episode_0352

Beings also called “land fairies”, or “gnomes”.

They were small children with yellow skin who were a little more than half the height of a dwarf, and although they had a small body like a child, their appearance was far from human.

Big, ball-like eyes that look like they’re going to pop out, covered with thick retinas that are said to serve as dustproofing for those who live on land.

And although it looks unsightly on the outside, it has limbs filled with thick muscles and nails that extend out like a rake that evolved to dig into the ground.

Goblins are green monsters with a similar appearance but with small eyes that live in large colonies in the bushes, and Warmhausen, which live alone and like the smell of metal in machinery, have a unique taste for eating metal and causing machine malfunctions. Unlike the green gremlin from .

The jade bead-like eyes of several land fairies, with only their large pupils sticking out from the upper part of their faces as if they were hanging from the edge of a cliff, were shining brilliantly with an eerie calmness.

While quietly hiding the cruelty inside.

“Get away from the gap in the floor!!

Ready for battle!! Adjust your formation!!

Let’s stay alert and protect each other!!”

With Lucia’s shout, the students began to flock to their feet and form a circle with their backs to each other.

The students, who were protecting each other with their swords drawn, seemed to be gulping or breathing heavily and beginning to thoroughly look around with tense expressions of their own.

After all, this place is a wasteland with a large crack in the ground that makes it easy for land sprites to move around.

The ground fairies would have been preparing to attack others by moving around, hiding themselves in secret, as the floor was cracked like a crevasse, and thinking of the few students who had disappeared, they would have already put it into action.

“Watch your surroundings!! You can’t miss it… !!”

“Come next to me!! Come on!!”

It was an advantageous location for them, but even so, they had an advantage in surprise attacks, not an all-out war.

The person with the students is Lucia, who boasts the highest level of skill among the academy students and who is working as a teaching assistant.

After she noticed the surprise attack, there was no way the land fairies could pose a threat anymore unless they knew what their goal was.

“Just stay on defense.

I will eradicate these first.”

Anne also takes on a gap in the defense line and steps forward to protect her friends.

At this moment, Lucia, who saw that the students had completed their defense line, flinched and showed signs of moving.

The land fairy, who had been quietly watching the students, reacted immediately and appeared to hide herself in a crevasse in the ground.

Meanwhile, Lucia’s expression was distorted as violently as her anger as she noticed something red on the corners of their mouths.

“My… Juniors… … I can’t forgive… ”

However, even if it were her, she would not mindlessly pursue the enemy.

Although it is not dangerously deep, the crevasse is at least three times as deep as a person’s height.

Besides, she wouldn’t be able to swing her sword freely in a place so narrow that small land fairies could come and go.

Jumping in recklessly with such an environmental penalty was something Lucia would never do.

“Is it there… !!”

The moment she suddenly heard the sound of cutting through the wind and turned her great sword back, her face was covered with the side of the sword that opened with a clanging sound.

Along with the clear sound of metal ringing, stone dust was rustling and flowing down from the side of the sword.

It was Lucia who easily blocked the dangerous attacks of the land fairies sticking out of the crevasse, often throwing rolling stones from a blind spot.

– Gurgling

But the moment she tried to chase them to the spot where they had appeared, the land elves had already disappeared into the crevasse and hid themselves.

“Don’t miss it… !!”

– Krillerik!!

As a testament to Lucia’s skills, she reflexively pulled out a dagger and threw it toward the crevasse, and the sound of metal hitting the ground and the screams of an earth fairy could be heard coming from inside.

In order to continue using such tactics, there were limits to the weapons she had.

Against the land elves, who doesn’t know how many more there are, she only holds three daggers.

Lucia, who was in a situation where she was going to have to face the monster and throw a stone at it, clicked her tongue and her expression turned into a slight frown.

“There will be no end… … ”

But Lucia wasn’t the only one fighting.

“Ugh!!”

“Be careful… !!”

The students, who had formed a circle and watched the surroundings, wary of monsters that could come out of nowhere, were busy barely blocking the slings thrown at them as they heard the shouts.

“You bastards!!”

“Comparing it to something like that.

Apologize to the dog!!”

Their slings cleverly don’t target people who are facing them, but only target people who are looking the other way.

The students were able to somehow help each other and continue their defense, but students are students for a reason.

“Ahh!! Ah!!”

“Mi… sorry… !!”

“What if I swing the sword like that…? !!

Take a good look at your surroundings… !!”

“Here again… !! 100 million… !!”

Although it was an action to help and protect each other, mistakes were bound to happen, and those who ended up hurting each other were starting to panic.

Among the immature students who were unable to maintain a calm mind, it seemed that the bond was slowly beginning to break down.

“I was hit with a stone… !! Bring it inside… !!”

“Jeffrey!! Wake… !!

Rotten children… … !!

Aaaa!!”

