Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 187

Magic Learned in Vain – Episode 188

# 188

Men Who Cannot Die 2

A massive force dropped like a guillotine, striking the smithy directly.

The Legion also noticed the power.

A destructive force that a human could unleash. An Aura Blade.

The first to react was Gunfreke, known as the Shield of God.

Gunfreke entered the Magic Tower at the age of seven.

Hailing from the 8th district of the royal capital, his parents, believing that mages needed early education, bribed a mage they knew to get him into the tower earlier than other children.

But a seven-year-old is a mirror of their parents.

He learned and imitated the behavior of his parents, who looked down on the uneducated and readily abused those beneath them.

Gunfreke did the same as his parents. He ignored and bullied children who seemed inferior to him.

Then he got his ass kicked.

He picked the wrong opponents.

They were Joint and Overlock.

Joint was the worst when it came to temper. Joint also had the worst background. Rumor had it that he was bought at a cheap price from the Beast Kingdom, where slavery was legal. The truth was known only to Vasarababa, who brought him.

Overlock, who usually kept an eye on Joint, also joined in beating Gunfreke.

Gunfreke was furious.

He reported to Vasarababa that those lowly beings dared to lay hands on his precious self.

Vasarababa said with a gentle smile.

“This is a place where parental influence doesn’t work. If you don’t want to fall behind, win with magic.”

Thus, Gunfreke was thrown into a brutal, infinitely competitive society.

He was beaten every day.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t beat Joint and Overlock. He had never won a magical duel against them. Moreover, Joint became a warlock. Once he started engaging in close combat from the beginning, Gunfreke had no chance of winning.

The reason he became the Shield of God—

Was to avoid getting hit.

The reason he didn’t talk much?

He was wary of Joint.

Vasarababa said, “You guys get along well together. It’s nice to see,” he said.

No.

He was being dragged around by those bastards.

Decades passed like that.

Having been together for so long, it felt like being with a family with a bad temper.

They seemed to have aged as well and weren’t the same as before. Now, they even looked a bit pitiful. So, he even bought them some herbal medicine.

That was the untold story of Gunfreke, who became the Shield of God.

Thanks to that, he was very sensitive to anyone being hit. The environment that allowed him to notice enemy attacks first was thoroughly cultivated from a young age.

“Iron Shield! Magic Defense! Layer upon Layer!”

He cast 5th circle defense magic in succession. The poisoning was almost gone. In about an hour, all of his original magic power would be restored. The same was true for his friends and Vasarababa.

The resurrection of the 8th circle Archmage Vasarababa.

He would blow away all these guys in an instant.

Gunfreke was confident.

But—

Kukukukukung!

His triple shield shattered at once.

In other words—

An opponent with greater attack power had appeared.

It was a knight using an Aura Blade.

“Ugh, dodge! It’s incredibly powerful!”

Gunfreke shouted.

The smithy screamed and collapsed. Walls crumbled, and all sorts of weapons were torn apart and scattered.

The Aura Blade fell on Friza’s head, whose eyes were half-rolled back in fear.

The Legion swung his iron sword from low to high.

He poured magic power into it with all his might. A faint mist-like haze arose. It was a unique form of aura made up of small particles. No one noticed that it was an Aura Blade.

Vasarababa was the same.

The iron sword collided with the Aura Blade that was crushing the smithy.

Kaka Kaka Kang!

Enormous sparks flew.

It felt like thunder and lightning had exploded in their ears. The light was so intense that people instinctively closed their eyes to protect them.

Meanwhile, the haze flowing from the Legion’s iron sword enveloped the Aura Blade.

Squeak, squeak—

The Legion’s aura slowly began to envelop the powerful Aura Blade.

Kwakwakwakwang!

The Legion swung his iron sword to the end.

The aura that shot out from the iron sword became a sharp blade and burst out of the smithy.

-Oh, oh, it works. It works!

Mark cheered.

“Hey, didn’t you already confirm it?”

-…….

*That bastard Mark, he must have tricked me again with sweet talk and risked my life for an experiment. Fortunately, the result is good, but… I feel uneasy.*

Of course, it is widely known that the only way to block an aura is with another aura.

In fact, the only technique that can block the aura unleashed by a 6-star or higher knight is another aura.

The problem is the mages.

There was no way for mages of the same level to block an aura, which could be said to be a force created by gathering and condensing magic power into a single point. This is because the source of mages is the power to explode magic power.

Aura was like poison to mages.

That’s why people thought that although mages were scary, they were weaker in one-on-one combat compared to knights of the same level.

Of course, that’s not always the case.

A mage who is one rank higher can sufficiently block an aura. The emission of their magic power, even if it is wide-area, exceeds the level of condensation that a knight exhibits.

The Legion’s level is, to be exact, 5-star master.

He is not yet at the level to use aura.

Even if he steps up, he cannot block the opponent’s Aura Blade.

“Should I block it with Iron Head Passive instead?”

The Legion seriously suggested.

-If your head gets split open, there’s no solution. Just wait a bit.

And after a while, he spoke arrogantly.

-Nano-molecules injected. Forcibly injected into your aura. From now on, if you concentrate mana on the sword, you can use aura. However, that aura is not a real aura, but an aura created by nano-molecules, so 90% of the nano-molecules are consumed at once.

What is that?

-……There is such a thing. It’s hard to explain, so just listen. To recover nano-molecules, you will feel extreme hunger. Be careful when using aura.

Hunger? Using aura makes you hungry? Don’t tell me… I’m going to gain weight again?

