Chapter 112 – Episode 111. Way Back (5)
Pillars of red light began to rise from all over the academy.
Amid the shaking of the earth, the academy, which seemed to be causing chaos, was regaining its composure like a ghost.
In the middle were the instructors who trained the cadets and the academy’s command staff leading those instructors.
“Get the number of people!”
“Check if everyone is gathered!”
“Check all the injured and casualties!”
“Just do what you have been trained for in peacetime!”
A voice imbued with amplification magic broke through the commotion and resounded in all directions.
“It must be a monster?”
Fully armed, Ortega was staring straight ahead with his eyes narrowed.
In the middle of the academy, the red pillar of light rising from it is noticeably taller and thicker than anywhere else.
This will be the center
“Even if the unknown comes, we will not collapse here.”
“It doesn’t break! Everyone repeats it!”
“It doesn’t break!”
“It doesn’t break!”
“It doesn’t break!”
“It doesn’t break!”
Ortega’s low voice wasn’t loud, but rather, it was the same as usual.
However, the voices of those who recited his words resonated so loudly that the academy reverberated.
“This academy in Einhafen, built on a land stained with blood, will not collapse to this extent.”
“It doesn’t break!”
“It doesn’t break!”
“It doesn’t break!”
“It doesn’t break!”
All of the instructors, including the academy’s leadership, are either active or retired knights.
The instructors, even though they are still young and have little practical experience, are those who have been through the Continental Unification War, although the command is now retired.
During that time, I saw and experienced many such incidents.
Don’t be so upset
“Pick up the cadets. Do not think that I would have been armed with the same mind as you.”
“Yes!”
“So as not to panic, calmly move in your usual squad.”
“Yes!”
“The support team should leave the academy and evacuate the general public. The public should not be harmed.”
“Yes!”
“And go straight to the imperial castle to inform them of this news.”
“Yes!”
“What happens at the academy ends at the academy. Whatever comes, we block it here.”
“Yes!”
Now, the beams of light are getting thicker, and the cracks on the ground are getting worse.
The color of the pillar of light, which gave the feeling of being red, has now become red like fresh blood.
“Medium Knights, front line.”
“All heat!”
“Magic Knights, left and right.”
“Left and Right!”
“Archers, middle heat.”
“Medium heat!”
“Magic Corps, back row.”
“After fever!”
Instructions were spread among the instructors, and instructions were handed down to the instructors and cadets in confrontation near each pillar of light.
Heavy and long-term knights stand in line, believing in their thick armor and shields, and magic knights fill their wings.
At a distance from him, the middle ranks were filled by the archers, and after that, the wizards took their places one or two.
Full preparation.
It doesn’t matter what comes out now.
– Boom!
A deafening sound resounded as if the sky was collapsing, and before long the ground turned over.
The ground, unable to withstand the force protruding from below, was smashed and turned over, and a cloud of dust rose up to obscure the view.
– He and aaaaa… !
The shouts of howling are no longer human.
The howl, which is difficult to explain except for the word bizarre, attacked the cadets, and even then, fear began to rise on the faces of the cadets, who were clearly nervous.
“Monster… ?”
The densely rising dust cloud settles and the scene is gradually revealed.
At the same time, severe fear settled on the faces of the cadets who were holding a glimpse of fear.
Those with an inexplicably bizarre appearance, those called monsters, eventually showed up here, and their forces—
*
“An hour a day?”
After being ordered to evacuate belatedly, Ashley returned to the mansion and widened her eyes.
“Okay. I was awake a while ago, and I am just about to go back to sleep.”
Literally.
Ashley’s sister, who was as beautiful as a flower, was sleeping soundly with those mint eyes hidden in her eyelids.
Her sister, who is sleeping soundly in her normal clothes, is indeed beautiful.
Leopold, who was sitting next to him, looked tired.
It was inevitable that Astrid would wake up, so Leopold stayed next to him without a good night’s sleep.
Just one hour a day.
Just one hour out of 24 hours.
If I missed that hour, I had to wait until the next day.
That’s why I can’t sleep well, and even if I do, I tend to nap in the chair next to Astrid.
“That, what the hell is that? I do not understand.”
“Even if you don’t understand it, it is true. We couldn’t believe it either… “
And then Leopold looked at Astrid.
