Chapter 61: “Thank you.”
"Thank you."
When Tao Ran, who finished the demonstration, bowed his head, the audience, who came to their senses, gave a big applaud.
In an unparalleled response to the previous demonstration, Tao Ran looked around for a moment and looked up at the top of the demonstration hall.
‘It’s already recovered…….’
When the magic square was removed, the shrinking space returned to its original form.
Perhaps the magic square all over the Elf’s tower resonated with each other and restored it in an instant.
‘As expected, Lone Druid……is it difficult with what I’m doing now?'
It would have been nice if it had been permanently damaged, but considering the time, materials, and most of all, the skills involved in creating the magic of that space, it is impossible.
Tao Ran, who decided to mean that it worked first, walked to the waiting room with his dissatisfaction.
"You did a good job. Sir!”
"That was excellent!"
The disciples of Chunmu Palace greeted him with a triumphant expression, and Tao Ran looked to the other side with nodding indifferently.
Round Academy was all looking away with an angry expression, and a man named Lee Hoe-kyung sat in Sungjin in such a sad way that he felt sorry.
As expected, Tao Ran looked further into the waiting room without much interest.
‘…… He’s not there?'
He looked curious about Kang Yoo-sik's disappearance.
With Tao Ran's demonstration over, the next turn is Kang Yoo-sik. That's why he should have been preparing by now, but he can't see where he went.
The disciples who noticed Tao Ran's gaze smirked.
"At the end of your demonstration, he went somewhere with a stiff look. He seems very surprised.”
"He can't help it because he’s going to pay off the debts of one S-class item and one AA-class item. I don't know if he ran away because he was scared."
"Haha, that makes sense.”
“…….”
Tao Ran had a look of uncertainty at the disciples giggling.
‘He's not the one who's going to get away with this.’
When he made a bet with his grandfather at the social gathering yesterday. Tao Ran clearly saw Kang Yoo-sik's chilling eyes.
Even if he who shows such eyes is at a disadvantage, he cannot run away without fighting.
Recognizing that something was unusual, Tao Ran looked around other than the waiting seats and found Kang Yoo-sik in an unexpected place.
‘The judges’ place?’
Kang Yoo-sik, who is talking with Heinz, the dean of magic.
In addition, the atmosphere was unusual, with Heinz's puzzled expression and Kang Yoo-sik smiling like at the social gathering yesterday.
‘What the hell…'
With no prediction of what would happen, Tao Ran looked curiously.
And Kang Yoo-sik, who was talking with Heinz, smiled when he heard the answer he wanted.
"Thank you for your permission."
"I don't care…But can you really do it?"
"Of course."
"Huh…oh…oh….….”
Heinz gave a strange look at Kang Yoo-sik's confident answer.
If he looks at him like that, it means there is something, because no matter how much he thinks about it, it only seems like bluffing.
‘No way it's possible.….’
He wants to dismiss it as a young man's young confidence, but Ban Hye-young's eyes, who has been looking this way, have been paying attention again.
Heinz shook his head slightly in an incomprehensible situation.
"Anyway…… good luck."
Confused, Heinz went up to the judges' table, and Kang Yoo-sik, who finished all preparations, moved to the demonstration hall.
"Lastly, The first-year diamond class student at Sungjin Military Academy. The demonstration by Kang Yoo-sik. Please give him a big round of applause."
Formal applause poured from all over the place, followed by sympathetic eyes.
It was a magic square that invalidated Elf’s tower’s space magic.
The audience thinks that there is no magic to go beyond that.
‘But not everyone.'
Almost everyone was convinced of his defeat during the preliminary round, but now it's different. Some people think that he might win a little bit.
‘After the finals, it will be fun…….’
I don't know if there will be another opportunity like this, but there will be no one who looks at me like that.
Kang Yoo-sik stood at the center of the demonstration hall and opened his mouth.
"Before the demonstration, I have one thing to tell you."
"What…?"
"Oh, you need help with the magic."
The sudden words made the audience a little noisy, and Kang Yoo-sik, who was looking at it, smiled.
"Everything that's going to happen now is possible thanks to the permission of Heinz Gambon, dean of magic, who built the Elf’s tower. So don't panic and enjoy the demonstration."
Everyone's questions were amplified by the word Heinz, and all the judges, including Ban Hye-young, looked curious.
Kang Yoo-sik, who received all the gaze, lightly tapped the ground with his toes, breathing lightly.
Whoo-Woong-
Blue waves quickly swept through the entire hall, and magic tricks began to be created one by one, just as flowers bloomed inside the space.
"This is……."
"Was there a magic like this?"
Everyone looked surprised at the scene around him.
A common magic formula is usually created with a connection as if the roots were spreading out from the user.
However, Kang Yoo-sik's magic formula is being created even in an unconnected space, just as dozens of people cast it at the same time.
When everyone looks surprised at the form they've never seen before. Tao Ran, who was sitting in the waiting seat, jumped up.
"S, sir?"
"What's the matter…….”
Ignoring the embarrassed questions of the disciples, Tao Ran turned his head and looked at the magic formula being created around him.
‘You use other people's magic as a medium?’
Kang Yoo-sik's magic now was a kind of copy.
Scans the magical form of space applied to the auditorium, and creates the same magic formula over it.
Thanks to it, it seemed to be possible to create magic formulas at the same time, and the magic control was definitely great.
‘How come you're doing this meaningless thing…….’
Anyway, it's not your magic, it's just copying other people's magic.
Efficiency may also be reduced due to differences in the mana arrangement method, and the detailed structure may not be able to activate at all.
