165. Day 1 (2)
The rain that fell in pursuit hit the robe in an odd beat.
The humidity around him was exceeding the limit to the point where he could feel it clinging to his lungs.
However, it was not cool, so we had to endure the harsh environment of high temperature and high humidity. I realize that the climate of the Korean Peninsula is not very good.
Still, I was less affected by this climate because I had Rumina’s magic cloak.
Maybe magic cadets who can manipulate the surrounding climate will be able to occupy a pretty good spot in this part.
“It’s tea.”
Turn over the body of a drooping phantom jaguar. The battle was short. Since he became a combat cadet, it was not difficult to deal with a beast.
The heavy body thumps! and pass Like cats and beasts, the weight was not usually heavy.
Now it’s time to skin it and cut out the parts you want to eat. It’s raining and humid, so let’s deal with it before the decay proceeds.
However, there is a caveat here. It’s because if you don’t know this guy and just eat it, you can go to the goal.
It was about the third round when I first encountered this cat.
My heart decreased, and I had to eat something because my physical condition was at the bottom because of the annoying climate.
The moment you enter the island, all items are reset, so there are no other food items you have collected.
The phantom jaguar that I had no choice but to eat.
However, like a guy with the name ‘fantasy’, he ate meat unknowingly and suffered from hallucinations for two days. It was a truly terrifying experience.
All stats plummeted, controls did not work well, and the play screen was also dizzy. I hated the development team for making use of the 4D feel.
Then, I was ambushed by a 3rd year holy grail guy, and I met the ending once.
It was so unfair that the rest, the result of cooking the fantasy jaguar in one way or another!
After experiencing a total of 3 endings, I found out that I could only eat the part of the belly without the circular dot pattern.
It’s a shame because I experienced it in the game. If I ate this in real life without knowing anything… … . let’s keep quiet
I knelt down in front of Jaguar and put my palms together.
“sorry… … .”
I can’t help but eat and live.
Meat is more precious than you think on this island. When the opportunity comes, don’t hesitate.
I’ve never actually done it, but based on the know-how I learned in the game, I peeled off the skin and put the flesh on it.
In the game, leather and teeth are all treated as items, but there is no such thing here, so it is a pity in its own way.
I stored the phantom jaguar’s hide and belly straight into the shadow dimension.
The animal’s blood runs down in the rain. I washed my hands in the falling rain.
Since the phantom jaguar smelled my body and rushed at me, this place where even blood was spilled would literally be entangled with monsters and beasts.
If you continue to stay here, you will get into trouble.
‘Let’s hurry and get out of here.’
Shoot ah-!
The raindrops intensified, then faded for a while. The sound of rain hitting the big leaves of the tropical rain forest presents a subtle taste. Like welcome to hell.
Well, since we got food right from the start, it wasn’t a bad start.
I slowly left my seat.
* * *
The vast land of the jungle was reflected in the beads the size of a table for four, like a vision formed on the retina.
Extremely developed magic engineering has reached the level of relaying the screen of a specific place to a remote place in real time.
Only 1,341 relay magic marbles installed to cover the wide area of Gumadi Island.
It was a marble installed to monitor the situation for the safety of the cadets, but the purpose of those watching this screen now was different.
In fact, Argon and Iden, who were in charge of this great festival and plotted a huge conspiracy, had no sense of justice to protect the safety of the students.
Their purpose is just to preserve the bowl called ‘Aren’ and wait for it to be perfected.
However, the existence of the vessel was just strange.
“No matter how you look at it, it’s suspicious.”
“… … What do you mean?”
When Argon, who was observing Aren, narrowed his eyes as if he was uncomfortable, Iden asked nervously.
“He is a person who has spent his entire life in a mansion. Isn’t it suspicious to hunt and skin animals so skillfully? Besides, he knows exactly which part of that fantastic jaguar beast to eat. It is so natural and without hesitation to think that I learned it simply from books.”
“Well. Looking back, I’m sure… … .”
Iden was deeply impressed by Argon’s ability to observe. In addition, as he said, Aren’s natural and clear acting ability was even more astonishing.
Since he himself had been trained as a king-to-be, he knew at least basic hunting knowledge.
