80. Ice Woman (6)
80. Ice woman (6)
“If there is no road, I have to make one.”
Valandis said that while looking at the exit blocked by the red ice wall. He untangles his hands and hugs the pillar standing next to the dormitory entrance. And then
“Huh, urachaaah!”
Kwajikㅡ Kwajijik!ㅡ
The pillar was ripped off with a tremendous sound. Then, with a pillar in front, rush into the frozen entrance. The impact causes the ice wall to collapse and the doorway to open.
Kwakwang!ㅡ
“Whew, the road is open.”
“…… “
Knowing the power of Valandis, I watched him indifferently, but the party members including Ray Plain widened their eyes and watched him blankly. I opened my mouth as I walked towards the entrance.
“First of all, I think we need to assess the situation. The enemy has occupied the dormitory, and nothing else.”
“Surely so. But it’s dangerous, so we have to go together.”
“I guess so. What about Valandis-senpai’s weapon?”
“I am in the room. My room is on the first floor, so let’s go there.”
I nodded. I was going to move cautiously anyway until the situation was clear, so going to get his weapon wouldn’t be a bad idea.
“This mana… It’s disgusting.”
“…… “
Rin is anxious. Nishia approaches her and encourages her. It’s a problem to say that she’ll be fine because there’s Worth-senpai who encourages her.
We walked down the frozen hallway, maintaining our pre-planned formation.
“Senior Valandis, when you were trapped inside the ice, did you feel your stamina quicken or your life threatened?”
“No. It was strangely normal, it felt more like a blockade than a technique to kill.”
“Is that so?”
“Why is that?”
Valandis asks a question while looking straight ahead. I sighed.
“If I am the culprit, I will never cause an incident like this in the academy. That’s because it’s obvious that it will evolve soon.”
“You mean that?”
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“The culprit is a student inside here. Maybe even us as hostages. Besides, he is also in this dormitory.”
“You mean Princess Lelisha.”
I’d like to think no, but maybe they have a means of remotely wiping out frozen students. Because I don’t think he would come up with the idea of freezing the entire dorm without a hand like that.
The corridor was surrounded by red ice, making it cold and dreary. However, without being able to detect any movement, I arrived at Valandis’s room. He came out of the room with an ax and a longbow.
“Nishia, please turn on the lights.”
“Leave it to me.”
Once we entered the stairs, unlike the first floor, it was so dark that we could not see an inch in front of us. A very quiet building. There was a time when I wondered if it was my misunderstanding that there was darkness.
“Someone is coming! It is wrapped in ancient magical power.”
At Rin’s cry, we prepared for battle. Due to the nature of the stairs, the formation was not properly prepared, and if they were attacked here, it was obvious that the work would become boring.
“Nishia, pass the flare to senior Valandis and throw the flare upstairs, senior.”
As I said, Valandis throws the flares he received upwards. The flare that went upstairs created a huge shadow, but the problem was that the shadow was in the shape of a person.
“Let’s go up quickly.”
“Yes, I will make a way…” Mr. Gee!”
“What happened… “
Valandis and Nicia went up ahead because of the formation. Wondering what the hell was ahead of them that they were so flustered, we also hurriedly headed upwards. Upstairs, a number of students were looking at us with weapons of all kinds.
The problem is that the eyes are not focused, and the horns made of ice grow on the side of the head. It was terribly twisted.
“Woah, senior Warros, what is this—”
“Nishia! Don’t panic, draw another flare and throw it downstairs!”
“Yes, yes!”
“You seem to have been mind controlled.”
What really makes this situation unanswerable is that the enemy we have to deal with is not even a monster, but a student. In order to overcome this difficulty, you need a skill to block the movement of students, but unfortunately, there is no magician who is good at status abnormalities.
“Woros, it was really upsetting. Look.”
“…… “
Among the students who fell into mind control, there was also Larisha von Melloyer. If she does something wrong and injures her princess, there is potential for trouble even after this incident is over.
