Chapter 431 – Chapter 431 Magic School Shutra (3-42)
Karin covered her shoulder with the cloak that her holy guardian handed over to her and began stroking it gently.
‘This… It’s the conquest of Stra.’
Karin had seen her conquest countless times, but it was the first time she had touched it with her own hands.
This was because Stra’s conquests were stipulated as items that could not be circulated carelessly and could never be handed over to others except for her party.
If you were close, you could touch her clothes with your hands, but there was no one around who had such a close relationship with Karin.
If she was close to Louis and Luna, she could have been close, but since she wasn’t close to her, she was Karin who didn’t even get close to her.
Even in this urgent situation, her gaze was fixed so that her soul was absorbed in her conquest, which he so longed for.
Fortunately, her mind quickly began to return to normal as screams erupted from her surroundings.
Wow!
And as soon as she came to her senses, a fireball flying far away began to catch her eyes.
“Look out! Flying there….”
It was Karin trying to get her attention as she stretched her arms toward the fireball.
Sasasasak!
Sung Soo-ho waved his hands so fast that he couldn’t see them, and drew a beautiful purple magic circle.
‘That’s a lot of speed! Is that something that can draw that fast?’
In a mere two seconds, he drew a magic circle with his hands beyond the limits of a human.
And at the same time as the magic circle was drawn, the fireball flying in the distance disappeared as if it melted in an instant.
Softly….
‘Is that dismantling? But can I cast dismemberment so quickly?’
The moment Karin questioned her, Seongsuho started shouting at the soldiers around him.
“I will stop the magic! Everyone, hide behind a rock and fix it!”
“Yes!”
The soldiers heard Seongsuho’s words and began to hide from where the arrows were flying.
Fortunately, the thief’s bow skills weren’t that good, so no soldier hit by an arrow was seen yet.
This time, fireballs began to fly in a different direction, not Karin.
However, such a fireball disappeared after a while and was extinguished by the magic circle of Seongsuho.
Thanks to Seongsuho’s actions, it seemed that there was quite a bit of confusion on the part of the thieves.
(What are you doing!)
(I’m writing!)
(Then why does it fly away and then disappear!?)
(I don’t know!)
(Let’s fire at once this time!)
After hearing that voice, it wasn’t long before three fireballs started flying at the same time.
This made one thing known.
‘Now there are three wizards over there….’
Even after Karin calmed down, she accurately captured the place where the magic was flying.
‘I also found the location.’
However, she only grasped the number of wizards and the approximate location of the enemy, and was in a situation where she did not know the exact number of enemies.
Even Karin’s side was completely exposed to the enemy’s view because the surroundings were wrapped in fire thanks to the bonfire and the earthen stone that had exploded earlier.
It was impossible to just rush forward like this.
If there is any hope for them….
Passes….
‘… Awesome.’
The flying fireball disappeared without a trace by the purple magic circle of Seongsuho.
While launching a fireball took quite a while, it happened in the blink of an eye for Seongsuho to get rid of the fireball.
But there was something he couldn’t stop.
Seongsuho brought Karin behind a rock and just stared at the arrows flying from afar.
‘Arrow… I erased that terrible magic in an instant, but what can I do with arrows?’
From the point of view of the soldiers, arrows were scary, but magic was incomparably more terrifying than that.
However, while such magic was erased effortlessly, he was just staring at the countless arrows without any reaction.
‘The current situation has done a great enough job. Then the rest is up to us.’
At the same time as Karin’s thoughts, the soldiers holding bows began preparing their arrows to respond.
Karin shouted at those soldiers.
“Return with arrows! Opponents are smaller than expected….”
It was the moment she gave the order.
Suddenly, Seongsuho stretched out her arm to Karin, restraining her from speaking and opening her mouth.
“You don’t have to. I’ll take care of it.”
“… Yes?”
Seong Soo-ho said that and immediately jumped out of the rock and started drawing his magic circle.
It was colored yellow differently from before, and the size of the magic circle was incomparably larger than before.
When Sung Soo-ho drew a magic circle in a dangerous place, a big commotion suddenly started from the thieves.
“Isn’t that a magic circle!?”
“Shoot that guy! I’m not trying to use normal magic!”
However, despite his shouts, the magic circle with large, complicated figures and runes was completed in an instant.
The magic circle drawn by Seong Su-ho was different from the form he had shown in front of Karin.
A large circle in the middle, various shapes decorated like bridesmaids around it, and runes densely inscribed in it….
Not only Karin, but even the soldiers who did not know a single thing about magic were expressing with fearful expressions how dangerous the magic Seongsuho drew was.
After completing a magic circle that emits yellow sunlight, Seongsuho shouted at Karin and his soldiers.
“Everyone bow their heads!”
“!?”
Realizing the danger of the magic circle portrayed by Sung Su-ho, everyone did not just lower their heads, but rather lay down on the floor.
But if there are other soldiers and other people….
‘Nine… I’m curious.’
It was Karin.
Pretending to keep her head down, she poked her head over the rock and looked at the magic circle he was using.
That was the moment.
Shaaaaak!
“!?”
Arrows were flying towards her face.
The speed of the arrow was not at a level that Karin could perceive, and she was in danger of getting an arrow stuck in her face.
Karin squeezed her eyes shut as her neck stiffened.
Grasp!
“… ?”
But what she got back was not the pain she thought she was thinking, but the sound of an arrow being blocked by something in her.
She opened her eyes gently to see what was going on.
And in her pupils… The figure of Seongsuho, who had caught an arrow flying at him with his bare hands, was entering.
He shouted, not looking at Karin while holding the arrow, extending her opposite arm toward her magic circle.
“Everyone close your ears!”
“!?”
The moment he shouted that, Karin came to her senses, covered her ears, and looked at the magic circle with her eyes.
