How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 86

Come spring (4)

The first day of a snow storm.

The school vacation, when the academic calendar is empty, is slowly coming to an end.

It means that the days when I can spend an entire day for my own growth and training are coming to an end.

This week is now the last spurt.

After the semester begins, there is a limit to intensive training. That’s as far as making a contract with the lieutenant spirit in line with Yenika’s schedule, or studying in the spare time after returning home from school.

Physical training has practically become meaningless. I tend to focus on maintaining the status quo.

When I was at the peak of my stamina, after training for a few days, there was a hint that the related stats would go up, but there was little change in stats, as if this body was reaching its limit.

As Ed Rosteeler, who is not born with physical talent at all, it feels like he has trained to the limit of his body.

Even among ordinary men, he was raised to a level where he was quite physically trained. Even coming this far, it can really be called a great development.

Now, if you want to raise your specs more here, you have to invest time in specialized fields instead of just mindlessly repeating training.

Magic engineering and spiritism. Both of them feel a bit lacking.

Among the various skill groups that exist in Sylvania’s failing swordsman, these two are the combination that most appropriately complements each other’s weaknesses. However, just as there is nothing perfect in the world, it is only when something is added to this that I feel like I will be able to play my part even after graduation.

[ Details of life skills ]

Grade: Intermediate Artisan Specialty: Carpentry Skill Lv 15 Design Lv 11 Gathering Ability Lv 13 Carpentry Lv 15 Masonry Lv 8 Hunting Lv 14 Fishing Lv 12 Cooking Lv 7 Repair Lv 5 Advanced Crafting Skill Slot: Elemental Formula Injection Skill Skill Level: 23 Power Amplification Degree:4 Injection success rate:92

– Fire type elemental skill proficiency: 6

– Wind-type Spirit Ceremony Proficiency: 3 Contract Spirit: Lower Fire Spirit Mug Spirit Sensitivity: 12 Spirit Understanding: 12 Inherent Skills: Blessing of Fire? Sword: 3 Inherent Skills: Blessing of the Storm, Updraft Advanced Crafting Skill Slot: Magic Engineering Skill Proficiency: 4 Understanding Magic Engineering Items: 5 Quick Crafting: 3 Collected Crafting Formulas:

Weak Wind Radiator (Lv 1)

Hill Ring Noise Maker (Lv 1)

Sensing Automatic Horsepower Chessboard (Lv 1)

Greenhouse Crystal Orb (Lv 1)

Blue Magic Orb (Lv 1)

Rake (Lv 1)

Craigl Magic Ink (Lv 1)

Floodlight (Lv 1)

Onia’s Coward (Lv 1)

Telos’s Frosty Protection (Lv1)

Thunderstruck Millennial Wood Staff (Uncraftable!)

Glockt’s Eye (uncraftable!)

Del Heim Hourglass (Uncraftable!)

I climbed down the rope and jumped off when I got a little closer to the floor.

Then, after brushing the snow off his body, he looked at the fallen ceiling. A few snowflakes flutter down, but basically the hole is quite long, so the amount is not as large as expected.

The first thing that catches your eye is the pile of all sorts of materials for engineering supplies. These are the things I moved back and forth several times. I really thought I was going to run out of gin.

Besides that, the neatly organized appearance of the library is impressive. I checked it several times while moving the ingredients, but as expected, there are no gaps.

Since I gave Ziggs a few pennies and asked him to use magic to clean up some of the rubble, I didn’t expect him to organize all the books that were scattered around.

Even looking at the books that have meaningful categories and are nicely classified… No matter how you look at them, you can feel the touch of those who have experienced buying them.

It seems that the skill of Elka, Ziggs’s lover, is also included. She told me to keep the existence of the library a secret, but she couldn’t stand the threat and told Elka…

I bit my tongue a few times and stopped. He’s not the type to talk cheaply with others, but… The only person he shares the truth without hiding is Elka.

No matter how heavy his mouth is, he seems to be expressing that he can’t hide it from Elka.

Elka must have been bothered by that fact as well, so she dared to come down to this dark library to organize the books. I wonder if he paid too much for the punishment of knowing someone else’s secret.

