While the chaos was going on on the side, the criminal who intercepted the second clue was preoccupied with the other side.
“First of all, it looked too big to bring the whole box, so I brought out only the contents. What the hell is this?”
“A stone? Actually, this is a joke, and isn’t there a separate winning?”
What Noah and Carlos found in the box was a stone the size of a fist.
Its shape was artificially trimmed round, and the color was bluish, so it seemed that it was not an ordinary stone.
But I couldn’t figure out what the hell to do with it.
“Let’s join Tiu for now.”
After Tiu fired the thunderbolt, he left his seat to avoid being swept away by the Witchbeast.
Returning to the confluence, the two met Thiu, who was waiting for them there.
Fortunately, Thiu recognized the stones they brought.
“This is a guidestone.”
“Do you know what this is?”
“You guys don’t even know. This is only used in the eastern mining areas.”
“mine? Could there be a mine on this island… … ?”
Tiu shook his head at Carlos’ guess.
“The guidestone emits light when it recognizes a specific mineral and gets close to that mineral. In the mines, it is used to find veins, but not here.”
Tiu took over the guide stone and began to hold it here and there.
Then he found something inside a nearby knot.
“As expected, this assignment was a way to find something. Look at this.”
What the guide stone reacted to was an ornament with a small piece of stone embedded in it.
However, rather than being completed as one, it seemed to be split into several pieces.
“Noah, look at this part. Looking at the shape, it looks like I need to collect several of these?”
“Guiding Stones are for detection, and the real task was to gather them all over the island.”
I couldn’t tell how many pieces were hidden.
As long as it came out of a knot in a normal tree, it was possible to find it without a guide stone.
“Let’s gather a few more.”
In the process of finding a few more pieces, the party realized the essence of this task.
“There is a reaction coming from the other side, but the devil must be… … .”
“Did you deliberately make me go around the island and fight the demons?”
As expected, it was clear that it was a task to find something.
In the process, not only did he inevitably hide from the Beast, but he also had to fight the Beast.
“Look at me, Carol. When he encounters an enemy, he has a habit of returning to the group and bringing his allies, so it’s easy to chase them away.”
However, Noah easily drove out the demon.
For the three of them, witchcraft was no big deal.
There were many places where the guide stone reacted, so it was just a matter of passing the dangerous places.
The search continued until the evening, and more than 30 pieces were gathered.
Returning to the hideout, the group put the collected pieces together.
“If you put 8 of any piece together, it seems like a bracelet is complete. Perhaps this bracelet is proof of passing?”
“Then are we passing? Quite easy for a name like Hell Week, right?”
“Originally, it shouldn’t have been this easy.”
There are more than 100 students of the 899th class who entered the island, but only one guidestone was given.
Moreover, even one of them was inside the Demon Beast Cave, which was difficult to penetrate even with dozens of people.
“This test requires a lot of people to get the guidestone, and the more people there are, the more pieces you have to find. If it was, we would have had to fight all week.”
Cooperate with enough people to penetrate the cave and not lose the guidestone to others.
As the number of people increases, the number of pieces required also increases.
Search the island infested with monsters to collect the pieces of the increased team members.
Even a battle with other students who will come to steal the guidestone.
In this way, it was this Hell Week that properly balanced cooperation and competition.
“Even the instructors wouldn’t have thought that we would eat the guidestone with only three of us.”
“is it? If so, it is thanks to Noah that things ended so easily.”
Thiu and Carlos looked at Noah while talking like that.
Noah waved his hand because he was embarrassed by that stare.
“Anyway, did the three of us gather everything? Then why don’t you sprinkle the guide stones on the other guys?”
Tiu nodded at Noah’s words.
“My thoughts are the same. Some of them gave up halfway, so maybe there are enough pieces hidden for all the remaining members to pass.”
“It shines all the time, so if you keep holding it, the other kids will notice.”
If it is revealed that the three of them are monopolizing clues, they will be attacked.
Carlos spat out the words with such thoughts, but Noah’s reaction upon hearing those words was completely different.
“Target… … ?”
“Well, if there is only one, everyone will want to have it, right?”
Needless to say, the current situation was divided into two factions, Jeong Do and Apostle.
In order not to hand over the guidestone to each other, they would try to get it like tenacity.
“That’s good.”
“uh?”
