“Wow, you sure eat a lot.”
“Wahwook?”
“Nope.”
Arriving at the Mana Training Facility, I patted Sre, the bear-sized creature, and offered it some meat I had stored in a space pocket.
Sre blinked its round eyes and started gobbling down the food given by other users.
Despite its massive body, its face still looked childlike, making many people find it adorable.
[Lololol]
[That’s a pig, a pig]
[Wow, it’s huge]
[Sre is so cute, lolol]
[Is that a dragon or a pig?]
[It’s sucking it up like a vacuum cleaner]
[Eating well]
[So, is it date ticket time?]
“Look over there, Spear Hunting.”
Leaving the white pig Sre behind, I headed towards the facility dubbed Spear Hunting.
Fwooosh…!
“Whoaah!!!”
It was a game where you move a spear made of mana to catch as many fish as possible in the tank.
It might seem easy just to catch fish, but maneuvering the spear with the limited mana teleportation and manifestation was no walk in the park.
Beep-!
– Participants, Frozen Weapon.
– 2 fish (Overall ranking 122nd).
The results just came in for the man who had been wrestling with the spear in the tank for five minutes.
He managed to catch a total of two fish.
Compared to the top three’s counts, that seemed rather low, but many struggled just to move the spear, let alone catch two fish.
[Two fish, lolol]
[Can he break into third place?]
[This is dizzying]
[So, a tie for 122nd, huh?]
[But why is Sre at 900?]
[Lololol]
[Of course]
[But why is Sre even participating? lol]
[Is Sre a bug?]
[Is 929 fish even possible?]
“Sre is special, after all.”
Dragons are a race known as masters of magic.
Excluding the vastly superior demon and celestial races, they are practically the best magic users among living beings, and Sre was particularly unique.
Sre was born from a body modeled after Sugarado, the king of the ice dragons.
Moreover, it had a fragment of the demon king Tempere within, meaning it was destined to be adept at magic.
“Of course, understanding and using it isn’t in its realm at all. It’s more like it uses magic as effortlessly as breathing, you know?”
Just like demons are born with the knowledge and power of grand sorcerers.
Sre also just happens to have an innate talent for magic.
It probably has no clue what spells it’s using or how they work, just waving them around comfortably.
As time goes on, it will gain the intelligence to understand, but it’s still a newborn dragon, so such high-level thought isn’t possible yet.
“It’s naturally impossible for users to surpass Sre with magic. It seems the fish in the tank were tempting it, yet first place will probably end up disqualified.”
“It’s impossible. I guess the fish in the tank were swimming around, tempting them, but the first place will be declared void.”
[Right?]
[Ah haha, a professor level is just too much]
[Sre is so cute]
[Huh]
[Sre is indeed cute]
[Earlier during that spear show, their eyes got so big, it’s really adorable, haha]
[Boy Sre]
[So who’s in 4th place?]
[4th place, not gonna lie]
Excluding Sre, who showed an abnormal level with 37 catches for Leo in 2nd place and 26 for Candy Star in 3rd place, there was quite a gap.
However, the difference between 3rd and 4th place was even more pronounced.
4th place – Muyaad, Gunner, Myul, Knight…(plus 2 others), 10 catches.
“There are six of them.”
There are 6 tied for 4th place.
Most of them couldn’t surpass the wall of 11 catches, and there were many rookies familiar by name but newly rising.
If the insurmountable Sre is removed, all of them would push up to 3rd place.
[Oh?]
[No way, 9 people, is this real? Haha]
[Huh]
[???]
[Is it true that the difference between me and Candy is almost 3 times?]
[What happens now?]
[6 people?]
[Do all 6 get lectures?]
[This is turning into a dating spree, unbelievable]
“It’s a lecture, not a date. Anyway, since we promised, I plan to help them all.”
It might take a while, but it should work out content-wise.
Even though 10 catches may seem small, for most users, just moving the spear is the real issue.
[Wow]
[Seriously]
[I’m so jealous]
[I really just want to catch 10]
[For real lol]
[If I catch 11, will the other 6 start crying?]
[Why is Knight even here lol]
[But seriously, that’s super hard. They just don’t move]
“By the way, some people are trying to catch them using other skills besides the spear, but it’ll be impossible.”
Just like the spear has been made difficult, the tank and fish are also in an extremely enhanced state.
The fish have been adjusted so that they won’t die without a spear, so no matter how ranked someone is, they can’t even scratch a fish.
‘Of course, it wouldn’t matter if they caught them that way.’
If they can touch the fish while forgoing the “easy” path of the spear, that would be even more commendable.
