Chapter 249

‘Gongjin’, and the principle of ‘Fatigue Intensity Control’ magic, 1st Circle Unique Magic Adella.

Due to pronunciation issues from the neighboring country, the unfortunate fatigue destruction magic has now become ‘Adele (アデラ)’, which was meticulously devised by me to decisively defeat enemies alongside Hiasen.

The enemies in question are none other than the 1st prince Jade and the 2nd prince Feiran.

I think they were both around 17 and 15 years old at the time.

To overwhelmingly pressure those who already possessed talents that could be debated as the empire’s best in magic and swordsmanship, quick wisdom was necessary.

Quick wisdom, in other words, is cunning deceit.

In fact, my 1st Circle Unique Magic could explode the gears I imprinted on an opponent’s body at a distance as long as they were aligned in direction.

It doesn’t matter how far the opponent is, as all strike points are summoned within a radius of 3 meters from the caster.

While in close range, an attack could be avoided by simply twisting the body slightly, at 15 meters away, the opponent would have to move five times more, and at 30 meters, ten times more.

The imprinting process is also very simple.

[Unique Magic – Esteria Ryu 1st Style]

I condensed mana into a point at the tip of my sword and thrust it toward the wooden mannequin in the distance.

As the sword passed through the magic circle, formidable gears flew and embedded themselves into the wooden mannequin.

Immediately, identical gears appeared in the path surrounding Adella, who was acting as my assistant.

“The principle is the same.”

“Yep…!”

As the gear began to turn, Adella extended her arm and stabbed the sword just like I did.

Clang-!

Even though the sword grazed the air, Adella’s arm shook with a heavy recoil as if it had struck a massive rock.

Let’s go ahead and demonstrate it simply ten times.

“Fire.”

Whoooosh-!

The gears, depleted of their lifespan, flew toward the wooden mannequin simultaneously and pierced it like spikes.

Finally, with a massive shockwave, the area around the mannequin’s chest shattered and debris flew into the air.

“What…!”

Adella blinked in disbelief, watching the results of the magic.

“If you run away, this is what happens.”

Unless they escape with all their strength until they can’t be seen by the caster, this magic is truly useful in a limited training hall.

The magic proves its deceptive nature by forcing a close combat fighter to approach, but it had another significant advantage.

“What if the opponent quickly approaches and interferes while casting?”

“It’s a magic structure exactly the same as the one I initially showed. It’s more advantageous to get close.”

If there is one unsolvable problem for mages, it’s that every magic has a countermeasure.

If the opponent knows what magic they will use beforehand, countering isn’t difficult.

If they use close-range magic, they can temporarily create distance, and if they use long-range magic, they can immediately approach the caster; it’s really simple to say.

It’s cruel, but there’s no choice. It’s a harsh world of competition where everyone tricks each other.

However, Unique Magic ‘Adella’ was a ‘formless’ magic that allows the caster to freely set the power, and a ‘divergent’ magic that uses angles as parameters instead of distance, giving it an incredible versatility.

In other words, if they’re far away, there’s practically no way to cope, and if they’re close, it becomes even more dangerous.

“So, does this magic have any drawbacks? Or countermeasures?”

The script we prepared for introducing Unique Magic with Adella was slowly reaching its last page.

“The drawback is that maintaining this magic circle isn’t as easy as it seems.”

Since I hadn’t often used magic from my previous life, there were many areas where I was inexperienced.

Especially on this Earth, as there is only one main flow of mana, the ambient mana is very unstable, so maintaining the magic circle requires an exceptionally keen sense from the caster.

“Of course, there’s bound to be a countermeasure. But if I tell you about it, the magic won’t be promoted, right?”

“Hehe, that’s true!”

“That’s all I’ll show for today.”

“Alright then…! This has been NaeMe and Asaneko Adella! Please use the Unique Magic my sister made a lot! Everyone, you need to spend money wildly for me to—”

Beep—

The filming ended there.

