On My First Day Undercover, the Organization Collapsed - Chapter 79
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The Organization Collapsed on My First Day of Infiltration Episode 079
It’s Class Time for a Moment (1)
Dietrich Valdrain.
The story that the 2nd Prince was thirsty for talent was no longer a secret.
The 2nd Prince who gained the Emperor’s trust after alleviating the Empress’s illness that nearly killed her.
Afterwards, he showed his face representing the Imperial Palace at the major event called the Academy Sword School exchange tournament.
This was proof that he had received some recognition from the Imperial Palace, and it gave the 2nd Prince even more justification to move actively.
‘Hmm. A liberal arts instructor at Sword School… He’s certainly outstanding, but. Well.’
Agent 8’s thoughts ended there.
If he received orders, he would simply carry them out.
Personal opinions didn’t mean much.
Anyway, since he was told to observe, he would just observe.
‘The preparations are almost finished.’
Just then, Group 2 entered the ruins.
Agent 8 also entered through another entrance beforehand and hid.
‘Group 2 isn’t bad either.’
“It’s a Stone Crook! The one Group 1 mentioned!”
“Get your spears and move forward! According to the plan, stab its limbs to seal it and hit it with hammers!”
Group 2 responded to the Stone Crook more easily thanks to Group 1’s advice.
Especially Celia’s Swift Swordsmanship, the leader of Group 2, was worth noting.
‘She’s fast. She’s not Rihart’s greatest talent for nothing.’
A thrust that went in so swiftly and accurately that other students wouldn’t even dare attempt it!
It wasn’t without slashing movements, but in ruins like this with narrow left and right passages, such thrusts were very effective.
As a result, she stabbed the Stone Crook five times in the blink of an eye and brought it down.
“As expected of Celia!”
“I couldn’t even see her sword!”
Celia thought of Delev amidst the cheers.
‘This is Swift Swordsmanship! Are you watching?’
Unfortunately, Delev was outside the ruins.
Anyway, after defeating the Stone Crook and reaching the end of the ruins, Group 2 recorded a similar time of 40 minutes as Group 1.
“Hey, Delev! I was one minute ahead?”
“Group 1 went first and gave you information. What are you talking about.”
“Anyway, winning is winning!”
Watching the two bicker, Lydia cautiously asked Ann.
“Are those two not getting along?”
“Huh? No. They look really close to me.”
“Huh?”
“They’re always like that, always.”
The ruins exploration of Groups 5, 3, and 4 followed.
Group 5, led by Maris, performed adequately.
‘I heard she was a problematic student, but she’s better than I thought.’
Though not as much as Groups 1 and 2 before, Maris’s situational judgment was quite decent.
Even when the Stone Crook appeared, she didn’t panic and activated traps in advance-
Boom!
Like Delev, she threw something to make it explode, creating an opening and bringing it down in the meantime.
‘What is that?’
Agent 8 had been watching from earlier and was really curious about the identity of that tool.
From what he could see, it seemed like she was tearing something thin and throwing it.
Anyway, Groups 3 and 4 that followed also performed adequately.
In the meantime, there was one student who stood out, and that was Yurio Harmatan.
‘Yurio Harmatan. I heard he entered as last place.’
Delev’s Heavy Sword Technique.
Celia’s Swift Swordsmanship.
His Balanced Swordsmanship that seemed to be somewhere in between was quite impressive.
‘If he had been born into a good family, he might have had even greater talent than now.’
Now it was time to finish the practical evaluation.
It had been quite an enjoyable time for Agent 8.
The first practical training for first years in history.
So he thought he would do more cleanup after the inexperienced first years rather than evaluation, but it was the opposite!
‘If nothing special happens until return, the first years’ scores will be the highest.’
To summarize, Groups 1 and 2 produced results through unconventional methods that were hard to imagine.
Especially since they were the first groups deployed, it must have been quite difficult, yet they still produced results.
On the other hand, the groups deployed after them passed safely and adequately.
Which is more important depends on perspective, but anyway, they finished the ruins training without a single notable injury.
‘It wouldn’t have been easy for the second and third years either.’
Sword School first years.
They look different now.
The target to watch and observe closely isn’t just Ziel Steelheart.
‘The future of this Empire.’
These current first years!
The talents who will lead the Empire in the future.
Somehow, that’s how they appeared.
But even then, Agent 8 didn’t know.
‘The last Team 4’s score is good too.’
The fact that every time Agent 8 was focused on scoring, Ziel was approaching and peeking!
Even now, Agent 8 finished scoring with satisfaction without noticing anything strange and put the pen in his pocket.
