How to Survive at the Academy chapter 59

Glast Subjugation (8)

The matter reported by the company’s staff was… it should have exploded at some point.

– ‘This is the news that the soldiers hired by the Golden King Elte have entered Aken Island! Now, it seems that the professor dong is planning to take advantage of the chaos to occupy the Sylvania branch of the Elte Company and secure new recruits for the top agent, Lortel!

– ‘There are a lot of people from the Elte company, so that side is completely defenseless!’

Everyone knows that time doesn’t wait for me, even if I don’t have to remind myself.

The reason this guy’s time feels so fleeting is probably because I’ve been living so frantically.

As I run around every day to make a living, it is the final chapter of Act 2.

It seems like yesterday that Yenica took over the student center and started a riot… As she was taking care of her test scores, scenarios, and camps, it was half a year before such a major accident occurred.

No matter how fiercely and thoroughly you live, if you run like that, there are things that you have not been able to deal with.

Unfinished tasks due to busy schedules usually raise their heads again when they are the busiest, frantic, and sensitive.

Act 2 went well for the most part.

The ‘occupation of Ophelis Hall’ and ‘the battle for the sage’s seal’, which were slightly twisted, were all well sealed.

However, in the process, one problem that has been deferred and has not been completely resolved remains clear.

In the original story, Elte, the golden king, was completely defeated and had no chance to recover.

The fact that he was dismissed a little earlier than planned, which gave him time to make one last struggle, is probably a more deferred problem than a solved one.

– ‘yes that’s right. It seems that the dismissal of the Elte company has been completed, but seeing that the resignation proposal was accepted more coolly than expected, it seems that there is a plan.’

– ‘I’m worried that Hakoji could go to Ed-sunbaenim. That’s why I called to see if there were any other personal problems.’

– ‘I see. Obviously, I don’t know what the cornered Elte will do, so I’ll have to keep my mind straight at all times.’

When I visited the Elte Chamber, Lortel mentioned it. He must have been thinking about his own response.

Act 2 is your last chance to prepare yourself for the second half of the scenario, when ridiculous ordeals begin to strike.

This is the time when Taylor grows up in earnest and becomes strong enough to confront the main characters of the scenario.

Gradually, the ordeal of Act 2 is almost over.

Now, finally, with Professor Glast’s defeat, Act 2 should be finished neatly and clearly.

We cannot allow the remnants of the past to survive and create new variables.

I’ve been talking about my sister and sister, but my own information superiority that I can see through all the set future trends… It’s my best weapon that I can’t yield to anyone. If you want to survive in this world with a fragile body, it is an absolute advantage that should never be abandoned.

If someone needs to leave act 2, they should leave at act 2.

Elte is a colossus who has accumulated a lot of experience in the world of Sangdo. How big of a variable will it be for him to survive until the end and maintain his power? No need to explain step by step.

I have already experienced enough. The butterfly effect caused by a third-class villain, who should have fallen and left at the beginning of the story, is enough to shake the world.

that’s unavoidable That third-class villain is me.

He is prepared to accept and rectify such a change.

At least I have to survive. It’s not someone else’s story, it’s my story.

However, if it was someone other than me, the story would be different.

He fixed Lucy and carried him, walking back and forth to Taylor’s group. Lortel followed behind him, and Yenica came to his senses with a belated sigh and followed.

“The more, the closer you come…!”

Taylor exclaimed, shaking the hand holding the sword. Even Elvira glared at me in a cold sweat.

Shortly thereafter, just as Taylor was about to push the sword up, Ziggs grabbed the handle of Taylor’s sword and lowered it again, standing between me and Taylor.

“Sir Ed.”

Spear jigs of vegetation. He was one of the guys who would be a more reliable colleague than anyone else by Taylor’s side.

“We don’t want to fight Ed-senpai. I just want to save Isla.”

“okay. go to the rescue Because I don’t really want to fight.”

It seems that I misunderstood her wretched appearance, but I also have no desire to fight with Taylor.

“If you go all the way from here, the road will be almost clear. It’s cumbersome to explain the details, so ask him after you rescue Ayla. Since you and I were kidnapped, he will explain the situation.”

“Ed-senpai… Then…”

“I have an urgent matter to deal with. have to go So get out of the way.”

silence for a while.

There was a brief exchange of glances between the party following me and Taylor and the party facing me.

Ziggs lowered his gaze, looked at Taylor for a moment and then nodded. He straightened his arms outstretched toward Taylor, and withdrew to one side with Taylor.

In fact, when the two men leading the subjugation team got out of the way, the rest of the party swallowed dry saliva and veered to one side.

