Chapter Chapter 71: 8. If you do it, it works. (10) (1/2)

RATH 71

TL: Eevee

8. If you do it, it works. (10)

#13 Their story: A certain student council president’s story.

What is an academy?

When faced with that question, most people would think of it as a place where children that were not quite yet adults gathered to learn.

But this place is different.

“Kuaaaaghh!”

“Damn it, break through!”

The academy named Yugrasia was a battlefield where you learned how to fight with everything on the line.

Unlike normal battlefields, you didn’t die here, but our academy was the place where you learned firsthand that sometimes, death was the much more preferable option.

And to remove the hell that was the battlefield, for our the sake of our peace, we must become victorious in the imperial festival that begins tomorrow.

And because of that, we wanted to be able to clear the night study just this once…

“It’s quite tiring.”

Even as I wiped the sweat off my brows, the person who was experienced enough to not leave a single opening for us to exploit was our teacher, a professor of this school and the strongest elementalist of the gnomes, Professor Muam.

After the contractor of the Spirit King of Water, Professor Muam was beat… healed by the silver devil, he began to directly summon the Spirit King, and that was the same for today as well.

“It’s even more tiring for us, Professor.”

“Hohoho… since you’ve felt it as well you should know, student council president. That there is a reason why we cannot fall.”

“We know that as well, but today is the day where we cannot give up.”

“I understand.”

Although our relationship was that of student and teacher, we had in common the knowledge of the pain of the silver devil.

Both of us knew far too well of the circumstances of the other.

There couldn’t possibly such a bizarre student-teacher relationship anywhere else, but unfortunately we had no choice but to fight each other with our lives at stake due to the apostle of the evil god that was Professor Nicerwin.

-Children, defend if you can.

The words of the blue giant, the Spirit King of Water, began to twist the nearby space.

The power of the Spirit King of Water, lord of all water.

The power to command space with the combination of magic power and the water vapour in the air.

All summons in this space were weakened, and people who used water elementals in particular couldn’t bring them out altogether.

No one could move freely.

“Roar, thunder!”

And there was only one person who could run in like that in this state, and that was one of the god-class summoners of the first years, Hirto, the contractor of Thor, the god of thunder!

After the fear of the silver devil spurred on his development, he became able to use the god Thor’s strongest weapon as he wished.

He became able to use Mjölnir, the weapon that commanded lightning, and thanks to that he became a key player in fighting against Professor Muam.

“I’ll lead the way!”

Swinging the lightning-coated hammer, he was slowly but surely driving back the Spirit King’s area of control.

“Lightning really is annoying.”

As Mjölnir’s lightning began to encroach into Professor Muam’s water barrier, he skillfully cut off the electrocuted areas and sent it elsewhere.

Even if Hirto’s power was superior in rank and elemental compatibility to Professor Muam, Hirto was the eldest son of a swordsmanship family.

The only reason why a Hirto, someone who hadn’t even studied summoning for a year could use an unfamiliar weapon, a hammer, to fight as he was now was purely because he was a god-class summoner.

“Damn it, if I’d known this would happen I would have asked for a lightning elemental…”

I was outright unable to summon any water elementals, and other elementals were greatly weakened.

It was the worst possible situation for me where I couldn’t even summon any elementals unless they were at least a high-rank.

If I’d made a contract with a lightning elemental, the effective matchup against water elementals, I would have been more useful here.

“Muaahm! Switch!”

I heard Professor Harian’s shout from further away.

Right now, the strategy to deal with the two teachers was to fight against Professor Harian with Lady Aris as the core fighter, and Hirto and I were the key figures in fighting against Professor Muam.

“Is it the god’s shield already?”

The reason was Lady Aris’s shield, Aegis.

Unlike Professor Muam, Professor Harian’s attacks specialised in defeating many foes at once, and so using that shield made it easier to defend against her attacks.

“Yep! So hurry up and switch!”

Professor Harian’s voice was hurried.

The shield’s powers were that great, but Professor Muam had many ways to nullify the shield.

Whether it was by redirecting Aegis’s strongest attack, the petrifying curse by bending the light rays away with water, or the free manipulation of water whose attacks even Lady Aris who could consistently defend against Professor Harian’s near-invisible wind attacks had a hard time against, making it Lady Aris’s natural enemy.

We had already failed to defeat them numerous times when they joined together. As such, the rest of use tensed up and held our positions.

“Karen, block that with a few other summons nearby.”

“Got it, pres!”

Karen and a number of other people contracted to larger summons created a living wall.

They didn’t suit the current situation where multiple people were attacking one in a limited space like this, but they could at least block the path.

“It’s not easy over here either!”

Even as Professor Muam yelled, he was still looking for gaps in our defence.

“I know that! There’s no easy student in our academy!”

How should I put it… although we were acknowledged by the strongest gnome and one of the most powerful elven summoners, but we weren’t happy about that.

Because if we thought about how we went about to become acknowledged by the teachers then our tears would blur up my vision!

“Mister student council president. Making a lady wait is not befitting of a gentleman, could you help me to become a gentleman?”

“Who would doubt that Professor Muam is a gentleman? But bad boys are popular nowadays. What about following the trends?”

“I’m a bit old-fashioned, after all. I don’t particularly suit the bad boy archetype.”

“Really now?”

Extracting himself under the watch of countless students was a difficult thing to do.

Even for someone of Professor Muam’s caliber.

But as always, exceptions existed.

“I… cannot looooosseeeee!”

With a piercing scream, a giant shockwave struck our backs.

“What?”

“Kyaaaahh!”

“Get down!”

The shockwave was strong enough that some of the students were knocked down.

“Hang on! Our summons are falling!”

“Desummon! Hurry and desummon them!”

I felt the impact even from where I was, far away from the epicenter.

In that case, the giant summons that took the brunt of the blast fell over due to the sudden shockwave, and to reduce the casualties from that, Karen and a number of others were forced to desummon them.

“Muaaaaahhmmmm!”

And Professor Muam didn’t lose that opportunity.

“Don’t desummon them! Just have the people move around them!”

“Even if pres says that!”

“Or, hurry up and stop him!”

Even as we shouted we attacked with wind and earth elementals, but Professor Muam easily deflected them and marched onwards.

“Seriously, it’s hard for me as well.”

“When the power of the god of the wind, and the spirit king of water come together, we are invincible!”

Thanks to the quick actions of the other students we could stop him from getting to Professor Harian’s side, but we couldn’t stop him from summoning the mass of water beside her.

“Attack him so he can’t focus!”

“Ohhoho, how rude.”

Professor Muam laughed bitterly at the countless summons and spells being thrown at him from all directions, but none of them did any real damage.