I Became a Person Who Wanted To Drop Out of the Academy

12 – Activities of the F-grade Screwball 5 –

The flame that started from a point turned into a line and eventually became a surface.

The flame, which had grown to the extent that the path where the oil was sprayed could no longer be seen.

But strangely enough, the flames did not engulf us.

As if it was a sentient being.

While watching such a sight, the conscious Sylvia Renne asked me.

“What is…What exactly is this? No. The Demon Realm definitely wasn’t this kind of environment…!”

I responded to her words.

“Don’t expect common sense in the Demon Realm. It’s an old saying, isn’t it? The Demon Realm is a land without common sense. If you rely rigidly on such common sense, you naturally can’t deal with the Demon Realm.”

“So, did you come here without a plan?”

“No, I had a plan. I simply prepared an alternative in case of failure.”

Hearing that the plan had failed, Sylvia Renne started questioning me.

In reality, as she stated, it’s true I came here with something hardly worthy of being called a plan.

“Then what is the meaning of this blaze! In a situation where we don’t even know how this blaze could distort due to the source of the Demon Realm…!”

Do not rely on common sense in the Demon Realm. The reason for that old saying is simple.

In the Demon Realm, the natural environment changes according to the source.

Ordinary drinking water can suddenly turn into a deadly poison.

An ordinary animal can become a beast that tears people apart.

The rain, the source of life, can melt people.

The wind can flay a person’s skin.

The Demon Realm changes due to the things exposed to its source.

So this blaze in the Demon Realm could be influenced by the source and transform into something more threatening.

‘In theory, it doesn’t change unless you touch anything, but humans came in and brought new things that continuously change.’

Of course, only I would know that, having read the explanation written directly by the game company. The Demon Realm transforms just by observing to prove it.

“Since humans learned about the environment of the Demon Realm, they’ve been careful not to rapidly change it. If the source of the Demon Realm is removed, the Demon Realm will disappear on its own, and drastic environmental changes would require new countermeasures.”

“Knowing that well, why would you…!”

“Only this way can we find the source.”

“Huh?”

“The weakest Demon Realm, that of the moon. The source of that Demon Realm is an ancient dragon. The oldest creature currently alive…… The Moon Demon Realm is the territory of the old dragon. It just doesn’t react to minor changes due to age.”

“You mean…”

“We didn’t rapidly change the environment of the Demon Realm. Despite this assumption, the Demon Realm of the Moon, which is studied the most vigorously for its source among the Demon Realms, hasn’t even been discovered. There’s never been structural damage enough to sense the boundary the dragon has put, because it’s the weakest Demon Realm.”

A dragon is a territorial creature. Except during breeding seasons, they create a lair and claim its surrounding as their territory.

However, if dragons live too long, its surroundings slowly become the Demon Realm due to its power. There were only a few dragons that lived long enough to cause such a phenomenon.

The Demon Realm stopping like a pause on a photograph was a natural change considering the nature of the dragon.

“So if we ‘invade’ the Demon Realm in this way, it will certainly appear. The source of this Demon Realm is the target we will hunt.”

To summon the dragon, the Demon Realm has to be destroyed.

The actions of the arsonist were becoming justified.

—-

All are burnt in a fire.

A naturally made dam collapses.

The ground is torn apart.

Trees are uprooted.

If we apply the human destruction of nature learned in modern society and destroy the habitat,

Soon enough, the ground roared.

Wooshhhhh―

“This vibration…!”

It was the drumbeat signaling the beginning of a battle.

I told everyone to brace themselves.

“The battle will begin soon. It’s not a dragon, but the beasts that existed somewhere in this land will move at the dragon’s will.”

The moment the ground vibrated and the sky trembled.

The sound of a great army advancing could be heard from somewhere.

Even if only the sound could be heard, the sensation of a grand army pressing on was very strong.

The earth which should normally support the lower bodies of humans was shaking, refusing to sustain us.

It was easy to identify the cause. We could see the horizon clear and far because the battlefield had already turned into ashes or been shattered.

I looked towards where the sound had come from. A rugged horizon, unfit for the term, caught my eye.

“They’re here.”

And what we were faced with were countless beasts transformed by the dragon’s magic.

The battlefield of the Moon, the weakest of all battlefields.

However, the reason the boss of such a field, an old dragon, became the WFS mid-boss was simple.

It was because we had to hunt all the mobs on the field with just 40 people.

The mobs themselves weren’t strong, but their numbers were immense, and they were ferocious. A few mutant ones boasted mid-boss level strength.

We prepared for the upcoming battle in the face of such a large-scale beast horde.

“Prepare your magic. Somehow drive the beasts inside!”

Silvia Lenney shouted out loud.

Theseus, me, Elijah Adonis, are all warriors. And warriors have limited means to attack widely unless they have awakened aura and mastered their awakening skills.

Even aura awakening is a craft of individual desires through aura, so there’s no guarantee it’ll be a widescale skill.

I am a prime example. My awakening skill has a high risk and is not a widescale skill.

Around Silvia Lenney’s staff, a giant magic circle, about half the size of our bodies, started.

We naturally stood with our backs to that magical circle and faced the beasts.

Growl-

Firstly, Elijah’s sword charged towards the mutant wolf pack running towards us.

Regardless of how strongly they might have fortified their bodies, their origin was also due to the aura.

The wolves were diced by the true sword enveloped in aura as if they were food ingredients.

Though some of the higher-intelligence beings attempted to bypass,

We are human, the masters of all living things with superior intelligence. Efforts to circumvent were already being blocked by the spreading fire.

