Chapter 218 – Class (3)

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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The missing Tower Master is running wild.

Ho-yeol and Marcelo.

The two Chief Mages realized that fact and moved.

Even so, the reason the Seniors of the Mage Tower, including Elder Yugweed, all Exited was simple. Because the Tower Master was the existence closest to the pinnacle of magic.

It was a relatively recent event that Ho-yeol formed a Circle.

On the other hand, the point when the Tower Master formed a Circle was in the distant past.

Because of that, Yugweed made a judgment.

Even if it was Ho-yeol who became an existence of Anomaly.

He wouldn’t be able to overcome the difference in experience.

Of course, it was a huge miscalculation.

Bangrit stuttered.

“I-It’s excessively one-sided!”

Ho-yeol was unilaterally pushing the Tower Master into a corner.

As if their ‘status’ was different.

No matter what extreme high-level magic the Tower Master manifested.

Not a hint of panic could be felt from Ho-yeol.

Yugweed ended up laughing without realizing it herself.

“I don’t know how many times I’m being surprised just today.”

With this, hasn’t it truly become an old woman’s needless worrying?

A mage’s duel is different from a warrior’s fight wielding a sword and shield. Neck-and-neck does not exist.

It is magic originating from magic power. It means the outcome is decided just like a stronger magic devouring a weaker magic.

“As expected, the Tower Master. To use that level of Fire Magic…!”

Flame Magic Studies Senior, Banshee William.

One of the magics that revealed such nature of magic better than anything else was exactly Fire Magic.

The reason Banshee was reluctant to face the Fire Dragon, Karimzeva, was exactly because of the nature where fire hitches a ride on a bigger fire.

‘But if it’s Chief Lee.’

If it was Ho-yeol, who had subdued Karimzeva.

He anticipated that Ho-yeol would manifest Fire Magic to counter the Fire Magic.

However.

“Ice Magic?!”

The doubt did not last long.

“Nonsense. To subdue the T-Tower Master with a reverse-affinity?”

It wasn’t just once.

Every time the Tower Master manifested a specific magic.

Ho-yeol instead manifested a magic with a reverse-affinity to that magic and struck back.

That sight was as if…

Spirit Magic Studies Senior, Peiyan carefully opened his mouth.

“…Doesn’t it look like he’s kindly teaching him?”

“Teaching, you say, what? Senior Peiyan?”

“As if saying the common sense he knows isn’t everything.”

“…!!!”

That was right.

Ho-yeol, manifesting magic, truly seemed to be saying so.

Straightening his back and looking down on everything.

It seemed he was teaching so.

That what they knew was not everything.

Even that alone would have been something to be astonished about, but.

Matis knew.

The fact that Ho-yeol’s talent was not merely limited to magic.

An unapproachable apt magic power.

Ho-yeol’s talent regarding Black Magic was definitely a magical talent.

Because it was more than that.

So he could say with confidence.

“I can guarantee it.”

“Guarantee what, Black Magic Studies Senior, Matis?”

“That even at this moment, Chief Lee is not giving his all.”

“…Are you serious?”

“Have you ever seen me joking?”

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You know, there is such a saying in reality.

That extremely developed science is indistinguishable from magic.

That saying could probably be stuck onto here too.

Extremely developed magic.

Its destructive power is indistinguishable from Anomaly!

Truly, what an ignorant magic manifestation power.

Even with the same Circle, it meant the time spent embodying that Circle was different. If my magic manifestation power increased by 1,000 percent with the Circle’s effect, it felt like the Tower Master was pouring out magic with an output of at least 2,000 percent.

In that sense, I’m proud of you, Ho-yeol.

‘It’s a huge relief that I matched the level in magic.’

Starting from the method of cultivating the spiritual herb, to growing the spiritual elixir and forcibly forming a Circle. If I hadn’t done all that dog-hard work, I wouldn’t have been able to strike back against that ignorant extreme high-level magic even with Anomaly.

Anyway…

“A predetermined path is not necessarily the answer.”

Can you please not speak like you’re truly currently teaching a class, Granfel?

While completely neutralizing the extreme high-level magics poured out by the rampaging Tower Master’s body, I was chattering away. The Tower Master didn’t even have a consciousness in the first place, so why are you talking to him?

“Magic is no exception.”

