【100】99.
“This place is a mess too.”
Leo grumbled as he arrived at the fourth lake.
I searched for the lake where Luminous was sleeping, but all four times were in vain.
‘Is this the last lake at the castle ruins?’
Leo had already wasted several hours in the urban area.
And while wandering around the city area, I was cursed several times.
Leo was afflicted with various curses that would have caused him to have been eliminated immediately if he had been other students, but he was very fine.
‘It’s a curse that everyone knows.’
Leo chuckled as another curse was cast around him.
Leo had experienced a lot of curses in his past life, so he knew how to remove all kinds of curses.
The current curse was one that disturbed the nervous system.
‘There’s no need to solve this.’
A curse where when you move your left arm your right foot moves and when you move your right arm your left leg moves.
The nervous system curse is one of the most difficult curses, but Leo identified all disturbed nerves and moved accordingly.
‘Anyway, this kind of curse will be lifted over time.’
Even though his strength was weakened, his experience as a great hero did not disappear.
Leo responded to the curse leisurely and turned his head toward the castle ruins.
“Shall we go over there now? “The other guys must be having fun fighting, right?”
Most of the students had probably already left the city area and were engaging in a full-fledged department competition near the castle ruins.
“huh?”
I stopped walking and looked up at the sky.
Something caught my sharp senses.
‘A wide area curse?’
Leo narrowed his eyebrows.
It was a new curse.
‘If you look at the range, it’s the entire Nagrang?’
It was a very powerful curse of enormous scale.
‘It is the land itself that is cursed.’
I felt strange.
It has been a long time since Neigrang became a cursed land due to the influence of the Heroic Dungeon.
Bullying students is an existing curse.
‘But now it’s a new curse. Moreover, this curse… … .’
Leo’s face hardened after realizing the identity of the curse.
‘The curse of disconnection.’
It was a curse that Tartarus liked to use in large-scale battles.
The curse itself had no effect on people.
The effect is disconnection from the outside world.
In other words, it was a powerful barrier-type curse that isolated an entire specific area.
“shit!”
Leo, who was aware that there was a traitor within Lumern, immediately understood the current situation.
‘I have to join the others quickly!’
Leo raised his aura and kicked the floor.
Kwaang-!
Leo started running towards the castle wall, raising a huge amount of dust around him.
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Around that time.
The students in Wangseong also understood the seriousness of the situation.
A student who was eliminated during the departmental competition was not transferred to Lumern and suffered serious injuries.
A huge number of monsters gathered around the castle, and demons began to appear inside the castle.
“Wind Fang.”
Wow!
The wind’s awl cruelly pierced the Minotaur.
Screaming in pain, the Minotaur swung the battle ax at random.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah?
The Knight Department student who was nearby blocking the Minotaur screamed.
Abad saw this and chanted a spell.
“Windbreaker.”
Kwak-ga-ga-ga-gak! bang!
Crack-!
The Minotaur, swept away by the sharp wind, crashed into the wall of the building and died instantly.
Saaaaa!
“Thank you! Abad!”
The female student blushed and greeted Abad.
Abad, who had raised his hand to the female student, looked outside the castle walls with a serious face.
‘This is a completely abnormal situation. It’s to the point where we need to join forces and overcome each other rather than competing against each other.’
However, it was difficult to defend the walls like this.
Demonic beasts also appeared within the castle walls.
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‘The school is probably trying to resolve the situation by now… … ‘It is difficult to expect immediate help in a situation where there is no communication with the outside world.’
Abad’s head turned quickly.
‘It’s a situation where we don’t know how long we can endure, but our power is too dispersed.’
After thinking that far, Abad turned his head.
The interior of the ruined royal palace was visible.
The inner castle, which can be said to be the last bastion, has only one entrance.
It has the advantage of being able to concentrate its power, but on the other hand, it also has the disadvantage of not being able to escape because the entrance is the exit.
‘But in the current situation, there is nowhere to run.’
The moment you abandon your castle in this cursed land, it will be over.
‘Now is the time to concentrate our efforts.’
“Let’s all go to Naeseong.”
“what?”
“The power is distributed. “We have to gather in one place.”
“Ha, but Abad! Surviving in the inner city is the last resort.”
“That’s a story during a normal siege. And these are not normal circumstances.”
Abad raised his staff and fired a flare spell towards the castle.
Piing-! pop-!
A bright light burst above the inner castle.
“If this happens, the quick-witted kids will come to my room! Everyone retreat as calmly as possible!”
At Abad’s words, the students began to retreat to the inner room.
Abad stayed at the front line and fell back, helping the students retreat.
As Abad thought, he was not the only one who thought of heading to the inner city.
The leader-level students guarding each castle gate were also thinking that things could not go on like this as they saw the endless influx of monsters.
Starting from Abad’s signal, which was fired just in time, all the remaining students quickly started heading towards the inner room.
As soon as all the students entered, the students guarding the inner gate quickly blocked it.
Wow! thud!
“Wizards! “Reinforce the gate with magic!”
The castle gate was tightly sealed by magic.
“Form an air defense network! “There was a wyvern-shaped beast I had never seen before!”
