Regressor, Possessor, Reincarnator

Episode 80

The ruins that arrived five days later were full of mercenaries and merchants. The eyes of the students were on the spire that broke through the ground from the moment they got closer to the ruins.

Instead of going into a temporary camp, the professors placed them in a new camp set up next to it and assigned them to pre-contracted guides.

Most of the guides were chosen at random, but some went along with people they knew, as we’ve already talked about.

Allen was one of those cases.

“Allen, long time no see.”

“Alexius. Nice to meet you.”

Allen joined Alexius, who had been waiting for him, as he had exchanged letters with him.

When I turned around to Julius, there, Erini was waving her spider legs and greeting others.

After all the guides were assigned, I was given a brief description of the ruins.

After re-explaining the warnings and goals they had been familiar with in class, they were able to enter only after receiving a map with some of the artifacts and ruins for emergency escape.

A few hours had passed since I searched the ruins in earnest.

“Evan! went in too much. Fall back!”

“Wow! Oh, I got it!”

Evan, who was about to charge at Allen’s command, flinched and backed away.

While his body stopped for a moment, the spear flew in, but Evan skillfully smashed the spear and blocked the front again. Then Allen cried.

“Eriel, it is now!”

“I know!”

Ariel’s eyes turned green, and she quickly fired an arrow. Her three arrows flew in a row, past her head, bent at an impossible angle, and fell.

– Pew Pew!

The arrow went through the Living Dead, which Evan was blocking, and pierced the Sandman’s head, who was aiming for a break.

aah

The Living Dead seemed to be angry at the sight, so he screamed and pushed. A total of three assaults instead of one. He blocked the narrow passage, so he might be able to block it right away, but over time, Evan was in danger.

“Turn it off! Ah, Allen, the magic is still far away… ! Ouch!”

Evan shook his head without yelling. Blue magic enveloped him, and his speed increased several times in an instant. Whoo! The blade of the spear brushed against his head.

Evan raised the shield strongly, with a face engulfed in emotion, whether it was excitement or fear.

With the clear sound of the helmet, the head of the Living Dead fell backwards. As the Living Dead paused, Evan swung his one-handed sword violently.

Kwajik! The Living Dead staggered and took a few steps back. Because of the narrow passage, all three animals had to be affected by their movements.

Since the living dead are not living things, they cannot be dealt with unless the nucleus is destroyed.

But, that was enough.

“Evan!”

Because Evan’s purpose wasn’t to deal with the Living Dead in the first place.

“finally!”

Evan retreated, following tactics he had practiced disgustingly in the man-made ruins.

As Allen gestured, the skeins were entangled and a yellow-blue horn appeared. Allen grabbed the horn and took a deep breath. Green flames burned between the living dead’s helmets and screamed.

aah

As the three empty armor charged, it was not long before Evan, who finally retreated.

‘Scream of corruption.’

Pu—–!

A heavy low-pitched wave collided with the Living Dead in a tornado.

A strong wind blew past the Living Dead. There was no strong destructive sound. But that was the end of it.

Puss-

The living armor began to oxidize in an instant, and soon fell apart with a creaking sound.

The battle was over.

“… After that, it’s over.”

Ariel loosened her hand as her knuckles were numb and moved to retrieve the arrow. Even if there are more arrows in the subspace, arrows are consumables, and if it can be used sparingly, it should be right.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

William ran towards Evan. Evan hurriedly stopped his body that was about to sit down and greeted him with a nonchalant face.

“It’s only about warming up, so there’s no need to worry.”

“haha. If so, I’m glad… .”

William looked at his body with a smirk, and sighed in relief when there were no injuries.

Bestla, who was watching the scene, asked with a trembling blade.

“If you use your power, there’s no need to deal with such trouble, right?”

‘Then there is no reason to form a group and act.’

“… Ugh, I mean, I want to move a little too. I haven’t even used a sword properly these days.”

‘I can’t help it.’ Bestla kept creaking at her waist, as if her body ached. He was stuck in the academy and didn’t have a chance to use his sword properly, so that’s good enough.

However, Allen planned to move thoroughly as a team in this practice.

Until he proves his hypothesis that this ruin has something to do with a warlock or a demon lord.

“Wow! Is there anything I need to tell you again this time?”

clap clap-

Milred approached with clapping hands and praised it with twinkling eyes.

“Evan has a tendency to be too aggressive, but he followed directions well… ok, it’s ok Ariel was also good at helping her by piercing her gaps. William also did a good job with the standard. And Allen, not to mention… .”

She turned her head to look in her eyes full of curiosity and anticipation.

“It’s just magic, isn’t it time-based magic?”

Allen said cut it off.

Time-based magic does not exist.

Opinions are still divided in academic circles.

Allen, however, was more inclined to the hypothesis that time was merely an assumption of the change of matter.

Young and old, new and old, birth and death.

If a child doesn’t grow up forever, if things don’t wear out forever, what’s the difference from time standing still?

Time accompanies change.

Conversely, it is impossible to prove the existence of time if it does not change.

It was part of this context that Allen did not initially believe in regression.

Things can be old, but they can’t be replaced with new ones.

“It’s just oxidized iron.”

“It is, too… ?”

She nodded her head with a sullen face.

This magic was one of the achievements of stopping by the library.

to make what will happen happen.

It was a collection of inspirations that had been running through my head since I first met Inellia and Linbell.

However, a number of prerequisites were attached to using this magic. The future has to be almost certain, it cannot be used on organisms, and it consumes enormous mana because the system has not been completely established. In addition, the usage is limited.

