Academy Slave Instructor

38 – The Price of Learning

The Price of Learning

“Now, shall we begin a lively adventure today?”

Cindy laughs awkwardly when she sees Rai, who killed all the children with her lengthy speech yesterday, and then wakes up and says that nothing happened.

“It’s okay. You don’t have to worry about it.”

Zero is by her side and comforts her, but she is not happy when she realizes the problems of her adventurer society. As she said, if she had even a little more knowledge, the number of adventurers who would have died unjustly would be greatly reduced.

He too admits that the experience of an adventurer is an asset. The difference in experience determines the level of adventurers and makes the difference between praise and money. Among the high-ranking adventurers, there were those who maintained their rank with only experience and knowledge, even though they lacked military strength.

Rai is not saying that you should give away all your knowledge. It means that you should at least educate yourself until you have the ability to not die.

Adventurers who were too caught up in the word “Property” Ended up ignoring the lives of other adventurers.

Cindy, who had not had long experience as an adventurer, but deeply pondered over what was the right thing to do the night before, bit her lip and approached Rai.

“Can you teach me how to break through walls?”

“Huh? You haven’t been scolded yet?”

Rai asks with a smile, but Cindy looks at him with unwavering eyes and says.

“I’ll give you anything you want in return. And…”

“And?”

“We will also change the perception of adventurers. We will record, teach, and save lives.”

It was too absurd for a kid who had just started his adventurer life to say.

Rai giggles as if it’s funny when he hears that one porter adventurer will change the adventurer society. Whether he laughs or not, she looks at him with serious eyes and waits for an answer.

“Okay, but only you know the skills I’m teaching you.”

“… Why?”

As Cindy furrows her eyebrows at the opposite of what she said yesterday, Rai smiles hatefully.

“I heard you change all adventurers? You don’t have to go up to the position where you change. You want to climb up naked? You can’t climb up even if you spend your whole life with your skills. You should have at least a crappy weapon like this.”

After telling the girl of her dreams about reality, Rai summons the other two and reveals her technique.

Complicated patterns are scattered in the air in a dizzying manner, but the three of them stare at them with concentrated eyes.

“The spell to infiltrate the opponent’s spell is quite complicated. However, since you are breaking into a fixed pattern created by a dungeon without reason, you can continue to use it once you learn the pattern. Learn the law.”

Cindy, who lacks specialized knowledge, has difficulty memorizing all the spells with the help of Zeroa.

Cindy, who lacks her ability, couldn’t even dare to use her spell, but Aslan tried to use the spell several times in the air, and then she went straight to the wall.

Athran, who had never used a club until now, picked up a club he had been carrying around in form, and used a spell to hit the wall hard.

– Tang!

“Hee-!”

With a sharp, deafening sound, the club, which had been split in two, flew straight in and brushed past Cindy. Screaming in her cute voice, Cindy meets her eyes with her embracing Zeroa and withdraws in embarrassment.

“Hey, this doesn’t work.”

“You stupid bastard, you can’t even use the magic spell properly, so you wield it.

Rai, who kicked Aslan in the back, demonstrates her. Aslan, who practiced several times, created a hole that one person could barely squeeze through.

Compared to Rai, it was devastating, but considering the effort of several adventurers to create such a hole, it was a great sight.

“I can’t use it because of my poor ability, so you teach me.”

“Me?”

“Yes, I can teach you simple training methods. And you learn a lot while teaching, so try it for practice.”

Zeroa looks at her Cindy with a lack of confidence, but she nods and asks her to take good care of her. Zeroa, who laughed awkwardly at her, taught her the knowledge she had learned so far as she went on her way, and whenever she got stuck, she asked Rai and learned the parts she hadn’t noticed.

Athlan, who has been resting for a day, faces monsters to see if he is overflowing with strength.

When a monster appears, Zeroa also teaches Cindy, then jumps out and fights, and the two easily defeat the monster even without Rai participating in the battle.

Since dead monsters are absorbed into the dungeon again over time, it is better to collect materials quickly, but Rai, who is only interested in the 40th floor, ignores the corpse and moves forward.

She seems to miss Zeroa and Cindy, but when the leader of the party tells her to move on, she has to follow suit.

The size of the dungeon widened as the floor got deeper, but it wasn’t a big problem for Rai, who moved in a straight line. Although she had never been there, she was able to get used to the speed of the party, where she reached the 30th floor in 15 minutes, which is said to take 3 or 4 hours even if she walked down the street, but Cindy still can’t get used to it.

But the 31st floor was the end of Rai’s fast marching speed.

Coming down the stairs, Rai handed the map to Cindy and said while looking at Aslan and Zeroa.

“I don’t have a map anymore. Which way is the exit?”

“……Haven’t you bought a map?”

“Yes, from the 31st floor they sell for 10 gold coins. They sell unfinished maps for 10? Are they crazy? I could even buy a precision map of the Empire with that price. I can’t buy anything like that because I’m sick to my stomach.”

Of course, since precision maps are for military use, they cannot be purchased with money.

All maps with new gathering locations or various information written on them must be purchased from map makers or guilds, but they are not cheap.

It is said that the dungeon map is revealed by the individual adventurer, but there is a huge difference depending on whether or not there is an accurate map in the dungeon, so adventurers who can afford it tend to buy maps.

“Then how will I go from now on?”

“I should give a free ride to an adventurer with a map.”

Leaving Cindy behind, worried if that would be easier said than done, Rai looks around at the floor. Cindy watched carefully, wondering what she was doing, and Zeroa answered instead.

“Looking for traces.”

“…A trail? Nonsense, how many parties have passed through here, look for the one with the correct map.”

Since there is only one passage connecting each floor, there are countless parties that have passed through this place. Among them, there will be parties that come for the first time, and there will be parties that come and go from deeper layers.

