Academy Genius Craftsman

07. Eldoras (13)

Seo-hee jumped up on the roof of the mansion as swiftly as a cat. Looking around with her eyes closed, she called out to me in an urgent voice.

“All the monsters on the lower floors are rushing somewhere!”

“Somewhere?!”

“There… It’s middle class! You want to go up!”

I seemed to know roughly what the situation was. This phenomenon of all the monsters in the lower floors flocking to the top must have something to do with the quest item.

Is this movement limited to the lower floors? Or is the same thing happening now in the middle and upper classes as well? Then, where is the final destination of that group of monsters?

You’ll find out the answer when you go upstairs.

“Maybe it’s not too late.”

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Jisoo stood next to me and said. It was a small voice that no one else could hear.

“What? How?”

“They come up from the basement, but we’ll go up from the first floor. Since we know the way, we will be faster.”

It was a good thing to hear. Ji-soo said that he had been to and from the first floor and the top floor directly through this secret passage in the future before returning. If you don’t know the safe way, you’ll run into all sorts of traps and guardians guarding passageways.

“… ….”

But even if you get there first, is that really the best way?

The cries of the monsters echoed loudly from all directions. Numerous footsteps overlap and overlap to the point where you even get the illusion that the entire floor is shaking.

The safest way was to block the plan from the beginning. But the quest has already started and I don’t know how to turn it back anymore. Hurry up and climb the tower, but there are countless monsters and powerful bosses in front of you, and ten thousand executives chasing you from behind.

Can only three people break through that difficulty?

Even if they break through, will everyone be safe?

I desperately tried everything I could to make ‘that weapon’ for today, but is that really enough?

I have to successfully complete everything by overlapping miracles. If the result is the death of one of us, will I have the confidence to handle the result….

No, let’s stop worrying unnecessarily. I’ve done everything I could. So, I have no choice but to believe in the future.

Seohee and Jisoo, the skills of two people I trust.

And the power of a weapon forged by my own hands and no one else’s.

“Let’s go.”

There is no time to waste. Even in the middle of this, you will be climbing the tower. I had to catch up as soon as possible before it was too late.

The three of us made eye contact and nodded to each other.

“Yuna. We’ll be on our way.”

“Yes? Lee, binary. Wait. Where are you going?”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to explain. You wait here until the surroundings become quiet. It’s a bit ruined, but it’s still a safe zone, so it’s safer here than anywhere else.”

“What do you mean that! The atmosphere is unusual, so don’t go around dangerously, just go outside with me… !”

At that time Im Ah-ran jumped roof after roof and landed lightly on the floor. Like a skilled A-class hunter, she scouted the surroundings for that short time and returned again.

“Lady, no, the guild leader. We have a problem.”

“What’s going on?”

“I think the entrance is blocked. I got something like a translucent forcefield, and my arrows didn’t even scratch it. It is presumed to be a barrier that blocks outside intrusion.”

“So, you mean you can’t go outside?”

“Yes, maybe. And I can’t wait for outside support. Since the stationmaster was built, no one has been new to it. This is the way the hunter who just entered was blocked while trying to leave, and was trampled on by monsters at the entrance.”

“I can’t….”

Yuna covered her mouth with her pale complexion.

It must have been shocking to hear that the guild was already in a mess after being attacked by thousands of times, but all of a sudden the monsters on the entire floor went crazy and couldn’t go outside.

I wanted to help like a chimney, but I already did everything I could to save you from a 10,000 raid. If everyone stays on the first floor together, they will only wait for the ending of being annihilated amicably like the future that Jisoo experienced before returning.

Seo-hee, who had been watching the surroundings all the time on the roof, raised her voice.

“Jisoo. Where can I go?”

“The plaza I passed when I first entered. It’s the fountain over there.”

“Umm, to go there… Wouldn’t it be faster if we skipped the roof too? The roads around are teeming with monsters, so it will take longer.”

In that case.

“Jisoo. Excuse me.”

“What… Awesome!”

I held Jisoo next to me in my arms. Recently, his body stats have risen enough to be felt by himself, and the index is so light that he could easily hold it with one arm.

I was surprised to hear that he hugged me, and I felt Jisoo breathing in. The nape of her neck tickled for no reason, thanks to her breathing, which was shorter and faster than usual.

