Come Spring (4)
The first day of the snow storm.
Vacation, when the academic schedule is empty, is quickly coming to an end.
This means that the days when I can dedicate an entire day to my growth and training are coming to an end.
This week is now the last spurt.
Once the semester begins, there are limits to intensive training. The only way to do that is to schedule a schedule with Yenika and make a contract with a middle-ranking spirit, or study in any spare time you have after returning home after completing your academic schedule.
Physical training has virtually become meaningless. I tend to focus on maintaining the status quo.
When my physical strength was at its lowest, if I trained for a few days, I could see some improvement in related stats, but I guess my body was slowly reaching its limits, so there was little change in my stats.
For Ed Ross-Taylor, who was not born with any physical talent, it feels like he has really trained his body to the limit of what it allows.
Even among ordinary men, he has achieved a level of physical fitness that is quite high. Even if we get to this point, it can truly be called a huge step forward.
Now, if you want to improve your specifications further, you must invest time in specialized areas rather than just mindlessly training.
Magic engineering and elemental magic. These two also feel a bit lacking.
Among the various skill groups that exist in Sylvania’s Failed Sword Master, these two are the combination that most appropriately complements each other’s weaknesses. However, as nothing is perfect in this world, I feel like I need to do something more to be able to do my part even after graduation.
[Life skill details]
Grade: Intermediate Artisan Specialty: Woodworking Dexterity Lv 15 Design Lv 11 Gathering Lv 13 Woodworking Lv 15 Masonry Lv 8 Hunting Lv 14 Fishing Lv 12 Cooking Lv 7 Mending Lv 5 Advanced Crafting Skill Slot: Spirit Infusion Skill Proficiency: 23 Power amplification: 4 Injection success rate: 92
– Fire-type elemental food proficiency: 6
– Wind-type elemental food proficiency: 3 Contract spirit: Low-level fire spirit Mug Spirit sensitivity: 12 Spirit understanding: 12 Unique skill: Fire (flame) ?)’s Protection Explosion Contract Spirit: High Wind Spirit Merilda Spirit Reactivity: 4 Spirit Understanding: 3 Unique Skill: Wind and Wave’s Protection Updraft Advanced Crafting Skill Slot: Magic Technology Proficiency: 4 Magic Engineering Product Understanding: 5 Fast Crafting: 3 Crafting Formulas Collected:
Weak Wind Dissipator (Lv 1)
Resonant Noise Maker (Lv 1)
Sensitive Automatic Magic Chessboard (Lv 1)
Greenhouse Crystal Ball (Lv 1)
Blue Magic Ball (Lv 1) )
Rake Hand (Lv 1)
Craigle Magic Ink (Lv 1)
Throwing Orb (Lv 1)
Onia’s Dread (Lv 1)
Telos’ Frosty Protection (Lv 1)
Thunderstruck Millennium Tree Staff (Cannot be crafted!)
Glokt’s Snow (Cannot be crafted!)
Delheim Hourglass (Cannot be crafted!)
He climbed down the rope and jumped down when he got close to the bottom.
Then, after brushing the snow off my body, I looked at the fallen ceiling. A few strands of snowflakes flutter down, but the hole is basically quite long, so there aren’t as many of them as you might think.
The first thing that catches your eye is the pile of all kinds of magic engineering supplies. These are things I moved back and forth several times. I really thought I was exhausted.
Additionally, the neatly organized appearance of the library is impressive. I moved the ingredients and checked several times, but as expected, there were no gaps.
I had given Ziggs some money and asked him to use magic to clean up the rubble, but I didn’t expect him to clean up all the books that were lying around.
Even looking at the books that are neatly categorized into meaningful categories… no matter how you look at them, you can feel the handwriting of someone who has experience working as a librarian.
It seems that Ziggs’ lover Elka’s skills were also included. I told her to keep the existence of the library a secret as much as possible, but I guess she couldn’t bear the threat and told Elka…
I tried to click my tongue a few times. That guy isn’t the type to make fun of others… but Elka is the only person he shares all the facts with without hiding them.
It seems like he is expressing that no matter how loud his mouth is, he cannot hide it from Elka.
Elka must have been bothered by this fact, so she came down to this dark library and did some homework. I feel like I paid too much for the crime of knowing someone else’s secret.
