It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 208

Chapter 208: Magic breaker & Rubido mahig (2)

‘Don’t tell me it’s Rubido mahig…… No, that’s impossible.’

But that was an absolute impossibility.

Teclyn immediately erased the useless thought from her mind and cast another spell.

“Where are you trying to trick me! Fudla! me leuye! d’sed ilusion! (Lightning! Awaken me from this illusion!)”

Crackle!

Lightning that awakens illusions slightly shocked all directions, including Teclyn.

It was a pretty rough method that caused a little damage to the caster, but there was no better magic than this to break illusions.

Fizzle.

Teclyn looked a little unsightly, probably because she electrocuted herself.

But then she grinned as she looked at Kyung-joon.

” ……The tricks are over now, you ghost b@stard.”

Her eyes were like 『I’ve already figured out all your tricks!』

Kyung-joon just shrugged his shoulders without saying a word.

“Gles! alete sa fied! (Ice! Tie that b@stard’s feet!)”

Crash!

Ice advanced across the floor.

“Bluyal! me qiase! (Fog! Make my scent disappear!)”

Swoosh.

Fog covered the surroundings, obscuring the view.

“fiu! dombe anqol plus fua! (Fire! Give him a baptism of fire once again!)”

Whoosh!

Just like that, for a while, all sorts of spell magic rushed towards Kyung-joon.

“Ugh. All sorts of attributes are coming out.”

Kyung-joon had a slightly troubled expression on his face, but he quickly recalled the memories he had studied.

“The ice attribute is actually not much different from the fire attribute.”

Crackle!

The ice that was advancing towards Kyung-joon disappeared as if dry ice was evaporating.

“Fog is a water attribute…… I guess I can use the adiabatic compression formula for now.”

Whoosh!

The fog gathered in every place and seemed to be sucked into another dimension.

“Let’s try fire a little differently than before? Not one object at a time, but in the way of a field…… “

Fizzle!

The fireballs flying from all directions were blocked by a transparent wall, and by the time they passed beyond it, all the flames had already disappeared.

“What, what?! That, that’s impossible! Tsk……!”

Whoosh! Crackle! Fizzle!

Teclyn kept firing magic despite the unbelievable sight.

But after a while.

“Huff…… Huff……”

Teclyn, exhausted from her own efforts, eventually gave up casting any more spells.

But Kyung-joon had no intention of ending it there.

“The basics are in Elvish, and on top of that, I’m mixing in the way of putting mana from the fairy language…… “

Kyung-joon wasn’t just listening to Teclyn’s spell casting sounds without thinking.

Kyung-joon, who had learned various world languages from Ceram.

He already knew Elvish and was good at speaking fairy language.

For him, it was nothing to use the magic of 『Magic breaker』 as a spell like Teclyn.

“Rubīdho mahigh (RUBĪDHO MAHIGH).”

His spell, which read 『Magic breaker』 in ancient Elvish, echoed throughout the observation camp.

[You have demonstrated the research of newly created academics through actual experiments.]

[Research Progress (Mana Mechanics) increases significantly.]

▶Research Progress (Mana Mechanics): 11.7%→27.4%

[Research Progress (mana genetics) increases significantly.]

▶Research Progress (mana genetics): 5.2%→21.1%

[Joint research skill 『Magic breaker』 of Mana Mechanics and mana genetics has been created.]

▶Proficiency: 9.8%

[It does not yet manifest as a skill due to lack of proficiency.]

[More research and data are needed for it to manifest as a proper skill.]

“Rubīdho mahigh……? Don’t, don’t tell me……”

Teclyn had heard a similar name before.

As soon as she realized that, she could feel it.

That an unknown energy of mana was surrounding her.

She checks to see if it’s really ‘that’ that she’s thinking of.

“Fiu, dombe anq…… (Fire, again……)”

Fizzle.

As soon as she tried to cast a spell by imbuing her hand’s mana with the fire attribute, it was canceled and absorbed by the human man over there.

“Bluyal…… (Fog……)”

Whoosh.

The fog also did not form and was absorbed by the initial mana.

And ice as well.

“Gle…… (Ice……)”

Crackle.

It was the same.

All the spells she had cast were now being forcibly returned and absorbed as mana.

“How, how, how……”

Teclyn’s eyes widened.

A new emotion that instantly engulfed the immense fear and tension from earlier.

It was something beyond mere surprise.

“You reversed magic that had already been activated……? That, that’s impossible……”

A stunned Teclyn muttered in disbelief, her fist still clenched.

There are cases where magic is neutralized by some kind of special terrain or installation.

But that’s ‘invalidating the activation of magic,’ not ‘invalidating magic that has already been activated,’ like just now.

Even beastkin, who can’t use magic at all, can invalidate the activation of magic, which is very simple.

You just have to punch the caster in the face while they’re chanting.

Of course, wizards use a slightly more sophisticated method of interfering with mana, rather than such a brute force method.

