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Chapter 492

    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chapter 492


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is that so."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak didn''t pay much attention to Yi-Han''s excuse and took out a ss bottle containing a red potion from his bosom and took a sip.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At first, Yi-Han thought it was a mana recovery potion, but...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''It''s blood, isn''t it?''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han realized that Professor Bagrak had used blood magic to amplify his mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indeed, considering the power of the blood sword he had just shown, even for Professor Bagrak, it would have been difficult to cast it so quickly without any cost.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is your mana alright?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han asked out of concern for the professor.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was easy to forget when seeing the otherworldly appearance asionally shown by the Einroguard professors, but the professors were also ultimately people made of flesh and blood.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">...Of course, there was also a lich...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Magic was not a convenient discipline that could only gain rewards without any cost, and naturally, after such an intense battle, there was a burden on the mage as well.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s fine. It doesn''t seem like something you should worry about."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was understandable for a teacher to worry about a disciple, but there was no need for a disciple to worry about a teacher.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak nced over Yi-Han.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Despite engaging in a quite intense battle, there seemed to be no abnormality in his mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was truly an overwhelminglyrge amount of mana, which was newly impressive.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Do you remember the magic you just used?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Huh? Do you mean


    ?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak slowly shook his head.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Of course, sessfully casting


    was also impressive, but that wasn''t what the professor was trying to say now.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The magic you used after that."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Ah, the one where I added the spin attribute to the water orbs..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Yes. I think it deserves a name."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han was surprised.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Naming a magic was never a light matter.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was possible when that magic had a distinct value that clearly distinguished it from other magics.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If Gainando looked at the Magic Missile magic written in a book, cast it, and said, "My magic is much slower and weaker than the magic written in the book, so I''ll name this <Gainando''s Magic Missile>! It''s a magic that anyone can easily use!" who would listen to him?


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Since it wasn''t something that could be done by the insistence of a single mage, it was quite surprising for Professor Bagrak to say that.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"A name, you say? I don''t think it''s a magic of that level."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It wasn''t that he wasn''t proud.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The joy of sessfully casting a magic that he had been forcibly casting by dividing the casting process was a sense of aplishment that only mages could feel.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was simr to the feeling of perfectly fitting together aplex puzzle that was scattered into dozens of pieces.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However, just because he seeded in a difficult magic didn''t mean he could name them all...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"You don''t have to create something out of nothing to name it. Improvements can also be named."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"That''s true, but..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Yi-Han hesitated, Professor Bagrak exined in a bit more detail.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The magic you just used looks simr to Lady Eumidiphos''s Water Bullet, but it''s clearly different."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Although it was a water element magic that was evaluated ascking destructive power, the one who reversed that evaluation was none other than Eumidiphos.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A mage who maximized the destructive power bybining various advanced attributes with the water element!


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">One of them, <Eumidiphos''s Water Bullet>, was a magic that fused the spin attribute to the extreme with the water element.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The prating power and destructive power concentrated on this one point were famous for the anecdote of Eumidiphos, the creator of the magic, directly using it to instantly kill a demon duke.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Professor Bagrak had learned under Eumidiphos, it was natural for him to teach this magic to a brilliant disciple who eagerly sought the advanced wisdom of elemental magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And this disciple, who had greedily demanded, eventually reinterpreted and improved the Water Bullet in his own way toplete it.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cutting out unnecessary processes from the original magic and intuitivelypensating for the missing parts using mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The power was weaker than when Eumidiphos directly cast it, but this was enough. If it could deal damage to the Sea Serpent and bind its feet, it was excellent in terms of power.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Above all, the significantly reduced casting speed was impressive.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What was needed in magicbat was the minimum urate force to defeat the enemy, not a show of strength.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It would be much more suitable for person-to-personbat."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Isn''t the mana waste a bit severe?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han was pleased with the unexpectedly big praise but approached it realistically.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By hastily omitting unnecessary processes, the cut-off parts were used close to wasting mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Every magic has its pros and cons."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Thank you. I will consider it an honor."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han expressed his gratitude honestly and decided to enjoy it.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''Not bad.''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Of course, he didn''t think this <Wardanaz''s Water Bullet> magic would be a widely spread magic throughout the Empire.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It would be nice to be able to live a life of leisure with a single magic, but Yi-Han didn''t have such vain expectations.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''Objectively, the ws are a bit big, but...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">First of all, water elementbat magic itself was a bit minor, and adding the spin attribute made it even more minor, and if the disadvantage of mana overconsumption was added here...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mages who could use it were too limited.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However, even considering that, it was true that he was happy to have his own magic named.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wouldn''t it look much more usible if he added a line like "I havepleted the 4th Circle magic <Wardanaz''s Water Bullet>" when submitting a proposal or receiving investmentter?


