How to Survive at the Academy chapter 86

Come spring (4)

The first day of a snowstorm.

The vacation, when the academic calendar is empty, is coming to an end.

It means that the days when I can spend the whole day for my own growth and training are coming to an end.

This week is now the last spurt.

After the semester starts, there is a limit to even intensive training. At the very least, it’s just that, making a contract with the Lieutenant Spirit by meeting the schedule with Yenika, or studying in the free time that is left after returning home from school schedule.

Physical training is virtually meaningless. I tend to focus on maintaining the status quo.

When my stamina was crawling at the bottom, if I practiced for a few days, the related stats would go up a bit, but there is little stat change, whether there is a limit to this body or not.

For Ed Roth-Taylor, who was not born with any physical talent, it really feels like he has been trained to the limit that his body allows.

He raised it to a level that was quite physically trained among ordinary men. Even if you get to this point, you can really call it a great development.

Now, if you want to raise your specifications further, you have to invest time in specialized fields, not just repeat training without thinking.

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Magical Engineering and Elemental Arts. Both of these feel a bit lacking.

Among the various skill groups that exist in Sylvania’s Failed Sword Castle, this is the combination that best complements each other’s weaknesses. However, as nothing in the world is perfect, I feel like I will be able to do my part after graduating only if there is one more thing to do.

[ Life Skills Details ]

Grade: Intermediate Craftsman

Specialty: Woodworking

Dexterity Lv 15

Design Lv 11

Gathering Ability Lv 13

Woodworking Lv 15

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Mason Lv 8

Hunting Lv 14

Fishing Lv 12

Cooking Lv 7

Repair Lv 5

Advanced Crafting Skill Slot: Elemental Infusion

Skill Proficiency:23

Power amplification: 4

Injection success rate:92

– Fire elemental skill proficiency: 6

– Wind Elemental Skill Proficiency: 3

Contract Elemental: Sub Fire Spirit Mug

Spirit Sensitivity: 12

Elemental Understanding: 12

Unique Skills: Fire Protection, Explosiveness

Contract Elemental: High Wind Spirit Merylda

Spirit Sensitivity: 4

Elemental Understanding: 3

Unique Skills: Protection of the Wind, Updraft

Advanced Crafting Skill Slot: Magic Engineering

Skill Proficiency: 4

Understanding Engineering: 5

Quick Build: 3

Collected recipes:

Weak Wind Spreader (Lv 1)

Sanwoollim Noise Generator (Lv 1)

Sensitive Automatic Magical Chessboard (Lv 1)

Greenhouse Crystal Orb (Lv 1)

Blue Magic Orb (Lv 1)

Rake Hand (Lv 1)

Craig Magic Ink (Lv 1)

Floodlight (Lv 1)

Onia’s Fear (Lv 1)

Telos’ Frost Blessing (Lv1)

Thousand-year-old wooden staff struck by lightning (cannot be crafted!)

Eye of Glock (Uncraftable!)

Del Heim Hourglass (cannot be crafted!)

He climbed down the rope and jumped off the floor as he got closer to the floor.

Then, after wiping away the snow from his body, he looked up at the fallen ceiling. A few snowflakes are falling loosely, but basically, the hole is quite long, so the amount is not as large as I thought.

The first thing you see is a pile of materials for all kinds of magic equipment. These are the things I moved back and forth a few times. I really thought I was running out of gin.

In addition, the appearance of the neatly organized library is impressive. I checked it several times while moving the materials, but again, there are no gaps.

Since I gave Ziggs a few pennies and asked him to clean up the rubble with magic, I didn’t know that he would even organize all the books that were lying around.

Even looking at the books that are neatly grouped into meaningful categories… No matter how you look at them, you can feel the touch of a person who has had experience in buying.

Perhaps the craftsmanship of Elka, Ziggs’ lover, is also included. I told him to keep the existence of the library a secret as much as possible, but he couldn’t bear the bird and let Elka know…

I bit my tongue a few times. He’s not the type to tease others cheaply, but… Elka is the only person he shares all the facts without hiding.

It seems that no matter how heavy your mouth is, you can’t hide it from Elka.

