Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 223



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Episode 223: The Blood Baragi (7)

It’s so obvious, but magic is meaningless if it misses, so accuracy is more important than power.

Even that lightning-fast magic could be avoided by warriors or priests of the same level. It wasn’t as fast as lightning, but it was a way to read the signs and move without stopping, making it impossible to take aim.

In short, nothing makes a wizard smile more than a still target. Strictly speaking, it was Galen who tied them up, but let’s ignore that little detail.

Pfft pfft pfft!

The lightning that was born by wrapping around his right hand stretched straight forward and touched the water prison.

The magic of water flow manipulation and the magic of the wall force were in perfect harmony. The feast of blue lines swimming through the clear water was truly beautiful.

“Is something like that even possible?”

Lilia, who was watching the half-water, half-electric prison from the special seats, showed interest. Galen smiled and said.

“They say you shouldn’t go near the water on a thunderstorm day, right?”

“Right? It’s dangerous.”

“Water is good at carrying lightning. It’s great for combining systems.”

Strictly speaking, ‘pure’ water does not conduct electricity well, but we will never encounter such pure water outside of a laboratory, and it is difficult to apply scientific standards to magic that can pierce through air, which has much greater resistance, and send lightning.

In this world where there was almost no chance to see electricity itself, it was enough to know a little about it. In fact, Galen also had a liberal arts background, so he didn’t know much about it.

“Besides, the way they stab is different. While water crushes with pure pressure, lightning crushes the muscles and nerves themselves… … .”

“It hurt so much. My whole body was burning and paralyzed… Ugh.”

Lilia shivered slightly. She remembered the experience of being hit by a thunderbird when fighting the jewel spirit Atma. Even though she countered it with her holy power, it was no ordinary pain.

“Well, it’s not quite balanced yet, so I can’t say it’s a proper combination.”

“You’ll get there soon anyway, brother. You look like you’re in a lot of pain right now.”

The magic stolen from the Jewel Wizard is the Golden Pole, and can be self-taught up to level 69, so even if you play alone, you can level up incredibly quickly.

Even so, at least a minimum warm-up period was necessary. Even if you practiced every day while exhausting your horsepower, it would take at least two months.

Therefore, the lightning magic, Wall Power Ilseong, which he had acquired only a little over a month ago, was still in a state of poor quality. It was not for nothing that he did not use it in battle.

But even if it was just ‘a mere’ silver magic, it was threatening enough in a situation where one had to take full effect.

The Jewel Warrior has a strong body, so even if he gets hit, he doesn’t take much damage, but it’s not like he doesn’t feel any pain when he gets hit. There were no cases where the damage was 0, except for special cases where he would completely surround himself with a defensive barrier, like Earthbind.

“Gaaaaah!”

In fact, the vampire was expressing his emotions with his whole body. He couldn’t hear the sound, but his movements were so dynamic that it seemed like the cheers were automatically played. He was so happy that he gave it to me. I should give him more.

“Oh, so now I can get help from you, brother?”

“What?”

“Like when you’re interrogating someone?”

“Oh, I see. I’m sure it will be effective. Would you like me to help you next time?”

“Are you okay?”

“Of course. I’ve always felt bad for making things difficult for Lilia.”

“… Was that really a topic for conversation?”

Shamita, who was listening to the conversation between the two, asked in a trembling voice.

If you listened to it without knowing, it seemed like a warm conversation full of mutual concern, but Shamita, who had been present when the fake patient was being ‘interrogated’ earlier, knew very well what it meant.

Instead of the classic beating method, you’re going to torture them with electricity. It’ll be warm, I guess. I’ll burn them until they smell like burning flesh!

“Because I found a way to increase work efficiency.”

Galen shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

“Isn’t this something to be happy about, not sad about?”

“That’s true, but… ‘work efficiency’. That’s a pretty harsh word to use for your own kind.”

“I treat Shamita the same way I treat anyone else, even if she’s a fairy.”

Galen paused for a moment and chuckled. It was a cool cynicism.

“In other words, there is no reason to treat someone like a human being just because they are human.”

“The church’s interrogation does not target just anyone. It targets only unforgivable sinners.”

Lilia added in a bright yet unhesitating voice.

“For a great sinner, even a clean death is a luxury. I don’t intend to cause you meaningless suffering, but if you can make me spit out even a little bit of information before I die, my sins will be forgiven a little.”

