I Became A Flashing Genius At The Magic Academy chapter 168

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69. Ghost Story (4)

Hedrick Siriburn was an ordinary boy who was enrolled in Class E in the first year of the Stella Magic Department. The fact that he entered Stella was already unusual, but here he was just a student who was not ordinary and stayed in the lower ranks.

There are so many great students above me

because there were so many

but it’s ok

All students have their heads bent, because they don’t just look upwards.

Hedrick was satisfied with his rank and class.

It was a great honor to have a Stella student come out of the Siriburn family, who were only barons on the frontier, and thanks to that, the current family was reviving tremendously.

Hedrick tells Stella why Baron Sir Lieburn, who no one cares about, hangs out with the aristocrats of the city today.

because I was admitted.

“I’ll just have to go.”

“Are you going to the next class?”

“yes. The schedule is too tight.”

“Even though it’s summer vacation, you’re in vain. Do you play a little while playing?”

“That’s it. The subject with the worst grades among us.”

“Let’s go play soccer.”

Stella had a lot of great geniuses, so Hedrick had to work hard and keep trying. catch them up

I don’t even want to As long as you can just follow closely and graduate, that’s enough.

“… … i’m done I will go first.”

On the other hand, the cadets in Class D and Class C seemed to have quite a bit of leeway, so during summer vacation they hardly attended classes and just went out to play every day.

‘This summer… I’ll turn it around.’

friend? only rivals

While they play, I grow more.

Hedrick thought as he walked down the hallway.

Next class is Strange Botany.

The botanical laboratory was located in the 3rd main tower, so Hedrick walked quickly. It was because it was quite a distance from the 6th main tower to that place.

Fortunately, there are transportation means such as a small warp hall inside Stella, so students can travel long distances comfortably.

As usual, Hedrick walked towards the gate. Then I suddenly looked straight ahead, and the behavior of a girl walking in the front was a bit suspicious.

‘White school uniform?’

It has been over 50 years since Stella’s school uniform was changed to harsh colors.

However, the school uniform that the girl was wearing was clearly an old school uniform with a round color and a gold border.

award winning

As there have been various incidents in Stella recently, I remember the words of the instructor who told me not to go too far and report it if I found something suspicious.

‘I have to catch him and interrogate him.’

Hedrick did not hesitate to say that he was proud of himself as a magical warrior cadet and had the opportunity to receive a shop.

I walked towards this girl.

However, no matter how much I walked, the distance did not decrease. The stride would definitely be wider on my side.

fault!

Hedrick, unable to gradually increase his pace, sprinted from his seat and ran. However, no matter how much they jumped, the gap was still not narrowed.

like a mirage.

“Huh… Heh heh heh… … !”

Just as he was out of breath, Hedrick at some point realized that he had passed the gate.

Designed like an ordinary hallway door, this warp hall gate is always used by a large number of students.

By the way.

Something was strange.

“••••••what?”

It’s terribly bleak

Obviously this direction was the hallway leading to the 3rd main tower, so the gate must also be heading towards the 3rd main tower, but there was no one around.

The 3rd main tower is a place where research students often come and go because of the concentration of laboratories.

It was normal for it to be quite complicated and noisy.

Unusual silence is how to make people terrified.

“what… … No, calm down.”

gulp.

After swallowing, Hedrick took a step forward.

This is Stella Academy.

Nothing will happen that you don’t understand. Believing so firmly, I slowly walked away, but I did not see anyone.

Researchers, professors, lecturers and even students.

No one was there.

Around that time, he had a sudden thought that this wasn’t something, and he hurriedly turned around.

It was to go back through the gate again.

“ah••••••’?”

However, the gate was gone.

There’s nothing there, just… Only the passage of an ordinary hallway remains.

“Hey, this can’t be happening.”

Hedrick hurried through it, but nothing happened. Even when I turned around and passed the gate, I didn’t feel like I was going through the gate at all.

“how… …

As he looked at the place where the gate should be, with a puzzled expression, he noticed something striking.

[The 7th main tower]

The seventh tower that does not exist in Stella. That phrase was clearly engraved on Hedrick’s eyes.

Why?

At this moment, nothing else, the reason why the ghost story that was floating around among the students as a joke comes to mind.

Unfortunately… Hedrick doesn’t know much about the ghost story. It was because I thought that it would be more realistically helpful to study while my peers were preoccupied with such nonsense.

That is, I have no idea what to do here.

“O O.”

Hedrick, who was slowly stepping backwards,

I turned the dog involuntarily and looked at the huge full-length mirror in the central hallway. It used to be an ordinary full-length mirror that exists in the same location in the other hallways. What is the reason why it always feels bizarre today?

He looked at the full-length mirror as if possessed without realizing it, and made eye contact with himself in it.

was laughing

me in the mirror

I am not smiling

– Ha ha ha ha ha!

