Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 314

Magic Learned in Vain – 315

# 315

Urban Warfare (1)

The film crew arrived at the estate.

They blinked, unable to believe the sight unfolding before their eyes.

Kukukukukung!

Explosions erupted in rapid succession.

The blasts were deafening, the ground trembling.

“Director!”

Patona called out to Geziness.

“What is it?”

“Looks like they’re already filming the movie?”

“Movie?”

“Yes, look. It’s so realistic. Must be a huge blockbuster. Maybe Cameron’s filming his new movie here? Then we’re out of luck.”

“This is… a movie shoot?”

“Isn’t it?”

Geziness stared at the source of the continuous explosions and booms.

He felt an overwhelming sense of pressure.

Geziness was the second son of a baron’s family and a former officer. He had served on the border for three years.

During that time, he was caught in a local conflict with the Neck House Kingdom.

The enemy was a small detachment of just over 200 men. The allied forces suffered over 300 casualties. It was unconfirmed, but it was assumed that the enemy also suffered significant losses.

The emotion Geziness felt then was fear of the battlefield. It was impossible to endure the immense bloodlust and pressure with a clear mind.

“Save me. Please save me.”

Geziness abandoned his comrades and fled.

It was a close call. The Neck House detachment that followed swept away even the wounded.

If he had hesitated to save them, he would have died too.

Even so, he couldn’t shake the guilt. He still vividly remembered the last face of the fellow officer who grabbed his pants leg, tears streaming down his face.

That’s why he hated war.

He never wanted to set foot on a battlefield again.

And that was just filming a war scene?

No. Could they not feel the immense pressure emanating from that place?

Kwakwakwakwakwang!

An explosion erupted nearby.

The ground caved in about a meter deep. Exploding dirt rained down on the film crew.

“Wow, it got in my clothes. They’re really making it feel real.”

Patona shook the dirt off her clothes.

“Film it.”

Geziness said to Seo Seo-hae.

“Pardon?”

“Film it right now. I don’t know what it is, but just film it. We can edit out the weird parts later.”

“Ah, understood.”

Seo Seo-hae took out her camera and held it up.

She vividly captured the attacking and defending magic clashing in the air. The scene of dozens of attacking spells being blocked by defensive magic and exploding was incredibly realistic.

“Hey! What are you doing there!”

Bacon spotted the film crew and rushed towards them.

He was having a hard time blocking the humanoid golems. They were more difficult to deal with than he thought. They were firing iron beads at high speed, which was surprisingly tricky to handle.

As a result, three of the regular soldiers were injured.

Bacon approached the humanoid golem from behind and swung his aura-infused blade. At that moment, the humanoid golem rotated its waist 180 degrees. The front and back suddenly switched.

Bacon was so surprised that he stopped his attack.

In that instant, the humanoid golem’s finger pointed at Bacon. With a whirring sound, an iron bead was about to be fired.

Bacon quickly twisted his waist.

Dozens of bullets grazed his chest. The armor that Bide had made for him made a scraping sound.

“Fire Fox!”

Bacon’s aura and fire magic combined. Flames blazed from his sword.

Swish!

The humanoid golem’s head flew off. The cut section couldn’t withstand the intense heat and melted away.

But after a moment, it began to regenerate, making a creaking sound at the joints. More than anything, even though its head was gone, its hands and feet were still moving.

“What the.”

Bacon swung his sword again.

The humanoid golem’s arms flew off.

“Damn it.”

It was very hard. His striking palm was tingling.

If he was having this much trouble, his subordinates, who were less skilled than him, might be having a hard time.

-Kkiririririk!

It regenerates again.

What is this, some kind of zombie? Are golems usually this tenacious?

“Haaap!”

Bacon swung his sword with all his might.

An astonishingly high level of magic was converted into aura, burning like the sun.

There were quite a few secret manuals openly displayed in the Alexander Library, and this was a swordsmanship he had learned from one of them.

The Legion freely opened most of the family’s secret manuals to all servants, soldiers, and aspirants, regardless of their status.

Not just any secret manuals, but the Alexander family’s secret manuals.

Secret manuals created by monstrous ancestors who had produced countless Sword Masters and survived even after having affairs with queens.

What surprised Bacon when he saw the secret manuals was-

It wasn’t just the greatness of the secret manuals, but the fact that this family had a unique disposition that had been passed down for generations.

For example…….

They trashed each other, regardless of whether they were ancestors or parents.

-The swordsmanship my father created is truly terrible. The weakness in the third form, in particular, is no different from begging to be killed. So I remade it. Descendants, don’t waste your time learning my father’s swordsmanship, learn mine.

-Descendants, my son’s swordsmanship is utterly worthless. It may have the effect of making you stronger in the short term, but if you learn it, most of you will become mentally abnormal and develop dementia around the age of twenty. Don’t get dementia, learn my swordsmanship. My son is currently demented.

It was like that.

In that way, more than ten secret manuals were sequentially organized in the library, and in fact, they were all great secret manuals.

The only downside was that the mana cultivation technique had been lost.

But that didn’t matter either.

Because Count Legion had tormented the Lich Mammon and made him spit out countless mana cultivation techniques.

So Bacon learned the secret manual called ‘Flaming Like a Flower.’

It was a martial art created hundreds of years ago by an ancestor named Alexander de Fire. Of course, there were many secret manuals that produced far more powerful force than that secret manual.

But Bacon liked that secret manual.

It was a perfect fit for him, who used fire-type magic and a magic sword.

Now Bacon unleashed the ultimate fire attack he had learned.

“Hell Burn!”

Bacon’s sword was swung left and right so fast that it was invisible.

