How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 57

Glast subjugation battle (6)

There are a lot of buildings.

Looking down at the panoramic view of Gyosu-dong from the rooftop of the Trix Building was a truly memorable experience.

Obel Forcius is often called young. However, this means that she is relatively young compared to the position she holds, not that she is absolutely young.

Obel is not even 60 yet. He is particularly young among many who have served as Sylvania principals in the past.

Ever since I was a first-time professor, I had been sitting in my teaching chair for a long time, and when I came to my senses, I realized that I had been working for 28 years. Nowadays there are few places left in the teaching profession where one can rise higher than this.

The world has also changed a lot.

The teaching building, which used to consist of five or six classroom buildings, is now larger than a typical village. If you climb up the hill and look wide, you can barely see the panoramic view. Considering that the living quarters have almost doubled in size, Sylvania Academy has doubled in size during his tenure alone.

When I came to my senses, I realized that there was no one who had been in Sylvania longer than Obel.

Not only the students who will have to graduate someday, but also the professors who are said to have a high level of experience are often less than half of Obel’s.

“I have no doubt that this is the golden age of Sylvania Academy.”

When Obel, who was behind his back on the rooftop, said this, Supreme Dean McDowell, who was standing behind him assisting him, nodded;

“If Principal Obel says so, then yes.”

His experience and power are respected by everyone in Sylvania.

Obel Forcius quietly looked at the outside of the faculty building, where smoke was rising. As is usual with places where underground waterways are located, there is almost no floating population, and in fact, it is only large… It is difficult to call it an important infrastructure.

Golden age.

This year’s first graders are a golden generation that is rarely seen again even among all generations in Sylvania’s history.

Lucy, Ziggs, Lortel, Elvira, Clevious, Adele, Eldin.

Even if you just list them in order of grades, each student has the potential to aim for the top spot in another grade.

Are grades just everything?

Ayla is gifted with the talent of a scholar, able to quickly absorb and gain insight into a vast amount of magical knowledge and come up with interesting opinions.

Among the three princesses of the Cloel imperial family, Princess Fenia, who receives overwhelming support, will eventually follow the path of monarch, no matter how much she dislikes it.

And…Taylor McLore, who is using the swordsmanship method and growing stronger at an incredible rate, is already spreading rumors even among students.

What happens next year? Many prominent freshmen have already expressed their intention to enroll.

Wade is the only son of Magnus, the commander of the Iron Blood Corps that protects the northern border.

Tanya, the second daughter of the Ross Taylor family, the continent’s most powerful family,

Clarice, a saint from the Church of Telos, which has the largest number of believers in the empire, and Claude, a descendant of Karl, the alchemist of disaster who is said to have single-handedly created half of all poisons in the world.

Even if there is only one in a grade, there are many hopefuls who are met with all kinds of expectations, so I end up having ominous thoughts.

It is a useless thought to think that such an enormous ordeal is approaching that a person of this level of talent must be able to even struggle.

However, no matter how many amazing new students there are, there is only one person who shines at the top in the end.

He is a capricious wizard who spreads the magic blessed by the stars and only acts as he pleases.

During his 28 years of service, Obel has never once thought that his skills would be inferior to his students.

This is because Obel is evaluated as having reached the level closest to that of the Archmage Glokt among those currently existing.

“Are you really okay with letting go?”

Supreme Dean McDowell spoke in a worried tone.

Obel, who was quietly looking down at the underground waterway with his back, shook his head.

McDowell’s advice is tinged with concern.

A senior professor caused confusion through his own arbitrary actions. In the process, the bachelor’s precious treasure was stolen.

There are even students who have been kidnapped, so if any casualties occur, Obel’s liability will increase exponentially.

If it ends in a simple accident, you can issue a statement, apologize, and take pride in it, but if a student loses his or her life, there is no guarantee what will happen.

Nevertheless, Obel did not move.

If you lower your gaze slightly and look at the railing, you will see scratch marks as if someone had taken a nap while sitting on it. Jerky crumbs and the like are scattered around the outskirts along the marks.

The traces of magical power contain a star’s blessing that only archmages can handle. If we look at the direction in which the magic disappeared, it is towards the underground waterway.

In this Sylvania Academy, he is the only one who can challenge Principal Obel… A rare genius born with extra-standard powers.

Professor Glast said that he was a talented person with the qualities of a great wizard who would go down in history.

Even if he was a veteran scholar in Aspect magic, he couldn’t be a match for the girl who monopolized God’s love and wielded power that bordered on foul play.

“Professor Glast…?”

Obel quietly closed his eyes.

