All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 185

◈ Episode 185

93. It’s Broken – 1

Planet Kalai possessed immense technological prowess but was also considerably corrupt.

The council monopolized and distributed the vast wealth and resources obtained from invading various planets, and many profited illicitly in the process.

Ian, who loved to resist, joined forces resisting the Kalai Council and led them.

Thus, after seizing the Raven, the council’s massive flagship, he fought fiercely as a space pirate.

Recalling his past memories, Ian shook his head.

That was then, and this is now.

‘Even though they’re corrupt and their equipment is poor, with their level, even that sonic weapon would be hard to block.’

If even a few of those Troopers were deployed, they could annihilate the Salt Marquisate in a matter of days.

Ian watched the Troopers, who only used sonic attacks, and grabbed his sword.

-Deaeaeeng!!

He lightly flicked the finger holding the sword.

Simultaneously, a massive sound spread out, blocking the Trooper’s sonic attack.

-Wajikkeun!!

He quickly leaped forward and sliced off the leg of one Trooper.

The Trooper, its leg severed in one strike, tumbled to the ground, and Ian kicked it, attacking another Trooper.

Afterward, he rampaged like a tiger, smashing the Troopers to pieces.

In an instant, Ian destroyed all the Troopers and sheathed his sword.

‘But why are there Troopers here?’

‘What about the three who went in first?’

That meant they were on the 3rd floor.

But could Wikalta, Katrin, and Willsia defeat the Troopers?

Ian coldly shook his head.

That sonic attack was so powerful that even Masters couldn’t easily block it.

If so, there was only one answer.

They must have been captured by something.

“Are you alright?”

“I’m fine.”

“But how did you do that just now?”

She had only seen him flick his finger on the sword, and the ear-piercing sound had disappeared.

As she asked curiously, Ian nonchalantly replied.

“I just blocked it with a sonic wave of the same frequency.”

It was a type of sonic art [a technique using sound manipulation], so it wasn’t difficult if you knew the method.

Ian spoke casually and then looked at the opening door of the stairs.

“I’m thinking of going down. What will the Sword Saint do?”

“I should go too.”

She examined the shattered Troopers and hurriedly answered.

As they descended the stairs together, Kirke scanned the surroundings and quickly reported.

‘Is that a proper one?’

All equipment used by Planet Kalai.

Ian nodded, and as he walked, the Sword Saint curiously looked around.

“This place… is a bit different.”

The corridors were different from the 1st and 2nd basement floors they had seen so far.

“Especially here….”

She stroked the wall.

A perfectly cut wall without a single flaw.

“Was it carved from stone?”

“It was made by cutting.”

“Excuse me?”

“They made the corridor by cutting it in one strike.”

At Ian’s words, she curiously looked around the corridor.

Only then did she realize.

The cross-section of all the materials here had been cut in one strike.

“Amazing. Is it magic?”

“It’s technology.”

Ian answered calmly and strode forward.

As they progressed.

They heard something crawling from the end of the corridor.

“……Ugh.”

What was emerging from the inside were insect-type monsters commonly found in ruins.

Moreover, there weren’t just one or two.

So many insects rushed at them that they filled the corridor, and Ian frowned, swinging his sword.

-Kugugugugung!!

Simultaneously with the black aura, a powerful wave swept away the insect monsters.

The Sword Saint was amazed as Ian easily defeated the enemies.

“What is here? And these insect monsters… their species are a bit strange.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes. Originally, these species devour each other. If there are this many, they attack each other and don’t look for other prey.”

Yet, why did they move so uniformly?

Ian calmly explained to the curious Sword Saint.

“They are merely being controlled through sound waves.”

“Is that possible?”

“They use very subtle sound waves that humans can’t hear. It doesn’t work on beings with high intelligence, but… insects or slimes can be controlled.”

“Oh… but how does Ian know that?”

He had no choice but to know.

It was frequently used by Planet Kalai when invading other planets.

However, he didn’t answer that part and continued walking.

“They’re coming again.”

Something transparent began to drip from the cracks in the wall.

The Sword Saint, seeing the Acid Slime Kings emitting thick smoke, quickly unleashed her aura.

-Peoeok! Peok!!

The cores of two Acid Slime Kings were shattered in an instant.

“Let’s keep going.”

On their way, there were attacks from slimes, insects, or rodents, or low-intelligence marine monsters.

But they were Ian and the Sword Saint.

Ordinary attacks didn’t work on them.

At the end of the corridor they arrived at, there was a large door.

The Sword Saint, staring at the firmly closed door, quickly swung her sword.

-Ujiggeun!!

The door shattered.

And when she saw the scene inside, she was startled.

“That’s what we saw on the 2nd floor. But it looks a bit different….”

As she said, it was true.

Hundreds of bundles of wires from something round with a flickering red light that looked like it would go out any second were connected to the Troopers.

As the Sword Saint tensed up at the sight.

A light came on in the head of the Trooper.

The moment the light flickering with a red glow flashed, Ian pushed the Sword Saint.

“Kyaak?!”

The spot where the Sword Saint had been was crushed as soon as she was thrown away.

