As I approached the fallen mages, the clear log appeared as well.
「You have cleared the 13th floor of the Tower of Trials.
- Eldrion survived.
- Riet survived.
- Seria survived.
- Dorman survived.
- The mages who received your support eliminated all enemies.
- You were not mutated.」
「You will be moved to the ‘Rest Floor’ in 10 minutes.」
「Nothing will be provided on the Rest Floor. Please secure any necessary supplies yourself.」
This was a familiar situation.
No, actually, it wasn’t familiar at all.
What on earth was this? What was I supposed to do?
Let’s make use of my specialties: quick acceptance and flexible thinking.
1. The reason the mages burned the capital castle.
There must have been so many mutants who had taken over the capital castle that they judged it needed to be burned.
Burning everything would cause just as much loss, but even taking that into account, it must have been something they had to do. Acceptance complete.
2. What I need to do right now.
First, I cheered on the unconscious mages and filled their mana.
“Fighting. Fighting.”
Then, with water-attribute magic, I summoned rain and began putting out the flames burning the capital castle little by little.
“?”
They’re not going out.
The flames, which evaporated the water instead as if they were fires from hell, weren’t something I could deal with by extinguishing them bit by bit.
Can’t be helped. I need to see what state the storage facility is in.
It’ll become a bit of a mess, but I have no choice but to raise the output a little.
Whoooosh—
I formed a massive water droplet above the capital castle and dropped it.
Once. Twice. Three times.
With a roar like bombs exploding, the flames of the capital castle were completely extinguished.
The problem was that I had sprayed so much water that, instead of a sea of fire, a sea of water had arrived.
The flood, far beyond what the drainage facilities could handle, completely swallowed the buildings inside the capital castle.
“Gasp.”
To control the water surging all the way here, I spread a reverse-barrier shield around the capital castle.
Then I hurriedly checked the mages’ complexions.
‘They’re still sleeping. It’s fine. I just have to fix this quickly.’
I am Han Yuyeon. An authority on flexible damage control.
With wind magic, I separated only the water that had swallowed the capital castle and lifted it back into the sky.
Now, how to deal with this water?
I evaporated it all with Maid Cosmic Triple Flame Tornado Peace.
Damage control complete.
Now I checked the reward log I had been ignoring.
「Overall Evaluation: S」
「Ability Points +5」
「An additional reward choice is provided to you for setting an example.」
「1 - Maid’s Cheer (D)」
「2 - Sixth Sense (C)」
「3 - Clone Technique (D)」
This time, too, only skills I already possessed appeared.
Management didn’t show up, so I passed and chose Maid’s Cheer.
Even though the grade went up, the skill description didn’t change, but I assumed the cheering efficiency had gotten better and moved on.
As I continued to fill their mana with cheering, Seria was the first to regain consciousness.
After rubbing both eyes, Seria stretched her arms up high, then immediately showed me a double peace.
“It’s mage flame double peace, it is.”
“This is maid dignity double peace.”
“I can feel tremendous dignity from it. As expected of Lady Yuyeon, it is.”
“Your double peace has elegance too, Lady Seria.”
Ah. What a beautiful exchange of peace.
I was deeply moved by this situation, where we were sharing peace signs politely rather than launching surprise peaces.
When I examined the flow of mana I could feel from Seria’s flame peace, I saw the form from when I had first created flame peace.
Even though I had never really explained it to her, she had inferred it on her own and reproduced the initial flame peace.
Eldrion, Riet, and Dorman also woke up and each showed me their flame peace.
For us, united by peace, no other words were needed.
What had happened while I was gone, how they had learned flame peace—there was something more important than those stories.
Representing the mages, Eldrion spoke.
“Would you grant us the honor of witnessing the flame peace that has reached completion?”
Those were the eyes of a mage who, rather than having me explain the theory, wanted to see my flame peace and infer and develop it on his own.
To answer that passion, I showed them flame peace with my right hand.
“Ooh...!”
