How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 235

Bellbrook subjugation (3)

― Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

There is no business in front of the quantity.

Velbrooke’s monster summoning pattern is not a pattern created to be destroyed in the first place.

At the end of the scales being cut by the swordsman, Taily McLore, and the skin being torn… It’s a desperate pattern to stop him from climbing up my body and trying to stab my heart.

There is only one way to break this pattern.

It’s not about getting rid of all the monsters, it’s about defeating the main body of Velbrok and sending the summoned monsters back as well.

In other words, defeating the crowd of monsters does not mean that we can see the end of this disaster.

In the end, it means that this disaster will end only if you defeat Valveroke, who is dragging a huge chain high in the sky.

― Whoa!

The rising wind blade swept through the monsters on the way to the Trix Hall.

The mana consumption was greater than I thought, so I naturally frowned, but first I had to clear the road.

The hill road leading to Trix Hall. As he cut down all the gremlins and went on his way, his school uniform was already covered in the blood of the dark red demons.

Still, there are no major wounds on my body. As long as your fighting ability is not affected, you can recover.

At the end of the low hill road, I got off Merilda’s back and ran up the wooden stairs, and soon the Trix building came into view.

[ …Here, I’m guessing you’ve done something big? ]

After returning to her human form and landing on the ground, Merilda saw the scene in the Trix building and left her impressions.

The Trix building, which always stood tall here in a well-organized manner, had been destroyed in half on the right outer periphery and near the roof.

Not only that, the road leading to the lobby was already covered with demons’ blood and corpses.

No matter how many monsters it was, it would not have been able to pierce the Trix Hall, where the core personnel of the Sylvania Academy were working together.

I sprinted my way through the corpses to the huge glass door.

The huge lobby of the Trix building, which I have been to several times, spreads out right on the first floor. However, it is a bit different from the usual scene where many faculty members and visitors were busy going in and out.

Shards of broken glass were scattered everywhere, and broken chairs and furniture rolling on the floor made the landscape look like ruins.

On the counter or in the seats lay several unconscious faculty members, some of whom had already lost their lives with severe blood loss.

When the monsters swept through them once, they couldn’t bear to run away. Even if it was a place where executive positions were guarded, it was not completely without human casualties. It was because the attack of the monsters was so sudden.

[ It’s quiet. ]

“Ayla and Taily must have gone to find the seal of the wise man, so there is a high probability that they will be on a higher floor.”

I watched the battle marks without stopping my fast pace.

The traces of the huge sword attack embroidered on the wall are, no matter how you look at it, the traces of the sword ceremony. Here, Taily had a battle with the monsters.

It’s a strange thing. So where have all the faculty members gone?

Isn’t it strange that not a single executive of the Trix Hall, which is actually the head of the school, is visible? At best, there were only a few corpses that had been attacked by monsters.

I just went up the stairs to the upper floor. I went up to the 2nd floor and ran across the hallway, then went up to the 3rd floor again and ran and looked around, but I could barely see any real human beings.

In this building at the center of the administration of the Sylvania Academy, isn’t it too strange that no one is there?

It was the moment I went up to the 4th floor.

– Boom!

Finally, I was able to find the shape of a person.

The 4th floor of Trix Building, where office and conference facilities are located. Among them, in the main conference room, there was one person who slammed through the door.

As if he had already been seriously injured, he was staggering while holding his side. If you look at the side you’re clenching tightly, you can see that it’s already bleeding to a serious level.

Did he get hit by Velbroke’s magic or the monsters? I decided to run all the way down the corridor and help the survivors. Because I had to ask what happened here.

“Hey, hey heck… Student, what are you doing here? In this… situation…”

The moment I saw it up close, I instantly recognized who the survivor was.

The white hair neatly tied back, the wrinkles on the forehead that show the passage of time and the wrinkles on the forehead, and the sharp protruding eyes that look solemn.

It was the assistant principal, Rachel Teislyn.

“Vice Principal. How did you get hurt like this?”

“Are you… the senior of the third year, Ed Roth-Taylor… kuh…”

Quickly looking at my face and recognizing me, Vice Principal Rachel glanced back. As if they were being chased by something.

