Genius Wizard Hides His Sword Skills [EN]: Chapter 29

29. What Happened in the Test (4)

A longsword slashed down diagonally.

‘……!’

It was too late to escape the situation using magic. The moment I started chanting, my head would be rolling on the ground.

Instead, I channeled all the aura in my body to my lower body. It was an instinctive decision.

The muscles in my thighs twitched intensely as the aura gathered there in an instant.

Taaht!

I exploded that power and flung my body to the right.

Kwaaaang!

The longsword slammed into the spot where I had been standing just a moment ago. If I had been even a little late, the sword would have split me in two. It created a deep crater in the floor of the outdoor training ground.

‘He’s pretty good, even without aura.’

I could tell from the way he held the sword.

[He’s received proper swordsmanship training.]

The guy’s martial skill was not to be underestimated, as I had expected.

‘This isn’t going to be easy.’

The professors were focused on the mages. In the end, I had no choice but to face him directly.

‘I can’t use aura in front of the kids!’

With so many eyes watching, it was also difficult to use my dagger right now.

“Damn red-eyed bastard, you’re pretty nimble! I’ll kill you first!”

Even though his attack failed, he didn’t care and drew his sword again.

‘Did I become a target first because I’m a Delema [a person with red eyes]?’

[He must have rushed over here as soon as the barrier was lifted.]

I didn’t know why he was trying to kill Delemas first, but there was no time to think deeply.

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

I had to face the guy who was swinging his sword menacingly. This time, he was making a horizontal cut.

But there was one thing he was mistaken about.

‘Luck, you say.’

Dodging the sword was never about luck. The trajectory of the sword the man swung was clear as day to me.

I gathered aura in my thighs again.

Uuung!

I unleashed the violently fluctuating aura once more.

Taaht!

This time, I didn’t dodge. Rather, I charged towards his sword.

“You rat bastard! Die!”

It was natural for a cold sneer to appear on his lips.

‘Who’s going to die?’

In that fleeting moment, I lowered my upper body and slipped under the trajectory of the sword. The sword passed over my head.

Ssak!

It was a close call, with only a few strands of hair being cut off.

Anyone watching would think I had survived by sheer luck.

‘Attacks as straightforward as this…’

Because the trajectory was so obvious, even this paper-thin distance was all calculated.

Huuung!

The sword, already accelerated, passed over my head and cut through the air. I used the momentum of my charge to move a few more steps away from him.

“Y-You rat bastard……”

Beyond the black mask, his eyes were filled with both bewilderment and anger.

“You’re no ordinary kid.”

Perhaps he realized that my dodging wasn’t a coincidence. He was now gripping the sword with both hands.

‘Judging by his swordplay, he would have been around 6-star if he had aura.’

[It won’t be easy to dodge now.]

If such a guy seriously committed to attacking, it would be difficult to respond as easily as before.

‘Should I use Thundercloud when he’s off guard?’

As I was gathering mana with both hands and thinking of a plan.

“I-Ian! Are you okay?”

Drew’s worried voice reached me from a short distance away. In that moment, the magic stones lined up next to him caught my eye.

‘Ah!’

A plan immediately came to mind.

“Drew! When I signal, throw some magic stones this way! As many as you can!”

“Huh? Okay! I got it!”

To face him, I had to use everything I could.

“You slippery bastard. This is really the end for you!”

The man didn’t listen to our conversation for long. He kicked off the ground and approached quickly. His martial skills were several levels above Admun.

Hwareuk!

First, I shot a fireball from my right hand towards him.

“Hmph!”

The man didn’t seem to care, not even trying to dodge.

Hwarak!

The flames engulfed him.

‘He had armor with magic resistance.’

The flames quickly died down.

But I wasn’t too flustered. I didn’t think I could finish him off with just that anyway.

If he could be taken down by such an attack, he wouldn’t have jumped into our midst barehanded.

‘Good. Get a little closer.’

The fireball disappeared in vain, but it had served its purpose. In that brief moment when his vision was obscured.

Uuung!

I materialized the magic that had been gathering in my left hand. It was just as the man’s foot was about to touch the ground again.

Puhwaak!

The ground where the man’s foot was supposed to land suddenly rose up. It was the Hand of Earth that Burey had tried to use on me a few days ago.

The hand surged towards the masked man’s foot.

“What are you doing!”

Accurately grabbed his ankle.

“Drew! Now!”

Now that his charge had been stopped.

“Okay!”

Fist-sized magic stones flew into the air.

Uuung!

I quickly deployed mana to resonate with the magic stones Drew had thrown. The man frantically swung his sword to cut off the Hand of Earth.

‘It’s already too late.’

I had been aiming for this magic from the start. The reaction of the magic stones was a step faster.

Uuuuung……!

The magic stones, which had been vibrating violently in the air.

Paat!

Soon exploded and disintegrated in the air.

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

A thousand years ago, when I first encountered this magic, it had quite baffled me. A Mana Bomb was being created.

‘Yeah. This should be enough to knock him out.’

[Too bad. If he had trained his aura, he could have resisted to some extent.]

The magic stones exploded near the masked man. The mana that was momentarily released from there all headed towards his body.

“W-What is this!”

A magic that forcibly injects the mana of the magic stones, causing a phenomenon similar to mana backflow in the opponent. It was a Mana Bomb that could only be seen in ancient texts now.

