Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 300

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 300

192. I Bound It with Mana

The destructive power of a sword ‘coated’ with mana is at a considerable level.

Slash! Thud!

Regardless of the blade itself, when sharpened keenly, it can cleanly cut through trees and rocks.

“Quite impressive.”

But my conclusion is this.

“The efficiency is lacking.”

If it’s just about cutting things, I have an Arcanium sword. There’s no need to move around in a coated state with such effort.

However, that’s only when limited to ‘weapons’.

The things you can do by wrapping objects with mana are endless.

Simply put, I just found that method through the sword, but there are many ways to utilize this going forward.

“For instance…”

I reached out toward a wooden puppet swaying in the wind.

The mana extending from my hand enveloped the wooden puppet.

Then, even though the wind continued to blow, the wooden puppet stopped moving.

“Like sealing movement.”

By coating with mana and applying force, I can restrict movement entirely.

That’s not all.

“Ernest. Want to try shooting an arrow?”

“An arrow?”

“Yeah. At me.”

“…Well, it’s Dane after all.”

I concentrated my mana while watching Ernest ‘cheerfully’ draw his bowstring toward me.

And just before Ernest released the bowstring-

Twang!

“Huh?”

I wrapped Ernest’s hand with mana, making the arrow fly in a completely different direction.

“Wh-what was that just now?”

I grinned at the bewildered Ernest and spoke again.

“This time, try shooting at that wooden puppet over there.”

“Uh-huh.”

Ernest glanced back and forth between me and his own hand. He’s probably wondering if I’ll do it again.

This time it’s a bit different though.

Twang, whoooosh!

This time I touched the arrow, not his hand.

Thwack!

“Just now… did my arrow pierce through that?”

“Yeah.”

“…Did I get stronger?”

Looking at the arrow that pierced through the wooden puppet, I was certain.

This has way more applications than I thought.

I think I understand why Professor Cross said that once you learn this magic, other spells don’t hold much significant meaning.

“I should research various ways to use this.”

And if I combine this with what I already know, what kind of synergy will emerge?

It’s a very exciting prospect.

“Dane, you were here?”

“Leila.”

“You’ve seemed busy lately?”

“A little? Attending lectures.”

Meanwhile, one by one, the guys arrive at the training ground in front of Bonia Forest.

Priscilla came too, after a long time.

She said she was busy with graduation season.

She still looks very tired as usual.

Altur and Jenna start running as soon as they arrive. Good kids.

“But where’s Dorian?”

“He’s seemed busy lately. Oh, Dane, you attend lectures together so you’d know, right? I heard he’s been hanging around with that guy called Benatio Grün.”

I tilted my head at Ernest’s words.

“Why with him?”

“How would I know? Anyway, it seemed like they were doing something, but I’m not sure exactly what.”

Why would that counterintelligence guy approach Dorian?

I’m not sure what the reason is, but if he’s planning to mess with him, he picked the wrong person.

Well, that possibility seems low.

“But Dane, what were you doing earlier?”

“Something I newly learned.”

“Learned? Ah, from Professor Cross?”

“Yeah. Want to see?”

While I was at it, I demonstrated a combination that just occurred to me.

“Ernest, could you take out a trap? An explosive type.”

“A trap? Hmm… this should work.”

Ernest took out a mana explosion trap from his subspace and installed it where I pointed.

“I’ll detonate it when I give the signal.”

“Okay. But what are you trying to show?”

“You’ll see.”

And the moment I gave the signal-

Boom!

The mana trap exploded.

More precisely, it exploded but the explosion couldn’t disperse over its usual known range.

“…Did it go off?”

“It seems like it did, but…”

Because I had surrounded that trap with my mana.

For reference, that mana explosion trap has considerable explosive power, and I blocked it.

“Did Dane put up a mana barrier?”

“It looked like he used magic.”

While everyone misunderstood that I used ‘magic’, only Altur sensed something strange and asked.

“Just now… it seemed like you did something without even rearranging.”

As expected, sharp eyes.

“…What the hell are you?”

And then came the incredulous expression.

