Became the Golden Sun of the Academy

17 – The First Trial (6)

The boss of the first trial, Witch Aurenima.

Although it is called a witch, in the academy’s strongest swordsman, witch is just a title that despises mixed races that do not conform to the doctrine of the Holy Land.

That’s why not all witches are proficient in magic.

This is the case with Aurenima.

He is the boss who drives the main character, Kyle, with his innate physical abilities, not magic.

But compared to the notoriety, the strategy is so simple and clear.

If you only activate the gimmick that passes through the barrier, you can aim for a gap in the careless Aurenima, and if you succeed in one attack, you are no different from a scarecrow.

In Kyle’s case, his swordsmanship cuts through space.

It could tear the barrier and get into it, but in Adele’s case, there should have been a better way to get in.

“Get out of the way.”

I hurriedly returned to the emergency room and pushed through the students who were staring blankly at the barrier that suddenly appeared.

It seems that a battle has already been fought here, and there are puddles of blood and full of corpses.

Standing on top of it is Silvia’s escort knight, Alessia.

She was pounding her fists down helplessly, trying to break the barrier that she couldn’t break by any means.

I trampled through the strewn trash.

When I stepped on the broken chair, I heard a crunching sound and went completely mad.

“You… ….”

Empty eyes, as if the light had disappeared, turned to me.

Her This is the first time I’ve actually seen her, but it was a very different look than when I saw her through the monitor.

The guilt of not being able to protect Sylvia.

The helplessness of not being able to do anything when she might die right in front of her eyes.

She is unscathed even after dealing with her witches who attacked the emergency room in an instant, but she was caught up in such emotions and was uncharacteristically weak.

“The barrier cannot be broken that way.”

I grabbed the head of a nearby fallen witch and lifted it up.

Her hands were smeared with sticky, lukewarm blood, frowning, but contact was unavoidable to make things more certain.

I activated a fairy tale.

The target to assimilate is this mysterious witch.

It was my intention to become this witch for a while and pass through that boundary where only witches enter like a child with a picky diet.

I can’t be certain that this method will work unconditionally because I’ve never actually tried it, but I can say that the probability of success is more than 90%.

Just when I thought that the witch and I had become somewhat similar in nature, I passed Alessia and reached out toward the barrier.

“… ….”

Uh uh uhh—

The part I touched trembled as if resonating.

The boundary between the inside and the outside of the barrier shuddered, and my hand went in without any obstruction.

“Success.”

It is a success until you pass the barrier that bites people.

However, we still needed more preparation to move on.

“You, how can you break through the barrier…… ?”

“There is no time to explain.”

Alesia was quick to grasp the situation.

She kept her mouth shut without asking more useless questions.

“There must be more witches waiting nearby. Take care of it beforehand so that there is no danger when the saintess comes out and come back.”

Without even asking such an obvious question as how do you know that, Alessia just nodded her head.

She seemed to know that the only one who could solve this situation was me who could pass the barrier.

After watching Alessia disappear in an instant, I pushed the rest of my body into the barrier.

… ….

There was only silence inside the barrier.

A place like the deep sea where light, sound, and warmth are all immersed in darkness.

But I didn’t need light or sound to find my way.

If you assimilate into the space within this barrier, there will be a place where you feel like a worm sitting on my arm, and that will be where Sylvia and the witch are.

At the same time, it assimilated the scenery in the dark for a perfect surprise.

Like a chameleon hides itself, my figure has become one with the darkness and disappeared……

* * *

Sylvia looked.

Adele appears over the witch’s shoulder.

This is the perfect surprise opportunity.

So she calmly directed all the witch’s nerves toward her.

The result.

Hook!

“Keah…… !”

A blade that pierces the witch’s chest.

Witch Aurenima vomited blood out of her startled eyes with a short moan, and a few drops of the blood landed on Sylvia’s face, who opened her eyes wide.

“Keuheugh!”

Aurenima was taken aback by the surprise attack, but was even more taken aback by the fact that Adele had broken through this barrier.

A barrier that only witches can enter.

But he came here even though he wasn’t a witch at first glance.

“You, how did you come in…… !”

There should be no failures.

How many witches were sacrificed for this plan?

