Training-Addicted Mage In A Progression Fantasy-Chapter 22: Regular Exchange Festival (4)

Arpina still attended until the third day, when the Arcane Mages began sparring.No matter how much she tried not to expect anything, Arpina was still one of Widia’s high-level mages.

The highlight of the Exchange Festival could undoubtedly be seen as the Arcane Mages’ sparring.

Because all magic was exchanged with short incantations or activation words, the pace itself was different, and since memorization was not necessary, the heat of the sparring did not easily subside even if it lasted for a long time.

This was also the reason for separating the sparring between Apprentice Mages and Arcane Mages.

The prevailing opinion was that Apprentice Mages would find it difficult to defeat an Arcane Mage no matter what tricks they tried.

Because the mage’s consciousness itself, which affects mana, changes qualitatively when entering the Arcane level, the time it takes to manifest magic becomes overwhelmingly shorter.

If they give up the urge to rush and calmly respond until the Apprentice Mage’s memorized magic runs out, even the thread-like hope that the Apprentice Mage could win after that disappears.

And the most important existence of ‘Arcane Magic’.Powerful magic that Arcane Mages can use from the moment they reach the Arcane realm.

And being an Arcane Mage was about not only wielding it but also honing it, little by little.

“Bloom!”

Just then, a woman with pink hair shouted from one side of the arena.This was her Arcane Magic, Joyous Falling Flowers.

Flowers bloomed densely around the opponent’s surroundings, and then the petals began to flutter.Each petal became as sharp as a blade and swept over the opponent.When the opponent failed to respond properly to the storm-like momentum, a mage standing nearby stretched out his hand.

Without any incantation, thousands of petals stopped in an instant.

“Roselin wins! With this, we conclude the sparring with the victory of the Protal School.”

The pink-haired woman bowed politely and left the arena.

Arpina also got up after that match.It was because the mage who lost to Roselin was a student from Widia.

She spoke to the female mage sitting next to her.

“Can we talk?”“What’s the matter?”“About Teneron that you mentioned before. I’d like to hear more details.”

Although she had already asked Berford, who would attend the conference, to inquire about Teneron, she also intended to collect information separately.

“Oh... If you want, it’s not difficult for me to tell you.”

The woman smiled softly and stood up, following her.

“If you want more accurate information, you can come to our city and ask directly.”

The woman said remnants of the Black Magic Tower were detained in the city.

“I thought you would prefer to address them personally...”“Hmm...”

As Arpina pondered, the woman spoke again.

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“It would be good for disciples to interact too. My disciple was very curious about yours. They could also broaden their horizons by observing magic from other schools.”

Arpina nodded, thinking of Ria who hardly interacted with others and stayed cooped up in the Training Room.

***

“Swell.”

As Leon uttered the activation word for the magic he had memorized, the wooden sword floating in midair instantly grew enormous.It was about three times Leon’s size.

This was the Basic Magic of the Moonlight Scattering Sword.

When he first encountered this magic, there were two problems with it.

One was that half of the proper Spell Formula was erased.

And it demanded overwhelming talent and had a complexly twisted Spell Formula.

It was a condition where if carelessly touched, there was a risk of the magic power distorting in an instant and damaging the Core.

However, after Leon became a Full-Attribute Body, these restrictions were somewhat weakened.Of course, he thought the restrictions were weakened only for Basic Magic. He didn’t even think about touching the high-level magic, which could be considered the essence of this magic.

No matter how twisted and half-erased the Spell Formula was, Basic Magic is still Basic Magic.Unlike high-level magic, there was a limit to its complexity.Leon had the talent to fill in the missing Spell Formula through inference.There were also magics to reference in the Magic Orb.

The reason he hadn’t touched it until now was that there was no need to take unnecessary risks.

Naturally, he started to seriously attempt Spell Formula calculations after obtaining the wooden sword that Kito claimed was a Magic Sword.

He thought it could be used quite effectively along with the wooden sword’s abilities.

Leon began to learn magic in earnest, consuming Magic Orb time.

He attended individual disciple sparring sessions discreetly, but after finding out that Robert didn’t pay much attention, he didn’t attend other sparring sessions and buried himself in the Magic Orb.

The 1-star level Magic of the Moon Scattering Sword was quite basic.

This was all he could learn as an Apprentice Mage, and there were five types of magic in total.

The first was Swell, which Leon just used.It was magic that made the sword enormously large.

The second was Pierce.It was a simple magic that quickly launched the sword to stab the opponent.It was so simple that it could be thought of as just being faster than shooting with basic Psychokinesis without any problem.

Next were Blade, which simply cut, Fission, which increased the number of swords, and Luna, which infused mysterious magic power into the sword.

Leon had learned Pierce and Swell so far.He hadn’t learned Blade yet due to lack of time, and the other two had some unique system that even Leon couldn’t easily infer the Spell Formula.

The five magics were not particularly linked and were used separately.

