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The elevator stopped on the 56th floor.
Knock knock.
As the door opened, a strange sight came into view.
About thirty wizards were crammed into the narrow space leading from the elevator to the hallway.
“Don’t push!”
“I’m analyzing it! Everyone, calm down!”
“Why are there so many of you! Everyone except the Earth School, get down! This is a matter within the School!”
“Huh! I would leave you to your own devices knowing what you’re going to do next. That kid is also a double major. The Lightning School has the right to know about this situation!”
“Well said! Since it’s a double major, the Lightning School is also partially responsible-.”
“You’re talking about responsibility! Do you want to be struck by lightning?”
I felt a similar sense of foreboding as when I came last time and saw the crack in the world.
Listening to what they were saying, it was clear that something was not going well.
“What is this situation?”
When I asked, they all turned to look at us and shouted hysterical curses.
“It’s so narrow, who else came up here?”
“Shouldn’t you send an official document to the Gwangmyeong Church saying that there is an eroder?”
“Send that down right now… Your Majesty Valencianus?”
The wizards who saw me and Sereraji all had stupid expressions on their faces.
I killed the wizards and headed towards the front of the hallway.
“Get out of the way.”
In front of the elevator, the corridor leading to the central intersection on the 56th floor was tightly blocked by a white stone wall.
“Okay. Can someone explain what the situation is?”
Among the wizards, a fancy hat and a red dress caught my eye.
“Valencianus. How did it come to this that I meet you again?”
Gestarte lifted her darkly painted lips into a bitter smile.
“I think a curse has fallen on the ivory tower this year.”
“Even the Emperor would find it impossible.”
emperor?
You can call me Valencianus, but you can't call me Jaylilith that.
The moment I was about to say something.
“……Gestalte. You shouldn’t call His Majesty that.”
Unusually, a proper title was heard.
Next to Gestarte, a silver-haired, elegant wizard was fidgeting in the wall.
On the surface, he looked to be about the same age as Sereraji, but judging by his aura and the attitudes of the magicians around him, he seemed to be a senior.
She opened her mouth, avoiding my eyes.
“Ah. My name is Aristas.”
He was the veteran of the lightning-earth revenge specialty that Sereraji had mentioned earlier.
“The one who blocked this place like this is my disciple.”
I knew full well how eccentric and self-centered genius wizards could be.
So, he didn't let his guard down because of her refreshing appearance, and he used the 'I'll bow down to you' speech that he had practiced while dealing with Sereraji.
“Yes, Elder. How upset must you be that your disciple has been eroded? Let’s try to resolve this matter together.”
It was disgusting to use expressions like 'disciple' against a thief who deserved to be burned, but pleasing the mood of the ivory tower elder was worth the trouble the Archduke suffered.
But she reacted in a completely unexpected way.
“I am filled with regret and apology. At this age, I can’t even manage my disciples, so I caused something like this.”
"yes?!"
I thought there was something wrong with either my ears or my eyes.
It seemed like this was the first time in his life, including before his regression, that he had received a proper, emotional apology from a wizard.
I was wondering if it was some kind of new way of being sarcastic.
Sereraji tapped me on the side and whispered.
“Aristas is known as an eccentric. He used to wander outside the ivory tower and came back about 50 years ago, but he still thinks he’s an outsider wizard.”
So it seemed like there was still some common sense left.
I answered with a calm voice.
“Sister. We decided to call people who react like that normal.”
* * *
Fortunately, it didn't seem like Aristas would be around to attack my disciple.
Thanks to that, I was able to come up with a story that might help resolve the situation a little more.
“Can’t we just break in and catch the invaders?”
Arista shook his head.
“It’s a situation where the space has been magically encroached upon like a kind of barrier, so it can’t be lifted right away. It might be possible to destroy it by attacking it with high-level destruction magic, but that would also cause problems for the tower.”
“To make a Haeju order…….”
“It might take a day if it’s short, or a week if it’s long.”
