Academy’s Genius Tamer Episode 46
It was pitch dark.
Deep darkness, afraid to even take a step.
Usher bent down and descended the narrow burrow.
I’ve been short of breath. He clenched his fists wet in cold sweat and stepped forward.
“It’s clear here.”
An ominous aura that surrounded him all along.
That energy was calling out to him.
must come here
“What?”
But what is this strong feeling?
Usher looked around with a calm gaze.
Rusted steel frame and old twisted wooden planks. It was a place where people had stopped visiting for a long time, so I didn’t feel the warmth at all.
and.
An unpleasant shade different from the usual darkness was casting over Usher’s head.
When you take a few more steps like that.
Usher finally found the source of the energy.
“This… .”
Whoops. Entrance with burning black flames.
Usher’s expression, looking inside through the gap, turned cold.
I see all the futures, but I don’t see the future that pertains to me.
So this scene is a first for him.
“damn.”
At the end of those words, darkness fell over him.
* * *
“Basil, would you like to come in?”
The training ground below the Ardel Academy that I had never visited since the torment in the slime dungeon.
However, I came to this place today with a rather tragic determination.
‘An uneasy wind is blowing.’
If Usher said so, maybe something was really getting closer.
The most likely thing is… .
The main episode is coming soon.
“It was around this time.”
The dormitory kidnapping case, the Magang battle, and the group assignments in hell were all big and big early episodes called the main episodes, but in fact, it was nothing more than a prologue so far.
It is safe to say that the full-scale main episode of Seulkademie was about finding the cube.
The warlock and the white wizard of Ardel who tried to stop them.
In fact, until now, both in terms of technology and manpower, the White Mage could be seen as overwhelming.
Since they had been under pressure for so long that they could not even study black magic, they couldn’t have had a proper weapon.
However, the incident that turned the situation upside down and turned Ardel upside down.
The trigger of the incident was an ancient artifact called the Magic Cube.
This cube, which will bring a lot of blood and wind to Ardel in the future, was simply a principle similar to Ardel’s Frankenstein.
A cube made by concentrating black magic. It was because he had to amplify the mana and draw several times the mana that can be used per person from the outside.
Not only that, each cube has its own special ability.
Every time you lose one, that amount of power is lost.
Warlocks who lost mercilessly because they did not know how to use the cube.
Learning the way their ancestors were defeated, they build huge towers without the Magic Society’s knowledge.
Using that tower as an amplifier, draw virtually unlimited magical power to attack.
If the research succeeds, an irreversible disaster will come.
Fortunately, in the original story, the main characters destroy the tower and find the cube before they get to that point.
In the process called the Great War of Sulkademie, not only the supporting actors but also the main characters died a lot.
It was also the reason why Seulkademie was called a waste.
“… .”
Originally, he tried to escape from the battlefield, but now he has changed his mind a bit.
Even if I ran away while preserving my body, I had to get stronger first.
Without getting stronger, I couldn’t protect myself, let alone those around me.
“Is there a training center for tamers?”
“I only have a premium ticket, would you mind?”
“Yes, give me that.”
wii ing.
Spacious indoor training room.
The dungeon had too many variables, so we headed to the systemized training ground.
Basil wags his tail and jumps up on his shoulder.
radish… heavy.
“Go down.”
“Coo?”
“Just don’t pretend you don’t understand.”
puck.
He slapped me in the face with his tail and landed on the floor nervously.
me, that! Where did you learn the burjang hair?
“You’re such a bastard. Where did you learn it!”
“… .”
“Hey, are you listening?”
damn it.
I wanted to be angry, but I didn’t have the time. For the remaining two hours, I had to pull the mulberry properly.
It is a training center where you can set up various environments through psychedelic magic.
There is no better place to train Basil because there is no injury and you can practice freely in any environment you want.
As soon as the equipment was put on, a setting window appeared in the air.
[Are you sure you want to set your weapon?]
He even took lessons from Lee Han, and the most familiar weapon, the bow, is the first thing that catches his eye.
However, there is no need to come here to practice what you have already used a lot.
iron rod. If you put a little magic on it, you can’t even compare its destructive power to a regular baseball bat.
However, this body doesn’t have good stamina, so this is also a pass.
then.
“dagger.”
🤩
A sharp dagger wrapped around my hand at every word I said.
The short-range attack was unfamiliar, but the grip wasn’t bad. After swinging the dagger in the air a few times, I decided on this one.
Next.
[Are you sure you want to set up your environment?]
Deserts, glaciers, jungles.
It was a system that created the extreme environment of any dungeon well.
I flipped through the settings that can be set with my finger, and then stopped.
ocean.
The environment is not good for both me, who mainly uses flame-based magic, and Basil, the red dragon.
But there is no law that wars will only be fought on dry land.
I clicked on it without hesitation.
And soon, water started to fill up from the bottom.
* * *
“Gagging… Whoops.”
Wow, it fills up so fast?
It’s hard to breathe slowly.
The need to control Basil is slowly fading away.
Perhaps he felt fear, and he had been saying the same words over and over again.
“Sorry! Scary!”
it doesn’t actually die
This is because, through hallucinatory magic, the senses are exquisitely kept alive, not the actual situation. Dying here will only log you out of the test.
Basil struggled with his legs as if embarrassed by the rapidly weakening magic power.
At that moment, a clear message appeared in front of my eyes.
[Protect yourself from piranhas.]