It was not difficult to imagine Elka systematically sorting through the books, and Ziggs running around inserting them. Considering Ziggs’ personality, he must have thought of this as training.

In any case… it’s true that I owe you quite a bit. The amount of labor the two of them had to handle was overwhelmingly greater than the money they gave.

When school starts and they return to their bachelor’s degree, they will have to pay back in their own way.

“Hmm… Let’s start soon.”

They also piled up a lot of food. All materials are also put together. The library is neatly organized.

For a week, the environment was perfectly prepared to focus solely on the research of magic engineering.

A week is long if it is long, but it is too short a time to decide and train something.

If you could master it perfectly in a week, the field of engineering would not have needed to be subdivided like this.

However, if it’s an efficient growth, I’m already familiar with it.

The most important is repetition mastery training. No matter how obvious and simple a device looks, if you make it repeatedly, you will begin to see mechanical principles and magical flows that were not visible at first.

It is inefficient to read through hundreds of production formulas. The important thing is selection and concentration.

The key is to deeply penetrate the engineering knowledge in the field that I can create.

Wind emitter, noise generator, greenhouse crystal ball, blue magic orb, craigle magic ink, and even a floodlight, after raising the magic engineering skill over and over again like crazy… Once you get used to it, you’ll get rare items like Onia’s scare. creates

It’s only after I’ve built up my skills again and again, and trained to the point where I can’t stay awake because my eyes are bloodshot and I’m so tired… I’m going to challenge the last goal of this vacation.

[Glockt’s Eye (Legendary)]

Temporarily increase proficiency of all sensory abilities. Half the effectiveness of low-level magic. Cannot use defensive magic. Become immune to elemental magic

[ Delheim Hourglass (Legendary) ]

Returns the body to a few seconds ago and removes all damage and wounds. 1 time use.

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Gloct’s eye that allows you to gain extreme sensitivity at the cost of application and defense.

The Delheim Hourglass, which nullifies all damage even to death for one time only.

At the time of the 3rd act, they were legendary level magical engineering items that could not exist due to balance.

One of the two must be completed. If not, go with the mindset that you will die. If you think about the days when you studied while sleeping for only three hours a day in high school, you can endure this level of fever time as an evil.

Sitting on the workbench in the center of the library, I took a deep breath.

“Whoa… let’s go…”

After saying that, I realized.

No… I didn’t bring the tools from the cabin…

I even stored it in a pretty tool box to bring it to the library…!

It was a big thing that I couldn’t pay attention because I was too busy to prepare for the storm.

It was a bitter mistake.

It’s time for the body to suffer. I let out a deep sigh.

*

A sharp, biting blizzard swam between the conifers in the northern forest.

Clarisse’s fluttering hair looks as if it will blow away any moment.

Fighting through winds that were still tolerable, Clarisse made her way toward the river that cut through the northern woods.

‘holy magic’ and ‘holy magic’.

If holy magic is the nature of magic that is manifested through innate divine protection, then holy magic is divine magic that is manifested due to acquired faith.

Therefore, most of the cathedral knights and the magicians belonging to the saints were more likely to be good at holy magic rather than holy magic. This is because holy magic basically shows significant efficiency only for those who have been blessed by God.

It is for the same reason that Clarisse’s holy magic, which has monopolized the love of the god Telos, unleashes unbelievable physical power.

The blessing of the Holy Law clad in Clarisse’s body is a defense magic with an irrational structure that doubles back the damage inflicted by the target attacked with ‘enemy’, and from the outside, you can’t tell what happened…

It is said that it is an existence that cannot be dealt with at all unless there are some really special destruction methods.

So no matter what kind of wild animal you meet, even if it’s a stranger, Clarisse will never get hurt.

It is safe to say that even if there is a feeling of fear because of the momentum or energy, there are very few cases of being attacked and injured.

Nonetheless, Clarisse felt a distinct fear of Ed. It had its own reasons.

That’s because… it’s highly likely that Ed was baptized by the Church of Telos.

After the baptism of the head of the house, Krepin Roth Taylor, the tradition of receiving baptism by the Church of Telos was established for the heirs of the Roth Taylor family. Even so, it’s a tradition that only lasted two generations.

