Chapter 63: Heist (3)

I was correct up to the point where I thought the Crusader-level beings hadn’t pinpointed our location. That was my assumption.

Because I thought Elissa’s fake Stigmata didn’t have a tracking function. I didn’t think a ten-year-old girl could escape the pursuit of the cult with a fake Stigmata with a tracking function.

Clearly, that should be the case.

I turned my gaze out the window. Through the curtains, I see the numerous hordes of magical beasts heading towards our dormitory.

They were all different shapes, and the only thing they had in common was that they were all legions made of bone. It seemed that one of the Crusader-level believers was trying to come this way.

“Elissa.”

“Yes?”

“Your fake Stigmata doesn’t have a tracking function, right?”

“Yes. If it did, I would have been caught long ago.”

“Then, how did those guys pinpoint our location?”

As soon as we moved to the rooftop, the magical beasts followed us, but that was probably a coincidence. Just low-level monsters who were told by the necromancer guy to check the dormitory rooftop.

Of course, if you’re at the Crusader level, you can share your vision with such low-level monsters. But would that be possible during a melee?

“…Someone must be using a tracking ability.”

I muttered that and fell into thought.

Tracking ability can only be used when the caster knows the exact appearance of the target. Then the caster is someone who has seen Elissa several times in the near future.

First of all, it’s not the teaching staff. I don’t know who the spy who infiltrated the academy is, but the teaching staff is eliminated because they are all blocking the enemies in the main building.

I recalled the list of first-year fake Stigmata holders that Elin-sensei told me. Was it Charlotte and Alex from Class B?

I had memorized both of their specialties. The ability of the fake Stigmata usually follows one’s specialty.

“Swordsmanship Department Class B, Alex’s specialty was searching. Elissa, have you ever met Alex?”

“Um… yes. I’ve met him a few times on the way to meet Sian. Are you talking about that brown-haired boy?”

“Yes. Then it seems like he’s using Alex’s Stigmata by making it go berserk.”

Fake Stigmata berserk is basically maximizing the ability of the fake Stigmata. If it’s a searching ability and he’s seen Elissa a few times, it’s probably that.

“For now, let’s move. It seems like they don’t have an accurate tracking ability.”

“If they did, the monsters would have already invaded?”

“That’s right.”

I muttered that and re-gripped my sword. Elissa seemed to have gotten over the aftereffects.

So, I asked Elissa.

“Elissa.”

“Yes?”

“You can withstand Blink at least once, right?”

“Of course.”

Elissa’s expression was full of confidence. It was a relief. It seemed like we had to jump out the window.

“Then, it would be good to brace yourself. I think we’ve been found out.”

“Yes?”

Before Elissa’s words could end, I put my hand on the sword hilt. At the same time, a loud impact sound resounds in the room.

Boom-

Something huge was hitting the door. The double barrier engraved on the door of the highest-grade dormitory is shattered like glass, and the steel door is dented. Elissa staggered at the impact.

“Ugh?!”

“Elissa, hold my arm tightly.”

Instead of answering, Elissa tightly wrapped her arm around my left arm. The impact rings again. This time it was twice in a row.

The steel door is crushed, and bone fingers are seen one by one through the gap. Flexible bone fingers search for the hinge and fumble for the doorknob.

I turned my gaze back to the outside. The outside of the window was already close to a mess. Almost half of the summoned magical beasts were on our side.

It was a good situation to sweep them away with large-scale magic.

“I’ll drop you in the middle.”

“Yes? That’s suicide…”

“So prepare a large-scale magic casting. You’re much better at blowing away the range than I am. Are you going to the rooftop?”

If Elissa casts a large-scale magic, Elissa’s location will be definitively revealed.

Instead, Yelena and Regina will also know my location. Because those two also heard that I went somewhere with Elissa.

To deal with a Crusader-level believer, the help of the two was desperately needed.

“Yes…!”

With Elissa’s answer, bang- the door finally burst open. Led by a bone golem made entirely of armor, the army of the dead approaches.

