260 – Final Chapter (13)
Lichten.
The only place on the continent that escaped the commotion.
Endless disaster struck the once peaceful city, as if it were just the calm before the storm.
— Kwaaang!
— Wooow!
Sounds of something exploding, colliding, or being crushed were heard from all directions.
“aaah!”
“Quickly run to the shelter!”
Disasters flocking towards the Academy.
They were all bizarre and desperate.
Beings that seem not to belong to this world.
‘… As Miss Danya said, the academy was a real strategic point.’
Silvia quickly grasped the situation.
Enemy power ascertained to date.
Situation in each area.
Available personnel, equipment, items, etc.
I already had experience in charge of one front line.
In order to prevent those terrible disasters, Sylvia did her best to adapt to the situation.
“The eastern barricade is functioning properly. The speed of enemy air strikes has significantly slowed down.”
“Then, please dispatch the remaining personnel to the south gate. The speed at which we are being pushed back is unusual.”
“Yes!”
“What’s the situation in the north?”
“The bridge across the river has been cut down. We are preparing to freeze the river the moment the undead cross.”
“Yes. Please carry out the operation accurately. In the current situation, if the North Gate is breached, we cannot survive.”
“The problem is to the west! The momentum of the Shadow Forest is unusual! Something is coming.”
Silvia paused for a moment when she heard the word “Shadow forest.”
Shadow Forest.
This is where Danya and the dessert research group headed.
Silvia thought of Danya as her rival.
That’s why she evaluated her even more highly.
She is not a woman without skills, at least she can compete with herself.
The place Danya headed to, thinking something was strange, was the Shadow Forest.
Although it was difficult to figure out what was happening because it was covered in dense forest, it was clear that something serious was happening.
‘It’s the worst.’
There is no available power.
We are focused on protecting the academy, but even that is not easy.
Of course, there is the Academy Barrier, which is the last line of defense.
‘If enemies flock to the barrier, it’s only a matter of time before it is eventually breached.’
In a defense-oriented public election campaign, buying time is the key.
Situation where there is no available manpower.
We have no choice but to hope that the dessert research group members will return quickly.
“I’ll check the west side myself.”
Silvia went straight to the top of the student council building.
A temporarily installed tall watchtower in the form of a tower.
The scenery seen from up there is chaos itself.
Monster creatures flocking from three directions: north, east, and south.
Ordinary people running away from them.
A defense line of cadets surrounding the outside of the academy.
The Lichten Academy was like an island in a dark sea.
‘The city side…’
Sylvia turned her head and closed her mouth.
Shadow Forest.
A forest filled with huge trees well over 10 meters tall.
On the outside, it is a forest that appears infinitely quiet.
But.
— Saralarak, Sararak!
From far away in the forest, trees were seen shaking violently.
The whole forest was like that.
I could feel it without even having to exert my magical power.
The fact that many things are coming.
You have to unfold your magic power and check.
“……”
I didn’t want to look.
There are no more people to deploy here.
It will definitely be hopeless.
But Sylvia gritted her teeth.
And she slowly unfolded her magic.
I was caught by her senses.
Countless strange creatures are coming.
It was like a black wave.
The problem did not end there.
Further.
— Cuuu….
A huge being was approaching, dispersing enormous waves of magical energy.
A vicious and ominous being that I can’t even guess what it is.
“…Ah.”
Silvia sighed without realizing it.
— Coo!
Because it felt like my hopes were being shattered with every step I took.
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Will I be able to cope?
At that time.
— “This way! Quick!”
Entering the Shadow Forest.
A familiar shouting sound was faintly heard.
“Danya!”
Sylvia screamed without realizing it.
The distance is such that an ordinary person cannot hear it.
But Danya’s eyes looked straight at Silvia when she raised her head from afar.
Behind her, she saw Lina, Elena… And Asilia, a professor at the Ether Swordsmanship Department.
“I’ll go down for a moment and come back!”
She quickly climbed the stairs.
Silvia came down to the entrance of the building as if she was jumping, not knowing that her leg was hitting the railing.
I saw Danya and her group running from afar.
“Is everyone okay?!”
Silvia hurriedly checked their condition.
Everyone’s clothes were dirty, but there seemed to be no injuries.
Crane- lower jaw-
After catching her breath, Danya opened her mouth.
“I found the car.”
“You found it?”
“Ian’s traces. And perhaps the barrier of the Shale Bridge’s base.”
“Really?”
“Yes. I think I’m in the basement of the Black Forest.”
Underground of the Black Forest?