“Keu, Keuheok!”

In the end, the man was forced to kneel. It was a magic he had never encountered before, and he had no aura to resist with. No matter how skilled he was, it was a natural result.

“Kkeuaaaaaak!”

It was only natural that the surrounding children screamed at the sight of him pouring out blood from all seven orifices. Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, without exception.

‘He fainted.’

He wasn’t dead yet, but if he stayed like this for a little longer, he would be permanently disabled.

‘I guess I can leave him like that.’

There was no reason to take his life here. There were too many eyes watching, and we needed to keep one alive so the mages of the Magic Tower could interrogate him.

‘I wish they would root out those kinds of guys.’

A world where random terrorists run rampant was still a burden to me, who was still young.

[Hoo. That was the biggest crisis of this life.]

‘I’m glad. Thanks to Drew, we solved it more easily than I thought.’

If it hadn’t been for the magic stones he threw, it would have been difficult to win so easily. I turned my head to thank Drew.

“Drew!”

But my eyes were filled with shock as I looked at him.

“I-Ian!”

Another swordsman was extending his sword towards Drew.

* * *

‘For the Outer Circle to directly target the Magic Tower!’

Alroy was quite taken aback. He had only come to supervise the children’s test, but it turned into an attack by the Outer Circle.

‘Terrorism targeting children. They really are vile bastards.’

What he was really worried about wasn’t the Outer Circle guys who had attacked this place. After all, they were no match for him. One Fire Earth spell, and they were still struggling in the flames.

‘Hoo. Everyone must have seen it. This is a big problem.’

He had to reveal the skills he had been trying so hard to hide. That was what he was worried about.

‘What should I say to the Commander?’

He had revealed his skills because he had to save the children first. He was thinking that it would be more difficult to clean up this place and then come up with an excuse for hiding his 7-star level skills when.

“Kkyaaaaak!”

The children’s screams came from behind.

‘Come to think of it……!’

Only then did he realize that the swordsmen who should have been around the mages had disappeared.

‘Damn, I underestimated them too much!’

He turned his head urgently and saw two swordsmen mixed in with the children. They were the ones who had gone to attack the children, separate from the mages.

‘How dare they!’

One of them seemed to have fainted for some reason, but he couldn’t keep his eyes on that one. The other one was raising his sword towards Drew.

Uuung!

He hurriedly manipulated mana. Mana fiercely swirled around his heart. What the mana that had reached 7-star created was five bundles of arrows.

Papang! Paang!

The blue arrows, which were shot out in an instant, accurately flew towards the swordsman with the black mask.

‘Hoo…….’

He didn’t need to see what happened next. It was a magic he had shot out thousands of times, so there was no way it would miss.

Pook! Pupook!

As expected, the swordsman who was slashing down was pierced by five Magic Arrows. Fortunately, he had fallen before he could attack Drew.

‘That’s a relief.’

But he wasn’t given any room to relax.

Pajeut!

At that moment, his back tingled.

“Keuheok……!”

His body floated into the air. His vision spun rapidly, and before he knew it, his body was being slammed into the ground.

“Even if your achievement is high, to turn your eyes away from us. How arrogant!”

It was the Outer Circle guys who had broken through the Fire Earth gap. The eyes of the scorched guys were full of anger.

“We were told that there would only be 5-star novice professors at the test. To think there would be someone with your skills.”

“There’s no way the information the leader gave us could be wrong. He must be hiding his true identity.”

“Fire Earth. He’s at least a 7-star mage.”

The guys looked down at him, who had fallen, and said one word each. They even knew the Magic Tower’s schedule and power.

‘The Outer Circle…….’

Unlike the common assessment that they were just a simple terrorist group.

‘They’re more organized than I thought.’

It was clear that they were a fairly organized organization with intelligence.

“What’s your identity?”

One of the guys took another step forward.

“Isn’t that what I should be asking?”

“You’re not just a novice professor. Why are you hiding your skills?”

“I don’t think I need to tell you petty criminals.”

Then, mana began to gather at the tip of the guy’s hand.

“Okay. Then die.”

Seeing that, many thoughts ran through his head.

‘I can’t die in a place like this because of these guys.’

He felt wronged.

‘I haven’t even achieved the great cause yet.’

He felt wronged again.

‘I haven’t even repaid the Commander’s kindness yet!’

That feeling made him clench both fists.

‘Commander. I’ll ask for forgiveness later.’

Alroy’s entire body was engulfed in mana. It was an ability that the Commander had told him never to use until he had achieved the great cause. But he couldn’t lose his life in vain here.

Kuuuuuu…….

As he released a vast amount of mana, the ground around him began to shake. The small vibration gradually grew larger, reaching even the black-masked Outer Circle members in front of him.

“W-What are you doing!”

The black-masked men couldn’t hide their bewilderment at the swirling torrent of mana.

“You should be honored.”

It wasn’t a magic to be used on those kinds of guys. But in his current state, this was the only way to deal with eight mages at once.

‘It’s an unavoidable situation, so please forgive me.’

He was about to unleash the magic when.

-Stop it. Alroy.

A voice whispered in his ear.

‘……Who?’

Someone was casting voice magic so that only he could hear it. He was momentarily puzzled, but he had no choice but to stop the magic he was about to use.

Kwaaaaa!

Huge chunks of ice were pouring down from the sky.