How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 238

Subjugation of Velbroke (6)

Shaking off his bleeding arm, he ran down the corridor on the third floor of the Trix building.

A draft was blowing through the already shattered glass windows, and stars and magic circles were visible from the half-blown hallway ceiling.

There is no time to pay attention to the battle between Velbrook and Lucy. First of all, I had to dig into a place with as many terrain features and obstacles as possible to make it difficult for Sylvania to capture my location.

– Whoo Woowook

However, there is no way that a person like Sylvania would not be able to read my intentions.

As the feeling of attracting mana spread from downstairs, I gritted my teeth and prepared for the impact.

– Quaaaaaaaang!

High-level lightning magic, divine punishment.

In an instant, a bolt of lightning shattered what was left of the Trix pipe.

Now, the trix tube, which is almost intact, collapses once more.

Rather than a broken building, at this point, only the remains of the building remain.

Running between the remnants of intermittently erected outer walls, I tried to avoid the magic somehow…

– Hwaaak!

High-ranking space-type magic, ‘space jump’.

Sylvania landed right in front of my nose, casually using high-level spatial magic that requires an astronomical amount of mana with just one use.

“Kahak, ahahak.”

Sylvania pushed her cane in front of my nose while letting out a strange laugh like boiling phlegm.

“I don’t know if I blocked it once, but looking at it, it looks like it was difficult twice.”

If ‘Instant Death’ strikes even one more time here, I cannot block it with my Aspect Magic. Knowing that fact well, I quickly bent over and kicked Sylvania’s cane away.

However, Sylvania gathered her magic power regardless and put two magic bullets into my shoulder.

As I gritted my teeth and wrapped my arms around my shoulders, I went out to the corner of the hallway and started to raise the Aspect magic power again.

Normal magic power can be dealt with. However, Aspect magic cannot cope with it.

The biggest characteristic of Aspect Magic. That there is no compatibility at all, and that it can never be dealt with.

Unless it is an exceptional situation to defend with the same Aspect Magic, they are magic that can never be defended.

“Hoo-wook…”

If you stay still, you will get hurt.

I had to keep attacking anyway to make Sylvania unable to cast Aspect Magic.

I summoned my magical power and summoned Mug in an instant.

The rising fire transforms into the shape of a bat, spreading its huge wings. Mug, who clattered and screamed, looked at Sylvania and drew out the magic of fire.

An amount of fire that differs from basic elemental magic rises around. The direction that the march of flames is headed is Sylvania, which is gathering the magic of the Aspect.

Sylvania narrowed her brows for a moment, then she let out a creepy smile.

Then, he swung his staff and scattered all the flames just by enveloping him in magic.

The destination of the ensuing Aspect Magic was towards Mug.

– Caang!

Aspect magic that was struck in an instant, ‘Time Prison’.

Mug, floating still with his wings spread in the air… couldn’t move anymore.

When a time prisoner is hit, the victim’s time itself stops until the caster’s magic power runs out or is dispelled. It is as if it has become a stone, and it has to remain still.

Of course, Sylvania’s magical power will never run out, so it’s safe to say that if you get hit even once, it’s over.

However, once Sylvania had gathered, it succeeded in neutralizing the magical power of the Aspect.

I’m sorry that I used the mug as a shield, but I was able to buy a chance to draw out more magic power. Eventually, with the magic that was manifested, the giant wind wolf… Meryl Da steps on her feet again and goes out into the world.

– Whoaaaaaagh!

– Kaaaaaaaang!

The flow of magical power spread out and covered the air above the Trix pipe.

With a roar, Merilda stepped on the ruins of the buildings and looked down at the petite girl wizard.

[Sylvania…]

Once, a close friend sitting side by side at the end of the right mountain and looking down at Aken Island… looks up at the huge wind wolf.

Holding a staff larger than her upper body at an angle, and wearing a robe embroidered with colorful patterns… Sylvania looked up blankly at Merilda and murmured.