Perhaps Elka was also concerned about that fact, so she had to come down to this dark library to make arrangements. I wonder if I paid too much for the price of knowing someone else’s secret.

It was not difficult to imagine Elka systematically sorting books, and Jigs running around and putting them together. Considering Ziggs’ personality, he must have thought that this was training.

In any case… you’re right, it’s been pretty well taken care of. The amount of work that the two of them should have done is overwhelmingly more than the money they gave them.

When school starts and they return to bachelor’s degree, they will have to pay back in their own way.

“Hmm… Shall we start soon?”

They also piled up a lot of food. All the materials are also gathered. The library is neatly organized.

For a week, the environment was perfectly prepared to focus solely on the research of magic engineering.

A week is long if it is long, but it is too short a time to decide and train for something.

If you could master it perfectly in a week, there would be no need for the field of mechanical engineering to be so subdivided.

However, when it comes to efficient growth, I already have a quick grasp on it.

The most important thing is repetition mastery training. No matter how obvious and simple the device seems, if you repeatedly make it, you will start to see a mechanical principle or a flow of magic that you did not see at first.

Reading through hundreds of recipes is inefficient. What matters is choice and concentration.

The key is to penetrate deeply into the field of engineering knowledge that I can create.

After repeating like madness and repeatedly raising the magic engineering skills to the wind emitter, noise generator, greenhouse crystal ball, blue magic ball, cragle magic ink, and floodlight… creates

Only after accumulating skills like that and training to the point where I can’t stay awake because my eyes are really bloodshot and tired… I will challenge the last goal of this vacation.

[Glockt’s Eye (Legendary)]

Temporarily increases the proficiency of all sensitivity system abilities. The effectiveness of low-level magic is halved. Defense magic cannot be used. Immune to elemental magic

[ Delheim Hourglass ( Legend ) ]

Restores the state of the body to a few seconds ago and removes all damage and wounds. 1 use.

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The Eye of Gloct that allows you to gain extreme sensitivity at the expense of application and defense.

The Del Heim Hourglass that negates all damage even to death at a single time.

At the time of Act 3, they are legendary magic equipment that could not exist due to balance.

One of the two must be completed. If you don’t, you go with the mindset of dying. Thinking back to when I was in high school when I only slept and studied for three hours a day, this kind of fever time could be overcome with evil.

Sitting on the workbench in the center of the library, I took a deep breath.

“Whoa… Shall we go…”

After saying that, I realized.

No… I didn’t bring the tools from the hut…

I even put it in a pretty toolbox to bring it to the library…!

He was prepared for the storm, and he was too busy to pay attention.

It was a mistake through.

It’s time for the body to suffer. I took a deep breath.

*

A slightly bitter wind swam through the coniferous trees of the northern forest.

Clarisse’s fluttering hair seemed to be blown away at any moment.

Pushing through the winds that were still tolerable, Clarisse continued to make her way towards the river through the northern woods.

‘Sacred Magic’ and ‘Sacred Magic’.

If Sacred Law is a magic of the nature that is expressed through the divine protection, which is innately born,

Holy magics are divine magics that are manifested through acquired religious beliefs.

Therefore, most of the knights of the cathedral and the wizards belonging to the saints were more proficient in holy magic than in holy magic. This is because the Sacred Law shows significant effectiveness only to those who are born with the blessing of God.

It is for the same reason that Clarisse’s orthodoxy, which took possession of the love of Telos, who gave it to him, emits unbelievable physical power.

The protection of the Holy Law that Clarisse wears on her body returns double the damage dealt by the target it attacks with ‘hostility’, and on the surface it is impossible to tell what happened…. It is a defensive magic with an irrational structure.

Unless there are some really special laws of destruction, it is an existence that cannot be dealt with at all.

So, no matter what kind of wild animal it encounters, even if it encounters a monster, Clarisse is never hurt.

It is safe to say that even if you feel fear because you are afraid of momentum or energy, it is safe to say that there is little chance of getting hurt by being attacked.

Nevertheless, Clarisse had a sharp fear of Ed. It had its own reasons.

That’s because… Edgar was most likely baptized by the Telos Church.

