How to Survive at the Academy chapter 96

Student Council President Election (9)

walk the road

For some reason, the shape of the walking path is different for each person. There are no fair laws in the world.

Someone’s path is peaceful and flat, and it looks like a path in the woods, a good place to go out.

Daffodils blooming along the road exude the scent of fragrant flowers, say hello to green pines and elk passing by from time to time, and hum along to the chirping of birds… Suddenly, a stone standing on the side of the road hits your feet.

Then he grabs his tingling toes and speaks dazedly. I have had trials in my life too. It was hard, but I got through it. Because I overcame it, I succeeded.

So, what was the path ahead of Clevius who raised his head?

The bloody smell and the smell of rotting carcasses are filled with hungry flocks of wolves. On the roadside, let alone flowers, there is only a gutter with a vibrating stench. The sun had long since disappeared under the gray clouds, so only thick darkness was standing thickly on the stretched road. It is like a daily routine to get stones in your feet, so when you take off your shoes, you are full of calluses.

It seems self-evident that if you try to sprint for a hundred days, you will be miserably killed on the road before you reach the end. That’s why the boy doesn’t even run in the first place.

There was a time when… there were definitely times when he tried to run with all his might. Most of it was a history full of failures.

“Whew…”

The first thing Clavius, who was blocking the road in the pouring rain, did—to stab him in the shoulder.

– Pooh!

– Push Wook!

A new blood stream flows down through the body, which was still blood-stained. Cleating his teeth and enduring the pain for a moment, then Clevius’ red eyes, which staggered and stood up, are revealed through the pressed bangs.

Elvira swallowed dry saliva at the creepy look. ‘Blood swordsmanship’, which was considered taboo by the Nortondale family and never passed on to anyone. Born with the fate of the sword demon, Clevius had learned it on his own without being taught by anyone.

It looks like a living corpse, with his back hunched over and his whole body relaxed. The veins of blood around his body reconcile with magical power and stick to the sword face.

Only the result of kicking the ground remained. It was because Clevius had already disappeared, and only the marble floor, which had been lifted up by the strong impact, was revealing its form.

It is time to put aside the moral discipline that prohibits murder. If you don’t attack with the intention of killing you, you won’t even be an opponent.

The sword that Clevius held out like a spring had already cut off Lucy’s head.

– Kaang!

Of course, Carl didn’t make it to the end.

The knife that touched the nape of Lucy didn’t even move, as if it were blocked by a huge iron wall.

‘Basic’ defense magic.

Despite the name of the foundation, when Lucy’s magic touches it, it becomes as strong as a huge iron wall.

Lucy just waved her arms. When he strikes Clevius with an attitude as if he is trying to get rid of annoying flying insects, his body flies away again.

Clevius, who had been smashed into a corner of the pavilion in the rose garden, slammed the ground and leapt again before the shock was gone.

Clevius’ eerie eyesight accurately catches Lucy’s magic. Lucy’s combat method, which cuts down the enemy with an overwhelming amount of magical power, is simplicity itself. If the pattern is familiar, Clevius, who uses agility that transcends cognition, can sufficiently avoid it.

However, Lucy’s magic patterns vary so much that it can’t be counted from car to car. It’s just annoying that I don’t use it.

Ed’s memento floating in the air, a large recurve bow. Dozens of magic arrows engraved with all kinds of middle and high level magic were loaded.

Clevius, who had caught the direction of the magical power in that direction, bent over and broke his body with a power that even a human could not think of…

– Aww!

– Whoops!

Dozens of pillars of fire rose to a gigantic size. The pillar of fire that rose as if it was raining or whatever it was, swallowed up Clevius in an instant.

“Big, huh..!”

If it had been a direct hit, it would have been fatally wounded, but fortunately, before the magic took place, she rolled herself and escaped to the outskirts of the rose garden. Clevius clenched his teeth and pulled out the magic arrows embedded in his left shoulder and thigh.

The drawn magic arrows were scattered in the air as they were. However, the scars are definitely there. Clevius’ body was covered with the blood that had flowed from the new wound.

However, blood swordsmanship is one of the taboos in which even the blood flowing out of one’s body is used as a new source of magic.

The more the wounds were added, the more blood they had, the greater the size of the sword and the magical power that wrapped around the body.

