Episode 9

[Rockstrin Aindarok.

The courage to steal an heirloom at will is imaginary. I paid ten times the price to buy back the wealth you sold for a bargain.

You, who do not even understand my teachings, entered Summerturgy to learn what did you do? Did you even want to embarrass Aindarlock’s name?

I won’t talk long. If you’re not going to come back, show results worthy of your irresponsible determination.

As soon as the midterm exams are over, don’t go to me directly.]

“this-“

Hwareuk!

I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it with my own eyes, so while reading it again, the letter was burned.

“What bullshit is this?”

Because we didn’t set out how Rockstrin got into Summer Turge.

what? Steal an heirloom and run away?

sell for cheap?

Coltman’s personality meant that he was quite angry to say this directly. Even as I looked at it, I did some bullshit.

“This is not crazy.”

There was no point in getting angry if you didn’t want to point at yourself in the mirror. Is there a lightning bolt like this in the dry sky?

In particular, the last line is the climax.

Are you coming directly? In Summer Turge?

Father Coltman must be the only one who knows of Rockstrin’s terrible talent.

This was just a polite declaration of a catch and dragging away.

“I’m going to be busy… … .”

The problems we faced were a mountain of problems.

First of all, the event that leads to the aftermath of the night raid episode. You can’t even rest like this.

From today, you have to take care of Hira Yuxilla properly, and you have to read the theory every day to learn 2-star magic.

Meanwhile, Coltman goes to Summer Turge. Since I pointed out the midterm exam, it means that I have to get good grades.

‘This is not the time.’

I lifted my body, which was so heavy that it looked like it would melt from the bed.

Ai-nim told me to rest, but if I did, everyone would die.

The trauma to his arm left only a few scars, but he was able to move normally. It was the power of healing magic.

The weight is heavy on the shoulders of this lousy fake protagonist. I put on the hoodie spread by the window and left the tower.

“It’s a mess.”

As if they had just started working on it, the corpses of monsters were still scattered all over the place.

There were more dead bodies near the Tower of Truth than expected.

I killed at most 10 while passing through Jungang-daero, but the number of carcasses was ten times that at first glance.

‘Is it Euril?’

The air was dry.

I just went upstairs and told her to sleep. It seems that while I was looking for Kanin, he took his place and organized the nearby monsters.

It was after encountering the monster, so if it was Auril’s level, he wouldn’t have been hurt.

“How could there be this many monsters… … .”

“I have no face to see the students.”

“Hey, it’s dangerous, get back!”

Excluding the outsiders who flocked to it as spectators, it seemed that the manpower was not yet sufficient, and the professors also took the initiative to remove the dead bodies of the monsters.

The beautiful spring schoolyard was nowhere to be found, and only blood and flesh were scattered everywhere, and the stench was seething.

“you?”

As I was going down Central Avenue, Professor Berthol, whom I briefly ran into last night, pretended to know me.

“You are suffering.”

“You did the hard work. Thanks to you, I just ended up with this. You took care of the monsters around the tower and the students were safe.”

“Ah, yes. What… … .”

Most of it was Auril’s credit, but even though I denied it, I nodded my head awkwardly because I had my share of ten.

“Is the wound on your arm all right?”

“I received healing magic.”

“Good thing. that is… … .”

Professor Berthol, who was watching the horse for a moment, put his hand on my shoulder.

“Hey, don’t be too heartbroken. It’s been a while since he died. No matter how fast you moved, it would have been difficult.”

“it’s okay.”

“Mmm, yes. That’s it.”

I bowed lightly and left. He is young and competent, but his fault is that he is very meddling.

[CURRENT EPISODE]

I. broken peace

– 3. Dirty work

: The sudden raid is over, but it will go down in history as the most terrifying event since the founding of Summer Turge.

However, some professors intuit that there is an odd corner in this raid. If you investigate the traces of monsters, you may learn something.

Even so, it was a script that meant success.

If you take a clumsy professor other than Kanin, or if the monster escapes the lab because you don’t arrive in time, the player will die or suffer much more casualties.

The job wasn’t finished though, so I headed northwest of campus again.

“This way, this way!”

“Can I prune all the branches?”

“Move with care! Because it is expensive!”

As the practice room was the place where high-level monsters appeared, it was also the place where manpower gathered the fastest.

The work of removing fallen trees and debris by mobilizing outside workers is in full swing.

Kanin controls the scene. Even though he must have been tired from dealing with monsters all night, he seemed to keep his seat.

“Uh, because this is dangerous… … .”

“Let me in.”

“Ah, yes.”

I was briefly stopped by a worker moving wood, but Kanin let me in.

I crossed the boundary and strode inside. There is no mess like this. The completely overturned floor looked like a place where a typhoon swept through.

“You must be tired, but you are not resting.”

“I came here as soon as I woke up. The wounds are all healed.”

“It’s not over yet.”

“it’s okay.”

Kanin held back no more.

Seeing that he came back on his own after going through so much, he must have had a hardened heart. Even if he tried hard, it would be useless.

“I didn’t understand.”

Kanin was looking at the floor.

The place where there used to be a huge tunnel.

I immediately filled it up because I was afraid that more monsters would attack, but now that I think about it, I was impatient.

I looked at the same place as Kanin.

“what?”

“It could be the raid itself. They said something similar happened all over the empire.”

“okay. That unknown tunnel.”

Quite recently – it only happened right before the episode started, so the news reached it right after the night raid had taken place.

It is time that even the head of the Empire is struggling with this strange phenomenon.

“But Summer Turge is the first of its kind. Anywhere on the continent.”

“It is.”