After the baptism of Crepin Roth Taylor of California, the tradition of baptism of the cult of Telos was established for the heirs of the Roth Taylor family. Yes, it is a tradition that has only been passed down for two generations.

With Arwen Roth-Taylor passing away and Ed Roth-Taylor taking over as heir… he must have been baptized by some Archbishop too.

Tanya hasn’t been baptized yet. Because it had only been a few months since he ascended to the position of successor. However, Ed Roth Taylor, no matter what anyone said, was highly likely to be a baptized member of the Telos Church.

The protection of the Holy Law… It has a nature that does not exert its power against believers who are baptized by the denomination.

It is not to point a sword at a brother who has received the same teaching.

If you are a believer enough to be baptized in the first place, you will never harbor hostility toward a saint.

However, there is a blind spot here… She is now attending school as Kylie Ekne, not as Saint Clarisse.

Even if the opponent is a devout Telos believer, if he does not know his identity, he can raise the blade as it is. That’s why I don’t want to reveal my identity.

No, I don’t know if that blonde Fallen Nobility knew Clarisse’s true identity in the first place. Everything is questionable.

“Ahhh…!”

With her tight clothes tied, Clarisse continued through the northern woods through the snowstorm. You know where the river flows by familiarizing yourself with the map in advance. As it crosses the forest anyway, you will surely meet it if you keep going.

When the river appears, just walk upstream and that’s it.

The cold was tolerable.

The maid ran out as soon as she confirmed Clarisse’s existence, so she wouldn’t be found out for at least a few hours.

Take this opportunity… Before spring arrives and the new school year begins, you have to get rid of all the bad things about Ed Roth-Taylor.

‘Really… it seems like an adventure…!’

All of a sudden, the fear and tension were greatly diluted, and a warm sense of victory rose from within Clarisse’s body.

Just discovering Ed’s hut like this really raises a baseless hope that everything will be okay.

Clarisse looks timid, but never weak. Neither the innate spells of magic nor the spells acquired afterward are not favored by any number of wizards.

And as soon as Ed’s hut loomed over that snowstorm, as if he were an explorer who discovered an important high ground… Clarisse took a deep breath.

It was the first time I had gone out so far alone, and it was the first time I had walked through a snowstorm.

Is this the life of an adventurer that Adele spoke of… full of natural colors? Clarisse reached the front of Ed’s camp, half buried in the snow… and took a deep breath.

self-confidence rises

I feel like I can do anything…!

Clarice decided not to panic any longer, took a deep breath and opened the door to Ed’s cabin.

“Umm…”

The sound of the wind blowing right next to your ear is replaced by a roaring sound with a wall covered.

The wind noise you hear indoors is more eerie than you think. It was dark inside the cabin, of course, with no light source, so we had to wait for the eyes to adjust to the darkness.

And, the first thing that appeared in the dark… was a corpse of a wild boar caught on a hook.

It was bigger than Clarisse.

“Ahhh!”

Clarisse kicked her hips to the floor as she stepped backwards… and covered her mouth with both hands, averting her eyes from the dangling corpse.

And slowly, the view of the hut comes into view. Most of the supplies were in the hut to prepare for the storm.

The cogs lying here and there… If you look closely, they are hunting traps piled up.

Clarisse, who had no hunting knowledge, could only see something like a sharp weapon…

And… most hunting traps are terribly stained with dark red blood. There’s blood here, there’s blood. blood! blood! blood!

There were still bloodstains from moving the boar’s carcass, and there were plenty of snake skins and marten skins in one corner.

And when you look inside the hut, you see… a trimming knife still full of bloodstains… and hacksaws bigger and thicker than Claris’s pure white forearms, and various wild animal guts being scattered and dried.

The head of a corpse of a wild boar is hanging on the table. I don’t know where the hell I’m going to use it.

At this point, Clarisse was already in tears. To a girl who lived her whole life in the virtuous dew of Seonghwangdo, it looked like hell because it was not provocative.

– Boo-wook, boo-wook.

the sound of snow.

Beyond the raging storm, someone was walking towards the hut.

nothing more to see The only person who would appear in a place like this at a time like this… is the owner of this hut.