However, even if he was on the verge of death, it would not even reach his toes compared to Lucy’s magical power.

The overwhelming power difference would be the same even if the blood sword technique was brought to the limit.

– Whik.

Lucy seems to raise a small hand. outstretched palms. It’s so small and small that it looks like it’s going to break in no time.

But what breaks will be the neck of those who are vigilant in front of the girl.

Just by clenching his hand once, the magic that covered the whole area gathers in one spot.

– Kwaang!!

Lieutenant Fire Magic One Point Explosion.

Clevius, who was completely hit, fell out and vomited blood. Above it, the high-ranking lightning magic ‘Negative Punishment’ is struck.

– Kwagwang! Kwagwagagak!

No more, no less, just lightning. However, the difference is that it is imbued with the magical power of Lucy, who boasts a magnificent amount.

A lightning bolt of magical power that incapacitated even the high-ranking fire spirit Tarkan’s shell with a single blow. Clevius, who barely came to his senses, took a defensive stance, but it was not an attack that could be defended in the first place. It was able to flow to a certain extent, but the damage accumulated on the body by that alone had already exceeded the limit.

Fighting while using proper magic. For Lucy, this is the greatest respect that an opponent can show.

For Lucy Meryl, most of the students are opponents who don’t even need to use elemental magic to properly measure their magical efficiency.

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Most of them die instantly without even knowing how to deal with Lucy’s high-level magic. However, Lucy was feeling it. Your opponent will never die like this.

Through the rising smoke, Clevius jumped out again. He doesn’t care about school uniforms that are nothing more than tattered rags, or a body that has become so crippled that it’s quicker to find a place that is virtually unscathed.

The movements of Clevius cannot be followed with the eyes. I can only guess his location by the splashing of fragments of the floor or wall he sprinted through.

– Kaang!!

When Lucy, who had pinpointed his location, turned around and reached out, the sword was already in contact with it.

However, a huge defensive magic circle that had risen was blocking Lucy and Clevius.

-Kig geek, ki gi geek!

A trembling blade.

Clevius’ body had already reached its limit.

Squeezing the defense with his sword, Clevius clenched his teeth and pushed in his strength. The barrier began to crack with the sound of grinding teeth.

The face of the sword demon seen through the cracked defenses.

The area of the face already covered with dark red blood is larger than the color of the skin. Blood mixed with rainwater runs down between the temples and between the forehead.

As if something had happened to the body that had been shattered, even the eyes that were burning with courage were infinitely red.

– Kaang!

As it is, Lucy’s defense magic circle is broken. It was a sight that was hard to believe. Lucy’s defense magic circle is able to block even high-ranking magic, even if it’s just improvised.

– Paang! crispy!

Perhaps it was the price, the blade of the sword Clevius was holding was also cut in half. However, even with only half the blade remaining, the sharpness is still there.

– Get it!

Unbelievable level of singing speed. Three shots of the Lieutenant’s freezing magic ‘Ice Spear’ pierce his abdomen, but Clevius clenched his teeth and shouted evil and did not change his posture.

As it is, the broken blade pierces Lucy’s forehead.

– Kaang!

Of course, you can’t dig into the skin. This is because, apart from the defensive magic circle, Lucy’s body surface is surrounded by ‘basic defense magic’.

In addition to that, once in a certain period of time, ‘Protection of the Storm’ is manifested, so it is impossible to break through this by yourself no matter how you look at it.

“Really, what the…!!! You monster bastard…!!”

-Hwii profit

Clevius, who fell out of the shock of protection as it was, got up again. A student who was struck by the ‘Time Prison’ nearby picks up the sword that he dropped on the floor.

The drawn black blade is alive. The original one was broken and cut in half, but it is used as a defense by holding it in reverse in the left hand.

A warrior with a sword and half the size of one sword digs into range again. The wounds have increased so much, but I don’t think the speed will decrease.

Drops of my blood flowed everywhere I moved. Bleeding is accelerating as time goes on, and even looking at the body already, it is not enough to say that it is bloody. It’s amazing how much blood there is in a person’s body.

All those who deal with Lucy are the same.

When I close my eyes, the image that comes to mind is a huge Mount Tai.

