How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 119

Joint Combat Practice 2 (5)

Disaster hangs in the sky The roar of the dragon seems to directly scrape the eardrum.

“Ah ah ah ah!”

“Run away! Everyone run away! We have to get out of this island!”

The panic-stricken students started to run out all at once in the direction of the living area connected to the Maxes Bridge.

While everyone was running out of the nail shop in terror, I swallowed dry saliva and looked up at the sky.

As the Holy Changryong Velbrok lifts one leg, a huge storm rages.

It’s not magic. It is a simple physics phenomenon. It is powerful enough to change the air currents on the island just by swinging one of its forepaws.

– Kwakwang! Kang!

scratch.

No, it was more like an explosion.

Valveroke’s foot pushed past the living quarters in the distance. A huge storm followed.

That’s how half of my life was blown away. It happened in an instant.

Buildings that should be attached to the ground fly in the sky, and sometimes you can see the shapes of people who get caught up in the air and fly.

It is not possible to predict how many casualties there will be. probably enormous.

The cause of death was Valbroke’s kick. At the time the kicking passed, they were dead just because they were in the living room.

In other words, the people here in Professor Dong were just lucky to live.

If Velbroke had struck the faculty first, it would have been the students of the faculty who would most likely have died.

Just one kick.

As a result, the wind blows and knocks all the students over. The panicked crowd collapses, crushing, injuring, and breaking each one.

“Aaaagh!”

“What are you doing, get up quickly!”

“Ha, but… but…”

Some students grit their teeth and get up and run away, but most of them stare at the sky without saying a word.

Everyone ends up thinking the same thing. Can you survive by running away? In fact, maybe it’s already dead.

-Tah!

As I kicked off the floor and ran, I took out a gold ring from my bosom and held it up. It is ‘Glast’s Golden Phoenix Ring’.

I manifested the function of the ring and drew all the mana to the limit.

I didn’t even know where the limit was. This is because it is an item with a clear penalty, so you have no choice but to use it while adjusting its power.

However, now is not the time to think about penalties. All available means had to be mobilized.

It is not known how strong the counterweight will be. In addition to being unable to use magic for several years, whether the sense of using magic at all will burn and degenerate, or even threaten life.

However, if you stay still, you will die.

“Keuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”

I gritted my teeth and endured the strain on my body caused by the overload. Even so, he did not stop running.

―Hwaaaaaaagh!

Just release mana around you… Fully manifest Merilda, the high-ranking wind spirit.

Originally, just summoning a human form with maximized magic efficiency is a tremendous spirit.

However, since he gave up on the future and gathered his mana to the limit, even after manifesting the wind wolf, his mana was surplus for a long time.

―Kaaaaaagh!

Soon, the fully manifested Merylda descended with a cry. The majesty of a wolf the size of a house remains intact.

“What about Yenika?”

[ I don’t know… ! I’m still at the combat practice range… I have no choice but to leave it to Tarkan… ! ]

―Quaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

A roar echoed again. This time, it was the work of the dragon that covered the sky.

– Whoa, whoa, whoa.

It rained. Of course, it’s not real rain.

Dragon scales pouring out from the sky. When you watch those old blockbuster war movies, it’s like watching a procession of arrows fired by hundreds of thousands of troops at once.

The thin scales that filled the sky are beaten to the ground without mercy.

– Kwakwang! Quagga gag gag gag gag!

Fragments of the marble floor are thrown out, and trees from avenues are knocked over. Benches and fountains near the plaza are all starting to break, not to mention the glass of buildings.

I poured a large amount of my surplus mana into a defensive magic, but it was pierced right away.

―Hwaaaaaaagh!

However, the blowing wind stopped the scales. It is the blessing of the storm. I didn’t do anything, but the always-activated skill that blocks the fatal enemy’s attack was already in vain.

[Keuuuuugh! ]

Merilda, who managed to block the scales from reaching her, groaned for a while before speaking.

[Where are you going?! Are you going to join Yenika first?! ]

“No, there’s something I need to check…!”

I had to find out why the final boss of the scenario, Valveroke, popped out right now.

It was already a twisted affair, so I didn’t even think that it would flow as it is. No matter how twisted it was, I even made up my mind that I would handle it as much as I could handle.

However, isn’t this level of twist too much?

Once the scenario is twisted, the cause is most likely me. If we can find the cause, there might be a way to put that dragon back to sleep.

But there is no time. What you can do is limited.

“Keugh!”