I also glanced at Lortel and Yenica, and strolled along the open road.

As I passed by the road, the gaze staring at me was very stinging.

With Yenikawa, who reverse-summoned all the spirits, Lortel wearing a robe, and Lucy who was sleeping soundly… I went out toward the exit.

When I turned around, Taylor and the others were back in line and staring at us.

“Tailey.”

It’s a face that looks like it’s in vain understandable

However, there is still a lot of work to be done inside the underground waterway.

I managed to catch a few small named bosses and a few monsters along the way… but the Astrology Researcher Kumdo, the resurrected underground canal demon, Cyclops, and Glast the seeker remain.

One of those bosses, Lortel… can’t help it. Right now, Elte’s work is more urgent.

Since Lortel is a conditionally hostile boss, it doesn’t matter if you skip it.

Besides that, there will be many hardships and hard trials. Those experiences and rewards will become blood and flesh.

In particular, resisting Glast’s Aspect Magic would be too painful for a human mind to handle.

“Take care.”

There was no need to explain each and every word of the situation or give long encouragement.

After throwing out just one short word, me and my party hid in the darkness of the underground waterway.

Taylor and the others stood still as they looked at my back as I was getting farther away…

In the end, he didn’t say anything.

*

gait has accelerated.

Slowly and slowly, I, Yenika and Lortel proceeded towards the exit through the water.

“My father is already in a situation where his resignation is certain, but that doesn’t mean there is no way to turn the situation around.”

Lortel summed up the situation in a calm tone.

“After all, the resignation of Elte Corporation is based on the theory of responsibility. The decisive cause of this resignation is the loss of the long-running goods trade… If you are freed from this responsibility, you will be able to survive once.”

“then…”

“Yeah… I’m trying to get evidence that this business loss is the result of a hoax.”

Elte, who should have been defeated by Lortel in the battle for the sage’s seal, if it was originally.

There wasn’t even a chance to recover. As soon as he took responsibility for the loss of gear, it should have been stamped on the inside of the chamber.

However, the only news so far is that the passage of the bill is certain, but there is no news that it has been passed properly…

“Are you using the power inside the company to fight?”

“If the original plan went as planned, the resignation bill should have been passed quickly without even having an opportunity to resist, but it seems that the plan did not go smoothly because the plan was moved forward.”

He knew very well that it had given Elte time to return to Sylvania.

“I will try to overturn all the documents in the upper branch, but there will be no evidence to change the situation. I am not stupid enough to leave such evidence.”

“Then will the conclusion be the same as last time?”

“yes. The surest way would be to capture me and make me tell the truth, be it torture or whatever I do.”

Whatever it may be, it is most certain to directly grab Lortel, the focal point of the Elte overthrow plan.

“No, Ed!”

It was a process of quickly organizing the situation and devising a countermeasure.

However, Yenika, who had been following me well, suddenly pulled the cuffs. It was so sudden that I almost dropped Lucy in an instant.

Yenica just stood in front of the road on a pon- pon-pon walk, and trembled with her arms outstretched to block the road.

“You can’t follow Lortel, Ed.”

“Yenika?”

“You’re going to get hurt again!”

Yenica herself didn’t expect her voice to be that high, so her voice was startled, so she gasped and grabbed her neck.

“Now, Ed, we must not forget that we have been abducted and imprisoned and have barely escaped. I don’t know the details, but it’s too unreasonable to go back to the Golden King Elte with this body…!”

And Yenica turned her gaze to Lortel, not me.

“Did you forget that it was just yesterday that you collapsed from overwork?”

Yenika is not good at getting angry with people.

I’m not used to raising my voice or even asking questions, so I can’t help but have a distorted voice here and there.

Nevertheless, Yenika did something unfamiliar and glared at Lortel.

“It’s the Elte company’s business. Strictly speaking… it has nothing to do with Ed… I just don’t want Ed to get hurt anymore…”

Even when I’m angry, I feel like it’s okay to do this, so my voice gradually decreases, so it’s very Yenika’s.

And the argument itself is not wrong.

Anyway, Elte’s downfall and everything else is just Lortel’s case.

From a standpoint of ignorance of my circumstances, frankly, no matter what the power structure of the Elte Company is, if I can keep my body alone, there is no problem.

It’s a theory, but there’s no way it would work for Lortel.

If things had gone this far, Elte wouldn’t be able to leave me alone as if I pretended to know the whole story.

Other than that, it’s also possible to make excuses and somehow get me involved in this, but…

“Yenika-senpai is right.”

