Chapter 18
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 18: If You Say It's Absolutely Impenetrable, It Will Be Penetrated (2)
"Boss, I'll pay with this."
I grabbed a single spear and dumped some coins roughly on the counter.
I gave more, if anything, so it wouldn't be short.
Outside, students were still screaming and running away.
There were many ordinary students in the academy, so it wasn't a strange occurrence.
A few departments like the Knight Department I belonged to or the Magic Department were exceptional cases; besides them, most were non-combat power.
I couldn't just watch in a situation like this.
If an enemy stronger than me appears, I'll run away immediately, but for now, I should help people.
I stepped outside.
"Wait, let's go together."
At that moment, someone followed me from behind.
It was a female student with white hair tied in a ponytail style, wearing armor and carrying a greatsword on her back.
Her name was Kairin Balt.
A classmate belonging to the Knight Department like me, and the student who was looking at weapons before me.
As mentioned before, we weren't very close.
Although I became interested seeing her win against an opponent in a single exchange during the first lecture, she preferred to go alone like a lone wolf, so there was no opportunity to get close.
Still, taking several classes together for over a month, there were occasional cases where we had to do activities together, so we were acquaintances.
Since she wasn't of a skill level that would hold me back in the current situation, I willingly decided to accompany her.
"Where are we going?"
"First, let's go that way. I'm telling you in advance, if I think it won't work, I'm pulling out immediately."
"Don't worry. I also have no intention of dying vainly here."
Perhaps because exams had just ended, the number of students in the commercial district was too high.
Since it looked difficult to go against the flow of people, we strengthened our bodies with mana and went up to the roofs of nearby buildings.
We ran across the roofs of the commercial district toward the direction the students fled from, and not long after, we could see monsters pouring out from the plaza.
It was a pack of chimeras combining the head of a goblin and the body of a dog.
The goblin heads shed tears of blood and let out unpleasant screams, and the dog bodies were muscular like artificially bred fighting dogs.
An appearance where anyone could tell a warlock made them.
As students screamed and ran away at that bizarre and gross appearance, the chimeras were chasing them as if they had become hunters.
"The plan?"
"I take left, you take right."
"Got it."
We quickly divided roles and split into two directions.
"Kerrrrrek!!"
"Uwaaaak!"
I thrust the spear toward a chimera trying to attack a student.
Fortunately, for a monster, its durability was terrible.
After making a spear hole in the goblin head, I shouted.
"Hurry and escape! We will take care of the chimeras!"
"Th... Thank you!"
Kwang-!
While I was evacuating students who hadn't escaped yet, the sound of Kairin being active was heard from the opposite side too.
She was freely swinging a greatsword as big as her body, cleaving the chimeras attacking her in half.
It would be good if the evacuation finished smoothly like this, but how could a warlock's creations be resolved so easily.
"Kieeeeeeeng!!!"
When we were killing chimeras one by one, howling was heard from one side of the plaza.
Looking that way, an individual who looked like the leader at a glance was screaming with its goblin head.
Whether it gave some command, from that moment, the movements of the chimeras changed.
Perhaps realizing they couldn't beat us, the chimeras avoided fighting us and scattered in all directions, targeting civilians.
The ability of each individual was nothing special, but the problem was their movements were incredibly fast, perhaps because their bodies were dogs.
If chimeras that looked to be over 30 at a glance scattered, just the two of us were short on hands.
There were no civilian casualties yet, but if we missed those, casualties would clearly occur.
"Heok... Heok..."
At that moment, a man ran over breathing heavily from the direction the chimeras came.
Black hair and dark circles around the eyes.
It was Elliot of the Alchemy Department, one of the Male Lead Candidates.
When our eyes met, he shouted.
"I can lure them! Protect me!"
The judgment was quick.
I killed one chimera nearby and headed to him immediately, and likewise, Kairin also joined Elliot.
When we arrived, he hurriedly rummaged through his bag, took out various ingredients, and bit his finger to draw blood.
"Dog fur, goblin teeth, human woman's hair, gold piece for catalyst..."
Muttering to himself, Elliot began to quickly draw an alchemy circle.
His finger passed over the rough ground and the wound worsened, but he completed the alchemy without even letting out a small groan.
"Transmute!"
"Ugh....!"
As the alchemy circle glowed and activated, immediately after, a disgusting smell that seemed to pierce the nose vibrated.
While we covered our noses, the smell spread to the surroundings in an instant, and the chimeras who smelled that scent began to run this way as if possessed by something.
Saliva drooling from the mouths of goblins screaming while shedding tears of blood, and hideous things revealed between the legs of the dog bodies.
