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“Hmm?”
Contrary to the sense of security when riding the Cheongeuk train, I had somehow adapted to this wagon, which rattled all the time, so I fell asleep before I knew it.
He sighed and let go of his stuffy mouth and simultaneously pushed the two heads that had risen heavily on both shoulders.
Tana and Elise, who were also asleep, hit their heads against the window on the other side with a thump, but they didn’t wake up.
To communicate with the coachman, I sneak open the small window in front of me and breathe in the outside air.
“You woke up just in time.”
“Ugh, tell me if you’re tired. I will change it.”
“it’s okay. Since everything has come, I will finish it.”
I didn’t know that the difference between the Cheon-geuk train and the regular carriage would be so great. By train, it took a little over half a day to reach the royal palace, but now it took ten days.
It was also possible because he was a royal family with no shortage of financial resources, so he stopped at nearby cities and exchanged words luxuriously.
I never thought I would miss the breath of Prince Oliver who supported the railroad car.
“I see the academy over there.”
“I’m not particularly happy or anything.”
Now I’m not happy and I’m bored. Usually, when I enter the academy, I go out of the academy once or twice only during vacations or school trips, but how many times do I go out like this?
Still, there were quite a few incidents, so I was away for about a month, so I wanted to see the faces of the other kids.
“Hey, wake up.”
“Ugh?”
“Haam, have you arrived?”
The academy arrived just in time when Tana and Elise woke up. I still had a splint on my right hand, so Bertia helped me unload.
“I’ll leave my luggage at the dormitory, so let’s go to the dean first. Daniel, if you do something wrong, you could have already been expelled.”
“……thank you.”
“Let’s go.”
I already had a lack of attendance, but I missed a month, so I may have been expelled without my knowledge, but there is no problem. Now that it was Elise who decided not to hide her identity, she could use some force in the name of the king.
To be honest, I caught a royal assassin, but it made sense to receive a medal of honor rather than the level of cancellation of expulsion.
“But you don’t see anyone there?”
At Tana’s words that followed, I glanced around and saw that there were certainly not many people around. No, there wasn’t at all.
As I was walking around the empty space, I wondered if it was some kind of magic, but luckily the guards caught my eye.
The guards guarding the entrance to the Academy building approached in surprise and noisily.
“Looking at my uniform, I’m in third grade, what did I come back to?”
“Ah, looking at your arm, you got hurt while practicing, oops.”
“Yes? What do you mean?”
I suddenly wondered what kind of nonsense I was talking about, but the guards asked me again, taking off their hats and cooling off their sweat, as if they had the same thought as me.
“Didn’t you come back from field training?”
“Local training?”
I replied with an expression of incomprehension, but judging from the reactions of Tana and Elise, it seemed that I was the only one who couldn’t keep up with the conversation.
“Ahh! You went to prepare for the contest!”
“Is the timing a bit earlier than last year?”
The memory of Hayoon explaining about the contest came to mind.
A regular battle held for the purpose of friendship, exchange, and competition with the Palace Academy.
For reference, I’ve only recorded defeats for 13 years, so I’ve heard that the Aeos side is a magnificent 13th in a row.
“This year, the dean deliberately pushed ahead a little faster, saying that we could win unconditionally.”
“By the way, unless you’re here with an injury… Wait, are you a Daniel McLain student?”
“Yes, I am Daniel.”
Suddenly, the guard shouted my name, clapped hands and opened the academy door with a bright smile.
“The dean left a message to open the door to the dean’s office when students come. Please go and contact the telecommunication area.”
“Hey! Our academy’s ace has finally arrived!”
“……ace?”
Involuntarily, I opened my eyes small and glanced at Tana and Elise on either side. I checked with thin eyes to see if they knew anything, but the two girls naively shrugged their shoulders or shook their heads to appeal to their ignorance.
Once led by one of the guards, head to the dean’s office on the top floor.
He suddenly felt a sense of familiarity with me and started asking me how long I’ve been in sports and what kind of sports I’m good at.
“In the past, I also kicked my cheeks a bit!”
clap.
The guard who opened the locked door to the dean’s office. A communication tool placed on the work desk that always feels a little too big for one person.
“Wait, did you tell me to touch it like this?”
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Judging from the fact that the dean’s mana was felt in the sphere, he had already injected enough mana for operation.
The security guard seemed to be struggling with sweat as if he didn’t listen properly when explaining, but in the end, Elise sighed and held out her hand.
“I’ll take care of you, so leave.”
“Hey, thank you!”
As if waiting, the guard went out. He was sucking honey to protect the academy, where no one was there, and the additional work of us seemed to be a nuisance on the inside.
As soon as Elise put her hand on it, the sphere glowed and emitted a square light. I could only see gloomy darkness, but I could tell from the clear voice that the communication was successful.
“What if it gets cold there… what is it?”
It’s been a long time since I heard the dean’s voice.
