Damn Academy chapter 118

118 - The Circulatory System (20)

118 – The Circulatory System (20)

The number of spirits suddenly increased by dozens. Luna’s popularity reminded me of a socialite.

But these guys, even if they die, won’t come by my side.

It wasn’t enough to sit on Luna’s shoulders and her head, so I moved while holding her in her arms.

She looked a little embarrassed and added a word to my gaze.

“It’s not heavy at all.”

In the meantime, a reply came from Cecil. It was only two hours.

[…] I met that weird sloppy guy you’re afraid to say. It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like that in my life. It is said to be some kind of evil elemental body, but fortunately the professor joined in and eliminated it. We are safe The professor went to the epicenter to find out the cause, but candy, are you okay?]

I was afraid to receive my warning, and when I confirmed the news that I had encountered those strange things, my stomach was boiling. It was anger toward myself for neglecting Tricia to face a new threat without calculating the numerous variables.

I know I can’t control every situation on my own, but I couldn’t accept it with my heart.

“Damian… are you okay?”

Luna looked at me with her worried face. I couldn’t even see my expression because of the mask, but he seems to have noticed my emotional state.

“Yes. There’s no problem with Cecil’s group. Did you feel any strange spirit energy around here?”

Luna nodded her head.

“The spirits of this forest… We feel safe around us. I’m fine as long as I’m by your side.”

Is that why so many spirits are hovering around us?

We went a long way. The spirits of the forest stopped at one point and blocked us. Then he jumped up and down and expressed something.

In front of it was a circular clearing with well-trimmed ground.

Looking at that place, Luna’s expression became more and more serious. Then, as if she was nervous, she pressed her hand against her chest and involuntarily took a step back.

“What’s up?”

Luna translated the words of her spirit and delivered them to me.

“I thought it came out in front of me. And… I feel it too. Something is screaming.”

Then, startled, she sat down and covered her ears.

“Kyaaak!”

“Luna!”

I hurriedly approached her and checked her condition. She was terrified. His reaction was similar to when he was tormented by thought forms.

Luna said, clutching my collar with her trembling hands.

“There is something in front of me. Damian… Be careful. Be careful.”

I didn’t feel anything. It seemed certain that it was a spirit body, not a monster.

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It was impossible to go in with Luna.

“I will go alone. You are in a safe place.”

Luna shook her head violently.

“No… no. Let me be by your side That is the safest.”

“… Then stick behind me.”

I held Luna’s hand tightly. Then, Luna seemed to have calmed down a bit and slowly raised her body.

That’s how we entered the vacant lot together.

I couldn’t even hear that common bird call.

In the center of the large area were six wooden structures arranged in a hexagonal shape. It was something to be seen in ancient ruins or tombs of high-ranking officials.

However, it was completely destroyed with no intact structures remaining. Fragments of charred, decayed wood were scattered here and there.

“Hey… I hear screams of pain from over there.”

Can you hear the screams? It’s just a very quiet place for me.

“Eat your heart out.”

We moved slowly towards the center of the clearing.

In the center was a pit the size of a well. And the fragments of the wooden structure surrounding it were densely engraved with unknown characters. As if used in witchcraft rituals.

“Luna, what do you think?”

Her breathing becomes rough.

“It’s strange… call me inside Stuck in a cramped place… Wants to come out…. Who… who did this….”

I can feel the trembling of her body from Luna. She was terrified

To me, it was just a pit with nothing in it. I picked up a nearby rock and threw it into it.

Even after a long time, there was no sound coming from the end. It was as if it had disappeared into darkness forever.

Judging from Luna’s words, this was similar to what appeared in Zverev’s research report.

The Northern Deadlands. The pit where the insane Elementalist would throw himself.

It was then.

Somewhere in the woods, someone approached with a noise.

Sureuk. Squeak. Seruk.

We hurriedly distanced ourselves from the pit and were wary of something that had visited this place.

Sureuk. Seruk. Seruk.

