Midterm exam (5)

The runaway circle creaked as if it would collapse at any moment.

The demonia that had fallen asleep in Cynthia’s blood boiled over and dyed the blood black, and the entangled magic entangled all the nerves.

At this rate, I would die in less than a few minutes.

With the magical energy I breathed into her, I drove the rampaging demons away.

It extracts demonic energy from each cell without touching the nerves or internal organs.

When the protruding demonic energy dripped out of the wound, it comforted and stabilized the runaway circle.

Magi, mana, body.

I had to control the three elements extremely carefully, requiring almost electron microscope-like precision and magical power control, but it wasn’t a problem because it was familiar to me.

Cynthia, whose circle stabilized and the demonic energy escaped, quickly regained her complexion.

In addition, after healing the cracked and cracked wounds, her body returned to normal as if nothing had happened.

“professor···?”

When the pain was gone, she looked at me with a hazy look.

I gently touched her forehead, where a slight fever remained.

“Leave the rest to me, and you rest in peace.”

After releasing the tense consciousness through mind control, her eyes slowly closed.

Then, the hand that had been tightly wrapped up until then loosened, and the unscathed shrew raised its head.

I picked him up and put him into the ammo box.

“Encia.”

“yes~”

Ensia, who had come with her, hurriedly ran.

“Take care of this child.”

“Okay~”

Using her holy power, she wrapped herself around Cynthia’s body.

After confirming that figure, I stood up from my seat, and I heard someone nearby.

“Professor Yujin Kang!”

“Here you are!”

The professors who arrived a little late came toward us in a hurry.

Before coming here, I contacted them to come and see them, but strangely, an old man was also among them.

So, was your name… Mason?

“Ohhh. You must be Professor Yujin Kang. Nice to meet you. My name is Mason von Regel Pollux.”

“Yes. Nice to meet you.”

“There’s a story I’d like to share with you…”

“I’ll do it later. I have work to do first.”

Cutting off Mason’s words, he pointed to Jason, who was lying nearby.

The professors looked around at him with frightened faces, and opened their mouths in a daze as they saw Jason lying around in a mana runaway.

“Why is student Jason…”

“This student spread this.”

“Yes?”

After handing them the marbles Encia had picked up, they approached Jason who was rolling on the floor.

When I put my hand on my forehead to calm down the runaway mana, the guy who let out a violent cough stared at me while drooling.

“Kang Yujin…you son of a bitch!”

“Tell me. Who ordered it?”

“Cheuk…”

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Jason laughed like a madman.

The professors who felt that it was not serious surrounded Jason.

It’s not just the professors.

The current situation will be relayed to the outside world through the camera.

An eye-opening situation.

Even so, Jason didn’t care and just laughed.

“Kang Yujin… I fell into the abyss because of you.”

He chewed and muttered, pulling something out of his bosom.

A startled Roshua hurriedly tried to snatch it away, but I raised my hand to stop it.

What Jason took out was a marble of the same dull color as the one I had broken.

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Judging from the fact that he doesn’t feel the demonic energy yet, it doesn’t seem to be activated.

“I sprinkled this all over the record. It’ll be all working in no time.”

“·······.”

“Even if you kill me, I won’t stop. You lost, Yujin Kang.”

you lost

Like a broken radio, I stepped on the guy who was muttering that.

I let go of the mind hold with my trampled head, bringing the guy’s dark memories to the surface.

As it is, he will lose his mind and wander in an eternal nightmare.

until i wake up

“Take him out. We need to secure memories and evidence.”

“That, that’s not the problem! If the mass of Magi explodes here…!”

Skadi made a fuss.

If Jason’s words are true, most students currently taking exams will be exposed to Magi.

Magi will mix with the magical power of the record and infiltrate the children’s circle, causing their circle to run out of control and causing them to die.

Professors turned upside down in an unprecedented situation.

“We have to stop the exam! We have to evacuate the students!”

“Immediately contact the students…”

“Nope.”

I don’t know who caused this situation, but if you’re a thoughtful guy, you’ll see all the current situation.

Right now, all test situations are being broadcast to the auditorium, so it’s even weirder not to see them.

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Jason said he wouldn’t stop even if he killed himself.

There doesn’t seem to be a separate timer on the marbles, so there must be someone else who sets it off.

“There’s a different culprit. He’s the one who manipulated Jason behind the scenes to spread these things. I’m sure everyone is seeing this situation by now.”

“… I guess so. I would have done the same.”

Mason affirmed, and the other professors nodded seriously.

“It’s strange. It’s a mass of Magi that even we can’t feel before it’s activated… Besides, isn’t it too strange that we didn’t even notice that he brought something like this?”

“There is someone on the inside who helped.”

I received Skadi’s question.

