On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 260

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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 260

 

Imperial Mana (3)

 

Training continued. This time it was a jungle environment.

 

“I’m too tired to even question this anymore….”

 

“How did you even make this…?”

 

After a few days of tinkering around behind the auditorium, a hemispherical area suddenly appeared.

 

What looked opaque from the outside revealed a humid and unpleasant jungle once they stepped inside.

 

“This isn’t an illusion, is it?”

 

“I’d rather it be magic….”

 

Celia touched the soil and sighed.

 

“It’s real soil.”

 

“The rocks seem real too….”

 

“Where did you even get these real trees from?”

 

Everything was real.

 

If it had been an illusion created by magic, it wouldn’t be this vivid. There are limits to deceiving the senses with magic.

 

“Everything is real.”

 

Then Ziel appeared.

 

“I procured materials from various places and utilized the labor of each professor to create this.”

 

“…?”

 

“From now on, you will adapt to the jungle environment. Remember this. Jungle environments are harder to survive in than extreme heat or extreme cold. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, I couldn’t bring magic beasts or wild animals, but you must devise survival strategies taking that into account as well.”

 

The students shuddered at the word “unfortunately”!

 

“Why are jungles difficult places to survive, Teacher?”

 

Then Omar asked a question.

 

‘Jungles are challenging environments, but they’re manageable….’

 

Extreme heat.

 

Extreme cold.

 

One side has a blazing sun and insane heat.

 

The other has flesh-cutting cold and wind.

 

Compared to those, the jungle was heaven.

 

Even if it’s humid, it’s not particularly cold, nor does it have scorching heat.

 

“Good question, Student Omar Lucon.”

 

But after hearing the following explanation, they had no choice but to understand.

 

“It’s going to rain now.”

 

And an enormous amount of rain poured down.

 

Whoooooosh!

 

“Wh-what.”

 

“What is this!”

 

The students panicked and ended up getting completely soaked.

 

“This is called a ‘squall.’ It’s a type of massive downpour.”

 

That was the jungle environment.

 

“These squalls come down constantly without warning. When that happens….”

 

“It gets humid.”

 

“Correct, Student Ann Peshwa. When rain falls while the temperature is quite high, increasing humidity, discomfort rises significantly and activities become restricted.”

 

Ziel immediately instructed Jenesis.

 

“Student Jenesis Dillon, try starting a fire.”

 

“Ah, yes. Teacher.”

 

Jenesis tried to start a fire as instructed but struggled.

 

“Not working well?”

 

“No… It worked fine in extreme cold or extreme heat.”

 

“It’s because of the humidity.”

 

“Ah.”

 

“The atmospheric humidity is high, and dry firewood needed for starting fires is also difficult to obtain.”

 

Ziel immediately provided the solution.

 

“If you’re dropped in a jungle climate, you must find dead trees. Dead trees absorb relatively less moisture from the ground and are likely to be dry.”

 

Then Ziel lightly broke a fallen thick branch and showed the inner core.

 

“The center part isn’t wet either.”

 

“Oh!”

 

“Pine resin is also useful for starting fires. Remember this. No matter how jungle-like it is, you must start a fire.”

 

“Yes!”

 

It was fire-starting training again, but this time ‘searching’ for dead trees and pine resin was added, making the students’ eyes sparkle.

 

“Found it! This is a dead tree, right?”

 

“Oh, the inside really isn’t wet? We can scrape this and use it.”

 

“Is this pine resin…?”

 

In the previous two environments, they just endured, but moving around like this felt really good.

 

But the more they did, the more they felt short of breath and sticky.

 

Because it was a jungle.

 

‘They’re starting to react to the humid environment.’

 

In extreme heat and extreme cold environments, they mostly stayed still.

 

Even when they moved, it wasn’t as actively as now.

 

But this place makes you sweat profusely and discomfort rises steadily from humidity even when standing still!

 

“Wow, but this place doesn’t seem to get better even if you circulate mana throughout your body….”

 

“It’s really too sticky. I can’t endure this for long….”

 

“Should we bring at least one magical tool?”

