The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 491

Chapter 491

Summer Rain Falls.

-Shooaaaaa

The rain pouring down in the mountains wasn’t to the level of heavy rain, but it was falling enough to refrain from outdoor activities.

Luna Artorius, wearing a raincoat, walked through the rain and listened to the sound of blows at regular intervals.

Luna slowly made her way through the rain towards the direction the sound came from.

-Ujijijijik!

And Luna saw the giant tree break and lie on the ground.

Mechanically, the young man approaches the fallen tree and starts throwing the ax again.

Hitting an ax in the rain is very dangerous.

There is a high risk of the hilt slipping and slipping out of your hand, and the blade can also slip and twist, causing serious injury.

However, the young man just kept hitting the ax at regular intervals as if he didn’t know about that.

On the first day, it seemed like a lot of trouble.

On the second day, the handle of the old ax eventually broke, so I ended up borrowing an ax from another house and chopping wood.

By the time Ronan put a new handle on the axe with only the blade left and provided him with a new axe, the pace picked up.

Reinhardt, who had extraordinary strength, couldn’t help but be slow in his work because he had to do the work alone, not just cutting down the tree, but transporting it to Regaira.

It’s been two weeks since Reinhardt started cutting down the forest.

Luna could see that one side of the forest was empty.

There were still more trees to be cut down, but it was clear that work was progressing.

Luna approaches Reinhardt and speaks quietly.

“Reinhardt, it’s raining, so take a break today.”

-puck!

It was a situation full of rain, but it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t hear Luna’s voice.

However, Reinhardt just hit the ax at regular intervals as if he couldn’t hear anything.

Luna quietly looked at Reinhardt’s back.

That back figure that seems to be thinking about nothing but throwing an axe.

-puck!

I see him concentrating only on splitting the cut tree at regular intervals because he has to solve the work only with an axe.

“Reinhardt.”

Luna called out again, but Reinhardt still only used the ax as if he didn’t know anything other than what he was doing.

“… … .”

It’s not that I don’t pretend to hear.

that doesn’t really sound

Luna stared at Reinhardt’s back and turned her steps away.

-puck!

Returning Luna heard the sound of an ax at regular intervals.

* * *

Deep night.

A conference hall in a gray hollow.

“Princess, how long do you plan to keep that boy in Lizaira?”

An old man with white hair asked Luna with a cane.

Ronan was sitting beside Luna, who was sitting in the seat of honor, and the people of Lizaira were sitting in front of him.

On everyone’s faces, there was no displeasure at Reinhardt’s stay in Rezaira.

just curious.

There was a doubt that could not be hidden on everyone’s face.

It’s already been over a month, two months.

He was puzzled by the circumstances of the boy’s stay in Lizaira and the head of the family’s decision to tolerate it.

“Until he gets what he wants.”

The atmosphere in the meeting room immediately became chaotic at Luna’s calm words.

“If it’s the head of the family’s decision… … . There must be a big meaning that we don’t know about, but… … . Isn’t this unprecedented… … .”

An old woman shook her head, unable to hide her embarrassment.

“It’s a precedent… … .”

Luna quietly lowered her eyes and was silent for a while.

“There has been no precedent like this for countless hours.”

Luna again looks at the faces of the people sitting in the conference room.

There were old people, and there were people who were about to enter old age, and there were people who were mature.

“It was also unprecedented that Lagann was able to go out into the world knowing about the existence of Ilwoldang.”

As the head of the house mentioned his son who had already died, everyone’s expressions turned brown.

“My lord… … . Because Lagann did not learn the mystery of Ilwoldang… … . It was something that could go out into the world. Like Ellen… … .”

“I spoke of the liturgy, not of the mysteries.”

Luna said quietly.

“We learned through the case of Lagann that unusual things do not happen just because there is a precedent for something unprecedented.”

Everyone was silent at Luna’s words.

“So there’s no reason why this new precedent shouldn’t exist.”

“But if something goes wrong, head lord… … .”

Luna intercepted the old woman’s worrying words halfway through.

“I don’t have to be prepared for that. Not you.”

Silence fell in the hall at Luna’s calm words.

“Also, would Ilwoldang disappear without me? All you have to do is serve the sun and the moon and live as you have learned so far.”

“My lord… … . The head of Ilwoldang is the only one.”

At the words of the old woman who started to cry, Luna smiled softly.

“Isn’t there a precedent for selecting a new head of household among you?”

Everyone wanted to say something about Luna’s words, but no one disputed Luna’s decision.

After everyone left the meeting room, only Luna Artorius and Ronan Artorius were left in the meeting room.

“Do you intend to teach that child some mystery?”

At Ronan’s words, Luna shook her head.

“No, in that case, it would be to tie the child to the bridle of Ilwoldang, so how would that be?”

Luna calmly looked down at the floor.

