63 – 063 – What is forest school # 3
063 – What is forest school? # 3
“Attendance number 40, Neva.”
“Yes.”
“Okay, you’ve arrived safely. So, before we start, I’ll explain some simple rules, so listen carefully. This is the final explanation, so it will be good for you to listen carefully.”
Bergerac explained the rules on this island.
This island is one huge arena.
The rule is to survive using all the objects and terrain everywhere.
“It starts when the red lights on your necklaces and bracelets come on, so you can act freely until then. Of course, I won’t tell you when the start time is.”
it’s time to start
According to Arnoi, there is a high probability that it will be from this evening.
However, there is no guarantee that the event will be held with the same rules as last time.
It’s not right to be too specific.
“Then, our teachers will be responsible for keeping your things and belongings. Everyone starts equally from 0. Submit your weapons too.”
Submit your belongings?
I was a little disappointed at the thought that I couldn’t use the demonic sword Tyrbing that I’d been long-awaited.
It may have been the same with the other students, who protested, “Teacher, how do you survive without an alternative weapon?”
To that, Bergerac gave a simple answer.
“How to survive without weapons. I brought you here to learn how to start from scratch. This experience will help youngsters like you.”
It does.
I raised my hand because I was suddenly curious about something.
“I have a question.”
“What is it, Victor?”
“Is it permitted to make tools or weapons?”
“It is freedom. do it yourself. And show me some respect as a teacher.”
“Is that also the rule of this island?”
“It is not.”
“Then I hate it.”
“You damn bastard.”
Anyway, it means production is allowed.
Would it be better to focus on item production in order to survive?
“You basically have 100 LP. You will also be able to acquire LP through various activities on this island. By the way, those who did not have more than 200 LP at the end of forest school are F.’
F if you don’t collect 200LP.
Harsh.
“And you will be able to use your LPs to distribute and use items throughout this Mini Ludens. First of all, I will set up a snack shop here at the port base.”
Where Bergerac’s hand pointed, there really was something like a street vendor.
There is a middle-aged teacher, Chiron, who is the homeroom teacher of Class C.
“If you need anything, buy it. Emergency food, rope, and flint for starting a fire. And sell maps.”
Do I need those things?
No, I don’t think it’s really necessary.
Rope can be easily produced with 「Textile」, food can be procured locally, and flint is useless for me with the 《Bonfire Building》 skill.
I think it would be nice to have a little bit of a map.
The main island of Ludens is clearly pictured in my head, but in the case of this small island of Ludens, I don’t know what variables there might be.
However, the moment I realized that the price of the map was 100 LP, which is the most expensive item, I hesitated.
Then Arnoi said.
“Then, this Arnoi will spend 100 LP to buy a map of the island… !”
Investing 100LP from the beginning?
Didn’t you hear that guy gets an F if he doesn’t collect 200LP?
I think I can see one side of why Arnoi attends this school until the 8th grade.
After such a deal, Bergerac heard a strange-looking bell.
“Then you know how to survive. The moment you strike this bell, you are free.”
dang-.
“quickly! We have to go faster than those guys and get a seat!”
“You guys, don’t follow us!”
“You guys aren’t following, are we on our way too?”
After the bell rang, everyone rushed to somewhere.
You look tense.
Arnoi shouted.
“It is clear that the competition has already begun… ! Everyone is busy trying to find a place that is advantageous for survival and use it as a base… !”
Positioning doesn’t matter.
You may have heard hints from your older brothers, sisters, or seniors who graduated from clubs, saying, ‘I like the cliffs of the southern sea because they are good for catching fish and have caves.’
As I do not have such connections, I am faced with two options.
First of all, try walking around behind where everyone is heading.
Or carve your own path.
“Arnoi, if you have the map you bought earlier, take it out.”
“Here it is… !”
Arnoi held out a curled map in my hand.
As I unfolded it, a diagram of a fairly familiar terrain and shape appeared before my eyes.
“It’s the same.”
From the sea to the lava field, to the snowy mountains, plains, and forests in the middle of the cold.
It seems that Ludens Island has been reduced and moved as it is.
If the creatures that appear and the monsters or even the vegetation that grows are the same, it seems that I can point out one by one where to go is advantageous for survival.
“How about going to the sea nearby… ? Let’s go to the sea and catch fish… !”
“No, we have time until dinner, so let’s look around.”
An island 10 times smaller than Ludens.
If you allocate your time well, you can easily explore the area on foot.
I didn’t know about this mini Ludens, but I wanted to check it out first because I could say I knew the big Ludens better than anyone else.
The similarity of this small island with the main island.
It won’t be too late to decide what to do after that.
* * *
After walking like that, I arrived at the center of the island where the academy was located.
The buildings built there seemed to have been copied from the buildings built on the main island.
