All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 275

275. Alone, He Could Do It – 1

“……That’s a lot.”

Widron whistled, gripping his axe.

Armed with artifacts he’d obtained from the Tower of the Forgotten City, he looked back at the mercenaries behind him.

“You bastards!! Are you ready?!

“Damn, there are so many.”

“We can take all the materials, right?”

“Of course!”

Ian wouldn’t say anything if they took the materials, would he?

Widron raised his axe, and at that moment, electricity crackled around him.

Perhaps sensing the electricity?

The monsters advancing along the path hesitated for a moment.

“We don’t have to catch them all! Just buy as much time as possible here!! Support will be here soon from the Academy and the Guardians!!”

Widron shouted, and his subordinates roared.

Hearing their conversation, Ise drew his sword.

“How pathetic. Thinking only of buying time when facing the enemy?”

In the distance, a troll roared, and the monsters charged.

There were about a hundred of them here.

Of course, they were all expert-level mercenaries, but overcoming a force nearly dozens of times their number would not be easy.

Nevertheless, they had to.

“Ice, come forth!!”

Ise spun his sword and plunged it into the ground.

The ground where the monsters were running froze, weakening their charge.

“Kaaah!!”

The path froze.

As it became difficult to run on the slippery path, a troll roared, raising its club.

“What?!”

An astonishing thing happened.

It was common to try to stop the advance of monsters like this during monster waves.

Each time, the monsters’ movements would slow, and the tactic of attacking then was often used.

But what was this?

Weak monsters like goblins and kobolds clung to the legs of the stronger monsters.

Despite their flesh tearing and bones breaking under the weight, they were essentially acting as shoes.

“Crazy…….”

It seemed today’s fight would be quite difficult.

Thinking this, Widron raised his hand, and the mercenaries in the rear grabbed their bows.

Aura gathered on the arrows.

“Fire!!”

Powerful arrows filled with aura rained down on the monsters whose momentum had weakened.

Those arrows imbued with aura should be able to stop them in their tracks.

Just as Widron was about to launch a second attack, the monsters’ movements changed.

-Kieeeeeeeek!!

The trolls stepped forward.

The trolls, possessing immense healing power, were using themselves as shields, protecting the monsters in the rear.

“Are you kidding me?!”

What was this?

Who said these were monsters driven by instinct?

Strong or weak, they were willing to sacrifice themselves to attack the Academy.

Pale-faced as he watched them, Widron gripped his axe tightly.

There was no choice.

“Damn it!! Just get in there and fight…….”

That’s when it happened.

Something began to fly in from the sky.

-Bang! Bang! Bang! Kwaaaang!!

The light shot from the sky swept through the monsters, creating explosions.

The monsters were caught in the widespread attack, which was difficult to defend against with either weak or strong monsters.

“What is that……?!”

They knew what was in the sky.

“Titans?!”

The Guardians that only Ian could create.

Far superior in performance to the Guardians of the Forgotten City, these Titans were so coveted that people all over the continent wanted to obtain even just one.

Dozens of them were attacking the monsters from the sky.

-Kieeeeeeeeeeeek!

Terrified screams erupted from the monster ranks as they were continuously attacked.

“That’s…….”

A drake.

But it was different from ordinary drakes.

Its scales were as black as pitch, and a pattern was engraved on its chest.

Ise and Widron gritted their teeth as they recognized the pattern emitting a faint red light.

That pattern.

They knew it.

“Rubellin’s mark!” [Rubellin is likely a powerful, possibly demonic, entity]

“Is that the center of this wave?!”

-Kkeeeeeeeeeeek!!

The drake, emitting a chilling scream, took a deep breath.

“Is it going to breathe fire?!”

-Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!

As Widron expected.

A massive torrent of fire spewed from the drake’s open mouth.

It directly hit the Titans gathered in the sky, and several Titans caught in the blast plummeted to where the monsters were.

“Kieeeek!”

“Kaaaak!!”

The monsters, who had no choice but to be attacked in the sky, furiously began to smash the Titans.

The Titans continued to be hit by the drake’s fire.

They couldn’t just stand by and watch.

“Ice, come forth!!”

Ise unleashed a wave of cold air towards the fire spewed by the drake.

As the fire subsided upon contact, the drake slowly turned its head.

“Ugh!”

His body trembled from the dragon’s unique power, Fear.

To think that even he was being pressured by such power.

“Certainly…… Ugh. It’s no ordinary monster.”

It would be difficult to catch even if they fought normally.

Perhaps it should be considered beyond S-class [a ranking system for monsters, with S being very high].

Moreover, it was impossible to catch with the monsters protecting the drake.

Ise gritted his teeth and desperately resisted the Fear.

Seeing this, the drake’s eyes twitched slightly.

Power gathered in his golden eyes, and just as an even stronger Fear was about to begin.

-Woooong……!!

A change began in the fallen Titans.

As Widron, Ise, and the monsters wondered what was happening.

-Kwaaaaaaaaaaang!!

A tremendous explosion occurred with a deafening roar.

In a single explosion, well over a hundred monsters vanished without a trace.

The immense destructive power left not only Ise, Widron, and the mercenaries, but even the monsters speechless.

And.

That was just the beginning.

-Kwaaaang!! Kwaaaang!!

