The Barbarian of the Academy - Chapter 192
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6.
Pertisha playing paddle.
She pounded on the stone floor..
Like asking to sit next to you quickly. Worried for a moment, Ulan soon moved on to her steps, and she immediately looked at her reflection in her water surface..
‘it's messy.’
Is it because I passed through the tunnel??
I brushed it off, but it's still muddy. It's better to wash clean than to stay like this forever.
When I thought so.
“Shall we sit aside a little more??”
“no need to.”
“yes? then… … . Wow!”
Suddenly a short scream came out.
It's because Ulan, who took off his pants, jumped into the fountain of magic without hesitation..
with a plop!
Huge spray of water splashing in all directions.
After a while, the massive body sank to the bottom of the water and rose again. The dirt that covered the whole body was also cleanly washed..
“definitely cool.”
A refreshing feeling that wraps around the body.
Ulan grinned..
Meanwhile, Perticia, who was looking at him, had a mischievous smile with an expression of realization..
“Eight!”
Then, like Ulan, he jumped into the fountain..
With a small spray of water, the body quickly rises to the surface. Then, Ulan, who was watching this, asked in a puzzled way..
“what are you doing?”
Why jump into the water when your body is clean? When I asked a question out of curiosity, a simple and clear answer came back soon..
“It looks cooler this way.”
“But your clothes are wet.”
“hehe, it's okay!”
After smiling at bash.
She spread her arms wide.
“'Cause I have spirits.”
Right after the confident voice stopped.
Soon something amazing happened.
The water that filled her body turned into water droplets, and it was a sight that fell by itself..
“I saw?”
she smiles triumphantly.
I never thought this could be possible with spirits.
Ulan made a curious expression. Then, on the other hand, a question came to mind. Because it was a phenomenon he had never seen in his past life..
“Hey, I feel comfortable doing this..”
Meanwhile, Perticia, floating on the surface of the water, yawned and put on a drowsy expression..
As if falling asleep right now.
“I also feel a little nostalgic.”
“miss you?”
“The place I was in was similar to here. There were a lot of trees, and there was also a pond where you could dip your feet like here..”
Maybe it's the yellow star.
where I first met her.
Unlike the ruined surroundings, I remember that the forest where Perticia was was overflowing with life..
“do you want to go back there?”
“that's not it.”
Immediate answer without hesitation.
she answered in a firm tone.
“It's a place where I've stayed since I first opened my eyes, so I'm familiar with it, but now I want to look around the wider world..”
Red eyes turned upwards.
A single bird flying freely in the cloudless sky. After chasing the bird for a while, the eyes rolled to where Ulan was..
“how about you?”
“what do you mean?”
“I mean hometown. I heard it's the northern meadows, but I don't miss it or want to go back.?”
“Of course I miss you.”
In the past life, and now.
Ulan loves and misses the meadow.
“but can't go back.”
“why?”
“I still have work to do.”
“Aha, you're graduating.?”
Of course, that is also one of the reasons.
But it is not the ultimate goal. What he said was to win the war against the abyss..
‘but…….’
It seemed that answering this would require a lengthy explanation, so Ulan closed his mouth..
Then the topic was turned elsewhere..
“I have something I want to ask you.”
“Yes? what is it?”
“why did you come here?”
Perticia didn't just find the fountain of magic to play water. She had a more specific and clear purpose for her..
When Ulan, who understood this, asked back, she confessed the truth surprisingly simply..
“As I mentioned briefly last time, I'm worried about the whispers of the spirits..”
“what do you whisper?”
“There's someone over there.”
she pointed through the fog.
Immediately after exiting the tunnel, the direction she had been looking all along. The place where the spring of true magic is located and where the door to the abyss will open in the distant future..
It was right in District 5..
“He's been there for a long time, but he's lonely and lonely, and he's asking for help..”
it's nonsense.
In the first place, life cannot exist in District 5. If there really is, it must be a monster or a follower that has climbed up from the abyss..
The moment I made that decision.
