NOVEL WEB Chapter 884
<884 – The Unqualified Ones (7)>
Titosso hated the world.
“I’m hungry. Can I go down?”
“I’ll add the nutrient supply spell to the lighthouse. You’ll be nourished just by breathing!”
“Hmph… I’m sleepy.”
“I’ll add the fatigue recovery spell to the lighthouse. You’ll recover from brain fatigue without even sleeping!”
“I want to go home.”
“From today, the lighthouse is your home.”
“Hum-hum… now there’s no spell left…”
How deep is the debt that the Academy has piled up, that the undead dying one after another while scanning the battlefield with the lighthouse light keeps flooding the horizon endlessly, and what kind of grudge did these seniors accumulate in their past lives to be so harsh!
But honestly, I was glad not to have to attend lectures… Hehe.
“We’ll take care of everything so that you have no problem attending lectures or making progress even if you just run the lighthouse 24 hours a day. Just hold the light stand and keep it on!”
Titosso had a slightly mischievous thought.
Isn’t it okay to grant me some wishes while I’m working so hard holding the light stand?
Suddenly realizing the concept of being entitled.
“Then can you buy me those blueberry berry good cheese breads that always get snatched up by the fast kids at the snack bar?”
“Huh? That’s what I used to eat every day… Uh. W-well, I guess I can’t say no to that. I’ll buy you two of them.”
“Can you also get me the pet catalog? I want to have a pet too!”
“Aren’t there lectures on pet ownership in first year? What about that?”
“My pet ran away with its food bowl after breaking its leash!”
“Wow… They say if the owner isn’t stronger than their pet, those pets don’t escape that easily. You must’ve picked a really strong pet, huh?”
“I bought a pet golem for 500 points, but it never woke up. It just stayed a rock all the time!”
“…A rock? A golem?”
“So I left the mana stones I collected nearby, and the next day they were gone! I packed a lot for it to grow big and strong, and then they all vanished!”
“Were you scammed or something?”
“No, I wasn’t!”
The third-year student, overhearing their conversation, felt sympathy.
Not that it’s entitled, but the poor kid!
Thus, an investigation into Titosso’s pet disappearance case naturally began.
“Titosso’s pet? Did that even exist?”
“She didn’t even have a pet and cried while riding the professor’s borrowed pet to learn the ropes. She seems like a lucky girl.”
“Wasn’t that the rock leash incident?”
“A rock?”
“Last year, someone found a rock that was said to be a moving golem and started everyone picking up rocks.”
The informant was Countess Arcadia.
“So you’ve got some kids confusing the stories, picking up rocks, watering them, letting them sunbathe and thinking that if they take care of them, they’ll become golems?”
“Ugh, really? They’re that easily fooled?”
“Some even got scammed by that wicked pirate Jigoku, buying highly likely golem stones for ten installments and ending up with what could only be described as legendary stones, making me frustrated to hear the stories later.”
“Didn’t anyone tell them yet?”
“How do you think I should tell the kid still putting a mana stone under his pillow every night because he misses the runaway Power Stone?”
“……”
Titosso’s past, a cold-blooded murderer of conscience, pierces the heart of the third-year kid, who is slowly forgetting what true kindness is!
Arcadia, being kind-hearted, chose to overlook everything, but this third-year couldn’t.
“Honestly, the guy who did such a wicked thing needs to be taught a lesson. So let’s go together.”
“Why me?”
“Your name alone, Big Stone, makes you perfect for finding that stone scammer Jigoku.”
Having reluctantly agreed to his girlfriend Lizna’s request, Big Stone, who started dating her last year, sighed.
“Hey, Lizna. Do you know a girl named Jezel in the second year?”
“Can’t not know the leader of the Dark Trading Company.”
Lizna was also the heir to the Lizna Trading Company named after her.
Starting from her past of looking high and low for powdered milk for her picky baby, she transformed into a dedicated children’s product trading company, encompassing everything from powdered milk to fake pacifiers.
“Recently, the subcontractor that took over the supply had a tragic incident due to the Man’s Representative’s attack, and we’ve been actively helping to resupply the goods that had fallen into the hands of dangerous individuals after facing some complications with the Dark Trading Company, which resulted in some interactions with Jezel.”
“Let’s go ask her. Jezel works as an information dealer, so we should be able to find out where Jigoku is.”
With so much to do, how busy could the Student Council actually be? As the two set off to inquire about the whereabouts of the stone scammer Jigoku, they suddenly saw flying monsters tangled in nets fall down with a thud.
As Prince Hector rushed over to confirm the fallen monsters, looking confused, he asked.
“Hey, seniors, this is a battlefield. There’s a risk of dying from colliding with falling monsters, so please use the back entrance of the Production Department Lecture Building…”
Boom! Crash! Bam!
