How to Survive at the Academy chapter 63

Glast Subjugation (12)

“You have to go all the way in this direction. Will you be there if I walk a bit?”

“Uh-huh. The further you go, the darker it gets.”

Still, it is Lortel who must do all he can to restrain and contain Elte.

I said that I could go back to the upper house and look at work, but I stuck with the party like Deukdal.

It’s normal to show signs of anxiety, but… this time, the direction was a little different.

Contrary to the way he always looked at Yenica with fiery eyes, today Lortel’s strange eyes were directed at Lucy.

As if Lucy, who somehow grabbed my cuffs and followed me, was very uncomfortable… Lortel didn’t go back to the upper bound. Well, now that Elte has to escape, there is no mercenary to assist him. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, since I can’t get out of the island and I’ll be caught again…

In the end, Yenika continued to guide her with a liberated face.

Aspect magic circle that high spirits discovered in the northern forest. He didn’t know how to release it right away, and he didn’t know what it was used for in the first place, so he was heading towards the courthouse that said he had only put a watch on it. After several days and several days of monitoring, there was no reaction, so it was judged that it was not dangerous.

In the first place, if you were going to build a dozen mana towers, it was necessary to draw the constellation law circles here and there in the bachelors. Obviously, I didn’t pay much attention to the fact that Professor Glast had prepared in advance, but… The problem is that not a single magic tower has risen from the inside of the northern forest.

If the law school had a purpose other than building a magic tower… I thought that Professor Glast might have other intentions.

When I looked up at the sky, many magic towers were falling apart with cracks.

Now that the Glast subjugation battle is over, Taylor’s group will be filming the final escape from the Magic Tower by rescuing Ayla.

There’s no need to dig deeper into Glast’s secrets now, but since he’s thorough, there’s nothing to lose…

In the depths of the northern forest that we reached under Yenica’s guidance… Although not very large, the constellation circle was drawn with a definite shape.

“There are signs of a recent activation. The spirits were focused on the academic commotion, so I guess they didn’t check it.”

Saying so, Yenika started looking around the area around the courthouse. Even so, it could not have been so easy to decipher the Aspect Code, which still had many unexplained realms.

“This is mobile magic. I maximized the efficiency of the magic consumed for engraving by using the Holy Spirit’s magic. The magic efficiency is better than the spirit formula already injected, so I would like to activate it for escape in a crisis situation.”

It was unexpectedly Lucy who gave the explanation in a calm tone.

Seeing Lucy still clutching my cuffs tightly, I tilted my head.

“okay?”

“okay.”

Then, he sighs and yawns out loud.

By the way… I knew what was so dissatisfying, so I was about to tell him to let go of his collar and talk slowly.

“There are bloodstains.”

Yenika discovered a strange trace.

Thick bloodstains from the outside of the beop stretched out toward the outskirts of the forest.

It was a sign that someone seriously injured walked out of the moving system and headed into the forest.

We exchanged glances and nodded once.

It goes without saying whose work this beopjin engraved with the Aspect Magic was.

Close your eyes and think of the last scene in Act 2, the final chapter.

In order to revive a great man who will realize his ideal for the advancement of the world, Professor Glast’s end, who touches the taboo.

His last appearance, full of wounds, leaving behind an unknown will. He thought that was Professor Glast’s last, but he had left this way out.

Did he escape by pretending to have jumped out of the air and using his last remaining magic power to manifest the Holy Spirit Beopjin? If you just run away openly, the chase will follow, so it’s a wise choice.

I wonder if he’s going to run away like this and cause something more… but considering that nothing has happened since then in the love affair, I don’t think it’s necessary to touch it…

With such anguish, he followed the bloodstains. And when he found Professor Glast at the end, he seemed to understand why nothing had changed since then.

Late night, bright moon.

Professor Glast, who was sitting on his back under an old tree and exhaling… was already dead.

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Torn staff robes. The hair was soaked in blood. haggard impression. Dark red blood seeping into the surrounding soil.

The wounds on his body… were pierced beyond the cut. Now, you have to escort them with a fuss and fuss, so the word is decided. He was stopping the bleeding with the remaining magical power, but he couldn’t expect any other effect other than to increase the string of life a little more.

“Oh.”

In a blood-simmering voice, Professor Glast raised his eyebrows as if intrigued.

“It must be a dormitory curfew. What are the students doing here?”

