Chapter 255. a (4)
"By the way, aren't these stories boring to you?"
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"Co to think of it, there's nothing more boring than soone droning on about their past when you don't even care."
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"But sorry—the truth is, I've never actually talked this honestly in front of anyone before."
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"To be precise, I just never had a reason to bring up my life story. That's why I'm not very good at summarizing—and end up rambling, saying things in the order they co to mind."
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"Are you really bored?"
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"Then how about taking a break for a while?"
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"If you want, you can sleep since the blankets are spread out behind you, and while you're taking a breather, I'll write down the important parts separately. Then I'll it'll be easier to understand why I'm living this way..."
"Enough—just get on with the explanation already."
"Okay."
Dry air brushed against his skin. The blond man rolled his eyes within the planet Earth's distinctive atmosphere.
A silver-armored balance scale. At the edge of his gaze, it caught his attention—a luxurious artifact of magic that seed out of place against the cheap flooring of the one-room apartnt.
"Not yet."
"I have to drag it on a bit longer."
He continued speaking. In fact, aside from Seonwoo Yeon's persuasion, the resident of this small apartnt had so sort of goal in mind and was using the opportunity to buy ti. When you think about it, there was no better bait to lure humans into wasting their ti than this.
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...Where did I leave off? Trying to think of two things at once with one mind caused a brief mix-up.
I stopped analyzing the structure of Justitia and focused on recollection. What I would organize now is the period right after a certain green Alphaurian left the training facility.
Hooray! I got my diploma, so from today on, I'm a proper mage!
Looking back, I was generally in a pretty good mood around that ti.
Why? First of all, because the issue of fratricide had passed without incident.
The deep-sea-born Alphaurian caused a major incident by partially destroying the school and even killing the headmaster in order to graduate early. In fact, the news caused quite a stir among the leadership of the planetary federation for so ti.
What? The administrator of the 3rd Training Institute was taken down by a student?A student?To think they were overpowered in a full-on battle by a minor.It wasn't just being overpowered. According to the testimony, the dean was hung on the main gate with his skin on like a national flag...Oh my goodness.That's creative.Well, kids don't really have limits when it cos to imagination.
But there was no major issue. As I've emphasized several tis, it was an era when a powerful foreign invasion threatened to end all the nation's petty conflicts at once. At a ti when the very survival of the planet was at stake, a genius was born—one brilliant enough to kill his own ntor. Would they really have wasted such a valuable green student in prison over sothing as trivial as insubordination?
But, just my personal opinion, honesty, I think the side that lost the duel is more at fault in this situation, don't you think?
The underdevelopnt of curse and brainwashing techniques. A shortage of troops. And on top of that, the waters where I was born already had a national sentint that leaned heavily toward ritocracy.
How could a grown adult lose to a rookie who hasn't even matured yet?He was just the weakest mber of our family...
The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of self-defense, with 14 votes in favor and 2 against.
It's better to bury this matter.Honestly, I didn't expect such talent to be discovered in a training facility where lowly people go, not even an academic institution.It seems the reporting system of the training facility needs so refinent.We can't let the sa incident happen again. Who knows if soone like the dean of the Third Training Facility, who hides a brilliant gem, might erge again.
Overall, luck was on their side. After so discussion, the higher-ups decided not to punish the student. Instead, they took steps to ensure that such a victim, like the early graduate, would never occur again by reviewing the social system. From any perspective, these were excessive asures for a re commoner.
What, is no one really taking responsibility for this?
At the ti, I considered myself one of the few wizards who had benefited from the war.
Ahh.
However, this immoral decision was ultimately the right thing for the planet as a whole. It was unfortunate for the noble family that lost its bloodline, but...
Afterward, I achieved much more valuable accomplishnts than the dean, who died a grueso death.
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The prestigious early graduate of the academy.
Your first assignnt has been decided.
Head towards the bright, red sea.
And in the end, bring back our precious sea...
Beta Star. When exactly did the sworn enemies who ca down from there start to push back in earnest?
The Red Sea Massacre. The collapse of a major swarm.
In the near future, historians would point to a variety of events as the catalyst for the satellite's defeat. However, in every history book, the na of the person who lit the fuse of that catalyst would always be the sa.
The Appearance of the Deep-Sea Alphaurin;
The fact that a genius of the century leaves their mark in history was, in a way, an inevitable occurrence.
Huh.