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak nodded in satisfaction as his disciple was pleased.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Then he opened his mouth again.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"When you return to Einroguard, write a book organizing the water element magic you realized this time."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Pardon?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han, who was happy, hesitated.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''What did he just say?''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It wasn''t umon for mages to organize their realizations about magic and make them into books, like <Basic Lightning Element Magic and Its Applications> or <Basic Blood Magic and Its Applications>.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Einroguard students also often made books by organizing their realizations for training and learning.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">...Usually the senior students!


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">While Yi-Han was shocked, thinking ''Is this person crazy right now?'' the professor continued.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Ah. Wait. I was mistaken."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I knew you would say that."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han inwardly hoped that Professor Bagrak would tell him to try again when he was in his 4th year.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''No? Since he''s an unscrupulous person, he might make me do it in my 3rd year. Then I''ll avoid taking his ss in my 3rd year...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Write two books. One about the magic you realized, and the other about the direction of improving the magic."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If one was about organizing the magic, the other was for the purpose of contemting how to further develop that magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak added one more to satisfy his disciple''s endless intellectual curiosity, like his mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Otherwise, he didn''t know what crazy thing he might do, like rushing at the Sea Serpent today.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">While Yi-Han was too dumbfounded to say anything, Professor Uregor came running.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">His face was full of fatigue thanks to somehow persuading andforting the people from the Maykin family and the city people who almost had a heart attack because the student had rushed into the battlefield.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"You crazy bastard! Why the hell did you rush in front of the Sea Serpent?!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Uregor, who shouted while panting, flinched when he saw Yi-Han''s granite-like expression filled with anger.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...D-Did I say something too harsh?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">—


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop, who had finished preparing the magic to show to the student from Einroguard, headed to the port with the mercenaries.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenaries carefully asked.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Mage. Shouldn''t we hurry?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The Sea Serpent hunt doesn''t end that quickly."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A battle with arge monster with tenacious vitality was usually a battle of endurance.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It would be more than enough even if they wentter than now.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''If I just show this magic...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What Ianop had prepared was a terribly beautiful weakening magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was easy to be misunderstood as dark magic, but it was absolutely not, and it was an enchantment magic that, once cast, would dwell in the target''s body and reverse their regenerative power.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It would be even more effective against a target like the Sea Serpent.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Ma-Mage. The port is lit..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The port is bright!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop was startled to see the dazzling appearance of the port.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Spheres of light were densely embedded like broad daylight, driving away the darkness.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''Even if they''re mages from Einroguard, how can they waste like this? It doesn''t make sense!''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop thought that Einroguard might have created a new magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No matter howcking the light was, there was no need to waste mana by summoning these spheres of light one by one before the Sea Serpent hunt, right?


