Chapter 195 : Landfall
A week had passed since the club was established.
"Why isn't anyone coming?"
A few people had come in the meantime.
-You cunning demonic practitioner! It's a duel!
I gave him a few refreshing blows.
-Is this the world of the Martial God?
I explained it well and sent him back.
"Are we doing something wrong?"
"This won't do. We need help at times like this."
At Paeng Yoo-ran's words, Murong Yoo and Namgung Cheon looked at the same time.
"From whom?"
"Do we know anyone?"
"Let's go!"
The place she was pointing to was a golden tower.
* * *
The Golden Ivory Tower.
This is a place where the teaching assistants of the professors gather to do research. In the world, this place was also called the Tower of Death.
Once you go in, you can't come out until you're on the verge of death.
"So, you need my help?"
"Excuse me, are you okay?"
Murong Yoo, who had become even more haggard than when he had seen him a while ago, asked Gwangse-hyeon with sincerity.
Gwangse-hyeon looked at Murong Yoo with a resentful gaze.
"Who do you think is responsible for this!"
"What?"
A while ago, a new concept of research data called world expansion and regeneration had come up. It was about the restoration of extinct species.
And now, at the center of it was Murong Yoo, or to be precise, Murong Yoo's King Slime.
"Is the slime doing well?"
Murong Yoo's King Slime was being kept in the Golden Ivory Tower as research material.
"The professor said he would like to have more new research data, so he asked you to stop by when you have time."
"I understand."
"So why are you here?"
"There's a serious problem."
"A problem?"
Gwangse-hyeon couldn't understand. Because Murong Yoo was now the most important research material in this Soma Garden.
Everyone in the Golden Ivory Tower was aware of that.
If anyone tried to pick a fight or do something bad to Murong Yoo, the teaching assistants related to the Golden Ivory Tower would go crazy.
Gwangse-hyeon had also warned the students early on not to touch Murong Yoo.
"I created a club, but no new students are joining."
"A club, really?"
Murong Yoo explained the reason why they had created the club. And Gwangse-hyeon quickly nodded.
"If it's Jae-ha, he would do that and more. He might just sleep all day, not caring about the Divine Cult."
Murong Yoo's party, who had met someone who understood them after a long time, nodded their heads like a flash.
"That's what I'm saying!"
"As expected of our senior."
"Is this the dignity of a teaching assistant?"
"Enough with the flattery. In the end, you need talents to kidnap to the Divine Cult, but no one is coming now. Is that right?"
"Yes!"
Gwangse-hyeon, with the feeling of looking at chicks who had just come out into the world, gave advice as a chicken whose feathers had all been ruffled by being pecked at by society.
"To get people, one of two things must be presupposed. Either you are a necessary being to that person, or you have something that that person needs. Then I'll go again. And Murong Yoo, be sure to stop by when you have time."
Murong Yoo's party, who had heard Gwangse-hyeon's advice, nodded their heads again and again as if they had realized something.
"Is this what they call experience?"
"I know, right."
"I feel like something is opening up."
Just then, Gwangse-hyeon's feet, which were returning to the Golden Ivory Tower, stopped. He remembered that there was one more thing he had to say, but he hadn't said it.
'There's also a way to bring them by force. By way of a contract.'
Soon, Gwangse-hyeon continued to walk again.
'I don't need to tell them this much. Not yet.'
* * *
Landfall.
Although he was a commoner, he was a special student who had entered the Soma Garden with excellent grades. But even so, the Soma Garden was a place where selected personnel from each world gathered.
Landfall was living a life that was thoroughly excluded from the students of the Soma Garden.
"Today, we will have a practical class on demonic beast studies. Everyone, please come out to the outdoor training ground."
Demonic beast studies, one of the mandatory general education classes.
As each world was mixed, the class on the demonic beasts that existed in the world had to be taken unconditionally.
The students rush outside.
"I'm going to stretch my body after a long time."
"As expected, outdoor classes are the best!"
Landfall also quickly got up and tried to go out.
Thump!
Someone hit Landfall's shoulder and passed by.
"S-Sorry."
Landfall quickly bowed his head and greeted.
"Damn it! So unlucky! From now on, keep your eyes open."
"Y-Yes."
"Tsk, tsk. I don't know how that idiot got in here."
The reason Landfall could enter the Soma Garden was not because he was a practical honor student, but because he was a written honor student.
Although he was more confident than anyone in writing, in practice, Landfall, who had lower athletic ability than ordinary people, could not keep up in the first place.
When they arrived at the outdoor training ground, the professor continued the class.
"From now on, please form teams of two."
At the professor's words, everyone began to form their own teams. Landfall was standing alone blankly. After a while, most of them had formed teams.
"Now! Has everyone formed a team?"
"Yes!"
Amid the loud answer, the professor's gaze turned to one side. Because he had found a student who was still standing alone.
"Over there? Why are you alone? Didn't you hear what I said?"
"W-Well, you see."
Although Landfall wanted to say that no one wanted to form a team with him, the words wouldn't come out.
It was at that moment.
"I will form a team with this student."
Landfall looked at the student who had suddenly volunteered to form a team with him. It was a person he had never seen before and had never spoken to.
In fact, Landfall had almost never had a conversation since coming here. The occasional conversation was mostly like this.
-Hey! Do this!
-Bring me yesterday's homework. No! I'll just take this, so you do a new one.
-What? You didn't do yesterday's homework? You're going to die! Then do it right now. Of course, mine first.
Could this student also be trying to bully him?
