Battle War; Magic, Sword and Dragon

19. True Meaning of Rank F

Meanwhile, Ash and 11 men in grades 1-2 were in a place overgrown with big, shady trees. You could say it was some kind of small forest.

They ran about 29 miles. That means they have already passed the first post.

It is usually impossible to rely solely on physical abilities, in other words, they use magic to speed up their run. They no longer care if they will get another 50km, the important thing now for them is to prevent Kuro from reaching the finish line and winning the dinner ticket.

They sat in large circles while resting to recover their strength. This was natural because even though they used magic, their bodies were actually forced to do something beyond the limits of their abilities.

"All right, we're gonna start putting our plans together here."

Knox started talking to start the operation.

All his friends nodded in understanding.

Right now their faces were filled with anger and resentment because their idol girl had been snatched away by a man named Kuro. But they are actually angry not because Kuro is dating Laila.

They are angry that Kuro and Laila are dating because of a promise. It's the same thing that makes Laila do things she doesn't want to. This was only done by a coward and a sly man.

In their eyes, Kuro was the lowest among the lowest and worse than trash.

Getting a dinner ticket for Laila sounds good, but is it a sincere intention or just a show?

They don't know, but they all know that Laila will always keep her promise, so she will definitely not refuse Kuro's invitation to dinner.

Although they seem to interfere in the affairs of two people, but they do not care. Right now they only care about Laila's happiness as an idol of the GSPFL.

"Savf, how's your condition?"

Knox turned his head towards the burly youth who was panting heavily.

Savf Silvon, a C rank User-type mage. His current condition is a little different from that of his other friends. He looked more exhausted and was sweating more. This is natural because of the twelve people, he is the only one who does not use magic.

If they were lying, maybe they could have said that Savf ran without using magic.

But Knox thinks otherwise. They still did not know what abilities Otome had. Moreover, she was a magician with an SS rank who awakened Soul Art.

Without knowing all that, cheating by lying is a silly idea that will only make them fall.

"I'm just tired, but I'll be fine after I rest."

"I understand. Then you better rest because you're the key to our plan. You know, of all things, you're the one with the most stamina."

"I understand."

Knox and the others nodded happily.

"Alright, we'll start the plan, for that I want you to tell me all the information about the F (Kuro)."

Knox. Besides being an A rank magician, she was also known to be very smart to devise a plan.

To devise a perfect plan, the first thing you need is information.

Kuro Kagami, a rank F witch. He carried a katana-type sword with a bell. He always wears a training load every day. Unknown magic element. The name of the magician or the type of witch is still unknown.

"..."

Knowing what he got left Knox speechless in disbelief that they had little information about Kuro.

"Hmmm... are there any extras?" Ask Knox.

He was confused because he could not devise a good plan because there was too little information.

They could have gotten in the way, but Knox was pessimistic about doing something to an opponent of unknown ability.

Everyone fell silent and did not answer Knox, but one of his friends suddenly raised his hand.

"I'm sorry, that's all we know, and that's all in Cristal Age."

Cristal Age contains data on all students in grades 1-2 shared with each student 2 weeks ago by Otome. Data in the Cristal Age serves to consider who the partner they will choose.

In the Cristal Age of course there is data about Kuro, but because of the strange data and the title of F rank, so many are hesitant to be his partner.

Another friend nodded his head thinking the same thing.

But the bespectacled man suddenly raised his hand, and spoke.

"Regarding that, I have a bit of information. The data in Cristal Age is a little strange because that's how it is."

"Ken, what do you mean?"

Knox realized something was strange.

"You know, an F-rank magician like Kuro is rare, especially in our school, which is why I kept silent to find out why F-rank is so few, but E-rank is so much more."

All his friends fell silent because they realized this strange thing. If rank F is the weakest rank, shouldn't there be more than one rank F attending school?

The F rank is the lowest, but because of government rules, there is nothing to stop the F rank magician from going to school.

"Ken, don't tell me that.."

Knox knew what Ken would say next.

"Yes, the F rank is also a special rank like SS - paladin. No, I guess more precisely the unique rank."

"You mean?"

"If the SS-paladin rank is the rank when a witch awakens a certain power, the F-rank is actually the rank given to a non-magician who has the same or similar power as a witch like us, in other words Kuro is not actually a witch."

"""""""!!!"""""""

Everyone is shocked to find out the truth about Kuro, but they realize that Kuro is not a witch, then everything makes sense.

"Have it been, witch or not it doesn't matter, most importantly how do we destroy her?!"

"But-but.."