It would be clumsy for him to hunt and skin immediately, but it wasn’t usually suspicious that a human who had lived only in a mansion for the rest of his life did it naturally.
While raising a fantasy jaguar at home, Aren’s behavior was so skillful and unnecessarily that I wondered if he had eaten it from time to time.
“Aren seems to have a lot of questions.”
“Even with Simon.”
Simon’s suicide bombing was easily prevented.
It is a terrorism carried out without warning by a madman who does not spare his life. It’s impossible to act so gently unless you know in advance.
It always has been.
If something happened near Aren, the situation was resolved as if he knew the future.
These unpleasant results continued to make Argon uncomfortable. It was a feeling of rejection that could not be shaken off.
“you’re right. That was very strange.”
The 3rd Prince received an investigation report while dealing with Simon’s terror. According to the report, the victim responded so calmly.
“It was as if he knew everything was going to happen.”
I couldn’t help but find it odd. It seemed that there was a background. Then Aren Blackfire couldn’t escape from the prime suspect.
“Well, it doesn’t mean anything now. No matter what you’re thinking.”
Argon laughed softly and muttered.
By any chance, even if Aren is a traitor and has other ulterior motives… … .
There was no way for him to escape at this point, when the demonization was almost complete.
The future where Aren becomes a vessel is immutable unless a force so great that Thanatos or the god of light descends intervenes.
From the moment Aren defeated the stench king, Argon was confident of victory. The time was coming when Diamon would resurrect and keep his promise.
“Yes?”
Iden followed Argon with his eyes, puzzled by the disconnected conversation without context.
“Are you getting up?”
“Don’t leave the surveillance.”
“Then, could it be?”
Aiden raised one corner of his mouth wickedly. As if Argon reacted to it, he drew his eyes into grotesque half-moon shapes and spread his hands in the air.
――――!
Then came the response. It wasn’t clear where they were, but at Argon’s beckoning, the floor opened and a staircase leading to the basement appeared.
When the door to the basement was opened, a terrible stench poured out. However, the two went down the stairs without incident even after smelling it. To them, the smell of rotten meat smelled fragrant like the scent of lavender.
Slowly, things deep underground unfold. It was all red. The object, the floor, and the far-off tunnel.
Like a butcher’s shop, the red light subdued the basement. There was no distinction between fresh blood and plain water.
Only the distinctive bloody smell was letting us know that it was ‘blood’ that was filled here.
“The time is ripe.”
“… … !”
Aiden’s eyes flashed. Even though it was a dark and obscure place, it was clear that he was smiling fiercely.
“finally. Ahh.”
“okay. The time has finally come for our long-cherished dream to come true.”
The gaze is directed downward.
The source of the blood that filled the basement was the corpse. There were many dead bodies. A corpse occupied the entire tunnel.
The headless corpse was put in a coffin and blood was continuously being drawn. It didn’t matter how the blood continued to flow from the dead.
It’s unclear when these tunnels existed or how many people died there.
The important thing was that many of these bodies were buried somewhere deep in the basement of the academy.
… … And the corpses were facing their destiny to be dedicated to the resurrection of Diamon, the lord of lies.
“I will prepare for the coming of Diamon for a week now. Make sure you make the necessary preparations perfectly.”
“I will follow your orders… … .”
The smell of blood vibrates. Concentrated magi also settles at the bottom of the tunnel.
The blood drawn from the coffin passed through a dark tunnel. What lies at the end may be the source of evil.
Argon walked slowly towards it.
Aiden bent over to look behind him.
“Worship the evil to come.”
Aeonia was stained with evil.
* * *
“Whoa. Will this be enough?”
After walking for a while, the rain stopped. Instead, an unpleasant dampness clung to the nape of his neck.
Crossing the jungle was physically exhausting.
It was because there were too many things to take care of, as the rain-soaked ground turned into a wetland, trying to eat your shoes every time you walked, and all kinds of bugs, poisonous plants, and snakes lurked between the grass.
The result of overcoming all the dangers.
Even on a rocky mountain, I ended up occupying the top of a fairly tall old tree.
The location was quite good.
The altitude was high, and the scenery was not too bad. If you are up here, you can see fog rising through the trees, and it feels like you are in a fresh forest.
If it was here, when a fight broke out from a distance, it would be easy to figure out the approximate location.
