How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 184

Ed subjugation (7)

heart is complicated

If you could summarize in one line the feelings of Jenika Failover, who is sitting in the VIP waiting room of Elte Firm, it is.

[Yes, Miss Yenika. That… it won’t matter. ]

As it is a waiting room for VIPs, the ceiling is high and the interior is gorgeous.

Since the Sylvania Academy is full of people of all noble ranks, the Elte Firm, which is doing business there, had to prepare at least a space for such a ceremony.

This is the reason why this waiting room for VIPs is quaint and tidy, unlike the general atmosphere of the store that exudes the smell of life.

Jenika, a commoner, wasn’t used to this kind of atmosphere, but it wasn’t a place to stay for a long time, so she didn’t pay much attention.

I was sitting quietly on the sofa embroidered with gold thread, taking a bite of the tea served by the shopkeeper.

Since the space was so old-fashioned, I tried to act like a lady, but Jenika, who was in charge of the farm work, seemed more suitable for a space full of vitality.

I put the teacup down on the teacup stand and stare blankly at the large window.

In the window, which extends vertically enough to match the high floor height, a beautiful round moon hangs as if asking me to look at it.

Sitting alone on the VIP sofa and staring blankly at the moon, Jenika sighs deeply again.

All kinds of spirits gathered around such a girl. Some were manifested, some were not… In any case, it was not too much to talk with Jenika, who had excellent sensitivity.

[I’m worried that the fire fox-like female merchant will do tricks… but she’s a woman who distinguishes between work and life, right? Would you think of flirting with Master Ed in this urgent situation? My life is at stake. ]

[That’s right…! My lifeline as a merchant is on the line tonight, so how could I feel any other uselessness?! ]

Karis, the wind spirit in the form of a small sparrow, and Lennon in the form of a bluish snake were encouraging Jenika.

Despite the spirits’ desperate persuasion, Jenika, who had been sitting still and had tea in her mouth a few times, didn’t say much.

In fact, the spirits are persuading Jenika with an embarrassing look, but they know very well that the sinister and twisted Lortel Kecheln will not leave such an opportunity unattended.

Just looking at the situation, Ed pushed in and took Lortel, who had been caught by the gangsters. In the middle of a situation where it seems like the two of them are going on a night run on this moonlit night, Yenika is sitting in the VIP room and drinking tea alone as a role to block the road.

Unsatisfied with the situation, Yenika puffed her cheeks while chewing on the edge of the teacup.

The most grumpy part is the fact that he himself nodded to the current situation.

The two goals are to check the growth of Taylor McLore and steal Lortel Kecheln.

The fact that Yenika’s help was needed to organize the situation… Even the person himself was convinced.

It would have been okay if he had been a little more squeamish and grumpy, but seeing Ed always looking serious and surrounded by all sorts of worries… I suddenly thought that I didn’t want to be a burden on myself.

The result is now like this.

In the first place, there is no way that Yenica Failover can use advanced techniques such as emotional conflict or tug-of-war.

If the other person looks serious, you feel down, and if the other person looks happy, you feel good too… In a way, isn’t it a girl who is like innocence itself?

Moreover, when that opponent becomes Ed Roth Taylor, it is like a nodding yes man.

Tarkan, who had been lying on his stomach in a fluid state and watched it, sighed and snorted into the air.

Even in a relationship between a man and a woman, there is initiative, and that initiative requires a sense of tossing and turning… for the first time, there is no boredom and it does not seem easy.

When the hell will Yenika Failover ever get the emotional lead over Ed Rosteyler?

Because of such empty thoughts… Only sighs flowed out.

“it’s good…”

In the meantime, tea is delicious.

Yenika put the teacup back down and grunted as she looked up at the midnight moon.

– Bang!

At that moment, someone broke through the door.

It is a situation where there is an uproar when Taylor enters. The staff guarding the VIP room also ran out to see the situation.

