Chapter 168 – 168 People Gathering in Argon – 2
Everyone knew to some extent, but what came out of the mouth of the guild leader was more serious.
I knew that monsters roamed around regardless of the number of floors, but the monsters that appeared on the 40th floor appeared on the 20th floor.
Moreover, these anomalies are not only in Argon, but also in several dungeons in other cities.
In particular, even the director himself did not know that it was happening even in the dungeon in the academy.
There has been no word from the academy.
If that happened, there’s no way the head of the school affairs department wouldn’t contact him.
As soon as the thought came to my mind, I remembered the worst family that the chairman should not have.
‘Could it be… I’m already in a situation where I can’t contact you?’
If so, now was not the time to be here.
The academy, where the most important forces are always away to support the cadets who are engaged in external activities, did not have the strength to prepare for any contingencies.
First year cadets and some older cadets were at risk.
“You… Is that true?”
“It is true.”
“Why did you do that sooner…!”
The chairman, who was about to ask if he hadn’t said something, swallowed his saliva once.
It was a waste of time to get angry.
Drooling.
When her chairperson rose from her seat without hesitation, Professor Carlton followed her.
And the guild leader turned towards them who were about to leave the conference room.
“The Academy is safe. This is for sure.”
In a calm voice.
“I can’t reveal it right now, but there is an unexpected power there that is enough to protect the entire academy.”
Asserted
“Power? If you’re trying to hold me back with nonsense, you’d better stop right now.”
The guild leader broke into a cold sweat as the director growled, revealing a murderous intent.
I was warned when I talked with the academy’s head of school affairs in advance, but I didn’t know that I would reveal such ferocious momentum.
“After discussions with the head of the Academic Affairs Department, I decided that it would be better to tell the president now. Otherwise, you would have headed to the academy first.”
“…You said it was a collusion with the Academic Affairs Director?”
Although he sometimes comes up short, he is a guy who is just as sincere with the academy as he is. Hearing that he had talked with the head of the Academic Affairs Department in advance, the chairman’s spirit softened.
But he was only living.
“Say.”
The chairman said sternly.
“If you don’t convince me right now, I will leave for the academy right away. So tell me who’s there.”
The dungeon inside the academy had a significantly lower risk compared to other dungeons.
However, if there was even the slightest chance that a single cadet would get hurt, the chairman would leave immediately.
The safety of her academy was more important to her than the crisis of her Argon.
“That…”
The guild leader was in trouble.
That would be the case, and her personal information about her, who is currently guarding her academy, is the top secret among her top secrets, and if her chairman found out about her identity, it was almost certain that she would fly to her academy right away.
It wasn’t even a crowd. Even the guild leader herself, when she first heard about it, she almost dismissed it as a joke, out of proportion to the gravity of the situation.
The head of the Academic Affairs Department himself suggested that it would be best for her not to reveal her identity. That’s because her identity at the academy was unconventional.
However, considering the contents of the meeting to be told later, her identity could be poisonous.
But if you don’t reveal it now, you’re really going to leave, do I really have to tell you?
As the guild leader hesitated while thinking about that, the chairman moved to leave the real meeting room this time.
When the chairman really seemed to be leaving, the guild leader tried to distort the truth a bit.
“Elada.”
Unless Fernando suddenly uttered her name.
“…Who?”
“Former Demonic Cult Four Heavenly King Ella. That girl guards the academy. So please sit down again.”
A casual tone as if it was nothing.
But the information contained in it was unusual.
The head of the guild washed his face at Fernando’s remarks about bombing, and the head of the guild stiffened like a stone statue.
“…”
Information that far exceeds the expected range that humans can think of.
“… Damn it.”
It was a natural conclusion and an idea.
“Even if you deny it, the facts don’t change.”
Seeing Fernando’s unwavering eyes, the chairman decided to ask the fundamentals first.
“…Why?”
Why is the author of the former Four Heavenly Kings there, why is he protecting it, and why he has many other questions.
It was a legitimate question, but Fernando’s explanation was unkind.
“My husband is a professor at the academy. Ah. Did you say you were the owner? Anyway, since she’s pregnant, she must have no choice but to protect her place.”
