The Barbarian of the Academy - Chapter 301
63page. Heir of the Faded Star (9)
13.
Immediately after discovering the pagans with Rudric's followers, the first to run was Barca Jan Arcaden, the northern swordsman..
“hahaha! I won't get rid of it all!”
His nickname is Battle Maniac.).
As if proving this fact, Barca let out a belligerent laugh and took the lead. Then, the opponent immediately took action..
[Aww! Mower!]
A monstrous howling menacingly.
He kindled a pure white flame, and soon the flames that burned in an instant turned into countless arrows and rained down on Barca..
But Barca did not avoid it, and soon a loud explosion covered the hall..
pop! woooooong!
Barca instantly engulfed in flames.
However, for a moment, Barca ran through the flames and ran into the battlefield again. He used his great sword as a shield to block the arrows of fire..
“Now it's my turn, monster.!”
With a loud roar as a signal, Barka spread her territory. Then, in an instant, he closed the gap and swung his greatsword at his opponent..
Whoa! kagagagak―!
At the same time, the attack was blocked..
However, it was not the grotesque bird that blocked the attack, but a large man wearing a white robe..
“Eh?”
A sword of bizarre shape that he holds.
It is a weapon called a curved sword. Upon discovering this, Barca crumpled her face..
“Some kind of infidel!”
Did he feel that the battle was interrupted??
He pressed down the opponent with his greatsword, while raising his aura to spread the area. Soon, the battlefield of Barkaman, which reached twelve steps, was created..
“die!”
I tried to take down the opponent at once, but it was just Barca's vain wish..
The opponent didn't budge at all, but rather squeezed into the area and even counterattacked..
“……!”
After exchanging several battles, Barca widened the distance with the opponent. Then he grinned suddenly at the man with the curved sword..
“Right. Was it a master?”
“…….”
no answer came back.
It didn't matter. Interfering with the master's realm was the most convincing proof.
“That would mean that you are the heathen who kidnapped the empress candidate..”
Who is responsible for defeating Limer Yen Lapidis.
Just that fact alone made Barca feel a sense of exhilaration overflowing from her body..
True to his nickname of a fighting maniac, he always longed for a battle with the strong. Then, Barca smirked at the corner of his mouth and continued to speak..
“I thought Count Deorg was incompetent because he had been guarding the frontline for over ten years, but that was all for a reason..”
Actually, I looked down on Istan at first..
It was thought that he was a coward without ambition in that the front line had been fixed against the infidels for decades..
but now it's different.
If there were such talented people in the desert, Barkara would have struggled quite a bit, too..
“then try again!”
Barca wields her greatsword again.
The opponent silently moved the curved sword and blocked his attack. Around the time when the battle began so close that no one dared to intervene.
Istan, who watched the battle from a distance, flashed fiercely in his eyes..
‘yes i'm sure.’
I was honestly a bit confused at first..
He was wearing the robes of desert warriors, and he was also wearing a mysterious mask..
However, the moment Istan saw him fighting Balka on equal footing in the master's realm, Istan had a hunch..
Who is the warrior with the curved sword?.
‘Ulaanbaatar.’
Istan's pupils calmly sank..
one more here. There was reason to believe he was Ulan. It was because of the white-furred wolf standing in front of the heathen as if to protect it..
‘So, they are the cadets of Arshen Academy, including Noah Darshen..’
ten days ago.
Istan nodded silently, thinking of Ulan and his companions crossing the southern front and heading to the desert. At the same time, when he intuited the identity of his opponent, the original question suddenly emerged..
‘but why?’
They said they were heading to the heart of the desert, so why are they here? That too, along with the magic beasts called Rudrick's family..
Istan was in a confused mood.
Then, suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind..
‘wait, that's…….’
It is said that Ibella is among them..
Realizing this fact, Istan immediately got out of his thoughts and began to search for the person presumed to be Ibella..
Before long he found Ibella..
just had a problem.
“Perticha!”
The fact that Rimmer Jen Lapidis is running towards the place where Ibella is..
To be precise, it was to find the empress candidate behind Ibella and run towards it, but.
Then, Isabella stood in her way. She was unexpectedly interrupted, and Limer groaned, crumpling her face..
“Do Not Disturb, Infidel!”
The moment he saw this, Istan widened his eyes and turned around, forgetting his identity..
It was to save Ibella..
It was judged that she could not stop Rimmer with her current skills..
‘no, it's late!’
However, when she realized this, Rimer's sword was already close to Ybela..
