Academy Slave Instructor

95 – Meetings

Meetings

Lai and Layla enter the makeshift meeting room.

In the conference hall, people who had stayed up the night before could not hide their tiredness.

Bright, who was left to defend the academy, was drinking tea weakly with his stamina, and Albert and the other instructors couldn’t hide their fatigue.

Young academy staff like Dudley and Hana, who spent the night together, can’t beat age when you look good.

No matter how experienced and elite they are, the most lacking thing for those who have retired from the field is stamina.

“Oh! Rai Instructor! You said you defeated the Death Knight?! Our Rai Instructor is amazing!”

Perhaps he ages backwards, only Paul, who boasts a long white beard and big muscles, greets Rai with a lively appearance, the only one among the instructors.

Lai smiles awkwardly and nods his head, who is squeamish about him, who only talks about training when he opens his mouth.

“This is Mr. Lawrence, Mayor of Legandia, and this is Mr. Kelly, Captain of the Guard.”

As Selena, the head of the academy, introduces her, Lawrence stands up and holds Rai’s hand with both hands.

“Thank you for killing the Death Knight. Thanks to you, the citizens of the city were able to be safe.”

Lawrence expresses her gratitude with her eyes watering.

Small and generous, his physique resembles an oval egg. He is middle-aged, but his innocent-looking face gives the impression that he will be used a lot by Selena.

Actually, most of the real power in Legandia belongs to the head of the academy, and the mayor is no different from the head of the academy.

When Lawrence, who is old but strangely cute with rabbit-like eyes and body shape, looks up, Rai answers with a wry smile.

“I missed it after all.”

“No, I saw a great dragon uprising! It was like a dragon flying up! I thought he was a great person during tactical training, but yesterday I was really surprised. I can’t imagine how much damage would have been done if Rai hadn’t been there. I’m not going.”

Hearing the word “Splash of light”, Lai thought about what it was, but later realized that it was a mass of magic bullets.

It was just a simple mass of magic bullets, but Lai nodded awkwardly, thinking that the people here have great poetic talent.

“This is Captain Kelly. I salute you on behalf of the guards protecting the city.”

“Oh, no. Anyone can do it. A-“

As the two treat each other like a hero, Rai smirks and replies.

Although he said no, Bright could have frowned at his attitude that didn’t show humility, but he was tired and just drank tea.

Instead, Albert looks at Rai gently.

There are a lot of people, so maybe he’s hiding his expression, and his gaze doesn’t contain any emotion.

He, who was going to challenge Rai, saw thousands of magic bullets rise the night before and was mesmerized by the ridiculous magic.

“Have you ever… Met somewhere? Your face looks familiar…”

“You may have seen them during tactical training, or you may have seen their faces as they traveled around the city often.”

Rye quickly makes an excuse to Kelly, who tilts her head while watching her face closely.

She was in her female form when I met her, so I wouldn’t get caught, but if I got caught, it would be a big problem.

“I’ll report the situation as soon as you say hello.”

At the words of Selenas, everyone was seated at the table.

First, Layla tells what happened the day before and explains her black knight.

“I wonder how much bone-breaking training he had in his lifetime to be so good at horseback riding.”

Paul nods in admiration and talks to himself, but no one cares.

“So until I catch the Death Knight, I will manage all horses in Legandia. A Death Knight without a horse is much weaker than I thought.”

“Is that report reliable?”

An instructor looks at Rai and says.

Even though she has shown her skills many times, there are still instructors who do not acknowledge the reality and doubt or despise Rai’s skills.

“If you don’t believe it, try fighting it yourself.”

“…… What did you just say?”

She was Rai who usually didn’t care about gossiping or swearing, but this time she didn’t let go of it, perhaps because of the aftermath of her exhaustion from fighting the black knight all night.

Lai, who had been laughing like an idiot hahahaha no matter what he said behind his back, came out nervously, and the instructor got angry without fear.

“Hey, do it in moderation. Is the situation right now the time to fight emotions? Child? If you don’t believe me, can I make you believe me?”

When Rai, who always shuddered, spoke with a lively tone, the instructor didn’t say anything and averted his eyes.

