First of All, I’m Drinking - Chapter 86

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Episode 86

A barrier.

From Fail’s words, I could immediately tell that this was the exact location where Raeseya Welton was waiting.

‘Where is she hiding?’

What could her purpose be?

Why did she transport the students to the Void Tundra?

Looking around, quite a lot of students had gathered in one place.

If Raeseya Welton had a plan in mind, its outline would reveal itself soon enough.

“Kieeeeeek!”

“Grrrr! Bark! Bark!”

Monsters emerged in droves from all directions—north, south, east, and west.

Along with Prime Wolves and spider monsters, there were many types I’d never seen before.

Thud thud thud thud!

The monsters advanced as if tightening their grip on their prey.

The students instantly found themselves trapped in the midst of the charging monsters.

“Ugh, aaaaah!”

“Save me!”

“The Combat Department! The Combat Department needs to protect us!”

Naturally, the ratio of non-combat students was much higher than combat students.

There would definitely be limits to protecting all those people.

“Damn it.”

“These annoying bastards. They think it’s natural for us to protect them.”

Swordsmanship Department, Magic Department, Elemental Magic Department, aspiring holy knights from the Department of Theology, and others.

The combat department students formed a defensive formation, surrounding the non-combat students in a circle.

However, the fear of death could still be felt in their expressions.

“What had to come has finally come.”

Fail clenched his fists tightly.

Thick beads of sweat dripped down his forehead.

“Asel.”

Ragnor walked over with his sword drawn.

I casually said to Ragnor.

“It would be better if we positioned ourselves on opposite sides, don’t you think?”

He seemed to agree with my suggestion.

Among the first-year students, the strongest fighters were naturally Ragnor and me.

Excluding the Swordsmanship Department, I didn’t think there was anyone in other departments stronger than Ragnor.

Besides, there weren’t many people carrying weapons to begin with.

“See you later, Asel.”

Ragnor greeted me and then ran in the opposite direction.

Thud thud thud thud!

I stared at the horde of monsters charging toward us.

‘This brings back memories.’

There were many situations like this in the Demon Realm.

The experience of facing countless demons and monsters alone as they rushed to kill me.

Of course, I wasn’t alone now.

Though I wasn’t sure if I could trust them to watch my back.

Either way, there were others fighting alongside me against the same enemy.

“Asel…”

Fail called my name anxiously.

Frida and Luca.

Having been with me from the start of our journey and knowing my strength better than anyone, they stood close beside me.

“I’ll support you from the side.”

“Help Asel, Pyrin.”

Frida’s protective magic and the fire spirit summoned by Luca floated around me.

I gripped my sword hilt as if it might burst.

“Don’t worry.”

I smiled at the children trembling with anxiety.

“I won’t let anyone die.”

Whoosh—

I kicked off the ground.

The sight of monsters advancing across the snowy plains filled my vision.

Whooooo—

Aura enveloped my blade.

That wasn’t all.

I circulated demonic energy within my body to enhance my physical abilities.

The only way to utilize demonic energy without others noticing.

Slash!

A blue flash streaked across.

A portion of the monsters that had darkly covered the horizon were all split in half by my single strike.

“!!”

Leaving behind the faces of the children staring in shock at the scene.

I mixed in among the monsters and swung my sword like a demon.

Shrieeeek—!

With each swing of my sword, monsters collapsed while spurting fountains of green blood.

Monster corpses piled up like mountains.

The pristine white snowy plains became filthily stained with the blood the monsters had spilled.

‘I need to handle as many as I can.’

That way, as many students as possible would be able to survive.

* * *

Thwack—!

Veronica enthusiastically swung her fists at the monsters.

“Ah, seriously! I should have brought a sword!”

Her aura-wrapped fists steadily accumulated damage on the monsters.

However, without a weapon, it took quite a long time to take down even a single monster.

In such a situation, what proved to be a great help was the aura attribute conversion she had recently learned.

Whoooosh—!

A water cannon shot from Veronica’s fist.

Swordsmen below the level of Sword Masters who couldn’t project sword energy.

Excluding exceptional cases like family secret techniques, theoretically had no way to strike enemies at long range.

Attribute conversion allowed them to overturn such common sense.

Boom—

A spider monster with a circular hole punched through its torso by the water cannon collapsed.

It wasn’t a technique that could be used multiple times due to the severe waste of aura.

“Hah, I’m already almost out of aura just from firing a few water cannons.”

“Just trust me, Veronica!”

Whooooom—!

Cathy converted her aura to wind attribute and gathered the monsters in one place.

They resisted fiercely but couldn’t overcome the wind pressure.

Crash!

Magic struck down toward the monsters gathered at one point.

The battlefield didn’t only have the Swordsmanship Department.

Students from other departments including the Magic Department and Elemental Magic Department also provided great assistance in battle.

Bzzzzt-!

Purple lightning bounced between the monsters, tearing through their flesh.

“Haa, haa!”

Artie let out rough breaths as she continuously unleashed magic spells.

Rummmble-!

The aura dragon released from Ersea’s fist burst the monsters’ heads one after another.

Whoosh.

The monster hit directly by Hiscliffe’s cold air froze completely before cracking and shattering into pieces.

“Hmph.”

Hiscliffe snorted as he shot blades of cold air at other monsters.

Crash!

