I Became A Flashing Genius At The Magic Academy - Chapter 548

As if waiting for its prey, the Black Moon endured and endured until dozens of battleships entered its embrace.

Hope, when does it come?

It always comes at the most desperate moment. Then, when does despair come? … That too.

It comes at the most hopeful moment.

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“Association President! The Black Moon is taking damage! Human magic is working! That’s for sure!!”

It was the first piece of good news.

“Elf King Hwaseorin and Sakwol Tower Master Rudric are leading the Floating Moon to restrain it!”

It was truly hopeful.

Thanks to the activeof the Named Magic Warriors, the Floating Moon couldn’t protect the Black Moon properly and was busy defending against the attacks, and no more monsters were coming out of the Black Moon, so human magic was hitting it very well.

Kee-eeeeeee-!

Occasionally, a dragon that suddenly popped out of the Black Moon would scream, but humans were no longer scared.

‘So that’s why it can’t resist.’

‘If we can just hit and destroy it before it’s born, it’s such a weak existence.’

‘Now that we’ve managed to touch the Black Moon with human technology, the Floating Moon is no longer our match……

They ended up harboring such easygoing hopes.

The complacency that they could defeat a single, united enemy was bound to weaken the solidarity of the allied forces. Several countries operated their airships on their own and ordered them to approach the Black Moon.

“Hey, wait a minute! Didn’t we brief you the other day that the space nearby is distorted?”

“Yes, but they’re not listening to the warning at all. It seems that they intend to be the first to harvest the fragments that come out after destroying the Black Moon.”

“These crazy bastards! Warn them right now!”

Of course, it wasn’t a situation that could be resolved just because Aryumen told them to stop belatedly. At best, when he gave an order, the answer he got was, ‘We’ve already set out and can’t turn the ship around,’ or ‘It’s difficult to relay orders because of the magical energy near the Black Moon,’ and they would just make excuses that didn’t make sense.

“Dammit, if you guys act on your own, problems will keep popping up!”

-Don’t worry. We also have our own thoughts.

Aryumen was afraid of two things.

First, other rival countries that confirmed their departure would send troops one after another!

“Commander. More and more units are appearing to set sail.”

“……Yeah, that’s right. At first, they were hesitant and worried whether it was okay to do that and whether it was dangerous, but now that others have started to do it first, they’ll set sail belatedly.”

They think.

‘Well, is it okay since that country is setting sail?’

Or.

‘Since that country analyzed it as safe, isn’t it safe?’

For the first time in a long time, it was a chance to catch the Black Moon in the war.

It was understandable that their judgment would be clouded for a moment.

However, what Aryumen was truly afraid of was…….

Thud-!

The ground shook in all directions at the sound of an explosion echoing through the sky. It was a different dimension of explosion than when magic simply exploded.

“That, battleship……!!”

Aryumen gritted his teeth and looked up at the sky.

Clearly, the Black Moon’s black dragon, which should have had no form and couldn’t even resist, suddenly stretched out long arms and legs and was crushing the battleships and smashing them to pieces!

As if waiting for its prey, the Black Moon patiently waited for dozens of battleships to enter its hold before suddenly opening its jaws wide and crushing them all at once, absorbing them.

“Damn it, at this rate, it’ll recover all the damage we’ve inflicted on it…!”

That’s what Aryumon thought. The reason the black dragon’s form was absorbing the humans aboard the battleships was undoubtedly to repair its wounds.

However.

“T-this is strange. The damage we inflicted is not being repaired at all. Rather, its energy is going deep inside…and being used somewhere and then discarded.”

“What? Surely, it’s not trying to create another grotesque lifeform…”

“It doesn’t seem like that either. I don’t see any of the characteristic wavelengths when it spits out impurities.”

“Damn it, I don’t know. With that being the case, tell them not to stop attacking! Now that those idiots have failed, there won’t be any more units making such foolish moves!”

A change had occurred, but if they could use even this as an opportunity, it would be good.

That’s what Aryumon had hoped.

“……It’s an emergency.”

All the lights on the instrument panel monitoring the Black Moon turned red. It was an ominous sign. What was even more frightening was that the Black Moon’s activity was as calm as ever.

Even so, the reason the red lights, which indicated a crisis, had come on was…

It was too absurd.

“The black dragon born from the Black Moon…has begun to absorb magic, magic…!”

