The Academy’s Savage Swordsman

30. research materials

The great library under the academy. The secret hidden there, the party who entered the Great Magic Building defeated the ghost and reached the end of the dungeon safely.

According to Sera’s plan, it was to simply solve the quiz given by the wizard’s vengeful spirit at this end with the player’s knowledge, and receive the reward he gave—a double casting.

In this way, after killing the vengeful spirit with a single knife, it is not to find the secret laboratory he left behind.

“Here… … .”

Beyond the collapsed dungeon wall, Yuri let out a scream of admiration as he saw the wizard’s laboratory exposed.

Sera, a wild magician who uses magic through the system and status window, did not know it, but in the eyes of Yuri, who had purely studied and mastered magic——it was literally a treasure trove left behind by the intellectuals of his ancestors.

“Awesome-.”

As if possessed by something, Yuri naturally entered the laboratory. Seeing this, Sera warned to be careful, and at the same time, the magic circle inside the laboratory glowed and fired interception magic at Yuri.

“Oops.”

Quaang-!

After hitting the flying magic with his hand, Kyle looked at the glass and told her to be careful, then went inside the lab with her.

Sera, who had been staring blankly at him from behind, came to his senses belatedly and followed him.

Inside the lab, there were piles of papers written in ancient runes that Kyle couldn’t read.

“What is written on it?”

“wait a minute.”

But Kyle didn’t have to read the text himself. Just as the ghosts were slashed with swords instead of those who couldn’t use swords, sorcerers who can read instead of Kyle, who can’t read, just need to read to them.

Yuri, who began to look through the research materials left by the wizard, began to focus on the research materials with a quiet voice.

“This… That’s right, so… It is possible to do this here… ?”

Magical power gradually began to seep out of Yuri’s body, who was muttering incomprehensible words. The magic power leaking out of her body lightly surrounds her body and starts to rotate as it is.

Kyle, who saw the magical power spinning round and round, realized that it was a figure he had seen a lot somewhere, and soon began to guard his surroundings and prevent it from interfering with her gaining enlightenment.

“—I got it.”

Paaa-!

The moment Yuri’s mouth opened, the mana emanating from her body exploded in all directions. While Sera and Arthur, who ran after seeing the intense beam of light, stared blankly at Yuri, Yuri spread both hands and calculated the magic.

“Come, the echo of thunderstorms—”

“Run, run, run-.”

Yuri, who had been chanting two magics at once as if a motor was attached to her mouth, succeeded in manifesting two magics in both hands.

Qarleung – A thundering spear and a sword of blazing flames.

Both are marks of a 3-star wizard, which meant that she became an expert-class 3-star wizard.

“Congratulations, Yuri.”

“… … yes.”

Yuri, who was staring at the empty space with blank eyes, dispelled the magic and collapsed. After catching her, Kyle realized that she had collapsed from exhaustion due to lack of magic.

The moment the glass is lifted, the world begins to collapse.

“Oh no!”

Along with Sera’s voice, Kyle was swallowed up by the dungeon.

* * *

“Ouch… … .”

“Uh, uh-.”

When I woke up, we were back in the academy’s underground library.

Seeing Yuri passed out in my arms made me realize that what we just went through wasn’t a dream.

“Oh, no, no… !”

Realizing that she had come out, Sara put her hands on the floor and started to get frustrated. Watching her dripping with tears in an OTL position, I asked her why she was crying so bitterly.

“What? Why are you so sad?”

“You got nothing!”

“Yuri got a 3-star rating, and she’s doing double casting.”

“That’s right, because he read the research materials written by that wizard! I couldn’t bring any of the research materials with me!”

Hearing Sera’s outburst, I tilted my head and asked again. Didn’t bring any research materials? What’s wrong with that?

“Can’t you ask Yuri to write it again?”

“what?”

“Since Yuri saw it and gained enlightenment, he probably remembers the contents. You can just copy it and use it.”

Why can’t I find such a simple solution and am struggling… … When I looked at Sera with pitiful eyes, she started looking for a pen and paper, making a fuss as if she had just realized it.

By any chance, before Yuri’s memory is damaged or erroneous, as soon as she opens her eyes, she plans to write down the research data she saw.

