I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 157

Ancient Remnants (1)

Estelle was treated with honor wherever she went.

Since he was born with the ability to be of high status, he was treated like this even in prison.

For example, complaining about side dishes in a luxurious prison cell equipped with silk carpets, soft beds, and books.

“Hey. If you’re going to bring a steak, shouldn’t you bring red wine? Isn’t white a T-bone good?”

“…Just eat whatever you give me.”

“Reduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch! 35-Year-Old Duna Reuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuint made in our southern vineyards!”

“Uh… okay. I’ll ask and come back.”

“And the meat got cold while I was bringing it, so please try it again. Oh, you don’t need to bring the garnish since you will eat it.”

“Okay!”

The low-level wizard who watched over Estelle felt like his nerves were being eaten away by managing this difficult prisoner.

But I can’t help but listen. The magic tower lord’s direct order to monitor the saint was to do whatever she wanted.

Aside from that, he himself has some degree of faith. I am deeply afraid of being punished for treating a saint who is said to be the representative of divinity so carelessly.

Of course, given that he was part of the group that kidnapped the saint, his faith was severely flawed.

In any case, her status as a saint was effective even while she was kidnapped.

“…….”

After seeing the wizard disappear, Estelle knelt down and clasped her hands as if she had been waiting.

“Lord──”

What she wants is to strengthen her muscles. Superhuman strength to overcome this difficulty. Holy power is clearly flowing from my body.

“Good.”

After praying, she pulled the iron bars with all her might.

-Ouch! Grunting! Oh my palm hurts!

Estelle eventually gives up. Her holy power still doesn’t work when praying.

‘What on earth caused it? Holy Grail… Is that why?’

If so, it’s strange. Why does the Holy Grail neutralize one’s prayers?

“Haa… In times like this, the prince rescues the princess.”

In the end, all she can hope for, not prayers and wishes for the Lord, is a heroic prince who will help her figure out this situation.

Of course, the kingdom and the church would have mobilized the army to save themselves.

No matter how great the Mage Tower’s preparations are, it is certain that it will be defeated in the end.

‘The question is, what are they doing by taking my blood every day?’

This may be the reason why Estelle receives such luxurious care even though she is a prisoner.

The goal is to keep her healthy, reduce stress as much as possible, and draw fresh blood.

With the blood extracted in that way, a man named Skys, who holds Aedrin and the Holy Grail, is doing something.

Estelle is frustrated because she doesn’t know what that something is, but unable to demonstrate her sexual power, she is just a delicate woman.

What she can do is reflect on the abundance of time and pray as a habit.

“Lord, save me from this tribulation and have mercy on the innocent lambs…”

While praying, the saint and princess Estelle have doubts.

If there is a God, and if you are truly connected to God… why are you just watching this situation?

If it was obvious, it was natural, and if it was blasphemous, I ended up harboring a blasphemous question.

* * * *

It is not easy to distinguish between day and night in a sewer where there is no light.

As I open my eyes feeling fuzzy, relying on my biological clock, I find something warm in my arms.

-Wheeeeeeee…

Hwaran let out a long, drawn-out breathing sound as if her body had been engulfed in a cotton blanket.

As I gently stroke his messy hair, he snuggles into my chest even more.

“Should I let you sleep a little longer?”

It looks like the others haven’t arrived yet.

“brother?”

At that moment, the girl slowly raised her head from her embrace. A blue-eyed girl was looking up at me, lifting the corners of her eyes.

“Did I wake you up?”

“Hwa is still sleeping.”

“Do sleeping and waking times vary depending on your personality?”

“Basically, it follows the body. However, when the body is asleep, the awakened person can do whatever he wants.”

“Ohh.”

In other words, even if Hwa has control of the body, Ran can take control when Hwa falls asleep.

“Then should I wake up soon? I have to watch to see if other people come to visit.”

“Uh…”

Ran, who was usually easy-going and helped with household chores, hesitated for a rare moment.

“what’s the matter?”

Ran didn’t answer my question, but wrapped his arms around my waist and nuzzled my chest.

“Ran?”

“I just want to stay like this for a little while.”

I didn’t know what to do for a moment, but then I just patted Ran’s back.

“My brother’s embrace is warm and feels good.”

“Thanks to Klau Solas, the positive energy flows out…”

“No, even if it wasn’t there, it would definitely have been good. I’m sure.”

“Is that so?”

Ran didn’t hide that she liked me. In fact, I appealed to her more actively than to Marie.

– I grabbed

Ran’s waist tightly and hugged her, and Ran let out an embarrassed voice from inside my arms.