“Absorb? No, that’s not absorption.”

Aryumon felt dizzy as he watched the magic directed at the Black Moon disappear.

“It’s just…simply…nullifying the magic…

It was such a simple phenomenon.

But as a magician, it was a phenomenon that was difficult to understand and accept…

“But the attacks are still effective! Magic of class 6 or higher is not being nullified properly!”

It was still okay.

Hope had not completely disappeared.

Aryumon shouted as if spitting out blood. He told them to crush the Black Moon as much as possible, even if they had to squeeze out their last ounce of strength. He said that they had to inflict a little more damage, so that the ‘being’ that would soon be born would be incomplete.

Thud…!!

The roar of space resounded from somewhere.

“……It’s an emergency. The 9th class asymmetrical force set, including Elf King Hwasurin, has been defeated.”

Aryumon hurriedly turned his gaze towards Hwagong Siwol.

All of them, who had been gathered together as the ‘Great Twelve Moon Elite Force’ with thousands of troops, had been defeated.

The ground had caved in as if the entire space had been folded up, as if a meteorite had struck it, and in the middle of it, Mayu Hoshi, a boy from Stella Academy, had collapsed.

Rustle…

Hwagong Siwol’s condition was not good either. He was glaring at the Black Moon with an extremely angry expression. The fact that the Black Moon had been slightly damaged by a few humans had made him furious!

At that moment, Aryumon felt relieved.

‘Ah. Yes, our struggle was not meaningless.’

What is this shadow that looms over us even now?

Is it the shadow of defeat?

“……It’s a shadow caused by the expansion of the Black Moon’s form.”

“You’re such a romantic, aren’t you?”

“You’re really hopeless, aren’t you?”

A crimson lump of energy, mixed with a grayish energy, slowly began to merge. At last, Haegong Siwol had begun his ‘unification with the Black Moon.’

“It’s not romantic to sense the shadow of defeat, but arrogance. We…may have been destined to fail from the beginning. It may be enough just to have struggled this much.”

Haegong Siwol repelled the humans’ magical attacks and flew up, disappearing into the Black Moon.

Originally, Haegong Siwol’s goal was to capture the 9th class or higher asymmetrical forces that could significantly damage the Black Moon, but he was only able to capture three, and as a result, suffered great damage.

If only the humans had not been greedy and arrogant.

If they had not sent out their battleships.

If they had not approached without knowing anything.

…If they had not absorbed knowledge from the Black Dragon.

Really, Haegong Siwol’s plan might have been just a little bit precarious.

However, that was all it was.

“The 6th class magic has been nullified!”

“The 7th class magic has been nullified…”

“The 8th class magic…!!”

Eventually.

“…Commander. Even the 9th class magic can no longer resist that despair in the sky.”

At Sael Ri’s soft remark, Aryumen raised his head in despair.

The Black Moon, unlike when it first appeared, was badly broken and scarred.

The afterimages and shattered fragments of black debris were scattered here and there.

However, in the end.

Humans failed to bring down the Black Moon. They failed to stop the dragon that was now wriggling there, beginning to take on a completely clear form.

Thud!

Finally.

When he spread out a huge black thing that he could call a ‘wing’.

…Kkiiooo!!!

The world was gone, screaming.

The Black Dragon could not open one of its eyes. The claws on its forelegs were broken, and one of its wings was torn. The wounds inflicted by the humans were effective.

However, that was all.

As the crimson energy began to condense from the Black Dragon’s mouth, he sensed that everything he had struggled for so far was meaningless.

Because he had inflicted so many wounds but had not been able to take his life.

In the end, humanity would be destroyed.

“Oh, oh…”

The wizards knelt down and stared at the crimson lump of energy that was beginning to form in the Black Dragon’s mouth, with emotions that were a mixture of despair and awe.

If something like that were to fall on this land, an entire country would be wiped off the map in an instant.

The wizards who had witnessed the great ‘magic’ could only watch, their souls sucked out.

“Ugh..”

Those who had collapsed in exhaustion stood up, sensing the aura of enormous magical power.

“What, what is that…?”

“Archmage Alterisha! You must run away!”

Even Alterisha, who had been working tirelessly all night to improve items in preparation for war.

“…Ah, the World Tree is crying.”

Hwasurin, who had stood at the forefront more than anyone else, to stop Haegong Siwol, to stop the Black Moon.