Clarisse was trying to find a place to hide, but her legs lost strength and she collapsed again. He succeeded in pushing his body all the way to the right corner of the hut by forcing his arm, but it was a poor cover-up.

Clarisse went under the workbench and prayed to Telos, hiding in the faint darkness.

– Kwaang!

– Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Suddenly, the door shattered open, and the distant sound of a draft hit my ears again.

Ed came in through the snow and slammed an object that had been on his shoulder and set it down on the floor.

A lump of luggage that was poofy and crooked… Upon closer inspection, it was a frozen baby elk.

Ed was lucky. I didn’t know I was going to have such a windfall.

However, Clarisse, who made eye contact with the dead elk rolling on the floor… couldn’t even make a faint scream.

It wasn’t that he didn’t make a sound because he was afraid of being caught, he didn’t even have time to scream. Only the empty breath that was swallowed meaninglessly represented her heart.

“Whew….”

cold weather.

Breath rises from the corner of Ed’s mouth, which is heavily dressed. In Clarisse’s eyes, it looked like the breath of a beast. It felt like a light that didn’t exist was rising in Ed’s eyes, and he almost passed out.

Still, the last remaining rationality covered her mouth with both hands, making no sound leaking out.

Ed has now entered the darkness. Unlike Clarisse, her vision was not accustomed to the darkness.

But Ed, familiar with the rough layout, stumbled into the cabin.

Dodging things here and there, Ed reached out his hand to a wooden box… and took them out one by one as if to check something.

Tweezers, needles, awls, skewers… Things get bigger little by little and my eyes get used to the darkness… and then even hammers and knives come out.

And finally, when he picked up the giant hacksaw in his hand, the day was lit by the moonlight and softly lit Clarisse’s eyes.

“Wow!”

Eventually it made a sound. Clarisse covered her mouth with both hands… and went into a state of almost half-going madness.

“…”

Ed’s head, who returned to grasp it for a moment!… and precisely made eye contact with Clarisse in the dark.

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My heart stopped once and then it raced.

As if he was going to work as much as he had stopped, he started thumping and screaming like crazy in Clarisse’s ear.

“Ugh… Is it Kylie Eck?”

The whole body trembles like crazy. Thinking ceases, the lacrimal glands release water at will, and the heart works in vain.

“What, what? Why here? Why are you shaking so…”

“Ahhh!”

– aa

Holy magic ‘divergence of divine power’.

That skill, which had an advantage over almost all magic, to the extent that even the protection of the storm that Ed was wearing, was ignoring… Ed’s reputation was pierced directly.

– Kwagga Gaga!

– Kaang! Kaang! Clink!

In an unexpected surprise, Ed jumped out and hung himself on the wall. As it was, the cabinet fell down, and all the junk hanging on the wall was pouring down on Ed.

rising dust.

and static.

The sight I saw after the dust settled was… Ed was lying on his back with a streak of blood dripping from his head.

Anyway, this was such a perfect surprise. Even Ed, who is quick and quick-witted in everything…

“Uh, heh… I… I didn’t know…! Ga… Suddenly…! What I was trying to do…”

a moment of silence.

Clarisse got up with a trembling body, and saw Ed lying down with a stream of blood.

Ed, who had taken all the rubbish out of his body, seemed to have lost consciousness by pretending to be.

No, not at the level of unconsciousness…

-Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

The continuous winter wind blows.

The cold air cooled his head little by little, and finally, the reason he left the house came back.

“me…”

Clarisse then faced reality.

“I killed a person……!”

Ed’s cold body didn’t even move. Clarisse felt a different kind of goose running through her body.

“Te… Telos… I… I have committed a sin…”

With trembling hands, Clarisse put her hands together and knelt down. With a face not knowing what to do, he kept holding hands and shaking his whole body.

“I… how can I… live a pure life like pure white… I… I… have been stained with such a great sin… a sin that cannot be washed away… I… .Being so defiled… I… I… I’m… burnt in hell… I have to pay for this…”

During the confession… Clarisse trembled and shed tears. That moment when you fall into a half-panic state.

“hey.”

-chin.

hand on the shoulder.

When I turned around in amazement, Ed’s face, who was exhaling with blood, was full of spirits…

“Now… are you kidding me?”

