How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 91

Student president election (4)

– Tududuk, Took

Even if it’s the same rain, the feeling is different for each season.

The spring rain feels like paving the ground. It is different from the summer rain that coolly pours down with a whooshing sound.

When you walk through the rain and wind in summer, it feels like the water droplets are hitting your whole body, but walking in the spring rain feels like it is pressing down on your body, so you feel calmer.

The dampness permeates even the sound. As usual, there is no sound of going through the sabaksabak grass.

The forest is filled with only the sound of feet stepping on soft mud and the sound of splashing in a thin puddle.

[This is the first time I’ve been to the northern shore. Certainly, the cliff area was wide, but it was desolate and uninhabited, so there was nothing to see! The distance is still very far! ]

Mug, who sat on his shoulder and cleared his throat with a chuckle, was the only person he spoke to.

[ Now that this candle mug dares to tell you, I can assure you that the contract with Lacia, the water spirit, was an excellent choice! Above all, Lady Lacia’s ‘Blessing of the Water Master’ is different from the protection of my fire suit, so it is less versatile because it is used in many situations, but once the conditions are met…]

There’s never a day when I’m with Mug, who explains everything in a straight-forward way. What he was so proud of, the way he talked about all sorts of spirits, I’m getting attached to him now.

I continued walking in the north direction while exchanging conversations with Mug.

The size of the northern forest can never be said to be small. I have lived in this forest for a year, but there are still unfamiliar roads left. Maybe it’s because I always go the same way.

“It’s roughly like this here.”

It took quite a long time to reach the northern edge, the cliff area.

Basically, Aken Island gets busier the further south you go. This is because the main facilities of the Sylvania Academy are all concentrated in the south. Of course. Because there are two bridges to the south that lead to the Nofaren Peninsula on the continent.

Even if you go beyond the middle part, most of it is a wild forest where people are rare, and once you reach the northern end, it feels like a world that has nothing to do with Sylvania Academy is unfolding.

Not only Lacia, whom I contracted with, but basically the water spirits are greatly affected by the moisture around them.

Even if it rots, it’s a junchi, and since it’s a middle-ranking spirit, it exerts power that can’t be compared to lower-ranking spirits even in desolate areas with no moisture at all. Still, the true value is revealed only in an environment full of moisture.

Beach in the rain. There is no environment as perfect as this to deal with water spirits.

It is said that once all these tricky conditions are met, it will exert power comparable to that of a high-ranking spirit, but to be honest, I don’t even want that much. I can’t even handle the amount of horsepower.

I took out the bow I had brought.

It is a recurve bow that has been refined over a long period of time. He was the most proper of the ones he had made through a lot of trial and error.

I tried to pull the bowstring toward the waves of the sea. I wrapped my magic in his hand, and the magic arrows that my sensitivity led to were created with a soft light.

It’s not just a magic arrow. The magic arrow imbued with the energy of water does not end with a one-dimensional means of attack that penetrates the enemy and inflicts damage.

“Hmm… Magic power itself doesn’t consume much, but once it’s fired and activated, it’ll be different…”

[The direct amount of mana required up to this point is only a very small amount required to create magic arrows, but if you activate the spirit ceremony, the story will be different. ]

“I’m going to have to try using it.”

[That doesn’t mean you can’t make a fuss. Ed’s absolute mana has grown a lot, but it’s probably not enough to offset the inefficient loss of mana caused by the lack of spirit response. ]

I nodded and canceled the spirit ceremony for now. The use of spirit formula is a fairly deep application field among spirit magic. For now, it’s something to think about after getting used to the manifestation of the spirit itself.

It’s raining like this, and the waves are hitting the shore. There was no other environment like this to deal with water spirits efficiently.

The moment I thought about that and tried to gather my mana.

“It’s an honor to see you after a long time. Master Ed.”

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I turned around and looked back at the sound calling me.

Two men wearing dingy robes were seated at some point.

The boss in the middle of the 3rd phase of the last chapter of Act 4, the subjugation of Creffin.

The vassals in charge of the darkness of the Ross Taylor family.

