How to Survive at the Academy chapter 91

Student Council President Election (4)

– Dump, Tuk

Even the same raindrops have different feelings for each season.

The spring rain feels like it is compacting the ground. It is different from the cool summer rain with a stinging sound.

When you go out through the rain and wind in summer, you feel like water drops hitting your whole body, but when you walk in the spring rain, it feels like your body is being squeezed and you feel calmer.

Soggy moisture seeps into the sound. As usual, there is no sound coming through the green grass.

The forest is filled with only the sound of feet pounding on the thin mud, and the sound of smashing into a thin puddle of water.

[ This is my first time going out to the north coast. Obviously, the cliff area was just wide, and it wasn’t a big deal because it was barren and sparsely populated! It’s still a long way away! ]

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Mug, who sat on his shoulder and cleared his neck with a groan, was the only person he could talk to.

[ I can assure you that the contract with Lieutenant Water Spirit Laysia-sama was an excellent choice, as this candle mug dares to speak out! Above all, Laysia-sama’s ‘Protection of a monk’ is different from the protection of my clothes, so it gets into a lot of situations, so its versatility is low, but once the conditions are met… ]

If you are with a mug that explains everything, there are no days when there is no sound. The way he is so proud of himself, talking back and forth about all sorts of spirits, is so close that I can’t help but fall in love with him.

So I exchanged conversations with Mug and proceeded to the north.

The size of the northern forest can never be said to be small. Although I have lived in this forest for a year, there are still unfamiliar paths left. Maybe it’s because I always go the way I always go.

“It’s roughly like this here.”

It took quite a long time to reach the northern tip of the cliff.

Basically, Aken Island is more prosperous towards the south. This is because all the major facilities of the Sylvania Academy are concentrated in the south. Of course. Because there are two bridges to the south that lead to the Nofaren Peninsula of the continent.

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Most of the wild forests are sparsely populated even if you pass only the middle part, and when you reach the northern end, it feels like a world that has nothing to do with Sylvania Academy is unfolding.

In addition to the Raysia I contracted with, the water spirit is greatly affected by the surrounding moisture itself.

Even if it rots, it’s still a junchi, but since it’s a lieutenant spirit, it exerts a power that is incomparable to that of a lower spirit even in a desolate area where there is no moisture at all. However, the true value is only revealed in an environment full of moisture.

raining beach. There is no environment more perfect for dealing with water spirits.

It is said that once all these difficult conditions are met, it can exert a power comparable to that of a high spirit, but honestly, I don’t want it to that extent. It won’t even be able to handle the horsepower.

I took out the bow I had been carrying.

It is a recurve bow that has been refined with considerable effort over a long period of time. He was the most proper guy out of all the people who went through a lot of trial and error.

I pulled the bowstring towards the wavy sea. When I wrapped the magic in my hand, a magic arrow that was drawn by my sensitivity was created with a soft glow.

It’s not just a magic arrow. A magical arrow imbued with the energy of water does not end with a one-dimensional attack that pierces through the enemy and inflicts damage.

“Hmm… Magical itself doesn’t consume much, but once it’s fired and activated, it’s different…”

[The amount of mana that is directly consumed up to this point is only a very small amount to generate magic arrows, but if you activate the spirit ceremony, it will be a different story. ]

“I’m going to have to use it for now.”

[That doesn’t mean you can’t go wild. Master Ed’s absolute mana has grown a lot, but it won’t be enough to offset the inefficient loss of mana caused by the lack of spirit response. ]

I nodded my head and canceled the Spirit Ceremony. The use of spirits is a fairly deep field of application among spirit magic. First of all, it is something to think about after getting used to the spirit manifest itself.

It’s raining and the waves are crashing on the shore. There is no other environment like this to effectively deal with water spirits.

Thinking like that, the moment I was about to gather my magic power once.

“It is an honor to see you after a long time. Master Ed.”

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I looked back at the sound of calling me.

Two men, dressed in gloomy robes, were seated at some point.

The final chapter of Act 4, the mid-boss of the 3rd phase of the Crepin subjugation.

The vassals of the Roth Taylor family in charge of darkness.