“Ah… no… !! Stay where you are… !! mum… Evil!!”

Stones flying sporadically and unexpected actions by students burning with revenge for their friends who were sacrificed.

And the mistakes of students who suffer from deep anxiety and eventually start making mistakes.

In a situation where it was impossible to maintain the status quo that Lucia had requested, Anne worked with the few students who managed to maintain their composure and tried to calm the others down…

“Ah… Anne… oh my god… ?

The bleeding won’t stop… !!

Jeffrey… !! Come to your senses… !!”

“Ah… iced coffee… … ”

In this crucible of chaos, Anne, too, was ultimately just an immature girl.

“Anne… ?”

“We have to break through… … As it is… … ”

“But… !! The assistant… !!”

“If you don’t let them attack through that gap… !!

Concentrate on defense as much as possible… !!”

“Anne… !!”

Leaving behind the screams of a female student who was holding a male student who was bleeding from the head, Anne stepped forward, pulling out Vivian’s folding greatsword, not the ordinary sword usually used in dungeons.

Ready to put everything she’s learned into what’s best for her and the other students.

Anne’s face was filled with indescribable solemnity as she approached the crevasse.

“Phew… Whoa… … ”

– cooed

“I’m dying… !!”

At the same time as an uneasy sound is heard, Anne’s sword strikes, and a land fairy who was just about to emerge from the crevasse is stabbed between the eyes and dies.

After dealing with one guy, she realized that it wasn’t as difficult as she thought, and that was the moment when she raised her sword for the next attack.

“Anne… !! Next… … !!”

After hearing someone’s urgent cry, she barely averted her eyes, and before she knew it, she saw rocks flying at her at high speed, like a barrage.

“Ugh!!”

Anne belatedly swung her sword and deflected a few stones, but there was nothing she could do about her hastily broken posture.

At that moment, when she felt something grabbing her ankle and was startled, only the horrifying eyes of the Earth Fairy looking at Anne, who was already falling sideways, were gradually getting closer, and her death was in sight. It was telling me that I was approaching the front.

“Ah… … ”

The last sight of her is a body being sucked into a dark crevasse where the sunlight does not shine, and her eyes are tightly closed without realizing it in fear.

As he closed his eyes with a sigh of relief, only something of orange light, fluttering and fluttering, was vaguely visible in front of his nose.

“Anne… !! Assistant… … !!”

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When Anne opened her eyes a moment later, she was about to scream when she felt a strange touch behind her.

However, Anne began to focus on the low voice that came along with the sound of covering her mouth, even as she gasped in fear.

“Listen without moving.

Because we are under siege.”

“How… … ”

Although it is difficult to see the surroundings properly due to the darkness, considering that your feet cannot reach, this place is inside a narrow crevasse.

Meanwhile, thanks to Lucia’s hand holding on to her to prevent her from being sucked further down, Anne was able to maintain the situation while hanging in the air.

The warmth she felt from Lucia’s hand holding her back tightly made her come to her senses and with difficulty looked back.

“I only saved my life, Anne.

Even now, I can’t say it’s safe.”

“Hiit… !!”

“Can you reach the wall?”

“Okay… They are still being targeted, so keep your wits about you.

Your swords did not fall together. Instead, do this.”

Anne fumbled and took the dagger handed to her by Lucia with one hand, then slowly spread her legs as if doing gymnastics and stepped on both walls.

My whole body was shaken by the strange position I tried for the first time, but due to the nature of the crevasse, which was formed as if two cliffs had collided, it was inevitable.

Anne, concentrating on maintaining her balance as much as possible, placed one hand on the wall and at the same time took off her foot and turned around, feeling the touch of Lucia’s back facing her, and a small moan escaped her as if she was momentarily startled.

“Ah… … ”

“There are five on this side.”

“This is… three… as… ”

It was strange that they didn’t attack Anne the moment she lost consciousness. Seeing the clear eyes of the land fairies staring at them, a low voice came out of Anne’s mouth.

“You can endure it, right?”

“Yes… yes… !!”

Anne, answering Lucia’s question, tightly grasped the dagger in her hand.

At least until just now, Lucia had to protect herself, so she couldn’t fight carelessly, but Lucia would definitely be able to cut down as many land fairies in this situation.

To be honest, the situation was the worst.

Their main weapon, a long great sword, cannot be used in such narrow gaps.

You may be able to swing it up and down, but eventually there will be gaps in a sword that cannot be swung sideways.

And Anne is not relying on her own weapon, but only a short dagger borrowed from Lucia, so if the people who come and go between the crevasses come in droves at any moment, it will be virtually impossible to stop them alone.

I don’t know what kind of training she had been doing, but I believed that the only way to survive was to hold on as long as possible, trusting in Lucia’s ability to move to a certain extent with her feet against both walls even in this environment.

