165. Untier(2)
“Professor Sergei has left the campus.”
A dark basement classroom.
A low-pitched voice resounded in the gathering of black hoods.
“Where did you go?”
“I don’t know about that, but intelligence has already come in saying that it has already escaped the system. It means that you can’t come back within an hour at least.”
That meant the success of the operation.
I have dug a trap outside the system that can be reached by chasing the mastermind behind the Imperial University terrorism.
Anyway, Sergei was heading there to cooperate with the Imperial Police to catch the man behind it.
Currently, Sergei, the strongest man in the Empire who has no one to compare with other than the Imperial First Sword, has vacated the Imperial University.
An opportunity like this was never common.
“Brothers. This is the first and last chance. There’s no way we can get out of here and go back to our daily routine. All the people on the scene will die. Only those who don’t care will remain here.”
“·······.”
Silence ensued.
None of those wearing the hood left the classroom.
‘Mr. Ha. Driving me crazy. Can I escape now?’
Meanwhile inside the crowd.
Sergey’s teaching assistant was nervous, his legs shaking.
I wanted to go out right away, but because I was in the innermost part, I was too careful to break through the people one by one.
‘Ah!’
In an instant, I saw a hood that was quietly backing away and disappearing outside the classroom.
But no one seemed to notice it except the teaching assistant.
Such a sneaky movement like that of a rat.
I don’t know who it was, but I was just admirable.
“Then I will go to the rebellion now! Follow me!”
“Yes!”
To make matters worse, the atmosphere was heating up again, so I completely missed the timing.
In the end, the teaching assistant was swept away by the crowd and had to head somewhere.
To wake up the monster that will destroy Imperial University.
***
Caw············
“What?”
Erica raised her head at the crow’s cry.
A flock of crows was flying through the sky, spreading out wide enough to cover the sky.
Looking at the direction, it seemed that they had flown from the mountain behind them.
To see such a large group moving all at once.
For Erica, it was a sight she had never seen in her entire life.
“Is it an earthquake?”
It seemed that I had heard of the migration of birds and animals as a precursor to an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Erica gulped down nervously and hurried to her dorm.
When it comes to the future, there is one expert.
“Iris! Open the door!”
Knocking on the door, Erica stamped her foot.
It was very quiet even though it was quiet inside.
What if Iris had sensed her crisis in advance and ran away?
‘No. It can’t be.’
Iris is a saint.
She is a saint who will do her best to save others even if she dies soon.
There was no way that Iris would let people die and run away alone.
“Erika? What’s going on?”
“Ah!”
Then the door opened and Iris’ figure was revealed, and Erica let out her exclamation.
Iris’s attire was her everyday clothes indoors.
She said that at least she wasn’t planning to go out for a while, which meant that nothing much was going on at the Imperial University.
“Are you coming in or not? I want to close the door quickly.”
“Why don’t you come out of the hallway and show off your plain clothes to the other kids… Ah! I’m sorry! I’m going in! I’m going in!”
Iris was about to close the door with a cold expression on her face, but Erica managed to step inside.
Erica entered Iris’s room, questioning why she was so pretty even when she wasn’t wearing a nun’s uniform, but why she didn’t want to show it to others.
There was no sign of packing.
Really, Iris didn’t seem to have any intention of leaving this place.
“Whew. Thank goodness.”
“Why, Erica?”
“No no. I must have been a little mistaken. A flock of crows a little… No not a little. Seeing how many they flew to cover the sky, I suddenly thought that some kind of disaster was about to happen.”
“Hmm…”
“Worrying for nothing, isn’t it?”
“·······.”
“Why… You don’t answer, Iris…?”
As she stood still and looked at Iris with a gentle smile, Erika felt an unknown sense of incongruity.
Iris saw something.
Something unusual happens in the future.
This seemed to be an unmistakable fact.
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“What will happen in the future…?”
“It’s strange. In the future I saw, Erica didn’t know anything. How did she go wrong?”
“What is it? Tell me, Iris.”
“Huh… I can’t help it. Could you give me your arm for a second?”
