Cramming (2)
Astiel came out and looked around.
In the hallway, he saw several structures like the door he just came out of. Maybe there are people locked up in that room too. There are torches hanging on the wall. Lighting in a primitive way, it seems that this place is far from the pioneering area.
Maybe it was a gimmick…
“This is it.”
Astiel followed the mask’s guidance. He’s here, and if he escapes, he’ll probably be caught sooner or later. He didn’t need to raise the hostility.
‘More than that…’
The body of the mask that was exposed was slightly embarrassed. The flesh, which was exposed little by little on the body wrapped in bandages, was stained black with ooze.
‘Like a corpse.’
I don’t really want to talk to you, but if you talk in the hallway, you will hear your voice in the other room. Because I heard a sound when the mask came to the door. I needed to make my presence known to others.
Astiel asked, looking at the back of the mask.
“Why is your body like that?”
At that question, the mask was silent for a moment, then opened her mouth. It was a nonsensical conversation.
“… do priests wonder about such useless things?”
“No. Just curious.”
“Then keep wondering. And move quietly. …I don’t know what you’re thinking.”
The words were cut with a single knife and no more conversations took place.
And I must have walked another 30 minutes like that, and the mask was still taking Astiel somewhere.
‘…how big is this place?’
At most, I thought it would be a little farther away, but even considering the slowness, it’s already been 30 minutes. I couldn’t imagine how wide this place was. It’s been a while since I started seeing the door on the wall.
Then the mask stopped walking. As he held the torch forward, he saw a huge door standing in front of him. Mask turned his lock to unlock the door and looked back and said:
“Come here.”
…I don’t know what’s inside, but this guy intends to put himself beyond this.
Astiel made up his mind and walked to the side of the mask. Then the mask returned to Astiel’s back. For a moment, his neck was tense enough to stiffen, but soon he could feel his hands freeing up.
The mask freed the shackles of his hands.
Astiel began to feel the divine power little by little as his hands became free. It was evident that the shackles had the power to control the divine power. However, this is the remaining divine power in the body. As Dewan said, there was no divine power outside the body, as if the barrier had been put in place.
Astiel asked, stroking his reddened wrist.
“Why are you releasing this?”
“You’ll find out. Go in.”
The mask opened the tightly closed door and said. It was dark with no light inside. Astiel grabbed the torch hanging from the wall and threw it into the room.
The torch rolled forward and then stopped illuminating the surroundings. And when something came into view, Astiel covered his mouth and stepped back.
What was revealed by the torch was a terrible ‘life’.
melted flesh. The ooze that flows all the time. As if breathing, the body with dozens or hundreds of holes swells up and sinks. I knew it was alive, but I can’t figure out what type of life it was originally.
If slime had flesh, not slime, melted in acid, would it have felt like this?
Even the smell coming from the room is disgusting. It’s not because it’s just an enclosed space, but it’s because the flesh is still rotting.
The floor inside was red. It’s not because it’s reflected in the fire, it’s because the blood has hardened. Unless you’re an idiot, you could tell that the body fluids painted on the walls belonged to that life.
‘torture? No, it was an experiment…’
Now go into this room and be with that mysterious life. Astiel looked back at the mask with disgust.
“You. What are you trying to do to me?”
If it’s a terrible hobby, I have no intention of being accommodating. I will struggle with this lack of divine power, and if I fail, I will bite my tongue. Then the mask shook her head.
“It may not be what you think it is.”
For some reason, I felt like I was laughing.
The mask pointed to a lump of flesh shining on the torch. Meanwhile, the flesh was moving backwards, wriggling as if the torch was hot.
“If I can do this, I will free you and your friends. I swear.”
Astiel frowned at the words of the mask. words that are not trustworthy.
“What can I do?”
“priest.”
The mask’s neutral voice lowered and spoke as if in a whisper.
“Can you kill an immortal life?”
Wow! He blocked Beatrice’s sharp spear attack. However, it was easily pushed back even though it was supporting the ground with both feet.
‘nice. What power…!’
Even with Beatrice’s light spear, I focused my attention on my legs so as not to fall over. However, the body stiffened by that could not block the next attack.
“Don’t bruise!”