It was incredibly harmful to the eyes, but I couldn't turn my gaze away.
While we prepared for battle, Elliot said.
"Alicia and the kids are confronting the warlock. We have to clean up quickly and go help."
"Damn it, as expected, the warlock's target was the Saintess."
"Go first. I'll take charge here." "....I'll ask a favor of you."
I didn't want to leave Kairin alone, but rationally, this was the right judgment.
With her skills, she wouldn't lose to mere chimeras that only had numbers, and if the warlock targeted the Saintess directly, it was correct to go support quickly.
Since there must be a flow of the original work, I think the Saintess won't be defeated by the warlock, but isn't it a situation where many things have already changed due to my existence?
Since there could be a one in a million chance, there was nothing bad about hurrying.
"I'll go help after cleaning these guys up. Don't die."
"If it comes to it, I'll take the kids and run away."
"Good. Then go quickly!"
As Kairin shouted while cleaving a rushing chimera in half, Elliot and I ran in the opposite direction.
"Which direction!?"
"That way!"
I carried the exhausted Elliot on my back and ran in the direction he pointed.
Running for about a minute, I saw the Saintess's group confronting the warlock in the distance.
The warlock was pressuring them with a huge monster at the forefront.
The monster's bulk looked over 3m, and there was one more face each on its flank and cheek.
Furthermore, its body was made of sagging lumps of flesh and was full of strange pus...
Looking at its appearance, it was clear that the warlock made that chimera earlier too.
I put down Elliot and said to him.
"Join them like this and draw attention. I'll hit the warlock directly."
"Got it."
The most fundamental solution to deal with someone controlling summons is, of course, ignoring the summons and hitting the master.
Usually, those controlling summons often had physical abilities very inferior compared to their summons.
That warlock didn't look much different.
A body skinny enough to show bones and wrinkled skin.
An appearance of a researcher who went all-in on chimeras at a glance.
Since data on warlocks was lost long ago, I didn't know if the chimeras would disappear if I killed him.
But since it was clear that killing him was necessary to resolve this situation, I hid my presence and hid between buildings.
In the meantime, Elliot joined the Saintess's group.
He shouted loudly as if for the warlock to hear.
"I dealt with all the goblin chimeras! There are no casualties either!"
"Elliot, good work!"
Since he was a Male Lead Candidate with a somewhat gloomy and depressing atmosphere, I thought he wouldn't be good at this kind of thing, but is he strong in actual combat?
When studying in the study group last time, he didn't seem like the type to speak that well...
Unexpectedly, he acted well.
seeing the warlock's face distort, he sufficiently did his share.
"Yeti! Kill the Saintess quickly! Trample her!"
"Guwaaaa!"
The warlock, enraged because the plan didn't go his way, took his anger out on his giant for no reason.
Hearing his command, the flesh giant ran to the Saintess and struck down with an abnormally wide hand.
Unlike its sluggish movements, the striking motion was quite fast, but the Saintess slipped away well.
Looking closely, in her hand was the Holy Sword she always carried at her waist.
Since she was someone who used the sword provided by the academy even during the exam period, this was the first time seeing her use the Holy Sword.
As she dodged the giant's palm and swung the Holy Sword toward the hand stuck in the ground, the guy's flesh that touched the Holy Sword began to burn white.
"Guwaaaaaaa!!!"
The flesh giant screaming in pain with the three faces attached to its cheek, ear, and neck.
Perhaps it wasn't a simple scream; the Saintess who heard that sound from the front staggered.
"That's it, Yeti!"
The warlock rejoicing at the Saintess's crisis.
In the meantime, the giant's hand showcased bizarre regeneration where the burning part fell off with the flesh and was restored by flesh squirming from the body.
The giant threw its body toward the staggering Saintess.
A situation where a huge mass of flesh over 3m threw its body to crush the Saintess.
No matter if she's a Saintess, she wouldn't be able to withstand that simple yet violent physical force as if it were nothing.
At that moment, an ice wall was created in front of her, supporting the giant's weight.
It was the magic of the mage.
"Hurry!"
Whether the giant's mass was considerably large, the ice wall cracked and broke in an instant, but Kyle, who didn't miss that brief opening, pulled the Saintess out.
"You damn bastards interfere with my plan!? I will definitely capture you alive and make you into chimeras!"
The warlock jumping up and down in rage at missing a golden opportunity.
Since he was in an emotional state at a glance and his gaze was focused over there, now was a good opportunity.
I filled the spear with mana and thrust it into the warlock's back just like that.
"Yeti! Kill those guys right no....Keok!?"
"Hello?"
Naturally, the warlock whose chest was pierced couldn't return the greeting.