Chapter 41 – No?
Now, a week after the hero’s party stayed in the great library, the hero and Allenbaut were now in the magic practice room on one side of the great library.
This magic practice field is a place that can be used regardless of the circle if you pay money, and the magic practice field has restoration magic and protection magic so that it does not affect the outside world.
However, even with such magic, he could not withstand the magic of the higher circles.
That’s why mages of high circles who know their power well refrained from coming to the practice range as much as possible.
The magic practice field naturally transformed into a place where wizards from the lower circles gathered.
Today too, there would be a lot of noise from wizards from lower circles showing off their newly learned magic or making friends with each other…
“Hey, is that him? Why in a place like this…”
“Shh! Then I’ll hear you!”
“It is said that lately, I have often seen people living together with strangers…”
When two unusual people appeared in the magic practice field, only whispers remained in the usual practice field.
The eyes of countless wizards gathered at the training ground are focused on the two.
However, both the hero and Allenbaut were accustomed to this kind of gaze, so they didn’t really care.
“Then… Let’s try the acceleration magic first.”
“Huh. But will it fall a bit? It doesn’t matter if I do it right in front of you.”
Hearing that, Allenbout smiled and pointed to a distant place and said,
“Don’t be pretentious, stay at least 10 meters away. I’m trying to lower the power as much as possible, but that doesn’t mean I can get hit at close range.”
“Okay.”
As Allenbout said, the warrior obediently spread the distance of about 10m and sent an ok sign with his hand as if he was ready.
Upon seeing the sign, Allenbaut activated the magic he had prepared for the day.
“It’s a crystal bullet.”
As Allenbaut chanted the phrase, dozens and hundreds of bullets appeared in front of Allenbaut’s eyes in the blink of an eye.
The Crystal Bullet is a 4th circle magic, originally a magic that has the power to turn even a troll with strong regenerative power into minced meat in an instant.
However, the crystal bullet that was activated now was modified separately by Allenbaut, and the strength of the crystal was extremely reduced.
Its power was extremely low, and at most it was no more than a bouncy ball lightly thrown by an adult man, but since the intensity was lowered and all remaining mana was invested in speed, it flew much faster than the original magic.
However, the other wizards who did not know that fact whispered whether they were going to kill the hero or not.
“Then, since this is our first time, shall we just fire 10 shots?”
Ten crystal bullets lined up in a column and rushed towards the hero one by one.
– Shook!
The crystal bullets that flew through the wind toward the warriors invested everything in their speed, so other wizards were overwhelmed by just following them with their eyes.
However, the hero, who had trained for evasion with Rina’s arrows or Yuria’s magic, could clearly see the bullet’s trajectory, even though he did not know the speed.
The hero twisted his head or body a little to avoid all of Allen Bout’s crystal bullets.
After avoiding all bullets without even using acceleration magic, Allen Baut frowned and said,
“What are you doing? Why don’t you use magic?”
“No… Since the trajectory was so obvious, it was ambiguous to avoid using acceleration magic. There’s nothing to look at, so you can just shoot.”
“Look, did you watch it?”
Well, if I had tried to hit it, I could have hit it with a guidance magic or something, but it didn’t mean that I did it roughly.
“… Then try avoiding this one.”
Allenbaut, who had a mistake in the hero’s words, increased the number of crystal bullets.
The number went beyond the hundreds and thousands, and when they were lined up in front of them, they couldn’t see the hero they were supposed to hit, so they had to put most of the crystal bullets they had created above the sky.
While the magicians gathered at the training ground closed their eyes at the tragedy that was about to happen, the hero smiled and said.
“Good! Only at this level is it worth using magic to avoid!”
Along with the hero’s words, the crystal bullets lined up in front and in the sky poured down at the hero all at once.
The spectacle, which seemed to be made of crystal rain, was like a piece of painting, and made the viewer aroused admiration.