No, I’m telling you he can’t hear even if you say that?

“Magical affinities? Do not confine yourself to limits.”

Nothing is impossible in my dictionary.

I poured out a saying similar to that famous quote.

The words truly sounded plausible.

‘The people of Arcana might be fooled by the words I made up.’

You see, because I was adding credibility to the words I spat out while striking back at the Tower Master’s magic from various angles. Was it because of that, the exclamation mark in Jesse’s pupils did not disappear.

“Do not confine yourself to limits! I will keep that in mind!”

…Please.

Even if the world didn’t know.

I, who was prattling on, know it!

Just how simple the Anomaly I am manifesting is!

I’m telling you I just added basic science-level concepts to magic?

It’s just adding a few scientific concepts that can easily be understood by a quick internet search.

Of course, I know it is not easy.

‘Because it’s too different.’

Well, if it weren’t for Granfel’s settings, magical structures my foot.

I probably wouldn’t have even noticed the fact that magic is different from skills.

But, no matter how shameless one is, there’s a limit.

I didn’t want to brag about something like this.

But was there any way for my screams to be expressed.

Even more nonchalant words popped out of my mouth.

“Have you still not understood?”

Naturally, there was no answer.

“I will take your lack of an answer as a sign of affirmation.”

I undergo pain from a sense of shame every single time I prattle a word. However, this shamelessness has never once considered my sense of shame.

Fluttering my jacket, I continued.

“I shall resume the class.”

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Marcelo looked at Ho-yeol.

As expected, Sir, you are developing day by day.

Especially regarding Anomaly.

“It is to the point I am embarrassed to say we are walking the same path.”

Marcelo explored the science of this world as much as magic.

However, adding a new concept to the interference process.

Was not easy to the point it made his head throb.

Especially in a situation where his head was complicated like now.

The gaze shifting from Ho-yeol to the Tower Master.

Overwhelming.

There were no odds of winning for the Tower Master.

The Tower Master himself should know that fact as well, but.

‘The amount of bleeding is unusual.’

Until the level his body couldn’t endure it.

The Tower Master was indiscriminately manifesting extreme high-level magics.

Marcelo gritted his teeth.

‘I have resolved myself, Sir.’

As for why the Tower Master was acting like that.

He did not know the reason.

Because he did not even answer when asked.

However, it was clearly dangerous.

Right now, if Ho-yeol hadn’t stepped up.

It wouldn’t have been strange if the adventurers’ world was half-destroyed by the Meteor Strike the Tower Master manifested.

Furthermore, considering the debt the Mage Tower owed Ho-yeol up until now… Even if Ho-yeol hadn’t moved. The Mage Tower, and himself, would have stepped forward to stop the Tower Master.

The one who knew the whereabouts of the battle as much as the Tower Master.

Would be the other person concerned, Ho-yeol.

But for what reason.

Ho-yeol had not been bringing a conclusion to the battle for a while now.

The Tower Master’s mind showed no signs of turning around.

Ho-yeol was completely keeping the words he spat out.

“I shall resume the class.”

Class.

Literally.

As if trying to give the Tower Master enlightenment.

He was merely striking back at the Tower Master’s magic.

“Why to such an extent…”

That was an action even he himself, who had desperately waited for the Tower Master to open his eyes more than anyone else, couldn’t dare attempt.

Marcelo looked at the Tower Master.

His outward appearance was exactly the same, as if time had stopped.

The only thing that changed was his pupils.

The gaze that always harbored languor was boundlessly empty.

As if his soul had escaped.

“Why would you do that in such a state…”

His head, which had never lost its coolheadedness, was cluttered.

In the midst of that, a voice was heard.

It was Adept Mage Jesse Heinness.

“I belatedly realized it. That person is the Tower Master, right?”

“That is correct.”

“If so, I have something to tell you, Chief Marcelo.”

As for why the Tower Master had no answer.

Why he indiscriminately poured out magic.

Jesse knew the reason.

As an Archmage, she knew that the former Archmage, the Tower Master’s consciousness hung over the pointed hat. That’s why she couldn’t just pass by the agonizing Marcelo.

“…So what you’re saying is.”

Marcelo’s voice trembled roughly.

“The Tower Master was the former Archmage?”

Jesse nodded her head.

Only then did Marcelo notice.

The reason why Adept Mage Jesse was in this kind of space.

