I Became A Flashing Genius At The Magic Academy - Chapter 385
The Genius of Blink in Front of the Magic School Became 387
65. Bing Baek Mountain (11)
Indeed, there was nothing easy to resolve in this world.
“Ughhh—!”
“Put in a bit more effort.”
“I-I’m giving it all I’ve got!”
Baek Yu-seol watched Cheon Hwang Jeongpal, who was stretching her hand towards the Persona Gate’s curtain while crossing her arms at a distance.
Cheon Hwang Jeongpal was straining with her face turning red despite not having any bl**d ties, but no matter how much she tried, there was no change happening in the Persona’s curtain.
“Is this method useless too?”
Flower Lin looked at Cheon Hwang Jeongpal with a worried expression.
Even though she had resolutely decided to try to do something with her own will after hundreds of years, it turned out that will and motivation were not enough to solve everything in this world.
“Well, I honestly expected this.”
Baek Yu-seol nodded nonchalantly. Cheon Hwang Jeongpal almost had no energy left, and she was even losing color due to being overpowered by Hoi Gong Siwol, so injecting energy into the barrier at once wouldn’t have made sense in the first place.
“Then what should we do…?”
“It seems like you should help too.”
“Q-What? Without the World Tree, I…”
Can’t do anything.
Flower Lin almost finished her sentence but shut her mouth.
Despite being born without mana, Baek Yu-seol had managed to achieve everything, yet here she was, bestowed with the blessing of the World Tree, born with abundant natural mana but unable to do anything without the World Tree.
Feeling embarrassed to stand before him, she couldn’t continue the conversation.
Knowing or not knowing her feelings, Baek Yu-seol continued speaking indifferently.
“Well, since I possess no mana, I can’t have any effect on the barrier. Unlike me, you have enough abundant mana to be counted on one hand in the world, so you’ll surely be of help.”
“Still…”
“If you’re worried about missing the World Tree, you don’t need to.”
“Huh?!”
With her innermost thoughts hit directly, Flower Lin opened her eyes wide in confusion.
Seeing her, Baek Yu-seol smiled faintly.
“You can do something amazing even without the World Tree.”
Looking shocked, Flower Lin slightly parted her lips and stared blankly, but Baek Yu-seol clapped his hands to call the two women.
“Ugh, heh. Sorry! It just seems like nothing is working… No matter how hard I try, I can’t output any power!”
“I expected this.”
“…Huh?”
“Let’s change our strategy. If the Persona Gate could be destroyed by simply injecting mana, all wizards would have resolved things that way by now, right?”
“W-Wait, are you saying you knew all along and purposefully…?”
“Purposefully? Who knows what would happen if we poured mana into the real curtain? After all, this is the Twelve Moons.”
“You’re right. I am the Twelve Moons…”
“But nothing happened.”
“W-Wait! Are you seriously trying to mock me?”
“Why would I do that? You know better than anyone how earnest I am about wanting to resolve this situation, right?”
“Uh… That’s true…
While she lacked the ability to understand others’ hearts like Yeon Hong Chun Samwol, she could at least gauge whether someone was being sincere or not.
It would be disappointing if Cheon Hwang Jeongpal, being the best in mental manipulation, couldn’t manage even that.
“Let’s return to the Baek Ryeong Plateau Fortress.”
Baek Yu-seol led the two women for a long walk back to the Baek Ryeong Plateau Fortress, located at the center of the Persona Gate. The streets were still filled with crazed lunatics laughing uncontrollably while ordinary people went about their daily lives with flowers of laughter blooming around them.
Except for a few lunatics, it was truly a peaceful world. A life where one could live each day laughing without any worries or concerns.
It could be called paradise, but could such a complete world really be created in a mere Persona Gate?
Absolutely impossible.
There were flaws in this place.
A massive shackle forced people to wear a mask of happiness and make them laugh, suppressing their emotions.
And.
Wasn’t Cheon Hwang Jeongpal, the second ruler of emotion manipulation… well, not the best, but still very capable, here?
“Second in command?”
“Yeon Hong Chun Samwol is the best at dealing with emotions.”
“I’m good at it too…”
“You’re great at dominating and controlling minds. I acknowledge that.”
“Right?”
“Not that you can do it right now.”
While Flower Lin was blankly surveying her surroundings, she finally grasped what Baek Yu-seol had meant.
‘Emotion…’
Flower Lin, who had deeply inherited the favor of Yeon Hong Chun Samwol, had a strong connection to emotions. Although she had mostly transferred her powers to Baek Yu-seol, what remained of her ability was merely the weakened [Love Absorption Body], but that didn’t matter.
Having lived for a very long time with the abilities of Yeon Hong Chun Samwol, she found it easy to manage emotions even without any powers.
“W-What should I do?”
“Let’s wake the people.”
“…What? Are you out of your mind?”
“I’m sane, and this is not a joke.”