The Shale Bridge’s base is underground in the Black Forest?
What does that mean?
Silvia paused blankly for a moment.
That is, until Danya opened her mouth.
“Anyway, we have to run away!”
“Escape?”
“A huge monster is coming! It’s not unusual!”
“If it’s a monster, then…”
She felt the disaster-like energy she felt through her navigation magic. That’s what I’m saying.
“We need to evacuate people!”
Silvia shook her head at Danya’s shout.
“The entire front is surrounded… There is no way.”
“So…?”
“Yes. There is no way to escape. We have to stop it.”
Silence surrounded her.
Many thoughts passed through each of her heads, but the one thing that was the same was that she felt no hope.
Just in time.
— Kwaaa!
The western gate wall shook greatly.
A huge ax was breaking down the door.
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“It would be impossible even for you to break the barrier.”
The woman who followed me hit the candle from behind.
“Why do you think that?”
“It’s a barrier that has grown up with our school. How many years do you think our school has been around?”
“A few hundred years?”
“That’s right. Besides, you told me that this is also the cult leader’s main powerhouse. The cult leader wouldn’t have taken care of this barrier so easily.”
I turned her head and glanced at her.
There was clear concern on his pretty face.
It was an uncommon occurrence.
“Are you afraid?”
“Ian. My child. It’s true that she loves you, but she can’t defeat the religious leader yet.”
Surprisingly, there wasn’t a single word I liked in one sentence.
I ignored her and walked.
Her blood girl was talking to her from behind.
“Breaking the barrier means ultimately damaging the cult leader’s Danjeon. That’s impossible.”
“……”
“How about going out with the main girl? I know her exit.”
“Exit?”
“Yes. We all go through a magic circle when we leave here. It’s a kind of portal.”
I guessed that to some extent.
This was the type of barrier that could not go out or come in.
“It’s meaningless.”
“Why?”
“I ended up in the cult leader’s Danjeon. It’s right to do some damage to him and get out.”
The opponent is a strong enemy.
Is there a chance to cause internal injury to such a strong enemy?
You should never avoid it.
“……”
The blood girl looked up at me.
It was as if he was trying to gauge how sincere I was.
I quietly stared into those eyes.
She soon caught up next to me and muttered.
“Yes, that look in your eyes is quite foul.”
The voice was uncharacteristically small for a blood woman.
“What?”
“It’s nothing.”
The blood girl glances away with her eyes half closed.
I shrugged her shoulders and walked forward.
In fact, it doesn’t matter what the blood girl thinks.
She has a lot more information to know than that.
For example, the number of Shaleam Cultists is not large enough to attack the continent at the same time, and information such as how to carry out an invasion.
“The leader knows how to deal with strange creatures.”
“A strange creature?”
“Yes. I saw the original girl sometimes, and it was as if she did not belong to this world.”
“……”
I guess there was a bar.
A huge amount of monsters flock towards the end of the Panta x Aka scenario.
The so-called [Void].
These are monster-like beings from the other world.
Of course, it was close to impossible to even get to the end due to the unique difficulty of Panta
‘… It’s a crisis.’
Religious leader.
I don’t know what he was thinking, but it was clear that he was opening a door to the void.
I walked a little faster.
“Where are we going?”
The blood girl who followed asked.
Because she was heading to a different place than the one she guided us to last time.
“My colleague left a mark.”
“Trace? Are you saying this place was discovered from outside?”
The blood woman was surprised.
She deserved it.
The headquarters of Shaleam Bridge has not been discovered by anyone from the outside for hundreds of years.
But what I feel is a clear trace of Danya.
If this feeling is correct, Danya had discovered the barrier of Shale Bridge for the first time in hundreds of years.
“Here.”
A space full of trees and grass.
I looked up into the air.
The woman who had been quietly looking at me was shocked.
“Really… The grass element has taken root. It has taken root in the barrier.”
An interaction that I have practiced with Danya since long ago.
‘Germination’.
The most effective thing for breaking protective shields and barriers, Danya left it here.
‘… Thank you for your hard work, Danya.’
It’s already been several dozen days since I was locked up.
How much effort and hardship did it take to find this place?
The problem is that greater hardships await us.
I reached out for Danya’s seed for a moment and then closed my eyes.
I drew two different types of energy into both hands.
And I put it together without hesitation.
— Wooooow!
Intense vibration.
And the terrible silence that comes only at the end of that critical point.
“Ah.”
A small exclamation was heard from the blood girl.
Lights flashing at the same time.
— Bleep!
Tinnitus filled my ears.