I Became the Hero Who Banished the Protagonist - I Became the Hero Who Banished the Protagonist chapter 120

120. Raid (2)

The monster was fast. The stream of fire Nella fired didn’t hit the monster and blew up one of the labs as it cut through the air. Avoiding it was within the assumption. Nella stood still, taking a big stomp, and the ice pick shot through the floor. The monster approaching without knowing anything stopped moving in place with its whole body pierced.

“What the hell is this?”

A dark, viscous, tar-like liquid flowed down the ice pick. Nella peered at the monster, adjusting the height of her awl.

“Synthesis? Is it like a chimera… . Who the hell is in such an awkward form?”

It had a human head, but no hair at all. No, not even hair, not even a single strand of body hair like eyelashes. The eyes were turned upside down so that the pupils could not be seen, and inside the jaws penetrated by the awl, there were hundreds of protruding teeth in a spiral shape.

“And this mana… .”

Nella shrugged at the ominous feeling. It was a magic she had never felt before. A year ago, that sea. Even though thousands of monsters were pouring down, I could feel the magical power of them unfamiliarly as if they were carved with a knife on my skin. Nella gritted her teeth as she stared at the tentacles on the monster’s limbs. This was definitely catastrophic mana.

“What the hell is going on?”

The sporadic screams were now the din of fierce battle. No matter how inexperienced a wizard was at the Mage Tower, if he was still screaming, he was disqualified as a wizard. Then you don’t have to worry too much about the lower part, the problem is the upper part where the first explosion occurred.

The moment Nella made that decision and lifted her head, the monsters landed on the floor through the hole in the ceiling. Nella raised her mana again with an expression as if she had bitten an insect.

woah woah

With the sound of a corpse, the monsters immediately turned their heads toward Nella.

“I think I’m going to make octopus sukhoe.”

It wasn’t about creating a fireball. Nella began to blow out the size of the flame in her hand. The fireball, which was the size of a fist, turned into a rolling wave of fire and created a haze. Nella sent waves of fire forward before the monsters charged.

“die-!”

A wave of flames, enough to burn the entire floor, swept across the front. The remaining equipment on the destroyed floor was burned down by the flames of magic. The monsters caught in the middle collapsed into a handful of ashes without even moving.

“… I dealt with it once.”

Half of the 10th floor melted, but what was defeated was defeated. Nella looked up as she approached where the monsters had fallen through. How did she pierce the bottom of the Mage Tower, which had melted even with her magic?

“Who did the trick?”

Nella opened her eyes narrowly and saw a hole in the empty ceiling. Smoke rising from the 10th floor was sucked in through a hole in the 11th floor, and Nella could faintly see what was happening on the 11th floor.

“… I need to turn off the lights… ! Where are all the materials… !”

“… Where are the assistants now! Call me now! … Where has the professor disappeared in the middle of this?!”

Hearing sounds and wandering shadows. It wasn’t even a fuss. It seemed that the professors were running around until their soles were on fire in an attempt to somehow sort things out, but it didn’t seem like things were going well, judging from the occasional desperate screams. Nella clicked her tongue, approached the hole in the ceiling, and sent a strong whirlwind. Nella’s light body leaped into the air and rose to the 11th floor.

“Associate Professor Nella-!!”

When Nella arrived, who had blown the smoke away, the teaching assistants greeted her with tears in their eyes. Normally, their faces were white as they were confined indoors, but now they were covered in soot and scars and looked like any other soldier.

“Where are the other professors?”

“Most are running to the 11th floor trying to find the intruder. The original caller was found dead, so it’s unclear what the hell happened. I don’t even know who the intruder is. Right now, I’m first catching the monsters that roam around the Mage Tower.”

One of the teaching assistants explained the situation with every breath in his lungs. Then he coughed and groaned as if he had inhaled smoke.

“What kind of monster is that? Even the professors don’t know at all… . It looks like a human, but it’s definitely not a human, and it’s not even a monster. I never learned anything like that.”

“I know. I’m seeing something like that for the first time too. It’s much stronger than most monsters, but it doesn’t mean you won’t die. It might be difficult to deal with mages below Circle 3, but… .”

The feeling of penetrating magic was not very good. Those monsters were strong. The 4th circle should be able to deal stably.

“First of all, we shouldn’t let those monsters escape from the Mage Tower. It is unreasonable for academy students. In no time, they’ll cut their throats. Did you block all the way down?”

The assistant nodded with a dark face and stood up.

“Fortunately, the automatic shielding system worked well, and all the emergency stairs were blocked. I’ll do my best to help, Professor. What can I do?”

Nella opened her axe eye and looked at her assistant. An extremely ordinary mage from the 3rd circle. There is nothing the assistant can do in this situation. At most, the extent to which the monsters are holding them back from going anywhere. Then, if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to hold out or run away until support arrives, and if you’re lucky, you’ll be murdered horribly, just like an academy student.

“What happened to the research materials?”

I was going to tell him to keep the data intact, but the assistant’s expression collapsed beyond words. Nella could see what had happened to the data without bothering to listen to him.

“There must be data backed up.”

“… Of course there is, but it happened the day before the backup… . Most of the data for the past week would have been burned. I have no face… !”

The teaching assistant apologized with the force of banging her head on the ground, but Nella waved her hand. Daphne will be protecting the most important data anyway. It’s about observational data. After the incident is over, you can re-observe it… .

Wait a minute, re-observe?

Nella’s thinking froze. This is the 11th floor. It is a place where all materials and tools necessary for observation and research of upcoming comets are gathered together. It wasn’t the time to be relieved that a single countermeasure had been followed. Seeing Nella’s face turn white, the teaching assistant began to tremble with anxiety again.