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Wow. It''s amazing."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"As expected of mages..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenaries spoke as if ttering, but Ianop''s mind was tooplicated to even hear it.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No matter how he looked at it, he couldn''t even guess how the structure of that magic was.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop felt a deep sense of humiliation, just like he had felt long ago.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To think he couldn''t even read the structure of such a simple magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''I have no idea...! How did he do that at once...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Mage. Mage!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Ianop was distracted, the mercenaries urgently called the mage.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What is it?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The hunt..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is about to begin?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s over, they say?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...What?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop took his eyes off the spheres of light and turned his head.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Surprisingly, the corpse of the Sea Serpent was lying on the pier below.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At a nce, it was evident that fierce magic had been exchanged.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The remaining ice and the uniquely cut corpse of the Sea Serpent.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What kind of magic...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s over?!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Yes, yes..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Frightened by the mage''s unusual appearance, the mercenaries hurriedly brought a nearby sailor.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"You said you definitely saw it?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"How many times do I have to say it? I saw it from the very bottom!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I understand. I understand, so speak well. He''s a very great person."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What... a mage from Einroguard?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The sailor, who was brought by the mercenaries, asked as if puzzled when he saw Ianop in the carriage.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In this city right now, the only great person with such attire was a mage from Einroguard.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s not for you to ask about his identity. Do you want me to take back the silver coin?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenary spoke with irritation, but the sailor who had been through rough seas was not easy either. He retorted with anger.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Damn it... You called me urgently, and what is this..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Instead of answering, Ianop flicked one more silver coin.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Then the attitude of the sailor, who had been irritated, suddenly became gentle.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What are you so curious about?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Who cast that light magic? Do you remember which professor it was? Did they use any special potions or scrolls when casting?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It was cast by a student. And uh... potions or scrolls? If you mean those scroll-like things, he didn''t use them."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...!!!!!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop was so shocked that he unknowingly let out a groan.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If it was a student, there was only one.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is it the student from the Wardanaz family?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Oh, that''s right! That was the name."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Don''t lie!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s not a lie! Call anyone else and you''ll know."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The sailor''s attitude was so confident that Ianop instinctively felt there was not a single lie in those words.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''He did that at once? How did he do it at once?''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In fact, he didn''t cast it at once, but Ianop unconsciously thought so.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"How did they subjugate it? How did they subjugate it?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Ianop fell into shock, the mercenaries asked out of curiosity.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"They defeat one by shooting magic-enchanted arrows."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Was that also done by the Einroguard mages?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"No. That was also done by the student mage from the Wardanaz family."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenaries'' voices diminished as they gradually became amazed, even though they were ignorant of magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">They got a sense of why Ianop was shocked.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What about the other one?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The Einroguard mages defeated it directly."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I guess the student you mentioned earlier didn''t participate this time."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"No. He participated together and fought?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Twins?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Triplets... or maybe quintuplets..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Only the mercenaries'' murmuring voices quietly spread through the nightly port street.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Chapter 492</strong>


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is that so."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak didn''t pay much attention to Yi-Han''s excuse and took out a ss bottle containing a red potion from his bosom and took a sip.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At first, Yi-Han thought it was a mana recovery potion, but...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''It''s blood, isn''t it?''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han realized that Professor Bagrak had used blood magic to amplify his mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Indeed, considering the power of the blood sword he had just shown, even for Professor Bagrak, it would have been difficult to cast it so quickly without any cost.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is your mana alright?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han asked out of concern for the professor.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was easy to forget when seeing the otherworldly appearance asionally shown by the Einroguard professors, but the professors were also ultimately people made of flesh and blood.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">...Of course, there was also a lich...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Magic was not a convenient discipline that could only gain rewards without any cost, and naturally, after such an intense battle, there was a burden on the mage as well.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s fine. It doesn''t seem like something you should worry about."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was understandable for a teacher to worry about a disciple, but there was no need for a disciple to worry about a teacher.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak nced over Yi-Han.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Despite engaging in a quite intense battle, there seemed to be no abnormality in his mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was truly an overwhelminglyrge amount of mana, which was newly impressive.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Do you remember the magic you just used?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Huh? Do you mean


    ?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak slowly shook his head.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Of course, sessfully casting


    was also impressive, but that wasn''t what the professor was trying to say now.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The magic you used after that."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Ah, the one where I added the spin attribute to the water orbs..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Yes. I think it deserves a name."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han was surprised.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Naming a magic was never a light matter.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was possible when that magic had a distinct value that clearly distinguished it from other magics.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If Gainando looked at the Magic Missile magic written in a book, cast it, and said, "My magic is much slower and weaker than the magic written in the book, so I''ll name this <Gainando''s Magic Missile>! It''s a magic that anyone can easily use!" who would listen to him?