“It’s built exactly the same. The size and number of floors are slightly smaller. Who the hell built these buildings and for what purpose?”
“This little Ludens seems to have been a training ground for the gods… !”
It is the training ground of the gods.
Arnoy’s story was good to hear half of it, so I decided to skip it.
“First, let’s look at this school. Arnoy, let’s split up and look for useful things.”
“… Are you thinking of leaving Arnoi after saying that?”
“I don’t do that.”
“Then I promise to meet you in front of this gate in the next 30 minutes… ! If you throw it away, you will resent it… ! A nymph’s resentment is effective… !”
Hey, he’s a guy with a lot of doubts.
I’m sure this Arnoy is the only one who doubts me this much.
However, ‘Nymph’s Resentment’ is a bit interesting.
Should I leave it for once and go?
“It’s something you can’t throw away… ! It’s a promise… !”
“Yeah, I got it. Okay, now let’s disperse a bit. I will find the second floor, so you search the first floor.”
I managed to convince Arnoi to fall.
In the meantime, as promised, I went upstairs and rummaged between the classrooms and hallways.
“… … .”
It resembled Ludens’s academy, but it was a rather eerie place.
Things are neglected and abandoned, and have no human scent.
“I also have a bag.”
Throw the books in your bag into a nearby trash can and try them on.
It was something that seemed to be enough to put things like this.
After that, in the lab on the second floor, I learned “adhesive” and a “cutter knife” that seemed quite usable.
Things that are used as tier 3 when making various items.
“Things are the same, but these are places where only people seem to have escaped.”
lonely and desolate
Are other places like this one?
It was then.
A strange sound was heard from the other side of the hallway.
“I guess we’re the only ones.”
“Let’s get everything useful before others come.”
Are there other students?
The number of people is four.
It was a team of 4 men and women.
“Yeah, that’s Viktor.”
“Why is this guy here… ?”
“I thought it was a place only we knew… .”
These are faces I don’t know.
However, they were busy checking to see if they knew me.
“Hey, Victor! You know we shouldn’t fight because the necklace hasn’t lit up yet, right? It’s against the rules if you attack us!”
“Am I afraid?”
“Who, who is afraid! Pretending to be strong while being alone!”
Even as he said that, the guys quietly backed away.
You must be saying that you want to avoid fighting me unless you know when this trinket might light up.
It was the same for me too.
No matter how strong Viktor is, it’s a little hard to deal with four people without a single weapon.
After all, the first thing to make is a weapon?
Since you have the “Cutter Knife” and “Glue” you just acquired, you should be able to create a tier 3 crafting item, “Shabby Sword”, with only one “Wooden Stick”.
“Is this enough to hit with a “wood stick”?”
I picked up a cane that looked quite thick in the abandoned teachers’ room.
I think I can use it as a weapon, but since I already have crafting items, I want to try making things.
So, I simply applied glue to the rod and then pierced the blade of the cutter knife well.
Then, the “wooden rod”, which was simply a knife blade driven into a cane, seemed to glow brightly, and when the light disappeared, it was transformed into a strange object.
「Shabby Sword: It is an old and shabby sword. Can I catch a rabbit with this?」
It was literally an old, shabby sword.
A weapon with a blunt blade that looks like it would bend easily.
But it looks a lot more useful than sticking a cutter knife into a stick.
“The cane became a sword. At this level, it’s not item crafting, it’s magic level.”
「I made a normal item. +5 LP”
Is this how it feels to acquire an LP?
Then it was time, and it was time to head to the main gate thinking that I should join Arnoi.
“This Arnoi has party members… ! It’s all going away… !”
“Let’s all surround this guy. Keep guard until the light comes on, then let’s defeat it! My uncle said you can get LPs by defeating people!”
“hehehehe… !”
There was quite a commotion at the front door.
I could hear Arnoy frothing, so it was clear that something was wrong.
As he headed towards the front door, Arnoi was surrounded by four other people.
The mixed group of four people I met earlier surrounded Arnoi.
“Hey, what’s going on?”
When I appeared, all the guys were clearly nervous.
They immediately looked at the [shabby sword] worn on my waist and said, “Let’s step back for now,” and sprinted away.
Arnoi looks at their backs and shouts.
“These are very nymph-hating guys… ! I’m going to try again… ! This Arnoi, never be afraid… !”
For that matter, I was on the verge of fainting.
However, he seemed to know how to collect LP and hunt opponents on this island.
You’re looking for easy-looking guys, and then defeating them the moment the game of survival begins to get LP.
How many points do you want to get if you knock someone down?
It was then.
Beep-.
Something strange sounded in my throat.
At the same time, the psychedelic band worn on the wrist vibrates with a gigiing sound. That means one thing.
“That means everyone is now enemies.”
Is it not even evening yet?
It was faster than expected.