Far away, a multi-barreled mana cannon roared, blasting holes into the skeletal fortress made of bones.
The moving giant skeleton fortress unleashed waves of skeletons, sweeping away the third-years trying to sneak in through the back door of the lecture building.
In a blink, the third-years became cold corpses, their bodies vanished between the bony joints of the skeletons.
“…I wouldn’t recommend entering through the back door today. I advise you to take a self-study day instead.”
“What in the world is all that? Ouch!”
“Don’t be so lame in front of the juniors.”
Unlike Big Stone, who was naïvely amazed, Lizna cautiously asked with a worried face.
“Could we possibly meet Jezel for a moment? I don’t have a business matter to discuss, but I’m looking for someone.”
“Most casual requests will be declined. The Student Council President is busy right now with a meeting regarding the former research on liches’ land-based skeleton fortresses in the Production Department.”
“Then please pass this message. I want to consult regarding the mental management of the lighthouse keeper Titosso.”
Jezel may have been busy, but Titosso was busier.
Let’s face it, if Titosso went on strike, the burden of the front line would be equivalent to the entire Student Council’s vacancy.
The clever Jezel quickly sensed this and soon granted the audience.
Swish!
As they entered the lounge next to the Student Council Emergency Headquarters Conference Room, both noticed the heightened voices of the meeting participants inside as they leaned against the door to eavesdrop.
– So we need to pick a scapegoat by drawing lots and rush in with mana bombs and protective spells stuck all over to blow the fortress up from the inside, right?
– Aren’t we already overpowered just by gathering the third-years who don’t follow the rules and die while trying to sneak past their own lectures?
– The illegal fight support requested from the golem owners of the underground fighting arena is also nearing its limit. It’d be better to just have Mantos Mintchoco and the golem owners sit tight in the Great Prison for a few weeks!
– If no one wants to fight anyways, let’s load bombs onto the golems and charge!
– If you don’t want to see the golem owners reverse-charge along with the undead army, keep your mouth shut.
– Why are the magicians taking so long to start their spells?
– They’re probably cheating off the undead seniors to analyze the spells for this semester’s exam, ignoring attacks…
– Let’s strap bombs onto those guys!
– Didn’t I say we won’t do a suicide bombing charge?! This is driving me crazy. I’m calling a 5-minute timeout. Everyone cool your heads!
As furious footsteps approached, Lizna and Big Stone quickly sat down.
Exhausted, Jezebel swept her bangs with one hand, exuding heat like a kettle boiling over until she finally saw Lizna and Big Stone.
“I’m sorry for showing you something unpleasant.”
“Hey, it’s not your fault. You had to deal with this mess after becoming the Student Council President.”
“I miss last year. We had a calm year without such big events.”
Looking back, last year’s concentrated downpour event seemed like a funny little thing.
“I’ll cut to the chase since I’m bothering a busy person. Please tell me the location of Jigoku from class 981, second year, or catch him for me.”
“Since you mentioned capturing a stone scammer, that must be about Titosso’s pet rock issue.”
“Right. If we can catch him and make him apologize, we might feel a bit better and endure better in the dungeon defense lines.”
Jezel sighed.
“Had you come just a bit earlier, I would have gladly caught him for you, but now it’s quite difficult.”
“Why’s that?”
“Jigoku has been selected for the Oknodie Special Forces.”
“Special Forces?”
“They’re a unit that sneaks in to assassinate boss-level monsters under the endless deluge of monsters.”
“What does that damn pirate stone scammer have to do with it?”
“They’re saying they can’t approach from land, so they’re taking a boat out to sea to charge on land.”
“…Sorry for the interruption when you were so busy. I’ll head back.”
Lizna immediately grabbed Big Stone by the scruff of his neck and yanked him out.
“Big Stone. Go pack your stuff in the dormitory right now and come out.”
“Huh?”
“Think about that flagship from the Foundation that took off during the Foundation Workshop Battle. Do you think a massive ship can just come ashore? Especially when the principal placed terrain protection magic across the island?”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“How else is the ship going to come ashore?”
“…By raising the water levels at the coastline?”
Magic is indeed convenient.
It’s possible to isolate specific waters, dousing an area with artificial rain or raising the water level.
And the commander is that Oknodie.
The child of storms that brings incidents wherever they go.
I already had a feeling.
Something monstrous was on the verge of erupting at the level of having two weekly events in one week.
“When the flood season 2 hits, all our things in the lower floors will get flooded. Once the weekly event is over, we can’t just replace all the lecture materials, right? Hurry up!”
The two ran for the dormitory in a panic.
The clever moves of those who realized a plan to counter the weekly event with another weekly event.