Chapter 118: Mistake
Soon, the thieves and the first-year students of Innocence Academy clashed.
The sound of metal clashing and magic flying can be heard everywhere.
The thieves were large enough to raid the carriage convoy but it was a pity that there was not a single one among the many thieves who recognized the academy’s uniform.
The students were indifferently blocking the fierce charge without any strategy of the thieves and since the level difference was extreme it was a simple task.
Innocence Academy, where talented young people from the continent gather, has a high competition rate. Each student had to be considered at a superhuman level compared to ordinary people.
So, no matter how many they were, they were nothing but ‘mere thieves’ and they couldn’t stand a chance.
ㅡSqueak.
“…I’m sleepy.” After cutting off the neck of a thief who ran towards me, I muttered such a word for no reason.
[My disciple, if you’re going to say that, you should at least show some sincerity in acting…]
Sierra, who was watching me from the air, trailed off.
It was true that I was sleepy, but it was so difficult to capture them alive with a sword in this large-scale battle so I was just cutting down the ones I saw in front of me.
Edward asked us to capture them alive only to avoid forcing the students to kill.
Rather, it was Edward’s style not to spare the villains.
There was an experience penalty due to the level difference, so killing more wouldn’t give much experience, and more importantly…
“…Chain.”
Yuri, who was binding the thieves with chains on the other side, caught my eye.
Some of them may have had their first real battle with humans without any protective equipment, so it was also an important experience.
ㅡKwang!!!
Then there was a loud noise from the front and I turned my head and saw a bunch of thieves floating in the air.
ㅡPajijijik!!!
A lightning bolt shoots up immediately.
“I shot the magic wrong, instructor.”
Aizel looked at Edward with an indifferent voice.
Edward, who had been running around the battlefield at a fast speed and helping the students who seemed to be hit by dangerous attacks, turned his head and looked at Aizel and smiled slyly.
“Student Aizel made a mistake…You must not be in good condition.”
“Yes, well…”
Aizel answered sullenly at Edward’s witty words.
My eyes met his. Well, to be precise, it wasn’t that our eyes met, but that we both looked at each other.
“”…“”
“You said it would be better to capture them alive…”
Yuri muttered softly as she watched this.
“…It was a mistake.”
Aizel said that and turned her head.
Sierra clicked her tongue and grumbled about what they were doing in a life-and-death battle. …She wasn’t wrong. Anyway, the students were dealing with the thieves in their own ways.
In no time, a woman with a large stature and bulging muscles who stood out among the thieves pointed at me and shouted.
“That one with a bandage on his eye is mine! Don’t touch him!!”
…For some reason, it seemed like I had become the target of someone who looked like a leader.
“A handsome blind man… I’ll make you my prey! Khihihi!!”
The leader said that and laughed wickedly as she ran towards me. At that moment, when Aizel’s head turned slightly behind me, I felt it through my senses.
A flame spewed out from under the leader’s feet and a huge fireball soared up.
“Kiaaaak!!”
The leader’s body burned and she screamed.
This was…Yuri Clementine’s main skill, ‘Fire Pillar’.
The leader writhed in flames and screamed. It was said that burning alive was very painful.
Yuri stared at the fire pillar with her index finger raised. Her eyes looked like they were burning like fire.
Eventually, the huge fire pillar that rose up among the enemies burned the leader until only ashes remained and then subsided with a sizzling sound.
The thieves looked at what had been their leader in horror and quickly collapsed after the death of their leader.
As the battle was coming to an end I looked around slowly. Roughly speaking, it seemed that half were killed and half were successfully captured alive.
The person who captured the most thieves was surprisingly Amon. The earth prison that binds the opponent’s body to the ground was able to capture the movement of multiple enemies at once.
I won’t mention who killed the most since she still had a stiff face and seemed to be angry.
The disposal of the thieves’ bodies and the transfer to the guards of the nearby city, the aftermath, was taken over by the instructors.
