06. Midterm exam (16)

The way to put people into despair is simple.

When you think that your opponent has an absolute superiority, when you think that your plan is working well, you realize that all of that was an illusion with the absolute difference in skill.

Simple and effortless.

It wasn’t even that he swung a sword. Standing still in place, without taking a single step, the spirits that filled the arena were swept away and all magic was shattered with just a simple discharge of mana.

The audience in the VIP room were surprised when they saw Baek Ji-soo’s feast of all kinds of high-level magic, but they were even more tongue-in-cheek at Yoon Seo-hee’s magic release.

It was because I could see how high-level skills were mixed with that simple-looking mana discharge.

Among them were Park Min-seok, head of the Hunter Association, who also observed the freshman exam the other day, and Lee Ji-hyun, team leader of the Haneul Nuri Guild.

Due to the appearance of her foreign species named Yoon Seo-hee, the rank of the 1st grade exam has suddenly risen, and various VIPs, such as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Special Affairs and the large guild Bugilma, have come to observe. Were promoted step by step.

Now, the two people, who are now the head of the planning office, Park Min-seok, and Lee Ji-hyun, the head of human resources, checked the situation at the stretch stadium with their own devices.

“Huh… Rumor has it that he is the youngest S rank, but I didn’t expect that his magic power would reach S rank. The amount of magical energy imprinted on the device is staggering?”

“… It wasn’t just ignorant pushing with mana.”

“Yes? I’m not a magic hunter, so I don’t know, but isn’t that just a simple release of mana? I mixed the skills a little, but scattering magic indiscriminately is something even a warrior can do if he has that kind of magic rank.”

On the surface, it is. It’s just a numerical stat that the Scout of the Holo Device takes. However, in the eyes of Lee Ji-hyeon, who had a wealth of magical knowledge, the phenomenon could not be explained with just a strong release of magical power.

“I didn’t just scatter my mana randomly, but I adjusted the radius exactly as far as the arena, in the direction I wanted, with the output I wanted. Not only the amount of mana, but also the control that handles that mana is of a high level.”

“Well, since he is an Aura user, he must be excellent at mana control. Is there anything wrong with that?”

“It’s not a problem, but it’s not normal. I’m not a swordsman, so I don’t know what it means to be at the level of a new swordsman to use an aura… Just forging mana to the limit doesn’t create an aura, right? There is a difference between the way a swordsman and a wizard handle magic, but that student handles his magic like a wizard.”

The swordsman is pretending to be a wizard. No, if you’re at that level, you shouldn’t use the word imitation.

Such proficiency is not something that can be achieved by self-study, no matter how outstanding a genius is. It could be, but at least it hasn’t been a few months since I woke up, and at that age, that skill level is ridiculous.

Wouldn’t it be nice if a magical hunter with an extreme magic control skill would stick by his side and give him a 1:1 lecture….

‘And that technology… I think I’ve seen it somewhere.’

It was the same with the technique called white lightning that I showed you last semester, and the magic release a while ago. Lee Ji-hyun’s eyes naturally looked at a woman in a corner of the VIP room.

And Jihyun Lee’s guess was correct.

Shin Seo-yeon, the sub guild master of Suseong, a short-haired beauty wearing her sunglasses, crossed one of her legs at an angle and looked at her half-brother.

‘They follow who taught them well.’

Yoon Seo-hee did not just hang out during last vacation and this semester while Kim Lee-jin made her gun blade.

I had to be strong. If it’s to protect the person you love no matter what strong enemy, whether it’s a gate boss, a man, or a demon worshiper, it’s much more than now. As before, he remained as a half Aura user, unable to protect Kim Yi-jin and other people in times of emergency.

There was a limit to becoming stronger through self-study and academy classes. Jin-Hoo Park still possessed great skills for her experienced retired hunter, but she was not strong enough to resist the apocalypse against Mann and Demon Worshipers.

If I had to learn, I had to learn from someone who was stronger than anyone else and possessed overwhelming skills. And the strongest person Yoon Seo-hee knows is the only three Masterpiece Hunters in Korea… It was Shin Seo-yeon, her own half-sister.

I once hated him to death, and he is still the object of love and hatred, but it is very humiliating to bow down and ask to learn from such a person. Even so, Yoon Seo-hee lowered her head.

I had already bowed my head once to save Kim Yi-jin’s life by accepting holy water, and I could have bowed my head twice to protect Kim Yi-jin again.

The result….

‘If you don’t lift that sword, you can’t even use Aura? Me really Outside, people started talking about being the youngest Aura user, but it turned out to be an empty can, right?’

