The battle was fierce this time. Gerard approached me and attacked me with his mace. I tried to dodge, the longer he attacked me with his mace the faster Gerard's attacks became. I used 'Speed of thought' to find an opening for his attack. When I managed to find the opening, Gerard immediately dodged the attack I released quickly. Gerard was surprised that I didn't use magic to attack him, but only with martial arts.
I started to provoke Gerard and my provocation worked. I made him angry so that I could easily find Gerard's weakness. After I profiled him, he became serious and intended to bring out half of his abilities. I said.
"Let me see what that weak Vahn subordinate is capable of," I said.
He became even more annoyed when I said that, the veins on Gerard's face became visible. Gerard prepared his mace and as he prepared his mace, his mace became hotter to the point that I felt the heat of the mace as well. Gerard said
"Get ready, The Second Fragment!!!" said Gerard.
Gerard came straight to me and immediately turned the mace towards me. I used 'Speed of thought' again to find an opening for his attack and after a while, I finally found his weakness. It seemed that every time he exceeded the speed of time he would be as fast as light, his body became unable to bear the burden of the speed equivalent to light and eventually his body would disappear. It means that if I can dodge all his attacks, Gerard will slowly disappear and die because of the speed he expels but I don't want that kind of victory, because if I just use my brain as usual then I can't improve. I had to find a way to win other than that so that I could improve.
Every single attack Gerard threw out, none of them hit. Gerard who was attacking me so quickly was surprised by that. Gerard stopped his attack on purpose and I took the opportunity to jab him again. My jab hit him hard and Gerard backed away. Gerard said to himself
(I see. So that's it... I finally figured out why he easily dodged my attack) Gerard said to himself.
Then Gerard continued by saying
"You use acceleration magic for your body, huh? But what about the chant? How can you string together the letters of an acceleration magic spell that fast?" said Gerard.
"That's right I knew you would figure it out quickly. I can cast spells quickly because I can concentrate until the time I see stops" I said.
Then Gerard wondered in his heart.
(Speed of thought? He can do mind speed without magic like Lord Vahn? This man is extraordinary. Only Lord Vahn that I know of can do it. It seems that I must not underestimate him. I will definitely beat him up for scorning Lord Vahn's name) Gerard said.
"Then what about your magic? How come you can use speed magic at a speed that surpasses others!?" said Gerard.
"Of course it's like you said when we were in prison that time. Because of the wand, it's easier for me to concentrate and the mana that comes out of my body gets consumed a lot, so I can use magic many times over" I said.
Gerard was again confused here. Gerard said to himself
(Is it possible that he can't control his mana? So that's the reason why he burned his hands and feet when he was tied up in prison that time. This is going to be troublesome... This guy is a threat)
"It seems that I underestimated you... It looks like I'm going to have to be very serious about fighting you," Gerard said.
Gerard immediately prepared his mace and the heat from the mace became even hotter. The ground around Gerard was burning from the heat. My body became sweaty like I was in a sauna. After Gerard concentrated fully, Gerard jumped up and intended to attack me by stomping his mace on me, I started to string the letters of the magic spell and pointed my wand and began to close my eyes before the mace reached me.
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Time and place spun back in time. I am currently on the hill where I practiced magic, I was asked to shoot my magic once again at the rock. I said
"Why are you telling me to shoot magic again, didn't you say I couldn't control my mana yet? Even now you are telling me to do magic without the magic wand that I found in the lake but with your magic wand? Are you crazy?," I said.
"Try it first, you'll see" said the village chief.
I started casting magic spells in my head. I was going to cast the D-level magic ሃልሃልታ (Flame), and it turned out that when I cast it with the village chief's magic wand, the fire that came out became smaller, but the fire that came out was still abnormal for D-level magic and it was smaller than when I cast the spell with the magic wand that I found in the lake. I started to wonder and asked the village chief about it. I said
"What's going on here, village chief?" I said.
"It seems that your magic wand makes it easier for you to use mana, and maybe it's not made with ordinary mana wood," said the village chief.
A Magic wand is a staff used by wizards to convert mana into magic. Magic wands cannot be made with ordinary wood but must be made with wood that is powered by mana. There are also trees that are fed with a lot of mana so that the tree is of high quality and produces a quality shir stick as well.
"Maybe your magic wand is from the Yggdrasil tree. Although that's just my speculation," said the village chief.
Yggdrasil is the mother of all trees in this world. Because of Yggdrasil all plants were born. Yggdrasil is currently dead because in the past its branches were often cut so that the mana from Yggdrasil dried up. It is said that Yggrasil is the longest living and oldest tree in the world. The mana inside Yggdrasil is also the most mana in the world.
"Yggdrasil!? This Magic Wand is that good!?" I said.
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Time and place returned to the fight with Gerard. When Gerard was about to attack me with his mace, I had already started stringing the letters of the magic spell with 'Speed of thought'. I was about to cast a B-level magic towards Gerard. My magic has the attribute of Water and the name of the magic is ሱናሚ (Tsunami). The letters are (ሱ) (ና) (ሚ). The target is Gerard who is in front of me.
After that, there was a circle of light from my magic wand and from the circle of light came the magic letters. After that I started to cast my spell. I said
"ሱናሚ (Tsunami)" I said.
Suddenly a huge amount of water came out of my wand, probably almost 1/100th of the ocean. Gerard was surprised and tried to dodge, but Gerard didn't have time to dodge. My attack hit Gerard and caused him to be swept away by the huge waves and was so powerful that Gerard fell into Death Wood and took tremendous damage, both of his hands became stumped and the fire in his gadgets went out. Gerard said
"The wood of Yggdrasil!?" said Gerard.
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