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Since it wasn''t something that could be done by the insistence of a single mage, it was quite surprising for Professor Bagrak to say that.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"A name, you say? I don''t think it''s a magic of that level."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It wasn''t that he wasn''t proud.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The joy of sessfully casting a magic that he had been forcibly casting by dividing the casting process was a sense of aplishment that only mages could feel.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was simr to the feeling of perfectly fitting together aplex puzzle that was scattered into dozens of pieces.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However, just because he seeded in a difficult magic didn''t mean he could name them all...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"You don''t have to create something out of nothing to name it. Improvements can also be named."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"That''s true, but..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Yi-Han hesitated, Professor Bagrak exined in a bit more detail.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The magic you just used looks simr to Lady Eumidiphos''s Water Bullet, but it''s clearly different."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Although it was a water element magic that was evaluated ascking destructive power, the one who reversed that evaluation was none other than Eumidiphos.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A mage who maximized the destructive power bybining various advanced attributes with the water element!


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">One of them, <Eumidiphos''s Water Bullet>, was a magic that fused the spin attribute to the extreme with the water element.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The prating power and destructive power concentrated on this one point were famous for the anecdote of Eumidiphos, the creator of the magic, directly using it to instantly kill a demon duke.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Professor Bagrak had learned under Eumidiphos, it was natural for him to teach this magic to a brilliant disciple who eagerly sought the advanced wisdom of elemental magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And this disciple, who had greedily demanded, eventually reinterpreted and improved the Water Bullet in his own way toplete it.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cutting out unnecessary processes from the original magic and intuitivelypensating for the missing parts using mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The power was weaker than when Eumidiphos directly cast it, but this was enough. If it could deal damage to the Sea Serpent and bind its feet, it was excellent in terms of power.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Above all, the significantly reduced casting speed was impressive.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What was needed in magicbat was the minimum urate force to defeat the enemy, not a show of strength.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It would be much more suitable for person-to-personbat."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Isn''t the mana waste a bit severe?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han was pleased with the unexpectedly big praise but approached it realistically.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By hastily omitting unnecessary processes, the cut-off parts were used close to wasting mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Every magic has its pros and cons."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Thank you. I will consider it an honor."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han expressed his gratitude honestly and decided to enjoy it.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''Not bad.''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Of course, he didn''t think this <Wardanaz''s Water Bullet> magic would be a widely spread magic throughout the Empire.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It would be nice to be able to live a life of leisure with a single magic, but Yi-Han didn''t have such vain expectations.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''Objectively, the ws are a bit big, but...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">First of all, water elementbat magic itself was a bit minor, and adding the spin attribute made it even more minor, and if the disadvantage of mana overconsumption was added here...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mages who could use it were too limited.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However, even considering that, it was true that he was happy to have his own magic named.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wouldn''t it look much more usible if he added a line like "I havepleted the 4th Circle magic <Wardanaz''s Water Bullet>" when submitting a proposal or receiving investmentter?


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak nodded in satisfaction as his disciple was pleased.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Then he opened his mouth again.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"When you return to Einroguard, write a book organizing the water element magic you realized this time."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Pardon?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han, who was happy, hesitated.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''What did he just say?''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It wasn''t umon for mages to organize their realizations about magic and make them into books, like <Basic Lightning Element Magic and Its Applications> or <Basic Blood Magic and Its Applications>.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Einroguard students also often made books by organizing their realizations for training and learning.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">...Usually the senior students!


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">While Yi-Han was shocked, thinking ''Is this person crazy right now?'' the professor continued.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Ah. Wait. I was mistaken."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I knew you would say that."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yi-Han inwardly hoped that Professor Bagrak would tell him to try again when he was in his 4th year.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''No? Since he''s an unscrupulous person, he might make me do it in my 3rd year. Then I''ll avoid taking his ss in my 3rd year...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Write two books. One about the magic you realized, and the other about the direction of improving the magic."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If one was about organizing the magic, the other was for the purpose of contemting how to further develop that magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Bagrak added one more to satisfy his disciple''s endless intellectual curiosity, like his mana.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Otherwise, he didn''t know what crazy thing he might do, like rushing at the Sea Serpent today.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">While Yi-Han was too dumbfounded to say anything, Professor Uregor came running.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">His face was full of fatigue thanks to somehow persuading andforting the people from the Maykin family and the city people who almost had a heart attack because the student had rushed into the battlefield.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"You crazy bastard! Why the hell did you rush in front of the Sea Serpent?!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Uregor, who shouted while panting, flinched when he saw Yi-Han''s granite-like expression filled with anger.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...D-Did I say something too harsh?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">—