“You are firm. Well, is that really all you need to do to lead humans? I don’t know why you, Galen, a wizard, think of yourself as a church… … .”

“Well, it’s an environment where you can’t help but be influenced by Lilia, right?”

“I think I was influenced much more?”

“Just assume we dyed each other.”

Shamita shook her head with a look of helplessness on her face.

Even in the midst of all that commotion, Galen’s magical power continued to grip the prison without wavering at all, and Lilia’s castle did not leave the prison even for a moment.

Shamita thought to herself that it was fortunate that they had not fought until the end when they first met and had broken up in the middle.

“Anyway, brother.”

“yes.”

“Can you go harder? You don’t have to look at it.”

“Of course.”

You can activate the world revision to tighten the water prison, but there’s no need to treat someone you’ve already caught so sincerely.

Rather than going through the trouble of manipulating the water flow and then suffocating them with other magic, it’s easier to understand.

[Life: Mind: Follow]

[Ma Seong Eum Yeok]

The magic of life spread inward in waves instead of through voices.

Even though it was rotten and in poor condition, it was not enough to subdue the vampire’s spirit, but it was enough to shake it and make it dizzy.

Even the vampire’s struggles to hold on as long as possible despite the pain were interrupted, and he eventually began to collapse.

Get it! Get it!

Blood gushed out as various parts of his body were crushed. Crushed bones pierced through his flesh and came out. It was not a very pleasant sight.

Could this be the shape of a corpse crushed under a rock? A red, tangled mass of blood that was difficult to recognize in its original form.

“This is it.”

Galen clicked his tongue softly.

However, there was still no news about the experience points.

When I slightly loosened the water flow control, the red energy that had been floating like oil without mixing with the water bubbled as if it had been waiting and forcibly pushed the water away. In the empty space, countless blood vessels were entangled again.

Galen, who had just confirmed the vampire’s appearance again, met Lilia’s eyes. She nodded calmly, as if she had expected it.

“Would you like to continue?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Since I had no intention of letting it go anyway, I guess I should continue.

Galen continued to crush and defeat the vampire, refreshingly ignoring its reaction as it glared at him with an expression truly befitting a demon.

That was when I stepped on it five times.

“… Okay.”

“Huh?”

As soon as Lilia’s softly muttered soliloquy reached Galen’s ear, Galen opened his eyes slightly.

[Water Flow Manipulation Lv.81]

[5% progress to next level]

[Life Lv.74]

[Spirit: Grant, Follow]

[9% progress to next level]

[Wall Force Lv.50]

[7% progress to next level]

A slight headache came over me and status windows appeared one after another before my eyes.

The jewel magic leveled up, so of course I felt good, and the wall power one-star also got a big boost, so it turned into gold in an instant. Considering the speed of self-study, it was a level that I would have reached in a few days anyway, but anyway.

I cleared the status window and looked ahead. The red aura that had been squirming and regenerating unpleasantly was now calm. The sticky blood slowly mixed into the water prison and spread.

Although nothing particularly abnormal was detected, Galen felt uneasy and cut off a large area near that area.

After recovering the remaining parts and taking back the magic power of water manipulation, the small water prison collapsed.

The clump of blood that had collapsed together was also thrown down with a thud. There was no movement. Only the blood was slowly absorbed into the ground.

“…Is it over?”

“yes.”

Shamita and Zarina didn’t pay attention in case she would be resurrected again in that situation, but Lilia said something blunt and moved on.

She walked straight up to the lump of blood and immediately stabbed the whiwangchang.

Phew!

The body that I thought was a corpse just now suddenly got up and avoided the window.

This time there was no such thing. The spear of light pierced the red mass and stuck itself into the ground.

Lilia, who had been watching the scene for a moment, closed her eyes slightly and opened them again. She released her castle and pulled out her light spear again and turned around.

“Dead, for sure.”

Dispersing the light, Lilia stood up again. Galen, who had checked his experience and relaxed, also said something.

“It turns out he wasn’t truly immortal.”

“Yes. From what I’ve observed, it seems like regeneration consumes some special power. When that power runs out, you can’t regenerate anymore and it feels like you die.”

“It’s fortunate that there is a way to kill it… but I think I understand why it was incorrectly known as immortal.”

Shamita let out a faint sigh.

“How many people can be skilled enough to kill a demon that rivals a jewel? Even if you rain down a hundred attacks, it will all regenerate, so it must have been rumored to be an immortal monster.”

