How to Survive at the Academy chapter 66

Lucy Meryl (3)

Leaves fluttered with every step he took.

I was walking around the mountain like I was half-float, and when I came to my senses, I was already halfway through.

I sat on the fringes of the tops of the conifers that were barely visible, and looked out over the mountains. The color of the forest, which had been dyed colorfully, is also slowly subsiding.

The leaves in late autumn disappear one by one, and the mountain prepares for the next season.

The girl stares blankly at the sky.

I sniff my nose and take one breath, and the sticky moisture clings to my lungs.

“It’s going to rain.”

I looked back a little. It feels much younger and cleaner than my original voice.

A girl with a fast head turns immediately upon hearing her voice. oh this is a dream

When I looked down and saw the outfit I was wearing now, it wasn’t the academy uniform I usually wore, but the old blouse I wore when I was walking in the mountains back in the day.

The scenery you see is also not Aken Island.

In the northern part of the empire where he spent his childhood, the Lamelen Mountains. An old hut can also be seen through the sprawling branches of the trees.

Now, there is another reason why I am dreaming of my childhood.

She is not a girl with deep thoughts enough to analyze such a thing. However, if it’s a dream I’m dreaming of, I want to chew on the good memories.

What comes to mind is the owner of the hut in that landscape.

With a thick beard, small wrinkles, and a bent waist, he is a straight human being.

A self-proclaimed scholar, but also a first-class wizard. What I usually do on such a subject is chopping firewood, reading a book in an armchair, or plucking an instrument while staring blankly at the fireplace.

They’re all insignificant together.

When the girl was just born into the world, the Archmage had already reached the twilight of her life. What kind of life he has led is completely unknown to the girl.

Now that I’m dreaming of an old dream, shall I see the face of that inspiration? With that thought in mind, the girl lightly tightened her legs and slammed into the tree.

The sound of the wind breaking through the sky and the rustling of the hem of the clothes pierce the ears.

The girl quickly flew away and reached the front of the hut, and naturally wrapped herself up and landed.

I feel like I’m back in my hometown when I see that old hut from the past.

I looked out the pretty window on one side, and the shadows flickered. The back of the inspiration, who will be waiting for the girl sitting in a rocking chair in front of the warm fireplace light, is easily drawn.

The girl often walks towards the hut. It’s not like her, it’s okay to feel excited.

– Fight. tuk. tuk.

However, there is something the girl overlooked. The moist air that made my chest moist all the time. As if recovering the double track, the rain soon begins to pour.

“…”

The rain quickly thickens and wets the girl. The wet water makes the clothes stick to the skin. Even a few strands of hair stick to the cheeks, showing off my presence.

After looking up at the pouring rain for a while, the girl turned her gaze back to the hut and swallowed her breath.

The light in the hut, which until now seemed cozy, is turned off. The light of the bonfire that was visible through the window disappeared in just a few seconds.

The eaves are lined with cobwebs, and even the neat doorknobs are dusty.

this is a nightmare

Even though I was conscious of it, my body couldn’t help it.

I quickly opened the door and looked inside the hut… Someone is still sitting in a rocking chair.

dark interior. Inspiration slowly turns his head through the damp air.

A skeleton without a single flesh. He clenched his teeth and looked at the girl.

Years pass, the bones are already crumbling, and the centipede crawling through the hole where the eye should have been.

He continues to clench his teeth and then whispers to the girl. Why didn’t you save me? I had a chance, so why did you ignore me?

There is no change in the girl’s expression. As always, he stares at the skull with blank eyes.

The skeleton casts a curse on the girl.

Don’t think the things around you will last forever. One day, like me, you will be destroyed by the winds and waves of time, and you will count the days you will die alone. You know very well that loss comes without warning.

After saying that, the appearance of the teeth that stopped after hitting each other seemed to be smiling horribly.

Still, the girl doesn’t even move. The skull gradually turns into powder and disappears.

The skeleton completely loses its shape, and only the clothes it was wearing remain, and it sinks into the chair.

– Wrath!

Lucy opened her eyes and raised her upper body.

“…”

The location is Room 203 in the closed building.

The bachelor’s is putting all his effort into the restoration of the Ophelis Hall, but it seemed that he would be able to join the company again until at least the next semester.

Until that time, the old abandoned Kwan-dong was decorated and used as luxuriously as possible. Still, it could not be as luxurious as the Ophelis Hall before the Banpa.

The situation was unavoidable, so most of the students had no choice but to accept it.

Still, the excellent workmanship of the Ophelis Hall maids was not going anywhere, so the general public opinion was that it was tolerable except for the bad building.

Lucy wiped away the cold sweat, then took off the blanket and got up. Immediately after that, I opened the window. The cool morning air blows away a cold sweat.

The outer part of the living building and the entrance to the teaching building are visible.

The dormitory curfew was quickly over. Although it was ambitious, Lucy quickly put on a witch hat without taking off the frill pajamas the maid had put on, and then jumped out of the window.

Enormous magical powers were emitted from her body, and high-level space magic was expressed in an instant.