‘Wait, Teacher Ziel is… ah, there he is.’
And Ziel returned to his position without Agent 8 or the students noticing.
“Found it! It’s the target!”
Finally, even the last Team 4 obtained their target at the end of the ruins, and the practical training was completed.
‘Now we can go back.’
Morning monster subjugation.
Afternoon ruins exploration.
The main practical training schedule was finally completed.
Of course, the training continues until tomorrow.
Now they had to return to the campsite, spend the night, and return to the assembly point tomorrow morning to complete all training.
Therefore, Ziel instructed Lydia with his usual calm expression.
“Student Lydia Rojas. Check the team members’ condition and let’s head back.”
“Yes, Teacher!”
Lydia suddenly looked at Ziel and thought.
‘Does he originally not show emotional changes?’
Always a calm expression.
Whether praising or pointing out mistakes, there’s no significant variation in his voice tone.
According to classmates who had been trained by Ziel from before, he was originally like that.
‘What a mysterious person.’
At first, she wondered what kind of person he was.
Rather, now that demeanor made her trust him more.
The belief in his appearance that he wouldn’t waver no matter what happened!
That was exactly how Ziel earned the students’ trust.
Though he himself had never intended it that way.
‘I should have applied for Teacher’s class.’
She also felt regret.
If she moved up to second year like this, the opportunity to take his classes might disappear.
If the teacher continued to be in charge of first-year liberal arts, that is.
As Team 4 came out of the ruins, the first years erupted in cheers.
“Training is over!”
“We’re going back to the campsite now, right?”
“When we get back, should we stack firewood and light a fire? What, what was it called? Heavy fire?”
“Campfire! You idiot!”
Monster subjugation.
Ruins exploration.
Since the major main schedule was finished, this reaction wasn’t unreasonable.
But Ziel immediately calmed the students down.
“This forest is monster territory. Everyone keep your voices down.”
“But Teacher, we’re happy!”
“If you keep shouting like that, something unhappy will happen, Student Quantus Hopel.”
“Ah.”
“Now prepare to return. Erase the traces of where we stayed, and recover all the traps and devices installed near the perimeter. As soon as cleanup is finished, we return to the campsite.”
The students began cleaning up near the ruin entrance as Ziel instructed.
Lydia suddenly asked Ann.
“Teacher Ziel is really by the book. There are no gaps, no gaps at all. You guys took classes from the beginning, so how did you endure it at first?”
“Our Academy doesn’t have course withdrawal.”
“Ah.”
“At first it was really hell.”
But enduring it, they made it this far.
“Still, well, doing it, we learned a lot. You can really feel your skills improving dramatically, you know?”
“I’m really envious. If I had learned earlier too…”
“You have talent. You’re the only one among the team leaders who didn’t learn from the teacher from the beginning. Have confidence.”
“…Right? I should.”
Ann tilted her head.
“Do you have some kind of worry?”
“Hmm. Well…”
That’s when it happened.
Ann, who was collecting traps, hesitated then grabbed Lydia’s shoulder and pressed down.
“Get down.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Look ahead. It’s a monster.”
“…!”
It was true.
A pack of Tepics could be seen.
Gulp.
Dry saliva going down.
There were many.
Not just many, but what seemed to be dozens of them.
“Didn’t we subjugate them on our way here earlier?”
“We didn’t kill many Tepics. Did they come back? At least that’s fortunate….”
Unfortunately, Ann’s guess was wrong.
Rumble….
The ground shook.
Peckworms.
And not just one or two.
“Kiiiiiek!”
And even the sound of Swordbirds.
There were several Swordbirds as well.
“How is this possible?”
Both couldn’t understand.
Monster Subjugation had already been completed.
Then at most, only Tepics should appear again normally.
‘No wait, more appearing isn’t that strange… is this right?’
They thought all that was left was to return.
“Ann, I think we should just leave the traps as they are.”
“I was thinking the same thing. Lydia, could you go tell the Teacher? I’ll keep watch here.”
Lydia immediately ran to report.
Ziel nodded with his usual calm expression.
“We’ll collect the traps later and form battle formation. Team Leaders, get ready.”
Dozens of Tepics plus other monsters would total over 100, yet Ziel didn’t even blink.
‘Everyone’s exhausted, will this be okay?’
Or did he have some clever plan to secretly escape?
Agent 8, who was watching, had similar thoughts.
‘Another battle? Hmm, then it’ll be hard to give good scores.’
The students were tired.
Other methods came to Agent 8’s mind.
