Breath of The Interferer - Chapter 22
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#22 – Breath of the Interferer_Key – 1642625
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The nightmare that Manchester City presents
Shin-gi took off the game console and roughly threw it on the blanket. They won the League Cup, the League Cup, and the Football League Trophy, which includes lower league teams and U23 teams. If they win the last remaining FA Cup, they will collect all the trophies possible this season. Then they will be given a special privilege.
But it felt like I had loaded it about 200 times overnight. Exhausted, Shingi hid the game console well and fell asleep under the blanket. In a few days, the wizards of the British Empire would visit the Magic Academy to check the qualifications of the foreign students. Shingi fell asleep at dawn, anticipating a fateful encounter with the blonde, blue-eyed girl wizard.
Kim Eun-gyeol, the headmaster of the Magic Academy, and Victor Han, who had come from Russia on a special mission, were chatting over tea. The topic of conversation was, of course, the legendary great wizard candidate, Shin-gi. Shin-gi, who had just finished his field training, asked to check if his main element was ice.
It was revealed that the main element was not lightning, so they tried to check the light next. Kim Eun-gyeol, a magician of light and a master of illusion magic, took the time himself, but Shin-gi said that he was attracted to ice magic, so he asked to check that first. The problem was that there was no ice magician in the Korean Empire.
The Ice Wizard is as precious as the Light Wizard. There was one Ice Wizard, but he only had a Mana Affinity of 3. While Lightning Wizards can raise their Affinity through electricity, Ice Wizards cannot raise their Affinity through regular ice and must take Ice Crystals. However, in the Korean Empire, the Magic Association has no power, and even within the Association, only Lightning and Fire Wizards can speak out.
As a result, the wizard changed his nationality to Russian and took the name Viktor. After consuming two ice crystals over several years, Viktor, who became Russian, gained a mana affinity of 5 and an affinity for his main element, ice, of 7.
“I checked it for two months and the ice affinity came out as 0. I think its main element is not ice.”
“Couldn’t it be that it appears as 0 because the element has not been expressed yet?”
“That’s not true. When I studied abroad in the British Empire, it was confirmed that my ice affinity was 5. In fact, my ice element wasn’t manifested at that time either.”
Kim Eun-gyeol’s illusion magic only works on monsters from stage 5 and above, and is useless on monsters up to stage 4. Illusion magic does not work at all up to stage 3, and on stage 4, the effect varies depending on the type, but is generally insignificant compared to the amount of mana consumed. This is the reason why Kim Eun-gyeol, who can be held in one hand even in the British Empire, cannot exert much power. Up until now, most of his battles have been against monsters up to stage 3, so he has not been used much.
When he was studying abroad, the British Empire offered him excellent conditions for naturalization, but Victor Han refused them all. He thought that he would be treated better when he returned to the Korean Empire because of his rarity, but when he returned after studying abroad, he found that the status of magicians in the Korean Empire was poor and the association’s corruption was a sight to behold.
Viktor Han, who was born a commoner and was ignorant of this information, lived quietly for several years before marrying a Russian woman and becoming a naturalized Russian citizen. After that, he took two ice pills and rose to become a high-ranking magician with the power of a great magician.
“But there’s something strange. If your mana affinity is 10, your magic resistance should be pretty high, but you always joke that it hurts when I freeze your hands and feet with ice magic. At 17, you shouldn’t feel pain from my ice magic even if you haven’t trained at all.”
In theory, if you have a mana affinity of 10, you should have mana similar to a wizard with affinity of 6 who has trained since childhood even without any training at the age of 16, and your magic resistance should be similar to that of a high-ranking wizard. However, in the case of the divine spirit, the amount of mana was very small, and the magic density was only 3, and it seemed so weak that it was difficult to determine whether it had magic resistance or not.
“Magic resistance has not yet been quantified even in the British Empire. There must be a lot that is unknown. I believe that the low magic resistance of the divine spirit is related to its main element. It certainly can’t be the legendary hellfire or wind of death.”
The four elements of Water, Fire, Wind, and Land are also called common elements. This is because most wizards use one of these four elements as their main element. However, sometimes special elements such as Hellfire or Death Wind appear. This is when the element’s affinity is only 5, but the magic power is dozens of times greater than that of wizards with the same affinity.
“Isn’t that something you can check the power of magic?”
“Shinki can’t even properly use 2nd level magic yet. He needs to be able to use 3rd level magic to check the power of each elemental magic.”
Since it was determined that it was not ice, when the guests of the British Empire returned, they had to immediately check the possibility of being a light wizard. Even if it was a light attribute, he hoped it would be a killing type with attack power, not a fantasy type like himself. Although he is recognized as a great wizard, Kim Eun-gyeol is currently useless to the point that he can only be satisfied with being the headmaster of the magic academy.
Shingi, who woke up from a deep sleep, listened to two lectures and underwent two hours of special training to increase his magic density before he was finally free. After eating dinner and a late-night snack, Shingi put the game console on his head again and entered the war against Manchester City.
### I am the tired dividing line ###
Kishin took a cold shower as soon as he woke up in the morning. Even though it was a dream, he had lost to Manchester City more than 200 times. He had lost so many games that he could only vaguely remember the process of the last few dozen games, and the games before that only left him with the feeling of defeat.