Beatrice, who was close to me, kicked my stomach, and I could not avoid it and fell without a hitch. Even the lance he was holding was lost in shock. When I was fighting with Noah Park, I was subjected to this kind of thing, and I got hit again.
Beatrice looked down at me and said softly.
“If it was just real, I’d be dead. Wake up.”
I staggered up and picked up the lance again. Beatrice looked at it and finally sighed and lowered the spear.
“No. We’re going to do it today.”
“Yes? No, just a little more…”
“It doesn’t make any sense to continue. This is today. I have no choice but to think and reflect on myself later.”
When Beatrice spoke firmly, she had no choice but to give up. That said, no matter what happens, nothing changes.
I put the lance down on the floor and relaxed my stiff shoulders. Because it was a heavy weapon for me to handle, strength entered my arm even when I was holding it.
As I sighed, Beatrice put the spear into the subspace and advised.
“I’m focusing too much on weapons. Fighting isn’t just about weapons. From what I’ve seen in the past, I think I’m pretty good at using my body, so why don’t you use it?”
I know too. When swords collide, fighting purely with swords is not a battle, but a ‘dazzle’. Whether you spit or spit, you must use all available methods to win a battle.
“…it’s not easy.”
However, even knowing that, if I use even a simple chess technique like before, the perks will be deactivated immediately. Because in that moment my body becomes a weapon.
‘That’s why I’m trying to acquire weapon skills.’
If it is a weapon skill, even if the perk is deactivated, it will be better if the effect is corrected. It was able to respond even when using a weapon rather than at the moment of changing the weapon.
“Anyway, you did a good job. I said this, but I can see things getting better, so don’t be too impatient.”
I feel relieved to hear that Beatrice is getting better. I’m a person who doesn’t say empty words, so I’m lucky if I’m lucky.
Beatrice lightly lifted the lance I had placed on the floor and threw it into the subspace.
“Would you like to drink something today?”
“No. Thank you, but I have an appointment today.”
“Hmm, okay? Okay. See you tomorrow at this time.”
“thank you!”
I nodded my head and said hello. Beatrice also returned with a smile.
‘I think it’s better to go wash up.’
I thought as I brushed my sweat-drenched hair. that would be better If you smell like sweat, that’s rude. Before I go back to my dorm, I need to wash up in the shower room at the money training center.
I came out of the auditorium. As I walked out the door, I felt the wind and it was cool.
───!
A loud voice was heard from somewhere. As I walked towards it, I saw the secretary and Chae Yu-ah shouting together with the students of the student council in front of the building.
The dark circles came down so thick that I could see it from here under the tired-looking eyes. Seeing her stagger and shout, she is on the verge of collapse.
‘…it must be a lot of heartache.’
학생회장과 임원들이 모조리 실종되어 버렸으니. 죽지 않았다고 해도 걱정이 될 수밖에 없을 것이다.
“실종된 사람들을 찾는 원정대에 모두 지원을 해주세요!”
목이 터져라 외치지만, 그 주변을 지나가는 영웅 지망생들은 그런 그들을 외면했다. 3학년 A클래스마저 미지의 힘에 의해 실종되었다. 그런데 누가 자발적으로 가겠는가.
‘이번에 나랑 주연 캐릭터들과 2, 3학년들까지 합쳐서 2, 30명은 되던가···.’
생각보다 적다. 이번에 상향된 지원금을 생각하면 솔직히 고려해볼 만한 조건이었다. 어차피 영웅 지망생들은 어디까지나 보조 역할이고 주 역할들은 다른 영웅들이 하기 때문이다.
그러나 그런 역할을 맡았던 3학년 영웅 지망생들도 모조리 사라져버렸으니 지원이 꺼려지는 현상이 이해는 간다.
그때 갑옷을 입은 금발의 기사가 그들에게 다가갔다. 아는 얼굴이다.
‘아서 그랑’.
현시점에서 성검의 선택을 받은 자다.
아서는 채유아에게 다가가 뭐라 말을 걸기 시작했다. 무슨 대화를 나누는지 들리지는 않지만, 아마 아스티엘 그랑에 대한 얘기겠지. 차기 성녀 후보를 되찾기 위해 대신전에서 병력을 파견했다고 했으니까.