They were two knights, Kadek and Knox, who swore allegiance to Crepin after being promised fiefs.

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Cardek and Knox are old men who have shared the history of the Roth Taylor family for the rest of their lives.

Under the robes to let the rain run off, the figure of a cardigan with a slender body, a neat suit and a puffy tie can be seen. It’s about the same age as Knox, but much cleaner.

On the other hand, Knox, with his well-sharpened beard and a fairly confident appearance, looks much more bubbly.

The angular chin and the muscular rim exposed over the well-groomed attire proves that he is not an easy opponent.

Two of Crepin’s top henchmen, who have gone through everything before and after childbirth, are on Aken Island. At this point, an anomaly had to be detected.

“These are the faces you should be happy with, but I’m not very happy with them.”

The two knights looked at the edge of the cliff.

A blond boy standing in the pouring rain. In one hand, he is holding a bow.

I turned my upper body toward the two knights. The view behind the beach. The light of the two eyes was directed towards the knights through the hair that was pressed by the rain. The gakbow, which is aimed at the floor, is quite large and is the size of the upper body of a normal person.

“It’s an excommunication status, but you call me the master all the time, so it’s something to be grateful for from this side.”

He already knows enough about Cardek and Knox.

Intermediate bosses in the final chapter of Act 4. Eagle Knight Cardek, Brown Bear Knight Knox. Both were not easy opponents.

“I have heard the story of Master Ed.”

It was Kadek who knelt there.

“Many things have happened since you were excommunicated, and I’ve heard from everyone that you are still working hard and doing your best in the midst of that.”

“That’s right, Master Ed. We… didn’t even know that.”

Knox, who had a reliable build, knelt down and bowed his head.

“I will tell you without hesitation. We… lived with a great resentment towards the appearance of Master Ed that we saw at the Roth Taylor mansion. Now, taking this opportunity to repent, I even thought that Master Ed’s excommunication was justified.”

There was some sincerity in his deep voice.

“However, when I came to Aken Island and reflected on the life of Master Ed, I changed my mind.”

Knox pulled out a leather pouch with a dagger from his pocket and placed it on the grass.

“We came under Crepin-sama’s orders. I will somehow exclude Ed from the Sylvania Academy, and if there is an opportunity, he ordered an assassination and even received a dagger with a toxic mark.”

The two knights, kneeling among the pouring rain, calmly continued their conversation.

“But we do know. At that time, Ed’s appearance was somewhat strange. Even his youthful youthful appearance disappears like a ghost, and he reigns over the mansion as if he were a different person… It is probably not the true form of Master Ed.”

“We know now. That the current Master Ed is the very person who truly befits a successor.”

Several rumors and evaluations about Ed circulating inside Aken Island. No one knows what effect those things had on the two knights.

However, there is no feeling of hostility in the way he calmly bows his head and continues the story.

“Please put everything back to its proper place, and pave the way for Roth Taylor’s honor to be raised again in the world.”

“Our vassals… are ready to follow you wherever you go. I will explain all the self-inflicted species in detail to Mr. Crepin.”

As it was, the two knights kept their mouths shut and bowed their heads quietly, waiting for Ed’s answer.

Ed, walking a few steps forward, looked down at the two knights with their heads bowed…

“Don’t make a fuss.”

“You have grown up, Master Ed.”

The sword strike of the blown wind belongs to the Eagle Knight Kadek. He quickly bent over to dodge it, then rolled over the muddy floor once.

Kadek, who quickly adjusted his posture, swung his sword again. The sword strike of the wind that makes the concept of distance overshadowed has to be dealt with with the mindset that you are dealing with a wizard, not a knight.

However, there is something unreasonable. Cardek, unlike wizards, is also good at close combat.

“Khaab!”

At the cry of the brown bear knight Nox, waves spread through the rain. The flames that erupted around him in an instant were drowned out by the rain, but his mace enchanted with magic was still powerful.

Ed spread the distance in an instant and quickly pulled the bowstring. A heavy mace was stuck in the spot where he had just stood before.

A person driven into a corner tends to be distracted by even a single ray of hope.

