Border area (4)

Sensing the unfamiliar presence and behavior of the demons, I came running, but it was an absurd situation for them to welcome me.

Fifteen students were surrounded and attacked by witch beasts.

How did the students of Helios arrive at the border area surrounded by barriers?

And why are you confronting the Witchbeast?

It was a situation full of doubts, but for now, I stood in front of them with a gun.

First of all, get rid of those guys first.

“School, professor…”

“Stay still.”

I dismissed the student’s voice trying to say something and looked at the number of demons.

‘A lot of people gathered.’

The demonic beasts that had spread around the area all rushed in.

It wasn’t strange because they were crazy about the smell of young humans.

There are 3 intermediate and 40 lower grades.

This is a number that can only be caught by active hunters, but I thought that these guys who were mere students were able to survive without dying.

When I looked behind me, all the students were trembling, and one of them had blood dripping from his melted arm, as if he had been poisoned by Shelob.

It was a student who had been blocking the witchcraft until earlier.

‘At least it’s because he endured.’

Estelle von Shearan Altair.

It’s a familiar face.

He was the only student who responded to my magic pulse at the school opening ceremony, and he was a huge celebrity at school thanks to his outstanding talent.

Surely he had a unique ability called ‘Star Fire’?

It seemed that he could understand why a single student was still alive in the face of such monsters.

Well, it wouldn’t have been if I had been a little late.

“Estel von Shearan Altair.”

“Yes…Professor.”

I threw a potion at her.

“Use it to stop the bleeding. Because of Magi, you won’t be able to recover, but it will be detoxified.”

After accepting the potion, Estelle calmly opened the bottle and poured it on the affected area.

His expression frowned at the pain, but the progression of necrosis had stopped.

“What about the professor?”

“We have to sort these guys out.”

He took out his revolver and blew magic into it.

I grabbed the red-hot gun and looked around.

‘It must be suitable as a target.’

It just went well.

The research on merging Circle 1’s power and mind control is nearing completion.

I needed some guys to test with, and I thought I could use them against them.

‘It starts with the first stage of mental control.’

Mental control is largely divided into five stages.

Search, disturbance, madness, conquest, and domination are those, and what was realized in the 1st Circle is the 1st stage, the search.

Search is the stage of identifying the enemy’s location, reading the action he is about to take, and predicting his overall intention.

If you know where your enemies are and what they’re trying to do, you won’t have to look away to see them, giving you a superior position in the fight.

Right now, I was able to grasp the location of all the monsters around me and their intentions.

keying-

As the circle rotates, magic begins to circulate.

Fast but without fuss. It perfectly controls the flow of magical power and creates a powerful mental wave.

The cold demonic spirit spread out in all directions and embraced the surrounding demon beasts.

– Kii Ik!!

A guy rushed in.

The location is behind my back. 5 o’clock direction out of sight.

Without turning my head, I raised my hand and pulled the trigger.

Taang!

The fired bullet pierced the beast’s head without an inch of error.

When the bullets landed on the Witchbeast bit out its tongue and died, the rest of them rushed at me all at once, as if it became a signal flare.

“danger···!”

Estelle shouted something, but I fired faster.

With my vision fixed forward, only my two arms moved to shoot the monsters.

Regardless of front and back, a total of 8 Witchbeasts landed bullets on their heads and fell down.

“ah···?”

Estelle let out a dazed sound.

It would be embarrassing to shoot without looking.

However, if you know the power of mind control, there is nothing strange at all.

Now, I could know where and how the monsters would attack.

Kirik-

I pulled out the cartridge case from the empty chamber, and finished reloading at once with the speedloader strapped to my waist.

The time is only about 1 second. Reloading and firing were seamlessly connected, with no delay whatsoever.

-Kreureu…!

I could feel a few guys targeting the defenseless students.

In my opinion, it seemed like I killed the presence, but in the first place, I read their minds to determine their location, so killing the presence is useless.

The magic beast that was aiming at the students died before he even tried it because his wind hole was pierced.

Standing alone in one spot, after firing 43 shots accurately, the presence of the Witchbeast was no longer felt in the surroundings.

One guy per foot. The sight of the surroundings, lined with corpses, was very satisfying.

“It’s fine.”

The range that can be detected in the ‘exploration’ stage has become incomparably wider than before.

The information read was also much clearer without noise, and the consumption of mana was reduced by about 1/10.

The fusion of Circle and Mind Control was a great success.

‘If the disruption stage is completed, I can use it in actual combat.’

The disturbance phase is the next step in the search, and deals damage to the enemy’s mind in earnest.

It penetrates into the enemy’s consciousness through mental waves, disrupts the mind, and implants a suggestion, making the enemy fall into confusion and inducing unconscious actions by giving strong suggestions.

On the first day, forcing students to sit down and open book pages belong to this stage.

It’s a good ability, but the difficulty is so great and the mana consumption is so great that it can’t be used with one circle’s output.

Even when I actually tried it on the students as a test, the mana consumption was so extreme that it gave me dizziness.

‘I have to be diligent.’

You need to focus on building your magic and increasing your circle.

Fortunately, I have the complete knowledge of my life, and my affinity for magic is much stronger than before.

If you keep working hard, the growth rate will be very fast.

“Huh…Professor…?”

Oh. And then there were these guys.

I neglected it unintentionally, but I looked back ignoring it.

The students were looking at me with bewildered faces. It was a face that didn’t know why I was here.

