I Became the Villain of a Romance Fantasy

157 – Hard work never betrays (1)

Damian’s action was very simple.

When the referee announced the start of the duel, he ran towards Serkin at the same time. Serkin also prepared an attack at the same time as the declaration, but unfortunately, the problem was that Damian’s movements were faster than he thought.

There was no problem with the speed of Serkin’s casting.

He was a wizard at a level where he could manifest magic only with his will without chanting, and the excitement and thrill of being in the position announcing the opening of the Holy Spirit Ritual stimulated him to cast magic faster than usual. .

‘Huh?’

The problem was that even if Damian was fast, he was too fast.

When Serkin recognized Damian’s location at the same time as the referee’s declaration, he was already punching in front of Serkin.

I wonder if it was an instinct for survival even before the word panic flowed into his head. Serkin used his protection magic faster than ever before. Although he developed magic in a hurry, he was also a wizard who reached the level, so there was no mistake in casting magic.

Serkin was relieved that he had passed the hurdle with the success of magic. All of this had happened within 10 seconds of announcing the start of the duel.

And it was within those 10 seconds that Serkin lost consciousness.

Serkin’s defense magic was obviously successfully cast.

It was only Damien’s fist that broke his teeth.

There was no trick or trick. The pressure of overwhelming power just broke the magic. Damian’s fist, which pierced the protective magic, hit Serkin’s face directly, thus creating the current situation.

It was difficult to recognize even the magician, who can split a few seconds apart from other people to think. What happened in the blink of an eye enveloped the venue in silence.

It was the silence created by time for the human brain to understand.

“Winner! Damien Krause!!”

The referee’s declaration of victory resounded, and the silence in the venue began to be filled with shouts of people.

It was a duel that was neither flashy nor high-level, but the strong impression Damian left on the audience overpowered all of them.

What kind of seat is this?

It’s not just a simple duel, it’s a place where the best equipment in the empire gathers to compete to see who is the strongest.

The audience knew.

That those who climb up there are not mere idiots.

Only geniuses among the geniuses who have been filtering and filtering from the yongdamhohyeol of the academy can stand in this place.

And the audience is here to see how those geniuses are dying and who is the best among them.

Isn’t it too trivial to end?

No, that is why they are enthusiastic about it.

Such an overwhelming result in this place where only a few geniuses can stand. Having produced these results doesn’t mean that they are close to the best they want to see after all.

Then, of course, it deserves praise.

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“Oh my God…”

It wasn’t just the audience who were affected by Damian’s overwhelming victory.

The audience is just a spectator, but the students who have to fight in person were naturally intimidated by the thought of having to face off against such an opponent.

Each person has their own reasons for participating in a duel, such as to prove their growth or to check where they are now, but if it ends without showing anything like that, the audience may like it, but it will be futile to the person concerned. Tenni.

If that happens, it’s not the children who don’t know that the reason is because of their own inadequacies, but it’s inevitable that they’re sorry.

Of course, not all children were intimidated by Damian.

Reinhardt smiled at Demian’s more unconventional appearance than usual, revealing his teeth, and Noel reviewed the content of the game, which had only been for a moment, while he thought about what he would have done and found the answer.

At least the children who were thinking of confronting Damian didn’t have the word defeat in their heads. If you go to a duel, of course you should only think about winning, so there was no wavering in the eyes of the children who were already determined to win.

If there are exceptions…

“That’s breaking…How strong is that?”

Orcus Estelia did just that.

Looking at the floor of the venue, which was destroyed as Serkin got stuck, Orcus looked at Damian with a puzzled face.

Since the Holy Ghost Festival was clearly an imperial event, it was natural for Orcus, the next emperor, to be involved in the preparation of the Holy Ghost Festival. Although he made more than one or two decisions to proceed with the Holy Ghost Festival, he remembered something about the scaffolding he had laid in the venue.

The most attention-grabbing event at the Holy Spirit Festival, which can be said to be the biggest event of the empire, is a duel between students like this.

It’s a duel between students, but since the venue was the place where those who could never be ignored faced each other, it was impossible to make the place that would be their stage easily destroyed. Still, the arena was made by carving out the hardest mineral.

Even if the knights and wizards on active duty were to face each other, it would only be enough to make a scratch, but Orcus, who knew the truth, looked at Damian with eyes mixed with half admiration and half fear.

“You really sharpened your sword, Damian.”

Because he was an Orcus who had known Damian often, he was proud of his knowledge of his personality.

Basically, he wasn’t a person who cared too much about competing with others, but that didn’t mean he didn’t have a competitive spirit.

So even when he said he would participate in the duel of the Holy Spirit, I naturally thought that he would aim for the championship, but seeing the results he made, it was true that I was a bit intimidated even though I knew that he would move with all his heart.

He thought he wouldn’t be doing his best in sparring with the kids, but he didn’t think of such an overwhelming gap. If I hadn’t flinched at this, it would have been a lie.

Above all, although Orcus is an excellent mage, strictly speaking, combat was not his specialty. It means that he did not learn magic by means of force.

His strength was only a by-product of his academic literacy in magic, so although it might make others laugh, Orcus had no particular preference for fighting in which he hurt someone.

You shouldn’t expect the fighting spirit of fighters like Reinhardt and Noel from Orcus.

I have a basic desire to win, so I am interested in winning, but that doesn’t mean I’m desperate for it. For him, the meaning of this duel in Seongshinje was that simply participating in it was meaningful, not specifically hoping for a championship.

“This, I’m getting less and less confident…Well, but I’ll have to try.”

Still, he was a man who could shake but not break.

As Orcus looked around the venue, he caught sight of the audience enthusiastic about Damian’s victory. Was I going up there to get these cheers? No, not like that. He shook his head at his own question and looked back at Serkin, who had fallen to the floor.

For him, winning at the Seongshin Festival was obviously not of much value. But even so, Orcus made up his mind to aim for it.

He was a person with good self-objectification and knew that there were other children fighting better than him, not just Damian in front of him. He had already calculated the odds of this in his head, but for now he decided to erase it all from his mind.

He came to be acknowledged.

So that I can become a person who can be proud of myself, not others.

I made an appointment with someone the other day.

Even if he had a premonition of defeat, he would not give up and would try to the end. At that time, he mocked himself for not being able to do it himself and gave up right away. He still appears from a corner of Orcus’s head and torments himself. So now is the time to get out of there.

He knew from before that it would be difficult for him to win. Isn’t that why you’ve been working so hard? At least the results of this have to be obtained to make ends meet.

Even if that’s the same as Serkin’s appearance in the duel just now.

Anyway, the results of this must be confirmed.

Orcus made up his mind and checked who his opponent was. And he immediately said:

“Oh, it’s ruined.”

[Group B 1st match]

『Orcus Estelia vs. Elena Edelweiss』