The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 315



316 – The Last Trial

After hearing the answer he wanted, Roel immediately left the club room. After drinking all the cooled tea left in the cup, I cleaned up the empty tea cup.

From now on, Roel will be on guard and watch over me to see if I do anything dangerous. As Ross the Longing said, you cannot win in a fight against Roel. Because Ross’s character setting was like that.

Of course, the promise I made with Roel was a lie to avoid the situation. While showing Roel the normal and enjoyable academy life he wants for me, I plan to create my own force to save the world.

Roel’s warning actually gave me a pleasant sense of tension. He had originally planned to finish dinner and take a good rest today, but he changed his lazy thoughts.

For the remaining day, I decided to tackle the second trial, which I had been putting off due to my busy schedule.

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Obtaining the Spear of Shadow was an excellent choice. Even without using intangible breathing, I was able to easily overcome the second trial by using space magic at the right time and using the characteristics of the Spear of Shadow.

As I expected, rather than the Spear of Destruction, which focuses its destructive power on a single blow, the Spear of Shadow, which can change its appearance into various forms against many people, was a more suitable weapon for the second trial, which had the characteristic of enemies coming from all directions.

After the second ordeal, the wall collapsed and a new door appeared. I was glad to see this phenomenon after overcoming my first ordeal in half a year. It will definitely be the door through which you can take on the final ordeal.

Rakar, who reached the final ordeal before me, only smiled happily and asked me to experience it for myself when I asked what the content of the ordeal was. If I had to guess from Lakar’s reaction, I thought that a cliché enemy would appear.

Strength and skill. Even the thoughts and fighting methods are the same, so the dark me in my heart cannot win in a fight! Same common cliché. I opened the door with such anticipation.

As I walked past the door, the familiar Transcendence Academy training grounds unfolded before my eyes.

As I entered the training ground, I noticed a young man standing on the other side holding a cane, as if he had been waiting.

My prediction was wrong. He is a completely different person, starting with his hair color. He even looked like a wizard holding a staff.

But for some reason, seeing a face for the first time did not feel unfamiliar. Should I say that the facial features are familiar? It wasn’t a look that was commonly seen. Rather, he had an impressive appearance that belonged to the handsome category.

“Hello, you had a hard time getting here.”

That bright-voiced greeting somehow sounds like the principal of Transcendence Academy. It was heard overlapping with Nelson’s voice.

“No way, young Nelson… ?”

“Hehe.”

At my muttering, the other person waved his cane with a mischievous smile.

I felt a slight vibration under my feet and immediately pulled my body back. Then a stone with a sharp end rose up from the floor of the training ground where I was standing.

“Correct answer! Then let’s start class. student.”

With those words, young Nelson seemed to not want to give me a chance to rest, so he began to use magic indiscriminately to put pressure on me. I had created a spear of shadow in advance just in case, and urgently blocked the incoming magic.

Although it was a magic that was close to being wild, the types of magic Nelson used were very diverse. When a dimensional passage was created to reflect the destructive magic fired by Nelson, Nelson, who skillfully deflected the reflected magic with defensive magic, swung his staff and immediately destroyed the spatial coordinates around him.

“Okay, great trick!”

When the spatial coordinates disappeared and the dimensional passage collapsed, I couldn’t help but be greatly embarrassed. Although the response was quick, it was the first time that spatial magic had been blocked, except when dealing with the church.

While I was momentarily confused, Nelson literally ran towards me and fired magic with the tip of his staff as if to keep me in check.

The wizard’s action of closing the distance towards the spearman is close to suicide. The basic fighting style of a wizard is to use magic from afar to take advantage.

However, that common sense did not seem to apply to Nelson in front of him. As they narrowed the distance and fired magic every second, I had no choice but to focus on defense.

I looked for an opportunity to face Nelson, who had finally entered the range of the spear’s attack, and struck at high speed, but Nelson created an opaque glove with magic on the hand that was not holding the staff and pushed the back of the spear under the blade with the back of his hand, deflecting the spear’s trajectory and striking his upper body. I tilted it and dug inside.

-Whoa!

He momentarily used his intangible breath to pull his body back, but was hit in the chest by Nelson’s fist and his body was thrown backwards. Fortunately, I was attacked while I was trying to pull myself back, so I didn’t take any major damage and was able to immediately recover from my collapsed posture.

However, it was unexpected that Nelson, a wizard, was able to catch up with my speed using intangible breathing. I had no idea that Nelson, who had the image of a mysterious school principal who just took care of his beard and worked hard, would engage in such an aggressive fight.

It seemed to be a fighting method used by Nelson during his prime. As I adjusted my spear, I mentally analyzed Nelson’s fighting style that I had just seen.

As if not giving me time to think, Nelson fired his magic and at the same time ran towards me again to close the distance.

After organizing my thoughts, I took out a bag of seeds from the storage room and scattered the seeds around. The beanstalk seed reacted to the rapid growth magic and grew huge in an instant.