Explaining it in an easy-to-understand way would not be proper courtesy toward the mages.
Research. Dissection. Analysis. Inference. And through that, conquest.
To mages who enjoyed finding answers, summarized explanations were shameless acts that stole away their joy.
「You will be moved to the ‘Rest Floor’ in 1 minute.」
While maintaining flame peace with my right hand, I used my left hand to take lunch boxes out of my subspace pouch.
Even as I stacked the lunch boxes neatly, the mages’ gazes were fixed solely on my right hand.
How wonderful it was to be able to feel passion for something.
Just before being dragged off to the Rest Floor, I cheered on the mages one more time.
In their eyes, which looked toward the next step and sought to move forward, there was surely happiness and hope.
***
After Han Yuyeon’s 13th-floor broadcast ended.
The mages residing in the Tower Gallery had fallen into a kind of self-loathing.
They felt pathetic for having simply waited for Han Yuyeon to explain the theory, saying that an opportunity to learn flame peace had come.
[Title: Waaaah, I’m a baby mage]
Author: TtyuttyaTtyuttya
(Hoeeng... Mage Con)
Mommy Yuyeon... Flame peace... I’ll... I’ll...
I’ll figure it out myself, so don’t tell me!!!
I’ve got mage pride, damn it. I’m absolutely going to pull it off
Gate, Tower, you’re all dead
(Let’s burn it! Mage Con)
- You’re not a baby...
- I’mGoingToBeAMagicMaster)(You can do it Mage Con)
ㄴ You actually can do it, though
ㄴ You don’t just do flame peace, you do Mage Triple Flame Tornado Peace, man;
ㄴ How did you do that...?
ㄴ Isn’t this guy Earth’s greatest mage?
Even if one’s circle rank rose and the number of spells one could handle increased, very few mages had created unique magic by applying and modifying existing spells.
Though the depth of enlightenment provided by the system was inevitably shallow, there were few mages who tried to go beyond it.
After all, even handling the existing circle spells alone was difficult enough, let alone attempting applications and variations.
That was why, before they could even grasp the will to infer and advance on their own, they had hoped for a pioneer to share knowledge with them.
Because they had received so much support from Han Yuyeon, they had, at some point, even lost their independence.
And in that situation, they had seen the mages of Aistrea infer the principles of flame peace on their own and burn all kinds of things...
The mages of Earth declared as if awakened.
They would display a flame peace even more splendid than that of the mages of Aistrea.
A good opportunity had appeared just in time.
[Title: Mages, gather]
Author: PowerAnalyst
An S-rank Gate appeared in Russia
According to the scouting party’s internal exploration results, it’s a frozen world like the trial theme Lady Yuyeon is currently progressing through
Perfect environment to train flame peace
35 days of leeway for the conquest
Confirmed conquest team members -
S-rank priests Emil Dvor, S-rank Natalia Ivanova
+ Ravina
The priest lineup is super stacked, so if you think you’re an A-rank or higher mage, come apply
We’re only accepting mages now
- Is that priest lineup for real?
- You couldn’t die even if you wanted to
- Why is Raa helping out?
ㄴ She says she wants to help with something before she goes back
ㄴ Raa seriously makes me want to kiss her
- HanYuyeonBroth)Can’t B-rank mages go toooo?
ㄴ Do you think you cannn?
ㄴ Does an S-rank Gate look like a picnic spot to youuu?
ㄴ Do you perhaps want to dieee?
ㄴ Are you bad at knowing your placeee?
ㄴ HanYuyeonBroth)Sorry, stop beating me up...
To humanity, S-rank Gates were no longer symbols of terror.
The broadcast where Han Yuyeon’s clone cheered without resting 24 hours a day continued to restore humanity’s energy.
And priests armed with S-rank shotguns had secured “the military force to conquer an S-rank Gate by themselves if push came to shove.”
Instead, Gates had become places that gave many rewards and were perfect for training.