I pulled out the scales from my body that could not be stopped with the protection of the storm. The scales pulled from his shoulders bounced on the floor several times along with bloodstains.

First of all, wasn’t it the situation where the third act was in progress? then… The first step is to look at the main characters in Act 3. It would be hard to see that the characters who will appear later have already had an impact on the third act.

Then the first thing that comes to mind is Adele and Clarisse. Adele’s whereabouts are difficult to predict, but Clarice knows where she is.

“First, run to the Trix building!”

A sharp pain rises from the ring on my hand. If you use magical power beyond the limit that I’m not allowed, you must pay the price. Now, even that price has been deferred.

But I can’t help it. I suppressed my magical power with all my might and climbed onto Merilda’s back.

* * *

“You must run away, saintess!”

With a squeak, the door slammed open and two church knights entered the meeting room. It was a half-malignant tone.

“The situation outside right now…”

“Ah… I know. Take care of the others and move quickly… quickly…!!”

Clarisse was also checking the situation outside the window. A dragon of ridiculous size. The existence that could only be confirmed in mythology was already appearing in the sky above the Sylvania Academy.

The moment Clarice jumped up from her seat, an earthquake hit the Trix tube. It was the aftermath of Valveroke blowing away half of the living quarters.

“Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Clarisse screamed and slipped on the floor, and the knights of the cathedral stumbled to and fro as well.

Various office supplies and papers on the table in the conference room rolled across the floor. All the antique paintings hanging on the walls rolled on the floor due to the vibration, all the glasswork was broken, and all the windows were also cracked and not working properly.

“Saintess. Hold my hand…! Escort to the prepared wagon…!”

―Hwaaaaaaagh!

The feeling of activating the protection of the holy law that surrounds the saintess’ body. Clarice got goosebumps as soon as she felt the sensation.

Turning her head, she saw several dragon scales embedded in the saintess’ back. There were a few scars on the surface of the skin, but somehow, with the protection of the Holy Law, almost all of the power was nullified.

A procession of scales poking through the broken window.

Although I couldn’t penetrate the body because of Divine Protection, if I was an ordinary girl, I would have been mortally wounded.

However, soldiers are different.

“Ugh, gagging… Ugh…! Ugh…!”

“Ears, ears… My ears….!”

One had his right ear cut off. The other one was directly pierced by the neck belt.

Seeing the flowing blood, Clarisse’s chicken skin all over her body sprouted. If she hadn’t had the blessing of the saint, she would have become that way herself.

The knight who had been hit directly in the neck was rolling on the floor in pain, but the knight whose ear had been cut off gritted his teeth and held back the bleeding as he pulled the saintess by the wrist.

“I must… go… I must…”

Clarice’s legs trembled and she couldn’t move. The knight somehow led Clarisse to the hallway of the Trix building.

However, even that knight had no choice but to collapse while clutching his side. He had to come now. His side was also precisely pierced by the large scales.

I tried to suppress the bleeding somehow, but the knight’s consciousness was getting hazy.

“As it is… run down the hallway… in the central hallway… towards the back door… go….”

I was told to leave it. Clarisse tried to say something to the knight with tears in his face, but the knight shook his head desperately. Then, saying that there was no time for hesitation, he pushed Clarisse’s back.

With a half-crying face on her trembling legs, she runs down the hallway. Clarisse ran for a long time, repeatedly falling over from the earthquake, until she came to the crowded lobby of the Trix building.

When I ran to the back door, I found a wagon that had been attacked by scales, but was in relatively good condition. Since the carriage of the saintess was behind the Trix coffin, she was able to use the building as a shield and was fairly safe from the scale bombardment.

Of course, the front of the building is miserable. It is safe to say that it is a sea of ​​blood. The saintess forcibly closed her eyes and ran, but she couldn’t help her teeth clenching due to her fear.

“The carriage is also broken, saintess!”

The coachman delivered the sad news. The only thing the wagon looked like was the exterior.

No matter how much I used the outer wall of the building as a shield, it wasn’t perfect, and one wheel was off.

Luckily, one horse was spared. A trickle of blood dripped from her head, and the coachman came over and grabbed Clarisse. After sitting on the remaining horse, I squeezed the reins of his horse.

Clarice has never ridden a horse. He doesn’t even have a proper saddle because he’s taken the horse that pulls the carriage. His body began to tremble just by putting himself on that wide back.

“Tighten the reins, saintess. A well-trained horse. I will take her across the Maxeth Bridge and out of Aken Island.”

“I-I… horseback riding….”

