Chapter 39

Chapter 39 Strongest Sage, Grasps the Graveness of the Situation

Among the three magic, the first one is 【Mana Strike】 . That"s a decoy .

The second one is 【Mana Concealment】 . A magic for literally hiding mana .

And the third one hidden by the 【Mana Concealment】 is the main thing, 【Magic Destruction】 .

"Kuh . . . . Flame!"

Devilis noticed my 【Mana Strike】 and used demon magic to build a wall of flame around itself in order to keep me off .

It"s an extremely orthodox method to cope with the close-combat nature of the First Crest .

However, that is exactly why there are established ways to break through it .

I chose the simplest one among them .

In other words, frontal attack .

"Wha . . . . "

Devilis was surprised to see me jumping into the magic flame without a moment of hesitation .

Just as I thought, this demon lacks battle experience .

Building wall of flame is only effective for buying a very short amount of time or if your magic control exceeds that of your opponent .

For example, like this .

While jumping into the flame, I mix my own mana with Devilis"s mana in the surroundings, taking control of it and making it attack Devilis .

The whole flame wall didn"t break off, but the part I took was quite enough to create a gap .

"Wha . . . . How!"

Devilis countered the flame with defensive magic and used the magic again to block my 【Mana Strike】-armed sword .

But since Devilis was forced to block these two magic, it had no more room to block another attack . Just as planned .

"You suck at combat!"

I fire the concealed 【Magic Destruction】 at the defenseless Devilis .

【Magic Destruction】 destroys Devilis"s dual barriers and the magic that disguised its figure .

"Oy, what just happened!"

"It"s too high level, I can"t see--hey that"s, a demon!"

"T-there"s a demon! Where did Devilis go!"

"That demon is wearing Devilis"s armor! Don"t tell me, Devilis is a demon . . . . "

"Who cares about that, there"s a demon in the middle of the town! Hurry contact the Royal Castle, Magic Division and the Knight Order! Have the teachers buy some time while the students evacuate--"

Looks like the audience has begun to realize that Devilis is a demon after it lost its disguise .

The audience seats spiraled into a flurry in an instant .

"Kuh . . . "

After seeing that, Devilis probably concluded that it couldn"t hide it anymore .

Devilis spread out wings peculiar to demons and began to concentrate its mana .

Judging from the movement of mana, this is a state where you allocate the whole output to movement magic, to run away with all your might--in brief, it"s trying to fly away in this case .

I"m not sure if the reason it doesn"t use teleportation magic is because demons have been weakened or something else, but of course, I"m not going to let it escape .

For this level of demon, it should take around one and a half second from spreading wings to takeoff .

With the little damage I gave to the demon, it would manage to escape by using the difference in our mana quant.i.ty if I let it to takeoff even once .

I need to settle this in one blow--nevertheless, one and a half second is more than enough .

I took out a magic stone from Storage Magic and put it onto the sword I held .

And then I cram my mana into the sword and the magic stone, adding 【Steel Slash】, 【Impact Blade】, 【Sharpen】, and 【Hardness Reinforcement】 augments .

These four augments are all for strengthening the sword"s slashing power in their own unique way .

--However, this magic can"t be called augment anymore . It"s a clear failure .

Quadruple augments in this short amount of time would be very difficult even for the First Crest . Of course there"s no way the Fourth Crest can do it .

Normally, a sword that"s been crammed with mana at an impossibly fast rate and forced to possess magic will disintegrate in two seconds .

However, that"s not a problem in this situation, for we have one and half a second time limit .

The augment took 0 . 8 seconds . 0 . 7s remaining . An easy victory .

"Wha . . . . "

The demon who saw my sword suddenly turning into a magic sword tried to take a defensive posture .

However, it"s useless . The demon isn"t flexible enough to change into defensive posture in the middle of trying to fly with all its might .

This is the end .

While upping the sword"s speed with Physical Reinforcement, I put 【Mana Strike】, 【Steel Slash】, and 【Sharpen】 on the magic sword that hasn"t much time left .

Magic that dwells on a magic sword and magic you use on one are separate things, it"s possible to buff magic swords .

【Mana Strike】, 【Steel Slash】, 【Steel Slash】, 【Sharpen】, 【Sharpen】, 【Impact Blade】, 【Hardness Reinforcement】

After putting all these magic, my sword that normally wouldn"t have been able to kill a demon in one blow demonstrates sufficient power now .

The sword that has seven magic of five different kinds on it easily slashes through Devilis"s body along with its mithril armor, destroying its heart .

The structure of demon"s body is similar to that of human, so are the weak points .

In other words, they will die if you destroy their heart, and Devilis isn"t an exception .

The mana inside Devilis"s body lost control and scattered into the surroundings, power left its body .

"Did he . . . beat it . . . ?"

"Unbelievable, beating a demon alone . . . . I heard that he won against the Knight Commander in the entrance exam but this . . . . "

The people in the vicinity seems to notice Devilis"s defeated figure, and a different kind of commotion begins .

Afterward, bunch of guys like Knight Orders and Royal Magicians gathered and it turned into a huge uproar .

Still, the demon even managed to slip into representatives of the First Academy huh . . . .

It appears the world is in a quite grave situation right now .

This needs to be dealt with, else the humanity would be wiped out before I gained strength .