It wasn’t hard to imagine Elka systematically sorting books and Ziggs running around putting them into place. Considering Ziggs’ personality, he must have thought of this as training.
Anyway… it’s true that I owe you quite a bit. The amount of labor they had to endure was overwhelmingly greater than the money given.
When school starts and I return to my bachelor’s degree, I think I will have to repay them in my own way.
“Hmm… let’s get started soon.”
A lot of food was also piled up. All the ingredients are gathered together. The library is neatly organized.
The environment was perfectly prepared to focus solely on magical engineering research for a week.
A week may be long, but it is too short a time to decide and train for something.
If one could completely master it in a week, there would be no need for the field of magical engineering to be so specialized.
However, when it comes to efficient growth, I already have a good understanding of it.
The most important thing is repetitive mastery training. No matter how obvious and simple a device seems, if you make it repeatedly, you begin to see mechanical principles or magical flows that were not visible at first.
It is inefficient to read through hundreds of recipes. The important thing is choice and focus.
The key is to deeply penetrate the knowledge of magical engineering in the field that I can create.
Wind emitter, noise generator, greenhouse shoes, crystal ball, blue magic ball, Craigle, magic ink, and even a light bulb, you can continuously improve your magic engineering skills by repeating it like crazy… Once you get used to it, you can create rare grade items like Onia’s Scarf.
Only after I have built up my skills again and again and trained to the point where my eyes are bloodshot and I am so tired that I cannot stay awake… I will challenge the last goal of this vacation.
[Glockt’s Eye (Legendary)]
Temporarily increases the proficiency of all sensitive abilities. The efficiency of cursed magic is halved. Defensive magic cannot be used. Becomes immune to elemental magic
[Delheim Hourglass (Legendary)]
Returns the body’s state to a few seconds ago and removes all damage and wounds. Disposable.
.
Glokt’s Eye that allows you to gain extreme sensitivity by sacrificing application and defense power.
The Delheim Hourglass nullifies all damage, even fatal damage, just once.
These are legendary magic engineering supplies that could not exist due to balance at the time of Act 3.
One of the two must be completed. I go with the mindset that if I don’t do it, I will die. If you think about the times when you studied in high school and only slept for three hours a day, you could survive this much fever time.
Sitting at the workbench set up in the center of the library, I took a deep breath.
“Whoa… let’s go…”
After saying that, I realized.
No… I actually didn’t bring the tools from the cabin…
I even put them in a nice tool box to bring them to the library…!
It was mainly because I was too busy preparing for the storm to pay attention.
It was a deliberate mistake.
It’s time for your body to suffer. I sighed deeply.
*
The bitter wind, gradually becoming bitter, swam through the coniferous trees of the northern forest.
Clarisse’s hair is fluttering aimlessly, and it looks as if it will fly away at any moment.
Fighting through the still tolerable wind, Clarisse continued toward the river that ran through the northern forest.
‘Sex magic’ and ‘sex magic’.
If holy magic is a type of magic that is manifested through the divine protection that one is born with, then sex magic is divine magic that is manifested through acquired faith.
Therefore, most cathedral knights and saint magicians were often better at sex magic than at sex magic. This is because holy magic is only effective for those who are born with God’s blessings.
This is the same reason why Clarisse’s magic, which monopolized the love of the main god, Telos, emits unbelievable physical power.
The divine protection that Clarisse wears around her body doubles the damage inflicted by targets attacked with ‘hostility’, and from the outside it is impossible to tell what has been done… It is a defensive magic with an irrational structure.
Unless there are some really special destruction methods, it is an entity that cannot be dealt with at all.
So, no matter what kind of wild animal she encounters, even if she encounters a stranger, Clarice will never get hurt.
It is safe to say that even if you feel afraid due to the force or energy, it is rare to be attacked and get hurt.
Nevertheless, Clarice felt a vivid fear of Ed. There was a reason.
That’s because… there is a high probability that Edgar was baptized by the Church of Telos.
After the baptism of the head of the family, Crepin Rosstaylor, the tradition of the Rosstaylor family’s successors being baptized by the Telos Church became established. Even though it is a tradition that has only been passed on for two generations.
