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"Glasia."
Whoosh.
A gust of cold wind seemed to brush past Davian.
A small Glasia in fairy form appeared.
"Long time no see, huh?"
"Yeah, it's been a while."
"A lich has appeared. Find that guy for me."
"A lich? Do those still exist these days?"
"Apparently so."
"So you're telling me to find that lich?"
Elton Academy was too vast for Davian to search alone.
"Yeah."
"What, you're calling me for something like this?"
"And let's beat him up together."
Glasia's expression, which had seemed disappointed, brightened up.
"Beat him up? You and me together?"
"Yeah. He probably has a lot of subordinates controlled by mental magic by now. I can't handle it alone."
"Come to think of it, you're alone today? Where are your friends who are always with you?"
"I sent them elsewhere because they might get in the way. They have a lot to do there too."
"Get in the way?"
"Yeah. The lich uses mental magic."
Glasia, floating in the air, nodded with a small hand on her chin.
"A mage who studied mental magic became a lich? That's a strange case. So you're going alone because everyone might get caught in the mental magic if they go in a group? No, you're not. You're going with me."
"That's right."
"A lich is an existence that ignores the natural order of humans. Plus, it's extremely dangerous. Okay! Let's go beat him up together! Wait here for a moment, Davian."
Glasia seemed somehow delighted.
Glasia smiled brightly at Davian and flew high into the sky.
A moment later.
Glasia came down again.
Whoosh.
Light seemed to emanate from her fairy-like body, and she reappeared in the form of a human woman.
As always, blue hair, blue eyes, a flowing sky-blue dress. Transparent glass shoes.
Glasia held out a finger and pointed.
"It's that way."
Davian looked in the direction Glasia was pointing.
"The 7th grade area, huh? Let's go, Glasia."
"Yeah! Let's go, Davian."
A group of people from the 6th grade area moved to the 7th grade area.
Among them was a professor on duty, who was quite injured, as if he had been in a fierce battle.
Assistants and students also passed through the gate leading to the 7th grade area.
All of their eyes were slightly unfocused.
"Master, it seems the 6th grade dormitory is also taken care of."
—There must not have been a student like Grady Butler there. It only got taken care of after a professor on duty was deployed.
"Master, how much did you absorb? If more time passes, professors from outside will swarm in."
—Are you afraid of them?
"Ah... it's not that. But since they are such prominent figures from the continent, it wouldn't hurt to be careful."
—Let anyone come. They'll only add to my ranks.
It was then.
Thud, thud.
From the cloudless sky.
Something that was neither rain nor snow began to fall.
Since it wasn't water, it wasn't rain.
But the ice crystals were too heavy and hard to be snow.
And they weren't big enough to be hail.
Snowflake-shaped, hard ice crystals.
Ice rain.
Ice rain fell from the sky.
Long ago.
During the Eriam Alkanzia's continental unification war.
When ice rain began to fall from the sky.
And the ice spirit Glasia appeared.
The tide of the battle would completely turn.
A story like the founding myth of the Alkanzia Kingdom.
Some said it was an exaggerated legend created to enhance the authority of the royal family.
Some claimed that Glasia was just a normal spirit.
Some argued that it was a metaphor for Eriam Alkanzia's powerful army.
Thud-thud-thud. Thud-thud.
Along with the ice rain.
The spring and autumn night air began to freeze coldly.
—What is this suddenly?
To the lich's question, Billian Disipulus looked flustered.
"It seems Davian Naone has come."
—Why is the weather suddenly like this just because Davian Naone is coming?
"It seems... he's coming with the ice spirit, Lady Glasia."
This was something Professor Billian Disipulus had not anticipated.
Of course, he thought that the ice spirit Glasia might appear if Davian was in danger.
So he planned to stall for time as much as possible when Davian appeared.
He had repeatedly told his master, the lich, not to kill Davian until the awakening was complete.
"Damn... this isn't how it's supposed to be..."
He had warned about Glasia in advance, but the master, who had become a lich and was intoxicated with his own power, ignored it.
Thinking that this wouldn't do, Billian Disipulus subtly persuaded the lich to make Davian Naone, who had interfered with the start of the great work, the first sacrifice of the awakening.
Eventually, the lich agreed to Billian's persistent persuasion, and he thought the plan was perfect.
He thought that he could fight Davian, only harassing him enough to keep Glasia from appearing, and then when his master was fully awakened, he could fight Glasia even if she appeared.
Billian's plan, which looked several moves ahead, was clearly perfect, but.
"Why..."
The only variable Billian had to worry about was how quickly the president or department heads would come.
The plan.
Was completely ruined.
Hehehe.
Whether he knew Billian's true feelings or not.
The lich let out a chilling laugh.
—The legendary ice spirit Glasia, you say? Is today the day I get to fight Glasia? How appropriate for the start of the great work.
"......"
Billian couldn't say anything.
Tonight.
Another legend will be inscribed in the Alkanzia Kingdom.
An unprecedented awakening of a lich, or.
The splendid return of the ice spirit Glasia.
The only thing he could hope for was.
That the ice spirit Glasia might not show the same power as in the founding myth...
