I Noticed That It Was an Academy After 10 Years

108.Final Exam…Is the End of Service (10)

“Wait a moment.”

“Yes?”

“I have something to do before I go in.”

Just in case, you should prepare to avoid getting stabbed in the back.

I adjusted the shovel on my shoulder and drew a line around the cave entrance. There was no time to draw the blueprints one by one, so it was a rough estimate. I haven’t done this once or twice, so now if I pretend, it’s just pretend.

…Hmm, I guess I can catch it like this.

“Everyone, take five steps back.”

Everyone in the group stepped back at my words. Finally, I checked the safe distance and confirmed that there were no problems, so I activated the skill.

“Produce. Produce. Produce. Production.”

Three oval-shaped walls and a roof. The thickness is about one hand. At this rate, you won’t get stabbed in the back. I placed my hand on the center wall and used the skill again.

“Production.”

The birth of an earthen door that is a bit heavy but has good defensive power.

Let’s make this more serious. The work that started like that was not finished until an hour later.

“I thought you would build a few walls at most, but you ended up making a fortress? Is this right?”

“I don’t think it’s necessary to go this far…”

“That’s why you’re being chased. If you want to ensure safety, you must take care to the extent that anyone would see as excessive, so that you can truly ensure safety in case of an emergency.”

It’s called safety hypersensitivity. To do your part, you must always pay close attention to safety. My companions nodded blankly at my words. From the looks of it, I didn’t understand it properly. I went over the traps plastered within a 10 meter radius of the cave and opened the door.

“I’m going in now.”

“Oh, yes…”

Why is everyone looking so calm?

Perhaps because they were students, they seemed to have a serious insensitivity to safety.

——————

The cave had a quieter atmosphere than expected. It wasn’t that there weren’t any strange creatures, but they were quite rare, and the one or two that came could be killed with a moderate swing of the shovel. So our first hour of cave exploration went smoothly.

Except that there is no lighting at all, so you have to light your way with magic.

“It’s actually safer inside the cave.”

“Still, you must not let down your guard. “It could suddenly pop out in large quantities.”

She’s quite smart for a noblewoman.

“It’s because they blocked the back. If things had gone as planned, monsters would have been attacked from outside the cave as well. “Being attacked from both sides, even by a small number of people, and being attacked from only one side are two completely different problems.”

The difference between having to worry about your back and not having to worry about it is too big to ignore.

When you kill an enemy in front of you, you don’t have to worry about your back, so you can act more boldly and feel more psychologically comfortable.

It would be nice if these guys learned at least half of my knowledge.

It is a self-evident fact that learning live practice is more helpful than learning dead theory.

“Shuri. Increase your lighting magic.”

“Yes!”

As the front became brighter, I was able to move forward and check the inside of the cave a little further. I moved forward cautiously, weighing whether or not I should seriously drill through the floor.

Like a deserted island, is the first floor just a gimmick?

Considering the size of the island, it seems like they should have figured out whether or not there was an exit on the other side a long time ago, but seeing as they didn’t, the structure may be more twisted than expected or there may be some gimmick hidden like an uninhabited island.

“Sif. Was there anything unusual?”

“Hmm, I guess I didn’t see you?”

“La Perrine. “Can you use navigation magic?”

“Can I use it right here?”

“Yes.”

No sooner had I finished speaking than La Perine folded her hands to her chest and closed her eyes.

“Exploration.”

The wave of her magic spreads around La Perrine. I took some beef jerky out of my pocket, put it in my mouth, and waited for the results to come out. It was around the time I finished eating the beef jerky that the Nereid family lady opened her eyes. She gave me information with a pale complexion, perhaps due to excessive consumption of her magical power.

“There is an empty space 50 meters from the front, and I think it is a staircase.”

“It’s a staircase…”

At La Perrine’s words her her her, I moved her feet without hesitation and moved 50 meters forward. There are no intruders. And there is no sound. Contrary to what La Perrine said, I looked at the smooth wall and touched her hand. It’s roughly around here.

As I walked with the shovel blade pressed against the wall, I found a relatively soft part through the sensation of scratching the rock. Is this the hole Laperine mentioned? I lifted my foot and pressed the blade of the shovel with my foot, pushing it deep in.

That’s correct.

One, two, three, four.

I guess I dug into the wall about ten times. The resistance I felt every time I dug into the wall was noticeably reduced. It seemed like the stairs were aligned according to Laperine’s magic.

Ha, if it wasn’t a magic that consumes a lot of mana, I would have used it a lot.

“Shuri, come this way and send the light inside the stairs.”

“Yes, yes!”