[Title: Mage traits)Dignified, rational, overflowing with intellect]
Author: I’mGoingToBeAMagicMaster
Their exclusive passive skill is literally “Mage’s Inference”
The only thing that can beat that level of coolness is Maid’s Dignity
Go, mages. Go and raise mage reputation
Let’s prove that mages are the ones who can infer, find the answer, and do dignified peace signs with Lady Yuyeon
(You can do it Mage Con)
- (Let’s burn it! Mage Con)
- (Let’s burn it! Mage Con)
- (Let’s burn it! Mage Con)
- I’mGoingToBeAMagicMaster)Guys, that doesn’t mean become arsonists
- (Let’s burn it! Mage Con)
And so, while the mages of Earth were moving toward the S-rank Gate that had appeared in Russia to train flame peace.
[Hell Difficulty Climber - Han Yuyeon (Maid) (17 years old) (14th floor)]
Han Yuyeon’s 14th-floor broadcast turned on.
It had been less than thirty minutes since the 13th-floor broadcast had ended.
[Scary fact)It hasn’t even been 16 hours since Lady Yuyeon entered the Tower again]
This was an insane speed.
At this tempo, it looked like she would clear the 20th floor in less than three days after clearing the 10th floor.
She was clearly proceeding through the trials leisurely, sightseeing, riding a snowboard, and even making snowmen, so what on earth was with this speed?
- If she seriously speedran every floor, how many hours would it take her to clear Hell?
- I’m curious about Lady Yuyeon’s limits...
- If a situation comes where Lady Yuyeon’s limits are revealed, doesn’t that mean humanity is doomed?
The mages, who had come to watch the broadcast while suddenly praising the once again amazing Han Yuyeon, soon stopped watching.
Because the moment they saw how the mages of Aistrea had implemented flame peace, it would no longer be a fair and square contest.
What they had to watch were recorded broadcasts.
While watching videos edited to include only Han Yuyeon’s flame peace sections, the mages simply spent time inferring.
***
I thought about resting a bit on the Rest Floor this time, but I just came up to the 14th floor.
The reason was nothing special.
It was because I wanted to quickly clear the trial, then try playing a card game with the mages.
Thinking about it again, that wasn’t something insignificant at all.
- Hahaha, you’ve come again
- Lady Yuyeon, can’t you give us time to rest too?
- Unlike you, Lady Yuyeon, we’re frail...
Card games are a serious matter.
To do that, I needed to quickly normalize the world.
I checked the 14th-floor trial.
「Tower of Trials, 14th Floor - Istrain Empire Storage Facility」
「The moment the Istrain Empire sensed its own destruction, it stored many things for future generations. They were not things stored for the mutants.」
「Main Objective: ???」
“?”
Why is the main objective a question mark again?
When I looked around and checked my current location, I realized I was at the center of the capital castle, which had taken a direct hit from the fire hell -> water sea combo.
How terrible. To think that a once-brilliant civilization had been damaged like this.
First, since the main objective was a question mark, I had to guess what I needed to do.
If I read the trial’s synopsis again, this trial should be related to the storage facility.
Wouldn’t I find something out if I went to the storage facility?
I’m worried whether the storage facility is still intact in the middle of this chaos.
And I don’t know where the storage facility is either.
For now, I scattered mana and amplified my voice.
“Lord Eldrion. Lord Riet. Lady Seria. Lord Dorman. Let’s communicate...”
Are they not nearby?
Even though I was detecting the entire capital castle, I couldn’t sense the mages’ presence.
Surely they hadn’t left the storage facility unattended and become absorbed in flame peace training—
「Han. Yu. Yeon.」
“??? That’s right. I’m Han Yuyeon.”
- ?
- We knowww
A voice suddenly drove itself into my mind.
At the same time, I felt a sensation like insects crawling all over my body.
「Join the Legion.」
「Join the Legion.」
「Join the Legion.」
What is this noise pollution? And what’s the Legion supposed to be?
It sounded like Omega Seed’s voice, so I answered for now.
“Why should I?”
I was not so naive as to accept a suspicious proposal at face value.