chapter 36
36 – Dungeon Transformation (3)
On the opposite side of the entrance manhole where the first year cadets entered.
There was only one exit.
Instructors and healer apprentices were also waiting in front of the exit.
The instructor, who is in charge of this practical training, held up his pocket watch and muttered.
“Why is it a bit late this year?”
If you look at the time, it was when the first place came out.
But there was no sign of anything at the exit.
All I could hear was the instructors and healer apprentices chatting.
“Then those earrings, Joel-sama gave them as a gift?!”
A fellow healer apprentice next to Delia asked with interest.
The co-workers who persistently pursued the pearl earring on her earlobe.
Delia eventually had no choice but to answer.
She just said it was a gift from a man, but her colleagues have already identified the man as Joel.
“Not necessarily Joel….”
I tried denying it, but
“What’s wrong with us!”
Her colleague laughed and tapped her side with her elbow.
“I know that you and Joel are not normal, so it’s okay.”
The fact that Joel often goes to her Delia’s room, and the fact that Delia often goes to her Joel’s room, was also widely spread within the academy.
She goes so far as to say that she not only denies Joel’s evil rumors, but is rather a good nobleman.
“I’m just an ordinary private healer.”
“It’s not normal to be an exclusive healer already.”
“Ugh….”
Delia blushed in embarrassment.
Her colleagues laughed at her reaction.
There is no topic as interesting as someone else’s love story.
They kept asking Delia.
“Are you aiming for a lover?”
Her colleague asked, waving the ring finger of her right hand in front of Delia’s eyes.
Delia shook her head, shrinking her body.
“I am a nun. So I, I can’t go out with her male counterpart.”
“Ah, there is no disadvantage in quitting the nun. And even if she kept her status as a nun, her nobility strongly demanded it, so there was no choice but to pass it on as a single.”
She knew it all.
She knows that claiming her status as a nun is an excuse.
When she didn’t say anything, another colleague answered for her.
“But Joel-sama is already someone. Was it Luisa? She even took a maid as her lover. Moreover, you became engaged to Elianne-sama again.”
“Oh, yes. Certainly, even if the head of the headquarters closes his eyes for one lover, he seems to dislike them a lot from the second.”
“That’s right, people from the Empire are a bit cheesy. Good things don’t have to be shared.”
“Right right!”
The Empire where the Church of the North is the state religion is monogamous, but the Kingdom where the Church of the South is the state religion is polygamy.
The republic has a marriage system that is basically monogamous but allows concubinage.
Delia and her close fellow apprentices were either from the Kingdom or the Republic, so it was natural for many women to cling to a capable man.
There is a lot of talk about whether the empire will go to polygamy if the current imperial prince, who is a lecherous person, takes over the throne, but it is obvious that the Northern Church will oppose it.
Moreover, even if the legal system changes, whether it actually settles down culturally is another story.
Delia lowered the corners of her mouth slightly, she said quietly.
“Rather than being greedy for nothing and ending the current relationship, I just want to maintain the current relationship.”
Her colleagues who heard her looked at her with pity.
If Joel was a noble of the kingdom, she could be somehow seduced and she could be the third wife after Eli Anne and Louisa, but she is an imperial noble.
If she wants to be her lover, she has to fight for the love of Louis, who has been by Joel’s side for a long time, and even if she becomes her lover, she has to take notice of Eli Anne.
One of her colleagues joked with her.
“When Delia becomes a saint, can’t we stare at her headquarters?”
“Yes?”
Other colleagues also agreed, saying “Oh, that’s right!”
“If she becomes a saint, regardless of where she comes from, she will be treated as a duke or a princess from a small country, so she can compete with Ellie Anne!”
Delia’s eyes widened.
She said that she believes that she will become a saint in the future when Joel presents her pearl earrings.
When she relayed this to her co-workers, she patted each other’s shoulders with “Kyaa!”.
“You said that you wanted to make her the head of her headquarters! Because when she becomes a saint, she will bet no one else!!”
“Ji, is it really like that?”
“Think about it, Delia! It’s hard to wear those pearl earrings unless you’re a saint. Do you think her man would have no intentions of giving such an expensive gift?”
“… !”
Her colleagues gradually encouraged Delia.
She has a pretty face, and her chest and hips are big enough to make her look attractive to Joel.
Moreover, seeing that she made Luisa, her lover, wear such a lewd outfit, it is clear that he too was revealing her fair s*x.
“Delia, try dressing slutty according to Joel-sama’s taste!”
“It’s my nun’s uniform… ?”
“I heard that there are men who enjoy dressing their lovers in nun clothes! And you, Delia, didn’t she get the earrings and not give anything in return?”
“Uh… ….”
Come to think of it, she only received from Joel.
She was saved from being killed by a monster, and she received a huge amount of money for producing magic potions for two hours a day, and even precious pearl earrings that were difficult to obtain unless she was a saint.
The only thing I did to repay the favor was to become his exclusive healer.
“If I dress a little slutty, will that be a reward?” ?”
“If you look at Louisa, Joel must have a hobby of dressing his women in slutty clothes! Try to seduce Joel-sama!”
