Chapter 588: Superhero (2)

The moment Davi, looking at the Monkey sorcerer, immediately surged with magic and was about to dash forward.

The Elephant spirit, standing blankly without its head, took a large step forward.

Kwoong!!

“Huh?”

Davi tilted its head, then gasped as it saw the Elephant spirit’s headless corpse still standing.

Lennok, so his words wouldn’t be heard by other students or sorcerers, naturally pulled Davi into a hug and spoke quickly.

“It’s a spirit summoned after its caster died, so it had no reason or intelligence from the start. It stopped momentarily, startled by the sudden shock, but it will continue to move even after losing its head.”

“Oh, I see.”

Lennok whispered, stretching out the cybernetic spirit’s cheek, which was eagerly puffing out steam from its nose at the thought of still having a chance to shine.

“That sorcerer in the monkey mask, they don’t know the Elephant mask is dead yet. So, I’ll take care of the Elephant’s corpse and that sorcerer as quickly as possible, to make sure the students aren’t harmed. Understand?”

“Ready!!”

“Good.”

Saying so, Lennok forcefully threw Davi, held in both hands, high into the air.

Simultaneously, a massive bolt of lightning erupted from the small fox spirit’s body as it soared skyward,

Then, it transformed into a single, immense thunderbolt that plunged straight into the headless Elephant’s torso.

Crackle-crackle-crackle-crack!!!!

A powerful surge of lightning filled the courtyard of the collapsed lecture hall.

Students gaped, forgetting to cheer Davi’s name, as the enormous pillar of thunder descended from the sky.

The moment the Monkey mask, which had been watching with its chin propped, suddenly stood up.

Grooooowwwl……!!

With a strange groan, the Elephant spirit’s body, unable to withstand the lightning’s power, began to dissipate on the spot.

The spirit’s body, burnt, torn, and evaporated into tatters, exposed bone and flesh, bleeding profusely before fading into transparency.

The sorcerer did not appear until the spirit completely vanished.

Only then did the Monkey, realizing something had gone wrong with the sorcerer in the Elephant mask, radiated killing intent and glared at the students.

“Damn it, two of them already down. Then this way……!!”

“Hyaah!!”

A flash of brilliant blue lightning from beyond the burning, dissipating Elephant’s body.

Davi’s body, wreathed in surging lightning magic, flew in a straight line, charging directly towards the Monkey.

Crash!

If the Monkey were to dodge here, the ritual circle behind it would be exposed.

Realizing it couldn’t evade, the Monkey gritted its teeth, channeled its magical power, and began to form hand seals.

“Don’t be insolent, you mere young spirit……!!”

Crunch!!

As the Monkey cast its spell, dozens of hairy, gnarled hands shot up from beneath its feet, forming a barrier.

It was as if the Monkey was summoning its own hands to use as a shield.

Was it planning to block Davi’s frontal assault? Given the hand shapes, it seemed to also intend to restrain and capture Davi.

But Lennok, even realizing the Monkey’s intention, instead of withdrawing his magic, further increased Davi’s charging speed.

“Davi, smash it.”

“Body Slam!!”

The small fox spirit, wreathed in exhilarating lightning, became a sharp spear of electricity, colliding directly into the barrier of Monkey hands.

It pierced through the writhing, living-like barrier and instantly struck the monkey-masked sorcerer’s abdomen.

Thump-thump-thump!!

“Ugh, aahhh!!”

Unable to bear the pain, the Monkey screamed, recoiling and crashing backwards.

The ritual circle unfolding behind it was heavily damaged by the impact, and the people who were being sacrificed were simultaneously freed.

“Ugh……!!”

“Wh-where am I……?”

“Quick, come this way!”

Students quickly rescued the regaining consciousness school staff, pulling them back.

Priscilla grabbed other students’ shoulders, hurrying them into the lecture hall.

“The self-restoration magic circle built into the lecture hall will start soon. You might get caught in it if you stay here!!”

Rebatenon University of Magic, at its core, was a facility created to train mages, and it was also the most powerful educational institution, receiving direct investment from the city government.

Naturally, the amount of magic circles and high-grade catalysts used for the building’s maintenance and security rivaled the budget of an average city.

For some reason, the barrier responsible for external security didn’t activate during the Ghost God Palace’s invasion, but the functions of the lecture hall buildings must still be alive.

Rumble-rumble-rumble!!

As Priscilla had said, the lecture hall buildings, collapsed by the impact, began to reassemble themselves, rejoining broken sections and standing tall again.

