I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 249

Three Springs (2)

As explained earlier, there are three springs under the World Tree.

The Spring of Hvergelmir and the Spring of Urd. This is the spring of Mimir.

“It’s so spectacular.”

What unfolded before us was a spring shining brightly and goldenly.

Mimir’s spring.

Of the three routes to the springs, this is the easiest and most difficult route.

It was a route that felt like a kind of easy mode in the game.

“What should I do, little brother?”

“Destroying the spring is the norm.”

Springs are the main source of energy that helps the world’s trees grow. Even if we just eliminate this, we can prevent the world tree from expanding immediately.

“How do I get rid of this spring? Can I bomb it with magic?”

“There is that, but there are surprisingly other ways as well.”

“what is that?”

“You can eat it.”

“huh?”

“If you drink this, your brain will get better.”

“……really?”

It’s real.

Each spring is responsible for supplying nutrients to the World Tree. In other words, the spring itself is a kind of elixir.

I don’t think the effect of the elixir itself was that strong, but in the game, Mimir’s spring’s magical power and other abilities increased.

It was also a place where the player party stayed here and drank spring water to prepare for the final battle.

I’ve never actually drank this before.

“Normally, even if a small number of people drink, the fountain won’t dry up. But… roughly how many people were here?”

“It will be close to 10,000.”

“If we only drink 1 liter per person, the spring will dry up.”

“Aha~”

I stood in front of the soldiers setting up torches around the spring and preparing for camp.

“Now pay attention!”

Although there is no light in the darkness, the golden light of the fountain replaces the lighting and naturally attracts attention.

“As a result of the investigation, it was found that this spring water is ‘safe to drink.’ We will supply drinking water from this spring.”

“Are you okay?”

There was a soldier with his hand raised. He spoke on behalf of many people’s doubts.

“It’s not that I don’t believe in the Lord… but what could be in the spring water in a place like this…”

It’s a natural question.

Suddenly, the light of the world disappears and all kinds of monsters come out and march under the huge tree that reaches into space.

Under these circumstances, it is natural to wonder whether it is safe to drink the strange golden spring water discovered.

“I understand you’re worried. Let me drink first as a demonstration.”

“No, not that much…”

I put their worries aside and took a cup and filled it with spring water.

The brilliant golden spring water glides and emits light on its own. Actually, looking at this alone, I suspect radioactive water…

-Gulp!

The spring water I drink in one gulp enters my throat. Mimir’s spring water is more than I thought…

‘What is this? ‘Why is it so delicious?’

It feels like drinking sweet honey water. I’ve tried all kinds of delicacies in the world, but I’ve never had a drink this delicious.

Besides, I am a sub player by name. The response came as an intuitive message.

[You have consumed Mimir’s spring water.]

-Auror magic recovery increases by 250%.

Doesn’t wisdom really increase like in the legend? No, I feel like my head is clearer and my brain is working faster.

Well, it may be just my mood, but there is no doubt that it is beneficial to eat it.

‘With this level of resilience… I guess we can somehow maintain the sun, right?’

It’s definitely the last minute, so it’s not unusual to give out ability points.

“Lord Cor Corrin? How do you feel?”

Soldiers slowly approaching. They seemed very curious about my reaction after drinking the spring water.

“Hmm… Is this delicious?”

“Huh? It’s delicious?”

“Yes, it’s really delicious. I feel like my mind is becoming clearer. Is this really what the wizards said?”

“Is it just as the wizards said?”

I spread a rumor with a hint of nonsense to the soldiers who were very interested in the spring water.

“I heard this is good for your body. It seems to be true. I heard it’s especially good for men.”

“To a man?”

With just those words, the soldiers realized the true meaning of my words.

-gulp!

-If you just drink that…

then what happens after that?

-Oh oh! This is really delicious!

-Is it honey water? How on earth does spring water taste like this?

-I feel like my mind is becoming clearer!

-Is it really good for your body?

If this really is the fountain of wisdom as in the original, wouldn’t these 10,000 people eventually become doctors or masters?

As I was returning to camp with a bottle of spring water, I saw a familiar face.

“Aren’t you angry?”

“take no interest.”

Alisha also rushes in, saying that her grades will improve if she eats this, but Hwa doesn’t seem to be very interested.

But it tastes good and is good for your health, so it would be nice to drink some.

“I’ll give it to you, so drink it. It tastes good.”

“……Just a little bit.”

When I gave him a cup full of spring water, Hwa accepted it with his small hands.