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop, who had finished preparing the magic to show to the student from Einroguard, headed to the port with the mercenaries.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenaries carefully asked.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Mage. Shouldn''t we hurry?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The Sea Serpent hunt doesn''t end that quickly."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A battle with arge monster with tenacious vitality was usually a battle of endurance.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It would be more than enough even if they wentter than now.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''If I just show this magic...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What Ianop had prepared was a terribly beautiful weakening magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It was easy to be misunderstood as dark magic, but it was absolutely not, and it was an enchantment magic that, once cast, would dwell in the target''s body and reverse their regenerative power.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It would be even more effective against a target like the Sea Serpent.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Ma-Mage. The port is lit..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The port is bright!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop was startled to see the dazzling appearance of the port.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Spheres of light were densely embedded like broad daylight, driving away the darkness.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''Even if they''re mages from Einroguard, how can they waste like this? It doesn''t make sense!''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop thought that Einroguard might have created a new magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No matter howcking the light was, there was no need to waste mana by summoning these spheres of light one by one before the Sea Serpent hunt, right?


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Wow. It''s amazing."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"As expected of mages..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenaries spoke as if ttering, but Ianop''s mind was tooplicated to even hear it.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">No matter how he looked at it, he couldn''t even guess how the structure of that magic was.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop felt a deep sense of humiliation, just like he had felt long ago.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To think he couldn''t even read the structure of such a simple magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''I have no idea...! How did he do that at once...''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Mage. Mage!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Ianop was distracted, the mercenaries urgently called the mage.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What is it?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The hunt..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is about to begin?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s over, they say?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...What?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop took his eyes off the spheres of light and turned his head.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Surprisingly, the corpse of the Sea Serpent was lying on the pier below.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At a nce, it was evident that fierce magic had been exchanged.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The remaining ice and the uniquely cut corpse of the Sea Serpent.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What kind of magic...


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s over?!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Yes, yes..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Frightened by the mage''s unusual appearance, the mercenaries hurriedly brought a nearby sailor.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"You said you definitely saw it?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"How many times do I have to say it? I saw it from the very bottom!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I understand. I understand, so speak well. He''s a very great person."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What... a mage from Einroguard?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The sailor, who was brought by the mercenaries, asked as if puzzled when he saw Ianop in the carriage.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In this city right now, the only great person with such attire was a mage from Einroguard.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s not for you to ask about his identity. Do you want me to take back the silver coin?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenary spoke with irritation, but the sailor who had been through rough seas was not easy either. He retorted with anger.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Damn it... You called me urgently, and what is this..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Instead of answering, Ianop flicked one more silver coin.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Then the attitude of the sailor, who had been irritated, suddenly became gentle.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What are you so curious about?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Who cast that light magic? Do you remember which professor it was? Did they use any special potions or scrolls when casting?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It was cast by a student. And uh... potions or scrolls? If you mean those scroll-like things, he didn''t use them."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...!!!!!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ianop was so shocked that he unknowingly let out a groan.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If it was a student, there was only one.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Is it the student from the Wardanaz family?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Oh, that''s right! That was the name."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Don''t lie!"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"It''s not a lie! Call anyone else and you''ll know."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The sailor''s attitude was so confident that Ianop instinctively felt there was not a single lie in those words.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">''He did that at once? How did he do it at once?''


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In fact, he didn''t cast it at once, but Ianop unconsciously thought so.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"How did they subjugate it? How did they subjugate it?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As Ianop fell into shock, the mercenaries asked out of curiosity.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"They defeat one by shooting magic-enchanted arrows."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Was that also done by the Einroguard mages?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"No. That was also done by the student mage from the Wardanaz family."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The mercenaries'' voices diminished as they gradually became amazed, even though they were ignorant of magic.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">They got a sense of why Ianop was shocked.


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"What about the other one?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"The Einroguard mages defeated it directly."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I guess the student you mentioned earlier didn''t participate this time."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"No. He participated together and fought?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"...Twins?"


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Triplets... or maybe quintuplets..."


    <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Only the mercenaries'' murmuring voices quietly spread through the nightly port street.
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