How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 160

Creffin subjugation (11)

The amount of mana consumed by the highest level spirit is beyond imagination.

It feels like all the mana of the body is sucked out just by manifesting a high-ranking spirit, but the highest-ranking spirit has the feeling that the mana of the body is scraped off to the floor just for a single second of descending.

Even the highest fire spirit ‘Theorphis’ was not completely summoned. Only that head was embodied, it spewed fire once, and it only manifested the divine protection once.

In terms of time, it would be less than 10 seconds. That fleeting moment when the flames radiated from the law circle embodied in the sky split the mansion site in half.

Whiik, the flames stretched out and soared high into the night sky.

Everyone in the grounds of the mansion saw the scene.

The Knights Templar and the Imperial Guard guarding the distinguished guests outside the grounds of the Roth Taylor mansion. And not only the detached troops who entered the interior, but also Princess Penia and Jenika, who were heading toward the central garden.

A single ray of fire sweeping through the mansion grounds and extending into the night sky.

It was clearly visible in the eyes of Saint Clarice, who was leaning against a tree in the central garden under the protection of Lacia, and also in the eyes of Tanya, who was sitting with Mug beside Arwen’s dead body.

Her hair, which had been tied up in two ponytails, was also loose, and the flames were clearly visible even in the eyes of Lucy, who was hit by Mebula with scars on her body, and Selaha walking in the central garden, and Lortel, who got off the carriage, were also in the sky. was looking at

A ray of breath that split the mansion burned away the exposed underground laboratory, the spire, the central mansion, and even one outer wall, and stretched out into the sky.

Theorfis’ coward burns everything equally.

The underground research facility, the craftwork in the spire, the beautiful outer wall of the central mansion, and other invisible things are the same.

The truly terrifying thing about Theorphis’ flame is that it burns away even all of the magic power in the area.

Temporarily, all magic power in the central mansion site is reconciled with flames and disappears.

As long as there are humans who are the source of magic, it will soon be filled with new magic… It was very meaningful to temporarily neutralize all magic in the area.

In particular, from the point of view of Crepin, who is being injected with magical power from the outside, it is significant that all magical powers of the Mebuler are temporarily neutralized.

―Quaaaaang!

―Hwaaaaaagh!

In the area where the flames swept through, a battered crepin was stuck out.

He barely warmed up in the blazing heat… All the flesh that had been wriggling unpleasantly was twisted like dry twigs.

“Cheer, huh…”

He had already received a series of shocks that his body could not bear.

With all of Mebuler’s magical powers consumed, Krepin barely managed to control his body, coughing up blood.

His bloodshot eyes looked up at Ed with difficulty.

Theorfis’s flame takes an astronomical amount of mana just by manifesting it for a very short time.

Ed too was in a state of complete disrepair due to the recoil of the ring, and was unable to control himself.

A burning underground research facility.

Ed sits on his knees in the heat, completely unconscious.

If you’re going to put an end to it, now is the time. However, Krepin’s body also does not move according to his will.

―Koo Goong, Kung!

The stone pillars of the underground facility burned and toppled over. In the state where the ground itself collapsed, they received a great shock, and soon they would all be crushed to death.

The burning Ross Taylor Central Mansion also began to sink as the pillars collapsed.

A roar spreads through the night sky, and the grand mansion that boasted the glory of the Roth Taylor family soon comes to an end.

As the huge mansion collapsed, the rising dust covered even the underground research facilities.

―Hwaaaaaagh!

The place was full of acrid smoke from the fire, and the view was about to disappear completely as the building debris hit.

Crepin gritted his teeth and widened his bloodshot eyes, barely getting up from his seat.

“Keuugh… Kwaaaaaaagh!”

Kreffin, barely able to stand up with almost screaming force, managed to raise his left hand.

Mebula’s imprint is still engraved on his dried-up left hand. If you receive magic power from Mebuler again, you can fight more.