The past years are meaningless.

There was a time when Obel was a first-time professor. The same goes for Professor Glast.

Time and age wears people out and matures them.

By chipping away at his appearance as a passionate first-time professor, he is reborn as a mature educator.

– ‘Dean Obel. Does this make sense! ‘Say something!’

When Professor Glast was a newly appointed professor, Obel was already the Dean of the Ministry of Magic.

Glast’s desiccated and pale appearance was still the same from when he was a first-time professor. He was certainly much more talkative than he is now.

– ‘Isn’t it unfair to collectively classify only DEX students among low-performing students as failing? ‘Aren’t talentless students even students?’

– ‘Separating students based on grades is for better academic achievement, not to classify students themselves!’

– ‘Of course, the level you can reach varies depending on your innate talent. However, it is impossible for an educator to be buried in that situation and treat those without talent as if they were left out!’

The young Professor Glast who raised his voice and pounded on his desk is now a thing of the past.

It was a time when research on theology was put to the back burner. Staying up all night in a corner of the undergraduate lab to plan a week’s educational curriculum more efficiently. Even that is a long time ago now.

Ten years have made me feel many things and changed many values.

So what conclusion will we draw at the end of those years? What will he end his long, long life as an academic with to prove?

“Growing old together isn’t always a good thing.”

Obel gazed down at the wide-open landscape and let out a deep sigh inwardly without anyone noticing.

The autumn scenery of the fallen leaves tilts under the setting sun.

Since when did the changes in the four seasons no longer seem so meaningful?

It’s getting old.

*

“Hey.”

I was sitting on one side of the collapsed bookshelf with my head covered.

“You know, you know, you know.”

I found it odd that he kept calling me, perhaps thinking that he wasn’t answering because I couldn’t hear him.

It’s always the same when Lucy calls me ‘you know’. It is obvious what will be said.

“Do you have any leftover beef jerky?”

“Are you sure?”

“Tsk….”

Lucy seemed to have no intention of hiding her disappointment, so she waved her feet in the air timidly.

Lucy was standing at the top of the bookshelf on the other side, fidgeting with her feet and adjusting her witch’s hat, looking the same as she always did.

He single-handedly smashed the surface of the earth and broke through to this deep secret laboratory, and he looked as if this was no big deal. It’s almost condescending to think that this is a lifesaver, but Lucy just thinks of it as the trouble of helping her get a glass of water.

Of course, it’s not a situation where you can just be happy and thank them for saving you.

“First of all… yes, thank you, Lucy.”

Anyway, let me say thank you for coming to this deep secret lab to rescue me.

“But… how did you come all this way to save me…?”

It’s not very pleasant to be asked, “Why did you save me?” But of course Lucy couldn’t care about that.

“Well… the spirit master asked me to help him. At first, I thought it was annoying so I was going to leave him alone, but when I thought about it, I thought I might have to save him. I was also bored.”

Lucy flung her small body around and landed lightly on the marble floor beneath a pile of bookshelves.

The movements of his body, fluttering his excess sleeves and settling down lightly, really don’t look like a human being.

If you think about it, Lucy’s weight would be several times that of an actual heavy cat, so it could be said that it is natural that her body movements were not human-like in the first place. I understand movements as light as a feather.

The fact that he is heavily equipped with various lightweight magic and gravity magic may also play a role.

“You felt like you had to save it?”

“Yeah. I don’t know why, but since I was lying alone in the camp, I was bored and felt like I needed to save someone.”

“…”

As I was quietly glaring at Lucy, she yawned loudly as if she didn’t care.

“Hey.”

“why.”

“Do you have any beef jerky left? Really?”

“okay.”

“…Tsk..”

Lucy didn’t express her dissatisfaction directly, but she grunted with a truly disappointed look on her face.

“Anyway, since I got it, I’m going to go. I need to find a place nearby to take a nap.”

“… no.”

“…?”

At first glance, it doesn’t seem like things are going well.

It’s not like I’m just sighing anymore. Of course, there is no way that everything in this world will go according to plan.

It seems like it’s more messed up than I thought, but in any case, Tailley’s specs themselves have grown well enough, haven’t they?

As is the case with most games, Tailly’s spec growth increases exponentially toward the latter half of the game. It is even more strange if the growth efficiency of the early to mid-game and the very late-game are similar.

If you have maintained your spec growth well so far, skipping a few bosses will not be a huge problem.

As was the case in the final scene of Act 1, as long as you eliminate the obstacles to progressing the story due to not learning essential core skills, everything will somehow be resolved later.