As Arwen Rosteiler passed away and Ed Rosteiler ascended to the throne… He must also have been baptized by the archbishop.

Tanya has not yet been baptized. This is because he has only been in the position of successor for a few months. However, there was a high probability that Ed Rosteilor was a baptized believer of the Church of Telos no matter what anyone said.

The protection of the Holy Law… has the property of not exerting its power against believers who are baptized by the church.

It is not to draw a sword against a brother who has received the same teaching.

If you are a believer enough to be baptized in the first place, you will never harbor any hostility towards the saintess.

However, there is a blind spot… Now she is attending school as Kylie Acne, not Saint Clarisse.

No matter how devout a believer in Telos you are, if you don’t know who you are, you can still raise the blade. That’s why I don’t want to reveal my identity.

No, in the first place, the blonde-haired fallen aristocrat may or may not know the identity of Clarisse. everything is questionable

“Awesome…!”

Tied up in tight clothes, Clarisse continued through the northern woods through the snowstorm. Know where the river flows by familiarizing yourself with the map in advance. Since it crosses the forest anyway, you will definitely meet it if you go all the way.

When the river appears, just walk upstream and that’s it.

The cold was bearable.

As soon as the maid confirmed Clarisse’s existence, she jumped out, so she should remain undetected for at least a few hours.

Take the gap… We need to relieve all the points about Ed Ross Taylor before spring comes and the new semester begins.

‘Really… it seems like an adventure…!’

At some point, the fear and suspense were greatly diluted, and a hot sense of triumph rose from within Clarisse’s body.

If you really just find Ed’s cabin like this… a baseless hope that everything will be solved springs up.

Clarisse looks timid, but by no means weak. Neither the holy magic he was born with nor the holy magic he learned postnatally was not inferior to most wizards.

And soon, when Ed’s cabin was looming over the snowstorm, like an explorer who had discovered an important highland… Clarisse took a deep breath.

It was the first time I had ever been so far alone, and the first time I had walked through a snow storm.

Is this what Adele said… the life of an adventurer full of colors? Clarisse reached the front of Ed’s camp, which was half buried in her snow… and took a deep breath.

Confidence soars.

I feel like I can do anything…!

Clarisse decided not to be frightened anymore, let out a deep breath, and opened the door to Ed’s cabin.

“Um…”

The sound of the wind blowing right next to my ear is replaced by a hum through a wall.

The wind noise heard indoors is more chilling than expected. It was obviously dark inside the cabin without any light sources, so I had to wait for my eyes to adjust to the darkness.

And, the first thing revealed in the darkness… was a boar corpse caught on a hook.

It was bigger than Clarisse.

“Uhhhhhh!”

Clarisse stepped backwards and landed on the floor… Covering her mouth with both hands, she turned her eyes away from the hanging corpse.

And slowly, the whole view of the cabin comes into view. Most of the supplies were in the cabin to prepare for the storm.

The cogs that are scattered here and there… If you look closely, it’s a pile of hunting traps.

To Clarisse, who had no knowledge of hunting, it seemed like something unknown…a sharp weapon.

And… Most of the hunting traps are terribly stained with dark red blood. Look here for blood, look there for blood. blood! blood! blood!

The bloodstains from moving the boar carcass were still there, and in one corner was a pile of snake skin and marten skin.

And if you look inside the cabin, you can see… a grooming knife still full of bloodstains… and hacksaws thicker than Clarisse’s white forearms, and several wild animal organs being dried out.

The head of a wild boar carcass is hanging on the table. I don’t know where else to use the simsan.

At this point Clarisse was already in tears. For a girl who had lived her whole life under the noble dew of the holy road, it was so stimulating that it looked like a road to hell.

– Boo-wook, Boo-wook.

the sound of stepping on snow.

Beyond the raging storm, someone was walking towards the cabin.

nothing more to see The only person to appear in a place like this at a time like this… is the owner of this cabin.

Clarice tried to find a place to hide, but her legs gave out and she collapsed back down. He manages to force himself into the right corner of his cabin by forcing his arms, but it was a poor cover-up to anyone’s eyes.

