“What? Crazy!”

I used Flash after abruptly shifting my body in the front. Shortly later, the flame exploded into tongues of fire where I was going to land a split second before.

Boom!

It had the same explosive power as a small bomb.

Because of the acceleration of the fall, I could not control my body even after the Flash was over, and I slammed my head on a rock, causing it to hurt.

“Oh my.”

Even on the dirty ground, the sound of shoe heels echoed clearly. I patted my head, stood up, and looked back.

“Hong Bi-Yeon…”

She was approaching slowly with her staff pointed at my direction. Seeing that, I became more and more confused.

‘Why is she here again?’

I did not know what kind of grudge everyone had toward me.

Hong Bi-Yeon said while aiming her staff at me.

“Commoner, why didn’t you just take another Point Stick from them?”

“What are you talking about? I couldn’t take it.”

“Nonsense.”

“No, in the first place, why does it matter if I took those sticks or not?”

She did not respond. Furrowing my brows, I inquired.

“I wonder if you… If I took it all away, were you planning on taking them all at once from me?”

She was silent again, but it was as if she had clearly spoken her answer.

“Such shamelessness. Are you still a human?”

“I'm royalty.”

Considering that she believed she could take away my stick in the first place, it appeared that it was not her pride as a royal that motivated her, but rather the confidence that came from her strength.

“No, isn’t that too much? That’s right, I even gave you a special lecture.”

“Huh. Do commoners not know the difference between a public servant and an apostle?”

She flicked the staff up and down.

“Get ready quickly. Taking away things like commoners does not reflect the dignity of royalty, so I’ll deal with you properly.”

“Dignity is such a bitch. Is it okay for you to tease the weak in this manner?”

“… Weak? You? Don’t be silly.”

Hong Bi-Yeon frowned. As if she was genuinely offended and disgusted.

“I’ve been watching how you were messing with them all this time.”

Hong Bi-Yeon had been watching the Raiden gang and me fight since the moment we met.

Their Point Sticks were prized, but dealing with six people at once would sap her stamina, so she thought of taking the Point Sticks all at once when the fight was over and everyone was physically exhausted.

Currently, she had 4 Point Sticks, and she had defeated quite a few demons, giving her a whopping 144 points. But, she still had a long way to go.

It was because Haewon-ryang, whom she had previously met, had points in the 200 range.

‘I can’t go back with poor grades again this time.’

'My mother... She will punish me.'

She was desperate, more desperate than anyone else in Stella. She was working hard to get grades.

'I must win first place. Only if I win first place in this academy of geniuses and nobles from all over the world, will I be recognized.'

‘However, that commoner is playing around.’

Because Hong Bi-Yeon had always worked hard, she was dissatisfied with me who possessed power but did not use it well.

‘If you don’t do your best, you don’t deserve points.’

However, she could not let go of the tension, whether the other person was a commoner or not. Hong Bi-Yeon increased her mental power to the maximum.

She recalled Raiden, who had just been brutally beaten. Regardless of how pitiful they usually acted, their magical abilities were not pathetic. It was good enough for them to be admitted to Stella.

Although far inferior to Hong Bi-Yeon, Raiden was still the elite of the elite who grew up in a family of mages, and it was the same for the boys who followed him.

'If you have the skills to mess with those guys…'

‘I have no choice but to give it my all.’

Even I, who had been joking around without even using magic until now, would have no choice but to respond sincerely if she was serious.

… It was unjust to me, who had always been sincere, but Hong Bi-Yeon thought so anyway.

Whack!!

The sparks from her body began to spread in all directions, linking the trees to each other.

The waves of flame danced and swirled around the trees.

Since the Class 4 Fire Domain could not be implemented yet, an advantageous environment was created by combining Class 1 fire-attribute magic skill and the surrounding terrain.

‘She’s smarter than I thought.’

Drenched in cold sweat, I looked at the burning terrain.

As she aimed the Point Stick, Hong Bi-Yeon’s brow twitched at the prospect of dealing with me.

“Your wand, aren’t you going to take it out?"

“I gave it to you.”

“Isn’t there a basic staff given to you at the time of admission?”

'Oh right. Was there?'

In the first place, there was no point in using a staff, so I completely forgot about it.

A mage, like a Korean soldier who must always carry a K-2 rifle on his body, should be equipped with staff.

“You’re still joking around.”

Hong Bi-Yeon swung the staff with an angry expression.

“I don’t know about the other idiots, but you’d better be serious with me.”

A barrage of flower-shaped flames soared high in the sky. They coiled and sizzled like snakes, thirsting to colour everything in their own poison.

“If you don’t, you’ll really die.”

In the next moment, the shower of flames started to explode!

Even after activating two or more Flash in a row, it seemed impossible to completely escape that vast Tsunami of flames.

Knowing that I could move quickly, Hong Bi-Yeon had already prepared countermeasures.

‘This is going to be a little difficult…’