Chapter 60 – Anomalies (2)

Perong! Pew! Pop!

Fireworks of various colors lit up the sky in the practice dungeon.

Explosions blooming in the air attracted attention with their respective roars and flames.

As if you are urgently trying to inform someone of your location.

The unexpected fireworks display was very beautiful, but me, Vincent, and Helena too. No one could laugh

That would be too… It’s not like play, because each one is a rescue request.

My mind was dazed by the feast of rescue signals that filled my vision.

What? What’s going on?

I… I am unaware of the existence of such an event.

If the entrance exam was a control tutorial, the dungeon practice is a dungeon tutorial.

If you play normally, it’s the first dungeon you enter, so it’s natural if it’s natural.

But what is this landscape now?

Before I knew it, something happened for reasons I didn’t know.

He’s also a rather unusual guy.

Helena was the first to speak in the heavy silence.

“Brothers. What would you like?”

Helena clutched the rosario with both her hands, which rested on her well-shaped chest.

With reverence like her prayers, she continued her words.

“As we know from dealing with them ourselves, an evil rabbit cannot put an academy student at risk. There must be something else.”

“You mean something else?”

“… I am suspicious of cultists.”

Helena’s words sparked her mind.

Okay. It’s not just one or two places, it’s always the cultists who cause simultaneous problems throughout the dungeon.

They always try to free the monsters in the dungeon, put them under their command to increase their power, or strengthen the influence of the evil god they follow to speed up the collapse of the seal.

However….

“How? How did a cultist get in here?”

Vincent’s doubts also have a point.

Practice dungeons are strictly managed by the academy.

Didn’t he usually hire a lot of guards to thoroughly manage both the outside and the inside of the dungeon?

It’s about managing dungeons, nothing else, so it’s because I care about safety to the point of being a little excessive.

But a cultist has come in without anyone noticing and is messing with it?

This is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.

There must be professors watching us from the outside, how could they just watch the cult?

Professor Jason is a petit bourgeois compared to his skills and has no special cause, but….

Still, cultists are bastards, and there is a basic concept that students must be protected.

Professor Cristina? Isn’t it natural that the priest hates those who are related to evil spirits?

Finally, Professor Iona.

It’s always a mess, but Iona is a person who has participated in a great war 300 years ago.

She refused the evil god’s invitation and lost all of her clanmates, and since then she has not made any new ones and is dedicated to revenge.

That’s why they are called ‘lord class’ vampires, not ‘vampire lords’.

Because there is no clan.

There’s nothing strange about all three of them jumping out right now and pulling the necks of cultists….

Clearly something went wrong.

For example, there are people out there who are the equivalent of three professors, and they are in the middle of a battle.

Or blocking access to the dungeon.

… Controlling the entry and exit of the dungeon means that you are a skilled person who can manipulate space and time at will, so that’s not true.

It’s not like there aren’t such people among the cultists, but he’s in a state where he can’t move.

I continued to rack my brains after that, but nothing more came to my mind.

Sometimes the materials I initially judged are too lacking.

But there was one thing that was certain.

This should be stopped.

Somehow certainly.

The entrance exam raid was a kind of armed demonstration.

Terrorism to weaken the future academy by killing prospective freshmen and spread the fear of evil spirits to others.

It is said that I did not come here with the intention of having a serious fight with the academy from the beginning.

But in the current situation, can’t you feel the will of the guys to try the sword dance properly.

I don’t know which denomination he is, but at this rate, countless class A students will lose their lives regardless of department.

This can also be said to mean that the talented people who will stand up to the resurrection of evil spirits will fly away.

When I thought about it, I felt frustrated and annoyed. And anxiety welled up.

Aagh!

I should have brought Karla somehow, even if I was stubborn!

Unknowingly, my breathing became rough. He forced himself into a deep breath and slowly opened his mouth.

“Like Priest Helena said, I also think this is an attack by cultists or equivalent.”

“But there are professors outside, and isn’t this place managed by the academy? I’d rather see this as a test to deal with unexpected situations, like a trap set by the professors.”