“Oh my goodness….”

There is nothing alive in those pupils.

“Wolf, it’s big.”

There is no room for heartache over not recognizing.

Before Sylvania could move first, Merilda raised her magic power. The air around the area was shaking due to the magical power embodied by Merilda.

The moment Merilda’s mana was about to attack Sylvania… ——A huge ice spear had already penetrated Merilda’s body.

[ … ]

Merilda’s slit eyes widened. He couldn’t even notice the flow of her magic power.

Ice Spear is a medium magic.

However, an extremely large ice spear rose from the ground and pierced Merilda’s abdomen to the point where she wondered if it could even be called middle class magic.

Because of the dripping blood, the surface of the spear was stained red.

[You…uh…]

“It’s a pity, the spirit… can’t even die. If it were a human, I would have died peacefully with this blow.”

The status of a high-ranking spirit is enormous. It is safe to say that just being able to deal with high-ranking spirits means that you can join the ranks of the famous Elementalists in that area.

Even such a high-ranking spirit, Sylvania can be wiped out with a single blow.

However, the fact that mana was consumed does not change. In other words, it means that there is a gap in which I can act.

– Quaang!

After manifesting a ‘single point explosion’ and destroying the floor, I quickly jumped down to the ground.

Sylvania put on a tired expression, looked in the direction of the hole I had drilled, and jumped down with a light gesture.

The moment Sylvania sinks to the ground, I, who was hiding in the blind spot of my vision, pulls out a dagger in reverse and tries to stab her in the back.

It was a complete surprise attack from out of sight, but as if she had eyes on her back, she activated defense magic and deflected the dagger.

– Caang!

When my hand was thrown away by the impact of the defensive magic, Sylvania took advantage of the gap and quickly turned back and grabbed my collar.

The rising magic power enveloped my body, and as it pushed me with great force, I fell to the floor, drawn by the aftermath.

Sylvania slammed my abdomen with her knee, and pressed her bloodshot eyes to the front of my nose while holding me by the collar. Still more of her blood flowed from her body, which was full of wounds.

“Did you think you could win melee? Because I’m a wizard Ahaha, great. It’s really great. It’s great. Even in this situation, you’ve been thinking about taking the battle in a different direction. I was scared, afraid of death, in a situation where it wouldn’t be strange if I ran away in a panic… I was thinking of a way to win somehow. amazing, really great It’s worth killing. If it wasn’t for a world like this, if it wasn’t for a future full of darkness like this… you would have become a great person.”

“…”

“Woo black … Ugh … huh … sad … I’m so sad … I’m sad that a person like you should die. There must be so many amazing and great people like you in the world. The fact that everyone has to die, the fact that one day we have to struggle in that endless darkness is so futile and sad…”

I laughed, and then shed tears… Like a maniac, Sylvania talked with me in the midst of changing emotions.

The tears I had shed just now hadn’t dried. Binggrae raises the corner of his mouth.

“So, I will kill you.”

“I decline.”

– Quaang!!

A huge shock that emerged from my arms covered the entire area.

‘Impact Enhanced Waveball’. It’s one of the magic engineering items that I’ve been saving until the end. The crystal ball in her bosom shattered, and at the sudden shock, Sylvania covered her eyes with her fluttering collar and frowned.

Because of the defensive magic applied to the body, it does not fall out. However, it was successful in covering the view.

Just like that, I gathered the dust scattered on the floor with my fist and scattered it all over Sylvania’s eyes.

Sylvania, who momentarily screamed and closed her eyes, took a few backward steps. She was sure that Sylvania, who had lived her entire life as a dignified mage, would not be used to street fighting like this.

Just like that, I took out my dagger and drew magic power. I tried to express the spirit expression as it was, but the spirit expression engraved on the dagger did not respond.

“Whoa..”

I frowned, and just took the dagger and inserted it.