I don’t know why, but Lucy wants to go to the North Forest right now. Lucy reached the northern forest in an instant and landed in front of an old hut.

“…”

I took a deep breath and looked out the window. In front of the flickering fireplace lights. Ed Roth-Taylor caught my eye, sleeping on a shabby bed in a shabby bed.

A sigh of relief came out for no reason, and Lucy leaned against the outer wall of the hut and sat down.

As it is, the entire view of the camp can be seen at a glance. Since Lucy has had the experience of taking a nap while lying down in some places, she can immediately notice the camp losing its vitality little by little.

Firewood savings will not increase any further. The same goes for food. One foot of the workbench is broken, but it is not repaired. It’s been a while since the smoker didn’t work. All traps that should be installed in the middle of the forest are also displayed in the camp.

The owner of this camp is now… preparing to say goodbye to the camp.

Strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with Lucy. Still, Lucy felt empty, sitting alone with her legs wrapped around her, looking up at the sky.

The sky he followed is also looking down at Lucy.

“It’s going to rain.”

To those calm words, there was no one to answer.

*

[Magic Abilities Details]

Rank: Proficient Magician

Specialty: Elements

Common magic:

Fast Casting Lv 9

From noblemtl.com

Mana Detection Lv 9

Fire Elemental Magic:

Ignition Lv 15

Wind Elemental Magic:

Wind Blade Lv 14

Intermediate magic can now be learned!

Elemental Magic:

Spirit Sensation Lv 13

Spirit Understanding Lv 13

Spirit Hyunhyun Lv 3

Sense Sharing Lv 3

Elemental Slot: Lower Fire Spirit Mug

Induction Stage: 3

Elemental Efficiency: Good

Unique Grant Skill: Blessing of Hwabok (temporary explosion of fire immunity)

Explosiveness (Lesser Explosive Magic)

Increase fire magic powers

Elemental Slot: Empty

New Elemental Slot! : empty

“Soon, I will be able to sign a contract with the Lieutenant Spirit too, Ed. Merylda wants to sign a contract with Ed as soon as possible.

The day became very cold.

The evaluation at the end of the second semester will start soon. I have already applied for the Bachelor’s Scholarship Program, but I still want to get a grade scholarship, so I want to devote some time to my studies.

However, training in other fields should not be neglected, so the importance of arranging time came to the surface again. Fortunately, there are good teachers in the field of spirit science.

“Ed’s growth has been phenomenal. The spirit sensitivity is already higher than that of ordinary novice spirit masters, and the basic mana sensitivity has risen quite a bit.”

It was a car where he practiced spirits while sitting on a tree stump in front of a bonfire.

He was moderately coached by Yenica, repeatedly mastering the manifestation of spirits, and learning to share his senses with Mug until he became proficient.

It is said that experienced spirits can share both the spirits and the five senses, but there is no need to do that…

Sense sharing isn’t very good at mana efficiency, and if it spreads more than a certain distance, the effect drops sharply, so even that Yenika isn’t used well unless it’s needed…

However, you should learn everything you can.

[It is worthwhile to gain experience while constantly giving spirits to these and other things. Mr Ed. ]

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Mug sat on Yenica’s shoulder and ran. But he doesn’t look as happy as he is. Rather, he seems to be crouching as if he is concerned about something.

“That… Lucy… did I do something wrong…?”

Yenika is smiling at her somehow, but she can’t help but be concerned no matter what.

I don’t know why he’s doing this, but Lucy has been sticking with me since morning and staring at everyone who approached me with their ax eyes open.

Normally, Lucia doesn’t move unless the sun rises in the middle of the sky or she’s hungry. But today, whatever the wind, I came to the corner of the camp early in the morning and sat down.

Usually, the maids of the Ophelis Hall clench their teeth and maintain a neat appearance.

There are certainly days in life when you become diligent for no reason. Even Lucy, who is a good seller, seems to have days like that at least a day or two a year.

Thinking about it roughly, I was going to do my own thing, but suddenly he grabbed my collar and followed me around.

– ‘…What?’

– ‘…’

If you look at him asking if he has something to say, he is just practicing silently with a blank face. It doesn’t let go of the collar though.

I’m in the middle of spending the morning in such a weird state because I’m trying to clench my teeth and shake it off.

I decided to start training early in the morning because it was the weekend.

Gradually, the skill base was laid to learn intermediate magic, so in the morning, I carefully read the reference books on lieutenant magic and swung my magic here and there.

In the meantime, Lucy lay down with her stomach on my lap, waving her feet like a demonstration and did not fall.

When I had an early lunch, I crawled to the back of the board, and after that, when I started self-studying spirit arts, I sat with my back to the back of the tree stump I was sitting on and looked at the sky blankly.

Anyway, weekends are busy.

Compared to weekdays, which are crowded with academic schedules, the free time is increased, so it is a day to process all the tasks that have been put off during the weekdays.

After school or before bed, when I have free time, my nose doesn’t even show up… I wonder if it’s strange to make fun of me for sticking around when I have a lot of work to do and time is tight.

