How to Survive at the Academy Chapter 96

Student president election (9)

walk the road

For some reason, the shape of the walking path is different for each person. There is no fair law in the world.

Someone’s road is peaceful and flat, and it looks like a trail in the forest that is good for outings.

The fragrant scent of flowers flows from the daffodils on the side of the road, we exchange greetings with the occasional squirrel or elk passing by, and we hum along to the chirping of birds… Suddenly, our feet kick a stone that has risen by the side of the road.

Then he would clasp his tingling toes and talk in a timid way. There were trials in my life too. It was hard, but I got through it. Because I overcame it, I succeeded.

So, what was the future of Clevius with his head up?

The streets that smell of blood and the smell of rotting corpses are full of hungry wolves. There are no flowers on the roadside, only a stinking gutter flows. The sun had long since disappeared as well, buried in dark clouds, and only the thick darkness was thick on the stretched road. It is like everyday life that a stone beak is stung on one’s feet, so when you take off your shoes, only calluses are full.

It seems self-evident that, after sprinting for 100 days, he will die miserably on the street before reaching the end. That’s why the boy doesn’t even run in the first place.

At one time… there was definitely a time when I tried to run with all my might. Most of it was a history dotted with failures.

“Huh…”

Clevius, who was blocking the road in the pouring rain, first acted——stabbed himself in the shoulder.

– Pooh!

– Pushuk!

A new stream of blood flows through the already bloody body. Grinding his teeth and enduring the pain for a while, before long, the red eyes of Clevius, who staggered to his feet, were revealed through the glued bangs.

Elvira swallowed a dry saliva at the sight that was creepy. The Nortondale family considered it taboo and never passed it on to anyone, ‘blood swordsmanship’. Clevius, who was born with the fate of a sword demon, learned it on his own without being taught by anyone.

It looks like a living corpse with the waist bent and the whole body relaxed and stretched. The blood that surrounds the whole body reconciles with magical power and adheres to the black surface.

Only the result of kicking the ground remained. Clevius’ figure had already disappeared, and only the marble floor, which had been completely lifted by the strong impact, was revealing its shape.

It is time to put aside the moral precepts of forbidding killing. If you don’t attack with the intention of killing, you won’t even become an opponent.

The sword Clevias held that protruded like a spring had already cut Lucy’s throat.

– Caang!

Of course, Carl didn’t advance all the way.

The knife that touched Lucy’s nape did not even move, as if it were blocked by a huge iron wall.

‘Basic’ defense magic.

The name of the foundation is colorless, and when Lucy’s magic touches it, it has the same firmness as a huge iron wall.

Just like that, Lucy waved her arms. I hit Clevius with an attitude as if I was removing a troublesome flying insect, and his whole body flew away again.

Clevius, who had been hit in the corner of the pavilion in the rose garden, kicked off the ground and leaped again before the shock had subsided.

Clevius’ ghastly eyes catch Lucy’s magical powers accurately. Lucy’s combat method, which crushes the enemy with an overwhelming amount of magic power, is simple itself. As long as the pattern is familiar, Clevius, who uses agility that transcends cognition, can evade it.

However, Lucy’s magic patterns are so diverse that it is impossible to follow each one. He’s just not bothered to speak.

Ed’s memento floating in the air, a large recurve bow. Dozens of magic arrows imprinted with all kinds of middle-level and high-ranking magic were loaded.

After catching the direction of his magic power, Clevius bent his body with a speed unthinkable for a human being… but was struck directly by dozens of arrows imprinted with the fire magic ‘flame pillar’.

– Kwaaaaaang!

– Roaring!

Dozens of pillars of fire rose to a gigantic size. As if the rainy weather hadn’t been the case, the magnificent pillar of fire engulfed Clevius in an instant.

“Cheer, heck..!”

If he had been hit directly, he would have been fatally wounded, but luckily he rolled his body and escaped to the outskirts of the rose garden before the magic manifested. Clevius gritted his teeth and pulled out the magic arrows stuck in his left shoulder and thigh.

The drawn magic arrows were scattered into the air. However, the scars definitely remain. Clevius’ body was covered with blood from fresh wounds.

However, blood swordsmanship is a taboo among taboos that uses even the blood that flows from one’s own body as a new source of magical power.

