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“Ah-ah-today is over-”
When Elijah said that with an expression of exhaustion, Trisha, who was following him, said with a wry smile.
“Aren’t you pushing yourself too hard these days?”
In fact, it was like that.
Elfante’s knight department classes are famous for being very strict, but the training course that Elijah is completing these days has a reputation for being downright murderous.
Even after school, the news that they would visit the dean for additional one-on-one training several times reached the ears of Trisha, the head of the Department of Divinity.
I guess I’ve said it all because I have to do that to get a reputation that makes me want to be a candidate for a hero.
“…No, whatever.”
Elijah pouted his lips and opened his mouth.
“Because I’ve been feeling inadequate lately.”
“…lack of?”
Trisha responded in a dumbfounded voice.
What kind of lack is it?
It has long been determined that among the freshmen, there is no one who can go even half as far as Elijah.
Even Talion, who had been highly anticipated, fell into disrepair as soon as he met Elijah.
“…Trisha. Do you know the Celestial Automaton?”
“Eh? Why is that suddenly?”
You know, you know.
Did you say that it is a weapon occasionally used in the heavenly world located within the other world when there is a need to intervene in the material world?
I heard that it is a difficult subject for almost all humans in the material world to deal with, as it has difficulty breaking through its extremely hard outer shell.
At least you won’t have a chance to meet something like that at the Academy student level, right?
“Among the freshmen, there was someone who cut it off in one go.”
“…”
What kind of monster is that?
“And he also has a connection to a teacher… I don’t know where he keeps getting involved with women like that…”
Trisha was startled again when she saw the ’emotional color’ rising in Elijah’s heart as he said that.
It’s black again. These days, it stays white for quite a long time!
“…Yeah, really? Still, I don’t think you have any special relationship with Mr. Dowd. “I heard that that person, the student council president, already had his nose pierced.”
“No, that’s a bit strange.”
Elijah sighed and said.
“There are a lot of women who jump at him and say they like him just by looking at him, but he has never once said he likes anyone.”
“…”
Isn’t that just flirtatious trash?
Such a thought naturally came to Trisha’s mind, but she struggled to swallow the sentence.
Anyway, Elijah is a person who cares very much. You shouldn’t take his words lightly.
“That’s why I’m worried. “I’m afraid that at some point, they’ll stop paying attention to me.”
“huh?”
Elijah’s expression suddenly darkened.
As if recalling a bad memory.
“During the last battle, they told me to stay out of it completely. “Isn’t this a bit of a red flag?”
“…uh?”
Trisha blinked for a moment.
No, this is something.
Strangely, the conversation is out of focus.
Why does the topic keep turning to combat power?
“…Hey, Elijah.”
“hmm?”
“Weren’t we talking about what type of person Mr. Dowd cares more about?”
There was mutual silence for a moment.
“…no. Because that person is stronger than me. “Wouldn’t the teacher be more likely to care about you than me?”
“…”
hmm.
Her friend always makes comments that are a bit strange and contradictory to common sense.
Since when did youth work become an arena where people are ranked based on who is stronger?
“Why do you think that?”
“What is that part? “Isn’t that the only competitive aspect about me?”
“…Why do you think that?”
Elijah closed his mouth.
He kicks the ground a few times for no reason, then humbly scratches the back of his neck and speaks.
“I don’t know what’s left of me other than being good at fighting…”
Trisha, who saw Elijah saying those words while squirming, silently touched his forehead.
There is a long way to go.
sincerely.
“…Have confidence. “I heard you’re secretly popular with boys too?”
“That can’t be possible?”
“…”
I don’t know why I am so adamant about denying things like this.
It’s true.
‘…He looks pretty, his skills are amazing, and he gets along easily with everyone…’
Honestly, as a friend, I feel like it would be a waste for a person named Dowd, whose history with women is very questionable.
I wish people knew that things like fan clubs aren’t created for nothing.
“…Well, anyway. So I’m training hard these days! Then wouldn’t the teacher stick around with me a little more…?”
“…”
But the idea itself was wrong.
Trisha gave up persuasion and looked upward.
“…uh?”
It was thanks to him that I discovered the ‘pillar of light’ that stretched out as if shattering the entire sky.
“What is that?”
“Well, well?”
-…
While having that conversation.
The pillar of light struck directly at the barrier that stretched across the entire academy.
A spiderweb-like crack appears in the protective barrier that surrounds the entire academy, spread by the Archangel.
“…!”
Elijah and Trisha’s faces turned pale at the same time.
I’m not sure what the situation is right now.
If that protective barrier disappears, there is no one in this academy who would know what would happen.
Nearby, there is a void zone where the ‘bodies’ of demons are buried.
If that protective barrier were not there, disaster would definitely occur in this place.
next.
Within seconds.
In the distance, in the void, a huge haze of darkness rose up, contrasting with the pillar of light.
As if it immediately sensed that the barrier was damaged.
next.
—————–!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Through the gap in the cracked barrier, black darkness began to rush in, screaming.