The scene in the hallway, crushed by the aftermath of Davi’s body slam, swayed violently as the ground trembled.

The sorcerer, clutching their abdomen, struggled to their feet and threw off the Monkey mask.

“Ugh…… Damn it!!”

Davi’s single body slam, imbued with lightning magic, had crushed internal organs and caused skin to burst.

The sorcerer quickly pulled out what looked like a plant leaf from their pocket and began to chew it aggressively. Their face appeared to be that of a young man.

“Narcotic anesthetic. Is it made from the extract of that type of plant?”

Lennok asked, reaching out to Davi, who was hopping around in the air, and walking up behind it.

Lennok stood blocking the sorcerer, with the spirit emitting dazzling lightning perched on his shoulder.

The sorcerer quickly chewed the leaf, his pain-alleviated face furrowing his brow.

“You killed the Elephant… then you must be the one who killed the Pig too?”

Without waiting for Lennok’s reply, the sorcerer extended the Monkey mask held in his hand.

“You tried to lure me into carelessness with a young spirit and ambush me, but I won’t fall for it……!!”

With one hand, he continuously formed hand seals, while with the other, he shoved the blood flowing from his abdomen into the mouth of the Monkey head.

At that moment, surprisingly, the dead Monkey mask’s head began to drink the sorcerer’s blood and shriek with laughter, as if alive.

Squeak-squeak-squeak!!

As a body grew from beneath the Monkey mask’s neck, it transformed into a human-sized spirit, standing before the sorcerer.

The Monkey spirit, covered in blood, stood hunched, licking the blood dripping from its fingertips.

But unlike the Elephant spirit, which had lost its reason and gone berserk, this one’s judgment seemed intact, merely watching Davi with a strange grin.

The sorcerer, too, seemed to have suppressed the pain by chewing the anesthetic, glaring at Lennok with a sticky, murderous gaze.

“If it’s a direct spirit-on-spirit battle, there’s no way I’ll lose……!!”

“Not much time.”

Lennok said, glancing at the lecture hall where the students had hidden, and nodded.

Cassia’s presence wasn’t among them.

She was probably staying with Leopard, buying time for the other students.

Lennok said so, then grasped Davi’s body with both hands again and threw it forcefully over his head.

“I’m not just facing you alone, so let’s hurry and begin.”

“You arrogant bastard! Do you think you’re good at fighting just because you’ve written a few decent papers?!”

The sorcerer gritted his teeth and formed hand seals. Simultaneously, the blood dripping from the Monkey’s hands solidified into two spears.

The Monkey, hunched over, holding two dark-red short spears, charged directly at Lennok.

In response, Davi, floating above Lennok’s head, unleashed its lightning magic with full force.

Crash-bang-boom!!

In the hallway, where small lightning bolts rained down, the Monkey twisted its body like a dancer, clinging to the hallway wall.

Gripping a short spear in its mouth and another with its tail, the Monkey swiftly climbed the wall and dropped down upside down from above Lennok’s head.

Squeak-squeak!!

With a bizarre laugh, it thrust the spear held by its tail towards Davi, and the spear held in its mouth towards Lennok’s neck.

The moment it seemed to pierce, the shaft, made of blood, exploded, scattering blood all over the hallway.

Boom!!

The hallway, which had been recovering with restoration magic, collapsed again, repeating a cycle of mending and shattering.

Lennok’s corpse lay there, his neck seemingly impaled by the spear shaft.

But that image soon faded, shimmering with faint electricity, and the unharmed Lennok walked out from behind it, rubbing his neck.

“Davi, that was a close one. You know that, right?”

“I’m sorry, the output recoil calculation was much more difficult than expected……!!”

There’s a reason Lennok uses Davi as a medium to handle lightning magic execution.

To resolve this situation while maintaining his Evan Vylun identity, he had to utilize spirit arts, which were already known as Evan’s power.

Davi is a spirit Lennok created himself, and the only medium that stays by his side 24/7, capable of using his magic in his stead.

That’s why Lennok was supplying magic to Davi, assisting the spirit in using lightning magic directly.

However, even with Davi’s powerful algorithms and the cybernetic spirit’s computational abilities, it was struggling to understand and use Lennok’s magic.

While simply outputting strong power was one thing, it couldn’t yet match Lennok’s sensitivity in delicate manipulation.

The sorcerer immediately noticed Davi’s problem and let out a viscous sneer.