They were two knights, Cardek and Nox, who swore allegiance to Crepin after receiving the promise of a fief.

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Cardek and Knox are veterans who have shared the history of the Roth Taylor family throughout their lives.

Under the robe to shed the raindrops, you can see the slender figure of Cardek, dressed in a neat suit and wearing a loose necktie. He is about the same age as Knox, but has a much cleaner appearance.

On the other hand, Knox, who has a well-shaven beard and a fairly reliable appearance, looks much more easy-going.

Along with the angular chin, the frame of overbearing muscles exposed over the neat outfit proves that he is not an opponent to be taken lightly.

Two of Crepin’s first-class henchmen, who have gone through a lot of prenatal battles, have come to Aken Island. At this point, an anomaly had to be detected.

“These faces should be nice to see, but they aren’t very nice.”

The two knights looked at the edge of the cliff.

It is a blond boy standing in the falling rain. He is holding a sword in one hand.

I turned my upper body toward the two knights. The view behind the sea of ​​rain. The light from the two pupils was directed at the knights through the rain-streaked hair. Gakgung, which is aiming at the floor, is quite large, the size of the upper body of an average person.

“I’m excommunicated, but I’m always calling you ‘Bocchan’. Is it something to be grateful for?”

He already knew Kadek and Knox well enough.

The mid-bosses of the final chapter of Act 4. Kadek the Eagle Knight, Knox the Brown Bear Knight. Both were difficult opponents.

“I’ve heard about Master Ed.”

It was Kadek who knelt there.

“I’ve heard that a lot has happened since he was excommunicated, and that he is living diligently while doing his duty steadfastly.”

“That’s right, Master Ed. We… didn’t even know that.”

Even Knox, who had a solid build, knelt down and bowed his head.

“I’ll tell you without adding or subtracting. We… lived with a great resentment towards the appearance of Master Ed at the Rosteyler Mansion. We take this opportunity to repent and even thought that Ed’s excommunication was justified.”

There was some sincerity in his deep voice.

“However, when I came to this island of Aken and reflected on the life of Master Ed, I changed my mind.”

Knox pulled out a leather pouch containing a dagger from his bosom and placed it on the grass.

“We came under the direction of Mr. Crepin. We will somehow exclude Master Ed from the Sylvania Academy, and if the opportunity arises, we have ordered him to assassinate him, and even received a dagger with a poisonous seal.”

The two knights knelt in the pouring rain and calmly continued their story.

“But we do know. Ed’s appearance at that time was somehow strange. The youthful appearance of his childhood disappeared like a ghost, and he ruled over the mansion as if he had become a different person… It won’t be.”

“We can now understand that the current Master Ed is the one who truly suits the successor.”

Various rumors and evaluations about Ed circulating inside the island of Aken. No one knows what effect those things had on the two knights.

However, there is no hostility in the way he calmly lowers his head and continues the story.

“Please return everything to its original place, and pave the way to raise the honor of Ross Taylor to the world once again.”

“Our vassals… are ready to follow anywhere. We will explain everything to Krepin in detail.”

As it was, the two knights kept their mouths shut and waited for Ed’s answer while still lowering their heads.

Ed took a few steps forward, looked down at the two knights with their heads bowed… and opened and closed his eyes.

“Don’t be fooled.”

“You’ve grown up, Master Ed.”

The sword of the blown wind belonged to the eagle knight Kadek. He quickly ducked out of the way and made one big roll across the mud.

Kadek, who immediately corrected his posture, swung his sword again. The sword attack of the wind, which makes the concept of distance obsolete, must be dealt with with the mindset of dealing with a wizard, not a knight.

However, there are some inconsistencies. Cardek, unlike a wizard, is good at close combat.

“Khaaap!”

Waves spread through the rain at the cry of Brown Bear Knight Knox. In an instant, the flames around him faded in the rain, but his enchanted mace was still powerful.

Ed opened the distance in an instant and quickly drew the bowstring. A massive mace stuck in the spot where he had been standing just before.

A person who is driven to a corner will be distracted by even a ray of hope.

How powerful and tempting is the lure of being reinstated as an aristocrat to Ed Roth Taylor, who has been living this wild life for a year at a time.

