Academy’s Genius Swordsman

37. Scream in the Ground (4)

#37

“Well, what will happen if you kill him?”

“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!”

The cave giants roared at the same time. Ronan grabbed the La Mancha and ran forward.

As long as he knew the power of the sword, there was no need to hesitate. Ronan, rushing in a straight line, swung his sword. The two feet of the giant who was at the forefront were separated from the bridge.

“Wow…!”

The body of the giant who had lost his legs collapsed forward. Ronan jumped off the giant’s back and landed on the giant’s shoulder just behind him. spatula. As La Mancha drew a circle in mid-air, the giant’s head fell to the ground.

thud!

“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

Blood spurted from the clean cut. The giants on either side were furious and threw up their fists. Ronan jumped vertically to dodge the attack. Aww! Two heavy fists collided in mid-air.

‘You really look like a dick.’

If it had hit it, it would have been crushed to the point where I couldn’t even recognize its shape, but it didn’t matter because it didn’t. Ronan, who was contemplating right and left, ran on the arm of the uglier left giant.

Scratch! Again La Mancha drew an arc. A yellow line appeared based on the giant’s nose and the top part fell off. Seeing the face of his half-disappeared comrade, the giant widened his eyes.

“Kuu… Kwok?”

“What you looking at.”

Ronan quickly turned around and fired a slash in the eye of the giant on the right. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 A yellowish liquid gushed out of his half-cleared pupils.

“Big, big, oh, oh, oh!”

A cry of pain erupted from the giant’s mouth. Even though he was cutting rocks, there was nothing caught like water. Even without mana, it was this much.

The blind giant raised his hand and covered his eyes. Ronan’s arms shot forward. Whoops! La Mancha, which had dug through the cracks of his fingers, ripped through the giant’s brain and escaped.

“Guwok.”

The body that the soul had left began to lean. It took less than a minute to get here. The sword, which had drunk a lot of blood, was flashing dazzlingly. Ronan said looking around the other giants.

“At this point, I am afraid. Aren’t you scared?”

Slowly, I thought it was unnecessary killing. To be honest, Ronan was hoping that the giants would run away with moderate intimidation. The giants who howled in reply rushed forward.

“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

Ronan sighed. He didn’t seem to have any intention of quitting. Ronan murmured as he leapt towards the other giant.

“If that’s the case, what?”

The graceful sword path continued like a snake. As always, it didn’t take long for the job to finish.

****

“Wow, that’s weird. It can be like this.”

Ronan was dipping the tip of La Mancha’s sword into the pool of blood under his feet. At the same time as the puddle was rapidly shrinking, a haze-like energy was rising over the sword.

Behind him lay the corpses of cave giants torn apart. Ronan, who looked around at the tragedy, shrugged.

“After all, what did these friends want to do?”

“…what are you?”

Doron looked at Ronan with a smirk. Steam was rising from the body covered in the blood of giants.

I couldn’t believe it either. Ronan never touched the ground until he had slaughtered twenty-six giants. It was a sight like a bird of prey hunting.

“You don’t have a sheath for this? If I carry it on my back like this, I think my buttocks are going to shatter.”

Ronan swung the La Mancha in the air after drinking all of his blood. There was a sound like a ghost whistling. Doron woke up late and opened his mouth.

“Ah, it looks like the sheath will have to be remade. I’m sorry, but would you mind waiting a little bit?”

“Why do I have to recreate it?”

“I entrusted the finishing touches to another old man’s workshop, but they came in. It probably wasn’t broken, but it’s probably lying somewhere deep in the rubble.”

“Ummm… I made it at the most, but I’ll look for it later. By the way, what was it you were trying to say?”

“What did you mean? Indeed, it is. You have a good memory.”

Ronan nodded. I couldn’t hear Doron’s words until the end because of the ignorant stones intervening. Doron opened his mouth, unable to take his eyes off the unrealistic devastation.

“I think . . . maybe the king of the cave giants has appeared.”

“Are you the king?”

“okay. A king or a captain, the one who plays the role of the head anyway. As well as the bizarre gathering, there was a sense of organization in the behavior of the cave giants today.”

“Hey, isn’t it too hasty judgment?”

“Of course it is very likely. But as you know, we dwarves are the race that has the most contact with the monsters below.”

Doron told the story of the king of the cave giants passed down orally among the dwarves. It was said that the king, several times larger than the general cave giant, lived deep underground and ruled the kingdom of cave giants.

“Then, are you saying that the attack on the miners in the mines and the fact that dozens of dogs followed them to the blacksmith’s smithy were the actions of the Stone King?”

