Training-Addicted Mage In A Progression Fantasy-Chapter 38: Invasion of Widia (4)

When Leon cast a wide-range scanning magic, he detected five individuals in the vicinity.

There could potentially be more, but any further hesitation would be pointless.

“Wait.”

Leon signaled the group to a stop and descended to the ground.

They were within a dense forest, overshadowed by towering trees.

“This is their territory...”“Shh.”

Leon cut off the Academy student before they could voice an objection and smoothly merged into his own shadow.

“Huh.”

The Academy students, except for Ria, widened their eyes in surprise.It was the same teleportation magic that Black Mages used, known as Shadow Assimilation.

Anxiety spread across their faces.

“Are you planning to fight?”

By that point, the five Black Mages had already reached their location.

Leon, concealed within the darkness, observed them. One of the mages seemed beyond his ability to gauge, while the rest were all Early Arcane.

That one’s Intermediate Arcane... or maybe Advanced?

However, the presence didn’t feel as threatening as before.

Leon emerged silently from the shadow of a nearby tree and immediately swung his wooden sword.

The Black Mage with the highest realm was in the center of the group, making it difficult to attack directly.

“Pierce.”

Infused with magic power, Leon’s wooden sword sliced through the air like a beam of light and rushed towards the Black Mage.

The Early Arcane Black Mage, who was first to spot Leon, panicked and hastily cast a defensive spell.

But as soon as the wooden sword made contact with the viscous barrier, it disrupted the spell’s formula like static interference.The momentary confusion sealed his fate.

The hastily-formed barrier was breached, and the wooden sword embedded itself in the Black Mage’s abdomen.

“Swell.”

At Leon’s command, the sword buried within the mage’s body instantly expanded.The Black Mage was ripped apart in a grotesque and indescribable manner.

The Black Mages’ formation crumbled, thrown into disarray by the sudden strike.

They looked around in confusion at the teleportation magic, so similar to their own, before finally reacting and launching attack spells at Leon.

“Don’t try to block the wooden sword— dodge it!”

The one who seemed to be the leader of the Black Mage group was the first to realize something was dangerously unusual about Leon’s weapon.

The magic from the three Early Arcane Mages wasn’t a big problem for Leon, who could simultaneously cast up to nine spells. However, the leader’s magic was problematic.

The viscous substance summoned by the man with his hair standing on end and dark circles under his eyes looked twice as large as the others.

It would be easier if Pierce and Swell could be used simultaneously.

But it wasn’t a fully developed spell, so it couldn’t be helped.

As the leader’s enormous viscous attack split into several streams and rushed toward him, Leon didn’t try to block. Instead, he activated a Blink Scroll and teleported to a new position.

Without missing a beat, Leon used a C-Grade Scroll, Gravity Well, towards the leader.

“Argh... damn it.”

The leader, who had been preparing to cast another spell, faltered, unable to withstand the increased gravity that pulled him down.

Meanwhile, Leon flung five D-Grade Scrolls at the other Black Mages.For Leon, who had only been training for three months, D-Grade Scrolls were plentiful.Although they weren’t powerful enough to seriously wound Early Arcane Mages, they still packed enough force to be dangerous.

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Explosions of fire erupted around the mages, while wind blades sliced through the air.

As they struggled to fend off the scrolls’ magic, Leon retrieved his wooden sword and hurled it once more, forcing the Black Mages to hurriedly retreat into their shadows.

“Ria!”

Leon’s shout was all Ria needed. She immediately responded with her own spell.

“Light Flare!”

As Ria cast her memorized spell, a blinding flash of light burst forth, flooding the area with intense brilliance.

The Black Mages popped right back out of their hiding spots as the shadows vanished.

“Fall.”

Leon, who had been preparing, unleashed a barrage of thunderbolts upon the Black Mages.

However, these weren’t apprentice mages without combat experience.

“Defensio!”

The Black Mages hastily retrieved tokens from their chests and shouted.

The thunderbolts were blocked by the protective barriers that materialized around them.

It was an artifact capable of defending against Arcane Magic—an item Leon was all too familiar with.

Their eyes briefly flicked toward Ria’s group.

“A Light Attribute Mage.”

With that single statement, Leon instantly realized Ria had become their primary target.

Do you think you have time for that?

Leon swiftly pulled a green potion bottle from his subspace.

It was one of the 30 poison vials he had taken from Paulin’s secret research lab.The poison, extracted from Kito’s body, seemed easy to avoid when directly thrown, which was why Leon had refrained from using it.

But after seeing the effectiveness of the poison mist orbs used by the traitors, he kept it in mind as a contingency.

Leon hurled four poison bottles at the barriers surrounding the Black Mages.

Crash-

The bottles shattered upon impact, splattering the green liquid across the barriers.

Hiss-

As he confirmed the barriers melting, Leon fired nine thunderbolts.

“Shit, cover me. Block my front somehow! I’ll take them all down.”

The three Early Arcane Mages rushed to shield their leader, each summoning three spells to deflect Leon’s attack.

Meanwhile, behind them, the leader was gathering magic power.