After the ergence of a certain deep-sea Alphaurin, the Beta Star beings found themselves on the defensive for the first ti. It all began at a single farm. The young mage with green blood, fresh out of the training facility, was on route to a distant sea zone as per military orders. And on the way to the first assigned post decreed by the state—he finally encountered it.
Is it a being from the upper part?
In the forest of seaweed that grew upside down, a creature bent its white, hard body to steal the seaweed. It was the Beta-being, the one that had only been spoken of until then. Moreover, for the young wizard, it was the first ti witnessing the actual form of the enemy.
It was exactly like the artist's dot painting I saw at the training center.
To co all the way down to farmland and steal crops like this...
At the ti, the young green wizard was accompanied by a few soldiers and a large beast, making his appearance quite noticeable. Thus, the Beta, sensing the approach of the planet's natives, quickly beca aware and imdiately attempted his unique teleportation magic.
This works out perfectly.
The genius who rose from the deep sea effortlessly suppressed the enemy's freedom.
Fractures, pneumothorax, and hemorrhaging. The early graduate caused all these symptoms with a single breath. The Beta species that had been stealing food from the farm was severely wounded and captured. Furthermore, the subsequent actions that took place were the things that filled the air at the re sight of a green, even when death didn't exist. The deep-sea native tore apart the enemy's limbs and thoroughly analyzed the captured Beta species.
Oho, so this is how the structure actually works.
The voice, full of curiosity, sounded like that of a child. Despite being a fresh graduate from the academy, the green-haired wizard sohow didn't quite match the label of a rookie.
So that's why it withstood the teleportation magic. The outer shell is extrely tough.
He was seasoned and cruel. Moreover, as could be seen, he was a creature half-mad with knowledge, not necessarily a wizard. What would have happened if the bodies of the captured enemy soldiers fell into the hands of such a wizard?
[Table of Contents]
[Alphauri Middle History]
[VI The Transformation and Fall of the Beta Species: The Recapture of the Upper Layers]
This is the beginning of the counterattack.
ooo! oo!o-!ooooo...oo!
The white skin of the upper part beings, resembling seashells, scattered into the water. The torn skin of the enemy quickly turned into new hills and mountains. Unintelligible screams echoed continuously.
OOOOO!
Considering his piece of birth and his family's prestige, it should be evaluated that a person who appeared from what could be considered the lowest point of this world managed to force a powerful invading army to retreat helplessly.
This tactic was commonly used in the Alphauri. A battalion would be composed of nurous close-range magic users and knights, with a small number of wizards placed at the center. While the central wizards completed their powerful spells, the rest of the army would buy them ti. It was a defense-centered formation.
It's inefficient.
However, one young wizard chose not to follow that path. In his first-ever battle, he decided to send most of the professionals to other fronts. And he alone achieved an unprecedented feat. Using the Beta species specin he acquired from a farm, he was able to push them back with a makeshift spell that he had improved just enough by the ti he reached the frontlines. The magic he had modified turned out to be more threatening than any weapon that had existed until then.
The Beta species originally had a strong, rocky, armored skin, a natural defense that covered their entire body. They were so tough that even those spells couldn't leave a scratch on them.
ooo-!oo. oooo.....o!
Moreover, they were high-speed moving creatures, with coordinates shifting rapidly in the blink of an eye, making it extrely difficult to target and kill their inner flesh through their tough skin... Yet, when faced with a genius who seed to have been born to make a living with magic, all these conditions turned completely useless.
ooo. oooo.
A fuel of transcendent power circulates inside the body like the water pressure of the deep sea. Even though he had swallowed such magnificent magical power that he was mistaken for a savage when he was a baby, his innate magical manipulation ability was already top-notch.
Bubbling, bubbling.
Whoosh!
It was the beginning of a disaster. Horrifyingly, as the early graduate swung his tentacle once, dozens of Beta species suddenly burst forth. Their proudly boasted hard armor—skin—was shattered at all at once.
This Alphaurin realized during the process of dissecting the captured enemy at the farm that there was a mana transference pathway pierced through the Beta species' shell.
Such hard, solid skin wouldn't easily absorb external magic. Well, I naturally expected there would be a separate breathing hole.
No matter how strong the tempered glass is, if you hit the wrong corner, the whole thing will eventually collapse.
