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"Bonita! Let's lure them to the underground practice room!"
"The underground practice room?"
"Yeah, we'll take them there and lock them all up."
"Are they stupid? Do you think that'll work?"
"It will. Can't you see the glazed look in their eyes? They're not the ones we knew."
"I guess. If they were the ones we knew, they wouldn't be attacking us like this."
About a quarter of the entire third year was affected by mental magic.
So the remaining three-quarters should be able to subdue them easily.
The problem is that the quarter affected by mental magic are mostly top students.
First of all, there's Latia Meridiem, the undisputed number one in the Department of Magic, and Elaim Bristin, number two.
Those two alone are more than enough to take on the entire student body of the Department of Magic.
The situation is the same in other departments.
The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th ranked students in the Department of Swordsmanship have all fallen under mental magic.
Fortunately, Bonita Fortis, the ace of the Department of Swordsmanship, is still okay.
If she wasn't, it wouldn't be strange if we were all dead here right now.
'Wait a minute...!'
Davian's mind, which had been a mess, began to clear.
Luring them to the underground practice room and locking them up was Davian's plan.
To lock up all those affected by mental magic in the underground practice room, which is protected by powerful protective magic.
In the 2nd playthrough, he barely cleared this quest by doing this.
But this quest is a step-by-step quest with three phases.
In the first phase, Davian and many other students suffer fatal injuries.
In the second phase, Davian eventually meets his death.
'Even if I can clear this phase by doing that, I'm bound to die in the immediately following phase, so I'm going to make the same choice again?'
That's impossible.
Repeating something that has already failed.
In this situation, Davian's way is to think of other ways no matter what.
To be repeating a plan that has already failed with his own mouth...
'This isn't me.'
Absolutely.
Davian would never walk a path that he had already failed on again.
He chuckled.
A burst of laughter erupted from Davian's mouth.
Desperately walking the same path as the 2nd playthrough like this.
It would probably be getting caught up in the Lich's mental attack.
He heard Bonita Fortis, who had been worrying, shouting.
"Let's do as Davian says! Everyone follow the stairs down!"
Davian grabbed Bonita's shoulder.
"Why? Davian."
"There's no need to."
"What?"
"There's no need to choose a path to death again anyway."
"What nonsense are you suddenly spouting! Are you out of your mind too?"
Bonita stepped back and pointed her sword at Davian.
"Kill me."
"What?"
"Kill me. It's not even reality anyway."
At that moment.
Boom!
The fireball that Latia Meridiem fired hit Davian's torso.
"Davian!"
He didn't even put up an ice barrier.
The Davian of the 2nd playthrough has the body of an ordinary magician who doesn't have internal or external power.
'Even though it's not reality. It's terribly hot and painful.'
And so, Davian, engulfed in the flames sent by Latia, ended his 2nd playthrough memory experience.
The surroundings darkened again.
An endless dark space.
'There's probably one more left.'
The surroundings brightened.
The scenery of the 3rd playthrough in 5th grade unfolded.
"Now! Duck!"
At Davian's cry, the swordsmen in front quickly ducked.
A coordinated attack that he's already used several times.
While the swordsmen in charge of melee are somehow blocking the demons, Davian finishes preparing to unleash a pillar of fire.
And the moment the swordsmen duck at the signal.
Boom!
Pillars of fire poured out of Davian's arms, incinerating all the demons in front.
The swordsmen create a wall again.
It's Davian's turn to manipulate mana and prepare for the next attack.
Whether it's his own will or the will in his memory, mana starts flowing out of Davian's heart.
"Stop. That's enough."
That's enough playing around with the Lich's mental attack.
Finally.
His body started to move according to Davian's will.
He withdrew the mana that had been released to fire the pillar of fire.
Unlike before.
It was Davian's will, not the will in his memory.
Wobble.
He felt the space behind him distorting.
"Kyaa!"
Luna Pueri's scream from behind.
Davian's body, which has 7-star internal strength, turned quickly.
This is the memory of the 3rd playthrough.
The Davian of the 3rd playthrough doesn't have internal strength.
But now that he has regained his will.
That is not a restriction.
Thud.
"Kuh-ack!"
He grabbed the neck of the demon that came out of the space.
A low-ranking demon.
A meat shield.
And.
The one who stabbed Davian in the back with a dagger in the final of the 3rd playthrough.
In the demon's hand, which is flailing in panic, was Jedicus's dagger.
He grabbed the demon's wrist with his left hand and pressed down hard.
"Kuh-ah-ack!"
Unable to bear the pain, the demon drops the dagger.
Only.
He died with his heart pierced by such a guy.
He grabbed the falling dagger.
And stabbed it into the demon's heart.
"Kuh-uh..."
Then, he threw it into the portal that hadn't closed yet.
Davian could also follow this portal and meet Jedicus and kill him.
But he already took revenge on Jedicus.
Not in this shabby memory, but in the real world.
"Okay, let's stop now. You bony Lich bastard."
Latia asked.
"Are you guys dating?"
Bellum, who was diligently searching for a place where a mental magic medium might be hidden, was startled.
"Huh? What? What? What? Who and who?"
"You and Nubes. Aren't you?"
"Ah, no. Dating? What are you talking about? Me? With the big guy? Why? That's ridiculous. Latia, don't you know my ideal type? Don't say such strange things."
"Bellum, your ideal type is a man with a good body."
"Oh? Th-that's true, but. Hey. Not Nubes. He's too big. His muscles are too big."
"I'm jealous."
"Jealous of what, we're not even dating... What? What did you just say, Latia?"
"I said I'm jealous."
Bellum turned her head and looked at Latia.
Whoosh.