A flamboyant but untruthful act. That's what Kang Yoo-sik is doing right now.
‘What the hell did you do…….’
When Tao Ran is looking at it with an incomprehensible expression. Kang Yoo-sik, who raised his senses by maximizing recognition, looked through the magic formula that was held around him.
‘I'm done with the frame.…. Let's get started.’
Large magic applied throughout a particular space is not easy to grasp because the nucleus is often separated.
That's why the method he uses, in this case, is robbing. It follows the structure to find out the shape of the nucleus and reproduces it to take control.
Usually, dummy formulas are added so that it is not easy to figure out, but in this era, magic nucleus have not been announced yet.
In other words.
‘There's nothing like security.’
Kang Yoo-sik smiled and opened his hand, and the copied space magic structure began to reproduce the nucleus.
Whoooooo!
Blue spheres made in his hands.
On top of that, the formulas were put together one by one and made into a pentagonal cube. And the moment the cube spins and a special form of mana comes to mind on each side.
Click-
A sense of incompatibility swept through the auditorium with the sound of something interlocking.
"This is…… what is it?"
"Something has changed…….”
Bump!
When everyone is looking around with puzzled expressions. Heinz's eyes were wide open as he rose loudly from the judge's seat, knocking over his chair.
"Hey, what the hell……what…."
Heinz muttered incredibly in front of him, and Tao Pei looked curious in response.
"What? What happened?”
"How could such magic……. No, this is…….”
"Ugh! Stop muttering to yourself and explain!"
When Tao Pei shouted out of frustration at Heinz's muttering with a serious look.
"Simple."
Standing on top of the demonstration hall, Kang Yoo-sik smiled.
"I stole this space."
Whoong!
The moment the nucleus made in hand glowed. The whole auditorium fluctuated faintly and began to shrink in size.
The entire auditorium is returning to its original size, not just a partial reduction like Tao Ran did.
"It's a lie…?”
"No…… But this…….”
"The Elf’s tower is… by a cadet…….”
Those who saw the scene muttered with blank expressions.
The dean of magic at Maze College. And while an honorary position, it is the Elf’s tower that Heinz, an S-class hunter, designed and built over the years.
But that's the first year of the diamond class at Sungjin Academy. It was taken away by a young man who is only 17 years old. An unprecedented event in Hunter's history took place in front of him!
"Whoa…."
When the shocked surroundings are completely hardened. Kang Yoo-sik, who once controlled the auditorium, sighed and released all his grip.
This is because the magic of space installed in the Elf’s tower has been used so much magic that it has become difficult to control more.
‘It’s not right to steal with this.’
At the current level of security, all control will be successful, but considering the amount of mana and running away afterward, it is like suicide.
‘Besides, there are many ways to earn without any trouble, so I don't have to do it dangerously.’
Kang Yoo-sik, who was determined to live properly until he was ready, looked at the atmosphere around him.
It will be finished only when something progresses, but there is no sign that the host or the audience will come to their senses.
‘I'll just go down.'
When Kang Yoo-sik was about to take a step.
The microphone in the host's hand flew away and was caught in the hands of Ban Hye-young.
"Ah, this is the end of all the demonstrations, and please give a big round of applause to Kang Yoo-sik, the cadet who decorated the final splendidly."
Only then did people wake up to Ban Hye-young's words, and they began to applaud loudly, realizing what they saw.
Without having to measure the volume, the cheers are more overwhelming than those of Tao Ran. Meanwhile, Kang Yoo-sik looked around and smiled when he found Ban Hye-young, who spread out her V with her fingers.
‘You have a good sense, too.’
Kang Yoo-sik, who bowed his head, went down to the waiting seat in cheers, and Ban Hye-young, who saw the scene satisfactorily, held the microphone and continued the process.
"There will be an announcement of the results and an award ceremony in 10 minutes, so please wait a moment. That's it."
After finishing the comment, Ban Hye-young sent the microphone back to the host and looked at the elderly sitting next to her.
"My magic…"
Heinz with a distorted face as if a headache was pouring in. Ban Hye-young grinned.
"Dean of Magic, Heinz?"
"Ugh……."
At the call of Ban Hye-young, Heinz's body hardened, and soon looked with trembling eyes.
"The magic just now. Do you know how dangerous it is?”
If the place where the magic formula was held was not the auditorium but the dean’s office, the security of the treasure warehouse could have been taken over.
Of course, no one knows if Kang Yoo-sik's capabilities will reach that level, but if a better wizard did it, it's almost a given.
In other words, it is a vulnerability that needs to be supplemented somehow.
"It's a real secret how to make up for it, but…Well, we have known each other for a long time. I can tell you, but I need a small amount of fee…….”
Heinz closed his eyes slowly as Ban Hye-young smiled while using honorifics.
He could see how much she would rip it off as an excuse, but he realized there was no way to refuse.
"I'll pay for it.…. so please.….”
"That’s a wise decision."
Ban Hye-young, who looked satisfied, turned her head and looked at Tao Pei sitting on the other side.
Tao Pei turned around. Ban Hye-young looked at the back looking slightly discouraged, with cold eyes.
"Old man?"
Tao Pei's back, flinching and trembling at the cold call, Ban Hye-young tapped his back with her finger and continued.
"If you have a conscience, prepare two S-class items and one AA-class item. All right?"
“…….”
“All. Right?"
When asked by Ban Hye-young again, Tao Pei replied while flinching.
"I see, I see, you little…….”
A small voice that seems to creep in unlike usual. Heinz mumbled as he glanced at the figure from the side.
"Born my ass…….”