What is the feeling of a person holding a sword and facing the towering mountain Taesan… Is this what it is?

He got hit again with magic bullets and the lieutenant wind magic and fell out, but he woke up like a zombie in the thick dust.

He is a blood-crazed zealot without the concept of death itself. I knew that there was no chance of winning if I bumped into each other more, but I wasn’t standing up again because I didn’t know that.

The memory of the day he stabbed his older brother resurfaced in his mind.

Even if all the people in the family looked down on Clevius as a ghost, he was the person who recognized and affirmed him until the end.

He went crazy and slashed his brother, and when he came to his senses, he had already put a knife in his chin.

The will of his older brother, who gripped the boy’s hand, who had barely regained consciousness, grinding his teeth to endure the pain, was still engraved in his memory.

– ‘I’m glad you killed me this time, not someone else.’

How absurd it was to say that it was a will that was left in the end through the shed of blood.

– ‘At least I can forgive you.’

– ‘So… don’t feel guilty.’

The best swordsman, rumored to bring the Nortondale family’s second heyday, died in vain. A will was only one word.

The rain hits the world fairly.

The gloomy sky looks the same no matter where you look up in the world.

Like the battle in the Rose Garden, the gloomy sight of raindrops was the same everywhere on Aken Island.

The same is true, for example, of the luxurious and splendid windows of the royal residences.

Claire, who heard about the events of the Ophelis Hall from the Academic Headquarters, is delivering the news to Princess Fenia. Princess Fenia, who was sitting by the window looking up at the rain, changed her expression upon hearing Claire’s report.

——Clevius, who got up from the thick smoke, screams evil again and leaps forward. Gathering the remaining magical energy of the Blood Swordsmanship, he destroys Lucy’s defenses, but it doesn’t mean much.

Lucy’s reflexes are also out of the ordinary. With her hat on, Lucy leaned down lightly and left the blade of the wind to drive her feet into Clevius’ body. A new vein of blood scatters in the air.

The rain was falling evenly even in the Gyeok-dong. Even the occasional thunderbolt strikes people by surprise. For a short while, I can only call it heavy rain.

Claire, who was sitting in the bachelor’s office waiting room, narrowed her brows when she heard about what had happened in the Ophelis Hall.

Professor Pllavin had been out to the northern cliff area for an investigation. Watching the pouring rain outside the window, Assistant Professor Claire was troubled for a moment. Outside the window, splashes of water were gushing out from the fountain in the student plaza in the professor building.

──Clevius rolls the floor a few times, creating a splash of water, and then stands up again. He lowered his posture with his arms crossed as he was holding both swords, and then fired a sword attack so fast that he could not even see it.

A gigantic roar that didn’t look like a shock made with a sword rang out once, and fragments of the marble floor erupted around Lucy. An advanced skill among the magical swordsmanship unique to the Nortondale family. It was a herbivore that caused an almost explosive impact. Naturally, Lucy takes no damage.

The rain is beating down on the windows in the hallway of the Ophelis Hall as well. The procession of raindrops pushing the luxurious window frames open as if they are trying to get rid of them is impressive.

After completely subduing Wade, Ziggs took Tanya and quickly escaped through the hallway. There were few people in the hallway of the Ophelis Hall, and there was even silence.

If Tanya is somehow taken out of the Ophelis Hall, it can somehow be prevented from escalating beyond this. With that in mind, Ziggs hurriedly ran with Tanya towards the back door hallway.

However, at the end of the hallway where the raindrops hit the window, I see a girl standing still.

I wondered if there were still students who had not evacuated, so I checked his face and it was familiar. She is also a student of this Ophelis building.

Lortel Keheln.

The young merchant was standing alone at the end of the hallway without even evacuating.

──Clevius’ attack was not over. Once again, he went out at a speed that surpassed the realm of human beings, sprinting around the huge marble fragments that floated around Lucy. The moment he caught Lucy’s back, this time, he gathered all the magic of blood swordsmanship and delivered a single blow.

Lucy’s ice spear flew into her shoulder and pierced her. He almost fell out as it was, but he slashes Lucy’s defense magic circle again with one sword that has only been cut in half.

– Kaga River!

Lucy’s defense magic circle is shattered again by a shock beyond imagination.

And, this time it’s more than that.

