I Got a Fake Job at the Academy

Chapter 713: The Will to Unite (1)

Casey Selmore felt the emotion of killing intent toward Salesin.

When fighting criminals, there are times when you inevitably have to kill them.

Casey Selmore was not the type of fool who would spout idealistic nonsense about being unable to kill people.

However, if asked whether she had ever truly wanted to kill someone, she could definitively say she never had.

Even if there were times when she had no choice but to kill when the opponent was trying to kill her and suppression was unavoidable.

She had never once fought while thinking she wanted to kill someone.

But now it was different.

"Salesin van Bretus. A war criminal who brainwashes people with strange powers, arbitrarily starts wars, and causes massive casualties. Your crimes cannot be handled even by the laws of this world."

Casey declared with a cold voice.

"I'm going to kill you here."

"Kill me? Detective Miss is still naive. Do you think everything will end if you kill me? This world was made to work that way from the beginning."

"That doesn't matter. The priority is to eliminate the worst existence right in front of me."

"To call the Holy Emperor the worst existence, truly seditious words. More importantly, do you think you can kill me?"

"I know you're strong just from the impact felt from above. But that doesn't mean you're completely invincible. If you're human, it should be worth trying, shouldn't it?"

"Hahaha. What audacious words. To describe me as just a human."

Salesin let out a laugh, but it wasn't because he was in a good mood.

Rather, he felt displeasure at Casey's words that definitively called him a mere human.

"There's nothing you can't say to the man who will become the god of this world."

"I don't care about that nonsense. What's important is that you will die by my hand."

As if Casey's words weren't empty boasts, water vapor began to condense around her, creating rippling water.

Salesin realized that the water Casey controlled was not ordinary.

'Originally, Casey Selmore wasn't this strong.'

According to the reports he had received, Casey Selmore was a Colour Mage, but compared to other mages with the same title, her strength was in the lower ranks.

However, the aura of the Casey he was facing now didn't feel that way at all.

'Did she grow in the meantime? The fact that she's alive and well after I brainwashed her sister Marias must mean she subdued her with skill.'

She had definitely gained some kind of enlightenment.

A mage with the Colour title was trying to face him in an enlightened state.

Frankly speaking, it didn't feel good.

He still didn't think he would lose.

However, one by one, those who grabbed his ankles and interfered with him were increasing.

Surna was like that, Helia was like that, and Casey was like that too.

Most importantly, the greatest risk factor, Rudger, still remained.

"Now that it's come to this, I need to settle things as quickly as possible."

The authority that had been accumulated for over a thousand years was activated.

Its target was first the sky-blue haired girl who was blatantly emanating unrefined, naked killing intent toward him.

An invisible, intangible wave swept over Casey's body.

The authority of brainwashing that seizes the opponent's mind and moves them according to one's taste.

Casey's body hesitated but that was as far as it went.

-Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

A spear of water flew and struck Salesin's body.

Thanks to the powerful divine power surrounding his entire body, he didn't have a single wound, but Salesin narrowed his eyes as if the very fact that Casey was unharmed was puzzling.

"How are you unharmed?"

It wasn't some inferior authority used by lending it to others.

His direct, pure, high-purity mental domination had failed to show effect on Casey.

"I'm not completely unharmed. I feel pretty damn dirty."

Seeing Casey's glaring eyes, Salesin stroked his chin with his finger and hummed.

"I see. Since you're a Colour Mage, your brain structure is completely different from ordinary mages. It's natural that mental aspects don't work."

Of course, even Colour Mages weren't impossible to brainwash.

He had actually succeeded in brainwashing Marias.

However, the current Casey made that impossible. Her awakened thoughts, surpassing Marias, were immune even to brainwashing called authority.

"Not a very good discovery."

Salesin felt displeasure at the mere fact that there existed a bug that wouldn't listen to him.

And Casey felt even greater displeasure than that.

"It's not like I wanted to become like this, you know? Besides, I've already been through something similar once before, not counting you."

