How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 62

Glast Subjugation (11)

The viewing angle is narrow. It was a long-standing worry of Professor Glast, who was short-sighted.

Since I read a lot of books, it is unavoidable that I suffer from nearsightedness and narrow the angle of view.

Life as a teacher is, after all, a static law.

As with most jobs in the world, after decades of repetition, everything becomes routine and patterned.

The one-year school schedule, which seemed turbulent and messy, does not deviate from the big flow after repeating it for ten years.

The incidents and problems that bulge out at that time are only left as past experiences, saying that such things happened… in hindsight.

In the end, what remains in my memory is the daily scenery that seems to be taken in the same frame.

Sitting at a large desk in a private laboratory, perusing the manuscripts of the sages who had been transcribed, analyzing Aspect Magic, managing the undergraduate curriculum, and reviewing textbooks to be used when teaching students.

Then, the scenery outside the window changes.

It’s snowing.

It’s raining.

The Wind Blows.

The sun rises in the east, and when you wake up, it is running away to the western sky.

The youngest professor who had an accident comes to ask for forgiveness in a panic.

First year students majoring in elemental science come to the private lab to study intermediate magic.

The dean, who was on his way to work, stops by and comes in for a cup of tea.

If you sit in the same seat and immerse yourself in your work, you will soon forget even the painful memories.

If it’s a memory that can’t be healed, there’s no choice but to slowly forget it.

If you don’t find a way to heal, you will only find a way to forget the pain.

At some point, the dark circles get thicker, the eyes get sunken, and the hair becomes frizzy. Hearing rumors that he looks like a skull gourd doesn’t hurt his feelings.

When you sit at a desk in the lab and wield a quill, there are times when your vision becomes blurry.

Also, is his nearsightedness the problem, or is his stamina running low, or should he take a break? I thought so… but compared to usual, the work intensity is not that harsh.

Fragments of old memories that come from time to time burrow into my brain again.

Stretch your back, bury your body in the backrest, and sweep your face once. As always, close your eyes.

It is useless to recall Murrie’s face any longer. It’s just eating my flesh.

If so, what should I draw on the long darkness beyond my eyelids?

There is nothing to draw. It is a huge canvas seen by a novice artist who has just picked up a brush.

Giving up on filling the void wider than the open sea, when he opened his eyes again… he was facing him with swords in his party.

Ed came down from the ledge. After driving backwards to the Trix tube and reviewing the overall situation, he thought of going back to the underground waterway. He didn’t want to leave the scene until the very end.

As Ed came down the railing, Lucy jumped down as well, clenched her sleeves, and clapped after her.

When Ed asks what’s going on, Lucy shakes her head a couple of times and says let’s go together.

The two climbed the stairs and came down from the roof of the Trix building.

Taily’s sword cut the air on the rooftop of the magic tower.

The protection magic that was expressed before reaching Glast blocks the progress of the sword attack. With a bang, Taylor’s sword jumps out.

However, Ziggs, who followed up, threw a knuckle-clad fist into Glast’s path. It was a blow accompanied by enhanced wind magic. However, Professor Glast, who has seen even that, implements the high-aspect magic ‘time prison’.

Ziggs, who was suppressed as it is, is unable to move. Even Elvira and Adele are overpowered by the successive manifestations of time prison.

Taily was deflected with a sword-type, and Clevius was out of range in the first place, so he was safe. Still, more than half of the force was neutralized.

However, the fighting spirit does not disappear from Taylor’s glowing eyes. On the contrary, even the cowardly Clevius was inspired by those eyes and jumped into the battlefield with trembling hands.

Professor Glast evaded the two warriors’ sword strikes and constantly kept their distance. Then he starts taking out the magical engineering supplies one by one.

Ed reached the first floor of the Trix building and confirmed that the situation was almost settled.

Most of the confusion has been resolved, and the expressions of the students who are wandering around seem to have become more comfortable.

I cross the hallway on the first floor of the Trix building with Lucy who catches up with me by the sleeves of my clothes.

Demonic golem fragments are everywhere. Traces of Taylor’s battle.

