I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 32
[Arisha Aden (1)]
Human death and animal death are different.
It was when I first cut down someone that I realized the obvious facts I had known through knowledge and moral norms.
“The bleeding won’t stop!
“It’s non-lethal, but how can I do that?”
I remembered
the first time I went out in combat. I remember frowning when I cut down a level 5 monster and saw the internal organs and blood flowing from its body.
It was unpleasant and unpleasant . That’s exactly how I felt. I ended up disgusted by the sight of the animal purring and foaming with blood.
However, the smell of human blood gave me a different unpleasant feeling than that of the animal.
“That bastard…”
The air was different.
The smell is clinging to me.
Even though it was my first time, I realized it right away. This heavy smell is the death of life fading away.
“Oh no… I…”
I can’t look at the other person who is probably bleeding with foam. No matter what I do, My gaze could not be fixed.
I was so horrified and afraid that I forced it out of my sight, and a black, shining blade came in instead. The
silver blade was flashing with a dull light.
I was lost in its beauty.
…………
…………
“Ah…”
A dry throat made a cracked sound. The sunlight pouring in through the window slowly awakened Alisha’s consciousness.
“Ugh sweat… ….”
The desire to sleep for 5 more minutes and the desire to wash my damp body. It is the latter that wins. As
I find the slippers on the floor and put my feet into them, I see the bunk bed across from me in the blurry vision. My
roommates are outside. It looks like he went out.
“That’s right. I have to do a part-time job…”
It’s already been three days since the midterm exams ended. To earn living expenses, you have to clear missions. After slowly completing her preparations, Alisha found a decent job in front of the mission board. [Patrol Mission] – Duration
6
hours
– 20 silver coins
[Suppression of Hornrat Nest]
– Estimated time required: 4 hours
– 15 silver coins
[Sewer patrol]
– Time required: 5 hours
– 25 silver coins
[Looking for short-term escort]
– Time required: 2 days –
Knight of level 3 or higher
– 50 silver coins, lodging, and food Provided by
[Academic Research: Capture of Beowulf]
– 70 silver coins.
“Hmm…”
The missions Arisha was looking at were mostly easy, comfortable, and not dangerous.
If she had the skills, she could do more dangerous tasks. It was legal, but she didn’t even look in that direction.
[Urgent: Search for the murderous spirit in the city of fog]
– Bachelor’s permit and consultation with advisor
“Ugh… it looks dangerous.”
John Doe, the murderous spirit from Haze, the city of fog. Recently, Merkava. There was an uproar over the fact that he had infiltrated the city.
An official letter was sent from the Kingdom of El Ras, and it seems that non-fighting professors and top students were mobilized for a large-scale search operation. The
public was focusing on grade representatives such as the vampire Marie Dunareff and the berserker Beajacker. It seems like he is calling an elite party.
Whatever it is, it is a story that is far from himself.
Living a small life without being caught up in a big incident. That is all that Arisha is looking forward to now.
“Beowulf….”
Before coming to this city, she experienced a crisis due to the interference of someone who tried to kill her, but she is a monster that can be defeated with her original skills. Speaking of Beowulf, I remember that time. “Where is your
benefactor
by now?”
Thinking of
the person who saved him ,
he adjusted his belt
.
He took out the wrapped spear.
“It was made as you ordered, right?”
“Yes. By the way, how did you know? The secret hidden in our family…”
“There is a way of knowing everything.”
The truth in The Weapon Breaker, one of the artisans’ truth quests, has two branches. Either
expose the truth and achieve justice, or Fergus Either threaten him and get his family’s blueprint.
If he goes the route of achieving justice, bye-bye with this blueprint, he chooses the latter.
If things go as planned, Fergus will be arrested not long after. I’ve been scolded this time, so I’ll make up my mind. Otherwise, you will decide your own fate.
“By the way, who are you… teacher?”
“Huh? Why?”
“The magic stones used to make that spear. None of them are ordinary ingredients. Nevertheless, the academy gave it to me without hesitation.”
“Ah~”
The materials needed to make the spear were all rare. It included the special grade soul dust I had obtained and the grade 2 rune stone, grade 1 silver steel.
Commonly known as the silver spear. The official name is Shadow Kingdom. It is a Legendary grade weapon, a grade just below Epic, called the Spear of the
Silver Knights. Along with the Fire Stone, it is one of the few magic stones that can withstand the risks of the ‘realm’. In particular, it has excellent aura absorption power, making it one of the best weapon materials. It is
too expensive and final . This is more mass-producible and usable than the fiery stone that can only be obtained in rare circumstances.
The money needed to make a weapon with such an extremely expensive material requires hundreds of gold coins just in the game.
Of course, there are no players who spend money on this, and it is usually used in scenarios or quests. The standard is to make it with the materials obtained by breaking it.
However, I have the full support of the chairman.
Even if there are no special materials, the academy, which has 1st to 2nd grade materials, will provide materials of this level as much as possible.