“Hee-ek”

…Claris couldn’t even scream.

He couldn’t even react like that… With the expression on his screaming expression, he lost consciousness and collapsed.

“…”

A snowstorm that has the momentum to cover the whole world.

In the hut in the crevice, Edman was standing alone, looking down at the fallen Clarisse.

His expression… wasn’t very good.

*

“Master Maid.”

“I heard the report. Keep calm and build a response plan.”

Clarisse was wrong.

The maid came out as soon as she checked Clarisse’s status, so I thought she wouldn’t notice even if she was away for at least a few hours… but the maid in the Ophelis Hall is not so soft.

It took only 15 minutes to notice Clarisse’s absence.

On the top floor of the Ophelis Hall, the maids on duty who are monitoring all directions alternately find the shape of a student disappearing through a snowstorm.

It took only 10 minutes to quickly check the number of people in the main building again.

And it only took five minutes to confirm that it was Kylie who had gone missing.

“I don’t know why you disappeared… but I’ll have to report it to the university and start a search…”

“Shall we send the maids on duty first, maid chief?”

“Letting out the maids is something to think about carefully. Because the mansion inside the mansion is reduced. Now we need to move our workforce as efficiently as possible. Especially… don’t leave out a single person who watches over Miss Lucy. If you pursue it prematurely, you may inflict even greater damage.”

“Yeah, four… Then how about Miss Kylie…?”

Although it was a surprise situation, Bell was not embarrassed. Rather, he calmly considered a countermeasure.

The maid chief of the Ophelis Hall.

He is one of the insiders of the school who knows Kylie’s true identity. In other words, Bell had already been told that Kylie was Clarisse. At least the dormitory chief should be aware of that fact.

I don’t know why I ran through this snowstorm or where I was headed. If we could know the motive, we would be able to infer the destination.

As a rule of thumb, Kylie shouldn’t make the mansion’s defense system flawed. There is no guarantee that Kylie will be found just by sending the maids out immediately. On the contrary, it is more likely that we will not be able to find it in this kind of weather.

It is something that should be carefully searched in close cooperation with the bachelor.

But… the facts that were not revealed… Considering Kylie’s true identity… Really, it is a situation in which all the staff in the mansion, as well as the students, must be mobilized to find out.

If the saint goes missing, it is because it is a major event that will turn the country upside down.

But if you think about it the other way… Isn’t it a saint who is wearing a lot of protection from the Holy Law? On the contrary, he sighed in relief at the fact that he was safer than other students.

At least, it is safe to say that there is absolutely no chance of encountering wild animals or anything like that. This means that it will not face a life-threatening crisis right away.

After much deliberation, Bell decided that he had to go find it himself. If you leave the lead maid to the commanding role for a while, you will have time to deal with urgent matters right away.

Seeing that he did not lose his composure even in such a sudden situation… Even the maids who watched Bell became calm.

Again, she was like the maid chief of the Ophelis Hall.

“The reports of the maids on duty have been updated, maid chief! Well… the figure presumed to be Miss Kylie… disappeared in the direction of the North Woods…!”

And the news to follow.

No one can go outside in this kind of weather.

However… there is only one man, who is fighting the harsh snowstorm of Mother Nature head-on. Now the North Forest is the man’s realm.

“…I hope… it’s not…”

Bell started sweating.

The man who lives in a camp in the northern forest.

pouring snowstorm. distress. Only two men and women left. Ask for help. While waiting for rescue, the two have to lean on each other in extreme situations.

And a very strangely, strangely, a man with a lot of women’s clothes.

A tangled relationship diagram centered on the man in the northern forest bursts into his head in an instant.

It is hard to see at a glance how complicated the matrix of arrows moving back and forth between all the characters is.

When I think of adding a new face to that, even thinking about the identity of the person, cold sweat has already started pouring out of my body.

Bell suddenly started raising his voice.

“You must find it…! ASAP…! before it’s too late…! certainly…!”

It was a really urgent voice for a bell that was always serious. Bell knows that at least Kylie isn’t killed by killing, but the urgency never goes away.

Thanks to that, the maids around them were able to clearly recognize the seriousness of the situation.

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