The Only Enhancer - Chapter 154

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Chapter 154
154 – The Fairy Prince’s Benevolence (4)
4.
Above Busan Haeundae, countless starlight formations materialized and fired toward a single point, only to scatter into dust the moment they arrived.
At first glance, it resembled a fireworks festival, but the reality was entirely different.
Each one possessed enough force to level several buildings, and as they rained down in multitude, they converged and grew exponentially larger.
Not only did I cleave through such energy blasts in a single stroke, but I obliterated their essence into powder.
A blade that scattered all mana the instant it cut—truly a calamity for sorcerers and mages alike.
Yet Ursula found herself trembling not at the sword, but at Min-jun himself.
-‘This is impossible.’
Once again, Ursula swiftly formed hand seals and drew magical circles in the air with her mana, unleashing spells infused with various curses and formidable enchantments. Yet Min-jun, who cleaved through every last one with his blade, began to mimic her.
Both the hand seals and the magical circles.
At first, he was clumsy.
As the battle continued, he grew steadily more proficient.
And now….
*Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!*
Watching Min-jun complete his incantations at nearly her own speed and intercept every single one of her spells, Ursula gasped in disbelief.
Never in her existence had Ursula witnessed such a thing.
She regarded Min-jun as one would a monster.
Ursula herself was recognized as a prodigy even among the mages of the Deep Sea Faction.
It was precisely why she had ascended to Calamity Rank 8 faster than anyone else.
If Uldin represented the Sky Realm, then Ursula was the Deep Sea’s answer—such was the consensus.
The system itself acknowledged her talent, which was why items bearing her name occasionally appeared. Yet what was this?
A talent that surpassed hers stood directly before her eyes.
And it belonged to a human, not a monster.
Grinding her teeth, she pushed herself to chant even faster, attempting to overwhelm Min-jun, but it proved futile.
-‘He’s getting faster still?’
Even as she maximized her own speed and strained herself to press forward, he continued to match her chanting pace and then surpass it.
Meanwhile, Min-jun gazed at Ursula as though thoroughly enjoying himself.
What had begun as mere play had gradually become something I adapted to, and now proved remarkably useful, so I continued.
Was it not fascinating that I could wield magic and sorcery I had never encountered as skills before?
Initially, it was purely for amusement, but there was calculation behind it as well.
If I could acquire these techniques?
There would be far more I could offer to Evan, the mage scholar.
As for Natalia, the gunslinger, I could easily extract what I needed from Andrew, but magic was different. On this Earth, the creatures of the Deep Sea were those who wielded magic most freely and possessed the greatest knowledge of it.
Thus, I greedily devoured every spell Ursula cast, determined to claim it all.
‘Hand seals are sorcery, magical circles are magic.’
Using both simultaneously was far from simple.
Magic itself was inherently difficult. Each component within a magical circle held meaning, and those meanings converged to form the circle itself.
Then, by infusing power into that magical circle, the spell manifested.
The process was quite difficult, but not impossible.
As Min-jun followed along with his mana, he absorbed Ursula’s magic like a sponge, and in doing so, he was also mastering the hand seals required for blood pacts.
Controlling mana through hand gestures was fascinating, but if magic existed, why wouldn’t sorcery?
With that thought, as I delved deeper into sorcery, I began to feel the clear differences.
‘Magic artificially uses mana to create phenomena, while sorcery draws from nature itself.’
Magic employs various methods to create light.
It uses light mana to manifest light. But sorcery gathers the light that already exists in nature and uses that.
That was the distinction.
Because of that, I couldn’t afford to be confused.
As I observed the magic Ursula used, I began to grasp things bit by bit.
Other magics—ones she didn’t use—came to mind.
Of course, I didn’t know if those were magics that originally existed.
It was more like a natural feeling that this approach would work.
Ultimately, mana wasn’t an energy that only Min-jun possessed—it was the energy that composed the world.
It was a substance that existed before the monsters invaded Earth.
It formed nature and was involved in every phenomenon.
Magic was the process of artificially using that substance to create phenomena.
In other words.
‘Magic circles are like letters that define those phenomena.’
I had grasped a clear understanding of magic’s definition in barely any time after facing Ursula.
But that wasn’t all.
The many laws that composed the world—and those laws contained certain patterns.
For instance, if a halo appeared around the sun, wouldn’t rain fall the next day? Things like that existed.
Min-jun possessed only shallow knowledge in the sciences, but magic was different.
Didn’t I already have Ursula as an excellent teacher?
After that, I carefully observed Ursula’s magic circles.
Not just the magic circles—I also carefully studied the hand seals.
Which shapes produced which effects, and which hand gestures made which mana respond.
And I could come to understand.
How each shape played its role, which ones combined to create which phenomena.
As I grasped those things, the corners of my mouth lifted.
‘This is fun?’
I began to transcend simply mimicking magic and started to understand it.