“I can’t be sure, but other than that, I can’t really guess. I’ve never experienced or heard of anything like this…”

Ronan rubbed his chin. It seemed like a nonsensical story, but something was plausible. After all, 10 years from now, winged bastards will come down and change the world, so what can you not believe?

“Good for you. Then I’ll follow where these guys came from. If you kill the king or anything else, this won’t happen.”

“Come on, wait…! How about waiting a little bit? Did people even call you?”

“That’s why I’m going even more now. I don’t know who she’s going to call in, but there’s no one left to let her go when she says she’s going to go down to the monsters on her own.”

I realized it after seeing the aggressive side of me just before. The cave giant was a monster that could not coexist.

Ronan was determined to stretch. He scooped the giant’s blood with his finger and rubbed it into Didican’s nose.

The blood had a foul smell of sulfur. Didi Khan, who was wriggling his eyebrows, woke up in a match.

“Heh heh heh! Whoops…! What, what?! What kind of smell is this…”

“Didican. can you move No, you have to move.”

“Ronan? Ughh… damn it. What happened? Why do you think the bodies have grown?”

Didi Khan wrapped his head around him like a man suffering from a terrible hangover. Ronan briefly described the current situation. Didi Khan distorted his face when he heard that he was going to find the king of giants out of the blue.

“What else do you mean? Are you a king?”

“I don’t know either. I’ll finish it on my own, so go upstairs with Doron. Keep in mind that if you ask Sita, he will heal any injuries.”

“Sita?”

“You saw it last time. That black, baseless-looking kid.”

“ah.”

Didi Khan nodded. He looked fed up at the head of the cave giant rolling at his feet. Suddenly, Didi Khan’s eyes widened.

“Wait, Ronan.”

“what’s the matter?”

“What is this?”

Didi Khan pushed the giant’s head with his foot. As he narrowed his brow and looked at the giant’s back, he stretched out his index finger.

“this.”

“What is this?”

Ronan narrowed his eyes. Where Didi Khan’s index finger was pointing, something like a pattern was engraved. Emitting a faint light gave a very foreign impression.

“Do they have tattoos too?”

“I don’t think so. It’s a strange feeling… wait a minute.”

Didi Khan narrowed his eyebrows and began examining the bodies of the other giants. Although the parts were different, the same pattern was engraved on each corpse.

Werewolf’s intuition was sending a warning. Didi Khan, who was drooling, called out Doron.

“Doron, come and take a look at this.”

“Um?”

Doron, who was flirting, looked at the pattern. Doron, who was stroking the pattern with his wrinkled hand, opened his mouth.

“This… I don’t even know. It’s kind of like magic, but…”

“Magic?”

“okay. But I have no idea what the magic is. It was engraved on the bodies of giants?”

Ronan nodded. Doron, who had been contemplating while rubbing his beard, immediately shook his head. It was something he had never seen for hundreds of years.

For some reason, the doubts only increased. Ronan let out a swear word.

“Damn, that makes me even more curious. I will go.”

“Even if it dries up, you will leave anyway. Please be careful.”

“Yes, Ronan. There is something unusual about this.”

“Don’t worry, nothing will happen. What are you afraid of with this?”

Ronan waved La Mancha. After seeing the two of them off, he headed to the depths of the communion. Shortly after walking, a huge passageway leading further down appeared. Traces of the giants were clearly visible.

“After the king of the cave, there is an unknown magic.”

There was only darkness in the eerie passage. There seemed to be a sound of water coming from somewhere.

Did you even bring a torch? Slowly everyone was trying to save them. Ronan continued to walk, thinking about this and that.

How much time has passed? The narrow field of vision widened and an open space appeared. Ronan stopped walking. The wonders of the underworld that made Gran Cappadocia colorless were unfolding before my eyes.

“This is… it really is… that’s great.”

It was such a wide space that the end was unfathomable. Ronan looked around like a madman.

Colorful luminous moss covered the walls and ceilings of the vast cavity. It felt more like being thrown into a starry night sky rather than a cave.

There was a stream of water flowing from somewhere. Animals were flying around, confused whether it was a bird or an insect. Huge mushrooms with tentacles hanging like jellyfish were growing everywhere.

In the night sky embraced by the underworld, a unique ecosystem was constituted. Not a few blacksmith buildings, but a really good environment to build a village.

‘Does the kingdom of stones really exist?’

Ronan stepped forward slowly. There were numerous footprints of cave giants on the damp floor. I don’t know where he hid or if he couldn’t see it because Ronan killed them all, but it was difficult to infer that the giants were originally gathered here.