The bombardment of truth, devoid of even the slightest hint of consideration, silenced the chairman once again.
The chairman whose expression changes every moment.
At that time, the saintess smiled and said to the chairman.
“The Celestial Church will guarantee that the contents are true. So you can stop worrying about the academy for a while.”
“I see. Hey. Let’s start the meeting again.”
At Fernando’s urging, the guild leader looked at the director.
The guild leader coughed and cleared her throat at the strange appearance of staring at the saintess and Fernando blankly.
It seemed that the meeting would not be interrupted for the time being.
“…Then I will continue.”
Until the end of the meeting, the head of the guild, who was not able to come to his senses, was left behind and the guild leader continued to explain the current situation.
The fact that the current situation is a trick of the Demonic Church to resurrect the Demon God.
And the point that argon is the place where the nucleus of the handicrafts is.
In order to prevent the revival of the Demon God, you must form the strongest party and go to the lowest level of Argon.
It was hard to believe, but thanks to the existence of Fernando and the saint, no one dismissed it as nonsense.
That’s how the strongest party of all time was created to attack Argon.
***
The time when the strongest party of all time is about to rush into Argon.
Xerath, Claire, and Bella were flying at full speed riding a wyvern enchanted by Ella.
After staying up all night for two nights, they finally began to see Argon, the city of dungeons.
“Zerath.”
Claire, who was cradled in front of Xerath, called out to Xerath in a low voice.
“Huh.”
“You know that I have more than one or two questions I want to ask you right now, right?”
Know. I know all too well.
But I knew too well that time was running out to explain it.
“Huh…”
That Ella, who was known as Professor McCalle’s maid, was actually a very talented person.
Asking Ella for help and going down to the lowest level of the dungeon inside the academy.
There, she instantly found a secret room that had never been revealed in the history of hundreds of years and took her something.
And now, this moment. Why they, who were only first-year cadets, were heading to the dungeon city of Argon.
It was so full of questions that it was quick to find something I wasn’t curious about.
“Ha…”
At Xerath’s limp reply, Claire let out a rough breath.
I wasn’t angry.
A man named Xerath had rarely done anything meaningless.
Whether that’s in a good way or a bad way…
Although it’s been less than a semester since we got to know each other, and it’s been less since we’ve become lovers.
He must have had a reason for doing this.
But that’s it, and this is this.
“I’ll check it out properly later.”
To see a lover who is in the middle of a relationship at random without giving detailed explanations.
No matter how mixed their bodies were, it was an issue that could not be overlooked.
“…In bed?”
Bella, who was hugging Xerath from behind, cracked her joke in her characteristic slow voice.
Could it be that he said that to defend Xerath?
Claire laughed.
“Okay. In bed or anywhere.”
“…I don’t like the outdoors. I won’t show my body to anyone but Xerath…”
Is not it. Are you just thinking about doing it with Xerath?
While Claire doubted Bella’s intentions, Xerath spoke in a voice that made her feel more at ease.
“Huh. I’ll tell you anything.”
It wasn’t even planned in the first place, and they were the ones who ended up dating.
But I thought I was really fortunate to be their lover.
Xerath held Claire’s arms in her arms and Bella’s extended arms behind her.
“Including my own secret that no one knows.”
“Huh… Saying that makes me curious again.”
“…I think it’s fine. Stay by my side.”
Xerath hugged them once more, closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them with a flash.
‘Anyway, things went awry.’
Recalling the events of the past few months, Xerath sighed inwardly.
‘I planned to use Yuhane and the others to push the main story as an expedient, but it was too fast.’
I never thought that I would reap the 2nd phase boss, Arserine, who became black after eating the Dragon Heart.
She honestly spilled her information about her Demon Dragon’s Dragon Heart with her ulterior motive to kill her. I don’t know how her affairs turned out, but she was currently traveling with Yuhane’s group.
And as the head of the eastern tribal union, he declares war on the empire, the boss of phase 3. I didn’t even know that Janghu, the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demonic Cult, would die such an empty death.
Most of all, it was most surprising that the bosses of the 2nd and 3rd phases were captured even though the 1st semester of the 1st year was not over yet.
‘The Behemoth, the boss of Phase 1, is still alive and well.’