Occupying a high place and overseeing the battle situation is the basis of strategy.
Thanks to the size of the old tree, there was a proper shelter at the top.
It is wide enough for at least three adult men to lie comfortably. In addition, it was even flat, so it was very suitable as a base camp.
The leaves were as large as a person, and no matter how hard the raindrops fell, not a single drop of rain fell here.
“The floor is dry. It’s nice to be comfortable.”
It was a perfect hiding place that would not be discovered unless someone deliberately approached me.
Suddenly, the game of mining minerals came to mind, and I couldn’t hide my excitement. That thrilling feeling of falling naked into an unfamiliar world and catching a house… … .
Now that you’ve decided on a camping spot, it’s time to set up a barrier. On the first day, fighting is forbidden, so you have to move diligently.
As the goal of the Great War is to use each person’s own organs and survive to the end, the more you know how to do it, the better.
The reason why I listen to the subclass is to prepare for this kind of situation.
It’s no wonder that I, who has both the physical strength of the combat world and the use of magic in the magic world, can do a lot.
First, I cleaned up my surroundings and closed the barrier.
I put black magic on the floor and the middle of the old tree and the space where I sleep.
It is a barrier ceremony in which the spell of electricity is overlaid on the pentagram drawn with my blood.
Whether it be animals, people, insects, or birds, anyone passing through this barrier will be electrified. In this way, even if you are sleeping, you can wake up right away and prepare for it.
I thought about making it for killing, but I didn’t want to kill or injure the cadets unnecessarily.
“Argon will be quiet for a while too.”
Argon probably won’t intervene with me anymore once I’m on Gumadi Island, so I don’t expect a big threat.
Since he has already been turned into a demon as much as he wants, he has no justification to harass me more.
He must now be immersed in the Diamon resurrection ritual.
In the meantime, I was planning to break through the guards and hold a great battle while preparing to complete the Philosopher’s Stone.
“Looking at it like this, there are so many things to do.”
This isn’t even a neverdiving highlight, and I really can’t seem to get a break.
Still, his life was at stake, so he had to risk his life and death. ‘Indolence’ is no different from an express train ticket to hell.
“Do you want to light a fire now?”
There is a survival order that the survivors of nutube tell you.
Get some drinking water first.
Find a place to escape the second body.
And third, make a fire somehow.
Is not fire the greatest discovery by which man has advanced?
Now that you have fallen naked in the primeval tropical rain forest, making a fire is a must.
Of course, if you light a fire during survival, your location will be discovered due to smoke, causing danger.
So, on a very small scale, you should smoke enough to dry wet clothes and cook meat over a long period of time.
The skin of the phantom jaguar to be used for the bed is also dried over a fire to remove ticks and insects, so there is no choice.
The leaves are so large and dense that the smoke will not escape immediately.
Fire can be used as much as magic, but maintaining it for hours was another matter.
Firepower is maintained only when there is a material that can burn the fire.
It’s not very wise to keep a fire burning for hours, draining mana.
If you fell into nature, you should also know how to use nature.
“Shall we get some dry branches?”
Now that the base camp has been established to some extent, it is time to prepare food, clothing and shelter in earnest.
You have to stay like this for at least a week, so you have to move diligently.
I climbed down the old tree. Move stealthily, act swiftly like a monkey.
And the moment you land lightly with a shock… … . I felt my whole body stiffen.
――!
‘There is someone behind it.’
sh*t. What an idiot! I cursed at myself for my stupidity.
Relying only on the barrier, he neglected the surrounding vigilance. What I missed was the ‘range’ of the barrier.
Let’s say the range of the barrier is around 50m.
When you come down from the old tree, you have to be at least 1km, so you come down without being vigilant. I was so excited about filming survival that I missed these basics.
‘… … no.’
not. I thought wrong. It was not to insult my stupidity.
The person who showed his presence behind me is clearly still within the range of the barrier.
Even so, the barrier did not work.
how?
There is nothing more stupid than questioning. It was not an issue for any particular reason.
In the first place, it means that the intruder is a person who can nullify my barriers or is capable enough to detect and remove them.
And as far as I know, there weren’t many participants in this great festival with that level of skill.
Slowly, I put my hand on the sword as I had landed on the tree.