“You should be thankful that we’ve dealt with it now. Vampires are a special species among evil spirits, and their numbers are said to be particularly small, so you won’t see much of them in the future.”

“That’s good news.”

That was the end of the story about the dead guy. If I just deal with the last guy, this place would be over.

“Eeeeeeeeeeek?!”

Gaunt, who had been in a deep trance, jumped up. He did not jump because he wanted to, but because he was forced to jump up by the voltage of the lightning.

As Galen, who had been caressing him excitedly for a while, withdrew his strong fist, Gaunt fell down and began to convulse his body incessantly.

“Are you coming to your senses?”

“Ugh, ugh, ugh.”

“I was going to say, ‘Tell me what you know!’ But… … .”

“You look a little unwell. Did you not taste enough?”

“Eeeeeeeeeeeee! Don’t, don’t, don’t say, don’t say, TENIKUAAAH!”

Even though the effect was good, it was too good. For a golden warrior, it felt too vulnerable to pain. It’s not like the mercenary would have grown up well.

“Come to think of it, the vampire sucked Gaunt’s blood earlier.”

“Oh, really?”

“Then it felt like the vampire had gotten a little stronger. Maybe Gaunt had gotten weaker.”

“Maybe liking blood isn’t just a simple preference?”

Lilia’s eyes sparkled as she heard Galen’s whispers.

After investigating closely, I was almost right. Gaunt’s mentality was already gone without any further pain.

It was hard to understand because he was talking nonsense, but should we say that the foundation of the warrior who had to restore his power to match the gold was torn apart?

To use a metaphor, it’s like being in a situation where not only your internal energy has been sucked out, but your danjeon has been completely destroyed.

Even if you just suffered that, the sense of loss would be great, but if it happened to your own side, how could you be mentally sound?

“Well, if you’re caught and your blood is being sucked out, you’ve already been subdued, so whether you become a wreck or die, it’s all the same… … .”

“It feels different. If I die, I’m dead. Instead, I’m completely turned into food for the enemy.”

Shamita and Zarina both got goosebumps.

The only positive aspect is that the fairies’ wariness toward evil spirits has reached a ceiling.

Thanks to this, as Gaunt’s confessions continued, his hatred for humans even began to fade.

If the two people hadn’t arrived at that moment, the fairies who couldn’t escape would have become vampire lunch boxes, and the fairies who escaped would have reported that it was the work of humans. Then, they couldn’t hold it in any longer and an explosion would have broken out, and the chaos everywhere would have made it easier for vampires to operate secretly. The longer it was discovered, the more damage would snowball, and the vampires would become stronger… … .

This was all a plan hatched by the Demon Cult, manipulating Gaunt.

It is such a terrible vision of the future that the actions of humans who have been whining about land greed have come to seem more attractive.

Of course, it was just an illusion, so it was obvious that the problem was not fundamentally solved.

“Fortunately, we were able to prevent it this time, but there’s no guarantee that something similar won’t happen again in the future.”

Lilia looked at the corpse of Gaunt, who had vomited out everything he knew, and then quickly looked away.

“Eradicating the Demon Cult is the top priority, but that’s not something we can do right away… … .”

“Instead, if humans and fairies don’t fight at all, they won’t be able to use the Yaryo itself.”

Galen looked back at Shamita as he spoke.

“Shamita, you need time to deal with this anyway, right?”

“Yes. Thanks to you guys, there was little damage, but this isn’t something we can just ignore.”

“Then let’s part ways here. We also need time to take care of business. If you want to meet again… you can go to any city’s church and send a message to Lilia.”

“Okay, let’s do that. You too. I’ll tell you separately, so stop by any village and tell them, and they’ll get back to me.”

“All right.”

After making a promise to meet Shamita again, Galen and Lilia flew into the sky, escorted by the other fairies.

Unica, who had a little more strength left than Galen, created a wind spirit and burned them.

There’s no need to go as fast as you came, just at a leisurely pace.

“It’s only morning and I already feel exhausted.”

“Have you had a lot of work to do since morning?”

“I need to go and get some rest. Lilia, you should rest, and you should rest from exercising… … .”

“Yes! … No, you shouldn’t try to take a break secretly!”

“Ugh.”

“Rather, since you took it easy when you had Shamita, you should try hard again, right?”

“I should have not broken up with you.”

Before we knew it, we were having a comfortable conversation like usual.

Even the jewel-level demons were just ingredients to make the morning a little more special for the two of them.