I Was Mistaken as a Genius Mage in a Game-Chapter 79

Volt.

Volt is a very reliable magic. It has a short casting time, but its power is excellent compared to its short casting time, and it is a magic that performs above average in any situation, a true all-rounder.

If we compare Volt to a modern firearm... ... yes, it is like a very well-made pistol.

It has excellent accuracy, does not break easily, and is portable, so you can draw it out and use it at any time.

In comparison, Lir’s proud magic, ‘Lightning’, has many defects compared to Volt.

It has a longer casting time than Volt, and there are many restrictions and conditions attached to casting it.

While ‘Bolt’ can unleash its power simply by holding a staff and shouting the magic command, Lightning requires various pre-work to unleash its full power.

If Volt is a very well-made pistol, Lightning can be an example of a heavy machine gun with extremely high firepower. It is heavy, cumbersome, and has many difficulties in using it in urgent situations where 1 second or 0.1 seconds are needed.

“Star’s eyes, light clouds, scale-covered seas, and salt flowers.”

Nevertheless, no lightning magician neglects lightning. Even if it is not the case of Lir who was born with a talent for ‘lightning’, most lightning magicians have considerable knowledge of ‘volts’ and ‘lightning’.

The reason is very simple.

It is because of the overwhelming firepower of lightning magic.

“The humidity is just right, and there are quite a few dark clouds.”

Alter spoke with a soft smile, watching Lir holding his staff with both hands and concentrating on reciting the spell.

A huge piece of parchment was laid on the floor of the trench where Lir was standing. On the parchment, there were large magic circles and runes that ordinary people could not understand.

“Can you guess how much power is hidden in that dark cloud?”

Altar stood next to Lir, who was emitting electricity from her entire body, and looked up at the sky. He smiled happily, like a father watching his daughter show off her talents.

Every time Lir spoke a word, the sky roared. Suddenly, the only sound in the area was thunder, and everyone naturally raised their heads high and looked up at the dark cloud that was about to pour down lightning.

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Raguel grimaced as he saw the clouds that he had been familiar with just a moment ago moving around on their own.

“Lightning.”

Raguel quickly folded his wings and lowered his altitude as much as possible.

However, it was too late, and the sky began to emit wrath at Lir’s command.

Light enveloped the world. The battlefield covered in blood mist turned pure white. The eyes were blinded for a moment, and soon the ears also lost their function.

Tinnitus filled the ears of everyone on the battlefield, whether they were humans, orcs, elves, or demons.

The first to regain their function were the orcs. This was due to their uniquely strong stamina. Next came the humans. Although they did not have the same resilience as the orcs, the elves took longer than other races to escape from the tinnitus and intense light due to their uniquely sensitive senses.

In the eyes of those who regained their vision... ... a veritable magical realm unfolded.

The sky was constantly striking down lightning toward the ground, and the mud-filled battlefield shook like a beach with waves crashing.

An unknown metallic scent enveloped their noses and mouths, and their fingertips felt a stinging sensation due to the electricity.

“This... crazy!”

A small scream leaked out from where the lightning was concentrated. But the scream was soon drowned out by the sound of thunder.

“......General, look at the 2 o’clock direction.”

In the concentrated firefight where hundreds of lightning strikes fell every second, there was Grand Monarch Ariel.

Rex burst into laughter at the sight of a shadow that disappeared and appeared again several kilometers away.

The boy who was Rex’s superior had yet to regain his five senses from the light of lightning and the sound of thunder.

“Whew.......”

The biggest disadvantage and advantage of lightning is that it is greatly affected by the weather.

‘Lightning’ used on a sunny day shows performance that is not much different from bolts, but ‘Lightning’ used on a day with dark clouds and high humidity brings about destructive power that is hard to believe is the same magic.

To compensate for this disadvantage, some magicians used magic to create dark clouds in advance... ... but there was no need for that now. Currently, there were thick, large dark clouds blocking the sunlight in the sky of Valorand for two weeks.

