22 – Knapsack

Before proceeding with the group practice performance evaluation, I wanted to focus on researching ancient magic, so I paused what I was doing and devoted all my time to it.

‘Even if you can learn something by watching it for 30 minutes, it is difficult to apply or utilize it.’

Like all magic, after learning it, I needed to transform it to suit me.

I decided to take some time to remodel these things.

‘First of all, there were three major categories of magic written in ancient magic books.’

The first is magic specialized in space.

The second is time-specific magic

The third and final one is constellation magic related to stars and the universe itself.

Even if space and time were the same, aspect magic was quite ambiguous.

It was memorized, but it was difficult to unravel it accurately, so it was virtually sealed.

‘If you think about it based on what is written in the ancient magic book, it seems that aspect magic is a high-level magic that can only be used after you have clearly made space magic and time magic your own.’

So, I thought to focus on space magic for now, and raised the grimoire with mana.

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‘What you need to pay attention to in spatial magic are a total of three magics.’

Space compression, space expansion, space transformation.

It is difficult to fully accept all of this until the group practice performance evaluation.

Of these, I decided to focus only on space compression magic.

‘Space compression is literally the magic of compressing space itself… If you apply this well, you will be able to use things like blinking that are common in games.’

Of course, not only this, but when attacking, the distance between you and the opponent can be compressed, allowing the opponent to hit the target with magic at a completely unexpected speed.

‘Go further and just distort the space itself.’

Because it was possible to attack the opponent directly, the application methods were endless.

I decided to think about how to use the magic later and began researching it.

* * * * *

I was concentrating on ancient magic all day, so time went by crazy fast.

I was very surprised to realize that I had been immersed in the magic until the day of the group practice performance evaluation.

‘… ‘You were so into it?’

I laughed out loud when I realized that I was so engrossed in this that it would be accurate to say that I lost track of time.

It was the first time in my life that I showed this level of concentration.

‘Even when I first played the game, it wasn’t like this.’

I think that magic can do this, and I am in a daze as I look at ancient magic that has achieved significant achievements.

Maids knocked on the door and informed me that I had to go to school.

‘Then let’s go first.’

I woke up and decided to proceed with the group practice performance evaluation, where an attack by the Heavenly God Church was clearly expected.

*

When I arrived at the academy, I saw a large crowd of people divided into different groups.

Since they are leaving the academy right away, they must have gathered at the playground to make it easier for them to leave.

I looked at them and looked around as I headed to the location that had been announced earlier.

‘I don’t think there’s anyone else that stands out.’

Of course, there are no people who will advertise that I am the Church of the Heavenly God.

I was just puzzled because there was no one who exuded the unique shadyness that was characteristic of the Celestial Sect’s believers.

Just as I was wondering why I wasn’t there, someone was waving from afar.

“Here, here.”

I checked to see if it was someone I knew, but no matter how I looked at it, it was only my first time meeting him.

I wondered if he was an acquaintance of Dern before I was possessed.

‘It doesn’t really seem like that, seeing as they didn’t really talk to me even though they welcomed me.’

In addition, if it’s your first meeting, it’s normal to introduce yourself or ask questions, but seeing as you don’t do that, it’s quite suspicious.

Looking at that situation, I came up with a guess.

I guess this is a situation where you must meet and accompany me, but there is no need to be friendly.

‘If you think about the fact that the group was artificially formed.’

The two people in front of me right now are most likely planted by the Heavenly God Church.

‘It’s surprising that it was planted on me instead of Rumi.’

It would be difficult for even the Celestial Church to touch the Lercie family, but I didn’t expect it to come out so openly, so I thought it was quite interesting.

‘Of course, this is just a guess, so you shouldn’t be too sure… ‘

It is also true that there is an extremely high probability that they are agents of the Heavenly God Church.

I decided to use the ancient magic I had been practicing if they were truly members of the Heavenly God Church.

I held onto the mace and laughed to myself.

“Then, from now on, we will begin the group practice performance evaluation. The practical evaluation involves collecting flowers and arriving at a designated location. Please refer to the notice for further details.”