For example, to bring up a few actual published papers……

『Cancellation of Wind Magic Using the Image of a Windless Zone』

『Strategies for Elemental Wizards Through Environmental Magic – Taking Lava Zones as an Example -』

『Mana Freezing Phenomenon and Spell Delay and Blockade Using Its Catalyst』

There are things like that, and I read a few papers myself when I was learning basic magic theory in my freshman year.

However.

As if turning back time.

Returning 『activated magic to before it was activated』 is something I’ve never read about in any paper.

‘No…… There’s only one way, one possible way……’

When I was a freshman, when I was very interested in various magics, I heard from the professor.

There are many ways to neutralize magic, but perhaps the most powerful of them all is this.

A hypothetical technique that neutralizes any attribute, any magic, by turning back time.

In the sense that it ‘eventually breaks all magic,’ it is now called this in modern Elvish among scholars.

It’s called 『Rubido mahig』.

‘……That’s time magic. It’s beyond even space magic……’

『Time magic』 that only existed in legends, and now no one knows its principles or actually uses it.

This is a realm that even Fairy King, the sole user of 『space magic』, has not reached.

Fairy King’s limit is space magic; time magic is only passed down through myths and legends.

‘That human man is using something that even Fairy King can’t? That’s absurd……!!’

Teclyn couldn’t believe it.

The human man in front of her was a legendary, mythical being that surpassed even Fairy King!

In the first place, it was impossible for a human who was neither a fairy nor an elf to have done that, and it was also incomprehensible that such a being was here at the Fael University festival, frivolously toying with other students.

So.

Teclyn had no choice but to ask.

“Who in the world…… who are you……”

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

“Who in the world…… who are you……”

After being surprised over and over again, Teclyn asked Kyung-joon, as if her senses were numb.

Kyung-joon let go of his clenched fist and gave a light smile.

“Are you calming down now? You seem very surprised.”

Kyung-joon, who judged that he had no intention of attacking any further.

He boldly turned his back on Teclyn and looked around the observation camp.

Teclyn felt like he was ignoring her question.

“Answer me! Who are you in the world……! And suddenly appearing out of nowhere like that…… Rubido mahig! That was Rubido mahig just now, right?!”

Teclyn shouted loudly in a voice mixed with hostility and admiration, asking more specifically.

“Rubido mahig?”

Kyung-joon tilted his head at the unfamiliar word.

Of course, he didn’t turn his head, and continued to touch this and that equipment inside the camp.

Seeing that, Teclyn answered in a louder voice, as if to urge him on.

“That’s how you neutralized the magic just now! Like using time magic, you turned it back to before the magic was activated!”

“Aha, that? I named it Magic Breaker.”

Magic Breaker, the process Kyung-joon had executed through Teemo.

It seemed that what Teclyn was referring to as Rubido mahig was that.

“Yes, that! What I’m saying is that it breaks magic, so it’s the same thing! How did you do that?”

Teclyn, at Kyung-joon’s words of Magic Breaker, exclaimed, ‘That’s it!’ and was displaying the intellectual curiosity of a magic university student.

Even though it was the Scroll Department, Rubido mahig was the dream time magic that was always mentioned in the pure magic class for all first-year students.

But regardless.

Unlike Teclyn, who was very excited after witnessing the magic that only existed in her imagination, Kyung-joon continued to look around as if it was nothing special.

“Ah, found it. This is it.”

After searching here and there, Kyung-joon finally found what he was looking for.

It was the only loudspeaker scroll left due to lack of supplies.

“A trick? Huh? Even with Mana Plunder, it’s impossible to revert already activated magic back into mana…… Hey, hey?! What are you trying to do……!”

Teclyn was startled to see Kyung-joon tampering with the observation camp equipment.

He was fiddling with not only the loudspeaker scroll but also the loudspeaker magic tool that was basically given to each camp.

No, he wasn’t just fiddling with it, he was concentrating mana in his hand as if he was trying to do something.

Kyung-joon glanced at Teclyn, who was surprised, and said,

“Right now, that student’s voice is broadcasting something like a loudspeaker broadcast.”

Outside the camp, it was still noisy with the Those Who Tear Paper’s student voice broadcast.

Originally, Scrollpia was going to counter-broadcast with Voice of the Scroll, but failed due to Kyung-joon’s sudden intrusion.

“Shouldn’t Scrollpia counterattack?”

So Kyung-joon, as the provider of the problem, was going to take responsibility and broadcast it instead.

Woooong!

As soon as Kyung-joon said that, he started to concentrate his mana on the scroll.

“W, Wait a minute! I appreciate the thought, but that’s originally my job!”

Teclyn quickly came to her senses and tried to stop him as the head of the observation camp.

However, she wasn’t in a hurry to stop him.

Because there was a reason why she was going to broadcast but couldn’t.

“In the first place, we’re short on loudspeaker scrolls right now, so even with that one, it won’t be loud enough to……”

That’s when it happened.

“Gasp……! Y, You, you right now…..!”

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