She had to kill her saintess in order not to let the sacrifices of those who willingly gave up her own blood and flesh for this barrier were in vain.

But what is this stumbling block?

How did she break through this barrier when she wasn’t even a witch?

“If it wasn’t for the witch, she wouldn’t be able to come in!”

“Because the barrier was designed incorrectly, there must have been an opening for me to enter.”

Adele drew her sword as she kicked Aurenyma to the side of her.

Aureni Ma, who had her vitals right, sat down on the ground without her strength, pressing her own perforated chest with her palms.

However, the bleeding did not stop and the blood flowed like a stream between his fingers.

“I must have replaced many witches to create this barrier.”

Adele looked down at him.

There was no warmth in his words, actions or eyes.

As if there were no emotions, as if a block of ice were talking.

“It must be said that you made the deaths of those witches in vain.”

The barrier was properly completed.

The fact that Alessia couldn’t break or enter was proof of that.

However, Adele told this lie to shake Aurenima’s mind.

“I can’t, I can’t… ….”

And as it should, Aureni Ma couldn’t keep her composure.

She ran her bloody hands over her face, repeating the same words over and over like a broken tape recorder.

“Your comrades are also dead. I found and killed all the guys who raided the emergency room and those waiting nearby. The fact that I came all the way here is proof of that.”

This was also a bluff.

Unaware of the situation outside, Adele hopes that Alessia has everything sorted out, and this was only his wish.

One in a million.

If Aureni Ma made a last-ditch effort right now, Adele, who had used all of his mana, could not be stopped, so he hoped that his will would be broken.

It took longer than expected to find Sylvia, and even now, standing like this and pretending to be normal was hard.

“Are you going to carry out that will even if all your comrades are dead?”

“Bo, blessing… ….”

“If you are talking about getting revenge, don’t do it. Wasn’t it you who drove them to death?”

After Adele, she let out a weary breath and touched the ground with her sword.

Sylvia could tell at a glance that Adele’s condition was not so good that she could not wield her sword, but she kept her mouth shut so that her distraught Aurenima wouldn’t notice, and she just watched.

“Isn’t it that you brainwashed them into calling them here, saying that it was a noble sacrifice for the cause, and that if you killed the saintess, you would be able to change the attitude of her kingdom?”

“… ….”

“So you killed them. Also, by failing, they made their sacrifice a meaningless death.”

Aurenima let out a groan and looked at her bloodstained hands.

Her own blood on her hand looked like the blood of her comrades whom she had killed.

“Furthermore, her hatred towards witches will intensify as she is accused of trying to harm her saintess. You are also the one who brought this on yourself.”

With no strength left to wield the sword, Adele was killing him with words.

As if breaking limbs, he denied his will, denied the sacrifices of his colleagues, and even denied the future he dreamed of, saying that the talent to come was also his fault.

“But I am merciful, so I will give you a chance before I kill you.”

Also.

“To you incompetent bastard who made an irretrievable failure.”

Adele encouraged him to commit suicide as if to patronize him.

“I’ll give you a chance to punish the witch and the sinner who drove her witch into her corner.”

“… ….”

This was the use of assimilation of thoughts.

Assimilating Adele’s thoughts with Aurenima, brainwashing Adele’s thoughts as if they were mine.

It was a use that could only be used on someone who had pierced his chest and lost his comrades and was insane.

Aureni Ma raised his hand as if possessed.

The plan to kill the saintess has already come to nothing.

It’s an unexpected surprise attack, but given that I didn’t even feel the sign of it, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Adele would kill me.

Then, isn’t this the last chance to apologize to the comrades who died in vain?

After hearing Adele’s words, he apologized to his colleagues who died senselessly, feeling guilty as if he had really committed a crime against them, and put his hand to his heart.

At that moment, Aurenima fell to the floor with a gasping sound, blood gushing from his chest.

“…… Flaw… ….”

His consciousness was hazy, his head was pounding, and his whole body was aching as if he had taken medicine due to exhaustion of mana.

“Adele, you are fine—”

The mind, held by evil, stretched out before the body, and the body fell forward like a puppet with a broken string.

“—Ah… ….”

I collapsed as if being hugged by Sylvia in a wheelchair.