Responding to the imprint, Mebula began to manifest great magic again in the sky above the mansion.

Temporarily, Theorpis has burned the magic of the area, but when Mebula starts to radiate power, she can fill the mansion with her own magic again. It’s just a matter of time.

However, Lucy reads even Mebuler’s intentions.

―Hwaaaaaagh!

Numerous magic circles are manifested again centered on Mebula. It is magic to block the flow of magical energy to the outside. The flow of inner magic cannot be stopped, but it is enough to stop Mebula’s power from affecting the battlefield anyway.

Mebula’s numerous eyes are again directed at Lucy in the sky.

A girl who brushed off her dusty face with her sleeve and kept her completely loose hair.

It is a monster of the human world that even the evil spirits cannot easily subdue. The blank, numb eyes give me goosebumps.

The hair tie was blown off, and the hair blowing in the night wind was annoying. Lucy tied her hair back and threw it up, concentrating on cutting off all of Mebuler’s magical power.

“Stop messing around.”

Enormous mana rises again, to the point where I don’t know where such a large amount comes from. It’s an amount comparable to Mebuler’s magical power.

With just one wave of Lucy’s hand, hundreds of ice spears were sent towards Mebuler and pierced.

Mebuler’s magic does not come.

As soon as Krepin realized that, he got goosebumps. If you stay still in this collapsing underground facility in the center of the burning laboratory, you will be crushed to death.

Although her body is in a state of disrepair, she has to somehow get up to the ground.

“Ku, heouk… heouk…”

The desire to survive does not lose even to Creffin. If you maintain your position full of power and live in the dark, your will for life will become stronger than anyone else.

Without using any strength, he grabbed one side of the ground with his body full of excruciating pain.

I managed to somehow push myself up amidst the acrid smoke and dust, but the height of the wall I have to climb is still far away.

It looks like the facility will collapse before it’s even halfway there, but Creffin doesn’t stop.

How did you survive in this chaos? If you somehow hold out until Mebuler replenishes your magic power, you can rectify the situation.

So, for now, you just have to go up to the ground, save your life, and hide anywhere.

Opportunity comes if you are alive. You can’t be caught and killed in a place like this.

With that will alone, Krepin grabbed the cliff and somehow pushed his body up and up again. His act of trying to climb through the debris is desperate and miserable.

– Pak.

However, an arm stretched out from the acrid smoke behind his back.

The arm that stretched out like a demon from hell grabbed the collar behind Krepin’s back and threw it to the ground.

Even the few steps that were barely taken by the desperate climbing, all went back in vain.

Kreffin, who slumped to the floor of the hall with a thump… Goosebumps ran all over her body again.

Ed Rosteyler, who was bleeding from his forehead, maintained consciousness with his teeth clenched even after drawing such a level of mana.

It’s poisonous and beyond c*ckroaches, it’s not human willpower at all.

The recoil caused by the golden phoenix ring does not end with not using magic power. The more mana he mobilized, the more his muscles stiffened, suffered from high fever, and his consciousness faded.

Even that Yenica Failover had to lie ill for nearly a month after summoning the highest level spirit.

Although on a much smaller scale, Ed Rosteylor also dealt with the highest elemental. Even after consuming so much mana that he wondered if this was possible, he did not let go of his consciousness until the end.

Creffin felt his teeth grinding. Ed Rosteyler’s murderous intent, covered in blood, is like a curse that follows him until the day he dies.

“Do it in moderation… you bastard…!”

In the end, curse words come out of the mouth of the disgusted Crepin.

His venom is so enormous that it makes you feel awe, and now you can even feel the fear.

Fragments of the collapsed pillar ricocheted and hit the two men. The impact of several boulders caused Kreffin to snap, and Ed Rosteeler lost his balance and fell to the ground.

However, amidst the rising flames and smoke, he stumbles again and raises himself with clenched teeth.

There is no magic power left at all.

It’s Creffin and Edgo is the same.