I wave my hand in the mirror

say hello

The smile on his face was bizarrely distorted and seemed to slowly approach me.

“ah… …

It looked at Hedrick for a long time, then raised the corners of his mouth in the opposite direction and said:

– You’re not.

The memory was there.

murmur murmur.

The bulletin board of the first-year class was particularly noisy. It was because of a notice posted a while ago.

Eisel, who was about to pass by inadvertently, found a striking sentence and stopped walking.

[Recently, a student fell on campus.]

[Currently, the Magic Knights of Stella and the school staff are working together to search, so I would appreciate it if you would not worry and concentrate on your studies.]

The content was really simple. How big is it that only one student has fallen? Sometimes, there are students who pass out because they are so engrossed in their studies that they are exhausted.

But, this time the case was too special.

“Did you hear that? When the collapsed Hedrick was found, the corridor situation… …

“uh. I heard from a kid who saw it firsthand, that all the windows in the hallway were open and the wall had ‘Not you’ written on it.”

“It’s completely… It’s like a fairy tale, isn’t it?”

“Isn’t it now?”

“The professors said they all erased it.”

An uneasy atmosphere spreads like an epidemic and engulfs students.

It’s not like he collapsed normally, but an incident that closely resembles the content of the recently popular ‘Ghost Stories’.

Realizing that the students were worried, the school dismissed it as ‘someone’s joke’, but no one believed it.

“What is really going to happen?

no… … ?”

It was a word that a certain student unintentionally uttered, but no one could respond to the thought that it could become a reality.

‘ Umm•••••••

Azel thought while looking at the announcement quietly.

The recent incident could be dismissed as just a coincidence. However, the conversation I had recently overheard by Professor Raiden caught my heart.

‘The 7th main tower ghost story… … What does that have to do with it?’

She is well acquainted with fairy tales. Marylene, who became my best friend, is very fussy and sensitive to trends and rumors, so she talks nonstop at mealtimes.

By the way, it is said that the place where a student named Hedrick disappeared was also on the way from the 6th main tower to the 3rd main tower, so it is exactly the same as the ghost story.

‘It’s just a joke… …

something bothers me

But to tell you this truth,

Her friends were too soft and wanted to protect.

Someone you can trust and rely on… For example, if Baek Yu-seol had been at school, he would have gone to tell him right away, but unfortunately, he is currently absent.

‘What…

Even in the midst of hesitating and contemplating, time passed and the students flowed back to their respective positions.

Reluctantly, Azel was about to go back, but the back of someone walking in front of me suddenly caught my eye.

A girl with dark brown hair, full frame.

She was walking slowly, reading something with a girl with ponytails about her height.

Suddenly, Eisel remembered.

Even if it’s not Baek Yu’s theory, if it’s a full frame that shares many secrets and truths, wouldn’t it be enough to trust and rely on it?

There are only a few beings in the world where it’s okay to confide in this secret.

‘The incident is already happening.’

If all this is an illusion, yes

also good

Rather, you can put your mind at ease and feel at ease.

But if something I know could help solve this mysterious case, wouldn’t it be ok to talk about it?

Although she had been hated by everyone in the world, she did not want to hate the world even herself.

When people around you get hurt… It’s so terrifying that you can’t even imagine.

I’ve already been through something like that, so I can’t stand still

I couldn’t beat it.

The worries are there.

Azel quickly approached the full frame and grabbed her.

“… … Excuse me for a moment.”

“hem? what. Azel?”

“yes.”

Since it was Azel who had never spoken to me first, Full Frame’s eyes widened.

On the outside, she looked like a cute little sister who just wanted to bite her, but inside her, the sleeping heart was as strong as a fortress.

I was already aware of the fact.

So, without hesitation, Eisel was able to confide in her what she had found out.

“I have a story to tell.”

After I left the cradle of the Spirit Tree, I did not return to Stella immediately.

Summer vacation is actually a very important period for me. It is clear that events inside Stellar alone can make me stronger.

Because there was a limit, there was no choice but to grow in parallel with the sub-events and dungeons that occurred outside.

Growth through training?

It’s obviously doing great.

He had become accustomed to the control of blinking through breathing, including Taeryung Shingo, and now he was confident that he would not be pushed back even if he faced a 3rd class wizard.

However, that alone is not enough.

My roots were players, and in order to grow most definitely and quickly, the supply of experience was the best.

The main characters have already passed class 4

You must be looking ahead, but my growth is too late.

In order to protect the main characters and prevent a crisis that is coming to the world in advance, shouldn’t they have at least the same level of strength to help them?

At the same time, I managed to catch a pretty good event from the straight-eyed glasses to prepare for the search for a ‘sick’ for the flower and the erosion of the black horse that would follow.

[Welcome to Malentay Les, the romantic city of dreams.]

the entrance to the city.

A large billboard greeted me.

The electronic sign board was already worn out and some letters did not even light up, so it was difficult to even read the text properly.

