The Magic Of Skill

Chapter 18's

Queen Holiana was speechless when in front of her was a sea of flames that lit up like hell. A view that is too bad for someone who has just finished confining himself. The entire kingdom except for the palace, burned down.

“... what.. happened?”

Shit, Queen Holiana is in a deep shock.

Restart!

I used a high-level magic called Restart, it was a magic that could rewind time. How long it took to retreat was determined by the amount of mana used. I use it quite a lot. Roughly for 1 minute, I ran out of over 1.5 million mana. Basically this is indeed a simple magic that is only able to rewind a few seconds.

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“... j-don't tease me keep!” holiana said, he again uttered the sentence he said a minute ago.

Then, All of Freeze! The whole world froze, time stopped. At that moment, I removed the effect of this stop time on Holiana, so that she would not freeze.

Like a bird fresh out of a cage, confused and amazed, Holiana observed her surroundings that suddenly turned ice blue. The people below us stopped walking, the clouds also stopped moving, “What happened?”

“Holiana listen to me, soon there will be a big explosion that devours this kingdom. I need you to calm down and wait here, while I stop the explosion. Youunderstand? Don't panic.” I was clear on Holiana.

Even so Holiana remained clueless, she tilted her eyebrows. “What are you saying? Everything's fine, right?”

“No, this is bad. The explosion was not from an ordinary creature,.” I tried to think of where the explosion came from, “.. Varnella?” realizing that this was dangerous, I immediately jumped over the stairs and rushed towards where the explosion came from.

Before I actually jump, Holiana managed to stop me, “Wait, don't leave me alone!”

“But this is dangerous. You just calm down. If this time stop stops, it means I made it, so you—”

“I don't want to!”

“.. Holiana?”

“I.. don't want to. If you act selfish like that, I'm afraid. At least I should come with you.” Holiana pleaded with me, her face bleating like a starving little cat.

Her face is too cute and I can't let her, “Holiana, come on, it's no trivial business. You may not know, but the explosion could kill us anytime.”

“At that time,..You will protect me right?”

Questions that sound very painful.

Right too, I'll protect Holiana. If I leave Holiana it means I take it as a burden. Oh, no, this is his wish anyway.

I smiled, agreeing to his request. Then I carried her body like a princess, Holiana who was shocked when her body was lifted immediately put on a red face and beat my chest. With the Fly Up magic, I flew while carrying Holiana.

Locating!

I tracked down Varnella's whereabouts. With the Locating skill that was useful as this absolute tracker, there were almost no living beings that I could not find. Varnella is no exception, who is not even the strongest creature in the world.

According to my tracking, Varnella was in the ground, very far from the palace building. With time gone, I was free to do anything, but still I headed towards Varnella in a hurry.

The strange thing is the presence of another figure near Varnella, 4 people maybe? Since I don't know who they are, I used Long Sense to take a look. They are Quine, Killifer, and Florinas. All three were in the position of the horses, preparing to attack. Varnella was among them, three-on-one with my comrades.

A few minutes later, I reached the ground where Varnella was supposed to be. With just a single kick down at full force, it was enough to perforate the ground to a depth of tens of meters.

I was led into a large underground chamber, with many sharp cave stones up and down. Everywhere it was dark, but it was lit with many torches that allowed me to see how vast the room was.

Not far from where I was standing, Florinas and the others were preparing an attacking position. Varnella was in front of me, in a luxurious throne with a terrifying flame decoration, she was carrying an ugly wooden stick but I could feel the power within. Next to Varnella was a fat, ugly man, who wore expensive noble clothes, his expression terrified.

Though Varnella was sitting casually on her throne, not one bit showed a face of threat or anything. But what made the atmosphere tense was the presence of a large magic circle that appeared in the middle of the room. The magic circle was engraved on the ground, giving rise to an extremely powerful fire aura.

“.. Walter.. we.. where?” Holiana asked in fear, she looked around her dark ground.

“As Queen you should know. Don't ask me.”