The fallen Titans all began to self-destruct.

“Kkeueeeek!”

“Kieeek! Keuek!!”

The monsters panicked and tried to escape from the wreckage of the Titans.

But the explosions continued, and eventually, more than half of the monsters were annihilated.

“Kiiiik…….”

The drake seemed quite enraged.

If they shot it down, it exploded, and if they left it alone, it attacked.

Eventually, the drake flew up to bite them and drop them elsewhere, but at that moment.

-Woooowoong!!

As if waiting for that, the Titans moved.

“Uh oh?!”

-Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!

-Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!

-Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!

The Titans simply clung to the airborne drake.

And the Titans that clung to it exploded as well.

The drake crashed down with a force that shattered even its thick scales.

And towards the fallen drake, the remaining Titans fired their beams.

“……Wow. What is that.”

Widron, who had been blankly watching the Titans’ battle, was impressed.

He thought Titans were strong, but only to the extent of golems or guardians.

To think they could move so systematically.

As the monsters, having lost the center of their wave, were attacked by the Titans, Ise drew his sword.

“Fire, come forth!!”

A massive torrent of fire attacked the monsters.

Ise, who had joined the battle, glanced at the Titans as he was about to rampage.

They cleverly avoided attacking where he was.

‘That…….’

Those many Titans were fighting, even performing coordinated attacks that sacrificed themselves.

Why did that sight resemble the monsters from earlier?

Ise bit his lip slightly and swung his sword mightily.

Inside the research and development lab, Kirke spoke to Ian, who was soldering circuits.

The second attack.

This referred to a different attack than the current attack on the Pelodin Pass.

Like what he had seen in the Elf Forest before.

He had to consider the monsters infiltrating through the paths created by the worms.

Ian stopped turning the screwdriver and said.

“Mya Ne. Give me the nippers.”

“Myaa~.”

Mya Ne, who had been playing with a ball with her front paws, brought the nippers in her mouth.

Ian took them, cut the wire connected to the circuit, and inserted it into another device, then pushed the completed device aside.

‘How many are there?’

Ian nodded and reached out his hand.

Just as he was taking another circuit and working on it, the door burst open.

It was Valentine and Nouve.

“Student Ian! It’s a disaster!”

“Something is coming through the ground. We must move immediately.”

Nouve said seriously, but Ian didn’t even pretend to listen.

“Students and instructors have already gone that way. We need to respond immediately…….”

“There’s no need for that. I’ve already prepared for it.”

“Excuse me?”

Valentine was puzzled, and Ian continued the work he was doing.

As the story that an attack on the Academy had begun spread, the Academy’s students and instructors came out on patrol.

Included in the patrol team led by Pridion were none other than Wildy and Widia.

“You need to do more physical training. You can already be considered a master in purely handling aura.”

“Is that so? Hmm. It’s difficult. I’m doing quite a bit of physical training too.”

“Just know that Ballana Branch and Bakbare are working hard where you can’t see them.”

“I do too. Hehe.”

Widia giggled, and Pridion shrugged.

She said she did, but at night, he could see them secretly coming out to train.

Widia was talented, but she didn’t put in as much effort as them, so she hadn’t reached master level yet.

“Ian was like that too, right?”

“Tch. That’s right. I need to work harder…….”

That’s when it happened.

Widia stopped walking and gripped her sword.

“What’s wrong?”

“……Something is moving under the ground.”

Pridion also noticed and drew his sword.

But all that was around them was a stone pavement.

“The people in this area have finished evacuating, right?”

“Yes.”

“Then be careful. This vibration is…….”

-Crack!! Crunch!!

Before Pridion could finish speaking, the ground rumbled violently.

And the building that had been fine until just now was swallowed by something.

“Worm?!”

A giant monster he had seen in the mine before.

Why would a worm appear here, not in the mountains?

“Damn it!!”

Pridion immediately created an aura blade and swung it.

But the worm quickly burrowed back into the ground.

“Krrr…….”

As if coordinating with the worm, monsters began to crawl out through the holes the worm had made.

“Killer Mantis?!”

“Even Grailers?! That’s a monster that lives in the central region……?!”

As Wildy and Widia shouted, what was coming out of the holes were monsters that could only be seen in the central region.

What did the presence of such monsters mean?

“……It could mean there are more monsters than Helid investigated……. Instructor Pridion! Widia! Return to the Academy right now and let them know…….”

-Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!

Before her shout could finish.

A red light shot out from an alley where they thought there was nothing.

The light swept through the monsters in an instant and created a massive explosion.

“That’s…….”

Pridion knew.

What that light was.

And where it could be seen.

“No way…….”

-Clank. Clank.

Something began to emerge from the alley.

The moment the semi-transparent camouflage disappeared.

They could tell what it was.

-Clank! Clank! Weeeeeeeeeeeng!

Multiple arms and the saw blades and knives attached to those arms gleamed.

Pridion, who knew what that giant spider-like thing was, shouted in panic.

“A Guardian of the Magic Kingdom?! Why is that here?!”

“……Ian……maybe?”

Ian had obtained the legacy of the Magic Kingdom and controlled the Guardian before.

Wildy, recalling the story she had heard before, sighed heavily.

“He really could do it alone.”