86 – Academy Attack Case – 8
“Wooooot?!”
The body of the maker caught in the trap soared into the air. It flew into the sky screaming strangely and fell into the barrier. His hands made of flame held the body up and down.
The flame arm swung from both sides and tore the creature in two, including his armor. The guy tried to fight back even as his body was torn apart. He had dozens of tentacles sprouting out and lashing out at him in all directions.
Kwagwagwagwang! A large crater was created where the tentacle struck, as if a bomb had exploded. The huge tree, which seemed to be about three or four years old, was torn off like a tender shoot.
He regenerated each of the two torn parts. After seeing the two Makers, I drank pure mana again. The blue light that turned into a magic circle inside the body spread through the wind.
As if it didn’t want to just sit there and watch, the tentacle strands that were thrown down twisted around and attacked me. I created a shield to deflect the attack, and smashed a large rock pillar on top of the guy’s head.
“hehehe?!”
The makers, which were crushed by a rock that could have weighed a hundred tons even with a close eye, spread out flat, making a strange sound.
“Not yet! “Not yet!”
The flat body scattered as if exploding. Each piece scattered into thousands began to grow into a maker. Those that could not get out from under the rock were instead splitting the rock from the bottom.
Eternals were inserted into them before they had a proper body. When the blade, full of refined mana, was embedded in the soil, the otherwise chaotic earth was once again distorted.
Tree roots grew uncontrollably, covering the entire area. A fog of ice and frost settled over it. Soon, sharp icicles shot out from the frost grains and pierced everything in sight.
Finally, flames covered it. Ice and fire collided violently, creating cloudy water vapor. Makers exposed to water vapor containing mana evaporated one after another.
As the bodies evaporated one after another, the pieces came together to form the main body.
“This is amazing! You have become much stronger than when I first greeted you! Is it the result of training? Or were you hiding your powers?”
“I think either way is good.”
“Then I will say that you were hiding your power! If the maker dares to guess, it doesn’t seem like a level that can be achieved through simple training!”
Even though he seemed so frivolous, the commander of the corps was still the commander of the corps. Even if it didn’t seem like it, his senses were secretly sharp. Back then, I was just a talented student at the academy level, but not now.
“hehehehe, this won’t work! I need to hurry to kill you before the Sword Saint arrives! “He is a fearsome swordsman, and if he saves his strength and dies from you, the name of the corps commander will cry!”
“Oh, really? “It looks like there aren’t many cards left, so what are you going to do against them?”
I glanced at the time and deliberately left him talking. The time has come for the effect to begin to appear.
“This maker’s— wow?!”
‘That’s it.’
Maker, as always, puffed up his body and tried to exaggerate his words, but instead spewed out some strange mucus. His skin, not covered by his armor, was seen turning a dingy grey.
‘Did it finally work?’
I thought I had been drinking it for quite some time, but it was only now that the effects began to appear. When Maker noticed the grayish mucus leaking through his skin, he exclaimed in a panicked voice.
“What have you done to my body!”
“The same thing you tried to do to me.”
“Poison! You used poison! “What a coward!”
“Didn’t I say it was exactly the same thing you tried to do to me?”
When I saw the barrier around them, they quietly sprayed me with poison from the beginning, so I just repaid them in kind. I don’t want the academy to be polluted, so in addition to detoxifying me, I also heal nearby areas in real time.
If I had left it alone, this area would probably have turned into a poisonous swamp.
“It’s okay. I won’t be angry. “Isn’t everything your slime head can think of there?”
“Kaaa! You’re calling me slime again! “I will not forgive you!”
Maker got angry and began to inflate her body as if she was making a final struggle. Each extremity of the body grew rapidly, as if blowing up a balloon.
In just a few seconds, the guy grew bigger than an average building and laughed.
“I’m sorry, Mira Krayt! “You will die like me!”
“Why? “Are you trying to trick the others into thinking they’re self-destructing and then just run away?”
“… ….”
Maker fell silent for the first time. He thought it was a trump card, but he seemed unable to hide his embarrassment when his last move was discovered.
When I heard from Priscilla the story of her fight with the corps commander, she said that Maker scared her like that and ran away once, so I hinted to see if she could find out, and it seemed like I got it right.
“If you want to explode like that, I’ll do whatever you want.”
He snapped his fingers. The refined mana filled inside the barrier poured into the guy’s body. The gray body quickly turned blue.
“Kaaa! “What are you trying to do, mummy crate?”
“What you were trying to do.”
The form and location of the barrier were changed by continuously pouring refined mana into the creature’s body. The barrier, which was a cube, changed to an icosahedron and was reduced in size to surround the maker, not me.
As the barrier became narrower, Maker became more desperate and tried to escape using all possible means, but the barrier remained strong. The guy’s body was filled inside.
Mana was constantly injected into the barrier. The color of its body changed to a blue color similar to mana, and at the same time, it swelled to its fullest extent.
The maker, which seemed to swell forever, stopped only after almost filling the icosahedron. The guy inside was yelling something. Now he had no intention of listening to that.
I wanted to say a few words of ridicule, but it seemed like it would only give me time, so I held back and put a small spark inside the barrier.
ㅡ!!!!!!
