Vol 1 Chapter 1 (1/1)

”Head here!” The ever cheerful little girl beside e of the forest A battle? Out here? ”Slon child, let me take a look first” I told her as I slowly approach the bodies One can never be too careful, especially now that Immortals started to appear frequently over the last six years Using my staff, I start to check out those bodies ”«Arcane Hold»! «analyze»!” fua Their vital inforic co beforejust 1 level 0 i? ”What's irl next to uess Ithese people back” ”Oooh~, theythese friends back okay? But if they don't wake up, we can always do a dissection” ”Okay~~~” I slowly bring the three floating bodies behind ?!” A screae of desperation pierces the air ”«Bash!+» «Bash!+» «Bash!+»«&Backslide!raquo;” A youth with dashi+ng blonde hair repeatedly use his offensive skill with a wooden sword on the [Hunts ahen it tries to strike back ”«Bash!+»” In the adjacent field, a tall woman with red hair circles another [Huntsman Rabbit] slowly and counters at the last second with same skill as the blonde youth when it jumps in to attack The rabbit flies back 2confused Same skill used completely differently, as expected of these ione in the field behind th tree branch with his left hand in the lead while holding the wooden sword on the right The branch is covered in scratches, but other than that, he looks perfectly fine The rabbit on the other hand is bruised all over, with a large swelling that's obscuring its right eye He only used bash once, then stopped when it didn't have an effect He had been relying on regular strikes since, yet the rabbit looks like it's about done This one has soement Thenot co the tree branch outward, taking the rabbit's strike with it Right after, a fast overhand slash made with the wooden sword land squarely on its head bushari I can barely hear that soft, clean crack of the rabbit's skull Therabbit was actually this easy,” such a strange coh He walks up and drop the rabbit carcass next toaway slowly It appears Till-chan told them about my offhanded joke ”Guys! Don't use skills! It appears we can't do any dae with them at level 0!” Ah, that would explain it And I didn't say they can't help each other, just not interfere I turn back to watching the two re! JUST DIE ALREADY!” The rabbit froze, even I was taken aback by that wo counters almost exclusively, runs up to the rabbit with a heavy two handed slash The rabbit snaps out of its daze and blocks with its oversized claws I look on eagerly and isn't disappointed Tossing the wooden sword aside on the follow through to her left side, she brings her long leg out froht in the head It floats upward a bit before she execute a beautiful scissor kick, sending it in the air Retrieving the sword next to her, she readies herself in a jodan stance ”RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” She roars again Is she really an iht doith the rabbit, leaving a loud impact Even the other children turns to look in curiousity The rabbit's corpse scatters into speckles of lights, leaving a very daed pelt behind ”OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH~~~!” Till was excitedly watching the scene, I didn't even noticed when she logged in I don't understand why the iets through, it's all the saan his assault Throwing s around, he throws them at the rabbit as soon it attacks I don't think it would do any dary now ”Ha! «Backslide»! Hht aith a smooth moment, he threw a rock at the rabbit before it can counter attack Is he a one trick-pony? Unexpectedly, he throws a handful of rocks at the rabbit this time around ”HA! «Backslide»! HHAAA!” It looks like he over juet behind the rabbit as it recovers fro the rocks away It was followed by a dosun when he used the recoil fro his sword into the back of the rabbit's head ”So, we are clear to go if we beat this?” The tall woo once you do this one last test” I have all the data already fro for thee of the field while De' whistle ”WHAT THE hell?!” The blonde one seems particular excitable ”Don't worry, Rick, just run around and throw rock when appropriate, especially if you see the one of us Bell and I will try to hold their attention and try to get an opening If one of them is vulnerable, attack it at once if you can” The two other nods Quite a tactician we have here The three of them stands back to back as the 6 [Huntsman Rabbit] approach them ”RAA!” ”«Backslide»!” ”Hm!” The black-haired man and the tall woman makes wide horizontal sweeps with their swords while the blonde youth slides back before running off One of the rabbits tries to chase after hi tree branch intercepts its path It is now 6 vs 2, the rabbits are se They stand still for aup each other Unexpectedly, the shorthairaway The rabbits, seeing their chance, ju rabbit flies sideways mid-jump The other rabbits turns to look at the stone that suddenly appeared from nowhere zushi+n Another flies in the air from the woman's sudden strike Sheclaws aimed at her The rabbits turn their attention back toward her, slowly spreads out after landing, trying to surround her dosun dosun dosun dosun The blackhaired man that ran away actually ran a few steps, then turned i the tall wo over two dead rabbit that were stunned froht to check on the blonde youth He's in an odd stance, at least a stance I've never seen before Holding a stone with both hands, he has one of his shoulders point squarely at the rabbits He's looking over that shoulder attentively, suddenly, he lifts his leading leg up and then throws the stone with all histhe stone, I see another rabbit get taken out The short-hairedat the youth, rushes toward the reoes after the stunned rabbit with a zushi+n bushari bushari The ed to kill two of the rabbit alone ”Watch out!” The 3rd rabbit had ignored the ainst the wo with his warning ”«BASH»!” The wo with her sword The rabbit have its eyes wide open at the unexpected speed of the swing and brings its claws up to block it The sword swing ht behind it bushu Rabbit and stone, both are now sailing through the air ”Were you ai for me you dumbass?” ”It's not my fault you are the size of a barn!” blahblahblah The two bickers as I look at the still flying o? ”Bye, Headmistress! I will be back soon!” Till waves happily as she leaves with the three iohon I cover h I don't have much time ”De'muel, Mak'ra, Isnic, you three come with me The rest of you, supervise the kids” ”Yesin front ofthat is bornelse” ”Now go prepare everything, there isn't much time” The three left the room with tears in their eyes I'hters The three of them were my first three children, to be exact, I adopted theo, I was a part of the Pent Kingdoician], technically, I was er surrounding kingdo deainst their so called God What kind of God discri