Academy’s Genius Swordsman

35. Scream in the Ground (2)

#35

“Damn it.”

Ronan hurriedly got up. The same strange sound I heard the day I left Gran Cappadocia. And a faint scream was coming from down there.

Seeing the harsh expression on her face, Asher shrugged her shoulders.

“Why, why, Ronan?”

“It seems like something happened downstairs.”

Ronan pressed the back of the brazier at random. At some point, a certain section went in and the floor began to sink. Ronan frowned and muttered.

“too slow···.”

The descent was too slow. Ronan picked up a battle hammer hanging from the wall. Then he started hitting the corner of the elevator.

bang! bang! bang!

“Gee, what are you doing now?!”

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Marya, startled by Ronan’s outrageous behavior, shouted. A hollow sound resounded, and pieces of stone bounced off. Ronan made eye contact with Marya and nodded.

“Yeah, you are the strongest. Use your strength.”

“Uh, huh?”

Ronan threw a battle hammer at Marya. Marya, who took the hammer, looked at Ronan and the hammer alternately. Ronan shouted.

“Damn it, hurry up. Aren’t you supposed to get your money and weapons!”

“Oh really, I got it!”

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Marya grabbed the hammer hilt. The mana that had soaked through the hilt gathered at the head of the hammer.

She lifted her hammer to the top of her head and slammed the elevator down. Aww! At the same time as the blue arc was drawn, a roar resounded.

“The onigiri inspiration was right. This is also right for you.”

The corner of the elevator shattered, revealing a black space. Complete darkness, in which not a single light could be found, hung at his feet.

The cool air that came up in a hook tilted Ronan’s bangs. Ronan, who smelled like rotten eggs, frowned.

“The smell of sulfur…”

“Wow!”

Asher and Marya covered their noses and mouths. It had a much stronger odor than normal sulfur.

Ronan twisted his lips as he recalled the number of cases. A dwarf digging into the underground, where the lava is infested with the smell of sulfur.

Judging from the experiences he accumulated while wandering the world, he never thought of a good future. Ronan said with a wink to Asher.

“Let’s go, Asher.”

“yes? uh? huh?”

“Marya. You go back to Phileon and report the situation. Be sure to tell the prayer room, especially.”

“If it’s a prayer room… that hunting instructor? Didi Khan’s older brother?”

“okay. You have a knack for finding people. And at the level of our professors, they would know the extent of the blacksmith’s identity. Anyway, hurry up.”

“Ro, Ronan? Why are you suddenly grabbing me?”

Ronan grabbed Asher’s hood. Asher, who felt a familiar ominous feeling, was about to backtrack. Ronan stepped forward and jumped straight into the hole.

“Aaaaaaah!”

“Ahhhhh!”

Darkness fell over the boys’ heads. Marya’s screams echoed from above. With her eyes wide open, Sita descended toward Ronan and Asher with her wings folded.

“Bye-ah-ah!”

Sita, who reached the boys’ side in an instant, grabbed Ronan’s back. The four wings spread and the speed of the fall slightly decreased. It was the moment when Asher, who had managed to regain her sanity, was about to chant the spell.

“I, I, I, Invisible… Eup!”

“Not yet.”

Ronan covered Asher’s mouth with his palm. Even as he was falling at a tremendous speed, Ronan’s expression remained calm as if he had come from a picnic. He said, pulling Asher’s hood.

“You can’t stop now. Almost all go down and stop. Okay?”

“Ugh…! Oops!”

“You have to do it right. If you make a mistake this time, it’s not empty words, you’re really dead. Nod your head if you know.”

Ronan asked. Asher managed to nod her head. Tears welled up from the corners of his eyes and scattered into the air. Finally, I wondered if my feet would lighten up, and the figure of Gran Cappadocia unfolded in front of my eyes. Ronan licked his lips.

“Hey, it’s late.”

“Hey, what is all this?!”

It was a miserable landscape. A downpour of huge rocks seemed to have swept the cavity. The orderly buildings were broken in half like a sand castle that someone had stepped on once.

The stagnant lava overflowed and cooled on the road. Most of the densely sprouted stalactites and stalagmites were broken. Ronan, who smelled the stronger sulfur, frowned.

“Let’s get ready soon.”

“Yes!”

A steel pole was quickly passing by the boys. Asher closed her eyes. A low chant resounded in the roaring wind.

“Slow Zone.”

“What?”

It was the first order I heard. Asher reached out toward the floor. A geometric magic circle was drawn at the point where the fall was expected, and the speed of the fall began to slow significantly.

