How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 226

to you who survived (1)

When Princess Persica came out of the imperial library, the soldiers standing guard at the entrance bowed their heads politely.

Like the soldiers guarding the Rose Palace, the angles were neatly alive. Even though he suddenly opened the door and came out, he didn’t even look embarrassed.

Persica looked out the window and realized the sun was setting. Come to think of it, the festival period was almost over.

Princess Persica, who had been stuck in the library throughout the festival, couldn’t really feel the heated atmosphere. She doesn’t really enjoy the heat of these festivals, and she’s not the kind of person who wants to go out that much.

However, there were a lot of tiring things to do, such as the imperial dispute and the imperial family meeting, so I couldn’t stay stuck in the library… This festival period was a good opportunity to spend time surrounded by books.

It seemed that Selah took advantage of this opportunity to go on a tour with Emperor Chloel.

It’s important to leave a good impression on Emperor Chloel, but it’s also quite important to gather more power in the imperial family while all the important people are away.

While Selaha was away, Persica was thinking of recruiting the chancellor and important escort personnel.

Then, in the library, I was buried in books and became too immersed. I should have come out at least two days early.

“Shall we prepare a meal, Princess Persica?”

“No, it is. but…”

Looking out the windows of the corridor of the Rose Palace, I could see a spire stretching out from the side of the central palace.

It is a steeple built for military purposes, but its role has faded considerably since the reign of peace. It was a building currently used by one of the imperial family members for private purposes.

“Since there is no one to see, I want to stop by the spire.”

“…”

“Why am I doing something I shouldn’t be doing?”

Emperor Chloel was extremely reluctant to allow anyone to approach that spire. It is because the sick finger of the Huang family is hidden there.

The three princesses were well aware of this fact, so they did not bother to approach it.

The three princesses, each with their own set of values, compete to succeed the Chloe family. They are the pride of this dazzling imperial family. However, above these three shining princesses, there was an eldest son who was in fact appointed to the position of the next emperor.

Crown Prince Lindon Chloe.

At one time, he was a man who stood by Emperor Chloel’s side and assisted him, holding his position as heir more firmly than anyone else.

As the only male among the direct descendants of the current Chloel family, he was a stalwart monarch who was de facto designated as the successor.

He was the older brother of the three princesses, and always looked down on the people with a smart head and quick eyes… He was a man with the qualities of a saint.

In the days when the well-to-do Lindon was firmly holding the center, such a story even circulated among his subjects.

He is an ideal monarch who has gathered only the strengths of the three princesses, each with their own unique color…

This Chloel Empire will also enjoy peace and prosperity for at least one more generation…

It was also a symbol of such hope.

The beginning of the imperial dispute over the three princesses was when Lindon Chloel suddenly abandoned all of his qualifications as the heir to the imperial throne one day and locked himself in that spire.

Since then, the seat of the heir to the throne has become vacant, and Emperor Chloel begins to hesitate about which of the three princesses to designate as the next successor… The long history of feuding begins.

Now, Lindon Chloel has become a crippled person who doesn’t come out of the room. She was so miserable that her long days were colorless.

What caused it… Surprisingly, no one knows.

Neither the aide who was aiding Prince Lindon right next to him, nor the imperial chancellor, the head butler, nor the bodyguards knew the cause.

One day, the man suddenly lost all motivation and meaning and locked himself in his room.

There were no omens, no major incidents to speak of. No matter how much he asks, he doesn’t even answer… He becomes a helpless man in everything and just a human being who can’t die.

Lindon’s sudden downfall was a great wound to Emperor Chloel.

For the first few months, I waited, thinking that he would definitely pick up his energy, but Lindon’s condition only worsened as time went on.

At some point, he just locked himself in his room with a skinny, haggard look. He barely even ate the food brought by his servants… He was in the room at the top of the spire, in front of the fire in front of the fireplace, crying out loud and laughing as if he was in a state of collapse.

When the heir to the imperial family became such a ruined man, those in power of the imperial family completely isolated him in the spire.