Until Taily arrived, I thought it was Yenika’s time alone.

The one who burst through the door was… Rienna’s chief secretary.

Former secretary of Lortel Kecheln, and now a member of the executive committee passed on to Dune Greggs.

He always seems lacking in confidence, and it is clear that he handled the work in a hesitant tone.

I’ve seen her come to the camp as well as Yenika Failover, or she’s often sorting out papers behind Lortel.

“Ah, what the heck…?!”

Dune’s order to check the lockdown status of the main facilities of Sanghoe and take action to ensure there is no damage to other buildings.

Hearing that, secretary Lienna, who came in through the back door of the store and quickly checked out the facilities, ran into Jenika, who was sitting alone in the VIP waiting room.

It’s a fairly large room, but it’s full of spirits.

In the moonlight, a room filled with spicy spirits, and a girl sitting on a VIP sofa and holding a teacup in the middle.

When she turned her head from the window and saw secretary Rienna, she stepped back and her shoulders trembled.

“Hee, hee…”

Full of spirits buried in darkness and only their eyes glowing.

Among them, even the high-ranking fire spirit, the fire lizard Tarkan, is being manifested as the fluid state is gradually released.

The VIP waiting room was quite spacious, but too small for Tarkan’s size.

I didn’t fully manifest my body size, and even though I was squatting down on my stomach, the ceiling was covered.

A group of spirits ready to bite all the enemies right in front of their eyes when their master commands them.

In that gap, a girl was sitting drinking tea.

*- Caang!

“If you’re not going to tell me where Ed Rosteiler is, get out of the way!”

Taily’s sword attack accelerated faster than expected. Ziggs had to grit his teeth just to keep pushing Ziggs and block Taylor’s greatsword coming in.

A temperament that continues to grow stronger in the midst of a fight.

He already knew Ziggs, having fought Taily in combat practice in his freshman year.

Ziggs was impressed by the way Taylor grew more and more the more he was cornered. I applauded her for not losing her will to the end despite many trials.

If the world is a stage, this boy is surely the one who lives the life of the main character.

He is a man who does not break his heart despite trials and adversity, and continues to move forward.

Ziggs was also a man who had gone through hardships, and he overestimated Taylor’s mental strength many times.

– Kaak!

However, there are many trials in the world that are higher and harsher than expected. There are many trials that hurt the body and break the heart.

It is too double-minded to sympathize with and sympathize with Taylor’s position when he is also involved in Ed’s plan.

If a man has chosen a path, he must advance in that direction like an iron horn.

So no matter how determinedly Taylor McLore comes out, the current Ziggs will not give him a hand or look after him.

Ziggs gritted his teeth as he bent the direction of the spearhead and slapped Tailley on the side.

– Quaang!!

Taily, who was hit by Ziggs’ spear and fell out, landed on the inner wall of the hallway, raising dust.

Dust rises once, but before it disperses and disappears, Taylor leaps out of it.

Ziggs kicked the gauntlet off the floor and grabbed it quickly.

– Kaang!!

At one point, the sound of a collision between metals spread through the hallway. Ziggs bent his one-handed spear wide and attacked Taily’s side again, but there was no way the same move would work twice.

– Kwagak!

When he came to his senses, Ziggs’ spear was broken in two.

It was impossible. Taily’s greatsword was pressing down on Ziggs’ gauntlet, wrestling with strength.

However, while continuing to struggle like that, ‘at the same time’, Taily slashed Ziggs’s spear.

A sword attack that is not possible with common sense.

Bell or block? At the crossroads of two choices, the realm of irrationality in which both are chosen.

‘Sword ceremony…!’

One of the magic swordsmanships of the Sword Saint-style school, ‘Phantom Slashing’.

Slashing two targets at once, or turning and cutting at an impossible timing…

A secret technique that completely ignores the movement of power or the principles of physics.

