<855 – Man God’s Assassin (2)>
Burte Glass felt the unjust frustration of the world conning him.
All he wanted was to advocate for the rights of the non-homunculus in the face of the welfare-first policies that shoved through with the sheer numbers of homunculi, just by robbing a supply carriage and negotiating with distribution rights.
Why, oh why, was an assassin using lethal magic bursting out of the carriage without understanding his pure heart?!
‘Just half a year ago, I barely restored my used mana after taking down the Demon King’s Four Kings…!’
This is just nonsense.
To have to pour his restored mana right back in to handle an enemy of the caliber of the Demon King’s Four Kings popping out from a supply carriage!
But there was no time to argue his case, his opponent had already initiated the attack.
[Power of Conjunction]
[Lung] + [Excavation]
The choking attack commenced without any chance of resistance, and Burte Glass’s faction of non-homunculi, those who aligned with him within the academy, quickly found their capabilities tested.
[Area Domain]
[Mana Resistance]
[Space Resistance]
If there was any silver lining, it was that their arch-nemesis was Velvet, who mainly used space magic.
The Burte Glass faction, who had endured Great Stomp, Great Slap, and Great Kick for so long, had unknowingly built up resistance to space magic.
When an ambush occurred unexpectedly, having spatial resistance meant that the start point of enlargement began at a distance from themselves.
Thus, it was only natural to have a bit of time to respond, and the damage taken from the initial strike, the ambush, decreased.
Their unintended pre-learning forcibly repelled the spatial magic aimed at their lungs.
“Crazy.”
“Were you trying to shove dirt into our bodies?”
“Ugh, the pressure in my heart…!”
They avoided a direct hit, but even just pushing against the mana trying to force its way into their bodies put considerable strain on their organs.
While the supporters of the Lower Class quickly gathered themselves, Burte Glass himself shone a glare from his glasses and placed a hand on his sword sheath.
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5th-tier Magic:
[Hyper Chronicle]
Link Technique:
[Flash Action, Draw]
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The instant-dash technique of simultaneous draw and strike, Flash Action, Draw, split the torso of Man’s Representative in two.
‘Gotcha. This injury is deep.’
Burte Glass was relieved to score a critical hit.
That confidence flipped upside down along with the sight of the wound sealing itself before his eyes.
[Power of Conjunction]
[Earth] + [Damage]
Rommel constantly transmitted the bodily damage to the surrounding terrain, attempting to mend his split body.
Even though several subsequent strikes further divided his form, he was engulfed in pitch-black darkness and restored to his original shape, and that realization dawned on Burte Glass.
‘This guy, has he reached the level where he can deceive the laws of the world with his domain…?!’
Truly, he was powerful, at the level of the Demon King’s Four Kings.
Where on earth did Oknodie find such a monster to send as an assassin to take him down while he was trapped?
Is this the hidden power of the Foundation?!
Tension skyrocketed beyond the threshold of caution.
Of course, both Oknodie and Velvet could manage this much.
However, they were slowly closing in.
Only two sworn enemies of his.
At the same level of strength as Oknodie and Velvet.
‘They are the ones I’ve wanted to surpass someday.’
Was Burte Glass’s own strength equally burdensome to them?
The manifestation of the Man God’s Representative, Rommel, split into dozens of copies.
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5th-tier Tracking Magic:
[Oracle Location]
Link Technique:
[Divine Position]
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A monitoring technique that detects the target’s location.
A predictory technique that forecasts the future position.
A projection technique that outlines the target’s path for a magician.
A focusing technique that enhances tracking success rates.
An isolation technique that temporarily halts target movement.
These five spells combined, the Sacred Magic, Oracle Location, leads the way as the Oracle of the divine intent.
The sword form containing divinity is called God,
The sword form imitating teachings is called Oracle,
The sword form that finds its rightful place is called Location.
By combining these four, the Sacred Sword Technique, the Divine Position’s essence takes shape.
As the connected training techniques follow like a Flash Action, the moment one clone’s neck is severed, the compressed mana structure rapidly collapses, causing a massive explosion.
Boom!
“Gah!”
“Aah!”
“Stop them! We need to hold on to at least one clone for the sake of Burte Glass-sama!”
Burte Glass witnessed the sacrifices of everyone.
‘Those guys…’
The conversations he shared with them flashed through Burte Glass’s mind.
—Damn homunculi are probably hogging all the cheap jobs in the academy. The age of humans is over.
—As long as the homunculi are alive, we will graduate as the Worst Pushover Generation of the Academy only to be sacrificed.
—Instead of just taking the hits, let’s take the initiative. We need to trample the rights of homunculi and reclaim human rights!
Small-time villains who got used to trampling others’ rights to protect their own.
Those desperate to cling to their little, miserable power, with nowhere left to retreat.
Though they have no camaraderie worth a dime, their sheer stubbornness not to back down, even as they get caught in the explosion, was real.
‘Yeah, I like these guys.’
Those who are honest about their desires.
Those who faithfully live for their desires.