However, Allen thought that if this magic was a time-based magic, it would be like this.

Of course, there are only one or two mountains to climb in order to give it such a name.

“Is the story over now?”

“Ah, Alexius. Did you do it all by yourself?”

Alexius approached with a leather pouch of by-products. His scorpion tail wiggled with the movement.

“I didn’t do it alone, but Ariel-sama helped me.”

“It’s not that difficult.”

She smiled briefly and asked them with a serious face.

“therefore… What are you going to do, Allen?”

Before entering the ruins, Ariel lifted up the map that was handed out so that everyone could see it.

The top of the blackened map had changed as bright as the distance the party had moved.

However, the revealed part was less than 10% of the map.

“We are still just stuck at the entrance to the ruins. The important thing is that it’s still only on the first floor. But Evan is already tired… .”

“No, I am not tired… .”

“Evan.”

“Hmm, I think I need a little rest.”

“My magic power is also fleeting. Not to mention William, who lacks stamina.”

William’s face turned red from embarrassment at those words, but there was no one to say to him, who was in charge of the group’s treatment.

“So, you have to make a choice.”

“Are you going to retreat or go further?”

“yes that’s right. Lighting more parts of the map will give you a higher score. I feel like I want to go further, but it’s also the first day,”

Her gaze turned to Milred, who was smiling haphazardly from a distance away.

“… If I get help from my sister, it won’t be very helpful for my practical evaluation.”

“right! So choose carefully. Some knowledge can be helpful, but be careful because direct intervention will deduct points!”

Allen was contemplating.

how will we do it. The battle has already been fought dozens of times. The experience is enough.

Even if it was not yet possible to see the existence of strong traps or guardians because it was still the beginning, the physical loss was great because they had already entered without a break.

Milred, still withdrawn, seemed unwilling to intervene. All of this will be assessed.

‘You’ll need more rest than moving too much.’

Allen made a decision and spoke up.

“I will be back.”

Inwardly, Ariel was relieved that she was desperate for a break.

Milred smiled broadly in support of his decision.

“Well done! Allen, if you’re not sure, it’s better to hold your breath!”

“Then we will return via the nearest route.”

Alexius looked at the map for a moment, then moved to see if he had found his way after a while.

The group quickly followed behind him. At the word of William’s return, he became angry and gathered his strength.

“Heh, heh… , I’ll pay more attention to strength training when I get back… . haha.”

“Then I will help you.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

“Don’t give up.”

At Evan’s words, William’s face turned slightly blue.

So, the ship left the ruins at a faster speed than when the party first returned to the ruins.

The time when the sun goes down and both the scarlet sunset and the pale moon are floating in the sky.

A commotion was heard near the entrance to the ruins.

“How are you going to take responsibility? I followed you and was eliminated on the first day. If the family knew what to say… , that must be crazy.”

“No, didn’t Confucius tell you to provide information about the advance squad first?”

“This humble adventurer bastard… .”

“Are you ignoring the guild now?”

Perhaps the adventurer was a guide from the guild, and he protested with an unfair tantrum, and the aristocratic student burst into laughter as if this was the first time he had been treated like this.

“Are you talking to me now? dare… !”

“Then, Confucius, do you think I will tell lies when I signed a contract through the guild?”

For the guide to act like that, it must have been great that he could not bring an army to the great desert.

Seeing what he was saying, he seemed really embarrassed.

“This bastard is ignoring my family… .”

“Does Confucius only write about his family? If you have something to say, complain directly to the guild. We have already submitted the video record storage marbles to the guild and academy.”

The authority to control outside the central area does not work here, so the male student’s face turned red as if it were about to explode.

The assistant sensed that the gaze around him was not very good, and hurriedly ran out of the crowd.

“Allen, what are you looking at?”

When I turned around, William approached me with a cringe, wondering if it was still awkward to call him by his first name.

“It seems that there are already those who have been eliminated.”

William opened his eyes wide and asked. He didn’t seem to believe that.

“Are you saying you’ve already been eliminated?”

Allen shrugged and resumed the step he had stopped. William stood next to him and walked with him.

“There will always be people who are greedy. It seems that the guide was from the advance team that looked at the ruins first. Judging from what you are saying, whether the student was greedy or the guide leaked information in the first place, it seems like he went into a deep place and got hit.”

William had an incomprehensible face.

“It’s the first day, why… .”

“Ability and greed are not proportional.”

It’s not just a relic, it’s a huge relic.

The quality of the artifacts that came out was different, so I was greedy. Plus, you get good grades in practice.

However, there is a difference between general ruins and mega-sized ruins.

Unlike ordinary ruins, which usually require only defeating guardians or proving the knowledge required, the super-large ruins were made up of a number of complexities.

The monsters that flowed into its huge size, the guardians who wandered around the ruins, and the traps scattered all over the place.

Now, if you fall into a trap that you don’t even know the principle of, your colleagues will disappear like a superstition floating between the lines.

“… Seriously, I’m starting to feel like something is missing. I thought all nobles were great.”

William muttered with a complicated expression on his face.

“Yeah, but Allen, Evan and Ariel were all shocked for the good.”

William hurriedly made an excuse and looked at Allen.

There will be some story.

It’s natural for all sorts of things to be said about the nobility.

So Allen didn’t reply, just smiled and walked forward.

As Allen didn’t seem too offended, William walked alone, with a brooding expression on his face.

The sunset vomited out the last light, dyeing the western edge red.

The first day of arriving at the ruins was coming to an end.