The Academy Leader is too Strong - Chapter 48



Only Krnovel

“I shouldn’t have come here.”

Everyone nodded in agreement to the leader’s words. As the leader of the party, he possessed the broad vision characteristic of an archer, and was able to quickly identify danger.

Because of that, I was much more tired than others because I had to keep my eyes open. Of course, other people were also tired.

“… … stuffy.”

“Never take it off.”

Wearing a gas mask that fills your face is a hardship in itself. It sticks to the face, making it difficult to move and difficult to breathe.

But they couldn’t take it off. Everyone knows that it is an important thing that holds on to one’s life.

“How long has it been since you came here?”

“5 hours.”

“This is a big deal.”

The leader asked his friend who was in charge of the vanguard next to him. His friend answered in a slightly tired voice.

He looked around. There were five people in the party, including two twin wizards, two melee fighters, and himself, a ranged attacker.

They gathered together and planned a party with the goal of making money. I needed money urgently, so I had no choice but to find the [Swamp of Gehenna] where I could come right away, but it was no good.

“How’s the road?”

“The poison fog is too thick. Visibility has been greatly reduced. “We have to find the ‘lighthouse.’”

Their goal is to harvest poison slime, which is relatively low risk and relatively profitable.

The first time went smoothly. The two melee fighters knew each other from the beginning and were close friends since they were in the same third year.

The first-year twins who were hastily recruited also had pretty good skills and listened to orders steadily. As time passed, I got used to the party and it became easier.

Then, at some point, I felt a strange feeling. It feels like the visibility has suddenly decreased. When the leader who noticed this first stopped the party, it was already too late.

The poison fog became much thicker.

“Before entering Area B?”

“Yeah. I was just about to move to Area B.”

“But this.”

“It’s as if we went straight into Area D.”

Zones distinguished by the concentration of poisonous fog. The outermost area was Area A, where the poison was the lightest, and the poison gradually became darker towards the center.

If you say D zone, you’re almost at the center. The strange thing is that you just passed A zone.

Then where did B and C, who were waiting, go and why did D suddenly come?

“What is the concentration?”

“Definitely D.”

“It’s strange.”

“Or maybe Area B had the same level of toxicity as Area D.”

“… … “That’s scarier.”

The conclusion is simple. That I was bored. Progress like this went nowhere. I have no choice but to go back to area A and find the slime.

The leader was not so foolish that he was blinded by money and took risks. I stepped on poop. The leader with a low tongue ordered withdrawal.

“Okay, let’s all go back. “Let’s look for slime in area A.”

“No further progress?”

“Oh, the concentration is strange. We can’t go deep. Let’s go safely.”

Others did not object to the leader’s opinion. I felt that his judgment was reasonable. The twins also came just for the experience and had no intention of overdoing it.

“It’s strange.”

“what?”

If you go north from the entrance, you will reach the center of the swamp. The party was also heading north using the compass.

As we were heading south to go to Area A again, the twins’ younger sister voiced her doubts.

“So, is something strange?”

“yes.”

My younger sister, who did not respond to my older brother’s words but instead responded to the leader’s question, answered firmly.

Accordingly, the leader, who stopped the party that had been moving for 30 minutes, suggested that they take a break for a while.

The party, who had been moving carefully because it was difficult to breathe and did not want to get any minor injuries, immediately agreed to take a break.

“What’s strange? Is it a wizard’s intuition?”

“There is no change.”

The party tilted its head at its sister’s words. 30 minutes is not enough time to discuss change. It took 4 hours just to get out of Area A.

Of course, I had to defeat all the monsters I encountered and collect by-products, so I guess I spent about two and a half hours traveling.

That’s why it was problematic to discuss change in just 30 minutes.

“It’s only been 30 minutes?”

“There is no slight change at all. Not even the scenery?”

“hmm.”

The opinion of my younger sister, who came to the poisonous swamp for the first time in first grade, was not very believable. However, the leader decided to trust the magician’s unique sense.

The largest tree in the area. He marked a large X on the tree. Only after the party realized his intention and agreed, did the party move again.

“I’m bored.”

And after 30 minutes, the party atmosphere went downhill when they met the giant tree marking the X again.

It’s circling. I got lost. The leader looked back at the wizard twins. They shook their heads. This means that it is not a magical barrier.

“What should I do with this?”

The best way is to fire off a signal at this point and wait for the rescue team. But that might actually be a bad idea.

The signal can be seen by everyone. This means that monsters other than the rescue team can also check the signal flare.

The worst case scenario is that there is a mastermind behind this mysterious incident, and he could spot the flare and come near you.

If that’s the case, then it’s no different from begging to be killed. Waiting for 10 hours? That’s also impossible.

“How is the physical strength of the first graders?”

“yes?”

“I mean, can it last for 5 hours?”

“I think it would be too much to go that far.”

Five hours to get in. Almost an hour to get back. Considering the time it takes for the rescue team to arrive, we have to hold out for at least five hours.

However, you cannot consume food here. If it is water, there is a straw attached to the gas mask, so you can do something about it.

They are relatively weak magicians, and for the twins who are still in their first year, that amount of time is a close call.

“What are you going to do?”

The leader was lost in thought at his friend’s question. Basically, it is right to wait. But I couldn’t decide easily.

“Wasn’t the road we came from right next to the hawk moth habitat?”

“yes?”

“They detect their prey by the vibrations of the ground. Isn’t there a chance they might attack?”

“Right. “It’s not such a low probability.”

