chapter 24
24. Delusion (2)
24. Delusional (2)
ㅡ ‘A goal in the academy? Aren’t the questions too broad? Hmm… First of all, I want to win the top spot in Arisha’s first year.’
That day she said that and laughed.
ㅡ ‘I want to be like my older sister. My sister is Shiza’s class, but she won the senior class nicely. I want to work hard and be like my sister.’
She said this and looked up shyly at me.
ㅡ ‘Sister, don’t be like that. Right! Do you have a present for me when I return to the academy? It’s an item engraved with ancient magic, and my sister will love it.’
On days when I fought with my father, he comforted me in this way.
ㅡ ‘Sister… Sister’s fault… No… ‘
My younger brother, who was seriously injured because of my mistake, said this just before he died, and even gave me a helpless smile.
I liked delusions. That’s because you can achieve anything in your head, and there is no hard work itself. During the entrance ceremony for the first year of Arisha Academy, she wrote ‘delusion’ in her hobby section of her self-introduction. After the first semester, she laughed helplessly when she was given the title of .
Still, it didn’t matter. My title in real life was , But my title in the delusion had a cool title like Or . There were hundreds of titles that came up in my head.
The super wizard that everyone looks up to when I pass by is me, Denas Yeseul. It was my hobby to imagine different titles every day. Then I think of only one word from the day her sister died.
Only the word
*
In front of the Arisha class dormitory in District 1 of the Elana Education District.
Nishia and I hurriedly came to Arisha’s class dormitory to recruit Slope Arogas into the party. Could it be because of rumors that undead are happening all over the Elana school district? The front of the dormitory was overly cluttered.
Thorous students are trying to deal with the undead themselves, and guards and professors are blocking them.
“You two there. What’s happened to Shaiza’s student here?”
A sharp guard asks me. Knowing that confrontation with the guards won’t do any good here, I came up with an appropriate excuse.
“Actually… I was digging herbs around. Because the monster is attacking He ran to the nearest building.”
“Hmm. Right. Hurry up and enter the Arisha Education Building. It is safe there.”
I nodded and walked towards Arisha Academy Education Building with Nishia. As the destination changes, Nishia shakes my collar.
“Senior. I don’t think I’ll be able to go to the dormitory.”
“No. I know the secret passage.”
It is not difficult to enter the Arisha Academy dormitory. The question is, what is the slope doing now? Now, the Denas Yeseul incident in Act 7 of Part 1 has been brought forward and occurred in advance.
The slope that used to be in the main story, she doesn’t even appear in this episode without revealing any reason.
If you find yourself in a situation where you can’t get into the party even though you’ve had a hard time meeting the slop. What if I couldn’t even get Arisha’s secondary seat, which I was aiming for, into the party. Me and nicia The two of us had to solve this case alone. If that happens, there is no chance of winning.
“This way.”
I went to the main building of Arisha Academy with Nishia. The main building of the academy was extremely cluttered, as even the students who were wandering around and the merchants in District 2 had fled to avoid the undead.
In this gap, I took Nishia and entered the closed bathroom on the 3rd basement floor of the main building and stood in front of the third mirror. Then she wet her hand and wrote the code on the mirror.
「The most beautiful woman in the world is Arisha.」
Let’s write down the password. A woman’s laughter was heard, and the wall with the mirror pushed aside, revealing a passageway.
“Let’s go.”
“Uh… What did you do, senior?”
“You wrote down the password. This passage leads to the dormitory. Shaiza’s dormitory also has a passageway like this, so I’ll tell you later if you need it.”
“That’s right.”
“Oh, by the way, shine some lights on Nishia. If there is no light, insect-type monsters will attack.”
I walked down the damp underground passage, relying on the light Nisia created. It feels bad to see water dripping on her head. Melgard and Shaiza also have a secret passage connected to the dormitory in this way.
However, if the secret passages in the two dormitories were created by students who attended the academy back then, this secret passage in Arisha was created by Archmage Arisha herself. For that reason, only the entrance is made plausible, and the aisle is not organized. If you don’t turn on the lights like now, all sorts of insects will fly in.
If you tell Srop about the existence of this secret passage, he’ll clean it up. Through such a damp and muddy secret passage, I arrived at Arisha’s class dormitory. As far as I know, Slop’s room is located on the first floor of the new building, so I plan to head there immediately.
“Senior is really… You do not know anything.”
“I only found out about it by accident.”
“That, he said, is the successor of Shaiza. There are times when I wonder if the truth is real.”
“…… “
Nishia grabs my collar and shakes it. And she looks at me with a playful expression. Shaiza’s successor is right. With the great sage’s knowledge, I am the one who will save you from illness. That’s what you want me to answer.
However, he has yet to find a way to save Nicia, and he has no intention of revealing that he is Shaiza’s successor yet.
“Let’s go, there is no time.”
“… All right.”
I looked left and right and knocked on the door of the slope.
ㅡ”Who is the show?”
“I’m Woros Blood, let’s talk about the slopes for a second”
Kung!ㅡ Kwa Kwang!ㅡ
The sound of something falling inside the door was heard, followed by the sound of water.
ㅡ “Woah, Woros senior? Wait.”
After waiting for several minutes, the door opened. He grabbed his chest, nervous about running into the staff of the dormitory, and pushed into his room with Nishia. However, the condition of the slope is strange. Wasn’t he, who should have only been in the room, gasping for breath?
Looking around his room with a puzzled mind, I was able to find out why. I immediately untied the pouch wrapped around my waist and handed it to Nishia.
“Nishia, figure out the type of potion in that bag. Because I have something to talk about with Slop.”
“Oh, yes! Please leave it to me.”
