## Chapter 315 – The Monarch of Monsters (17)
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The atmosphere was markedly different from when the four of them were holding out to keep the monsters from spilling out of the tavern.
It was just an increase in numbers, but the impact was so absolute that it was clearly visible.
Although there were quite a few familiar faces, several students from the Swordsmanship Department, the Magic Department, and the Medical Department were also putting on a good show.
– Grrr Keuk Gyaooook
“One’s coming over there!!”
“Why don’t you catch it, Serkov!!”
“Hey!! To a senior like me!! That’s harsh!!
Heave!! This one’s Verdi’s share…!!”
Since Vivian was nominally a freshman, Serkov, as her senior, was making jokes.
Verdi, who was helping the attack team from behind by doing odd jobs and handing over various items, was sulking with puffed-up cheeks.
“Don’t just send them my way, okay?
Here!! I’ve blocked one wave for now!!”
– Kkyaaryak Kkieeek
“Yes, yes~ The next ones are coming~”
“It’s annoying how they keep swarming in…!!
How much time is left on our shift?”
“Only 5 minutes have passed!!
Do we have to do this all day long!?”
“Eueee……!! I don’t like that…!!”
Well, that’s what they were saying, but the Swordsmanship Department members were doing their best.
Especially one person was showing a remarkable change.
“Haa…!!”
“You’ll tire yourself out if you keep that stance.
Tuck your chin in properly, Monehen.”
The moment Lucia appeared, Anne’s eyes changed as if she had been injected with adrenaline.
Having been directly healed by Yeriel, Anne, unable to contain her now-refreshed body, was jumping into the monsters like a berserker, as if she had met her parents’ enemies.
Anne, who seemed to be trying to solve everything with sheer willpower, didn’t have Lucia’s talent, Polcinella’s physique, or Deborah’s skill.
“Haa… Haa…”
“I can’t help it…
My sister is working so hard…”
As Yeriel, who was observing the battle from behind with a gentle smile, subtly glowed her hand with light.
Anne quickly regained her energy and gritted her teeth, jumping back into the battlefield.
“Ugh… Ugh…!! Eeeek!!”
Continuously recovering her exhausted body, with each fight, her body was gradually being refined.
Refining the swordsmanship that her body was beginning to remember, that was starting to come from experience.
Anne was chasing after Lucia, who was cutting down enemies ahead, desperately trying to keep up.
Seeing those figures, others also began to be influenced, and eventually, the combat personnel teams were taking turns holding off the monsters.
Thanks to their efforts, the tavern successfully blocked the monsters, continuing to maintain the current stable situation.
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Meanwhile, in a safe rear area, a little away from the fighting.
There, with a few tables hastily taken from the neighboring houses, along with parchment, quills, and ink hastily procured from the surroundings.
Two women were writing down various calculations.
“Marie, I don’t think this is right……?
Should we lower the Proxima coefficient from 1.55 to 1.26?
As you know, the Proxima coefficient is…
The overall completeness when the injected mana is deployed…”
“J-Just a moment……?
So… I reflected it….!!
Would you like to test it?”
Eloise, looking into the parchment as if trying to test something, was flickering the light of mana from her hand.
Although it wasn’t her specialty, her experience as a researcher and professor wasn’t going anywhere, and her testing of the magic as Marie had calculated it was unhesitating.
And next to her, evaluating, was Marie, who was endlessly scribbling something on the parchment, then drawing lines through it.
The Zevi-pa gangsters were moving Marie’s parchment, scattered seemingly haphazardly all around, filled with dense writing, here and there as instructed.
“Wait a minute…!! Put that one there…!!”
“Uh… is this… right, Mary…?
Put them here!! Bring them!!”
They had thought Marie was just an ordinary prostitute, but seeing her suddenly writing down strange formulas on the parchment that they couldn’t even understand, they wore dumbfounded expressions as if they had discovered a new side of her.
“If we do this, the physical barrier will be complete…
Ah… if mana flows out from the dungeon…
The over-density phenomenon due to the amount of natural mana is also…
Can you measure the amount of mana coming out of the dungeon?”