I was reminded of Hwa’s face, sipping spring water from a cup with a somber expression.

“delicious.”

“right?”

At best, spring water. I guess I had no idea it would be this delicious.

“Wait…”

Hwa’s eyes gradually turned blue. Change to column.

“Hello brother.”

“Oh? What are you angry about?”

“It’s delicious, so I’d like to try it too.”

“That’s nice.”

“Right?”’

Although the painting has little expression due to its quiet nature, the affection it subtly shows is truly and cute.

“I can’t see you very well. Please come closer.”

“okay.”

I willingly sat next to Ran. So close that you can feel each other’s body heat. Ran leans her face against my shoulder.

“It’s uncomfortable. This darkness.”

“That’s right. I didn’t know something like this was possible.”

I was vaguely thinking about God.

God or Danan, something mysterious and powerful. But if you try to defeat it, it’s not impossible… A slightly stronger human?

But after seeing the miracle that made the light disappear from the world, I got a little sick of it.

I think that the gods of this world may not be omnipotent, but they are capable of truly absurd things.

“Surprisingly, there aren’t many gods like that. Master has said before. Among the gods, there are those who are classified as ‘main gods.’”

The power of God comes from the concept of nature and the faith of believers.

Therefore, it is said that the more people who revere the concept, the stronger the power of God becomes.

“That’s definitely what light is. It’s something that’s absolutely necessary. It’s something that people naturally respect.”

“Gwangmyeong… That’s definitely true. But brother, if that’s true…”

Taeyang.

The divine position I carry. Although I have no intention of becoming a god, I also have a concept that has been revered and revered by all living creatures since history.

“Balthazar… Do you really have to be a god to defeat him?”

It’s a strange situation. Obviously, there was no such thing as this in the game.

Even in the previous episodes, the concept of God was not prominent.

What is the difference between now and the previous episode?

“Nothing changes.”

Tates Balthazar. Bring down the brightness of this era. It’s a simple story.

“Where are you going, brother?”

“If you go back to the roots… and go back to the other roots, you will be able to reach another spring.”

“Then we’ll go together.”

“no.”

I made Ran sit down. This is probably something only I can do.

“I’m conserving my strength. I’ll be back for a bit.”

* * * *

-Quaaaagh!

-help me!

– Stop it! Stop it!

Screams and cries are torn apart. And it spread to others, causing anxiety and fear.

This place is hell.

A simple hell where the great evil of mythology and human screams come together.

“Wow, Her Highness! A new group has appeared behind us! They are the dead!”

Miriam frowned as a commander-level knight approached and urgently informed her of the war situation.

“Turn the unit equipped with anti-horse equipment to the rear. What about the magician’s support artillery?”

“It stopped 5 minutes ago… I presume the magic power was exhausted.”

The support of the wizards was cut off. Miriam could not have known how serious this was.

The expeditionary force’s wizard manpower pool is overflowing.

Not only the rear units divided by the roots of the World Tree, but also each isolated unit had a few magicians.

However, the fact that the wizard’s fire support was cut off meant that magical power consumption was severe.

And this place was filled with so many dead people that it forced a lot of consumption.

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A group of ghosts filled the field of vision even in the center of the legion.

They are not the military. Not even a bunch.

Individual ghosts were haphazardly forming battle lines and attacking the equipped corps.

If the number seems endless, how many ghosts exist here?

The ‘dragon’ that Corin Locke talked about didn’t even appear, but this is crazy.

“Whew… I didn’t expect anything like this.”

Miriam thought she knew well about Tates Balthazar’s power.

But this is not something. It was far beyond my imagination.

He made the light disappear from this world and made a place full of ghosts like this his base.

Something beyond human common sense.

I feel like I’ve been thrown into the center of a myth that no human power can do anything about.

-Aaaah!

-With Golem at the forefront! Stop it!

– Damn the weapon doesn’t work! We have no auras or magic powers!

“If it continues like this…”

The legion will be annihilated. With numbers like this… no, the numbers themselves are a meaningless battlefield.

The only ones with significant power in this battlefield are the small number of units equipped with anti-magic equipment and the knights and wizards who can use aurors or magic power.

‘Then……’

There is a last resort.

But it forces too many sacrifices.

At least Corin Locke will never tolerate it.

‘I am not Corin Locke.’

She is neither a good person nor a very capable person. Miriam, who showed infinite action in the driving force of revenge, is no longer there.

Now all that remains is rationality and a rational, cool-headed princess.

