Academy Ankle Reaper - Chapter 100



100. What was in the Black Forest

The Black Forest is a place that the academy has no control over.

It’s not completely out of control since they built a school nearby, but in the Black Forest, which occupies half of the large island, monsters that humans can’t control are sleeping.

If the monsters from the depths didn’t settle down in the Black Forest and came out from time to time, the academy wouldn’t have been built on this island.

The Black Forest is a dangerous place, but it has many benefits.

It was good to acquire the materials needed for research as rare animals and plants that are hard to find elsewhere inhabit.

The level of danger increased rapidly as you went deeper into the Black Forest, but if you rode well in the right place, it was a land where gold dust would spring up.

The more rare resources were collected in small quantities as needed, the more people wanted to conquer the Black Forest area, and there were several attempts to conquer the forest.

Once before the academy was even established, once after the academy was established, once when a student unknowingly went into the depths of the black forest and found only one arm, etc.

There have been about 10 attempts in history, but all have failed.

In order to hunt monsters, dozens of confident hunters, knights, wizards, and rangers went in, but even if they came out dead or came back alive, they were crippled.

The first 4 times were purely destroyed by monsters.

The monsters that had to be dealt with with troops such as basilisks and ogres looked like goblins that you could see outside the village, so I couldn’t dare to do anything with normal troops.

So from the 5th, two ‘expert advanced’ knights who were able to single-handedly defeat the ogre accompanied me.

Although all of them failed.

For expert-level knights, monsters were a side issue.

As we went deeper after defeating the basilisk and ogre, the environment changed to a completely different environment from the outside of the forest, and countless types of insects and poisonous plants inhabited it.

Insects had germs that caused fever or diarrhea, or poisons of various kinds that caused excruciating pain, paralysis, or coagulation of the blood, resulting in thrombosis.

It would have been a paradise for assassins who crafted witchcraft or poison, but unfortunately it wasn’t for the brave hunters who went to conquer the forest.

They weren’t stupid either.

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The hunters, who had seen such poisonous insects in other forests, entered the forest after making sure to deal with the poisonous insects.

I hired a wizard who can use magic to chase insects.

No matter how strong the poison and germs are, in the end, a bug is a bug.

Insects could be bitten by magic, so the hunters who entered safely didn’t know that plants and monsters that made it difficult to maintain magic grow in the depths of the Black Forest by emitting magic waves.

After failing 5 more times like that, the last subjugation party, including one ‘expert top’ swordsman who was able to focus his aura and bite poisonous insects on his own, set out… But that also failed.

I didn’t annihilate them this time.

About 2/3 of the punitive force was killed and only 1/3 managed to come back alive.

An expert swordsman who came out with the most survivors… Reiner Kruger, who was the leader of the ‘Knights of the Fierce Tiger’ at the time, warned with a haggard look.

‘Pay calculation is not right. Don’t touch that forest from now on.’

Rainer Kruger, who reached the deepest depths of the Black Forest after passing through monsters, poisonous insects, and poisonous plants, witnessed an unbelievable sight.

According to the testimonies of the survivors of the Knights of the Fierce Tiger, monsters that do not exist in one place exist in the deepest part of the Black Forest.

‘Hydra’, an immortal monster with 9 snake heads that regenerates endlessly, and ‘Orthos’, a demon dog with 2 heads breathing fire,

The one-eyed giant monster ‘Cyclops’, which is much more powerful than the ogres you have to deal with as an army… Legendary monsters are said to be guarding each other’s territory in that narrow forest.

I couldn’t understand why monsters like that were living together on that small island… And only in one forest.

Rainer Kruger said that ‘balance’ was maintained in the Black Forest, so as long as you didn’t go inside, there would be no problem, so there was no need to touch it.

If you try to subjugate it unreasonably, the Black Forest will be devastated.

Since then, no one has been able to raise the voice of conquering the Black Forest.

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I slowly recalled the memory of that time.

I entered the forest shortly after entering the academy.

I knew something about the Black Forest because I had seen it in the original work.

Obviously, the description of the Black Forest in the original work was like this.

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The forest was black.

It was black because the huge trees that stretched high into the sky were not well lit by the branches that stretched out ravenously to catch the sunlight.