“Oh brother?”

“Thank you. For liking a guy like me.”

“…How’s your brother doing?”

“Just. Thank you for everything.”

I hugged Ran like that for a while.

………

……

…

I left the sewage management office and scouted the surrounding area. As a side note, runes were also carved all over the sewer.

Perhaps thanks to my magical power exceeding 10,000, the task of engraving runes in one day was not as arduous as before.

On the contrary, thanks to my overflowing magical power, I was greedy and tried to engrave the runes as large and precisely as possible, so I was only able to engrave 40 characters.

“Is your brother here?”

After returning from reconnaissance and rune factory work, Ran was preparing a meal of dried beef and Corinne potatoes.

“Oh~ Corinne Potato.”

“Your brother developed it, right? It got good reviews, right?”

Corinne Potato is a combat ration that I developed during my first-year home economics class. It is made by pressing potatoes to make them as thin as paper, and the motif is the developer of combat rations during World War II.

“I received a commendation from the Kingdom Army and a prize for developing this.”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

Ran responds by clapping her hands. She is roasting Corinne potatoes in a pot using a wooden ladle.

“Mashed potatoes?”

“Yes. And this is canned stew.”

A stew that is bubbling and smells appetizing. It’s taboo to eat smelly food during guerrilla warfare, but outside the management office there’s a foul smell like a sewer, so it’s probably okay.

“Let’s enjoy it while we can.”

The beef stew and mashed potatoes that Lan made were quite appetizing for something made as combat rations.

it’s good! It’s not something to admire, but it’s a great meal in such a harsh environment.

“It’s delicious. It couldn’t have been easy to make like this.”

Looking at it objectively, Ran’s cooking skills are quite good. Next to Marie around me. Alisha is in charge of what to eat.

“Brother, I’m learning how to cook these days. I’m also learning how to arrange flowers and serve my in-laws.”

“uh?”

Even if it’s cooking, why on earth are you arranging flowers or serving your in-laws…” ”

Why that—─”

“Ta-da!”

The moment I opened my mouth to ask a question, Ran shoved the mashed potatoes that were being cooked into my mouth with a spoon.

The unique, mesmerizing eyes that can never be seen on Hwa. The way he looks up with a bright smile is cute.

“This is a bridal class for only one person in this world.”

My heart feels burdened.

At this point, it’s practically a confession.

This is how Ran does it . There were many times when he approached me with this.

Although he seemed playful, his gaze was very sincere… His unwavering and confident eyes conveyed his will.

When I heard such a passionate confession of love, I couldn’t help but let go.

“Ran—”

It was the moment when he stretched out his hand to the girl with a desperate gaze.

Ran harshly slapped his hand away and took a step back.

“This profit…!” His cheeks

were full of the color of autumn leaves. His pupils were shaking as if an earthquake had occurred. He protects his ‘almost touched’ head with his hand.

“You… just…” Hwa

reacts a bit excessively, asking, “What were you trying to do?

” “Hwa, Hwa?”

“….. ..”

Hwa gives a silent, resentful look. Although Hwa has a blunt expression by default, there are times when her emotions waver like this.

“Don’t touch me!”

“Huh?”

When I respond, Hwa breathes even more heavily. He takes a deep breath and says again,

“Don’t touch me…”

“No, why…”

Aren’t we like brothers and sisters who don’t mind skinship?

“When you touch me… I feel bad.”

“That much?”

My brother gets hurt when he hears those words.

“I’m sorry.”

“No, not that much…”

That was when Hwaran was about to say something.

“Kung…!”

The door was kicked down roughly and a large dog-man burst into the management office.

“Kkeak kkeung!” Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”

As usual, Deok-gu lets out a ferocious howl without hesitation. The fact that Deok-gu has come means that he has also arrived in Marie.

“Ugh~ Deok-gu! Did you find your dad’s scent well? “I don’t know because my nose is stuffy, huh?”

It ‘s the third day

since entering the Steel Islands.

Marie also joined the save point. .

“I will prepare to be able to jump through space at any time from here.”

Lady Josephine is in charge of escape. As a combatant, she is also a very capable person, but she is helpless only in this magic tower. As mentioned before,

the magic tower went through a witch revolution and lost space. There is a history of being messed up by witches.

Due to nightmares in the past, they not only installed obstruction barriers throughout the Steel Islands, but also blocked the inside of the Magic Tower so tightly that it became paranoid. Thanks to this, the

Magic Tower wizards who used to travel between floors through the space magic circle were machine-controlled. There was even a ridiculous developer who developed the first elevator that operated on a device.