I’ve watched users attempting for about 15 minutes afterward, but none of them surpassed five catches.
I also tried spear hunting, but I couldn’t keep up with the speed they respawned, so I gave up halfway.
If I’d continued, I might have scored more than Sre, but creating a score for myself doesn’t hold much meaning.
“Let’s slowly move on to another place. There are plenty of places to enjoy other than here.”
[LOL]
[Just no response, hahaha]
[Definitely going to catch 10]
[Spear hunting is so lit]
[Evanda]
[GGGGG]
■
BEEP-
– Participant, Piarro.
– 89 fish (Overall Rank 2).
■
– 1799 points (Overall Rank 7)
“Ah!!”
[Hahahahaha]
[Why can’t I play the melon game, hahaha]
[Boy – Lily]
[This is hilarious, hahaha]
[As expected of Lily]
[Is 1800 a wall I can’t surpass?]
[Wow]
Failed again.
I left the mana training facility deployed in another place, feeling the unbreakable wall of 1800 that I’ve been unable to surpass for some time.
The game inspired by the melon game awards points by combining lower-grade fruits in a box to create higher-grade fruits.
I’ve been playing this game steadily since before the festival, but I never achieved good results.
When I play, I block all abilities and perceptions.
“…It’s about time for the main event. Participants, please gather at the announced examination venue.”
[No more?]
[Let’s just score 1800]
[Wrapping it up in 7th place, huh]
[Ah]
[It’s been too long, hahaha]
[Spear’s ranking has changed, right?]
[Do you know about the changes, Spear?]
“Are we going for the spear hunting ranking? Who is it?”
[Yep, yep, yep]
[It’s Piarro]
[Piarro]
[A ranker taking classes, she was taught by Lily before, haha]
[By the way, she’s practically 1st place with 89 fishes, lol]
[Caught 89]
[That’s insane;;]
“Piarro… I know her.”
Just as I expected, she came.
Based on her personality and Lasty’s analysis, it says that those who read that book feel ‘the euphoria of madness and knowledge.’
If a situation arises where everyone pays attention, she would definitely appear, and she did.
However, 89 was a bit more than I expected.
In the pool, there are a total of 10 fish, and when all the fish are caught, they regenerate in batches of 10.
I thought she would only have about 10-20 more than Leo, but it easily surpassed that number by twice.
‘Perhaps she has awakened more than I thought.’
Just like Yena, who suffered significant damage when the past system was deactivated and her ‘vessel’ was enlarged, Piarro must have undergone the same phenomenon.
“It just happens that you’ll also take an exam this time. I’m looking forward to what magic you’ll demonstrate.”
[For real, lol]
[No more melons?]
“What’s a melon?”
As night fell over Eli Academy, the sky dimmed, and gradually, brilliant lights rose from the ground to take their place.
Swoosh!
Kaboom! Kaboom!
A spectacle of magical fireworks soared high into the sky. Countless magical fireworks filled the heavens, and numerous people gathered in the plaza looked up to enjoy the festival.
Even if the fireworks were seen through conversations or event matches every time, they remained beautiful as ever.
While everyone was having a blast, about forty people congregated in the colossal arena resembling a coliseum.
Today’s main event: the magic exam.
It was time to check the scores of the students who had put in hard work for a month.
“All right.”
Whoosh—
As the last firework flew into the air, I gathered my mana and smiled at the students.
“You all waited a long time, right?”
“No~~~”
“Yes~~~”
“Wow, amazing. You handle fireworks well.”
“Are we really supposed to follow that?”
“Of course not. That was just for viewing, and the exam content is as announced.”
The details of the exam were simple.
“First, accurately implement the ‘foundation.’ Second, using that ‘foundation,’ unleash the most refined and advanced magic. That’s it.”
Right now, 80-90% of the students wouldn’t even be able to use the ‘foundation,’ but it couldn’t be helped.
The remaining 1-20% of the students had to showcase the most plausible magic they could perform.
The students each wore different expressions, steeling themselves for the challenge.
“And now, it seems….”
“All forty participants have arrived. Excluding the last one who didn’t come, let’s get started…”
Whoosh!!
The sky was dyed crimson.
She, enveloped in the blood-red flow, beautifully landed in the center of the arena on a storm of blood formed by ‘foundation’ magic.
The students’ eyes widened in astonishment as she reveled in their gazes and greeted me.
“Haha. Did I arrive a bit late?”
“…No. You’ve arrived just fine. Welcome.”
This is fun.
I’m already looking forward to what’s next.
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