Falling Mage and the Power of Divergence

Episode 178 Talent and Effort

When Real and Youre were fighting, naturally, Zill was in a state of battle as well. In Jill's case, however, the situation is slightly different from the other two.

The magician Zill is dealing with is a magician named Seam, but he strangely didn't use magic. Hey, I couldn't use it.

That is the same as Seyya once was. Seam, who can't use magic well, his level as a magician may be lower than Seiya once was.

But Seam, like Seyya once was, specializes in martial arts.

A magician who cannot use magic does not leak into examples and tries to excel in martial arts. That's because even without magic, to a certain extent, martial arts can cover.

And the martial arts powers of these magicians are mostly masterclass.

I work hard to catch up around and as a result, when I realize it, I'm in the master class. Such a story could not have been told in the Kingdom of Leiria.

But that's not the only problem.

Among its masters, there are even more extremes. Those who control magic with martial arts, in Leiria, call them supermen.

Very few supermen, even in the Kingdom of Leiria, will win just martial arts, if the magician will be the opponent. And one such superman was the seam that Jill now deals with.

Seam has never used magic so far. But still, I was hunting down about Jill.

He says he can't use magic in the first place, but he's assigned to Dacrea's Leirian Invasion Selection Unit, and then he's one of the Demon King candidates. I know exactly how strong the seam is.

Before Seam's diverse attacks, Zill has been denied defense.

"Again. I'm just a kid on the move"

Seam snapped that way as he looked ahead to Jill putting up his demonic gun.

Right now, the boy I'm relative to has a gift of magic. That's a talent I don't have, something I can't get no how.

So if Seam craves the talent of magic, the answer is no. No, to be precise, I want that talent in my current state. But a long time ago, I didn't need that talent.

"How can it be so strong?"

Zill looks up on her knees before the overwhelming strength of the seam. Jill was struggling with the seam, despite his magic.

Jill didn't understand that.

"The very foundation of its strength."

The strength of the seam was, clearly, unusual. Jill's magical powers and magical talents, which are also regarded as stars of expectation in the Kingdom of Leiria, are considerable. That is well represented by the battle so far.

But with that talent, Zill's strength didn't even reach the foot of Seam's strength.

Seam answers such a zill.

"Do you want to know my strength? Fine, I'll tell you."

Zill breathes into Seam's words.

"My strength, its underlying jealousy"

"You think I'm jealous?

I can't understand Seam's words, Zill. So Seam explained in detail.

"I have no talent for manipulating magic. That inevitably means you can't use magic. But this world is magical meritocracy, especially if you want to go up there."

Seam is right, this world is magical meritocracy. That doesn't change Leiria or Dacrya. In this world of magic, it's a natural value.

"But there is a non-magician in the world who can't use magic. They have no power to manipulate magic. So how the hell do they stand up there?

Zill answers Seam's question with a rugged face.

"Martial Arts"

"Yes, if magic is no good, martial arts, if martial arts is no good, talk. That's how weak people must live this magical meritocracy world."

That is true. Not so discriminated against yet in the Kingdom of Leiria, but in Dacrea, that was remarkable.

"So people in vulnerable positions make an effort. Jealous of people with magic."

……

To Seam's words, I can't say anything, Jill. So much so that Seam's words were shooting at the target.

What Seam is trying to say is that at a time when there is no magic, that race is seen one step down. To be in line with a magician, you need to work hard to die outside of that magic and look back on the magicians.

Because if you don't, the weak can't live.

And the only way to live is to work hard on the martial arts left over. Because unlike magicians who have magic, people without magic only have martial arts.

To that frontier, the magician will never be able to reach.

Because I am unconsciously relieved that there is magic, and I cannot push myself to death. Even if you can't, you have magic. Because the magician has such sweetness.

But if you're a person who can't use magic, can't use it, can't use magic, then there's no escape route that says it's okay because there's magic. Because they only have martial arts left.

Because you can only crawl up in martial arts.

This was the strength underlying the seam. And it was something that Zill would never get.

"I see."

"Got it?

"Oh."

Jill understood the strength of the seam. And at the same time, I felt something cool in the zill.

That could be a kind of despair. Jill thought somewhere in her mind that the strength that Seam had would be the ingredient for her to grow. But Seam's answer was not the answer Zill was looking for.

If we were to say the basis of the strength of the seam, it would be jealousy and effort. Unfortunately, however, Zill does not have either of them.

In other words, the strength of the seam cannot affect Zill.

The moment I understood that, I felt the strength of my being called Seam go down in the zill. That may have been, in my mind, an unconscious yearning for seam.

Such an admiration may have led Seam to refuse to lose. But it doesn't exist anymore. Jill has no more admiration for or hold anything against Seam.

"Me and you have different underlying strengths. I win."

Seam, convinced of his victory, launches an attack on Zill. Sure, that would have been obvious if we had seen the offense so far.

To the dominant seam, Zill is forcing a struggle. If Seam meant it, he could beat Zill, it was.

But now Jill has no more unconscious yearnings for Seam. I mean, he was hesitant to win somewhere in his mind, which means he's gone.

If that happens, Seam was no longer Zill's enemy.

The battle between Seam's efforts and Zill's talent.

"It's over!

"You're weak."

Seam trying to prune Zill's neck from behind, but the next moment, Zill's demonic gun was poking at his forehead.

It was Jill with a ruthless expression there. The expression includes disappointment with the seam.

"What!?

A seam with a stunning look on its face. But Jill answered pale.

"Your strength is not what I seek"

"Damn, damn, is this your talent..."

In front of Jill with a ruthless look on her face, Seam deplores the difference in talent.

Surely Seam's efforts are at a level worthy of respect. That's a thin zill, but I feel it. But after all, in front of Zill's talent, Seam's efforts will not arrive.

Until then, Jill's talent was too great.

Bang Bang

With that sound, Seam's life was quietly scattered.

Thus another candidate for the Demon King of Dacrya disappeared from the world.

And this year's raging Leirian Magic Games finally left us with one more battle to fight.