The demon Basara's authority was also similar to Salesin's authority in the big picture, especially in the aspect of digging into others' minds and picking at weak spots.

Casey had to spend several weeks like a cripple after going through such an ordeal.

The reason she could stand here was because she had overcome all of that process.

It would be a lie to say Rudger wasn't involved in the opportunity that allowed her to stand up.

"And because of you, memories I didn't want to recall came back up."

As if responding to Casey's anger, the surrounding temperature dropped sharply.

It wasn't just an illusion - the actual physical temperature had dropped.

The atmosphere around Salesin's body froze.

"This is..."

She wasn't just manipulating water, but intentionally robbing the surrounding heat as the water evaporated.

Seeing Salesin's reaction, Casey smirked.

"What? Surprised?"

"No. It's less impressive than I thought."

Salesin strongly raised his divine power and completely eliminated all moisture in the surroundings.

Heat like solar wind swirled around.

Even though the moisture that could be called her weapon had disappeared, Casey's expression remained the same.

The reason was soon revealed.

A giant ice spike that erupted from the ground aimed at his body.

The spike melted as soon as it touched Salesin's divine power, but it didn't disappear completely.

The space that had been burning hot like the sun began to cool down again.

"Did you think I came alone?"

-Rumble rumble rumble.

The ground beneath Salesin's feet shook greatly and the ground collapsed.

Salesin, falling down there, could see countless ice thorns that had sprouted in the artificial cavity created by carving out the entire wide space in all directions.

And even a woman who had been waiting here in advance, emanating a chill.

"Did you enjoy toying with a woman's body as you pleased?"

Marias Selmore's face looked a bit haggard from the fight with Casey, but her eyes were more intense than ever.

A chilling coldness encompassing the entire surrounding space swallowed Salesin.

Salesin was fine even in such extreme conditions, but this coldness was slowly eroding his divine power over time.

'It would be dangerous to stay still like this.'

First, he had to escape from this space.

Salesin tried to soar toward the ceiling he had fallen from, but massive water poured down from above and pressed down on Salesin.

It was Casey Selmore's doing.

-Crash crash crash!

As the water pouring like a waterfall swallowed Salesin, the coldness froze the entire waterfall along with him.

Immediately after, with a flash of light, Salesin appeared unharmed, breaking the ice.

"Is this all? If so, it's too disappointing."

Salesin didn't have a single trace left on his skin, let alone his clothes.

Marias didn't give up even after seeing that appearance.

As if she hadn't expected to kill Salesin from the beginning, she persistently focused only on restricting Salesin's movements.

Salesin wasn't unaware of that intention either.

'What exactly are they trying to do?'

Salesin racked his brain. At the same time, he intensified the light to eliminate the surrounding coldness.

Marias bit her lip.

Intense heat that even a Colour Mage couldn't handle was about to surge like a wave.

That was the sun.

No matter how powerful a human might be, they couldn't block the sun itself.

Casey knew this too, so she was pouring water, but the water completely disappeared, not just evaporating, before it could even touch the light.

The space shimmered like a mirage.

The coldness encompassing the entire space instantly changed to the heat of a steamer.

At that moment, a giant dragon's muzzle suddenly protruded from above the ceiling.

It was a dragon with eerily blue scales, different from ordinary dragons.

-Whoooosh!

When the dragon opened its mouth, bitter cold air poured out and pushed back the heat created by Salesin.

It couldn't defeat Salesin with that alone, but it was enough to cool the massive heat generated by the light for a moment.

Two shadows moved through that cooled gap.

One was Alex, and the other was Surna.

Two men who had reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship simultaneously swung their swords from both sides of Salesin.

Gray and black auras danced in harmony.

In the dense attack that could split even a grain of rice into hundreds of pieces, Salesin was still unharmed.

No. He wasn't completely unharmed.

-Swoosh.

A minute wound was carved on his cheek, and blood flowed down through that gap.