“Whatever that child wants, he will have to figure it out on his own.”

“So you put your hands on time instead?”

At those words, Luna looked at Ronan quietly.

“… … You knew.”

“I don’t know the details, but somehow I thought you would do that.”

“… … okay.”

Luna quietly stares at the common aisle.

“Because all I can give him is time.”

“… … .”

“Isn’t tampering with Lizaira’s time interfering with the world? It’s just that an outsider entered the world I touched on time.”

Ronan smiled awkwardly at Luna’s smile.

“It sounds like sophistry.”

“Yes, sophistry.”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to tell Reinhardt that time here flows differently than outside?”

“I guess so.”

Because he doesn’t know anything, Reinhardt has to spend his time in nervousness and anxiety.

“If he knows that time here is different, he will be able to relax. You will find peace, you will find peace of mind early, and you will be able to have time to rest your exhausted body and mind.”

“But the easy-to-earn peace will inevitably be broken.”

“Shouldn’t the constancy of that peace be firm only if it is a peace that has been obtained with great value?”

“If you easily gain composure and tranquility and mistake it for your strength, it will collapse later when true confusion and fear come.”

Ronan nodded slowly after hearing Luna’s words.

“You didn’t tell me anything on purpose.”

“Because achieving goals and overcoming limitations are two different things.”

Ronan was silent after hearing Luna’s words that Reinhardt needed to overcome, not achieve.

The sound of an ax that had been heard at regular intervals echoed in Luna’s head.

“Ronan.”

“Yes, my lord.”

“Would you be sad if I disappeared?”

At Luna’s question, Ronan nodded with a firm expression.

“obviously. It will.”

“… … .”

“Because he always seems like an arrogant guy.”

“… … .”

“But the life of a human being forced to live because of you wasn’t too bad. no, it was good.”

Luna stares at the hallway quietly.

“Since I was forced to live a human life, I often think these days that I want to experience death, the end of humanity.”

“My lord.”

“I just did it.”

Luna smiled at Ronan’s expression.

* * *

Time passed.

Reinhardt continued cutting down trees.

In fact, cutting down the entire forest was something that Reinhardt could have done in one day if he used the Holy Relic with the maximum output of magic power enhancement.

However, he had to cut down trees one by one using an ax while maintaining extremely refined magic power.

Therefore, Reinhardt’s work, which had to move slower than usual and use poorer tools than usual, had to be slow.

Of course, maintaining a clear mind throughout the day was not an easy task.

Of course, there were times when my immersion was broken, and I was often confused by the ax blade slipping out of the hilt and lost my concentration.

Nonetheless, there is no change in the fact that it is clearly improving.

The state of concentration, which was too much to maintain for an hour, soon exceeded two hours. And three to four hours passed.

Later, he was able to maintain concentration while chopping wood all day, eating sesame seeds, and taking a breather for a while.

Around two months had passed since the first ax to the tree.

At some point, Reinhardt cut down all the trees in the forest.

“How did you do it?”

Arta said that while looking at the forest that had disappeared with only the stumps of countless trees remaining.

“But later on, it picked up speed and became very fast. yes?”

At Lena’s words, Reinhardt quietly nodded.

Reinhardt clicked his tongue briefly as he put the ax on the fork, no matter how many times the handle had been changed, and loaded the last pieces of wood onto the fork one by one.

“I would have beaten him to thrush if anyone had told me that doing this kind of thing helps to keep the mind going when you’re out there.”

Reinhardt grumbles and carries a fork full of wood.

“It pisses me off the most that this actually works.”

The dark emotions did not disappear from Reinhardt’s eyes, which were filled with only the abyss.

but.

Those feelings were infinitely quiet.

* * *

“I finished the tree.”

“yes.”

“It took a long time.”

“Two months is fast… … . I don’t know, but isn’t it compliant? I wonder if I’ve ever done something like this in my life.”

It’s almost two months.

She had completed the grand task of clearing the forest by herself, but Luna looked puzzled as if she had finished it now. Ronan just nodded quietly.

“Then tomorrow I will have to uproot the tree.”

“… … .”

no.

Can’t you tell me that you did a good job?

As soon as work is over, seeing Luna casually saying that she will have to do something else tomorrow is what to say.

Do I have to say it out loud?

no.

I’ve been here for a long time, so even though I know I shouldn’t do that, sometimes I forget what I was doing.

It’s absurd to be sad that you didn’t receive praise for cutting down all the trees.

me.

Maybe I’m too used to life in Lizaira… … ?

To be honest, there were many times when I jumped up from my sleep because I felt like I was going to sit down.

I put down my thoughts about the situation outside, but sometimes I have nightmares.

Still, I felt that if I repeated simple tasks throughout the day, my thoughts would definitely disappear.

“Still, your expression has improved a lot.”

Those were Ronan’s words.

“that… … song?”