“Then it’s just a lighthouse?”

After all, I am close to troublesome people. The likelihood of encountering it is not high, but it is not low either. It would be best to get as far away as possible.

Eventually, the party decided to move away from the venomous beetle habitat, and find a lighthouse on the other side of the venomous beetle habitat.

If you can find the lighthouse, you can get almost complete rest. The leader, who decided that it was important to calm the tired body and mind, led the party.

“danger!”

The twin brother who was walking behind shouted loudly. The younger sister was the first to react.

She immediately drew on her magic power and lifted the ground. A huge wall of earth surrounding the entire party. A hemispherical earthen wall completely blocked the back of the party.

“Poison claw! shit!”

As soon as the earthen wall went up, a harsh sound of pounding on the wall was heard. It was a sharp thorn that stuck its face into the wall.

The leader, who immediately figured out what it was, shouted in frustration. The sound of thorns hitting the earthen wall one after another was heard.

The twin sister poured more magic power into the mud wall she had hastily built. The mud wall, which was becoming more solid, was no longer breachable.

“We’ll be surrounded in no time!”

They are not particularly fast, but there are many of them. Except for the ones attacking, it was obvious that they would move to surround them.

The leader repeatedly teased the bowstring and foreshadowed danger. Although he had great skill in hitting each arrow with each poison pitchfork, he was unable to kill them with one hit.

The twin brother who had been creating water swords and throwing them around indiscriminately clicked his tongue.

“They’re already here! We’re surrounded!”

Before the twin brother could finish speaking, sharp thorns flew at him. Those who had no means of attacking from a distance swatted away the thorns that were flying at them.

The third-year boy blocked the twins’ path and swung his sword. Knock knock. The recoil felt like he had struck back with a steel arrow. It wasn’t something that couldn’t be blocked, but it wasn’t something that could be blocked continuously.

The third-year female student was a little to the side, where the leader was, and was pumping her fist hard. Her magically-engulfed fist struck down the thorns without any other weapons.

“There is no way?”

“What can I do? A barrier!”

I guess it’s because the situation is so urgent that no good ideas come to mind. I can think of a few, but they require some preliminary work.

The leader, who absolutely needed time, asked his twin sister to act as a barrier. Her twin sister gritted her teeth and raised her magic power.

The dirt was slowly rising in front of the hemisphere. There was no need to rush, so instead of going fast, they built a barrier while raising their endurance as much as possible.

Those who had been struggling hard outside stopped attacking and defending only when the wall was almost completed.

They successfully escaped before the barrier closed, and a solid hemisphere made of earth was created behind them.

“The word has become a seed.”

“… … “How do I get out?”

As soon as a safe place to catch his breath was completed, the leader let out the breath he had been holding. A third-year boy asked seriously at the words he let out in a sigh.

Their individual combat power is weak, but the numbers gathered together are too large. Moreover, there are advantages of long-distance attacks and the variable called poison.

In reality, subjugation is nearly impossible and the only option is to run away.

“I can dig a tunnel.”

Just in case, her twin sister, who had added another layer of dirt barrier, came up with an alternative.

Surely, if that were the case, it would be easy to escape safely. The problem is whether the twin sister has the means to do so.

He had cast an incredible spell called the barrier. It must have consumed a lot of magical power. In fact, she was obscured by the gas mask and could not be seen, but her breathing sounded particularly rough.

“How to kill?”

“None. You need to attack with a powerful, wide-range attack all at once.”

“Yes, I can.”

The leader firmly shook his head in response to the third-year female student’s question. The estimated number is approximately 100. It is not easy to deal with them at once.

The twin brother had told him of his potential. The leader was skeptical, even though such magic might exist.

“You have a water attribute, right? “Is that magic also a water attribute?”

“yes.”

“Then it must be difficult. I don’t know what kind of magic it is, but it’s difficult to kill them all in one hit. “They can even fly.”

“Oh, definitely. “My magic is slow.”

The group took a deep breath as they exchanged opinions. The darkness, where nothing could be seen, and the sound of the wings of insects fluttering around made them feel strangely gloomy.

“Can you poke a hole in this? I want to take a look outside.”

“wait a minute.”

The twin brother came forward at the request of a third-grade female student. She used water to slowly dissolve the dirt and create a hole.

It would have been easier to use a sword, but there was a chance that the barrier itself would break, and the hole was so large that it could be recognized.

“Fill up your magic and go straight to the ground… … .”

―Keyiing.

The leader had to close his eyes in order to stop talking. The surroundings were blocked, and there was no room for light to enter except through a small hole.

But now I unconsciously closed my eyes due to the glare. The light was so strong that it made me groan involuntarily.

A creepy sound is heard after that. The sound of metal grinding away as it rotated furiously rang out.

It took about 5 seconds for it to settle down. Everyone was taken aback by the sudden change.

“I can’t hear the sound of wings flapping.”

The party waited calmly. Was it a trap? The leader suspected, but realized that he had no choice but to go outside.

Understanding the situation comes first. The leader was quick and tore down part of the barrier, saying he would go out first.

“What is this?”

The first thing I encountered outside was the acrid smell. Along with the unpleasant burnt smell, there was a characteristic charcoal smell from burnt wood.

What soon becomes visible is a scene of massive destruction. Did he swing something long? All the half-baked things were pulverized.

Everything that wasn’t a slightly large tree exploded. They also saw the poisonous claws that had been bothering them.

They all fell to the floor and were shaking. And above it, a young man with sea-green hair was seen poking at them with a shovel.