At the end of that gaze, sadness faded.
“Actually, I can’t wake up except for an hour a day like this.”
“Huh… “
As soon as she returned to her mansion, Ashley ran to see her sister. Seeing Leopold never leave her side, she felt strange.
I know very well how much my sister likes it. Even Leopold, who did not accept her feelings, knew at a glance.
It was kind of disappointing to see those two people like that stick together like this after going to the academy and not falling apart.
It’s not a pity, but it’s a pity for Ashley.
Without knowing what he was missing, Ashley licked her lips.
“Isn’t there a health problem or something like that?”
“Ashley, are you here?”
Ashley and Leopold looked at the door without asking anyone first.
Wolfgang and Weizik are standing with the door open, holding pieces of the amulet in their hands.
And behind it, a man in an officer’s uniform of the Grand Duchess of Mitterien stood there, looking as if he was wearing an ill-fitting suit.
“Azdabarka, come in.”
“Yes, yes.”
An elderly man called Azdabarca walked into Astrid’s room with an awkward look.
It was the first time that Azdabarka had set foot in this room where Astrid, who was usually so ferocious and fierce that she would not even dare to look at her, was lying there.
“Your Highness, this person is called Azda Barca and was a shaman of the northern barbarians. He switched to Myterien, and it’s okay since he’s definitely researched the ingredients. He has been working in our household for several years now.”
How did you research the ingredients?
Although he had such doubts, Leopold decided to put them aside.
It’s because the background of this person now doesn’t matter.
“Nice to meet you. I am Leopold von Einhafen, the Crown Prince of this empire.”
Leopold did not extend his hand first.
Ajda Barca knelt down on his knees and bowed deeply, as Wolfgang emphasized several times, which he had heard many times while coming here.
“I am Azdabarkara, who has become Mitterien’s faithful servant. Onetime… He was a witch doctor too.”
“Tell me, Azdabarka. About the current condition of my fiancée, Astrid.”
Azdabarca cautiously rose from her seat.
Soon, Ashley quietly brought a chair, and Wolfgang winked at him, and Azdabarka looked at him for a moment.
“Sit down and talk. It’s okay.”
After Leopold sat down first, then Wolfgang, Weizik, and Ashley, finally Azdabarka hesitated to sit down.
“… By any chance, do you know that it is a self-sustaining tower?”
“A self-sustaining tower? What is it?”
“A tower in the depths of the Demon Realm… I heard that too. Of course, I have never seen it in person, and it is said that it is a tower that grows by itself.”
“Grow yourself… Did you say the top, right now?”
“Yes that’s right. It’s not even magic. It is known to grow on its own as it is a living organism, not a building.”
“A tower that grows by itself… “
Those words that Leopold muttered.
At those words, Wolfgang, Weizik, and Ashley came up with something in common.
Where Astrid went.
There.
The tower that was said to be located not in the north, but rather near the place heading to the palace of the Grand Duke of Mitterien.
Even if it wasn’t so, I was just getting ready to go to the location Astrid told me.
“We, the indigenous people of the north, are a race closer to witchcraft than magic, and since witchcraft is inherently of the Pandemonium, the Pandemonium’s ecology… Perhaps, I know better than you.”
“So what does that have to do with Astrid?”
Wolfgang spoke urgently.
Leopold stretched out his hand to stop Wolfgang, who seemed to grab him by the collar at any moment.
“I don’t know that either. However, if the real self-sustaining tower had appeared, and if the self-sustaining tower could be brought down here, a fairly high-ranking demon would have manifested. It is the owner’s mind to decide who to bring in and who to send out to his self-sustaining tower, so it shouldn’t be too difficult. As for the conditions, I don’t know the details.”
The more Azdabarca’s words continued, the puzzles came together in Leopold’s head one by one.
“And that demon… Speaking of dealing with dreams, isn’t it possible that the young lady can’t wake up like this?”
At the same time as those words, there is one person that immediately comes to mind.
The one who was so strong that Leopold couldn’t even notice.
He called himself a nun of the sun god, but she couldn’t see it that way.
Will she go back to the academy and subdue Vera Shien to interrogate him?
Will she contact the imperial castle and interrogate Vera Shien?
It was time to make a decision.
