169 – Total Solar Eclipse (2)
When a total solar eclipse occurs, strong demons who have never experienced it before appear.
It is true that the Academy was built to exterminate the demons.
That’s just the preparation process.
It is impossible to suddenly get a named mine after graduating from the academy.
Assuming that an average cadet graduates smoothly.
The level of mines that could be caught was intermediate.
Depending on your grades, there were cases where you could go from the upper class to the top class.
That’s only a very small number of cases.
‘In the case of Named Mine, all the professors have to stick together.’
I didn’t even know if I would have to join not only the professor, but also the principal.
In fact, this case was also possible after fighting a lot of named mines.
A battle with a formidable enemy that is encountered for the first time in a situation where a large number of demons are attacking.
If this went smoothly, that was even weirder.
Of course, there was no choice but to suffer, and it was clear that suffering would cost someone’s life.
In that case, I just had to give him a vaccination before that.
‘Go with full power.’
As she crossed the main gate of Tanteroi Academy, she briefly admired the scenery unfolding before her eyes.
Feels like entering a world of armor and swords.
The sound of iron tapping resonated in my ears as if there was a blacksmith in the corner.
Kang! Kang! Kang!
Cold weapons collide with each other, sweat, and try to become knights.
Pure expressions that have never fought while weighing lives.
“Go with full power.”
It was time to paint all those faces with horror and give them despair.
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“…Huh? What is it?”
Arak was the first to feel the strangeness.
The representative of the first year of Tanteroi and the most brilliant potential, he immediately looked up at the sky.
A feeling that the normal flow of mana is being twisted.
At first, I thought it was because of my mood, but soon after seeing the surroundings slowly getting darker, I changed my mind.
“Stop training! Call the kids now, arm them all, and call the professors too!”
All the cadets who were training were taken aback by Arak’s sudden order.
“What’s going on?”
“What’s wrong? What’s in the sky? Nothing.”
“Just do what you’re told!”
Originally, I wanted to convey the words softly, but now I couldn’t.
Why doesn’t everyone notice that the sky is getting darker?
Arak couldn’t understand why only he felt this sense of déjà vu.
“Can’t you see the sky? It’s getting darker!”
“Is it because of that…? It’s just because the clouds covered the sun.”
“Yes, in a cloudless sky, how can a cloud suddenly cover the sun?”
“…?”
Can’t you understand what I’m saying?
Fortunately, it was the part that the kids were listening well based on the leadership they had shown so far.
The kids quickly went to call the professor, and the guys who were resting in the dorm also showed up.
Arak did not stop here and even fired the signal flares that were supposed to be fired in case the demons invaded.
At the same time, they jumped high and rang the bell at the top of the training ground.
Not only the professors, but also the seniors, no, so that everyone at Tanteroi Academy knows.
If this was a mere delusion, he would have been punished, but that didn’t matter.
Rather, Arak thought that now he was mistaken, and he hoped that the result of being disciplined would come out.
At least it won’t hurt anyone.
And Arak’s actions were exactly as Lee Seok-hyun intended.
‘You’re doing well.’
Lee Seok-hyun, who climbed the tallest building in Tanteroi, looked down at his arak with satisfaction.
I deliberately put my hand on it so that only Arak would notice, so things were going very smoothly.
Once awakened, the body made it possible to proceed with the plan in the head step by step.
Also, the power of the title snake and the spider was not to decorate the strategy.
It was very useful to secretly use power like hunters who hide themselves until the right time.
Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!
“Arak! What’s going on!”
“What is it, why did you call all of us?”
“Why did the bell suddenly ring and why did the flare fire? Did the real demons invade?”
The appearances of the professors, seniors, and classmates who appeared at Arak’s call were very relaxed.
Mine had never appeared at her academy, so she couldn’t find any tension.
The reason I want to become a knight is not to kill demons.
These were the appearances of those who wanted to raise their honor and have wealth.
‘So the vaccinations you get from now on will hurt quite a bit.’