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It is safe to say that the history of all magic in Japan begins and ends with the sword, a source of identity and pride for the warrior race.

For thousands of years, magic has gone through the process of thesis-antithesis-synthesis and has developed continuously, allowing all that can be expressed through the sword to be enjoyed in the 21st century.

It is not the case that one must belong to a specific sect like in ancient China to see forbidden techniques.

If one just looks around a bit on the internet, knowledge pours down like a waterfall, and rather, the sheer volume can make it difficult to find quality information.

In that sense, ranged Unique Magic was also overwhelmingly abundant.

From the most easily imaginable sword gusts to creating whirlwinds or using swords to cause explosions, these are examples.

There was even a magic developed that controlled swords from the air like guided missiles, but naturally, such magic was quietly phased out in Japanese society as “this is not swordsmanship”.

Nonetheless, Japanese magicians ultimately could not overcome the fundamental limits of ‘distance’ that swords inherently possess.

It is far more efficient to study fluid dynamics than to awaken the wonders of the wind with a sword.

Moreover, simply rushing at the opponent and swinging the sword a few times is the cheapest method, making it difficult for even theoretical magic scholars to find reasons to develop cumbersome ranged magic.

However, a new wind began blowing in the Japanese magic community.

[The New Paradigm Introduced by 1st Circle Magic: Can You Strike from Close Range?]

“Why… why didn’t we think of this until now?”

Why did we only think about firing sword gusts and creating winds?

After all, what matters is energy itself.

Then, if we generate energy at close range and properly hit the opponent, isn’t it, in itself, a form of ranged magic?

The 1st Circle Unique Magic ‘Adella’ was reportedly trending among TikTok influencers whom I detest, leading to a stronger effort to ignore it.

However, when NaeMe attached an explanation video to her VTuber, the public opinion shifted 180 degrees.

It’s not just a magic that overlaps strikes.

The magic circles for close and long-range are so similar in shape that, until the spell is cast, the opponent could not predict what kind of magic would come out.

If wrongly guessed, it would expose a weakness.

Even if guessed right, since it’s merely a 1st Circle magic, there was little recoil even if the caster canceled the casting.

Katsuhuta Emika thought it was an innovative magic that gives psychological dominance to swordsmen during combat.

“The principle is too simple. Why couldn’t we think of something so easy…!”

Some Japanese people fell into real despair.

Though the magic circle was incredibly complex, the principle was so simple that anyone could understand it.

It was rather puzzling that no magic of this kind existed until now.

“A Columbus egg.”

Boom!

Katsuhuta Emika successfully landed 30 strikes and knocked down a 40-meter cedar.

She didn’t mind the flying dust and merely covered her face with her crisp white uniform.

Beside her, a young girl from Katsuhuta School, blankly watching, pulled a boiled egg from her pocket and handed it to her.

“What’s that, Emika Onee-chan?”

“Yui, do you know how to stand a raw egg up without using Aura?”

“Umm… I guess you could do it if you try hard enough?”

“You just need to slightly crack the bottom.”

“Huh? Isn’t that a bit anticlimactic?”

At her younger sister’s sarcastic remark, Emika paused before cracking the egg.

“Then, how about standing it without breaking it?”

“Um… that might be a bit more tricky…”

“You can shake the egg to break the yolk inside and then stand it up like a roly-poly toy.”

“Wow! That’s a pretty amazing idea. But I think I could do it too!”

“Exactly, anyone can do it.”

She sighed softly.

Next week, the Emperor’s Cup for those under 16 was set to begin in Japan.

Whether to learn Adella or not was now meaningless.

The issue would be how well it was utilized.

Emika had a strong intuition that almost everyone would know about this magic once they reached the finals, even if they didn’t know about it in the preliminaries.

‘From now on, I’ll have to practice hard.’

Tap!

