I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 74
[ Nazrea, City of the Dead (5) ]
Contract with the Reaper.
Like the precepts, it is a setting for the narrative of a story and boss character that exists only in the setting.
Just as the precepts carry tremendous power and risk, so do contracts with the Four Gods of Death.
The moment a contract is made with the Shinigami, the contractee’s soul is tied to the Shinigami, and the moment the contract is broken, the soul itself disappears.
“Are you, the deceiver of death, trying to make a deal with death?”
The moment I mentioned the contract, the Shinigami and I entered a subspace that no one could recognize.
Contract room. Is that roughly what it feels like?
“Don’t be pretentious. I said I would do it if I had to.
It’s surprising, but the Shinigami is more intelligent than I thought.
The possibility of the cycle being broken in the future and the 1.2 million souls that will not be circulating right away. The proof is that Erin’s contract was accepted after weighing that. C.
Instead of giving up on the 1.2 million forever, I chose the possibility of the future. Shinigami has the Yudori that can calculate the difference between these scales. “That’s
interesting, you deceiver. Tell me about it.”
Look, even now, even though you define me as a deceiver of death. Am I not weighing the weight of my contract?
“The termination of the contract made by Erin Danua. And give me the ‘Treasure of the Underworld’ as an advance payment. I want at least the 10th division.”
《What price will you pay?》
“I will purify Nazrea within half a year.”
《…….It is impossible for you.》
“You are not the one to judge that. . All you have to do is place a weight on the scale. how is it? Is my contract worthy?”
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Silent Shinigami. He stroked the skull’s chin and opened his mouth.
《It’s not enough.》
“…….”
《The reward you receive is not enough. Purifying 1.2 million souls. In return for doing so.》
“So what does that mean?”
《Choose a single number. It should be that much so there is no change left.》 This is the absolute
best scenario! If you
keep accumulating the favor of the Shinigami in the Nazrea ‘Repeat Quest’, you can advance to Legendary or It can be exchanged for epic items.
Since it is originally an item from the underworld, its abilities and authority are halved in this world, but even taking that into account, there is a lot of powerful equipment.
Single numbers refer to the top ten epic items owned by a reaper. You can only receive the treasure once.
A single number that the old people manage to obtain by defeating the Immortal King in Nazrea hundreds of times. However, that is only possible in a game with no time constraints. I tried it in the previous game, but it is different from the game
. In the reality with time constraints, the 30th division was the limit.
“Okay, the treasure I want is…” * * *
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As I came out of the Reaper’s sub-space, Erin, with a pale complexion, found me..
“What? What have you done?”
Erin’s voice is trembling and she holds me with her sweaty palms.
“I made a contract.”
“What? What kind of contract!”
My eyes are shaking without focus. I am paying close attention as if I don’t want to miss every single word of the contract I’m about to bring up.
“Purification of Nazrea within half a year. If you succeed, your contract will also expire.”
“Hey…!”
Her face flushed with blood and her breathing heavy. She always maintained a gentle atmosphere, but this time was different.
“You… you’re crazy…! ”
“I’m sane.”
“Do you know what the contract with the Shinigami… means? If you fail, you won’t even have a soul left! You’re giving up the cycle of reincarnation!”
Erin is shaking with anger and embarrassment. When I give her a silly smile, she looks puzzled. ”
Why… why are you doing that?”
“Because I learned that from you.”
“. ……”
“I was a kid obsessed with playing a hero.”
“Huh?”
“This world is a game, and I want to proceed as I know it, and enjoy it like a game and receive praise from others.”
Obviously, at first, I was completely It must have been the feeling of playing a game. Little by little, I came to think of this world as reality and saved people. In
the process, I was inwardly flattered by the praise and cheers I received.
I somehow became stronger and became a little overly arrogant.
“I’m sure I was still a child. “A kid who thinks he’s a hero.”
“…….”
“You appeared in front of me.”
When she was at her most difficult, when she was most afraid.
When she was in danger because she did something that was beyond her abilities, she fell into a mountain of corpses. I left my back and held out my hand in front of me.
“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”
I was saved and met a real adult hero for the first time.
I saw the back of an adult who devotedly helped a child without any compensation or gain.
The last, the last . Until. I just watched her back.
Just being a protected child… is helpless and painful.
A hero who protected me,
whom I could not protect, and then went away
. “This time, I want to save you.”
Even when I put my face right in front of her nose, she didn’t know anything. He can’t speak. He just stares blankly at me.
“I won’t fail this time. I’m not so weak that I couldn’t even try.”
“Ah…”
You don’t know now how big of a presence you are within me.
How much it pierced my heart the day you left me. How much. Maybe I was blaming myself for my helplessness. I
won’t let that happen this time.
“I can stand next to you instead of chasing your back.” “…….”