Nonetheless, Ed did not relax his combat stance until the two knights had finished speaking. It was clear to the two knights that he was on edge.

It is clear that the past year has not been easy.

“Do you remember my daughter, Meliana? The poor kid who lost his sight in one of Ed’s mere games.”

Ed kept his distance and looked at Knox for a moment as he brushed his collar in the rain.

“Come to think of it, something like that happened.”

“under…”

When I threw a tightly clenched fist into the air, a line of flame was released in an instant. Ed quickly reacted and used basic defense magic to neutralize all the flames.

“You were definitely complacent. There is no way that there is anyone in the world who can rekindle his loyalty to the enemy who took my daughter’s eye… Master Ed knows very well. “

Knox picked up the mace again, gritted his teeth, and took a stance.

“Revenge is futile, Knox.”

“I know. Revenge leaves an endless void after it is over. However, this is not a story you would hear from Ed, who harmed his daughter.”

“…that makes sense.”

As Knox kicked off the ground and leaped, Ed ducked, drew a dagger from his thigh dance, and rammed it into the ground. In the meantime, a sword attack containing Cardek’s magical power attacked Ed.

Cadek and Knox. The attack patterns of the two knights were fixed. Nox, who is in charge of the vanguard, wields a mace imbued with fire magic. Every time he wielded it, flames spewed out, so he had to evade with more range.

Cardek goes back and forth between short and mid-range, constantly putting in checks. Be careful because if you hit even one hit, you will be allowed all subsequent hits.

-Fury!

The flames from the mace he swung scorched a few strands of Ed’s hair.

I tried to avoid it by rolling backwards several times, but now there was only an endless cliff behind Ed.

Even a single blow to Knox would result in instant death. The mass of the mace was the same, and so was the strength of the flame. However, in terms of the combat structure itself, Cardek’s sword attack is much more difficult.

The feeling of riding a single rope at the border of life and death. It makes the backbone cool.

However, the front line pushed to the edge of the cliff is Ed’s target.

– Woe!

No matter how blunt the movement of the mace, it could never be avoided. What I have avoided so far is almost a fluke. If this composition is maintained, the enemy’s attack will be allowed.

Knox, realizing that there was no way to evade the movement, wielded the final blow, but when Ed held out his hand, a line of blood splattered from Knox’s back.

“What…?”

Information superiority is a key element in Ed’s fighting style.

Ed can recite all of Knox and Kadek’s specs, how to organize battles, and how to attack, but Kadek and Knox have no idea how Ed has grown.

The asymmetry of such information is the only means to make up for the lack of specifications.

Knox’s back was driven by a dagger he had just plunged into the ground.

“Huh… Psychokinesis magic…? It can’t be…”

It wasn’t telekinesis magic, it was a spirit ceremony. If you think about it slowly in a quiet place, you will be able to realize it without difficulty, but it is not easy to judge that far in an urgent battle situation.

– Kwaaang!!

Explosive magic once wrapped around the edge of the cliff. Ed, who was wrapped in the blessing of fire, was free from the damage.

“Knox!”

-Hwaaaaaaaa!!

There is no time to rest.

Through the smoke, a magic arrow flew and stuck near Kadek’s leg.

“It’s great!”

After evading the arrows with superhuman reflexes, Kadek pondered for a moment before unleashing a wind sword with thick smoke.

Knox may get hit, but more importantly, completely subdue Ed.

I don’t know how much I’ve lived in a corner, but it’s clear that I’ve grown by leaps and bounds compared to when I was living a life like an idiot in the Ross Taylor mansion.

Carelessness is the archenemy of a knight. Even if Knox was caught in an attack, Knox himself would understand that it was inevitable. Between the two, who had been sword to sword together for a long time, that level of sympathy was possible without direct discussion.

There is no path to avoid. sure to fit The problem is how much to neutralize the enemy.

A gust of wind blew away the thick smoke, revealing Ed with cuts all over his body.

However, there is no change in the posture of pulling the bowstring. If it wasn’t a sword attack to the point of severed body parts, it was the mindset that I would just endure with evil.