“If my guess is correct, the horns on the head. It seems that if we get rid of that, the rule will be broken. It is to be expected.”
“You mean that?”
“It’s an ancient magic, so you don’t know what will happen if you get rid of that horn.”
I looked away. You can see that there is a canteen behind the students who have fallen into mind control like that. After checking the canteen, I took out a status ailment potion called “Higwibhikkup Potion” From my pocket and rolled it towards the group of students.
Students who have fallen into mind control do not react much, probably because they judged that they had no intention of attacking because I threw it so lightly even though something rolled at them.
“Senior, what?”
“… It is an experiment.”
That’s how I answered Nisia’s question. It was then. Among the group of students, the students who drank the gas that spewed out of the potion began to shed tears. Although it is in a state of mind control, it was found that the status ailment caused by the potion is effective.
At that time, I saw a number of shadows reflecting from the bottom of the stairs we had climbed up. Confirming that appearance, I squeezed the spear and shouted.
“From the rear too! Listen to me. I will take responsibility for this site and organize it. So, please clear the road only to the canteen.”
“… The party leader says so, so I have no choice but to obey.”
Valandis said that and tightly gripped the axe. I ordered Layplane to stand in the vanguard and help Valandis. He sent me a worried look, as if I was okay, but he didn’t complain and followed the instructions.
“Run!”
At my signal, Valandis and Rayplane rush forward. They start a battle with the students using only the side of the ax and the back of the sword.
Students subjected to mental control cannot use special skills, but their trained bodies seem to be intact. The students who had been beaten in the face by the side of Valandis’ ax rose casually from their seats and attacked again.
“Lin! Don’t use magic There is a possibility that it will come while being hit with the body.”
“Oh, I see.”
Rin clenched her teeth as if the fact that she was doing nothing herself bothered her. Nishia stands behind two of her warriors and supports them, using her lights appropriately. From the perspective of Ray Plane and Valandis, when an enemy attacks, she emits a strong light towards them, blinding them.
I threw the gas-producing potion onto the stairs. In the midst of this, if you are attacked from the rear, the answer will really be lost.
Up and down the stairs, the crowd of students in front of them inhale gas and fall into abnormal conditions. The other students who see it stop moving until the gas dissipates.
Just then, a female student holding a rapier extends a blade at me. She narrowly hit the rapier with her spear.
Kang!
“…… “
The female student who attacked me is Melgard’s second-year student who uses a rapier. Unlike the other students, she had purple ice horns sticking out. She has strengthened her sword using magical powers.
Anyway, the students wearing purple horns seem to be using magical powers as well.
I turned my head slightly to look straight ahead. On the other side, two warriors were struggling against the tenacious Melgard students. The advance is slow because they are fighting while adjusting the line so as not to kill the students.
Rin is behind me. If I can’t hold out here, that woman will attack Rin with a rapier. The moment Layplane or Valandis come out to the rear to protect Rin, the balance will collapse.
So I have to endure.
“Don’t worry about the avant-garde, keep your formation! Lin. Leave the left I mean, you can use magic! But use it in moderation.”
“Yes!”
After saying that, I glanced at Nishia. She knew the dark side of her and illuminated it without me having to tell her to. After supporting the warriors, if the hands were left, the students were attacking with a magic item made using alchemy without being seriously injured.
I believe in strong warriors and protect the rear. That’s what i’m going to do It was then. Arzella Aberga, a student with the title of , Holding a magically enhanced rapier, casts a stab at me.
I don’t know if it’s a sane Argela’s rapier, but I’m not soft enough to be beaten by her who has stolen her mind. After knocking her rapier off the side with my spear, I cast the quick synthesis I had been practicing for the past three days.
With my hand in my pocket, I placed my hand on the potion I wanted to combine and poured magic power into it. At the same time, using the items Shaiza had left behind, the synthetic ink engraved on the spear glowed brightly, and the tip of the spear was dyed red. I gripped the enchanted spear and stretched it toward Argela’s chest.
