702.
Swaaaaaaaaa-
It rained cats and dogs.
“Why is it raining?”
The sword looked up at the sky and clicked its tongue.
Although it was a sudden rain, the second and third graders took out their raincoats and put them on as if they were used to it.
“Why is it raining!”
“Eww! My socks are all wet!”
But, among the first-year students, there was an outpouring of criticism.
Students who enter Lumerne are born with outstanding talents in their respective fields from an early age.
That is why in most cases, they are raised with great care and respect, like gold and jade, in each country and family.
Even students with outstanding skills and practical experience in monster subjugation rarely experience such a constantly changing field situation before entering school.
That’s why it’s an annual event for freshmen to vent their grievances in these situations.
Especially since it was a mountain, the ground was becoming muddy.
“Everyone calm down.”
Luke stepped forward and calmed his juniors down.
“But! Senior Luke! The uniform is all dirty!”
The first-year female students in the Knights’ Department whined to Luke.
Juan stood next to Luke and linked his arms.
“This kind of thing happens a lot in Lumeren. Don’t act up!”
The first-year students flinched at Joo-en’s words.
Looking at that sight, Iliana burst into laughter.
“The second-year students who cried when I first went out to the field last year are now talking to me as seniors?”
“What are you going to say on the first day of the practical training when it was raining and you were scolded by Professor Harlind?”
“Hey! Carl! That’s it!”
“What happened?”
Carl chuckled as Chloe tilted her head.
“It started to rain during our first-year combat science class. As soon as I saw that, Illyana ran to Professor Harlind and suggested that we change the class to indoors.”
At those words, Chloe looked at Illyana with a dumbfounded expression.
“When Professor Harlind asked why, the answer was a masterpiece!”
“Do not do it Do not do it!”
Illyana covered Carl’s mouth with her face reddened.
Chloe, who had been listening to the story with interest, glanced at Leo.
Then Leo answered as if it was nothing.
“I bought new shoes, so I told you not to get them dirty.”
“Class monitor!”
Illyana glared at Leo as if she was resentful, and Chloe burst out laughing.
“If it’s like Illyana, then it’s like Illyana.”
While Illyana, who was in a state of pain, continued to poke Leo with her finger.
The knife approached the first-year students.
“Well, as a senior, should I do you a favor? Hey, first years. Line up. I’ll be handing out the friendship gifts from now on.”
At those words, the first-year students quickly stood in front of the sword.
“Do you see the raincoats they’re wearing? They’re the same ones.”
Carl pointed his hand at Leo and Chloe.
In fact, besides Leo and Chloe, nearly half of the second and third year students were wearing the same raincoat.
The suit had a logo of a summoning circle engraved on it, with a sword missing from the alchemy cauldron.
It’s an object made of a knife.
“I’ll lend it to you. Do you have to return it later?”
“thank you!”
The first graders received their raincoats one by one.
“Wow! This is so comfortable!”
“Don’t you feel like getting wet?”
“As expected, you are the one preparing to start! Be thoroughly prepared!”
The first graders moved around in awe.
“Why are you lending it to me for free?”
“Huh. It’s some kind of promotional event.”
Leo replied to Carl’s words as if they were nothing special.
“Promotional event?”
“This is pretty expensive. If you ask them to buy it, do you think they’ll buy it? They have to experience its performance like this before they say, “Ah~” and buy it.”
“That’s thorough.”
“Heh. Do you think I worked my bones off for two years for nothing? With the money I earned in those two years, I even bought a building in Lumeria City.”
“A student’s duty is to study.”
Chloe opened her eyes slightly, her arms crossed, and Carl snapped his fingers.
“Business is also a study of life.”
“Anyway, you speak well.”
Karl raised his thumb as he looked at Chloe, who was shaking her head.
Leo gathered the participating students after confirming that the first-year students were also wearing raincoats.
“The subjugation of the orc colony will be divided into three groups. Group 1 first.”
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Leo glanced at the knife.
“The leader is Carl. The members of the group are first and second year students.”
“First and second graders. Gather in front of me.”
The first and second graders quickly lined up in front of the sword.
“The leader of Group 2 is Hillui.”
The third-year female student in the Summoning Department nodded.
After that, Leo called out the names of the third-year students in Group 2.
“Group 3 is me and Chloe.”
“Class president, me?”
“Iliana, stay here and control the first-years.”
“yea, I got it.”
As soon as the presentations were over, the first-year students began to chatter.
“Are Senior Leo and Senior Chloe the only ones moving around?”
“Even if they are orcs, if a colony has formed, their numbers must be enormous.”
“Are you okay?”
One of the first-years cautiously approached Iliana and spoke to her.
“Um… Senior Iliana. It seems like we don’t have enough personnel for the expedition. How about suggesting to the student council president that we recruit some from the first years?”
“Not enough people? That can’t be.”
Iliana shook her head.
“If we’re talking about people, there are more than enough.”
“Yes? But Group 3 only has the student council president and senior Chloe, right?”
Iliana smiled softly as she watched the flustered first-year students.
“As a senior, let me give you one piece of advice. If you plan on continuing to visit Lumerin in the future, you should quickly forget the common sense you used to think of.”
“yes?”
“People who constantly challenge their limits tend to easily surpass the common sense of ordinary people. Especially.”
