Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 230

Chapter 230: Verify
‘Haaa…. That sure was awesome… seeing those people’s faces when they found out I knew Elijah…

Haha…

It makes my heart feel light.’

Hans didn’t hold a grudge against all those people, but being treated as a kid even when he had all the rights to sit at the same table as them just didn’t sit right with him.

‘But…

“…Where are you taking me? I must say that my memory doesn’t betray me often, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t the way to your uncle’s resting room… did it change again?”

Chloe, who was leading him, walking a few meters ahead of him, turned around to reply:

“We are not going to my master’s room right away”

“And where would we be going?…”

“You will find out in a second”

‘Her attitude sure is different from before…

After dragging me away from the saying Elijah wanted to meet me…

What on earth is she thinking?’

The two of them walked for a few minutes and took a lift that brought them more than a dozen meters underground.

As the doors opened, a blinding light surprised Hans, who expected a dimly lit location.

Standing in front of them was a huge room, measuring at least eight meters in height and about a thousand square meters.

“And… this is?”

Hans asked.

“These are the private training grounds of the New York branch, there is one for the Association members and one for the defense team members…”

‘There is nothing of this caliber in Chicago’

Hans thought, but he kept it to himself.

“… it is made out of an alloy capable of withstanding even attacks of top-tier awakened, and access to this facility is granted only to awakened above S-rank, even though we are considering changing it to SS-rank since the amount of S-rank awakened has skyrocketed in the last few months.”

The girl went on and on, explaining everything that came to her mind, but she was soon interrupted by Hans.

“Well… that’s good and all but…

Don’t you think you’ve chatted enough, let’s cut to the chase, I’m sure there’s a reason why you’ve brought me here”

The person who had been talking nonstop finally shut up, and after a long sigh, she finally got to the point:

“Hans Richter, I must say I am in awe of your capabilities, suppressing someone like Freya with a single spell is something no mage on this earth can hope to achieve.

But… that won’t be enough to beat my master.

A single slash of his is enough to slice in half most S-rank bosses, do you understand what that means?

It means that when he loses his mind and gives in to that dark power, every single one of his attacks will be on par with an SS-rank strongest skill, if you don’t have enough strength to suppress him, millions of people could lose their lives”

“Suppress? Wasn’t I supposed to kill him?”

“The situation changed, Master will explain it to you later, but for now, you are here because you need to demonstrate your strength!”

She unsheathed her rapier and pointed it toward the boy, who in reply, raised his eyebrows and watched her with two eyes that clearly said:

‘Are you for real?’

“What?! Do you think I’m not serious?! You have ten seconds to prepare, afterward, I’ll attack without mercy!

10!”

“Why are you doing this?”

“7… 6…”

‘No answer?’

“Is Elijah aware you’re doing this?”

“3… 2”

‘So he isn’t…’

“1”

Even if Hans had just been calmly standing in the same spot for the past ten seconds, the woman’s eyes turned serious, and she attacked the young man with the sole intention of beating him.

‘I have trained a lot for this moment.., desperately, till my hands bled…

There is no way… I will lose to someone like him.’

Considering close combat the disadvantage of a mage, she immediately dashed forward with her sword pointed at Hans’s chest.

Her dash was fast… incredibly so, but something she didn’t know was that Hans’s casting time was… immediate.

{repulsion}(tier-5)

With just a wave of his hand, the woman was sent flying backward, she hit the wall without even leaving a scratch on it, so the impact was completely absorbed by her body.

She barely stood on her feet, as her whole body ached.

‘Fuck… what was that?! No way… was that simply telekinesis?’

While she was struggling to find a way to get through, Hans was amazed by the effect of the spell he had just used.

‘Repulsion and attraction… the two spells I have learned to break through the fifth rank of the gravity path…

They’re my only fifth-rank gravity spells and the only ones that use me as the center of the gravitational pull, contrary to other spells like {lighten} and {load} which simply increase the planet’s gravity.

Even though they do not have as much adaptability, they’re much better than telekinesis in what they specialize in, especially because they allow me to move the target way faster and with much more power.

Also, contrary to telekinesis, which surrounds the target in mana before moving them, the spell has an effect on the whole body without having to control it precisely, it requires less mana and it’s easier to use.

Truly a marvelous spell…’

Those were his thoughts as he observed his hand…

In the meantime, the girl had recovered from the pain and was ready to begin her attack once again.

‘All this time… all those days…

I won’t let all my efforts go to waste.

I didn’t want to use this move this early but… I guess he wouldn’t be a worthy candidate if he couldn’t at least force me to get serious.

I thought his specialty was fire and ice techniques, but now, telekinesis seems to be his trump card, if I can avoid getting caught up in his telekinesis… then it’s my win.’

Her legs began moving, but this time she wasn’t headed towards Hans directly…

She moved left and right, appearing and disappearing as if composing the rhythm of a song, where she stepped, ice formed and began spreading, and when Hans tried to use his {repulsion} once again, but this time he couldn’t hit her… she moved too fast, and the repulsion spell required to have a certain direction.

However, Hans had another way to slow her down…

‘Since using fire against ice seems quite unjust, how about I resolve this with just gravity?’

{gravity field}(tier-4)

A spell Hans never used against a person…

The range of the skill was made to cover the whole room so that the woman couldn’t escape, the two weaknesses of the spell being that it drained a lot of mana and that it required a lot of time to cast, it was the perfect spell in his hands since he had an abundant amount of mana and a nonexistent casting time.

However, the woman just continued with her frozen dance, as if being in a field with three times the gravity didn’t even affect her.

‘It’s not that she’s strong enough to move just as fast even with this gravity… it’s that she isn’t influenced by it…’

Hans tried to observe the woman… he could only spot her for a fraction of a second before she changed position once again, it seemed just as if she were teleporting.

Even if not by much, every time she appeared she was closer to him… ultimately, he was her only goal.

But Hans noticed something else…

‘Her skin…

It’s partially frozen!

So this is what {frozen armor} meant, she is literally covering her body in frost and the frost seems to have a tough resistance against my mana.

Is that skill the reason why she needs such a high wisdom stat?’

It was the first time Hans had ever met a warrior with such high wisdom, but the stats gained when leveling up were never useless, they always scaled based on the awakened’s necessities.

Indeed, when he analyzed the skill with his mystic insight, Hans found out it could not only withstand mana but also aura and the resistance was scaled based on the girl’s wisdom.

‘This might get a little tricky…

I cannot use the purgatory’s flames since they only burn evil things, and I cannot use my lower-tier spells because they wouldn’t have any effect on her skin.

…

I am limited to my sixth-tier spells, and the only paths I have above the fifth-tier are fire, ice, and wind…

What a shitty matchup, I can’t find a spell fast enough to hit her and strong enough to bypass her defense…’

‘You might think this is a bad matchup… but even then, I will not lose this chance… I was raised with the goal of facing off against the person who opened his heart to me… that is my destiny and… no one will take it away from me.

Be it the leader of the crimson tyranny, that suspicious lady… or you!’

The girl had finally reached Hans, and once the boy had entered her field of attack, her swift blade immediately aimed for his chest…

The air whistled as the attack fiercely reached Hans’s body.

‘However… even if I can’t hit you, it won’t be so easy’

Hans smiled.

All of a sudden, the attack that was supposed to end the match stopped, as a loud “clang!” resounded throughout the training room.