The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 485

Chapter 485

: Luna said she might not be able to teach me properly.

True to her words, Luna didn’t teach me anything after that.

Strangely enough, Ellen’s childhood friend, Lena, said.

The passing word that if you rush too much, you won’t be able to do what you can, resonated with me.

Luna’s words about being overly emotional had some overlap with Lena’s words.

However, it was difficult to do so because it was supposed to be calm.

There were too many issues in my head to deal with.

No matter how much it was for later, the thought that all these problems were out of my grasp only increased my nervousness.

Luna still didn’t teach me anything, and I just continued to practice my magical power enhancement in the clearing in nervousness and anxiety.

“I brought a packed lunch. Eat some.”

“uh… … . that uh… … . thanks.”

Lena came by sometimes to bring water or packed lunches.

It was a bit embarrassing for some reason, and Lena seemed to have noticed my appearance.

“Aunt Luna took care of it for you. Would I have done it myself?”

“… … Oh is it?”

no.

Because I need teaching, not a packed lunch.

Luna must have had some thoughts, and I just didn’t understand them.

Luna Artorius was just caring for me without knowing or not giving me the help I really needed.

At a crude wooden table in a clearing, I ate a sandwich with crusty bread, ham and vegetables.

Anyway, Auntie Luna.

My first impression of Luna Artorius was the image of a transcendent absolute.

In Lizaira, she is nothing more than a local lady.

Neighborhood lady (brings the world’s best lunch box).

“By the way, Aunt Luna and Ellen look a lot alike, don’t they?”

“It doesn’t.”

It was similar to an almost standard level. Of course, if you look closely, Ellen has a bit of a young side to her.

Still, Ellen is now 20 years old and an adult. But even so, it doesn’t necessarily look exactly like Luna anymore.

“Uncle Ronan also resembles Lagan oppa a lot, and no, this is a bit strange to say because Lagan oppa resembles Ronan.”

Even after she said it, Lena burst into laughter as if it were funny.

After saying that, Lena looked quietly toward the village.

“Are you feeling it too?”

“… … what?”

“That our town is a bit strange.”

I couldn’t help but panic because I didn’t think Lena would say such a thing.

Does Lena really know more than I do what kind of town Lizaira is?

“It’s strange. When I see Aunt Luna, she doesn’t seem to age at all.”

“ah… … .”

There was not a single blemish on her bizarrely youthful face, and there was no sign of age.

On the other hand, in the case of Ronan Artorius, it doesn’t show much signs of age, but it was definitely felt.

It was quite strange to me that even Lena, a local resident, found it strange.

“Since I was very young until now, Aunt Luna hasn’t changed at all.”

“Is that so?”

“huh.”

Lena brought her face closer to me and lowered her voice.

“And sometimes there are grandparents in the neighborhood. Do you call Aunt Luna Luna-sama?”

“… … okay?”

“huh. They don’t do that when there are kids, but when it seems like we’re not there, they call me that, like a very high-ranking person.”

weekly weekly.

He had roughly guessed that Luna Artorius was a special presence in Lizaira.

So, it seems natural to be respected by the elderly.

“I thought I would tell you what it was when I got a bit older, but maybe it’s because I’m still younger, or maybe I don’t intend to tell us at all. Won’t you say anything?”

Lena pouted as if she was secretly saddened by it and pouted.

-Buseureuk

“Don’t talk nonsense to Lena outsiders.”

Someone appeared from the side of Lizaira with a low voice.

“uh? Arta. What’s going on over here?”

One of Ellen’s childhood friends. It was a guy named Arta.

A man with a blunt and sharp impression.

If Lena is on the friendly side, this guy seems to have turned her personality upside down.

Arta didn’t seem to have much interest in me until now.

“Hey, stranger.”

“uh. why.”

There was no good answer to the blunt call.

“It’s a bit pity to see you do it alone, but let’s practice together.”

The guy rummaged through the warehouse in the clearing and brought out two wooden swords.

– Poof!

I lightly snatched the wooden sword he threw.

“Do you know how to use a weapon?”