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[ Main Quest ]〖 Chapter 2 – Boy King 〗
[ !!Alert!! ] [Emergency event in action! ]
[Repel the ‘Academy Raid’! ]
[If there are too many casualties, it’s game over! ]
[This is a quest whose route has been changed due to an emergency event. ]
[ Additional rewards will be given upon clearing! ]
[Reward: 1 Hero Fragment]
[Reward: 1 Essence of Evil]
[Reward: Special interaction with ‘Inquisition’]
[Reward: 10,000pt]
There is no space to read the window that has emerged, and I grit my teeth as I look at the darkened sky.
“…”
Looking around, the figure of the seer is no longer visible.
It appears that he disappeared as soon as he activated the perforation disruptor.
Letting out an ear-piercing scream, the smoke filled with evil spirits and demons gathers into the gap in the barrier, and they continue to hit their bodies to break it.
Every time it hits, the screams of students nearby continue to erupt. You would have instinctively known that if that thing broke, something terrible would happen.
It’s not for no reason that the Chicheon Temple came out and set up a barrier around here. The demonic spirits that remain around here are those with a blind hatred for living things.
“…”
Normally, I wouldn’t do it like that.
However, this is a phenomenon that occurs because there are things in it that they ‘covet’.
Piece of the devil. And the vessels that hold the pieces.
These are the things that Atalanta gathered to seal all the pieces through me.
“…”
This damn thing is the butterfly effect.
Originally, they wouldn’t have tried to get in here by breaking the barrier like that.
This phenomenon is happening because of the existence of humans.
-!
However, Academy Elfante is a place where personnel capable of quickly responding to any threat resides.
There is a new model that jumps into such a place right away.
He is a human who instantly assembled the ‘flight’ technology, which is considered an extremely difficult skill to use with any kind of special ability.
Atalanta the Perpetual. The academy’s president, who possessed thousands of talents befitting his life of over 1,000 years, quickly reached the gap in the cracked barrier.
Then, white light erupts from the hand. It was clear that the intention was to reinforce the cracked area.
Subsequently, other new types of humans also arrived one after another to support Atalanta.
The faculty members of the Department of Sacred Studies and the Department of Magic were clear. I could also catch a glimpse of the faces of Persie, the Dean of the Department of Magic, and Walter, the Dean of the Department of Divinity.
-!
And with that much manpower attached, the darkness that was trying to sneak in through the gap in the barrier, as if the temporary measure was effective, screamed and retreated again.
It would be a great feat. No matter how many great people were there, that was the Archangel’s barrier. It makes no sense to be able to control it, even if only temporarily.
Cheers and sighs of relief flow from all around. This may be because we have gained confidence that even an accident like this can be prevented.
but.
‘…That’s not good.’
As far as I know, that’s not the main Boy King boss fight.
The fact that all those people are flocking there is itself a danger signal.
While all the high-quality personnel within the academy were concentrated there, another enormous energy began to gather in one place.
“W-what is that?!”
“The clock tower…!”
A clock tower embedded in the very center of the academy. The ‘tallest’ building in the Academy. Above it, several huge ‘hieroglyphs’ begin to appear.
A spell made in an ancient language. A forgotten technique. It is the golden art of Balcasus.
Then, the hieroglyphs gave off a strange energy and began to create all kinds of ‘true’ around them.
What is crawling out from inside is a group of huge monsters that are clearly rotten and putrid.
And what stands out among them all is a monster tens of meters in size. A gigantic golem made by combining several pieces of meat in a haphazard manner, and looks as if the shape of hell was fashioned into a human body.
Flash Tearer.
According to the classification of the Imperial Adventurer’s Guild, it is a ‘special type’ monster whose mere appearance causes an emergency in the city.
It’s a monster that you need to bring at least Gideon or Margrave Kendred to reliably defeat without casualties.
‘It’s so f*ucking stupid…!’
As soon as I saw that, my head started spinning.
Are you pushing me to break this now?
Undead assembled with gold magic.
Excluding the Flash Tearer, in terms of strength it is similar to the medium-sized monsters I dealt with previously, but it is much more vicious.
That thing won’t die.
It’s impossible to catch it from the beginning. How can you kill someone who is already a corpse again?
There is only one solution.
Dealing with Balcasus, who is moving that thing, through gold magic.
-!!!
-!!!!!!!!
The undead that emerged from the camp roared all at once.
The vocal cords must have also rotted due to the rotting effect of the entire body, and there was a mixture of the sound of deflating air and a horrible whistling sound. And, in fact, that made it even more grotesque.
“Hee hee hee hee…!”
“Run away!”
When the students see this, their faces turn pale and they start running away.
The upperclassmen and faculty who have some sense of sanity are trying to control the surroundings, but it must be even stranger that they can maintain their sanity by looking at that.
A fierce battle unfolded around them.
“…!”
Atalanta in the sky finally grits her teeth and gestures to the surrounding faculty.
I’m going to hold out here alone, so I guess that means you have to go to the ground and control it so that there are no casualties.