As the wounds were patched up and covered in blood, the size of the magical power that wrapped around the sword and body grew larger.

However, even if he reached the brink of death, compared to Lucy’s magic power, he wouldn’t even be able to reach his toes.

The overwhelming difference in power would be the same even if blood swordsmanship was pushed to the limit.

– Whiik.

Lucy raises a small hand and looks up. outstretched palms. It is so dwarfed and small that it looks like it will break at any moment.

However, what is broken will become the nape of the necks of those who are unwary in front of the girl.

Just by clasping her hand once, the magic power that covered the area gathers in one point.

– Quaang!!

Lieutenant fire magic one point explosion.

Clevius, who had taken a direct hit, fell out coughing up blood. On top of that, the high-level lightning magic ‘Demon Punishment’ strikes.

– Kwakwang! Kwagwagagagak!

No more, no less, just the thunderbolt itself. However, if there is a difference, it is that Lucy’s magical power, which boasts a magnificent amount, dwells in it.

Magical lightning that neutralized even the shell of Tarkan, a high-ranking fire spirit. Clevius, who finally came to his senses, took a defensive stance, but the attack was not at a level that could be defended in the first place. He was able to shed it to some extent, but even with that alone, the accumulated damage to his body had already exceeded the limit.

To deal with it even while using proper magic. It was the greatest respect Lucy could show her opponent.

For Lucy Meiril, most of the students are opponents who don’t even need to use elemental magic while properly measuring magic efficiency.

Most of them die instantly without being able to cope with the high-level magic that Lucy uses. But Lucy had a hunch. Opponents never die.

Through the rising smoke, Clevius jumped up again. He doesn’t pay attention to the ragged rags of the school uniform, or the body that has become so dead that it’s quicker to find a place that is virtually unscathed.

I couldn’t follow Clevius’ movements with my eyes. I can only guess his location by looking at the fragments of the floor or wall he sprinted through.

– Kaang!!

When Lucy, who had pinpointed his location, turned around and stretched out her hand, the sword had already touched the tip.

However, a huge defensive magic circle was blocking Lucy and Clevius.

-Kigigeek, kigiggeek!

A trembling sword blade.

Clevius’ body had already reached its limit.

Pressing down on the defenders with his sword, Clevius clenched his teeth and pushed his strength. With the sound of grinding teeth, the barrier began to crack.

The face of the Sword Demon seen through the gradually cracking defenses.

The face already has a larger area covered with dark red blood than the color of the skin. Blood mixed with rainwater runs down his temples and between his eyebrows as well.

Even the eyes burning with the will to fight are endlessly red, as if something was wrong with the battered body.

– Caang!

Just like that, Lucy’s defensive magic circle was destroyed. It was a sight that was hard to believe. Even if Lucy’s defensive magic circle was made in an instant, it can block even high-level magic.

– Pan! Pasasac!

Perhaps as a price, the blade of the sword Clevias was holding was also cut in half. However, even with a half-remaining blade, its sharpness is still alive.

– Grasp!

Unbelievable level of chanting speed. Lieutenant’s ice magic ‘Ice Spear’ pierces the stomach, but Clevius clenches his teeth and screams and doesn’t change his posture.

Just like that, the broken blade of the sword stuck between Lucy’s forehead.

– Caang!

Of course, you can’t dig into that skin. This is because, apart from the defense magic circle, Lucy’s body surface is surrounded by ‘basic defense magic’.

On top of that, the ‘Blessing of the Storm’ is also manifested once in a certain period of time, so it is impossible to pierce it alone.

“Really, what the hell…!!! You freak…!!”

– Hui Ik

As it was, Clevius, who had been knocked out by the shock of God’s protection, got up again. A nearby ‘time prison’ student picks up a dropped sword.

The black blade that was pulled out is alive. The original hanjaru is broken and cut in half, but I hold it in my left hand in reverse and use it for defense.

A warrior with a sword worth one and a half burrows into the range again. Even though the wounds increased that much, I don’t think the speed will decrease.

Drops of my blood spurted everywhere I moved. The bleeding was accelerating more and more, and even looking at the body, it is not enough to say that it is covered in blood. It is surprising that there is so much blood in a human body.

Everyone who deals with Lucy is the same.

When I close my eyes, the image that comes to mind is a huge mountain.

