Yes, it's December! Fortunately, I was able to get a secondhand pc and so a new chapter for everyone! I did this for 3 hours, a quick translation since I have some things to do. I will update too but that would be for when I get some time. Happy reading, everyone~

One afternoon, Mel and Yurika were having a conversation inside Mel's office to share additional information as they have planned. Then suddenly—

「Excuse us, President Mel. We are from the Student Council Broadcasting Department.」

A young lady's voice rang behind the door after the knock.

「Oh, yes. Come in.」

After saying so, several female students went inside the room and greeted the two.

「Pardon us for intruding while you're working, President Mel. We have come to inform you that we have prepared the things for the evening lecture. We have also finished setting up the magic speaker.」

The students immediately reported.

「Thanks for preparing beforehand, though we still have plenty of time before the lecture starts.」

「Not at all, it's been a while since President Mel, one of the hundred heroes, had a lecture. The students who were excited quickly filled up the hall—no, we're all looking forward to your lecture!」

The female student says with excitement.

「I'm happy to hear that. I'll go after I get this work done, please wait for me in the hall.」

「Yes, President! Please excuse us!」

The students happily left the room. Yurika smiles as she looked at the back of the students.

「What do you know, President Mel is still popular with the students. When I was just a student before, there are many students who also want to get to listen to President Mel's lectures and would rush to your office like that.」

「You're right. I'm glad that there's still a lot of motivated students like those in the past.」

While Mel was talking to Yurika about this when suddenly—

「President Mel, we have a report from the Watchtower.」

Once again, they heard a knock on the door. When Mel gave her permission, a tall woman enters the room. She was one of the guards a.s.signed to watch the campus. She swiftly walked in front of Mel.

「This is the content of the report. The Watchtower caught a fluctuation of a strange magic power on the southern plain. Although they received a strange fluctuation of magic power, we would appreciate it if you could take a look at it.」

The woman quickly went into business and reported the strange event.

「So, it's in the south… I can see it from this window.」

But the view from the large window of her office only shows the plain stretching out.

「A fluctuation of magic power…. I haven't sense anything, but I don't like the idea that somebody is using some strange magic in the plains. Shall I go and find out?」

「That would be rea.s.suring. Then I shall return and guard the perimeter!」

「Yes, good work. I'll send the results to the watchtower.」

There are magical barriers around the school so most of the monsters doesn't come near it, but there's nothing wrong is being on guard and check it.

「【Magic Detection】 and then add 【Observation】」[1]

While facing the view outside through her window, Mel picked up and raised her wand that was on her desk. Her hair begins to float and s.h.i.+ne with the light gathering quickly at the tip of her wand.

She launches her magic towards the plain outside her window. Her wand which looked like a bulb of light flew in the sky and slowly moved down which then illuminates the whole plain. The magic disappears at once as the magic ends. Mel gazed outside the window to see if there's any changes in the earth and air.

「Wow… I've never seen such a wide ranged Magic Detection.」

Mel heard Yurika gushed next to her.

「Moreover, despite using multiple magic spells, you delivered it smoothly without having any visible fatigue. President Mel's magic skills are really amazing!」

「Is that so? This was one of my jobs during the war with the Evil G.o.d so using these magic spells are common to me.」

「The Hundred Heroes are really at different level. Above all, you did it brilliantly and beautifully, I wonder if I can do it too…」

「Fufu. There is nothing to praise about this, if I were to speak of a person with a better Magic Detection, then isn't it my unparalleled master?」

「President Mel's master was a Prophet, isn't he?」

Yurika listened to her with a cynical expression. Of course, such expression is the natural response if one hasn't seen him.

「You see, master can hear the will and the words of the people around him. His AOE in Magic Detection is wide, it's more than what I can do.」[2]

「Is that so? It seems that there's a better version of this ability to speak the words of spirits, just like the Spirit Magician who can hear the Earth Spirit in the plants.」

Hearing what she said, Mel lets out a chuckle.

「Fufu, that's not it-no matter how great a Spirit Magician is, it's not possible for them to see and hear the spirits. You can't talk especially with a Lesser Spirit since they can't even muster to take any form.」

That being said, Yurika's eyes widened.

