episode_0069

It was well past midnight in the student center.

The owner of the voice slowly appeared in the video.

Rose Water, the second-in-command of the 4th grade Blue Dragon.

“Rose water? where are you. What did you do to the Chairman?”

“It looks like you are alone. good.

Well, I set it to connect only when there are no other people around.”

“You-”

Rose in the illusion grinned and held up something.

A small reagent container containing a translucent silvery liquid.

“If I let someone else know what I’m talking about… I’m going to use this on the Crown Princess.”

“Choose that bullshit-”

“Oh, what is this? In short, this is an amnestic.”

My body froze.

She focused the video on herself and spoke excitedly.

“If you cross the Aeorid continent and go southeast, you will come across a place called the Temple of Heaven.

It got that name because there was a culture that worshiped giant spirit creatures as gods…

There’s a huge snake there that makes elephants hallucinate and eats them.”

Rose slipped out to the edge of the video.

What is then seen is the silver solution surrounding the glass container containing the Crown Princess.

“This liquid extracted from there is called Anantesha solution.

Cool, right? The moment the barrel surrounding the Crown Princess is opened, our Lilac will dive into this solution.

Then, goodbye to Lilac’s memories of the past 10 years~”

The sound of laughter that turns your stomach.

I drew the curtains in the student council room, closed the door, and asked in a low voice.

“What do you want? Why did they kidnap the chairman?

Are you an instigator of the intelligence agency?”

“Oh. Seeing as you also bring up the intelligence agency, I guess there is something there.

Rest assured. Because I have no connection with those people.

ah. It is true that I was instigated by someone else. I don’t even know who it is.”

The chairman, lying in the barrel, took a shallow breath.

I felt sick to my stomach at that sight, but I managed to hold back my yelling.

“You don’t even know who asked you to kidnap the chairman, but you did it? Why?”

“Umm~ I’ll let you know about that when I get here.”

“What?”

thud.

The sound of a claymore hitting the ground.

Rosewater glared at us while holding the great sword in her hand, and then spoke slowly.

“The client asked me to tell you this. Colman Cantor. This is a test for you.

A test to see if you are worthy to stand by Lilac’s side.”

“… Who wants to take a test like that-”

“You can refuse if you don’t want to. then… ”

Rose pointed to the Anantesha solution.

“Poor Lilac. You know what, Coleman?

Lilac’s last words were ‘I have to go back to Coleman’?

I was in a hurry so I wouldn’t have to make you wait, and that’s what happened to me, hahaha!”

… Because of me.

Even if I hadn’t rejected the confession, the chairman wouldn’t have been kidnapped like that.

At least I could have fought alongside the Chairman…

“… What is the test?”

“The first step is to come to where I am.”

I didn’t ask the stupid question, “Where is it?”

“How long?”

“Within 8 hours, that is, until noon. It’s pretty spacious, right?”

“Is there anything I need to take with me?”

“Oh. Are you fully prepared? don’t worry. All you have to do is come physically.”

Just as I was about to cut off communication, Rose issued one last warning.

“Oh, and it would be better not to chase after other people.

Well, whether you tell the Dean or tell His Majesty the Emperor, the moment someone other than you sets foot here-”

She snapped her fingers, and I stepped on the marble and broke it.

A crackling afterimage remained in the student council room for a while and then disappeared.

Stay calm, stay calm.

Can you believe that?

Faceless clients kidnapped the chairman to test me?

And it’s filled with a super powerful amnestic drug, so if you tell someone else, the president will inhale it?

But soon I realized that such worries were meaningless.

I didn’t believe it, but what if it’s true?

Then the chairman loses all memories of meeting me.

Can not help it. I have to go alone.

Where?

While looking around the student council room for clues, I realized that this situation was similar to a quiz I gave to my students.

There was always a hint in the problem itself.

then…

I opened the red notebook where the bead was stuck.

“As expected.”

The opened page explained a cave near Baekyang Dormitory.

The underground passageway that the chairman led me to.

We can go from there.

“Ugh?”

Just before leaving, the little girl whined as if telling me not to go.

Should I give him more food? At that time, an idea passed through my head.

We cannot announce the kidnapping of the Chairman right now.

But I went down to the underground passage… What if I don’t pass the test and get locked up?

Then no one will know about Rose’s evil deeds.

I picked up the paper and took notes.

The fact that the Chairman has been kidnapped by Rosewater and appears to be in the ancient ruins beneath the Academy.

