Chapter 37
Chapter 37
Chapter 37
RATH 37
TL: Eevee
TN: I see now. Ive gone back to some of my earlier chapters, I suspect a large chunk of my grammatical errors lie in the fact that I tried to retain the emphasis of the specific parts that the original Korean emphasised, and Im not skilled enough to fully convert it. The second being that when I edit, usually in terms of wording, sometimes I go full dyslexia and accidentally leave in what I really should have taken out during the editing process. Derp.
Welcome to the summoners school. (7)
#4 Their story: A certain student council presidents story.
Now, if I were to explain.
I like practical experience.
Although I am in the top ranks of the academy in my theory marks, I am someone on the boundary of the middle and higher-tier grades overall.
Of course, I do my best to study in my own way, but should I say Im not the type to get theory all that well?
To be honest I couldnt understand a single thing in the handouts Professor Nicerwin gave us.
was all just an excuse! My soul is crying out! To run away from this damn so-called self-directed night study!
And wasnt this the day I promised to meet up with my lover?
Because of that I chose to run.
But the moment I began my escape, I was stopped by a wall.
First, pretend to be going to the bathroom, then the moment I tried to run.
The so-called wall in the corridor that barely came up to my ankles suddenly shot up to the ceiling.
Wha, what?
Anyone would be surprised if a wall shot up all of a sudden.
And at that moment, all the teachers in the classrooms poked their heads out.
Nerkia is running away!
Get him!
If we lose him our salary vanishes!
The teachers ran out instantly.
I suspected the situations of the teachers on the other side of the wall werent going to be too different either.
-Just get caught here, and study, Nerkia. Youre the stuco pres, arent you? You should set an example as the president.
The angel in my mind said.
-No, run. Just run. You want to run. And this is what Professor Nicerwin officially said. This is practical training. As the stuco pres what youre doing now is the showing the other students an example of it.
And the devil in my mind said that.
-So it is?
-See?
And the angel agreed with the devil. Alright then. First off.
Run.
The moment I made my mind up I started chanting. The target was the wall.
The summoned spirit was a mid-class earth elemental.
Break it!
The wall broke easily under the attack of the earth elemental.
But, the remains of the broken wall disappeared into the ground with the magic circle.
Perhaps in return for being weak, it was set up to be easily repaired.
Meaning that that wall will be soon be repaired.
I started to hurry.
Raise movement speed with the blessings of the wind elemental on my shoes.
And use the walls from the earth elemental to widen a gap with the teachers.
Well, that was the plan but
Why, are there arrows flying around in the academy?
In an instant, the low-rank wind elemental was hit by an arrow and was desummoned. Not from someones snipe, but from the lights in the corridor!
It seemed that the walls werent the only traps in the academy.
Weve got you, Nerkia!
The student council president of all people!
The moment I hesitated, the teachers rounded the corner. Having summoned their summoned beasts too, no less!
Wait, using your summons against a student, are you serious?!
Every time you run away, all the teachers salaries vanish by a number you could never imagine! If you resist, we can only get rough with you!
Ah, theyre serious.
Those eyes are dead serious!
I didnt know that the teachers that I went to school with for three years were this desperate for money!
But those, are the teachers problems! I have my own problems to deal with!
I, will leave to meet my lover!
Is that so. I respect your will. But we have our own families to protect!
And, the fight between people who each had their own things to protect began and ended, and I was beaten down and dragged to the remedial room in four minutes.
And there, I could meet the cause of this incident, Professor Nicerwin.
Why did you make these things!
And the club activities of the Student Liberation Army were simple. Escaping night study.
Meaning.
Fifth floor, suppression complete! I repeat, fifth floor, suppression complete!
Seventh floor suppression complete!
We can manage the eighth floor on our own! Were going to start heading out as well, so fifth and seventh floor members, head to the 6th floor and secure a midway point!
Meaning that the entire school began attempting to run away from night study!
As the strategists, we gave directions to the others from the 8th floor, and once an escape route was established we would meet up with the rest and head down in a giant group.
The fifth to eighth floors are all clear?
Yep. The third floor led by Lady Aris is nearly done as well. Theyre having some trouble on the fourth floor, but if our numbers swarm the fourth floor then that should handle itself quickly enough.
On the second and first floors were probably not the established teachers, but the new special lecturers.
And Professor Nicerwin, too.
All of the enemy are giants among giants of the summoning world.
None of them are pushovers.
But we cant give up!
How many months have gone by since night study began!
Every time I meet my lover on the weekends it starts with me getting an earful from her.
Its gotten to the point that shes having misunderstandings that Im seeing other girls.
Id rather avoid any more misunderstandings, so now is the time to end the night study!
President!
Is the third floor is complete as well, Lady Aris?
Yes, we cleared it successfully.
As youd expect from the military family that was the Letia House, she was holding onto a beautiful spear as she caught her breath, then she turned to me and smiled.
Considering how the first years were all soaked with sweat and leaning against the walls, it seemed that the fights were quite a struggle, but now they could see victory at hand.
As I returned her smile of victory with one of my own, I looked at the crowd of people on the second floor, no, that stretched all the way back to the third floor, that I couldnt see, and shouted.
How long has it been since the night study began! How much freedom have we lost since then! But now, we have freedom right in front of our eyes. My comrades, do you want freedom!
-Freedom!
In that moment, in those shouts that seemed like they would shake the buildings, and in that roar-like shout I felt a thrill as I continued.
Then, follow me!
-Uwoooooo!
Lets go, for freedom!
With myself, the student council, Lady Aris and the other heavy hitters taking the lead, the entire student body charged towards the second floor.
And what was waiting there for us was.
Splendid, splendid. For a second there I thought we had Her Imperial Highnesss legendary general, or some Imperial general here on the premises.
Hahaha, what other school could have the student council guide the students this well. As I thought, the future of Yugrasia is bright.
Professor Maroon, Professor Aruhan
As we expected, there were two professors smiling as they saw us coming.
Maroon Harcen.
And Aruhan Ekhed.
Both of them learned summoning as commoners, and were both extremely skilled meritocrats that had risen to become officers of the empires summoning corps.
They were veterans among veterans that had even experienced the great war.
And following them were 30 army summoners.
32 total.
But when they were together, their fighting power was almost certainly not just 32 people.
Compared to them we numbered 1300, but the numbers that could actually fight were limited.
Since its the whole school is there roughly 1300 of them?
Itll be alright if we just get 40 per person.
Eyy, thats a bit hard even for us. If we get around half of them or so Professor Muam or Professor Harian can get them for us.
Haha, but still. Since we came on the request of Professor Nicerwin, it might be a tiny bit pathetic if we fall too soon.
Hm, thats true.
Speaking so casually while outnumbered forty to one, was it because they simply didnt think of their defeat, or was it that they could afford to be relaxed on the backs of their countless experiences?
Ah, that reminds me, we had another win condition.
Whats that?
Hahaha, since its currently 2000 hours right now, we just need to hold on another two hours.
Thats true. Then the night studys over anyway so its our win. We wont have to get our salary cut either. The military is way better than this.
Cutting the salaries of fellow teachers, really, Professor Nicerwin is a devil, you know?
As the two lecturers smirked and took positions in response to our preparations to charge, they looked as us and smiled maliciously.
Now, students. This is the defensive formation that the empires summoning corps is so proud of.
Its going be a bit difficult.
And as they smiled, we failed to break through that day.
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