"Kuro is a non-magician who has the power equivalent to a witch, in other words we should not hesitate to face her."

Ash's words made the doubts disappear. At first they were afraid that they would kill Kuro, but if Kuro has the same level of power as a witch, then they should not hesitate. They should be happy because it would be easy to confront the non-magical Kuro.

After all, that doesn't change the fact that Kuro made use of the promise to take Laila to dinner.

"Alright, I think we're still going to destroy the F even if he's not a witch. That?"

Everyone nodded in agreement with Knox's words.

"If Kuro has the power equivalent to that of a witch, it means that he is not weak. Unfortunately we also do not know how strong he is, ... does anyone know how strong Kuro is?"

Knox asked, but they all just stared at each other.

Again. They don't know.

"I know he's strong enough to put on a heavy training load" Suburo said "In other words he must have a strong body!"

"He's the power type, oh yeah how much is Kuro training?"

"I think 150 kg more, I've asked the question."

Again, everything is silent. They were shocked again by the fact about Kuro.

"Why is everyone quiet?"

Only Suburo was unaware that what he said was a shocking fact.

"Suburo, have you ever lifted 100 kg more." Ask Knox.

"Yes, ever.. I can lift it easily ka- !?. Apparently so!"

Now Suburo understands Knox's intentions.

"Therefore, Kuro has enough strength to lift 150 kg more just by relying on physical strength alone, besides that he even without difficulty moving by wearing such a heavy training load, from that fact, we can conclude that Kuro has the power equivalent to 3 or 5 adults. Besides, he must have put on a training load to make his body fast. In other words Kuro has power and speed on par with us when using magic."

They were amazed by Knox's accurate conclusion. They all finally started to make plans.

(Unfortunately this is just a conclusion from a little bit of data. There are still many unknowns about Kuro.)

Somehow Knox had a bad premonition at the thought of the power Kuro possessed.

In addition, the incident a week ago is likely true.

Kuro hits the dragon with only his bare hands and manages to herd him out of the city.

Kuro managed to do something that even a Knight could not do, didn't that mean that Kuro was stronger than a Knight who was at least B rank?

(I think this is a good opportunity to find out.)

Knox involuntarily smiled faintly. He was happy to find something interesting.

"All right, let's start!"

Knox concentrated, then he put both his hands to the ground. After that, a magic circle appeared and enlarged.

Moments later, the ground in front of Knox began to rise upwards and form a three-dimensional map made of soil.

Knox was a earth-elemental mage, doing this was easy for him, but all his friends were amazed that only a few people were able to manipulate the land and form a three-dimensional map as detailed as Knox.

The map shows the lake and the surrounding area. The map also shows the edge of a lake that is overgrown with trees, or sandy areas. This is more suitable to be called a miniatur than a map.

Knox can do this because it has read and memorized the area of Lake Limph.

"Suburo, can you find out where Kuro is right now?"

"Eh? Are you kidding Knox. I don't have eyes that good."

There is magic to see long distances, but unfortunately no one has learned it yet. In addition, such magic requires 'magic objects'.

"Use Element Art to form the lens, while I'll make the container."

Knox nodded.

Suburo then manipulates the lake water and forms it into a lens. Knox manipulated the ground to form a binocular tube.

After a while, be binoculars made of ice and earth.

"God!"

"Yes." Yeah."

Knox tells Ash to peek at Kuro's location through the binoculars. After a while, he found Kuro, but he suddenly gritted his teeth.

Then he smashed the binoculars with a kick because he couldn't help himself.

"Hey, why are you doing that?!"

"What did you do when you saw Kuro running with Lilia and Della while chatting merrily?"

He asks back, but they understand why Ash is angry.

Kuro is seducing another girl.

"Damn, Knox!!"

"Yes, where is he?"

Knox could only smile bitterly as he looked and felt an increasingly murderous aura.

(This is the consequence if you put oil in a fire, but it is possible that he.).

Kuro realizes there will be a trap, but the trap will not target the girls.

Or the.

He knew that there were no traps and ran while chatting?

"He was about 5 km from the first post. I also saw Laila running behind them for about 5km with Alva, Alvi and Serriv."

"............."

Knox remembers and forms the land into post 1 and Kuro inside the map.

"Okay, here's the plan!!"

"".......""

Everyone was paying close attention to what Knox's plan was.

After a while, they formed 4 groups and dispersed.

Knox ran forward with 3 people. The three of them are Savt, Ken and Suburo.

Meanwhile, the other two teams also ran with him, but they had different goals.

The last team of two people was still silent on the spot and started to activate their magic to set up a trap.