Then, I glued it tightly under the little boy’s food bowl and placed the food on top of it.

If this happens, no one will know until all the food is eaten.

After doing that, I left the student center and headed west.

The air in the underground passage at dawn was somehow too heavy to breathe.

What guides me is a lantern taken from the student council room and this notebook left by the president’s mother.

“Here.”

The place where I stopped was the five-way road I had walked along with the chairman.

I felt like I could hear the chairman’s voice in my ears.

They say you can go into the deeper ruins if you go through the passage on the left, but it’s blocked by a barrier.

“Ha.”

I tried to suppress something that was making me cry and headed deeper.

There is no reason to doubt. In the video, the device that trapped the president was quite large.

There is no room for such a device in the underground passages I have been through so far.

Therefore, the correct answer is to go down.

As you walk along the road, a translucent wall-like barrier appears shortly.

I try casting the cancellation spell I learned at the academy, but of course it doesn’t work.

Let’s calm down. Rose, or rather Rose’s client, said this was a test for me.

That means it’s a test I can solve.

The hint will be in this notebook…

However, no matter how much I searched, there was nothing written about how to break the barrier.

There was no way to check the time in the underground cave, and my insides were burning.

When I couldn’t find any hints on the second read, I cursed out of urgency.

“Fuck. Wake. The chairman is suffering from snake venom, wondering if it is Anantesha or something-”

Snake venom?

Now that I think about it, wasn’t there too much TMI in the part where Rose talked about the spiritual creatures of the Heavenly God?

The Heavenly God Temple is located in the southeastern part of the continent…

“Compass.”

I immediately cast a simple magic spell and checked the direction.

I checked the wall and floor in the southeast direction.

As expected, there was a small jar hidden in the shade, pretending to be a stone.

Inside were small items of clothing such as pants, clothes, and hats.

what? Should I change my clothes?

It’s too ordinary for that.

Let us consider the words that follow snake venom.

A culture that worships gigantic spiritual creatures as gods.

A huge snake that eats elephants.

“If it’s a snake that ate an elephant, then it’s a hat?”

Even as I said this, I also burst into laughter.

It’s just a fairy tale from Earth, people here don’t think that way either.

Well, if it doesn’t work out, let’s throw our hat at the barrier.

There was a pop and a light appeared and the barrier dissipated.

My mouth dropped open at the sight, but I don’t have time to worry about it for now.

Down, down and down.

After walking for about 10 minutes, we came across a huge communal pit.

“ugh.”

I went forward without realizing it, but felt like my heel was empty, so I quickly fell back.

When I checked under my feet, I saw that it was a cliff with no bottom visible.

As you search around with the lantern, you can see a staircase going down on the right.

Let’s step there –

Ugh.

The lights on the stairs begin to turn on one by one.

After the flow of hundreds of stairs, a straight leg appears.

And on top of the bridge is a huge golem that appears to be 5 meters tall.

Behind it you can see a huge building with a door.

… You can’t take that thing down. There is another way –

As I turned my head around, I found a vine clinging to the left wall.

also. The golem was an eye-catching gimmick.

It was a test to see if you could find a hidden path using the light on the stairs.

When I got closer and looked, the wall protruded slightly so that I could barely step on it.

Without hesitation, I grabbed the vine and started climbing the wall using the uneven part.

Whining like that, I bypassed the golem and headed toward the building, but a problem arose.

“What?”

The vine broke. There are no longer any scratches on the wall that used to be uneasy.

The remaining distance to the building is approximately 10m.

Can you run? If I jump and stick to that window, I think I can get in…

However, looking down, it is dizzyingly high.

Just as I was about to go back, thinking that this wasn’t right, I saw the chairman’s face through the hazy window of the ruins.

At the same time, without my knowledge, magical power began to gather in my Danjeon.

Brings wind magic down and condenses it on the soles of the feet.

Spitting it out all at once-

Take a leap!

With a popping sound, I flew through the sky for a moment.

The window gets closer. 3, 2, 1…

The moment it reached 0, I gathered my magic power from my legs into my fist and threw it out.

I feel the glass breaking and digging into my skin, but I don’t care.

As soon as the body passes through the window, the Feather Fall spell is cast again.

As if opening a parachute, it slowed down and landed on the ground.

Rosewater looks at me with her mouth wide open.

She uttered one word.

“No, what on earth did you do?”