“Ha, so it was just a spirit with strong output but no experience. Of course, its intelligence and ability are obvious from its use of primitive combat methods like body slams!!”

“……!!”

Davi gritted its teeth at the sorcerer’s provocation and unleashed another burst of thunderbolts.

But the Monkey spirit, as if it had been waiting, dodged the lightning and launched a sharp attack at Lennok again.

Clang-clang-clang!!

Davi’s lightning barrier quickly blocked the spear blades, but it couldn’t stop the blood spatters from cutting Lennok’s skin.

“Master!!”

“Davi, don’t panic. You knew this was going to be a tough opponent, didn’t you?”

Unlike the large Elephant, the Monkey spirit was human-like in form. Furthermore, it possessed intelligence and combat experience, even capable of using weapons.

It was clearly a spirit specialized in one-on-one combat at first glance.

Moreover, unlike the sorcerer, who maintained his own combat capabilities even after summoning a spirit, Davi had to protect Lennok while also fighting the Monkey.

None of it was an easy situation.

Essentially, this situation relied on Davi’s judgment and combat abilities, but Lennok remained unshaken.

He simply lightly embraced the small fox spirit, trembling with unease, and stroked its head.

“If you meet the conditions, you can activate it. Do it just like we practiced.”

Clang-clang-clang!!!

Even amidst this, the two short spears wielded by the Monkey traced crimson trajectories before their eyes, swirling to snatch away life.

But even as Lennok’s skin was scraped in several places by the impact, he didn’t panic.

Instead, the sorcerer, who had been behind the Monkey spirit preparing for any unforeseen circumstances, brightened his eyes.

“For a bookworm stuck in a lab, you’re incredibly calm. Or have you completely lost your mind from fear?”

“Let’s start it together, one by one. I’m ready.”

Phew……

At Lennok’s calm voice, Davi’s trembling body quietly settled down.

Held by its body in both hands, the fox spirit raised its front paws, and its four tails drooped loosely.

Davi closed its eyes and began to concentrate. An electromagnetic field extended from its body, scanning all surrounding scenery and converting it into data, drawing it in the cybernetic spirit’s mind.

The Monkey spirit constantly moving in all directions, struggling to break through the electric barrier.

The sorcerer of the Ghost God Palace behind it, ready to cast additional spells at any moment.

And the existence of other enemies conducting similar rituals in various parts of Rebatenon University at this very moment.

And even the clear presences of students anxiously watching Lennok and Davi from behind the lecture hall.

“……”

Master is an exceptionally outstanding human among any organic beings the spirit knows.

Heaven-sent talent, intellect, judgment, and the vastness of his mind imprint.

Davi itself, having observed countless organic beings, had never dared to think it could catch up to any of those.

Yet, the image of Lennok that first comes to Davi’s mind, having observed him most closely, is not that of a genius reliant on innate talent and capacity, but that of a wanderer who never stops moving forward.

He is the product of agonizing contemplation, constantly searching for better methods and means, even while living in a different time than others.

Who was it that taught that even the most brilliant raw gem cannot shine without corresponding effort and yearning?

All the time Davi itself had spent striving to be better than yesterday, following the path Lennok walked, is here now, together.

It can do it.

Hadn’t it strived to be a part of all his efforts, and their fruition?

Lennok had never demanded more capacity from the spirit than it was prepared for,

But conversely, he had always given more affection and devotion than the spirit had ever expected or hoped for.

Now was the time to respond.

The power of the cybernetic spirit to manipulate cybernetic space and create algorithms to intervene in reality.

Davi’s own third unique algorithm to manifest that ability in reality.

Automatic Combat Algorithm: Spirit Combat Pattern Activation.

Whoosh!!

Around Davi’s body, which had fully absorbed Lennok’s magic, flashing electricity converged into a transparent, flame-like form.

The flames rotating around Davi’s body increased to three, rotating like satellites and tracing elliptical orbits.

As Lennok slowly released his hands, Davi’s body floated effortlessly in the air without anyone’s help.

The moment Davi’s eyes, surrounded by three spheres of fire, gleamed with intense electric light.

The spheres of fire, arrayed orderly in the air, instantly slammed down on the Monkey’s head, immediately subduing its body and pinning it to the hallway floor.

Kwoooosh!!

Kieeeek!!

Watching the Monkey wail in pain, Davi nodded.

Artificial Combat Support Will-Thought Body, ‘Foxfire,’ manifested.