Because Mug was imprisoned in time, even the spirit ceremony connected to Mug did not work properly. If I was in a hurry, I had to dig into this very slight gap.

However, Sylvania sensed the flow of movement with magical power even while losing her sight, and quickly bent her body to avoid it. At this point, she wondered if she deserved a blow, but she was a human with surprisingly developed intuition.

However, due to her twisting her body while trying to evade… Sylvania’s inertia caused her to step backwards and bump her back against the broken pillar.

– Bang!

With her back still leaning against the pillar… Sylvania took a deep breath and glared at me with her red blood vessels widening her eyes.

“It’s the Ross Taylor family’s ceremonial dagger. Then you…”

Sylvania stared at me with her eyes wide open, and before long, the tips of her lips trembled and continued the story.

“Ed Rosteyler. Yes, you are Ed Rosteeler.”

“…well, you know. Because you are a person who has observed all the futures that spread out in various directions.”

“Yeah… yeah… I’m trying to remember… I’m sure… In my memory… Ed Rosteeler… The man named Ed Rosteeler… didn’t feel like this…”

Sylvania, who had been talking in a grotesquely twisted voice, gave another goosebumps smile as if she had realized something before long.

“Ah, ha ha… ha ha ha…”

Once again, blood dripped from his chewed lips. The fresh blood dripping slowly from the tip of her lips speaks for her terrifyingly broken mental state.

“Okay… Now I get a rough idea… You… are a by-product of my mistakes in the distant past.”

“what?”

“A time when I thought I would be able to resist this futile world. The foolish me of the old days, convinced that there would be a way somehow by glorifying life… I, who struggled with a feeling of grabbing at straws, dragged in… an innocent victim…”

Sylvania slowly removed her back from the pillar, lifted her body, and raised her head.

If the amount of magical power that was getting thicker had increased more than before, it would have increased, but not decreased.

“I’m sorry… I’m really sorry… You had a lot of trouble because of me… The time when you were dragged in without knowing anything, hit and run, fight, and struggled to continue your futile life… It was so painful… I’m sorry. … It’s my fault… It’s all my fault…”

Sylvania cries while shedding tears again. I can’t keep up with the flow of emotions.

“So, I will take responsibility and kill you. Rest in peace. You don’t have to endure any more pain in order to live a futile life.”

At that moment, the expansive magic filled the lobby of the Trix Hall, where only the form remained. In the aftermath alone, the pillars that were barely holding on collapsed.

– Kugoong! thud!

I hurriedly evaded the falling building debris. And just as he was about to get ready for battle, two ice spears flew into his left shoulder and pierced him.

Heck, before I could even utter a sound, another magic bullet was pierced around the left waist. As it was, I rolled over several times and landed on the outer wall of the rubble.

As I lay with my back against the outer wall, the thick dust settled.

I somehow shook my head and regained my sight, and in front of me, Sylvania was spreading her palm toward me.

A considerable amount of Aspect Magic had already been accumulated. It feels like I’m gathering Aspect mana at a much faster rate than when I first encountered it.

It seems that there was a big fluctuation in his emotions, and he gathered a huge amount of Aspect mana while shedding tears.

I intend to express ‘instant death’ once more. Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough Aspect mana left to resist.

Once manifested, death is assured. Sylvania is well aware of that fact.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It was painful. It was so painful. It was hard. are you okay. really okay now You’ve been through a lot I really… had a lot of trouble..”

I tried to evade it somehow, but my body wouldn’t move anymore.

Just like that, the expanding Aspect magic power gathered in Sylvania’s hands for an instant—

As Sylvania clenched her hand tightly, the high-aspect magic ‘Instant Death’ was manifested… and hit me directly.

*- Whoa!

– Whoa!

Ed Ross Taylor, who had spilled blood all over his body, bowed his head like that… and eventually died.

Leaning against the outer wall, watching Ed Roth Taylor with his head bowed as if asleep… Sylvania held her breath for a moment.