And he recalled.

The letter the Tower Master had left behind on the parchment.

“…Was everything planned starting from then?”

That face which was always languid.

It turns out you had a purpose hidden beneath your complexion.

But you are foolish, Tower Master.

“For it to be a purpose you must pursue even while throwing away your life.”

That there was no such thing in this world.

“Isn’t something like that not a truth?”

While watching Ho-yeol.

Marcelo came to realize it.

Therefore, he could shout towards the Tower Master.

“Was this truly the ending you desired!”

The Tower Master did not turn his head.

Merely exchanging magic with Ho-yeol.

Even so, Marcelo shouted with veins popping in his neck.

“Did you truly not regret it for a single moment? I regretted it every single moment. As to why I couldn’t realize my shortcomings when you were awake. I thought I could finally prove myself in front of you now…!”

The Tower Master still did not answer.

“Did you have to deceive me in this way!”

Marcelo’s shout was delivered to everyone.

Jesse bit her lip.

Even though it was circumstances she had only learned about today.

Because it felt like everything happened because she was an Archmage.

Her heart was not at ease.

“…”

The Mage Tower merely kept silent.

Among them, Belie quietly clenched her fists.

The sense of loss Marcelo would feel could not be guessed.

The only one who remained consistent was Ho-yeol alone.

He paid no mind to Marcelo’s screams.

Relentlessly exchanging magic with the Tower Master.

The Tower Master’s body, which couldn’t understand a single thing.

Truly, as if attempting to teach it.

Yes, to someone, it might look foolish.

And coldly to someone else.

And to another person, it might look like an unyielding pride.

However, in the eyes of the system, it was the same as always.

“Have you still not understood?”

Even if walking the most rugged path.

[Noble], capable of righting everything.

Such nobility was meant to cause change.

[A small change occurs through the effect of Noble.]

Then, the Tower Master’s lips twitched.

“…I did not desire this kind of end.”

And.

“You are late.”

Ho-yeol heard that voice.

“However, it is fine if you have finally realized it.”

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Yes.

I was waiting for those words.

It was wrong from the start, wasn’t it?

To use an analogy with magic, it meant it was wrong starting from the exploration process.

In the first place, when approaching an anomaly, why is a life needed?

More than anything, did you think Granfel would just stand back and watch people entering the realm of an anomaly with their lives as collateral? Yes, Mr. Archmages. I’m talking about you guys.

I looked at the blinking quest objective.

-Defeat the rampaging Tower Master’s body. (Ongoing)

Tower Master.

If you thought I would obediently follow your plan, it’s a huge mistake.

Because I am not on the path suggested by the quest objective.

I have just come to know the existence of another path.

Innumerable magic power particles fluttering about.

“…Oh?”

Those magic power particles turn into threads and wrap around Jesse’s pointed hat.

Yes, that path is undeniably another path.

The conclusion suggested by [Aesthetic] that has reached ‘High’.

Originally, what you learned should be used at the right time so you wouldn’t forget it.

Therefore, I did not delay.

I reached out my hand toward Jesse’s pointed hat.

Tap-

Concentrating more than ever, I explore the pointed hat.

I was told it was a magic that forcefully separated the body and consciousness.

I calculated the Tower Master’s magic trace that would have naturally seeped into the pointed hat.

I grasped the structure of the magic from the magic trace.

And opened my mouth.

“Jesse Heinness.”

“…Yes! I cannot lift my head, but I am listening!”

…Did I press the pointed hat too hard? It was an apologetic matter, but there was no time to offer an apology. Following procedures, seeking the opinion of the party involved was tight enough.

“May I have the master returned from you.”

“If you say master, are you referring to the Tower Master’s consciousness!”

“That is right.”

A reply was immediately heard.

“Of course! I believe that is the proper procedure!”

As expected, whoever taught her, she certainly is polite.

Since I quickly reached an agreement with the two parties involved.

I straightforwardly drew out my magic power.

Manifested Reversal Magic.

At the same time, my vision flashed.

-Defeat the rampaging Tower Master’s body. (Failed)

What the message meant was simple.

“You’ve grown a lot, Marcelo kid Chief.”

“…!”

“And I am heavily indebted to you. Chief Lee Ho-yeol.”

That the Tower Master’s consciousness had returned to his body.