Almost at the same time as Sera found the pen and paper, Yuri opened her eyes at the critical moment and stared blankly into space.

“Here… … .”

“glass! I’m sorry as soon as I wake up! Write this first!”

“… … What?”

Yuri, who had just woken up, held out a paper and pen to herself and glared at Sera who shouted, then realized what she wanted and immediately began to scribble something down.

He seemed so engrossed that he didn’t want to bother, so I sneaked out of the place with Arthur.

“Seriously, it seems that we were called to catch ghosts from the beginning, seeing as the letters we can’t even understand.”

“Yeah.”

“… … By the way, even if I said yes- Arthur, why did you call me?”

“That, well?”

Unlike me, who could mercilessly cut down ghosts or golems with an aura blade, Arthur was only a cadet at the level of an aura user with a lot of auras.

In the academy, there are so many user-level things that you can step foot, so it didn’t seem necessary to include Arthur… … .

‘Does he have another secret I don’t know about?’

I do not know. Because he couldn’t save her in the game. It was annoying to play the 2nd playthrough, so of course I didn’t do it.

I looked at Arthur and shrugged.

“I have nothing to do. Shall we pick out a book and read it here?”

“… … Kyle?”

“uh.”

“You haven’t forgotten where this place is, have you?”

“yes?”

Slightly—I turned my head around and shrugged my shoulders as if it didn’t matter where I was. An underground library with countless ghosts, curses, sealed magic and demons in books?

You know, I’m an aura master.

It wasn’t a forbidden book that was tightly sealed with a chain so that he couldn’t read it at all, and he wasn’t afraid of a book from this class that would have a weak curse.

When I casually opened the book, Arthur looked at me in a frightened manner—but then he tilted his head as he saw me, who was unconcerned.

“… … Why are you fine?”

“Are you okay with being on this level?”

“me too?”

“Yes, if that’s really up to you.”

Tuk-tuk, let’s say that while pointing to my chest- Arthur took a random book and sat down next to me as if he would believe it.

Kwaaang-!

After the sound of a dragon’s roaring heart resonated, Arthur glanced sideways at me as if he was curious as he looked at my fine body.

Realizing that she was fine, I grinned and made the expression I knew I would.

‘It’s real.’

I didn’t know that I would be really fine. If you get cursed, I can save you, so I tried it as an experiment—it seemed that the dragon’s heart had more abilities than I thought.

With such miscellaneous thoughts, we read the book. I wasn’t cursed, but honestly, most of the majors I didn’t even know what the placenta was about.

“It is done.”

How much time had passed—Greetingly, Yuri succeeded in transcribing all the research materials she had seen on paper.

Only then could we get out of the underground library.

* * *

The research materials that came out of the underground library were taken directly to the principal. The principal greeted Sera who came to visit him as if he were his own granddaughter, then changed his attitude as if he were a professor facing a graduate student who submitted a doctoral dissertation after reading the data.

“Hmm… … How can I believe that this is real?”

“—Like this.”

Yuri immediately double-casted 3-star magic at the same time. Looking at Yuri who succeeded in double-casting the 3-star magic, which is said to be impossible even for Duke Walter, the magician of the Six Stars, the principal’s eyes twinkled.

Once you know that this research data is real, it doesn’t matter where you got it. This is an item that will overturn the magic theory so far, and thus has become an item that will lead the future academia.

“great. I will hand this over to the Imperial Family and the Mage Tower. It’s too risky for either side to monopolize.”

After saying that, the principal looked at Sera and Yuri and smiled.

“There will be rewards for the two of them. To expect. A discovery like this doesn’t happen often. Miss Sera may be given the rank of nobility.”

“Nobility!?”

“Yes, it’s a single win, but… … .”

After hearing the principal’s words, Sera began to jump and rejoice at the fact that she might be able to become a noble.

Looking at her like that, the other party members also smiled happily.

After safely handing over the research materials, the group left the principal’s office thinking there would be no problem. If the master-class wizard or principal has the research data, security won’t be a problem either.

─That’s what I thought.

The next day, the principal informs Kyle and others that the research materials have been stolen.