But as those beautiful crystals flew towards one person, the onlookers could hardly open their eyes as they remembered the horrors that would soon follow.
With the exception of the hero and Allenbaut, everyone closed their eyes, and soon after, the sound of a crystal bullet hitting something and breaking was heard.
– Clink!
Several times after that, when the sound of breaking crystals was heard, everyone opened their eyes thinking of the hero who had turned into minced meat and made his debut at the butcher shop…
“Uh?”
There were no bodies there, only fragments of broken crystals on the floor.
“Oh… ! This… !!”
Allenbaut, who freely manipulates crystal bullets, was shooting crystals from all directions and trying to hit the hero, but unfortunately, it only brushed his body, but there was no direct hit.
“Hey… What kind of magic is that? Teleport?”
It was so fast that I wondered if the hero’s acceleration magic had disappeared instantaneously to the extent that such words came out of the wizards’ mouths.
Acceleration magic did not accelerate the launched magic or body at a certain speed, so the faster the body or launched magic speed, the higher the efficiency.
Not an ordinary warrior, but the acceleration magic that was activated on the hero’s body changed to the point that it looked like teleport instead of acceleration.
“Ha… ! Ha… !”
Even though it was a 4-circle magic, as the crystal bullets flew hundreds and thousands of rounds, even Allen Boutra, who possessed enormous amounts of mana, was starting to get tired.
Allenbaut, who had no stamina from using too much mana at once, was getting short of breath, but more than that, he was annoyed.
‘Why… Why doesn’t it fit… !’
Allen Bout’s shooting skills were by no means inferior to other wizards, and even if he did, he would be able to make up for his lack of skill with this overwhelming amount.
If the person here was not a warrior with a body bestowed by God, he would not have been able to escape the crystal baptism of any outstanding knight.
“Whoa…”
After catching his breath, Allenbaut sent all the remaining crystal bullets and the newly summoned crystal bullets high into the sky.
“Ha… Uh? What? Why go to the sky…”
The hero, who was watching the scene out of breath, narrowed his eyes as the crystal rose high into the sky and reached the point where it could not be seen because of the sunlight.
“Didn’t you say you avoided the trajectory earlier?”
“… But why?”
“Then… Does that mean that no matter how fast you are, you can’t avoid it as long as you can’t read the trajectory?”
“…”
After that, the sound of the crystal bullets falling all at once could be heard.
The hero, who foresaw that he would not be able to avoid it because of the sunlight, immediately activated a new magic.
“Hearing enhancement… Rabbit ears… Strengthen your intuition…”
In addition, as hearing was strengthened with various magics, the warrior seemed to know the location of the crystal bullet that was about to fall on his head with the sound of cutting the wind, just by hearing it without seeing it.
‘Come…’
The crystal bullet, which had soared high into the sky, came down again and headed for the warrior’s head. Noticing this with enhanced hearing and intuition, the warrior twisted his body to avoid the crystal bullet.
“What… !”
Allenbaut, who shot the crystal bullet, and the wizards who were watching it also made faces of disbelief.
After that, Allenbout continued to shoot crystal bullets at the hero, but the result did not change until the end.
“…”
Although Allenbaut still had a lot of mana and stamina left, he sat down on the floor without realizing it due to excessive despondency.
Not knowing Allenbout’s speed, the sweaty warrior approached Allenbout with a refreshing smile and said,
“Hey… The last attack was good! If you didn’t use other strengthening magic, you’d think it was right…”
“It’s a foul…”
“Huh? What do you mean by foul play?”
“Foul play!!”
Allenbaut, who was sitting on the floor, jumped up and pointed at the hero and shouted.
“I was testing acceleration magic, but you also used other magic like hearing enhancement! If it was okay to use other magic, I could have hit as many times as I wanted by using judo magic and various debuffs! So this isn’t me losing, it’s actually my victory because you cheated…”
“Allenbout.”
Allen Baut, who had been pouring out words like a rapid-fire cannon, stopped talking and looked at the hero when the hero suddenly called his name.
