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Episode 327. Letting go of the burden
The moment Ethan started fighting the three apostles.
A countless number of lunar followers have stormed Iveca Academy.
“Quick! Quick! Get to the gym! Everyone!”
“Who couldn’t come right now? Did you check the number of people?”
“We’re almost there! Teacher Cloudy, Teacher Duty, and the other teachers are leading the way.”
Cloudy quickly relayed the current situation to the other teachers and took the lead, gathering all the students into the gym.
“Ugh, ugh. Miss Cloudy, it’s over.”
“Thank you for your hard work. Please go inside quickly. New teachers, go inside and focus on reassuring the students, and the rest of you, follow me and guard this front.”
Cloudy pointed her finger toward the front of the gym.
“The principal and the deans are over there. There are students over there too, so they must be fighting the Moon Followers by now.”
Bam-!
Kwaaaaaaaang-!
As soon as he finished speaking, a loud noise was heard from that direction.
It seemed like they had started fighting in earnest.
At that sound, the students looked anxious and the teachers each made different expressions.
Ibekah’s teachers were also human, and each had different personalities.
Not everyone could be like Cloudy, and some teachers among them didn’t have much passion.
When I became a teacher, I just taught students, and I didn’t have any grand sense of mission.
Because if I had the chance, I would just leave Ibeca and go to a better place.
But when the situation arose, they all thought the same thing.
Let’s protect the students.
Complex emotions were expressed on each of their faces, but their desire to protect the students was the same.
“teacher!”
Someone called Cloudy urgently.
“Mom, there are students who couldn’t come! There are about ten of them!”
“Ten people? Have you confirmed who they are?”
“I heard from the students that they were students who trained in the old training ground inside during the afternoon. Including the Oz Lasers… … .”
Cloudy clicked her tongue.
The old training ground is located quite deep within Ibeca.
So it seems that this uproar was not conveyed quickly.
“I’ll go myself… … .”
But as soon as he finished speaking, the followers of the moon appeared, wearing black robes over their heads.
The number that was immediately visible before my eyes was in the dozens.
“… … !”
“I, that… … .”
Everyone here had only heard from Cloudy that the Moon’s followers had invaded.
I had only heard about them, but this was my first time seeing them in person.
Of course, the same was true for Cloudy.
Shaaaaah-.
A distinctive dark blue aura emitted by followers of the moon.
The sight sent a chill down the teachers’ spines.
“How many people are there… … .”
“Why on earth did they want Ibeka?”
I only told them that the followers of the moon had attacked, but I couldn’t tell them why they had come in such an urgent situation. There was no benefit to telling them that they had come to kill Ethan.
But the lack of information actually weakened their mental strength.
“You need to come to your senses.”
Then Cloudy stood in front of his followers and shouted.
“This is Ibeka, and there are students inside. We have to protect them.”
The teachers’ eyes lit up at those words.
As Cloudy said, it doesn’t matter why the Moon Followers invaded.
What was important was that they were trying to kill the students.
“Let us protect our disciples.”
“yes!”
“Understood, Mr. Cloudy!”
At the same time, a shrill, earth-shaking sound was heard.
“Defeat the gang of thugs attacking Ibeka!”
“Show me exactly where this place is!”
They were knights of the Marquis of Ronde.
Just as the three apostles had planned and led their troops, a large-scale reinforcement force arrived from the Marquis of Rondo.
Three units of knights guarding the Marquis. A total of 100 knights were running in front, and over 300 soldiers in charge of the security of the Marquisate were following behind them.
“Your Majesty… … has decided to give us great help.”
It seemed like Ethan and Cloudy had taken his words very seriously, as they had come to him directly to ask for help.
The number of troops supported by the Marquis was so shocking that it seemed absurd.
As a large force of reinforcements arrived, the teachers’ expressions brightened considerably.
But Cloudy never relaxed.
“The author is Claude Hyde.”
“The three apostles said that this time we don’t need any hostages.”
“Then we will tie up the strong ones first, but we will kill them all.”
“Get started.”
Shaaaaah-.
The followers of the moon began to move, spreading out like shadows.
The speed was extremely fast.
“Ugh!?”
One of the Marquis’s knights who was running towards him was startled for a moment and drew his sword.
The followers of the moon, who had been surrounded from the front and back like a sandwich, split into front and back and launched an attack.
Kyaang-!
Cloudy was surprised too.
Cloudy was usually the type to stay calm no matter what happened, but the weight of the sword that suddenly struck her was beyond her imagination.
I couldn’t help but be surprised by the strength of the Moon Followers, which I had only heard about through words.
“The apostle… … is not what I’m saying.”
Even though he is this strong, he is not an apostle.
So, is the apostle even stronger than this?
Then, Ethan, who led the new interrogators and defeated the apostle… … How strong is he?
“Huh.”
Cloudy clenched her teeth and tightened her stomach.
“You thought it was a clever plan and destroyed the truth of Mana Restriction… … but it was actually a bad idea.”
Cloudy drew up her mana and stomped her feet hard as she advanced forward.
As he went ahead, the teachers behind him also followed him, raising their mana.
“Do you think you can lay a hand on our students?”
“I won’t send anyone after this!”
The followers of the moon paid no attention to the shouts of their teachers.
“Mission continues.”
The mission they were given was simple.
We will secure as many souls as possible.
I will kill everyone in Ibeka Academy.
Complete annihilation was the goal of this mission.
Cloudy looked at the other teachers.
Having faced the sword himself, he could clearly see what he had to do here and now.
“One or two is not enough. Five people should attack at the same time.”
Cloudy pretended to be bluff and provoked the moon followers.
The followers of the moon stared at Cloudy for a moment, then ten of them rushed at him at the same time.
