chapter 12
12 – Team Formation (1)
Great.
The moment the lancing machine pierces your finger.
Student Rai immediately drew blood from his fingers.
What happened after that?
‘And…’
A cherry blossom tree made of blood, sculpted in the blink of an eye.
-Fast.
Instantaneous control and manipulation of mana.
If you look closely, there is no elaborate depiction, but domination and manipulation are done almost simultaneously.
And.
‘It’s pretty…’
A bloody cherry tree that shines brightly in the sunlight.
The scattering cherry blossoms reflected the sunlight, showing off their presence like jewels one by one.
“…”
I forgot that I was in the middle of class and stared blankly for a while before coming to my senses.
Large-
As soon as I let out a clear cough, the control of mana was lifted and the cherry tree returned to blood.
“Excellent. Rai student. It doesn’t disappoint.”
He nodded his head with a slightly bewildered expression at my words of praise.
‘Perfect.’
A talent for blood magic at that age.
And above all…
Lina thought of a brightly shining cherry blossom tree that still lingered in her eyes.
With that level, I can do it perfectly.
Her own heir place.
No. He could have become a better ‘blood artist’ than me.
I smile. He smiled and opened his mouth.
“Are you thinking of becoming my successor?”
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“Are you thinking of becoming my successor?”
Professor Lina’s explosive remarks.
“Huh.”
The eyes of the students who were looking this way widened all at once.
Who is Lina Ackerman?
A genius of the century who is said to have reached the pinnacle of blood magic at a young age.
Many people who admired her wanted to become her students, but Lina Ackerman’s answer was the same.
– Sorry. You don’t have what it takes to be my successor.
Many vampires who thought they were geniuses were judged unfit for her condition.
In her world, she flirts with her so as not to receive her disciples. It was about to come out.
Lina Ackerman like that. For first graders who are just learning the basics. It was her successor proposal.
But what was more unexpected was the answer the lucky man gave when he was offered the successor.
“Sorry.”
A voice of astonishment resounded in the lecture room.
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After leaving the classroom, I was thinking while having lunch with Neneto and Selina.
‘It’s definitely a good opportunity…’
Lina Ackerman is not as good as Adela, but she is definitely a high-level powerhouse.
At her age, you can tell just by looking at her academy professorship.
‘But I can’t.’
My constitutional problem. Due to the limitations of the mana control range, blood magic cannot be used in the end.
It may be able to join the ranks of the strong to some extent, but it is not enough in the battles to come.
‘I don’t have time.’
Besides, if I were to become her successor, I would first graduate from the academy and then start learning under her in earnest.
… Then it’s too late.
‘What. I can’t help it even if it’s a waste.’
“… An offer. Why did you refuse?”
Selina, who had been wiping her mouth with a napkin in the front seat, opened her mouth.
“… I just thought it was overrated.”
“Overrated?”
“That’s right. It’s still the first class, but as soon as I saw it, I was offered a successor. I don’t think you’re being too hasty.”
“Hmm…”
Selina looked at her suspiciously.
At that moment, Nenetto’s laughter broke the silence.
“Wahhahahahaha.”
“..What’s funny?”
“Well, there must have been a lot of people who wanted to become a teacher if it was Rai.”
“Because it’s not like that.”
Lee Ja-sik keeps saying misleading things..
“What. Whatever it was, I regretted it.”
.. Selina took a bite of her bread with an expression that didn’t look at all regretful.
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The first year vampire professor’s office.
– Knock!
The door opened with a loud noise. Soon after, Professor Rina came in.
“Cool Cool Cool! Ah, the smell of cigarettes…”
Cigarette smoke floating in the interior of the teacher’s room.
Professor Bergen, who had been sitting on a chair behind the screen and lighting a cigarette, appeared pulling back his chair.
“Uh. Is Lina here?”
“Professor Bergen. I would have asked you to go outside to smoke.”
“How are you? There are only two of us.”
“It’s a problem because there are two of us!”
Haa-
Professor Lina let out a sigh and opened her window and sat down in her chair.
Only the sound of organizing class materials resonated in the classroom.
“Come to think of it… how was your first class?”
Broken the silence, Professor Bergen asked a question.
“… There are a lot of students with high levels overall. Like Selina… And the Queen’s family members.”
“Ah, Seong Jin-ha. Sure, he’s blunt, but her skills are unmistakable. What was Selina famous for?”
“And…”
The glittering cherry blossom trees swayed in Professor Lina’s head.