‘Staying here for a day while being as cautious as possible, or declaring surrender and firing a signal flare with the magical tool would also be options.’
But Ziel seemed to really intend to proceed as planned.
What would he do indeed.
Would he stick to the tactics he showed on the way here even in this unexpected situation.
“Each Team Leader should surround the formation’s perimeter at regular intervals.”
Since the Team Leaders were the strongest, was he planning to have them lead the charge valiantly at the front?
“And open the pouches containing the Peckworm Scent Glands we secured earlier.”
Huh?
Open the stench glands?
‘Ah!’
Agent 8 slapped his forehead.
Hadn’t he seen them use this at the ruins earlier.
“R-really? Teacher?”
“If we don’t open them, we’ll have to fight. Would you prefer that?”
“….”
Ann made a tearful face.
They had used it at the ruins earlier, but she never wanted to experience it again.
The smell that leaked out even when the pouch entrance was tightly sealed.
Enduring that was already torture….
“…There’s no choice. Let’s open them.”
Eventually Delev opened his first.
“My, my nose is rotting.”
“Ughhhhhhh.”
“I’ve eaten all my food for today….”
The students were in chaos.
But there was no choice.
It was almost the only way to avoid battle.
However, there was one fact the students didn’t know.
‘This isn’t good at all.’
During his assassin training days.
The countless five senses enhancement training he had received.
Thanks to that, Ziel, whose senses were maximized, was now….
Suffering considerable pain.
Of course, he could block his sense of smell if he wanted to, but he couldn’t do that in the current situation.
He had to be prepared for any potential threats.
‘This isn’t easy.’
Ziel endured it with effort and gave instructions calmly.
“Let’s move out.”
Indeed.
It was exactly as Ziel had expected.
“Kiiiiiek!”
“Kwak! Kwaaaaak!”
The monsters that had been waiting to block the First Years’ path.
“Are, are they coming?”
“They don’t seem to be coming!”
“The effect is amazing!”
Perhaps due to the stench gland’s smell, they couldn’t even think of approaching.
While there were differences among monsters, Tepiks, Peckworms, and Sword Birds had very sensitive senses of smell.
The highly stimulating smell flowing from the stench gland!
Even the Peckworms seemed unable to think of approaching their own kind’s stench gland smell.
“If, if we keep going like this, we’ll be fine, right?”
“Ugh, the Team Leaders didn’t sleep at all today. Are you going to keep carrying that thing?”
“The smell is really, ugh, urgh.”
There were occasional complaints mixed in, but overall they were mostly pleased.
“If Teacher hadn’t brought the stench gland, we would have had to fight again, right?”
“Amazing, how did he really know about something like this?”
“We used it quite effectively at the ruins earlier too!”
Ziel’s foresight!
‘I’ll be able to give them high scores until the end.’
Of course, Agent 8 also covered his nose.
The pain was so terrible that he wanted to cut off his nose.
In the midst of this, a question suddenly arose.
‘But why are the monsters coming?’
Tepiks could do that.
They were persistent hunters after all.
Sword Birds too – since they were driven away rather than eliminated, it wasn’t strange for them to return.
But Peckworms were different.
The Sword School First Years had eliminated all the Peckworms.
‘The Imperial Palace wouldn’t have deployed monsters beyond that level to this area.’
Naturally, the number of monsters guided and deployed during this field training was predetermined.
In the case of Peckworms, it didn’t exceed 10.
But combining the Peckworms eliminated earlier with the ones that appeared now, it was almost 20.
‘Then are these monsters that came from Zone 8 where the Arcane School First Years are?’
That was quite possible too.
Looking at the message slip from Agent 9, it seemed the Arcane School First Years had barely managed any monster subjugation.
‘I should reflect this in the scores too.’
Thanks to this, the Sword School First Years almost suffered damage, but it became an opportunity to earn additional points instead.
‘We’ll return to the campsite without any major problems.’
The distance between them and the monsters gradually widened!
The monsters seemed to give up on the terribly powerful stench gland smell.
Even the Peckworms seemed reluctant to approach, perhaps not very immune to their own stench gland smell.
Or maybe they recognized them as their own kind.
Either way, it didn’t matter.
Anyway, the Sword School First Years seemed to have almost escaped from the threat.
Then suddenly.
‘By the way, what about those monster traces that were spotted at Points 33 and 34?’
The traces that Agent 9 couldn’t confirm due to the Arcane School First Years’ situation.
The traces near Zone 9 were understandable.
But those points were areas that generated magical frequencies to completely block monsters’ approach.
In other words.