With such a single word, various precautions made of mana come to mind in the very center of the playground.

After briefly checking this, I looked at the two who were focused on me and spoke briefly.

“Then let’s go.”

At those words, the two nodded and followed me.

* * *

How can we distinguish among the Celestial Gods who are mixed among people?

It was easier to answer such questions than I thought.

The method was ‘no’.

‘The result of reading the novel until the middle and latter half. It was described that those who belong to the Heavenly God Church are unlikely to notice this first unless I say that I am a member of the Heavenly God Church.’

It is said that the only way to tell them apart is to look at the unique dark nature of the believers of the Heavenly God Church.

Because this is so abstract, it is not an accurate way to distinguish, so it is not a standard for judgment.

‘That’s why most of the cases in the novel were unknown until just before Rumi was attacked.’

I laughed out loud as I saw Rumi being betrayed countless times and suffering countless times.

If I don’t step forward and do something, there is an extremely high chance that it will end up in a similar vein.

So, I decided to think about a way to find solid evidence and move forward.

“How about going this way? “It seems to me that there are many flowers of purification blooming there.”

He gestures to me and talks to me about a place that looks suspicious to anyone.

“It is said that rare flowers are found in places where not many people travel. So, I think it would be a good idea to find a place that no one has ever visited.”

Although the logic was plausible, there was one blind spot.

The fact is that what he is pointing is in the exact opposite direction of the target point.

After realizing that fact, I gave a short answer while looking at the male student next to me who was nodding his head.

“Of course.”

With those words, the two hurriedly spoke to me, feeling like they had accomplished it.

“Then follow us. “I will guide you.”

I don’t know if it’s because I’m happy or because I’m not used to this kind of thing.

Quite foolishly, they threw out information showing that they were the Heavenly God Church.

I laughed when I heard, ‘We will guide you.’

‘Dara speaks in a tone that suggests she already knows where it is. At this level, it can be considered confirmed.’

I don’t think there’s even a need to look for information anymore.

As soon as I made that decision, I raised my mace and struck the back of the head of the guy in front of me.

– Crack!

The sound of something being crushed.

I spoke while stepping on the back of the man who was on the floor with such a sound.

“Guide me.”

“…… “

At that one word, the boy standing next to him made a blank expression, as if he had difficulty understanding what was happening.

I smiled in satisfaction as I saw his expression suddenly harden, then swung the mace once more.

Bah!

This time, I intentionally hit his shoulder instead of his head.

Even for me, it was difficult to find the Celestial Church members hiding in this large forest.

This is because I needed someone to guide me along the way.

“Quaaa! “Ugh!”

When he was hit by the mace, he screamed as he held on to his shaking arm as if in pain.

I grabbed his head and raised it and spoke briefly.

“Then let’s go.”

“…… You you!”

I opened my mouth as if I had so much to say.

He swung the mace again and smashed his other arm, so he didn’t say anything anymore and just screamed.

I looked at him and ordered, ‘If you don’t want to get hit again, lead the way,’ and he started to quickly run away to a place with a trembling face.

‘Then, shall we go?’

Oh, by the way, it didn’t really matter if that guy or this guy below were not members of the Heavenly God Church.

If you don’t die, you can usually compensate for this by giving a huge amount of gold coins.

So, I decided not to kill him and slowly walked forward while holding onto the head of the unconscious guy.

*

“Save me, save me. Help me!”

The place where the guide arrived screaming was an empty lot that looked quite large.

As I was looking around, I thought I had no idea there was a place like this in the forest.

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I can see quite a few people creeping out.

After seeing this, I looked ahead with the intuition that many of the members of the Heavenly God Church were hiding among the professors supervising this group practice performance evaluation.

‘Approximately fifteen people.’

It appears that some of them are wearing white robes rather than academy uniforms.

I was able to notice that external personnel other than students were also mixed in here.

‘Even though it is rotten, it is still rotten.’

As I wondered what the existence of Rumi was to the Celestial Church, I held my mace tightly.

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