Spear (3)
Finally, they succeeded in adapting the Spear for human use.
The Spear was a kind of law and device that recorded everything within its domain. The researchers who adapted it for human use decided to give it a new name they had created.
“What are you thinking of naming it?”
“How about a pan-human recording device? It’s intuitive, so it’s good.”
“That’s too intuitive.”
The researchers involved in the study each offered different opinions.
This was a tremendous invention. The record of this invention would surely spread widely not only in our world but also in countless dimensions.
The names of the researchers who participated in this study would certainly never disappear from the universe forever.
So everyone was eager to attach the name they had come up with, but.
“—The name has already been decided.”
Everyone fell silent at the words of one woman.
“You clearly said you hadn’t decided on a name in the early stages of development.”
“I said I hadn’t decided. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t decide.”
“Then what the heck……?!”
“It’s all done. Now that the name discussion is meaningless, let’s just ask what she named it.”
One researcher stepped forward to argue with her, but a well-built man stopped him. He had also contributed significantly to the work of adapting the Spear to humanity as a researcher, but not as much as the woman in front of him.
“So, what did you decide to name this invention?”
“I’m the director of the research center now, can’t you use more respectful language?”
“You’re being appointed as the director of the research center next week. You’re not the director yet.”
“……I see.”
“Anyway, what’s the name?”
She was 21 years old.
Despite her young age, she stood out among many geniuses, and she spoke the name of the invention she had created.
“System.”
Her new invention, the System.
Now, the humans of countless universes would grow by receiving the grace of the Spear through the System, and they would not be swept up in destruction like us.
And our dimension would be saved.
Until this point, everyone thought so.
However, this world was not saved for 90 years until two strangers from another dimension came.
* * *
“How much more of the journal are you planning to read?”
“I’ve already read it all.”
I was reading it one more time in case I missed anything.
Luna, hearing those words, stretched and approached.
“Shouldn’t we start doing something soon?”
“Are you telling me to step up already?”
“No, look around you.”
Around?
Seungwoo scanned his surroundings.
Numerous corpses modeled after Eve. No, a mountain of dolls.
That’s all I can see.
“……Are you going to act like that when you clearly know what I meant?”
Luna pointed upwards with her finger.
“The fight happening above is already leaning towards defeat.”
The ice pillar created by Isis reached Eve.
An ice structure more massive than a magic tower.
In between, Isabel’s magic had created a black light.
No wonder the building was so tall. It was an ice structure created with Isabel’s help.
Seungwoo, who was calculating how much mana would be needed to create that scale alone without anyone’s help, nodded in understanding.
While Seungwoo was doing that.
Clang!!
The sound of something colliding reached even this underground area.
Enhancing his eyesight with magic, the melee happening on top of the ice pillar came into clear view.
“Hey! Seo Yerin! Watch my back!”
“……Just ten seconds.”
“That’s enough!”
Isabel urgently called for Seo Yerin.
As she prepared her magic, Eve, who was watching this from the front, stretched her hand into the sky and manipulated a vast amount of mana.
Soon, a massive attack came flying.
Whoosh!
A magnificent sword of light poured down from the sky like rain.
If it were ordinary light, Isabel could have dyed it black with her sanctuary, 「Like Ink Approaching Darkness」, and taken away the magic’s initiative, but that was no simple light.
‘Tsk. Mixing authority with light.’
Something unique to Eve was mixed into the sword of light.
If I could figure out that part, I could somehow manage it alone, but.
‘Who can do that kind of work with swords of light pouring down at the speed of light?’
There was only that person.
Ah, seriously. Even in this situation, he comes to mind.
“Seriously, he’s the one who makes my life difficult.”
Because of him, I’m setting foot in this remote place and going through this hardship. I need to seriously scold him when I see him later.
Don’t go anywhere.
If you do anything strange, I’ll take care of it myself.
Don’t ever disappear from my sight again.
That’s what I should say.
Isabel, having steeled her heart, accelerated the calculation of her magic.
“……How long do I have to hold on?”
“Until my magic is complete.”
“……I need to join the front lines quickly.”
Look over there.
Seo Yerin pointed at Eve with her finger.
Isabel’s gaze followed the gesture and reached Eve, causing her to frown.
Bang!
An axe collided with Eve’s body.
Leeji, who swung the axe with all her might, was thrown backward by the recoil of the impact. Is her body made of metal?
“What’s so hard about her!”
It was an attack infused with Axe Force.
But not even her clothes were torn, let alone her body.
……Wait a minute, clothes?
“Hey, Isis.”
“Why are you calling me all of a sudden? I’m tired from making this ice tower, let’s rest for a bit.”
“No, I’m not trying to give you work, I just wanted to ask you something.”
“What is it?”
“You were at the forefront when you made the ice tower, right? Was that woman wearing clothes back then too?”
“……You. What are you talking about?”
Isis looked at Leeji with tired eyes, as if she were pathetic.
“Since when has that woman been wearing clothes?”
Click.
Isis took out a combat pill from her pocket to enhance concentration and handed it to Leeji.
“A pill that increases concentration. Do you want to eat it?”
