How a Catastrophe-Level Magician Lives

“Oho…! Not bad at all! That child named Free!”
“…It’s impossible. He completely withstood that explosion magic of young Rekas…?”

The two teachers who had been sitting in one part of the spectator stands before the match started were surprised with quite contrasting attitudes, seeing a series of unbelievable events.

One, who was also a senior teacher, was resting his chin on one hand and looking down at the arena with an interested gaze.

The other, who was also a junior teacher, seemed to be greatly bewildered, as if he had witnessed something unbelievable, completely losing his composure.

‘How could he have been safe in that explosion magic? Did he deploy a shield magic? No. There’s no way to withstand the aftermath of that attack with just an ordinary shield magic. Then what on earth is it?’
“……”

Along with the senior teacher’s monologue, who seemed to be inferring and deducing the situation, the junior teacher sitting quietly beside him couldn’t take his eyes off the flow of the match for even a moment.

Inside the dueling ground, Free speaks.

“Don’t be too flustered. If your body stiffens up, you won’t be able to properly show your true abilities.”
“……”

Still a composed attitude.
At that seemingly leisurely attitude, Rekas finally revealed his gritted teeth.

Free said.

“Let me resolve one doubt you might have. The magic you just fired at me was clearly not a low-level magic. Therefore, reverse calculation is impossible. Cancel is meaningless.”
“…Then, how on earth did you block all those attacks while saying that!”

Gritting his teeth, Free calmly answers to Rekas’s seemingly angry appearance.

“Why, you ask?”

That’s because.

“I simply have stronger magical power than you.”
“…! What…?”

Free thought.
After the previous day, thanks to the special mana training method he obtained from Aina, the magical power he had accumulated over the years until coming here had grown even stronger.

If the magical power he had was like a ball, he had processed and converted the recently absorbed mana into magical power and stacked it on top, attaching it.

Just like when it snows, rolling snow turns a small snowball into a large one, suddenly growing in size.

Free’s original magical power had been stacked in his mana heart, building up more than two levels beyond one.

And with that high-quality, powerful magic generated from the mana heart, he succeeded in forming and reaching a crazy multi-angled magic called ‘omnidirectional’ shield.

This was also the result of studying and accumulating skills in shield magic, which is classified as low-level magic, for a long time in his previous life.

If he had enough magical power, it was an omnidirectional shield protection magic that creates and deploys shield magic in a multi-faceted form.

He had created the Center Protect magic.

Therefore, the higher the quality of the magical power he possessed, the more the opponent’s attack magic was completely blocked and rendered useless, and such an absurd method and form of ultra-high-strength shield had blocked all of Rekas’s explosion magic, Flame Burst.

‘Although the magical power consumption is several times more than when deploying a normal shield magic… Now that burden has almost disappeared.’

All of that was thanks to.

Aina, with her light blue hair and pale yellow eyes, sitting modestly in one of the spectator stands on that side of the arena.

The problem was that even she, who was watching him, couldn’t close her open mouth, but that’s beside the point.

‘Thank you, Aina. Thanks to you, I’ve overcome the lack of magical power that I could only conceptualize in my previous life and never had the chance to use during battle.’

To think that the price for giving the degraded version of the Magical Eye would come back like this.
It was a situation that was more satisfying to him than any other time.

“Then if you have no more magic to show, I’ll end this now.”
Free finally declared that he would put an end to the match.

However, Rekas wasn’t done yet.

He himself hadn’t given his all yet.

Suddenly, at those words, Rekas covered his face with one hand and smiled.

“Kukukuku.”
“What’s so funny?”

Before Free could wonder, Rekas removed the hand covering his face, spread his fingers, and looked at Free far away through the gaps, speaking lowly.

“Didn’t anyone teach you? Never let your guard down.”
“What?”
The moment Free asked back,

Suddenly, an explosion occurred beside where he was standing.

“…!”

Surprised by this, Free quickly deployed a shield magic only on the side where the explosion occurred, using silent casting through the Magical Eye he had been using until now.

“What happened……”

To Free’s muttering, Rekas in front completely removed the hand covering his face and let out a “Khahah!” laugh.
Free quietly lowered his gaze at Rekas’s triumphant appearance, as if he had now gained the upper hand.

‘Not bad. Did he secretly use this move in advance at the moment when my vision was completely blocked? So discreetly that I couldn’t easily notice.’

Now that he looked, after changing his visual senses using magical power, he could feel very faint flows of magical power here and there around him.

‘High stealth. It could be another one of his family’s secret magic that he learned.’

That meant he had to be careful.
Because a family’s secret magic was that much of a threatening variable, a risk factor, even to himself.

Rekas said with a deep smile.

“Oops, it’s better not to move from there anymore. That magic is a chain reaction magic that will detonate consecutively if touched wrongly.”
“……”
“Even you won’t be able to maintain that shield for long in the midst of those continuous explosions. Now you can’t do anything and just have to stand still and take my attacks!”

Once again, Rekas raised one hand forward, aiming his palm at Free.

“Flame Explosion!”

After learning about Free’s weapon, reverse calculation, Rekas was now using only magic of middle level or higher, not low-level magic.

Such Flame Explosion was showing the most powerful explosion and firepower of any magic Rekas had used so far.