-Is this the time to worry about that? If you don’t use it right now, you can’t block that Aura Blade.

Damn it, just you wait. You.

-People who say ‘just you wait’ aren’t scary at all.

It was Mark who kept rubbing salt into the wound until the end.

The Legion swung his iron sword—

And an Aura Blade with incredible power was born.

To put it badly, ‘hunger’.

Later, descendants would refer to the Legion’s Aura Blade with grandiose words such as ‘devouring’ or ‘greed’.

People who knew him were satisfied, saying it was a word that well-expressed the Legion.

Clang, clang.

The Legion, who had shattered the opponent’s Aura Blade, took his iron sword and went outside.

He gained confidence.

In his current state, he felt like he could fight a 6-star knight without using magic and not lose.

He wanted to use that Aura Blade one more time.

The Legion confidently went outside—

And turned around and came back inside.

“Why? What’s wrong?”

Lulu shouted.

“Damn it, we’re screwed.”

The Legion wanted to tear his hair out.

“Whyyyyy?”

Outside, about thirty knights were lined up in a row.

The moment he saw them, he realized that each and every one of them was not an ordinary person.

They were the Ferrari Knights, the strongest knight order in the Marquisate [territory ruled by a Marquis] that Marquis Porse cherished the most.

All thirty of them could use aura.

The aura they emitted was so intense that even the flames could not approach. It seemed as if the flames were afraid and retreating.

From outside the smithy, the voice of Knight Commander Ford rang out loudly.

“Exterminate them all! Leave no survivors. Vasarababa, rest now. Thank you for your hard work.”

The magic power of a real armed group, incomparable to anything before, began to strike the smithy.

* * *

Preitia came down to the territory in search of the Legion who had insulted her.

Arriving in the territory, she witnessed a strange sight.

Ogres and humans were passing a ball with their feet, shouting ‘Mine, mine.’

The sight was so strange that curiosity outweighed her anger.

So, she went to a man who seemed to be the referee and asked.

“What are they doing?”

The referee was Joren.

He was enjoying watching the game when someone spoke to him, and he looked up annoyedly. He didn’t even look at her and said with an annoyed expression.

“It’s foot volleyball.”

“Foot volleyball?”

“Yes, it’s volleyball played with the feet.”

“Volleyball? What’s volleyball?”

“Yes, it’s a ball game played with the hands.”

“…….”

Preitia didn’t understand a word Joren was saying. *It seemed that the human world had changed a lot while she was in seclusion.*

More than anything, ogres and humans are playing a game together? Is that even possible?

Even she had to work hard to tame ogres.

It is impossible for humans to tame ogres in the first place.

“What are those ogres?”

Preitia pointed at the ogres and asked.

-Kukreureuk, Kureureuk (Awesome, spike success! Deuce! If we get two more points, you guys have to buy us beef).

Sephia had just succeeded in an attack. He stomped around the field.

Sephia clenched his fists and shouted.

Bacon’s face turned white when he heard his shout.

The most expensive meat in the territory is beef. Not only in the territory but throughout the kingdom, it is a meat that ordinary people cannot afford to eat.

But that crazy ogre suddenly proposed a bet to buy beef.

Bacon politely refused.

He was confident of winning, but if he lost the bet, the aftermath would be enormous.

Ten ogres eating beef?

He guaranteed that Bacon would be bankrupt.

All the cows in the territory were terrified when they heard the rumor. Sephia politely threatened.

-Kreureureung, Kreureureung (You guys didn’t train yesterday, did you? Hyung [term of endearment, like ‘bro’] will be very happy when he gets back. I have to tell him everything).

The exclusive servants played all night at the newly opened pub. It was a pub exclusively for young people. Colorful lights sparkled and rotated on the ceiling.

The best thing was that it made instant meetings possible.

The name of the pub was ‘Lala Club’.

The Lala Club became a sensation as soon as it opened.

Almost all young people rushed there as soon as their daily work was over. There were even rumors that five young couples had already been born.

The exclusive servants who didn’t have girlfriends were going crazy.

Some even put off their work and gambled at the Lala Club.

Sephia caught them in the act. So, Bacon had no choice but to participate in the beef-betting foot volleyball with tears in his eyes.

Bankruptcy was secondary; they wouldn’t be able to go to the club either.

Maybe they would have to take out a private loan to go to the club. A shortcut to the destruction of life unfolds.

To Sephia, it was simply beef that he could eat to his heart’s content, but to the exclusive servants, it was a game that risked their lives.

That’s why they were putting their lives on the line in the game.

Later, they even used magic power. Some even cast spells.

Sephia blocked the magic with his whole body and countered with powerful fighting spirit.

What they were doing was no longer a simple game.

It was literally a life-or-death struggle.

“Going to Operation 3! Everyone prepare!”

Bacon shouted. Their eyes were quite determined.

From Preitia’s point of view, it was clearly a bizarre thing. She had never seen such a case in her thousands of years of life.

She carefully examined Sephia.

He was completely different from the ogres she had seen.

The most amazing thing is…….

“What? What is that? Is he some kind of chimera [a mythical creature composed of different animal parts]? Why is an ogre using magic power? Is he a human who looks like an ogre?”

“Where is there such a big human? Sephia is an ogre.”

Joren smiled as brightly as possible to win Preitia’s favor.

“Why is an ogre using magic power!”

“That’s because he ate Legion’s decision.”

“Legion……?”

Preitia’s eyes turned cold at the name Legion.

The dragon’s killing intent is gradually amplified.