Is he trying to cast Arcane Magic?

At the same time, the Academy students launched their own spells at the Black Mages, but they were all intercepted by the viscous substance guarding them.

Leon retrieved his wooden sword and threw it once again.

“Bastion!”

One of the Black Mages pulled a black stone from his chest and threw it forward.

The stone expanded rapidly, forming a towering defensive wall in front of them.

A new artifact.

The wooden sword, vulnerable to such artifacts, ricocheted off the stone wall.Without the sword’s innate ability, Pierce was, after all, just basic magic.

Leon calmly retrieved the wooden sword and took out another poison bottle to throw.

Hiss-

“Damn it!”

The Black Mage cursed as the defensive wall began to dissolve, evidently fond of the artifact that was now melting.

But by then, the leader had bought enough time to prepare Arcane Magic, and he pushed his subordinates to the front.

“Everyone, move!”

Just as the leader was about to chant his Arcane Magic, Leon pulled the Bell of Confusion from his chest and rang it.

Ding- Ding-

As the purple bell rang, the leader frowned intensely.

“Ugh......”“Argh......”

The Bell of Confusion was also an artifact that scrambled the mind.The Bell threw the leader’s Arcane Magic into disarray.

However, the artifact didn’t discriminate—it affected allies as well—and once activated, it couldn’t be used again for an entire day.

No choice......

Without hesitation, Leon hurled his wooden sword, embedding it into the chest of one of the mages standing at the front.

“Fall.”

Boom- Boom- Boom-

Nine thunderbolts crashed down on the Black Mages, who were awkwardly gathered together.

“Fall.”

Thunderbolts rained down relentlessly.Leon continued chanting without pause as he pulled a scroll from his chest.

C-Grade Scroll, Giant Rock.

It was one of the ten C-Grade elemental attack scrolls he had, unlike the dozens of D-Grade magic scrolls he already used.

As he infused the scroll with magic power, a huge rock appeared above the Black Mages, large enough to engulf them entirely, and dropped it.

Crash-

Even after waiting for a while, no one emerged from beneath the fallen rock.

Phew...... That was close.

Leon’s remaining magic power was running low.Of course, this was excluding the reserves he had set aside for flight.

The additional magic required to amplify even basic spells like Pierce consumed a significant amount of energy.Not to mention simultaneously chanting nine spells.

“Huh...... I can’t believe it.”

As the battle ended, the group slowly gathered around him.

“Is this even possible? Perhaps we are witnessing the childhood of a Transcendent Mage......”“......”“Are you okay?”

Ria asked worriedly from the side.

Leon reassured her and then manually split the rock with another spell.

The ground beneath was stained with blood.

“Ugh......”

One of the inexperienced apprentice mages grimaced at the sight of the corpses crushed beneath the rock.

Leon retrieved his wooden sword from the wreckage, with not even a single scratch on it.

He didn’t search the corpses for spatial pockets.There might be tracking devices, just in case.

Meanwhile, having grown accustomed to the sight of the corpses, the Academy student with the highest realm cautiously approached Leon.

“The Black Magic you used...... I won’t speak a word of it.”

Leon smiled bitterly.He knew that by using Black Magic, he could never return to Widia.

Well, it’s inevitable after revealing everything I had in this fight.

Just as Leon was about to suggest they flee again without rest instead of discussing Black Magic, it happened.

Magic surged toward Leon’s group at an alarming speed.

The Guardian Robe Leon was wearing and Ria’s necklace simultaneously lit up.

Barriers instantly formed around Leon and Ria.

Bang-

What struck the barrier was wind—subtle but extraordinarily powerful.

While Leon endured the magic, Ria was flung backward, and the other students collapsed, blood spraying as their bodies were torn apart by the force.

The female mage who appeared before them, holding a fan, had a puzzled look on her face.

“All Early Arcane and apprentices?”

The green-haired woman with a bob cut closed her fan and tapped her lips with its edge.

A sharp alarm blared in Leon’s head.

Mystic Grade!

Without hesitation, Leon pulled out a Blink Scroll.

In an instant, he reappeared beside Ria, who lay unconscious after being thrown back. He quickly embraced her as the wind magic closed in on him again.Although the magic she used was clearly Wind Attribute, it was so refined that reacting to it was nearly impossible.

Thankfully, the Guardian Robe’s automatic barrier detected the threat in time, allowing him to block the attack once more.

Leon was just about to take off using his Golden Wings when something made him hesitate.

“That defensive artifact looks goo......”

Suddenly, searing heat engulfed the woman with the bob cut, who had been flicking her tongue.

Whoosh-

A massive phoenix, large enough to envelop her entirely, rushed toward her.

“Tch.”

She swung her fan, but the huge phoenix didn’t waver.

Her heavily made-up face twisted in frustration as she leaped backward, frowning.

“Arpina, you bitch......”“Since you dared to touch my ‘disciples,’ you can die with grace.”

Arpina, riding on a cloud of wind, had descended before Leon.

Still processing her use of the word disciples, Leon could only let out a sigh of relief as he stared at her back.