His fist connects and sends me tumbling to the floor.
I brace and hold Marin tightly, keeping her from danger.
I turn and fall on my side. The sound of me hitting the floor is like a thud.
“Are you ok?”
Marin nods her head vigorously to tell me shes fine.
Thank goodness.
If she were hurt, the bodyguard excuse might have fallen flat.
This guy, Follis Darwin.
He attacked me and Marin.
If she gets caught, I’m done for.
I'm only the bodyguard, so if I get caught, it doesn't actually matter, as long as Marin makes it, I’ll be fine.
But if Marin gets out, no matter what I do, I’ll also be out.
There's no point for a bodyguard to go when the person they’re protecting isn’t there.
“Marin, run!”
Marin quickly takes off in the other direction and rounds the corner.
Marin isn’t a fool or a coward.
Shes strong, but she knows the situation and that fighting a teacher would mean throwing away your chance at making it in.
Lets do something stupid and taunt him.
“Hello professor Darwin. I am Rentaro Sasajima. I look forward to being in your class.”
He does not look amused.
He actually looks kinda pissed.
Suppose that makes sense, though, I did pretty much just say that I’ll be fine and complete the test after this.
It's like directly telling him I'm gonna defeat him.
“A fight has no room for words, boy.”
Oh yeah, he's pissed.
Out of his shadow jump three more of those tigers with flaming manes.
Three?!
Is that not overkill?!
That last guy only had one chasing after him.
You know what, waste your forces on me.
If I get out, I'm still in.
No. Marin hasn’t been running for too long.
I need to hold him here for at least till night.
Name: Igion
Title: N/A
HP: 350/350
MP: 280/280
SP: 320/320
Skills:
And there's two more.
What am I supposed to do?
They're just monsters, so I wouldn’t feel too bad using cut on them, but they are summoned monsters.
That would be like if I killed someone’s dog, or a cat, in this case.
It would also feel cruel to kill the summoned beasts just for this test.
Oh, and now the lions are running at me.
Too bad I created a barrier!
The lions keep charging, and when they collide with the barrier, it instantly breaks.
DAMN IT!
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I thought barriers were supposed to stop attacks!
I’ll have to revise it for next time.
I leap away from the lions and start clinging to the wall.
Another great application of
I can focus MP into my feet and walk up the wall!
The drawback is that gravity doesn't change, its real hard to maintain standing straight while walking on the wall.
The lions can get me up here.
…
In all my years of life, I have never seen something so stupid.
I have seen people do backflips near high ledges, and they look like geniuses compared to what I'm seeing.
Two words.
Lion ladder.
The lions are stacking and trying to reach me.
If there was an intelligence stat, I’m sure the lions would have numbers in the negative.
Even Follis Darwin looks ashamed and disappointed.
The lions disappear back into their shadows, and a new monster comes from Follis’s shadow.
A beast with the heads of both lion and goat, a snake for a tail, and a great pair of wings.
Great.
Name: Chimera
Title: N/A
HP: 970/970
MP: 230/230
SP: 950/950
Skills:
Well, I don’t have any good old Pb lead.
I'm going to die.
The chimera leaps into the air and flies at me.
I jump off the wall, but as the chimera flies past, its claw swipes across my head.
It leaves a deep cut on my forehead.
Fuck!
I’ve been hurt before, but nothing major.
The wound is hot like a volcano and throbs worse than a broken bone.
Blood falls down my face and seeps into my eye, immediately irritating it.
The chimera drops almost on top of me and prepares to bite me with its lion head.
I'm able to barely move out of the way in time.
I can feel its warmth as it moves right past me to where I was.
Oh, this thing might kill me.
Who decided this should be allowed?
The teachers are supposed to capture the test takers and remove them from the zone, not kill them!
I take back what I said earlier.
I'm not looking forward to taking your class!
The goat's head opens its mouth and spews fire in my direction.
