Became an Academy Spearman - Chapter 575



575. Boiling Heart & Storm

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Time to end the day.

Now the night has come when it is time to fall asleep and face a new tomorrow.

Crispy.

“…It’s delicious.”

Even as I ate the apple pie that Millia had given me as a gift, my mind was somewhere else.

Even though the day was coming to an end, I had no idea how it would end.

Tap, tap.

As I brushed away the remaining crumbs of pie in my hands, my eyes became blurry. Since when did I become involved? Therefore, the flow of conversation was naturally taken away.

‘Azazel.’

Even though I had dinner with her today and talked to her, I still have doubts about her.

-Is he a villain?

-Is this a strange personality she has?

I didn’t want to define a person as just one thing.

So I tried to understand her as best as I could.

I confronted Azazel again, wondering if there was something I didn’t know about his malicious actions toward Darsha.

however. Even now, after breaking up with her, I still feel it, but there was nothing like that.

Although he clearly remembers what happened at that time, Azazel has no regrets and just speaks naturally.

“rather… .”

It seemed like it was done on purpose.

The decisive moment when I lost favor with Azazel. I showed open hostility to her, to the extent that she openly said that she disliked me in front of her.

Nevertheless, Azazel calmly mentioned that incident.

On the contrary, they often ask me for my opinion as if they are wondering what it is like to hurt Darsha.

“……”

I took a moment to catch my breath and slowly cleared my complicated mind.

I felt like I was caught up in it.

I felt like I was wasting time caught up in Azazel’s pace, not my own.

“I don’t know why you’re doing that.”

I muttered absentmindedly and clenched my hand.

The heat that remained in my heart due to Azazel’s attitude today still remained.

No, the flame, which had been slowly fading away, burned more intensely and contained even greater heat.

‘If it comes out like that.’

I, too, will act as I thought.

Just like Azazel.

The answer is for me to treat her with the same force.

Some say that Azazel’s values ​​are being changed for no reason, or that such thinking itself is wrong. I didn’t have the slightest desire to correct it.

I didn’t even want to talk to him because I was wondering why I should go through all that trouble.

“…”

Even now, it seemed to come to me out of nowhere.

Darsha I met in the stands at the Colosseum today.

The image of Darsha, who had been caught by Azazel in sparring, moving one arm unnaturally and smiling awkwardly, remains imprinted before my eyes even now.

Suddenly.

Even though I was grinding my teeth without realizing it, I felt like my hands were gaining strength.

I heard that there would be minor aftereffects and that it would be difficult to move for a while, but I couldn’t even take my eyes off Darsha’s arm for a moment.

Because I watched the whole situation.

“I’m sure we’ll meet in the top round.”

Saengdokkilin of the same academy will not face each other in the preliminaries.

If you prove your performance by competing with cadets from other academies, you will advance to the top round.

And I had already advanced to the upper round with 2 wins in 2 matches. It wasn’t as far as I thought.

It was a little bit.

The Colosseum next week will be completely different from this week.

Depending on the match… .

“Maybe we can meet right away.”

She doesn’t show any remorse or even the slightest regret for her actions.

That was Azazel’s attitude.

On the contrary, the way he casually said something that hurt me and recalled that moment made me feel nothing but one thing.

He said he wanted to retaliate in the same way as what happened to Darsha.

No, it will make her feel something more devastating than that.

“…”

My heart wanted only that when it came to Azazel.

He will truly face her and defeat her in front of tens of thousands of spectators.

‘It doesn’t matter if the trait is level 7.’

I never had any thought that I would lose.

It didn’t matter how much power Azazel had or even if he didn’t show his true colors in the last sparring.

I, too, have never shown all my strength against the same cadet even in our many sparring sessions.

‘Skill and openness.’

And even the unique mana properties recognized by Ariya. If I try to fight back, I will be able to fight it no matter what.

“……”

I took a deep breath and calmed my furiously boiling heart.

So, I don’t mess with Azazel during any other private times.

The day of the Colosseum game was enough to pay back what I had done to Darsha.

***

The next day, Friday.

Now, as I naturally head to the Coliseum, I get to check on the cadets competing.

-Glesia and Azazel.

At our central academy, two cadets were scheduled to play two games each.

The opposing cadets were none of the three I could evaluate as strong players from other academies I was watching.

‘It’s a little disappointing.’

