Chapter 92

Chapter 92

I Became the Academy Mafia Chapter 92The march announcing the beginning of battle echoed through the cavern.The entrance to the boss room on the 10th floor.

The person in overall charge of the villains deployed to prevent the Academy students from possibly clearing the dungeon.‘The Miner’ was currently watching through an ice crystal as the Academy students who had reached the 9th floor faced the villain who had come with him as another person responsible for this terrorist attack, ‘Snow Girl Pa.’

“Ha, if they've already made it this far, does that mean they're skilled? Or... did they just get really lucky and wake up on the 9th floor?”

Thanks to his ability to pierce through dungeon terrain, he had been assigned to defend the 9th and 10th floors faster than anyone else and had been spending his time bored, so this was quite a spectacle for him.

Setting down the pickaxe he had been holding beside him, he watched the scene being shown through the magic of the villain known as ‘Snow Girl Pa’ and took out a snack he had prepared beforehand.

“Judging by the color of their name tags, they look like first-years... hm? That hair color, the heir of the Azure Sky Clan?”

He had thought they would be dealt with without much trouble, but when an unexpected person appeared, the Miner smiled with anticipation.

“Wow, I thought I'd be bored waiting, but this is getting interesting?”

The Miner merely chuckled as he watched the figure visible beyond the ice crystal.

If he wanted to, he could go down from the upper floor and help, but the opponents were only Academy freshmen.

If she lost to brats like that, then it simply meant she was that weak.

To villains, comrades were merely disposable existences that could be thrown away at any time.

“Then, shall I see what level the Academy freshmen are at?”

The blue ice crystal floating before the Miner reflected the situation on the upper floor.

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“You got here faster than I expected? They said there wouldn't be any trouble for about two days.”

At the appearance of the freshmen who had reached them, the villain ‘Snow Girl Pa’ giggled as she looked at Young-je, who had cast his magic.

“How cute.”

When Pa slapped the head of the snowman she was riding, ice crystals blooming from it transformed into blue spikes.

“First. Shall we exchange greetings?”

The moment Pa finished speaking, the spikes were fired.

At that, Se-ah, who had been behind Young-je, stepped forward and spread her hands wide.

At the same time, the ice spikes ended up embedding themselves somewhere else, as though deliberately avoiding them.

“Oh my, coordinate interference too? What interesting children.”

As Pa laughed at the appearance of children who seemed more capable than expected.

“Ugh?!”

With a clang! the snowman Pa was riding shook.

When she lowered her gaze to see what had happened, she saw Choi Yeon swinging her sword toward the snowman's lower body.

“You stupid bitch! You think you can cut Snow with a sword like that?!”

Choi Yeon swung her sword at the snowman once again.

But the sword merely bounced off without penetrating the snowman's body.

After being knocked back, Choi Yeon carefully examined the surface of the snowman and realized that transparent ice surrounded its body.

“It really is hectic with three of them.”

Muttering that, Pa struck the snowman's head once again.

Then the ice crystals that sprang from it fell to the floor and began forming pure white bodies, like bamboo shoots rising from the ground.

“Children of snow. Won't you chase those pieces of trash away?”

Human-sized snowmen instantly filled the area around Snow.

At that, Se-ah and Young-je gritted their teeth as they looked at the snowmen.

“Se-ah! I'll fire one big attack, so target each of them for me!”

“Leave it to me!”

At Se-ah's confident answer, Young-je immediately swung his fountain pen.

“grandioso(Grandly)!”

A massive flame bloomed from the tip of the fountain pen and soared into the air.

At the same time, Se-ah opened the hand she had been holding and took control of the spell from Young-je.

At that moment.

“Scatter!”

The spatial coordinates and paths of mana movement visible only to her eyes.

Predicting all of them in an instant, Se-ah split the single pillar of fire into dozens of streams and dropped them onto the heads of the snowmen.