For Ed Roth Taylor, who has been living this wild life for a year, how powerful and tempting is the bait that he can win the lottery as a nobleman.

Nevertheless, Ed did not unravel his battle stance until the two knights finished speaking. It was clear to both knights that he was paying attention.

You can clearly see that the past year has not been an easy life.

“Do you remember my daughter Meliana? A poor child who lost his sight in one side of Ed’s mere play.”

Spreading the distance, Ed stared at Knox for a moment, brushing his collar in the rain.

“Then it happened.”

“under…”

As he clenched his clenched fist into the air, a streak of flames was released in an instant. Ed reacted quickly and neutralized all the flames using basic defense magic.

“It was definitely not good. That there’s no one in the world who can rekindle his loyalty to the enemy who stole my daughter’s eye… I’m sure you know, too. There is no way you will be deceived by such lies.”

Knox picked up the mace again and took a position with his teeth sharpened.

“Vengeance is futile. Knox.”

“I know. After revenge is over, it leaves only an endless void. However, this is not a story you will hear from Master Ed, who harmed his daughter.”

“…that makes sense.”

As Knox slammed the ground and leapt, Ed bent down and pulled a dagger from his thigh dance and slammed it into the ground. Meanwhile, a sword attack filled with Kadek’s magic attacked Ed.

Cardek and Knox. The attack patterns of the two knights were fixed. Nox, in charge of the vanguard, wields a mace covered with fire magic. Each time you wield it, flames come out, so you had to dodge it with a wider range.

Cardek constantly puts checks and checks back and forth between short and medium range. Be careful, because if you get even one hit, all subsequent hits are allowed.

– Whoops!

The flames from the mace wielded scorched a few strands of Ed’s hair.

He tried to dodge by rolling backwards a few times, but now there was only an endless cliff behind Ed.

If Knox allowed even a single blow, he would die instantly. So is the mass of the mace, and so is the intensity of the flame. However, in terms of the battle composition itself, the sword attack of the card deck is much more difficult.

A sense of riding a single rope on the borderline of life and death. It makes the spine go cold.

However, the front line pushed near the cliff is Ed’s target.

– Wrath!

No matter how dull the mace is, it cannot be avoided forever. What I’ve avoided so far is close to a fluke. If this composition is maintained, the enemy’s attack is always allowed.

Realizing that there was no longer a path to evade, Knox wields the final blow, but when Ed held out his hand, a streak of blood spattered from Knox’s back.

“What…?”

Information superiority is a key element in Ed’s fighting style.

Ed can memorize Knox and Cardek’s specifications, battle composition, attack methods, etc., but Cardek and Knox have no idea how Ed has grown.

Such information asymmetry is the only way to fill in the insufficient specifications.

A dagger that had just been planted in the ground flew out and lodged in Nox’s back.

“Woah… Telekinesis magic…? No way…”

It wasn’t a psychedelic magic, it was a spirit ceremony. If you think about it slowly in a quiet place, you can realize it without difficulty, but it is not easy to judge that in an urgent battle situation.

– Aww!!

Explosive magic wrapped around the edge of the cliff once. Ed, who wrapped himself in the protection of hwabok, was free from the damage.

“Knox!”

– Whoa!

There is no time to rest.

A magic arrow flew through the smoke and pierced the leg of the card.

“Great!”

Dodging the arrow with a reflex close to that of a superhuman, Kadek pondered for a moment and then fired a wind sword without mercy with the thick smoke.

Knox could get hit, but more importantly, he completely subdues Ed.

I don’t know how much of a precarious life I’ve lived so far, but it seems clear that I’ve grown by leaps and bounds compared to when I was living a crazy life at the Roth Taylor mansion.

Carelessness is the enemy of a knight. Even if Knox was involved in an attack, Knox himself would understand that he had no choice but to do so. That level of rapport between the two, who had been facing each other for a long time, was possible without direct discussion.

There is no route to avoid. sure to fit The question is how much to neutralize the enemy.

A gust of wind blew the smoke away, revealing Edgar with cuts all over his body.

However, there is no change in the posture of pulling the bowstring. Unless it’s a sword strike that cuts off body parts, it’s just a mindset to endure with evil.

