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Inside the box were about a dozen bracelets of various shapes and colors.
But all the bracelets in the box were emitting a faint light.
Davian picked up one of the bracelets.
The light stopped flowing only from the bracelet he picked up.
When he brought it close to the other bracelets in the box again, they started emitting light.
'I think I know what it is.'
While Davian was fiddling with the bracelet sent by the Specula family.
Liber had finished a brief explanation of the Davian Alliance.
Bellum, listening to the explanation with a surprised face, asked.
"So. Davian has now created an allied force to protect our kingdom from the Marino Empire?"
Davian quickly waved his hands.
"It's not the creation of an allied force. It's just about people with similar intentions joining forces."
"Isn't that the same thing?"
Davian Alliance.
If an 18-year-old student gathered his friends and created something like the Gangbuk Alliance, it wouldn't be a problem.
But it's a powerful alliance with many of the continent's leading families participating.
Already surpassing the power of the royal family.
Davian turned his head to look at Karin's expression.
"Why? Why are you staring like that?"
"What do you think, Karin?"
"About what?"
"The alliance."
"I don't have any thoughts?"
"Are you going to report it to the royal family?"
"Ah... is that why you were staring like that?"
Davian nodded.
All the other friends looked at Karin.
"Well... it doesn't seem like the alliance is doing anything in particular yet."
Liber gave a thumbs up.
"Good thinking! Karin!"
In fact, Davian and Liber had a conversation about Karin a while ago.
It was a discussion about whether to exclude or include Karin when informing friends about the Davian Alliance.
Liber suggested that it would be better to exclude her because there was a risk.
Davian said that it might arouse suspicion.
Liber was worried that she might report it to the royal family.
Davian had a feeling that Karin wouldn't do that.
"I will cooperate."
Starting with Bonita's words.
"Me too!"
"Of course, we have to do it together!"
"We're becoming an alliance to protect the kingdom!"
"Well... my father said he would participate too."
Everyone promised to cooperate with the Davian Alliance.
Latia asked.
"But what is that bracelet?"
"It seems like a symbol made by the Specula family. Right? Liber."
Liber nodded vigorously.
"That's right! A symbol. As the alliance grows, we won't know each other's faces. When you're doing activities related to the alliance outside, if you wear this and see a reaction when you face each other, you'll know that the other person is part of the Davian Alliance."
Bellum picked up the bracelet and fiddled with it.
"Oh, that's amazing. Are we all getting one of these?"
Davian shook his head.
"There's no need to show it off too much yet. There will be times when we need to use it later."
"That's a shame. It's pretty..."
Latia asked a sharp question.
"It seems like you're telling us this because there's something to do soon?"
Davian turned his head and looked at Latia.
The final boss of the Lich's wide-area mental magic quest phase 1.
But this time, she wasn't caught by mental magic and played the biggest role in calming the 1st and 3rd grade dormitory situation.
Such a commendable kid.
"Yes. There's something to do."
"What is it?"
"I told you about Solvere Linea, right?"
"You did."
"By now, their successors will have crossed over to our continent."
Luna was surprised and asked.
"So, are you doing that again? The thing about opening a dimensional passage to the demon world?"
Davian nodded.
"The Marino Empire guys will never stop until they succeed."
Luna asked with a worried expression.
"Then what do we do?"
It's simple.
"We just have to never stop either."
A few days later.
Academy private training room.
Luna clapped her hands and jumped up and down.
"It worked! It worked! Davian, I did it!"
"Oh, good job."
In front of Luna, who was jumping up and down, was a human model.
A model made to be as similar as possible to a human in size and weight.
Luna had just succeeded in pulling the human model from 10 meters away.
It was partly because Luna worked hard.
But the private tutor was so excellent.
"Thank you! It's all thanks to you, Davian!"
"It's because you worked hard, Luna. Now just keep practicing like this. Soon you'll be able to pull lightly moving people."
"Thank you, Davian."
"Then keep practicing. I'll train in the next room and then leave."
"Oh? Okay, Davian. Sorry for taking up your time."
"It's okay. You can pull me with your telekinesis and fix me later."
"Okay!"
Davian left Luna and went to the next room.
A private training room with powerful defense magic cast all around.
He leaned a long bag he had brought with him against the wall.
Several swords were stuck in the bag.
He pulled out one of the swords.
He operated mana.
A few days ago.
While practicing putting mana into the sword.
He discovered a strange phenomenon.
After a long practice, he had already succeeded in somehow pushing mana into the sword blade.
Phew.
But the mana that entered the sword blade did not clump together like an aura, but scattered into the air.
A few days ago, while practicing as usual, he wondered if he should shoot it out before the mana scattered, so he quickly swung the sword.
As he tried to swing the sword quickly, he unknowingly operated inner power.
At that moment.
He felt inner power being sucked into the sword and mixed with mana.
Crackle, clang!
At the same time as the mana and inner power merged, the sword blade shattered into pieces.
The sword was shattered into pieces.
Davian stood there for a while, blankly looking at the sword that only had a handle left.
Inner power and mana were mixed.
The first phenomenon he had ever experienced.
Since then, Davian has been steadily practicing mixing mana and inner power through the sword.
Clang!
The sword blade shattered into pieces.
"It mixes... but..."