“Her Royal Highness. If you are at home… you can start at any time.”

“…….”

Miriam pursed her lips at the gaze of one of the commanders. He probably thinks this is the only thing left.

Sacrifice of a cow for the greater good. In terms of logic and rationality, it was an ideal choice, but…

“……”

Miriam felt a sparkling desire in the eyes of the officers looking at her.

In the end, they too are children of humans. He is an ordinary human being, not a hero, who goes beyond reason and rationality and inevitably reaches the same conclusion emotionally.

“Wait a minute…”

That’s why Miriam had to stand on the other side. It is clear that the moment you agree with that opinion, you will fall like a ball pushed by gravity.

“Let’s just hold on for a little while longer. Not yet… It’s too early to give up.”

While saying that, Miriam raised her magical power. Her staff transformed into a snake and grew huge.

Midgard Rise. Once hatched, the Serpent of the End was able to be controlled to some extent.

Of course , If it becomes even a little loose, it will eat its owner.

“Go.”

A huge snake rushed forward. An infinite snake that eats everything will last until the moment its magic power runs out.

-Kyaaaaaaa…!

But It would be faster for the Infinite Serpent to run out of magical energy than to be torn to pieces by the dead.

Since there were no Marie here to assist with magical energy… Miriam chewed her lips.

“Corin Locke . You damned husband… come quickly and save me.”

Did her earnest wish come true? A dazzling light poured down from the endless expanse beyond.

‘Light? No, this is…’

Balthazar . The light that was extinguished by. What was driving out the darkness on his behalf was the intense sunlight.

“Tae Taeyang…”

“He is the only one capable of something like that…!”

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Countless dead people scream They screamed and burned. The purification of the sun, which cannot tolerate wrong things, is burning them.

Numbers have no meaning.

There was a time when I thought that way, and it is still the same now.

Only this time, it was the opposite.

-Tap, knock!

Darkness . A person walking silently with the brilliant sun driving away the waves.

The eyes of the living who were about to be swept away and swallowed by the waves of the dead turned to the savior who had come to visit them. How on earth? How

could

that man calmly watch the endless crowd of the dead spread out? Could he have walked?

“It was a little late.”

With the arrival of the sun, the dead retreated.

In the eyes of the soldiers, he looked like the sun god.

* * * *

The sun is up.

The sun that I had always taken for granted is my own. The soldiers were so happy and grateful to be floating above their heads that they didn’t even care about their ripening bodies.

“The damage is quite serious.”

“Are you okay? I heard that the roots of the World Tree eat away at your divine power.”

Corinne shrugs her shoulders at Miriam’s words and looks like she can’t help it.

“If we turn off the sun now, the soldiers will become anxious. For now, we have to force it to be maintained.”

The realization of the sun and the encroachment of energy by the World Tree continue. Nonetheless, Corinne decided to keep the sun.

It’s been three days since the battle started. This was an army that faced the waves of the dead without being able to sleep even a wink.

The soldiers who fought while enduring the screams and curses they let out with their entire bodies need rest.

“Do not work too hard.”

“Princess Miriam, I am so happy to have taken care of all your worries.”

“Mir.”

“Hmm?”

“Mir.”

“Princess Mir?”

When Corin corrected the title, Miriam smiled without any bitterness.

“So… you came alone?”

“Because I’m the only one who can calmly walk past those dead people.”

“Thank you for coming, but if you’re alone, it honestly won’t be of much help. That sun… you can’t maintain it indefinitely, right?”

Corin did not deny that. Four hours at most. Even though he was receiving the buff from Mimir’s Spring, he could only last so long.

“I had a plan.”

“Plan?”

“Yes. In fact, this unit has lost most of its strength. The soldiers, let alone the knights and wizards, are virtually incapable of fighting.”

If we continue like this, we will be annihilated. Miram and the upper class did not think it was necessary to predict the inevitable outcome.

“What are you planning?”

“…It’s simple. We will gather all the remaining wizards and make a ‘group space leap.’ The coordinates are… Josephine Clara’s marker.”

Since it seems like we won’t be able to break through, I’d rather join up with other units. It was definitely a choice if I could.

However, there was a blind spot that everyone, including Corin, could not help but point out.

“…We can’t all go together, right?”

“okay.”

Corin frowned as he understood the resulting conclusion being affirmed in Miriam.

There is no need to deny it. It is a real problem.

“The number of people who can escape through group space jumping is less than half of the total 6,300 troops.”

In other words, discard the rest.

And it is the weakest who are left behind.