Istan's pupils are getting bigger.
Fortunately, however, Rimmer's sword did not touch Ybela..
Papababak! green onion!
It was thanks to an arrow that suddenly flew.
Rimer hesitated at the barrage of arrows that flew as if to check, and crumpled his face..
“Just like this arrow……!”
Repeatedly bursting into anger, she swung her sword to slash the arrows and spread the territory. She then turned her direction towards the archer..
“don't get rid of you!”
With the intention of defeating the annoying bowman and recapturing Perticia. But, to put it bluntly, her plan was foiled..
It succeeded in narrowing the gap with the archer and expanding the area, but the situation that occurred afterwards was something that Rimer had not expected at all..
“……?!”
Arrows that pierce her territory.
Remer, who instinctively sensed the danger, hurriedly twisted his body and narrowly avoided the arrow..
Afterwards, Rimmer kept his distance from the archer again and put on a puzzled expression..
“this, what is this…….”
An arrow that pierces the master's realm.
This means only one thing. It was the voice of a master like himself..
Meanwhile, Istan approached Ybela while Rimer was tied up by the archer. Then he swung his sword without intent to kill.
Caang! kagagagak―!
consecutive sword attacks.
After several rounds of battle, Istan was once again convinced..
‘Also, Isabella is right.’
She puts on a robe and covers her face with a mask, but this sword is definitely the sword of Ibella..
‘But why the hell are you acting with the desert cultists??’
I haven't even heard a word like that..
Besides, Istan couldn't guess why he was with the empress candidate..
I wanted to ask him directly, but I couldn't. There are a lot of eyes here right now..
‘I can't help it.’
We'll solve the question later, but for now, let's do our best not to hurt Ybela..
Istan, who had set a goal, continued the battle with Ibella, wielding a sword with no intent to kill..
So the battle got fiercer..
14.
Meanwhile around that time.
Ulan, who was in a fierce battle against Barca, recalled what had happened just a few minutes ago..
Just before meeting the masters of the empire, Noah snatched the robe and mask from Muak and the warriors of the desert and gave them to the others..
It was to hide his identity..
‘If your face gets caught, you'll be in trouble in many ways..’
So I agreed without hesitation..
As a result, it became the same outfit as when attacking Limer and the Royal Guard who were taking Perticia to the imperial castle in the past..
Thanks to that, it seemed that the battle had started because of a misunderstanding, but as long as I was with Perticia, I couldn't avoid friction with them..
“hahaha! get this from!”
Then Barca closed the gap again and madly swung the greatsword wrapped in aura..
It looked like an attack of conversion in its own way, but Ulan was accustomed to spilling the offensive. Meanwhile, he frowned slightly between his brows..
‘weapon is too light.’
Ulan's current weapon is a gokdo.
A desert warrior's weapon borrowed from Muak..
‘If you use the one you used before, you'll be able to overwhelm him more easily, but…….’
It couldn't be like that here.
It was because if Ose and Gula were wielded, Istan or Ceorik, whom they had dealt with once before, would be able to recognize their true identities..
Of course, killing all but the two would solve the problem, but it couldn't be. Just before the battle, Noah made a promise to God..
「never kill anyone!」
With the saying that if even one of the swords of the empire is killed, it will cause a lot of trouble later..
Above all, the party's purpose is to escape from this place after ostracizing them while hiding their identities, not to win the battle..
So Noah said.
After fighting moderately, let's take the time to move to the second destination, Kazan's Tomb..
‘that's right.’
Ulan also agreed with Noah..
However, I was a little dissatisfied with the words that I shouldn't kill anyone. Because it wasn't just the Masters of the Empire who were here right now..
‘……Earl of Dermore.’
Demuel Ron Dermore.
A person with a very strong possibility of being the Lord of the Abyss, the apostle of Lacus. Can I just get rid of that one thing here??
Ulan thought so.
On the other hand, Noah thought differently..
「If he really is an apostle of Lacus, the moment he defeats the Count, Lacus will most likely go into hiding forever..」
The howling eye of the abyss, if it were Lacus, it might be right. He had a very sinister personality in his last life too..
In other words, it is better to kill Lacus and Count Dermore at once later..
That's why, even with the Apostle of the Abyss in front of Ulan, who was outside his realm, he couldn't approach him..
‘and…….’
There was one more, impossible reason.
Except for Ulan, Sven, Ibella, and Noah, the rest can't rush into battle..
First of all, Perticia had to pretend to be unconscious, and Dillia, Laurea, and Ian had their strength characteristics so prominent..