In a situation where he could collapse and die on the ground if he stayed still, Ed staggered and grabbed Crepin by the collar.

Creffin had to use almost all of his body strength just to grab the hand and shake it off.

Both Creffin and Ed almost lost their balance as their bodies staggered from that one hit. However, Ed grabs Crepin by the shoulders again and slams his forehead into his head.

Creffin staggers back and falls out, and Ed climbs on top of him and punches him in the face again and again with his clenched fist.

Puck-puck resonates for a long time, and when Creffin snaps, one of his molars pops out and rolls on the floor.

Nevertheless, Ed didn’t stop and continued to slap him in the face. After being beaten for a long time, Creffin pulls out the strength he was suckling and pushes Ed’s stomach with his feet, knocking him backwards.

Creffin gasps and coughs up blood, then staggers back to his feet and steps on Ed’s ankle.

Ed groaned and bent his leg, and this time Creffin climbed up and strangled Ed.

Creffin’s hands, covered in burnt blood, continued to build pressure.

I still have a headache, high fever, and chills because of the recoil of the ring. In addition, acrid smoke from the fire interferes with breathing and sight, and even consciousness is blurred due to Crepin’s hands pressing on his neck.

“Heh, hee hee… hee hee hee….”

Creffin continues to press Ed’s neck with an expression that doesn’t seem to know whether he’s crying or laughing.

“You… do you know… you bastard… do you understand how much I struggled… to keep my life alive…? What? A fugitive?”

Creffin puts more power into his hands and speaks with his bloodshot eyes wide open.

“Don’t judge me with your eyes, you stupid bastard…. You don’t understand my aesthetics or anything, don’t insult me, you bastard…!”

“This… you half-assed bastard….”

Giggling, Ed replies.

As he picked up a stone he could get his hands on and cut his hand, Creffin fell backwards with a clatter.

“If you were not a fugitive, but a genuinely pure, malicious person, you would have no regrets or remorse.”

The impact shattered Krepin’s fingernails. It was a pain that almost crushed his hand. Ed staggered to his feet, grabbed his collar again, and punched him in the face.

“A guy like that hangs a huge portrait of Arwen in the hall of the central mansion?”

Kreffin’s pupils trembled again.

On one side of the burning central mansion, the large portrait of Arwen that Ed Rosteiler saw when he first entered the grounds burns with the mansion.

Even the portraits of our great ancestors did not occupy their place. Was it a tribute to Arwen? Or is it guilt?

“What you did with your own hands, you should’ve been able to handle. You’re not a kid, did you think everything would have happened if you covered your eyes and pretended not to know Ebebe?”

Creffin blocked Ed’s repeated punches. As I pulled the center of his power back, Ed’s battered body rolled on the floor.

Kreffin, who barely managed to adjust himself, looked back at Ed with bright red eyes.

“Shut up… stay still and get lost…!”

However, Ed falls and trips over his leg, knocking him over.

Crepin, who rolled on the floor with a popping sound, tried to stand up again, clutching his ragged collar.

However, once again, Ed climbed onto the body.

The cloak he was wearing is thrown aside, revealing the silk vest he was wearing underneath.

On the chest side… A feather decoration that Arwen should have given as a gift was hanging. It was the same feather ornament from Ed’s room.

Seeing that, Ed Rosteyler burst out laughing. The last line of conscience that he couldn’t let go until the end was just this.

“Do you think that Arwen Rosteiler followed you to the end just out of respect and admiration for you?”

As the successor of Krepin Ross-Taylor, when Arwen Ross-Taylor, who had always followed in his footsteps, suddenly looked up at his back, what she could see was the numerous burdens that were pressuring him.

Both benevolent and corrupt, they are all just masks. Beneath those countless masks, there is only one miserable fugitive who runs away under the weight of an enormous burden.

The first person to notice it, more than anyone else, is Arwen Roth Taylor himself.

“She just sympathized with you. You should have known that.”