“The naturally diffusing value is… 524… 527…? per unit density.
If we take the average, it would be about 525 mgn (Magina).
That’s a higher number than I imagined……
Is it really… a dungeon……?”
“Thank you…!! 525 mgn…… Then, Verdi!!
Do you remember the density formula per unit of Lavresler’s magic element?”
Marie called out to Verdi, who was busily moving around to deliver supplies.
Verdi, being caught by Marie of all people, was nervously backing away, looking somewhat uneasy.
“Uuuung… I remember it because I did it on the last exam……?”
“Can you put this number in and calculate it, and organize it here?
Professor Eloise is doing other things…”
“Huuu… I… I’ll try…!!
Babyyy… Mama will do her best toooo…!!”
Her belly wasn’t that swollen yet, but Verdi, being careful of her belly just in case, gently bent her waist and grabbed the quill with trembling hands, sweating profusely as she contributed alongside Serkov, doing her part.
While the front and rear were fighting together harmoniously, Vivian, who had finished a battle and retreated to the back for a shift change.
“You’ve worked hard. Have a drink of water.”
She secretly ordered the Henias to package it as goodwill support sent by the surrounding residents, and was subtly replenishing her consumed calories by drinking and eating small amounts of water and snacks brought from Floraz.
In a long-term battle like this, continuous supply and rest were essential.
But too much wasn’t good either, so her eyes, drinking only a few small crackers and a glass of water to the extent that it wouldn’t hinder her movements, were now fixed on the Magic Department team that was designing the magic circle in the back.
“Verdi!! This time, this…!!”
“Uuu… J-Just a moment…!!
This calculation is still…!!”
“……I didn’t know she could make that face…”
For Vivian, who had only seen Marie’s spaced-out expression as Anne’s sister, or her drooling and moaning when a man stuck his dick in her, it was a refreshing feeling.
Vivian, looking at Marie’s face, which seemed more serious than ever, narrowed her eyes and stared at it.
‘It’s going well. At this rate, maybe……
In a few hours, we’ll be able to seal this dungeon.
After that, I can quietly slip away and turn Floraz around again…’
In a way, how embarrassing was this situation?
Dungeons suddenly rising in the royal capital, with monsters constantly popping out.
Perhaps if Vivian hadn’t acted faster than others, monsters would still be spreading throughout the royal capital, relentlessly attacking civilians.
If that happened, the royal capital itself would suffer fatal damage, and although it wouldn’t go as far as destruction, an organized extermination operation for the monsters could be launched later.
Then Enic could be exposed during the search process, and her home, her only love, would disappear before the swords and spears of humans.
‘I still haven’t identified the cause, but…
That piece of flesh must be the cause.
Dungeons have sprung up at the drop points of the flesh.’
Considering the information she had gathered so far by going through Enic as much as possible, it was clear that the unidentified monster’s piece of flesh, which contained mana, was causing the mana anomaly and creating the current dungeons.
“The cause of the dungeon’s occurrence is unknown, but there have always been talks that some phenomenon related to mana is the cause.
Logically, mana that naturally flowed would suddenly be caught up in a strange flow and change, such a bizarre phenomenon wouldn’t happen often.
So, the dungeons created from long ago showed traces of being created over a long period of time.
So…… like a cave.”
Earlier, when Eloise, boasting quite a bit of knowledge as a tenured professor in the Magic Department, explained, everyone just nodded their heads, but Vivian’s thoughts were heading in a different direction.
‘If dungeons are such beings…
To create a dungeon in such a short period of time…?
What the hell is that piece of flesh……?’
The monster that suddenly collided with Undenbrah.
The piece of flesh that the monster left behind.
And, the numerous dungeons that were born from the piece of flesh that had not yet been recovered.
‘Wait a minute…… not recovered……
Then the recovered pieces of flesh are……?’
In an instant, as if lightning had pierced through her body, Vivian’s widened eyes, shivering with goosebumps all over her body, turned around, following her head.
“Quickly…… we have to complete the magic circle……”
“Is something wrong?”
“This is… this isn’t the end……!!