It was separate from the monsters the Sword School First Years had just driven away.
‘Could the device be broken?’
Just as he thought that far.
Thump.
Thump.
Vibrations and-
Kuwoong…!
Kukung…!
The ground began to tremble.
“…!”
Agent 8’s body froze.
The students were also shaken.
“Did you hear that? What was that?”
“Is it an earthquake?”
“Maybe Arcane School used magic?”
The formation came to an abrupt halt.
Thud!
Thud!
The vibrations and tremors gradually grew stronger.
Growing stronger meant something was approaching.
Thud, thud!
Over there.
“O-over there….”
The sun was beginning to set and the forest was growing dark, but they could see it clearly.
Massive trees swaying and leaves falling like rain-
“Wh-what is that?”
A sight as if the entire forest was being shaken!
“A-a monster?”
“It’s ridiculously huge….”
What revealed itself was a massive monster nearly 5 meters tall.
Hard, bumpy skin reminiscent of tree bark.
Blazing red eyes.
Nearly a hundred teeth arranged in double rows.
Eerily long arms and hands that looked like they could tear apart anything they touched.
“Wh-what is that thing?”
“A-a monster… it is a monster, right?”
And then came the erupting roar.
“Kwaaaaaaaaaaak!”
The First Years froze solid at the massive roar that seemed to shake the entire forest.
‘Damn it, this is bad.’
Agent 8 was horrified.
Why was that monster there?
That monster was….
Tonight, it was the final monster the 5th Year Students were supposed to face.
Even then, it was a ferocious monster that required multiple safety devices to fight!
In terms of danger level, it was equivalent to high grade.
One or two Grand Knights wouldn’t stand a chance – it required about five people in formation fighting systematically!
‘Then the problem on Arcane School’s side was also….’
Chill!
Agent 8’s spine went cold.
Monster traces had been discovered at Point 33 and Point 34, where monsters should absolutely never be.
That meant the defense devices were broken, and what broke those devices was perhaps….
“T-Teacher. What should we do?”
Meanwhile.
Unlike the agitated students, Ziel was watching the monster with an indifferent expression.
“A Ruinbark.”
He even calmly stated its name.
However, he wasn’t just being indifferent.
At some point, he had turned his back to the students and was watching the monster called Ruinbark approaching this way.
‘So that was the sound I detected earlier.’
He had detected it, but only now knew exactly what it was.
But Ziel remained unmoved.
Could it be that even the teacher was frightened?
The students’ anxiety was amplifying.
Thud, thud, thud!
Meanwhile, the Ruinbark continued approaching them.
“Kwaaaaaaaaaaak!”
At another roar it let out, the students began trembling and succumbing to fear.
‘Damn, what do I do?’
Agent 8 immediately grabbed all the daggers and knives.
The Ruinbark’s weak point was the back of its neck.
‘If I stab poison in there, it should collapse.’
If that Ruinbark charged, the students might die, no, they would definitely die.
Just as Agent 8 grabbed the dagger.
‘Huh?’
Something was wrong with his body.
Suddenly drowsiness washed over him…
‘Ugh, so suddenly…’
Agent 8 fell fast asleep.
And Ziel, confirming that Agent 8 had fallen asleep.
‘A rare opportunity almost slipped away.’
Ziel knew that the evaluation committee had been dispatched from outside.
It was speculation that they came from the Imperial Palace, but he immediately recognized them by their distinctive scent.
They were from the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, which he had often encountered during his assassin days.
Of course, that wasn’t why he put them to sleep.
He could deceive them as much as he wanted.
The important thing was-
‘This is an excellent educational opportunity.’
Right now was a very difficult opportunity to miss.
There was no time to convince the evaluation committee.
Putting them to sleep instantly without them knowing what happened was the most efficient method.
‘They probably don’t even know how they fell asleep.’
Incidentally, sleep needles leave no traces.
It was one of the items developed by ‘Black Sky’, so only a handful of people knew of its existence.
Ziel turned his body toward the students.
“Everyone, listen carefully.”
Shing.
“Watch closely from now on.”
And the sword he drew.
It was from Yurio’s father.
The sword he had received from Rangl Harmatan.
“Student Yurio Harmatan, excuse me for a moment.”
This field training.
It was the first moment Ziel had drawn his sword.
Just as Yurio, whose name was called, became dazed.
“This will be a brief supplementary lesson.”
The moon that was just beginning to rise.
Beneath it, Ziel spoke to the students.
“I’ll teach you how to deal with large magical beasts.”
Ziel seemed to be smiling.
As if this was a good opportunity.
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