“It’s strange that even in the north, three high-level monsters that can only be seen if you go far ahead have appeared, but more than anything.”

Outside of the northern Aindarok region, high-ranking monsters are generally born and are hard to see.

Isn’t it too much to see that bad news simply overlapped? So there is a pod to hold on to.

“They were all starving.”

“It did.”

High-ranking monsters are obviously a huge threat that can be called a disaster, but there is a high chance that they will not be attacked unexpectedly when encountered in a remote area.

Monsters are not particularly hostile to humans. It only possesses magic within its body, and its head is no different from that of a beast.

When hungry, if the thing in front of you is a human, it will eat the human.

If it’s an animal, it eats the animal, if it’s a monster, it eats the monster.

They even eat herbivores. That’s it.

“You saw it too.”

Doing so raises questions.

The season is spring.

Unless it’s even in the winter, when the range of activities of many other prey is narrowed.

Advanced monsters who will reign in a position where they can devour everything they encounter at will.

Why were you so hungry?

“It may be a presumptuous word, but.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

“Maybe I’m overthinking that it’s some kind of attack with a firm will.”

The old wizard closed his eyes.

Rockstrin sees the same place as himself, and thinks the same way. It’s something that shouldn’t come out of one’s mouth hastily.

“An attack on the Empire, Ira.”

“Of course, this is still speculation. We don’t know what the environment is like inside the tunnel.”

Because of that, Kanin was still looking down at the ground. All the tunnels were narrow and rough enough for small monsters to come and go, but there was only one.

Because the tunnel in front of this training room was huge enough for high-ranking monsters to come and go.

“I was in a hurry.”

“Even if I had stayed, I wouldn’t have gone too deep anyway. But the traces are not limited to the tunnels.”

“… … you said The cleanup isn’t over.”

“That makes sense.”

The cleanup isn’t over.

In other words, the bodies of the students have not yet been recovered.

Kanin killed two high-level monsters and left the practice room as it is. Usually, this is because such incidents have to be documented as video.

“It’s not a very pleasant scene to show to a student who has just become a freshman. I was thinking of checking again.”

Kanin took the lead in a calm voice.

The entrance to the practice room was strictly controlled until the video recorder, a magic tool, was brought in, but Kanin, the person in charge, was able to come and go freely.

Tumble, Tumble.

It was a stairway leading to a deep basement.

The light of dawn disappeared in an instant. Originally, the interior lights would have been bright so that they could be used day or night, but now many of them are broken.

Eventually, as soon as the stairs ended, I saw a bridge sticking out over the corner.

“You are the first student.”

I was stunned for a moment, but I didn’t show it.

Where Kanin called a student.

Legs sticking out.

That was all.

“Judging from the faint remaining magic of the fire attribute, it must be Aldin.”

“The name tag… … How did you retrieve it?”

“It’s not like I’m hiding it, but it seems like everyone hasn’t told you. The badges on your uniforms are made of a special material.”

This was a detail I hadn’t set up. It’s too much.

“There are three holes in the back. It’s the place where the magic stone was implanted.”

“I knew it first.”

“Thanks to this, it does not burn or rot in water. Even if you get eaten by monsters and your bones melt, your nameplate will be fine.”

“… … okay.”

“If it was intended for a time like this, it would be considered bad taste. I took it out of the intestines of the monster I killed. You can see it over there.”

Furredleg.

This monster, whose entire body is covered in gray fur, is adept at stabbing and killing its prey by randomly swinging its eight awl-like legs.

Now, on the contrary, he died with his whole body pierced by hundreds of sharp piles of earth rising from the ground. It was the work of Kanin.

“There are three more nearby.”

The situation was the same.

One arm left or one leg left. Or only the head remains in a lump.

“The head belongs to Cromwell, but these arms and legs all feel the magic of the earth attribute. There’s no way to tell if it’s a Zigsen or a Droid. I have no choice but to try forensic.”

If it hadn’t been for Kanin’s calm tone, I would have been able to vomit.

It’s also because I didn’t eat anything for lunch yesterday.

“Everything else was in his stomach, so there’s nothing left. I only got the name tag.”

‘dirty work’.

It’s not a name with that intention.

However, this was clearly ‘dirty work’ in the literal sense. It wasn’t that there was a great reason for the heavy steps. The undried blood clung to the soles of his shoes.

I barely moved forward, holding on to the blood-splattered wall.

“Carefully. There is still acid left.”

Drool.

It is characterized by its unusually bloated abdomen and lumpy body, and has a habit of swallowing its prey whole, incapacitating it by spewing digestive juices that melt even steel.

Since Kanin had completely tore off the belly skin, the inside was empty. Several pieces of black bones that had not yet melted were scattered on the floor.

The clue to the event lies with this guy.

If you’re not conscious of it, you’re bound to inadvertently pass it by.

“Look.”

“Is there something?”

“I have marks on my ankles.”

I lowered my stance flat and pointed at the ankle as thick as an elephant’s leg. Kanin narrowed his eyes.

Shackled marks.

This is clear evidence that the mouthwatering predator was being controlled by someone.

“Huh, such nonsense… … .”

“But Professor. These can be found at any time. When the video record is made and the investigation is carried out, anyone will find it.”

Since the site is controlled, entry and exit is impossible unless it is Kanin.

Kanin, of course, is not the culprit. Because he is a good man who cares deeply for this country and devotes himself to the students of Summer Turge.

“So if I am the culprit. Before the video record arrives—”

I raised my index finger and pointed at the ceiling. It was just the right timing.

“They would have tried to destroy the entire lab.”

Koo Goo Goo!

At the same time, the ceiling collapsed.