Chapter 18 (1/2)
Mightiest Melee Magician
Chapter 18
“You… Do you understand how dangerous what you’re doing is?”
Repeatedly asked Coulter to Ruin, but he wasn’t paid any attention.
Ruin’s focus was solely locked on the ogre.
“Hoo… This frustrating kid.”
Coulter asked Professor Hydel, who was standing at the rear,
“So, what do we do? Do we really just sit around here, watching him?”
“……”
Professor Hydel was always ready to cast high-level Barrier magic on him and jump in to help, but his eyes were observing the situation with a cold, calculated gaze.
It was a gaze full of trust and faith in the boy.
Coulter narrowed his eyes and turned to look at Ruin.
“You… What’s your identity?”
At Coulter’s question, Ruin responded with a quiet shake of his head.
“I’m just a student who wants to get a good mark on his test.”
* * *
I didn’t know what type of courage it was, against this ogre that was at least five times bigger than me, that made me recklessly run in while swinging my fists.
Of course, I was nervous at the beginning,
Even a little scared.
However, there were two reasons that made me turn these emotions into ‘reckless courage’.
Firstly, it was an ability I had.
Friend of the Ogre
As an effect of the title, decrease the chance that an ‘ogre’ would become hostile to you.
As an effect of the title, you are able to communicate with ‘ogres’.
The title I received from the Ancient Ogre Kingram a few days ago.
The ability it gave allowed me to communicate with ogres.
This meant I could understand what the ‘KROAAAR!’ the ogre was shouting meant.
‘That guy, he’s scared.’
Normal people who couldn’t understand the ogre’s language may only see it as a merciless and violent monster, but it was different for me.
That guy became nervous from the suddenly changing situation.
At the sight of many people watching him, and the magicians and knights that surrounded the area, he was actually getting very scared.
Next, my second reason.
A quest that suddenly appeared.
An Emergency Quest has arrived
Now is the Time to Fight
The times of punching and kicking the air are over. An enemy that you cannot avoid has appeared. Now is the time to fight. Run up and suppress it before anybody else.
Target: Get the first hit against the enemy 0/1
Target 2: Be victorious against the enemy 0/1
*Reward: Strength +30
*Reward 2: Skill: Player’s Eye
A quest that gave 30 strength, the equivalent of 3 days of Repeatable Quest completion, had arrived.
Who wouldn’t flip out at such an offer?
That was why I charged recklessly at the ogre.
Thanks to that,
“KROAAARR!”
“……”
The ogre was now beyond enraged.
However, I…
“Come at me.”
I smiled mockingly against the bloodshot ogre who desired to shred me to pieces.
Right,
Now, all I had to do was win.
[Human! Kill you!]
It only sounded like the simple roar of a monster to others, but to me, that guy’s words and intention were clearly heard.
The ogre started to pour out a bloodthirsty aura against me.
And after cracking its neck and readying a charging stance, after taking only a few steps, it jumped to right in front of me in an instant.
Fast.
Fast enough to question how that huge body could accelerate to that speed.
[Your head! I crush it!]
“……”
Of course, I had no intention of letting it do that.
Woooosh-
The ogre’s fist missed over my head by the width of a hair.
“Woah! Did you see that?”
“How did he dodge?”
Exclamations could be heard from the corner of the testing grounds.
Having felt the danger, Professor Hydel had cast barrier magic on me
But Professor, I didn’t get hit.
“You idiot! Look in front of you!”
“Hm?”
I quickly refocused from Knight Captain Coulter Pirante’s shout.
The moment I was distracted, the ogre was charging towards me again.
“Oops.”
I hurriedly activated the skill and quickly moved out of the ogre’s attack range.
And then,
“Hooo… let’s go.”
After bending my body like a bow, I charged forward in a split second.
Being affected by the skill , my movement exceeded 200% my normal speed.
This movement became faster and faster until it was nearly too fast for me to handle.
‘My strength is affected by my movement.’
It was the effect of the passive skill ‘The Mad Magician’.
And then, I clenched my fist hard.
Ignoring the ‘Rule of Three’ of Collect, Empower, Process, my casting speed was second to none, and after making two spheres in an instant, I punched my fists straight into the ogre’s abdomen.
Boom! Boom!
“KUAAAAHR!”
Sparks flew every time my fists impacted, and the ogre let out a terrible scream, groaning in pain.
However, it wasn’t the finishing blow.
“Woah, this skin is really…”
The attacks definitely hit it perfectly, but the ogre’s skin was hard, like it was made from stone.
Well, I never expected to defeat it in one strike.
‘Little strokes fell great oaks.’
I was determined to keep hitting until it fell.
* * *
* * *
[Humaaaan! Die!]
Fully blinded by rage, the ogre ran at me like it was throwing its body.
I, instead of dodging, used the entirety of my strength and faced the ogre head-on.
BOOM!
Strength versus strength.
A battle of strength between a human and ogre had occurred, and the testing grounds became chaotic at such a strange fight.
“Insane…”