Evade The Hero and Flee!

Chapter 88

Chapter 88

RATH 88

TL: Eevee

New chapter title, new arc!

11. Not a myth, but a legend (1)

#1 Their story: a certain commentators story.

Once upon a time, I was a knight of the empire, when I lost my arm in the Great War and I was at a loss of what to do.

Perhaps out of pity, my senior that was still active as a knight introduced me to a new occupation.

It was a commentator.

It was a role where I could analyzed the tens, no, hundreds of changes and mind games that proceeded over a split second that were invisible to the eyes of common folk, and help them understand what was happening.

I was always a talkative person before I became a knight, and the same applied even when I was one too, so this job was quite suited to me and so five years on, Id commentated on many events since

And for the first time in five years, I screwed up as a commentator.

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But it seemed the same was true for my fellow commentator, the magician Merrell.

What would you say was the most vital trait to have as a commentator?

It is the ability to keep talking without stopping

The role of a commentator in explaining the events of a match is important.

But just as important is filling in the odd gaps at the start of an event or any unexpected lulls in the middle of a match.

Normally even a silence of a few seconds, a few tens of seconds would automatically draw criticism as a failure of a commentator, but even though several minutes had passed, neither of us could speak.

Normally one of the imperial festivals administrators would have barged into the broadcast room already and given us an earful.

But the administrators were not coming into the broadcast room.

They were probably also staring stunned at the broadcast.

[What, is that all?]

A single student was standing alone all too peacefully.

But his surroundings were the very picture of hell.

The grounds in front of him were upturned and obliterated as if theyd taken a magic bombardment, and dotted around the landscape were students that more resembled corpses.

[Ner. kia!]

And standing before him, was the Arucia student council president, down on one knee, barely holding on while leaning onto his sword for support.

I was a former Arucia student as well, so I knew very well how prestigious the seat of the Arucia student council president was.

One of the Four Great Academies that held a name among names as one of the greatest schools of the empire.

And the student council president of Arucia, the school rated as the strongest of those schools, needed to have splendid political acumen and trust of the students as a prerequisite, and also needed top-class strength as befitting of the strongest swordsmanship academy, Arucia.

No matter how talented you were, or how popular you were with the other students, if the teachers decide that you didnt have the swordsmanship talents to represent Arucia, you were automatically stripped from the seat of president.

Even in reality, every year there were cases where potential candidates were from extremely powerful families, or popular among the students, but were stripped for the right to run for president because their swordsmanship skills were lacking.

That Arucia student council president, was currently on his knees and screaming his throat hoarse in front of the president of the school deemed the weakest, the Yugrasia student council president.

It was a scenario where you couldnt comprehend it in words.

But it was even less comprehensible when you saw it with your own two eyes.

[Wha, how did it come to this?]

Merrell, my colleague commentator for this match finally broke the long silence and sent his voice out into the magic tool for commentary.

[Th, thats true.]

I also pulled myself together and tried to say something but it seemed that it would take some time for me to offer any satisfactory answer.

[So lets go back from the beginning. It seemed that Arucia tried to force a quick end to the match, right?]

[Yes, it felt like they were trying to end it before Yugrasia managed to restore their magic power theyd used during the Marcis battle.]

[Thats right. But, someone came out first as the vanguard from Yugrasias end. Just a single person, their student council president Nerkia.]

[Yes, and that single person]

[Defeated Arucia all by himself.]

And moreover, Yugrasia even had a swordsmaster in Lady Aris.

Those two alone could slaughter an ordinary knight brigade by themselves

Was that all they had? Their vice-presidents, Lokis contractor, the Trickster Risen, and the woman judged the strongest in aerial dominance in the entire imperial festival, the Empress of the Skies, Karen. Each and every one of their student council were powerhouses in their own rights.

And among the first years, even excluding Lady Aris, there were still a whopping four other god-class summoners.

And even the ordinary students who had undergone tremendous growth, so much so that you couldnt even call them ordinary anymore!

If it were them, they could probably face off against an entire division of the imperial army.

And in contrast, just what was Professor Nicerwins evaluation!

An honorary professor of the Summoners Association, and in theory alone, he had no equal.

But due to his overwhelmingly weak constitution from the moment he was born, he was frail enough that rumours had it he lived in the elven forest to recuperate.

And right now, Nerkia, the student council president of Yugrasia, was saying that that person could defeat a contractor of a Spirit King, a swordsmaster and numerous other summoners all by himself.

[Hm? Im serious, Kiir. Why do you think we got so desperately stronger to survive? Of course, not that I think we could win no matter how much stronger we got.]

[Just just what the hell is Professor Nicerwins summon! Is it a god or archdevil as the rumours say? Or is it a Spirit King?!]

Such rumours did exist.

Due to his overwhelmingly superior knowledge of summons, rumours had it that he was contracted to a god of knowledge, or that he obtained that knowledge by offering his soul to an archdevil.

That or that hed made a contract with the Akashic Records, an existence that recorded everything in the world. Beginning with rumours such as those, to rumours that he had personally contracted all of the summons he was knowledgeable about previously in the past!

The Summoners Association denied all those rumours due to how outlandish they were, but when you heard that not even all of Yugrasias student body together could defeat him, not having a secret like that made it all the more suspicious.

[Idiot, think about it. I contracted a Spirit King, Lady Aris is a god-class summoner. Risens also a god-class, and weve also got four other god-class summoners out of the first years. If it was an ordinary god, archdevil or Spirit King, do you think we couldnt have beaten it with sheer numbers?]

[Then, just what is Professor Nicerwins summon, that you cant defeat him even with your insane fighting abilities!]

[Thats]

[Thats?]

Let alone the Arucia student council president, Merrell and I also swallowed reflexively.

That was probably something that everyone watching the broadcast right now would be doing.

The summon that note even a Spirit King, swordsmaster, six god-class summoners and a thousand other students all working together could defeat! There was no one that wouldnt be curious as to the identity of that summon!

To the question that everyone wanted the answer to, after a brief moment of thought, the Yugrasia student council president, Nerkia, smiled brightly and

[Thats, a secret.]

Didnt tell us!

[Are you making fun of me?!]

[No no, we dont exactly know either. She calls herself a metal elemental, but thats definitely not the case, she calls herself a goddess, but none of the other gods know a goddess by that name. But we do have a nickname for her.]

[Being?]

[If I say it I think Ill get hit. I dont wanna. Id rather kill myself instead, I dont wann get hit.]

At those teasing words, the Arucia student council president scowled.

[Are you are you still mocking us! With just just that kind of a threat]

[Just? Threat?]

[Kugh!]

But at the Arucia student council presidents words, the Yugrasia student council president, Nerkias face turned stone cold as he pressured his opponent.

[Just, just! Do you know what we experienced just because of that?]

[Kuhuuk!]

The Spirit King of Lightning exerted more power as if to match Nerkias anger.

[For someone who hasnt even experienced it himself, you dare call it just that? Do you know what resolve we came into this imperial festival to avoid just that? Just because of that, Lady Aris became a swordsmaster, and I contracted a Spirit King. Because of just that, we despaired, and because of just that, we became stronger!]

The bright sky began to darken.

Those dark clouds were all thunderclouds.

The shattered earth and heavens sparking lightning gave the impression of the end of the world, and standing in the middle of it, the Yugrasia student council president screamed.

[If you havent experienced just that, dont even put those words to your mouth, you little brat!]

With those words, not a single Arucia student was left on the field.