The Academy's Barbarian-Chapter 206
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10.
Spirit of the abyss who sits in a small place.
Ulan was puzzled by the sudden appearance of the guy. A brief silence hovering around.
Around the time the confrontation continued.
The spirit spoke first..
“I've been sleeping and now I'm awake.”
“I slept?”
“Yeah, I fell asleep for some reason.”
It was the moment when the reason why Perticia hadn't appeared since passing the hero's ordeal was revealed..
“But now I'm fine!”
Spirit of the abyss with a hearty smile.
Faced with that bright smile, Ulan threw an additional unanswered question..
“But why did you come here?”
“Yes? what do you mean?”
“You should stay by Perticia's side.”
If Perticia passed the ordeal, it means that she automatically signed a contract with the spirit of the abyss..
Then, like other spirits, it is only normal for him to be by Perticia's side. Meanwhile, at this question, the guy smiled awkwardly..
“that's a bit awkward.”
“it's awkward?”
“Yeah, it was too noisy..”
I understood at once what it meant..
Even Ulan himself had experienced how talkative the spirits were..
‘and…….’
Judging by the look on his face, he must have been bitterly criticized by the other spirits..
That would be natural.
The spirit of the abyss drowned Pertishia in the abyss and tried to act instead of herself..
‘Even if Perticia had been forgiven, the spirits would not have forgiven her..’
Come to think of it, it was like that in my past life too..
The Spirit of the Abyss seldom cooperated with other spirits, and this was only resolved after a considerable amount of time had passed..
“Where are you anyway?”
Then, the Spirit of the Abyss jumped off the bed and looked around. Her clear curiosity was with her blooming face..
“It seems like a place far away from where I first met you.…….”
“right. this is a different place.”
Ulan's explanation soon followed..
As the story continues, the spirit's eyes sparkle intensely. Among them, he showed a strong curiosity about horsepower-powered trains..
“Wow, I want to ride too!”
“If it's a train, you've already boarded?”
“uh? When did I?”
“I would have been with Perticia.”
“that's invalid! You don't share your senses while you're asleep.”
A grumbling spirit with a sullen face.
Like what I just said, it basically shares all of its senses with Perticia, but all its abilities are sealed when it is asleep..
Recalling the memories of his past life, Ulan replied with a silent nod..
“Then wait for the last day. I heard you're taking the train again on the way back.”
“really? good! never sleep!”
At the time when the spirits were determined.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard beyond the door..
smart!
A knocking sound followed. At the same time, a familiar voice tapped on my ear..
“Ulan, I'm inside.?”
It's Noah's voice..
she whispered.
“There's something I'd like to discuss for a moment. It's okay if you go inside.?”
“okay. come in.”
“yes, then excuse me.”
a cautious visit.
Soon, Noah appeared dressed in simple clothes. Dressed in her white shirt and blue shorts, she suddenly widened her eyes..
As if I found something familiar.
“what? It's the spirit of the abyss.”
As soon as Noah saw the spirit in the form of a young Perticia, he identified it at once..
On the other hand, the spirit hid behind Ulan as if embarrassed by the sudden appearance of Noah. In response, Ulan shook his head and said:.
“Okay. Noah is my colleague.”
“……colleague?”
“I mean he's a trustworthy guy.”
Did Ulan's words give me courage??
The spirit held out his body hesitantly. Then, as she looked at her Noah with her face softening her guard a little, she suddenly pulled out something..
“hi, do you want to eat this?”
“……what is that?”
“It is a candy made from hardened brown sugar..”
Noah's homemade candy.
Ulan has also eaten a few times.
Sweet yet strangely salty crab, I remember it as a taste that I secretly keep going with my hands..
“candy?”
“Yes, it's a very sweet treat that you'll never taste in the abyss..”
Hearing that it cannot be seen in the abyss, the spirit came straight to Noah as if to prove that he was curious about new things..
Afterwards, the sniffer sniffed out his tongue and licked the candy. Then he immediately opened his eyes wide.
“delicious!”
honest and straightforward response.
The spirit gobbled up the candy Noah handed over in an instant, like a crab hiding its eyes. After that, when I looked at Noah with eyes asking for another one.