Maybe I can only link them when they’re all at the Arcane grade.

It seemed that Luna, which infused mysterious magic power, was the core of the Basic Magic.

Leon canceled the magic and retrieved the sword again.

Since it’s magic where I filled in the rest of the Spell Formula, the magic power consumption is certainly different.

Although Leon had learned Pierce and Swell, because he had inferred and filled in the blank parts of the Spell Formula, there were differences from the original magic.It was certain, seeing that the magic power consumption was not ordinary even though it was Basic Magic.

It consumed magic power as much as he put in.It grew larger and faster as he put in more.

Is this magic really manageable for an ordinary mage?

It was certain that Leon had touched something wrong.

Maybe I should be satisfied with being lucky enough to not receive any backlash.

Leon, who put the wooden sword into subspace, came out of the Magic Orb.

He thought of the Arcane Mages’ sparring that would be going on now.

Although he was curious about their sparring, that wasn’t the reason Leon stopped training.

The most popular sparring at the Exchange Festival.In other words, it meant that people flocked to watch the sparring.

There was no better time than this to secretly sell the items Leon possessed.

Leon, who came out of the Magic Orb, left the lodging and once again looked for a secluded place.It was to change clothes.He couldn’t change clothes inside the building and come out.

As he entered a remote alley to grasp the Magic Orb, Leon suddenly paused.

A chilling intuition ran down the back of Leon’s neck.

Scanning Magic!

Leon felt the flow of magic power scanning his entire body.

He swallowed hard.

He had thoroughly looked around before entering, but using Scanning Magic in a secluded place without being noticed meant something.

Since when have they been following me?

Leon, with his nerves on edge, pulled out a bunch of scrolls from subspace.

E-Grade Blink, Triple Fireball, Flame, Shield.D-Grade Water Prison.B-Grade Emergency Designated Teleport as a last resort for unforeseen situations.

“Infusion.”

As he quietly muttered the activation word for the Mana Infusion Technique he had memorized, the magic power rippled and something rushed towards Leon.

Sensing the ominous magical energy, Leon was startled.

Leon immediately grasped the shield token he was carrying.

“Defensio!”

A shield instantly formed around Leon’s body, but Leon didn’t stop and continuously infused magic power into the shield scrolls.By the time four shields were layered around Leon, a powerful impact was already hitting the token’s shield.

Bang- Bang- Bang-

The shields shatter as soon as the magic touches them.

The token Leon was holding in his hand couldn’t withstand even one magic attack and broke.After that, the shields created through scrolls also shattered one after another.

Seeing the momentum of something black piercing through the shields, Leon instinctively leaped back.

Soon, the magic that had pierced through all the shields struck where Leon had originally been.

Bang-

With a dull sound, the magic that shattered the ground didn’t disappear but remained in place.

Looking at the black, mucus-like substance squirming together, Leon felt strangely nauseous.

“Hm?”

Along with a voice filled with doubt, a human figure rose from the shadows.

As the red-haired man’s entire body quickly emerged above ground, Leon’s sense of crisis peaked.He instinctively felt it.

Arcane Grade Black Magic user......

Although Leon had come thoroughly prepared with the thought of dealing with an Arcane Grade Mage, he couldn’t help but feel nervous when actually facing one.

The red-haired man briefly glanced at the token that had shattered into several pieces on the ground.

“......So it was you who interfered with our plans after all? I wasn’t sure because you looked like an ordinary person.”“...”

Leon was at a loss for words.Does that mean he attacked without even being certain who it was?There was no one crazier than this.

“It seems you have a way to hide your power. What’s your true realm? It’s certainly not Arcane, that’s for sure.”

Seeing the man’s grinning face, Leon pulled out the wooden sword without hesitation.

“Pierce!”

Having just been training, two out of four Memorize slots were sword magic.

The wooden sword, into which Leon had poured all the magic power he could, flew like an arrow towards the man.

Of course, Leon didn’t think this attack would work on the man.After all, wasn’t he an Arcane Mage?It was merely a means to buy time.

I need to take the initiative with the wooden sword, then summon the guardian golem. That won’t be enough, so I’ll throw all the E-Grade scrolls to buy time, and then the summoned creature from Arpina’s magic......

While Leon’s mind was racing, the man simply flicked his hand upward at the approaching wooden sword.

“Block.”

The squirming black mucus-like substance jumped up and formed a shield in front of the man.

The tip of the wooden sword touched the shield.

Thud-

“Ugh......”

The moment the wooden sword touched the shield, the man frowned.

In an instant, the black mucus-like substance scattered, and the wooden sword pierced straight through the man’s chest.

With his chest pierced, the man flew back and hit the wall.

Bang-

Then the man’s body slid down powerlessly and collapsed on the ground.

“...”

Leon, seeing this scene, blankly opened his mouth.

“...Huh?”

In his hand was a green flute he had just taken out from the subspace.