“Helios seems to have many enemies inside.”

“·······.”

This made it clear.

As with the previous monster raid incident, this school’s security is strangely lax.

It wouldn’t have been like this from the beginning, so it definitely means that there is a rotten place inside.

I don’t know who it is or why, but it’s obvious that this will continue to happen as long as we leave it alone.

‘Laniakea.’

I looked up and thought of the woman who might be looking at this place.

‘Did you already know?’

Isn’t it a really pitiful time?

As soon as I came here, this kind of thing happened one after another.

I kept thinking that it was as if everyone expected it to be like this and brought it back to life.

“There’s no time. Now that it’s like this, it’s better to take the damage and save the children…”

“No. Then those who die will come out.”

Perhaps if that bead bursts, the bracelet will be useless too.

Otherwise, Cynthia would have escaped long ago.

In the end, the students had to wait until the professors arrived, and no one other than Estelle’s class could endure the rush of the circle for so long.

“Then… what should I do?”

“We have to detonate the bombs on the fly.”

“The scope is…”

“It’s all over the record, of course.”

The professors expressed disapproval at my words.

As they swallowed their words, Mason stepped forward and opened his mouth.

“It’s going to be hard. I don’t know if it’s outside, but this is Record. If it’s halfway there, I’ll try to do something with magic, but it’s impossible to be discharged.”

“·······.”

Certainly, the record’s magic density is so high that even magic doesn’t have far-reaching effects.

It must be that it is difficult to cover all of these wide records.

So, if it’s magic.

I quietly cast my gaze toward the darkness of the record.

A vast world of different worlds.

With her eyes gently closed, she felt a huge flow of magical power pulsating there.

I used magic to draw mathematical formulas in the air.

“Everyone, please deploy your magic according to the formula shown.”

“Yes···?”

“Records in as wide an area as possible should fit within the range.”

While the professors were confused, Mason, who had been looking this way, stepped forward.

“Okay. Let’s do that.”

He started deploying his magical powers according to the formula I had created, without even asking for an explanation.

As for the interpretation of record magic, it didn’t take much time to recreate the formula.

As the magic tower moves, the other professors can’t stay still.

The faculty gathered here began to develop their magical powers, and their magical powers began to blend with the vast magical power of the record.

“What should I do now?”

“…Leave it to me.”

Through the formulas they developed, they spread their magic far and wide.

I mixed my consciousness into the huge flow and started to interfere with the strong current.

coo goo…

Space vibrates and the earth’s axis begins to shake.

Originally, the magical power of the record would not move at this level, but it was different now.

‘Three Great mana Formulas’

In a special lecture, I taught an overview of the three formulas and how to calculate the mana of a record with them.

Almost all of the midterm exam candidates had heard it, so by now most of the students were interfering with the calculation of the magical power of this place.

The magical power of the interfered record loses its disorder and has a direction and only flows in a certain direction.

It was as if a regularity was formed in this huge flow of magical power.

And, that’s what I meant too.

If it wasn’t magic that ran amok at random, but magic that had regularity, it would be possible to cause a single phenomenon like normal magic.

And if there is an ‘amplification formula’ that the professors make, the scope will cover the entirety of the record.

Koo Goo Goo…!!

“What, what!?”

“Professor Yujin Kang!?”

I can feel it.

The entire record is vibrating.

Following the flow created by me, professors, and students, this vast darkness was vibrating.

The magic that forms the world pours into my body.

Magical power swirls over the two rings, forming the third and fourth rings.

As soon as I broke through the two walls at once, my heart felt tight as if my heart was being squeezed.

But we can’t stop here.

The body, which was about to break due to the rapid expansion of the circle, was supported by holy power.

The light of holy power was scattered in all directions, and the two revolvers held in both hands were also energized.

A ring formed in the rotating chamber and it rotated fiercely.

Key Yiing–!!

“Professor, what are you doing…!”

“for a moment.”

Skadi stopped Professor Roshua, who was trying to stop him.

“I’m just watching.”

Did he feel something as a wizard?

Unfortunately, I did not have the time to fathom the intentions.

He induced the magical power of the record into the revolver that was engulfed in magical flame.

A torrent of destructive magical power was poured into the chamber, and the Circle began to split.

On each chamber, two circles were formed.

‘Is it?’

four in the heart. four in a revolver.

Four pairs of rings connected in parallel begin to resonate.

I could feel the torrent of magical energy that roared through my body and the tremendous magical power of the record connected to it.

And, riding on that sense, the structure of the record was engraved in my head.

In the midst of walking humans, hiding beasts, and bizarre ecosystems, he discovered something that gave off a uniquely foreign aura.

An orb containing magic.

A precisely processed magic bomb that even I couldn’t feel.

It felt like it was touching my skin now.