“Huh?”
Fluffy.
Iris, sitting on her bed, held out her hand.
Erica was bewildered, but she sat down beside him, pulled up her sleeve, and offered her arm.
Iris stretched out Erica’s hand and touched her fingertips.
“Does Erica know the difference between her inner and outer circuits?”
“I know. The external circuit refers to the magic we learn, and the internal circuit is used by knights to strengthen the body.”
“That’s right. The internal circuit is located in our body. Then, do you know where the center of the internal circuit is?”
“Hmm… I don’t know.”
Erika tilted her head, counting on her fingers, who had never operated her internal circuits in her entire life.
She gave up polishing her internal circuits because she felt like she was wasting her mana extremely and her body was getting tired quickly.
She was not born with a good circuit in the first place.
“Ouch!”
Then she felt a tingling sensation at the tips of her fingers.
When she came to her senses, she saw a small drop of blood coming up from her middle finger.
Erica was startled, but she didn’t lift her hand.
She knew for sure that Iris didn’t do it with malice. She
She was surprised and made a fuss about her, but in fact she didn’t hurt too much.
“Internal circuits are drawn along the blood vessels of the body. Mana spreads through the circuits throughout the body using blood as a medium, and the internal circuits operate using that mana as fuel.”
Iris put her index finger on the wound on her middle finger, she said.
At that time, Erica felt that her slight tingling sensation was transmitted through her fingers. She
She tried to ask what she was doing, but she stopped.
Because Iris will explain everything step by step.
“So, do you know the answer to the question I asked earlier?”
“Uh… What was the question?”
“It was a question about where the center of the internal circuit is.”
“Ah! I see! It’s the heart! Isn’t it?”
“That’s right.”
Everyone knows that the heart acts as a pump to circulate blood throughout the body.
If blood vessels are circuits and mana is spread through blood, then the heart must be the heart.
“The internal circuit is similar to the external circuit in many ways. Both have a center or a core, and they can be interfered with by others.”
“Huh? Wasn’t the internal circuit impossible to interfere with?”
“Normally, that’s the case. But if an outsider directly connects to the circuit and takes over the center, I’ll sit by and wait…”
“What?”
At that moment, Erica’s whole body gave out and she collapsed.
Ah. Interfering with the internal circuit, you mean what you’re doing right now.
“In this way, internal circuits can also be taken away by others. Erica does not know how to resist internal circuit interference at all. It was easy because of that. Skilled engineers subconsciously resist even while sleeping, so in some way They say that it is impossible to steal the internal circuit even with it.”
“Ugh … Yeah.
“·······.”
However, Iris remained silent and only smiled.
It was then that Erika had a hunch that something was wrong.
“Erika. I’m sorry. This job is really dangerous.”
“What do you mean…?”
“I have to exclude people who act differently from the future I saw. That way, there are fewer variables to consider.”
“Wait a minute. You’re not going to leave me like this, are you?”
“It’s half a day. Don’t worry, I’ll be able to move again after I get a good night’s sleep.”
“Hey! Iris! Do you want to do this, really!”
Iris pulled her nun’s uniform over and she shut the door and left.
No matter how much Erica shouted, the door wouldn’t open again.
No, she doubted whether her voice could reach the outside of her in the first place.
Maybe there is a soundproof barrier.
No, if Iris was meticulous, of course she would have installed it.
“Huh! What the hell is this!”
She wiggled her body for a while, but Erica gave up trying to move.
She did not budge as if she had been crushed by a heavy rock.
It was clear that something dangerous was about to happen.
But by tying me up in this room like this, I won’t be of any help in that future…
“Am I just a nuisance?”
It was one of the two things.
In that case, wouldn’t staying still here help Iris?
I have no idea what the hell is going on.
“No! But I hate not being able to do anything like this!”
If you don’t do anything and just watch, you won’t be a nuisance.
At least I didn’t want to be lying here not knowing what was going on outside.
Erica struggled and tried to resist the pressure on her heart.
Recalling the brief training Iris had given her.