 

Of course, using anything other than the tools and weapons provided during practical training is prohibited.

 

As they kept moving, they began to understand.

 

Why Teacher Ziel had said that.

 

“Sweat is really pouring down… Oh, it’s raining again.”

 

“Ugh!”

 

The jungle was a harsh environment.

 

There’s always a reason why people don’t live in certain places.

 

Unless you cut down and burn all the trees to completely flatten the area before living there, surviving in an intact jungle is extremely difficult.

 

And Ziel added one more crisis to this.

 

“Be on guard. I’m going to start attacking now.”

 

“Attacking…? Didn’t you say you couldn’t bring magic beasts and animals?”

 

“That’s right. But attack preparation training must be conducted. Unlike previous environments, preparing for attacks is more difficult in jungles where visibility is blocked.”

 

Ziel was right.

 

But how?

 

“There are no magic beasts and animals…”

 

“I’m here.”

 

“Ah.”

 

That’s right.

 

The teacher had previously conducted classes simulating magic beast attacks.

 

The terror from that time revived!

 

“From now on, focus on sounds. I’ll make the area around you a silent zone.”

 

“Silent…zone?”

 

None of them understood the meaning.

 

“Activate other senses before sound. When you hear sounds in the jungle, it’s already too late.”

 

The jungle is a harsh environment.

 

Bird sounds, water sounds, tree sounds, even rain sounds and all sorts of other noises occur.

 

If enemy sounds can be heard through all those countless sounds, it means they’ve already approached too close.

 

“Activate the movement of leaves, vibrations, and all other senses. Through training, you’ll realize how much you’ve depended on hearing until now.”

 

In the training for the swordsmanship competition, vision had been completely blocked.

 

But this time, hearing was completely blocked.

 

“Eh, well. Still, we can see, so it should be fine, right?”

 

“It’s better than fighting in darkness.”

 

But they soon realized.

 

That wasn’t the case.

 

Thud.

 

When Ziel stomped his foot hard once from where he stood, the area around where the students were standing became completely silent.

 

It felt like being in perfect darkness in terms of perception.

 

It wasn’t the muffled feeling of being underwater, but sound had completely disappeared.

 

‘What is this!’

 

‘I’m clearly trying to speak, but…’

 

No sound flowed out from between their gaping mouths.

 

That’s when the terror began.

 

Not being able to hear sounds.

 

Everything looked perfectly fine, but having hearing blocked… this feeling was…

 

It delivered a completely different kind of terror from having vision blocked.

 

“Boss, how on earth did you do that?”

 

Gilbert, who was helping with the class from the side, asked in surprise.

 

Kelvin also stepped into the silent zone and jumped out in shock.

 

“I, I, I can’t speak.”

 

An environment where hearing was completely blocked.

 

Gilbert suddenly recalled one of the 6th Circle magic spells.

 

The ultimate magic that completely blocks senses!

 

‘Could it be that Boss has also learned magic?!’

 

It was a reasonable misunderstanding since there were almost no ways in the world to forcibly block senses.

 

Moreover, the person who helped create the jungle environment was Professor Emeric.

 

He heard that he had surpassed the early 5th tier, but making senses completely disappear was magic of a higher dimension!

 

‘As expected, Boss is extraordinary. Could he really be a Secret Arts user?’

 

Gilbert, who once again went through all sorts of misunderstandings about Boss, finally reached a conclusion.

 

“Boss, I will serve with complete loyalty.”

 

“See that you do.”

 

Leaving those words, Ziel disappeared.

 

To become the ‘magic beast’ that would attack the students.

 

And the students who had to prepare for that attack were going crazy right now.

 

Since no sound came out, they had to keep looking around constantly and guard their surroundings without rest.

 

In that process, their nerves became razor-sharp!

 

‘I’d rather not be able to see.’

 

Being able to see everything but not hear sounds was an extremely terrible thing.

 

Especially since they couldn’t even communicate with each other!

 

Right at that moment.

 

‘Kuk.’

 

Ziel infiltrated the silent zone.

 

He slowed down so the students could see him, but few students responded to it.