The fire bats he summoned and the wind wolves pierced by the ice spears were also quietly released… and returned to their astral state.

Just like that, another person left for eternal rest.

– Wheein.

– Kaaaaaaaaang!

Valveroke roars as if to end the world.

And, the incomprehensible girl wizard who is somehow blocking that valve block.

Sylvania looked at the scene with her head swung.

I somehow sorted out Ed Roth Taylor, but there are still too many ‘variables’ in the world that will try to stop that valve block.

There are so many people to organize, there is no time to relax. But… Right now, my body didn’t move.

The corpse of Ed Roth Taylor lies in front of you, covered in blood. His eyes are comfortably closed as if he is asleep, but looking at the scars and bloodstains left on his body, it is not difficult to see how painful he must have been in his lifetime.

“Sorry.”

Sylvania chanted like that.

“If it’s a life where there’s nothing left but suffering… it’s better if it ends like this.”

Sylvania quietly closed her eyes and silently looked at Ed Rosteeler for a moment. As soon as all the magical energy that was wrapped around his body disappeared, Sylvania’s eyes started to flow again.

What comes to mind is when I met my first apprentice, Glockt.

That young disciple had asked Sylvania’s worries right now.

Hundreds of years ago, that stupid disciple’s question is now chewing the cud. Should I really call it Cheongchuleoram? It’s really ironic that it’s the world’s work.

The question the young boy asked while looking at Sylvania with empty eyes.

“Even if it’s just a life of struggling in pain, is there any reason to continue living?”

At that time, Sylvania herself, who didn’t know anything… what kind of answer did she give? Now it’s buried beyond my memory, and I don’t remember it well.

Sylvania herself in her memory, fading like a black-and-white photograph…

I don’t know why, but I remember smiling broadly and answering…

Sylvania quietly opened her eyes, feeling buried in nothingness.

“Live first and then talk, you bastard.”

——At that moment, Ed Roth Taylor, covered in blood, rushed in and stabbed Sylvania’s shoulder with the dagger he held in reverse.

– Grasp!

He thought that everything was already over, so he had disrupted the flow of magic.

However, the moment I opened my eyes, what was full of my vision… was Ed’s face covered in a terrifyingly large amount of blood.

“Keep, heo-euk… hee-uh…!”

No matter how much mana she has, Sylvania’s body is dwarfed.

It wouldn’t be strange if the sharp dagger allowed a blow, even if it led to a fatal wound. Fortunately, the dagger stuck in the shoulder could not pierce the vital point. Ed’s body was at its limit, just like Ed, so he couldn’t relax enough to aim for vital points properly.

– Taang! Clink!

I heard something fall to the floor. It was… an hourglass the size of half a fist.

Sylvania barely muttered in an embarrassed voice.

“Del… Heim…”

A magical engineering item that gathers the energy of Delheim, the god of magic, to overcome the crisis of death just once.

In the distant past, three students who went to the Sylvania Institute, which did not even have the look of a school yet. Teslin McLore, Gloct Elderbane, and Philona Bloomriver.

Among them, Philona, ​​a disciple who excelled in alchemy, was researching with toxic excitement… Sylvania knows the records of the magical engineering supplies.

Although she did not pay much attention to the idea of ​​an unrealistic research record, the records left by her disciple Philona for a long time were handed down… Eventually, recent magic engineering succeeded in realizing the blueprint. They say that the method was too difficult and the materials were rare, so it didn’t mean much, but… just by coming here, Pilona’s record left a meaning of its own.

“Big.. Heo-eok…”

A student who always kept a smile on his face and accumulated research journals… Philona Bloomriver.

The hourglass-shaped magical engineering tool that was drawn on her blueprint… Sylvania still remembers it.

“You…”

However, it was strange.

——Sylvania is a great sage who has read all the future trends that will be created in this world.

However, it has never been observed that Philona’s invention, the ‘Delheim Hourglass’, exists as a finished product.