What is the feeling of a person holding a sword and facing the towering Mount Taesan… like this?

Like that, he was struck by four feet of magic bullets and the lieutenant’s wind magic and fell out, but he got up like a zombie in the thick dust.

A blood-mad berserker without the concept of death itself. At this rate, he should have known that there was no chance of winning if he faced more, but he wasn’t standing up again because he didn’t know that.

Memories of the day I stabbed my brother come back to my mind.

Even though all members of the family regarded Clevius as a ghost and treated him condescendingly, he was the one who acknowledged and affirmed him until the very end.

In a fit of blood, he hacked his older brother, and when he came to his senses, he had already driven a knife through his stomach.

The will left by his older brother, who gritted his teeth to endure the intense pain and grabbed the hand of the boy who barely came to his senses… was still imprinted in his memory.

– ‘It’s fortunate, this time you killed me, not someone else.’

How absurd it was to say that it was a will that she left at the end while shedding blood.

– ‘At least I can forgive you.’

– ‘So… don’t feel guilty.’

The best swordsman rumored to bring about the second heyday of the Nortondale family died in vain. Even the will was just that one word.

Rain hits the world fairly.

A gloomy sky looks the same no matter where you look up in the world.

Like the battle in the rose garden, the gloomy scene of raindrops was the same everywhere on the island of Aken.

For example, it is the same in the luxurious and grand windows of the imperial residence.

Claire, who has heard about the Ophelis Hall from the Academic Headquarters, is delivering the news to Princess Penia. Princess Fenia, who was sitting by her window and looking up at her raindrops, heard Claire’s report and changed her expression.

── Clevius, who stood up in the thick smoke, leaped while screaming again. He gathers the remaining blood sword magic and breaks down Lucy’s defense, but it doesn’t mean much.

Lucy’s reflexes are also out of the ordinary. Leaning lightly with his hat pressed down, Lucy left the wind blade as it was and drove his foot into Clevius’ body. New bloodlines scatter in the air.

It was raining evenly in the professor dong. Even the occasional thunderbolt strikes people by surprise. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time.

Assistant Professor Claire, who was sitting in the undergraduate dormitory, narrowed her eyes when she heard what had happened at the Ophelis Hall.

Professor Flavin had been out to the northern cliffs for an investigation. Looking at the drizzling rain outside the window, Assistant Professor Claire pondered for a moment. Outside the window, spray was rising from the fountain in the student plaza in Gyohang-dong.

——Clevius rolled on the floor a few times while creating splashes, then stood up again. He lowered his stance with his arms crossed while holding the two swords, and delivered a sword strike so fast that he could not even see it.

A huge roar that didn’t look like a shock made by a sword rang out once, and fragments of the marble floor bounced around Lucy. An advanced skill among the magic swordsmanship unique to the Nortondale family. It was a herbivore that caused an impact close to an explosion. Naturally, Lucy takes no damage.

Even the windows in the hallway of the Ophelis Hall are pounding with the rain. The procession of raindrops pushing as if trying to open the luxurious window frame is impressive.

Having completely subdued Wade, Ziggs hurried out through the hallway with Tanya. There were few people in the corridors of the Ophelis Hall, and even silence prevailed.

If only Tanya was somehow taken out of the Ophelis House, she could somehow prevent things from escalating further than this. Thinking so, Ziggs hurriedly ran with Tanya toward the hallway toward his back door.

However, at the end of the hallway where the rain hits the window, I see a girl standing still.

I was wondering if there were any students who hadn’t evacuated yet, so I checked their faces and they were familiar. She is also a student belonging to the Ophelis Hall.

Lortel Kecheln.

The young merchant was standing alone at the end of the corridor without even evacuating.

──Clevius’ attack did not end. Once again, it goes out at a speed that exceeds the human category, and runs wild, kicking the huge marble fragments that have floated around Lucy. The moment Lucy caught up with her, this time she gathered all the magic of blood swordsmanship and struck a blow.

Two of Lucy’s ice spears fly into her shoulder and pierce her. He almost fell out, but with his teeth clenched, he hit Lucy’s defense magic circle again with one half of his sword.

– Kaga River!

Lucy’s defense magic circle is shattered again by the shock beyond imagination.

And, this time it’s more than that.

