Damn Academy chapter 116

116 - The Circulatory System (18)

116 – The Circulatory System (18)

As much as Shion accelerated and pushed in, he had no choice but to be pushed out of his strength as he blocked it from the spot.

The artifacts on my ankles lit up again, and without a moment to rest, I struck the sword at the masked man.

He blocked the sword over his head and struggled to block the continuous sword strike.

I could tell right away after facing swords a few times. What he felt vaguely about during his entrance exam was now clear.

He wasn’t equipped with anything that could be called a proper swordsman.

But it was not an empty cart. He was as rough as a wild beast, but he seemed to have a rare skill that seemed to have been cultivated in battle.

The two pushed each other away in a sword-to-sword fight.

Shion wrinkled his brow as they opened the distance by ten steps and entered the confrontation again.

The man changed his grip on his sword and squeezed his palm to relieve the pain.

As if the demonic sword Cybeline wanted a more intense fight, it blinked repeatedly. But she couldn’t put all her strength into it. It was because it was meaningless to fight and win unless the conditions were equal. The reason she postponed the pursuit for a day after seeing the corpse of the monster in the valley was to arrange her stamina.

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“… How long do I have to watch it?”

“….”

The man took a comfortable defensive posture with his sword in one hand. Are you taking a break?

In the meantime, the faint smell of perfume, foreign to the current environment, was carried by the wind. It was a luxurious perfume only worn by noble ladies.

“Where did you hide the remaining one?”

There were always two or more people following the trail. That meant that a woman was waiting somewhere.

“….”

Frustrated, Shion once again ran into Candy. This time, when he fired three consecutive strikes, he again struggled to block them with rough movements.

I felt frustrated while dealing with him.

It was obviously an overwhelming situation in terms of strength and skill, but I couldn’t completely suppress it.

It felt like cutting a knife at a shapeless liquid.

After three consecutive strikes, Shion said while fighting the man sword to sword.

“Looking at me is over….”

The moment she tried to properly draw out the power of the demonic sword, Sibelin, Shion, who sensed an abnormality, jumped like a water swallow and fell backwards.

And I checked the sword.

He didn’t even show his power properly, but his magic was gone and the light was dimmed.

Shion said something strange.

“What did you do?”

The man was also looking at his wooden sword as if something was strange, just like Shion.

When the man didn’t come out seriously, she opened her eyes and poured her magic into Cybeline. And she warned in a cold tone.

“This is your final warning. Fight properly Otherwise, you will be seriously injured.”

“….”

When the words didn’t seem to work, she changed the strategy.

“Your friend needs to be sorted out first.”

She focused her mind for a moment and watched the flow of her air. Then, hidden in her fog, she watched the movements that her eyes could not catch.

And there was someone watching their fight from afar.

I immediately activated the artifact and ran to the person hiding diagonally to the left, not Candy.

Then, drawing on the power of the sword, he swung it into the air to secure her sight.

With a strong wind, the fog in the area was swept away for a while.

At the end of the fog, there is a blonde girl. Luna, the head of the Ministry of Magic, was sitting on a rock.

We looked into each other’s eyes for a moment.

When an unexpected person appeared, Shion hesitated for a moment.

“… !”

For a moment, Shion felt a life in the side of his head and quickly stepped back while stepping back.

Soon after, a dazzling sword wave swept across the ground at the midpoint where Shion and Luna were standing.

Koo-gu-gu-guang!

The sword wave swept through her fog, hit something, and exploded with a roar that blew my eardrums.

The place where the sword wave swept through was cracked as if an earthquake had occurred.

If it had been received head-on, it would have been a blow that would have been devastating. Even Shion, the strong heart, had no choice but to hold her breath for a moment.

Shion looked at the place where the sword wave had come from.

In the hazy fog, a pure white sword shone in the air.

And her beast-like luminous eyes stared at her. She was exactly what I had seen at the top of Mount Grace.

In the fog, the man said.

“More than that is difficult.”

“… What?”

Shortly, Luna in front followed the man’s words.

“Right… Troublesome.”

Then Luna waved her arm in the air. As if controlling the wind, a sudden gust of wind followed her hand.

Shion activated the artifact and moved straight away, but the direction of the wind changed and a strong headwind hindered her movement.

“… !”

A strong wind began to entwine around Zion with Zion at its center, and then enveloped everything like a tornado.

It swept away dust, gravel, fog, and fallen leaves, trapping Zion in the center. The wind was so strong that it was hard to open my eyes. She covered her eyes with one arm and brandished a knife in the air at her, but to no avail.

She couldn’t cut her magic with her sword.

“What is this… !”

I couldn’t move. Sight, smell, and sense of direction were all erased.

She didn’t expect at all that Luna, the head of the Ministry of Magic, was in a group with the masked man. And I hadn’t even calculated that she would have this much power.

It was Zion’s negligence.

When the wind calmed down after a while, the masked man and Luna had disappeared without a trace.