“You are more powerful than I thought.”

Lawrence, the mayor of Legandia, quietly whispers to Kelly, but she doesn’t care what her mayor says.

“I will continue. Please refrain from remarks that are not related to the meeting.”

Leila calmly said that she was not interested and continued to explain.

“When the Death Knight appears, we will set up a barrier separating the road and the building, just like Instructor Rai did the day before. Pure mages from Legandia have already started working. Those with the skills to deal with the Death Knight are on standby. Most of the patrols will be coordinated with the guards and the adventurer’s guild.”

After her explanation, Layla asks if she has any questions, and Rai raises her hand.

“Can I tell you about plan B?”

“Tell me.”

When Leyla, who respects her because it is her official appearance, allows it, Rai says with a small smile that her attitude is amusing.

“The horse was said to be contained, but what if that guy shows up on a horse? I haven’t found the horse the headmaster gave me yet.”

“I’d like to say that even if the city suffers… But you seem to have an opinion.”

He speaks politely, but his eyes are sharp, as if telling him not to drag on when he has an idea.

Satisfied with Layla’s gaze at her wordlessly angry look, Rai looks at Selena’s.

“Can the academy’s transmission magic send anyone without restrictions?”

“We can send most subjects that have entered the academy once we know where they are located.”

“Oh, so that’s why it was stuck in the bracelet.”

When she remembers that there was a strange mark on the inside of her bracelet that she handed out during marching training last year to determine if she had spent mana, Rai nods her head as if she understood.

She sees Rai, who immediately grasps the situation with only a brief glance, and Selenas smiles bitterly at her.

“Then when he comes on horseback, we bring him to the academy.”

“Are you talking about letting Death Knight into the academy?”

The academy’s outer wall, which borrows the power of ancient ruins, is like another wall that blocks all intruders.

In case of emergency, if the walls of Legandia are breached, there is a plan to evacuate the townsfolk to the academy.

“Yes, send him and me to the Unchanging Forest? Send it there. It’s better to have a little forest destroyed than a city destroyed.”

At Rai’s words, the people in the conference room are quietly thinking.

It’s about bringing a dangerous black knight to the academy where the academy students are, but there’s a point in Rai’s words.

“That’s possible only if the Rai instructor assures that he will definitely defeat the Death Knight.”

As Albert gives his opinion quietly, Rai looks at him with his eyes wide open.

“Why? I don’t think I can win? And why do I have to fight alone? There are confident instructors here, and there are many other great people, but I can just ignore them and kick them.”

Come to think of it, yes.

Layla had said earlier that she would assemble her waiting list and deal with the Black Knight, but she assumed a one-on-one relationship between Lai and the Black Knight, as is natural for the people gathered here.

The instructor, who was afraid of Rai’s murderous behavior while arguing earlier, shrank back and looked around when he pointed at himself.

Leila, who was not included in the waiting list in the first place, such as an instructor who had no field experience, looked at the nervous instructor pathetically and said.

“I think it’s a good idea. If we can put all the power into one place without dividing the number of people on standby, the damage will be reduced. However, it is a matter for the head of the academy to decide.”

It draws the enemy into the academy, the last bastion facility.

There were many advantages, but if the black knight ran amok and entered the academy grounds, there was a risk of injury to the academy students.

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But if the plan was rejected for the safety of the academy students, it would be like sacrificing the citizens of the city.

As Selenas is brooding over an offer she can’t refuse, Bright says she’s only sipping tea.

“Director, I’ll do what Instructor Lai said. That’s a good idea.”

It was strange to say that she was the opinion of Bright, who always thought of the academy students.

As if he had already made up his mind, he put down the teacup and met Selena’s gaze with strong eyes.

“I will set up and maintain a barrier at the location to be transferred. I will not be in the waiting list to deal with the Death Knight, but I will defend the barrier even at the risk of my life.”

“No, you don’t have to risk your life.”

Ray speaks softly, but Bright ignores him and only looks at Selena.

Facing her determined eyes, Selenas smiles as if she can’t help it and nods her head.