There were so many rotten things that the soil with good soil was black.

The trees everywhere were black because they were full of moisture.

It is a forest like a monster that lures people with rare resources and eats those who enter without a word.

Like black, which absorbs light well.

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It was because of Shaara Phrygia that I seriously thought about searching the Black Forest.

I went deep into the Black Forest to lure the assassins hired by Shaara, and in the process of arranging the assassins, there was friction with the twisted monsters.

It was even worse when they kidnapped Shaara and went deep into the Black Forest.

It was before going to bed after her bath, so the monsters that smelled her soft and sweet scent rushed at her, gnashing their teeth and hunting them all.

It seems that the sweet scent of Shaara was very attractive to monsters.

Even a monster like a fake Cerberus with two heads appeared to eat her, so she said.

I had a lot of annoyance while slaughtering the monsters that endlessly ran at me until I was scared and stopped running at them.

At that time, because of her accumulated irritation, it seems that Shaara put more effort into her education.

As for how many monsters died at that time, Shaara Phrygia spit out all kinds of bodily fluids in one night, but she killed so many monsters that no monsters were afraid to attack.

When I later found out that the monster in the form of a two-headed dog was the legendary ‘Orthos’, I just had the impression that it was somehow a bit fast.

‘Your first thought was to use that monster to kill me?’

Orthoros was annoying, but it was just a monster.

It was a bit fast, breathed fire, could talk, and could use magic, but in the end it was a monster.

I didn’t even use the aura blade, I split my head vertically and put a stake through my heart.

‘Isn’t that a good idea.’

Thinking objectively, it was a pretty good method.

It would be too much of a burden to expel me now.

Now it is very difficult to expel me unless I drop out.

From what I’ve heard before, it seems that the headmaster told the principal about me and left… The successors of the Five Pillars are also supporting me.

Some are ambiguous, but at least two of them are friendly, so that’s enough.

If you touch me blatantly, it means that you will pretend to be with them, so unless you’re crazy, you can’t do that.

The force is strong, so physical harassment is impossible.

Then the only thing left is assassination, and hiring an assassin with an expert level or higher to kill a student is, at best, a great burden for Buckingham, a professor.

Assassins are basically reluctant to enter the academy.

So, was it a plan to hold an event that could cause an accident and deal with it quietly?

It’s a very rational way of thinking.

As a result, it didn’t turn out to be such a big problem… But if Buckingham’s plan actually happened, it would have caused considerable damage to other students besides me.

There is no way you can block the simultaneous attacks by the monsters that inhabit the depths of the Black Forest without taking damage.

Thinking of that made me angry.

“You are not innocent. Do you know?”

“Yes…”

The plan to mess up the hunting festival, which should be carried out safely for self-interest, is illegal.

Now I don’t think Buckingham had anything to do with the devil, but even if he didn’t, he was a sinner.

But there was no point in capturing Buckingham right away.

If you catch Buckingham, who is only being taken advantage of, the guys who did the real thing will hide quickly and wait for the catcher to be caught again.

If that’s the case, it’s better to throw Buckingham as bait and knock them out.

“I’ll give you a chance.”

“I… Are you saying you’re giving me a chance…?”

A haggard Buckingham glared at the idea of giving him a chance.

“Those who came to you and seduced you with the snake’s tongue, those who tried to throw the empire into chaos, contribute to catching them. Prove your usefulness in this way.”

“Yes… Yes!!! I will definitely repay your expectations!!”

Buckingham decided to sell them out in exchange for preserving his social position by doing this in secret.

For Buckingham, who valued his social status above all else, the mere fact of this scandal was fatal.

“Then, let’s use this for future contact. Report in detail.”

I handed over the parchment.

It was the highest quality contact parchment I had personally purchased.

Buckingham hastily accepted it as if it were his own lifeline.

“Never forget. The Empire does not forget its traitors.”

“I won’t think nonsense…!!”

I gave him a chance.

An endless opportunity to work without pay for the peace of the empire instead of going to jail.

Buckingham might think that this incident is over, but his guilt was deep because he was so easily overlooked.

Unless those who tried to disrupt the world’s empires disappear, his work will not end.

A slave who is good at using magic… No, he needed one subordinate.