The pain of a knife has the power to destroy a person’s composure, regardless of the depth of the wound. Even if he wasn’t subdued by a single blow unless he was hit by a vital point, it’s normal to at least have a large load on his mind.

In the first place, the wound itself is not at a level that can be said to be shallow. Still, Ed’s posture did not break down somehow.

As it was, Ed fired an arrow without any reason. However, Kadek, who was born with reflexes, played hard with his sword and deflected all the arrows.

Still, it’s difficult to get a final blow when Knox is incapacitated.

Any way you think about it, close combat against Ed Roth Taylor is the best. Even if it is a card deck that is good at long-distance control, it is necessary to stick close to it.

However, a variable that made him redefine the battle composition was revealed to Cardek’s eyes.

– Whoo Woo-wook

The figure of Knox collapsed can be seen through the smoke exposed. It looks like he’s completely lost his mind…

‘Knox… your guy…!’

Knox is a veteran in his own right.

Not being suppressed, but pretending to be suppressed…!

Now to convince you that the only opponent left is the card deck.

Ed doesn’t have the time left to check and kill Knox. It’s because the card deck’s movement is too stressful right now.

Kadek quickly noticed Knox’s intentions. It’s not difficult to do what Cardek does. All you need to do is give Knox a chance to launch a blow.

With that in mind, Kadek took a step back to control the distance again—but his ankle was devoured by a “puddle of water”.

“…what…”

He looks down at his left ankle amidst the pouring rain.

An arrow that just missed and hit the ground. Those magic arrows imbued with the energy of water… are not intended to pierce enemies.

The magic arrow engraved with the spirit-style ‘appearance of Suwon’ creates a large puddle of water in the empty land.

The water source, which is expressed with magical power… becomes another battlefield where the water spirits play.

A surprise strategy is only meaningful if it is used unexpectedly outside the opponent’s line of sight.

A missed arrow will be completely pushed out of the opponent’s consciousness. In fact, it is difficult to notice that the arrow was a stepping stone for a surprise attack.

If you look up slightly with your left foot submerged in water, a fairly large water puddle spreads out wide behind the card deck. Then, ‘in the water’, the Lieutenant Water Spirit, Laysia the Lioness, comes out and bites Kadek’s neck.

“aah!”

Cardek rolled over the pool of water as it was. Of course, I can’t even breathe properly. Water enters the airways and esophagus, and little by little, the strength to resist the weight of the lion weighs down on him.

‘Can… breathe…!’

Struggling in the middle of a puddle… Eventually, Kadek lost consciousness.

However, that does not mean the end of the battle.

Knox, who seemed to be completely unconscious, got up behind Ed’s back in an instant.

Between explosions of that size, the body was not even protected by magic. Although his body is full of burns, he doesn’t care at all, and heads the dagger he is carrying towards Ed.

The speed is so fast that it is difficult to follow them with the naked eye. Just before the knife pierced Ed’s back, Knox was certain of victory.

– Whoa, whoa!

However, the blowing wind immediately blocked Nox’s movement and blew it over the cliff again.

– Kagang!

The dagger rolled on the floor.

A high-ranking wind spirit’s always activated skill, ‘Windstorm’s Protection’. Once at a certain time, it was a defensive magic that blocked an unconscious physical attack.

Nox, who was defended even by the last blow, had no means of combat left.

A lioness of water rose from the pool and stood right behind Ed. The bat around the shoulder is still burning, and the bow held horizontally is not scratched.

As Ed’s eyes slowly turned back, the rust stopped and swallowed dry saliva.

Ed slowly approached Knox like that.

death comes Slowly, but surely, as with all death.

Ed reached in front of the wrecked Knox and looked down at him for a while without saying a word. He had a calm expression on his face, as if he was thinking about something.

Knox slowly opened his mouth.

“Is it a luxury to ask you to finish it in one hit?”

“That’s what I’m going to say.”

“Yes?”

Ed said so and looked up at the rainy sky.

“It has become futile. A life like this, and a life of being miserable.”