「E…Eh…. Is that true? If that's the case then, even if you're a great Spirit Magician, you still can't speak to spirits around the Pioneer City or any Lesser Spirit?」

Yurika then came up with a strange question. Speaking of magic, Mel answered her that she only received teaching about magic and was never taught specifically about the Spirit Magicians.

「No, that's something you can't normally do. For the Lesser Spirits cannot speak any language and even an expert can't talk to any spirits they're not familiar with. Not even the Spirit Magician among my colleagues in Hundred Heroes can do that. Such a feat can only be done by the "Prophet" Job Cla.s.s.」

「I-Is that true… Then what is he?」

「What's wrong? You looked worried about something—What?」

In the middle of their conversation, Mel moved her line of sight from Yurika to the window as she caught wind of the changes in the corner of the plain. In the field 100 meters away from the Magic University, stood a huge figure of clad with pale light.

「That, Yurika, can you that?」

「Yes, President. That thing…. Is a magic reaction, isn't it?」

Yurika shrieked the moment the light disappears, unveiling the form of a giant demon with rugged skin and protruding horns.

Mel as sure of the monster's ident.i.ty.

「A demon type monster, t.i.tan Ogre?!」

「The-The t.i.tan Ogre—a Rank A monster?! It has great regenerative and physical abilities… why is it here?!」

Mel thinks that Yurika's question is right. The monster has a huge body for the university's guards to overlook. Why haven't they notice such a monster coming from that distance. Mel knew the answer to that—it's because the monster disappeared. But how did it take some time before Mel could see the Time Ogre?

It was then that she noticed it.

On the t.i.tan Ogre's feet, there were shaking with flames.

「That magic which light is twisting… Isn't that【Hidden Presence・Invisibility】?!」[3]

「Hidden Presence—the magic that allows the enemy to escape the human eye, the magic skill that the Evil G.o.d specializes?! That's the reason why the Hundred Heroes struggled to capture it..」

「That's right, that's the same magic that the Evil G.o.d used before. It was annoying because if you don't combine the two magic—Magic and Wisdom, you won't be able to see it.」

That's why the monitoring unit may not have found it. Rather, they were quite competent to be able to recognize a strange magic power since it's absolutely invisible to the naked eye or to normal Magic Detection.

「Even so, t.i.tan Ogres by nature doesn't remember magic skills! Why does the t.i.tan Ogre know how to use such a skill?」

Just as Yurika says, research has shown that there are magic beasts that are able to learn magic skills and some who can't remember. According to research, t.i.tan Ogres can only use basic magic skills such as Earth Skills. So Mel doesn't remember such magic beasts using magic that can turn invisible that interferes with light. At the very least, such case was unprecedented.

「I've told you before… how miasma doesn't simply strengthen magic beasts. By eating the flesh and through pa.s.sing time, the miasma gets used to the body, the magic beasts learns the magic and abilities of the Evil G.o.d which leads to their evolution.」

「Then this magic beast evolved through miasma!」

The miasma will surely strengthen the magic beast. Physical ability and its intelligence as well, and if the magic beast's evolution advances, it might become a demon that's out of their league. As they see it now, the magic beast has canceled his Invisibility and its figure is now completely exposed. It might have realized that its location was found with Magic Detection and thought that there's no meaning in keeping its invisibility anymore.

It's head suddenly moved.

「So it's not just the Horned Mole… That magic beasts also evolved after eating the flesh of the Evil G.o.d.」

After mulling about that, Mel's head suddenly turned and was lost for words.

「Wait a minute. I remember another magic used by the Evil G.o.d that the t.i.tan—」

Mel was quite late to think about that as it happened faster than what she could speak about.

Such notice of Mel appeared as an actual action faster than it could be worded.

「【Evil G.o.d's Great Ice Bullet・Crystal Canon】」[4]

The t.i.tan Ogre creates a huge amount of ice in its surroundings and after chanting, launches it at a very high speed.

Half of the school building where the office is located was destroyed.

Notes

1. AOE - Area of Effect

2. 魔法探知 (Mahō tanchi) - Magic Detection / 看破 (Kanpa) - Observation

3. 存在希薄 (Sonzai kihaku) - Hidden Presence・Invisibility

4. 邪神の大氷弾イビル・クリスタルキャノン (Jas.h.i.+n no dai kōri-dan ibiru kurisutarukyanon) - Evil G.o.d's Great Ice Bullet・Crystal Canon