It was a boy who came out into the clearing like that.

Looking at their clothes and age, they looked like students from Eternia who practiced like us.

A well-proportioned physique and strong forearms. Straight and distant features.

However, the condition is not very good.

The clothes are messy like a rag, and the chin and chest are stained black, probably from blood pouring out of the mouth. And the eyes were turned upside down, revealing only the whites.

“Kreur… ugh… Ugh.”

As if from drugs or alcohol, his arms sagged and dragged his sword on the ground, slowly closing the distance.

It looked like someone was playing with a corpse.

“Dead… Is it?”

Power went into Luna’s arm that held my hand.

“No, Damian. Alive.”

“….”

When I went forward and tried to talk to her, Luna blocked Gai.

“No… The spirit is attached from behind. The spirits are trying to devour your soul. No. No.”

I couldn’t see the true nature of the guy attached to the boy.

I had to figure out the situation as quickly as possible and find a way to rescue him.

“Kreuk. Kruck.”

He clearly showed hostility towards us. Didn’t give me time to think for a long time. The boy picked up speed and started running toward us.

I put Luna behind her and pulled out her wooden sword.

“Go away for now. I will fight.”

Using Luna’s power in a mentally unstable situation is risky.

I put my hand in my pocket and broke off a piece of maladiroot. The only thing I can trust in this situation is this.

He tried to strike the sword at me.

Unlike the way he walked with a limp body, his sword-swinging gesture was sharp.

I took out the maladiroot and rolled over to the side.

Quang!

The place where the sword was stamped was hollowed out with a dull sound. It looks like it was hit with a mace.

Damn, I’m not in a good physical condition, so what’s so bad about my strength?

I summoned a fire spirit about five steps away from him. The spirit sat on the back of my hand and began to smoke the maladiroot stem.

“Whoa, whoa!”

He didn’t want to leave even a moment’s gap. He immediately kicked the ground and slashed his sword at me.

I rolled once again to avoid it, and the smoke that I had attached was finally extinguished.

“Oops.”

Part of the guy’s blade started to glow. He thought he used some kind of magic, but it turns out that it was an enchantment sword.

The fact that the enchantment was activated meant that there was magic within the body.

That would be fine.

I lit a maladiroot stem and bit it into my mouth. I put the wooden sword on the floor.

And then he summoned the demonic sword.

A pure white light radiated from my right hand.

He came running with blood splattering from his mouth and swung his knife at my side.

Ping!

As soon as he received it with his magic sword, the blade of his sword was cut and flew like a boomerang.

“Ugh, big?”

He glanced at the hilt of the sword as if he was bewildered.

“….”

This surprised me too. I hope it’s not an expensive sword.

In that state, I kicked his body and pushed him back.

A wooden sword gets caught in the guy’s leg. Soon after, it transformed into the form of a black sapling, entangling its body like a spider’s web.

“Ugh, ugh, uhhh.”

I struggled and tried to cut off the stem of the sapling with the remaining blade, but to no avail.

Thanks to the steady absorption of my mana, that stem is harder than steel.

In the meantime, I inhaled maladiroot’s smoke.

Finally, the shape of the black spirit began to come into view.

Behind the boy’s back, something long appears to have doubled the human shadow.

That bastard was wriggling with the boy as if playing with a doll.

Now it’s my turn.

As I approached again, the spirit released its restraints on the boy and stepped back.

Immediately stepping on the boy’s shoulder and jumping on it, cutting off one of the spirit’s arms.

“Kiaaagh!”

The boy and the spirit scream at the same time.

I cut off both legs as soon as I landed.

***

Victor regained consciousness with the feeling of something regurgitating inside.

“Cool, cool, damn.”

He coughed up his blood a few times and then rubbed his eyes and looked around him.

“Damn it, where is this?”

He was sitting with his back against a tree, while a masked man stood in front of him with his back to the sunlight.

And a girl with a familiar face was looking down at him a step behind him.