Landfall closed his eyes tightly at the overwhelming fear.
"Huh? Are you sick somewhere?"
The voice he heard was gentle.
"N-No."
"Hehe. Then, that's a relief. Are you nervous?"
"A-A little."
"Don't worry. I'm an expert at using my body. Ah! I'm Murong Yoo. And you?"
"L-Landfall."
Landfall knew the name Murong Yoo. Because it was the name of the freshman representative.
In other words, the top student in terms of grades at this point where the mid-term exams had not yet been held.
"Landfall. It's a good name. It's our turn soon. Get ready."
"Okay."
The professor's words were heard.
"30th team, please enter."
When Landfall entered the training ground, a crack was open in front. The professor continued.
"The crack in front is of the lowest grade and is connected to the habitat of the Red Rabbit. From now on, the teaching assistants inside will lure the Red Rabbit, so the 30th team should hunt one Red Rabbit that comes out."
After waiting for a while, a sound was heard from inside the crack.
"Aaaah!"
"Run away!"
"Get out quickly!"
The teaching assistants rushed out of the crack. Their terrified expressions did not look like they were luring the lowest-grade demonic beast, the Red Rabbit.
And what popped out of the crack was the intermediate-grade Giant Red Rabbit.
[Due to the destruction index, the lowest-grade crack's grade changes to an intermediate-grade crack.]
"From the intermediate grade, named demonic beasts exist!"
Landfall's explanation, which followed as soon as the words of the world were heard.
At the completely different appearance from before, a slight change appeared in Murong Yoo's eyes.
[Due to the change in the crack, it is temporarily cut off from the outside.]
As expected, Landfall's explanation followed this time as well.
"A distortion of space has occurred due to the change in the crack. The time for the space to recover is about 15 minutes, which is one shichen in the martial world. And."
Landfall looked ahead with a dejected expression and continued.
"15 minutes is enough time for everyone here to die."
[Blue Knight (Named)]
"Blue Knight. One of the 10 sword masters who were said to have existed on the continent in the past. They said he died and disappeared during the Divine-Demonic War, but he has become an undead."
Stab!
One of the teaching assistants was attacked. Then the teaching assistants, who had only been running away, all rushed at the Blue Knight.
"Everyone, just buy time! Then the professor will take care of it!"
"Cover from behind!"
"Never fight head-on!"
Fortunately, the teaching assistant who had been attacked first also did not have a fatal wound and quickly recovered and participated in the fight.
"Students, stay back as much as possible! You're not at a level to deal with them!"
"Yes!"
Landfall, who had answered more loudly than ever, tried to move his feet to get as far away from the Blue Knight as possible.
"What are you doing? We have to run away right now!"
Landfall shouting at Murong Yoo, who was standing still.
Murong Yoo, still standing still, opened his mouth in a low voice.
"The balance will soon be broken."
"What?"
As soon as the words ended, a scream was heard.
"Aaaah!"
Someone's arm fell off.
"There's no safe place here. This is already their territory."
Murong Yoo was looking not at the teaching assistant, but somewhere else.
"Them? You! Where on earth are you looking... crazy!"
Two glowing lights in the crack.
"T-That's the Red Knight?"
The Red Knight was a named demonic beast on the same level as the Blue Knight.
And the people of Middle-earth called these two demonic beasts this.
Death Knight.
Stab!
The Red Knight's spear blade instantly pierced another teaching assistant.
"Aaaah!"
The training ground suddenly became a scene of chaos.
To pass one shichen, they still had to endure for another 5 minutes.
Thud.
Soon, all the teaching assistants fell, and the Blue Knight and the Red Knight were approaching to hunt the last remaining prey.
"It's, it's over."
Those two that even the teaching assistants couldn't handle.
Even if they were ordinary demonic beasts of an intermediate-grade crack, they would not have been a match for the teaching assistants.
But the named ones were different.
Because the named ones surpassed their grade.
"What's a destruction index?"
At the innocent voice heard at this time, Landfall was dumbfounded. Whether he was stupid, or whether he had lost his mind in this situation.
"It's an index that goes up as the world is destroyed."
Even while answering, Landfall knew that today was his last. If this was the case, he should have lived a little more properly.
He regretted the time he had spent being beaten up so much.
"An index?"
"Yeah. When an ordinary complete world is '0', as the world heads towards destruction, that value gradually increases, and when the index reaches '10', the world is destroyed. And the destruction index of the 7th world is currently '7'."
"Oh! You're smart."
"What's so important about this in this situation!"
Landfall, at Murong Yoo's reaction that did not fit the situation at all, got angry without realizing it. Such a Murong Yoo, still with a calm and innocent expression, opened his mouth.
"No! It's very important. To me, that is. Then, what's the index of the 1st martial world?"
"Haa. You seem a little crazy. The 1st martial world is famous for having the lowest destruction index. As I remember, I think it was '2'."
"Do you have a dream?"
"A dream in a situation like this, you're really strange. My dream is to become just an ordinary civil servant. As you can see, I'm not a physical type. On the contrary, I'm more confident than anyone in using my head."
Grin.
It was not a coincidence that Murong Yoo had approached Landfall.
"Alright. I've decided on you."
"What?"
"You, come to the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult."
Landfall thought that Murong Yoo must have gone completely crazy at the appearance of the named demonic beast. Because he also felt like he was going to lose his mind.
"If we get out of here alive, I'll do whatever you want."
"Then you're coming."
"Alright."
Murong Yoo muttered briefly.
"Summon."
(End of Chapter)