“Slowly, it’s the limit......!”

Lir, who brought the hell of thunder and light to the battlefield, opened his mouth while shaking his staff.

Lir was not a strong enough magician to leave such an impressive performance on the battlefield called Valorand.

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Although she was the youngest in the history of the Lightning School to become a 5th Circle, that was all.

Although she had limitless potential, her current skills were still far from sufficient.

Nevertheless, Lir’s lightning completely dominated the battlefield in an instant.

A sky filled with dark clouds, an elaborate plan, an innate talent for lightning, and protection bestowed by the spirits.

She was the variable that the great monarchs could not have imagined, created by the combination of four elements.

“Phaaa......!”

With a sound like air being released from a balloon, Lir dropped his staff.

“Please deploy Lir to the rear, Lieutenant. I have exhausted all my magic power.”

The white-haired boy covered his earholes with both hands, still feeling tinnitus.

“Yes......? Oh, yes! I understand. Corporal Handel, Corporal, and Corporal Sith! Bring the wizard to the rear!”

The Lieutenant, who was wearing relatively clean clothes compared to the soldiers, shouted immediately after hearing Bin’s order.

Honestly, the Lieutenant also didn’t quite understand what had just happened on the battlefield, but he quickly regained his composure.

I’ve experienced countless situations in this battlefield where I couldn’t understand. In situations like this, trying to understand and thinking about it clumsily is poisonous. The Lieutenant knew from his long experience in the battlefield that it was best to simply follow the orders of his superiors.

“......It’s gotten so damn sunny.”

Lir, like the boy, was a magician who had been granted the ‘Protection of the Spirit’ by Dajin. Because of that, she had no limit to storing her magical power, and Lir’s circle was even one level higher than Bin’s.

The result of that magician pouring out all the magical power she had accumulated in her body for the past two weeks for one minute was what was unfolding before her eyes.

The sky, where tens of thousands of lightning strikes had fallen, was as bright as a morning in an unknown rural village. The moisture and fog that had covered all directions had completely disappeared, and the dark clouds that had covered the sunlight had also disappeared, leaving only the bright blue sky and sunlight above their heads.

Some soldiers felt strangely surprised by the sudden change in the battlefield.

The hills that had been nearby, and the remains of corpses were gone, and now, in front of where the white-haired boy was standing, there was only a huge pit created by tens of thousands of lightning strikes, and a pitch-black shadow screaming in pain from underneath the pit.

“......As reported, the shape is not visible properly. It would have been impossible to find that overlord in the same weather just now.”

“Is it some kind of camouflage magic? How strange.”

The two orcs who had come out to escort Bin were quietly talking while watching the shadows slowly moving their bodies while emitting smoke from far below the pit. They were ignorant of magic, so they tended to assume that any phenomenon they saw that they did not understand was magic.

“Rather than magic... It’s a concept closer to biology. Think of it as similar to a chameleon changing its body color to match its surroundings.”

Alter slowly climbed up the trench and joined their conversation, answering.

In Alter’s hand was a staff as big as his torso. The staff was full of magical decorations and runes, and it was covered in blemishes from years of battle.

“What is a chameleon?”

“......No. Let’s just assume it’s magic.”

When Rex asked again, Alter thought the story would be long, so he simply let it go.

While the old man with pure white hair and beard carefully walked up to the battlefield, two soldiers carrying a stretcher lifted Lir and carefully laid him down on it from under the trench.

“You did a good job. Go and rest.”

The white-haired boy looked at Lir leaving the battlefield with longing eyes. Others who saw those eyes thought that the boy had special feelings for the elven wizard, but in reality, the boy was just jealous of Lir leaving the battlefield first.

“Hehe...... I should go and eat some of the chocolate that the master brought. This is really low in sugar.”

“Aren’t you worried about me?”

The boy asked Lir, who was now about to face a near-death experience, with a slightly disappointed expression on his face, who was just eating chocolate.

“No, I can’t?”

Lir smiled indifferently and answered.