As Arwen Rothtaylor passed away and Ed Rothtaylor took over as successor, he must have also been baptized by someone in the archbishop.
Tanya has not been baptized yet. This is because it has only been a few months since he took over as successor. However, no matter what anyone says, Ed Rothtaylor was most likely a baptized member of the Telos Church.
The protection of the Holy Law… has the property of not being able to exert its power against believers who receive baptism from the religious order.
Do not point a knife at a brother who has received the same teachings.
In the first place, a believer worthy of baptism would never do anything hostile toward a saint.
However, a blind spot arises here… She is now going to school as Kylie Acne, not as Saint Clarice.
Even if the opponent is a devout Telos believer, if he or she does not know his or her identity, he or she can raise the blade. That said, I don’t want to reveal my identity.
No, I don’t even know if the blond fallen nobleman knows Clarice’s identity in the first place. Everything is full of questions.
“Keuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…!”
With her tight clothes bundled up, Clarice continued through the snow storm and through the northern forest. I know where the river flows by reading the map in advance. Since you’re going through the forest anyway, you’re bound to come across it if you keep going.
When a river appears, all you have to do is walk upstream.
The cold was bearable.
The maid rushed out as soon as she confirmed Clarisse’s presence, so she wouldn’t be discovered for at least a few hours.
Taking advantage of that gap… Before spring comes and the new semester begins, we need to resolve all the things we feel uncomfortable about Ed Ross-Taylor.
‘It really feels like an adventure…!’
Suddenly, the fear and tension were greatly diluted, and a passionate desire to win rose within Clarice’s body.
I have an unfounded hope that if I really just find Ed’s cabin like this… everything will be resolved.
Clarice may seem timid, but she is by no means weak. Both the sex magic that one is born with and the sex magic that one acquires are not inferior to most wizards.
And soon, when Ed’s cabin was looming beyond the snow storm, Clarisse took a deep breath, as if she were an explorer who had discovered an important high point.
This is my first time going out this far alone and my first time walking through a snow storm.
Is this what Adele was talking about… the life of an adventurer full of natural colors? Clarice arrived in front of Ed’s camp, which was half buried in the snow… and took a deep breath.
Confidence rises.
I feel like I can do anything…!
Clarisse decided not to be scared anymore, took a deep breath, and opened the door to Ed’s cabin.
“Hmm…”
The sound of the wind blowing right next to my ear is replaced by a humming sound through a wall.
The sound of the wind heard indoors is more chilling than you might think. It was naturally dark inside the cabin, with no light source, so I had to wait for my eyes to adjust to the darkness.
And the first thing that emerged from the darkness was… It was a wild boar corpse hung on a hook.
It was bigger than Clarisse.
“Ughhhhh!”
Clarice, who fell backwards and hit her butt on the floor… covered her mouth with both hands and looked away from the hanging corpse.
And slowly the view of the cabin comes into view. Most of the supplies were in the cabin to prepare for the storm.
The cogs rolling around… If you look closely, you can see that they are a bunch of hunting traps piled up.
To Clarisse, who had no knowledge of hunting, it could only be seen as something unknown… something like a sharp weapon.
And… most hunting traps have creepy dark red blood on them. There’s blood when you look here, there’s blood when you look there. blood! blood! blood!
The blood stains from moving the wild boar’s body were still there, and there was a pile of snake skin and marten skin in one corner.
And when you look inside the cabin, what you see is… a trimming knife still full of blood stains… and a hacksaw thicker and larger than Clarice’s white forearm, and various internal organs of wild animals lying around and drying.
There is a decapitated head of a wild boar carcass hanging above the table. I don’t know where I’m going to use it.
At this point, Clarice was already in tears. To a girl who had lived in the noble dew of Seonghwangdo all her life, it seemed not only irritating but also like hell.
-Boo boo boo boo.
The sound of stepping on snow.
Beyond the raging storm, someone was walking toward the cabin.
There is nothing more to see. The only person who would appear in a place like this at a time like this would be the owner of this cabin.
Clarisse tried to find a place to hide, but her legs gave out and she fell down again. He succeeded in pushing his body to the right corner of the hut by forcibly using his arms, but it was obviously a poor concealment move.