Was the god not afraid of wounds and was impressed by the effort he put in his life to secure his life and constantly hit the defensive magic that surrounded Lucy’s body?

– Kaang! Kaga River!

The sword in his right hand, which had been in good shape, shattered, and in just one moment, he succeeded in breaking through all of Lucy’s defense magic system.

It’s not even a defense magic that put a lot of effort at Lucy’s level in the first place. If Lucy’s ability is ridiculously sensitive to magical powers, it takes only a fraction of a second to rebuild all defense systems.

Is it… one hundredth of a second in time? Or is it less?

However, for a swordsman who lives in the same fleeting time, it was enough time to push the blade in.

There is no proper weapon. One was completely shattered, and the other was cut in half.

However, even if the opponent is a rare genius archmage… her physical abilities are just a girl of that age.

Even if it’s incomplete, if it goes through just one sword attack properly, it’s a fatal blow.

– Wrath!

“……Big… Black…!”

Lucy’s pupils trembled greatly. A fleeting time is over

He staggered back a few times, then grabbed his shoulder tightly.

From the right shoulder of the small body to the center of the chest.

The gap of the red blood that had spread out thinly widened little by little, and the blood that flowed out began to wet Lucy’s clothes.

…Unfortunately, there was no such thing.

It was a very slight difference, but it was because Lucy’s defense was faster.

*

– Paang!!

Even the last remaining sword was shattered. Clevius was hit by the magic bullet that Lucy reflexively fired and fell straight out.

“Big… Heo Eok… X-arms…! Really… you bastard…!”

As it was, Clevius, who was torn and stuck in the center of the rose garden, clenched his teeth in an attempt to strengthen his legs somehow.

However, his physical condition had already reached his limit. The bridge no longer listened.

Lucy… for a moment patted her shoulder in astonishment.

It was a fleeting moment, but the possibility that might have arisen fluttered in front of my eyes like an illusion.

In an instant, I was really close to being veiled.

Clevius, who risked his life and carried out his blood sword technique to the limit, was only for a short time, but exceeded the reaction speed of Lucy’s magic.

Of course… you can’t win a duel just by gaining a ‘slightly short’ speed advantage. All other factors are being pushed aside. It is not even a variable that will overturn the gap between the overwhelming ability.

However, the sword strikes from those who even took their own lives as collateral can feel a demonic spirit that cannot be measured by skill alone. Blood-enchanted Berserkers… Even if the time comes when they will face those who outperform their abilities, there are those who cut off their necks with only a deaf and obsessive attitude.

However, the gap between Lucy and Clevius was not something that could be resolved with such a mentality.

It was really only a moment, but it could have really died.

The bloody feeling of walking the tip of a sword… Lucy, who has lived her whole life as a strong person, is not something she can get used to.

Lucy quickly cleared her trembling pupils and looked down at Clevius again.

“Hey… profit…! See…. Faal…!!!”

Clevius tried to get his body to stand up somehow, but he had to struggle with just supporting one arm.

In the end, Lucy, without a single scratch on her body, trudged over. He looked down at the completely slack Clevius and gathered his magic power in his hand.

Clevius relaxed his body as it was.

In the end, I knew it was going to end here. I don’t even understand myself why I clenched my teeth so far to enjoy the glory of wealth.

Clevius put everything down and slowly closed his eyes.

The end of surviving so poorly was only like this. Ugly and stupid until the very end.

With that in mind, he came this far… barely able to put everything down.

– Wrath! Pak!

At that time, it was a single arrow that flew and landed.

An arrow made of magical power… creates a huge pool of water in an instant. A lieutenant water spirit protruding from the inside, a ferocious wild beast ‘Laysia the lioness’, blocks the relationship between Clevius and Lucy.

The appearance of a Lieutenant Water Spirit squeaking and squeaking is bloody just by looking at it.

In an incomprehensible situation, Clevius and Elvira, who was barely conscious in the corner, looked in the direction the arrow was flying.

At the beginning of the raining rose garden, there was a man holding a bow similar to the recurve bow that Lucy was holding.

It looks like she is wearing a very large robe deep inside. The robe was so worn and frayed that the ends of his clothes were zigzag apart.

It looked like a dead and alive ghost, so I had no choice but to swallow all the dry saliva.