I Became an Outcast in the Academy

10. Struggling (10)

Leticia raised her magical power to use her magic again. At her fingertips, intangible magical power begins to transform into the light of absolute destruction.

But even for a short time, the magic power raised to use magic is disturbed, and the arrangement of the calculated formulas also becomes a mess.

In the end, the magic is automatically canceled. There is no way the magic can be cast properly even though the placement of magic power or the calculated formula is messed up.

“…..”

But Leticia couldn’t figure out why this was happening to her.

First of all, there was no possibility that she had made a mistake in her calculation process or that she had not been able to control her magic power during her magic casting process.

Even when she was much more inexperienced than she is now, when she was just beginning to learn magic, Leticia never once made any mistakes during the magic casting process.

But now, Leticia is in a situation where it is impossible to use her magic at all. Why?

Leticia unconsciously turned her head towards Lobelia next to her.

As expected, Lobelia also had a pale complexion, as if something was wrong.

“Hey, the spirit… The spirit cannot be summoned… No, you don’t answer my call… Why?”

Looking at Lobelia muttering in a voice that seemed half out of her mind, Leticia realized that her guess had been correct.

If for whatever reason it was impossible for only Leticia herself to use magic, it could have been dismissed as a mere coincidence.

But at the same time that Leticia suddenly became unable to use her magic, did Lobelia also suddenly become unable to summon her spirits?

It is impossible for these two absurd events to occur at the same time, even by coincidence.

There is only one thing that can rationally explain all of this.

“That’s right. Her brother’s ability to enhance the talents of others… In fact, it wasn’t an ability to enhance other people’s talents.”

I was mistaken from the beginning. To be more precise, she was so blinded by the ridiculous effect of enhancing someone else’s talent that she completely forgot what exactly that ability was and what limitations it would have in exchange for strengthening it.

Using great power comes with a price. Even though that was the very first truth that those who explore magic had to understand!

“Yes, it’s actually the ability to artificially enhance other people’s talents. “There’s no way strengthening someone’s talent like that would have no cost, right?”

As if to support Leticia’s guess, Sian nodded her head and spoke.

“Saying that my ability enhances someone else’s talent is the same as saying that I can interfere with someone else’s talent.”

“In other words, from the moment you were connected to me through my abilities, the abilities you possessed became mine alone.”

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The first time Xian felt a sense of discomfort was precisely when Cartesia’s abilities flowed into Xian.

When Xian used her return to life, Carte Sia’s talent increased significantly, and her various abilities flowed back to her Xian.

“But it’s all good, but why did this phenomenon happen?”

The fact that Xian’s own abilities increased significantly through his connection with Cartesia was completely unexpected, but at the same time, welcome.

The stronger Xian’s own power becomes, the easier it will be for him to achieve his goals in the future.

However, just because the results were all good, it did not mean that there were no questions about why this happened.

“Why does your power only flow to me when I am connected to you? “This didn’t happen when I used this ability on my sisters?”

If his abilities had flowed into Xian at the time he was connected to his sisters, he would have already become a superhuman who could use swords, magic, elemental magic, and divine power all at the same time.

He went beyond simply being noticed as an outstanding talent within Lutra, and became so powerful that it wouldn’t be surprising if he founded his own country.

“Well… I don’t know why. Actually, I only know as much about your abilities as you do… “

Even Cartesia, who knew more detailed information about Xi’an than I did, couldn’t even guess about the reason.

“But I think I know how your abilities apply to others. “In my opinion, your abilities are not meant to enhance other people’s talents.”

“Then?”

“Maybe it’s the ability to interfere with other people’s talents… “I think so.”

If it was simply an ability to strengthen someone’s talent, there was no way Cartesia’s ability would flow back to Xian like this.

As Xian and Cartesia were connected, the fact that her ability also affected Xian was the clearest evidence that Xian’s ability was not a ‘strengthening’ but an ability that could interfere with the talent itself.

“But that’s all good, but what good is there in interfering with other people’s talents?”

“We have to figure it out from now on. Being able to use your abilities in a different way than now means that you will be able to deal with a wider variety of situations than you do now.”