“Oh oh.”

Ronan rolled his mouth in admiration. The bodies of the boys, which had gradually slowed down, almost stopped at a position about 5m from the ground. A familiar incantation flowed from Asher’s mouth, which opened again.

“Invisible Hand!”

Soon after, an invisible hand grabbed the sluggish bodies. Asher’s telekinesis lowered the bodies of the two people to the ground quickly and safely.

Ronan stepped on the ground and patted Asher on the back.

“It’s pretty cool, Asher. When did you learn that again?”

Asher who uses magic other than the Invisible Hand. It was very novel, yet bold. Asher took a deep breath and sighed in relief.

“urg! Ouch! Hey, I’m glad you did well in class this week.”

Fortunately, I was able to succeed safely because of the light weight I had to lift. At that moment, a faint moan was heard nearby.

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.”

The boys turned their heads at about the same time. A moan was heard from beneath the scattered stalactites.

Ronan rushed over and pushed the stalactite. A dwarf wearing an apron appeared.

“Cuckoo, huh! Whoops…!”

Ronan’s eyes widened when he recognized the Dwarf’s face. It was the dwarf who got angry with Didi Khan for what the invisible scroll did in the past.

“It’s all, legs… oops.”

Seeing the legs turned at a bizarre angle, Asher gasped. Ronan tapped Sita, which was still attached to her back.

“Sita.”

“Bye.”

As if in reply, Sita, who tweeted, used magic on the dwarf. At the same time as a small magic circle was drawn in the air, the twisted legs returned to their original state.

Feeling the pain subside, the dwarf widened his eyes.

“All… the legs…? Wait, you must have come with Didi Khan before…”

“Right. Sir, I’m running out of time, so I’ll ask. A simple bedrock accident, an angry rock spirit, a cave giant. Which of the three happened to you? Personally, I wish it wasn’t the second or third.”

Ronan grabbed his shoulder and shook him. The Dwarf said in a trembling voice.

“Third, it’s like the third… and suddenly they come from the depths of the pit…”

“Damn, I thought it was something. I am stuck here.”

He must have touched the cave giant’s dwelling while digging a tunnel. Because they live really deep underground, they are monsters that you won’t encounter at all.

Ronan was just about to move.

“Hey, hey… wait a minute…!”

The dwarf shook his head and got up. He continued holding on to Ronan’s trousers.

“Come on, help me… my co-workers have been kidnapped. The old man was also arrested…”

“Nimi, Doron, too?”

“Yeah, yeah…the stupid old man must be locked up. I was set up to fight… Didican went to save the kid, but he hasn’t come back yet.”

Ronan nervously flicked his bangs. It wasn’t a very pleasant situation.

“How long has it been since the boulders came?”

“Oh, it’s been a while. A few hours at most.”

“It’s fortunate. Wait here.”

Ronan nodded. Judging by the habits of the cave giant, there was still hope for a few hours. They had a habit of taking the abducted prey to their home and eating it forever.

Tears like chicken droppings were flowing from the eyes of the dwarf wearing the apron.

“Buu, I beg you… Both of them are talented people who shouldn’t go like this… Especially the Didican guy…”

“I will try.”

Ronan leaned the dwarf against the rock and looked around. It was not difficult to figure out the route the cave giants traveled.

The huge footprints left here and there were all pointing in one direction. The only problem was that moans were coming from all over the place.

“The plague… Asher, can you handle it alone?”

“Come on, I’ll try. But it’s too wide, so I think I’m running out of mana.”

“It is, too. Damn, I don’t have time.”

Ronan drooled. Rescuing the captives was important, but that didn’t mean leaving the survivors who might die sooner or later.

However, the field was too wide for Asher to save everyone. While wielding his telekinesis in search of a wounded man who did not know where he was, mana would soon be depleted.

Just knowing where people are buried would make things a lot easier. Ronan, who made a quick decision, said bitterly.

“I can’t help it. I’ll be back soon, so try to save as much as possible.”

“yes.”

Asher nodded sternly. Sita, who had been tilting her head all the time, went up on Asher’s head.

“Sita?”

“Papa.”

Suddenly, four wings spread wide. Red eyes lit up. Before long, red rays of light began to rise from all over the pile of rocks. Ronan’s eyes widened.

“Byeah!”

“Maybe this…”

Ronan ran to the nearest beam of light. As he brushed off the bulging pile of dirt, a frizzy face was revealed. The dwarf coughed, spitting out dirt and stones.

“Cool! Cool!”