At the initiative of Krepin Ross-Tylor, who was still on active duty, it was concluded that he would take care of the prince and refrain from exposing himself to outsiders as much as possible until he came to his senses. There was nothing good about spreading the fact that the country’s crown prince had gone mad.

Prince Lindon himself abdicated the position of heir.

Only that fact… I just publicized it.

Since then, numerous subjects have guessed why Prince Lindon became strange, but no one has found an exact answer. It’s just that the excessive stress accumulates, and one day, she puts a lot of mental pressure on her and says that her head went weird.

On the one hand, conspiracy theories also circulated.

Making Crown Prince Lindon like that was the work of one of the princesses who aspired to the imperial power.

Selaha, Persica, and Penia.

There was someone who made Prince Lindon give up the imperial authority, and thought that he would inherit the imperial authority.

And it was Princess Persica who was most suspicious.

It was because, before Lindon became strange, the person closest to Prince Lindon was Princess Persica.

It was because, whenever we had a chance, we would go to the library and chat with Persica, drink tea together, or discuss the current situation.

As Princess Persica, who had spent the longest time with Prince Lindon, she was the person who was the easiest to put a hand on the Crown Prince.

Of course, if you gossip about such rumors in front of the imperial family, it’s just right to be punished immediately.

However… there is no way that the rumors that were going around among the servants did not reach Persica’s ears.

‘That’s a funny story.’

Climbing the stairs of the spire, Princess Persica snorted.

Beyond a few conspiracy-loving courtiers, lately even Selaha had been looking at Persica with suspicion.

As if he had really done something to Prince Lindon.

When a piece of truth is nowhere to be seen, the crowd begins to piece together the truth as loosely as possible.

It was Princess Persica who made Prince Lindon strange.

There is a truth that seems good to fit even at such a glance, so there are people who fall for it.

However, Princess Persica also doesn’t know why Prince Lindon locked himself in the room.

He was just dealing with Prince Lindon, who came to the library because he could communicate with Persica the most.

Persica also has memories of having fun dealing with Lindon.

Drinking tea on the terrace and having deep discussions on current issues, or recommending books to each other in the corner of the library… It wasn’t a very bad memory.

I thought that if it was Lindon’s level, even if he ascended to the emperor’s seat, he would be an acceptable gentleman.

It’s only now that it looks like this.

– smart.

Persica knocked and opened the door.

When Emperor Chloel was in the imperial family, it was a room that he couldn’t even go near because he was paying attention.

Taking advantage of the festival, when everyone’s eyes are looking outward, it’s the perfect time to meet Prince Lindon.

I have met Lindon several times, but each time there is no different harvest.

Even so, it was a habit to face the spire whenever there was an opportunity, even with the desire to do so.

Thinking that there would be no harvest this time, I entered the dark room.

I entered a room with several layers of curtains and only dimly lit candles and blinked my eyes a few times.

Then, the eyes adapt to the dark… The shocking scenery fills the pupils.

“Lee, Lindon Brother!”

Persica screamed and ran into the room.

Since it was a steeple that even the guards couldn’t enter without permission, he had to rush directly into it with his tiny body.

Because it was at that moment that Lindon was about to put his head on the rope hanging from the ceiling.

Just as he was about to end his own life, Persica hugged him tightly and pushed him away.

“Keep, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh…”

“Brother Lindon. What the hell are you thinking?!”

“Damn… Damn…! Again, I couldn’t die… again…!”

Lindon gritted his teeth and swallowed the tears.

“You are a pitiful human being who has no confidence to survive and does not even have the courage to die… I’ve been staring at the rope for hours, but I can’t seem to find the courage… the courage to endure the pain of death… !”

“Make up your mind, Brother Lindon! Why are you trying to die!”

“Persica… You’re Persica… Now, no more… I don’t have time… Now I really have to make a decision…”

Lyndon, who was rolling on the floor, drew a small dagger from a nearby armour-shaped ornament and held out the handle toward Persica. There was a sense of desperation in his trembling hands.