There is a set number of bosses that give swordsman training points. In the case of the final scene of Act 2, it is the boss Glast, the Demon of the Underground Culvert, Researcher Kum, and Cyclops. Since the training efficiency is good, it naturally comes out in droves in the latter part of the scenario.

So far so good… so far…!

If you continue to train the Sword Saint’s way to the end, you can either become the evil god Mebula or an ancient incarnation that destroys the providence of the world… In the end, Tailly goes through a lot of trouble and destroys them all on his own. He can’t be killed if it isn’t Tail Lee in the first place.

In any case, the remaining specifications just need to follow the basic growth values. There are no setbacks so far.

“You shouldn’t go anywhere, you should stick close to me.”

“…”

I put my hands on Lucy’s shoulders and spoke clearly.

In any case, if the specification growth itself can still be resolved, the top priority is to eliminate all bad ending routes that cannot be resolved on my own.

Lucy’s variable that drove the most players to a bad ending in the final scene of Act 2.

You must avoid situations where you are persuaded by Professor Glast and become hostile towards Tailley.

Compared to the risk, it is easy to prevent.

All you have to do is stop Lucy and Glast from meeting. All you have to do is keep Lucy under strict surveillance and make sure she doesn’t do anything else.

It makes him sound like he’s someone who really cares for Lucy… Well, that’s the situation.

“why?”

Lucy asks, with blank, dead eyes, why he’s saying all that.

why? Speaking of which… it’s very difficult to give a reason.

Those blank eyes looking at me… Suddenly, a memory from the past passes through my mind.

What meaning does the character Lucy Mayril have for those who have played countless times?

That is the first wall you face as a player. It is a hurdle that cannot be overcome.

Act 3 final scene. Lucy subjugation battle.

Summoning all four highest-ranking spirits from the top of Mt. Oron, and swinging the highest-ranking magic countless times as if it were basic magic… A living nature that could not be subdued even if all the faculty members, the imperial family, the upper class, and even the internal forces of the academy pooled their strength and jumped in. Disaster.

Even if you only know how to use one, the magic that is treated as an end spec is sprayed like rain, and the memory of the first try where you had to spend all the consumables just to withstand the attack because you couldn’t even get close.

In the end, since the player cannot defeat it on his own, it is an entity that was designed in the worldview to be able to be overcome only when NPCs with end-level specs gather together.

Until the very day you see the final ending of Sylvania’s failed swordsmanship, there is no way to come up with the specs to beat Lucy.

Through all kinds of compatibility analysis, use of consumables, and strategy establishment, Tailly of End Specs may be able to match Lucy or temporarily subdue her… but this is a story about double and triple use of tricks.

In terms of fundamental strength, at least in the era in which this story takes place, there is no one who can match Lucy.

She is a girl who monopolized God’s love and was given cowardly strong strength and mana sensitivity.

Lucy in this state alone shows incredible strength, but even she has not yet fully developed half of her talent.

If the strength of each character was expressed in a bar graph, Lucy alone would break through the graph, making all the other characters look dull.

Even in the settings book, Lucy’s graph is not standardized enough to be left out.

So… Lucy is an uncontrollable variable.

Like stray cats roaming the city as they please… no one can handle this girl.

I go where I want to go, eat what I want to eat, and sleep when I want to sleep.

I can’t tell what they’re thinking, and I can’t tell what they’re doing.

– Sniff, sniff.

As soon as I don’t say anything, he puts his nose to the back of my hand and sniffs it to see if it smells like beef jerky.

This clearly showed what kind of person this guy was, and I was left speechless.

“There’s no need for me to stick around with you. You’re already safe.”

A dazed, yet clear voice came out in its own way. Lucy spoke of the obvious.

Even if I tried to give a detailed explanation to this girl who already had a hard time communicating, there was no way it would work.

“Lucy. You’re strong. I feel safe when I’m with you like that.”

“…”

“Well, even if you don’t do anything or say anything, there are times when you just stay next to me and you feel reassured. Don’t you know that feeling?”

“….”

Lucy looked at me with blank eyes and answered slowly.

“know.”

“Yeah, that’s it.”

Lucy grumbled, her excess sleeves flapping around.

“But that’s completely your problem.”

“That’s right. That’s why I’m asking you this. First of all, just stick close to me until I get out of this underground waterway.”

“If you want to get out of this underground tunnel, I will let you out.”

“I have some business I need to take care of before I leave.”

“Boo-“

It has a face full of horns that looks like it’s going to die of annoyance.

“Okay then. In return, I also want to ask you something.”

“…”

I think I know what the girl is trying to say with her arms outstretched in the air with blank eyes. Anyway, this girl was looking for a place to take a nap.