“Just squeeze the reins tight and hold the horse’s neck tight.”

I didn’t even have time to explain further. The coachman hit his horse on the rump and set it off.

The horse hissed and neighed and began to run frantically.

“Ah ah ah ah!”

The low hill where the Trix building is located. The speed of the galloping horses along the downhill road there was staggering. Clarisse looked around and regretted it.

The front gate of the Trix building covered in blood… It was so horrible that I can’t even describe it. The number of casualties from the storm of scales that just blew… It will surely exceed hundreds of units.

Clarisse looked up at the sky as she squeezed the horse’s reins with trembling hands.

The head of the huge star spear dragon overlooks the Sylvania Academy.

Someday, it was sealed by the original swordsman and lived in the depths of the sea for a long time, but the great sage of the island of Aken maintained and repaired the broken seal, so it could not even escape.

Looking at the academy built by that great sage, unbearable anger would well up. Valveroke’s wrath, itself.

An astronomical amount of magic power gathered in the dragon’s mouth. The amount was so enormous that even from such a long distance, the energy of magical energy gathering could be seen with the naked eye.

Magic that only appears in mythology. dragon’s breath.

Just by gathering mana and releasing it… It was a powerful magic that could easily blow away half of the island of Aken.

As for the Sylvania Academy… It flies away in one shot. That much was certain.

As a magic circle large enough to fill the sky rises around the dragon’s mouth… Most of those at the Sylvania Academy had an intuition of death. So did Clarisse.

―Quaaaaaaaaagh!

It is almost as if the sun has risen one more time.

It was heading straight for the Sylvania Academy.

―Quaaaaaaaang!

However, the dragon’s breath did not reach Sylvania Academy. This side was realizing an absurd level of magic.

The highest level of defense magic, a barrier that neutralizes large-scale magical power.

When Clarisse looked up and looked at the Trix Hall, the headmaster of this Sylvania Academy and war hero of the Chloel Empire, ‘Guardian Obel’ was standing on the roof, looking up at the dragon’s face.

A gorgeous and dignified magician’s robe that only the headmaster can wear. He wore his grove hat down, his cropped hair exposed, and wielded a huge staff.

Even Obel, who was in the ranks of heroes, could not completely block magic of that scale. It just twists and bounces as much as possible.

―Quaaaaaaaang! bang!

Soon, the dragon’s breath reversed its direction and soared over the distant sky.

Thus, the fall of the academy was postponed. It’s only for a short while.

―Quaaaaaaang!

There is no time to rest. Next is a physical attack.

Valveroke’s attack is so fatal that it can blow up the entire school once and for all. Heaven and earth vibrate just by lifting one leg of this gigantic dragon.

Then, across the sky, the direction headed towards Obel on the roof of the Trix building. The moment Obel tries to re-create the highest level of defense magic.

―Kaaaaaaaang!

A girl floating in the air realizes a huge barrier ceremony to block the dragon’s huge hand.

The stature is small. The large brim of the witch’s hat, which she wears tightly to her head, can cover her entire upper body, fearing that she will be blown away.

Beautifully tied gray hair swayed in the wind in the sky.

Even from this distance, Clarisse was clearly recognizable.

The head of the 2nd year Magic Department, and the greatest genius of the Sylvania Academy. It was Lucy Meiril who was born with such an enormous talent that even all the magicians like her were able to fold.

The genius wizard of rare times looks up at Velbrok’s head and thinks.

Someday, if a huge threat comes that this school cannot handle, be sure to reach out and ask. That was Glockt’s will.

I had to promise to do as he said, but I never thought that the other person would be the Holy Changryong from the myth.

Still, Lucy looked straight up into the sky and drew out her body’s magical energy.

To fight with all one’s might. Maybe it’s the first time in a girl’s short life.

In the first place, it was because there was no opponent in the world until now.

―Paaaaaaaagh!

That massive dragon’s hand bounced off by Lucy’s highest level of telekinesis magic.

In the aftermath, strong winds blew through the area. Trees swayed to their limit, and everyone in the professor’s building stumbled.

“Ah ah ah ah!”

Even the horse that Clarisse was riding was blown away by the aftermath of the wind. Clarisse clung to the horse’s back and fell off, but luckily landed on the soft grass.

In the first place, it was because of his light body, and the impact was greatly alleviated after he rolled and fell a few times, so he didn’t break anything.

However, Clarisse groaned again and again at the pain that hit the floor. It took him about a few minutes to get back up.