“Heh, Sita, you bastard…”

Ronan laughed as if he was shocked. Blood was dripping from both nostrils of the Dwarf. A ray of red light was emerging from there.

It’s a magic that tracks the location of spilled blood, so that’s a different story. Ronan turned to Asher and shouted.

“Asher, use your telekinesis to dig up only the places where the light rises!”

“Ah Okay!”

“Sita, you keep doing this and heal the injured people. you can do it?”

“Bye!”

Sita cried confidently. Asher chanted a spell towards the rays of light. Various debris floated up, revealing the figures of dwarves and humans lying there.

“Wait, are you all right…?”

“Uhhhhhhhhhh my arm…”

Sita circled the cave and treated the wounded. The bloodstains scattered all over the place were falling in the form of drops and being absorbed by Sita.

Instead of immediately following in the footsteps, Ronan ran to Doron’s smithy. It was because of the words of the dwarf wearing an apron right before he left.

– Hey, wait a minute…! I still have more to say…

– What? I do not have time. It’s Doron and Didican, and they may have already come out of those stones.

– Well, I have to tell you this… Doron Your weapons are in the old man’s workshop.

– Our weapon?”

– okay. I’m sure it will help… I haven’t seen Doron so excited in a long time.

That being said, there was no reason to refuse. The reason I came here in the first place was to receive weapons.

Ronan soon found a cube-shaped building. Compared to the other buildings that had become rubble, it stood out in its own way.

‘Anyway, they’re not good at sticking knives. Good job.’

If it was a well-made sword, it would definitely help. There was only 100m left until the entrance door. Kugugu…! Suddenly, a pile of rubble piled up right next to it popped up. A creature that appeared to have been made by gluing various ores to a huge human appeared.

The cave giant rose from the rubble and roared at Ronan.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”

“Nimi.”

The whole cavity rumbled. It was a huge bastard with a height of 5 m from head to toe. Ronan clenched his teeth at the foul smell of sulfur pouring out of his mouth.

“Your friends all went to eat, but why are you the only one left?”

Instead of answering, the giant raised his right foot high. Ronan pulled the hilt. bang! The giant’s foot fell right where Ronan was.

“Kwok?”

But there was nothing under the giant’s feet. Ronan slid through his legs and fired a continuous sword at the giant’s left ankle. Pop! Pop! Pop! The sound of breaking stones resounded in a chain.

“It’s terribly tough.”

“Woooooooooooooooo!”

The attack worked, but his hand was whining. The foolish giant swung his arms to catch Ronan. Ronan diddge the giant’s attack and continued to fire his sword at the same place.

After wielding a total of twenty-five times, all the ores that act as armor fell apart. Ronan swung his sword towards the dark gray flesh that was finally revealed.

Scratch! Yellow blood gushed out with the sensation of cutting frozen meat.

“Aaaaaah!”

A loud scream erupted again. The giant, who lost his balance, stumbled and fell.

As soon as the giant’s face touched the floor, Ronan thrust the sword deep into his eye socket. I felt the tip of the drenched sword pierce through something soft. Kwok..! The giant, who let out a scream of death, stopped struggling and stretched out.

“You ugly bastards.”

It was fortunate that I was used to dealing with big guys. Ronan, who drew his sword, swung his arms as if sprinkling them. The blade, which was covered with yellow blood and flesh, had already been damaged.

There may still be more giants left. Ronan ran to Doron’s forge as quickly and secretly as possible.

Fortunately, the new giant did not appear until we entered the building. Suddenly, a question ran through Ronan’s mind.

‘But do you know what my weapon is and take it?’

After all, I didn’t hear the most important thing. But now that I’ve come to think about it, nothing has changed. Ronan moved to the inside of the forge.

The nest made of weapons was still there. In the middle of the nest, there was a brazier and a white anvil that was not extinguished even by this Satan.

“Is that…?”

Ronan’s eyes widened as his gaze touched the anvil. A sword in a shape he had never seen before was lying on the anvil.

Ronan approached the sword as if possessed by something. The hilt was short and the pommel was almost absent. The long black sword was so thin that the back could be seen through.

“Is this a sword?”

Ronan instinctively realized that it was his weapon. It was the moment when I put my finger on the blade to check the prediction. A thin cut was formed on the index finger along with a stinging pain.

“Write!”

It was unbelievably sharp. Blood dripped down his fingers and dripped onto the blade. Instead of dripping or slipping, the drops of blood permeated the sword. Ronan’s eyes widened.

“Onigiri inspiration…what the hell did you make?”