“…….”

Not a test First of all, there was no such content in H&A.

Maybe something I don’t know about has caused the butterfly effect since I entered the school….

“Even so, it doesn’t matter. I’m going to go where the signal comes from, and I’m going to do something about it, whether it’s a surprise test or a cult bastard. What are you guys going to do?”

At that, Helena nodded her head in anticipation.

“I will be with Brother Yandel.”

Lithe tone. But there was a certainty in it.

“Thank you Helena.”

“What. As the brother said, if it is part of the test, it can be solved, and if it is a cult, it can be beaten and killed.”

He’s obviously wearing a subtle smile on his face, but it’s a bit scary to see him speak with force in the cultist part.

Anyway, unlike Helena who responded immediately, Vincent opened his mouth after thinking for a while.

“A test is better. But if they’re really cultists… Can I be of any help to you?”

“If you do it like now, it will be enough.”

“Okay. Then I will try to help you with my sword.”

As if to swear something Vincent thumps his left chest.

He’s a good guy no matter what he does.

Alright, so now it’s decided to look around where the distress signal came from, so speed is going to be important.

Because field dungeons are wide inside regardless of the level of monsters.

“Then let’s gather here for a while before we leave.”

“Why is that, brother?”

“Do you have any plans?”

The two raised their eyebrows and nodded their heads.

“I didn’t know that this would happen… I have some things in store for when I need to.”

I glanced at the contents of the inventory.

The stored potions and scrolls were sufficient.

***

Buffs become less effective as they overlap.

Even the same series of buffs are not added together, but only the strongest one is applied.

However, the fact that the buff is useful remains unchanged, as the efficiency only decreases.

That’s why many users of H&A wanted to find out an effective doping combination, and I was no exception.

There were many combinations that I made myself, and I memorized combinations that others found.

Terrain, class, individual character, party combination, opponent, concept play, user’s tendency, and other things.

The memory of researching optimized doping combinations for various situations is still intact in my head.

After a long time, he brought out that memory and gave Vincent and Helena custom doping.

Perhaps, in this world, only me can do doping.

As a result.

“Crazy! You are crazy! You’re carrying around this much potion and scroll! The body is so light that it doesn’t seem like it is mine!”

“Yes. It’s even elaborately designed so that it doesn’t conflict with my blessings, right? I can clearly feel how much effort you must have put in to reach this point.”

We were breaking through the forest at more than twice the normal speed.

The evil rabbits that popped up in the middle either got tired of our momentum and ran away, or were unable to escape and were kicked to the end of their lives.

There was still one more thing I had prepared.

“Anyway, is it really okay to lend me so many magic tools? If anything breaks….”

“I won’t ask you to ask, so please use it. There is still a lot left.”

“Huh… Did you, by any chance, run a magic tool shop before entering the academy?”

That is why Vincent lent so many magic tools to the extent that he had such doubts.

Most of them are imprinted with low-level magic, so I rarely use them now….

Until he bought Karla, he had been living with magic tools to overcome his lack of power.

It’s not a waste to keep the traces of money in the inventory, so I decided to release them all at this opportunity.

Originally, if I relied on an item to such an extent, I would lose points, so I refrained from it… You don’t have to do that anymore.

However, there is a precedent for Carla with a full belly, so she won’t be able to maintain her current status for very long.

So, with the thought of speeding up, I ran like crazy to the place where the nearest signal arrived.

What awaited us there was a reality that was a little worse than I imagined.

“Shhhhh!”

“Keuk… Oh, no… !”

Two students lying on the ground, dyed in purple, and Hana barely holding on to her spirit and shivering.

And the monster who seems to be a half-mixed human and snake who is presumed to be the culprit of the current situation.

I realized it only when I saw the teeth marks tattooed on the elongated body of a guy who was about 2m tall.

That the raiders are followers of the turbid union.

And I killed one of their bishops the other day to stop an entrance examination raid.

Thanks to that, the turbid Hap-il designated the day he interfered with his plans as public.

… Could it be that you sharpened your knife like this to catch me?