Contrary to expectations, Lortel affirmed Jenica’s words. I thought the two of them were a canine, but…

“It must be my selfishness to get Ed sunbaenim involved here. It is true that Ed-sunbaenim is just taking care of himself in a safe place.”

“I’m grateful for that, but unfortunately it’s not about anyone else.”

I can’t make these kids understand how important it is to get Elte off the stage.

If you can’t explain it, you have no choice but to push it. Since the situation is urgent anyway, there is no other condition like this to use the excuse of not having time to explain.

“yes? Ed-senpai?”

“It’s not about anyone else, so let’s get out of here first.”

There was a moment of silence at those words.

He didn’t seem to have said anything special, but an emptiness that seemed to stop time for a moment came.

The answer came first from Lortel.

“What do you mean Ed?!”

No, Yenica came first.

Lortel opened her mouth to say something, and then ran back and forth a few steps as if a fire had fallen on her foot. His ears turned red, as if he had been attacked by something unexpected.

“Move now! I don’t have time!”

If Elte really has invaded the Sylvanian living quarters, it won’t take long to locate Lortel and reach this underground waterway.

Inside this underground waterway, everything Elte wants is there.

Lortel Keheln, who can prove that the loss from the sale of the long gear was a ploy to overthrow Elte.

And I, Ed, who will support the credibility of that testimony.

Even the real seal of the sage who had been trying so hard to buy it.

There is no way that the academic forces, including the principal Obel, will stand still due to the intervention of the third force, but at least in the midst of such a riot, even Elte will not be able to afford to pay attention.

I don’t know what Elte will do with that gap.

“What are you talking about, Ed?! Isn’t that what someone else is talking about?! You two are no longer alone?! Do you have a contract with Lortel? Really, right?! If Lortel loses the real power of the company, Eddo will have a problem with the distribution of magic engineering supplies, right?! Yes, then there are definitely no leftovers!”

It feels like her brain is suddenly spinning, and Yenica’s ability to judge the situation has doubled than usual.

Following me as I rushed out, Yenika made up excuses she hadn’t thought of yet.

Yenika… You’re smarter than I thought??

“That’s right!”

“Is not it! Well! Well!”

It was such a sudden situation that I couldn’t even explain it all to Yenica, but the way she infers it well enough just by looking at her appearance at that time… It’s definitely like a senior in the grade.

You might ask how this figure carrying Lucy came to be, but when I showed my busy appearance, Yenika just ran along while holding an oak wand.

The first thing to do is to go back to the Sylvania branch of the Elte Chamber and determine how things are going.

It’s better to block Elte from doing strange things there. At least until Taylor finishes the final chapter well.

So for a while, I ran with all my might toward the exit. I was still exhausted, but I was quite out of breath as I was carrying Lucy.

As we progressed through the underground waterway that seemed to continue endlessly, we could see traces of battle from time to time.

I thought maybe it was a trace of Taylor’s passing. From the beginning of the underground water, I had to deal with a large number of demonic golems and intermediate bosses… .It was worth it.

And as we got closer to the exit, a huge battle trail remained.

The middle boss of Act 2, Chapter 2.

Senior Demonic Golem Hatton and Alchemy Department 3rd Year Chief Dorothy.

The demon golem Hatton was completely smashed, and its fragments were spread around the entrance to the waterway, while Dorothy was lost and lost.

“It was a complete mess.”

The beginning of Phase 2 is not that difficult. If it were Taylor’s current specs, it would have been at a level that would allow him to break through in a straight line with almost no blockage.

It’s the first time I’ve run backwards from the secret lab to the underground waterway, so it’s quite refreshing to arrive late and see the traces of the battle.

I ran to the entrance to quickly judge the situation and looked around. The Demon Golem Hatton completely died.

I looked at Dorothy, who was lying on the floor, and her face was full of saliva and tears, as if she had fainted from trembling in fear.

Anyone who sees it would know that I was tortured. In Taylor’s mentality, there’s no way that’s going to happen.

“Tailly, you’re a real senior and you acted horribly without anything. When you look at it like this, there is no real blood or tears.”

I sighed as I looked at Dorothy’s face as she was lying down. Still, if you are Dorothy, you are a person who does not look down on you anywhere, but you would have been shattered so horribly.

“Oh, yes! That’s right!”

After saying that, Yenika answered in a strangely confused tone. I didn’t mean to ask for an answer…?

“A bit violent! Well!”

“Yenika-senpai…”

Lortel was looking at Yenika, who responded with wiggling her fingers, with strangely pathetic eyes.