“Persica… you… will you finish me…? My servants will never listen to me even if I make a request like this…”

“Will you grant me such a bizarre request? Wake up, Brother Lindon!”

The appearance of Lindon slowly emerging from the darkness. Literally, it is the lung itself.

The glossy blonde hair has become crumbly and clings to her cheeks, and her lifeless eyes and emaciated body resemble a scarecrow.

When Persica saw that appearance, she swallowed her breath once more.

“There must be a reason for doing this… I don’t think…”

“I… don’t have the courage to live any longer… What’s the use of imperial authority, what’s the use of peace and prosperity…”

“Brother…”

“I am afraid of the futility to come. why did you know this Why did he lock himself in this swamp of fear, knowing a fact that he didn’t have to know…! Damn… I miss the days when I was ignorant. I miss the me who didn’t know anything…! You don’t have to know how to hurt yourself, you feel really stupid…!”

“Really… It’s getting worse…”

I can’t possibly find him sitting around the library desk with Persica, exploring knowledge.

Persica first dragged Prince Lindon and sat him in a chair. When the cold water that his servant must have brought was pushed into the thin man’s mouth, he began to drink with a gasp.

“First, calm down and calm down.”

“Persica… Persica… soon… everything will end… I’m afraid… I don’t want to suffer… I want to leave… I’d rather stay alive and writhe in pain, you idiot. I want to give up my life…”

Repeatedly making incomprehensible noises, Lindon held back tears.

Still, it seemed that she had calmed down for the time being, and Persica sat down on the other side of the sofa, wiping away sweat.

I’ve been here just in case, but it doesn’t seem like the words will work properly.

Still, if Persica hadn’t come, a catastrophe would have happened. For a country’s crown prince to take his own life, the country almost fell into chaos.

Taking a moment to catch her breath, Persica looked around the room.

It’s still a place that doesn’t feel like people live at all.

Probably just sitting there like a corpse usually, dust was piled up on bookshelves and furniture.

It seems that servants periodically come and clean up, check Lindon’s condition and report it to Emperor Chloel… but now even that cycle seems to be getting longer.

He wasn’t meant to be like this.

Persica let out a deep sigh, then suddenly turned her gaze to the ring with the imperial family pattern placed on the table.

“This, this…”

Looking closely, it was a precious ring passed down only to the heirs of the imperial family.

Owning this ring means that you are promised the position of the next emperor in the glorious Chloel family.

“Still… my brother had it..”

It was not very good that this royal family treasure, which had been handed down only to the Crown Prince since the founding of the country, was rolling around on the table like this.

Anyway, Lindon gave up the crown prince position. In the first place, he had completely lost his will to live. It was absurd to entrust him with such an imperial treasure.

First of all, it seemed right that Persica should retrieve it and deliver it to Emperor Chloel. It was the moment when he was about to organize his thoughts and reach for the ring.

“No, Persica!”

– Courage!

Lindon, who had been constantly muttering to himself, suddenly jumped up from his seat and snatched the ring.

The recoil knocked her to the ground once again, and Lindon, sobbing unsightly, held the ring tightly in her bosom.

“No, no, no, never! Don’t touch the ring! Please never touch the ring! Especially you never! Not as good as you, Persica!”

“Oh, brother…?”

“This can’t work…! When you know everything, you… maybe you too…”

“What do you mean, brother? Please tell me straight.”

Persica put her hand on Lindon’s chin as he slumped pathetically on the floor and stroked it once.

“So… you don’t have to suffer alone. What the hell, what did you know, what does the ring have to do with it… tell me… why do you keep talking about it…? There were many opportunities to speak…!”

“Persica… but… I…”

“Brother.”

Persica looked down at Lindon with a determined face.

Lindon looked up at Persica with a pitiful look, then slowly relaxed his arms.

“Yeah… anyway… it’s all over now…”

“…”

“This ring… is a ring passed down only to the crown princes of the imperial family… And yet, it is also a key… The only one who knows that fact is me right now. I found out by accident.”