Those who know how to continue fighting without giving up.
[Mana Absorption]
[Collapse Mana]
Boldly pulling in the cruelly linked mana that explodes and collapses, annihilating the blast radius into his own body.
Though he failed to control the irregular explosions and felt his body shaking with blood dripping from his mouth, he did not stop.
‘I believe in my own genius. I have no doubt I too will stand at the same height as Oknodie and Velvet. If I can’t live that life, then so be it. I’ll die right here!’
A rampage guaranteed by death.
Madness that dares risk the peril of vaporizing his entire internal structure and dying without a word.
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7th-tier Strike Technique: [Explosive Flow]
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Adjusting to the irregular explosions, he repeatedly accelerates while slicing through clones.
Even as his body sensory converged with the others and his vision merged with darkness, Burte Glass, who had transcended the realm of mere sense, couldn’t be hindered.
He severed every obstructing sense at every moment, accurately following the path his body and sword were meant to take according to the principles of Oracle Location and Divine Position, and no interruption could reach him.
‘I cannot stop him. I’ll raise the difficulty to the same level as Oknodie.’
Rommel changed his pattern.
“Uah!”
“Please, help us!”
“I don’t want to die!”
The top-ranking officials rushing to the middle of battle, having fully surrendered control over their bodies and minds.
Through the crisis of innocent lives, he forces the rescue, stabbing his sword into the gap left open.
Oknodie, who sympathizes with the weak and calls them newbies with a loving name, would undoubtedly save them.
In that sense, Rommel was unlucky.
Burte Glass was never a kind person.
“Marionettes! Cut them all down!!”
Burte Glass’s subordinates supporting him were not kind people either.
They simply live faithfully to their desires.
Humans caught in the clutches of the academy’s most vicious group didn’t have time to allow space before they exploded.
Rommel realized.
He was facing an inhuman enemy against whom humanity’s common weaknesses were utterly useless.
Truly, they reflected those who had come to realize their existence and ambush him.
Surely these must be the elite forces that the Dark Princess cherishes.
It could not be otherwise; otherwise, they couldn’t all harbor such inhuman malice.
[Power of Annihilation]
[Nature Mana]
[Power of Conjunction]
[Nature Mana]
Oknodie’s ambush failed.
Then at least let’s annihilate the enemy right in front of us and their subordinates, who could at the very most be her left hand.
Rommel rapidly depleted the nature mana from the atmosphere within a certain radius while pulling in all the incoming nature mana.
The unbalanced distribution of nature mana.
Artificial pressure on dimensional barriers and the world’s mana flow.
This is a prelude to a Mana Disaster.
“!!”
Burte Glass also noticed the change.
When one reaches the Fourth Year of Academy, taking lectures about Mana Disasters is mandatory.
The moment they allow the continuous manifestation of that, a Mana Disaster bursts open in the heart of Gift Academy.
Even if the professors wiped out the disaster, there would be no evading to save their own lives right nearby.
A methodically merciless technique of an assassin from Oknodie.
Even though both believed the other to be Oknodie’s assassin, Burte Glass’s resolve slightly outpaced Rommel’s.
Phat!
Burte Glass jumped boldly into the area of mana depletion.
At real time, the mana he held began to dissipate too, but there was already more than enough mana in him.
This unstable structure of collapse mana, which could burst at any moment, was something he should not attempt to control.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
He continuously burst such mana within his body, becoming drenched in blood yet still advancing.
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Burte Glass Vision 0’s
7th-tier Finishing Move: [Backlight]
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An enormous source of energy released forward caused his glasses to shine organically in a decisive attack.
Rommel, who reflexively used the Power of Annihilation, widened his eyes for the first time.
That was too great.
So much so that he felt certain he would be the one cut down if he didn’t annihilate it in a single blow.
[Power of Conjunction]
[Earth]
Rommel stood firm, turning the entire ground his feet touched into an area of damage distribution, forcing himself to buy the time needed for annihilation.
Before that defensive stance, Burte Glass challenged his own limits once more.
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Burte Glass’s Dual Pole Breakthrough
8th-tier Rampage Technique: [Black Light]
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An energy source that had previously wild energy that shone from his glasses surpassed all limits, engulfing the entire world in a halo of light, and through a flash of mana that exceeded that energy, he surged into a domain of darkness where not even light could escape.
The glasses shrouded in pitch-black darkness emitted a black light, even Deadcat couldn’t help but panic, mistaking it for a rampage that was each stronger than dozens of lives, all while evaporating Rommel despite the earth’s damage distribution.
Thud.
With one sword strike, Burte Glass exhausted all his strength and potential and collapsed.
In his ears, a youthful voice and enthusiastic applause could be heard from somewhere.
With a strained gaze, he slowly returned his focus to a figure he could never forget beyond the dimness.
“Wow! When I ordered a fake pacifier, I got a crazy action show as a bonus! Amazing!”
Oknodie’s admiration was, quite frankly, akin to teabagging!
Burte Glass, unable to suppress the rising anger, coughed up blood and crumpled forward.
