The Celestial Maiden’s Young Master in Another World - Chapter 24

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Episode 24. Pretty Easy
They breezed through the first ten floors without a single Dropout.
‘I wonder what kind of monster shows up from Floor 11 onward.’
Given how powerful the Pokryeolbu was, he wasn’t particularly worried.
“Different monsters will show up on Floor 11, right?”
“I think so! Maybe we’ll see the Three-Horned Deer again and some new monsters?”
At the end of the corridor, the children clustered in small groups, chatting excitedly.
‘This is almost too good to be true.’
It made sense.
The last battle had been absurdly easy.
Not a single Dropout, barely any wounded at all!
‘The other dormitories must be struggling pretty hard right now.’
They might manage to take down the monsters if they pooled their strength.
But the Elite Three-Horned Deer hadn’t looked like an easy target for the children to handle.
Since he’d demolished it in one hit, he couldn’t make a precise judgment, but he suspected there would be quite a few Dropouts here.
We’re completely pulling ahead, aren’t we?
The corners of his mouth curved upward.
The power of the Pokryeolbu was impressive.
But the children’s growing familiarity with combat was a substantial factor too.
‘It’s fortunate the children picked up on how Adrian blocks with his shield and copied it.’
Adrian, whose build and height far exceeded those of his peers, simply standing at the front and blocking the monsters inspired confidence in everyone.
Even the other children who’d been frightened gained courage and stepped forward!
‘Adrian holds the vanguard perfectly. Lumiel and Corin support the rear steadily.’
Lumiel’s Ice Magic was a bit lacking, admittedly.
He’d worried about being the only close-range dealer, but fortunately there were two others pulling their weight and more.
‘Lionel Rondo and Bieira Trivel.’
He’d seen Lionel’s face before, but this was his first time seeing Bieira.
-She’d appeared on the Broadcast Stones a few times.
‘Only when checking my face and score, though.’
He didn’t have time to watch the Broadcast Stones while busy with missions.
Anyway.
Lionel was capable of imbuing his blade with Holy Aura.
He’d seen him slicing through monsters with impressive fluidity.
‘That cutting power wasn’t something a seven-year-old should have.’
He hadn’t expected to find children matching his level.
It made things much easier.
‘I knew they were talented.’
But talent is a different thing altogether. Sigh.
Just go ahead and be reincarnators.
-So that’s what you call it?
It’s not.
Anyway.
It was time to move to the next floor.
Floor 11 Underground now.
***
The Broadcast Stone’s confusion—or rather, Marel’s confusion—settled.
The broadcast resumed.
“The Zerotil dormitory freshmen are entering Floor 11.”
“Ah~ Chancellor Marel. From here on out, things will get a bit tougher, won’t they?”
“Well, yes, I’m afraid so. From Floor 11 onward, Grade 4 Silver Mane Wolves appear.”
The difference between Grade 4 and Grade 5 was enormous.
One might argue it was only one grade difference.
But the perceived power was completely different.
Grade 5 monsters were based on herbivores, but from Grade 4 onward, they were transformations of omnivores and carnivores.
“The best record among freshmen is Floor 13 Underground, correct?”
“Yes. It was set by Zerotil when Liliard was there. It’s possible that record could be broken this time.”
“Why is that?”
“Because Zerotil’s current strength is overwhelming. Their pace is also far superior.”
The top three were essentially carrying the entire team.
‘Or rather, Rian’s carrying them.’
Lionel and Bieira were also holding their own in the fight.
But Rian’s performance was simply extraordinary.
The evaluators suggested that, without even realizing it, he might surpass his mother’s record!
“Still! No matter what, he should struggle once he faces fourth-rank monsters.”
“Why’s that?”
“He can’t use that explosive technique forever, can he?”
“I suppose you’re right!”
Marel, the headmaster, had concluded that the explosion couldn’t be used indefinitely.
‘At most, he’ll burn through it on a single floor and that’ll be the end of it.’
If he couldn’t drive the monsters efficiently enough, he might not even finish one floor before the technique gave out.
“I’m curious how Zerotil will handle this.”
“I suspect they’ll see injuries mount just as badly as Beladen did.”
“And there will be dropouts, too.”