As if giving up on something, Prince Lindon began pouring out the words he had been hiding in his heart.

“The Great Sage Sylvania.”

A completely unexpected name came out of his mouth.

“At one time, he was a great scholar who lived in the Chloel Imperial Family and studied Aspect Magic…”

“…yes. But… you were exiled to the island of Aken for injuring Prince Lienfel at the time.”

After saying that, Persica couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

When Sylvania was in its heyday, Lienfel was the successor and crown prince of the Chloe family.

He, too, must have carried this ring on his body. Because this historical treasure of the imperial family was allowed only to the crown prince of a country.

“…”

“At that time, the great sage Sylvania… committed a great sin and apologized to Prince Lienfel. And, as a minimum duty for those who harmed her, I let him know what she was really researching.”

“That… how does your brother know?”

“I went into her secret lab. There, all of the research she had accomplished while living in the imperial family was organized in an easy-to-understand manner. Her research journals and records are all intact.”

Persica’s pupils quivered and she took a deep breath.

“In the first place, the laboratory where Sylvania lived… is not in this Rose Palace, but in the Lily Palace…!”

“All the records there are superficial. Indeed, the records she has been hiding and studying… are beyond the deepest bookshelf of the Imperial Library…”

In fact, Persica’s voice did not come out.

Prince Lindon did not enjoy visiting the imperial library. It’s just that Princess Persica always stayed there, so she came to see her.

Prince Lindon accidentally found a secret laboratory in Sylvania while visiting the library to meet Persica.

And, is it a prank in the sky… He also had the key to enter the place on his body.

“Sylvania, the great sage, engraved a magical inscription on this ring to enter her secret laboratory. Anytime… so that Prince Lienfel can access Sylvania’s research.”

“…”

“…After that, what happened to Prince Lienfel…was it recorded?”

This is a well-known historical fact.

Prince Lienfel completely disappears from history starting one day.

According to records, it is only said that he shunned the world and did not set his will on the imperial power. It’s a sudden story, but since it’s a historical fact, everyone just accepted it that way.

“In the lab… what… did you see…?”

“That… that…”

Lindon’s teeth clenched and his body began to tremble.

“Damn… if I’ve talked this far… even if I keep my mouth shut, you’ll go check it out yourself…”

“…”

“Listen up, Persica…! Don’t focus on things like Aspect Magic…! If you get too deeply involved in Astrology, if you try to get too close to the providence of the world…! It will be eaten as it is…! Something like a huge darkness, something like a providence guarded by a god… I’m going to lose my mind after being eaten whole…!”

What the hell is this guy talking about?

I can’t quite understand it, but I’m talking about a strange truth.

“I tasted that slice. I felt that I was going to become a lunatic. Even a dumb person like me could intuit that easily…! That must be the last line drawn by the god who protects the world’s providence…! A lowly human being should not try to penetrate the world’s providence any more than this… As they say, it is the final critical point allowed by God’s mercy…!”

“…Brother…Brother…?”

“That fact… that clever human being called the great sage… wouldn’t have known…”

Aspect magic is magic that grasps the providence of the world and twists and turns it.

There is nothing wrong with simply analyzing the system and taking a small fraction of its power.

However, if you completely fall into that depth and go to the realm where you try to completely control the laws of the world… In front of that enormous power, human reason will melt away casually. It will become a lunatic.

The great sage, Sylvania, was unaware of that fact.

Nonetheless, she never stopped researching.

Why? Just because of a passion for learning? Because of that petty curiosity to know the truth of the world?

The only one who knows the reason is the great sage Sylvania herself.

“…Brother.”

“Please, don’t ask me like this. Persica.”

With a groan and tears, Lindon appeals.

“End my life. I’m a worm-like human being who doesn’t even have the courage to face my own death… so, with your hands… close my eyes. Turn your eyes away from the impending catastrophe… Allow me to close my eyes comfortably… I beg you… I beg you… Persica…”

Persica managed to control her trembling body and sat down on the sofa again.

