Chapter Chapter 41: 6. Hell is just beginning. (2) (1/2)
RATH 41
TL: Eevee
6. Hell is just beginning. (2)
#4 Their story: The student council president’s story [Subtitle: I saw the devil 1]
The breakthrough of the second floor was all but complete.
Of course, we didn’t think that we could exit the academy today.
On the first floor was still the academy’s strongest, Professors Muam and Harian that hadn’t appeared once yet to stop us leaving.
One of the strongest spirit summoners, even among the elves; combined with the gnome race’s strongest spirit summoner.
It will probably be an even more brutal battle than what happened just now.
No, come tomorrow, the fourth year’s dean might have shaken off his cold and we might be stopped here again.
But, the experience of having broken through at least once is valuable.
Alhough it was designed as a one-time use only move, my strategy worked.
Even if someone other than me used this attack, in an ambush attack this move could deal a surprisingly large amount of damage.
No, perhaps if it’s Professor Muam and Professor Harian who spend most of their time by themselves on the first floor, it’s possible they might not hear of this tactic from the other teachers.
“Kwahahaha. Wahahahaha!”
It was then.
That we heard a chilling, mad laughter.
“Kwuuugh!”
“Aaaaaghh!”
“Kyaah!”
And four people went flying at the same time.
“I won the bet, Maroon! Since you were the first to be defeated the next staff outing is on you! I’ll empty out all your professor’s salary!
Professor Aruhan was grinning like a lunatic as he saw Maroon collapsed in front of me.
As if, everything he’d done now was a joke, and his appearance right now, emanating fighting will while holding his spear, was that of an undeniable monster.
“Although I have treated you all as students all this time, but now it will be different. Very well. I, Aruhan Ekhed, will face you all as warriors.”
At that moment, a gust of mana began to rampage around the corridor.
The source was Professor Aruhan. With him at the center, space was bending around him!
“My summon, or perhaps not quite my summon, is the Key to the Imperial Armoury. Do you know what that signifies?”
Of course we did. Swords, daggers, spears, axes and all sorts of other weapons.
And starting from the thick steel armour that normal knights wore, all the way to armour said to have been made from a dragon’s scales!
Retrieving the best weapon for the situation at hand, and being able to retrieve the best armour for the situation at hand! The armoury that borrowed the name of a summon, that existed purely for strong warriors!
“But as strong as it is, there is an equally glaring weakness! That one cannot take weapons out immediately!”
That was the case. While you could summon all sorts of different kinds of equipment, you had to know of the weapon in question.
Moreover, the Key to the Imperial Armoury wasn’t a contract between one on one, but between a person and the empire.
Because of that, there are many people who have made a contract with the armoury, not just one.
Sometimes there are even cases where someone else was using the gear you wanted to use.
And at moments like those, summoning said equipment was impossible!
While there are some duplicates of some of the weapons in there, there was only one of each of the more outstanding equipment, so the user must be able to choose another immediately.
“But, at the end of my efforts I found a way to overcome that!”
The ceiling began to disappear. No, it was widening!
Not limited by the space of the corridor, a crimson land appeared with Professor Aruhan in the middle of it.
“Now, behold. This is the formation that combines the Imperial Armoury and my space magic, a formation that only I can wield in the entire empire!”
Countless weapons were embedded into the floor!
“I don’t need to take time to summon other weapons. Without any delay whatsoever, I can use every weapon at my command!”
Finally, the ceiling vanished, and we could see the crimson sky!
Professor Aruhan looked down on us as he shouted.
“This is my, Aruhan’s!”
More accurately, he tried to shout.
“Unlimited…”
“Diieee, Hectopascal Kick!(1)”
“Kuooohhhhk?!”
Until he got kicked in the side and blown away by a silver girl that flew in out of nowhere.
“Eiit. I was supposed ta’ be the final boss, but this mister was about to pull something weird so owner shent me up early.”
Even as she grumbled she kept lightly tapping at Professor Aruhan with those short legs of hers.
At those light footsteps, Professor Aruhan, who had laughed while tanking all our attacks, started uttering “kuueeehhk!” “kwuuhhkkk?” noises from his mouth, that were too bizarre to even be called screams.
“Well, even though my turn is a still a bit far off.”
As if her anger had cooled, the silver girl that had been poking Professor Aruhan turned to us, and smiled cutely.
And that day, we received a grim reminder.
“‘Specially f’ today, let’s play with unni?”
The disgrace of being unable to leave school,
“Heheet, tushitushi! Yap! Hiyap! Yah!”
“Kuuuuuughh!”
“Noooooooooo!”
The fear of the silver devil.(2)
#5 Their story: Aris ril Letia’s story [Subtitle: I saw the devil 2]
“Kaargh!”
“Wh, what the hell!”
“Block it Ariscia!”
“Silver Fang, beat it!”
“What the heck? The attacking summons are the ones falling!”
“Kuaaaarggh! Help, help me!”
The absence of the fourth year dean.
Thanks to that coincidence, we had an opportunity where we could barely clear the second floor.
We defeated Professor Maroon that stumped us time and time again, and now only Professor Aruhan was left.
We thought that with the combined assaults of the student council and I, we would be more than enough to defeat Professor Aruhan.
That was, until the moment Professor Aruhan was about to reveal his hidden card, and we saw the silver lifeform appear and brutally kick away Professor Aruhan’s side.
The moment the being that even plunged the goddess into despair appeared, that was the end for us.
In all honesty, I hadn’t believed that we would be able to leave school today.
Because there were still the strongest forces of the teachers, a Spirit King summoner and a God-class summoner, as well as Professor Nicerwin whose strength we still didn’t know of.
Even if we knew we couldn’t escape, what we wanted was confidence.
It was an attack where we would get through the second floor at least once, and revive the embers of hope that had been dying away because of our repeated failures.
But, the embers of hope vanished.
“Heehee, kids these days have some pretty good meat on them? Feels great to hit ya!”
“Sa, save me…”
“Uu, uwaaahhhk!”