Head Researcher Melverick, who fought him, is unconscious.

The student council president Beros, who tried to stop Taily from going wild alone, is resting in a corner. Taily must have been filled with rage because Ayla was kidnapped. Even Beros couldn’t stop Taily from doing that.

Beros shakes his head to Ed, who comforts him that his term of office is nearing its end, and that he is having a lot of trouble. He says he fully understands Taylor’s dogma, even though he only stopped him because of his position as the student body president.

Semester 2 is coming to an end soon. I will be busier during the vacation, and when the election for the next student president is over, I have to prepare for graduation soon. The student council president Beros said with a wry smile. What did he do during his term of office… In the end, he looked up at the night sky through the broken ceiling after recalling that he had only lived at the mercy of others.

Clevius’ sword strike hits Professor Glast’s shoulder with an effective blow. It wasn’t deep, but it was a meaningful wound. Professor Glast frowns at him and activates the ‘Shock Enhanced Wave Ball’.

Shocked, Clevius almost fell out of the magic tower, but Taily managed to catch him and pull him away. Clevius, whose legs were shaking in fear, couldn’t help but make a fuss.

Professor Glast, who managed to distance himself, covered up the scar on his shoulder. He forcibly tied up his bloody robes and chanted all kinds of basic elemental magic to keep the melee fighters in check.

For inexperienced students, it was magic that had to be used with concentration, but for Glast, a mature professor, it was easy enough to do multiple chants.

It is difficult to cope with only two melee fighters. But Taily bravely rushed through the elemental magic.

Ed and Lucy, who crossed the school building and headed toward the entrance to the underground waterway, met Lortel, who was coming from the living room.

When Ed asks how he managed to deal with Elte, the golden king, Lortel tells him that he has been confined in a guest room at the merchant branch.

Anyway, as time passes, Elte will lose all of his vested interests. As long as he manages not to get anywhere, there are no more problems. He’s already had all the initiative, so he won’t be able to use any tricks anymore.

He was once a father, and when I ask if losing him doesn’t make him feel complicated, Lortel shakes his head.

and then talk Even the pain of her loss is to her nothing but her deception.

Losing means that you have at least once obtained something valuable.

Lortel has never had an unreasonable relationship with a family member or close friend with whom he could sincerely relate.

Saying that even loss is the privilege of those who have had it after all, Lortel and Ed looked up at the magic tower side by side.

The light emitted by the magic tower was wrapped around the academic.

Glast, who used basic magic to keep Taily and Clevius in check, unleashed new Aspect magic.

Ominous magic in a dark red tone fills the rooftop of the magic tower.

High Aspect Magic ‘Time Acceleration’.

In an instant, the magic power flowing through Professor Glast’s body exploded, and his body movements became ridiculously fast.

The action itself is slow and sluggish, but the speed is strangely fast. It really felt like Professor Glast’s time was fast-forwarding.

Even the use of basic magic increases at an unbelievable speed, making it difficult to withstand, let alone break through.

However, after activating the sword ceremony, Taily’s hair is dyed pure white, and her eyes glow bright red.

The awakened Taily cuts through the basic magic and closes the distance.

Professor Glast is taken aback by Taylor’s movement, which begins to catch up to even the accelerated speed. He quickly pulls out the shock-enhancing wave sphere again and activates it, but Sword Saint Taily cuts even that wave.

In the end, Professor Glast, who gave the distance, cuts his side. His blood flowed and his anguish soared.

Professor Glast’s pupils shook greatly, and his magic reaction became noticeably unstable.

However, Professor Glast’s wind blade also landed an effective hit on Taily.

Taily falls out with a stab wound in the abdomen, but gets up again bleeding. Overcome her excruciating pain and confront Professor Glast again with only the noble determination to save Ayla.

In the end, a gap is created in the unstable Aspect Magic. In an instant, the weakened time prison is broken, and Elvira is released from the seal.

After quickly grasping the situation, Elvira starts throwing explosive reagents. Hope hangs over Taily’s party, where long-distance support has finally been created.

Professor Glast quickly began chanting the new Aspect Magic, ‘Small Time Reversal’.

