Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 76
Chapter Title: 8. Just Do It, and It Works. (10) #13 Their Circumstances: The Situation of a Certain Student Council President.
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What is an academy?
Most people think of it as a place where children go to learn academics before they become adults.
But this place is different.
“Grahhh!”
“Damn it, break through!”
At Yuglasia Academy, it’s a battlefield where you learn to fight with everything on the line.
Unlike a normal battlefield, you don’t die here, but it’s an unforgettable arena that teaches you sometimes death would be preferable.
To eliminate that hellish battlefield and secure our peace, we must win the Imperial Tournament starting tomorrow.
That’s why, even today, I wanted to push through night self-study…
“It’s tough.”
Professor Muam, the academy’s instructor and the greatest spirit summoner of the gnome race, wiped the sweat from his brow without showing a single opening.
After being overwhelmed by the Silver Devil… and healed, Professor Muam had begun actually summoning the Water Spirit King, and today was no different.
“We’re the ones struggling more, Professor.”
“Ho ho ho… You know from experience, Student Council President. I have a reason I can’t afford to fall.”
“We know that well, but today, we can’t back down.”
“I understand.”
Though we were student and professor, we shared the pain inflicted by the Silver Devil.
We understood each other’s situations all too well.
It was the ideal student-professor relationship, but unfortunately, the apostle of the evil god Niserwin forced us to risk our lives against each other.
“Alright, we’ve rested enough. Let’s get serious. O King.”
-Children, try to block this.
With a single word from the blue giant, the Water Spirit King, the surrounding space began to suppress everything.
The authority of the Water Spirit King, master of all waters.
A spatial dominance using moisture and mana in the air.
Summons in this space weakened, and those who wielded water spirits could no longer call them forth.
No one could move freely.
“Roar, thunder!”
The only one charging forward in that state was Hirto, one of the god-tier summoners in his first year, contracted with the thunder god Thor!
After growing through fear of the Silver Devil, he could now freely summon Thor’s ultimate weapon, the lightning-wielding Mjolnir, making him the greatest force against Professor Muam.
“I’ll carve the path!”
Swinging the hammer wrapped in lightning, he gradually pushed back the Water Spirit King’s spatial control.
“Lightning is such a hassle.”
As the lightning from Mjolnir tried to flow in along the water barriers Professor Muam had created for defense, he deftly blocked just those paths and redirected it elsewhere.
Even if Hirto’s abilities held the advantage in matchup against Professor Muam, Hirto was originally the second son of a sword family.
For someone who’d studied summoning for less than a year to wield an unfamiliar hammer with such prowess was only possible because he was a god-tier summoner.
“Damn, if I’d known, I would’ve at least scouted a lightning spirit…”
Water spirits couldn’t be summoned at all, and the other spirits were greatly weakened.
Upper spirits wouldn’t even properly manifest—the worst conditions.
If I’d contracted a super-compatible lightning spirit, I could’ve been more useful.
“Muam! Switch!”
That’s when Professor Harian’s shout came from afar.
Their current strategy had Professor Harian faced by Lady Aris and her support team, while Professor Muam was up against me, Hirto, and our supports.
“Already pulling out the divine shield?”
The reason was Lady Aris’s Aegis shield.
Professor Harian, specialized in fighting multiple foes more than Professor Muam, could be relatively easily blocked using that shield.
“Yeah! Hurry and switch!”
Professor Harian’s urgent voice.
The shield’s power was immense, but Professor Muam had many ways to neutralize it.
He blocked Aegis’s petrification curse with light refraction through water, and his fluid water attacks were Lady Aris’s natural counter—even against her invisible winds from Professor Harian.
Having lost several times before because we couldn’t prevent their convergence, we tensed up and held our positions.
“Karen, block them with summons!”
“Got it, President!”
Students contracted with large summons, led by Karen, called them forth to form a wall.
It wasn’t ideal for multiple attackers in tight quarters against one foe, but it could block the path.
“We’re no pushovers either!”
Professor Muam scanned for openings even as he spoke.
“I know that! There are no easy students at our academy!”
What should I call this… Recognized by the gnome race’s top summoner and one of the elves’ best, but it didn’t feel good.
Thinking about how we earned that recognition as “no pushovers” to the professors brought tears to my eyes!
“Student Council President. Keeping a lady waiting isn’t gentlemanly. Could you help me become one?”
“Who would deny Professor Muam is a gentleman? But these days, bad boys are the trend. Why not go with the flow?”
“I’m a bit old-fashioned, you see. Doesn’t suit bad boys.”
“Is that so?”
With countless students watching, disengaging was tough.
Even for someone of Professor Muam’s caliber.
But variables always arise.
“I… can’t fallnnn!”
A shrill scream accompanied a powerful shockwave slamming into my back.
“What?”
“Kyaaah!”
“Dodge!”
The shockwave was so strong it made students stumble and fall.
“Wait! The summoners are collapsing!”
“Reverse summon, quick—reverse summon them!”
Even I, farthest from the epicenter, felt the impact clearly.
The large summons, taking the brunt directly, collapsed from the sudden shock. To minimize damage, Karen and others had no choice but to reverse summon them.
“Muuuaaaam!”
Professor Muam didn’t miss the gap.
“Don’t reverse summon! Just have the people dodge!”
“Even if the president says that!”
“Then block it quick!”
Even as they attacked with wind and earth spirits, Professor Muam brushed them off lightly and advanced.
“Truly, this is exhausting for me too.”