“Mr. Cloudy!”
“I’m fine, so don’t ever break through!”
The knights of the Marquis of Rond, who had come to support, tried to dig inward and join the force, but the followers of the moon who blocked them were also numerous.
Clang-! Clang-!
Cloudy did her best to fend off the attacks of the Moon Followers.
The ten followers of the moon moved as if they were one body, unleashing elegant attacks.
Even though the sun was clearly in the sky, the visibility was dark as if it were midnight.
‘I’m using gin.’
But Cloudy wasn’t upset.
The Hyde family is also one of the twelve constellations. It is a place where a fierce battle for succession takes place that cannot be compared to other noble families.
For Cloudy, who had survived her childhood there and become a teacher at Ibeca Academy, such trivia was just laughable.
Clang-! Clang-!
“I’m used to them hiding in the dark and attacking me.”
As darkness fell, attacks came without fail. I could count on one hand the number of times I slept properly, and I was on the brink of death many times.
It was too brutal to be rationalized as a fight for succession between brothers, but the experience was now of great help.
Kyaang-!
Sigh!
I deflected the attack flying from the darkness and counterattacked and cut it down.
One of the moon’s followers fell back under the attack.
It was the Hyde family’s vision swordsmanship, the Mist Swordsmanship.
Spreads mana like fog, inflicting powerful wounds on enemies who enter it.
It was a power similar to that of those who use mana to darken vision.
Teenage work.
However, the teachers were surprised by Cloudy’s actions that injured one person. It was the first time they had seen Cloudy attack with such sincerity.
It was truly a true statement. I felt that in order to teach students well, one must first be a role model.
“No one can go inside.”
“If you want to get in, just step over my corpse.”
The inspired teachers each blurted out the things they had always wanted to say.
* * *
Sigh!
The surroundings were dyed white. Red blood fell into the white world.
Thud-. Thud-.
The three apostles groaned, holding the wounded area with their hands.
“Ughhhhhhhhhh.”
It was a painful sound that seemed to resonate from deep within the body.
Ethan closed his eyes as he heard the sound.
I’ve condensed everything I’ve learned so far into this one shot.
The three apostles who were properly hit by the Frost of Trust were frozen in place.
But that was only for a moment, as the three apostles who had used the reversal to escape the attack range in an instant began spitting out blood.
“Cough, ugh.”
“Whew. Whoosh.”
Ethan also exhaled heavily.
I’m out of breath because I put all my effort into this attack, but in this state, closing the distance to finish me off is a bad idea.
Ethan took a calming breath as he watched the three apostles continue to vomit blood.
“It’s difficult.”
The words came out without me knowing.
‘The trustworthy frost has completely settled in.’
In that case, the three apostles should have fallen on the spot.
But the three apostles were still alive, and Ethan was exhausted from the aftereffects of exerting great force.
‘He defended himself again with superhuman powers that I didn’t know about.’
This means that there is one more defensive technique besides Sarter’s secret library.
If not, then it means that it has incredible durability. Ethan could be proud that no one had the durability to withstand the Frost of Trust.
‘Maybe it’s not super powers, but an effect of the soul of the abyss.’
Ethan has a ton of super powers under his belt. He was one of the most important elements in the Meph.
But in that process just now, there was nothing that seemed like superpower or felt different.
As Ethan made his decision, the wounds of the three apostles began to boil and heal.
“shit.”
Ethan clicked his tongue.
In any case, this attack had to be considered a failure.
Not only did he wound him but he couldn’t kill him, he even healed the wounds.
Ethan quickly thought about the three apostles in distress.
Now there are only two times that you can use the 4th form.
Just like that attack just now, with all your might, just twice.
After using the remaining two, Ethan will have a hard time doing anything against the three Apostles anymore.
If I could definitely kill the three apostles, I would try using the Trustful Frost twice more, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a clear picture.
‘No matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure it out.’
It was a kind of instinct that developed after playing Mepan for a long time.
I wasn’t sure I could kill the three apostles using the two remaining Trust Years Frosts.
‘If I could kill them twice, I would carry out my plan somehow. No, I can’t kill them twice. Killing them isn’t the only solution, so let’s come up with another plan. Even after dealing with the three apostles, we have to keep moving.’
Ethan uses swordsmanship from style 1 to style 3 freely, then creates an opening to insert style 4 again?
But what if the guy doesn’t die even though you’ve accurately placed the Trustmannyeonseol?
That’s it.
There are no more means left to deal with the Three Apostles.
‘This won’t do. We can’t just rely on the trustworthy Frost.’
That’s why you don’t know until you experience it yourself.
No matter how much knowledge I had, my head was spinning when I stood in front of the unknown number of the Three Apostles that I had never experienced before.
But for some reason, Ethan laughed.
“Hoooooooooo.”
Yedam becomes Ethan.
I have lived my life with safety first based on the knowledge I gained while playing Mepan.
Because if you don’t choose that way, you’ll die.
That’s why I’ve only chosen options that have absolutely no risk. Of course, there were times when I had to take small risks, but basically, I only thought about safety.
But Ethan wasn’t originally a safety-minded person.
Challenge and break.
Challenge and fail.
His style was to try countless times, fail countless times, and get to know the big picture by feeling it like a blind man touching an elephant.
But now is the time to abandon that safety-first mentality.
You can’t defeat the Three Apostles by playing it safe.
‘now.’
Ethan relaxed his shoulders.
“Let’s put aside the question of life and death.”
Then I took a deep breath.
The three apostles are high-difficulty bosses.
When you’re hunting a high-difficulty boss, there’s only one thing to think about.
“It’s time to have fun.”
fantasy,