—They're coming.
In the place the lich pointed, two people could be seen walking.
It was Davian and Glasia.
Whooooosh.
The mana around the lich fluctuated.
The lich's magical power had increased several times compared to when he was human.
In fact, when he was fighting Davian in the basement of the old student hall.
He was just playing around, matching the opponent's level.
Because Billian had emphasized so many times that Davian should be the first sacrifice of the great work.
If he died when the building collapsed, that was the extent of his skill.
If he survived and reappeared, he planned to give him a real taste of pain.
It was the lich's way of thinking, filled only with a desire for strength and a desire to show off.
—It seems an even better sacrifice has come with him. A spirit from the founding myth. Tonight will be the day the legend of me, Britain, begins. Hehehe.
Flammmme!
A huge flame appeared in front of the lich.
The flame grew in power, as if it would engulf and burn everything around it, spinning in the air.
The lich's fire magic became as large and intense as if he had moved the sun into the night sky.
—I thought you'd try a surprise attack while I was gathering mana. How foolish. Billian, is that really the smart student you were talking about?
"......"
The lich was right.
Such composure against an opponent with mana at a trans-human level.
It was like a moth flying into a flame.
He should have cut it off somehow before it got stronger.
At this rate, he would be swallowed up by the lich's fire magic.
However.
That fact made Billian even more uneasy.
There's no way Davian wouldn't know this.
He has mastered both internal energy and mana to a high level through double majoring.
Originally, he should have jumped up and prevented the lich from gathering mana.
That's what should have happened.
Why is he standing there...
There are only two reasons.
He's become an idiot.
Or he's completely ignoring the lich's magic.
—Die!
Kwaaaaaaaah!
A huge pillar of fire shot out towards Davian and Glasia.
The ice spirit Glasia stopped walking.
Thud-thud-thud. Thud-thud.
Ice rain was still falling from the sky.
Glasia looked at the incoming pillar of fire.
Crack, crack. Squeak, crack!
Huge pillars of ice appeared in the empty sky.
They were like ice pillars supporting a giant temple.
The ice pillars continued to increase in thickness and length, and pierced into the pillar of fire.
Then.
An amazing thing happened.
The pillar of fire, which had been pouring out with fearsome force, stopped in its place.
Not only did it stop.
It lost its heat to the ice pillars, and its size and power quickly decreased.
Billian shouted urgently.
"Everyone, attack! Attack those two with all your might!"
Billian, who was connected to the lich by permanent mental magic, could also give orders to the people affected by the lich's mental magic.
The people standing below the lich began to rush forward all at once.
This time it was Davian's turn.
He seemed to fire a simple fireball.
Flammmme!
The fireball that touched the ground became a living curtain of fire, surrounding the people.
Skill 'Festival of Fire'.
In the meantime, the lich's fire magic had completely disappeared.
Crack, crack!
Ice spikes appeared in the air and pierced various parts of the lich's body.
—I won't be defeated by such petty tricks...!
The lich couldn't continue his words.
The ice spikes that had been stuck in his body instantly increased in volume.
Poak! Pop!
The areas of the lich's body that had been pierced by the ice spikes exploded.
If he were human, he would have already died.
But the lich was already in a state where he couldn't die in the first place.
The lich raised his tattered arms.
Since his body was moving with magical power rather than muscles in the first place, it didn't matter that it was tattered.
Kuaaang!
A huge fireball shot towards Glasia.
Squeak!
This time, an even more amazing thing happened.
The fireball that was flying normally froze as it was.
"Those kinds of attacks don't work."
The ice rain falling around the lich suddenly began to rotate.
The ice rain rotating rapidly around the lich gradually increased in size.
Meanwhile.
Someone broke through the fire barrier that Davian had created.
He broke through the fire barrier by setting his entire body on fire.
It was Grady Butler, the top student of the 7th grade magic department.
Grady, who had broken through the fire barrier, immediately gathered the fire surrounding his body in the air and shot it at Davian.
It was an amazing display of magical power control that made his mouth drop open.
Crack!
Davian created and erected an ice wall.
Kuaaang!
The fireball collided with the ice wall and exploded.
Large cracks appeared in the ice wall, but fortunately, it didn't break completely and managed to block it.
Davian, who had removed the ice wall, looked at Grady Butler.
The attack just now.
He could have avoided it.
But the moment he saw Grady's silver hair, he changed his mind.
"Grady Butler, top student in the magic department of all grades at the Academy. I should have fought you someday. I just didn't know it would be today."
Grady Butler, a graduating senior.
A mage who had already reached a level beyond the Academy in the 5th grade.
He was just curious about Grady's skills.
It seemed that the lich was pushing Glasia hard so that she couldn't move.
The other people were still trapped in the fire barrier.
Grady Butler, 23 years old. Elton Academy graduating class.
He was under the influence of mental magic.
But.
The corners of Grady Butler's mouth raised slightly.
He, too, seemed to be looking forward to the battle with Davian.
Whooooosh.
Davian prepared wind elemental magic.
Hoooong.
Grady also prepared wind elemental magic.
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