‘As I expected. In reality, unlike the game, the beasts fear the fire.’

In the game, the beasts ignored the fire damage and ran at us from all directions.

All creatures were like that.

However, this place is reality, there were many differences from the game, and those differences applied to the beasts of the battlefield as well.

‘Of course, there are some major drawbacks…’

In reality, unlike the game where you were perfectly fine until your health reached zero, the moment you are injured here, you’re at a disadvantage.

There is no such thing as one-sided advantage.

“Don’t let your guard down as there may be beasts on the other side of the fire. Having been influenced by the dragon, they may ignore their fear of fire and attack!”

We took precautions just in case.

We began our stand.

Theseus blocked the wolf’s jaws with his long sword.

Elijah aimed for the neck of the blocked wolf, making good use of his speed.

I protected Sylvia Rene while she chanted magic. I kept all the approaching beasts at bay to protect her as much as I could, ensuring they could all be handled in time.

“Crepitus (rage)”

As Sylvia Rene spoke, the magic circle at the end of her wand began to glow.

Kwaaang –

In the place where the magic circle shone, no beast remained.

A catastrophe occurred swiftly, as if I was watching a fire I’d started sped up several times.

Only the pieces of the beasts, not the ones stabbed by the sword, were left in it.

“It’s not over yet!”

But we were dealing with comparatively weaker beasts like wolves and leopards.

Powerful they may be, but they are not seen as the apex of the ecosystem.

In the end, the true beasts, completely transformed, began to approach from afar.

“Bears, tigers, lions… why are they all gathered in one place?”

“Don’t impose common sense in the magic world.”

Behind the leopards and wolves, the rulers of this earth came forth before humans started using Aura.

As the bear stood on two legs and swung its front paw at a human, it reminded me of an internet video of a man versus a bear where the man dodged the bear’s paw and swiftly beheaded it.

“Lux (light)”

I quickly extended my index finger to chant magic after loosely assessing the bear’s defenses.

Ziiing –

My left index finger radiates a white flash that covers the surroundings.

Naturally, the beasts didn’t know what to do with the sudden light blocking their view.

I use the light, which determines the time of the world, to block the view and unilaterally take away the opponent’s time.

Although humans are also creatures and can’t normally see this, both Elijah and I, as knights who had reached the Oro Swell, were able to use the skill that Professor Maximilian had written.

“The visual is only blocked, not the tactile. Deal with them all at once. Elijah!”

“I know!”

Sagak –

Shasak –

And that’s how the necks of several more beasts were cut.

Sylvia Rene shouted out once more.

“Everyone back off!”

Upon hearing her voice, the two of us went back to Sylvia Rene’s side.

She began to chant a more powerful spell.

“Delirium (turmoil)”

Wiing –

As if a negative option had been applied to a smartphone, a space of reversed colors spreads out from her wand into the world.

The space, where every color has diffused and become a complementary color, looked like a shattered computer LCD with a bug.

The diffused space reached the beasts, and their reactions varied.

Just a moment ago, they looked at each other strangely, the comrades who were boasting about their camaraderie and fending off this invasion of the LRR.

The beasts that would have attacked us without fighting in the first place.

However, they seem to have a reaction as if they’re seeing different beings among those who have reversed colors and those who haven’t.

And the result was predictable. Internal strife.

They seemed to be trying to kill each other, as if they could never tolerate each other’s presence.

Our genre was changed from survival to the Animal Kingdom for a while.

The genre was changed again when the final winner appeared.

To Melodrama.

The one standing after subduing everyone was a lion.

The lion was a brave warrior. It was truly wonderful to see him slaughter all living creatures with his powerful claws and teeth.

However, this lion was also an unknown beast.

Gghhhhh.

When the last wounded lion was whining for his life.

I quickly took the life of that lion so it would feel no more pain.

Thud.

I looked around after everything was over.

The corpses of the beasts and something burning.

Bloodstained earth and us, blending in seamlessly with the earth.

If the beasts of this place were weak, the fire may have caught most of them. If we had fought fairly, we would have already faced the same outcome as those beasts.

“Is it… is it all over?”

With fatigue in his voice, Elijah asked if it was over.

However, there was still one step left.

“One more is left. The biggest one. Our purpose of coming here remains.”

There were no means left for the dragon now.

We have strategized everything.

I created a magical boundary to restrict human access as much as possible.

Besides, I weakened the environment of the boundary so that an intelligent being wouldn’t intentionally break it.

If someone invaded that being’s LRR, they had the beasts on standby to block it.

I adjusted the environment as if it had a personality, creating fear and driving away intelligent beings.

And all these series of processes have been invalidated by us.

Becoming stronger is also a survival strategy, but so is avoiding being eaten entirely, like sloths do.

But in the end, even sloths fall from trees and die.

The dragon could no longer hide the truth.

We are fully qualified to meet the dragon.

I conveyed my intention to the oldest dragon, sleeping in this land.

“Come out and greet us. Because there is nothing eternal, just like you.”

And after my words were ended.

We earned the right to face the true origin of this magical boundary.

Rrrumble.

The earth opened its mouth to the sound of a massive vibration.

The two firmly touching walls spread apart to create a hollow.

The dirt stuck to the ceiling as if defying gravity.

Solid matter ignored its properties, flowing like a liquid.

Within the gaping maw of the earth, not unlike an enormous beast’s mouth, echoed a tremendous sound.

A voice that could only have been heard in a game resonated from deep within the enormous cave that appeared before us.

[Oh worthy ones. Come unto Me. The path is laid.]