Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 380 Sword Demon
The golden light shining from the other end of the tower went unseen by Xia Luoluo and the other two who were fleeing in panic.

The slashes, spanning space and defying common sense, exploded in large numbers around them.

Charlotte didn't know how Millie was doing on the other side; she only knew that she and Sophia were in a very bad situation.

Her body had suffered countless blows, and almost every part of her body was groaning in pain. The worst wound was in her abdomen. The pain, as if she had been broken in two, was relentless, leaving her unable to straighten up or utter a sound.

However, even though the injury situation is extremely unfavorable, it is still considered "fortunate".

Because, at the very moment those blades were about to strike, Sophia protected her with all her might. Even though many powerful gusts of wind struck her mercilessly, it was Sophia's way of keeping her as far away from the threatening range of the spatial slashes as possible.

In contrast
"Mommy, Mommy!"

Sophia, who had fallen at the center of a massive spatial slash, was so badly injured that it was as if there were hardly any intact parts of her body left.

The body, which had been divided into many segments, was connected to each other by what appeared to be golden threads at the breaks.

"Ahem. Miss, you must have mistaken me for someone else. I'm just a butterfly passing by."

"What are you still saying at a time like this?!"

Charlotte couldn't help but get annoyed, and in her excitement, she aggravated some of her injuries, causing her to grimace uncontrollably.
"Fine, you're free to call yourself whatever you want. But I want you to know that no matter what happened, no matter why things turned out this way, I will never blame you!"

"."

Seeing Charlotte's eyes brimming with tears, Sophia slowly closed her own eyes.

"It's not so much that I'm worried about your blame, but more that I can't forgive myself."

Sofia sighed with difficulty as she spoke.

"We'll talk about other things later. Don't worry, I won't run away from you again, nor will I disappear easily. Right now, I just need to rest."

Sophia's voice gradually faded away, and her body transformed into a large number of golden butterflies.

She hurriedly gathered the golden butterflies, which had scattered all over the ground and were no longer able to fly, into her palm. Xia Luoluo wiped away the tears that had slightly overflowed with her arm and turned her head to look in another direction.

Cortriene had clearly gone in the direction Millie was. So, since she was still able to move, she had to go and support her companion.

Just as Xia Luoluo found her way and was about to set off, a familiar voice rang out from slightly above.

"Hey, hey. Are you guys alright after this place being so horrific?!"

The being that made the sound looked at the dark void within reach and asked with lingering fear.

"No way it can get better!"

Xia Luoluo said irritably, then looked up and paused, stunned.
"Are you a maggot?"

"You're the maggot!"

Clearly, it was the presence of the goddess of bathing, which annoyed him.

"Uh, it's really your current appearance."

At this moment, the Goddess of Bathing looked somewhat like a ball of cotton floating in mid-air, or perhaps a blue flame or a cloud. However, the white tail of this ball was rather long, which is why Xia Luoluo had the hallucination of "maggots".

After silently grumbling to herself, Xia Luoluo suddenly realized something.

"Since you're like this now, does that mean..."

"Um!"

The goddess of bathing in the sky, in her soul form, writhed vigorously and nodded.

Another location on the battlefield.

Millie, whose body had transformed into a cluster of blue flames, looked at the void space behind her and couldn't help but swallow.

If it weren't for the "star pattern" ability from Melsie, which grants immunity to most damage from slashes, she might not even be left with her original form by now.

Even though she turned into flames, the previous attacks almost extinguished her completely.

This ability, which she wasn't very familiar with, was not as useful or wonderful as it seemed or imagined.

Before Millie could even catch her breath after escaping danger...

Suddenly, she felt the hairs on her body stand on end.

With an overwhelming sense of foreboding, Millie turned around. What she saw was a "black dot" emerging from the void created by the spatial collapse, almost forming a straight line in mid-air, continuing its trajectory towards her location.

Cortrienne!

Millie tensed up immediately and quickly tried to switch her abilities to Thunder Mode.

You must never let Cortriñe get close.

Otherwise, no matter how fancy her abilities are, she definitely wouldn't last long on her own.

"Don't conjure the Holy Sword, Millie!"

With a slightly hesitant instruction, a figure slowly floated down from the sky—a figure that Millie and the Bathing Goddess had been dreaming of ever since they entered the fairy tale world.

It is neither a child form born from a fairy tale world, nor a fictitious soul form.

As always, dressed in a dark robe and always carrying something in his hands, Ritas in his full form landed in front of Millie.

"professor!"

At that moment, Millie, completely forgetting that a terrifying opponent might arrive at any moment, simply let out a sound of surprise.

"To be fair, your performance in this world has far exceeded my expectations. The resilience and ability you have shown are also many times greater than I anticipated."

For some reason, Ritas insisted on falling from the sky, his back to Millie, and objectively evaluated the situation in his usual flat voice.

"Therefore, outside of the academy, perhaps I shouldn't just see you as a student, but as a comrade-in-arms."

Since they are companions

What kind of condescending statement is that!
Millie did not say the second half of what she was saying.

It wasn't because she was mindful of Ritas's status and dared not say such offensive words. It was simply because she was tightly pursing her lips, unable to relax.

If anyone else had said those words, Millie might have beaten them up. But it was precisely because the one who said them was Ritas that those words touched Millie so deeply, stirring the most vulnerable parts of her heart. Because Millie had suddenly fallen silent, she was worried that Ritas might be injured and collapsed, so she turned around to check on him.

Then he saw Millie, who had almost pursed her lips into a wavy shape.

Sensing that the other person might rush up and hug him and burst into tears at any moment, Ritas silently turned his head back.