“Rye.”
“…”
“Whatever? It looks like you deliberately left it out.”
“Anyway, you still have a bad personality.”
Professor Lina opened her mouth slightly pouting.
“…Perfect.”
“Perfect? What?”
“That child deserves to be my successor.”
Heir.
It was an unbelievable word that came out of Lina’s mouth, who hated that she had her students like that.
“I see… even blood magic…”
“From blood domination to manipulation, it was incredible speed. As if it stopped as soon as I let her blood out..”
“What. Since he has endured light magic up to level 5, of course he is not an ordinary guy.”
Professor Bergen opened her mouth after a while.
“But…”
“..But?”
“That guy is a shadow magician.”
..Berzen remembered the time of the ranking test.
She couldn’t help but keep her eyes on him when his turn came.
My opponent, Shin Jong-gil, is also a strong player among freshmen.
‘What kind of fighting style is this guy?’
As a teacher, you have to be fair to everyone, but you can’t help but have some expectations.
I shouted the start slogan of Dalian from a distance.
“Ready!”
Shin Jong-gil lowers his stance and prepares to rush.
On the other hand, Lai just stands still and stares at her.
… It doesn’t seem to use weapons in particular.
“..Start!”
It was then.
Shin Jong-gil lowered his body and ran out.
Cheap. Rai’s shadow fluctuates.
‘It’s shaded.’
Links with soft shadows like flowing water.
Like a seasoned veteran, he did not waver even when the enemy was running in front of him.
‘How are you going to deal with it…? At that speed, the first thing to do is to reduce the opponent’s speed by blowing a checker..’
But he didn’t take any action and just watched as if he were to come and see.
6M.. 4M..
And the fleeting moment when Shin Shin-gil entered the range of shadows.
– Huung!
The air shook.
– Boom.
A distance where not even a finger could fit.
Shin Jong-gil stopped moving.
Shadow food. Coercion.
A technique that stops the enemy’s movement by simultaneously releasing the mana of the shadows.
It’s an easy-to-use basic technique, but the opponent is running at such a high speed.
A way of using it that is close to a stunt that you wouldn’t have even tried if you didn’t have absolute confidence to use coercion at the right time.
I can only describe it as overwhelming confidence.
And the power of coercion he used didn’t just stop at stopping the enemy’s movements.
-Awesome!
The training spear broke and Shin Jong-gil’s model collapsed.
Even so, as if it wasn’t enough, the enemy’s in front of his eyes was cut down by the pressure.
-Kwaaang!!!
The floor of the training ground was cracked and shattered stones were scattered everywhere.
‘What is this…’
I swallowed without realizing it.
Only a small voice resounded in the silence of the gymnasium.
-.. I’m sorry.
What are you sorry about? What caused you to lose miserably? Or… Is it that you’ve failed to control your powers?
‘Oops. This is not the time!’
“Stop!!!!”
I jump up to the arena and look at Shin Jong-gil.
An eye that lost will and a leg that was bleeding from crushed bones.
“Medical squad!”
I urgently called the medical team.
..
..
..
What kind of training did he have since he was a child in order for the Shade-Sik to become that powerful under the sunlight?
Do you have your own special mana management formula? If that’s not the case…
Sup-
I took a deep breath of a cigarette.
‘..Can I teach you this?’
“Whoa… The teaching authority will fall to the bottom…”
“… What are you talking about? Rai students are unconditionally blood mages?”
“I don’t think so.”
… The eyes between the two teachers went back and forth.
“..Blood mage.”
“Shadowman.”
“Blood Mage!”
“Shadowman.”
“Blood law… Ahh. Jjom!”
A childish workshop that is hard to imagine for a grown adult.
It was possible because the two of them have been close friends since they played together since they were young.
“…Lina. What about the concept of honorifics?”
“…Hmm. Anyhow!”
Professor Lina opened her mouth as if asking for a favor with a slightly reddened face.
“Anyway, I’ve listed it as my successor, so don’t covet it.”
“…So he said he would be your successor?”
Professor Lina’s pupils are shaking uncontrollably.
… Silence continued in the teachers’ room.
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The next day. Professor Bergen has been making announcements since morning.
“From next week, the first integrated evaluation test for first graders will begin.”
Drreuk-
“The evaluation method is as follows.”
Tap, tap, tap.
-Team Formation Practical Evaluation
‘…Something has come.’
The first main story of the academy starting next week.
The group task of death begins.