It’s not that difficult to carry this little girl.

If you pick it up, it sounds so swish that you wonder if it really is the weight of a person.

As I lifted Lucy up onto my back, I naturally wrapped my arms around her neck, lifted my legs a few times, adjusted my posture, and prepared to get a good night’s sleep. As if he had found the most comfortable place in the world, he rested his chin on my shoulder and hummed in satisfaction.

It didn’t take long before I heard a roaring sound.

Okay, for now, just hold on tight to Lucy so she doesn’t go anywhere.

Let’s just quickly finish what needs to be done.

Even though the library is half-destroyed, there is still a lot left to take care of.

Since Raina has also been subdued, let’s take everything we can without worrying about others and head towards the underground waterway.

If there are Yenika or other people who come to rescue me on the way, I can quickly explain that I’m okay and take them out after showing them that I’m fine.

If you meet Taily, she will explain Ayla’s condition. Then I will go to subdue Glast more actively.

The party trying to subdue Glast must have all broken through the underground waterway by now.

It was quite absurd to see myself in a situation where I was the only one trying to escape by running backwards.

*

Tailley and his party were heading deep into the underground waterway.

Everyone was very nervous.

When I first arrived at the entrance to the underground waterway and saw Dorothy unconscious and all kinds of golem fragments, I already felt something was out of the ordinary.

Inside this underground waterway… there is something that destroys everything it sees.

“Everyone, don’t ever relax…!”

Taily McLore is not yet at the level of being called a sword saint, but she has at least grown to a level that students of her age cannot take lightly.

Although he is still a bit inferior to the first-year Ace members, he has accumulated enough combat skill proficiency to be able to deal with them if the situation is right.

During the midterm exam, Ziggs couldn’t help but applaud Tailley’s progress.

We got a glimpse of Tailly’s life as he grew up, overcoming many hardships with only grit and effort.

That’s why Ziggs always respected Tailly.

Those who have worked hard, shedding blood and cutting bones to survive, have a unique venom in the air.

Ziggs was someone who always knew how to respect that venom.

“Is there really a need to go further in here? At first glance, it looks like there are more people than us in this underground waterway… Didn’t you hear that vibration just now…? The earthquake was huge…! As expected… “Just… don’t do something dangerous like this… why don’t you just leave…?”

When Clevius, who was shaking, said those words, Elvira stepped firmly on Clevius’s instep.

“You’re being stupid again, Clevious! Aren’t you going to save Ayla?”

“Oh, in the first place…! Ayla, that woman was only angry at me! I don’t even want to save a woman like that! Besides that… Ed Rothtaylor… do we have to save him too?! Why? Do we have to go this far?!”

“Clevius.”

A small, low-pitched voice cut through the underground waterway.

It was Tailley McLaure.

“I’m so sorry. Still, I really want to save Ayla. I’ll ask you this.”

Tailly was already in the process of politely bowing his head and asking Clevius.

It was pathetic that Clevius had now changed his words, but Tailley still bowed his head again.

With Taily in front of him with his head bowed, Clevious stuttered.

“Ugh. Ugh…! Ah…! Why are you doing this to me?”

Clevious also knows that Ayla is a good person.

This is a girl who not only felt sorry for Clevius, who always tried to run away, but also reprimanded him and tried to correct him.

“Don’t come this far and back out, Clevious.”

Ziggs patted Clevious on the shoulder and looked at the punitive forces once again.

Tailly, a failed swordsman, Ziggs, the spear of vegetation, Clevious the gloomy, Elvira the meddlesome… and Adele, the romantic.

“oh.”

A blonde girl who was holding a mandolin and tuning its strings among the group grinned.

Listening to the warm features and soft voice is so comfortable that you feel like your mental fatigue is being relieved.

The couple of daffodils stuck in her ear are not able to show their full color because they are crowded out by Adele’s pale skin.

In the middle of the hair that flowed down like a waterfall, there were at least fifteen hairpins in the shapes of not only daffodils, but also cosmos, roses, and tulips.

Prophet Adele. No, it was Adele who called herself a romantic.

“I haven’t heard much about the child named Ayla, but seeing that everyone so sincerely wants to save her, I guess she’s a really good person.”

“Yes. Ayla is truly like my life partner.”

“Okay, Tailley. But you’ll have to brace yourself.”

Adele is an astrologer before she is a wizard.

Although it’s not a hit, the scenes of the future that are glimpsed with the energy of stars often hit the nail on the head.

“I have a feeling that the person I will face in the future will not be easy at all.”