“It doesn’t take that long.”
“The problem is, we don’t know what she’s preparing beyond here.”
"under."
I sighed involuntarily.
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If you are a disciple of an elder, you will be at the level of Sereraji who continues to train without leaving the tower.
If you give her a week, she could cover this city in thunderclouds, so the wizard could probably do something similar with earth magic.
It might even cause an earthquake throughout Soletaraon.
Knock, knock.
I knocked on the wall twice.
“The Grand Duke and I will try to disperse our magic as much as possible using dragon language. When it’s scattered, wouldn’t it be okay to push in with earth magic?”
Aristas looked at Gestarte once and nodded.
“If I can offset this, and there are two Dragon Blood Royals, it should be possible. The problem is the wizard who will take the lead.”
“Does it have to be special?”
“My disciple majored in the triple nature of electricity, earth, and fire. I think I need someone with the same specialty.”
“Is it rare? This is an ivory tower.”
Sereraji looked at me as if to say, "What kind of stupid thing are you talking about?"
“Apart from my talent, I also majored in one subject and minored in another.”
"ah."
It was rare.
“If there’s a wizard with both triple attributes and combat prowess… there’s only one person that comes to mind right now.”
Swish.
Sereraji and I looked down at Niar.
The wizard with ivory and red eyes shuddered.
"senior?"
“Haven’t you always wanted to fight with me? You showed your best efforts last time.”
The shadows of the two evil archducks loomed over the girl sorceress.
* * *
Aristas took up a staff carved from a turquoise pillar and began to chant a spell.
“-.”
It was a strange spell whose pronunciation was difficult to hear properly.
earth!
The moment she slammed her staff on the floor, blue lightning and black earth energy rushed into the blocked corridor.
Phage crackle!
The white marble wall and the blue-black energy collided, and the same blue-black energy rose from the marble wall as well.
Crackle! Crackle!
“Now is the time.”
Aristas shouted at Sereraji.
It was easy to use the dragon language when the magic was fully activated and mana was actively moving.
A light flashed in Sereraji's yellow eyes, and the energy of the dragon's words rose up.
“I practiced my verbs hard too, little brother.”
A golden breeze of energy gathered on her palm.
“Did you want to hear that you did a good job?”
I did the same, and stood before a wall of mixed blue and black energy.
Sereraji frowned as if to say, “What the hell are you talking about?”
“How can that be interpreted that way? It means that we will soon catch up, so don’t let your guard down!”
The energy of the dragon's words split into dozens of branches from her hand and dug into the wall.
Gurrrrrr!
The white marble shook as if flour had been gathered and piled into a square shape.
The dragon's energy was draining the mana and forcibly releasing the spell.
Niarga profit! He hit the floor with his staff.
earth!
The black lines of the earth, the blue light of lightning, and the red dots of flame flashed all at once.
Gurrrrrr!
The previously blocked corridor opened as if by magic.
I was surprised that there was no sign of erosion, which was unexpected.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes, senior!”
Sereraji and Niar walked first, and I followed them.
Then Aristas spoke to my back.
“Valencian. Could you please bring the child to me? I know he is no longer my disciple, but I would like to see how he has changed.”
I nodded without hesitation.
“I will do my best.”
I couldn't lie and say, 'I'll definitely bring you.'
* * *
The hallway was unique, as befitting a space created by the elder's disciple.
“Watch your step! Your step!”
“Why are the bricks falling upwards!”
“That golem has eight arms!”
“This is the door we came through earlier! Let’s go out!”
“It’s that door again!”
Electrically-charged thorns shot out from all sides, golems large and small blocked our path, and the corridors changed into a maze-like structure, sending us spinning around.
But I was a wizard with a rough reputation on the continent, and a reputation in the capital city of Sereraji.
Saaaaah-!
The golden energy from our hands split into hundreds of strands.
The power of the words spread throughout the hallway like a spider web carried by the wind.