“Isn’t that a free sparring pass that no freshman would refuse?”
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Noah laughed like a child who found a fun toy.
“You’re thinking of fighting other guys with that?”
“of course. When will this opportunity come again?”
I knew from the beginning that some of the freshmen were from the 8th generation.
Noah has asked Felix for a ranking match several times so far.
However, Felix refused every application for the ranking match.
For some reason, he wanted to spend his school life quietly, playing only minimal ranking matches.
It didn’t matter if I rejected all the ranking matches with people like Noah because the students were different levels of opponents.
‘But if I take the guidance stone hostage, I have no choice but to accept it.’
It wasn’t just Felix.
Among the 899 students, there were still many people Noah hadn’t dealt with.
Thiu and Carlos also supported Noah’s idea.
“I got it with your idea anyway. Don’t leave it up to you to decide how to use it.”
“I am in favor. I am also curious about the swordsmanship of other guys.”
“Then let’s go straight to Felix.”
The other students were divided into degrees and apostles, so I had to go to one by one.
I’m sorry, but the Sado side tends to respond well when asked to compete, so I thought it would be better to stick with the Jeong-do side at times like this.
“In addition, Felix is evaluated as the strongest, so I want to face him when he is in his best condition.”
What if you deal with all the other guys and stick together when you’re tired and end up not feeling refreshed?
I won’t be able to sleep because of the shame.
“Since the sun has set, if you rush around, you will be attacked by the Shadow Fencer. Let’s move tomorrow morning.”
However, unlike those who had clues in their hands, the other students could not fall asleep quickly.
Those who got impatient did not hesitate to do stupid things.
It was the next morning that Noah and his party realized this.
* * *
“… … What happened all night?”
the next morning. Noah and his party went out to find the students.
Finding it itself wasn’t too difficult.
The other students were acting as a group, so once they reached the high ground, they could easily locate them.
However, the scenery seen from above was completely different from what was expected.
“It looks like a war has broken out.”
Large trees fell, leaving holes in the forest.
In addition, there were many places where the ground was overturned and soil was exposed.
“Did there be a monster attack all night?”
“I don’t know if it’s one or two places, but on such a large scale?”
“It is not impossible. We must have been sudden intruders to the demons on this island.”
The ecosystem of Yonggeomdo was kept closed by the instructors.
If a large number of people suddenly entered such a land, it was natural that there would be four months.
There was a possibility that the monsters who had only been paying attention until now attacked all at once.
“I am concerned about the condition of the children. I’ll have to go down and check it out.”
For now, checking the situation seemed to be the priority.
Carol proposed to Noah in that situation.
“Then I’ll go to the other side. You guys go to the apostle.”
“You, Carol?”
“Right now, those guys are divided into Jeongdo and Apostle. If you, the apostles, go to see it, you will be wary.”
“okay. Then let’s rejoin here before the sun goes down.”
So, the party split into two and Noah and Tiu searched for the post on the apostle side.
“Noah! Tiu!”
“Is it Miho? How did all this happen?”
Through Miho, the two were able to hear about the events of the night.
“They said the guys were attacking you?”
“I kept looking, where were you? The Jeong-do guys took the clues and pretended not to, and now they decided to attack!”
Surprisingly, the traces of the battle came from a fight between Jeong Do and the apostle students, not the Witchbeast.
“I couldn’t stand it because Felix was shooting his sword at random.”
“That’s all made with the 3rd level swordsman? Guy Felix, how many Aurors do you have?”
Tiu was frightened as he recalled what he had seen earlier.
There were not one or two traces of battles taking place here and there.
It would have taken a lot of Aura to do all those battles in just one night.
It was a relatively realistic level compared to the instructors who created the island itself, but in Tiu’s eyes, this was equally absurd.
“It’s powerful, but to think you can do something like this in one night… … .”
“It’s frustrating, but that must be the 8th generation. Since I was born, I drank all the elixirs, so there is no one of my age who can handle an aura.”
In order to deal with a member of the 8th family, she had to overcome the difference in Aura purely with swordsmanship.
However, the 8th family also excelled in swordsmanship, which was called the pillar of imperial swordsmanship.
“Has this been done by just one person… … .”
Miho checked all the injured people, only their arms were injured.
Felix left his legs free to walk all the way to the shore if he wanted to give up in the middle of it.