Zerotil hadn’t produced a single dropout yet, but the other dormitories had begun losing people from the sixth floor onward.
“Now then! Let’s see how far Zerotil can push through! Can they truly set a new record? Please watch closely!”
But they didn’t know.
That Rian had already defeated the Silver-Maned Wolf before.
Not only that, but over the course of a year he had analyzed that brutish, dim-witted creature thoroughly, dissecting it completely.
***
“The entrance level just has three-horned deer.”
“Ugh, my hands shake every time I hit this thing!”
The children griped and groaned, never quite growing accustomed to the paralysis effect of the three-horned deer.
‘That’s a good sign.’
-Complaining? What’s that supposed to mean?
‘It means the three-horned deer isn’t much of a threat to them.’
Even ordinary three-horned deer—not elite monsters—no longer intimidated the group.
“Ugh! Rian, why aren’t your hands shaking?”
Adrian shifted his shield to one side and brushed his hand clean.
“They are shaking.”
“No, they’re not….”
Adrian stared at him in disbelief.
‘They really are shaking.’
I just tense up and lock the tremor in place, that’s all.
-That counts as not shaking, doesn’t it?
‘It’s different.’
When struck, a weak paralysis and trembling would course through me.
But I’ve simply learned an efficient method to suppress it.
‘If I hardened my body fully, there would be no trembling at all.’
-Don’t go spreading strange philosophies to the other kids.
They don’t know the happiness of steel discipline.
‘I’m joking. Ellie, remember that time you went on a business trip to Japan and hunted that jellyfish yokai? This is a technique I learned back then.’
-Oh, that! That was hilarious!
So my suffering is nothing but entertainment to you.
‘When will the next monster appear, I wonder.’
In any case.
Floor 11 was progressing smoothly.
Meanwhile.
“Gaaahhhhh!”
A one-horned rabbit suddenly slammed into the ribs of a child who’d dropped his weapon as his hands trembled.
“Aaaahhh!”
“Quick, fall back! Fall back!”
“Ugh…ghhhh….”
In the other dormitories, injuries were mounting steadily.
Beladen had reached the sixth floor.
The more aggressive among them especially found their injuries multiplying once they reached that level.
Holy Aura wasn’t a power one could manipulate freely just by awakening to its method.
It could only truly bloom through countless hours of tempering and discipline.
The first-year students naturally lacked the skill for that.
They were managing only because their overall swordsmanship was superior to the other dormitories’ students.
“Ugh…! Does anyone here know how to heal?”
“I’ll handle it!”
Beladen had those with healing talent too.
Not as skilled as Wittis, who specialized in healing, but capable enough to manage.
“Ugh… this is exhausting. I heard the Infinite Descent Battle was supposed to be the easiest.”
“If we’re already injured, how many more floors can we really go?”
“My brother made it to Floor 9 Underground.”
At the end of the corridor, before ascending to the next level, the children paused to catch their breath and talk.
“What’s the highest floor on record?”
“Floor 13 Underground, I think.”
“Wow, that’s incredible. And we’re already struggling at Floor 6.”
“That was Liliard, wasn’t it? Hmm… I wonder if anyone will ever break that record.”
They didn’t know.
That there was a child in Zerotil who might just set that new record.
***
“Oh! Isn’t that a Silver-Maned Wolf!”
And at that very moment.
Zerotil encountered a new monster.
“Oh—”
The exclamation was brief.
“Well, here comes that one.”
“Happy to see it?”
“Yeah…!”
The Silver-Maned Wolf we’d faced on Floor 11.
The other children panicked at the sudden appearance of a rank-4 monster.
‘This is our Group 13, after all!’
The friends from our Group 13 who’d trained with me regularly actually welcomed the sight.
‘From about two months before the Academy entrance ceremony, we were practically training together around the clock.’
The memories came flooding back.
‘Wait, are they even memories?’
It was ambiguous.
In any case, thanks to our training, we could handle this Silver-Maned Wolf flawlessly.
“Argh! A Silver-Maned Wolf! That’s a rank-4 monster!”
“Silver-Maned Wolves show up from Floor 11 onward?”
“How are we supposed to handle this!”
The other children were panicking.
‘Well, that’s only natural.’
But to conquer the Infinite Descent Battle, Group 13 alone wouldn’t be enough.
