The Golden Sun of the Academy

Episode 21

Devourer of Blades (3)

The main gate of the academy was mainly used to divide the inner and outer areas.

as per its size. Even though it was only across the inner hall, it was quite far from the dormitory where the students live.

It’s not long to take a bus, but it takes quite a while to walk. It was such an ambiguous street.

Swords, swords, spears, shields, guns, etc.

Standing in front of the main gate, which was firmly supported by tall marble pillars on both sides of the iron door embossed with all sorts of weapons, I was waiting for someone.

surely. You did come out early.

Maybe because I fell asleep too early yesterday. I woke up right away, not befitting an early morning.

I sat on a bench installed on the wall next to the front door and looked at my cell phone to kill time.

06:55 A.M.

The wallpaper of the cell phone that I looked into just in time tells the time.

It seemed like a long wait, but we still hadn’t reached the appointment time.

how long did you wait for that

In the distance, I began to see the vague figure I had been waiting for.

As the platinum-colored figure approached little by little, it gradually increased its weight in the field of vision. And the moment I was able to fully confirm the shape.

“Sun-! I’m here.”

A blonde woman with doll-like appearance called me.

A bright smile as always. However, on the other hand, if you look into it, you will see a pupil whose emotions are dead.

It was not.

Perhaps she ran in haste, a blush that is hard to see in an Awakener outside of a battle was lightly on her cheeks.

“Did you wait a long time?”

“No, not very long.”

“really?”

Looking back, she felt a shimmer in her pupils.

Emotions must have been cut that day.

‘Same day as well. There were some things that I couldn’t understand.’

The same goes for group assignments. I kept getting the feeling that they were taking care of me strangely.

Suspicion raised its head slightly. It wasn’t urgent right now, so I put it in a corner of my chest and got up.

“If you come, let’s go. I’m in a bit of a hurry today.”

“uh… … , He said he would tell me why.”

Turning her head slightly in this direction, she started walking beside me.

ah.

Certainly, I did tell you.

“It’s not a big deal… … .”

“really? Isn’t it a big deal-?”

“Even as a student, the conditions for entry to the lowest level safety gate are met.”

“So~?”

When she asked her question while sticking her face in this direction, the possessed people spat out an obvious answer.

Whatever it was, it wasn’t a lie.

“Let’s take a look around together.”

Anya looked at her blankly, then raised her lips as if she understood. He nodded.

“Yeah, that’s enough.”

And like a mumble. I could see the corners of her mouth moving slightly. Her mouth was twitching as she spoke.

-i’ll wait.

I quietly walked with her to the bus stop.

* * *

‘… … It’s a shame.’

This is the impression I gave out after sitting on the bus seat.

Anya doesn’t seem to mind.

I caught the mood. After doing this, I couldn’t think of anything to talk about with her.

God X, do something. what about the atmosphere

Come to think of it, it’s a situation where you have to go a long way even if you take a bus. If it stays like this, it looks like it’s quietly stuck in an awkward state.

“We’re going to Hwaseong Gate in Suwon, right?”

Rolling her eyes, she pondered for a long time about what to do. Fortunately, she spoke first.

“uh. I am going to go there.”

Anya and I boarded a high-speed bus equipped with a magic engine, a product of magic engineering, and were on our way to our destination, Suwon.

The concept of Museon’s Gate is slightly twisted.

A gate is just a passage that connects this world to another world.

For the most common dungeons.

A world called the parasitic world, which has lost its own survival power, uses the gate as a passageway to suck up the world’s spirit by extending like a tentacle to parasitize in another world.

A dungeon is a part of the other world that is entered through the gate, and the size and difficulty are classified into thousands of different categories.

In this case, it doesn’t matter much. It was a general monster gate where most of them were low-level monsters.

The dungeons that sometimes make fun of players with strange environments or clear conditions belong to this side.

‘Like where I’m going now.’

In the case of Museion, it was the orthodoxy of the magical engineering world that most of the ancient unscientific things were related to the parasitic dimension.

It didn’t matter as long as I was careful with the gate that sometimes hit me in the back of the head. In the case of the parasitic dimension we are going to now, it has already been verified several times through the game. So it was safe to go.

“Because the stabilized dungeon is open to high school students as well.”

“So glad. You can experience something like this.”

Like Anya said.

Occasionally, after some unlucky parasitic worlds go through the so-called ‘stabilization work’. A mutual symbiotic relationship with Museon’s Earth is formed.