“Are you even saying that in such a situation?”

Yenika covered her mouth with both hands and her pupils were shaking, and Lortel looked calm at first glance, but her eyes were narrowed. Of course, Lucy didn’t seem to mind. In the meantime, the cuffs do not let go.

Yenika asked in a trembling voice.

“Here… what…”

“I was looking up at the moon.”

The shade of the tall trees prevents the surrounding vegetation from getting sunlight.

Therefore, the vicinity of such a huge tree is always empty, with no other bushes.

That must be the reason why you can clearly see the sky when you look up through the leaves.

“Have you designed an escape route like this in advance, and did you fight until you reached that state?”

“Huhu… I tried until I could and if it didn’t work, I tried to run away, but it didn’t work out the way I wanted to. In the end, we fought until we got to this point… After all, it’s something that people know, even if they don’t know.”

Prof. Glast, who had been devastated, quietly lowered his gaze and grinned.

“why? Is it funny?”

“no. It’s not funny.”

“It’s so odd. I find myself funny.”

Professor Glast looked up at the night sky again and continued speaking in a tone of self-help.

“He must have known that in the end my plan was going to end up like this. Seriously, it was too reckless to anyone looking at it. I never thought I would be overpowered by a group of students…”

“Did you know, who?”

“Well.”

Professor Glast was speechless, but that was enough for me to understand.

The back of the school’s chief executive, Principal Obel Forsius, who must have been looking down at the faculty building from the Trix Building, seemed to flutter in front of him.

Seeing my expression, Professor Glast let out a small sigh and rested. Knowing that I had a certain sense of humor, he continued to speak in a candid tone.

“I’ve dedicated ten years to the Sylvanian Bachelor, but I can’t afford to pay a single severance pay.

“I don’t think it was the right thing to do. I am not in a position to judge what is right or wrong in what I do.”

“Well, the long relationship between Principal Obell and me is… It’s purely just a matter between us. Even if that were the case, if I tried to cross the front line, they would have come to stop me. Anyway, I’m a useless human being with a lot of savagery. It doesn’t suit the principal.”

What Obel, who had served as the principal since Glast was a first-time professor, must have thought of him as he greeted him with these words… I couldn’t fathom that.

Also, looking at Glast’s blood-stained face, he didn’t even want to question him further.

“I took advantage of Principal Obel’s hesitation, but strangely, I don’t feel guilty.”

“I ended up in this situation.”

“That’s an accurate point. Ed Roth Taylor.”

Glast continued speaking in a sultry tone, as if the answer to a question posed to the student in class was correct.

“After all, you were an honor student more than I expected. Did you find it too late for me?”

“…Why did you kidnap me in the first place? Aren’t I really not needed in Professor Glast’s plans?”

Although there were big and small surprises, the main flow went well as expected.

In other words, if you hadn’t kidnapped me in the first place, Professor Glast’s plans would not have been disrupted.

“There was no time. The reaction is imminent, and there’s a lot of work to be done, and I just couldn’t afford to convince you and embrace you. As a result, the means had no choice but to become violent.”

“…what does that mean?”

“You caught me once and sent me a letter, but did you not reply because you collapsed from overwork?”

On the day I received the letter from Lortel and Princess Fenia, there must have been a letter from Professor Glast from the bachelor’s side as well.

In the end, he collapsed after a ridiculous forced march… In the end, he didn’t have a chance to schedule a conversation with Professor Glast.

“I had a premonition too… After this is over, I will no longer be able to set foot in this school, regardless of success or failure.”

He lifted up his blood-stained hand and put it into his bosom with difficulty.

Then, with a hand that seemed to run out of power at any moment… he pulled out a key that was stained with blood.

“I can’t seem to respond to Bong-seo. I left the seal there, so I’ll pass it back to the bachelor’s hand. Well, that must be unavoidable. You escaped first.”

“Then the key is…”

“It looks like you stole some fancy stuff from my soul library, but you’ve done something useless.”

Professor Glast gathered his last strength and threw a key into the grass in front of him.

“How many legendary recipes did you think were the most valuable items in the library?”

“Are you saying there are more?”

“There is a secret safe under the tabletop that Banshee Reina was guarding. Go slowly and open it later. After all, the library is now yours. It was a flashy run, but it’s in good shape. I’ll have to clean it all by hand again, so it’s not worth it.”