‘If we’re all going to advance together without anyone dropping out!’
Everyone had to work as one.
I tapped Adrian on the shoulder.
“Go, Adrian!”
“Hyaaaah!”
Adrian, charge!
Adrian positioned himself with perfect angles and timing, unlike when we’d faced the one-horned rabbits or three-antlered deer.
The fruits of our training were evident.
“Grraaaauuugh—!”
Crash—!
A flawless block with no loss of power, using only the metal part of the shield!
The wooden portion remained unmarred—a technique of considerable importance.
No matter how strong Adrian’s physique, he was only seven years old.
To modulate the shield’s striking force, we had no choice but to incorporate wood into it. And a shield mixed with wood inevitably had weaker durability.
That’s why technique mattered.
“We can do this, everyone!”
The moment Adrian shouted, rallying our spirits.
Lionel, Bieira, and I surged forward together.
Thud-thud-thud—!
Smack! Crack! Bang-bang!
Whish—!
The Silver-Maned Wolf was hammered in seconds!
Whoooosh—!
Boom-crack!
At the same moment, Corin’s Healing Attack poured over the wound!
“U-uaaah!”
“We can do this!”
Emboldened, the students hurled spells from behind.
In a blink, the silver-maned wolf fell to pieces!
Easy, isn’t it?
***
Starting from Floor 11, we cleared each section in turn.
When packs of silver-maned wolves poured out, I deployed Pokryeolbu at just the right moments.
‘The numbers aren’t that high, after all.’
It was obvious that something far stronger would appear again at Floor 20.
“Floor 13 is done.”
Before long, we’d finished Floor 13 as well.
‘Wait—wasn’t this supposed to be Mother’s record?’
Could I really break a record this easily?
‘Who cares.’
Achieving it more easily just made it better, didn’t it?
“Everyone, let’s make sure to tackle the next floor properly.”
I made the suggestion before we descended to Floor 14.
After all, we’d be facing the real Dormitory Competition during the semester anyway.
I had to practice properly while I had the chance.
‘They need to learn how to fight.’
The Dormitory Competition would be crucial for earning Austen Coins.
And so, from Floor 14 onward, intense training began.
“Silver-maned wolves charge forward—draw their attention, then strike their flanks and they can’t react!”
“Don’t be intimidated by their Class 4 rating! They’re the weakest of the Class 4 monsters anyway. Plus, they’re stupid!”
“Right below the ribs—that’s their most accessible weak point, like I said! Target it relentlessly!”
I poured out every technique we’d learned so far.
Thanks to that, the students’ skills improved by leaps and bounds.
“Is he insane.”
Even Lionel let slip a word of praise.
‘Him calling me that, when he’s a monster himself.’
The teens cleared floors at astonishing speed.
Watching them, Marel’s leg bounced nervously.
‘Surely they can’t break through Floor 20?’
If the Infinite Descent Battle ended at Floor 20, how pathetic would that look?
‘It’ll be fine. I placed an alpha among the silver-maned wolves on Floor 20….’
The alpha was naturally an Elite Monster.
Its body was roughly three times the size of a normal silver-maned wolf, and it was the only one of its kind to possess the Claw Slash technique!
‘Surely they won’t defeat that.’
Marel’s expression eased slightly.
“How far have the other dormitories progressed?”
“Beladen has finished Floor 11 and is deliberating. Wittis and Deluciel are still cycling through Floor 10.”
A pause.
The speed gap between dormitories remained staggering. The difficulty was clearly not the issue.
It was this Rian Ludersck who was abnormal.
‘It really will be fine… right?’
Quietly.
Anxiety bloomed in a corner of Marel’s heart.
Marel tried to shake it off.
‘It’s fine… it’ll be fine!’
But then.
“Yes! Floor 14 cleared!”
“Floor 15 cleared as well!”
“What?! Not a single dropout—Floor 16 is cleared too?!”
And so they descended floor after floor.
“Floor 20 at laaast!!! Rian Ludersck delivers the final blow to the Elite silver-maned wolf!!! Floor 20! Cleaaaaaared!!”
“Nooooo!!”
‘This can’t be happening!’
Quite effortlessly.
Zerotil broke through Floor 20 as well.

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