Delia nodded her head at her bright red face.
Then her colleagues talked about how she would show off her body.
I was half anxious and half excited about whether Joel would like it, but if he likes it….
Her lips twitched.
Chrillit—!
Electricity surged through Delia’s body while imagining her happy life.
Her colleagues were taken aback when they saw her instantly stiffened.
“Why, why? Are you sick?”
“I’m in trouble!”
Delia ran straight to the exit.
Her comrades grabbed her by the shoulder as she was about to enter the dungeon.
“Why all of a sudden?! You know a healer can’t go in there alone!”
Healers usually lack defense or attack power.
In the eyes of her colleagues, Delia’s actions now seemed suicidal.
Her instructors also hurriedly came and gathered around them.
“Joel is in danger! We have to go in quickly and save them!!”
“No, on what grounds—.”
Delia rolled up her skirt in her nun’s uniform, revealing her pager on her thigh. She
She and in case of an emergency she gave Joel her pager so he could call her, she revealed.
“I am Joel’s exclusive healer! Joel-nim is in danger, so we have to go quickly!!”
I understood what she meant, but I couldn’t send her to the dungeon alone.
At that time, the instructor in charge of her overall position stood in front of her.
“I was just thinking it was weird. It seems fitting that an emergency occurred in the dungeon. Let’s go in together, leaving three instructors and two healers.”
“”Yes!””
Healer apprentices, including Delia, entered the dungeon through the exit under the protection of prepared instructors.
Water An underpass that smells rotten.
The instructors looked around and said, “That’s strange….” Each time she muttered, Delia’s anxiety amplified.
As Delia’s arm trembled, her colleague held her hand and said,
“It’s okay, the pager signal means Joel is still alive.”
“Yes, it is. Yes, you must have just been slightly hurt.”
A strong heartbeat resonating inside the body.
The more she walked, the more Joel’s face appeared in her mind.
Instructor, the general manager,
“It’s getting close to the boss monster now….”
Muttered softly.
Took.
Something caught on the foot of the instructor in the lead.
She rolled her eyeballs down.
“”… !””
They were the bodies of about 10 students.
Originally, the boss monsters placed here are lower than C-class.
No matter how much he was a first-year knight candidate, he was able to break through, and he had never suffered a major death.
This is the first time that at least 10 people have died.
First of all, the instructors collected the corpses to confirm the identity and cause of death.
No bites or cuts were visible.
But the skin melted.
“Me, over there!”
One of the apprentice healers held out her hand.
All the instructors moved their gaze to the fingertips.
A lump of purple slime large enough to fill an underpass.
Other corpses were slowly dissolving inside the gooey mass.
“Poison Slime?!”
It was a slime with a strong poison.
It wasn’t a monster that at least first year cadets could kill, roughly B-class or higher.
Among the instructors, those capable of magical attacks started chanting.
Slimes are immune to physical attacks.
Can only deal damage with magic attacks.
As more than 70% of the dealers were physical attackers, it was difficult to find someone who could use magic attacks, so the difficulty of subjugation was high.
Paaa!
As if spitting phlegm, the [Poison Slime] Spewed poison.
A poison directed at the tank instructor who didn’t have enough time to evade.
The poisoned shield melted in an instant.
“Supporters, please support the agile system!”
“”Yes!””
Delia crossed her hands.
I wondered if Joel had already disappeared after being melted by that slime.
I just hoped it wasn’t like that.
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Pain in the calf.
It will probably be difficult to evade like before.
The shield magic I learned during the lecture will be broken by [Stretch Koi]’S attack.
Bang—!
I took the pistol out of its holster and shot myself in the head.
[All skill cooldowns have been reset due to the effect of .]
Nishi koi jumped up from the water.
Toward me head-on, making my body taller.
Anyway, it seemed that I, who had fired the gun, felt more threatened than Caitlin.
The lack of provocation skills was a big reason why Caitlyn couldn’t play an active role as a tank in the academy.
There is no point in avoiding the tank alone and letting the dealer or support attack you.
There is an item that can make up for the absence of a provocation skill, but I never thought it would happen so quickly.
“Brother, it is dangerous… !!”
Following my instructions, Luisa, who was guarding Leon, screamed.
The head of the Nishikigoi came right in front of me.
Now he’ll twist his body and hit me with his tail.
At this distance, even if you reduce your body in response to the gun, you won’t miss.
I poured magic power into the trigger and activated the [Time Stop] Skill.
2 Seconds stopped again.
Aim the gun at the head of the Nishikigoi, a large target in front of you.
And pull the trigger.
Bang—!
As time passed again, the [Stretch Carp], Noticing the magic bullet, shrank.
However, the position of the head does not change even if it is reduced.
My magic bullet blew off the small head of the koi.
[You have killed the monster.]
[Acquired 32 EXP for .]
[Experience of Exceeded 200.]
[The level of Has risen to 2.]
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[Time stop]
Rating: ???
Level: 2
Description: Twice in 24 hours, the time of living beings other than the user can be stopped by 4 seconds.
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