Chapter 17 - Prologue : Part 16

The place back at the magic school was more precisely in the classroom. There was one yellow-haired female student sitting by the window. The person was looking at the window behind which was Death Forest. Inside her chest, it felt like it was trembling even more as she looked at the window. After that, she began to say.

"Why does my heartbeat feel so fast when I see this forest?" said that person.

Then suddenly someone called out to her from outside the classroom. It was a male student with white hair and black eyes. That person said

"What are you staring at, Mylaine? The next class will start soon," said the white-haired boy.

Then next to the white-haired boy was a red-haired girl. She was teasing the white-haired man. She said

"Why are you bothering to take care of Cheilos? If class starts soon, why don't you just go by yourself? Don't you like Mylaine?" said the red-haired woman.

Then Cheilos, who was the identity of the white-haired man, responded to the red-haired woman's joke. Cheilos said

"What the hell are you saying Vanessa, how could that happen, right?" said Cheilos.

Then Mylaine as the identity of the yellow-haired woman approached Cheilos and Vanessa by saying

"Does that mean I won't be your wife in the future, Cheilos? Even though you're the one who said it, my heart hurts a little," Mylaine said.

Then Cheilos blushed after hearing Mylaine's words and Vanessa laughed when Mylaine said that to tease Cheilos and also Vanaessa laughed because she managed to see Cheilos' reaction. After that, Mylaine continued her words by saying

"Let's go to class, everyone," said Mylaine.

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The place has returned to a village in Death Forest. Gerard was holding an iron mace coated with magma and was about to attack me. Right now my situation is very bad, especially without a wand all the magic I cast will be weakened due to my lack of imagination. I had to quickly find the wand that I got in the chest that I found in the lake.

Gerard was a little confused, because what I'm doing is the same as looking dead. Gerard spoke in his mind, Gerard said

(This is going to be dangerous. I must control my attack as weakly as possible. If I don't control my attack as weakly as possible, I can kill him later. If I kill him, Lord Vahn will be angry. Lord Vahn needs this stone for his resurrection. I must try) Gerard thought in his heart

"What you just said was a bluff, The Second Fragment? We haven't done anything in a while" Gerard said.

(He underestimated me!! I need to use 'Speed of thought' immediately)

I started by looking around the room hoping to find my wand in this room and found it under the table, it seems that my wand fell because of Gerard's iron mace. I intended to pick it up, but the wand was next to Gerard, it would be difficult to pick it up without being caught by Gerard. So I started the diversion with the earth spell ጥይት እምኒ ምዃኑ'ዩ። (Stone Bullets). I started stringing the magic letters in my head. Because this spell was a bit long I had a hard time stringing it together too.

(I had to quickly string the letters in my head and shoot them straight at Gerard)

Time suddenly stopped when I started to concentrate heavily on stringing the magic letters that I was going to cast for my spell, more precisely time didn't stop but my concentration level beat time so that I saw time as if it stopped. This magic is magic with earth attributes. The magic letters are (ጥ) (ይ) (ት) (እ) (ም) (ኒ) (ም) (ዃ) (ኑ) (') (ዩ) (።). The target is Gerard. This magic will shoot rocks at Gerard. That seems to be enough to create a diversion

Finally I had finished stringing the magic letters and time was running again. I began to cast the spell, I pointed my hand towards Gerard and from my hand came out a glowing circle. From the glowing circle issued magic letters. I started to cast the spell by saying

"ጥይት እምኒ ምዃኑ'ዩ። (Stone Bullets)" I said.

After I cast the spell, suddenly out of the circle were quite large stones and shot them at Gerard, Gerard reflexively avoided the rather large stones that I shot, and I shot Gerard while walking little by little towards the magic wand that I found in the chest in the school lake. When the stones I shot were gone, Gerard said

"Is this the only ability you're proud of, The Second Fragment?" said Gerard.

I started to pick up my wand when he said that. Gerard was surprised by what I did. Gerard began to speak in his heart. In his heart Gerard said

(That's quite surprising, he's still thinking clearly to take his wand by distracting me. What a great decision. I thought that since I killed his family, he would go crazy like he did in this mansion) said Gerard in his heart who was praising Oz's decision making speed.

After I picked up my wand with my left hand. I managed to avert his eyes, Gerard said

"So what else? How are you different from a wand? Even if you are The Second Fragment, that doesn't mean you can beat me" Gerard said.

"You'll know when you see it" I said.

Gerard immediately approached me and attacked me with the iron mace coated with magma, I reflexively dodged backwards, but Gerard still attacked me with his mace quickly. The longer he attacked me, the faster his attacks became. I was overwhelmed by Gerard's attacks. I had to quickly find the little gaps and pauses that Gerard let out.

(I had to use 'Speed of thought' again like when I used the magic letters earlier)

When I used 'Speed of thought' again, the movement that Gerard released did not stop but slowed down 3 times its speed and the longer he attacked me, the faster Gerard's attack in this stopped time. I started to look for the opening that Gerard released. Then I saw that when Gerard attacked he would shrug his shoulders slightly and then start attacking me with his iron mace. I immediately attacked Gerard in that gap by hitting him in the chest with the Jab but Gerard immediately retreated backwards so that he was not hit by my attack. After he dodged backwards because of my attack, Gerard wanted to ask why I didn't use magic but I cut off his words. I said

"You'll regret not using magic, right? Is that what you want to say, huh? Don't play games, bring out the truth. I didn't realize Vahn's servant was this weak. Is Vahn really not that strong?" I said.

Gerard got a little angry when I insulted Vahn, so he said

"If that's what you want, I'll give you half of what I've got!" said Gerard.

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