There was a memory that suddenly flashed through my mind..
“wait for a sec.”
“yes?”
“Could it be that the child is a spirit??”
“what? How did you know?”
Perticia's eyes became round..
As if it had been stabbed in the right direction. Her reaction convinced Ulan that her guess was correct..
‘I did too.’
I finally understood.
Why did Perticia want to go to the fountain of magic, the 5th district?.
‘Maybe it's because of the warrior's ordeal.’
Seven warriors who passed the ordeal.
Among them, Perticia's ordeal could be said to be unique..
Unlike the other warriors, the place where she endured her ordeal was none other than the abyss..
‘Later, I met Perticia for the first time…….’
The moment I tried to escape the collapsing imperial castle.
Suddenly, dozens of abyssal cracks opened across the imperial castle. And that was the day that Per Tisha passed her warrior's ordeal..
‘After passing the ordeal after many twists and turns, you said that you became friends with an unusual spirit..’
Unidentified spirit found in the abyss.
It was a kind of reward for passing the hero's ordeal. After a while, the true identity of the spirit was revealed..
‘……Abyssal Spirit.’
An entity that will become the most powerful ally among the spirits that guard Perticia's side in the distant future. A spirit that can neutralize the magic of the abyss at the same time.
That's the spirit of the abyss.
If you organize all the information based on this, you will soon arrive at a conclusion..
‘in District 5…….’
Is the trial of Perticia about to begin??
At the end of a convincing guess.
Bright red eyes shone intensely..
7.
Noon when the sun rises in the sky.
Perhaps because it was the weekend after midterm exams, the reading room was filled with a quiet atmosphere..
It's not empty at all.
In a corner of the reading room, a girl with black hair was busy turning over documents..
“Eh.”
Noah narrowed his eyes.
The document she is staring at is a kind of list. It was also the information handed over from the inspector who visited Ulan yesterday..
In this, the list of the imperial investigation team that came to investigate the last time the gap in the abyss was opened was recorded..
“ugh!”
how long has it been like that?
When the paperwork that started early in the morning was over, Noah stretched out like a frown..
What she did was to cull out those with the power and authority to access the fountain of magic and open the rift in the abyss..
In other words, it was to deduce the candidate of the abyss worshiper that Baekrang had witnessed. Finally, a candidate that satisfies all conditions was selected..
‘Two strong candidates.’
Baruuk Celestine.
Demuel Ron Dermore.
Noah shredded the documents containing the personal information of the two candidates and his eyes shone fiercely..
‘Let's look at them in turn. First, Baruuk Celestine.’
The wizard who participated as the vice-captain of the investigation team.
He possesses skills that have reached the level of a high-ranking wizard, and is also the only heir to Count Celestine's family, which is famous for its magical powers..
‘The problem is that this is all.’
There is no information that can be called special.
Even Noah, who has played the original game numerous times, is a person whose presence is so low that it is the first person to see it..
Still, it had the elements to approach the fountain of magic and open the gap, so it was classified as a separate candidate like this..
‘Next…….’
Familiar with Noah and Ulan.
A wizard who had a relationship with her teacher, the shaman of the grassland, Azuh, and who wrote letters of recommendation for admission to Arsene Academy..
‘Earl of Dermore.’
The deep blue eyes shone seriously..
Unlike Baruch, who has little importance, the Count is a fairly well-known figure in the original work..
He was crazy about reviving his daughter who died early due to illness, and was a contributor to making the door to the abyss open faster..
‘But in the original story, the Count was never involved with the Abyssal Worshipers..’
Besides, he is currently supporting 'Cyrpi Rudric'. In other words, he is not an abyss worshiper, but rather a member of the Desert Cult..
‘and the desert church…….’
Very hostile to the abyss.
In all developments of the original work, the Desert Church fought against the abyss by leading the army of the dead and the beast army revived by necromancy..
“ok, then who is it?”
Who is the culprit who opened the gap in the abyss during summer vacation? Noah frowned as he felt her head throb..