When I just shrugged my shoulders without saying anything, he started running around the training ground again with a frustrated face.

“What did Altur say?”

“How would I know? Magic is magic, right?”

The expressions of the other guys looked like they found it too bothersome to understand.

In the midst of this, Priscilla approached and asked me.

“Dane, have you seen Dorian by any chance?”

Why is she acting like this too?

“I heard he’s been hanging around with some guy called Benatio lately.”

“Who’s that?”

“There is. A Swordsmanship Department freshman, a mid-term transfer student.”

“First time hearing about it. Have I been holed up too much lately?”

Priscilla, who had been grumbling, looked around and added.

“Anyway, if you see him, tell him I’m looking for him.”

“Sure thing.”

“But what was that just now? It seemed like mana was acting more directly.”

Right, Priscilla had great talent with divine power.

So she must have reacted much more sensitively than others.

When I gave her a rough explanation, she tilted her head.

“Is that even possible?”

“I was surprised when I found out too.”

“Well, it’s you after all. That would have many uses.”

“I think so too.”

By the way, Priscilla’s expression looks strangely bitter.

“Maybe I should have become a mage if I had talent in that area.”

“Suddenly?”

“No. Just. It’s a common worry among priest and Knight candidates facing graduation. I couldn’t even imagine leaving here since I was a freshman.”

Priscilla shook her head as if it was nothing and emphasized.

“Anyway, if you see that fellow Dorian, tell him. I have something important to discuss.”

Saying that, Priscilla left.

What could she want to talk about?

I was pondering over Priscilla’s words for a moment when.

Buzz buzz.

The communication crystal sphere rang.

When I opened it, it was Big Sister.

-Dane? Are you at the Academy right now?

Her voice sounded somewhat urgent.

“What’s wrong?”

-Can you come to the research lab right now?

Then I heard surprising words.

-The demon essence you brought from the mountain range last time. It’s started going berserk.

Demon essence.

I had forgotten about it for a while.

I thought Big Sister would handle it well if I left it to her.

And that would have been the case.

Big Sister said she had made several prototypes with it.

Though it would be difficult to actually sell them since they were infused with demonic energy, she said it helped quite a bit with other inventions.

But for it to suddenly go berserk.

“Big Sister.”

“Dane.”

I entered the mana interference field that Big Sister had set up and assessed the situation.

Sticky energy was crawling everywhere.

Big Sister’s complexion didn’t look too good either.

“Are you okay?”

“Not at all. But if we leave it like this, it’ll get even worse.”

Big Sister pointed to the inside of the research lab.

The demon essence visible inside the magic analyzer.

A purple sphere violently vibrating and emitting intangible energy.

“Why is it suddenly acting like that?”

“I don’t know either. I was analyzing it when it suddenly started going berserk. I didn’t input anything new.”

If Big Sister says she doesn’t know the cause, then that must really be the case.

“I’ve set up an interference field for now, but if I collapse, that’s the end of it. If it leaks out…”

“Something terrible could happen.”

If a skilled person like Big Sister has a pale complexion, ordinary students would be beyond mention.

Demon essence.

Something I extracted from the demon I met in the Habarosk Mountain Range.

Even if I don’t know why it’s going berserk, what I need to do is clear.

“Dane. You can’t destroy it.”

Big Sister grabbed my arm.

I nodded to tell her not to worry, then approached the demon essence.

The closer I got, the stickier this feeling became.

It was an unpleasant sensation, as if bugs were crawling all over my body.

Is it reacting to something?

Or for some other reason?

I’m not sure.

But I have to stop it.

“Back then… it was suppressed by my mana.”

At that time, I had suppressed the demon’s demonic energy with my mana and then formed it into essence.

So it should be possible this time too.

However, this time with a new method.

I recalled moving Ernest’s hand with ‘mana materialization’, adding penetrating power to arrows, and suppressing explosions by surrounding mana traps.

Buzz buzz buzz-

I shot my mana toward that writhing essence.

The demonic energy spread around interfered with it, but only briefly.