The anecdote is famous that the two monsters who confronted the first swordsman, Luden McLore, disappeared while staring at each other’s swords as if possessed by a ghost.

There is no workaround.

At least not in a firefight, but in a one-on-one, one-on-one battle where each other competes with each other’s skills… There is no way to gauge the opponent’s movement completely ignoring the laws of physics.

– Grasp!

The first thing you can do is to distance yourself.

Ziggs leaped backwards, roughly picked up the rapier on the floor and took a defensive stance.

Sure enough, as soon as he got into his stance, the next sword attack came at Ziggs.

Taily’s swordsman doesn’t even feel reason.

Grinding his teeth, he attacks Ziggs.

Picking up the rapier was a mistake. You mustn’t go against Taylor McLore with a sword.

As if to prove that fact, the rapier with Ziggs was broken in two in an instant.

I avoided the sword attack, but the shock remains. Ziggs gritted his teeth and braced himself, but the impact of the sword forced him to roll several times on the floor.

“Kuh, whoa…”

In the meantime, I grew up again.

The swordsman of trials driven into a predicament will surely become stronger if there is a reason to become stronger. It’s a fact, as if it’s become a rule now.

“That’s great, Taylor.”

Ziggs bent one gauntlet-clad hand and raised the mace in the other.

“The speed at which you learn doesn’t make sense.”

“Please get out of the way, Ziggs. I have nothing more to say with you.”

“No, you should stop here.”

Ziggs closed his eyes and slowly opened them.

He knew well the temperament of Taylor, who was strong against trials. However, there is a degree to that as well.

The Elte Firm’s building that Ziggs is guarding.

Going further than this, the only thing Taylor has to face is more overwhelming and massive trials.

No matter what, even trials have degrees. Those who remain after this are strong people who cannot compare to Ziggs.

If you roll harder than this, you will only hurt your body and mind… and you will only lose more.

That’s why, right here and now, Taily, Ziggs himself subdues her.

Taily’s growth was at a level where he couldn’t break through Ziggs and was frustrated on the second floor.

It’s good for Taylor to wrap things up like that.

– Hui Yii Ik

Manifestations of high-level magic begin to occur. The mana armament that Ziggs only takes out when he’s serious… one by one they started to float in the air.

Ziggs knows how to handle all types of weapons, even weapons that utilize mana.

Hundreds of weapons float in the air, waiting for their masters.

“Let’s end it here, Taily. You won’t be in good shape going up after this.”

“That’s not for you to judge, Ziggs.”

What happened next was an instant.

The world went dark.

It was right after Taily had stabbed her once. Ziggs was taken aback by the momentary inability to grasp the situation.

However, I realized it as soon as I saw Taylor swinging her sword once.

The one who cuts everything that can be cut, the first swordsman, Luden McLore.

Among the Sword Mastery Ceremony, a collection of more than one skill he had hoped for… a skill that pursued the most extreme swordsmanship.

Geomseongsik – ‘space cutting’.

All of the mana weapons that Ziggs had summoned had been slashed.

It wasn’t that they cut off Ziggs’ weapons.

It cuts down the entire space itself, turning its existence into nothingness.

Taily’s red eyes stare at Ziggs. The handle of the greatsword clenched with both hands was headed next to Ziggs Eiffelstein’s body.

Ziggs widened his eyes and gathered his magic again. The wind blade, the basic wind magic, attacks Taily, but even cuts him down.

It is not a simple horizontal cut nor an elemental cut. Space itself turns into nothingness and disappears.

should not be blocked

can’t spill

must be avoided There is no way to destroy it except to avoid it.

However, Taylor’s speed is already pushing the limits.

The body is full of wounds. The muscles screamed, the bleeding showed no signs of stopping, and the intense pain throughout the body told Taylor that it would be dangerous if the sword ceremony was no longer expressed.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to beat Ziggs right away. Even if we defeat Ziggs, we don’t know how many more people will stand in our way.