Shuri, who seemed to still be having a hard time with me, approached at a slow pace and threw a sphere of light towards the stairs. Thanks to this, my surroundings became dark, but it became bright enough to clearly see the inside of the stairs. I held a telescope and carefully observed the inside of the stairs.

“…It’s an ordinary staircase.”

I looked at the stairs and the walls surrounding them with a keen eye, as if I were selecting an expensive item at a store, but there was nothing special. In the end, it’s just an ordinary staircase… I turned my head and used a skill, holding the stones left over after I dug out the wall.

“Production.”

A bowling ball of moderate weight rolls around on the floor. I stuck my finger into the hole and rolled it down the stairs.

Bang, bang, bang, degurrrr…

The bowling ball rolled down the stairs with a loud noise. The loud noise died down, and a faint rolling noise was heard. Is there no such thing as a device?

“It seems safe. Louis. So that you stand at the very rear.”

“I understand.”

“Shuri and Laperine are standing right behind me. Sif, stand behind him and follow.”

The stairs were not very wide, so we had to line up like playing trains to get in, so it was inevitable. I started going down the stairs after seeing the group lined up like a main character party in a JRPG.

———————

“Huh.”

What on earth has become of this world?

No, are cracks the problem?

I never would have thought that there was a magnificent temple underground, like something you would only see in Greece, that remained vague in my faded memories. As if special care was taken, red-like lights twinkle from the ceiling to the walls.

The blood-red floor is eerie.

“This is…”

“It’s a temple.”

“Who does this temple serve? “Kalon… I’m sure it’s not you.”

“Maybe he’s the owner of those strange creatures?”

I skim over the conversation between Louis and Laperine and look at the temple in the distance.

A temple that completely ignores the laws of physics, like a poorly made game. Even the temple standing on top of the cliff was so huge that it seemed as if it had not fallen.

What on earth is this island? With the strange creatures and with this temple, what happened to create this hellish island?

“John, what are you going to do?”

“Go to the temple while being cautious of the surroundings.”

“Knight. “Can’t we just make a camp here?”

I shook my head at Laperrine’s suggestion

“This is not a good place to build a camp.”

It was a gamble to set up camp in front of the open stairs. Making a noisy camp in a place where you don’t know what might pop up was something that would attract attention.

If something worse than a monster, a monster that our party can’t handle, appears, the camp and everything else will be destroyed in an instant.

In the worst case, there was a possibility that the entrance would be blocked even if you escaped up the stairs, so if you were building a camp, it would have been more advantageous to dig a tunnel near the temple.

Or go up to the first floor and make camp.

“Everyone follow quietly.”

Everyone nodded quietly at my words. We crept towards the temple, hiding in the shadows of the walls, as if we were petty thieves. The temple was looking down at us, showing off its noble appearance, as if waiting for us to arrive.

Are those strange creatures born here?

Or is there another factor?

My question was answered when we closed to the outer wall of the temple building.

“Well, there are monsters over there…”

I look down the cliff at the sound of Shuri’s voice

Dark red swamp.

A small creature wriggles in the dark red swamp. Although it only appeared as a small dot when I looked up from the top of the cliff, I was able to instinctively know the identity of the dot.

“…You were born here.”

I look at the faces of my companions out of the corner of my eye. Everyone looked as if they were looking at something disgusting. There would be no one who would not make that expression upon seeing the birth of that strange creature that seems to desecrate life.

I observed them with disgust. Monsters rising from the swamp and heading in one direction. It’s dark so it’s hard to see the situation, but it’s probably the way out to the island. Since the way up to the cave was blocked, I had no choice but to think that the monsters had another way out.

“…Be alert to your surroundings. “I will make a camp.”

I adjusted my grip on the shovel and drove it into the ground.

Fortunately, digging the tunnel didn’t take that long, and in less than 10 minutes, we were able to have what might be our last meal in the tunnel.

At best, it was just a few pieces of beef jerky and water.

“Eat well. “This will be my last meal here.”

“When you say things like that, it gets stuck inside.”

“I’m telling you to be nervous. “No one knows what’s inside that temple.”

“Lewis, we can go back alive…” ” ?”

Shuri’s voice echoed through the tunnel, her ears drooping like a scared puppy. Glancing at her out of the corner of her eye with curiosity, Louise comforted her with her honey-dripping eyes.

“Are you okay. I’ll be able to go back.”

“Lewis…”

“Shuri…”

Should I throw it away?

“Do you both have no self-awareness as Kalon Academy students to commit such shameless acts in a place like this?!”

“Interesting?”

“I agree.”

Sif and I chewed beef jerky and watched a refreshing love triangle. Because I didn’t want to miss out on the few laughs I could find in this hellish crack.

And in the midst of the chaos, Viola, who was right next to Sif, added one word.

“Plague…”