How to Survive at the Academy chapter 67

Lucy Meryl (4)

The air at night in winter is strangely different from that in spring and summer, and there is no damp feeling peculiar to the forest. The cold air coming through the lungs is rather refreshing.

The sound of walking among the leaves tickles my ears. He grabbed a rope wrapped around one shoulder. At first, I was thinking of making a coarse ladder, but I thought it would take a whole day just to make it because it was going to be deeper than I thought. So I just prepared a rope to ride down.

“Why are you following all these places?”

Today, I was thinking that I was in a strange state.

Lucy, who still grabs my cuffs tightly and catches up, doesn’t seem to be seeing any changes right away just by looking at her expression and appearance.

When I came to the outskirts of the forest, I saw a hole that Lucy had drilled.

It was close to a six-shot assault, which could not be called magic, which gathered magical powers and jumped out.

Because of that, the entrance hole is not that big. Since Lucy’s body itself was so small, there was a limit to her size no matter how much she compressed her magical power.

I tied one of the ropes to a nearby tree and threw the whole rope into the hole that led down to the basement.

The well-dried rope unfolds and opens up a new path.

I pulled the rope a few times to check if it was tied well or not.

“I should have gone down with my magic.”

“done. I told you before I came, but it’s not going to go down just once, so I have to make sure I can get up and down with the rope myself.”

It’s not like I can accompany Lucy every time I come to the library.

After telling Lucy to follow her with some magic, I grabbed the rope and tucked my body into the hole.

Once in a while, it slips and slides down into the hole as if it were climbing a wall.

If the rope was missed or cut off, I focused my mind to quickly support the inner wall with both arms. However, since the rope itself is so strong, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.

Lucy, who dared to follow up on the rope, was so strange that it would be okay to just go first with space magic.

After going down for a while, I finally came to the main hall of the library.

There are few light sources in the dark library hall. I had to wait a long time for my eyes to finish dark acclimatization.

Eventually, the aftermath of Lucy’s magical powers will cause it to collapse all over the place.

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Most of them were buried in the marble that supported the inner wall, but there seemed to be quite a few tech supplies and recipes that still looked intact.

There is no need to pick up one by one because you want to take it all with you right away. They said that the entrance to the secret laboratory was closed anyway, so there is no one who can visit this library right now. Time is leisurely.

I headed straight for the table in the center of the library.

I cleared the table and found a strange crack in the floor. I pushed through the crack and saw the keyhole at a glance.

Lucy, who followed her tightly with her sleeves tight, tilted her head.

“Why was there a secret safe in this place, and the key was also managed separately?”

“Okay.”

He took the key out of his pocket and put it in the hole. The key turns clockwise with a creaking sound, and the marble floor begins to slide sideways.

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The wind blows in from the inside.

The magical energy that had been concentrated in the closed space was released at once as the space opened.

After I endured the shock and cleared my eyes again… I saw a golden artifact in the middle of the small underground space. It was the size of a thumb.

*

“Heh heh, heh heh…”

Naturally, there was no way the difference in physical strength going down and going up was the same.

Sweat began to flow profusely as I swung the rope and walked towards the ground while kicking.

Lucy offered to help, but I refused. On the subject of making sure you can climb up and down with a rope, what’s the point if you don’t actually climb it?

Thinking it was physical training, he pulled the rope firmly and pulled himself up.

Far away, far above, Lucy is hanging from a rope with one hand. It’s probably because he’s wearing all kinds of lightening magic, so it feels like he’s hanging rather than hanging.

“If you do this… you can only go up…”

The depth of the basement where the library is located is not as deep as I thought. The physical training that I had been doing for the past year was not in vain, and even though it took a little bit of strength, I didn’t feel like I was overdoing it.

If you feel you need a little bit of strength while going up, it was worth living by lying on the protruding part of the outer wall while holding the rope and resting.

Anyway, it seems a bit unreasonable to go through the rope every time. For the time being, I will have to use a rope, but I also feel the need to make or purchase a proper ladder.

I think it’s time to get the materials for the engineering supplies that Lortel asked for… Can’t I just get a moderately long ladder as a service?

I think about it, but I don’t think it’s going to be given out for free. I’m a merchant no matter what.

“I’m almost there. It will be out soon.”