”
This isn’t necessarily something grand like saving the world. Also…”
Because I received so much from her.
“I’m giving it back.”
My hero, whom I respected and loved so much and who I still miss.
“I’m just… giving back.”
* * …
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_ After solving the problem, you will always look down on the cityscape from the same place.
This is where you had your last chat with a boy who once visited this city.
“…….”
The silver spearman. Erin Danua overlooks the city. I see.
The city is still a hell of chaos. It is a mechanical daily life that has been repeated for 300 years.
She has been fighting this terrible daily life for 300 years.
The reason is no different. Because she is a hero. She
is the hero of this land. An example of the last remaining god race. Paradise has now disappeared to the other side. She is the queen of the Shadow Kingdom.
Erin Danua knew that she was a special human being and lived to fulfill her duties. The choice she made 300 years ago is not much different from that.
Living for eternity . Danu’s clan. As the last queen… Even if you don’t necessarily see it that way.
People die too easily.
In the age of barbarism, human life is so easy to fall as if it is natural.
I didn’t want to turn away.
Live. Sad and painful or A happy and sunny life.
I wanted to protect her.
That must have been the beginning of her first becoming a hero.
“I forgot…”
I had forgotten the beginning for a long time. A disciple from the distant future reminded me of what I had forgotten during the continuous struggle, exhausted from fighting.
“This time, I want to save you.”
This is the first time. Someone trying to save themselves.
Because she is a hero, she has always taken her life of saving someone for granted.
When you live the life of a hero, at some point you start taking things for granted and stop taking care of yourself.
Because it’s natural for me to make sacrifices.
Because it’s natural that I have to protect it.
Because you are the one who protects, not the one who is protected. After living so long a life of inevitable loneliness, I took it for granted.
“I can stand next to you instead of chasing after you.”
The obvious thing called life.
The boy reminded me of what I had forgotten in the long solitude.
He said he would stand by his side.
When I think of those words, I unconsciously open my lips and make a big, stupid smile.
My red face feels hot like the summer sun.
How could it not be lovely?
The boy who said he wanted to save his life from his long loneliness was so lovely that I couldn’t deny his words.
“Corrin Corin…”
I pondered the sweet and bittersweet name again without realizing the true nature of the emotion.
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The Shinigami watched his old friend spend his third night today.
Even though they had known each other for over a thousand years, even the Shinigami could not help but sigh at the girlish expression of her old friend.
“Well, it’s not bad.”
The sculpture of an old friend who was slaughtering the undead with an inorganic expression not long ago didn’t look pleasant at all.
For now, I have decided to quietly observe the positive changes in my friend.
“But what are you thinking? At most, they only gave him a single number…》
The warrior’s choice comes to mind again. Needless to say, the item he chose over the countless treasures of the Underworld would be the most useless item to the worst Corin Locke.
[Reaper’s Orb]
– It is sure to hit.
– Separates flesh and spirit.
– Ignores defense.
An absolute Noble Phantasm that exerts the effect of the Shinigami’s scythe by ‘mounting’ it on a weapon.
Weapons equipped with this orb twist causality and always bring results.
However, this only applies if it is used by a Shinigami.
A mere treasure that, when used by humans, deteriorates to a slightly better level while maintaining some level of effectiveness.
A knight or a wizard… it is an ambiguous object that can be easily resisted even if it possesses the spirit of a human.
Golems or low-level undead with a weak bond between body and spirit would exert incredible power, but…
『I do not perceive spirits.』
It is as powerful as the Shinigami’s contract… no, even more powerful. Due to the power of the precepts, Corin Locke cannot interfere with the spiritual body.
What this means is that if you use the orb’s ability, the attack will inevitably miss.
“But the scales did not tip.”
The envoy said, “I paid a price commensurate with the contract.” That’s…
“Interesting.”
The Shinigami admitted that it had been a long time since he had met a warrior he was looking forward to. That man might be able to change the fate of his old friend… the fallen queen.
* * * *
A few days ago, at the Kanna Inn at the entrance to Nazrea.
As the night ended and morning arrived, students began to arrive one after another at the Kanna Inn.
“It’s slowly coming to an end.”
The planner of this group exhibition. Professor Kang Ryun decided to announce the results of the originally scheduled group exhibition.
The content of the group competition is to survive the undead for three days and collect as many moonstones as possible.
Survival and agility to avoid the pursuit of the undead. Several comprehensive factors, including the ability to find the Moonstone among countless waves of undead, will be determined by the results.
A total of 32 people in 8 teams across Boramae and Merkava. Of these, only four teams, or half, can participate in the next team match… but Merkava’s team was in a bad mood at the time.
“Ugh… we were eliminated from the first day.”
“…The ones who are eliminated on the first day are usually from our academy.”