Even though Glesia didn’t want to run into him, Azazel wanted to run into those three people, but that didn’t happen.

There weren’t many matchups between the strong and the strong, as if the bracket itself was designed to prevent them from meeting each other in the preliminaries.

At least yesterday, I can say that Millia and Delzen were at a similar level.

Again.

Not long after entering the waiting room of the stadium, the time came.

“Then I’ll go and come back.”

“I’ll support you, Glesia.”

“huh.”

Facing Glesia heading towards the stadium with a calm tone, everyone else also cheered.

A strange sense of unity. Or should we say it is a sense of belonging.

Even though the Colosseum format is all individual competitions, we even felt a kind of bond. Because you naturally cheer on the cadets competing.

Maybe it was because we became close friends while training together last week.

“I felt it yesterday too, but Glesia was really strong.”

I also burst out laughing when I heard Karite’s voice as she quietly approached me.

“Did you two spar separately?”

“huh. About twice yesterday… and I felt it again. “How strong is Glesia?”

I thought the same thing as I watched Karite speak as if expressing her feelings.

Among the cadets of our Central Academy, who are considered stronger than other academies, Glesia’s strength is special.

‘Because the texture is different.’

There was a very big difference between awakening a skill and not awakening it.

As scheduled, the host’s introductory remarks are followed by each cadet’s brief self-introduction.

“Now everything is ready! “Both cadets, for their own honor!”

A voice that rang so loudly that it shook the stadium, and soon a huge cheer erupted from the audience at the Colosseum.

Wow!!

Glesia win!

The excitement was so palpable that someone in the audience cheered and said Glesia’s name openly.

My eyes focused on the two cadets standing on the field.

Glesia slowly draws her sword. On the other hand, the other cadet was holding a staff with both hands and looked like a cadet who could use magic along with his own characteristics.

As I watched Glesia’s actions closely, I saw her slowly drawing a magic circle in the air, as if casting magic in advance.

‘It seems like a defensive spell.’

I know very little about magic, but through the knowledge I learned from Ariya at the Magic Tower, I was able to distinguish what type of magic circle it was.

The opposing cadet was trying to use defensive magic to thoroughly protect himself.

“It’s already over.”

“uh?”

When I absentmindedly asked Karite’s voice that I heard at that time, Karite was smiling brightly.

That was when I suddenly turned my attention to the stadium again.

Soon I saw.

Slurp!

In an instant, a six-layer mana barrier envelopes the opposing cadet’s entire body.

And the way Glesia pounced on that opponent was almost as fast as my eyes, which I was concentrating on right now.

‘Quick.’

A speed that most cadets can barely handle.

The wind that enveloped Glesia’s body was already devouring the surroundings, almost like a storm.

In fact, even though Glesia came within a short distance, the opposing cadet could not even follow Glesia’s movements with his eyes.

Clap la la la rock!

And soon a storm-like wind broke out.

Following the trajectory of Glesia’s sword, a willful storm swallowed up the opposing cadet.

It becomes distorted.

No, the moment I felt it was distorted, the mana barrier disappeared immediately, as if it had been crushed.

“Wow!”

From noble mtl dot come

The opponent, who had let out a breath, flew away so easily that he rolled across the stage of the stadium defenseless.

dump! dump!

As if watching a water swallow, a cadet caught in a storm rolls around the stadium miserably and falls out of the stadium. I was completely speechless.

“…”

The wind was strong enough to blow the stage of a fairly large stadium in an instant.

And even though I prepared for it in advance and created a mana barrier, it was no use.

‘Penetrate… ?’

It felt that way to me.

It is said that the strong wind generated by Glesia showed its power as if it could pierce the opponent’s mana barrier itself in an instant.

ㅡ!

The host approached the cadet who was thrown out of the stadium and fell down, seemed to check his condition for a moment, and then shouted loudly.

“The winner is Central Academy’s Glesia!”

Even as I watched the match that ended in an instant, my eyes naturally turned to Glesia standing in the stadium.

Wow!!

Perhaps it was because she gave such an overwhelming performance that Glesia looked extremely strange amidst the huge cheers that erupted from the audience.

In the sight of him lightly retrieving his sword… I suddenly saw another person strangely overlapping him.

The overwhelming powerlessness I felt while sparring in the past. Yet, the profound appearance of a woman with absolute composure.

‘Anastasia.’

…For a moment, it seemed as if I could catch a glimpse of Glesia.