Chapter 142 – What is the most important thing in survival?
Leave behind the Noble Academy officials who are watching us from afar.
First of all, all efforts must be made to secure a temporary base, which is the most important issue.
The first to speak was Jason, the leader of the combat team.
I remembered that he was a spearman who handles spears, and among the freshmen this time, he was a promising prospect with good grades except for me.
“Then let’s start the meeting.”
Starting with his words, the meeting began in earnest.
“The place we are now is one of many ruins scattered across the wilderness. And, we must survive here until the teleport gates in this place work again.”
We all nodded at Jason’s explanation of the goal.
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At this point, our first priority is to survive until the teleport gate restarts.
It was a topic that seemed too harsh to be a task given to freshmen, but the reality is more brutal than this.
It was only 7-8 months ago that I was active as a mercenary.
At that time, I realized something while traveling around the world and seeing so many things.
‘The struggle for survival does not discriminate between inside and outside the academy.’
When I think about it now, it was a very natural realization, but at that time I was still a frog in the well.
While living as a mercenary, I personally experienced how commoners, not nobles, live. Everything on that day was a valuable experience for me.
“What do you think of the temporary shelter, the support team leader?”
Hmmm, no, now is not the time to think about that. What am I thinking?
“You mean what I think?”
“Yes. I think, since they are older than us, they must have had more experience.”
When Jason’s voice mentioned his age, I realized that I was the oldest among the people in the support and combat teams.
Oh sh*t. I think it will make me feel really good to have to solve assignments with friends who are younger than me.
“Before entering the academy, I lived an adventurer’s life for a while. At that time, I listened to and learned various things from the adventurer seniors with whom I lived as an adventurer.”
Of course, what I am saying now is only telling the truth in the end, but the story that went into the process was a bit mixed with lies.
The things I want to say now are all based on what I personally experienced when I was at the Royal Academy.
“First of all, these ruins found in this wilderness are all said to be places where people lived in the past.”
“A place where people lived?”
As soon as I started talking in earnest, all members of my team started listening to my story.
Yes, that’s how it should be. Listen carefully, these are high-level and radical information based on experience that you can’t afford to hear anywhere else.
“Yes. Not all ruins are like that, but they say there is a very mysterious place that can please us in the ruins where the buildings are relatively intact compared to other places.”
“Mysterious?”
“A place?”
“Yes. If, in this place, there is a building with that mysterious place…”
I deliberately blurted out my words so that people would be interested in what I said.
“If there is?”
“If there is a location, what are the advantages of us conducting this exercise?”
Bingo. It’s also Jason. It seems that the role of the combat team leader was not randomly decided.
“Yes. It has an overwhelmingly clear advantage.”
“It’s an overwhelmingly obvious advantage. It’s impossible not to get interested.”
“Then, can you tell me what the place really is?”
Now everyone is starting to show more interest in the place I want to talk about.
Even those who are not interested in grades would be interested in anything that gave them a strong advantage to smoothly carry out this practice with the theme of survival, since they came here.
“That place is…”
I paused before talking about the place.
After making sure everyone was paying attention to my story, I finally opened my mouth and talked about the place.
“It is a food storage warehouse where preservation magic is maintained.”
“A food storage warehouse?”
“If it’s a food storage warehouse with preservation magic, there’s definitely a huge advantage.”
“But are you sure there is food left in the food storage?”
At that time, one of the members of the group raised a hand and pointed out what I said.
It was a natural point.
Just because there is a food warehouse, how likely is it that there will be food left in it?
However, I was sure there would be food in it.
“That’s for sure. The entrance to the food storage is enchanted.”
That was the perception-damping magic hanging over the entrance to the food storage.
“Perception-damping magic? Wait a minute, is that magic lasting that long?”
A student who appeared to be a wizard in the battle group questioned my words while holding a staff in his arms.
“It’s certain. According to the words of the wizard who was adventuring together, a mana stone was embedded in the inside of the entrance where the perception-damping magic is applied so that it can operate for a long time, and by collecting mana in the air, It is said that a magic circle is drawn on it so that mana can be infused into the stone.”
“Aha…then there’s a good chance. Most monsters and beasts won’t be able to pierce perception-deterring magic.”
With the confidence of the wizard students added, everyone did not deny the possibility of a food warehouse.
“By the way, are there any food warehouses in this area?”
Jason is now starting to take a different approach.
He began to question whether there would be a food warehouse in this area.
Of course, there is a food warehouse here.
“Actually, when I just arrived here, there’s something I checked beforehand.”
“Yes?”
A sign attached to a building in the distance.
The knife-shaped picture drawn on the sign was a sign indicating that there was a food warehouse there.
This sign is something I found while chasing a follower of evil spirits in the wilderness. The building with this sign had a basement, and in that basement there was a food storage with preservation magic.
In other words, there is a food warehouse in this area.
“This means that there are food warehouses in this area as well.”
“Really?”
“Of course. Please stand up and follow me. The entrance to the food storage is enchanted with deterrence, so you can probably stay there until the mission is over.”
Seeing that a cellar with a food warehouse is used as a base for activities, how can someone help with survival training to survive in the wild? I will.
What do you know?
One of the ways to survive is figuring out what is in a given area and using it.
If you have something, you should use it, but what’s the point if you don’t use it and just leave it alone and then annihilate it?
Tools have value when they are used, but tools that are not used have no value.
“Then, let’s start off soon. I’ve figured out the location in advance.”
I got up and walked to the place I had checked earlier.
Once I got up, other people got up and started following me as I walked.
I walked to the building with the sign I had looked at earlier.
The building was in relatively good condition compared to other buildings in the ruins.
The pillars holding up the roof were still intact, and the walls were a bit broken, but enough to keep out the wind and rain.
That said, there was a very good chance that the cellar would be fine.
I pulled up the aura over my eyes and found the entrance to the basement where the perception-damping magic was working.
Below a place buried in rubble, large and small, I could see a metal door that appeared to be the entrance to a cellar where the perception-disabling magic was working.
“Everyone, come over here and clear the rubble.”
“Okay. Everyone, let’s clear the rubble.”
I told my team to clean up the rubble since it’s too much trouble for me to clear the rubble by myself, and Jason, the commander of the combat team, gave orders to his men.
After clearing the rubble, a bare stone floor was revealed.
Of course, I could see the metal door, not the stone floor.
“I’m going to open the entrance now, everyone please prepare to enter.”
I pulled on the metal door enchanted with a perception-disabling enchantment, and unexpectedly, the door opened softly and without a sound.
As the metal door was pulled, the perception-disabling magic temporarily dissipated, revealing the entrance to the cellar.
Originally, an old basement usually smells musty, but the air that came out of the open cellar was surprisingly fresh.
“Then let’s go inside.”
The fact that there is fresh air must mean that the preservation magic is well applied.
I entered the cellar with anticipation, and others followed me into the cellar.
And then, a huge iron gate appeared in front of me.
I approached the iron door, unlocked it, and pushed the door aside.
Then, an enormous amount of fresh food revealed its beauty in front of us.
“Oh, that’s amazing.”
At this amount, we all could have enough to eat until the practice was over.
With this, the most important food for survival and temporary shelter were provided.