Academy Slave Instructor

118 – System Dion

System Dion

– Kwaaang!

As the golem made of stone grabs both hands and strikes it down, the floor is pulled out from the impact and the area is disturbed.

The golem that attacked to deal with the intruder tried to raise its arm again, but the chain protruding from the floor entangled the golem’s arm.

“It’s big, but nothing special.”

Seeing Rai’s sneer lightly sitting on top of her tied arms, the golem struggled violently as if it had some emotion.

When the frenzied golem raises her head and tries to shoot her down, Layla falls on top of her.

– Cook!

Leyla lowers her sword and presses it against the crown of her head.

The sound was small, but the mana that penetrated the inside of the golem following the sword raged wildly.

Unable to withstand the mana inside her, the golem’s body is broken into small pieces, and a round core is visible between them.

“Abigail.”

“I know even if you don’t tell me.”

Abigail answered nervously and burrowed into the falling debris and snatched out only the core.

After she exits, half a beat later, all of her fragments fall to the floor, leaving rubble like a collapsed building in front of Rai.

Sitting on the arm of the golem, which is still in shape, Rai shakes her hand, coughing in the dust.

“It’s expensive, so go and sell it.”

“How much?”

“I don’t know the market price, but about 150 gold coins? Sell it where you can find out the value. Dwarves and magicians who are interested in driving magic will like it. It’s not a common item, so an auction is good.”

At the number 150, as if playing with a ball, Abigail’s movement stopped as she tossed her core in her hand.

The average worker earns around 1 gold a month, so it was more expensive than expected.

“If it’s something like that, wouldn’t it be better if you dispose of it and share it?”

“Huh? Share it? You take it. It’s yours.”

As Rai willingly gives up her core, her Abigail stares at her, squinting her eyes.

The image she thinks of Rai is a gambler who is obsessed with money, so it was natural for her to look at her with suspicion.

“I’m not particularly fond of money. I’ve suffered a lot from greedy guys, so I rather hate guys who reveal themselves.”

Abigail still looks at her with suspicion, but Leila, who knows the Devil of the World, understands his words.

If the person who suffered the most from the fallen central nobles of the Kingdom of Kaylan is not the enemy country or the empire, it is Rai himself.

Lai was not easily dealt with, but since he was of one mind with the central aristocrats even during the reign, he suffered many unreasonable situations.

I wonder if the demons of all nations killed the central nobleman during a meeting in the palace.

Swinging a sword in front of a king was nothing to say even if he was sentenced to death, so many countries at the time expected that the demons of all nations would go into exile.

Of course, contrary to their expectations, the Devil of the World returned as the commander-in-chief without any punishment.

“Instructor Layla?”

“Does he seem like a person who lacks money? He has a lot of secret arguments. He just takes care of himself and doesn’t even have enough money for living? Don’t do anything else and go to the academy diligently.”

Abigail did not have enough money for her living expenses in the past, so she worked as a mercenary and participated in the assassination of her 6th princess, Emilia.

Although her assassins betrayed her at the last minute to protect her because they didn’t know her exact target, it didn’t change that they were involved in her affairs.

“… I’ll write well.”

Leyla nods her head without saying anything, and Abigail takes her core with a timid expression.

I decided to take a break as I had consumed her stamina and mana while progressing so far.

Layla and Abigail sit around to relax as Rai, still sitting on the golem’s arm, creates sparks on the floor.

Both of them were quiet people, so when Rai stared blankly at the flames, they became quiet.

Since all three of them are staring blankly at the flames, which are the only light in a dark space, they might think it’s a very awkward atmosphere from the side, but all three are fine.

Leila takes her eyes off the flame and looks around her.

The most important core of the academy was protected by many traps and guardians.

If the core is destroyed, everything will be destroyed, so it was natural, but Leila has doubts.

I wondered why I had to forcibly break through when there was an academy with the authority of the ancient ruins.

Although not officially sanctioned, Selenas agreed to go to the Ryga Core.

She could release her barriers and traps, but Rai was going through all of them one by one.

“Why don’t you get help from the principal? You don’t have to destroy it.”

“Because it’s not fun?”

It’s hard to tell the truth from his words, but Layla shrugs when Layla notices that this time it’s a joke and glares at her.

“Oh, you look like you’re going to kill me. Okay, okay. It’s not that I don’t get help, it’s that I can’t get help.”

“Can’t get help?”

“Yes, you think the academy has set up countless traps and guardians to protect the core, but no. These are all made by the ancient ruins.”

It’s natural for an ancient ruin like this to have a defense system, so Leila wasn’t surprised.

“However, the principal has the authority. If you use that authority…”

“Permission… Do you think the head of the academy is above the core?”

Rai sneers, raising the corners of her lips.

“Look at the immutable forest that the academy boasts. It is changing nature. It is not a handful of land, it is moving an area. It is changing endlessly, but the ecosystem is harmonized without being destroyed. That is not even a dragon. Can not.”

“According to data, ancient people are said to have stronger power than dragons. There are many ancient ruins with abilities that we cannot actually measure.”

It is an empire with a large land, so it has many ancient ruins.

Among them, there are ruins that are still being investigated, and there are also ruins that are fully explored and making full use of their abilities.

In the ruins named as a huge pot that controls the lava field at will, power is obtained using heat.

The Empire has full control over the giant cauldron.

The huge pot creates a large-scale industrial complex nearby, producing metal products, and research that requires a lot of power is also being conducted there.

Layla nods her head when Leyla retorts with her point.

“Don’t think that the ruins that manage energy resources are the same as the ruins of the academy. The important thing is not to create energy, but to create energy and use it as you please. Isn’t the Unchanging Forest created by the academy’s order? “

“……The core has a will?”