[Time limit: 3 minutes]
As soon as I read the message, sharp teeth from the back grazed me, aiming for the nape of my neck.
A room that I would have gone straight to if I hadn’t bowed my head urgently.
It’s not just an advanced lab.
“Basil!”
You have to keep your mind straight. Instead of the original bow, he grabbed the dagger and threw it into the air.
Not an ordinary fish, but a piranha that could easily exceed twice the size of a human head, with its mouth wide open, passed in front of you.
Even the speed is fast.
Basil, who was at first bewildered, also raised his nerves, and his eyes shone sharply.
Paat-.
Basil jumped forward in an instant and bit a piranha swimming in front.
Red blood gushed out and obscured his vision. The piranha let out a shriek and drooped as it was.
“I didn’t know that I wouldn’t be pushed even physically.”
As he grew in size, he was quite proud of Basil, who instinctively attacked without relying solely on magic.
However, that alone cannot deal with so many enemies.
Lightning attribute attack.
I led it to Basil. It was the only way to overcome complacency in the sea where there was no fire.
Will Basil be successful?
The guy started casting the newly acquired skill.
Fire Spike.
Originally, a pillar of fire had to be summoned, but perhaps because it was in the water, a tornado occurred, but no pillar of fire was created.
However, the case was different if it was a thunderbolt to be summoned together.
Since it’s water, it’s actually more effective magic.
[Firespike: Summons a pillar of fire at the same time as lightning. Simultaneously snipers all living beings around 1m except for tamers.]
supportive.
The piranhas around 1m trembled and floated on the water.
The smell of grilled fish lingered on the tip of my nose.
It was an instant.
What is this power?
“Hey, Basil. Is it great?”
“Kimchi!”
＜Bacillus atlasix＞
A red dragon who is addicted to the fun of shooting electricity. I’m excited to try roasting piranhas.
Level: 13
mana: 65
Strength: 74
Agility: 49
Intelligence: 23
[Fire Emission Lv 3] [Magic Defense Lv1] [Toxic Resistance Lv 3] [Flame Vortex Lv 3] [Fire Spike Lv 2]
With just a few attacks, the Fire Spike skill level has risen to 2.
no.
Tiling-.
[Fire Spike Lv 3]
just turned 3
“Wow… .”
If this is enough, you can decide to have piranhas for dinner tonight.
The piranhas, who were half dead, could not attack as violently as before as if they were greatly embarrassed. Of course, there were guys out there looking for a break.
Paat-.
spatula.
Aiming at the back of the head, he slashed the swimmer at once with a dagger.
Holding your breath and running in the water wasn’t too difficult, but it was worth doing with Basil, who cooks ten piranhas with grilled fish with each attack.
His growth rate was twice as fast as I had expected.
Han Si-ha’s growth rate, so this body’s growth rate was also faster than I thought.
Suddenly, I was able to handle the dagger that I used for the first time in my life to a level that I could use.
Less than three minutes later, the message popped up.
Tiling-.
[Advanced: You have survived successfully.]
“Just next.”
Huh… Ugh.
But I still had to increase my stamina like this beggar.
Tiling-.
[You have selected the glacial zone.]
[Run away from the ice giant.]
Originally, it looked like a training ground made for splashing, but the ice property melted after a few hits of Basil, so it was easy to clear.
Tiling-.
[You have chosen the desert.]
[Protect yourself from desert scorpions.]
[Advanced: You have survived successfully.]
Even though it’s a practice field, even if you run like this, you can only eat less than half of the actual dungeon experience, but after running for two hours without a break, Basil’s level rose by one.
Is that all? I have also accumulated experiences that cannot be quantified.
He grabbed the dagger as if it had become one body with trembling hands.
Ha, I definitely pulled the mulberry.
of course.
“Kill me… .”
“Coo?”
The road to becoming a tamer of a passionate dragon is not easy.
“uh… uh!”
iron poop.
As soon as I left the entrance to the training room, I fell forward, and I desperately realized that fact.
* * *
murmur murmur.
As soon as I climbed the stairs and reached the central hall, I felt a strong energy.
Busy students walking around and students talking to each other with worried faces.
“What happened?”
I hurriedly hurried my steps and went through the crowd.
Then a familiar face appeared.
Adela and Won chewing their lower lip as if seriously, and Lee Han swallowing saliva with a nervous look as if they sensed something.
When the main characters get together like that, something must have happened.
Adela looked at me and waved.
“Han Shiha!”
“What’s up?”
“Usher Barton.”
Usher Barton?
Did you see that ghost?
Why is he suddenly?
“The friend is missing. The dormitory was turned upside down.”
what?
Usher’s predictions were horribly true. He turned his head with a pale face.
No one knew where they disappeared or when they disappeared.
One thing is for sure, something happened to him.
He spat out swear words in a low voice.
“… damn.”
Dark clouds were coming from the other side.
That was then.
A message that had never appeared since possession, except for the escape of the underground cave, floated in the air.
Well?
“What is this?”
[Advice: Run away from the warlocks.]
Since then, the system that possessed me has not given me any orders.
By the way.
The message that appeared in front of me was clearly giving me a ‘direction’.
[Main episode 1: Finding Usher]
[Usher Barton, who disappeared with the secret of Ardel Academy. Rescue him safely and find out the secret.]
[Time limit: 24:00]
[Compensation: TBD]
“Damn.”
I so hoped it wouldn’t come.
It was the prelude to the main episode.