Of course, the blood returned to the wound as if time was being reversed, and the wound healed too.

But the very fact that he had been wounded didn't disappear.

Salesin didn't like that.

More than the fact that he was wounded, he hated the eyes of those who were igniting the flame of hope seeing that.

Salesin created a sword of light in his hand and swung it wide.

Very intense power didn't need to be accompanied by technique.

A giant wave of power swept through the entire cavity.

The dragon's head spitting coldness disappeared, and Alex and Surna were also blown away backward.

However, they didn't die. They had deflected Salesin's power as much as possible.

"First."

I should kill the most annoying one first.

Salesin's gaze turned toward Surna.

Although he had deflected the power as much as possible, Surna, who had reached his body's limit, was now staggering, unable to maintain his posture.

Killing such a Surna was easier than wringing a chicken's neck.

Just as he was about to swing his sword of light again a large shadow appeared behind him and greeted Salesin.

"I'm late with my greetings. Holy Emperor Salesin, Your Majesty."

Instead of answering, Salesin held his sword of light horizontally and swung it toward the man behind him.

-Crash!

An explosion caused by the sword of light occurred.

However, Salesin's expression wasn't very good.

'The power was all scattered.'

The man was unharmed even in the explosion.

"Was it Luther Wardot? They called you the continent's greatest swordsman, but that apparently wasn't an empty title."

Salesin smiled brightly while looking at Luther.

The man holding his beloved sword, Jet Stream, and wearing a compressed storm around his entire body, pointed his sword at Salesin.

"Are you thinking of killing me?"

"That's right."

"Can you do that?"

"Of course, it would be difficult for me alone."

-Thrust!

Along with Jet Stream's thrust, the compressed storm aura struck Salesin's solar plexus.

-Crash crash crash crash!

High-density divine power and compressed aura collided multiple times, creating brilliant light and noise.

It was power that could grind a person a hundred times over, but neither Salesin nor Luther thought anyone would die from this attack.

"So I plan to do it together with a friend."

Salesin clearly heard Luther's quiet voice.

Friend? Who could that be? The moment Salesin thought that.

Behind him, pushed back by Luther's typhoon, he felt massive magical power.

7th circle earth attribute magic [Pure White Severance]

The wall of the carved cavity wriggled and moved, then its color changed to look like transparent liquid.

It was definitely made of holy stone and various building materials, but for now, it was fair to say its composition had completely changed.

It looked like liquid, but it wasn't liquid.

Something similar to that wriggled and swallowed Salesin's entire body.

Then it solidified in an instant and hardened.

A giant, transparent crystal created around Salesin.

Salesin, trapped inside, couldn't move at all.

That was natural.

It was 7th circle magic, after all.

And except for Rudger, there was only one person who could use it.

"Heh heh. My back hurts from using magic after such a long time."

Clinton Rothschild slowly descended from the air while holding his staff.

He spoke lightly, but cold sweat was flowing down the forehead of the man who had used 7th circle magic.

However this was enough.

He had trapped Salesin in a giant crystal harder than any substance in the world.

[Pure White Severance] was a powerful seal that severed the opponent from the world and fixed them inside as they were.

Clinton didn't think magic of this level could be easily broken.

Then Surna shouted.

"Both of you, get away!"

Luthers and Clinton didn't understand why he shouted that.

But the two, who didn't take the warning lightly, desperately moved to split apart to both sides.

Right after that, the transparent crystal trapping Salesin split vertically, and light cut through the space between the two.

The trajectory of light completely cut through the fortress, and even cut through part of Bretus Island beyond that.

Where the giant slash had passed, a tremendous roar arose along with dust clouds billowing up hazily.

"Whew. No matter how old I've gotten, it was magic I put some effort into."

Clinton looked at Salesin, who had broken the crystal and came out, in disbelief.

"Was it Archmage Clinton? It wasn't bad. For a human, that is."

Salesin said while brushing off the crystal powder on his clothes with his hand.