“Noah.”
“I know. It’s not our fault.”
It was true that it was a good situation to misunderstand because Noah preoccupied the clue.
However, it was definitely the students’ choice to attack the opposing camp due to a misunderstanding.
Nor was the choice particularly wrong.
From the beginning, the instructors gave assignments to induce competition, and also drew the line that they would not be involved in what was happening inside.
It was a test that was induced to fight in the first place, so the attack could not be blamed.
“But as long as the guidestone is in my hand, I will have to put an end to the misunderstanding.”
“Yes? What are you guys talking about?”
Noah took out a guidestone and showed it to Miho, who was confused.
“This is the second clue. To be honest, it wasn’t just these guys, I took care of it.”
“What?”
After saying that, Noah turned around and headed for the camp of the students.
“Wait, Noah! Are you going to go to the kids? If you go there in a situation like this, there will be an uproar!”
“It’s okay, I’ll come and explain.”
Watching the two leave, Miho remembered what happened on the evening of the first day.
It was he who taught Noah the situation and the location of the second clue.
“Could it be because of that one word?”
* * *
“You traitor! The ones who gave up already told me before they left that you were chasing the apostle?”
“If you stuck with the apostles, you would know where the second clue is, right? If you tell me that, I’ll release you from here.”
Carlos, who entered the camp without knowing what had happened all night, was arrested on the spot.
The students who initially acted with Carlos gave up halfway and left malicious stories about Noah and Carlos on their way out.
Even if they thought they were too ashamed of what they had done, they turned the blame on others as if to make an excuse.
Thanks to that, Carlos, who appeared in the car he was waiting for, had to be beaten without knowing why.
Carlos, who had been given a full course of straw mats, was a mess with torn lips and swollen eyes.
The other students questioned Carlos about the second clue.
Carlos kept his mouth shut even though he was confused.
‘If I talk about Noah, Noah will become a target!’
Noah accepted himself as a member of the team.
It was impossible for him to sell Noah’s information on such a subject.
“Ha, this bastard is really strong.”
The location where only two students, Carlos and Jeong-do, were separated for interrogation.
Where I thought there were only three, there were actually two more guards.
‘Senior Hicks. Will you just watch? It’s not a test or anything, isn’t that just a way to vent your anger?’
‘Our job is to monitor and evaluate. It’s not an intervention.’
‘The guidance stone has already been monopolized by a boy named Noah without anyone knowing. There’s no way the assignment will proceed as planned!’
Nightray’s apprentice instructor Kuina couldn’t understand the current situation.
‘Those guys are virtually unqualified. There are only three of them, so if we notify them here and send them back separately, we can make sure that other students’ exams are not affected.’
Neither had anything to do.
Kuina was an instructor who was formally knighted.
At the student level, she was confident that she could subdue even the person involved without knowing what had happened.
‘Where do you want to write because your field of view is so narrow?’
‘yes?’
‘Look over there.’
On top of a hill in the distance, undetectable if you’re not focused.
Noah, the culprit that made the instructors grab their backs, was standing right there.
“Let go of that hand. Otherwise, you will get hurt.”
The aura-bearing voice could be heard even from far away as if it was right next to it.
“hmm? what is this… … .”
“I was warned.”
Push!
At the same time, a black wind blew in and cut the rope that tied Carlos together, separating him from the other two students.
The sword wind, which had already been blown before speaking, arrived with a time difference.
‘Intangible sword? No, this is not a sword strike!’
Kuina was also able to remotely form a sword at that location and attack even if it was this distance away.
However, what Noah used now was not an intangible sword.
‘A simple sword wind so stealthy and sharp?’
A slash that is hard to detect even the moment it arrives, rather than pushing with force.
It was an unbelievable artistic technique that was developed by a student’s hand.
Hicks looked at the surprised Kuina and said.
‘The school principal told me to keep an eye on him, but no one knows what he’s doing. Let’s check what swordsmanship he’s using at this time.’
‘Are you trying to satisfy your own curiosity as an instructor?’
‘How are you? It was originally meant to be watched secretly.’
In the meantime, Noah appeared to the students and shouted.
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“The second clue is in my hand! Come on if you want!”
declaration of war.
What happened overnight by just one student was about to be reproduced by just one student, this time an apostle.