Ed, Lucy, and Lortel walked side by side and reached the entrance to the underground waterway before they knew it.

I was thinking about going in and checking the inside of the underground water canal, but Dorothy, the third-year pension department chief, came up from the entrance. In no time, he came to his senses.

When Ed asks if he’s okay out of courtesy, Dorothy complains that her head hurts and she’s dizzy. Then, he realistically talks about the confrontation with Yenika, who was terrified.

Ed doesn’t say anything, so he just listens. Dorothy trembled and continued her story, but she suddenly looked up at the magic towers in the sky.

And then speak carefully. I don’t know what kind of plan Professor Glast is plotting, but at least to Dorothy, he’s a precious teacher who recognized him.

He always felt like he was looking somewhere far away, so he didn’t narrow the distance, but he said that if he were to choose the best teacher he had met in Sylvania, he would always choose Glast.

When Ed hears that, he understands why Dorothy was involved in this plan. Glast, whom everyone curses at for being nasty, has faithfully played her role as a gift to others.

Professor Glast’s wounds healed in an instant, and the dark red magic that covered the sky became more magnificent.

‘Small time reversal’ is a magic that rewinds the time of one’s own body and restores all wounds to what never existed.

Taily, Elvira, and Clevius widened their eyes at the manifestation of magical power with all their might. Due to the power of Aspect Magic, which ignores the law of cause and effect, Taily momentarily lost his fighting spirit.

But I couldn’t be discouraged here. As long as the life of Ayla, his lifelong companion, is held as collateral, Taily will never give up. In a life full of hardships and hardships, only Taylor herself knows how huge Ayla’s existence was.

The expressed assay expression enters the second stage. The instantly opened technologies are engraved in Taily’s mind.

However, Professor Glast is by no means an easy opponent.

Professor Glast’s Aspect Magic, which has been studied to the limit, overwhelms Taily and the others. High Aspect Magic ‘Nightmare Imprint’. Even with Taily’s sword ceremony, it couldn’t be cut.

After momentarily losing consciousness and falling into the swamp of nightmares, Taily and his friends face hundreds of deaths in hallucinations.

You repeat these visions over and over again until you are stabbed, cut, wounded and your mind is broken.

In terms of time, it was an instant, but it was an ordeal that would not be strange even if my heart was broken hundreds of times.

However, Taily, Clevius, and Elvira broke the hallucination in an instant and came out.

Unlike Clevius, who vomited, and Elvira, who gushed tears and snot, Taily gritted her teeth and ran towards Glast again.

However, with his weakened body, he could not break through Professor Glast’s defense. The lower spirits summoned by Professor Glast stood up all at once and poured elemental magic into Taily’s body.

Taily tries to break through dozens of sword attacks as much as possible, but in the end, Taily fails to reach the place where Professor Glast is and collapses in a state of disrepair.

As Professor Glast is about to deliver the final blow, an ice spear bursts through his abdomen.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Aspect magic was disrupted due to the battle with Taily, Ziggs broke through the time prison and came out.

He immediately finished assessing the situation and cast the lieutenant ice barrier magic ‘Ice Lance’ without delay.

It was rather crude compared to Lortel, who was well versed in freezing magic, but it was enough to quickly manifest itself and subdue Professor Glast.

Fresh blood splattered from Professor Glast’s mouth. It was fatal.

However, the time magic that manifested once again due to the fact that his lifespan was overpaid reversed Professor Glast’s wounds.

After I sent Dorothy to meet me, some time had already passed.

Ed and Lortel discussed it, but did not enter the underground canal. At first glance, the ground seems unstable due to a series of earthquakes, so it would not be strange if it collapsed at any time.

Ed felt sorry for the magical engineering supplies and manufacturing recipes he had left behind in the Soul Library, but he didn’t even risk his life to enter.

Just as I was thinking of watching everything come to an end here, Yenika came out from a corner of the forest.

It was Jenika who came after confirming that Elte’s mercenaries retreated without incident. It was later than I thought, perhaps stopping by somewhere in the middle.

