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The moving corpses, no matter how many times they were killed, would revive and attack humans.
Attacking indiscriminately without distinguishing friend from foe, even most of the Marino Empire's spies became corpses.
With one dead, only the 5-man security team now stood by Cooper Carun.
'Did he intentionally attack his own subordinates?'
Seeing the corpses move in a somewhat organized manner,
He must have not only used necromancy to revive the corpses but also used spiritism to control them at will.
Yet, the fact that he let the corpses attack his own subordinates means,
'He must have judged that the corpses are more threatening and efficient than his living subordinates.'
Cooper Carun.
The reasons to kill him keep piling up.
It's already overflowing, why go this far?
Davian, after sending a fireball at an incoming corpse, looked around.
They weren't without casualties either, but the freshmen were holding their own, having formed a decent line of defense.
Especially Nubes, whose performance was outstanding.
"Ughhh! Gross! Get away!"
Bang!
Standing in front of the juniors, he closed his eyes and swung his large shield with all his might.
The corpse hit by the shield flew far to the end of the open space.
Too scared or disgusted to open his eyes properly as he swung the shield,
Sometimes he would send two or three corpses flying at once,
And sometimes, due to the increased openings, he would take the corpse's attack with his bare body.
However, Nubes only suffered minor scratches.
He suffered no fatal injuries.
Among his peers, he still had the image of a big, cowardly guy, but to the freshmen seeing him for the first time today, it was completely different.
Tall height.
Broad shoulders.
Twitching, bulging muscles.
Tremendous strength.
Defense that didn't even flinch when hit by a knife on bare skin.
Of course, the eyes tightly closed in fear when he swung the shield were not visible to the juniors behind him.
At this moment.
The image of Nubes reflected in the eyes of the juniors was the most reliable senior and the epitome of a tank.
Some students admired Nubes's broad back.
"Look at that senior's back. It's so cool. Is this the Elton Academy's tank?"
"Tank... it looks cool. Look at those muscles splitting."
"Oh! He blocked the blade with his bare hand!"
"I think I'll become a tank too!"
On the opposite side of Nubes, Velum and Liber were coordinating their attacks.
"Velum! Duck!"
Bang!
Liber's magic gun spat fire.
The bullet pierced the corpse's forehead precisely.
"One more!"
Click.
A metal ball fell.
Liber hurriedly rummaged through the bag he had placed beside him.
"Huh?"
Velum, who had just cut down a corpse, asked.
"What's wrong, Liber?"
"I used up all the metal balls!"
"Are you out of bullets?"
"Yeah, what should I do?"
"What do you mean? You're a mage, aren't you? Just throw something!"
"Okay!"
Shortly after.
Boom!
A pillar of fire erupted from behind Velum, incinerating the approaching corpses.
"Oh, not bad. Liber?"
Velum turned around with an admiring expression.
Fwoosh.
The fireball created by Liber failed to extend far and fizzled out in the air.
"What? Wasn't that pillar of fire you...?"
"Not me..."
A female student over there bowed her head towards Velum.
"I shot the pillar of fire! I'm Hanna Oliver, a freshman!"
"Oh, okay. That's great. Good job."
At that moment.
Davian's voice echoed through the open space.
"I'll count to five, and in the meantime, unleash every attack you can to create distance from the corpses! And when I shout five, gather as close as possible!"
The freshmen, who were already familiar with Davian's voice, having heard it many times, replied vigorously.
"Yes!"
"Yes! Senior!"
Then, they began to unleash their final attacks in their own ways.
"One, two..."
While Davian slowly counted,
"Push them back as much as possible! As much as possible!"
"Senior Davian seems to have come up with something!"
"We can live! Let's just hang in there a little longer!"
Meanwhile.
Davian opened the point status.
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[Mana Points: 175K]
―Magic Power: 407K
―Inner Power: 170K
―Outer Power: 116K
―Points Remaining Until Absorption of the Archmage's Heart: 1,132K
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His gaze was fixed on the 175K Mana Points, the numbers trembling slightly.
He shifted his gaze to Magic Power.
'105K.'
105K Mana Points were allocated to Magic Power.
"Three..."
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[Mana Points: 70K]
―Magic Power: 512K
―Inner Power: 170K
―Outer Power: 116K
―Points Remaining Until Absorption of the Archmage's Heart: 1,132K
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A point allocation after a long time.
He had achieved the level of magic power of a complete 7-star mage.
Since the opponent had offered him hell first,
He would show them hellfire.
"Four..."
'Festival of Fire.'
Whoosh.
A huge flame bloomed on Davian's hand.
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[Festival of Fire Lv.15]
―Active Skill
―Cooldown: 24 hours
―Duration: (27→)34 minutes
―Fire Attribute Magic Power Increase (135%→)170%
―Duration and Power Increase According to Skill Level
―Skill Level Increases by Raising Magic Power While Holding the Skill
―When Skill Level Reaches 20, Evolves into the Rare Skill 'Wave of Fire'.
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By allocating 105K points to Magic Power, the high-grade skill 'Festival of Fire' rose from level 8 to 15.
The duration increased by 7 minutes, and the power increase became a whopping 170%.
It was the magic power of an 8-star advanced level, approaching 9-star.
"……Five!"