A city full of romance and dreams?

Talking fluently, the city of Malentyres was actually a huge slum.

The atmosphere of the city was dead.

The streets were not lively, and people went their separate ways without even having a conversation. As if they did not eat properly, the city dwellers were all dry and draped in rags.

I walked between them.

Stella took off her school uniform and changed into plain clothes.

For nothing, wearing Stella’s school uniform, which is nothing more than an aristocrat in a slum, was apt to be the subject of fear and mischief.

But even in plain clothes,

I wonder if my aesthetics had changed quite a bit while staying at Tella, people’s eyes were focused on me as if piercing through me.

‘It’s terribly terrifying… …

There were hardly any magic warriors or mercenaries on this street. It was because there was no prey.

It is understandable that the city is dying because there are no special products produced on its own, and it is not an area favorable for exchanges, and even there are few visits by magic warriors.

But here lies a great jewel.

The ‘petal of a gentle heart’ hidden by Yeonhongchun and March of a long time ago.

Because it slept right around this city.

There… One of the most popular events in the game, [No One Was There] was scheduled to be held here.

I remember that there was a lot of experience to complete, so players were busy to participate in the event, but when I saw the empty and eerie city, your feeling was quite strange.

‘Are you doing well in full frame by now?

I don’t know.’

I was quite anxious because the original and the content had changed so much, but I still believed in the full frame. Even if she chooses the wrong option, she is the main character of the sunfish who picks and dies every time, but nevertheless, she always did her best in every situation, because she was the ideal protagonist.

Probably right now, at my request, you are pouring out your passion to investigate [Black Demon Erosion]. By the time I return from this event, the episode will start properly, so I will try my best to return on time.

need to hurry for

‘Then first… …

I glanced at my surroundings and walked along the dark and gloomy alleyway as much as I could.

Then, a group of shabby clothes began to gather around me. Behind me, an old woman and a beggar who pretended to be busy with other business blocked the road, and in front of me was a crazy-looking woman with her hair loose and staggering towards me.

I was trying to ignore and pass by, but suddenly a woman with a crazy appearance suddenly met me.

He grabbed both shoulders and shouted.

“why!!! Ignore them while making eye contact!!”

deaf go down

I looked at her without a change in expression.

Thanks to Yeon Hong-chun and March’s protection, I am not surprised or scared for nothing. Even if it wasn’t, there’s really no reason to be scared.

“why! why! Why darling darling!!”

She still shouted indifferently, but when I didn’t show her reaction, she backed away.

Again, it’s a ‘crazy behavior’.

I mean, it’s made to look crazy. Let the common people be frightened.

“… … what should be Why are you looking at me like that?”

As I was just staring intently with an uninspired expression, it seemed as if the other side was frightened, and she took her hand from my shoulder and slyly backed away.

“Do that.”

After waiting for a while, a pretty decent man in a coat with a fedora hat appeared in the alley. he beggars and passersby

She pushed her back and strode towards me, and gently pulled a woman with a crazy appearance behind her.

“student. you understand People here are half crazy about the recent bad things.”

“I know. Do ghosts keep appearing?”

“… … Did you know that you came? Flying boats don’t come at all because of rumors that ghosts are coming, and trains are cut off, so visitors are rare.”

“It took a long time to get here.”

“is it. Are you interested in the rumors?

army.”

He pulled out a teddy bear and put it in his mouth.

The beggars and passersby slowly retreated, and the woman looked at me and then disappeared through the alley.

The man smoked a cigarette for a while and then started talking to me without looking at me.

“Then let me ask you. Are you a human or a ghost?”

“If you answered that it was a ghost, what would you do?”

“It must be annihilated.”

It’s not a fire, it’s annihilation.

I really don’t like ghosts.

I know that guy well.

Pungryujin, one of the few Ghost Hunters in Aiter World.

“However… … There are no ghosts who say they are ghosts with my mouth, so it doesn’t matter if you leave a human or a ghost alive.”

“Thank you.”

I intend to help him.

There was a reason that Pungryujin was the main character of this sub-event, but… … .

It was also due to the fact that he had an item that would be of great help to the erosion that might be coming soon.

To be honest, I told Full Frame to be prepared for an erosion episode, but no matter how much I prepared, it wouldn’t come up with a good solution.

maybe… … If the original game proceeds normally, the full-frame will go through all kinds of adversity and hardship, and will suffer a lot, and there will be numerous casualties inside Stella.

So, it is right for me to go back to Stellar right now and respond as well, but of

no beauty

Because it wasn’t at a level that I could solve no matter what I did.

However, the way was out there.

Artifact possessed by Pungryujin, ‘Soul’s Spirit Charm’.

If I could just take it back, maybe the difficulty of the erosion episode would drop exponentially.

I’m really sorry for the full frame, who is suffering right now, but… … .

‘I want you to play a little harder.’

This brother is buying items soon

I’ll go back and fix it in one go.