The Only Male Student in the Academy chapter 39

039. Claire of Iron Wall (3)

Debris on the ceiling is blocking the way.

It was an incredible amount. The rocks piled up in layers like a huge stone tomb.

By the time the dust had settled a little, piles of stones flew away.

Claire slowly walked out of it.

“I was surprised. This one hurt a little.”

Saying that, Claire pointed her

Shield upward.

It must have been that the objects falling from the ceiling were defined as projectiles, and they were able to intercept them all with

And endured.

Of course, Claire’s face was covered with rocks, as if she couldn’t defend herself with only .

Even the last line of defense, , Was in the state of being activated.

“It’s taking more time than I thought. Ariel is also playing pretty solidly.”

“Why don’t you surrender if you know. Before the poison spreads.”

“Are you provoking me? Are you trying to get me to go wild?”

Claire looks at me as if she noticed.

Maybe it’s because we’re in the game. It’s a pretty serious expression.

But Claire laughed as if something had come to mind.

“I came up with a very good idea.”

Claire snaps his fingers.

A wall is created. Just like covering me and Claire.

Not only that.

Walls start appearing right next to me and right behind me.

“I got it after I was trapped in a rockfall. Ariel, do you know that being trapped is surprisingly scary?”

“I don’t know.”

“Then I’ll let you know.”

Walls are built on all sides.

I clicked my tongue. I realized Claire’s purpose a beat too late.

Claire is enlightened. All my attacks are projectile attacks.

And projectile attacks are easily blocked by walls.

If you are surrounded by a wall like this, there is no way for me to attack Claire directly.

Besides, it can block my escape route.

If Claire jumps over the wall and enters this room, she will be able to engage in close combat.

In other words, the tactic of killing three birds with one stone.

‘I wonder if you’ll play as you please.’

I immediately threw the potion of corrosion at the wall.

Claire’s Is so strong that even Mountain Eater’s firepower cannot break it. However, after lowering the defense with a potion of corrosion, the story changes.

I throw the Mountain Eater at the wall.

– Kwakwang!

With the sound of an explosion, the wall shatters and creates a huge hole.

I managed to secure an escape route, but it wasn’t a very good situation.

It causes an explosion at close range, and the debris from the explosion leaves scars all over my body.

Enduring the pain, I jumped into the hole.

“Ahahahaha! Are you thinking of running away? Yes, try it!”

The wall is about to rise again.

I threw the potion of corrosion with my left hand, and took out the potion I prepared in advance with my right hand.

—–

[Advanced Continuous Recovery Potion]

Crafting Rating: 4

Quality: Good

Efficacy: High

: A potion that heals wounds. Recovers very little HP every 10 seconds. The effect lasts for 5 minutes. This potion is stacked with other recovery potions.

You must have the Skill to craft it.

—–

Drinks a potion to heal wounds to some extent.

Then throw a bomb again and destroy the wall.

Take out the potion and drink while getting caught up in the explosion.

If I keep doing that, another wall will appear and block my path.

‘Damn it.’

Walls constantly appear.

I could see Claire’s will to imprison me no matter what.

I can see why. Claire is impatient.

Claire’s occupation is a petrification.

Strictly speaking, it cannot be called a pure petrification. He can be considered a magic swordsman or a battle mage, but most of his main skills are in earth elemental magic.

Unlike the image, Earth Elemental magic is powerful.

It even has utility abilities such as shooting rocks, creating shields, and manipulating the terrain.

However, there are weaknesses.

The only form of attack is to shoot rocks and manipulate the terrain.

Overall, it is elemental magic with poor attack flexibility.

Also, the crowd control is subtle. There is no technique that firmly binds the opponent like Mari’s Freeze.

In that state, I am an alchemist.

It is a job that is good at creating variables.

Claire has to defeat me quickly, even if it’s because of the poison gas,

Since I create variables with mines and bombs, it’s hard to catch them.