Clarisse climbed under the workbench and prayed towards Telos, hiding in the faint darkness.

– Quaang!

– Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Soon, the door opened as if it were breaking, and the distant sound of the draft hit my ears again.

Ed came in through the snow and slammed an object on his shoulder to the floor.

It was a lump of luggage that fell down like a duck… Looking closely, it was a frozen baby elk.

It was luck for Ed. I had no idea that Oda would make such a windfall.

However, when Clarisse’s eyes met the corpse of an elk rolling on the floor… she couldn’t even utter a faint scream.

It wasn’t that I didn’t keep my voice out for fear of being discovered, I didn’t even have time to scream. Only the empty breath that was swallowed without meaning was the only thing that represented her heart.

“Huuk…”

cold weather.

Ed’s breath forms on Ed’s mouth, who is wearing a lot of clothes. To Clarisse, it looked like the breath of a beast. Ed had the illusion that an invisible light was coming into Ed’s eyes, and he was driven to the point of fainting.

Still, the last remaining reason covered her mouth tightly with both hands, so that no sound leaked out.

Ed has now entered the dark. Unlike Clarice, her eyesight did not get used to the darkness.

Ed, however, familiar with the rough layout, stumbled inside the cabin.

Ed, dodging things here and there, reached for a wooden box… and took out items one by one as if checking something.

Tweezers, needles, awls, skewers… Little by little things get bigger and your eyes get used to the darkness… Soon even hammers and knives pop out.

And finally, as he raised the huge hacksaw in his hand, the moonlight gently illuminated Clarisse’s eyes.

“Euhie!”

I finally made a sound. Clarisse closed his mouth with both of his hands… and went into a half-mad state.

“…”

In an instant, Ed’s head went back and made eye contact with Clarisse in the dark.

My heart stopped once and then started beating.

As if intending to work as much as he had stopped, he thumped and started screaming frantically in Clarisse’s ears.

“Huh… Kylie Acne?”

The whole body is shaking like crazy. Thoughts cease, the tear ducts exude moisture at will, and the heart labors unnecessarily.

“What, what? Why are you here? Why are you shaking so much…”

“Hehehhhhhhhhhhh!”

– Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

s*xual law, ‘divination of divine power’.

That skill, which had a superiority against almost all magic to the point of ignoring even the protection of the storm that Ed was wearing, was directly inserted into Ed’s stomach.

-Kwagagagagang!

– Kaang! Caang! Clink!

In an unexpected surprise, Ed was knocked out and pinned to the wall. Just like that, the cabinet fell over, and all kinds of junk hanging on the wall poured down on Ed.

rising dust.

and static.

After the dust settles, the sight you see is… Ed lying down with a drop of blood dripping from his head.

Anyway, this was a perfect surprise. Even for Ed, who is quick and quick in everything, it was too much to ask him to deal with this.

“Uh, heck… I… I didn’t know…! Go…Suddenly…! I was trying to do this…”

silence for a while.

Clarisse stood up, shaking her body, and saw Ed lying on the ground, bleeding.

Ed, who took all the rubbish out of his body, seemed unconscious to Chuck.

No, not at the level of losing consciousness…

-Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The winter wind continues to blow.

The cold air cooled my head little by little, and finally the reason that had left the house returned.

“me…”

Clarisse finally faced reality.

“I killed someone…!”

Ed’s cold body was motionless. Clarice felt a different kind of goosebumps run through her body.

“Te… Telos… I… I have committed a sin…”

With shaking hands, Clarice put her hands together and knelt down. He kept touching his hands with his face of not knowing what to do, and his whole body was trembling.

“I… have to pay the price for this sin… how… I have to live a clean life like pure white… I… have been stained with such a great sin… with an indelible sin… I… .Being so defiled… I… I… I must burn in Hell… I must pay for this sin…”

Confession… Clarisse trembled and shed tears. That moment when you fall into a half-panic state.

“hey.”

-chin.

hand on the shoulder.

Looking back in amazement, Ed’s face, covered in blood and exhaling, was covered with demonic spirit.

“Now… are you kidding me?”

“Hie eh-ek”

…Clarice couldn’t even scream.

