I am Han Yuyeon. An authority on flexible training.
I crossed the wall I’d been blocked by due to my lacking Magic stat and reached the 8th Circle.
With the insight I gained, I also succeeded in developing a new peace sign.
「Mana Circle(S): Circulation. The foundation of magic.
- You can cast 8th Circle magic.」
Even after reaching S-rank, there wasn’t any special explanation.
If things went well, I felt like the 9th Circle might be possible too, but I also felt like I’d run into another wall.
Maybe I just needed to raise my Magic stat more later.
It didn’t feel like I was blocked by the restrictions of the Maid class.
“Grandfather. Do you think I’ll be able to reach the 10th Circle someday?”
- Even if an opportunity to reach it came to you, I don’t think you would take it.
“??? Me?”
- You will understand when the time comes.
Hmm. Even if the opportunity came, I wouldn’t take it. Why on earth not?
Since he said I’d know when the time came, I asked him something else.
“Grandfather, are you at the 10th Circle?”
The mages of Aestreia spoke of the 10th Circle as if it belonged to archmages of legend.
And even on Earth, the 10th Circle was an unexplored domain, so I was curious.
I’d heard that even the greatest mage on Earth died at the 9th Circle.
Since the 10th Circle was a realm I had never seen even once, I wondered just how amazing it was.
- Child. If you think the 10th Circle is the end point a mage can reach, you are mistaken.
“Huh.”
Grandfather told me that the 10th Circle was not the end.
- To mortals, the 10th Circle may seem like the highest realm, but once you reach the 10th Circle, a new field of vision opens up.
He said even the 10th Circle was nothing more than a tiny little mountain by mortal standards.
“Then what Circle are you, Grandfather?”
[The Sage of the Star Archive looks at you fondly.]
“Grandfather?”
[The Sage of the Star Archive looks at you fondly.]
I guess he wasn’t going to tell me more than that.
Let’s respect Grandfather’s privacy.
It might be the kind of truth that hurts you if you know it, and that’s why he wasn’t telling me.
Still, there was one thing I thought I should know.
“Then if a moment comes someday when I have to fight a mage above the 10th Circle, will I be able to win?”
Even if my mana was infinite, wouldn’t it be dangerous if I was pushed back by a difference in instantaneous output?
As someone who always had to win, it was something I needed to know in advance, so I asked.
- You will not lose. Because you learned from us.
“!!!”
My heart filled up at that incredibly reassuring answer.
I should live without bringing shame to what I learned from Father, Mother, and Grandfather.
“VV.”
From the moment I reached the 8th Circle, I instinctively knew what 8th Circle magic was.
Whenever I saw things like this, I found the Tower’s tendencies puzzling.
There were skills whose explanations were unfriendly, forcing me to figure them out myself.
And there were skills I knew how to handle from the moment I acquired them.
The representative examples were Mana Circle and Healing.
With Mana Circle, every time my realm rose, I got a clear sense of what I could do and how much, but with Healing, I still didn’t know how to use it.
I wanted to practice Healing on my own body, but,
[Many Constellations are watching you.]
Even just thinking that made me feel an intense gaze.
Could they see everything I was thinking?
They say parents know everything their child is thinking, and I guess that was true.
“Could I possibly heal people whose zombification has progressed with Healing?”
[The Narrator Who Refused Oblivion bestows grace upon you.]
- Healing basically returns the body to a “pure state,” so it should be possible.
But judging by the mages’ condition, your Healing would probably need to be S-rank.
“!!!”
If I became an expert at Healing, I could return the mages whose zombification was progressing back to before they mutated.
In this trial, I would become both a magic expert and a Healing expert.
Preparations complete. Let’s go to the 12th floor.
***
Whoooosh—
As soon as I came up to the 12th floor, a chilly cold brushed past my body.
The sound of the wind felt like Riet’s voice, so I looked around, but Riet wasn’t there.
What I could see were the giant ice walls I had made before being dragged to the rest floor.
「Tower of Trials 12th Floor - Aestreia Magic Tower」
「The magic tool capable of tracking the Omega Seed has been reactivated in the Aestreia Magic Tower. Mutants that have detected the mana traces are gathering.」
「Main Objective: Protect the Aestreia Magic Tower from the mutants until the Omega Seed tracking is complete.」
My current location was high ground overlooking the Aestreia Magic Tower.
Normally, it would be better to start inside the Magic Tower, but this time was different.
If I had started inside the Magic Tower, the mages would probably have been shocked again, saying it was dimensional movement.
- Why is Han Yuyeon-yuyeon here...?
- What, why did she turn it on so early?
- I thought she’d take a 24-hour break this time
- Yeah, yeah, I’m sorry, it’s my fault for trying to predict Yuyeon
Come to think of it, how long had I spent on the rest floor this time?
The time it took to train Mana Circle and develop a new peace sign was short.
It felt like about an hour?
In other words, I was broadcasting continuously with only a very short rest.
- Hello, I’m Han Yuyeon
“Everyone. I realized something important.”
- ?
“I realized that my personality makes me incapable of keeping a set schedule if I want to become a broadcasting expert.”
- She realized it
- Okay, we get it, so please do the ‘I’m Han Yuyeon’
“So from now on, I’ll broadcast at random intervals. Thank you.”
