Genius Prismatic Mage Chapter 110

#110. Opening (4)

A mid-level fighter of Murkred.

Malik and Stoney.

They knocked on the barrier that appeared before their eyes and rarely expressed surprise.

“It’s pretty solid.”

“I saw it from afar earlier, but it’s not your average skill.”

And then he quickly turned his head towards Ray.

“You told me to push you to the brink of death.”

“I’m sure Allegheny will be happy.”

Taang─!

A gunshot-like sound erupted from beneath their feet, and Malik and Stoney’s new forms disappeared.

In that split second, two men came up to Ray’s sides, adjusted the kukri in both hands from the upright position and lowered them into an X shape.

Shh …

The crushed air screamed eerily.

“Hurry up.”

“You’re quick.”

The two men’s gaze turned to the left.

There, a boy who had pulled out and taken a few steps away was holding a cold electric current in his hand.

Phagec!

The current flashed. It shot out.

A wall rose in front of the two men.

However, it could not keep up with the speed of the current.

The two men turned their heads with all their might as they saw the eerie blue light before their eyes.

Fit─!

“… … .”

“… … .”

Malik and Stoney each touched their right and left ears.

More than half of the ear, including the earlobe, was missing.

Toouk──!

The moment the flowing drops of blood hit the ground.

Taang──!

Two men rushed toward the boy.

Chaeng! Chae Chaeng! Chae Jae Chaeng!

Five blades, strengthened by mana, danced dizzyingly in the air.

The moment there was even the slightest opening, he glared at the tip of his blade to take his opponent’s breath away.

Ray blocked the enemy’s passage and watched for signs behind the barrier.

─Brother! The exchange is complete!

─Get on board quickly! We’ll only be a nuisance if we stay here!

Soon the container door closed and the sound of a car engine starting could be heard.

─Layya! Come back without getting hurt!

The voice of a girl trembling with anxiety.

Chaejaeng! Chaeng! Chaejaejaeng!

Ray thought back to the last time he saw Veronica’s face, the moment the barrier was created.

The expression Veronica was making at that time… Honestly, I don’t remember.

Because I didn’t have time to concentrate and read facial expressions.

The boy was concentrating all his mind on creating a barrier.

‘There was a limit to the amount of gray mana that could be mixed using only the mana of the ring.’

While McCully was buying time with his shots, he drew on the mana present in the atmosphere to create a large amount of gray mana.

Most of that gray mana was used to create barriers.

The rest.

It was still tied up inside the body.

BAM──!

Gray mana raced along Ray’s legs as he stepped backwards and struck the ground.

The mana that reached the soles of the feet spread across the ground again, arriving right under the feet of the enemy in front.

Kkuddeuk!

A two-meter-tall cylinder rose up beneath the two men’s feet.

“… … !”

“… … !”

The two men, their postures momentarily broken, floated into the air, and Ray generated a blue current to aim at the target.

Among natural magic, lightning magic has the fastest casting speed but the lowest destructive power.

However, if you increase the output and aim for a vital point, it is enough to cause fatal damage.

Moreover, it seems that the opponent has no white mana and cannot use defense.

The moment just before the current is fired.

Hurrruk!

Long streams of flames shot out from the two men’s mouths and engulfed Ray.

Dodging wasn’t difficult, but it did mess up my aim.

Tak─

Tak─

The electricity and flames died down, and Malik and Stoney landed on the ground.

This time, I touched the other ear.

As expected, more than half of it had flown away.

Malik said, blood dripping from both ears.

“It was aiming at my eyes so intently. If I hadn’t avoided it, I would have gone blind.”

“Sorry. I can’t hear you very well because of the echo.”

“I think I have to give it my all.”

“Lightning?”

“electrical energy.”

“Yeah, let’s be careful of lightning magic.”

Two men kicked the seat.

The boy also kicked the seat.

Boooo …

Hearing the roar of the moving vehicle’s engine, the boy focused his distracted attention entirely on the battle.

Chae-chaeng! Chae! Chae-jae-chaeng!

The waves of lightning surge in without giving you time to breathe.

A resounding noise and sparks.

The boy danced in it.

My blood boiled.

At first, the purpose was to buy time for the allies to evacuate and to test his own strength.

But as he became more immersed in the battle, the boy could feel the corners of his mouth rising.

‘It’s been a while.’

After the clash with Walter.

It’s a good way to fight while using your body like this.

The red mana from the ring and the ring raced through my body, causing endless elation and bloodlust.

Writhing muscles and dilated pupils.

Energy overflowing between every joint.

Maybe his body was hoping for this kind of situation.

and.

‘I have to kill him.’

The more I immerse myself in the anger that has built up.

‘Stab these guys in the heart.’

Red mana has a greater synergy effect.

‘Make it bleed.’

As the waves of anger surged, the tide of battle began to turn sharply in the boy’s favor.

Then at one moment.

“… … !”

The startled boy quickly suppressed some of the anger he had been feeling.

A momentary pause in movement.

He didn’t miss a single moment.

He switched from defensive to offensive and began to push Ray fiercely.

Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng!

The defense wasn’t difficult.

Because the mana flashing inside the enemies’ bodies informed the Jeju people of their next move.

But the reason Ray hesitated was.

‘It was dangerous.’

It was because I almost got swallowed up in anger.

Could it be because the continuous large-scale magic had consumed a lot of mental power?

… No. Still, it wasn’t in such a dilapidated state as Sector 49.

Chaeng─!

The point was that he had just been enjoying his anger.

He himself did not intentionally put a leash on the wolf named Wrath.

‘…no.’

At first it was filled.

But I gave up in the middle.

Even though he knew that the moment he let his guard down, the guy would sink his teeth into his master’s neck.

It was really dangerous.

