10 days before the start of school
Sylvania Academy was more like a city than a school.
This school, which was established by purchasing the entire island of Aken in the southwestern part of the kingdom, was so large that there were many places that even graduates could not visit.
What does that mean?
It meant that once you walk, something will come out.
As I walked back and forth with the students’ eyes on me, I came across an undeveloped forest in the northwestern part of Aken Island.
Basically, most academic facilities are located on the southeastern side of the island, while student convenience facilities, welfare facilities, or commercial facilities are located on the southwest side.
In the first place, there were only two bridges connecting this school to the mainland, one in the southeast and one in the southwest, so it was developed around that side.
After walking for about half a day and reaching the northeast corner, I sat down on a tree stump because my legs were sore.
“For now, let’s not leave this island.”
If you walk for half a day and organize your thoughts, you will come to some vague conclusions.
No matter what happens, since I have come to this status, I have to find a way to adapt and live somehow.
Sylvania Academy is one of the most prestigious schools. It is a place where all kinds of noble families are anxious to enroll their children. Overwhelming talent or overwhelming wealth. One of the two is a place where you must be present to register.
If you hold a diploma from Sylvania, you can make a living doing anything. Let’s just grit our teeth and get the diploma. There is no other asset as good as this in this difficult world where we know nothing.
And above all, walking out of this school on your own at this point is literally the same as taking the lead and jumping into an unknown world.
I have already played ‘Sylvania’s Failed Sword Saint’ several times to the end.
If Ed Rosstaylor had just been excommunicated, wouldn’t that be at the very beginning of the scenario?
I am in a position where I have some knowledge of all the things that will happen at this school in the future. At this school, I still have a lot of room to utilize my gaming knowledge.
There is absolutely no reason to leave those advantages behind and go out into an unknown world that has nothing to do with the background of the work.
After thinking this far, the sun was already setting.
Sitting alone on a tree stump in a deserted forest.
I sighed again and wiped my face.
“Let’s see…”
I placed two wooden bags on the grass and opened them.
There were various clothes, textbooks used in class, and magic tools, but they were all output adjusted for learning purposes, so they were not very useful.
I lived in such a gorgeous room, but this was all I had to carry. I realized once again how vain my life was.
Yes… I may have been excommunicated from my family, but I haven’t been expelled from school yet.
It would be impossible to pay the huge tuition fee on my own without support from my family, so it would be virtually the same as expulsion, but the next semester’s tuition would have been paid anyway.
If you grit your teeth and win a scholarship or find a new way to make money, you can continue attending school. However, a time limit was set. Until next semester.
“The scenery is really nice…”
I walked a little further and there was a stream. A stream of water came down from a small hill in the northwest of Aken Island and was flowing all the way here.
Once again, I am intoxicated by the moonlight reflected on the water’s surface and the calm scenery of the forest, where only the sound of insects can be heard.
This is not the time to be immersed in romance. If this continues, you will starve to death.
I picked up a branch and wrote on the floor.
There were a lot of things I needed to live my life right now.
The goal is graduation.
Goal = Graduation was written in large letters at the top.
Ed Rosstaylor is now a sophomore. There are six semesters left until graduation.
The tuition fee for one semester is usually 20 flan gold coins. The price was enough to buy an entire carriage decorated with dazzling gold trim.
Even so, it was a steep price.
Usually, students attending Sylvania stay in the highest-end dormitories, eat in restaurants that serve the highest-quality menus, study using the highest-quality magic tools, and often have two or three servants with them.
After all these things are taken care of, the tuition fee for one semester is the price of a carriage.
First of all, there is no answer for tuition. I don’t know if I’ll get a scholarship within the next semester, but with such poor ability, it’s hard to avoid failing, let alone get a scholarship.
I can only wonder how a person with such incompetence could have such an arrogant and arrogant personality.
In fact, there is no need to have any doubts. Who would put so much effort into thinking about a villain who is simply beaten and consumed by the main character in the beginning?
Anyway, leaving aside tuition fees, the most urgent things are the things you need to live right now.
This is the so-called food, clothing, and shelter.
There are clothes. I’m not sure if I’ll be in an environment where I can do laundry, but how can I avoid looking like crap for a week?
Food and giving are a problem. Right now, I don’t have a place to sleep or anything to eat tonight.
“Whoa…”
Another deep sigh.
But then I shook my head and slapped myself on the cheek.
“What difference does it make if you keep sighing?”
I gritted my teeth, jumped up, and did some stretching. After loosening the waist once, loosening the legs once, tightening the national gymnastics from beginning to end, one set of jumping and one set of push-ups.
With the sound of breathing, my body and mind were refreshed.
From what I heard, there was an entrance exam for new students, so it must not be long until school starts next semester. If you think about the date, there are probably about ten days left.
First, let’s create an environment in which people can attend school. If you have ten days, you can do anything.
First, let’s find a place to sleep. The weather was quite cool with a cool spring breeze, so I thought I might be able to sleep on the street somehow… but I couldn’t sleep on the bare floor either.
Couldn’t we make something like a simple tent?
It’s not that difficult to find a simple shelter without even having to go to a tent. All you have to do is set up thick tree trunks as supports and cover it with something like a tent, and you can create a shelter with a roof.
The forest in the northeastern part of Aken Island has a fairly well-preserved natural environment. Judging by the occasional sightings of spirits and the like, it appears that it has barely been touched by humans.