However, it is close to impossible to find exactly the party you want among countless traces.

“Well, the instructor’s tracking skills are amazing. I can’t believe it either, but I’ll probably find it.”

Cindy frowns at Zeroa’s eyes showing strong trust.

She’s been seeing things she couldn’t believe, but she looks at Rai, who seems to be wandering aimlessly.

“Do you have another special skill? I’m tired of being surprised, so I’ll find out in advance.”

“He has a knack for putting people down.”

Cindy smiles as Aslan speaks next to her.

“I already know that.”

The three nodded at the same time and looked at Rai.

She looked blankly, she looked at the wall and then at the ground, making strange movements.

“I found it. Let’s go.”

His confident expression is strangely believable. Aslan, who has been watching from behind with arms crossed, is the first to follow, and Zeroah, along with Cindy, moves her steps.

Cindy senses that Zeroa has a long break from her adventurer job, but she has a lot of experience. The reason why he is always by his side is not because, as Rai said, he reveals a woman.

Guarding the weak porter and the party behind is an inconspicuous but important role for the party. Even when he goes to fight monsters, he always seems to be late because he always moves Cindy by Rai’s side.

Cindy, who thinks that Zeroa, who naturally moves and holds a position without being told by anyone, is amazing, and looks at him with admiration.

“You shouldn’t fall in. It’s not Zeroa, it’s swallow.”

“Kyaaak!”

Cindy, startled by the approaching Rai, hides on Zeroa’s back. Lai giggled and said while kicking the marks on the floor.

“This is not a trace. Let’s go back.”

“……”

Athran, who was running ahead, Cindy, who looked surprised, and Zeroa, who had a gentle smile, all looked at him with cold eyes.

“No, I thought I had a map because I was going so confidently. I was right until the middle, so I won’t be back soon. Let’s go.”

As Rai, who said it as an excuse, starts to go back first, Aslan shrugs her shoulders and follows.

As expected, it is difficult with only traces, but Lai repeats going and going back. By the time he looks at it suspiciously to see if he really recognizes it, Rai finds a passage leading down to the 32nd floor.

“Oops- that took a long time.”

Rai said calmly and went down the stairs.

When Zeroa starts pushing Cindy’s back, who is absent-minded, she finally regains her senses and walks.

No matter how many mistakes she made, she still couldn’t understand how she managed to find her way with only her tracks. She even met monsters in the middle and went back, but the actual time it took wasn’t that long.

She hadn’t been to the 31st floor, so she just listened, but she said that it would take 3 hours even if she followed the map and came the shortest distance. Zeroa tells Cindy, who cannot figure out how she came to the same time as the people with the map.

“It’s easier to give up.”

When Cindy is told not to understand but to accept it, Cindy walks away with a tear in her face again.

She made it to the 33rd floor without incident, she says as she stretches her progress too far.

“Ah, is there no adventurer with a map?”

“Will you show me that expensive map, even if you have it?”

“Well, you can borrow it for a while.”

Cindy, not wanting to understand what he meant by borrowing, decided to ignore it, assuming it was just talk. Understanding her words that it would be easier if she just gave up, as Zeroa said, when she felt her peace of mind, Rai looked in the opposite direction of the aisle she was trying to cover.

He smiles as he looks beyond the darkness where light cannot reach for a moment.

“It’s a map.”

“What?”

“No, I don’t know if you have it, so you must be an adventurer first.”

Cindy stares at her with a shocked expression as what she was trying to ignore becomes a reality, but Rai excitedly deploys her spell and grabs Aslan’s wrist.

As the softly glowing thread connects each other’s wrists, Aslan frightensly shakes his hand. The swaying thread shortens and lengthens at will, continuing to connect with Rai’s wrist.

“It’s a missing child prevention tag. I’ll go first, so follow that line.”

As soon as Rai finishes her words, she runs out into the darkness as if disappearing. Looking at the darkness where nothing can be seen except hearing the sound of running, Aslan sees the thread on his wrist.

There seemed to be no fear of breakage as the thread automatically adjusted its length no matter how you moved it. Moreover, even if it overlaps the body, it passes through it like a soul, so it does not interfere with movement.

“You’re using groundbreaking magic again…”

Cindy recognized the effectiveness of the magic and smiled bitterly.

In a dungeon, having a thread that tells each other’s location is a great help in an emergency. I don’t know if it will lead to the metastasis trap, but it’s not just the metastasis trap that unfortunately falls out with the party.

Especially for beginners who are not yet familiar with dungeons, this magic will be of great help in preventing danger.

I have a strong desire to learn this too, but I have already obtained a spell to break down the dungeon wall from Rai. She said she would do anything, so Cindy, who now has nothing to give, smiles bitterly.

“What do I have to give to learn this? I have nothing to give you anymore.”

“Huh? Are you really going to give anything to Raikang?”

Preventing her lost child Asran, who keeps shaking her hand, looks at her and says, as if her words, “Her tag,” Are offended.

“Yes, because you taught me that kind of magic.”

“Eh- that’s not a good idea.”

Cindy, who was momentarily stiff at Asran’s words, asked cautiously, and he said with a puzzled face.

“That guy subtly reveals women. After hearing about his experiences, he’s completely unattractive.”

“……”

“I said I like girls with big breasts… You’re tall.”

At his gaze, Cindy involuntarily covers her breasts.

It was a magic that would revolutionize the world of adventurers by simple calculation.

However, such a thing cannot be achieved with simple calculations. Cindy, still a virgin, had no experience and had never even thought of selling her body for anything.

“It’s okay. I’m not one of those people. Maybe?”

When Zeroa, who was not sure, looked away, Cindy gulped down his saliva and shut her mouth.