The Academy’s Savage Swordsman

29. Dungeon of the Dead Mage

Seeing Yuri and Arthur at the meeting place, Kyle was surprised and tilted his head and asked.

“Why are you two here?”

“Because I was invited.”

“invite?”

“yes.”

Saying that, Yuri looked at Sera. Sarah scratched the back of her head, feeling the two people staring at her.

The reason Sarah twisted Yuri was simple. Yuri’s father is a wizard of the Six Visions. It was because Yuri, who inherited that lineage as a master-level strongman, was also a lumber that could become a great wizard more than a duke.

The method of twisting was even simpler, because when I proposed to her after I twisted Kyle, she naturally followed it like sharpening a needle while threading.

The reason Arthur was hired was a gamer’s intuition that, despite not knowing what abilities he possessed, he had rare abilities worthy of being targeted by kidnappers.

Thinking that all of these people gathered here for a reason, Kyle looked at Sarah and asked.

“therefore? Why did you call us?”

“Whoops, today—we’re going to dig up the academy’s secrets.”

“secret?”

“Yes, a secret.”

Was there such a thing at the academy—Kyle, who was just blindly hunting and leveling, had no idea what the hidden elements were or how to find them.

In other words, a game that players can play freely means that there are elements that people who don’t know will never know about.

After bursting into laughter, Sera snapped her fingers and opened her mouth.

“I mean right here.”

Saying that, she pointed to the building where they had been gathered. The academy’s great library. It was a place where all the collections and magic books in the world were sealed.

* * *

“Permission to enter has been confirmed. Cadet Sera Kim.”

“Yes, thank you.”

Academy Library.

This place, where numerous collections and magic books are said to be sealed, was originally a place where it was impossible for ordinary cadets to go in and out.

The first floor, which was open to the public, was freely accessible, but in the case of the basement where magic books and forbidden books were sealed, even professors could not easily enter and exit.

Sarah had access to such an underground library. Surprised that she had the pass, Yuri let out a weak exclamation and asked how she could have done that.

“Where did you get the pass?”

“To the principal.”

“… … What did you do?”

“It’s a secret.”

Shh- She put her finger to her mouth and let out a nasal sound, and naturally took the lead as if she had been here several times.

Seeing her like that, the party that Sera had gathered tilted their heads as if it were strange and began to gather among themselves and whisper.

“… … Is something strange?”

“Yeah, that’s strange… As if I’ve been here several times… .”

While Yuri and Arthur were whispering to each other, Sara, who had taken the lead without hesitation, stopped in front of a bookshelf.

Turning around, she frowned slightly as she saw the group chatting among themselves, leaving her alone.

“What, what are you talking about me?”

“nothing.”

“yes. Nothing.”

“… … I feel like I’m being bullied somehow. What, is it?”

Saying that, Sera began tapping the bookshelf.

“Now, you guys—what do you think is the most important thing for a mage?”

“Star.”

“How well do you handle magic?”

“creativity.”

Various opinions came out, but Sarah shook her head and said that the children’s opinions were wrong. All of the things they said were important to magic, but the most important was… … .

“Two actions per turn.”

“what?”

“To cast two spells at once. That’s the most important thing!”

Double Casting. This is something no magician has ever succeeded in. It is not impossible for a high-level mage to simultaneously demonstrate several spells of two or three lower levels.

But that wasn’t double casting in the true sense. Simultaneous calculation of two spells of the same level. That was the true meaning of double casting that all wizards dream of.

Putting that into his mouth, Yuri let out a laugh on his own.

“Impossible.”

“yes? Why?”

“Double casting is… … Theoretically, it makes no sense.”

A 1-star mage changes one law at a time. What if a 1-star wizard wants to use two spells at once?

Changing two laws at once. Yes. Just level up and get to 2 stars. If a 1-star mage could change two laws at once, that just meant a 2-star mage.

Even this only happened at a low level, and the required amount increased exponentially as the level went up——double casting at a level of 3 stars or higher was theoretically impossible.

But.

“Aren’t we talking about theory?”

“… … then?”

“Psychic powers—we’re talking about the Force.”

“The Force is an innate ability.”

Yuri brushed Sarah off, asking if she didn’t even know that kind of common sense. However, Sara slammed the bookshelf she was leaning on and opened her mouth.

“What if there is a way to obtain that force?”