“Outside conditions… Can you report how things are going outside right now?”

“It doesn’t have to be a lengthy explanation, it’s just as you would expect. For now, students and some influential people are holding out.”

“Yeah… First of all, to the furnishings room… Go to the furnishings room right now…! I have to go there first…!”

Vice Principal Rachel hurriedly hurried my steps. It was a situation where I couldn’t be fooling around like an idiot, so I moved as quickly as I could to the furnishings room in the corner of the 4th floor with Vice Principal Rachel supporting me.

After all, the furnishings room itself is not that far away.

“What’s going on in Triggs? Students and outside faculty are in great confusion because no instructions have been given from the leadership.”

“We also immediately convened in a large meeting room to establish a course of action. But… in the middle of the meeting… they broke in…”

“You broke in? What do you mean?”

“Even me… it’s hard to believe even after seeing it with my own eyes…”

Did the monster tribe invade?

However, no matter how powerful the monsters are, if they fall in the middle of a conference hall where executive faculty members are gathered, they will be horribly killed right away.

This is because the executive teachers of Sylvania Academy are all strong people who are said to be the best.

Even if they raided a place where such people were gathered, it would be difficult to produce meaningful results.

“I got it all. Chief Dean McDowell, Combat Division Dean Stan, Alchemy Division Dean Edelweiss, Monster Ecology Senior Professor Flavin, Senior Swordsmanship Instructor Floun, Senior Elemental Science Professor Melina… All of them have been beaten and are now unable to move. Principal Obel is probably… the first…”

“You mean even Principal Obel… got hit?”

At that moment… A huge amount of magic power emanated from the meeting room that had escaped.

The huge mana that attacked his back was both sheep and sheep, but the type was also unique.

An enormous amount of dark red magic power covered the surroundings. It’s… not the magical power used to use normal magic. It was a special kind of magic called ‘aspect magic’.

That amount is unusual.

Even Professor Glast, who is said to have reached the deepest level of Aspect magic among the living, could not use this level of concentration and amount of Aspect magic. A far greater amount of Aspect Magic than normal high-ranking magic… was about to cover the hallway on the 4th floor of the Trix Building.

Before I could react, Vice Principal Rachel, who was being supported by me, grabbed my arm and pulled me.

Then he opened the door to the supply room and pushed me right into it.

I was momentarily taken aback by the sudden movement, but I quickly corrected my posture and was about to ask Vice Principal Rachel something.

Vice-principal Rachel slammed the door to the furnishings room as it was, and imprinted a fixed magic circle on the doorknob to lock the door.

Then, camouflage magic was added on top, and the door was hidden in the form of a wall so that the outside could not be seen.

There is a small glass window on the door to the supply room, so you can see the outside. Vice-principal Rachel is seen concentrating and gathering mana. However, the door to this furnishing room will not be visible from the outside.

At first, I wondered if they had locked me in this furnishings room. However, there is no reason and no meaning. It’s because it’s not even a job to break down a door like this if I put my mind to it.

However, after seeing the camouflage magic used, I realized that it was a mistake.

Vice Principal Rachel didn’t lock me in this supply room. It’s hidden in this furnishings room…

Hide it, from what?

“What the hell is this…”

“Shh…!”

Even, there were passengers in the furnishings room.

My eyes darkened in the corner of the dark furnishings room, and when the scenery inside came into view, I swallowed my breath.

Students wearing school uniforms were hiding here and there among the shelves full of dust and school supplies.

Are they students who were helping with administrative work at the Trix Building? First of all, the faculty members evacuated the students to the furnishings room and hid them.

About a dozen or so students were terrified or crying. Among them, the student who raised his index finger and put it to my mouth and told me to be quiet… I’m familiar with it.

“Ayla…!”

“You have to hide, senior Ed!”

Saying that, Ayla grabbed my arm and dragged me into a corner.

In Ayla’s arms, the seal of the wise man who sang that she missed her so much was held. I don’t know what kind of adventure she went through, but it seems that she managed to somehow get the Sage’s seal by hiding in the Trix Coffin in the midst of this chaos.