“Yeah… I know… Whoa…”

He wiped away the sweat once, and took out a phoenix-shaped ring from his arms.

A golden phoenix ring forged with holy magic.

Perhaps it was a masterpiece of life that Professor Glast had built over several years.

“So what is it?”

Lucy’s voice is heard from above. Lucy, who had reached the edge of the entrance, was waiting for me.

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[ Glast’s Golden Phoenix Ring ]

Rank: Legend

Frequency of use: No limit

Crafting Difficulty: ●●●●◐

Sensitor: Ed Rothtailer

A magical tool that twists the timeline and draws the magical powers granted to the future self into the present.

The legendary magic equipment ‘Golden Phoenix Ring’ contains the power of Holy Spirit magic and high-level time-based magic.

Temporarily increases the wearer’s magical power. You can use magic that consumes more than the amount of magic in your body at one time.

When magic that requires more than the maximum amount of magic is used, the use of magic is suppressed for a long time in proportion to the amount of excess magic.

Once the suppression of magic begins, the power of the ring cannot be used until the suppression is lifted.

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“I think I can see why they secretly kept these magic equipment in the library and carried the key separately.”

I looked up at Lucy quietly. Was it even a curiosity? Or is he still not interested?

As always, it’s hard to see a blank face. The moonlight and starry sky shining on Lucy’s back creates a shadow on Lucy’s face.

If you can use magical power from your future self, in theory, you can use high-ranking magic right now.

However, in that case, you will become incapacitated for a long period of time equal to the size of the borrowed magical power. If you use it prematurely, the cost will be huge.

In the end, if you want to use it in battle, it becomes a special move that you have to jump out as the last move when you are in a corner.

However, it is a different story if you do not use it in battle.

If I use the mana that exceeds the limit once to strengthen my own specs, and then slowly pay back the magic used there… it might be beneficial.

For example, it is a spirit contract.

This is the part where you can understand how Professor Glast, who has relatively low sensitivity to spirits, dealt with so many spirits.

The key to spirit sensitivity/comprehension of spirits is ultimately ‘Magic Efficiency’.

It is a measure of how efficiently the magical powers used in spirit magic are used.

In the end, if the absolute amount of innate magical power is small, high sensitivity has little meaning.

Because Yenica has a high amount of magical power and high sensitivity, the two can work together in synergy to deal with such an absurd number of spirits. blessed body.

The main reason for the inability of novice spiritists to contract with high-grade spirits is the lack of absolute magical power in their body. No matter how much you increase your Spirit Sensitivity to increase your Magical Efficiency, the absolute amount of mana is not enough.

In other words, if you use the power of the ring well, you can minimize the barrier to entry.

If the magic tool’s power is used to temporarily draw future magic power and somehow end the contract… then it’s enough to slowly recover the remaining magical power.

It’s a simple and violent calculation, but if you give up using magic for a month or two, you can make a contract with a high-ranking spirit right away. Of course, not being able to use a single basic magic for a month or two after having a wizard title is too much of a risk. I’m going to throw all my practical class grades on the floor right now.

But luckily, it will be winter break soon. A period of relatively low risk is coming.

To be honest, this is mana blocking. In other words, it is the act of using magic by borrowing from the future self.

However, when everyone is blocked by the wall of maximum magical power and cannot make a contract with a high-grade spirit… Being able to break through that wall alone is an overwhelming comparative advantage.

When everyone else buys a house with cash, it feels like buying a house on my own with an interest-free loan… Is this a too poor metaphor?

After all, it is the power of Aspect Magic that twists and breaks the flow of time. It is self-evident that it is something that no one can do.

A treasure among treasures that can be used as a last resort in an emergency and as a means of enhancing specifications in normal times.

Even if you search through that library, you probably won’t find anything more precious than this.

“This ring is a magic tool that allows you to unleash more power than your innate magical power. Of course, there is a risk, so we can’t use it recklessly.”

From the beginning, the clogged up professor’s actions had a clear purpose.

“It’s a sin to promote ambiguous talents, and it’s my mission to discover and polish the gemstones of innate talent… I’ve been talking about things like that, but I was making these things out of the back hole.”

I wondered why there were so many craftsmanship ceremonies in this library… They were all research materials.