As I grasped the meaning and achieved complete understanding, my perspective shifted entirely.
I could dimly perceive what the true power mana possessed really was.
Was that all?
Magic, skills, sorcery, curses—I could understand how to handle all of them. And I could discern the true nature of characteristic mana.
I could finally understand why the Fairy Race was so powerful.
If the Fairy Prince hadn’t betrayed them, wouldn’t the monsters have been helpless against the Fairy Race?
As that thought suddenly occurred to me, I tilted my head in confusion.
‘Wait? If I do this, I might be able to create magic?’
I had grasped what role the magic circles and hand seals played, and I understood how to use them.
There was still much I didn’t know, but the unique mana I possessed had revealed many new insights.
When it came to magic, I could now say that I had become capable of wielding it.
The moment I awakened to magic, my talent began to shine brilliantly.
From all directions, Ursula unleashed octopus tentacles and torrents of Deep Sea water, firing seaweed and coral at me in relentless assault. She cast magic spells frantically, yet I countered every single one with comparable magic of my own.
But now I needed to concentrate.
Gripping the Phantom Blade and Emptiness in one hand, I began to receive her attacks.
And simultaneously, I created magic.
‘If I arrange this mana like this, and this one like that, and infuse this with this attribute….’
Even as countless spells poured down upon me, I remained absorbed in magic creation, my blade swinging with frenetic intensity.
A state of complete transcendence.
In this moment, I existed for nothing else—I had erased even myself, focused entirely on creating magic.
Then, as I synthesized a new hand seal and new magic circle, Ursula’s eyes widened so far they seemed ready to split.
-What, what is that?
It shouldn’t be possible.
Using a magic circle he doesn’t even fully understand in actual combat?
It’s no different from suicide.
Normally, that’s how it should be. No, it absolutely should be.
But what is this?
Min-jun was creating magic right here, right now.
-This, this can’t be real.
The creation of magic?
Even the Elders cannot do such a thing.
The only creatures on Earth capable of using magic were the monsters of the Deep Sea.
But even they could only use it because they had received magical knowledge from the Fairy Race.
They merely imitated the magic that the Fairies had created.
The reason it was called imitation rather than true magic use was simple.
They hadn’t learned the essence from the Fairies—they had merely copied their outward appearance.
To wield true magic like them required multiple techniques.
The power to imbue mana with attributes.
But unfortunately, the monsters could not do this.
Even if they could, they could only handle a single attribute.
That’s why the monsters’ formations were divided into three types.
To use proper magic, one must handle at least two or more attributes, yet monsters can only handle one, so they cannot use true magic.
But Min-jun was different.
From what Ursula could see, he was drawing magic circles while wielding multiple mana.
Look at how he packed the magic circle densely with mana containing multiple attributes.
And then.
Whiiiiiiiing!
A fierce wind sweeps in. No—mana converges at a single point.
Mana gathered and condensed before the magical circle Min-jun had formed, swelling in mass.
Faced with a situation that defied belief, Ursula abandoned all offensive spells and instead wove defensive magic in unison to prepare for what was coming.
At first glance, she couldn’t discern what kind of magic it was.
But one thing was certain.
-‘That incomprehensible density of compression cannot be ignored.’
Even at a glance, it was extraordinary.
Condensing mana into a single point was no simple feat, yet he had accomplished it, and despite its growing mass, rather than wavering, the compression only intensified, transforming into something as solid as crystal.
The very notion that mana floating in empty space had crystallized was absurd.
If this were an attack spell, it had to be stopped by any means necessary.
Failure to stop it meant death.
True magic was coming.
Ursula threw all her strength into blocking the attack, while Min-jun watched and let out a quiet chuckle.
Then he hurled that sphere of condensed mana at Ursula and spoke.
“Consume it.”
With those words, the magic completed, and the compressed mana manifested its spell.
Tremendous mass warped space itself, and everything within began to be drawn inward.
It couldn’t pull in light itself, and its size was remarkably small, yet the attack was more than sufficient to plunge Ursula into terror.
Everything caught in that immense gravity and attraction was pulverized into dust and sucked into a single point, disintegrating and vanishing.
That tremendous sphere was fired at Ursula, and she could sense it instinctively.
This could not be stopped.
So she employed a single desperate measure.
Unable to allow herself to be dragged along in Min-jun’s grasp, she invoked the most powerful sorcery she could muster.
-I shall not go alone.
With those words, a dark hand emerged from behind Ursula’s back.
Squelch!
It pierced through Ursula’s heart.
“…?!”
That black hand, appearing from nowhere, tore Ursula’s heart from her chest, and with a crushing grip, burst the pulsing, dark-blue heart in its palm.
Crack!
Simultaneously, Ursula, a smile still on her face, crumbled to dust, leaving behind an item, an Evolution Orb, and Magic Stones, while the black hand, having crushed the heart, pointed a finger at Min-jun.

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