Free deployed the Center Protect, an omnidirectional multi-faceted shield protection magic, once again, but in the midst of being engulfed by the explosion, he saw the shield cracking with a creaking sound.

“……”

And then the omnidirectional shield magic completely shattered from the cracked parts.

It seemed to be Rekas’s core magic with such powerful force that even Free’s mighty magical power couldn’t fully block and withstand it.

‘A trump card, is it.’

Free, who guessed so, soon showed a different light in his eyes.

Fortunately, although it broke, he succeeded in blocking a considerable part of the Flame Explosion.

Seeing Free still unharmed, Rekas rather revealed an incomprehensible smile and laughed meaningfully once.

“You blocked that too. Then how about this?”

Before Free could cast another silent magic, Rekas had already been preparing to activate the next magic even before speaking.

And─.

This time, it was Free who let out a low laugh.

At this, Rekas rather frowned as if puzzled and watched Free being engulfed in the next explosion.

And Free, who had blocked even Rekas’s next explosion magic with just a single front shield,

Suddenly tilted his head back and started laughing softly.

What followed at the end of the low laughter with his head tilted back was,

Suddenly. Free’s gaze with two gleaming red eyes.

“Very impressive. I never imagined it would be to this extent.”

While speaking, Free once again deployed the omnidirectional shield magic protecting his entire body, which would surely be too much at some point, but he did it intentionally.
Then he started maintaining it from the beginning, intending to withstand Rekas’s next attack magic.

This time, Rekas had also figured out the reason after seeing that strange polygonal shield magic that Free had used to block all of his previous attacks when he used Flame Explosion.

Because deploying magic in such a way not only consumes too much magical power, but also it’s generally very difficult to actually practice and maintain the form of the magic for a certain period of time even if you try to figure out how to conceive it, so ordinary magicians couldn’t even attempt it.

However, Free had been actively demonstrating behaviors that kept deviating from the general category during this duel, as if breaking such common sense.

And at that nonsensical eccentricity, Rekas became strangely anxious, as if getting impatient seeing Free laughing.

Rekas growled:

“…What on earth are you thinking? You!”

Rekas’s gaze seemed to be on guard.

Yes.
That laughter seemed to stem from an attitude as if this moment, this situation was truly fun and very enjoyable.
The demon of the battlefield. The immortal magician.
If you experience only war for a long time, you can’t endure for long without going crazy somewhere. Being normal is rather more abnormal.

For Rekas, the opponent, he had come face to face with the memories and experiences of Free’s unknown previous life, and the resulting emotions.

For some reason, feeling a deep anxiety and impatience creeping into his heart due to some unknown emotion, Rekas this time stretched both palms forward towards Free who was laughing, and shouted as if feeling nervous:

“…What on earth is so funny that you’re laughing like that!”

As if telling him to stop laughing, Rekas was about to cast Flame Explosion once again towards Free.

At that moment, it happened.

Click─
Free, who suddenly stopped laughing midway, spoke:

“How can I not be happy? Seeing you unfold magic I don’t know, and responding to all the magic I know.”

Looking at Rekas’s Flame Explosion that was just being fired in front of his eyes.

“How could I possibly be indifferent?”

With that murmur, Free just raised one hand forward in front of the Flame Explosion that was approaching right in front of him.

At the same time, another semi-transparent green shield magic is deployed with silent casting in front of his outstretched hand.

It seemed to be an attribute-based shield magic with wind attribute added.

However, that was not the end, and it led to other shield magic.

Fire, Water, Earth, and Lightning attribute shield magic, each with their own unique colors, were quickly deployed overlapping the semi-transparent green shield magic containing the wind attribute, perfectly blocking Rekas’s secret explosion magic.

The five-attribute multi-layered shield magic deployed in one layer in front was more strongly concentrated on one point, one surface than the previous omnidirectional shield, completely neutralizing and blocking the explosion of Rekas’s Flame Explosion and still maintaining intact.

A five-attribute multi-layered shield deployment magic that only spread the front without even a nail-sized crack.

Therefore, it was a high-strength frontal shield defense magic that could only show more sturdiness and diamond-like solidity than the omnidirectional polygonal shield deployment magic.

For some reason, Free, who didn’t release the frontal shield magic even after blocking the attack, mutters quietly:

-O spear of light buried in darkness.

It was,

-Now reveal your brilliant light in the darkness, point to the enemy before my eyes and annihilate them.

──Not just a partial chant,

-Pierce through the pitch black.

A full chant.

“Judgment of The Light.”

In the sky, a large magic circle filled with pure white light quickly began to be drawn, and soon countless light bombardments from the sky began to pour down and pierce the ground.

With an area so wide that it was impossible to completely avoid and escape from this place, as if containing all magical power.

Rekas, who had noticed this midway and looked up with his head raised, felt with his two pupils slowly expanding.

That this was something that couldn’t possibly be blocked or avoided.
And finally,

────.

With a silent detonation,
Soon all the surrounding sounds were completely swallowed and erased.

However, the countless flashes of bombardment continued without stopping.

At that solemn and majestic sight, like the judgment of the god of light, most of the spectators watching in the stands lost their senses alike.