At this point, if you try to bring out the strength of your body to the limit, wouldn’t it just be self-destruction?

Even so, Taylor doesn’t stop.

With willpower-filled eyes wide open, he lowered his stance and dug into Ziggs.

*- sniff

Ayla, who was crossing the dark road in the northern forest, suddenly glanced back ominously.

I don’t know why I felt that way… An ominous feeling ran down Isla Tris’s back.

“…”

Now that we’ve come this far, we have no choice but to proceed to Ed Rosteyler’s camp.

However, Isla couldn’t stand it because she kept feeling strong.

When Ed Rosteiler first called Ayla out, it was simply that he needed to provoke Taylor a bit and see what he was capable of.

However, with Lortel Kecheln involved, I didn’t know that the board would grow this far.

What Ayla imagined was because she thought it was at least one sparring.

‘Things… are going very differently than I expected…’

If it has come this far, I think I should rather ask Ed Rosteeler.

Wasn’t the scale too big compared to what I was talking about in the first place? While asking that, I was thinking of expressing my opinion that I wanted to go back to Taylor.

However, an ominous feeling that continues to invade Ayla’s brain.

Ayla is well aware of Ed’s intention to save Lortel. It’s also good that he kidnapped Ayla in the process. At the same time, you can measure Taylor’s vessel, and you can drive the situation even further into chaos.

From Ayla’s point of view, she owes a little to Ed. Never owed his life, and misunderstood the situation and behaved harshly.

However, even if you pay off the debt, isn’t it a bit out of balance? This is beyond harsh, to the point of being cruel.

After going through the grass for a while, Ayla finally saw the camp where Ed Rosteyler was waiting.

Maybe it should be the final destination of the rampaging Taily. the last stage.

Ed’s Northwoods Cabin Camp.

Jenika and Ed’s cabin where they are standing side by side. Lortel Kecheln’s villa on the other side.

A bonfire in the center like a square, and lots of survival equipment around it.

Magical engineering supplies and crafting tools scattered all over the floor. wood crafting bench. wooden shelter. Nets and hunting tools tied here and there.

The camp scene seems to summarize the survival history of a human named Ed Rosteiler in one scene.

Seeing Ed Rosteiler sitting in front of the campfire, Ayla became aware of an even more sinister aura.

“Senior Ed.”

Ayla calls Ed’s name in a low voice.

Ed slowly raised his head, his clear eyes poking out between his face shaded by his bangs.

Behind every stage there are those who are called darkness.

It is impossible to arbitrarily gauge their intentions, and it is impossible to even understand their intentions.

I thought I understood it completely, but those who dig a deeper trap and hold their breath… The moment they reveal their true colors is always the scariest.

“Are you here?”

“I have something to tell you.”

When Ayla was so lucky, Ed Rosteeler answered first as if he had been waiting.

“You can’t go back. Until this situation is over.”

* You can see the collapsed floor. over your head.

As soon as Ziggs came to his senses, he finished his assessment of the situation.

“Keugh!”

Ziggs, pinned to the floor, looked up at the ceiling to see Taily looking down at Ziggs from above.

His arms trembled from the recoil of the sword ceremony, and blood was flowing from the wounds created here and there.

Still, Taylor McLore stood upright with the strength of her own two feet.

In the extreme extreme, in a situation of giving and receiving the last sum… Taily cut the floor, not Ziggs.

To get rid of the Ziggs blocking the way.

Ziggs quickly braced himself to his feet, but Taily didn’t care and headed upstairs.

“Tayley! Stop! Let’s go further from there, nothing better for you!”

I have a bond with Ed. There is no way that Ziggs Epelstein, who knows how to keep a minimum of loyalty, will reveal all of Ed’s plans or all of his intentions.

However, at least I don’t want to create a situation where Taylor gets hurt more. The best course of action would have been to subdue Taylor here.

I’m stuck in the middle, but I do everything I can. The human named Ziggs has always lived that way.