Anyway, inside this magic tower, Josephine cannot use space magic other than space leaping toward the marker across the strait. In

that case, it would be better to leave the role of battle mage to Marie. It would be better.

“Dutch students should also stay here. You and I protect this place.”

“…Yes.”

Since it was originally planned, Hwa remained in the management room without saying anything. But he was staring at me blankly. He must be worried

. Hwa was so happy that he stroked his head.

“…!”

Even though I didn’t touch it very hard, I was so angry that I couldn’t raise my head. My anger was in a strange state since this morning.

“…….”

And for some reason, I was staring at that angry person again. Marie.

“Corin. “Let’s go,”

Marie urges with a somewhat cold gaze. We hurriedly started climbing towards the magic tower.

* * * *

Magic Tower is like a comfortable paradise for so-called elitists.

Except for the Forbidden Forest, which was created for the cultivation and experimentation of magic crops, the entire Iron Islands are exposed to a cold and harsh natural environment.

Of course, wizards also bring in outsiders to import food or materials, but even they form small villages in ports and cannot enter near the Magic Tower.

These elitists are so closed-minded that even the chores inside the magic tower are done by wizards… that is, lower-class wizards or familiars.

In universities, graduate students take care of professors and even prepare meals. What’s worse, would a magician with 20 years of experience run away to the continent and open something called a Magic Tower restaurant?

One way or another, people who seek learning, whether on Earth or in this world, are wasting their time on useless things.

“Hmm… it’s a little big. Maybe I should have gotten something smaller?”

“There’s nothing I can do about it, Master, because you’re so cute. If you’re uncomfortable, can I exchange it for mine?”

“Uhm… no, my disciple is tall, so even if I wear the biggest robe, I still look short.”

What you need to infiltrate a magic tower full of wizards is a magic tower robe.

We had obtained some items from the continent in advance, so we obtained a robe from the Magic Tower and disguised ourselves as magicians from the Magic Tower.

On my robe was a badge symbolizing that I was a 4th floor wizard. Although I was a wizard who did my job to some extent, I was in charge of meals at the Magic Tower.

Would you say it is a very inefficient group or a closed group?

“So… what are you going to do next? We’ve reached the 4th floor…”

“Corin Deokgu says the saintess’s scent is much higher.”

In Marie’s shadow, Deokgu is chasing Estelle’s scent. Since she’s a saint, at least she wouldn’t have been placed in the lower floor.

“You can only go up to the 4th floor without any restrictions. From the 5th floor onwards, you must have an ‘assistant professor’ level wizard’s license. It’s quite cutting-edge. It’s biometric recognition using finger prints.”

It is a type of magical pass distributed within the Magic Tower. From the 5th and 6th floors, only assistant professor level, and from the 6th floor, professor level… And from the 7th floor, only heads of schools can enter.

“Master, what are you worried about? We have a high-ranking mage who will cooperate with us.”

“Hmm?”

The person who proved my point was none other than Marie. A doll crawling out of the shadows at her word.

The skin became wrinkled, and the salt-crusted fingers trembled.

Nogu, who was looking around anxiously with blurry eyes, looked at Marie and us and gasped! I took a deep breath.

“Hello, Chun-sik.”

“Hehe…! Lady Dunaref! Oh no, master…!”

Chun-sik bows down in fear. Who would dare to predict?

This shabby old man was one of the seven magicians who once commanded the Magic Tower. This is Elder Ardmalek of the red faction.

Of course, now he was just Marie’s familiar ghoul.

“Chunsik, I told you. Go upstairs and get your biometrics done.”

“B but…!”

“If you don’t like it, just cut off your wrist and face it.”

“Oh, I understand! I understand!”

Marie’s attitude toward Chun-sik is nothing short of cruel.

There is no need for mercy since he is the one who kidnapped her and tried to use her as an experiment, but sometimes, when I see Marie, I feel a scary coldness.

Thanks to this, I was able to get a free pass from the 5th to the 6th floor.

“Chunsik, you’re back in.”

“Ah, yep! Yeep!

I put Chun-sik, who was disturbed by his secret movements, back in the shadows and find the stairs to the 7th floor. The

7th floor is the real realm of elder-level magicians.

From memory, Estelle was in the special building on the 8th floor. . It was a place where the magic tower lord Aedrin imprisoned experimental monsters for experiments.

At this time, not only the magic tower lord but also Dun Skies would be there. You should be careful not to encounter them as much as possible── “Hey

, you guys there!”

I turn it slightly and see that it is a wizard with seven jewels hanging on a golden badge.

In other words, a 7th floor mage. He is also a professor of the Golden School, which is a professor level.