‘Star magic and divine power.’
Dillia's star cluster magic is a rare magic with less than five people across the continent..
If he used it, the possibility of his identity being discovered was quite high. The divine powers of Laurea and Ian could not be used for similar reasons..
‘If you're aiming for the count…….’
The power lines will collapse, putting Dilia and Laurea at risk..
Then it was clear that the two would use star cluster magic and divine power, and if that happened, Noah's plan would have failed..
In response, Ulan suppressed his intent to kill Count Dermore and focused on the battle against Barca..
At that moment.
Suddenly, someone caught my eye.
‘Marquis of Gorfant!’
Did you think the war situation was unfavorable??
Seoric, who had been silently guarding his seat, suddenly entered the battlefield. However, he did not help Barca and Rimer, and chose a new option..
Just targeting Dillia and Laurea..
‘can't be like that.’
Ulan, aware of this beforehand, turned to block Theoric. But at that moment, Barca held onto his feet tenaciously..
“this guy! Where do you dare to look away!”
Barca stood in the way of Ulan.
If we delay here any longer, Dillia and Laurea will be in danger. The moment he had that thought, Ulan made a decision..
『transcendent realm』
area within the area.
Along the stretched area beyond the range of the senses that the master could perceive, the curved sword in Ulan's hand struck Barca's armor roughly..
“……!?”
A mighty blow with power.
Barca didn't even show any reaction, and just slammed into the wall..
Quagga gaga go! kwaaang!
It didn't just stick to the wall, it stopped in place only after breaking through several tomb walls and stone gates..
“Bar, Sir Barca!”
Seeing this, Seorik immediately changed his direction..
Because he realized that Barka, who had been struck by Ulan's blow, had momentarily lost consciousness..
Ulan, on the other hand, had no intention of fighting Theoric..
If you clashed weapons with him, there was a possibility that his identity would be discovered. Ulan had no choice but to make a different choice..
‘destroy the battlefield itself.’
Immediately after choosing a new option.
Ulan put his choice into action.
Aaaaaaaang―!
After wrapping all the spirits around the curved sword, he hit the tomb pillar with all his might..
The stone pillars collapsed in vain, and the shock waves that followed continued to shake the entire tomb of Zartum..
and the result.
“Whoops, the ceiling is collapsing!”
“It's a rockfall! avoid all!”
The agents of the Crow Brigade, who had been observing the situation without participating in the battle, shouted urgently..
The masters of the Empire, including Istan, hurriedly escaped from the tomb of Zartum, and Seoric also left the battlefield with Barka as his support..
“Coke, Coke!”
“Ugh! what power is that…….”
The situation where the whole tomb collapsed.
The Masters each coughed. Meanwhile, he looked around as if he were looking for Ulan and the others who had disappeared with Perticia..
“Keugh! where did the guys go?”
“disappeared over there!”
A small passage through the other side of the tomb.
Theoric immediately kicked his seat. Before he lost them, he was to track them down as quickly as possible..
Then at that moment.
Demuel exclaimed urgently..
“Do not approach hastily!”
“what? why?”
“There is a poison pool near the entrance to the passage. It is also a very strong corrosive poison..”
A poisonous puddle believed to have been created by one of Rudrick's followers, the Venomous Snake. That wasn't the only reason I couldn't track it.
Kurrrrr! thud! kwaaang―!
The basement ceiling suddenly collapses.
Perhaps the collapse started when the impact that just broke the column was transmitted to the entire basement..
“bar, you have to go out!”
“If we stay here, we'll all be buried!”
Did you feel threatened by this fact??
The Crow Brigade agents shouted with a clear look of bewilderment. Then Li Mer bit his lip and shouted in rebuttal..
“But with bastards right in front……!”
“Do not worry. It's enough to join the main force, identify the direction in which the pagans disappeared, and resume the pursuit..”
Then came Demuel..
While tapping the crystal ball, the tracking device that still emits dazzling light. Then he looked back at the group and continued talking..
“So let's get out of here!”
No differences emerged.
Thus, the Masters of the Empire left the collapsing underground space behind and ran toward the road leading to the surface..
Meanwhile, Istan, who was in charge of the rear of the group, glanced at the quickly buried grave of Zartum..
‘Ulan, Ibela…….’
Because they hadn't heard why they were hanging out with Rudric's family and even with the heretics..
Maybe that's why?
While Istan headed to the ground, he only stared at the underground passageway where Ulan and his party disappeared with a confused face..
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