Chapter Chapter 31: RATH 31 TL: Eevee (2/2)

And the palace itself was bloody big too.

-Won’t they call for you in the holidays?

-In the holidays I can just claim I need to go back to the elves’ forest because of my illness.

-We really gonna to the elves’ forest? I sewiously wanna see some elves! I heard there were lotsa beauties there!

-There’s also a lot of crazy ones too!

-Hakhak owner’s crazy kids are always pretty! I wanna go even more!

No seriously, the only elves I know, would be the erofus(2) you might see on Hi**mi(3) that you’d want to tell them to watch out for orcs, or for someone that’s supposedly the guardian of the woods, a crazy High Elf that when I asked if they had any leftover branches of the World Tree in storage, without any hesitation whatsoever she immediately cut off a fresh branch of the divine tree, the World Tree, and sent it by fast mail.

“So this is the current state of the academy.”

“It is.”

As the dean that looked like a thinner Dum**edore wiped his eyes after he finished talking, he looked to me expectantly.

“And because of that, even if we had to permit Professor Nicerwin’s conditions, we decided to change the academy.”

“It must have been a hard decision.”

Well, although I wasn’t listening to it properly, I got the general gist of it.

Summoning was a process where the summoner and the summon communed with each other to bring each other to greater heights.

But, if you’re strong then everything’s OK!

If you’re like me who spent their entire life honing their swordplay, and struggled to deal with a single person with sword ki and crap skills, or even if you studied your ass off about summoning while your own summoning skills were substandard due to poor talent, if the summoner him or herself could just beat the crap out of the enemy summon and the summoner, that renders a pure summoner useless.

Meaning, using yourself as the main force, while using the summon as a support.

And if using your own strength rather than a summon was the faster way to get stronger, of course young kids these days would train yourself rather than a summon.

And the results naturally showed themselves in the empire’s festival.

“Our equipment summoners were beaten by Arucia in close combat. The summoners who used elementals or spirits were beaten by Marcis’ students. And since many high-ranking nobles have a significant number of summoned spirits…”

The dean tailed off, unable to say any more.

Well, I get the gist of it. Yugrasia is a summoner’s school.

And because of that, you learn about summons, and you learn about the use and emotions of the summon.

And for this to show an effect, unless you’re a genius like the imperial princess or a few of my disciples, this takes a very long time.

To begin with, considering the majority of summons are at least a few hundred, average a few thousand years old, there’s no way that communication between them and a bunch of brats who haven’t even lived half their lives would ever be simple.

And because of that in situations like the empire’s festival which focuses on live combat, it makes sense that kids that have been learning about summoning would have no chance against kids who learn magic and swordsmanship on a daily basis

And on top of that, if the enemy also uses a summon as well?

Even if they have nothing to do with summoning at all, if you bring out a summon and beat the crap out of the opponent with a sword, then the winner looks like the better summoner.

And the parents that watched the empire’s festival would obviously send their children to a place other than Yugrasia even if their child is competent at summoning.

Even I wouldn’t send my kids to Yugrasia.

These morons with no sense of business morals.

“Is there no way to prevent this?”

“It can’t be helped. If you’re talking about high-ranking nobles, then no matter how low-tier the summon is, they see making a contract with a summon almost as a tradition, and it’s not like we do not teach magic or swordsmanship either.”

Normally, summons protect their contracted master until their death.

Because of that, there are many cases where children make contracts with low-ranking spirits for self-defense.

On top of that, although our main fighting force is summoning, it’s impossible to win without using magic or swordsmanship.

-Then wat nao? I don’t wanna get screwed the moment we’re free!

I too, have no wish to have to wonder where to go because my destination shut down the moment I arrived.

“Is there no support from the Summoner’s Association?”

“Since the relationship between the Summoner’s Association and the Magic Tower is a long one, they are more closely aligned with Marcis than us.”

“So there’s nothing.”

“I’m sorry.”

-Owner, he’s still an old man! Don’t make him bow down so much! If I knew my owner was a bad boy… Huh? Bad boy? Mm? something bout that sounds pretty good.

-Could you please shut up for a minute? You talk an awful amount. Does that mouth of yours ever get tired?

While reciting the lyrics from one of the songs I heard a lot word for word, I summed up the current situation.

If the school cannot produce results at the next empire festival, it could close down and be replaced by another school.

Including last year, for the last ten years they were always third in the empire festival, fourth in the cultural festival.

While the current student council around the current student council president were splendid talents, there were no successors for them.

And at this rate, prodigies and talents will never come to Yugrasia, and then to not fall into ruin this situation needs to be changed.

-Is there a way?

-Yes, there is.

-Wiin? Whazzit? What do you have to do to revive this school that’s got flies buzzing around it?

-We need to bring in hell.

-Hell? Are you summoning another devil?

Devil? Well, even though devils are strong, what Yugrasia needs right now are summoners.

More accurately, the students’ desparation. And even among hells, there is a hell that drives people to the brink.

-I will bring to this place, the entrance exam hell.

This world’s brats spend more time playing even though they’re students.

Of course they would have been brought up with strict household tuition from an early age.

But, even still!

Their school life is way too easy!

And to these brats who have had a comfortable, easy school life all this time, it is time to show them the majesty of Hell Joseon.(4)