Clarice went under the workbench, hid in the slight darkness, and prayed toward Telos.
– Quang!
– Whiiiiiiiing!
Eventually, the door burst open and the distant sound of a draft hit my ears again.
Ed came in through the snow and slammed an object that had been on his shoulder onto the floor.
A lump of luggage falling over like a food duck… When I looked closely, it was a baby elk that had frozen to death.
It was luck on Ed’s part. I had no idea that Oda would make such a windfall.
However, Clarice, who made eye contact with the elk corpse rolling on the floor… could not even make a faint scream.
It’s not that I didn’t make a sound for fear of being caught, but I didn’t even have time to scream. Only the meaningless breaths she swallowed represented her feelings.
“Whoa….”
Cold weather.
Ed, who was wearing a lot of clothes, had breath coming out of his mouth. To Clarice, it looked like the breath of the beast. It felt like a light that wasn’t there was shining in Ed’s eyes, and he was almost on the verge of fainting.
Still, the last remaining rational person covered his mouth tightly with both hands to prevent any sound from escaping.
Ed has now entered the darkness. Unlike Clarice, my vision did not get used to the darkness.
However, Ed, who was familiar with the rough layout, fumbled his way into the cabin.
Ed, avoiding the objects here and there, reached into a wooden box and took out each object one by one, as if checking something.
Tweezers, needles, awls, skewers… Little by little, things get bigger and your eyes get used to the darkness… and soon even hammers and knives pop out.
And finally, as he lifted the giant hacksaw into his hand, the moonlight softly illuminated Clarisse’s eyes.
“Ughhhhh!”
In the end, I ended up making a sound. Clarice was covering her mouth with both hands… almost going crazy.
“…”
For a moment, Ed’s head turns as he realizes it… and his eyes meet Clarice’s in the dark.
My heart stopped once and then started beating.
As if he was planning to work even harder the longer he stopped, he started pounding and making noises like crazy in Clarice’s ears.
“K… Kylie Ekne?”
The whole body is shaking like crazy. Thinking stops, the tear glands release moisture as they please, and the heart works needlessly.
“What is it? Why are you here? Why are you shaking like that
?”
– Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The magic of ‘radiating divine power’.
The technique, which had a superiority over almost all magic, to the point where it ignored even the protection of the storm that Ed was surrounded by… went straight into Ed’s solar plexus.
-Quagagaga River!
-Kaang! Cough! Clink!
In a completely unexpected surprise attack, Ed was thrown out and pinned against the wall. The cabinet fell over and all the miscellaneous things hanging on the wall came crashing down on Ed.
The rising dust.
And static.
The sight that was visible after the dust settled was… Ed lying on the ground with a stream of fresh blood flowing from his head.
No matter what, this was a perfect surprise attack. Even if Ed was quick and quick to judge everything… it was too much to deal with this.
“Ugh… I… without even realizing it…! Go… all of a sudden…! I meant to do this…”
A moment of silence.
Clarice got up with a trembling body and saw Ed lying on the ground with a trickle of blood flowing out.
Ed, who had caught the rain of miscellaneous items all at once, looked as if he had lost consciousness.
No, it’s not that I lost consciousness…
-Wheeeeeeeeee
The winter wind keeps blowing.
The cold air cooled my head little by little, and the reason I had left home finally returned.
“I…”
Clarisse finally faced reality.
“I…killed someone…!”
Ed’s cold body doesn’t move at all. Clarisse felt a different kind of goosebumps run through her body.
“Te… Master Telos… I… I have committed a sin…”
With trembling hands, Clarice folded her hands and knelt down. I just kept clapping my hands together and shaking my whole body with an expression on my face that I didn’t know what to do.
“How can I pay for this sin? I, who was supposed to live a clean and pure life, was stained with such a great sin… a sin that cannot be washed away… I… “For being so defiled… I… I… must burn in hell… to pay for this sin…”
While confessing… Clarice trembled and shed tears. That moment when you fall into a state of semi-panic.
“hey.”
-chin.
A hand on your shoulder.
When I turned around in shock, I saw Ed’s face covered in blood and breathing out… a ghostly sight.
“Are you kidding me?”
“Heheheh”
… Clarisse couldn’t even scream.