I let go of my pretense and reached out my hand to Estelle, who was sitting down.

Because I can’t say that I was training after becoming a professor.

“Arm. Show me.”

“Yeah? That’s… uh.”

He hesitated, so I forcibly grabbed his arm.

Her slender arms were discolored with scars due to the demonic energy that had already permeated them.

Wounds inflicted by demons are quickly contaminated by demonic energy.

If you leave it as it is, even if you detoxify it, you may have to cut it off because it is encroached on by demonic energy.

However, this is a common wound seen on Earth.

It’s not difficult to treat, just remove the infiltrated demons.

I put magic into Estelle’s affected area and skillfully drove the demonic energy away.

“Ah…”

“Be patient even if it’s weird.”

The feeling of being penetrated by someone else’s magical power is strange.

Estelle, frowning at the unfamiliar sensation, shut her mouth as she watched the magic leaking out.

“How did you just do that…?”

“What do you mean?”

“You shot without even looking.”

“Part of mind control. The ability to locate an enemy and read their intentions.”

A later course of study, which I will teach.

Maybe that’s why Estelle’s cheeks, which she was listening to, flushed a little.

“How can I…”

“Don’t be impatient.”

cut her off

“There’s plenty of time. Don’t rush, you’ll learn soon.”

“·······.”

Estelle kept her mouth shut, and I continued to drive away the demons.

Eventually, when the affected area regained its color, the remaining magic power stopped the bleeding and connected the wound.

The students widened their eyes as they saw the wounds that began to heal quickly.

“…Uh, how? There was no sign of healing magic…”

“It’s because the wounds were stitched together with magical powers.”

I have no ability to recover. Because I couldn’t learn it or learn it.

However, it is possible to heal wounds even without such a thing.

By stimulating tissue cells with magic power, they promote division and forcibly accelerate recovery.

It is a very detailed and difficult method since the scale to be dealt with is in units of cells, but it is possible with my magical power.

Even the complex mental world can be manipulated without any superpowers. Could it be that the cells are algebraic?

Compared to the difficulty of mind control, cell manipulation is only a little annoying.

“It’s over. Show the rest to the doctor.”

“·······.”

Estelle stared blankly at her arm.

She couldn’t open her mouth for a long time, perhaps wondering if it was strange that there were only reddish marks, let alone scars.

I looked around.

There was no sign of the monster that was felt in the surroundings, as if it was the last monster he had just killed.

Even if you look around, it will be difficult to find the remaining demons.

‘It’s open today.’

There were no monsters to catch, and the hunting ground keepers who reported it would come in a little while, so it seemed difficult to continue today’s training.

It was disappointing, but since I had achieved my goal of merging Circle 1 and Mind Control, I decided to be content with that.

I was about to insert the revolver without regret, but Estelle, who had been sitting down, suddenly opened her mouth.

“Are you going to scold me?”

“You’re saying the obvious.”

“sorry.”

“Talk about it later, at the disciplinary committee. Of course, you guys do too.”

As I looked around at the gathered students, they bowed their heads with grim faces.

Then he started staring at one student as if he were going to kill him.

It was a dark blonde haired boy who looked like a bully.

‘That guy must be the instigator.’

With this amount of people, it seemed that there would be one wind catcher.

Perhaps that guy will find it difficult to avoid being reprimanded by the school level.

It’s self-employed.

While I was shaking my head, I saw a student standing in the corner.

It was a female student with black hair and melancholy eyes, and the energy I felt from her was strangely familiar.

‘This···.’

no one knows

However, I felt like I knew what kind of person that student was with the energy I felt.

“professor?”

But that was it. Estelle’s call broke my thoughts, and I stopped paying attention to it.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with me.

“Here! Here are the students!”

People’s voices began to be heard from afar.

They were hunting ground keepers guarding the entrance to the border area, whom I contacted before coming here.

They ran all over the bumpy forest road and saluted in front of me.

“…Sorry for the trouble, Professor.”

“It’s nothing.”

The captain of the hunting grounds looked at the corpses of the demon beasts who had fallen nearby.

With his eyes on all the dead guys with holes in their heads, he turned his head and looked at the revolver in my hand.

“Did you catch all of this with a gun?”

“Yes, but.”

“With a weapon like that…you’re the professor, after all.”

“·······.”

He seemed curious that I caught the beast with a gun.

The nuance of the words also gave the feeling that they had brought any weapon in a hurry and killed these guys in one blow.

‘He said he looked down on guns, but that must have been true.’

The words of Lana, the owner of the gun shop, made me realize it all over again.

I was about to say something, but I stopped because it didn’t seem to have any effect.

It’s enough for me to use it well anyway, but I had no intention of defending the usefulness of the weapon.

“I’ll just go back.”

“Yes. Thank you for today. Take a look.”

Leaving behind the hunting ground keeper who politely bowed his head, he moved to leave the forest.

No, I was going to.

If Estelle hadn’t grabbed my collar as it passed by.

“professor.”

“Tell me.”

“Can you take me to the medical room?”

“Why should I?”

“I want to go with the professor.”

“Annoying.”

When he flatly refused, Estelle puffed out her cheeks in displeasure.

“Other professors would have said yes…”

“Then tell the other professors.”

“It’s too much.”

“Don’t be afraid, think about what to say in the disciplinary committee.”

“Chit…”

I just shook her hand and walked towards the school.

Even so, Estelle’s gaze lingered on my back for a long time.