If she had stayed there, the Sword Saint’s body might have been crushed like that too.

“T, thank you!”

“Save the thanks for later, after you’ve brought me heavy gifts.”

-Woong…… Clank! Clank!!

The device moved, and the red light flickered again.

A space distortion device [a weapon that manipulates space to crush targets].

A powerful weapon that distorted and refracted space, crushing the area, was activated, blocking Ian’s approach.

Ian frowned at the obstruction and reached out his hand.

Then there’s no choice.

If magic hacking doesn’t work, then physical hacking will do.

-Wiiiing!!

Ian, leaping to avoid the space distortion wall, was met with dozens of blades rising from between the Elite Troopers as he clung to them.

Single-molecule cutters [blades that vibrate at a molecular level to cut through anything] that cut through everything with ultra-vibration flashed, but Ian blew off the head of the Trooper before that.

-Pajik! Pajijik! Wiiing…….

As the head was shattered, the movement stopped with sparks.

As the lights of the surrounding facilities disappeared with it, the Sword Saint held up an artifact to illuminate the surroundings.

“There are people captured there… uh?”

Tilting her head, she approached the people on the wall with a puzzled expression.

“Gasp! Come here!”

Ian, who went there at her call, smiled bitterly.

What was here were not only the three who had been defeated and captured while exploring the 2nd floor.

Corpses.

There were countless dried-up corpses here.

Of course, not only humans.

There were also monsters and other races such as mermaids and beastmen.

“What is this…….”

However, what was strange was that they were all lying in comfortable positions.

There wasn’t even a trace of any resistance.

Among them, there was also an ogre, and its bones were much larger than the others.

However, even the dried-up corpse of that ogre was so peaceful, as if it had died lying down, and it was impeccably clean.

And next to those corpses, there were things like the lines attached to the three of them now, withered and fallen.

As the Sword Saint looked on in bewilderment, Ian flicked the line.

“It seems they extracted energy from the living to charge them.”

Ian strongly pulled out the line stuck in Wikalta.

The moment the line was pulled out with some resistance, Wikalta, who had been unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes.

“Rudy!! Rudy……. Uh? I, Ian?! Why are you in our house…….”

As he shouted in confusion, the Sword Saint was puzzled.

What on earth was going on?

“You must have had a good dream.”

“……Dream……? That was a dream……?”

Wikalta was bewildered and then covered his face.

“Ah…… Ah ah…… right…… right. I…… I was defeated by those strange guardians on the 2nd floor…….”

And he lost consciousness.

After that, when he woke up, he was rescued by other explorers.

Afterward, he succeeded as an explorer and succeeded in proposing to the woman he loved.

And.

And.

“Ah…… all of that…….”

“It was to stably extract your energy. Because if you have a good dream, the resistance decreases.”

“Ah…… so…….”

The other monsters and people were all sleeping comfortably, having good dreams.

And they were slowly drying up, having their life force extracted while asleep.

“Who…… who did this?”

The Sword Saint also pulled out the lines stuck in the remaining two.

Meanwhile, Ian looked around.

As Kirke said, when he went there, there were letters like the wall in the vault that Trakalza had shown him.

Reading it, Ian could be sure.

‘This is the real altar.’

The altar on the island is just an altar for selecting human sacrifices and offerings.

Those selected there were sacrificed here.

And.

That sacrifice’s life force was used as energy to power that spherical device, the solar furnace.

Ian approached the solar furnace connected to the Elite Trooper.

As he examined the light flickering as if it would go out any second, Myae came out of his bag.

“Myaa~ Myamya~.”

And she cried as if she was openly feeling bad.

As he lightly stroked such Myae, the Sword Saint approached him.

“Ian. What is this?”

“That is the source of the Tyrant’s power.”

Before answering her question, a voice was heard from behind.

When Ian and the five others turned their eyes in that direction.

Several dozen people were walking, carrying a large water tank like a kiln.

Inside the water tank, there was a beautiful mermaid with impressive jet-black hair.

She leaned against the water tank, wearing a seductive smile.

“I didn’t expect you to come this far. Hehehe…….”

“Who are you?”

As the Sword Saint asked, aiming her sword, she smiled more wickedly.

“I’m Bellin, a high-ranking demon who follows the lustful Kesin.”

And she smiled brightly.

The smile, filled with purity and seductiveness, contained the power of temptation.

Wikalta and Katrin, who were heterosexual, were dazed, but Ian didn’t even snort.

He laughed off even Freya’s charm, so would he fall for the temptation of a mere high-ranking demon?

He simply pointed to the men working for Bellin with a nonchalant expression.

“The crest on their chests is the crest of the Salt Marquisate. Are those the crew of the Train Valt ship?”

“Hehe. They are the ones who were captivated by my beauty and said they would become my slaves. I’m going to use them to create a ghost ship too.”

“Good. But why did you come here?”

“Hehehe…… Don’t you know that it’s the source of the Tyrant’s power? If I can get my hands on that, I can become the Tyrant and become the strongest demon, thinking of the Seven Deadly Sins as nothing…….”

“I don’t think you can get power just by getting this.”

“What?”

“This is broken, so you can’t use it properly.”