“You know what. doesn’t exist. What about the money?”
“……Here.”
As promised, Fergus handed me the money he received from the academy. The 30 gold coins are really heavy.
“From now on, don’t play around and live a good life. Otherwise, we’ll meet again?”
“Huh…!” I
left behind a scared Fergus and went to find the client to break the scheduled mission.
* * * *
“Level 5 knight? Just be a good porter.”
Charlie, a level 3 wizard gathered at the departure location, looked at my grade list and said with a sigh.
Although there was no grade limit, he didn’t seem to expect a level 5 babbler to come.
The party leader was level 3 . It is a party of 3 people, including Wizard Charlie and a mix of level 3 and 4 students. It is completed with the addition of two students. They are not
all students, but full-time guardians officially dispatched by the Guardian Association. The difference is that they summoned students as party members. No.
“Do I have to take care of children at this damn age?”
“If it weren’t for the association’s policy, I wouldn’t have this burden.” The
Guardian Academy and the Guardian Association share a very close interest.
Nurturing aspiring young guardians . It was the Guardian Association’s job to provide strength, but having to include students like a quota like this is also a burden for them. They
receive less money than they do, but it adds additional burden to the party.
“Those damn executives are taking care of our situation . I wish you would consider it.”
It is natural for such a reaction to occur. In the first place, party missions where official guardians are the main players tend to have proven skills apply.
“Um….”
“Ah, to the Sword Emperor’s granddaughter. That’s not what I said.”
“Ugh…”
Coincidence… Or was it some kind of butterfly effect? I wasn’t the only one who accepted this mission. There was also Alisha.
“It’s a coincidence.”
” Ah, Mr. Corin… Hello.”
This is the first time since the midterm exam. I never thought we would meet on this mission.
[Academic Research: Beowulf Captured]
– 70 silver
coins, roughly equivalent to 700,000 won in Korean won. On the mission board. When I checked the Beowulf capture mission that had popped up, I realized that the time had finally come. It was
almost mid-April. In terms of timing, it was just before the events that concluded Act 1.
However, with the Marie Incident being concluded early and the Runia Arden encounter event, Act 2 had already begun. It has begun.
The main event at the beginning of Act 2 is ‘Slaying the Murderous Demon of the Fog City.’
Originally, the scenario is that the player party is chasing the crazy serial killer that Marie missed in the second half of Act 1. John, the
knight-slayer who became infamous in the Fog City of Hayes. The incident that puts Doe in the spotlight again is the mission to capture Beowulf.
If you select a different mission instead of selecting the Beowulf capture mission in the parking lot where the mission appears, you will hear that the other guardian party performing the Beowulf capture mission has been wiped out.
On the other hand, if you choose the Beowulf mission, while playing the mission, you will witness the murderer John Doe, fight him, and ultimately defeat him.
Whichever route you take, you will join the search party according to the official letter sent from the El Ras Kingdom after this incident.
At first glance, the Beowulf mission is a mission in which guardians are sacrificed to advance the main scenario, but there is a back story and linked quest here.
Miss Cheryl, a flower shop girl who is the daughter of the third-level wizard Charlie, the party leader, gives you a quest to retrieve Charlie’s keepsake, a necklace.
The flower shop girl, Miss Cheryl, is a good person. He also does volunteer work at a relief center for street orphans, and we had a relationship in the previous episode.
“You look depressed. Would you like to bring some flowers? “It’s okay because I have leftovers to sell.”
There are times when your heart breaks when you fight dangerous guys and almost die several times. At such times, a flower given by someone I don’t know anything about touches my heart.
‘Let’s say it’s the price of flowers.’
In addition, this case is also related to ‘precepts’ and future scenarios.
Miss Cheryl was a good person both in the game and in previous episodes, and she had to prevent the misfortune of losing her father and administer medicine to John Doe.
Due to the nature of John Doe, it is impossible to catch him alone. It’s not a matter of strength or compatibility, but because the character’s characteristic is specialized in ‘stealth’.
You can kill it in 10 seconds if you look it in the eye, but it will never reveal itself.
This requires someone capable of penetrating stealth and breaking through this guy’s characteristic ‘thread fog’.
“Arisha.”
“yes?”
“How are your eyes?”
“…….”
I guess that’s the kind of response I asked what it meant. The reason why this guy, unknown in the game, still can’t use his eyes. No, the reason I don’t do it is.
If you think about Arisha’s character scenario, you can get the basics right… but if you say it out loud, you will deny it yourself.
“Uh… what are you talking about? My eyes are fine.”
“You know I’m not asking that.”
“…Did you hear from your sister?”
“It just so happened.”
Of course, Runia didn’t say a word to me.
“You better hurry. Your sister is serious. She will really destroy you. You will never be able to hold a sword again.”
The battle between wild beasts for rank is brutal. If one side doesn’t finish, it won’t end. Because Aden is a family of such wild beasts.