Afterwards, with the help of Cartesia and Arrieta, Sian conducted various experiments related to her abilities, and succeeded in producing some meaningful results.

‘If I can use life return to strengthen other people’s talents, I can also interfere with other people’s talents and abilities and prevent them from using those abilities!’

There was at most a slight difference between strengthening one’s power and disrupting one’s use of one’s power.

Once she realized she had that ability, things were simple from then on.

The simple principle is that after recognizing the ‘connection’ that exists between oneself and another person, one can go back through that connection and adjust the other person’s abilities at will.

And I was convinced.

If you use this ability… That his sisters would never be able to beat him.

****

“Actually, I didn’t want to use this ability that much.”

Xian chuckled and looked at Lobelia and Leticia, who had suddenly become incapacitated.

“If I beat you guys like this, it wouldn’t be refreshing at all. And I don’t think I won with my own strength.”

So, if possible, I wanted to use only my own skills to defeat those traitors from the front.

In fact, it almost came true until Leticia suddenly intervened.

But what can I do if things turn out this way? No matter how bad I feel, it would be a hundred times better than losing to those b*tches again.

“If I had that kind of ability… Why didn’t you use it when you almost got killed by Lobelia earlier? Did he really want to protect his pride by risking his own life?”

In response to Leticia’s question, Sian shrugs her shoulders.

“That’s right… In fact, even if I wanted to use it earlier, I couldn’t.”

“… What?”

“I tried to train this ability in my own way, and it turned out that I had to have at least two people in my immediate vicinity connected to me to be able to interfere with other people’s abilities. That’s why I couldn’t use it when fighting Lobelia.”

Leticia’s face distorted at Sian’s words.

So, doesn’t that mean that Leticia was confident of her own victory and approached her Cyan so closely that the conditions for activating her Cyan’s ability were met?

“There is nothing to be so upset about. Thanks to my abilities over the past six months, I was known as the best talent in Lutra and was able to gain all kinds of wealth and fame, right? “All I want to do is give you back what you have gained thanks to my abilities so far.”

Lobelia and Leticia’s faces turned pale as Cyan giggled and said those words.

You have to run away. As a result of their abilities being sealed, they ended up in a worse situation than ordinary people.

No matter how much of Xian’s stamina was depleted and even if he was injured all over his body, there was no reason why he couldn’t subdue two ordinary people!

“Where are you going to run away?”

Xian giggled and moved his fingers.

“Wow!”

“Ah!”

And the next moment, Lobelia and Leticia vomited blood from their mouths.

The abilities they possessed suddenly went out of control, causing internal injuries to their bodies.

“If you don’t meet the activation conditions at all, once it’s activated, you have no chance of winning. And it is even more impossible to run away from me.”

Xian smiled at Leticia and Lobelia, who were sprawled on the floor and writhing like insects.

“It is possible to utilize your abilities in this way other than artificially causing your abilities to run wild and cause internal injuries.”

When Sian snaps her fingers once again, a spirit imbued with black magic is summoned to Lobelia’s side.

Of course, although she was a spirit summoned by Lobelia’s power, she had no control over it, and all Lobelia could do was remain still.

“You didn’t want to become a warlock, right? “As she will become the crown princess in the future and will have to appear in front of others a lot, she cannot be corrupted by accepting dark magic.”

At that moment, Lobelia felt something of her flowing back from the spirit she had polluted.

A gloomy, dark energy that encourages corruption.

It was dark magic. Now, black magic was flowing into Lobelia’s body from her spirit!

“In that sense, I will make you a special warlock. “How about you, are you glad that you can become stronger than you are now?”

“I don’t like it, no, not like this! “I shouldn’t become a warlock!”

Lobelia was completely frightened by her Cyan’s words and spoke in a pleading tone toward her Cyan.

Then, Sian answered, slightly lifting the corner of her mouth as if she liked the sight of Lobelia like that.

“What should I do? “Is that my business?”

The next moment, the pure magic Lobelia contained within her body was dyed black by her regurgitated black magic.

“aaahhh!”

And Lobelia, sensing the change that had occurred in her body, let out a scream of despair.

Lobelia has degenerated into a true warlock.