It’s a fight about why you’re telling lies that will get caught anyway. I was skeptical of her appearance, so I looked down at Dorothy once more, and saw the shawl that covered her body.

This shawl, embroidered with cute cosmos, must have been… Yenika wore it over her school uniform.

Come to think of it, for some reason I wondered if Yenika was only wearing a bare school uniform, so I looked again. Yenika giggled and hiccuped, then groaned.

“sorry! You lied!’

“Did you do it, Yenica?”

“I didn’t mean to do this, but how did you do it like this, how did you do it that way? But I’m not that kind of person without blood or tears…! Do not misunderstand! It’s real… it’s real…”

“No, I… I’m sorry. I said it because I didn’t know what you said.”

I felt sorry for the way he was defending himself with his arms bandaged, so the apple came out of nowhere.

“It was because I didn’t have time to explain my circumstances… Ed…! Do not misunderstand…! I should start talking about this when that… mug flew at me… don’t look at me like that… that violent person…! Don’t look at me like that!”

There is no way for me to know what Lortel was doing, but it was necessary to listen to Yenika’s situation.

Because I needed to know what was going on outside while I was locked up there.

“For now, let’s listen to the story as we head towards the exit!”

Since you’ve come this far, just take one long staircase and you’re right outside.

Being confined only inside this damp and deep underground waterway, I felt as if I was cut off from the outside world.

Let’s go out, breathe in the fresh air, and think about our immediate course of action.

Saying so, he ran up the stairs. Lortel and Jenica quickly followed suit.

After crossing the long stairs, I finally came out to the underground water.

The fresh air filled my lungs, and the open night sky caught my eye. Even before the feeling of openness that I finally came out of the stuffy underground waterway fills my heart…

“…”

The sight in front of me was different from what I expected.

If it’s fairly wide, the entrance to a wide, marbled underground waterway.

One of the wagons parked there is obviously… Lortel Keheln’s.

Did the staff wait outside the entrance before entering the underground waterway?

However, most of the staff had already been suppressed.

One, two, three…. A large number of mercenaries that could not be counted on their fingers were besieging the entrance to the underground waterway.

“It’s sooner than I expected, Dad.”

“I threatened the company’s staff and they told me that you were headed for this waterway. There are still a lot of gaps in personnel management, Lortel.”

Despite the starlight in the night sky, the darkness that settled around the entrance to the waterway was still thick.

Normally, there would have been no way that the college would have allowed such a large number of mercenaries to enter.

However, most of the academic staff are focused on repairing the damage in the Trix Hall… The rest are being dispatched to search for Professor Glast.

Taylor, the first to find Professor Glast and pursued it, quickly gathered his colleagues and pursued them quickly, but the response of the faculty and staff, who heard the news only through reports and documents, had to be slow.

In the first place, they tried to subdue Professor Glast in accordance with the procedures with the faculty, but it was too late to know what would happen to Ayla. So it’s not hard to understand Taylor’s dogma.

Still… I wish the faculty would have stopped Elte from entering the bachelor’s degree…

This mistake… Elte’s meticulous human nature must have played a part.

“How did you cross the bridge coming to Aken Island? There is only one entrance.”

“If you can cross the waterway, you don’t have to use the bridge.”

Using the darkness of the night, they took several small ships and brought the mercenaries into the Bachelor. The dragon’s initiative is like a serpent.

“It would be a big problem on the academic side.”

“At least it’s better than losing my life. Isn’t it? If I can finish all of the above business right here and now, I’ll accept any accusations or accusations of responsibility after that.”

The splendid and splendid figure had lost a lot of light.

Elte’s appearance, which looked like money was going to run out just by looking at it, was replaced by a modest and inconspicuous outfit. Some of the ornaments were still valuable, but it was true that they were much shabby compared to their former glory.

It is the one who reached the brink of the abyss and grabbed the rock that came out of the cliff.

Because of his desperation, he doesn’t even predict his enemies recklessly.

Bringing a mercenary team of this size to dealing with three or four students is indeed… People who don’t know may think that it is an overreaction.

“If Principal Obel came forward, a merchant like me would be overpowered in an instant. I have to get everything done before that.”

“If you can take advantage of the chaos and take advantage of the chaos, it can’t get any better than this, right?”

At Lortel’s question, Elte replaced the answer with a laugh.

Such a noisy bachelor’s accident is an opportunity for a genius Il-woo from Elte’s point of view.

If you don’t save the present well, you won’t get a second chance.

“I have no intention of getting off this stage yet, Lortel.”

I quietly lifted my head and looked at Elte.