Hearing a rustling sound, it seemed that he was taking a communication tool out of his bag, and he immediately saw the surrounding scenery.
Ares was seen in the distance, running around on the green lawn, but the dean’s face filled the screen as he swung around.
“Ah, it’s burdensome.”
The dean made a fuss and shouted, as if my tongue-in-cheek voice had entered through the communication port.
“Daniel? Daniel is back!”
Like a shipwreck who found an oasis in the desert or a nun whose prayers to God were answered, the dean welcomed me a little too much.
Anxiety can be felt even from this distance.
“Are you welcoming me?”
“Nice to meet you, of course! What if you don’t come back! Can you come to Bayrn right now? No matter how expensive the transportation is, we will pay for it, so come quickly!”
“You want me to go and practice before the contest?”
“yes? De, did you hear?”
Were you thinking of hiding it?
I wondered if it was something I could hide in the first place, but I was so excited that I continued to step on my tail without even realizing it.
“right! With your help, we can finally break our 13-game losing streak! I can crush that blunt nose of the dean of Palace Academy!”
“But even if Daniel participated, he only competed in two events.”
Tana mentioned that there is a limit on the number of events per player. However, the dean smiled more like a witch than the witches of the Black Forest and took out a piece of paper.
It was a list of players that could be called a confidential matter in a competitive match.
The important thing.
“All candidates?”
Starting with combat soccer, magic basketball, grand battle, and so on.
The name ‘Daniel McLean’ was stuck in the list of candidates for all events.
“The rules do not limit the number of candidates! Because there are so many sports with so many serious injuries, we need a lot of replacements!”
“So you’re going to put Daniel as a candidate and make him participate in all events, right?”
Tana said, “Ho-oh,” as she said it was a good eye, and the dean waited for my reaction with bright eyes that were not appropriate for her age, as if hoping for a compliment.
Whoops.
I lifted my broken right arm, which was being splinted.
“I can’t participate.”
Oops, I accidentally listened to the stop as well.
*
profit.
The door opens, and light leaks into the dark interior. However, the strong darkness did not easily yield its place as if it were fighting for power.
“It doesn’t look right.”
The Meister Dwarf holding one of the seven hammers, Hashim Bellok, did not hide his displeasure.
“Sniff, sniff. The smell of that year is deeply buried. And… the smell of blood is too strong.”
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Jaguar Backflin, the captain of the clandestine claws following Raizer, the king of beastmen, also strode inside with a disgusted expression on his face.
Followed by the watchman of Yggdrasil, the elf Eris and the witch of the Black Forest, Adrina.
The four of them found the last secret laboratory of the fighting dog hidden in the land of beastmen, and were able to reach it after a long time.
After a pretty tough chase, he drove Horan, the last survivor of the dogfight, to the edge of the cliff.
“It is a place where there is no wind. There doesn’t seem to be a separate secret passage.”
When Eris declared, Hashim raised the ax that was slung over his shoulder and laughed.
“You’ve come to the tiger’s den to hunt tigers!”
“……”
“hey? What’s going on? Unusually.”
Hatshim felt puzzled by Jaguar keeping his mouth shut. Because we used to quarrel so often, now we noticed the slightest difference between each other.
“Something… I’m afraid.”
His black hair stands on end. It’s like saying that you sense danger in advance and want to run away quickly.
“I can feel the popularity.”
“Witch lady, fire!”
“Yes!”
At Hashim’s cry, Adrina created blue flames on her palm and threw them forward, though the flames wrapped around the walls in a splendid way and drove away the darkness.
There is Horan, who is already a corpse, and a huge werewolf or beastman.
It was too wild, wild, and exuding strong energy to be called a beastman.
However, for a werewolf who completely loses consciousness on the moonlit night and returns to a beast, it contained heavy wisdom and traces of time from his eyes.
“Ahhh……”
Adrina was the only one who noticed its existence and stumbled backwards. Eris, who was next to him, accepted it, but she, too, could not take her eyes off the wolf, who expressed a strong presence.
With the eyes of a predator, he glanced slowly at Eris and the others, then stopped at Adrina.
“Did the witch leave the forest and come here?”
At the wolf who recognized her, Adrina immediately fell flat on her stomach and shouted.
“I, my lord! How come here!”
No one can claim the name of the owner of the forest in the demon realm.
Individual skills are of course important there, but in the end, it was a place where winners and losers were divided depending on the surrounding environment and physical condition at the time.
Even ancient monsters who are confident in their strength do not fight recklessly. A sense of crisis that anyone could stand in the position of a prey.
in such a place.
Even though victory or defeat is not certain until they compete, all ancient beasts are the most reluctant to fight.
Even if you can’t rule the forest, everyone who lives in the forest has no choice but to call you an emperor.
In addition.
A monster that prevented the continent’s only Sherpa from completely ending the forest of the Pandemonium.
The wolf beast, Kulika, glared at them with teeth.