With an eerie popping sound, the golem’s fist was shot at me. At the same time, black particles wrapped around our bodies.

“Kyaaat!?”

Perhaps unfamiliar with the strange floating sensation, Elissa let out a cute scream, but still pulled up her mana. As she stepped on the rooftop floor, she staggered but started casting magic.

As Elissa took a strong step, water attribute mana spread out radially. Only then did hundreds of lifeless gazes that noticed our existence turn to the rooftop.

[Elissa (Lv.45) activates her unique magic ‘Water Domain’]

Water mana spreads in all directions, and eight water pillars rise from under her feet. The blue eyes that seemed to hold the sea shone again.

When Elissa, a mana excess patient, released all her mana, the mana density in the air rose sharply. The surging water pillars are intertwined to form a huge shape.

A huge, large whale, much larger than the whale shown in the sparring with Yelena, with a total length of about 30 meters, temporarily covers the setting evening sun and swims in the air.

[Elissa (Lv.45) activates her unique magic ‘Deep Sea Ambush’]

Elissa’s fingertips, which were pointing towards the sky, turned towards the ground. With a majestic cry of Buuuuu-, a huge whale moves towards the ground.

Hundreds of tons of water are a huge weapon in themselves. The violence of the mass pouring from the sky was not the kind that undead made of only bones could deal with.

The animal-type magical beasts, feeling an instinctive fear, quickly leave. The heavy bone golems are also trying to escape the whale, and only the mindless skeletons are just advancing silently.

But it was already too late. The guys gathered in the middle of the dormitory yard were too good a target.

The whale twists its body in the air. The arrows fired by the skeletons just pass through the whale’s body without any force.

Over the huddled guys, the whale slammed its body. The whale’s body is crushed and a huge wave covers all directions.

Crack-

With the cool sound of ice freezing, five bone golems that were approaching, crushing the resistance of the students, froze at once.

“Step aside, Yelena…!”

At the same time, a bright red magic circle appears above it. Regina Strelechia’s main magic. Small-scale [Hellfire].

The bone golems with high magic resistance literally melt. Yelena took a step back, admiring the power and precision.

The defense centered on the main building was not that difficult. When a portal opened from a fake Stigmata holder near the main building in the early stages of the situation, Yelena was next to it.

To Yelena, who had cut countless magical beasts on the Northern Absolute Defense Line, these magical beasts were not that scary. Every time Yelena’s sharp longsword emits light, sharp ice crystals are engraved in the air.

“Huu… is this mostly sorted out.”

Casually slamming down a skeleton that is fluttering with breath attached, Yelena muttered quietly. Perhaps because the initial response was quick. Fortunately, not many casualties occurred.

Slowly sheathing her sword, Yelena looked at Regina. The anxious, gloomy girl was constantly turning her searching magic, trembling.

“Sian, didn’t you find her?”

“…Yes. Even if I turn the searching magic, in the main building… I can’t see her.”

“Tsk.”

Yelena looked back at the students who were taking a breather. As the cool silver eyes scanned the students, the students unconsciously flinched.

“Hey, is there anyone among you who knows where the swordsmanship department’s top student went?”

But there was no answer. Yelena sighed and drew her sword again. It seemed that no answer would come out just by staying like this.

She’s a girl she decided to spend the rest of her life with, although it hasn’t been many years.

She’s the guardian of the North, and if she can’t protect one precious person, it’s a really embarrassing thing. Yelena strengthened her resolve and looked back at Regina.

Regina’s condition was not good. No matter how much she looked around, Sian could not be seen. Still, she was afraid to move from this place.

If she leaves the main building, and the Dark Cult guys touch the core of the barrier. Then she might die the same way in the final exam again.

But a bad possibility keeps popping up in a corner of her heart. What if Sian is wrong, an anxious feeling.

“Regina.”

“Yes, yes?!”

“I’m going to go find Sian from now on, what about you?”

So, Regina grabbed Yelena’s hand. If she loses Sian here, and Sian doesn’t appear in the next round, she felt like she would really go crazy.

The two girls leaped towards the inside of the academy, full of magical beasts.