– Pan!

Sylvania, who quickly released her magical energy and bounced off Ed’s body, frowned when she saw the dagger stuck in her shoulder.

Enduring the rising pain, grit your teeth… somehow pull out the dagger.

“Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…

The dagger was pulled out, but blood was still flowing from his shoulder.

Sylvania manifests Aspect Magic in her other hand, somehow returns the wound on her shoulder to its past state while clenching her teeth.

“Ah, ah! haha…”

The wounds are gone, but the aftermath of that excruciating pain remains. Even if you turn back some of your body’s time, even the memory of that pain doesn’t disappear. The sensation lingered like a phantom pain, and Sylvania continued to break out in her cold sweat.

In the meantime, Ed was slowly getting up, bleeding profusely.

Until the very end, he hides his trump card… His composure that draws attention to himself by doing his best. It is no longer a human level.

However, the blow he just delivered must have been a trump card. Surely he caught Sylvania off guard, but if he couldn’t finish it with that blow… In the end, it would be nothing more than a meaningless struggle.

Even so… Ed Rosteyler forcibly lifts his upper body and raises himself.

Now, rather than Sylvania, Ed Rosteylor is a much more zombie-like figure… but his eyes are still burning with the will to survive.

determination to survive. only that one

Even in the battlefield where bullets come and go, even in this academy where magic comes and goes. It was only that one thought that made him able to stand with both legs on the ground until the end.

“I hate guys like you the most.”

Ed said in a bloody voice.

“You think the future you observed is everything, you know it all, right? I did too.”

He was the one who knew all the scenarios that existed in < Failed Swordsman of Sylvania >.

However, nothing went as it should.

The history of this world, which I thought would flow as I thought, went on its own without a single exception, betraying expectations.

This goddamn world is full of all sorts of surprises and variables, and even though I thought I was measuring them all, they spread out on their own.

Life doesn’t go as planned.

So I lost a lot.

That’s why I got something.

Death is always near.

In a world where that is natural… In the hell where bullets fly around and dig up people’s flesh… There was a time when I looked up at the cloudy sky with dead eyes.

The nightmare did not go away, and the days when I lived only because I was stuck in the corner of the room and just breathed were long.

I didn’t want to hold anything in my hand for fear of losing it, and I was sure that I would reluctantly survive in a world that had been dyed in achromatic colors all along.

however.

The determination to live quietly and live without getting involved with anyone, with only one diploma as the goal, is overshadowed.

The camp, which was just a temporary residence, has become attached to the camp before you know it, and you may feel that you do not want to leave.

I don’t want to worry about a good-natured spiritist girl, so I end up living for myself.

He staged an unsuitable fraud by claiming to take responsibility for a wounded merchant.

He hugs his shoulders and talks about comforting a wizard who is vastly stronger than himself.

Looking up at the night sky, I fall into useless feelings.

Running around busily while playing in the hunting ground.

A strange confidence rises in my growing skills.

I hum for no reason as I watch the growing cabin camp.

Looking back at the footsteps we have walked, feeling useless pride.

I was fed up with life stretching out in an unexpected direction and in an unexpected way.

It’s just that it’s natural to struggle to survive.

That was the life of Ed Roth Taylor, who lived on the island of Aken.

“Such a cheeky sound…”

Ed Roth Taylor, who is dripping blood, is miraculous that he is alive and moving.

However, he is still alive. Even though he is pushed to the limit to the extent that he has to do everything in his power to even take a single step, he is living the present moment with a clear breath.

“It’s a sound that only bastards who’ve lived through can say.”

I don’t say anything irresponsible that everything will work out. He doesn’t even say that his current unhappiness will be resolved someday and will turn into pain from the past… full of such hope. You don’t even offer unrealistic consolation that your life will surely end with a happy ending.

However, Ed Rosteyler… loathes those who complain that they have no money after piling up lottery tickets that have not even been scratched.

No matter what others say.