A cool spring breeze stroked Latia's golden hair.
Hair fluttering lightly.
A doll-like appearance.
But.
Her lake-like blue eyes look somehow lonely today.
"...Latia, do you perhaps?"
"What?"
"Do you have a crush on someone?"
As if a small stone had fallen into a blue lake.
Latia's eyes flickered for a moment.
"No. I'm too busy with mana cultivation and learning magic, what are you talking about."
"Well... isn't that right? It's not easy for a man who meets your standards to appear, Latia."
That's not the important thing right now.
"But how did you know? About me and Nubes..."
"It's obvious. I guess the other kids have noticed it too."
"Really?"
"Yeah. The way you look at Nubes has completely changed."
"Is it that obvious?"
"Yeah."
"Ha... what should I do. I don't want to be made fun of."
"What kind of ridicule?"
"It's obvious. That thing that the other couples are all experiencing. The prejudice that they're not thinking about working hard and just dating, that kind of thing."
"You just have to not neglect dating, mana cultivation, training, and studying."
"Do you think so, Latia?"
Latia nodded.
"Isn't it better if you cheer each other on and stimulate each other?"
Bellum's expression brightened.
"Isn't that right? Actually, I made a bet with Nubes. Based on our first semester grades. I can't let my grades drop because I'm dating. Nubes and I have similar ranks, you know."
"Good job."
"But Latia, you really don't have anyone? Like a guy you like a little bit... or someone who keeps catching your eye..."
"No."
"I see. Latia, maybe fate is closer than you think..."
Boom.
A heavy explosion.
"Huh? Latia! Over there!"
Latia and Bellum, who were in charge of searching the common space today, turned their heads and looked at a building.
"Isn't that the student council hall that's scheduled to be demolished?"
Smoke was rising from the old student council hall building.
"What's going on?"
"Let's go!"
"Yeah!"
Latia and Bellum ran at the same speed and arrived in front of the old student council hall building.
Several more rumbles and explosions were heard while coming here.
Dull dust and hazy smoke were rising from various parts of the empty building.
"Maybe it's just rumbling because it's about to collapse?"
Latia shook her head.
"That was a deliberate sound."
"Then what should we do?"
"Let's go in."
"What if the building collapses after we go in? If such a big building collapses, we might get crushed to death."
That was true.
It's a building that was closed because of the risk of collapse anyway.
It's rumbling several times, and dust and smoke are rising.
It wouldn't be strange if it collapsed at any moment.
But strangely.
Latia felt like she had to go into this building.
"You go quickly and tell someone. Whether it's a guard or a professor or anyone. I'll go in and see what's going on."
"Latia!"
Latia dashed into the building before Bellum could stop her.
She didn't know why.
But.
If she doesn't go in here now.
She felt like something would happen that she would regret for the rest of her life.
Boom!
Davian's fire element magic hit the Lich's ice barrier.
"Damn it."
Even if he has only honed mental magic all his life.
If you're a magician, you can handle the four basic elemental magics.
It just depends on the depth of it depending on what you focus on.
Because of this, the Lich's 4 elemental magic wasn't much of a threat to Davian.
Powerful, but not sophisticated or efficient attacks.
But Davian's magic attacks weren't doing much damage to the Lich either.
Even if the magic operation wasn't sophisticated.
The size of the magic power that the Lich had was too great.
In the process of becoming a Lich, the magic power that has been accumulated throughout his life is mixed with the magician's will and life force, and the magic power is greatly increased.
Instead, most of the reason and emotions as a human are lost by mixing in the will.
Most of the muscles in the whole body also disappear as all the life force is mixed in.
Bang!
Davian's ice sword cut through the Lich's fireball as it was.
The shock and heat that was transmitted after cutting it off was also not ordinary.
But the external force that he had pulled up to almost 5 stars held out.
'If only I could move. Trash like that Lich...'
No matter how great the Lich's magic power is.
The 4 elemental magic attacks of a guy who has devoted his whole life to mental magic are extremely monotonous.
If only he could move.
He would have already cut off the guy's head.
But.
Right now, they're just exchanging meaningless attacks.
Of course, just because it's meaningless doesn't mean its power is weak.
Thud, thud.
Dust and soil particles continued to fall from the ceiling.
He could see thick cracks all over the inner walls.
'I have to find a way.'
When he first stepped into this space.
Because he didn't completely block the sudden mental magic, his legs were completely stiffened.
Still, with his strong mental strength, he managed to stop himself from moving according to the Lich's will.
He perfectly overcame the Lich's mental attack, which was unleashed to disrupt his mental strength, and was able to use internal strength and magic power instead.
By using internal strength, he was able to move his arms freely, and he was also able to manifest magic.
But.
His legs still didn't budge.
'At this rate, we'll both just get crushed to death by the collapsing building.'
No.
Isn't the Lich neither dead nor alive, so am I the only one who dies?
Anyway.
He has to come up with a way.
Heh heh heh.
The Lich's creepy laughter echoed through the underground space.
―You're a really interesting guy. To break through my mental attack and regain your internal strength and magic power instead. And you can even move that arm as you please.
"I'll loosen my legs soon and cut off your head."
―Don't be ridiculous. Do you think my lifelong research looks so trivial? It's a shame I couldn't make you my minion. But you're going to die here today. Davian Nowen.
"You can't even successfully land a proper attack on an opponent with his legs tied. You're all talk."
―But what are you going to do now? If this huge building collapses, do you think even a monster like you can survive?
"You'll be crushed to death by the building too. You bony Lich bastard."
Heh heh heh.
A creepy laugh.
―We'll have to see about that.
Boom.
One side of the underground space collapsed, and a pile of stones began to pour down.
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