On the one hand, now is not the time to be held and cried.

On the other hand, his relationship with Millie Miriam can still be somewhat concealed for now. But if...
No, could this really be kept secret until then?
Suddenly, Ritas felt a huge headache coming on.

If he had known it would turn out like this, he really wouldn't have brought Millie out of the academy!
Suppressing the urge to cover his face, Ritas took a deep breath and faced his opponent who was already close behind.

"No matter what, you've gone too far, Kurt!"

As Ritas spoke, he slightly raised his right hand, which was holding the object.

Only then did Millie notice what Ritas had been holding: a thick book.

Wow.
The semi-transparent book, with its ethereal quality, flipped rapidly through Ritas's hands. Meanwhile, Ritas's left hand conjured an equally ethereal quill, which he precisely crossed out and quickly wrote new sentences on each page he needed.

During the time Ritas was writing, Cortrienne's advance was already close enough to bring Ritas and Millie into range.

Just as Cortriene raised her greatsword high, about to deliver a fierce slash, Ritas's writing came to a complete stop.

In an instant, Cortrienne's arm, which was holding up the greatsword, suddenly snapped downwards.

With a deafening crash as the heavy sword hit the ground.

The arrogant demon swordsman, who had been invincible since his "Iron Man" form, stumbled and fell to the ground.

"This is this"

Seeing the being that had always been the embodiment of nightmares and fear fall so easily before Ritas, Millie completely forgot the surging emotions that had overwhelmed her, leaving only disbelief.

"I used my authority to modify one of the rules of this world."

Ritas closed the revised book again. The cover of the book bore the title "Dorothy's Bedtime Stories."

This fairy tale book, which is almost entirely plagiarized, has the first volume written by Dorothy and the second volume completed by Wayne.

When the two volumes are combined, they become the foundation for constructing the fairy tale world.

"It's just a change in one rule."

Millie still felt that the scene before her was unreal.

After combining all the information she had gathered from the fairy tale world, Millie felt that the demon that Cortelne had been suppressing might be on the same level as the "original" being that created this world.

Therefore, once the demon was fully unleashed, Cortriene became a monster that neither the creator nor the usurper of the world could control.

If Cortrinie, the "wanderer" who previously had "authority," could be easily controlled by modifying some rules, why not do it?
"I did not change the rules related to Kurt."

As if sensing Millie's confusion, Ritas continued to explain.

"Instead, they changed the rules of the 'sword,' making all the swords in this world heavier."

Since "imagination" is one of the weaknesses of Ritas's six-dimensional diagram, even after gaining the authority to do whatever he wanted by modifying the "script" of this world, Ritas couldn't come up with any fantastical means to defeat his opponents in a grand way, so he chose this rather simple method.

For the same reason, or perhaps because Ritas simply couldn't ignore logic and rationality to conceive of a "weight that is absolutely impossible to lift," he pragmatically chose to transform all the swords in the fairy tale world into the heaviest weight he had ever encountered and understood.

The weight of the enormous airship "Ideal Core," created by Susora, one of the Four Sages and "the Pioneer," which crashed in the forest next to the Academy.

"It's that simple."

Millie's mouth was slightly agape, and she looked a little disheveled.

It turns out that all it takes is to make the sword heavier to defeat such an invincible opponent. However, it is not easy to suddenly make the sword heavier.

"Yes, it's that simple. Or rather, it's not that simple, and my modifications won't take effect. I've just obtained the authority to modify the world's rules, so what I can do is very limited. Fortunately, this world has shrunk to the point where the naked eye can survey the entire area, and there's only one 'sword' left."

Changing the rules of the world is no easy task, especially for someone as meticulous as Ritas.

In Ritas's "world," for a sword to have a reasonably heavy mass, its material must also possess an incredibly heavy mass. The location of such material, its collection methods, storage, forging, and a host of other factors are all affected.

Therefore, if the fairy tale world is complete, the rules that Ritas modified would collapse and become invalid due to numerous self-contradictions.

“A monk sometimes needs a flexible way of thinking. And he needs to respond appropriately to the situation in a timely manner.”

As if it were an occupational hazard, Ritas didn't forget to offer a reminder before turning his gaze to Cortriene, who was already not far away.

At this moment, Cortrienne, her face contorted with rage, tried to lift the heavy sword, which lay on the ground as heavy as a giant airship.

Logically speaking, given Cortelene's physical abilities, she should have been able to easily finish off Ritas and Millie in front of her, even without a sword. However, she seemed to be obsessed with the sword, constantly trying to raise it again.

Ritas, his expression grave, pondered how to restore Cortelene's consciousness.

"Professor!"

Before Ritas could finish his thought, Millie’s slightly trembling voice interrupted him.

Millie's face was filled with terror.

The experiences in the fairy tale world successfully made Cortrinet the person Millie feared most in her life. And now, that fear has deepened even further.

Because, Cortrienne actually lifted one end of the greatsword on the ground, making it angled.

"real or fake."

In fact, this was the first time Ritas had faced Cortelne directly in the fairy tale world, and it was at this moment that he truly understood what kind of monster the "Wanderer" had unleashed.

After quickly looking around, Ritas began to cast a spell.

In just a few breaths, teleportation magic circles radiating a bright light appeared below everyone in the fairy tale world except Cortelne.

Meanwhile, Cortrienne successfully lifted the greatsword, which was as heavy as a giant airship.

boom--!
If you can't lift it, it's an obstacle; if you can lift it, it's a powerful sword that draws a broad line in the air.

Subsequently, the already dwindling space in the fairy tale world was almost entirely destroyed.

(End of this chapter)