The bottom of the lips trembled, and an unstoppable vibration continued even in the chest area. Goose bumps running down your back are now natural.

Eventually, Persica picked up the dagger with trembling hands.

Lindon continued to sob and trembled before finally loosening his arm holding the ring and showing it open.

The wide chest that looks good enough to stab is revealed.

– That’s right, bang!

However, Persica threw the dagger on the floor and quickly picked up the ring.

Without even trying to narrow his surprised pupils, he opened the door and ran out.

Holding up the hem of her dress with both hands, she rushed down the steeple stairs.

Persica’s eyes… continued to tremble.

*There was a user who used the name ‘Peperopepe’.

He was a user who used to solve stories related to the bosses of <Sylvania’s Failed Swordsman> or write boss battle strategies.

It first became famous among the community when, on the day of release, it completely analyzed the boss Yenica Failover, the boss of Act 1, and left a detailed strategy message.

After that, he was also the user who conquered all the Act 2 bosses, ‘Glast’, Act 3 bosses, ‘Lucy Meyril’, Act 4 bosses, ‘Crefin Ross Taylor’, and Act 5 bosses, ‘Seichangryong Velbroke’, all in the shortest period of time.

In addition to the absurd attack speed, neat and perfect information organization, and even the detailed background information that ordinary users do not know well, they are completely aware. Thanks to that, all kinds of rumors used to circulate.

In fact, he is an employee of a developer company, a person who wrote a scenario, or, jokingly speaking… a human who came out of that world…

There were many other half-joking rumors circulating, but the identity of the user was never revealed. No one was actively pursuing them.

Well, anyway, the high-quality strategy or information he left behind is important, because who he is is not particularly important.

From my point of view, who enjoyed < Failed Swordsman of Sylvania > quite impressively… Those strategy articles were also the subject of exploration.

I once searched for his nickname on an overseas portal, and also searched for his e-mail address.

It was because I was curious about how they knew so much about the game… and wanted to get in touch with them in private.

Well, it’s a good thing if we can get in touch… or it’s just a matter of doing that.

Since I was the age who found and read various setting books, this person might know more about the information I didn’t know.

However, there was no contact. There was no information to find out where the man named ‘Peperopepe’ was and what he was doing.

However, in a corner of a distant Internet site… traces of the blog he used alone could be found.

Surprisingly, the pictures of the characters from <Sylvania’s Failed Sword Master> were uploaded like backup files.

These are the pictures I saw in the setting book.

The image of Jenika Failover standing tall with Glas Khan’s right arm in the background in the Student Union Building.

Seeker Glast looking up at the stars from the top of the magic tower.

At the top of Mount Orne, Lucy Mayril wearing dozens of layers of magic circles and wearing a witch hat.

The image of Kreffin Ross-Taylor sitting aloft among the rubble on the roof of a burning building.

And even the appearance of the star spear dragon, Velbroke, who is floating high above the island of Aken and contemplating the world.

The pictures of the bosses decorating the end of each act… were arranged like a setting picture.

However, when the wheel of the mouse was lowered to the end, another unknown picture appeared.

I couldn’t tell what it was just by looking at the picture, so I didn’t bother to remember it. Something like a dark and large magical door is open, and only the back of a person wearing a robe can be seen in front of it. It is shown holding a large and colorful staff.

The place looks like a dark basement. It looks like the flow of magical power is spreading.

As far as I know, there are no scenes or characters like that in < Failed Swordsman of Sylvania >.

Unlike other paintings, is it a picture taken from another place? In any case, it was unclear whether it was a material worth digging deep into.

It was late. She had to get ready to go to sleep. I left the mouse alone for a while and went to wash myself.

If you place the mouse cursor on an image file, image information may pop up after a while.

The name of the file that pops up for a while and then disappears, the man watching can’t confirm it.

Hidden Boss

Silvenia, The Lunatic

You who tried to fight the providence of the world.

Those who tried to resist the promised catastrophe.

You who survived to the end and tried to praise the value of life.

Come on, sleep in peace