“Uh, heh… uh…”

Clarisse, who managed to lift her battered body, moved toward the fallen horse again. It was important for him to run away as far as possible.

however… Seeing the state of his horse, Clarisse shut his mouth. I didn’t see it because it was urgent, but this horse had dragon scales on one leg and stomach.

The coachman had chosen a ‘lucky’ better horse and gave it to him. There must have been hope for him to run all the way to the outside of the island of Aken, but unfortunately, as the horse fell, it seemed that the scales were deeply embedded and reached the vital points.

The flowing horse’s blood soaked the floor. Even the hem of the saintess’ pure white dress was soaked in soggy blood.

“Ahhh….”

If you look up at the sky, it is the scenery of the apocalypse.

A small genius magician gets hit by a dragon’s bombardment, falls out, and gets stuck on the middle of the mountain, but soon shakes himself off and stands up and hits the sky again.

An unbelievable amount of mana swirls around Obel, who chants the highest elemental magic.

The magic procession that is launched all at once is like a fireworks display. It was so bright that you could see it clearly from anywhere on the island of Aken.

“Ugh, keuk…”

There was nothing Clarisse could do as she sat on the hillside of Trix Hall. He forced himself through tears and gritted teeth to think of another way.

If you don’t have a horse, you have to go to the Maxes Bridge on foot. It was the moment I tried to force myself to stand up.

―Hwaaaaaaaaaaagh!

A warm wind that is different from before spreads slowly from the center of the slope. What appears soon is a giant wolf that hastily jumped in.

Merilda, who landed lightly with a body the size of a house, lay on her face and made it easy for Ed to come down to the floor.

Ed jumped off Merilda’s back and hurried toward Clarisse, who was sitting near the dead horse.

“Eh, Ed… Senior…”

“You are safe, saintess.”

Ed didn’t look too good either. The traces of being hit by the scales were also traces, and it was evident that he was tired from running his magic power out of control.

In the meantime, the appearance of running all the way here… Clarisse’s voice trembled.

“I… how am I here….”

“I ran to the Triggs Hall. I’m sure the distinguished guests from the Saints’ side will be meeting here. I don’t think we have time to discuss the details.”

Ed squeezed Clarisse’s wrists and lifted her up. Clarisse, who had never been lifted up forcibly by a man’s power, was surprised by her own body.

“Are you hurt?”

“Ah, no… I… rode that… horse to Maxeth… towards the bridge…”

“There’s no point in going out to the Maxes Bridge right now. You’ll be killed. The crowds trying to leave the island are concentrated and they’re completely paralyzed.”

Ed looked towards the Maxes Bridge as he and Merilda ran to the high ground. It must have been vaguely visible in the Trix hall, but because of the urgent situation, Clarisse couldn’t even check that part.

“Well, then… the other side of the bridge…?”

“It’s all the same. And even if you run a little, there’s no way you can get out of that dragon’s attack range.”

If I make up my mind, I will blow up this island right now. When I think about it, I just wonder if running away is a meaningful option. Clarisse’s eyes filled with fear.

Ed hurriedly took off his coat, wiped Clarisse’s tears with the collar of his shirt, and dragged Clarisse by the wrist.

“For now, it’s better for us to evacuate to a safe place.”

“At least it’s a safe place…?”

“Without a doubt, this is Ophelis Hall. Basically, it is a place where high-ranking defense magic is encircled.

No matter how high-level defensive magic was, if Velbrok was determined, he could easily penetrate it.

Still, the chance of being swept away by a scale attack or the aftermath of other magic would be the lowest.

From Ed’s point of view, the next destination would have been the Ophelis Hall.

Once the saintess was secured, there was nothing strange about it right away. Then Adele is next, but she is so hard to find.

If you can’t find Adele, it’s better to check the next important person first. In that respect, Ophelis Hall is the place where all the important people gather.

“That, like that…”

“Saint Clarisse. Eat heartily.”

Ed’s grip on Clarisse’s wrist tightened. Red handprints were left on her thin, slender wrists.

That will seemed to come through, and Clarisse was able to calm herself even though she was in pain.

Ed hugged Clarisse and put it on the nape of Merilda’s neck. Pushing it from below, Clarisse managed to pull Merylda’s hair up to her back.

Ed also grabbed it quickly and jumped to sit on Merylda’s back.

“You have to hold on tight.”

He pressed his elbow against the back of the saintess who was holding Merilda’s hair tightly. As it was, Merilda sprinted toward the unharmed area of ​​her still-living block. Ophelia was there.