When the cold ice met the hot flames, steam immediately erupted and filled the upper part of the cavern.

The 9th-floor cavern was instantly filled with dense steam.

However.

Groooooo──The snowmen had merely become slightly smaller and remained very much intact.

“Ahahaha! My ice freezes even mana itself, making it the natural enemy of mages! You think something like that would work?!”

“No, that's enough.”

At the cold voice coming from below, Pa looked down.

Choi Yeon was cutting down the smaller snowmen one after another.

At that sight, Pa's body flinched and trembled, but she slapped Snow's head once again.

“Stop that bitch!”

-Groooooooo───!!

With a massive roar difficult to believe had come from a snowman, it began to move.

Its body wriggled and bulged as arms rose from a torso that had previously had nothing there.

At the sight, Choi Yeon and Se-ah frowned.

“Ugh. What is that?”

“...

Disgusting.”

But as though their reactions didn't matter at all, frost began forming over the raised arm, and an ice crystal in the shape of a sword appeared.

“Snow! Sweep them all away!”

-Gwoooooooo───!!

The snowman swung a sword as large as its own body vertically toward Choi Yeon.

Choi Yeon quickly tried to move to the side and evade.

“...!”

However, her feet had already become frozen to the floor by ice.

In the end, she raised the sword in her hand, but the overwhelming mass crashed directly down onto her head, and the resulting impact sent a massive gust of wind sweeping through the cavern.

“Choi Yeon!”

Seeing that, Se-ah, who had been fighting the snowmen bare-handed, shouted and stretched a hand toward Choi Yeon.

With a flash of purple light around her, Choi Yeon appeared in front of Se-ah.

“Thanks. You saved me.”

Perhaps she had suffered internal injuries, because bright red blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth.

“Ah.”

Wiping the blood from her lips and inspecting her sword, Choi Yeon saw that cracks had appeared in the blade.

“...

Two or three more times, maybe. Looks like I have to settle this within that.”

Calculating how many attacks she had left, Choi Yeon began thinking of a way to win while recalling the surrounding terrain and their conditions.

Could she cut through the snowman using a secret technique?──Impossible.

The chance of success was extremely low, and if she failed, she would have to face it bare-handed.

Was there another method?

Choi Yeon hurriedly looked around.

The methods she could currently use were limited.

The opponent's ability was a terrible matchup against her specialty, speed, and because they were indoors, the accumulating cold was making her movements increasingly sluggish.

In other words, it would be difficult for her to defeat it alone like this.

Then she needed to create some other variable.

Her eyes turned toward the other two, who were fighting the smaller snowmen.

“...

I'll target the caster on top of the snowman. Can you support me?”

The two nodded even while continuing their battles.

“I'll twist the spells aimed at you as much as I can.”

“Did you think of a good method? I'll support you as much as possible for now.”

Choi Yeon nodded at their answers and prepared to spring out at any moment.

“I'm counting on you.”

"Allegro(Fast)!

"

Bang! With that sound, Choi Yeon kicked off the floor and charged toward the giant snowman.

At the same time, Young-je's support magic took effect.

As a result, Choi Yeon's speed, which had been slowed by the cold, gradually began increasing.

Pa was flustered by movements clearly different from before.

“Snow! This time, cut her down for sure!”

-Gwoooooooo───!!

The snowman raised its enormous ice sword, and Pa tried to turn the floor into ice to stop Choi Yeon's movement, but──“Keep running!”

At that moment, Se-ah, who had punched through the face of the snowman in front of her with her bare hand, twisted her wrist and bent the coordinates where Pa's magic was activating.

In the end, the wrong place froze instead.

“That damn spatial mage! Even if you do that, she still can't get up here── huh?”

Pa, who had been about to stop Choi Yeon's charge with another spell, soon realized that her hands would not move.

Both of her hands had become stuck to the snowman's head.

“What the hell is this...?”

An ice mage had been frozen to her own creation?

While she was flustered by that absurd situation.