In the magic circle that glowed like the sun….
Pajijijijik!!
An enormous amount of yellow lightning started heading towards the thieves.
And then, an incomparable roar began to reverberate through the mountain.
Kwak! Kwakkwakkwa!! Bang! Kwakkwakkwa!!
Karin knew the identity of this sound.
‘Lightning… It’s real lightning from the sky.’
Karin, who had been mesmerized by even the little magic Seongsuho had shown so far, began to stare at the lightning that he unfolded in a state of fascination.
Countless lightning bolts came out of the magic circle created by the Holy Guardian, not the sky, and pierced them in the direction of the thieves.
And not long after, the magic circle of Seongsuho emitted all the current and gradually began to disappear.
Just like that, the yellow magic circle gradually disappeared in the air, and Sung Soo-ho turned his head to Karin while holding the arrow in his hand.
“Okay, let’s sort it out then.”
***
I let the arrow in my hand drop to the ground and murmured over the communication.
‘That’s awful… Why is a normally picky woman so blind to magic….’
[Thank you very much.]
‘I know… It’s a shame that there’s bullet time there….’
It was thanks to my two skills that I was able to snatch the arrow that was flying towards Karin.
Bullet time, the other hand technique.
No matter how slow time was, catching a flying arrow with bare hands was not an easy task.
If it wasn’t for the hand technique, even if bullet time was up, I wouldn’t have caught the arrow, but I would have had to risk my arm to block the arrow.
All I can say is that I was lucky.
I slightly squeezed and opened the palm that held the arrow, frowning.
‘Still, it’s not easy to catch it with bare hands. Sick.’
His palms were burning red, probably because he had caught the flying arrow with his bare hands.
[Do you want to treat right away?]
‘No, if I treated it right away, they would rather doubt it. Do it later.’
It stings, but it’s not so painful that I need to treat it right now.
As I looked at her palms and frowned, Karin approached me and opened her mouth with a worried face.
“That… Sin, sorry. Because of me….”
“I’m glad you weren’t hurt. Let’s start with probation.”
“… All right.”
Karin took my words as her orders and gave orders to the other soldiers.
“Go and check the bodies.”
“Yes!”
The soldiers, each puzzled, began to enter the forest where the bandits were hiding.
And the actions of the soldiers that followed were not cheering for victory while looking at the corpse.
The soldiers who were checking the condition of the bandits….
“This… This… What….”
“Oooh!”
“This, this… The student….”
Instead of winning, he began to look at me trembling with fear.
Most of the thieves were in a state of being charred by being hit by the thunder-attribute lightning I shot.
The problem was that the black corpse, burnt beyond recognition, was directing a scene of hell as blood and ooze festered.
It would be unpleasant for just one person to burn like that, but all the bandits were burnt by lightning and giving off a burnt smell.
The smile I received from them while handing out the iron ore was suddenly transforming into a symbol of fear, eyes looking like demons.
Now, to them, I will not be seen as a reliable ally, but as a demon walking beside them.
One of the soldiers who was conducting the search approached Karin and started reporting.
It was the soldier who gave me iron ore yesterday and made fun of it.
“Sah, I found a living person.”
“Bring me this way.”
“… Yes.”
He looked at me with fear-filled eyes, and then, gasping for breath, he started running towards the massed bodies of the thieves.
‘What… It’s more comfortable to act like that.’
In the case of yesterday, it was helpful as a result, but that was only for a day or two.
Even today, during the search, I thought it was annoying to keep saying thank you and keep talking to me.
I decided that being close to the soldiers here wouldn’t be helpful anyway, and that this position would be more convenient for the future.
When the stuffiness inside me disappeared, I smiled instead.
But when Karin saw my smile, he lowered his head and began to apologize.
“… I’m sorry.”
“Yes?”
“The attitude of the soldiers… It’s just fear of the unknown.”
It could be said that it was all thanks to my help that the soldiers were alive and able to walk around like this.
However, it meant that I was sorry that those soldiers treated me with fear rather than gratitude.
“I will apologize instead. They will be grateful to you too.”
“… I understand.”
Actually, I have no intention of understanding.
If you’re just scared like this, I’m thankful.
While I was thinking about it, I began to have other questions.
“Is Lady Karin okay?”
“Yes?”
“It’s okay that the soldiers are scared, but I’m worried that Lady Karin will think of me that way too.”
“… I would be lying if I said no.”
Karin smiled bitterly and, trying not to look at the corpses, began to look at me.
“But I only have more gratitude for you than fear. Thanks to you… Because I can say thank you like this.”
“….”
That’s enough.
If only Karin looked at her positively, she didn’t care if others showed disapproval.
While I was satisfied with that, the soldiers began dragging the man with smoke rising from his body.
His hair was singed as if it had been burnt, and he was being dragged along with the help of soldiers as if he could not walk alone.
Two guys survived.
I already knew that only these two were alive in the first place.
Because I left all her temperament windows open.
‘It was good that I secretly checked it earlier.’
[It was a good plan.]
The reason I was able to accurately hit the thieves with my thunder attribute magic was because I checked all of their temperament windows.
Before the ambush, he secretly checked the temperament window and was able to accurately designate the point where the magic landed.
However, there was one thing that I regretted, and it was that I was not in a situation where I could secretly eavesdrop on the conversation and dig up information.
That’s why I saved these two guys.
Two thieves survived…. Both were wizards.
I tried to save all three wizards, but one guy couldn’t stand it and died.
As soon as the soldiers brought the two, they threw them in front of me and Karin.
“Big… Huh….”
“Big….”
The two wizards lay down moaning, unable to open their mouths properly.
I stood in front of the groaning wizard, looked down at them, and opened my mouth.
“Well then, can you tell me? Where is your hideout….”