Claire, who lacks flexibility, doesn’t have a crowd control, so she can’t hold me down,

That’s why they keep building walls to try to imprison me somehow.

‘Still, I can’t say it’s a good situation.’

To destroy a wall, you need to consume a Potion of Corrosion and a Mountain Eater.

However, from Claire’s point of view, Mountain Eater must have been a thorn in the eye. Because it has the most power of all the bombs I own.

So that’s why I’m thinking of continuing to consume my Mountain Eater like this.

He must have judged that if I did this, my means of attack would be reduced.

‘I can’t say it’s a bad situation, though.’

Claire’s judgment was never bad.

However, there is one thing Claire overlooked.

An alchemist is a class that fights with items.

It is a job that loses attack power the more items are consumed.

In return, there is one thing you get.

Because the more items are consumed, the bag becomes lighter.

That’s how much motivation you get.

“…This is the end.”

Throw the last potion of decay and Mountain Eater.

What lies beyond is a wall.

It is not the Built by Claire. It is a dead-end wall of the underground water canal.

Now there is nowhere to run.

Claire climbed over the wall and came down slowly as if she knew it.

“Whoa… I finally got it in. Did you enjoy it, Ariel?”

Claire appeared with a smile on her face.

But that smile never hides the fatigue.

A lot of time has passed since we started fighting. The green smoke filling the inside with groundwater still has no intention of clearing.

Claire’s body must have started to have a lot of poison, and because of that, her physical condition has deteriorated considerably.

Time dragged on as long as it dragged on.

Now it’s time to win.

“I’m sick of it. Let’s make a resolution now.”

“I was thinking of that anyway~.”

With that said, Claire rushed over.

Fast mobility for a wizard. The posture of wielding the sword is very sophisticated.

Although it has a rough taste, it somehow feels elegant.

As expected, Claire is strong.

In Unknown Saga, he is just a passing bad guy character, but surprisingly, this guy survives most of the episodes.

His personality is twisted, but he inherited thick blood from the Marquis of Antirus, and has excellent talent for magic and swordsmanship.

Also, unlike his appearance, he is unexpectedly a hard worker, and in most routes, he joins the Magic Knights.

There’s no way I can win in a head-to-head match with a guy like this.

But you can follow.

I cut off Claire’s sword.

“Hmm.”

Claire groans slightly.

Compared to before, the current Claire has lost a lot of momentum. Because of the poison, the body is quite dull.

On the other hand, I lost a lot of items, so I became faster than before.

‘But I can only follow.’

Dazzling sword dance.

And midway through, Claire uses magic and stabs her from an unexpected direction.

His sharpness has died a lot, but the enemy in front of him must be a formidable enemy.

Against him, the only melee skill I have is .

I have no choice but to endure it.

I stabbed Claire on purpose.

“Huh?”

Claire hesitated for a moment.

That was an act that caught Claire off guard.

It was an attack that was easy to defend against, but it came closer and stabbed me.

A gap in a moment.

I moved my left hand.

“.”

I throw an item at Claire’s feet.

Claire looks at my left hand, but doesn’t react in particular. Because Claire has the auto barrier .

So, relying only on the , Claire tried to use the successful thrusting attack to penetrate further.

That was the turning point.

“aaa!!”

As he digs further, Claire trips and falls.

It must have been an unexpected pain for Claire.

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“What, what are you going to do, Ariel…”

Claire collapsed on the floor and asked while convulsing.

There was a strong suspicious light on his face.

“Why is Not working…. What the hell did you throw…”

“I threw a potion.”

As I walked away from Claire, I answered.

Try moving your right arm. …… Sick.

It must have been stabbed in a fairly fatal place. I won’t be able to use my right arm anymore in this battle.

“Potion… Potion…?”

“To be precise, it is a mixture of a recovery potion and paralysis poison.”

Is a passive skill that automatically defends whenever you receive damage.