If I had been consumed by anger now that Veronica was gone, I would have definitely ended up in a precarious situation like before.

Chaejang─!

In the midst of a fierce battle.

Gray mana from enemies that crawl across the ground like snakes.

Knock knock!

A palm-sized thorn made of stone sprouted up.

Ray, who was reading Mana’s movements, avoided the thorns with just a small movement.

‘Gray mana.’

Graham came to mind.

Veronica’s benefactor and the one who taught me magic, and.

‘3 circle wizard.’

His third ring, which probably formed later in his life, was filled with grey mana.

The story was that Graham’s disposition and temperament at the time of the creation of the circle were deeply connected to gray mana.

…and.

Gray was one of the colors Ray couldn’t figure out an emotional association with.

That would be the case, since gray mana has never seeped into people’s vessels on its own.

‘It always seeped into the bowl with different emotions.’

So it was difficult to accurately infer the associated emotions.

There was one thing I observed.

Because of the gray mana inside the bowl, other emotions that are present cannot move freely.

Usually, emotions are like mixed paints, entangled, pushing and shoving, and interacting with each other.

But gray mana was different.

Never mix.

It didn’t even push.

It just sat there in that space.

Like hardened paint.

Like a heavy stone.

There was always a lump of gray mana in the center of Graham’s bowl.

“What on earth is it?”

The boy was very curious about what emotions were associated with gray mana.

Every time I took a class from an elderly person or helped care for him, I observed his behavior obsessively.

But there was no income.

Because the old man was a person who hardly ever showed any emotional behavior.

I felt a little stuffy and impatient.

“…Why.”

“Do you have any questions?”

He looked straight into my eyes and asked.

“How can you be so calm? Always, no matter what. Even when you know death is right around the corner. It’s not like you don’t feel emotions like I do.”

It was a conversation between the old man and the boy in their last moments.

The old man spoke with a faint smile on his lips.

“It’s not that I don’t feel emotions.”

“sure?”

“Yeah, you said you were studying vocabulary with a dictionary… I guess this word would fit.”

Control.

It was a word that the old man had in his mouth.

The old man said that it was not that he did not feel emotions, but that he was simply controlling the emotions that were welling up in his chest.

“That’s what people often call equanimity.”

Actually, I didn’t quite understand it at the time.

The complete absence of emotions.

Having feelings but suppressing them.

What exactly is the difference between the two?

But now I think I vaguely understand what that means.

‘You have to control your emotions.’

Also, what role does gray mana play within the vessel?

Chaeng! Chaeng!

Ray deliberately controlled the amount of rage he gained as he continued to fight.

Burn hostility towards the enemy, but only to the extent necessary for the immediate battle.

Then, every time he reacted to an enemy attack and his anger surged, he firmly pulled the leash.

‘Okay. I can completely control my anger at this level.’

Anger, realizing that he couldn’t move as he pleased, became relatively calm.

Ray tamed the guy by repeatedly provoking his anger and pulling on the leash again.

And the level of ‘stable’ anger gradually increased.

Woohoo─!

The changes didn’t end there.

I felt the lump of gray mana I was holding in my palm suddenly become soft.

‘Melting…?’

As if the hardened paint had melted.

The exact reason why this phenomenon occurred is unknown, but the implications of this fact were clear.

That’s right.

Kkwaddeuddeuk───!

The fact that magic using gray mana can be performed with incomparable ease compared to before.

“… … !”

“… … !”

A thin, long stone thorn rose from the ground and aimed for Malik and Stoney’s chins.

The two men hurriedly jumped backwards.

Chae-Ang──!

The boy followed him.

At that moment, the offensive and defensive positions changed again.

“Ugh…!”

“Big…!”

Malik and Stoney groaned.

The boy’s attacks were clearly weaker than when they first confronted each other.

However, the thorns and steps that were constantly being created underfoot were making it difficult to even breathe properly.

It feels like you’re fighting surrounded by dozens of enemies.

Chaeng! Chaeng!

Kkwaddeok─!

They too used gray mana to cast spells, but the boy dodged all their attacks as if he had read the future.

furthermore.

“… … .”

“… … .”

Malik and Stoney exchanged a labored glance.

‘The technique is improving.’

‘They are absorbing our techniques.’

The boy’s skills were improving.

And that too, in real time, rapidly.

When I first saw the scale of the barrier, I thought the boy had been using petrification magic for a while.

But it wasn’t.

The pillars the boy created during the fight were clearly threatening, but they had a raw, unrefined feel to them.

The same goes for the next few spells.

It was sufficiently complete, but immature for combat.

It was the intuition of two men who were long-time users of petrification magic.

‘So I came to a conclusion.’

‘The barrier was created by borrowing the power of the artifact.’

They are not the ones who have been using petrification magic in battle, and they are just shamelessly copying our techniques.

Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng!

“Ugh…!”

“Ugh…!”

But now the boy’s petrification magic was close to perfect.

It’s creepy. It’s dangerous.

Instinct sounds a red flag.

If this young being is left alone, there is a possibility that a great disaster will strike the organization.

You can’t just leave it alone.

I have to kill him on this spot.

‘Alleger told me to just make him alive and send him back to a near-death state…!’

‘This is a place that Allegheny cannot see…!’

That was the moment I thought so.

Phew──!

The clash of blades has stopped.

Ray leapt backwards, taking a few steps away.

The two men looked down at their chests in disbelief.

“… … .”

“… … .”

A sharp stone thorn that protrudes from the chest like a spear.

I barely managed to turn my head back.

Two thorns could be seen extending from the ground a good dozen meters away.

“Coolook!”

“Creep!”

The two men leaned forward, taking in the sight for the last time.

And I thought about that.

The magic manifests from that distance.

It’s impossible for us too… .

The two men’s composure was shattered.

Kuuung──!