It was not that she was indifferent to the boy or hated him.

On the contrary.

Lir simply had great faith in the boy. She firmly believed that Bin was not the type of person who would fall on a battlefield like this, that his true potential and talent would not crumble in a place like this.

“.......”

However, the two soldiers who had lifted Lir onto the stretcher looked at Bin with slightly pitiful expressions.

Because to an outsider’s perspective, it was only a conversation between a human boy looking at an elf with longing and an elf responding rudely to the boy.

‘... ... Bin, you don’t have much talent for love.’

‘Elf... ... You’ve met a difficult opponent.’

Those peaceful thoughts that did not fit the situation passed through the minds of the soldiers around them.

It was probably because of the weather.

Just a moment ago, they had been filled with the pressure of survival and death.

It must have been because their shoulders were relaxed in the bright sunlight and moderately dry wind.

Some might see this and curse them for being undisciplined in front of the enemy, but for those who had been raising their swords and shields every day while overcoming the fear of death, this kind of absurd composure was necessary.

Perhaps the relaxed atmosphere had spread. The soldiers slowly stuck their heads out of the trenches as if possessed by something. Some soldiers even put their hands on the hardened ground baked by lightning and pulled themselves out of the no-man’s-land, but the officers who were watching did not stop them.

“......Is this an all-out war?”

Instead of stopping the soldiers who were going out of the trenches on their own, the lieutenant who was hiding in the trench asked the white-haired boy.

The great lords, who had only shown themselves one at a time against Bell, showed themselves on the battlefield in two at the same time against Bin.

In addition, one of the two overlords was rolling around painfully in a large pit with no protection or cover, and the other one seemed quite afraid that the powerful magic would come flying at them again just like before.

The fog that had been blocking their vision had also disappeared. Thanks to the bright sunlight shining down on the battlefield, they were able to quickly respond to enemy ambushes or surprise attacks, and since the ground had been baked hard by lightning and had become porcelain, the soldiers’ mobility would not be reduced due to their boots getting stuck in the mud.

And above all, the soldiers who had always been trembling while looking at the ground were filled with life and fighting spirit.

Their morale wasn’t sky-high... ... but they were grateful for this much.

If the soldiers before were cows and pigs in a slaughterhouse {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} waiting for death, the soldiers now were warriors prepared to die to protect their country and loved ones.

“This is all-out war.”

Upon hearing the young general’s answer, the soldiers began to utter words one by one with a small laugh.

“Finally, this damn war of attrition is over. Damn it...... It’s been dragging on for so long.”

“Enough. Whether I die or they die, it’s over today.”

“Whoa, fuck! Let’s do it.”

More and more soldiers began to pull themselves out of the trenches. The clanking sound of armor lifted the soldiers’ spirits.

“......Prepare for all-out war aaaaah!”

The officer’s belated shout echoed in the soldiers’ ears.

The mud-covered swords and shields slowly formed formation and began to surround the white-haired boy.

“This is the real reason why our wizards are treated as nobles.”

Alter said this while looking at the white-haired boy with a smile.

“......You, stupid kids! Finally, what’s wrong with your brain!”

Raguel, who was repairing his wings that had been burned black by lightning, laughed at the soldiers holding swords and shields with fighting spirit.

When looking at it calmly, the Continental Army was still at a disadvantage. Two of the four great monarchs had not yet revealed themselves, and when combined with the other high-ranking demons and their mutants, they were inferior in both quantity and quality.

However, strangely, an inexplicable confidence was welling up in each and every soldier’s heart.

It was probably because they had just seen the gigantic lightning that covered the heavens and earth.

‘A much more superior wizard is fighting alongside the wizard who uses such magic.’

‘If we just protect Bin-nim, the situation will be resolved somehow.’

On the one hand, those simple, ignorant thoughts that seemed foolish and on the other hand, unsympathetic, gave the soldiers the strength to stand up.

The wizard’s lightning did not bloom only on the bodies of enemies.