Even then, when someone appears, he suddenly changes his impression and stands upright.

When Ziggs while jogging pass by, it suddenly makes a strange noise and prevents him from approaching…

When Belle Maia, carrying neat clothes and accessories, rushes to change her clothes, she accepts Belle’s hand unexpectedly meekly.

I wondered if he had eaten something wrong, so I put my hand on my forehead and measured the temperature, and it was cold rather than hot.

“My, if I did something wrong, I apologize… huh…?”

After lunch in such a strange state, around the time Yenica came to help her with her spirits mastery training, Lucy was rather sharp-eyed.

It feels like he’s particularly hostile to Yenika… In fact, he’s making an expression that looks more like fear than hostility.

She wakes up in a cold sweat profusely and keeps blocking Yenica from approaching her… When I ask her to explain why, she just shakes her head.

Even so, Yenica is looking at her with a force to bite her whenever she approaches within a few meters of her radius, so I don’t know which rhythm she’s asking for.

Yenica, who has already been hostile to Lucy for several days, was just being resentful.

Being treated with such an attitude can make you angry, but in the first place, Yenica’s nature is good, and Lucy has an unusual sense of incongruity, so I’m just not sure what to do.

“I must have eaten something wrong. He’s a very fickle kid, so even if he does this, his anger will soon go away.”

I had no choice but to say that.

Lucy finally stuck to my back like a cicada and was staring intently at Yenica.

The way he wraps his arms and legs and stares as if to go away is like a kid trying to stop someone from stealing my belongings.

Yenika tilted her head a few times with a worried face, then sighed deeply and left the camp.

*

Lieutenant Fire Magic ‘One Point Explosion’

It is a magic developed from the fire spell, and it is an intermediate level magic that causes a small explosion by concentrating the magic power where the eyes reach and holding it tightly.

Since firepower and scale are proportional to the amount of magical power, depending on the user, there are cases where it ends at the line that causes burns, and in some cases, the archmage destroys the building altogether.

Compared to the fire spell, it looks very small, but it’s not a lieutenant’s magic for nothing. The advantage of single-point explosion comes from its overwhelming versatility.

It is easy to deal with ignition magic that has a long cast time and can clearly see flames spreading.

However, the ‘one-point explosion’, in which sparks burst from the targeted point in an instant, has an overwhelming amount of impact, and if you don’t catch the flow of magic quickly, you’ll get hit in an instant without any time to react.

“I can’t learn the basics even if I do it all day… I’m sure you can feel the difficulty of acquiring it from Lieutenant-level magic.”

It takes quite a while to learn the lieutenant’s magic as it has little to no magical talent. This is what it looks like even after some preparation for the elemental science class.

Even though I’ve been training all day with the most efficient training method, I don’t think my name will appear on the skill window, so I’m exhausted by this point.

The sun is slowly setting, but there seems to be no particular result, so I feel a little let down.

“Ehh… let’s eat some rice.”

I closed the book of Elements and threw it around.

Then he picked up the bulk of the luggage on his lap.

Lucy didn’t want to fall apart, so she sat on her lap while I read the Elements Book all day and studied the flow of magic.

“…Uh-huh…!”

Lucy stretched her tiny body wide open, and then the lines she spit out with a blank expression on her face were still there.

“…I’m hungry.”

“Go get some food. The lunch break for the students of the Ophelis Hall is over soon.”

“yes.”

Surprisingly, Lucy got up from her seat without much resistance and tried to jump in the direction of the Ophelis Hall, but suddenly changed her posture.

Standing upright on a tree stump, he looks at me and then asks.

“Hey.”

“why.”

“What am I going to do?”

I think it’s really weird that Lucy asks such a question.

While I was slowly gathering firewood at the campfire to eat, Lucy slowly looked at me.

“I have something to do after eating.”

“to do?”

I turned my head and looked towards the simple wooden table. Above it is the key to the secret safe that Professor Glast gave to him.

Gradually, the investigation by the bachelor was finished, and the entrance to the secret laboratory that Professor Glast had built without permission was also closed.

I was going to try to enter the library through the hole Lucy had drilled.

Once I got in, I had to check how the library was… what’s inside the safe.

It’s difficult to procrastinate any longer, so I’m going to move tonight.

“Before that, we should check out the bonfire and the fireplace. The temperature can drop below freezing at night, and if you do it wrong, you can really freeze to death.”

It’s time for the winter break.

I put on a lot of clothes, but when the sun goes down, the breath starts to seep out. For the time being, I plan to maintain double heating using the flame of a mug. Since there would be no place to use a large amount of mana right now, it was wiser to save firewood.

If you join Dex, you don’t have to worry about this.

Is it working at Dex, or living in a hut? The arms of the scales swing back and forth like reeds. At least before the start of the vacation, it would be better to set a future course of action.

Whether she knows my worries or not, Lucy looks like she’s examining my expression…

“Come with me.”

It was uttering such an unfamiliar sound.