“Combine the Water Spirit King’s power with the wind god’s—invincible!”
We barely held him back with the regrouped students, but couldn’t stop the water orbs manifesting beside Professor Harian.
“Attack to disrupt their focus!”
“Ho ho ho, that’s too much.”
Professor Muam chuckled dryly at the incoming summons and spells from all sides, but none landed properly.
Without a proper god-tier summoner, Hirto’s attacks were the only effective ones in our lineup.
But with Hirto’s approach to Professor Muam blocked, no one could support his advance.
“Ariiiiis!”
That’s when it happened.
A massive explosion filled the corridor with thick smoke.
“Everyone focus—no telling what’s next. Especially!”
Professor Niserwin’s accurate premonitions of doom—one of his 100 scenarios.
Like how enemies who fell off cliffs with unknown fatal wounds come back stronger if you say “Dead?” or “Over?”, the irrational logic of revival.
“Never say ‘dead’ or ‘over’!”
“Over?”
“Who said that!”
But our academy apparently had someone still green.
“No way… it’s over!”
“Damn it!”
As the smoke cleared, Professor Harian emerged shouting.
She looked heavily injured outwardly, but her fiercely whipping blue hair meant her avatar form hadn’t broken yet.
In contrast, Lady Aris had no injuries but her red bob was soaked in blood, her troubled expression signaling she couldn’t fight at full strength for a while.
“Now it’s my turn? Aris.”
“No, our turn now.”
“What?!”
And beside Professor Harian’s wicked grin, Professor Muam had closed in instantly!
With our top fighter needing a break, the enemies converged.
“Come on, Muam!”
“How many times must I say not to call me that.”
“Hahaha! Now I can attack freely!”
As blue aura enveloped Professor Harian’s hair, the temperature plummeted.
The god of cold, fierce north winds.
The fiercest among his wind-god siblings!
“Come on, die alreadyyy!”
Was it intoxication from the power, or an explosion of pent-up stress in various senses?
Uttering words unbecoming a professor, Professor Harian swung her hand, and the gathered blue winds surged toward us.
“Use large summons as shields, pull Lady Aris to the rear!”
Our best option now: preserve Lady Aris’s stamina for re-entry.
“Where do you think you’re taking our pretty Aris? If she comes back out, it’ll be a real pain!”
But Professor Harian knew that too, so she targeted Lady Aris’s surroundings intensely.
“Resen!”
“On it!”
Resen, waiting for this, smoothly pulled Lady Aris to the back.
“Tch, no wonder the vice president was missing. You hid her on purpose?”
“That’s right.”
I answered Professor Harian’s grumbling glance, but the situation worsened.
Spirits couldn’t perform near a spirit king.
Blocking Professor Harian’s attacks in that state was nearly impossible for spirit summoners.
With Hirto—our only good matchup against Professor Muam—blocked by Professor Harian, we were out of options.
“The Imperial Tournament’s tomorrow… We can’t give up today!”
“No, give up already! It’s the last day—cut us some slack! You can win the tournament!”
“No, because it’s the last, we can’t give up!”
If we were going to give up, we wouldn’t have gathered like this.
We’d just be quietly studying in class.
But we didn’t give up, and that’s why we’re here.
“President… You think we can win against them now?”
“There’s a big difference between fighting and losing versus just forfeiting.”
Hirto alone couldn’t breach Professor Muam’s defenses.
Without Lady Aris, none of us had the firepower to support him.
So I thought we’d have to protect Hirto until Lady Aris recovered and wait for an opening.
-Such resolve, yet only defending? Pathetic.
-Who are you?
A colossal aura unlike anything before, and some entity addressed me!
-I am… hmm… yes, this fits best. I am the one who can make you win here.
-I accept the contract.
-Huh?
A familiar, immense presence.
Contracting at least an upper spirit could break this deadlock.
-It’s odd for me to say this after proposing, but many try shady contracts like this.
-For resolving this situation, I’d even contract a devil.
-That attitude’s no good.
-No, our academy teaches that devilish scams are chances to scam them back.
-What kind of academy is that?
I wanted to say it’s for training summoners, but it felt off, so I stayed silent.
-Feels suspicious, but fine. It’s been ages since I met someone I like. And I can mess with that elf too. Contract?
-I accept.
“Huh? Wait, doesn’t this feel dangerous for us?!”
“That’s…?”
I saw Professor Harian’s panicked voice and Professor Muam frowning.
“Whatever it is, protect the president!”
At the same time, quick-thinking Resen came to my side and began directing the stunned students, just like the professors.
“We must block it at all costs, Professor Harian!”
“Huh? Y-yeah? But isn’t that kid contracting something, Muam? We shouldn’t interfere with a student’s growth, right?”
“The moment he contracts that, we lose for sure!”
“Y-yeah?!”
Professor Muam switched to offense, but the other students threw themselves in to shield me, letting me complete the contract.
-Kuhahaha! Elf, I’m here!
-Damn it, why you!
-Many kings wanted to contract this kid. But thanks to you, he wanted me most.
The ability to appear unbidden.
A massive frame rivaling the Water Spirit King.
And lightning engulfing his entire body!
-My first outing in a millennium, Elf! You’ll make it fun, right?
-Damn it, contractor—the Lightning Spirit King Lionel! This fight will be entirely different!
-Kuhaha! Contractor, what’s your first request!
First request? Only one option.
“O Lightning King, defeat the enemy and grant us victory.”
In that instant, a battle between spirit kings—one rare even in continental history—erupted at Yuglasia.