At my question, Arta slightly narrowed her brows.

“No, I can’t write well.”

Then he points a wooden sword at me.

“Compared to Lagan hyung.”

I was saying I couldn’t.

In the end, it wasn’t the same as saying it was good.

Lena was looking at us during the confrontation, as if she had no intention of stopping it.

Arta was staring at me and aiming a wooden sword.

I don’t feel any particular momentum.

I don’t know where Lizaira’s special point is, but in Lena’s case, it’s definitely normal, and Arta doesn’t look special either.

Enhancing magical power is not an ability that anyone can learn in the first place.

It is a power that only a few of the few can realize. Even at the Temple, which has gathered talented people from all over the continent, only a few succeed in strengthening their magic belatedly.

Me and Ellen, who realized magical enhancement at the age of 17, were very special cases.

It is safe to say that Ellen, who became a master class at the age of 18, is almost the only case.

And it’s safe to say that I, who can compete with the master class only by strengthening magic, is almost the only case.

So, no matter how special Lizaira is, Arta cannot be my opponent.

Considering that Arta is about 20 years old, it is not a special case that she has not yet awakened to magical power enhancement. Rather, it is very universal.

so that.

No matter how much the opponent came out, I didn’t want to press down with force while wearing the energy of magical power enhancement even if the opponent couldn’t enhance magic power.

technology for technology.

I’m being pushed behind by Ellen too, but I’m not that weak anymore.

Arta takes a step forward.

-widely!

Moment.

Missed the move.

-Fuck!

As I almost instinctively defended my flanks, there was a light echo of hitting a wooden sword.

“what.”

As Arta pulls her body back, she throws a wooden sword towards the front this time.

“Aren’t you underestimating me too much?”

– Huung!

The wooden sword that passed my right cheek rang out with a menacing sound.

I felt the unusual speed and destructive power through my skin.

“you.”

This baby.

“What?”

How are you able to make such movements without enhancing your magical power?

– Huung!

I stomped my knee towards the pit of the stomach of the guy who came too close to my arms, but he twisted his body to the side and moved away lightly.

“well.”

Artha tilted her head.

“What do you think?”

He spins his wooden sword in the air a few times, then aims it at me again.

Lena is normal.

This guy was out of the ordinary.

I don’t know what it is, but I’m not a person to belittle.

Even if I don’t use magical power enhancement, my ability average is above A rank.

The one who doesn’t use magical power enhancement moves similarly to me.

– Kurleung!

Arta smiles as she sees me covered in blue flames.

I threw away the wooden sword in my right hand.

I don’t need a weapon that can’t withstand my strength.

“oh.”

Artha laughs.

“Actually, I like that even more.”

The guy also threw down his wooden sword.

* * *

I’m not an expert in hand-to-hand combat, but it’s not like I can’t do it.

It’s not just swordsmanship that I learned from Ellen.

-bang!

But it’s strange.

-Kooung!

This is obviously strange.

He and I clashed our fists, and a menacing booming sound swept through the clearing.

He crossed his arms to block my fist and bounced back.

As long as I have strengthened my body with magical power enhancement, my body will become harder than a block of iron according to my magical power output.

Of course, he managed to stop it by crossing his arms, and of course, he brushed his arms off and immediately leaped again.

– Pleasant!

I felt a dull shock as I blocked his upper arm kick with my left forearm.

Arta is exerting destructive power that cannot come out with her bare body.

This makes no sense.

No matter how strong the body is, there is no such thing as physical strength that enhances the strength of the body. That was only possible through the magic release of magic power enhancement.

-thud!

– Jjaeong!

-puck!

– Jjaeok!

I even watched in disbelief as his back kick failed to hit me and broke the tree as it kicked the tree behind me.

does this make sense?

It was possible only for me who strengthened my physical abilities in a way close to cheating. By the way, Arta was also doing it with her bare body.

It wasn’t that he was wearing blue magic power.

How is this possible?

Does it make sense that there is a guy with stronger output in his bare body than me who literally uses a shortcut that does not exist in the world?

Is there such a thing as a better way than cheating?