‘No, that’s not it. Also, something is strange.’

Ronan drooled. All the remaining footprints were just new. If this was the kingdom of giants, older traces should have remained. Ronan made a hypothesis based on the clues.

The giants who had wandered all over the underground gathered here for a brief moment. The gathered giants all moved toward Gran Cappadocia. It was as if someone had ordered it.

“Ugh!”

Then, while walking while looking at the floor, something hit his forehead. As I spit out swear words and looked up, I saw a wall made of a certain yellow crystal.

The wall stretched upwards in a gentle curve. What’s this in the middle of the communion? It was a moment when I looked at the wall without thinking much.

“Fuck.”

Ronan took a breath and retreated. He almost missed the hilt.

It wasn’t a wall. The giant, whose body was covered in crystal, sat crouching. Ronan saw the giant’s back and mistook it for a wall.

It was a different size from a normal cave giant. Even when he was crouching, it was this much, but he couldn’t even guess how much it would be if he got up.

But something was strange. Ronan tilted his head.

‘… is he dead?’

The giant crouched and did not move. There was no heartbeat, and there was no smell of beggar sulfur from the cave giant’s breath.

What the hell is this? Was the cave giant right? It was Ronan’s car to take a closer look at the giant. Someone’s voice came from the other side.

“Is there a problem?”

“It’s not accurate. But the connection with the last sent object has been lost.”

“Damn it, then what? There are no giants left now.”

“does not matter. After all, it was confirmed that all facilities were destroyed.”

Ronan instinctively hid his presence. He leaned against the giant and moved slowly in the direction of the sound. It wasn’t long before I saw two men and women having a conversation.

“Well, then that’s it. With this, the metallurgy and smelting of the Empire will experience a significant stagnation.”

“There is a high chance of regression. Most of the artisans must have died.”

‘What are these bastards?’

Ronan, who overheard the conversation, frowned. In terms of physique, both were human. The woman wore a pure white robe, and the man wore armor.

The appearance of the robe was particularly unusual, but the hood that covered the face down to the bottom of the nose was reminiscent of a reaper in a fairy tale. Then the woman raised her palm and interrupted the man.

“Wait.”

“Well? Why?”

“I think there is an intruder.”

“intruder? Nothing was detected in the mana boundary stone?”

“It smells like sulfur. right there.”

The woman pointed the tip of her chin in the direction of Ronan. The man in armor tilted his head.

“okay? I don’t know.”

“Wait. I will go.”

“Nope. You’ll know once you shoot it. Fireball.”

The man suddenly raised his arm and chanted the spell. A fireball shot from his hand flew straight towards Ronan.

“What the fuck…!”

Ronan spit out a swear word and ran out and rolled on the floor. The fireball that touched the giant exploded and made a roar. The man who saw Ronan’s appearance whistled in admiration.

“Hey, what really happened?”

“The movement is agile. Be careful not to miss it.”

“It’s okay. Fire Wall.”

It was the moment when Ronan turned to the man. Whoops! A wall of fire rose out of nowhere and surrounded Ronan on all sides. The man slowly approached Ronan and said.

“What are you?”

“…that’s what I want to ask. What are men and women doing alone in this gloomy basement?”

“Hey, you arrogant kid. You don’t like it at all?”

The man snapped his finger into the air. The wall of fire began to narrow slowly. Mushrooms and moss that touched the fire burned and made a sound like a frying pan.

“how will we do it. Is it right to kill him too?”

“It raises a lot of questions, but I think it’s probably better that way.”

“right. How can such a subtle error delay the arrival of a star?”

“What?”

Ronan’s eyes widened. My heart started beating faster in response to a specific word. After hearing Ronan’s voice, the two turned their heads.

“What is it, kid? Do you have anything to say?”

“What did you just say?”

“Um?”

“The coming of the stars, what does that mean?”

A man and a woman faced each other. The woman shook her head. The man scratched the back of his head and looked at Ronan again.

“This guy’s mouth is plain… I’m sorry, but I can’t answer that question. You’re going to die anyway, tell me something else.”

The man shook his head as if regretful. Ronan grabbed the hilt. I felt my breathing suffocate. A slightly elevated voice escaped between her lips.

“No, no. you have to answer Both of you should go with me.”

“Huh, are you going to catch me?”

The man snorted. this is really funny The moment he was about to say that, Ronan’s figure disappeared from view. Only the shattered fire barrier remained in the darkness.

The man’s eyes widened. A voice came from his ear.

“yes.”

Ronan, who had disappeared, appeared between the two of them. tuk. The man’s left arm fell to the floor.