Creffin made a bloody sputum sound and tried to grab Ed’s throat somehow. But Ed slaps the hand away and grabs Creffin’s neck.

“You were the one who ruined Arwen.”

“Shut up… shut up…!”

As Creffin gritted his teeth and rolled to the side, Ed’s body was also pushed and rolled.

When Creffin, who has somehow regained his freedom, raises his body from the bottom of his body, Ed regains his composure.

Creffin drags his staggering body forward and rams his shoulder into Ed’s body. Ed snapped and rolled off a few laps. I was really at my limit right now.

-grasp!

In Ed’s eyes, he saw a cane lying on the floor. In a state without magical power, there was no point in raising the staff.

However, Ed’s senses suddenly turned to a small feather ornament hanging from the tip of his staff.

that’s clear… It was from the drawer in Ed’s own room. It is a small decoration that was inserted between the letters Arwen and Ed exchanged.

First of all, it’s a magical engineering product, and it’s also used as a quill… Basically, it is a decorative object.

However, the inside is filled with magic power, albeit weakly. The magic that the energy of the spirit can be felt even weakly is definitely… It belongs to Yenika Failover.

Yenica Failover knows Ed’s fighting style better than anyone else.

If it goes to the limit of the extreme, eventually Ed will use Glast’s ring and burn all his magical energy.

It is the last fighting method sent by Jenika, who is well aware of that fact.

You can feel Yenika’s message in the flow of mana contained in the feathers, albeit weakly.

When it comes to a really extreme situation, the scales of victory and defeat are tilted towards the person who has even a little more magic left.

“Now… die…!”

Gripping his teeth and picking up a large stone, Kreffin lunged forward to deliver the final blow to Ed.

Ed, who had fallen asleep, gritted his teeth and stood up, grasping the feather on the tip of his staff in his hand.

―Hwaaaaaaaaagh!

The energy of the wind enveloped Crepin.

Creffin’s eyes widened. She shouldn’t have any more magic left. It was strange that he could deal with such a level of spirits and still have magic power.

The manifested wind blade splits his shoulder and waist. Push, and blood spurts out.

Then, by gathering the last remaining magic power to the floor, the spirit ceremony was manifested, and the ceremonial dagger returned to Ed’s hand.

A flying falcon was engraved on the ceremonial dagger used for various events of the Ross Taylor family. It was a pattern symbolizing the prestige of the lofty Ross Taylor family.

That dagger pierced the family head’s heart just like that.

– Pooh.

-grasp!

Blood surged up.

The amount of blood loss was so great that I wondered if there was any more blood left in my body.

―Tadak, knock!

The stone in Creffin’s hand rolled across the floor.

A burning underground research facility, Creffin, who took a few steps back from the center… He fell straight to the floor.

Blood spreads across the floor.

“Cheer, huh…”

In the sky I looked up at… We see Lucy grabbing all of Mebuler’s eyes and popping them out.

The night sky spread out with all kinds of laws and constellations.

In front of them, Ed covered in blood appears and covers them.

“You, you… why… this far…”

Ed doesn’t answer at length.

“Now that things have turned out this way, one of them should have died.”

―Kagang, Kang!

The dagger fell from Ed’s hand and hit the floor a few times before rolling away. As it is, Ed slumps and speaks clearly to Creffin.

“Yes. Even if you’re a coward, you must have struggled to survive in your own way, albeit in a pitiful way…”

“It’s so… heh… heh… heh… no… blood… hemorrhage… save me…”

“So, how can he do that because he’s a bad guy… I’m not going to put a moral standard on him… Anyway, this is a problem before that…”

Ed just quietly affirmed.

There are all kinds of justifications and standards that can be put against the ugly Creffin, but Ed doesn’t take all of them into account.

But, I’m just talking more simply.

This world, like a wild one, is the weak meat. If you run into each other on the same road and bump into each other, one of them must come to an end.

“I live, you die.”

It was the only story.