At Layla’s answer, Rai patted her golem’s arm and liked it.

“Bingo. Now I understand. You didn’t show up in person, but this core has a will. The core will not be a subordinate of the head of the academy, but rather a cooperative relationship.”

Layla’s expression hardened at Rai’s words.

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There has been no abnormalities so far, but if the core gets strange and tries to harm the academy students, there is no way to stop it.

You can’t get out of the academy just by looking at the ability to forcibly teleport objects within the premises.

Abigail seemed to be aware of the danger of the core as well, so she took her eyes off the spark she had been staring at, and looked at Rai.

“Why… The Empire doesn’t manage cores properly?”

“It’s not that you don’t manage, it’s that you can’t.”

That was a shocking answer.

Until now, I thought the academy was protected thanks to the ancient ruins, but it was a weak safety that could turn into danger in an instant depending on Core’s mind.

“If you look at the history books of the academy, you can see that. Terrakan didn’t go to Core, Core directly spoke to Terrakan.”

She doesn’t know about Abigail, who doesn’t care, but Leila comes to the academy and she knows because she’s researched everything.

It was written in the book that when the first emperor, Terracan, came to Legandia, Core recognized that he was a hero and bowed his head first.

However, history books usually inflate achievements, so it is unknown whether the core really succumbed to Terracan.

“Ancient ruins aren’t just simple traps or guardians. There are places where you can’t pass if you can’t solve the barrier spell created by the core.”

Rayla also experienced this while coming this far.

It is not once or twice that Rai has released and passed through barriers that cannot be physically broken.

There were far more barriers like that than traps and guardians.

“Has anyone been able to break the barrier so far?”

Layla questions again.

No matter how great the demons of the nations are, they are only one person compared to the entire empire.

Ancient ruins are of interest to all those who study magic and are working hard to uncover the secrets of the ruins.

If what Lai said was true, it meant that Lai alone was better than thousands or tens of thousands of talented people.

“There are a lot of people who can solve it. A barrier is a pattern anyway, and anyone with time can solve it. You don’t have to go far, just bring the vice principal right away and he’ll solve it as soon as he has time.”

“But why no one has access to the core?”

Ray looks at Abigail at Layla’s question.

Abigail, who suddenly received her gaze, immediately made her face and glared at her, but Rai smiled.

“Because access is denied.”

“No access?”

“I’ll apologize first. I was lying when I said I brought him for fun.”

At Rai’s words, Leila looked at Abigail.

Catching their gaze, Abigail pulls out a pocket the size of her fist from her chest as if she remembered something.

“Is this related?”

“Yes, you’ve kept it well.”

“What is that?”

“A magical fragment containing the biometric information of priests who can use holy power.”

Leila has a higher understanding of magic than normal warriors, but she is not a pure wizard, so she could not understand all of Rai’s words.

Rye takes time to explain to Layla.

What are magic fragments and what can be done with biometric information? And how he obtained biometric information from the Lutheran Church related to Abigail.

While teaching Abigail the swordsmanship of Ju Enu Lushat So, she obtained the biometric information of the clergy of the Ruteria Church, but Rai decided that it was useless and destroyed it once.

However, Lai, who investigated the ancient ruins of the academy using the knowledge gained there, collected the magical fragments again.

This time, most of the biometric information belonging not only to the Lutheran Church but also to the churches in Legandia was collected.

“What can I do with it?”

After hearing the explanation, Leila didn’t care about her illegal gathering of other people’s information and asked why she needed it.

“If you can’t access the ruins, you can create someone who can.”

“Is that Abigail?”

She is also surprised by Abigail, whom she thought was simply brought in as her exploration partner.

“Yeah, going back to the middle, you said that ancient ruins are doing things that even dragons can’t do? Then, what’s higher than dragons?”

“… God.”

Although there are spirit worlds, the most easily inferred existence was God.

Ray nodded at Layla’s answer.

“That’s right. It’s a god. Some of the ancient ruins were created by a being called a god. I don’t know if there were people among the ancients who became gods, or if there were gods from the beginning.”

“……”

Rai talked excitedly, but the other two were silent.

“So why do I need it?”

“You are a god now.”

“……”

Abigail stopped her movement and slowly lifted her head and glared at Rai.

“Well, not really a god, but a god the core judges. Simple trick.”

“That’s why you gathered the magic fragments of the priests.”

“That’s right. When Core’s sensor confirmed it, it looks like hundreds of holy power information is concentrated in one Abigail. There is only God like that. Even if the holy power is insignificant, God is God. .”

Even if there were countless talented people in the empire, he could only do something by entering the ruins.

Moreover, since Terracan, the first emperor, recognized the core and established the academy, he had no way to bypass it by recklessly digging.

You can only access it through official routes, but the ancient ruins of the academy prevented everyone from accessing it.

However, no ancient ruins have the authority to stop God, the creator.

I came to the ruins where no one could enter the emperor’s order and the defense system of the core.

It was a situation that would excite those who like adventure or seek magic, but Leyla and Abigail’s expressions are not good.

One came for surveillance and the other was taken unknowingly.

It was impossible for the two of them to be in a good mood.

“Now then, shall we cross the final barrier?”

Rai stood up, speaking in a lively voice as if he didn’t know what the two were feeling.

The last gate was a door with a barrier that had been blocked until now, but Rai struggled for two hours before finally releasing it.

Small chunks of mana, indicating that the barrier has been broken, are scattered all over the place, and the heavy door, which seems to be unable to open, moves inward and opens.

Unlike the dark hallway, it was a space filled with pure white light.

“Guest Set Access Allowed. Welcome to System Dion.”

A neutral and insipid voice resonates in my head and welcomes the three.

Rai smiles as he hears a voice saying that he is welcome but not at all happy.