Perhaps the key in the dying Glast’s arms… was destined for Mury, not me.

The last gift given to a daughter who eventually died after hitting the wall of talent. If you think about it that way, the puzzle is right.

But in the end, the ring never reached its owner. More than anyone else, Glast himself expected that to a certain extent.

“If I had the time to make something like that…”

“Let’s not talk about meaningless things, Lucy.”

I interrupted Lucy.

“It’s all over.”

*

“I am there. Once upon a time, the buttons on the sleeves of my clothes fell off.”

it’s terribly hard

I didn’t know it would be this hard to climb up the wall holding the rope.

Actually, when I imagined it alone in my head, I thought it would be worth it, but I think I need to get a ladder really quickly.

“This button over here at the end of the sleeve. I didn’t know when this existed. Without it, the cuffs were too wide, which was uncomfortable. So I struggled for a long time.”

Still, this ascent was almost over.

To be honest, I thought about whether to just ask Lucy to upload it from the middle, but when it was almost finished, there was a typo, so I ended up coming to the end.

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It’s very unfamiliar to Lucy, who talks from the top to the bottom. Did he really talk like that?

“Is that so?”

“The Ophelis maid repaired it, so I’m fine. After that, I became careful not to rub the sleeves of my clothes when I used floating magic.”

Lucy sits on the top, blankly looking up at the sky. A star shining through the clouds at first glance flew into Lucy’s eyes and pierced it.

“After it disappeared, I often experience how important it was. What I thought was not a big deal was actually very, very, very great.”

“It’s a surprisingly common story. Doesn’t it often come up as a lesson in fairy tale books?”

“yes.”

It’s not a big deal actually.

We eat a few meals together, sit blankly next to each other, exchange a few nutritious conversations from time to time, exchange greetings once, meet face-to-face a few times while passing by, and go out to play when bored.

A daily life shared with someone is a collection of such insignificant things.

A relationship that stretches out with a wonderful opportunity can only be established in a drama.

There are crises and adversity, overcoming them with willpower, saving someone from the abyss, or being saved.

The establishment of a beautiful and glamorous relationship may be romantic, but not realistic.

It’s not a question of right or wrong. However, I try to think about whether it would suit Taylor more than me.

heroic deeds. the life of the protagonist. ordeal of the world. Friendship, hard work and victory. The human relationships that bloom in it.

However, for those who live an ordinary life, the act of building a relationship with someone is not such a glamorous and splendid thing.

It’s more colorless than I thought. But I can’t give it a priority.

Both roses that bloom splendidly and lilies that bloom modestly are both beautiful. We don’t give priority to that value.

Realizing that, how would Lucy feel when she lost Glock… I didn’t infer that.

“Actually, I have something I want to ask you.”

Now, just hit the wall a few more times and you’ll be on the ground. I could already feel the fresh air outside.

“Are you going to Dex?”

begging questions.

I looked up and saw Lucy sitting at the entrance.

Do you enter the Dex tube or continue your camp life?

The scale remains neutral.

If you enter the Dex tube, your life will be easier. You can abandon all the principles of wild life that you have already adapted to. They move strictly according to the academic schedule, and they live concentrating on their studies within the limits of their freedom.

By maintaining the camp life, the radius of activity is relatively wide, and there is no time constraint. It is a good environment to train physical strength and crafting skills, and there is almost no time constraint. However, although they have adapted to some extent now… the living environment in the wild is still poor.

We may be able to improve the camp environment further by investing a long time, but those are all products of hard work. I’m still going to be busier, but I wonder if that’s possible.

No matter which one you choose, there are pros and cons, and if the scale does not tilt to one side in the end… In the end, it is the last very small weight that determines the choice.

No matter how insignificant and small, if a slight weight is drawn toward that direction… People choose that direction.

“Can’t we go?”

These are the lines that came out of Lucy’s mouth.

I can’t help but doubt my ears.

However, it’s not something that I don’t understand… Lucy’s expression looking up at her was understandable enough.

“Going to the Dex tube… I think it’s more comfortable to live in. Living in the wild in this cold winter is not sane.”

After talking like that, I felt so out of breath that I had to go up to the ground first.

I clenched my strength in the hand pulling the rope.

Lucy, who was listening to the story, looked up at the sky quietly.