Act 2 fake boss. In the end, the villain is kicked out of the stage after being stabbed in the back by Lortel.

Seeing that fattened face… I didn’t feel bad about it.

Selfish, inherently evil, willing to kill for my own glory and prosperity, and is not afraid to take advantage of others.

I know.

Whatever the story, the existence of a villain that looks like a painting is indispensable.

If there is a protagonist who is good and sublime and who inspires everyone, there must also be a villain who is born evil and has an ugly personality and ends up being miserable.

It’s ironic that it’s easier to become a villain than the main character in life.

If you live far away while taking care of your share, it is common for someone to look like a villain without blood or tears.

Of course, Elte went too far. A person who has crossed the moral line that must be kept at least over and over again.

Nevertheless, I do not have any ill will towards him.

The reason why Elte blocks our path so terribly is… in the end, to survive.

He didn’t want to be left alone as a villain who fell off the turbulent stage and was eliminated after being defeated.

So… to survive.

It doesn’t matter how clean you are. It is something that every living person longs for.

For me, that is by no means a distant story. That’s because I was in that situation.

So, I did not morally condemn Elte.

However, I also have no intention of making concessions.

– Curlleung!

– Kwaang!

The earthquake came without warning.

Elte, the mercenaries brought by Elte, the captive employees of the company, and Yenica and Lortel were totally unexpected… in a sudden shock, they quickly lowered themselves.

It was different from the shock when Lucy pierced the ground.

While the heavens and earth were shaking as if they were upside down, I quickly adjusted my posture.

A flash of light flashed in the sky for an instant, and lightning struck all over the site of Sylvania.

The high-ranking magic ‘Arrival of the Demon Realm’ can only be used when the seven stars in the night sky form a straight line and their shape is clearly visible.

It is the largest of Professor Glast’s Aspect Magic.

The enormous amount of mana circulating in the atmosphere met Professor Glast’s Aspect Magic, and reacted to the Aspect Magic Circle that had been engraved here and there in the Bachelor.

Suddenly, the sound of an explosion resounded everywhere, and a huge mana tower began to soar here and there that it gave me a sore throat just looking up.

Its scale is larger than imagined. Each magic tower seems to pierce the clouds. It is so high that you think it will take half a day just to climb to the top.

This is Professor Glast’s magic tower construction event that takes place the moment Taylor and his party enter the secret laboratory.

To pursue Professor Glast, who escaped to the magic tower, he had no choice but to head to the entrance to the magic tower in the deepest part of the secret laboratory.

– Kwaang! Quang! Quang!

Each of the mana towers acts as an antenna that absorbs the constellation mana.

It’s not one, it’s two… three… four… and then it reaches ten.

If you want to twist Providence, you must do this.

As if talking like that, the final stage of the story rises.

– Wrath!

As if reacting to that enormous magical power, Lucy, who was on her back, widened her eyes.

“A lion revived?”

Then he shook his head, looked up at the sky, and muttered to himself.

I stood upright under the procession of dark red mana that colored the night sky.

Even as the world shook, Elte was staring straight at us.

If you go behind this, you will find the stage of the story.

I can understand the feeling of clenching your teeth and trying to survive and somehow reach the top of the stage.

Unfortunately, Elte’s journey ended here.

It is not the story of a beautiful windswept music that unfolds on a well-prepared stage.

In the fierce competition for survival of the culled villains… The act of arguing between good and evil is just ridiculous.

Elte has no more assigned roles left.

If it’s a person who isn’t friendly to me, has no potential to have a positive impact or be my strength in an emergency.

I’m sorry, but I have to get off the stage. I have no intention of getting out of here.

I have to survive too.

*

– Bang!

Taylor and the others were able to break through from the groundwater to the monster lab in an almost straight line.

It was also due to the fact that the monsters in the way weren’t that strong, but above all, all the big roads had already been cleared.

It was evident that Ed Roth-Taylor had pre-drilled the road as he escaped.

The battle traces are clean, and there is no waste in the movement.

I wondered if a trap had been set up to harm Taylor and the others, but there was no trace of that.

Even at the library of souls, there was no enemy left to see if Ed had completely finished it.

Is it really Ed Roth Taylor who really supported Taylor and the others?

Then, what is the ‘urgent thing’ that Ed, who quickly left the underground waterway, was talking about?

In this situation in which the teacher building is gone for four months, a student is kidnapped, and Bong-seo is taken away… What more urgent matters should be dealt with than this?

With such a question in mind… Taylor’s party continued to go deeper into the secret laboratory.

Now I have to save Isla.

That fact was most important to them.