Tsk tsk tsk!
Mana was torn apart in front of the power, the spell that was the arrangement of mana was weakly performed, and the genius magician of the triple attribute normalized the space that was out of the range of the spell by making it his own.
“I will return to my place, my form, my function!”
The golem holding the glass shard in its fist returned to the window frame, the steel armored golem returned to the cabinet, and the stone octopus with hundreds of glowing eyes returned to the luminous crystal orb on the ceiling.
“I don’t know what the hell is going on! I originally came here to see you, my younger brother, saying things like ‘Teach me’ to my junior. But why do I have to see my hometown in such a state! This is the second time in as many months!”
Flash!
Sererajiga fired a piercing flash of light, knocking down one of the golems.
“I knew it!”
I shouted, raising the spirit of the verb even higher.
“What did you just say? What did you come here to learn?”
Niar looked back at me and asked.
“Actually, we came here to learn how to combine earth magic and fire magic.”
“Then, I’ll start by memorizing a one-inch book! Can you do it?”
"what?"
We heard loud footsteps behind us.
The place we passed by returned to a normal hallway, and then the ivory tower wizards came rushing in and cast spells to rescue the colleagues who were trapped in each lab, or kill the mutated test subjects hiding in the lab.
Judging by the fact that I haven't had a single mental wave yet, things were going better than expected.
It was much easier than the last time I entered the cracks of the world.
It went so well that I was almost anxious.
“It’s time to end it!”
Sereraji, Niar and I headed straight to the last lab.
* * *
bang!
“It’s no use being a senior!”
“You are a disgrace to the wizard!”
Niar and Sereraji burst through the lab door and ambushed Aristas' disciple.
Inside the laboratory, a gentle darkness had descended, dozens of grimoires were open and floating from the high ceiling to the floor, and a man with a calm expression, wearing a robe and glasses, was looking out the window at sunset.
Of course, Sereraji and Niar were not embarrassed by that, nor did they recall the beautiful memories they had with their seniors who had once walked the path of learning.
“Look carefully! Your Majesty Valencianus! ‘The Burning Chain Wheel of Pain!’”
“It’s a flash of penetration!”
Charrrr!
A red-hot chain shot out from the tip of Niar's staff, and a short, white-on-blue ray of electricity flashed over Sereraji's shoulder.
Flash!
As soon as I entered the room, I pulled out my sword, Black Sword, and leaped towards him.
“Die!”
Of course, as expected of Aristas's disciple, he did not give in easily.
bang!
He built a wall out of earth in the middle of the lab to block Niar's chains, and he deflected Sereraji's flashes of light with a flash of electricity.
Taat!
I jumped over the wall he had built, pushed off the wall with all my might, pointed my sword forward, and launched myself at him.
“You sinner who sold your soul to the past!”
“Ugh!”
The disciple waved his hand and summoned chains of lightning thorns from the ceiling and floor.
Charrrr!
Dozens of thorny chains snarled and stabbed my body, flashing blue lightning.
But now it was not a duel to demonstrate skills, but a fight to the death.
“Eww!”
I pushed forward, making full use of my strong body, and pulled the taut chain, driving the black hammer into the bastard's shoulder.
Phew!
The wizard's shoulder was pierced with such ease, and the blacksmith was embedded in the wall behind him.
Even with the Mana Blade wrapped around it, it was very different from the tough regular eroders.
“Ugh!”
The bastard screamed and twisted his body.
I roughly pulled out my sword and reached out with my left hand to grab the bastard's neck.
“I know you can’t hear me anymore, but… what? Why?”
There was not the slightest hint of erosion on his body.
I started with Kuit Az and burned and ate all kinds of foreign energy, and if not, I fought against the invaders for 40 years.
Even without divine powers, it wasn't that difficult to determine whether or not the opponent's body or soul had been eroded once they had made direct contact with the body.
And my senses told me that the opponent was not an invader.