The Genius Magician Hides His Swordsmanship - Chapter 29

Chapter 29. What Happened during the Test (4)

A long sword slashed diagonally

‘……!’

It was too late to use magic to evade. The moment I chant, my head will fall to the ground.
Instead, the aura from my whole body flowed towards my bottom half. It was instinctive, in an instant, my muscles twitched violently at the aura that had gathered on my thighs.
Taat!
I evaded and my body moved to the right.
Wow!
The longsword was buried into the spot where he had been standing moments ago. If I was even a little late, the sword would have cut through my body. It created a deep crater on the outdoor training ground.

‘You’re doing quite well even without aura.’

I could tell from the way he held the sword,

[He’s learned proper swordsmanship.]

The b*st*rd seemed like a hassle to deal with.

‘This won’t be easy.’

The professors were focusing on the enemies’ attacks. In the end, I had no choice but to deal with him directly.

‘I can’t even use aura because I’m in front of these kids!’

Because there were so many eyes, it was hard to use a dagger.

“Your movements are good for a damn red eyes! I’ll kill you first.”

His attack failed, but he didn’t care and drew his sword again.

‘Did I become a target because I’m a Delemar?’

I didn’t know why he wanted to kill a Delemar first, but I didn’t have time to think.

“You won’t be able to avoid it with luck this time!”

I had to face a terrifying guy who wielded a sword. This time, he did a sideway slash. But there was one thing he didn’t know.

‘What a lucky break.’

Dodging his sword was never luck. The trail of the sword the man swung was clearly visible. I gathered aura on my thighs again.
Whoops!
The wildly fluctuating aura exploded once more.
Taat!
I didn’t dodge this time. Rather, I rushed towards his sword.

“You rat! Die!”

The sneer on his face was understandable.

‘Who’s going to die?’

In a split second. Ducking my upper body, I darted under the trajectory of the sword, which passed over my head.
Squrr!
The sword was so close that a few strands of my hair were cut off. If anyone had seen it, they would think that I was lucky enough to survive.

‘It’s such an obvious attack.’

It was an attack with an obvious trajectory, so even the paper-like distance between me and the sword was calculated. The already accelerating sword passed over my head like that and split the air, I kept running with the momentum I was charging at him with.

I was only a few more steps away from him.

The eyes reflected through the black mask were filled with both bewilderment and anger.

“You’re no ordinary kid!”

He had realized that my evasion just then was not a mere coincidence. He then proceeded to hold his sword with both hands.

‘From the way you’re swinging your sword, you’d be a 6 star if you had aura.’
[Now that’s not going to be hard to avoid.]

If a guy like that seriously attacks, it won’t be as easy to evade as before.

‘Should I use thundercloud while he’s off guard?’

At that time, I was thinking while amassing mana with both hands.

“Hey, Ian! Are you okay?”

I heard Drew’s worried voice from a distance and saw mana stones lined up next to him.

An idea immediately popped into my mind.

‘Drew! When I give the signal, throw the mana stones this way! As many as you can’
“Huh? uh! okay!”

To deal with him, I had to use everything I could.

“This loach-like bastard. It’s really over for you now!”

He didn’t listen to our conversation for long. He unleashed his ground-stomping attack. He was a little better than Admuns, with superior physical skills.

Hwabok!
First of all, I casted a fireball in my right hand and aimed it towards him.

He didn’t seem to care much about it and he didn’t even avoid it.

Although the fire overtook him.

‘My armor is equipped with magic resistance.’

The flames were quickly extinguished.

But I wasn’t too surprised. I didn’t think that I could end him with a simple fireball anyway. If he could be taken out that easily, he wouldn’t have taken my attack that blindly.

‘Okay. I’ll get a little closer.’

The fireball disappeared in vain, but it played a good enough role. For a moment, his vision was blocked.

Oomph! I’ve activated the magic in my left hand. The enemy in front charged once more. The ground where the enemy was, rose up. It was the earth hand that Beauray tried to use against me a few days ago.

The hand soared towards the masked man’s feet.

“What are you doing?!”

I snatched him by the ankle.

‘Drew! Now!’

Now that his movements had stopped.

“Yes!”

Magic stones the size of fists flew up in the air.
Whoosh!
I hurriedly injected mana into the mana stones thrown by Drew. Although the masked man hurriedly swung his sword and tried to cut off the earth hand.

‘It’s already too late.’

I too had been aiming for this magic from the beginning. The magic stone’s reaction was quick.
Whoops!
The mana stones vibrated wildly in the air. And then boom!

It exploded and disintegrated in the air.

[Ah, it’s been a while since I’ve seen this.]

The mana bomb that perplexed me when I first saw it a thousand years ago.

‘Yes. This should be enough to cause him to faint.’
[Sorry. If only you had trained your aura, you would have been able to resist it to some extent.]

Mana stones exploded in the vicinity of the masked man. All the mana that was instantly released from there was directed to his body.

“What is this?!”