“It can’t be—there can be no such thing!”

“Common sense is meant to be broken.”

Saying that, Sera took three steps inward from the bookshelf and looked at the book in the seventh drawer from that spot.

Umm- she stretched out her hand, realized that she couldn’t reach it, and glanced at Kyle. Kyle sighed and went behind her to take out the book instead, and the moment the dust-covered book was opened—the light emitted from the book engulfed the party.

The party who entered and exited the Tomb of Light, like the Event Horizon, blinked their eyes when they realized that the surrounding background had changed in an instant.

“Here… … .”

“This is the place where the magician who was researching the double casting hid it!”

she shouted, spreading her hands wide.

“It’s the Great Magic Cave!”

The children stared blankly at Sera, then opened their mouths as if they needed to point this out.

“… … How the hell did you think of this?”

“School, the principal told me.”

“Really?”

It’s a lie. Yuri knew right away.

However, before simply questioning the authenticity, there was something to check.

—About whether the secret of double casting is really sleeping here.

* * *

The Great Magic Cave, as the name suggests, is a dungeon left by a wizard who was researching magic, and inside it wanders the subjects kidnapped by the wizard and the spirit of the wizard who died without completing the magic.

Like ghosts, they were very annoying guys who unilaterally attacked subjects that did not work with physical interference, but Kyle was present here. An Aura Master who can cut down even spiritual beings.

─Kyaaagh!

“Good! Do it!”

Sera let out cheers as she watched the ghosts being easily sliced away with her aura blade. When I came here in the game, those damned ghosts were annoying.

Physical attacks don’t work, magic attacks are evaded, but if you go into a magician’s party, a skeleton will come out and attack you.

It was an unanswerable bullsh*t dungeon, but when I recruited an Aura Master as a colleague, all those problems disappeared like washing my eyes.

‘Because it’s a scam… .’

I wondered how Kyle became an Aura Master, but Kyle just replied ‘I just tried hard’ and didn’t give a proper answer.

I wanted to go through the logs and check what kind of life Kyle had lived, but this world was not a game. It was a reality based on a game.

After watching Kyle spouting blades and hunting ghosts, Yuri cautiously opened her mouth.

“Kyle.”

“Uh, why?”

“Hide it from me, but show it right in front of him.”

“… … He knew it too.”

“really?”

Yuri looked at Sera with eyes as if that statement was true. Sensing Yuri’s sharp eyes, Sara quickly nodded her head in affirmation.

He didn’t like the fact that the number of people who knew secrets he didn’t know was increasing like this, but at the same time, he was happy that more people knew that his fiancé was smart, and at the same time, Yuri’s heart was teased.

With inexplicable emotions confusing Yuri, the party arrived at the deepest place of the Great Magic Cave.

The door opened, and as always, a ghost jumped out.

-Welcome, the desire for truth… … .

Chow-!

“uh?”

The green aura blade cuts through the revealed spirit of the archmage.

Sarah looked back at Kyle with eyes that seemed like what the hell he was doing. Kyle tilted his head at Sarah’s gaze.

“Why?”

“Oh no- what are you doing… .”

“Wouldn’t it be okay to kill him?”

Kyle, who had killed all those who saw ghosts so far, reflexively killed the archmage’s vengeful spirit the moment he saw it, looked at Sera in reverse and asked.

Sarah nodded quietly.

‘f*cked.’

Originally, the vengeful spirit of the archmage who appeared like that was tested to see if he was a human worthy of the magic he had left behind, and acquired a double cast – giving people the ability to call the force.

Of course, in the game, there was no option to attack such a great wizard, and even Sera did not know what would happen if he killed it.

“Ahhh… … .”

ruined.

Sensing this fact, Sera trembled and sat down, while Kyle, who had been scratching his head at the scene, looked around to see if there was anything left by the archmage’s vengeful spirit.

And—the sharp body of the Auror Master sensed the flow of air flowing in the room.

“What’s in here?”

“uh? No way… … .”

Ignoring Sera’s empty cry, Kyle approached the wall and swung his sword, and the Aura Blade mercilessly smashed through the wall.

As he cut through the wall that had been blocked with his sword, the wall began to crumble as if he had been waiting for it.

Beyond the collapsed wall, a small room with countless books, papers, and magic circles drawn on it appeared.

“—Huh?”

It was the private laboratory of the dead wizard.