‘Actually, the most certain thing is to check the records of people who have entered and exited the Magic Fountain.…….’
The Fountain of Magic is the most important area in the academy, and at the same time the most dangerous place..
So, everyone who enters and exits through the front door is automatically recorded on the video recording device..
Noah, who knew this through the setting of the original work, visited Marquis Gorfant last night to secure the record..
but didn't achieve the purpose.
‘Said there was no record at all.’
Only the record from the start to the end of summer vacation has been wiped clean..
It was probably removed in advance in case someone would pry behind it like now..
“haha, that's really detailed.”
After letting out a sigh in a frustrated heart.
Noah patted his cheek with the palm of his hand..
“……wake up.”
Records that have already been lost cannot be helped.
I have no choice but to identify the culprit as much as possible using only the given clues. But there was little she could do from here on out..
The selected candidates are quite large, and a background investigation will be accompanied by corresponding risks..
So, there is the right person for this job..
‘Marquis of Gorfant.’
He is the most powerful being that the current Noah knows. In addition, he is also famous for having a spy organization of considerable skill..
‘surely that person…….’
We can figure out who the culprit is..
Noah believed so.
Afterwards, she put the papers she had organized into an envelope and left the reading room. In order to deliver it to Marquis Gorfant,.
That was then.
“oh, there it is!”
A familiar voice came suddenly.
Soon the sound of strong footsteps was also heard..
“Noah!”
“here you were.”
Ibela and Dillia.
The two approached at once and revealed their business to Noah without any hesitation..
It was about Ulan..
“Do you know where Ulan is??”
“We were supposed to have lunch together at noon, but I couldn't find where it was..”
“huh? Oh, if Ulan…….”
Early morning on the way to the library.
I saw him heading towards the Faculty of Magic full of enthusiasm for volunteer work..
So I relayed this fact, but somehow Dilia's reaction was lukewarm..
“Since then, apart, never met, no?”
“huh. That's because I've been in the library all along..”
I answered honestly because it was true.
Dillia makes a troubled expression at this.
Then Noah tilted his head as if he didn't understand..
“You can't just check it with magic?”
“that…….”
“Now that you've risen to the level of a great wizard, you can use magic like 'Eye of the Stars'..”
Cluster magic, star pupil.
8Classified by star, this magic boasts the best performance among the observation series..
After creating a huge eye in the sky, it is a magic that allows you to find the being or object you want in any area within your line of sight..
But why was the reaction so strange?.
“……I tried but couldn't find it.”
“what? Even though I wore star pupils?”
“yeah, i didn't see it.”
Dillia is graciously affirming.
Only then did Noah's complexion change..
If it wasn't reflected in the eyes of the stars, there was a possibility that he would have escaped the academy..
“no where the hell…….”
No matter how stoned it was, he probably wouldn't have volunteered outside the academy..
Then Dillia added an explanation..
“By the way, at the academy, there was just one place, out of sight, out of reach..”
“really? somewhere?”
“fountain of magic.”
of course.
The fountain of magical power is the source of pure magical power..
It's not the kind of area that a magical pupil can capture..
“But in the first place…….”
“There's no reason for Ulan to go in.”
Ibella murmured quietly..
just as she said.
During summer vacation, ever since someone informed the superiors that someone had opened a rift in the abyss, access to the fountain of magical power was strictly controlled..
So, the moment I was about to tell him to use the star pupil to find Ulan again,.
crackle! tooth support weave!
I heard a strange noise.
Like the unidentified noise emitted by a radio with the wrong frequency. The moment I recognized this fact, a phenomenon that only Noah could see appeared..
“……Eh?”
A square window appeared in front of you.
It was a system notification..
[alarm]
▶The Trial of the Hero - The Beginning of the Challenge
▶Challenger: [Pertisia Ib Al Ruben]
[Time remaining until the ordeal is complete]:
*99time 59 minutes 59 seconds
right after checking this.
Noah was as solid as a stone statue..
44page. hastened fate
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