If you look hard enough, you will find plenty of tree trunks that can serve as supports for the tent.
“You should move while you’re worrying.”
Where is the time to just be lost in your thoughts? Whatever it was, action had to come first.
I looked at my face reflected in the stream and focused my energy on the corners of my eyes again.
[ Name : Ed Ross Taylor ]
Gender : Male Age : 17 Grade : 2 Race : Human Achievements : None Stamina 3 Intelligence 4 Dexterity 7 Willpower 7 Luck 6 Combat Ability Details〉〉 Magic Ability Details〉〉 Life Abilities Details 〉〉 Alchemy ability details 〉〉 Leaving aside the stats that were still crawling along the floor, I focused my mind to check the details of the magic ability.
[Magic ability details]
Grade: Crude Magician Specialty: Element Common Magic: Fast Casting Lv 1 Mana Detection Lv 1 Fire Elemental Magic: Combustion Lv 2 Wind Elemental Magic: Wind Blade Lv 1 An elemental magic that knows how to use elemental magic as its specialty is elemental. There are only the two most basic spells.
According to Sylvania’s curriculum, elemental magic students are required to choose two specialized elemental fields in their first year. It looks like he chose fire and wind, but seeing that he is barely even trained in basic magic, you can instantly see how lazy a student he was.
What is it like? In any case, I just needed to confirm that there was magic that could be used.
I went deep into the forest and felt the mana in my body. Although it was infinitely weak compared to the amount of mana flowing from the main characters, it was capable of cutting down tree trunks in a moderately grown forest.
The blade of wind that arose with magical power cut down stems of appropriate size. It is meaningless if it is too heavy to hold by hand, so it was important to choose the right size.
After choosing and cutting down five or six tree trunks, I was already out of breath. It is definitely a body that cannot freely manipulate mana. The need for training seemed urgent.
“What kind of trouble is this?”
I spat once, took a deep breath, and carried the stems to a reasonably sunny place.
Even if you try to build a framework on the ground, it will just slide down due to the imbalance of forces. It is a good idea to slightly dig out the ground in the space where the support will stand. I cut the ground with a tree branch the size of the back of my hand and dug it out.
So, dig up the ground for the four armies, build four supports, and then lay them down at an angle so that they meet in the center.
It was not an easy task since I had two hands and four supports, but I was able to do it somehow by supporting the supports with my shoulders and head.
And the central part where the supports meet was tied with a leather belt. It was a belt taken from a luxurious tunic in the bag. Then, the central part was supported by the last tree trunk, and the bottom was dug out to secure it so that it would not collapse.
In this way, a dangerous and uneasy, but quite reasonable shelter framework was completed. It didn’t look very pretty. In the first place, the support did not meet at the exact center, and it was made roughly without calculation, so the height is lower than expected.
Still, if you put up something like a tent here, it will provide a shelter that can last the night.
I thought about putting down the clothes that were in the wooden bag, but then I shook my head.
First of all, the volume was so small that I had to tie four or five clothes together, but it was too financially unprofitable to sacrifice the clothes I had to wear starting tomorrow.
Since it is a high-quality product, it may be resold, but since it is used as a tent, it is a bit difficult to get it dirty. As a rough compromise, I decided to tie just one or two together and lay them on the floor. Because you can’t sleep on the dirt floor right now.
So, what kind of cloth should I use to cover the tent? I thought about it, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t find it. So, I went back into the forest and took out a lot of branches from trees with broad leaves.
This process alone took close to an hour.
Another hour to cover the shelter with the branches.
After we managed to complete the shelter, the full moon that had just risen in the western sky was already stuck in the midheaven.
“Whoa… ha… it’s so intense.”
After completing the shelter, I stretched my back and wiped off the sweat. It was hard work, but it got done anyway.
There was a shelter in front that was just enough to lay down. When I was done, I felt good because I had a sense of accomplishment.
[ Production has been completed. Crafting proficiency has increased. ]
[The list of finished products has been updated. ]
It was right after that that I heard that message.
“hmm?”
I tilted my head and was confused for a moment, then went back to the stream and focused my eyes.
Instead of that long information window, another window flashed before my eyes.
[Life Skill Details]
Grade: Novice Artisan Specialty: None Dexterity Lv 4 Design Lv 1 Gathering Ability Lv 1
“Ho?”
I guess Ed was more talented at crafting than at magic. In fact, the stats were more concentrated on talent rather than intelligence or stamina.
[New finished product]
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Wooden temporary shelter A shelter where you can rest your body for a while. It’s crude and shabby. If you don’t regularly maintain it, it will likely end its life soon.
Production Difficulty: ◐○○○○
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This is a fairly welcome window. I didn’t know that the production system would come out as is.
If you can manage your production skills, does that mean you can also manage the other aspects? At least this is good news.
If you think about it carefully, there may be ways to overcome the current crisis. But right now, not only am I physically tired, but I am also mentally exhausted.
It was a time when rest was needed.
I quickly laid down in the completed shelter.
I could hear the sound of leaves rustling and insects crying.
It is completely dark and there is nothing in sight. I decided to close my eyes and slowly fall into sleep.
It’s really hard and there are so many things that need to be resolved.
But let’s rest for now. Let’s rest and see.
Rest first.
When the break is over and the sun rises, let’s find a way to survive at this academy in the long term.