Conversely, it won’t activate unless you’re taking damage.

And there is a setting that the Unknown Saga’s potion is absorbed through the skin.

Just like Tia sprinkled potions on me during the class assignment test.

So, in Unknown Saga, even systemically, it was possible to throw potions at colleagues who lacked HP to recover them.

And for this recovery act, the automatic defense system does not work.

In a way, it makes sense.

If the player tries to heal the character, but the character defends it, the game difficulty increases.

In that case, you can only use it backwards.

“Claire, this is your defeat.”

I say that while looking down at Claire.

Claire looks up at me with blank eyes, but quickly changes her expression.

Laughing.

“Well~? I don’t think I’ve lost yet, have I?”

Claire touches the ground with her trembling arms.

I am not in a state where I can fight. However, Claire’s eyes did not give up yet.

Rock fragments stick to Claire’s skin.

Was changed from automatic activation to constant activation.

“Didn’t you say you combined a potion with a paralyzing poison? Then the effect of the paralyzing poison won’t last long, right?”

I noticed that too.

I did a lot of research on how to make Not work. It was because the most important win was whether Made me recognize my throwing as a healing act.

So, in a way, it was inevitable that the amount of potion would increase during the mixing process.

Thanks to that, the paralysis poison didn’t enter as much as expected.

Therefore, the effect is also quite short.

“I can recover from this paralysis right away… Since Was also activated, the same attack won’t work anymore.”

“…….”

“It’s enough to block all of Ariel’s attacks until she’s freed from paralysis… I, who activated , Can’t touch anyone. Ariel is defeated!”

“Claire, you seem to be misunderstanding.”

I reach out my left hand toward Claire.

“I wouldn’t even attempt an attack if it only paralyzed you briefly. Why would I sacrifice my arm?”

Concentrating magic in my hand, I say.

This world is very strange.

This world is obviously based on a game called Unknown Saga. That’s why the game system, including the stat window, works as a rule.

However, the laws of physics are also applied at the same time.

For example, I broke the ceiling in a fight today.

In fact, breaking the ceiling was an impossible act in the game. In Unknown Saga, things like floors and ceilings were just game graphics.

That’s why there was no damage judgment itself for walls and ceilings, but in this world it became possible to break them.

The same goes for combining a potion with paralysis poison.

Combining potion and poison was an impossible act in the original work. In the first place, the item that mixes potion and poison didn’t exist.

However, Claire’s Keeps the game system that ‘automatically activates when receiving damage’ and ‘does not defend against healing’.

This is also quite strange in the light of common sense.

There are rules in this world.

Prioritize what is prescribed as a game system and keep it.

However, not being defined as a game system is following common sense.

That’s why Claire’s Followed the game system and couldn’t block the potion I threw.

That’s why the ceiling has become breakable according to the laws of physics.

There is only one way I can beat Claire.

Making good use of the game system and the laws of physics that are not regulated by the game system.

This is a winning method that only the Unknown Saga player can do.

“.”

It is one of the four skills that Ariel had from the start.

However, the level of this skill is still 1.

Although it is defined as an intermediate skill in the setting, it was not necessary to train it because the casting time was too long to use as an attack skill.

“? You think you can pierce my With something like that?”

“Of course I can’t.”

So I canceled the casting of Right before it was activated.

Then cast another spell.

“Eh? What…?”

A gaze that seemed to see something incomprehensible.

The eyes of a person facing something unknown.

That’s why this behavior is clearly out of common sense.

I don’t have much time, but I canceled the magic right before completing it, and I’m chanting a new magic.

There was a good reason.

There is a reason why you should throw away common sense.

If the laws of physics are derived from common sense, then a technique that transcends the laws of physics is needed here.

In this world, the game system works first.

Because it was a story that the bugs were also working without problems.

“.”

Activate the skill.

Blood.

Claire’s Is shattered,

Blood-forged red arrows pierce its body.

Blood soaked the floor.