The small spark soon met purified mana, causing a chain reaction. The inside of the barrier turned into one huge purgatory. The flames that symbolized hell itself used Maker’s entire body as fuel, causing a grand explosion.
The flames that engulfed him struck the barrier as if that wasn’t enough. The surface of the icosahedron was shaking like crazy, but the barrier still maintained its shape.
Until the inside burns and disappears in purgatory without even ashes remaining.
The fire, which had nothing more to burn, gradually died out. I compressed the barrier into small pieces, placed it on my palm, and crushed it by squeezing it. The icosahedron turned into blue powder and scattered into the air.
‘Is this the second guy?’
Now there were five remaining corps commanders. Considering how much damage the corps commanders in the original work caused, this is a remarkable achievement.
I exhaled my last mana breath. The body, which had been glowing blue and pale, slowly began to regain its original appearance. As the forest air entered her lungs instead of mana, she felt a refreshing taste in her mouth.
The only thing left was the undead dragon, who was supposed to be sleeping around here. The creature’s entire body was split into 27 pieces, each piece writhing while pinned to the floor.
He gathered what little refined mana he had left and snapped his fingers. White flames covered the undead dragon. It was a magic used to deal with undead monsters with the ability to regenerate in the other world.
I have refrained from using it because it seems to be a magic that does not exist in this world. Once you use it, it leaves a very strong trace.
‘It’s still the same.’
As the white flame subsided, a spot as white as salt crystals came into view. He quickly cleaned up after himself. In addition, the plowed forest was also repaired in an appropriate manner.
The fact that the corps commander is here is a secret until it is revealed. If that becomes known, it will inevitably escalate into the issue of who defeated them.
Just as I was finishing cleaning up, I felt an incredibly strong sense of death from far away. It seemed like the Sword Saint had arrived. You don’t have to worry about that anymore.
‘Where is the chairman?’
The only thing left was the chairman. It was said that Astaroth attracted the fire dragon and summoned it out of the academy, but I don’t know what the result would have been.
‘Surely they won’t be disappeared forever like in the original work?’
I felt uncomfortable for no reason. Should I ask Elisier?
“You have become weak, Meligor. “Did you run away from humans and get infected by them?”
“Mouth…… Shut up…… Didn’t I tell you not to call me by that name? ….”
Erestica gritted her teeth, but her joints were all twisted and her half-mangled body was unable to do anything. If she were human, she would have said that even being alive was a miracle.
Makhbat, who was looking down at the miserable sight as if mocking him, laughed lowly.
“If you choose to die as a human rather than a dragon, that does not deny your identity. “A female dragon.”
“That mouth…… I told you to shut up…… !”
Ew, ugh. Erestica tried to raise her body, not caring that the crushed and shattered pieces of bone were misaligned and screaming, but before long, she was stretched out looking at the sky.
It wasn’t that she lacked will, it was that her body really didn’t move.
“It’s unfortunate. If she had had a little more time, she could have eaten four years. If I eat it now, I don’t think it will be digested properly. Even though it is rotten and weak, does this mean that a female dragon is still a female dragon?”
“If you want to try it, do it- Cough, cluck!”
As soon as Erestica tried to move her body, she vomited dark red blood. As a result, her left shoulder joint, which had been perfectly aligned, was shattered.
Makhbat, who was looking down at the sight as if it was truly pitiful, dropped something on top of Erestica. Considering the size difference between the dragon and the human, it was an incredibly precise positioning adjustment.
“That’s right. “I almost forgot.”
Erestica’s eyes widened in anger as she saw what had fallen on her body.
“This is the ‘new thing’ we promised. “Grow it again or not, it’s up to you.”
It was the corpse of a woman who had starved to death. Judging by the condition of her body, she appeared to have been dead for at least 30 to 40 years. Her dry, twisted face showed extreme pain.
“Hmm, now that I think about it, was the thing you raised alive?”
“… ….”
“Anyway, I kept my promise, so don’t bother me anymore.”
With those last words, Mahbat walked away without even paying any attention to Erestica or the woman he had dropped.
Erestica looked down in her arms at the corpse of a woman who had starved to death more than a dozen years ago.
A dragon’s sense of time is completely different from that of humans. Although it may be decades from a human’s perspective, it feels like insignificant time from a dragon’s perspective.
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This woman must have gathered her supplies with a sense of preparation in advance. Because she set the standard for ‘Miri’ not as a human, but as a dragon herself, she was finally able to come out after being neglected for decades.
Even Erestica, who has lived in a human body for over 130 years, is often mistaken, and what would it be like if she had never experienced such a life?
“… ….”
More than anything, there is no way Mahbat would be interested in humans.
Just like it was 130 years ago.
“Well… ….”
Even if it was only a moment for the dragon, it was not for Erestica.
“Baby… ….”
Clear tears flowed from the corners of Erestica’s eyes as she recalled memories of her past. With her trembling hands, she laboriously untied the string that bound her hair.
Failed. She planned to kill Machbat and sacrifice him at his tomb to release her resentment, but she failed again.
“Baby…… My baby…… Sorry…… I’m sorry mom…….”
Hugging her worn-out hair tie tightly in her arms, Erestica cried like that for a long time.