Xerath smiled bitterly.
According to the original affairs, two weeks later would have been the start of the Behemoth subjugation.
However, because the main story was twisted as much as possible, today.
It is no longer strange to fight with the sealed demon, the boss of phase 4.
‘Please don’t be late.’
Abnormal phenomena appearing in dungeons all over the world are precursors that signal the start of the final phase.
In other words, it was the sound that the demon sealed in the lowest layer of argon was about to be revived.
And according to the original story, the strongest party for the final battle should be organized in Argon by now according to the progress of the story.
From the saintess of the Celestial Church who specializes in demon subjugation to the strongest gladiator in the desert country who is not afraid of death.
In addition, the party that the player raised himself was added.
The death squad created in this way reaches the lowest level of Argon, exerting its accumulated power to the fullest, and after a battle with the Four Heavenly Kings, it engages in a final battle with the sealed Demon God.
However, there is one very big difference between the final battle in the original work and the current final battle.
‘As a player, I haven’t become strong enough to participate in the final battle, and above all, I don’t have the key to the current union.’
The lowest layer of Argon, where the Demon God is sealed, is a secret space one layer below the superficial lowest layer.
To go down there, you need a key, and that key existed on the lowest floor of the dungeon in the academy.
Originally, it would come naturally as the story progressed, but no one found the key because the story was terribly skipped.
‘Fortunately, with Ella’s help, I succeeded in forcibly obtaining the key, but the situation becomes a headache if the death squad enters the dungeon before I hand over the key.’
Fortunately, I had submitted a study on the correlation between the Academy Dungeon and the Argon Dungeon for Professor Macal’s assignment, so the story progressed quickly.
One thing that was unexpected was that Ella was unaware of the reality of the Academy Dungeon.
Anyway, Xerath, who broke through the academy dungeon with Ella’s help, wanted to bring Ella along to Argon just in case, but Ella refused.
“I have my master and my baby in my belly right now… That’s why I can’t go to such a dangerous place. I hope you will understand my feelings…”
‘Fuck. Pregnancy.’
It was her stupidity, but she couldn’t blame herself.
How can I blame her for not being able to go because she is pregnant.
‘In the worst case, we’ll have to break through the dungeon by ourselves. How many floors can we go down?’
If the gang went down the dungeon ahead of her, she had to make contact with the gang by breaking through the dungeon with only herself, Claire, and Bella.
Without the key, the demon subjugation war could not have been established.
‘If I think about it calmly, I think the 30th floor is the limit.’
This is a story based on the assumption that rare monsters on the 40th floor appear.
Although they were only first-year students, their skills were never at the level of first-year students.
It was because he had packed everything he could from the moment he confirmed the existence of Lilith.
In terms of game, I have developed enough strength to be able to look at the second half of the 3rd phase, and even the beginning of the 4th phase if I treat it more generously.
‘I don’t feel like I depend on my temper rather than my natural skills, but my temper is my skill.’
One regrettable thing is that there are not enough colleagues.
According to the original plan, the final party was thought of about six people.
But now the party is only 3 people. It was a party without even a saint.
If it was hopeless, it was a hopeless situation.
‘Still, if those guys come on time…’
According to the story of Duke Baker, after killing Janghu, he could not be contacted, but their destination was also Argon.
Due to the timing, contact was lost before the abnormal phenomenon in the dungeon occurred, so I wondered if he was coming here slowly.
‘No contact…’
Other people would have worried about this part, but they are an exception.
With the exception of the Demon Gods, no, even the Demon Gods would not be able to cut off contact with those guys.
‘I’m guessing you can’t get in touch because you’re having sex. I don’t know if it’s not him or not’
The world is going crazy, and Xerath frowns when he thinks of those guys who are having sex casually.
“Zerath. It’s arrival.”
He lowered his head, frowning at Claire’s words.
The dungeon city of Argon was visible beneath his feet.
***
“You went in already?!”
“Yes.”
“Then what about the gray-haired man, the platinum-haired swordsman, the white-haired fox beastman, and the pink-haired maid? Did they go in too?”
“No. I’ve never seen such people. But who are you?”
Wow. It’s really the worst.