However, Taylor didn’t care.

“I know what’s ahead of me! Stop! Stop and listen, Taily!”

what is in front of it Ziggs knows, Taily doesn’t.

But at least Taylor knows what’s at the ‘end’ of the road. This is Ayla Tris, who was captured right away.

That fact alone… Taylor moves on. No matter what Ziggs Epelstein shouts, he doesn’t listen.

So, the swordsman, Taily McLore, left behind Ziggs Eiffelstein… and went upstairs.

Looking at Taylor, who had left, Ziggs frowned. It had already left my hands, but he continued to raise his voice and call out to Taylor.

Eventually, Taylor McLore reached the third floor of the Elte Trading Building.

Searching for the traces of Ed Roth Taylor, he crosses the hallway with his body in disarray.

Breathing heavily, holding on to my foggy mind… I searched for Ayla.

The straight corridor was long and long.

The rooms used by the departments that manage various documents in the store were full, and the reception rooms for serving customers were lined up… but I couldn’t feel the presence anywhere.

– Bang!

But before long, a huge and luxurious door opens on the other side of the hallway.

“Hey hee hee!”

-Kwadangtang!

Secretary Rienna jumped out of the door and rolled on the floor. She fell down pretty badly, but she didn’t care, and secretary Rienna picked her up and ran down the aisle, holding her tears in her eyes.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

Closing her eyes, she tapped Taylor on the shoulder and ran towards the other side of the hallway.

Taily frowned for a moment as she watched secretary Rienna run away.

Taily struggled and headed in the direction from which Rienna’s secretary had jumped out. There… a scene that Taylor couldn’t have imagined unfolds.

It was only then that Taylor opened her eyes to check what secretary Rienna had seen.

A grand waiting room for VIPs. A girl with light pink hair sitting alone in the huge space and drinking tea on the customer service sofa.

Taylor McLore knows the girl well. For Taylor… the girl is an insurmountable fear.

The way he ran amok with the power of Glaskan in the Nail Hall, the way he blocked Ed, who was in a state of disrepair, in the Ophelis Hall, and the way he was commanding high-ranking spirits in the underground laboratory of Glast.

The immature girl that Yenica Failover usually shows, Taylor McLore has never seen.

To him, the human named Yenica Failover is like a human weapon that handles many high-ranking spirits like limbs. It is like an object of fear.

Next to the girl sitting with her back to the moonlight, lay a cane identical to the one used by Ed Rosteyler.

Various magical engineering items that Ed must have received, an impact-enhanced wave ball, a rake, a magic phase shifter, and even… Delheim’s hourglass.

Even in a fight where they fight each other with all their might on a fair duel, there is almost no chance for Taylor to win. On top of that, if you say that he is wearing a lot of magic engineering items that have been touched by Ed… the situation is even more hopeless.

Yenika Failover holding a teacup and staring at Taylor McLore with grim eyes. The army of spirits that unfolded after that was an opponent of a level that could not be ignored one by one.

Before whether or not he can reach Ed Rosteiler, whether he can defeat his most famous aide and… his closest colleague, Jenika Failover.

Trials are always high and difficult, but no matter how hard it is, there is a law.

The cry of Ziggs, who was trying to stop Taily, seems to still be spreading.

“It’s here.”

in the dark of a moonlit night.

The girl who was sitting on the customer service sofa slowly stood up.

An insurmountable ordeal raises the body.

“Let’s finish quickly.”

I don’t even have the heart to hold hands. The object of fear doesn’t even show signs of caring about Taylor.

Magical power begins to emanate from the bodies of the spirits.

Taily struggled to grip the sword, but couldn’t stop her legs from shaking.

Elemental Weaver Yenica Failover.

A girl sitting guarding the VIP waiting room on the third floor.

An opponent that must be pierced in order to reach Ed Rosteyler.

However, there was nothing in sight that could be said to be a way out of that enormous ordeal.