Down! As soon as he stepped up with strength on his legs, he leaped onto the roof of the mansion in an instant. Jisoo’s arms, which were hugging his neck, became slightly stronger. Yes, it was there, but it was there.

When we landed on the roof, Seohee was looking at us with a puzzled expression.

“… Why are you two like this?”

“That’s right, this side is fast.”

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Jisoo, who was held in his arms, tapped me lightly on the shoulder as if to ask me to come down. As she gently released her from her arms, Jisoo stood with her feet on her roof with her somewhere staggering steps.

“… I could have climbed it myself.”

“Then you have to use magic. I have to save a little bit now.”

I know that Jisoo can use flying magic, but I couldn’t force it since it wasn’t even in a combat situation. What are you doing with your two strong legs? In this case, it was a melee hunter. No, after all, I’m not a melee hunter, I’m just a blacksmith… Well, it’s because he has a better body than most hunters.

“Big. Big! Then from now on, I’ll pick you up. Aren’t I much stronger?”

It was an undeniable word. Because Seohee wasn’t at the level of a ‘fair hunter’. Even in normal times, my strength will be boiling, and if I strengthen my body with magic power, even if I rush at it like a mountain, Seo-hee will be no match.

But I couldn’t.

“Seo-hee, you should be able to fight when you need to. It doesn’t matter if your hands are tied.”

“Yeah, but… still… !”

“Okay. I’ll take care of it.”

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Jisoo dismissed our conversation in a quiet voice.

She pointed her finger in the direction of her square.

“Now I don’t even have to use flight because I just have to jump over the roof. A certain amount of magic power consumption is automatically recovered, so it’s okay.”

In the city area on the first floor, the layout of the buildings was dense, but the city was very old and the buildings were in poor condition, so there were many collapsed buildings here and there. However, it was difficult to run by the standard of ordinary people, but not to the extent that it was impossible for an awakened person.

The only problem was that Seohee was exceptionally fast compared to the two of us to run side by side, but it wasn’t a big deal.

“Kieack!”

“aaa”

“Where!”

This is because the monsters constantly attacked while running toward the square.

No matter how much I skipped the roof, the monsters throughout the city were in a state of rampage, so aggro was attracted here and there. The roofs of the buildings where the lower classes live were not very high, so sometimes they jumped on the roofs after us.

Since they were all rubbish mobs anyway, Seohee took care of them all alone. I didn’t even have to wield a knife. When we reached the corner of the square, Jisoo pointed somewhere with his finger.

“That way.”

The plaza we first passed was, of course, teeming with monsters. Where on earth did they appear from hiding? Even as they gathered together and rushed toward the entrance to the middle floor, the procession could not be seen.

‘Is it possible that it is being regenerated infinitely?’

I don’t think it’s really true, but it was an overwhelming number that made me think so. But we didn’t have to deal with all those numbers.

“Haaa!”

Seo-hee was thrust downward at an invisible speed with the lightning wrapped around her body, just as she had done in front of Manma-ryun earlier.

Kwurreung!!

The monsters in the plaza were swept away by the waves of electric current that spread in all directions with the sound of thunder and lightning striking.

It was said that it was a newly learned skill after undergoing special training from the deputy guild leader of the Mercury Guild, but it was a power that made my tongue stick out every time I saw it.

Thanks to Seohee, we landed in a neatly organized plaza. In the middle of the plaza, a statue of a woman carved from pure white marble was placed on a dry garden without any water.

As if my thoughts were right, Jisoo landed on the plaza and went straight to the statue without looking elsewhere. And he took out an old ring from the space, and at a glance it was an unusual object with an antique pattern elaborately engraved.

“What is that?”

“The key to open the door to the secret passage. It will be the same thing that Manma-ryun has now. Mine is from the future.”

Saying that, Jisoo inserted the pattern part of the ring into a small gap in the lower corner of the statue. It looks like a part where you insert a key, but if you look closely, it looks like an artificially broken mark, so it doesn’t seem easy to notice.

Clap.

When the ring was inserted, there was no external change, but there was a very small metal sound, like a lock being unlocked.

I put my hand on the statue and pushed with force.

Koogu Palace… !

Slowly but surely, the statue was pushed back, and in its place was an orb of light shimmering with blue magic.

That was a portal.