“But I never knew there was a basement in Le-Ugen.”

I deactivated Super Skill All of Freeze.

As time went on, interaction between everyone in the room resumed.

“Master?” Florinas was surprised to see me.

But there's no time to say hello. I realized the magic circle imprinted on the ground was a bomb that would destroy Le-Ugen. A few seconds before it exploded, I used Area Protection magic, which is the result of merging Locating and Protection.

A transparent red-colored dome covered the magic circle, then resisted the huge explosion and heavy pressure that was within. But take it easy, any magic will not be able to penetrate the Protection Area I created, unless it is stronger than me.

After her suicide blast was over, Varnella looked at me in confusion. My team marched next to me, they understood my condition of carrying Queen Holiana, so they put up horses to protect.

Varnella exhaled in annoyance, he stood up from his chair and began to speak, “Will master of Florinas?” ask Varnella. His tone was like a genuine evil person, cruel and torturous. Although her beauty was comparable to Florinas, Varnella could not possibly attract any man with her eyes. “I don't think my sister Florinas is now a slave.” Further.

“It seems you misunderstood me, Florinas called me Master because he thought I was, but I never thought of him as a servant. Florinas is my family.”

“Gosh, whatever, I don't care.” Varnella went down the stairs that rode her on the mound of earth, she came down with her ugly wooden stick. As for the fat man standing next to Varnella earlier, he only watched with a stupid face. “Until you can stop my strongest magic, Great Explosion, it seems like you are not an ordinary person huh.”

As Varnella got closer to me, Holiana became frightened. He brought his body closer to me.

“.. I don't know, yes. I'm just a lucky man who is respected by a Royal Knight, a swordsman, and a Fairy Queen, where is my strength?”

Varnella laughs at the joke, “You insulted me?”

I returned with the same smile as him.

Wait, I don't remember ever having that smile on my face.

It was a smile that made me think that I was a bad person. I smiled because I saw how Varnella was tormented by my power.

Holiana, who had been approaching, turned back away when a sly smile was engraved on my face. I who realized that immediately apologized and asked him to stay near me.

“If you hadn't come, my sister Florinas would have died. hihi.. after thousands of years you've been cooped up in eggs now finally—”

“Kony! You and I were created equal. If we are not immortal though, it will take longer than the Great War to finish the fight between us. And at the end I will win, God says so.” Florinas.

Hearing Florina's serious-sounding denial, Varnella laughed out loud. His laughter made the ears hurt, the evil aura he released was too strong, I doubt ordinary people can remain standing tall. After finishing laughing loudly, Varnella even more gave off his evil aura.

Because of that frightening aura, the foolish man on Varnella's side could not stand, Holiana also had time to fall until I gave her the Peace Warm magic so that she improved, Quine and Killifer were also afraid. What was frightening was Florinas expression. And the new Fairy Queen said that she and Varnella were comparable, but what we see now, in fact Florinas was trembling in fear.

“Hey, Florinas, you never learn at all. I also said ‘mati’ just before I sealed you.” Varnella said something Florinas could not understand, “I am now different. You who have been asleep for thousands of years will probably never know how hard I have improved myself little by little until this point.”

It's critical. Florinas is indeed not comparable to Varnella now, especially with his mana that often leaks. I could tell it was from the look of Florinas who seemed to want to die.

In my Inventory there are still Garanof and Exaviel swords, besides that I am also stronger than Florinas and Ice Dragon, where I am at 2.7 million. Impossible to lose.

Florinas prepared a sword of ice that he could create at will, he pointed it at Varnella like he had pointed it at me, “Then we see how strong you are.”

“Oh no, you. Even you won't see it.”

“... what?”

“Look at Florinas, this is the greatest skill I've managed to get!” Varnella lifted up her wand, then banged it on the floor.

Nothing happened after that, I could only worry about being with Holiana who was getting scared.

Did the Varnella skill not work?

Before I mocked him, I could feel the effects of that skill. Not from me, but from someone else.