As if not interested in how my head was spinning, Arta unleashed an onslaught.

-bang! Kwakang! Jjoong!

The sound of their bare bodies colliding with their magically enhanced bodies swept across the clearing, raising dust, and each time they stepped on an advance, the dry ground dug deep.

The technology was tough, and the power was tough.

But the overall output can never catch up with me.

I catch the movement of the guy jumping at me and trying to kick back with his left foot as an axis.

I lowered my stance in an instant and kicked my left foot, which became the axis.

“!”

-bang!

The moment I was about to land a final blow at the guy who lost his balance in an instant and fell.

– Phat!

As soon as her body touched the ground, Arta touched the ground with one hand and bounced backwards as if performing an acrobatic stunt, stepping back and increasing the distance.

“It’s not too hard. I lost.”

Artha shook his head as if to admit defeat.

It’s definitely not a decision, but it seemed to accept that the end would be certain if we continued like this.

But I couldn’t understand

“What are you?”

“hmm?”

I can’t quite understand

“How can a guy who can’t even enhance his magical power move like that? How can you hold on?”

“… … ah. I said something.”

Artha shrugs.

“If so, were you still using it?”

“… … what?”

It was only then that I could see the flow of blue magic power through his body, which hadn’t shimmered at all.

It seemed that he would not be able to see it if he did not do this, so he seemed to show it on purpose.

“You have to see it with your own eyes to know it?”

Sophisticated magical power enhancement to the point where the flow of mana is not even emitted externally.

It felt like the common sense I had known so far had been completely denied.

Does Lizaira also teach magic enhancement?

Is there something different between Lena and Arta?

Ellen wasn’t even like this.

Does Artha have anything to do with Lizaira’s secret?

“Well, in the end, you’re stronger than me, but if I had to tell you one thing, hmm… … . Enhancing your magical power… … . How to say… … .”

Arta looks at me and shakes her head.

“It’s ridiculously inefficient.”

Luna’s words.

From Lena’s words to Arta’s words.

I now know what my problem was.

* * *

Two years after the Gate Incident.

As I could increase my status points with achievement points, my physical abilities improved dramatically.

It is appropriate to say that it is abnormal rather than leaps and bounds.

It was an expedient way to achieve something that an ordinary person could not achieve through hard work.

That’s why, due to that abnormal growth, my magical power rank went up to SS rank.

Therefore, he vomited his spirit that he could deal with the master class on a subject that could only be strengthened with magical power.

However, the only thing that went up was the output itself, and my skills didn’t go up at all.

No, it’s not a level that hasn’t risen.

rather regressed.

“Enhancement of magical power is like projecting your image as it is. The shape of your magical power enhancement is very violent and wild.”

At Arta’s words, I had no choice but to nod blankly.

“I don’t know what happened to your body, but if you strengthen your magic power like you, your body should be broken. It’s strange that it’s not broken.”

It’s just that my body can withstand my wild ways because I have strong basic physical abilities.

I strengthen my body while forcibly releasing powerful magical energy.

It was only strange that I could endure it, but in the first place, strengthening my magical power was tantamount to gnawing at myself.

Originally it wasn’t like that, but at some point it became like this.

So I was able to beat Arta in output, but I couldn’t even follow Arta’s toes in the technical part.

Sophisticated magical power enhancement to a level where you can’t even see any signs of magical power enhancement.

If I can replace about 90% of Arta’s magical power with my own power, then I cannot replace even half of my magical power with my own power.

Although the efficiency is excessively low, it does not lose because the absolute value of the output is high.

I won the practice sparring, but I was feeling defeated.

The important thing in horsepower enhancement is output, but now that output cannot be further increased, what I can do is to increase efficiency.

The fact that my magic enhancement took the form of a huge blue flame and burned meant that much of my magic power was incompletely burning.

This method that only presses down with force.

We need to fix this method.

“… … thanks.”

Unexpectedly, Arta taught me what Luna didn’t teach me.

No, did she know that this would happen?

“What are you thankful for?”

Artha just shrugged and said nothing.