The spirits were reverse summoned and disappeared, and the bow they were holding was roughly thrown around.

“It looks like your father decided to kill me. If so, I must die someday. Because my father is a person who makes even the rules of causality on his side.”

“that…”

“Then, even if I end you here, this bridle will not end. One day you will try to kill me somehow in a grander, more absurd way. Once you’ve made up your mind like that… you won’t change your mind for a while.”

Having said that, Ed picked up the dagger Knox had dropped. A curse of extreme poison was engraved on the surface of the dagger. This sword with a terrifying pattern is only one shot, and it becomes a deadly curse that can cause death to the opponent just by touching it.

“It wasn’t a very good life. How crude and filthy I’ve survived… If you look at me now, you’ll be able to guess enough, Knox. Nobility? pedigree quality? Those things… boiled the bark and threw them all away when we ate the boar carcass.”

“…”

The dark clouds I looked up at were thick. It’s like the life Ed Roth Taylor went through.

“I don’t do such cowardly escapes, such as paying the price for my sins with death. I’m not that good of a human being, and above all, it’s meaningless. But, it would be the last gift I would give to a loyalist like you, who served in the Roth Taylor family and dedicated his life to it.”

After seeing what Edgar had done, Knox doubted his eyes. He threw the dagger and handed it to Knox.

A cursed dagger that rolled down to Nox’s feet. The shiny handle sounds like it’s calling me to grab it.

“Like I said, revenge leaves nothing but emptiness… but that doesn’t mean it’s meaningless. When you finish your revenge like this, you will feel like you have completed one of your life’s greatest longings.”

And Ed Roth Taylor raised his arms defenselessly.

“Poke it. If even my family denies my life, I don’t want to live a miserable life like this any longer.”

Rainy cliffs.

Knox got up from his seat clasping his trembling hands… and faced Ed who looked down at him casually.

Knox constantly doubted that even this was a trap, but there is no reason to dig further traps against Knox, who has become completely incapacitated.

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Momentarily, the evil Knox rushes forward.

A streak of blood flows through the sad blade of the buried sword.

It was the same with Ed’s mouth that was bleeding.

“Ugh… uh…!”

The blood was boiling. It had a bitter taste of iron.

“Big.. uh..black… big…”

“This… this… what…”

Knox felt a faint smile grow behind Ed’s moaning.

Even at the moment of death, the sight of him not losing his sanity until the very end, he felt a far-off fear.

The curse of the dagger is imprinted on Ed Roth Taylor’s body. A curse swelled from his skin, and excruciating pain engulfed him… Ed said, slowly raising his head and looking at Knox.

“Yeah, congratulations.”

Seeing her smiling while covered in blood was terrifying.

“Finally… you got your revenge.”

Seeing that… A cold, rusty sweat broke out, so he quickly pulled out his sword and pushed Ed away with his feet.

Ed, who was staggering, was pushed to the edge of the cliff… and then fell down a distant cliff.

It was the moment when everything was over.

“Ahhh!”

A sharp scream cut through the air.

The northern cliffs are the most remote places on Aken Island. Therefore, the two knights following Ed were able to carry out the plan without hesitation.

He didn’t expect a student to come this far, so Knox was greatly embarrassed.

Lightning ripped through the sky once.

A screaming girl came across the clearing to the cliff. Knox no longer had the strength to restrain the girl.

“Ed, Ed…! Ed!”

The basket the girl had brought rolled on the floor. Several snacks spilled inside and got wet in the rain.

Desperately running, he sits on the floor and looks down at the cliff… but beyond the cliff, the end of darkness cannot be seen.

“This… this is…!”

Knox tried to say something more, but his completely exhausted body wouldn’t listen.

Rather, the strength in his shaky legs was released and he sat down.

How many minutes had passed?

The girl who had been sitting for a while… slowly got up.

At the edge of the cliff where the rain and wind blow, wet from head to toe, the girl turned her head toward Knox… There is an unknown spirit.

“You… you…”

The rising magic began to fill the atmosphere.

The girl’s expression couldn’t be seen clearly, but Knox could intuit it. Even judging by the amount of magic power… Knox was an opponent that could never be defeated.