“I'll give you one every time you talk to me.”
“Conversation Ramen……?”
“First, self-introduction.”
Noah naturally continued the conversation with the spirit. Of course, it was a conversation due to the reward of candy, but there was no problem in sharing information with each other..
A natural sight as if you were taming a dog.
Ulan honestly admired.
“You handle it surprisingly well.”
“I'm used to it.”
I understand what you mean.
Because Noah said that among the seven warriors, he lived as Pertishia the most. Of course he must be familiar with the spirits of the abyss..
some time after that.
The spirit, having eaten a lot of candy, completely let go of its guard against Noah. When the situation was settled, Ulan finally got to the point..
“What do you want to discuss more than that??”
“oh that's it…….”
At the same time, Noah's expression became serious..
She inhaled and exhaled repeatedly to control her breathing, and immediately pursed her lips..
“Before I was assigned a place to stay. I didn't notice anything strange about Dillia's question.?”
“Is it about an attack by monsters??”
“……I was guessing too.”
It is said that there have been frequent raids by monsters in the cities adjacent to the eastern jungle..
Noah felt strange about this..
Because this never happened in the original game..
“Of course, the area around the eastern jungle is famous for its battle lines, but it wasn't enough to be called a battleground..”
Ulan nodded as if agreeing..
It was because, he remembered, nothing like this had happened in a previous life..
“I've been thinking about why, but I don't know.”
“I have a rough guess.”
“Really? what?”
“I said it before, do you remember? Speculation on the possibility that one of the Lords of the Abyss might have come out..”
Of course I remember.
When Dillia was in the Trial of the Hero, a group of Abyss worshipers attacked her to interrupt the ordeal..
“If you are a worshiper of the abyss in the original work, it is normal to not even know the existence of the hero, let alone the trials. But then I moved as if I knew everything.”
around these changes.
At the time, Noah relayed his guess to Ulan that one of the Lords of the Abyss might have come out..
“So I think it's probably a similar situation to that time. As Ulan knows, among the cities that now touch the eastern jungle…….”
“I have a sulfern.”
The border city of Sern Kingdom, Sulfern.
It is the place where Sven Isaac is based and the place where he later undergoes the hero's ordeal..
In other words, just as the worshipers interfered with Dillia's ordeal last time, it makes sense to say that the purpose this time is to sabotage Sven's ordeal..
“There's just something strange about it..”
“yes? what part is it?”
“Worshipers don't deal with beasts.”
can't deal with it exactly.
Because the Desert Church is the only entity that can tame and control demon beasts throughout the continent..
Abyssal worshipers can only handle monsters from the abyss. If so, the worshipers and the massive appearance of demon beasts have nothing to do with it..
However, Noah thought differently..
“You don't have to deal with witchcraft..”
“what does that mean?”
“I mean literally. You don't have to tame the demons, just drive them out of the forest and you'll achieve your goal..”
“……!”
Ulan opened his eyes wide..
As if I finally understood Noah's words.
That was then.
“there you are.”
The Spirit of the Abyss, who had eaten all the candies before he knew it, spoke to him. The guy pointed at the forest outside the window and said,.
“I smell it over there.”
“smell?”
“Yes, the familiar scent of magical power.”
“……!?”
The faces of Ulan and Noah hardened..
It's a natural reaction.
Because, to the spirit of the abyss, if it was the familiar magic, it was only the 'magic of the abyss'..
“that is…….”
The Abyssal Worshipers, or something related to the Abyss, exists in the Eastern Jungle..
With the feeling of putting the scattered pieces of the puzzle together, Ulan spoke in a low voice..
“I think your guess is correct..”
“I guess it looks like that.”
After Noah's hardened words, Ulan confirmed the goal of this school trip..
The annihilation of everything related to the abyss).
Soon, crimson eyes gazing at the eastern jungle burned like a wildfire..
11.
Meanwhile at that time.
On the battlefield of Sulfern, a fierce battle had just ended. Soldiers' voices could be heard from everywhere on the battlefield where dead bodies were lined up..
“Whoa, it's over here.”