Without knowing what would happen in the future, the Tanteroi vaccinated people gathered at the training ground and put pressure on Arak.
“Mine will come, and it will be very powerful… Don’t you feel it?”
“Won, I don’t understand what the hell you’re feeling.”
“No matter how talented you are, this is going too far.”
“Yes, Arak, I’m saying this as a senior, but in this case, look more carefully…”
The incompetent professor, who is complacent and does nothing, is responsible for waking him up.
A person bound by the authority of being a senior taught Arak, thinking that his experience was the truth.
The classmates thought they would get caught up in trouble, so they tried to put all the responsibility on Arak.
No matter how strong Arak’s will was, it was not enough to deal with the majority.
Perhaps, just as he had hoped, he was mistaken, and the very moment when he thought it was a happening that would end only with discipline.
“Ha… The sky…?”
The sky is getting dark.
“Tae…The sun has turned black…”
When the black sun rises.
“Everyone prepare for battle!”
It was the beginning of a disaster.
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At Tanteroi Academy, most of the cadets aspire to become knights, so they are vulnerable to magic.
Even if it deals with mana, it’s only for better use of the body.
I didn’t learn a single thing that a wizard could use.
It was the academy that did not understand Professor Dongdaemun’s magic revolution the most, and rather looked down on it.
Confidence that no matter how much magic you use, you won’t be able to defeat a knight who has trained his body in the end.
That confidence has become poison now and oppresses them.
“Mo, I can’t move.”
“It’s just slowed down, probably depending on magic resistance.”
Black sun floating in the sky.
Its rim was constantly spinning like a treadmill.
With each turn, the ear-piercing screams were so painful to the eardrums that it was difficult to stand upright.
Also, as mentioned, the whole body was sticky and restricted as if caught in a spider’s web.
“How did this happen…”
“Isn’t the principal here?”
“That’s because I had to go on a business trip today…”
“Damn it! Manual! Is there such a thing as a manual? There’s no such thing as a way to deal with things like this!”
Professors couldn’t make a proper judgment in a situation they were experiencing for the first time in their lives.
Arak noticed the sign in advance and summoned the people, but all those gathered were useless.
The only thing that supported them was the wealth and honor that came from being an academy professor.
It wasn’t the will and conviction to defeat the devil.
“First of all, we don’t know what the situation will be, so we have to do what we can first.”
Of course, not all professors are like that.
If there are corrupt people, there are also upright people.
Professors with the pride of knights made a quick assessment of the situation.
“First of all, Arak, I commend you for your quick judgment. And forgive us for our inability to prepare for this in advance.”
“And the cadets who are currently able to move should be moved near the cadets with reduced mobility so that they can be guarded.”
“Considering that the body is limited, it must be a kind of magic. You have to move the mana inside the body to resist as much as possible.”
Determine the available number of people and present ways to defeat the current situation one by one.
Looking at it this far, I could say it was ideal.
But there was one thing they forgot, that Mine hadn’t even appeared yet.
“The countermeasures are too monotonous, so we have to judge the situation macroscopically.”
The knights of this era are really weak.
At the sudden voice, everyone gathered at the training ground raised their heads.
The top of the training ground building.
There was a man with a large greatsword.
“…”
Nobody said anything like who are you?
I could tell at a glance who it was, even if I didn’t say who it was.
“Are you the culprit behind this incident?”
“What if?”
The one who dyed the sun black.
Mine invaded Tanteroi.
He looked so relaxed.
“What’s your name?”
“Karan.”
“What is the purpose?”
“Extermination.”
The conversation ends here.
The being who called himself Karan swung a greatsword.
The greatsword, swung very lightly as if moving a feather, created wind pressure.
The wind pressure turned into a typhoon and fell in the middle of the training ground.
A natural disaster caused by an individual.
It was impossible for the aspiring knights who grew up in a greenhouse to even look at this situation properly.
‘Does this make sense?’
Series of shocks.
All they could do was be helpless.