“N-No. I mean, no matter how much… Huh, fine. If we wake them up, then what happens?”
“The situation I wanted will be realized in reality just like that.”
Cheon Hwang Jeongpal’s brain couldn’t comprehend this. Reluctantly, Baek Yu-seol sighed and explained.
“The Persona Gate controls the minds of the people in this space and governs the area, right? It must have used a considerable amount of power for mental control. But what happens if we cut off that power all at once?”
“…It would redirect the energy that has nowhere to go to another direction, probably towards that barrier.”
“Ah?”
“But this place is not an ordinary Persona Gate. There is a boundary that distinguishes between reality and the underworld. If the energy flows to that place… it would expand without reservation, wouldn’t it?”
Then, the situation Baek Yu-seol desired would be completed just as he wanted.
“Oh… I see…”
Finally understanding Baek Yu-seol’s plan, Cheon Hwang Jeongpal nodded with a trembling voice.
‘So that’s what it was.’
Quite frankly, until now, she had no idea what Baek Yu-seol was thinking, and he hadn’t explained the specifics of his plan, so she hadn’t even a clue what to do. So honestly, she had followed him, half-heartedly, anyway.
But now, she thought she understood.
It seemed truly fitting for the one who repeatedly thwarted Hoi Gong Siwol’s plans to analyze and propose a trustworthy solution after thoroughly examining the bizarre magic known as ‘the Persona Gate intertwined with reality.’
Yet…
“You want me to control the emotions of all these people…?”
That was impossible.
For decades, the limit of Cheon Hwang Jeongpal’s abilities was to barely brainwash a single child after gathering and enduring an immense amount of power.
Why had the Ancestor Wizard made her abilities so weak? Why had she not resented the Ancestor Wizard for hundreds of years?
“I… I can’t do it…”
“No. You can.”
Without even looking at her, Baek Yu-seol casually stated the obvious fact.
“Among the Twelve Moons, you possess the most powerful ability, so why be so afraid?”
“W-What…?”
“It was humans who created the Twelve Moons that control space and time. The one person in the world capable of controlling such humans is you.”
“That’s true…”
“Your ability is the most dangerous, frightening, and powerful in the world. I hope you use that ability for good.”
Cheon Hwang Jeongpal lowered her head. Waiting for her to gather herself, Baek Yu-seol frowned at what the issue could be, but suddenly she began to cry, shaking her shoulders, and he was taken aback.
“O-Oh.”
“W-What’s wrong?”
“Ugh… It’s nothing… I’ll try…”
«..?..
As the sound of her sniffles spread throughout the neighborhood, she seemed to want to hide the fact that she was crying, turning away and trudging along.
‘What’s going on…’
Her head felt like it was boiling hot. The shame of bursting into tears before a young human, and the emotion of joy and pride that the person she thought was the most powerful in the world was acknowledging her as a worthy rival, all mixed up with her fragile pride that tried to ignore it.
But her weak self-esteem fully accepted that warm word from Baek Yu-seol, embracing it in her heart.
Thump thump! The fact that someone is counting on her made it feel like her nonexistent heart was racing.
‘Right, if I can’t do this, I’m not even the Twelve Moons!’
Wiping her tears with her sleeve, Cheon Hwang Jeongpal clenched her fist and lifted her head. The highest pinnacle. That place was once the favored location of Duke Seolparam, but now it had become a place she visited when she wanted to rest her mind.
‘From there… I’ll spread my abilities as wide as possible.’
As if resolved, Cheon Hwang Jeongpal moved toward the pinnacle, and Baek Yu-seol, watching her from behind, spoke up.
“Flower Lin, from now on, you have to do the hardest task.”
“Me…?”
“Yes. Can you see the lunatics around?”
Flower Lin nodded.
Their true identity was the monstrous life forms of the white mirage that Baek Yu-seol had encountered before.
Each one was a terrifying creature worth 7 risk points, but now they were mere fools who could only laugh.
“Even though the ability of a 9-class Black Wizard to psychically dominate all of them is incredible… I believe Cheon Hwang Jeongpal’s abilities will surpass that wizard. She will immediately break all mental control.”
“…I can’t allow that.”
Unlike Cheon Hwang Jeongpal, Flower Lin knew exactly what she had to do without needing an explanation.
“When Cheon Hwang Jeongpal grants freedom to all the people in this space… I’ll try to prevent them from returning.”
Just looking at the number of lunatics existing within the Persona Gate, there were at least hundreds of thousands.
Could she subdue all of them?
…That question was unnecessary.
Even without the abilities of the Twelve Moons, having never learned any spells, and possessing no abilities, skills, strength, or magic.
But.
At the very least, she was confident in managing emotions.
And that confidence was further amplified because she was in front of Baek Yu-seol.
Baek Yu-seol was currently in a state where he could do nothing within the Persona Gate.
She had entrusted everything to him, so it was time to repay him for all the love and help she had received from him thus far.
‘I will definitely succeed.’
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