Perhaps that was all, I could also feel the string of magic that connected the marbles to the other side of the record.

‘That’s a detonator.’

I don’t know how far it leads. I was not interested.

I read the structure along the line of magic connected like a nerve.

It is a detonator with a very difficult and complicated technique.

At my level, it would originally be a spell that couldn’t be dismantled, but it’s different now.

Right now, through four pairs of circles and countless people, the magical power of the record is being interfered with.

Because I can go to a higher level.

‘Three stages of mind control, erosion.’

The step of infiltrating the target’s mind and forcibly linking it with me.

Originally, it was used to control the unconscious and manipulate memories, but now it is used to fuse the minds of people connected by the magic of records, especially ‘computational power’.

“What is this…? I can just feel the other people…”

“It’s not my arithmetic ability. What happened!”

It uses a huge synapse that connects minds as a single computing device.

aka mental parallelism.

“Is this… Hive consciousness?”

“Nonsense···.”

group consciousness.

In other words, what is called the hive mind.

It refers to the control of multiple mental bodies by one entity.

It is the trademark of witches, and one of the strongest reasons why they do not lose in war.

I was able to recreate that powerful strength with the third stage of mind control.

Wei Ying-

In a vague sense, I felt the gathering of the drones that were roaming around me.

He must have come to see what I was doing.

I showed no hesitation in everything I did.

This was a message to the instigator of this matter, who must be watching from somewhere.

Knowing what kind of human you are trying to deal with.

It was a clear warning.

keying!

Perhaps the other party was in a hurry, and I could see the detonation signal coming down the detonator.

It was a very subtle signal, but it was clear to me like a bolt of lightning in the night sky.

Before the signal struck, it destroyed all the synapses connected to the detonator.

As I said before, magic doesn’t work. That’s why I had to replace all the spells with formulas and dismantle them in a fist-fighting fashion.

Spells and magic are scattered in the environment of the record, but the precision of the formula can penetrate them.

Indeed, it required terrifying computational power, but it was possible enough for me now that I used the erosion stage.

Kwachang!

A light flickers in the sky in the far, distant darkness.

Kwachang! Kwachang! Kwachang!

It splashed into the air like star dust, embroidering the jet-black sea beautifully.

The darkness embroidered by the starlight seemed to paint the Milky Way as if painting over it.

And it was clearly drawn in the eyes of professors who saw the same thing as me.

“Did you destroy that many detonators with a simple calculation…?”

“Is this really the power of the realm of human beings…”

The voices of the professors are heard in the distance as if mumbling.

In the endless sea of concentration, I saw the Magi bomb left unexploded under the destroyed detonator.

Using the magical power of the record, he also burned them.

At this moment, it was a skill that was possible because he could use all the magic that existed in the record like limbs.

The Milky Way is sprinkled to decorate the sky, and pillars of flame burning on the ground soar into the air.

It cleared away the dense darkness of the record, ate up the starlight, and illuminated the space of the dark sky.

“·······.”

Beyond the illuminated darkness.

The far end of the record where the distant starlight flows.

It was only for a moment, but I was able to peel away the skin that enveloped this place and see beyond.

darkness and starlight. The truth beyond what it hides.

at least for a moment

I was touched by its immense and distant power.

light.

and beyond.

I.

moment.

We took a peek at why this place is called a ‘record’.

“·······.”

And when I came to my senses, I was back at the bottom of the darkness.

Holding in my hand only the sensations that touched me in an instant.

The brilliant light I saw in the darkness still lingered in my memory.

“Kang Yujin…Professor?”

“···Yes.”

When I opened my eyes and looked around, there were professors and countless drones gathered around me.

When I released the mind grip, my head felt as hot as burning.

My body staggered as if it would collapse at any moment from the depleted magic power, and the world in front of me was dizzy.

Level 3 mind control consumes so much mana that it cannot be compared to level 2.

Among them, since he used the hive mind, which was particularly inefficient, the circle felt empty as if it were empty.

“Have you even been calibrated?”

“uh···.”

“The detonator has been destroyed, and the bomb containing the demonic energy has been burned. There will be no more threats.”

After personally explaining to them who were all bewildered, I picked up Cynthia who had been sleeping quietly and called for Encia who had been quiet.

“Encia.”

“yes?”

“Two hours until your shrew is dead.”

“hehehe! That’s right!”

Ansia tore her hair and left in a hurry.

Even if she looked like that, since she has a spirit, there should be no problem finding shrews.

It has nothing to do with anti-mathematics department, but there’s no particular restriction on the method, so there shouldn’t be a problem.

I walked past the professors who were staring blankly at me and walked outside the record.

“Wait a minute Professor…”

They called, but I couldn’t afford to answer.

I headed out of the record with a tired body.