First of All, I’m Drinking - Chapter 88

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Episode 88

I flinched and turned my head.

“Ahhhhh…”

“Ughhh…”

It was a horrific scene.

Where the black rays had swept through, not a single person remained unharmed.

A student who had died instantly with their brain or heart pierced through.

A student who was still breathing but had lost an arm or leg.

A student crying out in pain with holes riddling their body.

If hell existed, would it look like this?

The once pure white snowy plains were stained with red blood everywhere, creating a gruesome scene.

“Asel! Are you okay?”

“Damn, this is brutal!”

At least Tanya, Irin, Ragnor, Meirei, Ersea, and others.

The outstanding students moved frantically to minimize the damage to this extent.

If their response had been even slightly delayed, they would have suffered devastating casualties.

Whooom.

Whoooom.

The disaster didn’t end with just one attack.

“Damn it…!”

The black orbs revealed themselves in the air once again.

Leisia’s bitter laughter brushed past my ears.

“I always feel this way, but the students of Millennium Academy are truly outstanding. Let’s see how long you can keep blocking.”

Black rays fired in all directions.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“Save me! Save me!”

Deaths that hadn’t occurred even during the countless monster attacks were now explosively increasing once the battle with Leisia began.

Only the top-tier fighters within the Combat Department could block her dark magic rays.

The rest couldn’t avoid death unless they were lucky enough not to be caught in the rays’ trajectory.

It seemed like a hundred people had already died.

If more attacks continued, it wouldn’t be strange if everyone here except me died.

Whooom.

Whoom.

The rays of death gathered in the air once more.

I struck the protective barrier repeatedly like a madman.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

“Damn! Damn! Damn!”

The protective barrier surrounding Leisia didn’t even get scratched.

I channeled magi to strengthen my body.

The result was no different.

Simply strengthening my body wasn’t enough.

To break the protective barrier, there was no other way than to manifest magi outwardly for interception.

‘But if I do that…’

The fact that I possess magi would be exposed.

To all these countless humans here.

But if I don’t take any action…

Swoosh! Swoosh!

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

Even at this moment, Leisia’s dark magic rays were taking innocent lives.

I had definitely promised myself.

That I wouldn’t let the children die.

But what is this situation?

Anyway, if I just capture Baal’s agent, I’ll have no more business with Millennium Academy.

I have the Trickster’s pendant too, so I could unleash my magi freely, then disguise myself and escape.

There was practically no real loss from revealing my magi here.

But why am I hesitating?

Am I afraid of revealing my identity?

-Transport the criminal Cael to the Imperial Capital.

Am I that terrified of the past repeating itself?

“Asel!”

Swooosh-!

Ragnor’s sword bisected the ray.

“Get it together!”

As I had asked, he was running around frantically protecting the students.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you! If you collapse too, it’s over!”

“Just hold on a little longer!”

“It wasn’t like this during the transfer exam! Let me feel that thrill I felt when I saw you again!”

Irin, Ersea, Tanya.

“Asel!”

“Asel, stay strong!”

“We’ll handle this side somehow!”

“Ah… I’m getting tired, so please finish this as quickly as possible.”

Max, Fail, Cathy, Veronica.

“Hey you commoner! You’re incredibly strong! Try a little harder!”

“I’ll support you with magic!”

Lessor, Artie.

Everyone was looking only at me.

Among all those gathered here, I was the only one who could deal meaningful damage to Leisia.

‘I am…’

Krrrrrrrr-!

I unleashed my magi.

It was still a very small amount.

If someone approached closely they would notice immediately, but not enough to be felt from a distance.

‘Please, let this be enough.’

It was too small an amount to be certain.

If this doesn’t work, I’ll have to draw upon more magi.

If that happens, being exposed would be inevitable.

‘Here I go.’

I wrapped my sword with aura along with a trace amount of magi.

In that split second when the accelerated sword was falling toward the protective barrier.

At that moment, witnessing Meirei cutting through a ray from afar was pure coincidence.

Her aura was red like blood.

[You want me to teach you the technique?]

Images from the past replayed in my mind.

[It’s nothing special. If you go into the zone and endure for a bit, doesn’t an image come to mind?]

[Nothing comes to mind at all.]

[Then well, I have no way to teach you. I got it in one try.]

It was a conversation I had with Veronica about aura attribute conversion.

Why is this suddenly coming to mind?

[Don’t stay in one place too long and try entering other zones as well. It’s a process of discovering which attribute is closest to your aura.]

This time it was Amelia’s voice.

The attribute closest to one’s own aura.

In other words, the attribute that suits me best.

‘If that’s the case, it was decided from the beginning.’

A refreshing sense of liberation washed over me like a long-standing puzzle had been solved.

There was no need to choose from the attributes prepared in the training ground from the start.

The one that suits me best.

The attribute that fits me had been only one from the beginning.

Whoooosh-

The aura covering my sword blade turned black.

Like paint dissolving in water, the aura throughout my body transformed into pitch black.

In appearance, it looked no different from being wrapped in demonic energy.

However, what enveloped my body was unmistakably aura.

Kwaaaaang-!

The sword blade struck down on the protective barrier.

Unlike before, this time there was a clear result.