“My lady, no more… There is no room for humanity to resist…”

Jellyelle of the Byulgeum Trading Company, who had mobilized all of his assets to supply war materiel.

All of humanity could sense the impending doom.

“We can’t even use magic anymore… All the magic power in the area is being absorbed by him.”

Thecrimsoncloudofenergy1,graduallymixedwithagrayishenergy.Finally,Hoe Gongsiwolbegan’theunificationwiththeBlackMoon’.

Now.

Ifthatguylowershishead.

Andbringsruinontheearth.

Everythingwillendwiththat.

……Bam!

Ifonlythe’headofapurewhite dragon’hadnotemergedfrombehindtheBlackMoonoutofnowhereandbittenintothebackoftheneckoftheblackdragon.

Itwoulddefinitelyhavehappenedthatway.

Wh,what?!”

Everyonewidenedtheireyes,unabletocomprehendthespectacleunfoldingbeforetheirveryeyes.Meanwhile,thewhitedragonbitdownonthebackoftheneckoftheblackdragonwithallitsmightandmadeitfaceuptothesky.

…

Apowerfullightemissionwithoutevenasound.

Amassiveexplosionthatseemedtohavecreatedasunrocketedupintothesky,partingthecloudsandcreatingacylindricalgap.

，Ah……!!

Icouldn’thearanymore.

Icouldn’tseeanythinganymore.

AryuMunfranticallydrewuponallofhismagicalpowersandfocusedonthescene.

‘TheBlackMoon…ishalf-split?!’

Oneisablackdragon.

Oneisawhitedragon.

Ithasclearlybeendividedintwo dragons,buttheirconditionsweresignificantlydifferent.

Theblackdragon’swingsweretorn,itsclawswerecrushed,andoneofitseyeswasblinded.Theinjuriesinflictedbythehumanswereevident.

Comparedtothat,thewhitedragon…….

Itwascompletelyintact.

Itpossessedfoureyes,twohorns,twohands,andtwofeet,withblueeyes.

Clack,clack…!!

That’snotall.

Theentirebodyoftheblackdragonbegantobecomecoveredinpurewhiteice,anditwasenclosedbyanabnormalanduniquebarrierofanotherworldthatnotevenAryuMun,the9th-classArchmage,couldunderstand.Atfirst,IthoughtthatitwasHoeGongsiwol’sdoingtoprotecttheblackdragon.

However,thatwasnotthecase.

AryuMunhasseenitbefore.

Longago,andalsointherecentpast.

‘It’sMorph’smagic!!’

TheesoterictechniqueoftheMorphfamily,whichspecializedinbarriertechniques.

AryuMunwasunabletofullyunderstandthetrueidentityofthatmagic,butItisamagicdevelopedbyMorph alongtimeagoandimprovedbyIsaacMorph.

‘The12thDimensionalIsolation’

Amagicthatcompletelycategorizestheisolatedspaceintoanotherdimension,completelyblockingthepowerinsideitfromtheoutside.

‘TheenergyoftheTwelveDivineMonthscontainedinthebodyoftheblackdragon…isgraduallydisappearing?’

TherewasagreatdealoftheTwelveDivineMonths’energyhiddenwithinthebodyoftheblackdragon.

FromJanuarytoDecember.

However,itwasbeingforciblyheldbytheblackdragon,anditcouldnotbeboldlysaidthatitwasthemasterofallthatenergy.

Butnow,thetrueownerhasappearedhere,sohowcouldtheblackdragonandHoeGongsiwoldaretodisregardthe’vessel’andcontaintheenergyofalltheDivineMonths?

“Aha…sothat’swhatitwas…”

AryuMunfelltohis knees,watchingtheblackdragon’senergythathadescapedbeingcompletelyabsorbedbythewhitedragon.

Becausehewasdespairing?

No.

Finally.

Hopewasbornthathecouldwin.

Therewasaconvictionthattheresistancetheyhadbeengivenuptonowwasnotmeaningless.

Therefore,AryuMunwasabletorelax.

Lookatthetwomenstandingontheheadsoftheblackdragonandthewhitedragon.

Onehadablackishgraycolor,andtheotherhadawhiteblackcolor.

AryuMunnowknewthenameoftheboywhosspreadthewhiterobes,whocouldnowbecalledayoungman.

‘BaekYuSeol.’

Hehasreturned.