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‘It feels like I’ve come down more than two hundred meters.’
Philip, who arrived at the bottom of the hole, faced Rappo, who had come down beforehand.
“Did you leave the wizard behind?”
“Here he comes.”
Phillip pointed up and saw Perek descending slowly with his floatation spell cast.
As soon as he landed, he looked at Philip and Rappo with a resentful gaze and immediately called out the magic light.
Soon the surrounding landscape was revealed, and Perek gulped.
This was because bones and dried corpses were strewn about under the dusty stone floor.
In front of my eyes was a passageway that continued straight ahead, and it was like that all the way to the visible section.
“this… What is all this?”
It was such a horrific sight that anyone with a weak fence could start a game just by looking at it. Philip used his own insight and noticed that among the bones and corpses, not only humans, but also humanoid monsters or subhumans were mixed in.
“Shouldn’t we go up again? Something is ominous.”
Perek made a weak noise.
“Rather than something sinister, it’s outright sinister. It’s safer this way. Wouldn’t it be better to be openly informed about the danger than to be subtly ominous?”
Philip said so and reassured Perek.
“You say that now… .”
Perek, who was about to burst into anger, realized something important.
‘… … Am I the only one serious? Actually, isn’t it a big crisis right now?’
Whether it was the wolf Lafo or the instructor Phillip, he didn’t look too serious. Philip jumped in place with his sword, checking his physical condition, and in the case of Wolf Rapoe, he scratched the back of his neck with his hind legs as if it was nothing at all.
“Do you know what lies out there? hahahaha, don’t just let each other know, let me know too.”
Perek asked with a smile. But Philip just shook his head.
“I do not know. Whatever it is, it will be.”
“yes? Then shouldn’t you go over there? He said he didn’t even know what it was.”
“I don’t think I’m going to die or be in great danger. I’ve come this far and there’s no reason to go back.”
“You mean you risk your life just for that reason?”
“So you don’t think it’s particularly dangerous? Please follow me.”
“no! that is!”
Ferek punched his chest in frustration. It was the feeling of not being able to speak at all. Philip apologized to Perek in his heart and took the lead in opening the way.
‘I’m sorry. Instructor. But the instructor is a smart person, so I can’t help it. If I pretended to know what was out there, they would surely think it suspicious.’
As I stepped forward, stepping on the bones in my feet and the mummy of unknown age, I heard something like a voice.
“… he… from… I’ll give you… .”
“… don’t… have to… .”
“Wait, now!”
Ferek froze when he heard a suspicious voice in a tense situation.
“This, the voices of the ghosts who died an unfair death here are clear. What a creepy voice… !”
Clutching the wand in his bosom, Ferek began to mutter the most powerful spell he could wield.
“A shape of ashes floating in the nine heavens, the end of all that remains… … .”
Hearing the incantation, Philip was startled and grabbed him by the shoulder.
“What are you doing? If you summon something like that from a basement like this, everyone will die.”
The being that Ferek just wanted to summon with a spell was the ‘Ash Knight’.
It is one of the strongest in the fantasy realm, whose whole body is made of ashes and penetrates into the opponent’s internal organs to cause death as if they were falling asleep.
“Did you just hear that? That terrible voice!”
“No, that is a human voice. You seem too frightened, so come a little closer and listen.”
“There’s no way people could be in a place like this, right?”
Philip went further without a word. As Perek followed him, clenching his staff, he heard the voice in question again.
“Hold on, hold on a little. huh? I’m sure the professors will come to the rescue. It will hurt a lot, but let’s endure it for a little while. is it car Would you like to try to cover Borrian’s wounds? I’ll find a way out.”
It was a strangely familiar voice, a strangely familiar voice.
“… Isn’t that Instructor Ophelia’s voice?”
At Instructor Ferek’s question, Philip frowned.
“I was afraid of this, so I followed you all the way here.”
This was the reason why he had to go through the 3-day and 2-night monster subjugation practice. He knew the identity of this place.
‘Nefensus’ nest. The mortality rate for students who come here is over 70 percent. I came along to find this place and subdue it first, but in the end someone got caught.’
“Are you Instructor Ophelia over there?”
“Who, who are you? Reveal your identity!”
Philip raised his voice, and the sharp female voice returned. Philip instructed Rappo in advance.
“You might be surprised, so stay in the corner for a while.”
“… yes.”
After Rappo disappeared into the darkness, Phillip and Instructor Ferek approached Instructor Ophelia.
She checked Phillip and Perek, gave a look of disbelief, then drew the sword from her waist and aimed it at them.
“Do you think I will be fooled by this? How dare you take the form of a man for an evil monster!”
Philip had no words to say at her solemn yet stern cry. His momentum was sharp, as if he would attack at any moment, but the tip of the sword he was holding seemed to be trembling little by little, making him nervous.
“What are you doing?”