“It cracked!”

“The protective barrier is breaking!”

The ones who shouted with delight were Frida and Luca.

As they said, small cracks appeared on the surface of the protective barrier that seemed like it would never break.

I continued striking the protective barrier while wrapped in black aura.

Kwang! Kwang! Kwang!

The protective barrier gradually lost its form as fragments scattered.

“Krrgh!”

Leisia could no longer generate light beams as she struggled to maintain the protective barrier.

The sound of grinding teeth leaked through the cracks in the protective barrier.

“Ugh! Damn it! If it weren’t for those cursed bastards!”

It was an outburst filled with considerable anger.

Those cursed bastards.

I could guess who that expression was referring to.

‘Thank you.’

Merry, Kise, Diago.

To block their approach by reinforcing the barrier, Leisia hadn’t been able to display her true abilities from the start.

If her attention hadn’t been divided by reinforcing the barrier.

Both the strength of the protective barrier and the destructive power of the light beams would have been much more powerful.

As the light beam attacks ceased, the students gradually began to focus on me.

“That’s…”

“No way!”

Someone presumed to be from the Swordsmanship Department shouted in excitement.

“It’s the darkness attribute! It’s darkness attribute aura!”

Darkness attribute aura that existed only in theory and was considered impossible to realize.

I could feel their excitement at the appearance of the first user in history.

‘Darkness attribute.’

I suppose it could look that way.

‘More precisely, it would be called the demonic attribute.’

In fact, it wasn’t even an attribute change.

I had simply combined demonic energy and aura to create a new energy source.

Its destructive power and properties were close to demonic energy, but it was strictly classified as aura.

With this, there would be no problem using it freely in front of others.

‘Though it still falls short in firepower compared to pure demonic energy.’

If I train my aura further and become stronger in the future, the potential of this power would be limitless.

Bang! Bang! Kwang!

Finally, the protective barrier was completely stripped away.

Raeseya Welton, consumed by anger and confusion, gritted her teeth and fired light beams.

Tudududu-

Of course, they had no effect on me.

As the light beams made contact with the black aura surrounding my body, they dissipated powerlessly like water being sprayed on a surface.

“Krgh! The altar isn’t complete yet, but… since it’s come to this, I’ll kill you all!”

Wooooong.

Woooooong.

Hundreds of black orbs were generated above Leisia’s head.

Having poured all the mana she was using to maintain the protective barrier into the light beams, it was an tremendous quantity.

If that attack were to rampage in all directions, casualties incomparable to before would occur.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

“H-hide! Quickly!”

The students were thrown into panic at that overwhelming sight.

The new power I had arbitrarily named.

Demonic attribute aura couldn’t use all techniques operated with demonic energy.

Because its destructive power was still far inferior compared to pure demonic energy.

However.

If it was this technique I could use from four years ago when I was only 3-star.

‘It’s definitely possible.’

I raised my arm high behind me toward the sky and clenched my fist tightly.

‘Pluton-style demonic energy application.’

Ultimate technique.

Stellar Creation.

Kugugugugugu-

The ultimate technique that had completely melted Bishop Caluto of Baal’s arrow rain was reproduced exactly in the Void Tundra.

The only difference was that this time it was cast with aura instead of demonic energy.

But such a gap was meaningless.

“Wh-what is that?”

A black sphere of overwhelming size floated up into the sky.

Suffocating heat was explosively radiating from the sphere.

The sphere that had grown to nearly touch the sky devoured all of Leisia’s light beams.

“Crazy…”

Veronica gaped and burned that surreal scene into her eyes.

“Asel summoned that?”

Lessor struggled to hold onto his mental state that was on the verge of breaking down.

“Ah, hahahahaha.”

Lessor’s lower body was already soaked wet.

From the foul smell of urine, it wasn’t difficult to guess the identity of the liquid.

“…A monster had entered our class.”

Max gazed blankly at the black star with an ecstatic expression.

“This can’t be…”

Leisia’s pupils trembled as if she couldn’t believe it.

In a way, she seemed to have lost her fighting spirit.

Well.

In a situation where a mountain-sized orb could erase one’s existence at any moment, who could remain calm?

“This is… no. This can’t happen. This shouldn’t be… I haven’t been forgiven by that person yet.”

Whoosh.

Raeseya Welton’s figure disappeared along with black smoke.

From the circumstances, it seemed to be Flicker, a teleportation-type spell from black magic.

‘She didn’t go far.’

I could still sense Leisia’s presence nearby.

I had enrolled in this school solely to catch her.

I couldn’t let this golden opportunity slip away like this.

“I’m going to pursue Raeseya Welton. You guys wait here for a moment.”

I hurriedly left the scene before the kids could meddle and insist on coming along.

I deactivated Stellar Creation.

There was no need to maintain it any longer.

After chasing Raeseya Welton’s presence for about 30 minutes, a small temple came into view.

The temple built unexpectedly on the white snowy plains exuded an eerie atmosphere just by its existence.

Its shabby exterior that looked like it could collapse at any moment amplified that impression.

‘Is this Baal’s Temple?’

Leisia was inside this place.

Creak.

I opened the door without hesitation and entered.

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