Kishin, who was shedding tears with the shower turned on, cursed.
“야 이 개새끼야. 어차피 내년 유로파 리그 가능한데 이번 경기 그냥 준우승하면 안 되냐? 꼭 그렇게 다 가져야만 하냐?”
The water from the shower flowed into his mouth, and Kishin lowered his head and spat it out. When I was working at the company, I worked all night for three days. Suddenly, inspiration came to me and I couldn’t control it. After working for three days without sleeping, I fell asleep and woke up six hours later. The feeling back then is very similar to now.
While I was forcing myself to eat something to death in a daze, a hunter approached me.
“Thank you, coach. I will definitely win tonight to repay your hard work.”
As the spirit looked at him with dazed eyes, the hunter continued speaking with a moved face.
“I heard from Gray that you used some amazing magic this morning. We’ll do our best so that the director doesn’t feel burdened.”
I think Gray in the next room heard me yelling while I was taking a shower. I was still much more comfortable with Korean than English, so I thought it was fortunate that I yelled in Korean, and Gishin nodded mechanically. After eating porridge for lunch, Gishin went back to his room, took some sleeping pills, and went to sleep.
Four hours later, I woke up to my alarm and my head felt much clearer. I had dinner a little early and headed straight to the stadium. Wembley is a stadium that has given me many nightmares. It was here that I played against Tottenham, it was here that I played against Arsenal, and now it was here that I met Manchester City again.
“If you combine the three teams, it seems like they lost about 300 games.”
Kishin muttered in Korean. Lately, I have been dreaming in English, but I always end up talking to myself in Korean. Suddenly, I miss Sundae soup, I miss Gopchang, and I desperately want to eat fermented soybeans. The agent who signed Kishin is Hunter’s father. He got his license when Hunter wanted to be a soccer player, but he signed his first contract with Kishin in February of this year, so he’s still a complete rookie agent. He’s really good at contract-related things, but he’s still not very good at taking care of people’s private lives.
During the pre-match interview, a reporter asked Ki-shin a question.
“We all clearly recognize the objective difference in skill between the two teams. That’s why I’m not interested in Manchester City’s tactics. I think the outcome of today’s match will be decided by Notts County. If possible, could you tell me what tactics you will use today?”
“We plan to counterattack with a three-top attack.”
The reporters laughed lightly at Kishin’s words. They thought Kishin was joking. But Kishin was serious. After the game started, Kishin’s sincerity was conveyed to the reporters.
In the 4-3-3 formation, all three midfielders were defensive midfielders. And Antuy and Edwards, who are good at defense, played as left and right fullbacks. And Hunter, Alexandre, and Sven Eriksson formed the three tops. Kishin ordered Hunter and Alexandre to actively participate in defense.
Notts County conceded two goals in the first half alone. If it weren’t for Turner’s saves, they would have conceded five goals comfortably. A few years ago, a League One team lost 0:5 to Swansea City in the League Cup final. The reporters were preparing articles in advance, predicting that there would be a big score difference today.
‘Anyway, we’re going to concede 3 goals in one game. So we’ll leave the defense to luck and focus on offense as much as possible.’
This is an extreme method that Kishin, who was very stressed, came up with. It is a bit too much to deploy 4 people for the attack, so sending 3 attackers to attack on their own is the best so far. Kishin encouraged himself, saying that his current choice was correct, seeing that he did not feel the need to replace anyone.
As the second half began, Manchester City scored another goal. Kishin instructed them to maintain the current tactics without any change in expression. However, the players could not play football like in the first half without caring about the score. So as the game progressed, Notts County’s camp slowly advanced forward.
In the 56th minute, Hunter’s spinless long-range shot shook the Manchester City goal net powerfully. After learning a great lesson from the match against Arsenal, Hunter shot as he pleased. He believed that his body would take care of the shooting regardless of his thoughts.
So Hunter scored 7 goals in 26 league games. However, he was evaluated as a big game player by scoring a decisive goal in the FA Cup against the Premier League teams. He was only 1 goal away from the FA Cup Golden Shoe with 7 goals before the game, but now he is tied with 8 goals. However, since Hunter has played more games, he needs to score one more goal to win the Golden Shoe.
Kishin took off Sven, who was exhausted, and brought in O’Connor. O’Connor is a midfielder in position, but he is a striker at heart. With a three-goal lead, Manchester City’s players let their guard down a bit, and that lethargy lasted for about ten minutes, causing their physical rhythm to become a bit messed up. They were experienced players, so they tried to increase the tempo again, but Kishin strengthened the attack by replacing Antuy with Tuttle.
In the 75th minute, Notts County won a free kick on the left. Edwards on the left and Tuttle on the right whispered to each other. If Edwards kicked, it was a centering, and if Tuttle kicked, it was a centering or shooting. Hunter was already clearly shown that he could not head, so he was positioned outside the penalty area.
Tuttle’s free kick was difficult to judge whether it was a centering or a shot. Tuttle himself probably didn’t know what he was thinking when he kicked the ball. The defenders and attackers tried to touch the ball somehow, but the ball narrowly missed them. And it went straight into the goal after missing the Manchester City keeper’s hand.
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