The pain of a knife cut has the power to break a person’s composure regardless of the depth of the wound. Even if you don’t get overpowered by one blow unless you hit a vital point, at least it’s usually a big load on your mind.

In the first place, the wound itself is absolutely not at the level of being shallow. Even so, Ed’s posture somehow didn’t collapse.

As it was, Ed fired an arrow without question. However, Cardek, who was born with reflexes, worked hard with his sword and deflected all the arrows.

Still, it’s ambiguous to land a final blow when Knox is incapacitated.

No matter how you think about it, close combat is the best against Ed Rosteyler. Even if it is a cardek that is good at long-distance containment, it is necessary to stick close for now.

However, a variable that made the battle structure redefine was revealed in Kadek’s eyes.

– Whoo Woowook

Knox is seen collapsed through the smoke. He seems to have completely lost his mind…

‘Knox… you bastard…!’

Knox is a veteran in his own way.

It’s not that you’ve been subdued, you’re pretending to be subdued…!

To instill confidence that the only opponent left now is Cardek.

Ed doesn’t have time to kill Knox. It’s because the movement of the cardek right now is too pressure.

Kadek quickly realized Nox’s intentions. Cardek’s job is not difficult. All he had to do was create an opening for Knox to strike.

Thinking so, Kadek took a step back to adjust the distance again——but his ankle was eaten by the ‘water puddle’.

“…What…”

He looks down at his left ankle in the pouring rain.

An arrow that just missed and stuck to the ground. The magical arrow imbued with the energy of water… is not intended to pierce the enemy.

Magical arrows imprinted with the spirit-style ‘Water Source Manifestation’ create a large puddle of water in the empty land.

Suwon, manifested by magical power… becomes another battlefield where water spirits play.

Surprise tactics are only meaningful when used unexpectedly out of the opponent’s line of sight.

Missing arrows are bound to be completely pushed out of the opponent’s consciousness. In fact, it is hard to notice that the arrow was a stepping stone for a surprise attack.

If you look up little by little with your left foot submerged in the water, you can see a fairly large puddle spreading wide behind the cardek. Then, ‘in the water’, the water spirit of the lieutenant, Lacia the lioness, pops out and bites Kadek’s neck.

“Quaaaaaaagh!”

Kadek just rolled over the puddle. Of course, breathing doesn’t work either. Water enters the airway and esophagus, and little by little the strength to resist the weight of the lion that crushes one’s body is drained.

‘Can… breath…!’

In the middle of the day, struggling in a puddle… Eventually, Kadek lost consciousness.

However, that does not mean the end of the battle.

Knox, who was thought to be completely unconscious, quickly stands up behind Ed’s back.

In the middle of an explosion of that scale, it was a body that was not even protected by magic. His whole body is full of burns, but he doesn’t care at all, and points the dagger he’s been carrying to Ed.

It is so fast that it is difficult to follow it with the naked eye. Just before a knife was stabbed in Ed’s back, Knox was certain of victory.

– Whoaaaaaagh!

However, the gust of wind instantly blocks Nox’s movements and blows him over the cliff again.

– Cagan!

The dagger rolled across the floor.

High-ranking Wind Spirit’s always-activated skill, ‘Blessing of the Storm’. It was a defensive magic that blocked physical attacks outside of consciousness once in a certain period of time.

Even the last blow was blocked, and Knox had no more fighting tools left.

A lioness made of water rose from the pool and stood right behind Ed. The bat around the shoulder is still burning, and the bow held horizontally is unblemished.

Knox swallowed dry saliva at the sight of Ed slowly looking back.

Ed approached Knox calmly.

death comes Slowly, but surely, as all deaths do.

Arriving in front of the battered Knox, Ed looked down at him for a while without saying anything. He had a calm expression, as if he was organizing his thoughts.

Knox opened his mouth slowly.

“Is it a luxury to ask you to finish in one blow?”

“That’s what I’m talking about.”

“yes?”

Ed said that and looked up at the rainy sky.

“It has become meaningless. A life like this, a life that is endured in a pitiful way.”

