Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 123

Chapter 123: Demon
The pill rushed down his throat, and for a few seconds, his body didn’t have any reaction.

Little did he know, he was currently starting something he could’ve never foretold, the start of the Japanese academy’s fall, as the loss of his humanity, all began in that moment.

While his body began to feel the first effects of the drug, and his mind capacity was already slowly becoming inebriated, Hans was watching him from the floor above, with eyes full of disgust.

‘What was that? Did he take a pill of some sort?

What kind of drug does it have to be for him to be reacting like that?”

Asked Hans watching the man contort on the grey floor.

‘This…

As the man’s body started overheating and becoming red, the pupils in his eyes left, rolling back with the rest of the eye.

‘I have seen this thing before!’

Was what came to mind to Hans at that moment.

And he was right, he had already seen this kind of people, it hadn’t even passed that much time, so remembering who it was wasn’t really difficult.

‘This is the same condition the intruder at the American Academy had, that monstrous man who managed to win against Caleb thanks to a certain drug, was that the same one he ate right now?

Does that mean he’s part of the red tyranny?

it’s always them isn’t it?’

“I’ll make an example out of you for your dear companions.

don’t you dare come after me ever again”

A lump of fire was created from Hans’s gathered mana, and it was then launched toward the man.

{fire bomb}(tier-5)

It was a new spell Hans had obtained in his last days of training, and the impact of such a powerful spell shook the whole academy, almost like an earthquake.

A blaze rose up from the hole in the floor, scaring the students, and producing a strong enough heat to free the ones under the {partial freeze} spell.

Finally free from the ice’s grasp, and with their memories of what had happened, the first to wake up were Hans’s two students.

They were scared, grateful, and angry.

But most of all, a question was stamped into their minds:

‘Has teacher… Always been this strong?’

Even if they were only two years apart one from the other, Hans could already easily cast fifth-ranked spells, while they were trying their best to improve their third circle.

It was demotivating to think about.

Right after them, the members of the expedition team sent inside the building by the Japanese Academy finally awakened, and even with their memories as clear as glass, it was still difficult to believe what they had witnessed.

‘I, a sixth-tier mage… couldn’t even resist a second against an opponent who is now taking a beating from a kid’

Was what the leader thought while trying to watch what was happening under the flames.

But Hans could observe it directly:

When the flames began to subside, a horrifying creature emerged from the almost melting floor, scratching the concrete with the claws it had grown on its feet.

Its head was red, and its thick skin was slightly cracked by the spell Hans had just thrown at him.

It had a humanoid form, but it had no clothes or hair.

Its two legs had become slim, but its whole body was covered by something that looked like an exoskeleton.

An otherworldly scream was heard when the monster opened its mouth.

“Screech!!!”

It looked more like an overgrown insect than a human, but its size and hatred gave away its previous identity.

Shocked, Hans whispered:

“It’s that man”

But without even having the time to figure out what had happened, the monster appeared in front of him.

‘How?! It was almost ten meters away from me!

Did it… move ten meters without me even noticing?

A punch followed the movement, sending Hans flying out of the window he had previously broken.

“Teacher!”

Screamed Logan.

In mid-air, Hans watched underneath him, trying to figure out how to land without taking much damage.

Even if he had a tough body, a fall from such a height would’ve not only hurt like hell but also dealt slight injuries to his internal organs.

But before he could figure out a way to do that, for the second time in the last few seconds, the monster appeared in front of him.

“Bam!”

A powerful punch was unleashed upon Hans’s offhand parry, smashing him to the ground just beside the building.

He fell under the eyes of Saki and Claire, who had remained outside.

“Hans!”

Screamed Claire barely catching a glimpse of her teacher while he was falling.

But before she could reach him, another attack hit his chest, almost shattering his ribs.

The monster had landed with both its feet on Hans’s sternum, leaving him breathless for a couple of seconds.

“Haaa… haaa… haaa…”

A forced and heavy panting could be heard a mist all the created dust.

“That… could’ve killed me you damn monster”

‘Well… there are no doubts now,

This thing…. It’s above a normal S-rank.’

One of his most used skills: {frost armor} had just saved his life once again.

If it wasn’t for that, his bones would’ve crumbled under the extreme pressure created by the falling monster.

Even while staying still, when it was standing on Hans’s chest, Hans felt like he was holding up a truck.

“Hey… it’s… damn… heavy!”

(tier-5) {dragon’s breath}

“Get off”

Exclaimed Hans while shooting at the monster a beam of fire strong and fast enough to raze to the ground an entire house.

The monster was immediately blown backward and planted its clawed feet a couple of centimeters into the ground to slow itself down.

After about thirty meters (about 100 feet) the monster hit a building’s wall, cracking it heavily and almost smashing it down.

Only a couple of seconds later did the monster manage to finally get back up from the wall, but it was now Hans’s turn to attack.

Without wasting his chance to get back at it for the attacks he had received, Hans went all out, even if he was in public, he would’ve revealed his skills during the improbable gate raid anyway.

{burning field}(tier-5)

{dragon’s breath}(tier-5)

{typhoon’s eye}(tier-5)

Three incredible spells were unleashed all at once, and fortunately, all the students had already run away, leaving in the zone only Claire and Maki, who had now also retreated quite a bit to avoid getting involved in the fierce fight, otherwise, Hans would’ve found blood on his hands, since four building of the Academy were razed and melted to the ground.

The people in building two watched the fight amazed and risked their deaths since if Hans’s spell had been even a couple dozen meters wider they would’ve been caught up in it.

The incredible surge of heat and mana was also felt by the Academy’s dean and Caleb, who both rushed toward the origin as fast as they could.

It was as if a bomb had been dropped in the middle of the site, the spells, that fused together created something close to what would be classified as a top-tier sixth-rank spell, emitted as much light as the early morning sun, and the Academy was submerged into this blinding and chaotic light.

The students, the teachers, the staff. Everyone in the Academy saw the scene, some from afar, while some from dangerously close, it really felt as if their time in that place was about to come to an end.

“Huff… huff… huff…”

Casting three fifth-rank spells didn’t take up too much of Hans’s mana, but the same couldn’t be said about his mental strength.

A sixth-circle mage mind simply isn’t made to sustain the casting of three fifth-tier spells at the same time, even a seventh-circle mage would find it difficult.

That is because your mind will have to move an immense amount of mana, and the resistance that mana has is influenced by the number of circles around a mage’s hearth.

If for a fifth-rank mage casting a fifth-rank spell would be the same as lifting fifty kilograms, for a sixth-rank mage it would be about half, but lifting three times the weight isn’t the same as lifting the same weight three times.

Casting three spells at the same time allowed Hans to fuse them and obtain higher firepower than casting them separately, but it also put a huge strain upon his mind, which afterward immediately started to ache.

A crater had formed where the building previously laid, and it reached almost twenty meters( 65ft) in the ground.

It really looked like a meteor had landed there, devastating everything.

“Is it dead?” whispered Hans, even if he was asking himself.

“He better be, I certainly can not do something like this a second time for at least half an hour, so if that monster managed to survive it I won’t be able to hold on to my life any further.”

But he soon realized:

“I…. Shouldn’t have jinxed it”

The monster walked right out of the middle of the crater, where the ground was fuming.

Hans noticed that other than its exoskeleton being slightly more red, nothing else had changed.

And he then managed to see a few fragments of a broken mana barrier.

“Shit, I forgot…..

That this bastard was also a mage…”