The starry sky is occasionally visible, but the sky is mostly filled with traced dark clouds.

“I will.”

As if he had given up on something soon, or as if any line he had inside had been cut off.

As always, his expression was motionless, but it was surprising that he felt like he was dazed.

It is a sky full of dark clouds that I have seen many times.

Lucy grabbed her hat and whispered again.

“It’s going to rain.”

I replied ignorantly to that.

“no.”

“…?”

“This is not the time.”

As soon as I reached the ground, I lay flat on the dirt floor.

As I breathed in and looked up at the sky, a single snow fell and formed on the back of my nose. Considering the time, it was the first snow.

By this time, the time for rain is over. Anyway, it’s so cold.

Lucy knows when it’s going to rain like a ghost by measuring the dark clouds in the sky and the moisture on the back of her nose, but that doesn’t always happen.

You can’t be sure that the only thing that falls from the sky is tracked rain.

However, after a long rainy season, I inadvertently think that it will rain. Even though the rainy season has passed, they are mistaken for it because of their learned senses.

The number of snowflakes slowly descending gradually increases.

The traced rain makes me feel bad and eerie, but the snow falling at the right time gives me a warm feeling again.

The coagulation fever that occurs when the moisture in the atmosphere solidifies can be a romantic story, but… Actually, that is a problem before that.

The rainwater that hits the body and the snowflakes that slowly fall down as if enveloping the world are clearly different from anyone who sees them.

“by the way.”

I spoke quietly to Lucy, who looked up blankly at her eyes.

“I have a lot of work to do these days, so I don’t have enough firewood for the winter.”

At those words, Lucy suddenly turned her head and looked at me.

“I don’t think I can handle it on my own, but if you have time, please help me. Anyway, you said There is not enough firewood.”

“really?”

– Wrath!

– Kwok!

I got on my boat, which was lying on the dirt floor, and poked my face out while holding my hat.

“really? really? really?”

“I’ve already fully adapted to camp life… If I improve the environment a little bit more, there are a lot of advantages to living in camp.”

“…”

At those words, Lucy raised her upper body again… and looked at the snowy sky.

I doubted my eyes.

I couldn’t see it in any scene or any route… The corner of Lucy’s mouth was raised like a purple one… I couldn’t help but be confused.

The post-processing of Act 2 is over, and now is Act 3, where the scale of the ordeal grows in earnest.

When I close my eyes, the only thing that comes to mind is a truck.

Fenia, the princess of charity who is disillusioned with the corrupt Academic Inspection Department, and wants to take over the academic power as the student president,

Lortel, who is trying to make money by robbing a bachelor’s privilege in earnest, is not easy.

From the distrustful Saint Clarisse who wishes for the destruction of the Church of Telos, to Claude, the alchemist of calamity who drinks the blood of evil spirits and falls… .

The final boss of Act 3, ‘The Awakened’, is Lucy Meryl.

Let’s say hello again after all the stories are over.

Obviously, both of us will be alive and well.

*

– percussion

The papers laid down on the table are thick. There is not one or two agenda items that need to be dealt with this week.

“Eww…”

Assistant Professor Claire sat down in her private lab, sipping coffee.

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Master’s vacant seat is bigger than expected. It is only a mystery how they even conducted research on seals while dealing with such a heavy duty.

Still, most of the work was done. As long as the conference agenda is handled well, all that is left is the freshman class assignment test that will be on vacation.

All announcements have already been made. Since all addresses have been issued to the new students, they will come to Aken Island to take the exam during the winter break.

There were many concerns about the content of the exam. Like last year, I was going to ask them to just look for marbles, but if the test content is so identical, sophomore students may leak the content. This part seemed to need a little more thought.

“Umm~, no matter what… I still don’t have enough hands.”

Professor Claire sighed deeply, scratching her head.

“Of course… I should ask for more additional staff among the undergraduate scholarship students. Would this be considered from the undergraduate side as well? Somehow these days… I have an image of the youngest professor who is busy with work… It feels like everyone is listening to my requests…”

I know that’s not a very good thing, but it was mustard eating.

Anyway, Assistant Assistant Anise, who takes care of the work right away, is also pretty neat…

Prof. Claire plunged back into the swamp of busy work, hoping that a smart student would come.