Shion suddenly stood in the messy empty lot and stamped his foot on the ground.

“… ….”

Shion’s cheeks swelled slightly as he was completely tossed with anger.

***

I held Luna’s hand and ran for a while.

After leaving Zion behind, I went a long way.

In this way, they escaped from the danger zone and entered the primeval forest of the Circulatory System, their destination.

Avoiding a fight was the best option for now. Shion seemed to want to fight regardless, but when he uses the magic sword, he consumes his stamina excessively and the scale of the fight grows to the point where it can’t be controlled.

The main purpose of this practice is not to fight to cover the best swordsman who is the beggar who gets the horns of the phantom beast. I had to save my stamina for more important things.

Since Luna’s spirit was attached to watch over Zion, it was safe from pursuit for a while.

Since they showed the difference in power, wouldn’t their momentum have been dampened? No matter how hard you try, it’s impossible to deal with Luna and me, the Zionists.

We took a short break in the shade of a large moss-covered tree.

I sat down on the root of a tree and clasped my right hand to bloom again and again. The hand that was still holding the sword was tingling.

I accepted the fight as a test, but I could clearly feel it after striking swords a few times.

Shion still lacks in swordsmanship.

Hey, since I’m the apprentice of a sword master, it can’t be helped that my swordsmanship, which has no fundamentals, is being pushed aside.

I briefly checked Luna’s condition.

She, like me, wriggled her fingers, looking at her own hand as if it were a strange object. She was the hand that had contact with me.

Oops. She was in a hurry, so she suddenly held her hand and ran… She hadn’t noticed that the male body wasn’t used to it yet.

“… Are you okay?”

Luna answered as she relaxed her expression.

“Oh, yes.”

It’s okay right now, but actually, the thing I’m most worried about is after the practice is over. As long as Shion finds out that Luna and I are intertwined, he can go and stir-fry them.

At the moment I was thinking about whether I should negotiate with Shion so that I wouldn’t get involved with Luna.

Luna asked me cautiously.

“Have you ever run away… Is it because of me?”

“No, we originally agreed to leave Shion out. It worked out the way I wanted.”

“Yes….”

Did he think that he ran away without making a decision with Shion because his location was discovered? Because Shion’s senses were too sensitive, the plan went a little wrong, but it wasn’t Luna’s fault.

Luna thought for a moment before opening her mouth again.

“I… Next time with Zion….”

“Huh?”

“… I will fight too.”

“No, you don’t have to.”

“I was careless for a moment. Next time… I’ll treat you properly so you don’t look down on us.”

She didn’t show much, but Luna seemed a little resentful of being caught off guard by Shion.

Is that why? When she escaped she was beyond perturbing Zion’s senses and she was completely overwhelmed. If it was that powerful, even if it were me, she would have been helpless just like Shion.

I think maybe Luna is the one who has good compatibility with Shion.

“Okay. But it could be dangerous, so don’t step out in front of me.”

Luna nodded her head.

“Yes… !”

I got up from the dust and opened the map for my next destination.

I succeeded in making a body optimized for the circulatory system by eating local food, but there were still more problems to be solved.

We had to enter the heart of the circulatory system. It would be nice if it could be solved by moving along the map, but I couldn’t.

There were no roads inside the primeval forest, and there were no landmarks to confirm the location. The trees were so dense that it was impossible to ascertain the position of the sun. Luna’s spirits also had a hard time navigating her path because her earth magic was too strong.

Moreover, the final destination, the realm of phantom beasts, was not even marked on the map.

On the map, the area of the circulatory system is only roughly drawn in the shape of a fried egg. We had to go inside the yolk and find the realm of phantom beasts with only a few hints.

The hint is that it is good to have an elemental magician and that the blue soul herb is helpful. Only these two

I planned to collect the blue spirit grass directly from inside the circle, so when everyone brought it from Rigbed, I came empty-handed.

I don’t know what the phrase “It’s good to have an elemental sage” Means. I still see Luna’s virtues well, but….

Then, should we start looking for the blue soul plant first?

When I was distracted by the map, Luna called me in a panic.

“Damian… excuse me….”

I turned to Luna.

An unidentified figure resembling a pure white stuffed toy stood in front of Luna.

He was as short as a cucumber and his body was translucent. The eyes were small, like peas.

It was looking up at her Luna.

“…?”

“…?”

Not even one.

Unidentified things gathered around Luna and began to take shape.

She climbed onto her shoulder, wrapped herself around her, and laid her body on the top of her head, as if feeling her affinity for her. Like a sparrow on a tree branch, it calmly settles down on Luna’s lap.

Suddenly, the number of them reached 12 and filled the area around Luna.

As I got closer to Luna, they were startled and some fell off the body and ran away, while others lost their shape.

What are they doing? Could it be a spirit?

“I don’t think they’re bad kids…”

“….”

I stepped back again and slowly moved away from Luna.

Soon after that, the unknown things appeared around Luna again.

“But… I’m very afraid of you.”

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