Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 133: Corpse Disaster
"Ah-ho! Here I come, Sato-chan~ I really got some very useful information this time."

"I was thinking that the skill of infinitely spawning skeletons looked familiar. Sure enough, it appeared in the game before."

"To put it simply, in addition to experience and level, 'Star Marks' also include weapon proficiency, skill proficiency, and so on. The latter proficiency is often one of the requirements for job change. In short, it is very important. Therefore, the skill called 'Boneyard' has become a good friend of the majority of players. Those characters who joined the team later originally had no time to change their job transfer route and come up with some weird gameplay. However, it is different with the monster spawner that constantly spawns monsters! Although you can't gain experience from those skeletons, you can gain proficiency from them in one battle."

"And this monster with the skill 'Boneyard' can only appear in a limited number of routes. It can only appear in the 'Trickery' route. Well, actually I've always felt that this way of naming the routes based on the final boss is not quite right. For example, in a love-raising game, the last obstacle between the hero and a heroine is the heroine's ex-fiancé. So, should this storyline not be named after the heroine, but be called the 'ex-fiancé route'? This is ridiculous!"

"Obviously, the final boss is determined by which class you enter. But to be honest, the names of those classes are not as impressive as the final boss. For example, if you haven't played the game many times, you really can't tell right away that it is actually the 'Orange Glory' line."

"Anyway, once the name of the Dark Rite Society popped up, you must have guessed it, Xiao Li. At least, there is only one character in the game world of 'Star Mark' who can use necromancy. That is our old friend 'Corpse', one of the 'Eight Disasters'!"

"Depending on the branch quests you've completed, the location of the final battle with the 'Corpse' will also change. But if I remember correctly, one of them was near Suzuran Town. So, I think there's a high possibility that these events are related to the 'Corpse'."

"By the way, don't be careless just because you easily dealt with those undead spirits. 'Boneyard' is not a big skill of 'Corpse'. Speaking of which, since 'Star Mark' itself is a game, the plot strength and battlefield strength of the characters are actually quite different. It often happens that in the battlefield, the hero kills the opponent with one sword, but in the subsequent cutscene, it is the opponent who beats the hero to the point of vomiting blood, and says arrogantly, 'I'll let you go this time.' So, in your case, is it better to refer to the plot strength or the battlefield strength?"

"Well, it should be the plot strength after all, right? If you want to see the plot strength of the 'Corpse', you have to be more careful. In the past, I didn't know some basic settings of this world, so I didn't understand what the 'Corpse' controlled when it attacked the brave team. The huge undead summoned creature that was as big as a small town was. But now that I think about it, since the maze itself is also a huge creature and can die, it is very likely that he is controlling a maze!"

"And wasn't this Lily of the Valley Town originally built because of the numerous mazes around it? If a dead maze is really controlled by the 'Corpse', it would be quite troublesome."

"ah"

Inside the disc, the bathing goddess, who was excitedly and proudly recounting her gains of the day, looked at the scene around Ritas and fell into the same silence as Ritas before.

"Um. Am I late?"

In a space full of decay, Ritas started a green bonfire fueled by surrounding materials. He covered his face with both hands and uttered a helpless response through the gaps between his fingers.

"Um"

Time needs to go back a little.

Back to shortly after the undead who called himself Ona was destroyed.

As the "Return of the Sanctuary" completely faded away, in the cemetery that was so clean that not even a trace of death could be found, Ritas, who had gained nothing, and Cecilia, who also did not find anything unusual, prepared to leave.

"So when the goddess of bathing is not around, the disc will be put away like this."

Taking the closed disc from Ritas, Cecilia exclaimed in amazement.
"I suddenly became curious about what the Bathing Goddess does in her own world when she is not staring at us."

Cecilia asked to herself while holding the disc up to the distant sky and observing it carefully.

"Probably. It's not much different from what we do on a daily basis. It's just that the proportion of 'bathing' is slightly larger."

Even in Ritas's mind, most things about the Bathing Goddess were vague. But what was special was that even so, Ritas did not feel the kind of uneasiness that was unique to the unknown when it came to things related to the Bathing Goddess.

Of course, it's not just uneasiness. Ritas's curiosity about things related to the Bathing Goddess is also decreasing.

When mentioning the Bathing Goddess, Ritas took the opportunity to briefly explain to Cecilia the current situation they were facing.

They accidentally encountered a white cat holding a white blade, and discovered that it was likely to be one with the white disk. So, they followed the trail of the White Cat Adventure Group. Until now, they realized that the White Cat Adventure Group might have met with an accident.

"This part that can be connected to the disk should also contain special power, right? The White Cat Adventure Group may have grown in a short period of time because of this power, but it is also because of this power that it has been targeted by evil forces."

Continuing to stare at the white blade connected to the white disc, Cecilia deduced softly,

"It is possible that this is an artifact that houses gods, and the power that comes with it. For ordinary people, suddenly receiving such a gift may actually be a disaster."

Listening to Cecilia's words, Ritas began to think, if he did not have the many identities he had now, would he end up like the White Cat Adventure Group after picking up the white disc?

The conclusion that comes from thinking is "maybe", but it will not be as bad as the White Cat Adventure Group, which suffered a disaster in just a few months.

If he didn't have enough support, he would have carefully hidden the white disc and kept all the information he got from the goddess of bathing in his heart. He wouldn't be like now, because there is too little information about the white disc, hoping that someone would take the initiative to jump out and provide him with information, and he would walk around holding the disc in his hand.