Smoothly…

Like a blowing wind pushing away smoke, my mana pushed through the demonic energy and approached the essence.

Eventually, it completely covered the essence.

Then this stickiness disappeared as if by magic.

Thud thud thud thud!

The demon essence was writhing inside the mana sphere I created, but its vibrations didn’t transmit outside.

“Dane?”

“Big Sister, it’s done. You can come in now.”

“H-how did you do it?”

“I trapped it with mana.”

“…Trapped it with mana? Did you deploy an interference field?”

“No. Something a bit better than that.”

I approached the demon essence vibrating inside the sphere I had created with mana materialization.

It’s quite stable.

“Big Sister, I’ll drive out the remaining demonic energy for now. Please analyze it in the meantime.”

“This? Like this?”

“Yes. It’s safe.”

Big Sister hesitated for a moment then muttered.

“Right, it’s our youngest’s word after all.”

At those words full of trust, I chuckled and gathered the residual demonic energy in one place.

Then ripples became visible to the naked eye.

I flowed my mana there and completely decomposed it.

“That’s the end of it.”

It finished more simply than expected, but if left alone, it could have led to a major accident.

Not only the research lab, but the research building where this lab is located and one Academy district could have been eroded by demonic energy.

“We’ll have to throw away everything inside.”

Indeed, the experimental equipment and various samples and materials touched by demonic energy would be difficult to use as they are.

But that’s a matter for later.

“How’s the analysis going?”

“Very stable and going well. How did you contain it? This… looking at the rearranged format, it’s something I’ve never seen before. Is this magic I don’t know?”

“If you call it magic, then it’s magic.”

“Hmm. You’ll tell me later, right?”

Big Sister said that while focusing on the analysis.

Thanks to my special mana stone being installed, the analysis itself didn’t take long.

“The results are out.”

Big Sister waved the printed results and looked toward the essence.

The demon essence still writhing violently.

“Isn’t there a way to stabilize it?”

“Now that the analysis is done, we need to completely destroy or eliminate it.”

Naturally, we can’t leave it as it is.

Since my mana isn’t infinite, keeping it contained for days on end would be practically impossible.

“Then shall we look at the analysis results first while maintaining it?”

Big Sister spread the results in front of me, and I discovered something completely unexpected.

“This… the reaction didn’t start recently?”

The point Big Sister indicated was quite high up on the results sheet.

In other words, it was from at least several days ago.

“If this point was several days ago…”

Big Sister immediately brought over the research diary and started searching through it, then showed it to me with a startled expression.

“Look. It was this time. A week ago.”

“A week ago?”

“That’s when I was experimenting with the essence. So… it was an experiment to amplify reactivity. All variables were controlled, and the environment was no different from before.”

“But the reaction was strange from this point?”

“That’s right.”

“Any possibility of external factors?”

“None. Security was strengthened several times over after the previous intrusion incident, and this place is completely isolated despite appearances.”

Then the possibility of another demon appearing from outside is low.

On the other hand, it hasn’t exhausted its usefulness either.

If it had, it wouldn’t be madly emitting such powerful energy.

“Wait, Big Sister. I think we need to look at the overall situation again.”

“How?”

“I’ll expose it briefly.”

I was so focused on just subduing that essence that I couldn’t examine it properly, but I need to take another look, even if briefly.

“Dane, you need to block it immediately if it gets dangerous.”

“Don’t worry.”

As Big Sister stepped back, I immediately created a gap in the mana containing the essence.

Then, as if this was the moment it was waiting for, the essence writhed intensely and spewed demonic energy through that gap.

Thrum thrum thrum thrum!

Immediately after, I raised my sensing ability to maximum and observed the flow of demonic energy.

At first it seemed to be spewing out indiscriminately…

But it was heading toward a specific point.

“Over there.”

The far end of the left shelf in the analysis room.

A small sealed box.

I layered more mana over the rampaging demon essence, then suppressed the demonic energy that had leaked out with my mana.

Then I approached the shelf, picked up the sealed box, and asked Big Sister.

“Sister, how did you find this item?”

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