“tranquillo(Calmly).”

Young-je's voice came from below.

When Pa looked down, she saw Young-je raising the corner of his mouth as though it were nothing.

“You... how the hell did you use ice magic!”

Just from what Pa had seen so far, he had used enhancement magic and fire magic.

Two different types.

And now he was using magic of yet another attribute?

“Damn it...! Snow, retreat!”

Pa quickly used magic to melt the ice and shouted, but...

“──Too late.”

Choi Yeon had already leapt into the air and raised her sword above her head.

“This is my first time fighting something this big. It was fun.”

Choi Yeon muttered that with an extremely calm expression.

Blue aura bloomed from her hand and instantly swallowed the cracked sword as though consuming it.It was an incredibly beautiful blue light, but just looking at it caused Pa's instincts to sound an alarm.──I'm going to die.

“You... damn it!! Miner! You're watching, aren't you! If you're watching, come help me!!”

Pa shouted with all her strength toward the Miner, who would be watching this scene through her magic.

However, there was no response from the lower floor, and a pure white sword strike fell toward ‘Snow Girl Pa's’ head.

“Bisection.”────!

With a sound like cutting through sorbet, the snowman's body exploded.

Boooooom──!

Fragments of the snowman scattered throughout the surroundings, creating a fierce blizzard.

At the same time, a pure white light dyed the surroundings white.‘White Out.’It was the final spell ‘Snow Girl Pa’ cast just before she was struck by Choi Yeon's attack.

“Haa... haa...! I almost died! I just need to escape quietly now...!”

Having managed to escape Choi Yeon's attack thanks to White Out, she lowered her body close to the ground and slowly crawled toward the hole the Miner had dug.

“Those damn brats...! I'll get revenge. I'll definitely get revenge!”

As she silently simmered with rage in the pure white snowfield.

“Ugh?!”

With a short death cry, she collapsed into the snow.

Behind her, an unknown silhouette appeared and quietly turned its gaze toward the direction where the children were.

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“Ha, in the end they're still just brats.”

The entrance to the boss room located on the 10th floor of the dungeon.

There, the Miner was watching the situation on the upper floor through Pa's magic.

“Urgh... This is taking longer than I expected. Pa looks like she's in danger too, so maybe I should go help her now.”The Miner shuddered with excitement at the impacts that could be felt even on the 10th floor.

As he continued feeling the ground tremble, even he could no longer suppress a strange exhilaration──“...

Hm? Wait.”

He suddenly sensed something strange and stopped in place.

A sensation he could perceive because he was sensitive to vibrations.

Realizing that the continuous vibrations were not naturally occurring but were being caused by something artificial, he began looking around.

“Because of the guys upstairs? No, they weren't doing anything that would cause vibrations.”

Just in case, he looked toward the enormous stone door behind him.

The room of the 10th-floor boss, where the boss of this dungeon was assumed to be trapped.

But the vibrations were far too small to be coming from inside there.

“Then what the hell...”

At that moment.[──Ding.]

A sound far too strange to be heard inside a dungeon.[──Basement 10th floor.]

“Wow, this thing seriously comes straight to the 10th floor in one go?”

“The light was on, so I pressed it. I didn't think it'd actually come all the way here either.”

“Then wouldn't using this later be insanely convenient, Boss?”

“No, then there'd be no fun in clearing the dungeon.”

At the sudden sound of human voices, the Miner slowly turned his head.

A pillar in the middle of the room that he had thought until now was merely decoration.

The stone suddenly split apart to both sides, and people emerged from within.

“Huh? Boss. There's someone over there? What's with the safety helmet in a dungeon?”

“...

Safety helmet?”

Then the two who had emerged from the elevator and the Miner met eyes.

“...

That's.”

Eugene's eyes widened briefly in surprise as he immediately recognized the man wearing the safety helmet, then the corners of his mouth rose as though they might split apart.

“──Found you.”