In the collapsing underground laboratory, my body was weak and I fell to my knees.

Although his body was in a state of disrepair, he was clearly breathing.

So again, he survived. As always.

* * *

When the energy of the summoner who summoned her disappeared, Mebula was also clearly embarrassed.

By manifesting an enormous amount of magical power, she tries to destroy all the legal circles that Lucy has implemented and cover the area with her own magical power again.

Again, numerous gremlins rush towards the mansion, and the weak tentacles begin to rise.

Taking advantage of the temporary disappearance of all the magic flow in the mansion, all the soldiers of the Cathedral Knights who have entered the central mansion are panicked.

However, the gremlins are being sorted out one by one by the spirit army that rushes in again.

Lucy doesn’t stand still either. He implements the highest level of magic again, driving Mebuler into a corner again and again.

Amidst the army of spirits covering the sky, Jenika appears with an urgent expression. Princess Penia, who rode her spirit along with Yenica into the central garden, headed her body towards the collapsing underground laboratory without hesitation.

In it, there is a corpse lying down, staring at the sky with unfocused eyes, and a blond-haired boy sitting down next to it.

After Yenica and Fenia land in an underground laboratory that is quickly collapsing, they catch their breath when they see Ed in a state of disrepair.

He has already almost lost consciousness and has finished all his work.

Crouching next to Krepin’s corpse, his eyes closed in the smoke… It looks like a pilgrim who has completed all his destiny.

How did he look in the two pupils of Penia, who have insight into humans?

They first met in the northern woods of the Bachelor on the day of the entrance exam, and after all sorts of accidents, eventually ended up with Krepin’s death.

At a glance, it seems like he can picture his life as he jumped out of the Ross Taylor family on his own, survived to the end alone, and overcame everything… Fenia couldn’t even breathe.

Could Fenia have only been a hindrance on his path full of trials? Let’s think about it… It feels like a stream of fire is climbing up your back.

Watching Yenika rush out and embrace him by the shoulder… Finally, Fenia realized.

Ed Rosteylor has lived a wild life. All the trials and occasional fruits were just a process of struggling to survive.

How could I not pay homage to that life?

It is only when he sees himself completely different from the one who threw away all his dreams of imperial power through several trials and failures… I finally realize the shame.

In the eyes of Princess Fenia, determination returned. She shouts to Yenika that she must take him out immediately.

Burning Mansion Lot.

Grabbing Ed’s battered body, the two girls rode spirits to escape the collapsing underground research facility.

At the lower end, visible is Kreffin Ross Taylor.

With haggard eyes that no longer feel life force among the falling rocks… Only the image of Krepin looking up at the crumbling sky remained.

* * *

“The Ross Taylor family will end like this.”

Princess Selaha, who was looking around the central garden, spoke quietly to Dest.

After checking the internal situation, most of the people who participated also seemed to be vassals or servants of the Ross Taylor family.

“How to punish the remaining criminals and put an end to it… I think it will have a huge impact on the next imperial competition. A monarch should also know how to properly punish disloyal people.”

This massacre at the Roth Taylor mansion is probably a catastrophe that will go down in the history of the imperial family.

Was it an opportunity given by God or a curse that the person himself was present at the scene of this catastrophe?

Anyway, Selah looked down at the mansion and thought.

Most likely, someone will have to take the initiative and sort this out.

If you can take the initiative and finish the job well, your ability will also be widely recognized. It was a great disaster that will go down in history.

The first thing to do is to arrest all the remaining members of the Rosteylers and to hold them accountable.

The energy of the mebulers that covered the sky is also weakening. With the death of Crepin, Mebula, who lost her medium, gradually loses strength, and eventually Lucy presses Mebula harder.

“You must be busy.”

Seeing this, Selaha turned back.

“Once the imperial army arrives, I’ll order them to block the entrance to the mansion. I won’t let even a single mouse go out.”

Still, the moon is floating in mid-heaven.

The long night continues.