“Park Min-Jun, you are the last person.”
I hesitated before I walked into the barrier. The beasts were staring into my eyes silently. I took a deep breath and concentrated on my palms. I tried to visualize a spark of light flowing through my veins. Magic stemming from my heart flowed to my palms, and I immediately converted it into actual light.
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is blocking attempted action.]
The light faded away. Not even one of my strongest spells could get past this illness. What disease blocks one from using magic, anyway? That’s cursed.
“Park.” The instructor sounded irritated. “I don’t care if your strongest spells are weaker than others or not, you need to..”
Sir Heldrich, that was not the issue. The issue was that I can’t even use magic.
‘Activate skill–’
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is blocking attempted action.]
Ah, right. I should try the chant.
‘Utar hac luce–’
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is blocking attempted action.]
What the fuck.
I looked above and saw the instructor staring daggers at me. He looked annoyed and impatient, tapping his fingers and all.
At the sight of that, I sighed. “Sir Heldrich, I can’t perform the attempted–I mean–the spells.” The system message was getting stuck in my head.
“Why can’t you?” The instructor spoke loudly.
“I have an illness that is–cough!” Something gagged me.
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is blocking attempted action.]
Huh?
“Hurry up, fucker!” Choi Yeong-Ja urged.
I took another deep breath.
My strongest spell. It is pretty legendary, but I’m too amateur to use it properly, and I predicted that the “???” would block it anyway. Despite that, I attempted to start chanting in my head.
‘Luce ac tenebris, carens omnibus, quam..’
I felt an iron taste erupt within my throat, but I continued anyway. “Keuk!” Blood splattered on the dirt.
‘..caecitate creando.’
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is warning you!]
My thoughts started to wander everywhere. Static whirled in my brain and the migraine seemed to grow stronger. I coughed out more blood and almost collapsed.
“Wait.. Stop the spell!”
I became a mindless puppet and only focused on finishing the spell. ‘Clamo, eclipsis planetae..’
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is worsening!]
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The pain in my head pulsed violently. I neglected the pain and continued to think of the last sentence of the chant. Magic power revolved around my wrists and my palm. I grasped onto it tightly, hoping for it to not get blocked by the illness.
‘..argenteorum et stella Titan.’
I finally finished the chant.
[The illness “??? Lv. ???” is reducing the effects of your spell!]
[A divine being is watching closely.]
[A divine being is feeling nostalgic.]
*
The sky turned dark by the time Min-Jun finished preparing his spell. An ominous aura filled the magic barrier that surrounded the beasts.
‘What spell is that..’ Instructor Heldrich saw something he had never seen before. ‘Activate Appraisal.’
[Being is not applicable for this skill.]
Sir Heldrich heard other instructors talk about how their assessing skills couldn’t activate when used on a particular student. There was an academy archmage meeting about it, but he chose to skip it to prepare for his classes. He started to regret skipping the meeting.
As the darkness inside the barrier condensed, cracks appeared around the barrier the instructor created. The number of cracks increased and beasts inside the sphere let out a series of ground-shaking screams.
[SCREEEE!]
[WUAAAAAH!]
‘What the hell was happening?’ many thought.
…
[Elder Werewolf Hound has died!]
[Elder Werewolf Hound has died!]
[Elder Werewolf Hound has died!]
[Elder Werewolf Hound has …!]
[Elder …!]
All five of the S-rank beasts died. Concern washed over the instructor’s face.
‘What…’
The barrier broke and there was a large explosion stemming from it. Darkness surrounded the students and reached over the entire area.
“A solar eclipse…”
“Don’t look at it! It’ll blind you!”
Instructor Heldrich instinctively activated sphere barriers around the students. He was slightly late, and a few students got injured from the explosion. He looked back at where Min-Jun was, and the condensed ominous aura was still there, taking the shape of the space it filled just now. It was slowly spreading apart and across the scenery.
Everyone in the training zone looked at the sinister dark magic, observing the ugly sight and darkness that would consume them if they touched it. As the void-like fog cleared out, the giant, strong beasts that were twenty feet tall laid flat on the ground, and Park Min-Jun looked like a bloody mess. Dark red liquid oozed from his nose, eyes, mouth, and ears. He crouched on the ground, groaning and coughing blood.
“Min-Jun.. We should save him, too, instructor!” Julian cried. “Instructor!”
Sir Heldrich didn’t know what to do. This was definitely the kid’s strongest spell, but how was it already this strong? He tried to deduce the spell name.
Black fog…fills the entire area with darkness… blinding and menacing. Could it be?
“‘Blinding Abyss.’ A spell made from dark and light magic,” a student that was not encircled by the protective barrier flew beside Heldrich. The student fixed his circular glasses and combed back his brown hair with his hands.
“Remiola Zero. thought I placed you in a–”
“I broke it. I didn’t want to watch this diseased guy suffer, and I don’t want anyone to die a pathetic death like this.” The student snapped his fingers and a luminous thin film wrapped around his own body. He flew to where Park Min-Jun was.
…
“First, this moron steals my turn, then he tries to kill all of us??” Choi Yeong-Ja complained. Her anger was true this time.
A serious expression appeared on her face as soon as she noticed the cracks on the S-rank barrier around her. She watched silently as the crack increased in size.
“This thing is about to break.. Oiiii, Instructor! Do something about this!”
The shield-barrier finally broke. Dark fog rushed towards the students immediately.
Suddenly, they felt a strong presence appear near them.
Bright yellow dusts of light appeared near Choi Yeong-Ja. The dust formed a shape that resembled a human. It fluttered around until the full appearance of a beautiful woman formed.
The woman’s hair was bright gold, its undertone crimson. Her long, tied ponytail waved by the wind, and her red and tired, sharp eyes assessed the surroundings faster than the system. The aura around her gave the students a sense of safety and warmth. Her face was pleasant, and the two humongous … nevertheless, the male students felt safe.
“Park Min-Jun..” she noticed the boy in the heavy black fog. “Sir Heldrich, what are you doing?”
Heldrich looked at her blankly. “Madam..”