Feeling an eerie feeling, Anne once again wriggled her sweaty palms, readjusted the dagger and raised it to her chest. She continued to look in front, up and down, to see if there were any approaching men.

“Then let’s go.”

The moment when the sound of Lucia’s footsteps hitting the wall was heard along with one short word.

Anne was able to realize that Lucia had charged at the land fairies from the sound of the wind rushing from her back and the sound of spurs hitting the wall alternately.

“It… !!”

While Anne was protecting herself from the land fairies who were approaching after she separated from Lucia, Lucia was running forward, kicking both walls alternately like a ninja, holding the remaining two daggers in both hands.

With hard eyes that looked even bloodier than usual, she didn’t miss the flinch of one of the earth nymphs who was watching her while keeping a distance between them in the narrow gap, and quickly cut off the guy’s head.

Then, the ground fairy that was cut down seemed to have lost strength in its hands and feet, and its body, which was hanging between the crevasses, fell down.

While the creature’s body hit both walls and rolled down with a rough earthy sound, Lucia quickly sensed the land fairy approaching naturally behind her and was showing off a movement that was close to an art.

“Huh… !!”

She pushed off the wall with her arms and legs as if they were bouncing on a spring, then twisted her waist to make a turn, then turned her body 180 degrees while floating in the air, and raised the dagger she was holding to attack the ground fairy who was approaching from behind. I stuck it in my chest.

However, in the process, Lucia was unable to retrieve the dagger from the body of the land fairy that fell down the crevasse because she had to urgently touch the wall again. She frowned and looked down at the falling body of the land fairy for a moment.

She pulled out the last dagger from her waist, watching him disappear as if he was instantly swallowed up in the darkness. She held the blade between her teeth for a moment and adjusted her posture with her free hand.

“Tch… It’s going to be a long game…

Hang in there… No matter what… !!”

“Ha… I could… … !! ah… ”

A moment when Lucia’s cry was answered.

Anne, surprised by the cold feeling falling on her cheek, looked up without thinking.

‘rain… … ?’

It was a reflexive action since it was a very tense moment, but it may have been inevitable to allow the land fairies’ quick and strange movements, who did not miss the opportunity, to approach them.

“Ugh… !! I… go away… !!”

Anne, who was instantly grabbed by one of her arms and legs by two land fairies, was struggling with her back as they tried to bend her arms and legs, which were barely holding on to the wall, to throw her off.

Even if the crevasse wasn’t high enough to kill you, if you fell from this height, you would definitely be seriously injured in at least one part of your body.

And among the monsters, an injured girl without a measly weapon is the ultimate easy and delicious prey.

That’s probably why they don’t attack Anne directly, but rather try to knock her down.

If you accidentally kill it by attacking it too harshly, it would be a waste of the desirable prey that you could possibly ‘keep’.

‘Why are you cutting off my wings…? ?’

‘Ah, if you cut off its wings, it won’t be able to escape.

Then they say they do it because it is easy to raise.

That guy has good taste, but his wings are very strong.’

A time when I was immature and pure.

As she passed the market street with her parents, the question she had asked her parents when she saw a vendor cutting off the wings of a bird with a large body like a turkey was running through her mind.

As that thought came to mind and the fact that it might soon become her story, Anne’s body began to tremble.

Meanwhile, the rain starting to fall from the sky begins to fall more and more heavily, and my body, which is becoming increasingly wet, feels like it is getting heavier and heavier.

As the whole world was becoming wet, Anne’s eyes were also becoming wet along with it.

“I don’t like it… I hate it… … !!”

“Anne… … !!”

In response to the actions of the land fairies, who were trying to help Anne as if they were hunting a group, Lucia was swinging her dagger at them and trying to get away as quickly as possible.

However, because another land fairy filled the gap between the two women who were completely separated by the previous rush attack, it was inevitable that it would take time for them to be reunited.

In addition, as the rain started to fall, the walls became increasingly slippery and receding, making movement difficult.

Even though Lucia had been able to fly by kicking off walls just a moment ago, she couldn’t have run wild in these adverse conditions where a moment’s mistake could lead to a catastrophe.

“Calm down!! React calmly… !!

you… You can do it!!”

A total crisis caused by just one rain.

Instead of being able to go immediately to help, Lucia’s cries to calm Anne down and help her cope failed to reach Anne, who was already half in panic.

In the end, it was Lucia who realized that she had to somehow reach Anne in order to help her.

“I’ll be there soon… Hang in there!!”

With her feet and hands firmly planted on the slippery earthen wall, she was about to lunge at the earth fairy who was firmly standing in front of her.

“Aaaahhh… !!”

Her body was being thrown down by something heavy that had fallen from the sky.

“Wow… … !! Save me… !!”

– Boom

“Lindell… !!”

The heavy object that fell on Lucia’s head seemed to get caught in her body for a moment, but then bounced into the air and fell again with a scream, making a dull sound.