An enormous heat was emitted from that place. The heat was so great that the moisture in the atmosphere turned into steam and scattered.

Instantly-

The humanoid golem was divided into hundreds of pieces and melted away.

Perhaps because it had melted even the core, the golem no longer regenerated.

“Are you badly hurt?”

Bacon, who had defeated one humanoid golem, asked, looking at his injured subordinates.

“We’re fine.”

“Fine, my ass. Those with leg injuries, retreat to the back. If you recklessly step forward, your whole body will be pierced by that brutal attack.”

“Understood.”

The regular soldiers nodded obediently.

They knew very well how much of a burden it would be to their comrades to say they could do something in the current situation, where more than half of their forces had been lost.

The regular soldiers supported each other and headed to the rear, where they were blocking the enemy’s magic attacks.

Bacon looked for the enemies again.

There were plenty of enemies. That’s when he spotted the film crew standing there dumbfounded. Those idiots were standing on the battlefield with amazed expressions. Even when dirt fell on their heads, they didn’t move.

Soon, they took out their cameras and started filming.

What? What are those things?

Annoyance surged, and Bacon ran towards them and kicked the camera.

The expensive camera hit the ground after being struck by Bacon’s foot.

Unfortunately, there was a rock where it fell. The camera, with its corners colliding, shattered.

“What are you doing!”

Cody Pito-hae shouted shrilly at Bacon.

Bacon was a gentleman. He never acted aggressively towards women.

Normally.

But he had no intention of maintaining his gentlemanly demeanor even in the current situation.

Slap-

Bacon’s rough hand slapped Pito-hae’s cheek.

Pito-hae spat out blood and fell to the floor. Her face quickly swelled up from the force of the blow. She looked at Bacon with tears in her eyes.

But she couldn’t argue.

The opponent’s aura was so fierce that she felt like her remaining cheek would be slapped if she said another word.

“Are you crazy? Didn’t you hear the siren? Didn’t you hear the warning broadcast? Can’t you see everyone hiding in shelters and basements? What kind of bravado is this? Do you all want to die?”

Bacon said roughly.

“W-wait a minute. We’re not from here. We have something to say.”

Geziness said urgently, raising his hand.

* * *

Black Knight Golojump panted.

He had experienced something he couldn’t logically understand.

“Damn it, what the hell is this estate? It’s too weird. It’s too weird.”

His voice trembled.

He recalled the situation a moment ago.

The group led by Black Knight Golojump and Black Knight Izenbai made a large detour and approached the interior of the estate. It was better to do so because Count Legion’s mansion was located in the north of the estate.

He didn’t understand why the Count’s mansion was located so close to the Dusselruf Mountains.

There would be far more monster attacks there.

But that was none of their business. Their goal was to capture the lord! They had to capture the lord as quickly as possible and bring Dreiser to his knees.

It seemed that the other team members had already started fighting.

Even though they were quite far away, they could still hear tremendous explosions.

Although there were not many of them, their firepower was at a level that surpassed the total power of a mid-sized count’s territory.

After all, the goal was not to occupy Count Legion’s territory, but to simultaneously devastate it, capture only the lord, and escape!

Since the purpose was different, it was not necessary to have a large number of people.

The moment they left the forest with such high hopes-

Black Knight Izenbai was grabbed by something and dragged into the sky.

It happened so quickly that Golojump didn’t realize what had happened.

“W-Wyverns! Wyverns… are swarming. This is a wyvern’s nest!”

Someone shouted in a horrified voice.

What nonsense? Why are wyverns here?

Except for the humanoid golems, everyone raised their heads and looked at the sky.

There were so many wyverns in the sky that it was impossible to see the end.

The moment their eyes met, the hair on their entire bodies stood on end. Their arms and legs stiffened as if they had been injected with an anesthetic.

“O-Orders…….”

A subordinate shouted.

“Q-Quickly, prepare for defense!”

The Black Knights of the Stone Head Church had undergone tremendous training.

They had also completed simulations for hundreds of situations. They even knew how to proceed in a battle with an ogre who suddenly appeared on the road and tried to rob them of their money.

But-

Not just one-

They had not anticipated a battle with dozens of wyverns.

Golojump looked around. To catch those things, they needed a large quarrel [a heavy crossbow]. They didn’t have one now. Was there nothing to rely on but the attack magic of the black mages?

No!

Didn’t they have humanoid golems?

They had infinite regeneration and infinite stamina, and they were also capable of long-range shelling.

“Everyone! Shoot those birdbrains down…….”

Golojump couldn’t finish his order.

The wyverns had struck first. They swooped down and devoured the golems.

Waduk! Waduk!

They bit them with their teeth hundreds of meters in the air and then dropped them.

The fallen golems temporarily stopped moving.

But they were golems capable of infinite regeneration. Their cores glowed and they began to regenerate again.

“What the hell? Why are the wyverns moving so uniformly! It’s like an army!”

A black mage who was randomly casting magic was grabbed by Bibyeo-bibyeo [onomatopoeia for flapping wings] and dragged into the sky, screaming.

In that way, Izenbai’s unit suffered near-total annihilation.

Golojump hurriedly reorganized his unit and was able to escape the wyvern’s nest. Golojump thought it was fortunate that they had managed to salvage the humanoid golems.

The few surviving subordinates were also exhausted.

But there was no time to rest. They had to return to the main force as soon as possible and inform them of this fact.

It was the moment they were about to move.

“Kuaaaaak!”

A rough scream was heard from behind. And again, another person screamed as they were lifted into the sky.

The wyverns had already surrounded them along the forest.