“…?”

Victor drew his sword from his waist and guarded his opponent. It was an action that came out automatically, imprinted through numerous trainings.

But I couldn’t get up and only my arms struggled. They posed no threat.

“Who are you?”

The masked man answered.

“He is the one who saved you.”

Victor confirmed that the blade was missing.

It was only then that he remembered that he had been besieged by the black spirits and lost consciousness after that.

I also recognized that the blonde-haired girl behind him was Luna Reilless, the head of the Ministry of Magic.

“Damn it, yes. What have you done to my sword?”

“Cut.”

“What… cut?”

“Looks like I don’t remember. I cut it because it attacked me.”

Cut that hard sword? I laughed out loud because I said it so calmly, but unfortunately blood poured out of my mouth instead of breathing.

“Cool, cool, damn.”

“Is it precious?”

“… Father’s legacy Cool, cool.”

The masked man stood still for a moment as if he had turned to stone. He was wearing a mask, so he couldn’t guess what he was thinking.

“I’m sorry.”

For now, I was alive. That was enough.

“It’s cheap for the price of a life. Just put the black on it.”

“….”

In the meantime, I suddenly remembered the images of my colleagues.

“Now is not the time for this. All my friends are about to die… !”

He tried to get up, but the intense pain hit him and he fell again.

The masked man threw a bottle of potion at him.

“Drink.”

You should be suspicious of the potions given by others. However, the source of the potion was clear, so there was no need for that.

A unique pattern engraved on the glass bottle. It was a special elixir from Mericania that was said to be difficult to obtain even with money.

“If it goes into your mouth, you can’t even tell me to spit it out.”

He showed no signs of regret even after giving expensive potions.

I couldn’t bear to decline because of the pain as if my intestines were twisted. The man asked as he opened the seal and drank the potion.

“Now, tell me what happened.”

As the potion began to take effect, his blurred consciousness gradually became clearer. He remembered everything accurately.

“It started twisting after eating the blue soul herb.”

Victor explained what had happened.

Eating the Blue Spirit Herb to find the way to the center of the circulatory system.

Dreaming of an obelisk enchanted by a strange voice. And even losing consciousness after something woke up and fought as bait on its own.

The masked man and Luna listened to his story in silence.

“You fought alone as bait?”

“Yeah. I hope I wasn’t fooling around.”

“Is there any way to find out the location of the other colleagues?”

Victor took a torn piece of paper from his pocket and shook it.

“Dornier’s stationery. Even if they are torn apart, they tend to stick together in one place. Divide this into 4 equal portions and share with the group. You should follow this.”

He nodded his head knowingly and held out his hand in front of him.

“Can you walk?”

That hand approached as if it had acknowledged Victor.

Victor grabbed the man’s hand and stood up. He didn’t look like a bad guy, and he didn’t feel particularly hostile.

The masked man turned around and grabbed the things he had left behind.

Victor picked up the blade lying around and put it in the scabbard. The cutting edge was surprisingly clean.

“Ah, it looks like we fought while unconscious, but we haven’t completely defeated me yet. Remember.”

Grace will be engraved on the bone, but winning was another matter.

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The man answered dryly.

“… If you attack again, the next time you wake up, your limbs will be missing.”

It was a terrible joke.

Victor said calmly as he wiped the blood off his chin and dusted his clothes.

“I look forward to that.”

Watching the masked man pack his things, Victor widened his eyes and reflexively drew his sword.

The very black spirit was lying next to the man.

“Damn it, get out of the way!”

But the man did not care and stretched himself. Then, he grabbed the Black Spirit by the hair and lifted it up.

“Kiaaa! Kiaaa!”

The spirit twisted in agony with its limbs severed. What no one else had done, he was doing.

My head went blank for a moment at the bizarre scenery.

And for a moment, it dawned on me that the amputation might not have been a joke.

“Let’s go.”

Victor muttered to himself while watching the man’s back.

“…What is that?”

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