“…At that point, you can just let go of the sword.”
“Wow.”
At my reaction, Alisha furrowed her brow and stared at me.
It must be an expression that asks, “What’s so funny?” But I remember your messy and messy appearance that day.
Those eyes that are endlessly captivating.
“You can’t throw away your sword. Never.”
The scenario of this world is such that you are a human being. There is something called essence that can never be escaped.
Because Arisha has the talent that best suits the name Aden.
* * * *
In the Beowulf nest there were two Beowulfs and a little over twenty short hounds.
The capture party skillfully dealt with the short hounds and even hunted a Beowulf, but things gradually took a strange turn.
“What is this? Why are there so many?”
“Where are they coming from?”
Fog suddenly started rolling in. Monsters kept coming from within that fog.
“Hanson! That kid from level 5!”
“I don’t know! Now is not the time to discuss such things! Lady Aden is doing a good job, but…!”
Arisha was doing a great job against the monsters. Her natural physical skills and excellent swordsmanship cut down the crowd of monsters with one strike. Not only
was the sword’s ridiculously sharp, but her own skills were also there. It’s not comparable to the party’s guardians.
‘Where are they coming from like this? Monsters? Demon spirits are also mixed in! This is not an area with so many evil spirits, let alone monsters!’
A demon is a case where the soul of a dead person cannot leave this world and becomes an evil spirit after staying there.
There were also the souls of animals, but most of them are humans who have thoughts strong enough to become demons.
Demon spirits do not easily occur in places where there are few people. .
This is somehow artificial. When I felt that way, someone approached me from beyond the fog.
“Mr. Corrin?”
Arisha greeted me warmly, wondering if it was a comrade I had lost during the battle.
I wasn’t too worried because she was stronger than me, but I was relieved to see that she was safe. .
“Gwaaaaa…!”
“Huh?”
It was a person wearing armor. Corin prefers light armor, so it’s not him. The atmosphere is somewhat old and eerie…
“Demon spirit?”
-Kaang!
Armor A yam sword blocking this slashed axe.
‘This weight! It’s not a demon spirit! It’s knight-level!’
“Why did they attack us?”
Not only people but also guardians attacked them. Why? There was a question, but it didn’t last long.
“Get out of the way!”
The knight falls backwards as he puts on his armor. He is strangely languid and his strength is at the center of his posture. This is not possible.
“Get back!” Next time, I’ll cut you down!”
Despite Alisha’s warning, the armor knight did not back down. He swung his ax menacingly and tried to kill Alisha.
“Ugh…!”
He is stronger than I thought. His physical ability is like a monster. The equipment and aurors are also good. Considering that I can’t use it, it’s at level 4 at most, so what’s going on like this?
Just when I was about to give it a little more strength, saying it wasn’t at a level that I couldn’t overpower, a huge mace came flying from the side.
“Keeeeeeee!”
“Huh?!”
– Cough!
“??!”
The Auror blocked the attack, but was unable to completely absorb the shock.
When she rolled on the floor and hurriedly got up, the knight with the ax cut down Alisha.
“Oh no…!”
The inevitable moment of response. It’s too late. The ending can never be changed──
-Click!
The neck bounces in the air. The fallen head rolls under the influence of gravity.
Thick blood splashes on Alisha’s face and her pupils dilate greatly. Just a fleeting moment. At that moment, the instinctively swung sword easily knocked off the armored knight’s head.
-Chieeeeek!
The blade, which sizzled like a piece of iron burning in magma, was stained not with silver, but with black.
“Hehehehehehehe…!”
Oh no. I I’m a person…
“Kwaaaaaa!”
The knight who had swung his mace at Alisha came running stomping away. The moment he was about to raise the huge mace and strike down the defenseless girl…
-Quack!
A pure white spear blade protrudes through the visor of the knight’s helmet.
Blood drips from the tip of the spear. The spear that killed the knight with a single strike suddenly falls out.
“Mr. Corin…”
“Why are you so dazed? ”
“The person you buy… I want the person…”
“Don’t let it get to your head. These aren’t people.”
“People… aren’t they?”
“They’re undead raised by black magic.”
It was true. When the helmet of the deceased armored knight was removed, a putrid and rotten head was revealed.
“Ah… …..”
I breathed a sigh of relief. It felt like my heart, which had stopped, was beating again.
“You stupid brat! I told you to stick close! There are even undead! Where on earth were you…”
At that time, the wizard Charlie came out of the fog and was about to shout, but then closed his mouth.
“Cha Charlie. I’m fine.”
“Uh, uh…”
Charlie, seeing Alisha, swallowed his saliva and took a step back.
He was smiling.
The twisted corners of his mouth were smiling eerily. He even shed goosebumps and regret.
“Sword nails . “I’m throwing it away.”
It’s not borderline vision or swordsmanship. It’s
the talent of a ghost that cuts people down.
It’s the true talent that Arisha Arden possesses.