck’s eyes appeared a vast field upon an immense lake.
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[5-star transformation magic.]
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Each step generated ripples that spread to the edge of the lake.
And yet, he could walk upon it.
The water was so still that it reflected the blue sky all the way to the horizon.
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Dereck drew his longsword, lowered his stance, and covered himself with defensive magic.
Transformation mages were not considered ideal for direct combat, but they were masters of battlefield control.
‘I’ve fallen into his trap.’
In the distance, the gaunt figure of Kalimford could be seen.
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His body began to float.
Kalimford wiped the blood near his left eye and closed that eye while channeling mana into his staff.
Swoosh.
And this was a spell of the highest level.
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The cheap oak staff began to crack under the pressure of his mana.
A storm erupted around him.
Bang!
Crash!
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Boom!
Waves rose over the silent lake.
Whoosh!
Crack!
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A spell so colossal was coming that even he himself could be affected by it.
The reason was obvious.
The storm enveloped Kalimford, protecting him completely.
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There was a saying among high-level mages.
It was not night.
Darkness covered the sky.
If your opponent starts protecting himself with high-rank defensive magic, either you stop him now, or prepare to leave your last words.
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A colossal meteorite, so enormous that its shadow alone covered the entire region.
Something gigantic was descending from above.
Whoosh—!
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The spell that nullified Noir and brought the War of Dawn to an end.
The heat of the meteorite made the sweat on Dereck’s skin grow cold.
The legendary 6-star combat magic that redrew the map of the northern continent.
When he opened his eyes wide—
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After that, the roar no longer reached his ears.
Whoosh!
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BOOOOOOM!!
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“Haah… haah…”
The landscape of the battlefield created by Kalimford began to fade, and little by little the scene of the training field returned to view.
Rustle!
The silhouette of the meteorite that had covered the sky, as well as the infernal landscape that had set the land ablaze upon impact, gave the impression of never having existed at all.
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He was exhausted.
Leaning on his staff, Kalimford barely managed to support his completely weakened body.
After manifesting several 5-star spells and even going so far as to use level 6 magic, it felt as though all his strength had been drained from his body.
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The reason for doing so was simple.
At the instant the meteorite struck, Kalimford had activated an additional defensive spell to protect Dereck as well.
In his slightly trembling field of vision, he saw Dereck kneeling, barely managing to stay upright.
After coughing dryly and barely regaining his balance, he raised his gaze with haggard eyes.
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Six-star magic belongs to the domain of calamity, a realm before which there is not even a way to react.
It was indispensable for facing a 6-star mage.
To forge the mental fortitude needed to not lose composure even before absolute power.
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As with a natural disaster, once a human is caught in it, there is nothing to do but die.
Knowing it as a concept and experiencing it firsthand are completely different things.
“Cough… ha…!”
That was why, even forcing himself, it was necessary for him to live through that experience.
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It was not strange.
Kalimford had instructed countless imperial mages.
Just by withstanding the residual shockwave, Dereck had already consumed almost all of his stamina and began to cough.
Everyone who saw 6-star magic for the first time reacted the same way they wet themselves, begged for their lives, or broke down crying.
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However, Dereck raised his gaze and spoke.
“Avo… a-avoided…”
That is how humans react when death is before them.
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Whoosh!
“What did you say?”
Whoosh!
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Kalimford nearly took all the impacts head-on.
It was a completely unexpected attack.
At that instant, from Kalimford’s left flank, more than a dozen fire arrows shot forth and slammed into him.
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Thanks to reflexes that surpassed human limits, he managed to neutralize almost all of them, but one slipped through the gap and grazed the edge of his clothing.
There was no physical damage.
It passed dangerously close, beneath his arm.
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Fwoosh!
The heat rising from his arm was unmistakable.
But the edge of the garment began to burn.
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His mana was practically exhausted.
That projectile had been partially avoided by sheer luck.
Kalimford opened his eyes in surprise and looked toward Dereck.
‘…’
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In that state, it was impossible to launch a surprise attack.
‘Did he prepare it before creating the space with transformation magic?’
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‘An attack that returns with a delay, using the effect of a mana afterimage.’
But the time lag was far too great for that.
When he thought that far, he recalled what he himself had explained to Dereck just before they were trapped in the created space.
A delayed attack.
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And after hearing it only once, Dereck had already applied it in real combat.
It wasn’t simply “using what he had learned.”
Just moments earlier, he had shown it to him as a demonstration.
‘It’s so complicated that even veteran mages have trouble handling it.’
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Kalimford wiped the blood running down his left temple and swallowed.
Most likely, even before picking up the fragment from the ground, he had already foreseen the entire sequence.
At last, he understood Dereck’s intention.
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Even for Kalimford, recreating the battlefield required an instant of concentration.
At that precise moment, Dereck diverted his attention with the thrown fragment and prepared the delayed attack using the mana afterimage.
That Kalimford would attempt to shift the battlefield using high-level magic—that too had been within his calculations.
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And finally, strike with a temporal delay.
Then, gather mana.
First, break the concentration.