“School, professor… .”

“Everything that can be kept must be kept. Enlist everyone you can find!”

“Yes, yep! All right!”

When Nella jumped up, the assistant also took a stand at attention.

“I’m going to find out where the other professors are, and I’m going to find the f*cking intruder.”

Nella ran across the half-ruined hallway of the 11th floor. In front of my eyes, monsters I don’t know where they came from appeared and stood in the way. Nella’s hand, which was about to fire magic at the monsters, stopped for a moment.

“Yours… what?”

The monster that appeared this time was wearing clothes. And, that white gown was very familiar to Nella. Clothes worn by people in the lab. Nella frowned at the torn and burnt gown.

“Do you think I won’t be able to use magic on you guys?”

Nella muttered as if talking to herself and fired her magic. The monster wearing the researcher’s clothes was burned and disappeared along with the clothes by the magic emitted from Nella’s fingertips. Nella bit her lip and made her way over the monster’s corpse. What the hell is going on in the Mage Tower right now!

A man’s face suddenly appeared in Nella’s dizzy mind.

Illroy. Damn warrior child. Where are you and what are you doing right now?

Nella then shook her head. no. How long has it been since you decided not to depend on him? Nella shook Illroy’s face, which shimmered in front of her, and fired her magic again.

“I never thought of you!”

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The corridor on the 11th floor exploded magnificently. The terrace, which arrived gasping for breath, was finer than Nella expected. Except for the telescope in the middle, which was completely broken.

“… I thought it would be like this… .”

Nella moved towards the remains of the telescope. The telescope was brutally shattered as if someone had been aiming for it. The lens of the shattered telescope fell from Nella’s grasp. Looking up at the ceiling, it seemed that the retractable glass dome had also been shattered. Staring at the seemingly unrecoverable wreck, Nella gritted her teeth.

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Someone did this to completely hinder the capture of the sixth disaster. But who? It is impossible to break in from the outside, and the answer is that they walked all the way to the 11th floor from the inside and started working, but unless you are an insider, you cannot do it.

“I don’t really like looking at the sky through a telescope. Just like the old astronomers did.”

And at the sound of the voice, Nella glanced back. A very familiar silhouette, hands behind their backs, was walking slowly towards Nella.

“It’s been a while since the two of you are alone like this, Associate Professor Nella Tarr. It’s a pretty impatient face.”

“Edwin Bleuve… !”

“Oh, I didn’t expect you to treat me so hostilely.”

Professor Edwin patted his beard with one hand while letting out a kind laugh. Nella clenched her fists with a contorted face. identity of the intruder. Nella glared at Edwin, who gave off an ominous expression like never before.

“Why did you do this? Do you have any qualifications in the Magic Tower? What kind of wind suddenly blew, unleashing those grotesque monsters and running amok?”

“Hey, even if you don’t know anything, you don’t know too much.”

Professor Edwin shook his head.

“Do you know why I got into astronomy?”

“I don’t even want to know… !”

Nella put magic on her hand, but Professor Edwin looked at him funny and only let out a laugh. He focused on what he had to say, whether Nella prepared to attack or not.

“Ever since I was a child, I have loved to look up at the sky. With the naked eye.”

Beyond the shattered glass dome, a twilight was emerging, preying on the twilight. Above the rising stars one by one, the half-white moon poked its head out.

“When you see it with your own eyes, you can feel its enormousness much better. I think it’s closer than looking through a telescope. So, I didn’t really need a telescope. I’ve never tried to look at a particular star. It reminds me endlessly that we only live on one of the hundreds of millions of stars in the sky.”

Edwin’s smile was empty. Nella peered into the empty face, raising tension to the max.

“When it comes to living things, you can’t go against logic. No matter how desperately we try to avoid destruction, a more terrible end awaits. Ichi will be twisted even more.”

Nella didn’t even listen to Edwin’s words. For now, he was only thinking about how to defeat and restrain that wizard in one fell swoop. 4 circles. It might be possible if Nella, a fully matured 5th Circle, puts her full effort into magic.

“So, did you do this to let everyone die together?”

“We are mortal, Nella. One day, each one, in a big way, is destined to die together. And mankind once reversed that fate a long time ago. In the name of a hero, it was enforced and avoided the fate of destruction that it deserved.”

Edwin shook his head.

“’We’ are the apostles who execute the destruction they deserve, Nella. Not one of you can stop us.”

“‘we’? Are you saying there are more besides you?”

“of course. Preventing destruction cannot be done by one person, so it is impossible for one person to carry out destruction.”

Nella was secretly raising her mana by passing the time with a conversation. Professor Edwin, the author was preoccupied with the story.

“Your face shows what you’re thinking, Associate Professor Nella.”

“okay? Then, of course, this can be prevented!”

An ice pick rapidly sprouted from Nella’s feet and aimed at Edwin.

“It’s superficial.”

Then, meat shields appeared and blocked Edwin’s way. They were monsters with tentacles.

“I used to be a slave and a slave as a joke… , Now you really have become my slave or something.”

In addition to the monsters that blocked the attack, more monsters appeared behind Edwin’s back. Nella’s face hardened.

“They were all my dear comrades. The people gathered for destruction.”

Edwin stood behind them like a commander and looked at Nella.

“Where, last time I tried to conciliate you, but I was too cut and rejected.”

Seeing Edwin’s laughter, Nella’s expression became even more rotten.

“how is it. Do you have any thoughts this time?”

At Edwin’s question, Nella sneered and spread her middle finger.

“Did you get an answer?”

“… Grab it, tear it apart and kill it.”

The monsters charged at Nella at the same time.