‘The youngest S rank… So what? If you want to be treated well, grab someone from the widely spread small and medium guilds and enter. This is Mercury. It’s a place overflowing with S ranks stronger than you. If you don’t want to be ignored, it’s worth it.’

‘The idea that if you don’t have enough strength, you just have to hit more mana, it’s like an ape. I don’t even want 100 efficiency with 10 mana. At least it should give you as much efficiency as the mana you used. 10 mana gives 1 efficiency, so you’re thinking of becoming a hunter?’

“Haa….”

Recalling her terrible time, Yoon Seo-hee shook her shoulders and shuddered at her.

Thanks to her hellish training, Yoon Seo-hee was able to imitate her sister’s ‘one-tenth’ portion.

Among the Masterpiece Hunters, if you divide only the magic world, it is 10% of the Hunters that are counted on one hand in the world.

Yoon Seo-hee, who generously learned the skills of Shin Seo-yeon, worthy of being called her strongest lightning wizard, was in a state where her genius was added to her skillful magic control.

Compared to her self at the time of the gate incident or the fair terrorism, she feels stronger several times.

Nevertheless, Seohee Yoon never let her guard down. She never thought that the girl in front of her had collapsed to this extent.

The opponent is a regressor who has gone through the hell of the end even though he has lost his strength. Up until now, she had faced all sorts of chaos, but there was no way she would give up and break down at this point.

And as if to prove that thought, the girl in her body rose up while staggering from the aftereffects of her electric shock.

Baek Ji-su frowned her forehead and shed cold sweat, but her eyes were still looking at Yoon Seo-hee clearly.

She didn’t need to talk about when her magical stats rose that much, and who she learned how to use that much magical power from. She just kept quiet and licked her lips and chanted incantations.

And now that 10 seconds had passed, Yoon Seo-hee had no intention of letting her chant finish.

Even though she wouldn’t give her all, she had no intention of defeating her calmly.

“Haap!”

Yoon Seo-hee leaps forward in an instant with her sword raised toward Baek Ji-soo. Right before the tip of her sword stabbed her in the chest, her blank figure disappeared in an instant. She wasn’t moving fast or anything like that, she literally disappeared before her eyes.

Yoon Seo-hee knew very well what it was.

A high level magic formula.

Spatial transition.

Continuous use.

The moment the multiple barriers were shattered with a single attack, Baek Ji-soo decided that the owner of the same amount of magical power as that cheat should not be allowed to attack even once.

White silhouettes appear here and there in the arena and disappear again. It was faster for Ji-soo Baek to disappear from the spot and reappear somewhere in the arena than for Seo-hee Yoon to sense Ji-soo Baek’s presence and leap forward.

Even so, the stadium froze again, the snow fluttered, and the snowman spirit popped out, showing that the hands and mouth were constantly moving and performing multiple chanting while continuously unfolding space transitions.

Lee Ji-hyun, who watched it from the VIP audience, swallowed her saliva.

“That makes sense… ?”

It is nonsense to evade her attacks by changing her coordinates in real time against Yoon Seo-hee, who moves as fast as her lightning, and to use her space shift in succession.

It wouldn’t be any harder than this if she were told to hop on a single bike and juggle with her hands and spin a hula hoop with her neck. It was a magical skill that was truly close to an art, enough to give goosebumps. Lee Ji-hyun, who had been eyeing Baek Ji-soo for scouting at Haneulnuri, didn’t have the confidence to follow her even if she was asked to do the same thing.

“Are you trying to take out a method that was once blocked?”

If you want to wander around the arena with space transfer, just wipe it out with Mana Release again. Yoon Seo-hee drove her sword into her ground, releasing her currents in all directions, bouncing from her grasp.

Yoon Seo-hee’s unique skill.

Current manipulation.

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Jjajajajajajaja!!

At the same time as the strong current raged, Baek Ji-soo’s eyes shone white.

The tangible white mana came into contact with the current.

“Ugh!?”

At that moment, Yoon Seo-hee’s mana control, which manipulated her current, was disrupted. Even though it is her own skill, her current cannot be manipulated at will.

Baek Ji-soo’s main skill, counter-spell, was to interfere with the opponent’s skill with her own magical power.

Of course, she only interferes with magic, but she can’t erase the activated skill, so the current that has already occurred spreads indiscriminately in all directions. However, if she had no one to manipulate her, the task of manipulating the direction of the current was simple for Jisoo Baek.

Craft! The electric current reached the sky with Baek Ji-soo’s hand gesture, then hit the ceiling of the gymnasium and died powerlessly.

“Isn’t it like that? Are you trying to take out the method that was blocked once again? I’ll take it back literally.”

Baek Ji-soo, who led the ice spirit colony beyond the white snowstorm, spoke quietly.

“The method I took out once does not work for me.”