Chapter 117 117 A death zone
[El's POV: ]
The headmaster created these summoning magic circles so it was obviously far beyond the normal human understanding and decoding it was not something even someone with a super sharp mind like my Lucy's could perform.
The magic circle was complex in itself but it required a great Mana handling ability to even try to change anything in this thing.
One first needed to channel a precise amount of Mana for every single element of this summoning circle, calculate the value of all those elements while inserting the Mana in the array, and then calculate the value that they would need to jump from one part of the magic circle to the other one. And, there are more than sixty parts to this thing, so, to calculate every one of them almost at the same time was not a task that just anyone could perform.
If you fail to do so midway or any unexpected distractions appear during the process, you would have to do the whole thing from the start, and you would have wasted your Mana so you would first have to take a portion or wait for the Mana to recover naturally.
"It was a long process. Even Rex would have taken some long hours to get it right."
But I am the great genius Auriel. This little magic circle that I had solved many times was not worth anything more than a flick of my finger.
-Oooooooooooooong!
The circle glowed with a pinkish light when it was about to summon new creatures but now that I had solved it, it had entered into a kind of control menu state.
'I can now change the basic things like its appearance and colors, and also the advanced things like how much Mana the circle can take in and what kind of creatures it should summon.'
"Turning off the restrictions and the protective measures of the circle was the important part. Or else, the way this thing summons monsters exactly after every hour was a shitty thing that would never produce enough creatures for the number of points I wanted."
It has to summon some monsters every minute or in less than a minute for the best efficiency but if the Mana input becomes too much, the circle will get destroyed with this part of the cave, which, would be bad…
'The best it could do with its current capabilities is one creature every minute… no fucking way that much would even be nearly enough to surpass that bastard's point score. Fker was alredy in top ten.'
He must be going around places like a madman for the points, collecting every single point with any method he could.
"This much ain't enough."
I had to increase the efficacy of this summoning circle, and, I knew exactly what I had to do for that.
-Swaaaash.
Gathering the red string that had killed those shitty goblins and reverting it back to its original form, I turned my pretty magic wand into a pencil.
"Let's see."
The method to cause additional changes in a fixed magic circle was called 'Magic code editing' and to use it, one needed an absolute understanding of the magic circle in question as well as the changes that they wanted to make.
'And also an absurd precision and focus.'
One had to trace the existing magic circle with their Mana and overwrite the parts that they wanted to change during the tracing process.
It was a difficult task even for me.
The calculations were one thing but the way I had to control all of my hand and Mana movements simultaneously was not something humanly possible for a magic circle of this caliber.
'The great Crimsonred Emeraldgreen Gray himself created it after all.'
I can do it, certainly, but I had to focus… and since I had to do that anyway, it was better to just <Dive>.
-Oooooooooong!
-Swaaash! Swaaaash! Swish! Swaaaaash!
-Oooooong…!
-Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I loved this feeling of everything else vanishing, becoming one with the work I was focusing on, being in a world of my own, hyper-focused on the task before me.
It was far easier to trace the things and add the additions this way rather than doing it with just a 'focused' state.
I could even sense everything that was happening all around me so blocking any external hindrance was easier.
'But being in this state consumed mental stamina at a speed proportional to one's 'depth' of their <Dive>.'
And my dives were usually pretty deep so it consumed a lot of mental power.
'Still though, when it came to <Dive>, that bastard was far better than me. Perhaps the best in this entire Worldline.'
His ability to maintain that state however he wanted was absurd even for me… but I'm still better than him!
-Zaaaaaaaaa…!
"Huuuu. Done."
It took a few minutes but, I finished earlier than I expected. Perhaps I have gotten better at this thanks to all that shitty training hell he put me through.
"Looks good."
The little headache I was having was worth it. This turned out just the way I wanted.
[A participant has succeeded in altering a monster summoning magic circle!]
[Recording the achievement in the data logs.]
[Granting 3000 points for the unbelievable achievement.]
"Ohhh! Thanks~."
They were being generous with this one, but who was I to mind such a cute free gift~?
"Hehe, and now that this is complete…"
There were six things one needed to do to get their own auto point farm. The first thing is this summoning circle, the second is its activation, and the third is the ability to make changes to the existing circle.