- That’s really nothing new
- So you’re even skipping the greeting now, huh?
- At least do a double peace
It was right not to make promises I couldn’t keep.
Feeling as if my shackles had been released, I spun round and round.
Thanks to a maid’s dignity, I didn’t get dizzy no matter how much I spun.
- So you’re not even going to do a double peace???
- She’s going wild now
- But Yuyeon, aren’t you dizzy?
- How long are you going to spin?
Round and round, round and round.
If possible, I should try figure skating later.
The current me could probably do infinite spins in midair.
For now, let’s be satisfied with snowboarding.
I took the Maid’s Greatsword out of my subspace pouch.
「You have acquired Maid Points.」
- ?
- Dou...
- This is even better than double peace...
- I think it’s okay if she doesn’t greet us...?
I placed the greatsword on the ground and climbed on top of it.
Then, with telekinesis, I gave it a tap. Pushing the greatsword forward, I raced down the slope as if sliding along it.
- You took out the greatsword for this?
- You can just fly, so why are you going down like this?
- d?unno
After my Strength and Magic grew stronger, I’d often moved at speeds much faster than this, so I thought snowboarding wouldn’t be fun anymore.
But sliding down the snowy path while maintaining my balance on top of the greatsword was more fun than I expected.
[The Watcher of the Sword Realm looks at you fondly.]
“VV.”
- She finally did the double peace!!!
- (double peace maid emote)
- Ah, now I can finally breathe
- The subspace pouch is one thing, but you’ve gotta see the double peace
Shooong— Slash—!
I caught on a subtle incline and floated up into the air.
I grabbed the greatsword with telekinesis and switched to sword-riding mode.
Standing gracefully atop the greatsword, I flew over the Magic Tower.
Looking down from up high, I could see the mutants approaching from afar at a glance.
I checked just in case there were any zombies mixed in, but I couldn’t see any zombies.
“This is a trial that reminds me of the 2nd floor. It’s another defense battle.”
- Is the 12th floor trial another defense battle?
- Yuyeon, you know you didn’t tell us what the trial was this time, right?
- Based on the 11th floor, it’s obvious the 12th floor is a defense battle, so I guess she didn’t bother explaining
Come to think of it, it was the 2nd floor. The floor where I decided that Humanity would be my Master.
Memories came flooding back.
Back then, I only thought it was a bug that my Maid Points kept rising endlessly.
- Look at that swarm;
- The Tower < this bastard just doesn’t want Hell to be cleared
- Thank god Yuyeon is insanely strong
- Fr, it makes no sense that we can watch something like this without worrying
When I briefly returned to Earth, I was able to realize that I was loved tremendously.
And I was able to realize that far more people than I had thought were cheering me on.
Since I received such undeserved love and support, I had to repay it.
So that while they watched me, they wouldn’t feel even the slightest worry—with an overwhelming display.
“I developed a new peace sign on the rest floor this time.”
- Huh?
- Is it the Maid Cosmic Quadruple Peace?
I fixed the greatsword in the air with telekinesis and stood upright.
It wasn’t an action related to the new peace sign; I just thought this would look cool.
A proper magic swordsman should be able to fly around on a greatsword while using magic.
I rotated my Mana Circle, which had reached the 8th Circle, and stretched both hands forward.
- Dou...?
And then, connecting the double peace, I copied the peace sign with magic.
Now, even without a clone, I could copy peace signs by myself.
- There are... five Vs...?
When I crossed beyond quadruple peace and entered the next domain,
I could see two paths laid out before me.
Penta Peace, which could divide its power and cast wide-area magic.
And Star Peace, which could concentrate its power and display extreme destructive force.
What I cast this time was the latter.
The so-called Maidly Grace Star Peace. Attribute, flame.
I continuously poured mana into the ☆-shaped peace sign.
Now that Star Peace had become possible, the stability of increasing the scale of magic had risen to an extreme degree.
"""Hello. I’m Han Yuyeon."""
And I greeted the mutants, who were too far away to hear my voice, directly inside their heads.
Having reached the 8th Circle, I had become a maid who could carry out long-range bombardment while maintaining courtesy.
Since I’d given my greeting, I fired the strengthened flames.
Fwoooooosh—!!!
- Kyaaaak, it’s the Yuyeon Death Beam!!!
The sound of flames burning through space rang out viciously.
The overwhelming firepower incinerated the mutants and scattered ash as if staining the white world.
The cold world overwrote the traces with merciless snowflakes, as if it did not record death.
But in order to commemorate the mutants’ deaths, I drew a ☆ with flames and preserved the traces.
- How did you even do that...?
- Yuyeon, I’m seriously feeling a wall here...
- (Hoeeng... mage emote)
- So on Earth, she wasn’t even using 1% of her strength...
Seeing the world blazing brightly made my heart feel warm.
So even a cold world became warm if you set it on fire.
I thought it would be nice to share this realization with the mages.
If I taught the mages Flame Peace, wouldn’t this world become a little warmer?
“Everyone. Keep yourselves warm and be careful not to catch a cold.”
- (shiver shiver... guardian emote)
I decided that once the mages’ treatment was over, I would teach them Flame Peace.
And if possible, Star Peace too.