When Ed asks where you’ve been, he says there’s something he really wants to check.

Then Yenika explains. These were the words Tarkan told Yenika after the occupation of the Ophelis Hall was over.

– ‘Come to think of it, I sensed some strange magic flow from the outskirts of the northern forest. I’ll have to check it out when I have time. ‘

– ‘Seeing that it becomes especially active at night, it seems to be a law school related to Aspect Magic. Merilda will specify the exact location.’

Since it was said to be Aspect Magic, he thought of it and wanted to check it himself. I wondered if it was one of the laws spread to build a magic tower, but not a single magic tower was implemented inside the northern forest.

If so, is it written for a different purpose? It seems that Jenika was too concerned about that.

So I wanted to check one more time. Yenica asks if she can go with her, and Ed nods in awe.

As I was about to set out on the road, I heard the rustling of forest grass behind the zelkova tree next to me.

Hee! sound is also heard.

When I looked to see who was hiding, I found assistant professor Claire Elfin sitting alone, hugging her knees.

Even though the wound has returned, it does not mean that you do not feel the pain.

The pain of being stabbed several times still lingers on Professor Glast’s mind.

Due to the forbidden magical power that has been raised to the limit, blood vessels appear in the eyes, and the already pale complexion is dyed whiter.

Enhanced Output Rake, Shock Enhanced Wave Orb, Call of Abyss, Combustion, Wind Blade, Scaring, Demonic Contagion, Time Acceleration, Basic Elemental Art, Short-range Space Movement, Reverse Gravity, Wind of Purification, Demonic Golem Summoning Art, Explosion, Unlocking Monsters , Space Freeze, Ash Reagent, Night Butterfly Reagent, Smoke Cloud Reagent, Steel Rock Reagent.

He dominates the battlefield by mobilizing all kinds of magic engineering supplies, elemental magic, summoning magic, space magic, interference magic, curse magic, and even alchemy reagents. The top of the magic tower is quite spacious, but I couldn’t stand in any place safely.

In an instant, Taylor’s group begins to be cornered.

Nevertheless, Taylor’s will is not broken.

At this point, you might be frustrated, but the two blazing eyes are always on my side and support Ayla. The willpower contained in her determination to save Ayla is enough to stick her tongue out with anyone.

The subjugation team, led by Taily, begins to pierce Professor Glast’s disturbing magic.

The melee fighters who narrowed the distance by bypassing, neutralizing, and sometimes parrying wounds on Professor Glast’s body little by little.

Dodge, open the distance again, block, but there is a limit. To begin with, Professor Glast is weak in close combat.

Fresh blood gushed from his shoulder again, a dagger brushed past his collarbone, and magic pierced his thigh.

Nevertheless, by overloading the forbidden mana to the limit, he rewinds his body’s time. No matter how many times he inflicted fatal wounds, Professor Glast never thought about collapsing.

It felt like they were punching a tall and strong wall with their bare fists, but Taily and the others didn’t give up or get frustrated.

Defeat is unacceptable. Do not give in to pain. Do not be discouraged by trials.

Truly a hero’s move.

After breaking the prison for the last remaining time, ‘romantic Adele’ joined the battlefield.

Assistant Professor Claire, who was surprised to see Yenica’s face and giggled, began apologizing over and over again, saying that she was wrong, perhaps because she was imprinted with fear.

Yenica, who was rather troubled by the reaction, sighed and bowed her head to apologize, but she still broke out in a cold sweat with an embarrassed face, as if she didn’t feel relieved.

When Ed asks what he was doing here, he replies that he ran away because the underground aqueduct looks dangerous.

Ed observed Claire’s face. In some places, the skin was floating, fuzzy, and the eyes were bloodshot. I was wondering if Yenika was so scared that she even cried… The tears were already pretty dry.

When asked if she was crying, assistant professor Claire was flustered and nodded with a smile, hahaha.

After escaping from the battlefield, Claire was weeping as she looked up at the soaring magic towers.

Before asking what was so sad about it, assistant professor Claire answered first.

It was a person who had been admitted to Sylvania the past year and had lived as Professor Glast’s disciple for a long time.