And at the end of the furnishings room… The Taylor I’ve been looking for so long was sitting against the wall.

yes, you were here

The key to finishing this situation now. Sword Saint Taily McLore.

“Taylee McLore.”

“Ed Rosteeler… why are you… here…”

Taily, who was breathing heavily with her back against the wall… looked seriously injured.

Did the wounds remain from joining the executives and fighting the monsters? As he frowned and clutched at his wound, Ayla was beside him nursing him.

“You’re hurt…”

This is not good.

It was such a big surprise that Taylor, who was supposed to sever Velbroke’s heart from now on, was seriously injured.

“A wound like this… it’s okay… but…”

– Boom!

Then, another explosion was heard.

The sound of the explosion continued to resonate throughout the Isle of Aken due to the rampaging Valveroke.

However, the sound of this explosion was infinitely closer. The sound came from the same building, the same floor.

“Now in this Trix building… there is a monster. It’s different from monsters… Really… a monster that even opponents can’t…”

“A monster?”

“Senior Ed.”

Before Taylor could finish her words, Ayla raised her head and called out to me.

Then, while raising the seal of the wise man, he spoke.

“I want to ask you something.”

In front of the furnishings room, Vice Principal Rachel, who had finished implementing all of the camouflage magic, gasps.

Checking the door to the supply room with camouflage magic, Vice Principal Rachel gently closed and opened her eyes.

A monster slowly walks out of the conference room.

It has the form of a human being, but it is a beast whose intellect is impervious. The other person does not have the will to communicate, nor does he try to explain any reason for his actions.

However, it is terribly strong.

Rachel prayed to God. I hoped and prayed that at least that monster wouldn’t notice the camouflage magic on the door to this supply room.

It happened all too quickly.

From the sudden revival of Valveroke to the collapse of the Maxes Bridge. In the midst of such a cataclysm unprecedented in the history of Sylvania, the senior staff quickly gathered in the conference room to decide the course of action for the school.

However, a huge group of lights appeared in the center of the conference room, and everyone was temporarily blinded by the momentary glow.

And then, there was one human who rose from the glow and gracefully landed in the center of the meeting room.

face is not visible It was because he was wearing a robe full of splendid patterns. However, the robe is scattered here and there, and it feels like it has endured for a long time.

His body is smaller than expected, and he is holding a huge wooden staff obliquely as big as his body.

Judging by the immaculate skin that was coyly visible under the robe hat and the slender hand holding the cane… she definitely took on the appearance of a young girl.

The appearance of a girl who suddenly appeared like a fairy in the center of the meeting room made all of the executives and employees momentarily stiff and unable to react.

Like that, he uttered it in an elegant and graceful voice.

– ‘Oh my goodness’

It was a voice as if it had found an insect that needed to be eradicated.

― ‘There are so many ‘variables’ here.’

Listening to it made me feel a sense of dread from an unknown source.

The girl waved her hand once. It was a light gesture, as if she were driving away mosquitoes.

Then, half of the executive positions sitting together spilled blood. There was not even a precursor, so the speed was at a level that was impossible to deal with.

When he realized that he had cast curse magic, half of his core personnel had already become incapacitated.

The girl stood up in the middle of the conference room.

And the area around her eyes, exposed from the shadows, looked dull and empty.

Making eye contact with the girl, Rachel could subconsciously feel it. It is… the eyes of the ‘madman’.

It was the eyes of a madman who had lived buried in one place for a long time, and had his mind consumed by the end.

Rachel jumped up from her seat and asked who the hell are you.

― Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Valveroke’s scraping scream pierced the skies over Aken Island once more.

Hearing that, the girl who appeared in the middle of the conference room turned her head for a moment and looked at the window. There, a scene unfolds as if a disaster has arrived.

The roar of the star spear dragon cutting through the sky, a group of monsters attacking the ground, dying people, a burning forest, and collapsing academic buildings.

Seeing such a scene… before long, the girl speaks out.

– Kahak.

― Kak, kakk, kakakakakak! Kahahak! Ha ha ha ha!

A grotesque, goosebumps laugh followed.

The sight of him grotesquely moving as if bending his body with his upper body hanging down and making a laughing sound… made me feel cold just by looking at it.