I forcibly injected magical mana, causing the opponent to experience a phenomenon similar to mana backflow.
It was a magic bomb that can only be found in ancient books.

“Cough, cough”

Eventually, the masked man was down on one knee. It’s a magic he’d never experienced before. It was expected, regardless of how good his skills were, because he had no aura to block the attack.

“Aaaaaaagh!”

Blood poured out of all his holes. His eyes, nose, mouth, and even his ears. He collapsed, gushing out blood everywhere.
Screams from the children around him rang.

‘I passed out.’

He wasn’t dead yet, but if it went on like that for a while, He’d be crippled forever.

‘I can just leave it as it is.’

There was no reason to risk my life here. There were a lot of eyes, and I had to keep at least one alive so the wizards of the Magic Tower could interrogate him.

‘I want those guys to be rooted out.’

A world where terrorists are rampant would be a burden for me, who was still young.

[That was the biggest crisis you ever faced.]

‘It’s a relief. Thanks to Drew, it was easier than I thought.’

If it wasn’t for the mana stone he threw, it wouldn’t have been an easy win. I turned my head towards Drew.

‘Drew!’

But as I looked over at him, my eyes were streaked with horror.

“Hey, Ian!”

Another swordsman was pulling a sword at Drew.

* * * 

‘I never thought that the centrifugal society would attack the magic tower this directly!’

Aloy was quite perplexed. He just came here to test and supervise the children, but now he was facing an attack by the centrifugal society.

‘Terrorising children. It’s true, these guys are vicious.’

‘What concerns me is not the attackers. After all, I can handle them. But the ones hidden behind the flames.

‘Whoa. Everyone must have seen it. I had to reveal the skills I had been hiding’.

‘What should I say to my superiors?’

‘First of all, I had to save the children, so I showed them my skills. After this is done, I should think of an excuse to give as to why I hid my seven-star skills.’

“Argh!”

The screams of children came from behind.

‘Come to think of it……’

Only then did I notice that the swordsmen who should have been around the wizards had disappeared.

‘I underestimated them too much!’

I hurriedly turned my head and saw two swordsmen among the children. Apart from the wizards, they went to attack the children.

‘How dare you!’

One of the two seemed to have passed out for some reason, but I couldn’t keep my eyes on him. Another guy was raising his sword at Drew.
Whoosh!
Aloy hurriedly used mana. Mana violently swirled around his heart. The 7-star mana created five arrows.
Pngpng!
The blue arrows that shot through the air in an instant flew right at the swordsman.

‘Whoa…’

He didn’t have to look behind him. It was a magic spell that he had already fired thousands of times, so there was no way he would have missed. As expected, the swordsman lowered his sword and was pierced by five magic arrows. Fortunately, he was knocked down before he could attack Drew.

‘That’s a relief.’

But there was no room for relief.
Paz!
At that moment, his back went numb.

‘Kuhyeok…’

His body was floating in the air. His eyesight was swirling, and before he knew it, his body slammed into the ground.

“I don’t care how strong you are, you’re underestimating us too much, arrogant prick!”

They were enemies who broke through his first attack. Their eyes were full of anger.

“Surely, I thought there would only be 5-star associate professors in the test, never have I imagined that there would be a talented person like you.”
“The information given by the leader can’t be wrong. I’m sure he’s hiding his identity.”
“With those magics he’s casted, he’s at least a 7 star wizard.”

The guys looked down at him who had collapsed and started talking. They even knew the schedule of the tower.

‘The centrifugal society……’

Contrary to the public’s opinion that they are nothing more than a simple terrorist group.

‘They’re more organized than I thought.’

It must have been a fairly well-organized organization.

“What is your true identity?”

One of them took another step.

“Isn’t that something I should ask?”
“You’re not just an associate professor. Why did you hide your skills?”
“I don’t think there’s any reason for me to tell you.”

Then, mana gathered at their fingertips.

“Okay. Then die.”

Many thoughts ran through my head.

“I can’t die in a place like this because of these goons.”

It was unfair.

“I haven’t even reached my goal yet.”

It was so unfair.

“I haven’t even repaid the commander yet!”

It made me clench my fists.

“Commander, I’ll apologize to you later.”

Aloy’s entire body was raging with mana. It was an ability that the Commander had told him not to use until their cause was fulfilled, but he couldn’t lose his life here in vain.

Kuuuuu…….
The ground below began to tremble as he channeled a massive amount of mana. The small vibrations grew louder and louder until they reached the enemies in front of him.

“W-what are you doing!”

Even those who wore black masks were taken aback by the turbulent flow of mana.

“Consider it an honor.”

It wasn’t magic intended for them. However, in his current state, this would be the only way to deal with eight wizards at once.

“This is unavoidable, please forgive me.”

That’s when something strange happened.

– Stop it. Aloy.

A voice whispered in his ear.

“……who?”

Someone was casting telepathy magic so that only he could hear it. I had doubts for a moment, but I had no choice but to cancel the magic I was trying to use.
Wooah!
Huge icicles poured down from the sky.