“Yes, then, when the Death Knight appears on her horse with trust in the deputy headmaster, I will lure it with an immutable antagonist point, according to Instructor Rai’s opinion.”

With Selena’s approval, her plan for the Death Knight was completed.

Now it’s a matter of the undead appearing in the academy.

Albert explains for Rai and Layla who don’t know the situation properly.

The summary of the story is as follows.

The academy students who were forcibly summoned to the academy for being dangerous came out secretly as if they were frustrated.

The academy students who couldn’t get out of the academy, even if they came out of the building, headed instead to the academy’s territory, the immutable opposite point.

Having heard rumors that there is a unicorn, they head for a walk and find a strange creature on the edge of the forest.

The silhouettes seen through the forest where the moonlight does not come in due to the overgrown trees, the academy students who expected it to be a unicorn approached the creature right away.

At the same size as a horse, the moonlight pierced through the leaves and illuminated a part of the creature.

Rotten flesh and old cloth. And the gray bones were revealed between the flesh, but it doesn’t look like anything.

The academy students immediately drew their weapons and went into battle, but the creature saw them in the dark and backed away.

The academy students chased after the creature that ran away without even showing the will to fight, but the creature got further and further away in an eerie way and eventually disappeared into the dark forest.

“It’s undead, but its true identity is unknown.”

At Layla’s words, Selena’s nodded her head.

“It was said that it was difficult to understand because it was too dark. The only information is that it looked like a quadrupedal animal and that it was very fast. However, the bigger issue is that there are undead inside the academy.”

Undead have appeared in the academy, which is protected by the power of the ruins.

Necromancer is the only thing that is not in the academy where all the lectures on combat are.

According to social norms, it is impossible to openly teach necromancy, but necromancy itself cannot be used in the academy because of the power of the ruins.

But there were undead inside the academy.

If it came from the outside, it means that the academy’s defenses have been broken, so that’s a problem.

The Death Knight penetrated the castle wall and the undead penetrated the academy.

Everybody has a headache over nonsense. Even if this situation was resolved, Legandia had an unknown weakness, so it was necessary to know the reason.

“The staff and instructors searched for traces, but nothing came out. All the academy students who went to the forest gave the same description, so it’s not an illusion. Comes to a conclusion.”

It is fortunate that the number of undead is small. Except for death knights, the biggest problem with the undead was their endless numbers.

Still, the fact that there are undead is an uncomfortable fact.

The immutable opposite point is wide enough for marching training and tactical training, so it is difficult to search.

Perhaps the Black Knight and the unknown undead are intertwined.

No, it’s not a possibility, it’s just that we haven’t confirmed it.

“Then we just have to deal with him and the undead in the academy, right?”

Rai makes things simple.

There are many things to think about, but the problem to be solved immediately is as Rai said.

The meeting ends after making several plans to prepare for the undead inside the academy.

Ray came out of the conference room and yawned loudly as he approached Leila.

“Are you busy?”

“Coordinate with the guards, search routes and where to deal with the Death Knights…”

“You’re busy. Okay, then I’ll go alone.”

As the lengthy explanation seems likely to continue, Rai shakes her hand as she cuts off her words, and Layla closes her mouth, then opens it again.

“Where are you going?”

“To find an ungrateful horse whose master does not recognize.”

“Do you know where it is?”

It disappeared with the black knight, so if you find the black horse, you can also find the black knight.

“I have a vague idea of the location after running away from the anti-theft magic.”

“I’ll bring the knights right away.”

“No, no. I’m not going now. I’m going to sleep.”

Layla’s eyebrows furrow when she hears that she sleeps peacefully even though the situation is urgent.

“Everything has its time. When is the undead weakest?”

Rai points his finger to the sky and says.

The weak point of the undead, subordinates of darkness, is the sun.

Rai opened her mouth again to Layla, who immediately recognized what he was saying.

“When the sun rises in mid-sky in three hours, let’s rob that bastard’s base. Until then, you’re resting too. You’re tired.”

Rai said that and headed home.

Leila, who looked carefree but had a solid plan, looked at him, and headed to the captain of the guard with a promise of three hours later.