As soon as it mixed, the sword blade broke, so there was nothing he could do.
He tried it on the ice sword, but inner power and mana did not merge in the ice sword.
It seemed to be because the ice sword itself was made of mana.
He pulled out another sword.
'Instead of mixing it on the sword blade, I'll mix it in advance and push it in.'
After operating mana first.
He moved inner power.
But the two energies did not mix easily inside Davian's body.
The moment he tried to mix mana and inner power in his hand somehow.
Rustle!
Suddenly, the ice sword appeared.
"What?"
He wasn't trying to make an ice sword.
Since he was holding a steel sword in his hand, the ice sword was completed floating above Davian's hand.
It seemed to be a form that was accidentally created when inner power interfered with mana operation.
He shook his hand to melt the ice sword floating in the air.
At that time.
Kuuuuuu.
The mana and inner power that had gathered at Davian's fingertips began to be sucked into the ice sword at the same time.
"Huh?"
Davian quickly threw the steel sword to the floor.
When he spread his palm, the ice sword handle naturally came into his grasp.
Then.
Kuuuuuu.
It began to absorb Davian's inner power and mana even more intensely.
Wooong.
The ice sword in Davian's hand vibrated finely and made a resonant sound.
"This is..."
It was the mana sword that Chief Hugo Molton had directly taught him about.
The mana sword, which can only be attempted with inner power of 8 stars or higher, was completed in the hands of Davian, a 7-star swordsman.
Wooong.
The ice sword vibrated finely and emitted a strong energy.
Mana sword.
Not just any mana sword.
A mana sword with mana and inner power mixed in at the same time.
"Did I succeed?"
The feeling was a little different from Hugo Molton's pure mana sword, which he had seen once before.
It felt rougher and less refined.
But.
The power of the energy felt was definitely not small.
No.
It was much more powerful because it was rough.
Davian slowly raised the ice sword.
The distance between the wall and the ice sword was about 5 meters.
It was a wall with powerful defense magic, but.
If this was the mana sword that Hugo Molton had shown him, it should be able to lightly cut through the wall at this distance.
Davian lightly swung the ice sword.
He didn't try to put any strength into it, he just swung it.
Kwaaaa!
A powerful shockwave struck the wall of the private training room.
Crack, crack.
The training room wall began to crack.
Kwaaang!
It exploded as it was.
"Kyaa!"
Luna, who was in the next room, was surprised and sat down, covering her head.
Davian looked alternately at the ice sword and the completely collapsed wall.
"What is this."
Luna, who was crouching, slowly raised her head.
Both hands were still covering her head.
She quickly blinked her surprised eyes and checked the collapsed wall.
It took a little time for her gaping lips to move.
"Davian...?"
Chief Hugo Molton's office.
"...So. You put your mana and inner power into the ice sword that Glasier gave you at the same time?"
"Yes."
"Then you felt the vibration of the mana sword? And when you lightly swung it, you smashed the wall of the private training room?"
"Yes. It wasn't cut by the sword, it just felt like it was hit by a powerful shock and exploded."
Hugo Molton had also received a report on the situation in the private training room.
"I've already received a report. It wasn't that the wall was cut. Instead of losing the pure sharpness of the mana sword, you gained a blunt destructive power..."
"I think so."
Chief Hugo Molton pointed at Davian with his palm up.
"Can you show me once?"
"I'm sorry. I've been practicing a bit since then, but I'm not yet at a level where I can completely control it."
"What level is it?"
"Sometimes it doesn't work at all. Sometimes the shockwave explodes before I even swing the sword."
"So you came to me for advice?"
"Yes, Chief."
Hugo Molton stroked his beard and made a thoughtful expression for a moment.
"I can't help you. I don't know at all how mana works on a sword, or how inner power and mana mix... As I said before, I failed to push mana into the sword."
"……Yes."
"Practice a little more. Once you can control it to a certain extent, ask the head of the Cirims Magic Department to look at your sword together and have a discussion. Then there might be a way."
"Thank you, Chief."
Hugo Molton, who had been listening intently to Davian's words, leaned deeply against the back of his chair.
"Amazing, Davian Naone. A mana sword at eighteen. And with a method of mixing mana and inner power."
"It just happened by chance."
"Nothing happens by chance in the world. Haven't you been practicing for over a year already? Putting mana into the sword."
Hugo Molton was right.
Making a mana sword with the ice sword this time was a coincidence.
But it would not have happened if he had not been steadily training to put mana into the sword for the past year.
"Thank you."
"Oh my... It seems like the swordsmanship and magic academia will both be greatly shaken up soon. From now on, do mana sword training in my training ground."
Chief Hugo Molton's private training ground, where no one but the Chief can enter.
Davian had only been there once with Hugo Molton when he was a freshman.
There, Hugo Molton showed him the mana sword and said that Davian's mana and inner power had unique properties, so he might be able to combine them.
And now, a year later.
Davian has made Hugo Molton's words a reality.
"Can I dare do that? That place is like a symbol of your swordsmanship..."
"What's so great about that place. It's just ruins. I've just kept everyone out for a long time for my swordsmanship practice. If you give meaning to everything, it will have meaning, but if you don't, it will become nothing. Besides, you shouldn't break the walls of the public training room again, should you?"
"Thank you, Chief."
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