“how about that?”
“This one just ended.”
each tired face.
The surviving soldiers recovered the remains of their fallen comrades as if they were used to it..
“by the way.”
“I don't know if it's because of my mood, but it doesn't seem like the raids have increased recently.?”
“It's not because of my mood, it's definitely increased.”
“haha what the hell is this…….”
Voices from all over the battlefield.
At the same time, the pointy ears of the Myoin tribe boy near the wall pricked up. It was Sven Isaac, the beast hunter of Sulfern..
‘sure it is.’
Nodding his head as if agreeing with the soldiers, he had a peculiar habit: counting the number of monsters that appeared on the battlefield..
A kind of habit as a hunter, counting the overall number of prey. Soon, Sven's eyes flashed fiercely..
‘at least twice.’
The number of monsters increased significantly from last week.
The fatigue of the soldiers only increased..
Right now, even just Sven, I felt my shoulders hardened like a stone..
‘But what concerns me more than that is…….’
It felt like the monsters were running away from their habitats, chased by something, rather than raiding the city to get food like before..
It's a hunter's intuition.
So Sven told this to Milena Armadin, the garrison commander guarding the city. But the insignificant response came back.
「Regardless of the reason for the attack, our goal of warding off the demons remains unchanged..」
So, it means to stop worrying about useless things and focus on subjugating the beasts..
Of course you were right.
But even so, I felt that I shouldn't ignore it. That's why Sven put on a determined expression..
‘I guess I have to say it again today.’
Even if it means sending an investigation team to the eastern jungle, it is necessary to find out the cause of the sudden appearance of demon beasts..
and one more.
There was something that was bothering Sven's nerves. About the monster I came across by chance when I went into the jungle chasing the remnants of the beasts..
‘There was a monster I had never seen before.’
A guy that looks like a giant eyeball.
It was a monster with a strange appearance that I had never seen in my life, but the embarrassment did not last long. Because it was something to be dealt with anyway.
‘but…….’
Sven failed the hunt.
It was because he was fine even though he attacked all the places that were supposed to be weak points..
After that, the monster slowly disappeared, and Sven no longer followed after it. It was because his instinct as a hunter gave a warning..
‘what the hell are you doing?’
The moment I let out a sigh as if I was frustrated.
Suddenly, his eyes shone sharply..
Sven then grabbed his bow as fast as lightning and fired an arrow in the direction of the jungle..
pabababak!
Arrow flying through the wind.
Soon the pointy ears moved. Because I heard the sound of arrows being driven into the ground..
“what? Is it because of my mood?”
It seemed like there was a sign.
Sven narrowed his eyes..
After thinking for a moment, he turned around. After that, the moment he was about to head to the forest to investigate.
“Urgency! urgent!”
“A new group of monsters appears at the south gate!”
“After the battle, gather at the south gate except for the minimum number of defense troops.!”
An urgent voice grabbed my feet..
If it's the South Gate, it's where Milena Armadin is..
Recalling this, Sven turned around and headed for the south gate as if he had nothing to worry about..
some time after that.
A place not far from where Sven's arrow was stuck. With the rustling of the bushes, four men and women appeared..
“Abyss…….”
“It's that sub-species..”
Wizards in gray robes.
It was the Abyssal Worshipers..
“Certainly, the senses seem sensitive, but.”
“Is it enough to care?”
“We just can't handle it on our own?”
“that can't be.”
The moment we exchanged opinions.
A girl with dark blue hair put the brakes on the worshipers. She said as if pleading with a frown on her brow..
“There was a message from an apostle. The Abyss says that he will only allow you to move after joining the Undead..”
“ok, that's true…….”
“It's because waiting is boring.”
Two younger admirers grumbled. On the other hand, the older admirer asked with a serious face..
“When will the family of immortals arrive??”
“They say it will arrive in two days.”
“If so, you should prepare in advance..”
As soon as the Immortals arrive, they can trample Sulfern. As the worshiper murmured, the others' eyes lit up as well..
After a while, the worshipers who had been looking at Sulfern for a while soon disappeared into the depths of the jungle. Waiting for the time to come as soon as possible.
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