I couldn’t even react like this… I collapsed unconscious with the look of the screaming expression.

“…”

A snow storm that threatens to cover everything in the world.

Edman was standing alone in the cabin in the crack, looking down at the fallen Clarisse.

The expression… wasn’t very good.

*

“Chief Maid.”

“I heard the report. Keep calm and build a countermeasure.”

Clarisse was wrong.

Since the maid came out as soon as she checked Clarisse’s condition, you might have thought that she wouldn’t notice even if she was away for at least a few hours… But the maids in Ophelis Hall aren’t that soft.

It took only 15 minutes to notice Clarisse’s absence.

On the top floor of the Ophelis Building, the maids on duty who are taking turns watching all directions discover the student’s figure disappearing over the snowstorm.

It only took 10 minutes to quickly check the number of people in the entire main building.

And it took only 5 minutes to establish that the person whose whereabouts were unknown was Kylie.

“I don’t know why he disappeared, but… I’ll have to report it to the bachelor’s office and then start the search…”

“Shall we send the maids on duty first, head maid?”

“Letting out the maids is something to be considered carefully. The number of manpower to manage the inside of the mansion is decreasing. Now, we need to move the manpower as efficiently as possible. Especially… Don’t leave out a single manpower to watch Lady Lucy. If you do, you may do more harm than good.”

“Yes, four… Then how about Miss Kylie…?”

It was an unexpected situation, but Bell was not taken aback. Rather, he calmly considered his countermeasures.

The chief maid of Ophelis Hall.

He is one of the insiders of the bachelor who knows Kylie’s true identity. In other words, Belle had been told beforehand that Kylie was Clarice. Because she should be aware of that fact, at least as much as the head of the dormitory.

I don’t know why he ran out through this snow storm or where he was headed. If you can figure out the motive, you should be able to infer the destination.

As a rule, Kylie alone shouldn’t damage the mansion’s defense system. There is no guarantee that Kylie can be found even if the maids are immediately sent out to search. Rather, it is more likely that it will not be found in this kind of weather.

It is something to be searched for carefully, slowly and closely cooperating with the bachelor.

However… the fact that is not revealed on the surface… If you think about Kylie’s real identity… It is really a situation where you have to mobilize all the manpower of the mansion as well as all the students to find it.

If the saintess went missing, it would be a major event that would turn the country upside down.

However, if you think about it in another way… Isn’t it a saintess wearing a lot of blessings of the Holy Law? Rather, she sighed in relief that she was safe compared to the other students.

At least, it is safe to say that there is absolutely no case of encountering and killing wild animals. It is a story that you will not face a life crisis right away.

After much thought, Bell came to the conclusion that she had to go out to find it herself. If you leave the commanding role to the senior maid for a while, you will have time to deal with urgent matters right away.

Even in such an unexpected situation, she did not lose her composure… The maids who were watching Bell became calm.

As expected, he was like the head maid of Ophelis Hall.

“The report of the maids on duty has been updated, head maid!

And the news that follows.

No one can go outside in this weather.

However… there is only one man who is fighting head-on against Mother Nature’s brutal snowstorm. Now, the North Forest is that man’s domain.

“… I can’t believe it… it’s not…”

Bell started breaking out in a cold sweat.

The man who sets up camp in the northern forest.

pouring snow storm. Distress. A man and a woman who are left alone. Asking for help. Waiting for rescue, the two have to lean on each other in extreme situations.

And a really strange, bizarrely overdressed man.

A map of tangled relationships centered on the man in the northern forest quickly rises in my head.

The procession of arrows going back and forth between all the figures is so complex that it is difficult to see at a glance.

Thinking of adding a new face to it, and even thinking about the identity of that person, made me sweat profusely all over my body.

Bell suddenly began to raise her voice.

“We must find it…! As soon as possible…! More… before it’s too late…! We must…!”

It was a really urgent voice for Bell, who was always serious. Bell knows that Kylie won’t die, at least not by murder, but the tone of urgency doesn’t go away nonetheless.

Thanks to that, the maids who were standing around were able to clearly recognize the seriousness of the situation.

maybe…