He couldn’t even react… he fell unconscious with a screaming expression on his face.
“…”
A snow storm threatening to cover everything in the world.
In the hut in the middle of the gap, Edman was standing alone, looking down at Clarisse, who had collapsed.
The expression… wasn’t very good.
*
“Master maid.”
“I heard the report. Please remain calm and develop a response plan.”
Clarice misjudged.
The maid came out as soon as she checked Clarisse’s condition, so I would have thought she wouldn’t notice even if she was gone for at least a few hours… but the maid at the Ofilis Building isn’t that soft.
It only took 15 minutes for Clarice’s absence to be noticed.
The maids on duty on the top floor of the Ofilis Building, taking turns watching all directions, discovered the figure of a student disappearing beyond the snow storm.
It took only 10 minutes to quickly calculate the number of people in the entire main building again.
And it only took 5 minutes to confirm that the person whose whereabouts were unknown was Kylie.
“I don’t know why you disappeared, but… I’ll have to report it to the academic office and then start a search…” ”
Shall we at least send the maids on duty first, Chief Maid?”
“Sending out the maids is something you need to think carefully about. The number of people managing the inside of the mansion will be reduced. Now, we need to move the people as efficiently as possible. In particular… Don’t leave out even one person who is watching Lady Lucy. Don’t chase after her hastily. If you do that, you could end up doing even more damage.”
“Four four… Then what about Miss Kylie…?”
Although it was an unexpected situation, Bell was not embarrassed. Rather, he calmly considered countermeasures.
The maid at Ofilis Hall.
He is one of the Bachelor insiders who knows Kylie’s true identity. In other words, Belle was told in advance that Kylie was Clarisse. At least the person in charge of the dormitory should be aware of that fact.
I don’t know why I ran out through this snow storm or where I was headed. If we could at least know the motive, we would be able to infer the destination.
As a matter of principle, the mansion’s security system should not be compromised just because of Kylie. There is no guarantee that Kylie will be found even if the maids are sent out to search right away. In fact, if the weather is like this, there is a greater chance that you won’t be able to find it.
This is something that needs to be investigated slowly and carefully while cooperating closely with the academic department.
However… a fact that is not revealed on the surface… if you think about Kylie’s true identity… it is a situation that really requires mobilizing all the manpower in the mansion and even the students to find it.
If the saint goes missing, it would be a major incident that would turn the country upside down.
But if you think about it from another perspective… isn’t she a saint who is surrounded by the protection of the Holy Law? On the contrary, I breathed a sigh of relief at the fact that I was safer than other students.
At the very least, it is safe to say that you will never die after encountering something like a wild animal. This means that you will not face an immediate life-threatening crisis.
After much thought, Bell came to the conclusion that he had to go out and find it himself. If you leave the command role to a senior maid for a while, you will have time to handle urgent matters right away.
Seeing her not losing her composure even in such an unexpected situation… the maids who were watching Belle also became calm.
As expected, she was like the maid at Ofilis Hall.
“The reports from the maids on duty have been updated, Chief Maid! That… the figure presumed to be Miss Kylie… is said to have disappeared in the direction of the northern forest…!”
And the following news.
There is no way people would go outside in this weather.
However… there is only one man who is competing head-on with Mother Nature’s harsh snow storm. The northern forest is now that man’s territory.
“… I guess not… I guess not…”
Belle then began to break into a cold sweat.
The man who sets up camp in the northern forest.
A pouring snow storm. Distress. The man and woman are left alone. Ask for help. The two must lean on each other in an extreme situation while waiting for rescue.
And a man who has so many feminine clothes that it’s really strange.
A picture of a tangled relationship centered around the man in the northern forest instantly bloomed in my head.
The procession of arrows going back and forth between all the characters is so complex that it is difficult to see at a glance.
When I thought about the addition of a new face and even thought about that person’s identity, cold sweat began to pour out all over my body.
Belle suddenly started raising her voice.
“We must find it…! As quickly as possible…! Before it’s too late…! We must…!”
For Belle, who was always so serious, her voice was truly urgent. Belle knew that Kylie would not die, at least not by murder, but even so, the urgent tone did not disappear.
Thanks to this, the maids who were around were clearly aware of the seriousness of the situation.
maybe…