Nishia picks up my bag and starts checking the potion with concentration. In the meantime, I took a step further into the room and gestured for the underside of the bed. Then, as if Srop understood the situation, he slowly walked towards the bed.
I think I hid it in a hurry and pushed it under the bed, but the most important book label was out of the bed, so I could read the title. So, Slop puts the book titled 『The Captured Princess Knight and the Orc General』 Out of sight and clears his throat.
“Senior, what are you doing in my room?”
“Has the slope body gotten better?”
“Yes, thanks to you, it has improved a lot, hasn’t it? The effect of the scented candle was so deadly that I immediately regained my energy.”
“Yes, I’m glad. It’s no different, they’re recruiting party members. Can you see that the academy is in chaos right now?”
Slope’s expression instantly became serious at my words.
“I found out where the darkness was hiding through my personal route. I was about to push in with Nishia, but the two of us seem to lack the strength.”
“I see. All right. I owe a lot to my seniors, so let’s give it some strength.”
“Then get ready right away, because I don’t have much time.”
Srop, wearing a red cape proving that he was an Arisha student, holding a club-like staff, opened his mouth.
“It was cluttered, so I knew something had broken. But what exactly happened?”
“The undead have appeared. The person who summoned her is the masked woman I met the other day.”
“When… Are you talking about undead? She is that…. Did she come out with a Ghost line?”
“Yes.”
Slop’s eyes widened for an instant, and he swallowed his saliva.
“That’s right. Oh, I see.”
“Slope?”
“Oh, nothing. Then, let’s go.”
While I was talking to Slop, Nishia shouted in a lively voice.
“I checked everything!”
She told Nishia that she had done a good job and hurried out of her dormitory.
*
I decided to briefly explain the situation while walking through the underground passage. In the midst of this, the slope makes strange gestures. It is to hold his staff in both his hands and continuously look to his left and right.
“Slop Nishia, do you guys know where Archmage Arisha’s real office was?”
“In the office, the Arisha Academy Education Building? Or the main building? Could it have been over there?”
“Yes. Half right and half wrong Arisha, like Nishia you, was a person who loved experimenting, so she pretended to go to the bathroom, and she often headed to the lab.”
Nishia tilts her head at my words.
“Later, the location of the laboratory was discovered by her aides, but after that, they say that she lived there and worked there. The location of the office is a place called Winter Mountain Telkan.”
“Wait a minute. If it’s a winter mountain, isn’t it a place where it would take months to ride a carriage here?”
“Yes. Arisha went back and forth from that place to the academy every day. Physically impossible, but magically possible.”
Nishia clapped her hands at my words.
“There was a portal?”
“Yes. The portal created naturally in Telkan was connected to Arisha Academy by borrowing Shaiza’s knowledge. The masked woman rides the portal and Telcan. It will also be in the magic tower owned by Arisha in the past.”
“So, are you going to Telcan?”
She nodded at Slop’s question. Winter Mountain Telcan. The place where wizards like Arisha, who are full of military power, are holed up, and there are mage towers and magic schools lined up to study and spread their own magic system, that place is like a magician’s romance. Since Srop is also an Arisha class mage, he must be very interested in Telcan.
However, terrifying monsters often appear in Telkan. General Dong. It is a very dangerous place where even undead such as winter ghosts come out, so it is said that just by knocking on the door of Telkan’s Magic School or the Mage Tower, you will be recognized as a wizard.
That’s why it’s called the romance of magicians. There were very few wizards who truly explored the winter mountains because they couldn’t give up their lives for the greed of learning.
“Telcan! It’s Arisha’s magic tower, so it’s Kiya. Do you have this form? I stole a magic book from there… Would it be okay if I borrowed it? Isn’t Arisha already dead?”
“Slope. Then it gets struck by lightning.”
“Ah… “
“I’m not kidding, if you steal something there, lightning really strikes.”
Slope’s complexion turns pale at my words. After talking about this, we have already arrived at the restroom on the 3rd basement floor of the Arisha Academy main building. Coming out of the passage, I wrote the password on the mirror.
「Even Shaiza is jealous of Arisha’s beauty.」
After entering the password, the secret passage closed with a creaking sound. Slopes are watching this with his eyes twinkling. Well, he found a secret passageway that would allow him to go out at night without the knowledge of the dorm housekeeper, how could he not be happy.
When I checked Slop’s condition, everything seemed fine. Why didn’t Srop participate in the original story? Could it be that the case was moved forward, allowing Slop to participate in the battle? It was time to ask such a question.
ㅡ『Gigigiggeek.』
A Ghost flies about, making a strange sound. It seems that the aftermath of the appearance of the undead has begun to reach the main building of the academy. The Ghost flying in front of us is also undead, but very weak. It was also a ghost that made strange noises and knew nothing to do except follow the target.
It was cute that it looked like a jellyfish, and it was an undead that would take a lot of damage and disappear with just a few gestures, so it wasn’t much of a threat.
By the way.
“Wooooo!”
“Huh?”
Slope let out a terrifying scream, squatted in the corner of the bathroom, shivering and clutching his head. Perhaps the reason why Slop didn’t participate in the battle when this event occurred in the original work…
“Goddess Rosasia, please expel that demon. I don’t believe in God, but if you just get rid of that… “
Slope squatting and muttering something. While he was attending the story, he finally found out why he couldn’t participate in the battle in Act 7 of Part 1. 190 Cm tall and muscular, King of Destruction Srop Arrogas was so afraid of his ghost that he couldn’t participate even if he wanted to.
In this situation, I turned my head towards Nishia.
“Come down here! Come down! Senior, don’t just watch, help me!”
“What are you doing?”
“I’m going to take this and raise it! Help me quickly!”
As he said that, he waved his hand in the air.
I haven’t even started, but I feel like I’ve already seen ruin.