‘What should I do with Corin? Shall I bite him?’

‘Wait a moment. If you make a fuss from here, I’ll get tired.’

What should I do? Should I kill him? I expected most of the high-ranking mages to be out on the front lines, but I didn’t expect they would already be caught.

“Are you…?”

The wizard gradually approached. He was about to take out the spear hidden in his robes.

“Hello, Professor Airak! “

Master suddenly called the other person’s name and approached.

“Huh? What about you?”

Professor Airak hesitates as the teacher approaches without hesitation.

“My name is Aelia, and I am a high-ranking post grad on the 5th floor. Master Elder Blaine told me to take out the BF1207FF3801 magic tool from the laboratory in building 6-8.”

“Uh… really?”

“Excuse me, but can you tell me where building 6-8 is?”

“Uh… go that way. It’s three blocks further to the left in the hallway.”

“Wow, thank you!”

Master skillfully roasted and boiled the professional-level wizard. No, rather than boiling him, it felt like he was charmed.

“Kkeukkeum…! You… did you say Aelia? When it’s over later… shall I have a cup of coffee with you?”

“Huh? Is that so?”

“Yes. Come to my office later.”

Master jumped up and down as if he had accomplished it. We followed Ayrlac’s gaze and pretended to go toward the 6-3 laboratory.

“What did you do?”

“All the major wizards in the Tower of Magic know. I visited the Magic Tower a few times in the guise of Eriu Cassar.”

“Ah~”

Then, it’s not strange that I know the face of Ayrlac, a professional-level mage.

“Then, let’s hang around here for a while and then go up.”

“Corin . … That person is still watching us.”

Ailak’s eyes are still focused on us. To avoid suspicion, he turns down the path to the laboratory and gets out of sight. I can

feel the presence of people in the hallway, so I have to go somewhere to avoid getting caught again.

The place we entered was the closest laboratory to the corner from the hallway. There was a dull darkness lurking from the entrance, as if it were a wizard’s laboratory. “Master,

what was that just now?”

“Huh? Ah, the experiment number is just something I made up. The Magic Tower is numbered and recorded in this way.”

“No, I was taken over by a guy named Ailak, Master.”

“Huh? Corinth too. What do you mean by that in a masculine way?”

Master slapped my shoulder. No, did you just say that was real? Ailak’s gaze was unusual. “Hmm

~ People have always been kind to me when they see me. Don’t you all have kind hearts deep down?”

“Ah, I think I understand.”

“Huh? “What?”

“Because you are beautiful, Master. By nature, people are weak to beautiful things.”

“Oh my…”

“……Corin?”

“Don’t you feel it too, Marie? It’s human nature to want to give something more to a pretty person.” ”

Huh…!”

I was bored for a moment until the sight of people in the hallway disappeared, so I looked around the laboratory.

-Kkkkkkkk! Kkkkkkk!

The sound was heard from the hem of Marie’s robe. A voice.

“Deok-gu?”

“What’s going on?”

“Deok-gu looks like he’s scared of something.”

“Deok-gu?”

“Is there something in this lab?”

It’s my first time coming to the Magic Tower at this time. I turned my eyes to the surroundings.

The Magic Tower’s laboratory is a mixed bag. Some places are experimenting with materials used to make ordinary living furniture, while others are conducting biological experiments on human beings. If it’s an experiment so cheap that Deok-gu is wary of it

, It’s hard to predict what’s to come.

“I don’t know, so… let’s check.”

Even if the plan goes well, an all-out war with the Magic Tower is unavoidable. In that case, it would be a good idea to do as much as possible here.

“.. …..”

“…….”

The laboratory… or at this point, it would not be strange to describe it as an experiment building.

The magic tower has a total of nine floors, but its height is much higher than regular buildings.

Korea It would be easy to think of the huge landmark department store as being divided into nine floors. Dull

green luminous lighting. The floor was slippery, as if it had caked on oil residue.

“Master, have you ever been to a place like this?”

“No. Because the laboratory building is not shown to the academy’s chairman. Even during the Witch Revolution, you were too busy destroying everything, so

you never came.” “Corin… Deokgu wants you to go to the other side.”

Unlike us, Deokgu seems to have sensed something.

This space smells like a mixture of blood, oil, and rotten flesh. The stench was bad. I thought I could sense something through smell in a place like this…

“Ah.”

My steps stopped and my heart naturally slowed down.

“Corin….”

Something is watching us.

Something huge…

“No way…”

The teacher burst out in surprise. We instinctively turned our gaze to the right… .

“──────”

I met huge eyes.