At least that’s how Ed Rosteylor lived his life.

“You… you, what are you…”

Sylvania, who gritted her teeth, raised her magic again. Although the aftermath of the pain still lingers on his mind, he decided that the first thing to do was to end Ed, who was standing on his feet.

In any case, there is nothing left to resist Ed Rosteyler.

He only saved his life once with the Delheim Hourglass, but the final blow of conversion that he risked all of that did not end Sylvania’s life.

Now, really, it’s nothing more than a living corpse waiting to die after receiving the final blow.

In order to deliver the final blow, Sylvania wrapped the raised magic power around her hand. Dozens of ice spears rose up. Even with a single blow, Ed Rosteyler would be mortal.

Like that, dozens of ice spears flew in to take Ed’s life, but…

– Caang! Whoaaaaagh!

– Roaring!

What rose up was a huge flame that covered the entire area.

Spirit Ceremony – Hwahwa

Blooming flowers of fire fill the lobby of the Trix building, melting all the ice spears in an instant.

Ed Roth Taylor was well aware of the identity of the Spirit Ceremony.

Drawing the power of the high-ranking fire spirit, Tarkan, and embroidering Cosmos on the mantle of Elementalist Yenika Failover… It is a high-ranking spirit ceremony.

The moment he guessed the identity, a girl was already landing in front of Ed’s nose with a shawl fluttering.

Jenika Failover’s light pink hair, blown in by the Lieutenant Wind Spirit, flutters once in the flames.

Eventually, by swinging his arm downward, countless spirits covered the air above the Trix building.

A procession of pouring magic bullets. The great sage Sylvania quickly manifested defense magic and blocked them all without difficulty.

Yenika Failover takes advantage of that gap and quickly runs towards Ed Rosteeler and hugs him as if to support him.

Ed, who was in a state of almost complete loss of strength, was held tightly in his arms, and his eyes were tightly closed as if his heart was in pain. After gritting his teeth like that for a while, he summoned the lieutenant wind spirit Kalax.

Sylvania noticed as the giant archaeopteryx-shaped wind spirit quickly picked up the two of them. That girl is about to quickly retreat with Ed Roth Taylor, who is in a state of disrepair.

At this point, Jenika Failover had already noticed. Great Sage Sylvania is not an opponent that can be defeated in a one-on-one match.

“Where…!”

However, the magic of the giant fire lizard Tarkan causes a huge explosion once. I don’t think the attack will work anyway. to cover one’s eyes

Beating Sylvania may be impossible, but a strategic retreat is possible. Yenica Failover’s army of spirits is so enormous that it is unmatched in terms of quantity.

Eventually, when the smoke was removed with magical power, Jenika Failover, riding on Kalax’s back, retrieved Ed and fled far away.

Above the island of Aken. Yenica Fail Rover, holding Ed’s head tightly in her fluttering collar, was staring at Sylvania from afar.

Sensing that stare, Sylvania… stood still for a while holding her staff at an angle.

Even the army of many spirits disappeared when Jenika completed the retreat.

In the Trix coffin, which was left with only wreckage, there was silence before long.

“…”

Left alone, Sylvania lowered her head for a moment.

As for Yenica Failover, Sylvania has also observed it several times. However, I get the impression that her appearance and behavior are a little different from what she observed in Sylvania.

is it an illusion Or is it the result of some inevitable action?

The mind, which had been gradually precipitated by being locked up in the prison of time for a long time, was eventually engulfed in greater pain.

“Whoa, whoa… whoa… whoa… whoa…”

Sylvania, who made a grotesque sound and hugged my shoulder, eventually took a breath. The pain of her dagger stabbed by her Ed Ross Taylor still seems to fill her shoulder.

Still… little by little… little by little… the pain of cutting that bone subsides.

“Yes… there are still… many variables… to be removed… still… a lot of work to be done…”

The aftermath of the madness that surged up again was still eating away at her mind.