episode_0487

After getting Arthur up, I went straight to the graduate school room at Soul Academy.

The lighthouse-like building that never went out day or night regained its tranquility only after the evil spirit came into existence.

When the people here woke up, would they be happy that they had rested or would they scream that they were behind on work?

“Why did you come here? Is there anyone you can find?”

“No. There’s a place here that a fool like you poor prince won’t know about.”

“…A place I don’t know?”

The place I guided to was a place where traces of heroes from the past remained and is now the home of a spirit.

Adri may have touched various things while staying here, but the basement looked more like a quiet mansion than a wild maze.

Were you very bored while you were underground? It’s like there’s literally no place that hasn’t been touched.

As I was walking inside, wondering what on earth I could do to make something like this possible with necromantic magic, Adri with a sullen face appeared in front of me.

“Grandma. You somehow weren’t sleeping? I thought it would be stretched out and rolling on the floor.”

– It may seem like it to you, but I’m a pretty strong commander, right? Such a poor trick. Hike!?

As we were talking, Frey, who was following us, suddenly swung his sword. When Adri, who noticed the attack, urgently took a step back, Frey clicked his tongue.

– what. What are you doing!

“enemy. No?”

– What the enemy did! If I were your enemy, would I have left you alone?

“If not an enemy, are you an ally of Lucy Alln?”

– I don’t want to admit it, but it’s similar.

Arthur and Frey turned their gaze towards me and nodded at the same time.

I feel like I could do that if it were me. As I was preparing to persuade him, thinking that he wouldn’t believe me easily, I shrugged my shoulders, feeling slightly discouraged.

“You don’t have much time to chat about the details, right? Follow me. Poor guys.”

Just because the underground scenery had changed didn’t mean that the path had changed either, so I looked for the path as if it were natural. Then I tilted my head when I saw several skeletons lying in the hallway.

“What is this trash?”

– Something left behind by the guy who used to stay here. Don’t you know that too?

iced coffee. These are the skeletons that used to make up the underground dungeon. I thought they were all stained with the energy of evil spirits and turned to dust, but it seems that’s not the case for all of them.

But did they originally look like this? It seems quite different from what I remember.

– I used it however I wanted since it was an item that didn’t have an owner anyway. Is there something wrong?

understood. Adri, he used this to change the underground landscape. Well, this is what Adri, a skilled necromancer, is like.

hmm.

Mmm.

“Hey. A lonely old woman.”

– What.

“I’m asking just in case. Even if you are incompetent, can you do something like this?”

When I told Adri what I had just thought of, she nodded as if it was obvious.

– It’s possible.

“How long does it take?”

– It’ll be over soon, right? The foundation has already been established to some extent.

After hearing Adri’s positive answer, I raised my eyebrows, took out a piece of paper from my inventory, and drew a blueprint on the spot.

My drawing skills, which had recently improved dramatically as I acquired an aesthetic sense, allowed me to draw on paper exactly what my brain thought.

– Uhm. I know what you’re thinking. I’ll be ready. There’s no need for me to follow along.

“Then. If there’s an incompetent old lady, can it only smell like coop coop?”

– …ah. I really want to punch you in the back.

Even after Adri left, grumbling, I walked through the maze for a long time.

The place we arrived at was originally where the fake hero stayed.

“Where?”

“This is where there was a perverted skeleton knight who wanted to become a princess.”

“…what is that.”

Arthur blinks at the words translated into Mesgaki. When I saw him, I thought about trying to persuade him, but I thought it would be a mess. And I thought that the only thing that would come out was insulting the skeleton that was infinitely closer to the real thing, so I laughed and kept my mouth shut.

When I arrived in front of the wall, I took out the scroll I had received from Caria not long ago.

“Wait a minute. Lucy Aln. That scroll. Isn’t it something that contains the breath of a dragon?”

“Oh. Poor Prince, do you even know this? How amazing. I thought all the poor prince knew was to complain.”

As Arthur said, this is a scroll containing the dragon’s breath.

It even has a clever name, Dragon Breath. But no one playing the game called it Dragon Breath.

Why? The phenomenon that occurs when this scroll is activated is far from the dragon’s breath.

What is dragon breath that physically erases everything in front of it?

Maybe they should have written it down as extinction magic.

“I heard that that is something that should never be used indoors?!”