Suddenly Florinas pointed his ice sword at me. The unredicted swing almost split my head in half, Holiana who was pulled by me also lost a few inches of her hair due to Florinas' attack.

I stayed away from Florinas, and just wanted to scold her. Another swing appeared from my right side, Killifer's fast sword directed at me faster than sound, I dodged with great difficulty in having to protect Holiana from the other side. Aside from Killifer, Quine also did not hesitate to stick the tip of his sword at me.

I, who had no choice but to dodge, was forced to create a Confining Area of Protection between me and and my own comrades. Only Holiana took refuge inside my Protection Area.

When I was inside the dome, they stopped attacking. I saw with my own eyes, when my team changed sides.

Florinas and the others walked over, and stood by Varnella's side as if they were one team now.

What the hell is this really? Did Florinas set me up from the start?

No, look them in the eyes again. Their eyes were different from before. No doubt, this is the effect of Varnella's skill. He must have hypnotized Florinas so as to make him his partner.

“You're great too, boy. What I need is that ugly queen, why are you protecting her?” Varnella asked.

“What do you mean?” when I asked, my eyes unintentionally saw a slightly mysterious sight. The fat man in noble clothes slowly left this underground room. He ran between the shadows and just disappeared.

“Holiana Katherine Jillian, owner of the True Death skill. Too bad such a great skill is owned by a stupid woman who even shuts herself in the room. haha, I would be ashamed if I were her.”.

“What do you want from Holiana?”

“Not a big thing. I just need to dedicate my soul to a stick that can store skills in an infinite capacity, the stick I am holding right now, Staff of Leader.” Varnella showed me his ugly wand, “It's a shame that you're so hard to kill, I'm surprised that you and the queen didn't get affected by my Royal Servants.”

“Royal Servants? Is that the name of your skill? I'm sorry, but I have a skill that can.” I stopped my speech after realizing something important. “That means you used your skills on me?”

“Of course, and I'm still waiting for an answer as to why you weren't affected by the attack.” Varnella.

“.. then. thank you.”

“Hah?”

Double Drive, a super skill that allows me to copy the power of the person who touches me or attacks me, whether physically or otherwise. With Varnella who just used her skill on me. That means all his powers are mine.

Great, his mana is even much higher than Florinas.

My mana number is now 4,921,722, which is more than enough to put people to sleep around the world with Sleeper.

I removed the Protection Area's protector, when her protector disappeared, Holiana panicked and told me to immediately make her protector return. I said not to panic.

Florinas, Quine, Killifer, ran towards me with each sword in their hands. By activating the Royal Servants skill, the three of them have now returned to my side. They stopped running. I told the three of them to go take Holiana. I will definitely eliminate this effect later.

Varnella was surprised that her skill suddenly malfunctioned. Before digesting the situation, he was already faced with me who was standing not far from his place.

From within the Inventory, I took out the twin swords of Garanof and Exaviel. Seeing that legendary sword in my hand, Varnella endured her fear and surprise, “.. Garanofs.. Exaviel.. how can it be?”

I swung Garanof's sword, Varnella fended him off with the stick he was holding. It worked, but it was obvious how hard he was to withstand the power of my sword. Our physical differences are too far away.

I kicked Varnella until she took a few steps back.

“The sword that symbolizes evil and good, how can a human like you hold both.

“That's exactly what I want to ask you, I hear you're an expert with other people's personalities. How about you see my personality?”

Of course I know that his ability to read personality is People Reading, it is an Empty Technique. But I still find it hard to do it to myself.

“And why should I answer you?” ask the arrogant Varnella.

“Weapon Upgrade!” I increased the sharpness of the Exaviel sword I was holding in my left hand, then I threw the sword at Varnella who was pushed back from the previous kick. The sword throw surprised Varnella, he did not have time to hold it. And now Varnella's stomach is pierced by a sword.

Varnella endured the excruciating pain. Considering the Exaviel is a holy sword, and his power is augmented by Weapon Upgrade.

“.. You will know, that for the first time you will regret being created immortal.” I said.