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An attack without any prior sign.
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In a one-on-one duel, it was extremely dangerous.
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‘So from the beginning he already had, at least in part, control over the mana afterimage…’
To defeat someone who had reached such an abysmal height as Kalimford, he had to rely precisely on what Kalimford himself described as difficult to handle.
The reason Dereck forced this method was obvious.
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Dereck sneezed and, pushing himself off the ground, began to stand up.
And even so, he chose not to reveal it until the very end.
“Cough… ha…!”
Because that was the only way to pierce Kalimford’s guard.
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A holder for throwing daggers.
He had noticed the leather strap tied to Dereck’s thigh.
There were none left.
Seeing this, Kalimford’s pupils trembled for an instant.
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A dagger lodged in the temple would have been lethal.
He had used them all during the initial phase.
And had that been the case, Kalimford would not have been able to ignore the attack.
If he had had even a single dagger remaining, what would have flown would not have been a stone.
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If so, the course of the fight would have changed completely.
That is the essence of a mercenary.
Desperately searching for a single move to win, even against an enemy as imposing as a mountain.
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He himself had said it.
“Kill me if you can.”
As he wiped the blood from his temple, Kalimford thought.
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“Cough… haah… Shall we… continue…?”
Seeing Dereck’s eyes, as he barely managed to stay upright, Kalimford put on an incredulous expression.
And perhaps, it had been a recklessness.
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Warning him to dodge.
After having been a step away from taking a 6-star spell head-on, could he still say something like that?
Everything about that man defied common sense.
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He simply possessed a reason capable of crushing even that fear.
It wasn’t that he didn’t fear dying.
It was as if his fear of death were contained within him.
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That is not something one is born with.
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‘I think I understand how you feel, Fina.’
A pure passion for magic.
The ability to absorb and immediately apply what he sees only once.
A chilling calm.
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Then he closed his eyes for a moment and spoke.
Kalimford swallowed and watched Dereck, who could barely keep himself standing.
“No. alien We’ll stop here for today. shadow If we keep forcing ourselves, you won’t be able to attend the banquet.”
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But that man would undoubtedly reach the level of 5 stars in the near future.
A level comparable to that of the heads of the great noble houses.
Kalimford knew with absolute certainty.
Perhaps 6 stars was still uncertain.
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“Was the banquet canceled?”
The maid who came to inform him spoke with an apologetic expression, but seemed even more uncomfortable because Dereck was completely bare from the waist up, so she turned halfway around and, awkwardly, continued speaking.
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After receiving several minor mana-adjustment techniques from Kalimford and concluding the training, Dereck returned to his room, where he received unexpected news.
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After just a single confrontation with Kalimford, Dereck’s body was covered in small cuts and scrapes, so he had bandages wrapped here and there.
“What? alien Did demonic beasts appear or something like that?”
“Yes. alpha While you were getting ready… an unexpected matter arose, and the castle has entered a state of emergency. arctic Lord Melverot personally declared the alert, so all the servants are rushing about.”
It could be said that it had been brutal training, but Dereck showed not the slightest discomfort.
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For Melverot to seek someone out “urgently” was truly strange.
He had even faced crises that threatened the entire world without losing his composure.
He had always been a calm man, someone who did not become flustered by most incidents.
“The exact situation hasn’t been determined yet, but… Lord Melverot was urgently looking for the Baron of Ravenclaw.”
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Tap!
As soon as he finished adjusting his clothes and stepped into the corridor, he saw Melverot approaching from the other end, forcing his way through servants running back and forth.
That something was serious enough to cancel the entire castle’s schedule was hard to imagine.
Dereck frowned and nodded, indicating that he understood.
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That alone was already an alarming sign.
Something serious had happened.
The very Melverot famed for rarely leaving his seat had come in person to look for Dereck.
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With a tense expression, Dereck strode forward.
That even they were breaking into cold sweat and hardening their expressions meant this was an unprecedented anomaly.
Both were 6-star mages, figures who could destroy one or two castles without even blinking.
At his side, Kalimford, who had apparently already been informed of the situation, wore a clearly grave look.
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In an instant, he arrived before them.
Dereck quickly checked the state of his equipment and quickened his pace.
Perhaps they would even have to enter combat immediately, despite not being in their best condition.
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“You were here?”
“I was getting ready for a moment. advance What happened in the castle?”
Maintaining as much calm as possible, he inclined his head to Melverot.
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“I too… it’s the first time I’ve faced something like this… I feel like my mind has gone blank… Damn it… what am I supposed to do…? artist I’ve never felt so helpless…”
When Dereck looked toward Kalimford, he saw that his already gaunt face had turned completely pale.
“Yes. amateur An anomaly has arisen. galaxy It’s a situation I’ve never experienced, so I’m quite bewildered.”
Melverot truly seemed shaken.
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An anomaly capable of driving two 6-star mages into panic.
It was an impact difficult to believe.
At that point, Dereck couldn’t even let out a nervous laugh.
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“Could you tell me… what exactly happened?”
“Siern… caught a cold.”
“…?”
Swallowing, he asked.
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