people? It'sto rob us of our [Artifact]s To prevent our demise, the 7 of us employed «Mass Teleportation» to send as many of the royalties, secrets and citizens to a safe location in the distant Zrewheig continent oversea The plan was to teleport as e of death anyways, we planned on using «Self-Destruct» when the ene to die so that their loved ones and the rest of the kingdom can live on, how can we do any less? Who knew that there was a traitor a us Everyone that can had already teleported The artifacts were the last to be sent That hen the last defense line was breached and the [Chief Magician] killed one of us with a «Fireball» spell The re 6 of us used spells of our own to finish him off But the enemy soldiers were seconds away from us The [Royal Tutor] rushed out toward the soldiers immediately with a «Self-Destruct» I didn't knohat the others were doing at the ti as many enedom for over 200 years,ic} since my mana has depleted Before I can start, the [Imperial Historian] shoved a crystal and elixir into my hands and kickedmy mind due to the spatial rifts and fissure, I had my first [Vision] before I eventually blacked out When I canize I was sleeping on a roll of cloth and was blanketed with a cloak This hen I first met Xin and Till, and the first tiends Xin had thought I was injured and tried to use some [Potions] to help my wound, but they had little effect It's no wonder, it needed all 7 of the top dom to cast «Mass Teleportation» and ere still expected to die afterward I wassince her daughter had searched my body and used the elixir she found on me to treat me Little Till was probably around 6 to 7 years old at the tied a little in the last 19 years I thanked the two before trying to travel in search of my people Three days later, a similar scene happened The sa me My life was saved, but apparently I was too weak to travel I started to think I' the two and killingso no one will know of my existence For soirl fro them never returned since I later found out that I couldn't have killed the that I could travel soon The two shared their little shelter with me, weeks turned into months, months turned into years Xin appeared less and less, but Till still ca and decided to live here peacefully untilthose quiet days In the drea his own life essence as mana to seal all the [Artifact]s inside a crystal with the largest [Spatial Storage] The [Royal Physician] was refining his blood into an [Condensed Life] elixir That's how I learned how I , and that the crystal contains the secrets of our kingdom It seems the elixir forcefully compressed my lifespan to combat the side effect of the «Mass Teleportation» spell There were consecutive explosions after kicking me into the portal, no doubts that they all used «Self-Destruct» When ere out strolling and foraging one day, Till ran toward so to cal babe in her small arms That was how I found De'muel, eventually Mak'ra, Isnic and many others I expanded the little shelter into a cabin, a cabin into a house I considered turning it into an orphanage But hoould the kids feel growing up as though they were unwanted in the first place? Instead, I ended up turning it into an Academy A place where they will learn the needed skills to survive, a place where they will at least have a fao, rumours of the mass appearance of Immortals circulated and was later proven to be true It was around this time that I started to have frequent [Vision]s, and especially the one concerningvarious formations, leylines and securitybefore others started calling this area the [Forest of Illusions] If fully activated, the forest can probably withstand the assault of a full grown dragon I hope it would never get to that Ah what 19 years it has been Leaning on a table in the rooe crystal inside With the last ofit to fall I slowlychair Dosnak o I can only wait now It is co to know that there will still be soone ”Take good care of each other, okay? There's nothing to be sad about” I givelittle Till a little pat withanyh I should be the last survivor of dom, there's still a family there to mourn for me I wonder how he'd look when he finds out I tricked him The funeral was a simple affair The headmistress body was laid to rest on the s fields A seed was planted by De' her remains The children all had tears in their eyes, but it seeiven orders on how to keep the acade or working within a few days ”What kind of game have such detailed scenarios?” The party of four gathers into the main conference room inside the academy, De'et” Reaching into his tunic, Rick takes out a stack of [Pledges] ”The city of Feia can subsidize 750 gold a year, and asks us to allow their children to enroll” ”That's it? Didn't we get 600 gold just from that fur trader?” Bell looks at Rick doubtfully ”I asked the sa Apparently, that red pelt was an [Ele material It is actually quite rare to find one of that quality, the fur traderit in one of the et is only about 8000 gold So they arequite the concession” ”How did your headmistress fund the academy before?” Kun asks the two boys The two look at each other before looking back at Kun ”There were these well-dressed people, some of them even wore crowns and tiaras, that coeold when she inspects some items” ”She had nobles and royalties as customers? da ”So tuition if they send their kids here” ”How old if it include food and board” ”25 brats we can do that What do you think, Kun?” ”I don't think there's that many elders in all of Feia, and we aren't that well known What do we even teach?” De'e stack of books ”Head” ”'Introduction to Magic', 'Art of Far', 'Theory of Mana', h hih the books and manuals one by one ”There are 2 e, would you like me to take theht now” Rick reacts as though he's afraid more books will show up ”Actually, I have an idea I will see if it's feasible first” ”We will also need so for the first year first We can probably pool our hs ”Actually, the headold, just in case” De'ht on how to use the defensive forht after ”Looks like we have three years to get everything running then” ”Two years, Rick-ni, two years” The quiet Till finally speaks up Rick's face flushes pink and change the subject ”Who would have thought ould be running an acadeuildhouse” ”Indeed, but if others finds out we are at such a low level, they will likely try and steal it froood as your strength to keep it” Kun knows this all too well ”We should thank Rick for his hard work, how oes fro silent ”Thank you, Head Rick starts burying his head into the conference table ”So what should we call the academy?” Bell looks around the room After a moment of silence, Till says in a clear voice ”Zinnia Acadeet the head the bright red Rick buried in his arms ”Zinnia Academy it is”