“Are you scared? Do not worry. If you don’t die, I can save you. Phew. Although you will end up screaming like a girl.”

“What kind of bloody things are you talking about!”

I ignored Arthur’s yelling, placed the scroll, and immediately took out the next item.

This one wasn’t as great as Dragon Breath.

An item used when dealing with Nakrad for the first time last year. The scroll that saved my life. Completely nullifying magic by changing the surrounding environment.

“Lucy Alln. Could you at least pretend to listen to the story? At least I know what you are thinking.”

“Poor prince. If I keep doing this and make mistakes, we’ll really fall apart, right? Are you saying that a cute girl like me could die with me? I’m a bit tired of that.”

“I’m sorry. Just shut up. Continue.”

I continued working even after Arthur closed his mouth, and after completing what I had to make, I stood up and stretched.

“Are you done?”

“Approximately.”

“Now then, please explain. What on earth are you trying to do?”

“Poor prince. Have you ever thought about this? What is so good about this crappy academy that it can create such a huge dungeon?”

The 100-story dungeon that exists in Soul Academy is exclusive to Soul Academy.

Other academies also create artificial dungeons, but they are only used for school exams. Even the quality is definitely lower than what we use.

Because of this, Soul Academy has a clear advantage over other academies, and has become a place that many dungeon scholars want to visit.

But isn’t it strange? Why is only Soul Academy able to create a dungeon with 100 floors?

Even if other resources are provided, where does the power to create and maintain a dungeon come from?

“In that case, it is the magic left behind by Archmage Erginus.”

“The magic left behind by that grumpy skeleton? Haha. A virgin wizard who can’t even talk to women is great, but he’s still human. It’s a mugwort vein that died of virginity.”

There is no denying that the magic circle left behind by Erginus is amazing.

The magic circle he left behind was something that could definitely be called a miracle, both before and after knowing the setting.

However, the magic circle is not the source of all power.

That can’t be possible.

The power leaking out of Erginus’ magic circle is merely a by-product.

It is a new by-product of something with such enormous power that it remains despite the numerous miracles depicted in the magic circle.

“Psychotic people who believe in nothing are thinking of using that power. By the way. At the most important moment. At that moment when something truly necessary unfolds. What happens if your strength disappears even for a moment?”

I smiled, imagining their confusion, took out the shield, and added a divinity on it.

When I first learned it from my grandfather, I found it difficult to even follow along.

However, now it is a miracle that can be performed like breathing.

The hero’s shield, which blocked even the evil spirit’s blow, blocks our path.

“Be prepared for shock. It would be so ugly if you bit your tongue and died in shock.”

The moment I finished all the preparations and put my magic into the scroll, light seeped into the scroll and the howl of an animal was so strong that it seemed as if it would rip my eardrums.

The dragon’s howl weighs down the world.

The dragon’s anger gathers in one place.

The dragon’s judgment turns what was originally a wall into nothing.

Kwaaa!

The huge impact that made the building collapse at any moment soon disappeared as the second scroll was activated.

The environment that does not allow any magic has erased the magic of the scroll.

When the shock disappeared, silence came to my darkened eardrums, and even the smoke that had been blocking my eyes dispersed, what was revealed was a passage leading somewhere.

*

“Lucy Alln disappeared as she headed toward the Academy’s old building. Luca. Do you know anything about this?”

After hearing the story told by the Void Apostle, Luca recalled what happened last year.

The place where the skull of the old hero Garrad was located. Did you go into that place? There is no way that Lady Aln went in to hide from the evil spirit’s actions, and there is a high probability that I was there.

There must be something I don’t know about.

“Let’s send some people there.”

I was thinking of letting Lady Arlen do what she wanted to do, but it’s difficult to do that now.

If the lady does something that goes beyond my expectations, it is out of my control.

– Kuooo!

Everyone in the room was taken aback by the sudden shaking.

Someone falls to the floor.

Someone is urgently clinging to the wall.

Some people tremble from the fury of an animal heard from far away.

Someone else…

Soon after, when the shaking that threatened to collapse the building ended, Luca stopped saying what he had just wanted to say.

“…I’ll go there myself. How many people can you name?”

It’s the dragon’s breath. What on earth is Lady Aln planning to do?

haha. really. Is it true that people with damned talent always surpass the imagination of criminals?