Breathing hole. This was the first weakness of the enemy discovered by the early graduate from the training institute. And as soon as he noticed the enemy's vital point, he imdiately experinted with the strategy he had conceived on the battlefields.
[Telekinesis]
With a speed that easily overwhelms the high-speed movent of the Beta beings, he pierced their internal coordinates and exposed the skin near the breathing hole from the "inside out."
One. Two. And even if the number reached dozens, as long as they entered his perception, he would carefully tear their sides apart.
As the hypothesis suggested, the breathing holes were indeed a fatal weakness for the white Beta beings. Was it due to their physical structure? In any case, their hard skin was soon shattered throughout their entire body due to a re crack the size of a palm.
ooo, ooo, ooooo! (That's a monster...!)
Crack!
Crack.
The green deep-sea being drove a large group of invaders to the brink of death and finished them off.
oooooooo!!
The waves, the tides, and the monstrous roars of the Beta beings, accompanied by small bubbles of biological respiration, eventually create a cold mountain at that imnse distance.
Swoosh!
The green wizard struck down the heads of all the Beta beings with the rapid freezing ice wedge. If hell truly existed, it would surely take this form. The upper beings, with their skin cracked and underlying muscle layers exposed, could not withstand the attack. They were fragile and filled with agony. However, the formidable wizard, who had completed the grand-scale spell, showed no signs of even breathing heavily.
As expected.
The voice of disaster flowed.
After that, the green color gradually beca a symbol of fear for the Beta beings. Whenever a figure with a green color stepped onto the battlefield, the fellow beings of the upper beings would collapse in droves. And when the tentacles were waving through the air, no matter how strong the generals were, they couldn't survive even two strikes and would die.
Therefore, one day, the green young man of the Alphauri single-handedly obliterated a foreign colony known as the 'Colony'.
From that point on, the Beta beings would faint in fear at the re sight of green, even the green of seaweed stems. A single Alphauri who causes mass deaths wherever he goes like an infectious disease.
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray— The pride of the planet! Hero!
A few weeks after the rookie wizard appeared on the battlefield, the green deep-sea man reclaid 27% of the waters that had been taken away during this short period.
It was an achievent.
How about carving a mountain range in the shape of that compatriot's figure to honor the achievent of [!!!]?Good idea!
Now, the Alphaurins began to refer to the wizard with grand titles like "War God" and other lofty epithets.
But strangely enough, the very person responsible for all these miracles simply glanced indifferently at the praise from his fellow kind.
Hmm.
Good.
No matter how great a general, during the mid-stage of their career, they still had to rest and take care of basic needs like sleep and food. This was because the body modification technology of the Alphauri had not yet fully developed. So, after each battle, the marine creature would return to the temporary barracks provided by the state to rest. Lying with one side of his head resting on his soft tentacle, he thought to himself.
This damn war. I'm sick of it!
His desired career was far away, but as soon as he graduated from school, he found himself constantly on the battlefield. It wasn't that tireso.
His dream wasn't to be a soldier. What he truly wanted was a grand task that unraveled the secrets of the world, while his daily routine was nothing more than wrestling with the neurons in his own mind, the humble job of a researcher. That was his goal.
I should drive these germ-like enemies away as soon as possible and start studying!
He wanted to beco a magic scholar. However, not long ago, a common soldier he t on the battlefield asked him this light question.
Don't you usually want to live a dietante life when you make a lot of money?
This person, who has been making a terrifying impact on the battlefield, is already promised various rewards from the country at this point. Most graduates from training camps usually say they want to relax and have fun once the war is over. But judging by the atmosphere here, it seems this person is even more determined to work hard after the war ends.
Why do you want to beco a researcher so badly?
However, the green Alphauri was unable to answer that question imdiately. To him, magic science was simply a fixed star that he was destined to follow. Even this was because the magic spell that he had improved just enough by the ti he reached the frontlines. No matter what pleasures or beauties he encountered in the world, his heart always returned to the study of magic.
Hmm. I don't know.
What was the problem? Perhaps it was the primitive magic he had seen from the caregiver during his childhood. Or maybe, as the rumors suggested, his hidden parents were indeed gods of great mana.
I just love magic science.
He didn't know why. He simply loved magic ever since he was born. Moreover, with his unmatched sorcerer's talent, perhaps the alien inhabiting Kim Giryeo's body had shared a mutual affection with the unknown study.
...But, as with many stories in literature, the protagonist often ruined their fate because of that very affection...
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