Something bigger is coming……!!”
“Um… Vivi… are you tired…?
Why don’t you rest a little more?”
Vivian’s sudden shouting drew aggro in a wide area, and the people around her were trying to stop her.
“Deborah!! Where’s Deborah!!
The flesh…!! If that’s the problem……!!”
Just as Deborah, who was drinking water nearby, raised her eyebrows and looked this way, Vivian immediately ran to her and grabbed her by the collar.
“Tell me…!! What you received…!!
You said the flesh contained mana, right…?”
“What is this?
And that’s confidential. Don’t just blurt it out…”
“That’s not important right now…!!
Professor Eloise!! Tell me!!
How did you say dungeons are created?”
“That’s… the unnatural alteration of mana… right…?”
“You said it’s difficult for dungeons to naturally appear!!
But do you think this dungeon happened naturally?
These twenty-something of them?”
“It’s definitely… an unnatural event, but……
The cause hasn’t been identified yet…”
“The places where dungeons have appeared so far…!!
That’s the monster’s piece of flesh that crashed into Undenbrah a while ago!!
It was a place that fell but hasn’t been recovered yet…!!
And the Magic Analysis Bureau said that the pieces of flesh each contain mana, right?
That means that even if only one falls, it’ll end up like this!!”
“Th-That’s…”
“Then what about the place where the flesh was recovered and gathered together…?”
“I can’t say for sure that it will definitely happen.
After all, the recovery was for burning it…
Or there’s a possibility that magical measures have been taken…”
“According to the law of conservation of mana…
Even if the state of the mana medium changes, the total amount of mana doesn’t change…
So even if you burn it, the mana will remain as it is……
And if the flesh is the mana medium for the dungeon’s appearance…
At a time when no one knows the cause of the dungeon’s occurrence, the Magic Analysis Bureau might also…”
“Hmm… Th-The simple amount of mana will increase greatly, but……
The higher the density of mana, the stronger its dispersion force becomes…
Concentrated mana will cause intense distortion in the flow of surrounding mana……
Usually, the mana pressure is proportional to the density of mana, but…
If there are only ten more causes that caused this scale of dungeon…
Ah… Aaaaah……”
Eloise, who was gesturing as if writing numbers while turning her gaze to the sky and calculating something intently, began to turn pale, and even Marie’s face was losing its color.
Seeing their undeniably hardened expressions, Vivian, who could guess the seriousness of the situation, shouted urgently, and the moment she immediately drew her sword and turned her body towards the tavern dungeon.
“We have to finish the magic circle… somehow…!!
Prepare for the next one before it’s too late…!!”
– Kurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
“Ugh……!! Aaaah!!”
“Ah… Kkeueut… Ahheueuk…!!”
With a sudden roar that seemed to echo throughout the sky, Eloise and Marie grabbed their chests and collapsed as if their hearts had been strained.
They had taken a hit to their hearts, which were the core organs for operating mana, due to the sudden surge of mana.
Verdi, who hadn’t yet operated mana, seemed to have received less of an impact, but she was also breathing heavily, sweating coldly, as if her chest was piercingly painful.
“Haaat… Haaat… Mana…
Just now… Hheut.. Explosion… Ueut…
It was a mana explosion…… Heueuk…”
“Are you okay? Breathe slowly…!!
But a mana explosion? That’s…”
“A large amount of mana… released into the air…
Kkeueueuk… Ser… Kof…… A… It hurts…”
Vivian, who had run to their side and started turning her head to look around, soon saw an unbelievable sight in her eyes, pouring out despair endlessly like a waterfall.
“N-No way……”
In the distance, in the sky on the opposite side of the royal capital.
Something in the shape of a black disk with an unclear border, like another sun in the sky where the red sunset was setting.
It resembled a black hole a little larger than the size of the royal castle, but on the contrary, it was dropping and releasing something in droves.
Seeing the scene of countless beings, which looked only as small as grains of rice because they were too far away, pouring down, Vivian unknowingly collapsed on the spot because her legs had given way.
“There’s no way…… humans can stop something like that……”
