SWNOVELXO Chapter 261. α (10)
Of course, from the perspective of the Magic Tower, who don’t know the truth, it’s simply a game of amusement.
The enemy laughs.
Kekekeke, they laugh.
Even up until this moment, they had not realized the capabilities of the mage before them.
With such a difference in numbers, they thought they could easily win.
Moreover, before arriving at the Academic Hall, they had even analyzed the brain of a noble with orange blood to steal the secret magic of the opposing family.
Now, they had not only the capability to mentally invade but also physical strength!
But the reality that awaited those who thought so was cold and merciless.
One against a hundred.
There was someone here who personified that absurd term which once roamed only in dictionaries.
– …Do you all know? I don’t usually waste my breath.
A casual tone flows.
The Alphauri here understood each other at least when it came to language, being kindred souls.
– So, I’ll only say this once, don’t ask again.
However, it’s not like the green mage intended to engage in dialogue…
– Get the hell out of this Academic Hall right now.
The unidentified black liquid maximizing the effect of brainwashing completely envelops the area.
At that moment, from the depths of the ground, now completely blackened and devoid of outline, a voice echoed.
In the vertical direction.
A male fellow countryman perched awkwardly on a rock emitted a sonic wave.
– If you don’t retreat from this area before I count to three, I will utterly annihilate the great treasure that you and your ancestors have protected for a lifetime!
The green mage now spoke in a very aggressive tone.
– What? Treasure? What treasure?
But the response from the Magic Tower side was lukewarm.
They snorted dismissively, being nothing more than a ragtag bunch of thieves.
The identity of the black liquid spreading around was a mind-altering drug. In other words, it was nothing less than a special magic booster.
No one knows where the vial came from, but the enemy was completely exposed to that special potion. By now, no matter the level of mental capacity, the desired outcome should start showing, right?
– War Hero Nari! I think it’d be faster for us to just kill all these bastards here before you do anything! Listen to this pulse. Just now, a weak grand mage from the faraway Academic Hall just fell down.
– Hahaha, if I had known that the level of this border country was only this, I would have invaded much sooner.
– Salpa, where’s that old man?
– The spiritual support of the Academic Hall!
– If we find where Salpa is hiding, we’ll show mercy and give you a comfortable death.
– Arrogant fool from the lowly deep sea!
Waggle waggle waggle waggle.
In just a few milliseconds, information poured out.
The foreign Alphauri shouted from all directions.
The green member of the Academic Hall, being sensitive to the noise, had no trouble sorting through it.
However, the problem was that he carelessly dismissed the other threats that followed.
– One.
Because on this side, they remained unscathed despite being exposed to the Magic Tower’s unique potion.
[Golem Control].
In reality, there is no more efficient magic for battling large numbers.
But alas, they had not yet achieved the refinement to be satisfied with their skills.
So, for such ruffians, showing them a weapon slightly smaller than a grand slaughter knife would do.
– Two…
Did those foreigners ever imagine?
For more than ten years, they had dedicated themselves to completing new magic—mental brainwashing.
If they found out that this young mage had dismantled it in mere minutes, they would likely deny it with all their might.
So shockingly extraordinary is the existence of the deep-sea people.
An utterly unfair situation that thrusts every other genius into the summit of foolishness.
– Huh?!
At that moment, the man’s magic activates.
The mage who had been floating in the center of the Magic Tower group suddenly collapses.
He didn’t even think about regulating his buoyancy and simply fell endlessly downwards.
Given the telekinesis that had pulled the comrades down earlier, the mood was completely different.
– What the heck is going on…?!
Wait a minute. But they haven’t even counted to three yet?!
The enemy forces of the Magic Tower are startled for the second time, realizing that the green youth had lied. But in truth, that wasn’t even a notable irregularity.
Most spells require preparation time called casting.
Yet, under such conditions, if the opposing mage’s tongue suddenly lengthened, it typically converges to one purpose.
– Too late, all of you!
This person is the creator of [Mana Burn].
No matter how much he revealed the structure of the spell, no scholar in this world understood the principles of Mana Burn better than him.
Thus, this skill ultimately could only be doable by him alone.
He had devised a very powerful method of self-protection based on advice from a fellow with orange blood.
– That damn deep-sea being dared to lie!
– Wait, no way.
– Ahhhhh, everyone stop! Right now from the body of the Sub Tower Lord…!
What he executed was the original modification of Mana Burn.
– There’s no magic flowing from the body of the Sub Tower Lord at all!
The green mage had completely reformed the spell intended for a wide area to target a single individual.
And the newly completed weapon boasts a terrifying power right from the start.
During the satellite war, he wasn’t exactly shabby when he went out to battle, even somewhat attaining remarkable feats as a grand mage of the hostile nation…
– Aagghhh!
– Uwaahh!
He dies, merely at the hands of a youth.
The grand mage’s end, with all his energy dissipating, was nothing short of tragic.
The enemy leader, an enemy purple Alphauri, immediately perished after his magic barrier crumbled.
More precisely, a green Academic Hall member took advantage of the weakened enemy to use his usual trick.
He burst the translucent layer of gelatin surrounding the other.
– Oh my god!
In fact, such scenes can be easily seen on Earth.
