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Chapter 39
Chapter 39 Strongest Sage, Grasps the Graveness of the Situation
Among the three magic, the first one is 【Mana Strike】 . That's a decoy .
The second one is 【Mana Concealment】 . A magic for literally hiding mana .
And the third one hidden by the 【Mana Concealment】 is the main thing, 【Magic Destruction】 .
"Kuh . . . . Flame!"
Devilis noticed my 【Mana Strike】 and used demon magic to build a wall of flame around itself in order to keep me off .
It's an extremely orthodox method to cope with the close-combat nature of the First Crest .
<TLN: The raw said First Crest, but I believe the author probably intended it to be 'the Fourth Crest' . >
However, that is exactly why there are established ways to break through it .
I chose the simplest one among them .
In other words, frontal attack .
"Wha . . . . "
Devilis was surprised to see me jumping into the magic flame without a moment of hesitation .
Just as I thought, this demon lacks battle experience .
Building wall of flame is only effective for buying a very short amount of time or if your magic control exceeds that of your opponent .
Using it like this without taking magic control strength into consideration, let alone being useless, your own magic will be used against you instead .
For example, like this .
While jumping into the flame, I mix my own mana with Devilis's mana in the surroundings, taking control of it and making it attack Devilis .
The whole flame wall didn't break off, but the part I took was quite enough to create a gap .
"Wha . . . . How!"
Devilis countered the flame with defensive magic and used the magic again to block my 【Mana Strike】-armed sword .
But since Devilis was forced to block these two magic, it had no more room to block another attack . Just as planned .
"You suck at combat!"
I fire the concealed 【Magic Destruction】 at the defenseless Devilis .
【Magic Destruction】 destroys Devilis's dual barriers and the magic that disguised its figure .
"Oy, what just happened!"
"It's too high level, I can't see--hey that's, a demon!"
"T-there's a demon! Where did Devilis go!"
"That demon is wearing Devilis's armor! Don't tell me, Devilis is a demon . . . . "
"Who cares about that, there's a demon in the middle of the town! Hurry contact the Royal Castle, Magic Division and the Knight Order! Have the teachers buy some time while the students evacuate--"
Looks like the audience has begun to realize that Devilis is a demon after it lost its disguise .
The audience seats spiraled into a flurry in an instant .
"Kuh . . . "
After seeing that, Devilis probably concluded that it couldn't hide it anymore .
Devilis spread out wings peculiar to demons and began to concentrate its mana .
Judging from the movement of mana, this is a state where you allocate the whole output to movement magic, to run away with all your might--in brief, it's trying to fly away in this case .
I'm not sure if the reason it doesn't use teleportation magic is because demons have been weakened or something else, but of course, I'm not going to let it escape .
For this level of demon, it should take around one and a half second from spreading wings to takeoff .
With the little damage I gave to the demon, it would manage to escape by using the difference in our mana quantity if I let it to takeoff even once .
I need to settle this in one blow--nevertheless, one and a half second is more than enough .
I took out a magic stone from Storage Magic and put it onto the sword I held .
And then I cram my mana into the sword and the magic stone, adding 【Steel Slash】, 【Impact Blade】, 【Sharpen】, and 【Hardness Reinforcement】 augments .
These four augments are all for strengthening the sword's slashing power in their own unique way .
--However, this magic can't be called augment anymore . It's a clear failure .
Quadruple augments in this short amount of time would be very difficult even for the First Crest . Of course there's no way the Fourth Crest can do it .
Normally, a sword that's been crammed with mana at an impossibly fast rate and forced to possess magic will disintegrate in two seconds .
However, that's not a problem in this situation, for we have one and half a second time limit .
The augment took 0 . 8 seconds . 0 . 7s remaining . An easy victory .
"Wha . . . . "
The demon who saw my sword suddenly turning into a magic sword tried to take a defensive posture .
However, it's useless . The demon isn't flexible enough to change into defensive posture in the middle of trying to fly with all its might .
This is the end .
While upping the sword's speed with Physical Reinforcement, I put 【Mana Strike】, 【Steel Slash】, and 【Sharpen】 on the magic sword that hasn't much time left .
Magic that dwells on a magic sword and magic you use on one are separate things, it's possible to buff magic swords .
【Mana Strike】, 【Steel Slash】, 【Steel Slash】, 【Sharpen】, 【Sharpen】, 【Impact Blade】, 【Hardness Reinforcement】
After putting all these magic, my sword that normally wouldn't have been able to kill a demon in one blow demonstrates sufficient power now .
The sword that has seven magic of five different kinds on it easily slashes through Devilis's body along with its mithril armor, destroying its heart .
The structure of demon's body is similar to that of human, so are the weak points .
In other words, they will die if you destroy their heart, and Devilis isn't an exception .
The mana inside Devilis's body lost control and scattered into the surroundings, power left its body .
"Did he . . . beat it . . . ?"
"Unbelievable, beating a demon alone . . . . I heard that he won against the Knight Commander in the entrance exam but this . . . . "
The people in the vicinity seems to notice Devilis's defeated figure, and a different kind of commotion begins .
Afterward, bunch of guys like Knight Orders and Royal Magicians gathered and it turned into a huge uproar .
Still, the demon even managed to slip into representatives of the First Academy huh . . . .
It appears the world is in a quite grave situation right now .
This needs to be dealt with, else the humanity would be wiped out before I gained strength .