“… !”
I foresaw that no matter how mind-controlled she was, if it were Argela, she would instinctively avoid my spear, so she attacked with sincerity. As I expected, she moved her body to dodge the spear. But this spear is not for her to attack her.
I stretched out my arms, grabbed the spear wide, and struck it down. That’s how the spear hilt landed on Argela’s shoulder. At the same time, Argela fell sideways. Rin, who looked at him, asked in a puzzled voice.
“Seo, what did you do, senior?”
“No big deal. It only briefly disturbed the magic circuit. It’s not a big deal, but it’s lethal to an enemy who is depleted of mana.”
“Magic exhaustion… uh!?”
Looking at Arzella, who passed out on her face, Rin opened her eyes wide as if she understood the situation. A moment ago, Arzella had put her magic into her rapier to attack me.
Normally, this would be a task she would do casually, but perhaps because she fell under her mind control, she forcibly sucked out all her magic power while putting magic into her rapier.
If you hadn’t fainted Argela, you could have been in danger due to her magical power depletion symptoms. At that time, the purple horn of ice that had grown on the head of the fainting Argela melted, and then a purple horn grew from the forehead of the student right behind.
“Stun the student with the purple horn with all your might! It seems that the magic power is forced to speed up. If left alone, you might die from exhaustion of mana!”
I shouted that and prepared to attack the purple horned student. At that time, a ball of wind flew from behind and intercepted the student with the purple horn. Looks like Rin attacked.
“I did it with all my might.”
“… Good job.”
Lynn nods her head. Then, Valandis’ voice rang out.
“Woros! The road was open The number of students keeps increasing, so if it’s not now or I can’t go!”
I turned around. At the same time, the effect of the status ailment potion that was blocking the stairs disappeared, and students rushed from the stairs. We ran aimlessly to the canteen, pushing the students who were attacking us.
“I’m going to use all my mana, so cover your eyes! I can’t control this either!”
It was Nishia’s voice. She puts her magic power to the fullest in the absorption stone that contains her own magic power. At the same time, the light leaked out as the stone of absorption cracked. Nishia flashes such an absorption stone over her darling’s head. Seeing that, I covered my eyes with my hands.
Quick!
Even though the eyes are covered, the light leaks in minutely. A great light illuminates the hallway.
“Now you can open your eyes! Run!”
At Nishia’s signal, we opened our eyes and ran towards the store. The students who fell into mind control were bent over and rubbing their eyes, temporarily blinded by the tremendous light Nicia created.
Nishia’s body was staggering as if she had poured out all her mana. I held her hand like that.
“We are almost there. Cheer up a little more.”
“Stand… senior.”
In this way, we managed to get into the canteen. Valandis and Layplane gather the furniture in the shop and block the entrance.
“Senior Woros, what are you planning to do now? As you said, I entered the store. There is no retreat here.”
It was Layplane’s words. As he said, the canteen has no windows, so it’s the same as being isolated. After I looked at him like that and gave him a nod. A window was placed on the wall.
“Listen up, everyone. 10 Minutes. No, just bear with me for five minutes, and I will sort this out.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“I am an alchemist. I will create an item that will end this situation once and for all.”
The party members who heard me nodded. As long as you have already entered the canteen, there is no other way than to believe in me. Apart from that, there was not even a single doubt in their eyes.
To believe in me completely. I looked around the canteen and specified the materials to be used for alchemy.
“Nishia. There is a piece of chalk for the magic circle in the display case on the left. Use it to prepare a Shaiza-style simple synthetic belt. You can do it in three steps.”
“Yes.”
Nishia jumps up with her gun and pulls out her chalk. Regarding the synthesis magic circle that Shaiza uses, she has already trained Nicia. I decided to put together the necessary materials until she had her workbench ready.