I looked at Professor Glast with my eyes wide open.

Professor Glast’s secret laboratory is an unofficial facility that has not been publicly discussed even in the bachelor’s degree. Well, it’s mostly a demon lab, and there are very few research materials that can be used in my line in the first place… but at least the soul library was a different story.

Even on the outskirts of the forest, Lucy drilled a hole directly through it, so if you install a ladder and hide the hole well, it will become a secret hideout and treasure trove that you can enter at any time.

It’s a facility where a huge number of tech supplies and manufacturing recipes have popped up even if you shake it for a bit, but can you make it completely my own by slowly restoring it?

“Only when an investigation comes out at the academic level, please pass it on.”

What Lucy put out to smashing was rather an advantage. What might be buried in the half-destroyed library… because the academic staff don’t know.

I slowly made my way to Professor Glast’s front… I carefully lifted the key.

“Why are you giving me this…?”

“Are you dissatisfied with it?”

“Isn’t it a style that places more value on talented students?”

At that, Professor Glast smiled bitterly.

“Talented students are all over this Sylvania.”

I spit out the words I thought would never come out of his mouth.

“I thought I would be scolded if I went to see my daughter who died like this.”

“…”

“Yeah, I’ve been living a bit immersed. When I was young, I used to live with a lot of romantic voices telling me not to judge a student’s worth based on talent or ability. It was a long time ago, but when I come back and look back now, the chicken meat is really growing.”

Wiping away the flowing blood, Professor Glast helped himself again.

“Still, it wasn’t wrong. At least I was so sure when my daughter was alive.”

I thought it would be cold when the blood bleeds out, but it’s actually warm.

After uttering such kind words, Professor Glast relaxed his body.

“Still… the 17 years I spent with my daughter wasn’t too bad…”

“Were you 17?”

“Yeah… 17 years… long if it’s long… it’s short if it’s short…”

Talking up to that point, Professor Glast was sober. Yenica was startled and trembled, but… she couldn’t even say a word of concern.

Even the magic to maintain the state of hemostasis had run out. In the first place, he wasn’t in a condition that could be resolved by stopping the bleeding. The body itself has reached its limit by overloading the Holy Spirit’s mana too much.

I will hardly have the energy to speak now. In the meantime, the corners of his lips not lowering are really disgusting.

He chuckled a few times, then smirked with a sizzling sound.

“Considering that dying so lonely is the price of sin, it’s not a bad trade-off compared to the sins committed.”

Professor Glast closed his eyes.

There is no one around him as he sits leaning against the zelkova tree and slowly reflects on his life.

In any case, he is the one who arbitrarily secured the student’s life as collateral. In the end, no one can deny the fact that he is the one who went wrong.

“I came here to meet Claire assistant professor. He grumbled about this and that, but in the end he recognized Professor Glast. I was surprised that he cried a lot when he said that Professor Glast was the most scholarly person.”

Perhaps he didn’t even have the energy to answer, Professor Glast didn’t respond.

“Isn’t your relationship with Assistant Professor Claire long? 4 years during the degree program, 5 years after completing the teaching profession. If I had stayed until the end of my professor’s retirement age, I would have known him for 17 years.”

“…”

Looking up through the leaves of the zelkova tree, the moon is warm.

“It’s 17 years… If it’s long, it’s long… If it’s short, it’s short…”

Professor Glast opened his eyes at those words.

He raises his throat to say something… but he has no energy left.

He is self-reporting that he is dying in solitude, but that’s just what he thinks because his field of view is narrow.

Glast need not think of himself as lonely. This death… will never be a cold death with no one to grieve.

In the first place, the human field of view itself is not very wide. If you only look behind you and walk, you don’t know what’s right next to you.

Even an authoritative scholar who has read numerous books in the field of magic, the people of Hangil do not know it. Even if it is your own mind.

Supporting the weight of his eyelids, the last person to come into his sight was Lucy.

What kind of expression did Lucy have as she clutches my forearm and looks at him?

Unfortunately it was out of my sight.

“Yeah… that’s wise…”

Talking like that, I just made an analogy through Glast, who closed her eyes as if she was sleeping.

In Act 2, the curtain falls, and the world slowly falls asleep.

The body, lying comfortably on the zelkova tree in the moonlight… At first glance, it seems that he was drunk from a good night’s sleep.

We just stared at it for a while.