Drip—

The moment she tapped the egg against her forehead to eat it, the yellow liquid trickled down her eyes and cheeks.

It was a raw egg.

“Yui, this is a boiled egg—”

“Ah! I-I’m sorry, Onee-chan! I must have brought the wrong one! I really didn’t know!”

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[VIDEO TELLING – VIDEOTELLING] [Subscribers: 1.81 million]

[1st Circle Magic that’s trending among young people in Japan… But the creator is Korean?]

“Ryoikitenkai (Domain Expansion)!”

In the VTuber video, a Japanese person with pink hair struck a bizarre pose, gripping their hands together and reciting the spell.

Then, a perfectly fine Lamborghini was crumpled to the point where it was difficult to recognize.

This was a reference to the popular VTuber ‘Soramochi’, known for being a military mage in Japan.

Every ‘formless magic’ requires a ‘final incantation’, and since this can be set as freely as the magic’s name, it was possible to imitate such anime catchphrases.

The reporter who revealed this fact visited the Korean Magical Technology Institute’s Applied Magic Research Institute to learn how to use the 1st Circle Magic ‘Adella.’

“Now, we’re ready.”

“Can I really say anything?”

“Yes, of course.”

“Well… then… Hah!”

The reporter blushed, feeling shy after saying it, and the magic circle responded as if resonating.

Then a loud explosion rang out as the watermelon she bought from the market moments ago shattered into pieces.

After the introduction to the magic, the shocking identity of the original creator was revealed.

It was NaeMe, the 2nd grader at Seviron Academy, who almost became Korea’s youngest theoretical magic scholar.

Why “almost” instead of “was?”

She had registered her developed Unique Magic with the Japanese Magic Copyright Association.

Viewers who hadn’t watched the video until the end rushed to the comment section to voice their opinions at this point.

– It seems there’s an external force trying to take NaeMe abroad. That’s the only explanation.

– She seems to have decided to leave Korea, so there’s no need to hold her back; just let her go.

– Did her adoptive parents sell her for a lot of money?

Immediately, NaeMe’s Genius Discovery Team broadcasting was introduced.

An AI named Adella, gifted from Wearsoft.

For a child who lost her parents to terrorists and had her life completely taken for seven years, Adella was like family.

And NaeMe was a child with great initiative.

Not only did she want to make Adella part of her family, but she also sought various methods to actually create ID for her.

However, unable to find any methods in Korea, she turned her gaze overseas.

In that process, she also handed over her Unique Magic, which was the crux of the incident.

– After watching this, I went back to the genius discovery team episode,ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

└ It really seems to be the saddest episode ever…

└ I couldn’t bear to watch the reenactment of the rescue, so I just skimmed through it;

└ Watching that and then going to NaeMe’s game tournament interview, I can guarantee it will make you cry all your tears for the year in advance.

– What’s up with her? She seems to be one of the most exceptional among those on the Genius Discovery Team?

└ It’s not about whether she’s on Ham Cheo-Long’s level; honestly, I don’t think Ham Cheo-Long can do even that much now.

– Creating Unique Magic at eight is genius, but getting an A rank is even more impressive.

– She’s really going to rake in the money. Incredible growth.

– Am I the only one infuriated by the treatment those detectives get on that show?

└ 22222

└ They completely let the public servants handle everything here in this countryㅋㅋ

└ They can’t even speak up to the National Assembly members, just keep pushing around regular civil servants.

The pièce de résistance came when the reporter introduced the potential situations that would arise if NaeMe registered the Unique Magic in Korea.

Unlike light magic or cold wind magic classified as public goods, most Unique Magic with individual copyright is sold abroad with a steep premium.

If a Unique Magic registered in South Korea is used in Japan, the Japanese Magic Power Agency must pay several times the extra money to the Korean Magic Power Agency.

The estimated tax revenue gained from that, considering the current magical swordsmanship syndrome in Japan, would be over 10 billion won a year.

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