“Chivalry students, please defend the castle walls!”
Although they were still boys and girls in their mid-teens, they quickly joined forces and started preparing for Mercury, as if to prove that they were all hero candidates.
Meanwhile, students gathered in front of the castle wall.
“what? “Where is Leo?”
When Celia asked with a puzzled face, Chen Xia said.
“If it was Master Leo, he went to the outskirts, not the center.”
“Why did you go there?”
Eliza clicked her tongue when Abad made a puzzled expression.
“You probably have your own thoughts. I don’t know what he’s thinking, but I don’t think he’s eliminated or anything. “He’s a person who runs away so easily that it’s obnoxious.”
Other students agreed with that statement.
“I’m still worried. “They say you have to break through that monster unit to join here.”
Chelsea spoke in response to Abad’s muttering.
“Don’t worry, brother. Leo will come back on his own.”
“That’s right, let’s think about Leo later and figure out the situation now. First, let’s share each other’s information.
As Celia spoke, the students shared the information they each knew.
After sharing the information, Jureden said, breaking into a cold sweat.
“In the end, you’re saying that you were stranded in the middle of Naig due to an abnormal situation, right? Moreover, we are being attacked by monsters and demonic beasts.”
The students around me swallowed their dry saliva.
At that time, a student from the Department of Engineers raised his hand and said.
“It may be an abnormal situation, but. “Couldn’t it simply be seen as an emergency prepared by the school?”
“It would be nice if it was like an event! However, the condition of the injured children is too serious to simply be considered an unexpected situation prepared by the school! Normally, those who are eliminated should be teleported to Rumern, but they are here!”
Carl, who had come to help the healers, shouted.
As an aspiring professional supporter, Carl has also worked hard to study first aid for the injured.
A female student from the Summoning Department spoke in response to Karl’s words.
“Couldn’t that also be a test of our ability to respond to unexpected situations? Actually, it was strange even before this department competition! Wouldn’t they order something like a battle royale? And on the same day, they suddenly say it’s a final exam.”
The students nodded in agreement with those words.
“Besides, a lot of outside guests came this time, right? So there is a high probability that it was a planned event.”
“Definitely, if you perform well here, you will make a lasting impression on those in power in many countries.”
Some students’ eyes sparkled at those words.
Karl shouted in frustration at that sight.
“you! “Did you see the injured kids?”
“I didn’t see it.”
“There are more than one child who would have died if it weren’t for Nella! No matter how much Rumern causes an incident without warning, it won’t go this far! “Think about it seriously!”
“I beg your pardon?”
The female student from the Summoning Department frowned.
“Now is not the time to fight! Whether it is a real situation or a situation intended by the school, it is serious! So, you have to think of it as a real situation and react accordingly! “Operation comes first.”
After hearing Celia’s words, Chloe raised her hand.
“First of all, it is best to defend by taking advantage of the walls as much as possible… … .”
“no. “I think now is the time to attack.”
Emio cut off Chloe’s words.
“If we all work together, we will be able to subdue the monsters and beasts gathered in the castle.”
“You should never attack hastily.”
Emio got upset when Chloe shook her head.
“why? Rather than just staying here and defending, you can end the situation faster by just wiping it out first, right? “What do you guys think?”
Several students agreed with Emio.
Duran saw that and laughed.
“If you give up the advantage of the wall without even knowing what the situation is, the professors will probably give you a good evaluation.”
“that’s right. “In the current situation, defense is the right choice rather than offense.”
Emio gritted his teeth when Celia agreed with Chloe’s opinion.
‘Are you siding with us because we’re in the same class?’
Emio glared at Chloe.
‘That guy who copies test assignments is better than me! A wizard who only studies is useless on the battlefield!’
There was a mocking story going around in the magic department that if Chloe had done things right, Emio wouldn’t have gotten third place.
So Emio did not view Chloe very favorably.
However, the majority of students were in favor of defense.
“First, we need to divide into teams and assign roles.”
Currently, there are 96 students in total capable of fighting, excluding the injured.
“I think we should be divided into five departments and be in charge of the gates and walls. What do you think?”
Everyone agreed with what Celia said.
“Then raise your hand, a student who has received conducting training since childhood.”
At those words, four people, including Celia, raised their hands.
All four were members of a famous hero family and had received formal command training.
“One person is empty. “Maybe someone will encourage it.”
“I will try.”
“I will do it.”
Chloe and Emio raised their hands at the same time.
“Put your hands down. Chloe.”
“Chloe has better skills.”
Emio snorted at Celia’s words.
“Chloe is from the Magic Tower. “Do you think I, who comes from a military family, am better suited to command than Chloe, who has been confined to the magic tower since she was young and studied only?”
“Then you take the initiative. Emio.”
Chloe smiled and gave in.
The reason I raised my hand was because there were no applicants, so I resigned.
Emio looked triumphant and Celia sighed.
Once the team leader was decided, we formed a group.
When Mercury preparations were completed, Celia made a request with her face.
“You guys take note. “Our goal is to hold out as long as possible, never to go outside the walls and attack monsters!”
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