At the same time, he was also quite thankful that everything he had could protect him from falling into an irretrievable situation just because of a mere white disc. If the goddess of bathing in the disc could really provide him with powerful strength, he would be fine with taking such a huge risk.

But actually
I don't know if the power contained in the white blade is as subtle as the power of the disc. Otherwise, the black nun and the members of the White Cat Adventure Group, who are now unknown, must be crying bitterly every day because of injustice.

"Li (short) Ta (long), you described the current situation to me in detail before. Did you really hope that I could realize the danger and stay away from it?"

Cecilia asked this as she put down the raised white disc and handed it back to Ritas.

".Well, the speed at which the danger and scale of the incident have escalated far exceeded my expectations. At this point, this is no longer something an adventurer or a student should be involved in, nor can it be just a small adventure during the summer vacation."

Although he didn't know why his name had changed to an adventurer, after a short pause, Ritas said with a straight face.

Perhaps it was because he had been surrounded by people with potential for advancement most of the time in the past semester. When communicating with Cecilia, who had a clear mind, Ritas actually felt a sense of comfort.

"Should not"

Cecilia knew exactly what Ritas was talking about.

She also knew that if the situation like that in the cemetery happened again, she would not only be unable to provide help to Ritas, but would become a burden to him.

However, she was still somewhat unwilling in her heart.

"If...if they are the students in the professor's class, would the professor ask them to do something instead of just letting them hide?" Ritas was stunned after listening to Cecilia's words.

After careful consideration, Ritas felt that Cecilia's words were not actually accurate.

If it was a student from the Yew Fir School class who was currently in the same situation as Cecilia, he would still try to protect the students, with the primary goal of keeping them away from danger.

But the difference is that if the students insist on staying in danger, then Ritas will not simply reject their will, but try to make some arrangements for them.

"That's probably because I know them better and know what they can and cannot do. I also know what situations their abilities will be applicable to."

"In that case."

Cecilia put her hands behind her back, bent over slightly and slowly walked to a position a little distance away from Ritas.
"Wouldn't it be nice if the tower there could get to know me better, look at me more, and find out what I can and can't do?"

Cecilia said, turned around, straightened her back, and pointed her right hand in the direction of Ritas.

"After all, I also want to"

Suddenly, Cecilia's fingers seemed to be unresponsive, so after a tremor, they finally pointed to the white disk in Ritas's hand.
".What do you do, Lady Bath Goddess?"

After sighing in her heart for her cowardice at the critical moment, Cecilia smiled with a hint of regret.

"."

And Ritas was silent or weighed it for a while, then nodded.

the next day.

After sending Cecilia back to the mansion she shared with her friends in Suzuran Town the day before, Ritas was not idle either.

After he reunited with Haniya, he decisively bought a two-story mansion also located on the outskirts of Lily of the Valley Town.

If it weren't for the things that happened with the White Cat Adventure Group, Ritas would have planned to make a careful selection, but now he just wanted to move out of the hotel as soon as possible and not involve the people around him, making the situation more complicated and troublesome.

So, at noon that day, Ritas and Hania were mainly busy with the moving work.

Since Ritas had only been in Linglan Town for a few days, he naturally didn't have much luggage. The biggest thing that made them feel awkward was the big white cat that was still in a coma.

"Mr. Haniya, please continue to look for someone who can cure this white cat."

Ritas said this while walking beside Haniya, who was pulling the cart with difficulty and his fair face flushed red.

"That's not a problem. Speaking of which, yesterday I met a man who called himself a witch priest, who said he could heal everything in the world through spiritualism."

Although Ritas was idle and the scene was not harmonious, Haniya, who received sufficient commission money, did not complain about the current situation.

"Witch ritual."

In the past, Ritas would have naturally sneered at such a suspicious existence. But this is an adventurer's town after all, who knows, does the other party really have corresponding special abilities?

And just when Ritas was about to say "try it", Hania sighed.

"Unfortunately, when I went to visit him again this morning, he happened to be ill."

"."

"But, speaking of that, Mr. Ritas, do you really need to continue to take care of this white cat? If you want to get information about the White Cat Adventure Group from it, isn't what you have already obtained enough?"

It was definitely not the sleeping white cat that was extremely heavy, so Haniya, who was pulling the cart with a somewhat ferocious expression, wanted to throw it away quickly, so he raised this question.

"If this is just a problem with the White Cat Adventure Group, then this white cat is indeed of little use."

Now, compared to the white cat, the white blade in his hand is obviously more attractive to those who are causing trouble in Linglan Town. The white cat itself is more like a burden.

"But I thought of something yesterday. Anyway, for some other reasons, I also need to continue to protect it and try to cure it."

While the two were talking, the cart had already arrived at the outskirts of Lily of the Valley Town, not far from the house that Ritas had purchased the day before.

And precisely because the suburbs are sparsely populated, a figure that has been following Ritas and others from the small town has become particularly conspicuous.

"That's about it. How about showing up and telling me what I mean?"

After confirming that they would not involve the people around them, Hania and Ritas stopped and spoke to the pursuer.

After hesitating for a while, the figure finally walked out from behind a short tree.

“Cough cough cough cough cough cough, puff—”

Then, before Ritas and Hania could ask anything, the figure coughed violently, vomited blood and fell down.

".?"

(End of this chapter)