Reina, who lost rock-paper-scissors again and was annoyed, got on a horse and left to call the guards.
The students who were waiting in the forest set up bonfires here and there and sat around and talked about their stories and chatted.
Lucia, who I briefly looked at, was still lying in a carriage and asleep. She was sleeping soundly without tossing and turning even though it was quite noisy.
It seemed better not to wake Lucia up in many ways. She might have had nightmares if she saw blood splashing everywhere and people burning alive.
I sat by the bonfire and fed ‘rice’ to Sheddie while sorting out what would happen next.
‘The first event went well…’
Various things would happen while in the desert, but what I was looking forward to was the ancient ruins.
It seemed like we would go there at night…
‘…Will we be able to enter?’
It was a place that wasn’t implemented in the game, so anything could happen but it would be better to be prepared for anything.
“Are…the otherworldly creatures that we’re going to kill are very dangerous…?”
Lucia said with her twinkling eyes.
It was a story about the otherworldly creatures that only appear in the desert.
Our destination was a beautiful city surrounded by a huge oasis in the desert, Delgrad. It was Lucia’s ‘home’.
The Windless family of Lucia ruled the city.
Outside the window, countless golden sands, the desert, spread out as the carriages that the students were riding were now crossing the desert.
Lucia seemed to have a lot to tell us who had never been to the desert before so she continued her story with an excited voice.
“Otherworldly creatures appear through a dimensional gate and they are basically inclined to harm people. They are very bad guys…! But don’t worry. Huhuhu… We have strong warriors in Delgrad who only deal with otherworldly creatures!”
“Hooh… What do those otherworldly creatures look like? Are there any that are similar-looking to monsters?”
Amon, who was sitting next to Lucia, asked.
Even though they were from the same four elemental families, Yuri and Amon had never been to the desert either.
“Hmm…”
Lucia made a sound at Amon’s question. It was a difficult question.
She wriggled her lips and finally opened her mouth.
“Well, it’s like metal is stuck here and there… That kind of ‘machine’… Umm… It makes a ringing sound too…”
“…Is it a monster?”
Yuri doubted Lucia’s strange explanation.
It wasn’t easy to explain robots, mechanics, etc. in a fantasy world.
‘Does ringing mean engine noise?’
Aizel, who had been looking out of the window, saved Lucia from this awkward situation.
“There, is that what you’re talking about?”
Everyone’s eyes turned to one side of the window in the carriage as Aizel pointed out with a sullen voice.
It would be strange for me to look at the window too, so I just sat still.
“…It’s weird for a monster…”
“…It looks weird.”
They looked at the otherworldly creature.
“But… It looks like it’s running towards our carriage…?!”
“It does.”
Lucia said in a scared voice and Aizel answered indifferently.
Lucia banged on the wall where the driver was and asked if he should stop the carriage quickly.
“Please stop… Huhu…”
Lucia kept banging on the wall and made a sad face.
There seemed to be no need for that as I felt someone’s presence coming towards us at a fast speed across the desert where the otherworldly creature was.
The driver, who could see outside better, also seemed to notice this situation.
Soon something ran towards our carriage like a bullet from the opposite side of where the otherworldly creature was and flew into the air.
ㅡThud.
Then that something stepped on the carriage and passed by as the carriage shook slightly.
Everyone’s eyes turned to the ceiling of the carriage and then back to where they saw the otherworldly creature.
She was wearing robes or something and a huge and wide sword was visible on her back.
“Is, Ismir…?”
Lucia recognized her and shouted.
She was one of the warriors who specialized in hunting otherworldly creatures, and a veteran warrior who would teach the students how to hunt otherworldly creatures on this field trip.
‘It’s been a while.’
She was one of the main characters of this episode.
And…
[Ismir…?]
Sierra, who was hanging on my shoulder, was surprised to hear her name.
…She was also Sierra’s old friend.