Quickly, I duck, but not quickly enough to save the top of my hair.
Quickly, to get rid of the fire, I douse my head in water using
It washes about half of the blood on my face away.
I haven't used much MP, but my max is only 70.
I'm nearly out.
If this battle continues for much longer, I’ll run out of steam, and he will be able to go after Marin.
I might just have to do it.
He's clearly trying to kill me.
If I didn’t move any of those times, I would surely be dead.
I get back from the chimera and raise my hand to point at it.
“
The Chimera splits right down the middle; each side falls over, revealing Follis Darwin shocked on the other side.
I didn’t want to kill your dog, but you intended to kill me, and I couldn't allow that.
Follis Darwin looks like he might explode.
Underneath him, his shadow quakes and expands; from it rises a dragon with sanguine scales and wings that are made of fire.
Its presence is like an eminence of fire.
Looking at it makes a surge of despair flood through my body; it's like an endless ocean.
Name: Fire Dragon, Floga
Title: Southern Lord of Ash
HP: 5500/5500
MP: 7200/7200
SP: 5300/5300
Skills:
This can’t be real.
There's no way I can
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was nowhere near whatever this is.
Being the hero was fun while it lasted.
Not really.
I had to deal with shit training, the annoying asshole second prince, more training, and then this labyrinth of death.
Not much even happened, but whatever did happen was not enjoyable.
I haven’t even established the harem I'm supposed to have.
Hey traveler, if this is a game, can you load a previous save and pick a different route?
Hey author, if this is a novel, can you write a BS deus ex machina so I don't die?
Oh, the author just did a good job.
I just came up with a brilliant idea.
The third application for
This honestly may not even help me, and will without a doubt cause more trouble.
But it might.
Summoners will travel all around the world in search of monsters to make into summons.
Typically, they beat the monster into submission and force it into a contract. That monster will then live inside their master’s shadow.
That's the watered-down basics on how summoners work.
It can work like scissors or like a sword, but that's only because I decided that.
When I chose
When I double-appraise it, all it says is,
A skill that cuts.
And that's all it says.
Synonyms of cut include, but are not limited to, separate, dismantle, slash, disconnect, end, and tear.
There are many different ways I can interpret
I just need to find something I can cut.
Name: Follis Darwin
HP: 450/450
MP: 800/800
SP: 500/500
Skills:
I don’t see anything I can cut.
This battle might be a lost cause.
I force appraisal, appraising everything multiple times over.
As if force the appraisal I feel a straining pain in and behind my eyes.
Its like they’re going to explode.
Something catches my attention.
It pulls my attention away from the despair of the situation and the pain in my eyes, I nearly forget both.
Im able to see something that wasn’t there before.
I couldn’t even see it with my echolocation, but now I can when I have appraisal active.
Hundreds of black strings that are emanating from Follis Darwin and leading to his shadow.
Only a few threads deviate and head in various directions, one leads right up to the fire dragon, Floga.
These strings must be what connects him to his summons!!!
Its just a string!
I raise my hand and point it at Follis Darwin.
He looks a little scared.
He did see what it did to the chimera.
“
Follis Darwin doesn’t have a single scratch on him, but his shadow begins to tremble.
It quivers like one’s lip after crying.
A look of panic is painted on Follis’s face as he realizes what I did.
What should he be more worried about?
The issue under his feet, or the one above his head?
Fire Dragon, Floga, looks down at Follis
Even though earlier he said that a battle is no place for words, I hear a single word escape his lips.
“Shit.”
An eruption of monsters shoots out from underneath his feet like a geyser that's been waiting to blow.
Even though I'm about twenty meters away from him, the explosion of monsters reaches me as well.
Both me and professor Follis are sent flying into the air, high above the maze.
From here, I can see that the center of the labyrinth is quite far away; it looks like I’ve been just walking around the edge the whole time.
As my ascent slows and then stops, my descent begins.
Oh, I should have thought this part through.