On the first day, Jaeger and Lark were absurdly eliminated due to a sudden gathering of the three major bosses of Nazrea.
The problem is that Jaeger and Lark’s Group D was not the only group that was eliminated in the early stages.
“Do you think we’re screwed?”
“but… I was lucky enough to win despite my crazy actions.”
“Is this where the Mandragora Bandits are too…”
That’s right.
All participants in the group competition at Merkava Academy are from the ‘Immortan Locke Bandits.’ They
call out numbers and block everyone but themselves. They attacked students indiscriminately and monopolized the scores.
In other words, as a group, there were many students who were good at daguri, but their average skills were not at all. Therefore,
unlike Boramae, which thoroughly selected elites, Merkava Academy had a series of dropouts from the first day. “There is no hope for Merkava other than Group A with Marie and Group D with Corinne…” “
Two
people from Group D were eliminated from the first day. This is hopeless….”
In reality, there is no place to trust other than Group A, where Marie Dunarev is present. In other words, the team match has a high probability of 3:1 between Boramae and Merkava. – Squeak!
Open
the door of the inn and see someone. comes in. The surrounding undead have been sorted out by professors and priests, so they must be students.
“We’re a little late.”
6:50. The one who opened the door and came in was Boramae Academy’s Gap Group. Kang Yu-hwa and his team members.
Boramae Strongest . . The sword master, Kang Yu-hwa, was dragging a bundle that must have contained a huge amount of moon stones, even if it was pretending. The
two knights, Watanabe Jun and Shin Jo-woo, groaned and the bundle of moon stones they brought was torn apart, spilling out the contents. “Oh my.
” .”
“I’m sorry, Chairman. I’ll pick it up right away.”
The team members silently pick up the fallen moonstones. However, an exclamation comes from Merkava, who watched the scene. ”
Crazy… there are so many.”
“This is at the level of a complete monopoly?”
Kang Yu-hwa’s Gap . The amount of Moonlight Stone that Joe acquired was enormous. In fact, it was worth it.
Kang Yu-hwa, who effectively exterminated only the Moonlight Stone undead while walking in the air, boasted the highest efficiency in this group competition.
She flew like a fairy among thousands of undead. Several students witnessed the cutting of the undead’s heads.
[Gapjo: 558 points.]
“That’s the highest score.”
The students were astonished at Kang Ryun’s words after measuring the quality and quantity of the Moon Myeong Stone.
Merkava has not yet returned . Even if you exclude Groups A and D, it is incomparable to the current second place score of 160.
“Good job, student council president. I think you’ll be an overwhelming first place winner in this group exhibition.”
“Well, I don’t know.”
“Hmm?”
Kang-ryun looks puzzled at Yu-hwa’s words. Unlike him, who was setting up a line to chase the undead at the inn, Yu-hwa finds Wolmyeong-seok and goes to a safe zone. It was out.
“There is a monster in Merkava.”
-Kung!
“Hello~ Hot! Are we a little late?”
This time, Marie and her group members, with their impressive fresh aquamarine hair, came through the door.
Group A. Merkava’s only promising star has returned.
“Oh! It’s Marie!”
“The moonstone brought by Group A is no small feat!”
Group A, with all four members of Marie, Isabelle, Russell, and Eristina surviving, returned, dragging a bundle that was likely twice as big as Kang Yu-hwa’s Gabjo. .
It was so heavy and numerous that even Deokgu, the instructor, was summoned to carry the bundle.
“Tsk!”
Marie carries the bundle of moonstones with incredible strength that is hard to believe for a wizard. Kang Ryun, the head professor, is the only one keeping his cool. “Wait
. Let’s calculate the score.”
“Yes~ Oh my, it’s Lark and Jaeger! Where is Corrin?”
[Group A: 499 points]
“Huh? What is this?”
“How did this happen?”
“Group A brought twice as much!”
“Isn’t the measuring instrument broken?”
The response from Merkava is strong. It’s a given that they can pass the team competition with this score alone, but they have pride.
“Calm down . . The meter was not broken. Look.”
Kang Ryun skillfully calmed the students down and showed them evidence of scores that were much lower than expected. A
completely shattered chunk of Moon Myeong Stone. Group A’s bundle was full of Moon Myeong Stone that had been completely pulverized.
“It weighs a lot, but it is more than half of the weight. It’s broken to the point where it can’t be used as a magic stone.”
“Ahaha…Grukuna~”
“Look, Marie. They were too strong magic.”
Group A and Group Gap knew the truth. Even when
hundreds and thousands of undead came, Marie wiped them out with magic of overwhelming fire power, and each time, the undead who swallowed the moonstone were also killed. It was successfully destroyed.