Irin’s axe smashed the monster’s head as easily as an egg.

Swoosh!

Tanya, gripping two daggers, swept across the battlefield slicing through monster flesh.

“Everyone’s amazing, aren’t they?”

Max swung his fists enthusiastically while surveying the battlefield situation.

‘As expected of Millennium Academy. Even though they’re first years, they’re at a considerable level.’

The Empire’s educational headquarters.

One of the world’s three great academies.

The potential of Millennium Academy students was at a level that couldn’t be ignored, even if they were just first years.

Despite being suddenly thrown into an unknown environment.

Even the non-combat department students who were now being protected by combat department students were renowned talents in their respective fields worldwide.

It wasn’t unreasonable for pride in the Empire’s educational environment to surge up as a member of the royal family.

‘Among them especially…’

Several students who were slaughtering monsters with overwhelming force caught my eye.

Without them, the battle situation wouldn’t have been maintained this stably.

Slash-!

Ragnor’s sword, boiling with blue aura, massacred the monsters.

Artistic movements without a single unnecessary motion.

As a warrior who also trained with the sword, Ragnor’s swordsmanship was simply amazing.

There was one more swordsman at a similar level.

“…”

Red aura overlaid Meirei’s sword.

Unique ability.

Battle Field – Red Moon

Whoosh!

As her unique ability deployed, a red moon rose in the sky.

No one knew exactly what effect Meirei’s ability had.

Since she didn’t like to boast about it, the known information was extremely limited.

However, one clear truth was.

Within the domain, Meirei’s own physical abilities were transcendentally enhanced.

“Kieeeek!”

Slash-!

Meirei’s sword tore the monster’s flesh to shreds.

The Swordsmanship Department students were shocked as they watched Meirei’s battle.

“That girl…”

“Was she 5-star?”

Since she had only used 4-star aura in academy competitions until now, all the students thought her level was 4-star.

But in reality, she was a Sword Expert just like Ragnor.

“…She’s been hiding her skills and still taking first place all this time.”

Ersea licked his lips with his tongue.

He had thought that if he worked harder, he could catch up to her someday.

But there was already a vast gap between her and himself.

The shocking thing was that wasn’t all.

“…What is that person’s identity?”

“Do you know him?”

“No idea, I’m seeing him for the first time.”

Ragnor and Meirei were incredibly impressive too.

But what drew even more attention than them was a young man with black hair.

Slash-!

Asel thrust his sword.

Ordinary people barely managed to defeat one monster after several exchanges.

Slightly exceptional ones defeated one monster with a single attack.

On the other hand, Asel.

“…How is he so strong?”

Every time he swung his sword, dozens of monsters were cut down in chunks.

Veronica and Cathy.

Max, Fail, Lessor.

The Class B students who were in the same class as Asel seemed to have forgotten how to close their mouths, amazed by the overwhelming power their classmate had been hiding.

“Ha, haha!”

Lessor in particular stopped attacking monsters and laughed as if he’d lost his mind.

‘I tried to mess with a monster like that. Calling him a commoner.’

Whatever reason he had for hiding his power until now.

If they could just survive and return, the Swordsmanship Department rankings would shake greatly.

Every student who witnessed Asel and Ragnor’s battles thought so.

‘Those movements…’

Artie supported the battle with magic while etching Asel’s swordsmanship into her eyes.

‘I’ve definitely seen them somewhere before…’

Where was it.

It didn’t seem like a very old memory.

While Artie held her head and retraced the ocean of memories.

“Kieeeek!”

“Woof! Woof! Grrrowl…”

The battle had somehow entered its final stages.

The flood of monsters that had densely filled the horizon was quickly suppressed by the efforts of several students.

Especially Ragnor and Meirei.

And Asel.

Without these three, there would definitely have been casualties.

Fortunately, though there were injured, not a single death had occurred yet.

Whoosh-!

“Kieeeek!”

Soon the last monster was hit by flame magic and burned up, bringing the short battle to an end.

Students whose stamina had hit rock bottom collapsed onto the snowy field.

They had just caught their breath, literally just caught their breath.

This was a large-scale terrorist attack planned against Millennium Academy students.

The fact that it absolutely wouldn’t end so anticlimactically like this.

All the brilliant talents vaguely suspected this.

* * *

“Phew.”

I raised my aura to evaporate the green blood stains on my clothes and sword.

‘Well, I did go all out for now.’

The reason I had wanted to hide my power in the first place was to continue my investigation secretly while avoiding excessive attention.

Now that Baal’s agent had already carried out a terrorist attack, there was no longer any need to hide my strength.

“Ohhh! Ohhhhhh!”

Fail waved his arms wildly with his face flushed with excitement.

“You’re really amazing, Asel! Thank you! I’m alive thanks to you!”

Veronica and Cathy also walked toward me, crunching through the snow.

Veronica opened her mouth.

“So? It’s about time you answered. Are you a concept player or an attention seeker?”

“Neither.”

“Then why have you been hiding your power all this time?”

“I had my reasons. I’ll explain everything later. For now…”

After I deal with that bastard first.

Clap clap clap.

The sound of cheerful applause echoed through the air.

“Impressive. Who would have thought there wouldn’t be a single casualty.”

Someone slowly approached from the distance.

“Is this truly what they call the Empire’s elite group?”

Baal’s agent.

It was Raeseya Welton.

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