“Yeah, thanks.”
I usually refuse, but I should eat it today.
Leeji swallowed the pill in Isis’s hand without water.
Isis, seeing that, made a hollow expression.
“I…… took it out for you to eat with water.”
“I’ll eat this well too.”
Leeji took the water bottle from her hand and drank it whole.
Isis, watching that, lay down on the floor and gasped for breath.
Even with Isabel’s help, she made a huge ice tower that far surpassed the 77th floor of the magic tower at too fast a speed, and her mind was in a daze.
‘Damn it. I feel like I’m going to die.’
Isis, who briefly muttered a curse she didn’t usually use, closed her eyes in that state and wrapped her body in ice.
Crack!
Huge layers of ice piled up, becoming a shield to protect Isis.
The ice, filled with her know-how, could not be broken by ordinary attacks, and even if one or two layers of the ice shield were broken, there was no problem because the remaining ice’s chill would regenerate the shield.
“Just…… I’ll rest for a very little bit and get up to help.”
Isis, exhausted in body and mind, fell into a short sleep like that.
Leeji, watching Isis who had reliably protected herself, put the water bottle on the floor and swung her axe again.
Clang!!
This time too, Leeji’s axe collided with the seemingly soft clothes, but the sound that was heard was like that of colliding with metal.
“As expected, those clothes.”
Are they not just clothes?
I don’t know exactly what the material is, but considering that Isis didn’t see her wearing clothes when she first saw her, it’s clear that they are clothes made with magic.
‘If they were made with magic, then rather.’
Instead of imbuing the axe with energy, strike with a different technique!
Thud!
Again, the axe was swung down with force.
Eve didn’t even look at the axe that was being swung, but her instincts forced her to turn her head.
Whoosh.
A translucent barrier floated in the air.
The vast mana and elaborate formula used in the barrier.
It was clearly a top-level magic that even academy professors found difficult to use.
But Leeji’s axe.
Rip!
As if to show off, it struck the barrier and aimed for Eve’s clothes.
The axe accurately struck Eve’s elbow.
Thud!
Eve raised her head.
Again, she had no injuries, but her clothes were slightly crumpled.
This is…….
“As expected! I knew this would work!”
Leeji swung her axe around, happy.
Her axe was covered with a special energy as before, but this time the energy felt slightly different.
“……Exorcism (破魔) [a technique to dispel evil or demonic forces].”
Eve opened her mouth for the first time towards Isabel and her group.
“Ha! You recognized it right away?”
I should have fed her at least one hit when she didn’t notice.
“Tch!”
Leeji clicked her tongue and kicked the air.
Moving at a speed that couldn’t be compared to the speed she had been moving until just now, she looked for an opportunity to attack Eve.
“…….”
Eve carefully observed such Leeji.
To think that a human possessing that energy would exist in this world, at this point in time.
I never imagined it. That means.
“You guys came from another dimension.”
“……!”
At those words, Leeji’s feet, which had been moving at high speed, became slightly tangled.
Eve, who had already captured Leeji, immediately aimed her magic and poured it towards Leeji.
Elemental magic, curses, divine arts, witchcraft, etc. She poured all kinds of magic in her head towards one point.
“Ah, seriously!”
Leeji raised her shield with a desperate expression.
Soon, a huge shield unfolded and enveloped Leeji, and a barrage of magic poured down on it.
“……Hmm.”
“Right? I told you the fight was leaning towards defeat.”
“I know. That attack is a bit brutal.”
The two people watching the scene from below.
Seungwoo and Luna watched Eve’s power.
“Each magic has reached the highest level.”
“It usually takes 70 years for a top-level magician just below the Archmage to reach the extreme in one field, but that girl has skipped the time altogether.”
“You also reached the extreme in several fields of magic, though.”
Such as the fire system among elemental magic and telekinetic magic.
“That’s because I’m an unparalleled genius.”
“……You’re annoying.”
“Still, I have the humanity of being specialized in some fields.”
That girl doesn’t have that.
Eve’s attack, which pours out all kinds of magic without a single error, exactly as written in the grimoire [a textbook of magic, typically including instructions for spells and rituals].
If I raised my talent in all fields by gambling with my lifespan with sorcery, I might be able to do something similar, but.
“I can’t do that kind of thing either.”
Seungwoo analyzed Eve’s magic one by one.
Magic containing formulas that were all absurd.
Magic of tremendous power covered the students.
But Seungwoo was more interested in the formulas themselves than that.
Even though she unleashed such a vast amount of magic at the same time, Eve’s mana circuits did not get tangled. Even if she used storage magic like 「Memorize」, there was a clear limit, but Eve in the sky above calculated all the magic at the same time.
‘And those are magic close to the orthodox [traditional and established form of magic].’
At first, I thought the magic Eve used was magic containing the know-how of the researchers.
Because there was also magic that I had never seen before in the middle.
But the moment the magic that Seungwoo knew unfolded, he changed his mind.
The magic of orthodoxy itself.
The computational power to calculate them simultaneously.
It’s exactly as written in the journal.
‘That is a calculating machine itself.’
I guess it’s about time. I think I should join the battle.