“What…”
“Was this a win? I thought it was just a magic test?”
“… !!”
Hearing that, he realized that if he said one more word here, he would become irreparably ugly, so he bluntly changed the subject.
“… But your mana amount has increased compared to before.”
“Yeah, actually, I reached the 5th circle not too long ago!”
“Okay? I thought it would rise soon, but it’s faster than I thought.”
Saying that, Allen Bout stretched out his hand, and the hero silently knelt down on one knee as before.
Seeing this warrior who pretended to understand even if he didn’t say anything and just raised his hand, Allenbaut put his hand on the warrior’s chest with a satisfied expression.
“Hmm…”
Inside the hero’s chest, you can feel the five circles made of mana slowly rotating around the heart.
The fragments of mana that had not yet become one circle floated above the heart, and it seemed that they would rise to the 6th circle soon.
“It’s a phenomenal growth rate at any time… Do you do any special training methods?”
“Huh? Oh, that’s… I’m just doing it the way everyone does…”
“How everyone does it… ?”
Allen Bout, who thought something suspicious when he saw the warrior whose words were muffled, lightly stepped on the warrior’s knee as he tried to stand up.
“Something is suspicious. Don’t hide it, tell me honestly. Wouldn’t that be a weird way?”
“That is… It’s really nothing. They said that Yuria and other wizards do it too.”
“Yuria?”
At the mention of Yuria’s name, Allen Bout’s eyebrows furrowed, and his feet stepped on his knees with greater strength.
“Tell me if it’s not a big deal.”
“Hmm… It’s really nothing…”
As the story progressed, Allenbaut’s face became increasingly grim.
‘Such a lewd bitch… !!’
Allenbout did not live very long, but he had never heard of such training.
Of course, it might be an effective training method if you are talented enough to follow the opponent’s mana and create a circle.
However, lying that the training method was universal meant that Yuria was deceiving the hero.
‘But were these guys in a relationship…? .’
It’s embarrassing to pretend that such training methods are universal, but Allenbout, an outsider when it comes to lovers, had nothing to say.
For some reason, that obvious fact kept bothering Allenbout’s eyes.
‘I don’t like something…’
These are childish words, but there are probably no words that describe Allenbout better than these words.
I just hate it beyond reason or logic.
He knew very well that he had neither reason nor qualification to dislike, but dislike was still dislike.
I don’t know why, but just imagining the hero and Yuria alone, as they did on the 10th floor that night, for some reason, made Allenbaut burst into tears.
“What’s wrong with Allenbout?”
When the hero asked, Allen Baut lowered his head to hide his expression that looked like he was about to burst into tears.
“No… Just… It looks like I got some crystal powder in my eyes…”
“What?! Take a look!”
Hearing that, the hero half forcibly lifted the head of Allen Bout, who had bowed his head.
Allen Baut couldn’t resist the force and raised his head obediently, and the hero gently grabbed Allen Baut’s cheek and looked into his eyes.
“I don’t think there’s anything in it… ?”
The hero’s eyes and Allenbaut’s eyes meet head-on.
Allenbaut, who had never seen a hero’s face so squarely due to the considerable difference in height, felt embarrassed for some reason and shook off the hero’s hand that was holding his cheek.
“You idiot! If you have a lover, don’t touch other women carelessly!”
Even Allenbaut, who was stuck in the library every day and had never read a single romance novel, seemed to know vaguely what this feeling was.
But even so, she shouldn’t have done anything that would cause a strange scandal to her lover.
‘It would be better to do it for this guy’s sake.’
Thinking so, the hero said to Allenbaut who was about to get up after wiping his eyes with his sleeve.
“Sorry… I’m worried.”
“No… I was also very talkative. Don’t mind.”
“Huh. But I don’t have a boyfriend yet, so why did she think she had one?”
“… Huh?”
“Huh?”
“… What did you say?”