‘원래 지금 나타날 법한 인물은 아니지만···.’
아군인 이상 든든한 전력이다.
The only thing that bothers me is that Arthur Grand loses the holy sword to Noah Park. To be precise, it is correct to say that she lost her qualifications due to the whim of the Holy Sword.
It also differs depending on the route, but in the story that has been going in a bad way so far, it is clear that there will be a turning point where the Holy Sword chooses Noah Park.
If you don’t make contact at all, it’s because it’s essential to meet Arthur Gran and Park Noah on this expedition.
‘the problem is.’
When he was chosen by the Holy Sword, if he didn’t build trust with Arthur Grand in advance, he would turn into an enemy.
As his belief in himself crumbles, it turns into hostility towards Park Noah. He begins to feel skeptical of what he believed in that Noah Park was chosen because he was a deeply divine person.
‘It’s because a young aspiring hero who suddenly popped out after getting along well with the Holy Sword took away his honorable qualifications.’
Even if the Holy Sword chooses Noah Park, the people of the Great Shrine rely on Arthur Gran, so it is a pain for the temple to turn around without cooperating with Noah Park.
First of all, ‘Tower’, one of the hostile forces, is fortunate to be in a situation where it can draw cooperation from Aiden or Line Castell.
‘Still, Park Noah is definitely a good person.’
If it had already turned into evil, it could not cover the deaths of the top heroes in the early stages. In the future, we had to avoid events caused by good tendencies and conditions as much as possible and avoid expanding the worldview.
‘The main characters are all saved.’
After a light wash at the training ground, I headed to the library where Aiden was. The library was spacious, and there was a private room for each person on the wall.
‘Is it 32 times?’
Based on the contents of the text Aiden sent, I found the number on the room. He knocked on the room labeled number 32 and opened the door cautiously.
In the room, Aiden was seen reading a magic book with his chin crossed. But somehow it looks a little depressing.
“Aiden. I’m here.”
As he spoke carefully, Aiden raised his head, as if he knew only then.
I closed the door and went inside. Although it is a private room, it is spacious. Obviously, the facilities of the Yoosung Academy are good. In addition to the desk, there was even a sofa to make it possible to read a book comfortably in front of it.
I sat there and asked cautiously.
“What’s wrong with your face? What’s wrong?”
“Um? Do you have tea?”
Aiden nodded as he pointed at himself in surprise. The dark complexion is enough to tell that the condition is not good just by looking at it.
Then, without denying it, Aiden immediately lowered her head and sighed.
“I keep thinking it’s because of me.”
“…if it had been revealed to the Yoosung Academy instead of concealing it on the day of the attack, would the situation have been like this?”
The wizards and the masked guys back then? Aiden seems to be feeling guilty about how things have turned out.
‘…to be honest, I was just out of luck.’
Aiden, who was attacked, is the victim. I wasn’t even in a position to reveal the incident carelessly, and I didn’t neglect it, and I was investigating it with the power of the family.
I didn’t know that a force that wasn’t in the original could have been so powerful to help me.
“No. There must have been no difference. The academy had an affair related to that. It’s not that you ignored it, it’s been investigating until now. In the end, it’s a conclusion. Don’t take responsibility.”
“…but it’s better if you say it like that.”
mean.
Aiden said so, but his expression still didn’t look good. After all, comforting things for which they feel responsible doesn’t help. He just has to spend time until he feels he’s okay.
I said with a bitter smile.
“If you have any concerns, tell me. I can listen.”
“Heh heh… that’s reassuring.”
Perhaps these words helped comfort, Aiden, whose expression brightened up a little, smiled.
“So, why did you say we’ll see each other outside the training ground today?”
Aiden closed the book and asked.
Maybe what I’m going to say is very rude. It is customary to be reluctant to even ask for a request if you are not from the same family. The relationship with Aiden that had been built up until now may collapse.
…Of course not to that extent, but this is a request considering that Aiden will be offended.
‘Because it’s not a situation to be questioned like that…’
Hmmm. I coughed and said cautiously.
“Teach me magic.”
Aiden’s face tilted to the side as he asked.