Unlike the second trial, which had a low ceiling, the academy training area was outside and had no ceiling. That means the beanstalk can grow up to the height of the clouds.

The beanstalk, thicker than a person, served as a cover to block magic. I tried to recognize the spatial coordinates by hiding behind him, but as if I had prepared in advance, there were no recognizable spatial coordinates around Nelson.

With plan A blocked, I immediately changed my plan to using the spear of shadow and throwing a javelin. Nelson, who was running at breakneck speed, swung his staff at the shadow spear flying towards him, turning it into shapeless smoke, and then used magic towards me.

The beanstalk that was hit by Nelson’s magic shook, and roots suddenly came out from the bottom and attacked me. I asked in bewilderment as I ducked behind another beanstalk.

“How much magic can you use?”

“haha! Of course, the students are not even close to my toes, and the famous professors at the academy are not enough for me. “I am the famous Captain Nelson.”

I had forgotten that Nelson had such a childish nickname. Nelson swung his cane with a flick of his wrist.

Perhaps because I moved my wrist excessively and made a mistake in aiming, the magic materialized at the tip of Nelson’s wand passed by me even if I did not dodge it.

I was planning to not miss that opportunity and implement the spear of shadow again and throw a javelin… Suddenly, the magic that had been flying in a straight line curved towards me and pierced my thigh.

It was my first time experiencing the magic of changing orbit while flying. Nelson spoke to me in a playful voice as I was taken aback.

“Magic must be used flexibly. “If you always shoot in a straight line, wouldn’t it be easy for anyone to block it?”

With those words, as if from now on it was real, the magic fired by Nelson drew a parabola or curved and aimed at me who was behind the beanstalk.

He was the most difficult opponent among the wizards he had faced so far. He couldn’t even concentrate on defending against magic. Among the magic Nelson used, there was often a mix of magic used by young students for pranks, rather than offensive magic.

Firework magic that disappears with a bright light like a flashbang before it touches, or something that flies in the shape of an axe and suddenly explodes into a water balloon. Unpredictable attacks continued, reducing concentration.

What’s even more concerning is that the prank-like magic wasn’t just a tease, but was effective in buying time for Nelson to approach.

Nelson had no hesitation in approaching the spearman. I could feel the confidence in his steps. But I also had no intention of just foolishly defending myself.

First, we had to change the situation that Nelson was leading as intended.

Taking advantage of his slowed movements due to his injured thigh, Nelson quickly approached him using magic. Seeing that, I made the beanstalk seed grow rapidly and flew high into the sky, holding on to the frighteningly growing beanstalk.

If Nelson wanted to fight in close combat, I thought I could use my javelin to do it from the air, where he couldn’t get close. By re-implementing the Shadow Spear, I was able to throw endless javelins.

“High places are dangerous for students.”

After saying that, Nelson turned his body and scratched the ground in a circular motion with his cane. A transparent film like water droplets appeared around Nelson, then suddenly grew in size and reached me, who was watching from the beanstalk.

I was nervous about seeing magic for the first time, but there was no change in my body. The transparent membrane, like a water droplet, just passed through my body. The curtain even passed through the tall beanstalk. If you look at this from the outside, it will look like you are trapped in a water droplet… For a moment, my skin felt numb.

Some instinct-like sensation made goosebumps appear on my back. This wasn’t just a drop of water. This is familiar to me too-

“So, stay still. “This body will go.”

Nelson crossed his arms in a circle. Then he felt as if the world had turned upside down. Instead of being placed in a water droplet, the entire training area was placed inside Nelson’s specialty, a snow globe.

Like a snow globe flipped over, gravity changed. Nelson, who had been looking up at me, was now falling towards me.

When I finished preparing to throw the spear at Nelson, who was approaching me at high speed, Nelson crossed his arms and suddenly changed gravity again. As I was preparing to throw the spear as gravity returned to normal, my body tilted and I began to fall towards the ground.

While I was falling, Nelson created a scaffolding by inserting an ice spear into a nearby beanstalk and looked up at me as I fell and created a magic spell. The water swirled violently in the shape of a huge disk.

-with a splash!

Although the power was reduced due to the current, the trajectory of the spear did not change. As I broke through the water barrier, I focused all my strength on the tip of my spear at the sight of Nelson.

Nelson, who was aiming at me with his right hand holding a cane, suddenly let go of the cane. With increased acceleration, I focused only on the attack. A spear of shadow pierced Nelson’s right hand and exited through his shoulder.

Then I realized that Nelson was smiling. Nelson intentionally allowed my attack. By inserting his pierced right arm rather deeply, I was no longer able to act in the air.

Nelson grabbed the cane he had lost with his free left hand and placed it against my chest with a mischievous smile.

“Well, that’s it for today’s class.”

My body was thrown out of the ordeal room with a burning feeling in my heart.