“Yeah sure.”

no matter how it goes

Even while anxiety and nervousness were swallowing me up, I was getting used to maintaining my composure and maintaining the most effective magic power reinforcement for a long time.

“Thanks to that, it seems that we have plenty of firewood for next year.”

According to Luna’s words, it seems like she did only good things for Lizaira.

I wonder if there’s anything I shouldn’t do. It’s also true that I live on Lizaira.

Every time the villagers saw me stacking the firewood in the center of the village, they said that I was doing a good job, and there were many people who left the new house.

Rather than remaining as a member of the military family, I do good things to myself and help the village.

I want it to be nothing bad.

Before I knew it, I was part of a community living in the countryside called Lizaira.

* * *

As a result of me cutting all the trees in the forest, I don’t have to worry about firewood called Liza.

Watching the enormous firewood I chopped dry to a crisp in the sunlight, I felt a strange pride of unknown origin rising up.

if everything is done

If somehow everything works out and all the burden on my shoulders disappears.

I suddenly thought about what it would be like to go back to farming.

return to farming

It was an absurd thing that made me laugh out loud just thinking about it.

Anyway, after a long, long time, the wood chopping was over.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I’ll say goodbye to Dok2 forever.

Following the ax, two other tools were added.

shovel and pickaxe.

The trees in the forest are multicolored.

There were large trees, medium-sized trees, and small trees that would break if I just grabbed and twisted them with my bare hands.

Let’s say it’s small.

“Honestly, I tend to think this is difficult for me too.”

“Are you like that too?”

“of course. Would this be normal?”

Looking at the solid stump, where it was rooted from where to where and how far it was rooted, it was almost mind-boggling.

How the hell do you pull this off?

Don’t you need heavy equipment? Originally, isn’t this what excavators do?

I even brought in Arta to avoid heading to the bare ground like when I started chopping trees, but even this guy shook his head.

I stood in front of the stump of a tree a little smaller than that, ignoring the stump of a gigantic tree that made me dizzy just by looking at it.

I think this work corresponds to a series of processes.

The repeated mastery task of breaking trees was to erase distractions through endless repetitive tasks and to get used to the optimized use of magical power enhancement.

So I’ve been able to get used to it quite a bit now.

That’s it this time.

To increase the output itself of the optimized magical power enhancement.

Pulling out the stump of a tree deeply rooted in the ground requires equipment, not skill.

But there is no such tool in this mountain valley.

So, you have to do what requires skill.

It is to become accustomed to maximizing horsepower and increasing its output, replacing all horsepower with my own power without releasing it to the outside.

Looking at things like this, I wonder if Luna had a meaning in everything she ordered me to do in the field… … .

horn.

It’s more a dream than a dream.

It’s just something I ordered, but it’s clear that I gave meaning to it.

“I’ve never done this myself, so I guess I’ll have to get the adults in.”

“no.”

This is not a skill, but a job that requires strength itself.

“The first goes ignorant.”

“… … what?”

-Pak!

I put the shovel in

To make a groove for the base of the tree.

-Pak! Fak Fak!

After several shovels, I exposed some of the tree’s roots.

“… … I know what you’re trying to do, will it work?”

“If that doesn’t work, you can think of another way.”

I squat while standing on top of a tree trunk.

Then, with both arms down, he grasped the hollow at the base of the tree like a handle.

Arta’s expression was not very good.

“… … It’s not good.”

“If it doesn’t work, find another way.”

I don’t know what will happen if it’s the highest output horsepower enhancement, but since this is all part of my training, I use magic power enhancement with the highest efficiency that can be used in the current state and with an output that does not flow out of horsepower.

I can already feel the extremely high level of my magical power.

What I need to do from now on is to increase the output itself and put the control of the magical power fully in my hands.

With overwhelming power, it pulls out deeply rooted trees with its bare hands.

“I am a human excavator.”

“Excavators… … ?What is that?”

“There is such a thing.”

While using self-suggestions and even the commandments.

“Suck!”

With blood rushing to my head, I try to pull out the tree trunk with my bare hands.

While putting strength in the thighs, arms, and waist.

“Mmmmmmm!”

“crazy… … .”

–

I don’t know if it’s exciting, but there is movement.

do.

trying to become

I don’t know if I don’t budge at all, but I feel like I’m becoming something, so I put more effort into it.

While the blood vessels in his body poured out his monstrous strength as if they were going to explode.

With the concept of not pulling trees, but pushing the earth with my legs and pulling up the world.

With all my might.

Even so, the mana overflowing with rationality was endlessly pushed into the inside.

“that.”

“ah.”

“ah.”

“oh!”

While screaming, I poured my maximum strength to the extent that I had never exerted this level of strength before.

– Pop!

“!”

There was the sound of something breaking.

“to… … ugh… … .”

“hey… … Are you okay?!”

Something was obviously broken.

It was just my waist.