“Wicked monster! Get rid of the pointless tricks and come on!”
“Calm down. Instructor Ophelia. We are not doppelgangers.”
Ophelia then began to examine Phillip and Perek with suspicious eyes. However, as if a conclusion had come soon, he slowly raised his aura and prepared for battle.
“… The instructors said they were going to a nearby city on an errand for Professor Murella, but he couldn’t be here. I can’t hear anything more.”
In a moment of irritation, Phillip pondered for a moment whether he should just let her attack. Right now, it seemed like it would be legal to hit one honey chestnut on the top of the head.
“Instructor Ophelia. To think of us as doppelgangers is a leap too far. To begin with, doppelgangers aren’t common enough to appear in places like this. It’s so rare that there hasn’t been a single case actually witnessed in the last 7 years, so there’s no way it’s appearing here right now. Besides, although we are supposed to be out on an errand for the professor, we were actually away for other things.”
Instructor Ferek calmly urged her to calm down. After hearing his logical explanation, Ophelia’s eyes began to tremble.
“that… Then are you really Instructor Oswald and Instructor Ferek?”
The big, pretty brown eyes filled with moisture, and soon she was weeping.
“… Instructors, how did you know and came to save me?”
Philip, who suddenly had a playfulness, asked back as if he didn’t know why.
“what do you mean? We got in and got lost. Where is this place?”
* * *
Ophelia, no, Christine Baroun was a hot woman. Phillip, caressing his tightly pinched forearm, approached the students Ophelia was protecting.
It was Chanya Ujechu and Borrian Herbitt.
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Chanya was taking care of Borian, who was seriously injured in the thigh, and his face was pale, as if he had already lost quite a bit of blood.
“Borian Hubbit got caught in an old pit trap. Chanya went down the trap to help Borian, but I was trying to lift them up and she was suddenly sucked into the ground… .”
“… What must have been.”
At Ophelia’s explanation, Philip nodded. It was a story everyone knew.
Instructor Ferek inspected Borrian’s wounds and put on a troubled expression.
“I have already lost too much blood. The bleeding has stopped, but it will get worse if you don’t rest in a warm place.”
It wasn’t really Borian’s fault. Blind traps were often set on these plains, and they couldn’t be blamed for a student who was neither an instructor nor a professor.
“Then we should leave immediately.”
“Do you know the way out?”
Ophelia asked, and Philip nodded.
“Instructor Perek. How many people can you carry with floating magic?”
“Probably four people. I don’t think my mental strength will be able to withstand more than that… It’s because I’ve consumed too much because of the detection magic since morning.”
“Good. take them all out Perhaps Instructor Ophelia will be able to break through the waterfall. Instructor Ophelia will be able to call a rescue team while Instructor Perek looks after Chanya and Borrian.”
“… Then what will the instructor do?”
Philip answered Perek’s question as if it were nothing special.
“I will take care of it.”
“Well, you can come up on your own, so you should do it yourself. All right.”
Phillip led Ophelia and the students to the hole he came down from, and after seeing them ascend with the floating magic, he sighed.
“Finally, we’ve dealt with all the intruders.”
“That’s right. little master. I’ve been getting a headache from the sound of that guy over there calling me.”
Rapo, a warrior from the Wollang clan, who had been hiding in the dark, suddenly appeared and agreed.
“Do you know about the guy in there?”
“I don’t know, but in front of my teeth and claws, it’s just a piece of meat.”
Rappo expressed his confidence by showing his teeth. Philip laughed awkwardly, holding back the urge to punch Rappo in the black nose.
“okay. trust me.”
Philip headed deep into the passage with Rappo. As he progressed forward, Philip could feel an ominous aura hovering around him.
“Looks like it will be a pretty good fight. Will you be okay with the little master? The momentum you feel is not normal. I will protect the little master as much as possible, but it will probably be a little difficult.”
Rappo was concerned about Philip. It was because the momentum he had grasped was strong enough to withstand Philip’s skills.
“Ah, it’s okay.”
‘Nepensus was truly an open-mouthed monster. The difficulty is filthy difficult, but the rewards given are filthy. So I didn’t have to catch it even when I could catch it. But if he’s the gatekeeper, it makes sense that the balance is so strange.’
In the original game, Nepensus was a field boss who was shunned by the deceased.
It was an extremely powerful flatland drake. Speaking of drakes, they are widely known as a subspecies of dragons, and in the East, they were like serpents.
The only difference was that it was a monster that could not become a dragon no matter how long it lived and how hard it worked.
Among the long-lived individuals, there were those who possessed reason and spoke human language.
Such was Nepensus, whom Philip would soon encounter.
“… no wonder. I see. So that’s what you did. If you put it like that, it makes no sense. Assuming it’s not just a field boss, that all fits.”
Raffo tilted his head as he stared at Philip muttering something to himself.
‘Where are you sick?’