On the one hand, they vomit things like mana stones and monster by-products. On the other side, the spirit is distributed so that the parasitic world can be maintained. It wasn’t bad so far.

The real problem lies in the second.

In order to covet Museon’s Earth, the guys from the upper dimension artificially opened it. It is a passage to send some kind of army.

Even in the higher dimension, numerous parasitic worlds are commanded like limbs. And the parasitic world is operated like a barracks to extract troops.

top egg. It was a word referring to a higher dimension with numerous parasitic worlds. The tricky thing is that there are countless other higher realms besides the demon realm to which Arkham belongs.

Of course, Museon’s scientists are also aware of the higher world. It was a problem because I was aware of it.

Because the swings were opened, I was able to secretly infiltrate all over the world without a rumor. They continue to infiltrate their nephews.

Right now, at the beginning of the game.

It’s still at the level of sending out reconnaissance parties intermittently, but that will change if we move on to the second half.

It was hard to describe in words the sight of an invasion force pouring out from all dimensions, led by dozens or millions of monsters, from the gate opened through large-scale dimensional magic.

X feet… … Kang Hyuk will block it well later, right?

I trust you to block it, because I will support you well from the side.

“Taeyang, you must have arrived!”

while thinking about things. The lights flickered indicating that the bus had arrived at its destination, and Anya stood up.

As I got out of the bus, the eyes of the people around me caught on.

something unusual… … ah. understood right away.

Is it because of the academy uniform?

Is it because of Anya’s looks?

“You’re students, so you managed to come?”

“Perhaps you’re here for a date.”

“is it? Well, looking at the boy’s side, he seems to like bluffing.”

‘Is it both?’

When I took the subway line 1 from the district. It was the same principle that attention was focused on wearing the uniform of a famous university.

This place, quite far from the gate, is an outlying area with many ordinary people.

To them, the students of the academy would be the object of envy and envy.

When you only think about looks. Anya is a character who most closely matches the attributes of a so-called elf. It was understandable enough.

I was always mixed up with the same students, and it felt strange to openly receive attention like this.

Tickling in the chest.

no It’s not the time to be like this.

“No, let’s go.”

Perhaps because of the excessive attention from the surroundings, he grabbed her wrist and led her as she was distracted from looking around.

“uh? okay.”

Numerous people have come here for different purposes. someone for business. For someone to just pass through. Some are for scouting a new guild.

In the case of Suwon Hwaseong Dungeon, which is famous for being the largest dungeon among the lowest level, even high school students at the academy are not allowed to enter.

‘Originally, it was one of the devices for Kanghyeok’s growth.’

As we made our way through the crowds toward the entrance of the gate, less and less of the eyes were on us. Soon, no one paid attention to us.

That means there are many Awoken people who are busy with their own work. Because that was the life of the lower class Awakeners portrayed in the game.

Befitting the most popular dungeon in Korea, it was only possible to enter the gate through a wide dome-shaped building.

No matter how stable the dungeon was there. In the case of Suwon Dungeon, the interior was like a very large hunting ground, so you could see armed hunters belonging to the association everywhere.

As a cliché of clichés, I wish a scout from a small guild with a bright future would approach me… … .

In this place where the eyes of the association exist everywhere, even if it is big. There were no scouts approaching us, Dani advertising that we were students.

‘Well, I’m going to approach you as crazy. If you get caught, you will be expelled immediately.’

Standing at the end of the long line and waiting, we advanced little by little and soon arrived in front of a huge swinging gate.

“Awakened person certificate… … If you are an academy student, will you recognize your student ID?”

over the window. The guide, who was speaking mechanically, looked us up and down for a moment, and asked for an academy student ID, as they looked more like students than hunters everywhere.

Take your student ID out of your wallet. After taking a steel frame and stamping a student ID on one side of a future automatic door made of glass.

It’s different from the gate Anya made. I stood in front of a huge oval-shaped gate that shimmered in transparent blue light.

The primary goal was a parasitic world called the Suwon Mountains Dungeon. But the end goal… … .

“let’s go.”

He turned to Anya for a moment and didn’t speak for long.

He touched the handle of the main training sword around his waist and moved his feet.

The moment the blue light of the gate hit me, I could see.

About the middle of the line, a bit far from me and Anya.

A black academy uniform like ours.

however… … .

How did he know and follow him?

As I entered the gate, I vaguely saw Kanghyuk’s face.