Although it is a reasonable choice, it is impossible to continue to deal with the fraud in the Void Zone that is still pounding the barrier alone. The faculty who made that decision hesitated, but Atalanta hurriedly gestured again.
If the undead are allowed to attack the out-of-control students like this, the barrier is not the problem. A massacre is taking place right here.
In the end, the professor who was convinced came down to the ground again with a miserable expression.
“…”
Atalanta would last about 30 minutes alone.
30 minutes.
Inside, you have to break through those monsters and hit Balcasus at the top of the clock tower.
Otherwise, the barrier will be broken through, countless people will be swept away by that darkness, and the main quest will fail. Game over.
In the current situation, neither the colleagues nor the ‘means’ prepared have been properly gathered. Can you do that?
“…”
Bit your lip until blood comes out.
If things proceed as intended, there should be no ‘time limit’.
Gather all the forces you couldn’t properly gather, advance through the immortal monsters to the clock tower, and even take out the boy king on the top floor.
If I have time, I will do anything. If only for one night.
But if you do it all in 30 minutes.
“…”
My teeth are grinding.
Time is running out. My composure is disturbed by a huge variable that deviates from my plan.
‘…I have to think of an appropriate method…’
I grit my teeth and shake my head.
The situation was extremely compressed compared to the original plan.
If you can’t think of it here, what will follow is of course decided.
Game over. Dowd Campbell dies.
“you!”
I turn my head to the familiar voice.
Elnor was running this way with his sword drawn.
Did this person search around the academy thinking that he should somehow find me first rather than avoiding this mess himself?
“Are you okay? “Hurry up and avoid it too…!”
“Elnor.”
As he says that, he makes eye contact with Elnor.
but.
“…It should not be avoided. “We have to solve this first.”
I have no choice but to say this now.
As soon as she heard what I said, Elnor’s eyes widened.
“What nonsense are you talking about solving this…! This shouldn’t be done at the student level!”
“…You can do it if you just think of a way.”
To be precise, you should do it.
or not.
“If I don’t do it, I’ll die.”
“…”
In fact, I’ve cut everything out and only concluded, but this is the best explanation I can give right now.
I grit my teeth.
If you look for it, you can find it. It will definitely come out.
However, my concentration continues to lapse. My head keeps spinning.
at that time.
Elnor squeezed my shoulder tightly.
“you.”
“…”
“I’m not going to ask you why. I’m sure there’s a reason why I’m saying that. But make sure you know this one thing.”
Elnor met my gaze directly and continued speaking.
“If you die, I will die too.”
“…yes?”
“Think of the lives of two people as being at stake. How to survive. “I will do whatever I can to help.”
“Elnor, what…”
“I’m telling you not to die! “I don’t know what’s going on!”
The heightened voice made me feel as if I had been hit on the back of the head with a hammer.
Did you know that this person could have a voice like this?
Only then did Elnor’s face come into view.
There are slightly tears in the corners of the eyes.
It’s a face that contrasts so much with his usual expressionless expression.
I guess I’m that important to this person.
“…”
By the way, I’m sorry for being so serious.
I’m truly sorry.
I almost burst out laughing reflexively.
I have no idea how to use all my facial muscles. I think this is my first time making an expression like this.
“…hmm.”
Elnor looks at me with suspicion as I suddenly cover my face and lower my head.
“…Daoud?”
“…it’s nothing.”
Because of the situation, I can barely force the laughter down my throat.
However, thanks to my consciousness being awakened once.
Vision returns.
My mind becomes clear again.
Take your time back.
“Just a moment, Elnor.”
He smiles slightly in gratitude.
After that, immediately close your eyes and calm your consciousness. Accelerates thinking to its limits.
I check the ‘card’ I have. Substitute for the current situation.
“…”
Sparks fly in my head.
there is. There is a way.
The numbers flashed.
And Elnor, seeing my face, slowly nodded.
“It looks like you’ve organized your thoughts.”
“…Yes. As expected, resolving the situation right away is close to impossible.”
“Then, will you run away?”
“no.”
I look at Elnor with a sigh.
Who can avoid it?
They’ve decided to do something like that to give me a hard time.
Then what I have to do is simple.
“I said it was close to impossible, but I didn’t say it was impossible.”
Hit it head on and crush it.
It is inevitable that there will be many conflicts with the pioneers in the future.
But from the beginning, we shouldn’t show ourselves being swayed by pranks like this.
“Elnor. “Do you trust me?”
“what?”
“I asked him if he believed me. “I need your help.”
“…”
This is a conversation we had once before.
It’s the same thing I said when confronting the Purifier.
“…”
“…”
And, the response that came back was the same.
Elnor looked straight into my eyes and opened her mouth.
“What can I do?”
Hearing that, I grin.
hour.
In the end, time is important.
If that guy gave me 10 minutes, I would be dead. Even if it had only been 20 minutes, it would have been ruined.
But, as it happens.
30 minutes.
“…Let’s go, Elnor.”
Open your mouth with a sigh.
“We have to cut off the head of a thousand-year-old monster in 30 minutes.”
I have just been given the perfect amount of time to sort out this situation.
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fantasy,
