All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 206

‘The fact that those skeletons came out of the worm’s hole means that the worm was also being controlled by the black mage inside?’

‘What’s inside?’

What is this again?

Ian felt intrigued and pointed to the passage that the worm had made.

“Let’s go there.”

“Seeing as skeletons came out of there, it seems like there’s something there…… but is there really a need to go there when we have a perfectly good path?”

Crawley didn’t seem keen, but Ian and Gust were already going that way.

She grumbled briefly and said to Myane, who was looking at her.

“Hey. Spirit of Light. Is he always like that?”

“Mya!”

After giving a light answer, Myane jumped and chased after Ian.

Crawley, who was watching them, sighed deeply.

They went straight down the newly created passage.

Dirt and rocks were falling from the passage as if it would collapse at any moment.

But the movement itself wasn’t a big problem, so they were soon able to reach the end.

“Wow. What is this again.”

There was a huge cavern.

And on the muddy floor of the cavern, there were dozens of eggs.

“Worm eggs?”

While Gust was muttering, Ian swung his sword and broke all the eggs and looked around.

Whether they had already hatched worms several times in this place, there were holes everywhere in the cavern.

After looking around and touching the dirt on the floor, Gust said with a bitter expression.

“The energy of death is too strong under the ground. There have been at least thousands of deaths. It seems quite old, though…….”

“It’s not just the same place, it’s the right one. At this point, it’s almost like hell. A lot of people died. Really. What was this place?”

As soon as Crawley, who had followed, spoke, the dirt floor moved.

What was rising from there were skeletons like the ones they had seen earlier.

“Damn it! There are so many!”

“They’re just low-level undead, but there are so many that I’m getting a little nervous.”

Gust and Crawley began to prepare to fight.

As the skeletons moved towards them, Ian raised his sword.

A sacred inscription was quickly drawn on the floor, and a sacred light was emitted around them.

The skeletons all turned to dust in that light, and Crawley was horrified.

“Hey! If you’re going to use something like that, tell me before you use it!!”

“This doesn’t work if you have the Geumgoa [a magical artifact].”

Crawley, who almost went down with them, shouted angrily, but Ian was still nonchalant.

“Now. Let’s go.”

They moved again towards the passage that the worm hadn’t made.

After going down quite a bit again, there was a large door in front of them.

Gust, who was looking at the style of the door, looked bitter.

“……I don’t recognize this style either.”

“I know it. This…….”

Crawley swallowed hard.

“It’s a dragon’s door. This…… this was a dragon’s lair.”

Gust was horrified at those words, but Ian, who already knew, still didn’t react much.

“Ian. Let’s get out of here. It’s better not to get involved with anything related to dragons.”

“Gehern is also a dragon.”

“That’s true, but.”

“We’ll have to get involved anyway, so what’s so scary about a lair?”

Ian pushed the door open.

As the large door opened without any resistance, the inside of the lair was revealed.

“……What is this.”

“A village? No. At this point, we should call it a city…….”

What was visible beyond the high stairs was, as Crawley said, a city.

However, the problem was that what was in that place were monsters, not humans or demihumans.

Ian looked down and chuckled.

“Look at that.”

A leash was hanging around the neck of a giant ogre.

And the Yaga was holding that leash and riding it on patrol.

No, that’s not all.

Trolls and orcs, who are generally much stronger than Yagas.

In addition, humans and demihumans were being treated like livestock or slaves by the Yagas.

“What is this…….”

“That’s even more amazing. What is it?”

At the end of Crawley’s finger, a Yaga in front of a large stone tablet in the center of the village was caught.

As the Yaga with a unique staff shouted something, the door that Ian and his party had entered closed.

Smirk.

The Yaga in the distance could be seen smiling.

And at the same time, the Yagas who were hiding here and there aimed poison arrows at Ian and his party.

“For a Yaga, he’s quite something? Did he notice that the barrier was broken and prepare a trap?”

“I guess so?”

“Tch. What should we do.”

“What do you mean, what should we do.”

Ian threw his sword as it was and jumped down.

“Kill them all.”

The moment he finished speaking, the sword flying in the air moved like light.

As his Sword Arts cut down the Yagas, the Yaga in front of the stone tablet roared.

“Uooooooo!!”

With his roar, light poured out from the staff.

The monsters that were hit by that light began to change.

“……What is that again.”

Some of them couldn’t handle the change and exploded or became a mess.

Quite a few monsters accepted the light and succeeded in changing.

“……That.”

Gust, who was pointing at one of the orcs among the changed monsters, bit her lip.

It’s the black orc they saw in the Elven Forest earlier.

“So, that light promotes evolution or mutation?”

“You could say that.”

Ian landed on the ground and shouted, grabbing the sword that had flown back through the air.

“Hey. You can talk, right? You’re like a black mage borrowing Gehern’s power. Let’s talk.”

As he spoke, the body of the Yaga holding the staff moved.

The Yaga, riding in a palanquin carried by two large ogres, approached and smiled.

“Try it. Foolish human.”

“What are you?”

“Me? Hehehe. What am I?”

The Yaga smirked.

“A loyal subordinate of Lord Paklode and the guardian who protects this place. I am Zakel.”

“……Paklode?”

Crawley, who had followed Ian down, tilted her head.

“Isn’t that Gehern’s name when he was a dragon?”

At those words, Ian thought for a moment and said.

“Hey. That staff of yours. Using potential to change life…… it looks kind of similar to the Star of Talent?”

At his words, Zakel’s expression hardened.

Looking at him, Ian smiled kindly.

“Give it to me.”