In sci-fi themed shooting games, when hitting an alien with a gun, such goo splattering is typically portrayed.
To be honest, from the perspective of mammals, it’s hard to understand what’s cruel about it.
However, for these beings born as marine organisms, there can be no more horrific sight.
The leader of the Magic Tower’s group exploded in death from the magic of the War Hero.
Caught off guard, the enemy soldiers suffered a shock to their brains from an abrupt splatter horror film.
And this brief opening was more than enough for the future grand mage candidate.
– By the way, didn’t I just say that if you don’t retreat, I’d wipe out your great treasures?
Like a vial of arsenic dye.
The dangerously green mage conveyed to them,
– The great treasure I just mentioned is the very genes that you bastards have carried through generations. I will ensure that the hundreds of millions of years of your reproduction were wasted.
For your information, this lengthy declaration was not to buy casting time.
– This beautiful sea does not need creatures like you!
Even at that moment, he could activate his magic silently.
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…There’s no need to detail the merciless battle that followed.
The commotion ended.
While the war hero faced the most threatening squad at the core, desperate resistance continued throughout other regions, and the fight was tidily wrapping up at a pretty swift pace.
– Hmm? Where did this author run off to?
– Even the guards got taken out.
– What a pity~
In the process, there was the unfortunate incident of Salpa, the leader of the Academic Hall, dying…
But since this place was populated by rational beings, the sorrow over irreversible events did not last long.
– How many floors of the collapsed buildings are there? As soon as we realized the situation was dire, a few of the Magic Tower members took our data and ran!
– Is that all? My poor disciples ended up being stolen along with their corpses! They took my students along with the data!
– Those thieving bastards!
– We have to… pursue them.
– They’ve completely analyzed the beta species’ technology. Honestly, if we think about using magic, they’d be almost at the level of speeding through the sea, so catching them is…
Then, various discussions flowed.
At that moment, a shhh, shhh sound suddenly came from one side of the sea.
A lazy scholar, who usually would just drag himself along the bottom, was rapidly approaching while shooting water from his siphon.
– Oh, the war hero…
Moreover, the scholar that appeared was using all four of his auxiliary tentacles to hold onto something tightly.
– Wait, is this madman trying to scare the adults away?
– What the heck kind of absurd sight is this.
– We’re not even majoring in biological magic~
– I used to ridicule the young Academic Hall members for being weak when they said they couldn’t look at cadavers, but this moment is making my past actions shameful.
He truly looked like someone who had just brought back the enemy’s leader.
The green mage had brought the corpses of the four mages who had seemed the strongest from the Magic Tower.
In a planet where the burial culture is simple like that of the Alphauri, dragging someone else’s corpse here typically carries some sort of reason.
– Anyway, why did you bring those filthy things all the way here?
Even if there’s no Hammurabi code in history, this intelligent species must know the laws of revenge.
– The brains.
– What?
– I thought we might get some information by digging through their brains.
– That…
– Like, what route does the Magic Tower usually take when fleeing, or the locations of emergency hideouts.
– If we could find that out, I’d be eager to roll up my sleeves and get involved immediately. But you know, how on earth do we analyze someone else’s brain? That’s a proprietary technology of the enemy nation the Magic Tower belongs to.
– …
– Information about brains in our nation is… well, at best, we only have surface-level results, like wouldn’t it be delicious to feed the experimental jellyfish so they have a lot of current flowing in those specific brain lobes or something.
– Hahaha.
– War Hero. I hear you have some skill concerning [Emotion Control], but in the end, it’s based on pharmacology modification, right? You can’t even cut a single nerve. What do you intend to do with those corpses?
The older Alphauri questioned out of frustration.
Don’t we leap ahead of neighboring nations in the experimental data front? Though it’s humiliating to admit, in that regard, our nation’s technological capability is indeed lacking.
Nevertheless, the war hero did not care about any of these lectures.
He was young, and he was competent.
Thus, he was filled with confidence in everything.
– Are you saying that this dull Magic Tower couldn’t possibly do what I can?
Everyone held their breath for a moment.
– Did you deliberately assess my intelligence level as inferior to that of the Magic Tower?
With a spirited attitude.
Seeing the young war hero act this way, the Academic Hall members couldn’t hastily bring up new statements.
However, it hadn’t been long since the atmosphere had pressed down on those around them that the speaker immediately began to lower himself.
– …But honestly, even though I said this, I honestly cannot imagine analyzing brains outright with no groundwork. Right? Our nation lacks substantial resources regarding that type of magic.
For the past few years, they had been too busy with researching golem magic and participating in the immortal planning meetings.
This green scholar doesn’t know particularly outstanding facts about the physiology of Alphauri.
Moreover, what was his purpose for coming to the Academic Hall in the first place?
No matter how much of a star-born genius one is, there are things that cannot be accomplished alone.
So…
– I’ll need some help.
Unfortunately, in this situation, there truly was no other way. It was an unavoidable choice.
– Get someone here.
He decided to call a specific collaborator, violating what the orange code had declared in the past.
– Get that confidant of the upper class, the one who has dissected the brains of the highest species in this country, to come here to the center immediately! If that guy, the number one in biological magic, is here, he might have a solution!