Although most of them had met for the first time today,
They moved with perfect order according to Davian's instructions.
After unleashing their final attacks, all the freshmen stuck close to each other, reducing the size of the circular formation.
The distance between the circular formation and the corpses momentarily widened.
Davian's gaze, having finished allocating points, was fixed on one place.
Cooper Carun.
The middle manager of the Marino Empire's spy organization X-7 base and a necromancer.
Davian, making eye contact with Cooper, opened his mouth.
"Watch closely. The real hell."
The flame on Davian's palm extended forward neither quickly nor slowly.
It seemed to completely engulf and burn the one corpse at the very front.
Then, it stretched its arm towards the other corpses nearby.
The corpses touched by the fire were completely engulfed in flames and burned down without exception.
"Wh-what is it?"
"The fire is alive!"
It was instantaneous.
The living Festival of Fire reached out its fiery arm from side to side, beginning to devour the corpses one by one.
Although the heavy rain was still falling from the sky,
It was not enough to suppress the force of the crimson flames.
The corpse surrounded by flames burned down, revived, and burned down again.
Even in the meantime, the Festival of Fire continued to reach out its arm and attach itself to the surrounding corpses.
The more the corpse was trapped in the flames and repeatedly burned and revived, the more its form became unrecognizable.
After hundreds of corpses were all surrounded by Davian's flames,
Davian began to break away from the formation and walk forward.
Davian's steps continued in a straight line towards Cooper Carun.
"Hey, spy. You said you'd show me hell. Well, hell should have some fire, right?"
The panicked Cooper shouted.
"What, what are you doing! Stop him!"
Cooper's five remaining bodyguards stepped forward.
"What would happen if the flames that make even immortal corpses unable to move were to engulf you? You'd become beings that can't die or live, just burning, like those corpses?"
Flitch.
The 6-man team, now a 5-man team, hesitated.
The flame extended its hand of terror to the five of them.
Trying to cut it with a sword.
Trying to block it with an ice wall.
Trying to run away from the flames.
None of it worked.
Davian's flames embraced each of the bodyguards and burned them down.
"Kuaaa!"
The screams didn't last long.
Now.
Among the spies who had crossed over from the Marino Empire, there was only one survivor.
Cooper Carun trembled and backed away.
"H-how? Your investigation was already complete. How... how did you become so strong again..."
Davian slowly approached Cooper Carun, who was backing away.
"I just tend to improve quickly."
"Unbelievable... To use mere fire magic to defeat my necromancy... my corpses... This can't be happening. They're beings that never die again, how..."
Davian raised his head to look at the sky.
"Beings that never die again... You mean that's only true while they're being rained on?"
Cooper Carun's eyes widened.
"What? You don't mean...!"
Davian spread his arms wide.
Then, he lifted them vigorously upward.
He looked like a conductor directing an orchestra.
Whoosh!
The flames that had been burning the hundreds of undead corpses all shot up into the sky at once.
The hundreds of pillars of fire continued to rise until they reached the clouds.
Thus, hundreds of pillars of fire connected the sky and the earth.
Someone shouted.
"Oh! Over there! The clouds are being pushed back!"
Holes began to appear here and there in the sky, which had been dark ever since the corpses began to revive.
Holes were being punched around the pillars of fire that touched the clouds.
Soon, the number of holes increased to hundreds.
Eventually, sunlight began to pour down again.
Davian's flames showed no signs of fading, as if they would persist until not a single cloud remained.
Thud, thud.
The ambiguous beings, who were now difficult to recognize their original forms after repeatedly burning and reviving.
Began to collapse one by one.
Only after the corpse completely collapsed did the pillar of fire in that spot disappear.
Cooper Carun stared blankly at the sky and muttered.
"From the beginning... Was I not someone who could be dealt with? Davian Naone."
Swish.
An ice sword appeared in Davian's right hand.
"If you hand over the locations of all the secret places in your base and the information of those who belong to it, I will spare your life."
Cooper, who had been staring blankly at the sky, lowered his head and let out a small laugh.
"You expect me to believe that?"
"What are you going to do if you don't believe it?"
"Kill me. Do you think I would betray my organization under the threat of a mere eighteen-year-old?"
"No. I was just saying it. Actually, I didn't really plan to ask."
Slash.
Davian's ice sword diagonally cleaved Cooper Carun's body.
Ting.
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[Event 'Save the Freshmen' Completed]
―Reward: 15K Mana Points (x2)
―Achievement Reward: Charisma+3 Leadership+5
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Seeing the completion notification window pop up, it seemed that it wasn't necessary to save everyone.
"Senior!"
"Senior Davian!"
The freshmen rushed over in a crowd.
The number was about a hundred.
"We lived thanks to you, Senior!"
"You're really amazing, Senior! You're my role model!"
"I respect you, Senior Davian!"
"I'm going to apply for a double major too!"
Ah... I wouldn't recommend the double major so much.
Anyway.
Unlike the past iterations, he had a very memorable first meeting with the freshmen.
The freshmen gathered to see their idol Davian from as close as possible.
Asking him to remember their faces.
Asking if they could hold his hand just once.
Being pushed here and there, but silently sending respectful gazes.
In the midst of that.
One student caught Davian's attention.
A female student with long brown hair.
It was Hanna Oliver.
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