They were the three main things, after which came the setting up of the new circle, the generation of a system that can maintain the required Mana as efficiently as possible, and lastly creation of the death trigger, something that can kill the creatures that would be spawning here.
'But, I'm gonna do a little more than that.'
What would happen if, in addition to this summoning circle, you also attract the creatures already present in this labyrinth into this place and kill them with the spawning creatures? Increased rate of point gains, right?
With the changes I made, the new magic circle could continuously summon new creatures every ten seconds and the level and type of creature would depend on the supplied mana in that ten-second period.
'It will be random for most parts since some of the summoned creatures might be useful ones, so, it was better to have them myself instead of blindly killing them.'
There was a chance that I might get lucky and summon something totally unexpected with this special circle so it was worth at least that much.
The atmospheric Mana alone won't be enough to supply enough mana every ten seconds so for Mana supply, I used some of the high-quality Mana crystals that I already had in my storage, created some smaller magic circles around the large summoning circle, and connected the Mana crystals with it directly.
That solved the battery problem so, after finishing this little task, I used some earth attribute magic to summon some rock pillars throughout the area, and used water, fire, and wind magic to turn them into a unique shape that resembled an electricity tower from my previous world, and then, after turning my pretty magic wand in the red threads once again, I connected all those pillars with it, thus completing the little death mechanism.
"And there was a certain need for a system that would clean the dead creatures' bodies, so I should set one magic circle right above the summoning circle that would clean the mess or push it all towards me in the side so that I could store the useful stuff away."
I had the plan so I got to work and made some changes according to the changes in the mechanisms. And time passed...
"Haaaa. it was too much of a work. The shitty thing took me an entire day to perfect."
But it looked good enough. Yup.
I wanted to test this thing right away and see the results of my amazing work, but before that, I needed something that would attract the surrounding creatures around this cave in this trap.
"Good thing I borrowed this from Ras before coming to the academy. I have to keep my promise and give that cute kitty of mine his fish cake recipe, hehe~."
Taking out a small bottle that looked too attractive to even my eyes, which contained a unique colorful liquid, I covered it in an ice bubble.
This was something that attracted all the energy best regardless of their type or kind in the nerdy surrounding area-
-Skatak. Skatak. Skatak. Skatak1
"Oh? Alredy? This one sure is as effective as I thought."
I could already hear some footsteps coming this way and since they were running here, It was easy to tell this was a beast-type creature.
"Let's activate the death zone then~!"
Death zone, a place where any entity that enters here would meet the end of their journey. This was going to be that kind of place.
-Ooooooooooong!
'This was fun, and since I was doing it this way for the first time, this was even more exciting~.'
I could already see it. The blood, the screams, the chopped bodies, and a ground covered with blood... kekekeke.
Activating the summoning circle and confirming the functions of everything in the area, I went to a side and waited for the first being to initiate the chain reaction of blood fountains and body chopping~.
-Skatak!
"Oh? Is that a bullheaded horse? What is it doing in this area?"
They usually lived on the other side of this open area so seeing one here was new but, it didn't matter what kind of creature was coming here.
"Moooo?"
As soon as the strange <E> ranked creature with a black-brown body, bull's head, and a horse's lower body, a creature of (Level-54) walked into this place, and entered the area with red strings that must be barely visible to his eyes, I touched the little thread of the string beside me and…
-Splassssssssssh!
-Puchak!
The part of the string that the bull was touching glowed and in a blink of an eye, the bull's body was chopped into pieces as blood and its insides splashed on the ground.
"Yes~! This works perfectly~! Hehehe, yeeeeei~"
My experiment with the first target was successful and the summoning circle had finished charging so the second target was also on its way.
"After this one, there will be the third target, then the other creatures around here will rush here, then more creatures will be summoned, and all those things will, heheheh~!"
This was fun, this was going to be fun, they were going to die, there would be blood, there would be screams and cries too, and what made all this the most fun, was the fact that I wouldn't even have to get up from this place to kill them or clean their bodies~.
"This is the best~!"
And since there is a chance that the 'boss' kind of monsters of nearby areas will come here as well and die the same way the goblins do, will make this thing even more fun~.
"A death zone… hehehe… the death's home, hahaha!"
This was fun~. Would have been even more fun if he was here as well, holding me tightly with that sexy body of his, kissing my soul out with his hot tongue. Haaa...
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