Rachel frowned and gathered her mana.

It was the moment when the other professors, who were still in good physical condition, also stood up and tried to subdue the girl.

——When I closed my eyes for a moment and opened them, the scene of the meeting room covered in blood was right in front of me.

The girl hadn’t even spent 10 seconds destroying all the top-notch faculty in the empire.

*Ayla unfolds the last page of the wise man’s seal.

Then, he lifted the book and showed it to Ed.

There is a message that seems to have been added later and urgently, unlike the contents of other books that are written neatly.

The message on the last page, scrawled with a quill pen, is in Sylvania’s handwriting.

If there is something you need, just add it to the contents of the book.

However, the text that I added to the last page as if I had suddenly thought of it sometime in the future… seems to be a message to someone regardless of the contents of the book.

I don’t know why they bothered to write such a message in the book, or who wrote it down for them to see.

Whether or not there was a reason to write in this sage’s seal was unknown from Ayla’s point of view.

This is because Ayla could not interpret the text itself.

However, it is unusual for Sylvania, who studies everything systematically and efficiently, to write an improvised message at the end of this book.

It may have something to do with all these situations where Sung Changryong is turning Aken Island upside down.

That’s why, with a feeling of grabbing at least a straw… In the midst of this urgent situation, Ayla asks Ed. He’s a human who knows how to use Aspect magic, so I wondered if he knew something more.

can you read this To Ayla who asked that question… Ed was at a loss for words.

“This….”

Sylvania Robester began her career as a linguist born into a family of translators.

From ancient runes, languages ​​of the demi-humans, official languages ​​of the empire, languages ​​of the north, languages ​​of the eastern continent, to tribal languages… To her, language is nothing more than a process of redefining many patterned rules.

No matter how unfamiliar the language is, she masters it in an instant with her extraordinary brain.

Reaching the pinnacle of Aspect Magic and twisting the providence of the world, how far had she seen?

Raising the amount of magical power and raising it again and again, what kind of world did he observe?

The answer to that… was proved in the language written with a quill pen on the back page of this wise man’s seal.

“This is… Hangeul…”

“yes?”

The Seal of the Sage is a legendary sorcery book whose entire contents have not yet been completely deciphered.

So, even if there is an obscure phrase like this added to the back page… Everyone just didn’t care and passed by. Because it was an unknown area where the contents of other texts were not yet interpreted.

I took the book from Ayla and read the words written with a quill pen.

* You who survived.

I know better than anyone else your whole life of living with death and solitude as friends.

I am well aware of the dark past of drinking with starlight as a friend, longing for comrades who have left, and turning a blind eye to reality.

I know very well that there will be times when my dogma makes you hard and painful.

Even so, I have no choice but to bow my head and ask.

The more you reach out to the Aspect Magic that eats away at your mind, the clearer you will be able to see it.

There are many days when the madness that gradually stains my heart whispers darkness to me.

Even so, I can’t take my hands off Aspect Magic… It’s because I can’t accept a future that only has endless darkness.

I believe there is a yet unseen future beyond the cliff.

We believe we can survive to the end and move beyond.

But, if I can’t hold out before reaching the end.

If you end up being eaten up by madness and become a human who can no longer look to the future…

– Quaang!

Through the window of the supply room, I can see Vice Principal Rachel being knocked out by Aspect Magic. Vice-principal Rachel, who was bleeding his blood, .. falls down soon after.

Then, a girl wearing a robe appears in the hallway.

Gray hair falls slowly between the shoulders of the girl who is wearing a robe hat.

Her hair, which was always neatly tied back in her portraits, is scattered and loose.

A grotesque laugh spills out, and the corner of his mouth rises near his blood-stained cheek.

Their eyes are so cold and insensitive that you get goosebumps when you look at them.

“When the time comes, please kill me. If it is for you to survive.”

After reading the last line, I slowly turn my head and look towards the window of the furnishings room.

The girl standing there——had the same appearance as Merilda, to the point of giving goosebumps.

― Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Once again, the roar of the Holy Changryong split the sky over Aken Island.

The disaster that had arrived was still in progress, but…

From what I’ve been through, the scale was very different.