 

Ziel attacked Ann and Quantus who was next to her simultaneously, then disappeared from sight again.

 

Even while Ann and Quantus were scrambling to get up, most students didn’t even know those two had been attacked!

 

That’s what it meant to have hearing blocked.

 

The range of hearing is 360 degrees.

 

Vision is narrower than that, and even then, once you turn your head, you don’t know what happens next.

 

‘Hearing is incredibly important.’

 

‘When exactly did Ann and Quantus get attacked?’

 

And as Ziel intended, the students were gradually awakening other senses instead of their blocked hearing.

 

Just like assassins.

 

Of course, Ziel had no intention whatsoever of raising the students to be assassins.

 

‘Ugh!’

 

‘Ahhh!’

 

Meanwhile, Ziel’s attacks continued.

 

Naturally, no student could block or predict them.

 

Some students were lucky enough to spot him head-on, but Ziel intentionally increased his speed each time.

 

The direction of this training that Ziel pursued was simple.

 

Predicting and discovering in advance using senses other than hearing!

 

Since there would be no occasions where hearing would be blocked in actual practice, the logic was that combining such heightened senses with hearing would allow faster prediction in advance.

 

In reality, assassins sometimes train while having each sense forcibly blocked.

 

Through somewhat inhumane methods.

 

Compared to that, the students were currently receiving very safe training with no worry of injury.

 

‘Agh!’

 

‘Uhhhhh!’

 

However, the frustration of being attacked relentlessly without being able to counterattack even once or even predict it was repeated.

 

But that was only for the first and second classes.

 

On the day the third class was held.

 

Clang!

 

‘I blocked it.’

 

Yurio achieved results for the first time.

 

It wasn’t by analyzing patterns or relying on coincidence.

 

The sight of leaves rustling and moving.

 

Vibrations transmitted through the ground.

 

And the fleeting tactile sensation of the sword cutting through the air the moment it flew in.

 

Toward such Yurio, Ziel said this.

 

“Well done, Student Yurio Harmatan.”

 

“…?”

 

I can hear it?

 

Sound?

 

At those words, Yurio looked around.

 

Everyone was looking at him.

 

None of them were looking at Teacher Ziel, who had just made that ‘voice.’

 

As if they couldn’t hear it.

 

The class ended like that.

 

“Yurio, how on earth did you block it!”

 

“It was coincidence, right? Or did you see something?”

 

Everyone crowded around asking as soon as class ended, but Yurio’s thoughts were entirely focused on Ziel’s voice.

 

‘How did he speak?’

 

The students didn’t think deeply about this silent zone like Gilbert or Kelvin did.

 

They just thought Ziel was being Ziel.

 

However, Yurio, who had experienced Ziel’s voice being the only thing audible in that environment where hearing was blocked, was in some kind of shock.

 

‘What exactly is this? How can Teacher make sound?’

 

Naturally, he thought it was magic.

 

Magic created with Professor Emeric’s help.

 

Students like Gilbert from Crow, who didn’t know much about magic, just vaguely thought that way.

 

But looking at it now, it didn’t seem to be magic.

 

‘Is this the teacher’s ability?’

 

Could it be that the teacher is a Secret Arts user?!

 

Just as he thought that.

 

‘But I’m sure his eyes… seemed different.’

 

Teacher Ziel’s eyes are orange.

 

Such a unique color that’s hard to see anywhere.

 

But they seemed to have changed somehow.

 

As if they were glowing with a golden light…

 

‘Could he really be hidden royal blood?!’

 

Yurio had completely misunderstood.

 

But having no way to know it was a misunderstanding, he had to struggle not to react to this shocking fact he had just discovered.

 

“Mmph!”

 

“What’s wrong, Yurio. Do you feel like throwing up? Why are you covering your mouth?”

 

“Mmph gmph mmph!”

 

“What are you saying.”

 

Yurio made a resolution.

 

This secret, he would take not just to the grave but to the afterlife.

 

“We’ll end today’s training here. Everyone go inside, wash up, and get plenty of rest. Don’t forget to get proper nutrition too.”

 

His reverence for Ziel was increasing in real time.

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