“Professor Glast is just someone who can’t help but hate it no matter who sees it. He’s clogged up, mean-spirited, looks like a skeleton, leaves everything to himself, he’s proud of himself, he’s self-righteous, he preaches harshly on those topics, and if he does something wrong, He knows nothing but reprimands… Anyway, he’s someone you can’t like even if you want to like him.”

She seemed to have some guesses about the whole story and Professor Glast’s words. She is a human with great intuition and good eyesight in useless places.

“But… at least… of all the people I met in Sylvania, he was… the most scholarly scholar.”

Sniffling, Assistant Professor Claire, like everyone else, looked up at the magic tower in the night sky.

Regardless of this or that, she had been with Professor Glast from his degree course to his first professorship… he was his disciple.

When Adele joins, the situation turns upside down little by little. With Adele’s special talent for purification magic and strengthening allies added, the frequency of Professor Glast’s distance increases noticeably.

Stabbed in the stomach, stabbed in the shoulder, and repeatedly mortally wounded, Professor Glast stands up again without batting an eye.

I don’t care about the teaching staff’s robes that have become covered in blood before I know it.

The wound is not easy even for Taylor. Even Taylor can’t rewind time.

His body was already covered in blood, but he raised his sword again. His head is also not in a normal state due to repeated mental magic attacks.

Still, the will does not break. He holds his legs firmly. At this point, their willpower is beyond human limits and is almost zombie-like. Innate willpower was the only blessing fate bestowed on Taylor.

Professor Glast blocks Clevius’ sword attack and bounces him off with wave magic. Taking advantage of that gap, Elvira’s basic magic hits Professor Glast’s abdomen, but he overcomes it with spirit and draws out the Aspect magic.

However, Ziggs’s wind magic was already attacking his back. Some were blocked, but the wounds could not be avoided. The area around his shoulder was pierced once again.

It shatters the smoke screen reagent and instantly blocks the view. However, Taylor’s sword strike creates a frenzy and instantly clears the sight.

He tries to blow away Taylor’s body, which has quickly approached, using magical engineering products, but suddenly the shock-enhancing wave sphere doesn’t work. Adele’s sabotage magic temporarily broke the magic circuit of the magical engineering items.

He tried to stop Taily’s movement by manifesting basic magic as it was, but his stomach was already pierced by Taily’s sword.

“Gagging.”

Fresh blood spewed out of his mouth again, staggering… Professor Glast manifested Aspect Magic.

However, the time of the body no longer goes back.

The flow of magical power overloaded to the limit did not allow him to perform any more miracles.

“Oh, hehe.”

Taily, who drew out her sword, struck once more.

Professor Glast couldn’t stop it.

Of course, I thought that the battle would continue after healing the wound, but this fatal wound never came back.

Full of blood, Professor Glast took a slow, staggering backward step.

“Ugh, heck.”

Taily and the others did not release their combat stance all at once. There was a possibility that he was acting, so he was ready to deliver an additional blow.

However, all the magic expressed by Professor Glast was canceled, and the spirits that constantly kept the rearguard in check were also reverse summoned and disappeared.

“Kuuuuuuuu…”

There was a sound like wind leaking through the boiling blood. Professor Glast kept stepping backwards like that, and was pushed out to the outer edge of the magic tower rooftop.

The wind in the sky tickles the bloody cheeks.

The top of the magic tower, where all the flow of magic power has been lost, begins to vibrate little by little. It was a sign of collapse.

In the end, Professor Glast… let out a self-deprecating laugh.

“Yes, you won.”

Gently close your eyes and open them.

The open starry sky seemed to embrace him, so he opened his arms and accepted it. The only thing he embraces is the cold night air, but the smile doesn’t stop because it doesn’t feel too bad.

What is this feeling… It’s just self-help.

In the end, there is only one thought. Exactly as expected.

“I miss you… Myuri…”

Is this a will? Or is it stupidity?

Drawing out the last remaining mana, he slowly relaxed his body.

Behind you is an endless cliff.

Glast’s body floated for a moment in the cold night air.