“Well, I’m glad I defeated several stage bosses.” Isabelle
complained, saying that it was easier to deal with stage bosses that would kill level 1 or 2 than low-level undead.
Anyway, the score rankings are as follows. Group A: 558 points Group
A
: 499 points
Group Group E: 160 points
Group Group E: 155 points Group Group
C: 126 points Group C: 98 points Group
B
: 55 points
In fact, there are three Boramae teams. One team has been decided to advance to Merkava. Group D has not yet returned. However, expectations for Group D, where two people were eliminated from the first day, were abandoned.
“Hello! Good morning!”
“Oh, I guess we’re quite late?”
And the survivors of Group D returned: Corinne Locke and Alicia Arden.
The students and professors naturally looked at the bundle they brought, and soon responded in the same way.
This is because the bundle the two brought was much smaller than that of the other groups.
“You’re late, student Corin. Student Alisha.”
“59 minutes. It was close.”
“So, I said we should eat after dinner.”
“If you go out to the city and eat, it’s been a while. “How long are you waiting?”
“Student Corin. Bring the bundle. Let’s measure the score.”
It may not have much meaning anyway, but Kangryun faithfully fulfilled his duties.
“Yes~ Here, I will take it out.”
Corin took out a moonstone from the bag. That too, just one.
-Boom!
A heavy lump of moonstone. It was placed on the table. Everyone’s attention was caught by the revealed Moonlight Stone.
The Moonlight Stone, so named because it seemed to be imbued with moonlight, was showing off a brilliant silver color.
It is a special product! It is a perfect Moonstone in size and color that everyone can recognize.
“Two hundred and fifty points…”
Everyone could not hide their surprise at the score that came out of the measuring machine. With
just one moonstone, they immediately jumped to third place. How on earth do you have to defeat a strong stage boss to get such a moonstone? Is it possible?
“Ugh? Corinne? Aren’t you supposed to go to the center of the city?”
Marie tilted her head as if she had doubts about heading to a dangerous zone that was completely outside the safe zone. “I
said it was dangerous, but I didn’t tell you not to go.”
“Grukuna!”
I should go too . Marie clapped her hands and said,
“Hmm… 3rd place in Group D with 250 points…”
“Isn’t this the end of what I brought?”
“Is there more?”
The two words come out one after another. There are two moonstones. Everyone is astonished at the moonstone, which is similar in size to the previous one.
“Corin and Alisha. Where on earth did you go!”
“If you’re in the center of the city, didn’t you capture at least the three major bosses of Nazrea?”
“Crazy…”
Each Moonstone is worth 246 points. 272 points were recorded.
“Now, this is the last one . .”
The last moonstone taken out was completely different from the previous ones. Unlike the existing moonstones, this moonstone boasted an ominous bright red glow. It had an ominous glow that seemed to be
outside the category of moonstone.
“1000 points . .”
It was a moment of silence for everyone.
Group D: 1,768 points
Group A: 558 points
Group A: 499 points
Group Byeonggi: 160 points Group E
: 155 points
Group Jeong: 126 points Group
C: 98 points Group
B:
Those who pass the team competition with 55 points or more are decided. * * * *
On the way to leave Nazrea. I could see the cityscape of Nazrea from the window of the room.
Erin is still there in that city. She is like the Master’s alter ego that separated 300 years ago.
“It was an eventful time.”
“That’s right .
.”
Arisha sat next to me and handed me the potatoes that Marie had boiled.
“Are you going again?”
“Of course.”
Arisha seemed to have realized that I was going to go rescue the stuffed Erin. Speaking of which, she even made a contract with the Shinigami. … Are you going to be angry?
“At that time, Marie-senior and I will go together. I don’t know what Corin is planning, but it will help.”
“Thank you.”
It was amazing that he was willing to help, so I ruffled Alisha’s hair. “Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!” Alisha exclaimed in frustration.
“The point is the next team competition. Hey. Alicia, I need you to work harder.”
“……You’re working frugally. “But when we get back, shouldn’t we have a doubles match?”
“That’s right, too.”
In the doubles match, Kang Yu-hwa and Son Sa-hyeok will compete as a team. Normally, Sa-jin-hyeok will participate in the individual match, so he won’t appear in the team match, but…
this is it. There’s a trick of Kang Ryun. Well, we need to catch it first.
“Anyway, let’s rest for now. “I’m tired if I work too much.”
I have to find a way to use the power I got from the Shinigami.
I obtained the treasure of the Underworld a little unexpectedly, but if I do well, the ‘Orb of the Shinigami’ could become the key hidden card in Act 3.
“Hwaran . “What is he doing?”
I was worried about the guy who would be the core of this main
scenario
.
…
The very day I returned to Merkava, I heard the news as if from Madame Joséphine:
“The Dutch student has been arrested.”
… Already?