They are Ash and Kazt. They were both the same as User-type witches.

"Ligra!"

Kazt Varamith's. User-type magician wind element. His weapon was a claw that was on both sides.

"All right, I'm handing you Kazt!"

Kazt nodded. He then split with Ash.

Ash did not do much in this plan because the weapons and lightning elements are not useful much in the process of making a trap this time, but that does not mean he did not play a role.

Before long, the sound of fallen trees was heard from the forest on the edge of Lake Limph.

Meanwhile, Otome who sensed her 11 disciples using magic only smiled faintly.

He was happy because things were getting interesting. That was the reason why he did not prevent them from using magic, but would punish them if they used it.

50 Minutes have passed since the run began.

The hot light made Otome choose to take shelter under the tree.

He took the phone in his pocket and pressed a few buttons. After that, a picture appeared on the magic circle which was 30 cm from his face.

The picture shows a black-haired man running alone and starting to enter a forest area by the lake.

Otome has prepared everything. Of course including Insectmera used to display the image of Kuro and his entire student body.

Insectmera is a very small insect-shaped magic robot. It is even smaller than a fly. Insectmera are commonly used to watch from afar or to spy on someone.

Insectmera is a secret military tool, which is why Insectmera is not sold freely in the market and is also very expensive.

Otome has Insectmera because he has connections with someone in the military, but he will get into big trouble if caught having Insectmera.

Then why would he bother to use Isectmera which could have given him trouble if caught?

"It's getting interesting...."

He smiled happily.

Then came the sound of explosions coming from the forest on the edge of the lake.

Kuro's fight against the 12 male witches in his class has finally begun, but this isn't a fight.

This was simply an attempt by the 1-2 class men to prevent Kuro from finishing first. In other words they would only slow down Kuro or hurt Kuro alone.

The question is, are they capable of doing it?

In forest.

"Haaa... is this their only effort? Is this really disappointing?"

Kuro could only sigh deeply in disappointment.

He was currently inside a forest covered in tall trees, yet he was currently inside the route commonly used for running, in other words he was on a small road in the middle of the forest.

In front of him, a large piece of wood shattered into pieces. Not only one, but there are 5 pieces of wood that are broken into pieces. In addition, the surrounding trees also experience many scratches or falls due to falling pieces of wood.

All those pieces of wood were traps set up by his friend.

Using a magic weapon, they tranquilized the tree and cut it. Then they used Mana Art to bind and release it just as Kuro passed by.

Unfortunately, wood was not a problem for Kuro.

He was not trying to avoid the right wood leading to him. He just hit her with his bare hands to destroy her.

When compared to dragon scales, wood is easier to destroy.

This is the power of Kuro. He combined strength and speed to produce a crushing force. All of that certainly can not be done by just anyone if it does not have a strong body.

After that, Kuro continued his run. He ran while jumping over the formless wood again, but-

"!?"

He was struck by hundreds of small pieces of wood whose edges had already been tapered from all directions. Right, left, front and back.

But not only that, a shadow suddenly emerged from the trees and was right above Kuro.

"Sacred Magic Art [Thunder Bullet]"

A sudden light shot forth and attacked Kuro from above exceeding the speed of sound.

Hmkaboommm!!

Explosions happen. Smoke and dust flew over the view and spread in all directions. In addition, blue sparks were also much left over from Ash's attack.

It was an attack belonging to Ash. Ash's weapon is two twin guns. Sacred Magic Art Ash was combining two shots into one and attacking his opponent beyond the speed of sound.

From all directions, Kuro was blocked by wood and from above was attacked by Sacred Magic Art. He would definitely not be able to escape without getting hurt.

Ash quickly landed on the ground, where there was still a lot of dust flying.

After a while, the dust disappears and Ash can see clearly. He was currently standing in the middle of a two meter wide crater.

"?!"

He was surprised to find Kuro anywhere.

(She should have been hit by my attack, why did she.).

"Tch."

He's upset and confused. He turned his head in all directions to look for Kuro, but all he saw were pieces of wood that had been burned by his attack.

"Good attack, I didn't even expect you to be using the Sacred Magic Art combined with the surprise attack. Hmmm... You don't look exhausted, could it be that your Sacred Magic Art is the type that can be used many times?"

"?!"

Ash hears Kuro's voice from above the tree. He then turned to the origin of the voice and found Kuro sitting casually on a branch.

But what surprised Ash was that Kuro was completely unharmed. Even the uniform has no scratches.

(How can it?!)

".............."

Ash was silent because he did not expect Kuro to be completely unharmed.