Illyana glanced at Chloe.
“Chloe is special among them all. She’s so much so that it wouldn’t be strange to call her a monster. In fact, she could blow away a colony of orcs all by herself.”
The first-years held their breath at Iliana’s words.
I wondered if it was a joke, but Illyana’s face showed no sign of it.
“Is that… possible?”
“Of course. The hero you are aiming for is someone who can create miracles. So the hero candidates must also create miracles.”
“Then… what about Senior Leo?”
Leo is the youngest student council president and was already considered the strongest student in Lumerin in his second year.
If Chloe, a hero candidate, has such overwhelming power, how much more so does Leo, who has already risen to the ranks of heroes?
“Um… …the class president.”
Iliana clicked her tongue.
“He’s just the Demon King.”
***
Shh …
I walked through the rainy mountains.
Leo and Chloe’s area was at the top of the mountain.
“The creation of the orc colony must have been the work of Tartarus, right?”
“I guess so.”
Mount Ludera is a fairly large mountain.
It was a forest area with a rugged terrain and no resources such as stones or minerals.
It is a mountain of little value, as not even a refuge or spirit has settled there.
It naturally became a land abandoned to humans.
And as always, monsters appear in mountains where humans have stopped visiting.
However, Mount Ludera is located not far from Lumeren.
Mount Ludera is a place in Lumeron that constantly entrusts students with subjugation requests.
The history of the Heroes Academy spans 3000 years.
If it were true, the monster ecosystem would have disappeared long ago.
However, Mount Ludera has been plagued by monsters for the past 3,000 years.
Even after the monsters were exterminated through a large-scale suppression in Lumeron, they continued to appear.
‘The land of the curse.’
Leo looked up at Mount Ludera and muttered to himself.
There are areas all over the world where monsters spawn endlessly, like Mount Rudera.
The creation of the Land of Curses dates back to the Age of Calamity.
The Land of the Cursed was where Erebos was summoned during the Age of Calamity.
Erebos is the natural enemy of the gods.
The gods were driven from the earth by the unquenchable flames of destruction.
However, the gods did not allow Erebos to run wild on Earth.
When Erebos appeared 5000 years ago, the gods were at the eastern end of the world.
The punishment was to imprison Erebos at the final destination of the great heroes and the place where Leo fought his final battle.
The reason Erebos used Tartarus to destroy the world was also to expand his sphere of action.
By burning the land occupied by the Tartarus legions and performing the Erebos summoning ritual, Erebos was able to move freely within that area.
At that time, the land where Erebos was summoned still had a strong trace of Erebos’ energy, and now it is called the cursed land.
‘As of now, there is no way to lift the curse.’
It is fundamentally the same as Luna’s hometown, the Forest of Demons, which was cursed by Silatuna for 5000 years.
The place was freed from the curse after Silatuna was defeated.
The cursed lands will also be lifted if Erebos is completely defeated.
Under normal circumstances, the cursed lands aren’t a big problem.
It is just treated as a headache.
No one lives around the cursed land as monsters keep appearing.
Additionally, countries that have cursed lands periodically carry out subjugation campaigns to destroy the monster ecosystem.
But sometimes, large-scale monsters would suddenly appear like this.
That’s when Tartarus intervened.
“But isn’t it a little strange?”
Leo nodded at Chloe’s words.
“It’s strange.”
It is no exaggeration to say that the world today stands at a turning point in history.
The return of the great heroes.
The emergence of God.
Subjugation of the Erebos Fragments.
As if the hands of a clock that had stopped since the opening of the world began to turn.
Amazing miracles are happening one after another.
Accordingly, Tartarus’ movements became more secretive.
In such a situation, an abnormal situation occurred in which a large number of orc colonies were created in the cursed land.
Tartarus could not have been unaware that this act was raising the opponent’s guard.
“That’s why I came to investigate.”
Leo stopped walking.
Chloe also stood behind Leo.
A huge colony of orcs could be seen in the distance.
At first glance, there appeared to be hundreds of orcs.
Leo activated his extrasensory senses to observe the colony’s movements.
“Orc Sorcerer King.”
“There is a sorcerer king?”
Chloe looked surprised.
Common orcs are classified as lower level monsters.
However, orcs are monsters that boast overwhelming numbers.
As such, mutants with powerful powers appear frequently.
Among them are sorcerers who use black magic.
Among those orc shamans, the orcs with strong black magic powers are given the title of Sorcerer King.
And the Orc Warlock King exerts more power than any high-ranking demon.
Chloe couldn’t help but be surprised when she heard that there was a sorcerer king who appeared only once every hundred years.
“Prepare the magic.”
Chloe nodded as Leo spoke, drawing his sword.
Chloe summoned her wand.
widely-
Chloe closed her eyes, her cane touching the ground.
Gooooooooooo-!
The cold air began to blow in.
Swaaaaaaaaaaaa- tiddiddidididididdick-
The rain around Chloe began to freeze, turning into ice beads that fell to the ground.
And Chloe expanded her territory.
As the tremendous magical power swept through, the orcs also noticed something strange.
But Chloe completed her magic faster than they could take action.
“Fimbulbetr.”
Tsk tsk tsk-
An irresistible cold air swept over the surrounding area.