Looking at Professor Glast’s actions, the theft of the wise man’s seal was a thoroughly planned crime.

To some extent, they had expected to engage in a chase like this.

In any case, it was highly likely that many traps or means had been prepared to repel the intruders’ pursuit.

The demonic golem fragments seen at the beginning must be one of those traces.

Dorothy, the top student in the third-year pension department, also doesn’t know why, but it seems certain that she fell unconscious because she couldn’t break through the underground waterway.

So, what is blocking the way to this underground water?

If there is an opponent that even the 3rd year pension department chief cannot overcome… you must never let down your guard.

So the group concentrated their minds for a while and moved forward.

– Boom! bang!

Soon, a sound was heard from across the corner.

– Bwaaaaaaaaaaaa!

When they heard a sharp female scream, the group made eye contact and quickly ran away. There is someone in front of here.

As soon as I turned the corner, what I saw was a huge flame spirit.

The connection of a wide waterway, a circular waterway, looks like a square. The numerous forks in the waterway meet here once.

There were two people in the center.

“Please…! I don’t know! I don’t know either! I’m just going to stay here and make sure things are going well…! That’s all I received…! Please! Please just look at me! Just this once!”

There is a girl. Since she is looking back, her face cannot be seen.

However, the person who is surrounded by the girl’s spirit… and screaming in fear is well known.

Among the professors in charge of first-year students, Assistant Professor Claire was much liked by students due to her friendly image.

Most students liked him because he was young, thought like a student, and had no hesitation.

To live up to his name as a professor, he was at a level where most students could not compete with basic combat magic… but the opponent was very bad.

The girl held the oak butterfly cane and whispered something into Assistant Professor Claire’s ear. It was only about five or six letters long.

“I don’t know! I really don’t know! It wasn’t planned in the first place! It was just… a mere whim…! Ha, just take a look! Please…!”

Assistant Professor Claire soon shed tears, exhausted, and fell to the bottom of the canal.

I took a step backwards while sitting on the floor, and soon reached the wall. As the spirits surrounding the girl’s body roared, Assistant Professor Claire eventually lost consciousness.

The girl still doesn’t look back.

However, the companions had already realized the girl’s identity.

In particular, Tailly and Elvira had already faced that girl twice as enemies.

I still remember the incarnation of fear, wielding all kinds of mid-level spirits to protect Ed on the first floor of the Ofilis Building.

At that time, Tarkan’s strength had not fully returned, but he was not confident that he could win even in that state.

Only now, Tailina Elvira’s specs have improved significantly. She may deserve much more.

But that side wasn’t doing its best at that time either.

Even here, there is no Ed to stop that girl. Thinking about that, the girl’s power that I saw at first glance at the Ofilis Hall was only a taste.

Learned fear blooms in Tailley’s body. He quickly drew his sword and took a defensive stance.

“Hmm… wasn’t it right? Did it go too far to the right in the first place…? Umm…”

The girl who said those words turns around in the dark. She had noticed that Tailly and his group were acting popular.

The girl looking back from among the spirits looks as lively as usual… but no one can easily take her mouth off.

“Oh. Hello, guys.”

The expressions of everyone except Ziggs suddenly hardened. Ziggs seems rather pleased.

Come to think of it, at the entrance to this underground waterway, there was a shawl that had fallen near the fallen Dorothy.

The owner of that shawl with pretty cosmos embroidery… is definitely that girl.

It was clearly that girl who subdued Dorothy who entered the underground waterway.

I don’t know the detailed circumstances. However, after seeing Dorothy fainting and even the good Assistant Professor Claire fainting in fear… I can’t let down my guard.

Everyone swallowed dry saliva and adjusted their posture. Ziggs was the only one who couldn’t understand the atmosphere and was looking at them wondering why they were like this.

A round fork in a spacious underground waterway. Yenica Palover, a girl waiting for the intruder in the center.

To be said to be the first enemy to stop Taily and the others, it was too strong an opponent.

However, there are times when you must have courage and overcome even an unbeatable opponent. Because everyone was sincere in their desire to save Ayla.

‘Hey…why are their expressions like this…?! What did I do wrong…? Wow… was I being too harsh towards Assistant Professor Claire…? But, I just asked, but the assistant professor just made a fuss…!’

However, the timid Yenika could not say anything and was just fussing at the spirits in her mind.

Anyway, Hansi is busy.

I’m so worried that Ed, who was captured, is in trouble because no one came to save him. Since Ed has many secret enemies… I think he will have to go and rescue her. No matter what happens, the only person who can save Ed is himself.

Anyway, I’m busy.

I’m so busy…!