The spirits were reverse summoned and disappeared, and the bow he was holding in his hand was roughly thrown around.

“My father seems to have decided to kill me. If that’s the case, then I will surely die one day. Because my father is the one who makes the rules of cause and effect on his side.”

“that…”

“Then, even if I put an end to you here, this bondage will not end. Someday, you will try to kill me somehow in a more grandiose, ridiculous way. If you have made up your mind once… Because you don’t change.”

Saying that, Ed picked up the dagger Knox had dropped. A curse of extreme poison was engraved on the surface of the dagger. This sword with a terrifying pattern becomes a one-time, lethal curse that causes the opponent to die just by brushing against it.

“It wasn’t a very good life. How nasty and nasty I’ve been surviving… You can guess enough from the way I am now, Knox. When they ate and opened the carcass of the wild boar, they threw it all away.”

“…”

The dark clouds I looked up at were thick. It’s like the life that Ed Rosteiler went through.

“I don’t do cowardly escapes like paying for my sins with death. I’m not that kind of a good person, and above all, it’s meaningless. However, to a loyalist like you who devoted my life to the Ross Taylor family… It will be the last gift I will give you.”

After seeing what Ed did, Knox couldn’t believe his eyes. He threw down the dagger and handed it to Knox.

The cursed dagger rolled to Nox’s feet. The shiny handle seems to be screaming at me to hold it.

“As I said, revenge leaves only futility… but it’s not meaningless at all. If you finish revenge like this, you’ll feel like you’ve completed one of your life’s biggest longings.”

And Ed Rosteyler was showing both arms defenselessly.

“Poke me. If even my family denies my life, I have no desire to live this miserably anymore.”

cliff in the rain.

Knox stood up from his seat, clutching his trembling hands, and faced Ed, who casually looked down at him.

Knox constantly doubted that even this was a trap, but there was no reason to set another trap against Knox, who was completely incapacitated.

Knox, who gritted his teeth for an instant, charged forward.

A line of blood flowed along the sad blade of the buried sword.

Ed’s lips were also bleeding.

“Kuh… kuk…!”

Blood phlegm boiled. It had a bitter iron taste.

“Keuk.. uh.. black… kkeukkuk…”

“This… this… what…”

Knox felt a faint laugh bloom behind Ed’s moan.

Even at the moment of death, he did not lose his reason until the end, and he felt a distant fear.

The curse of the dagger is imprinted on Ed Roth Taylor’s body. As that stock bloomed on his skin, and the excruciating pain overtook him… Ed slowly raised his head and looked at Knox.

“Yes… Congratulations.”

The sight of him smiling while covered in blood was fear itself.

“Finally… You’ve got your revenge.”

Seeing that… Knox broke into a cold sweat and quickly drew his sword and pushed Ed away.

Ed stumbled and was pushed all the way to the edge of the cliff… before long, he fell down the far cliff.

It was the moment when everything ended.

“Ah ah ah ah!”

A sharp scream cut through the air.

The northern cliff area is the most remote place on Aken Island. That’s why the two knights who were following Ed were able to carry out their plan without hesitation.

Knox was greatly taken aback because he did not expect that a student would come to such a place.

A bolt of lightning split the sky once.

The screaming girl came across the clearing to the cliff. Knox no longer had the strength left to restrain the girl.

“Ed, Ed…! Ed!”

The basket the girl had brought rolled across the floor. Various snacks spilled out and got wet in the rain.

He runs desperately, sits down on the floor, and looks down at the cliff… but he can’t see the end of the darkness beyond the cliff.

“This… this…!”

Knox tried to say something more, but his completely battered body wouldn’t listen.

Rather, the strength in his wobbly legs gave way, and he collapsed to the ground.

How many minutes had passed?

The girl who had been sitting down for a long time… slowly gets up.

At the edge of the cliff where the rain and wind blew, the girl who turned her head to Knox, wet from head to toe, had an unknown demonic spirit.

“You… You…”

Rising magic power began to fill the air.

The girl’s expression was hard to see, but Knox was able to intuit it. Even if you roughly estimate the amount of magic… Nox was an opponent that could never be defeated.