I wonder if God was impressed by the effort of not being afraid of wounds and risking his life to constantly hit the defense magic that surrounds Lucy’s body surface.

– Kaang! Kaga River!

The sword in his right hand, which was fine, was shattered, and in just a moment, he succeeded in penetrating all of Lucy’s defensive magic systems.

It wasn’t even the defense magic that Lucy put so much effort into in the first place. With Lucy’s ability to sense magical powers, it only takes a fraction of a second to rebuild the entire defense system.

Is that… 1/100th of a second in terms of time? Or is it less?

However, for the Sword Demon, who lived in the same fleeting moment, it was enough time to push the blade.

There is no proper weapon. One was completely shattered, and the other was cut in half.

However, no matter how rare the opponent is, a genius archmage… His physical ability is only that of a girl of that age.

Even if it was imperfect, if only one sword strike went in properly, it would be a fatal blow.

– Woe!

“……It’s big… Black…!”

Lucy’s pupils trembled. The moment of time ends.

After staggering back a few steps, he grabs his shoulder tightly.

From the right shoulder of that small body to the center of the chest.

The gap in the red blood, which had spread out thinly, soon widened little by little, and the blood that flowed out began to wet Lucy’s clothes.

…Unfortunately, there was no such appearance.

It was a very slight difference, but it was because Lucy’s defense was faster.

*

– Paang!!

Even the last remaining sword was shattered. Clevius was hit by Lucy’s reflexive magic bullet and fell out.

“Kee… Huh… X-arm…! Seriously… You freak…!”

Clevius, battered and pinned in the center of the rose garden… bloodied, clenched his teeth to somehow strengthen his legs.

However, his physical condition had already reached its limit from before. The bridge no longer listened.

Lucy… was groping her shoulder for a moment, surprised.

It was a fleeting moment, but the possibility that could have happened flickered before my eyes like an illusion.

In an instant, I almost got cut.

The speed of Clevius, who risked his life and performed blood swordsmanship to the limit, exceeded Lucy’s magic reaction speed, even though it was very brief.

Of course… you can’t win a duel just by gaining a ‘very brief’ speed advantage. All other factors are at a loss. It’s not even a variable that overturns the gap in that overwhelming ability.

However, the swordsman who took even his life as collateral felt a demonic spirit that could not be measured by skill alone. The blood-obsessed berserkers… Even if sometimes there comes a time to deal with those who are ahead of their abilities, there are those who can sever their necks with just one demonic tenacity.

It was just that the gap between Lucy and Clevius was not something that could be resolved with such a theory of mind.

It was really just a moment, but I could really die.

The bloody feeling of walking on the edge of a knife… Lucy, who has lived her entire life as a strong person, can hardly get used to it.

Lucy quickly calmed down her trembling pupils and looked down at Clevius again.

“Giyi… Profit…! Cee….. Parl…!!!”

Clevius tried to raise his body, which no longer obeyed, by any means, but he had to struggle with only one arm to support it.

In the end, Lucy, who didn’t have a scratch on her body, trudged along. After he was completely naked, he looked down at Clevias, who had fallen out, and gathered mana into his hand.

Clevius relaxed his body as it was.

I knew it would end like this in the end. I don’t even understand why he kept his teeth clenched to such an extent that he wanted to enjoy a rich and prestigious movie.

Clevius put everything down and gently closed his eyes.

The end that I met after surviving so ugly was just like this. Ugly and stupid to the end

With that thought in mind, he had to come this far… to finally be able to let go of everything…

– Woe! Pak!

At that time, it was an arrow that flew in and stuck.

Arrows made of magical power… create a huge puddle of water in an instant. The middle-ranking water spirit protruding from inside, the ferocious beast ‘Lacia the Lioness’ blocks the gap between Clevius and Lucy.

Just looking at the middle rank water spirits gurgling and spitting out sounds is bloody.

In an incomprehensible situation, Clevius and Elvira, who was barely conscious in the corner, looked in the direction the arrow had come from.

At the entrance of the rose garden in the rain, there stood a man holding a bow similar to the recurve bow Lucy was holding.

He is wearing a robe that is far too large in size. The robe was so worn and worn that the hem was split in a zigzag.

It looked like a ghost who had died and came back to life, so everyone had no choice but to swallow dry saliva.