Broken Possessors of Infinite Regression Academy

Chapter 15

15 – Dungeon Practice – 3

*Sigh...*

He exhaled the breath he had been holding and stopped using his body’s acceleration. His body, that had been brought to its limit, settled down.

He checked the magical tool he had kept in his pocket. A blue dot representing his location was hovering right in front of the green dot, which represented the dungeon’s entrance. It was evident that this cave in front was it.

At first glance, it felt like a dungeon, but just in case.

He went straight in. The sooner he broke through, the more spare time he would have in case of unforeseen circumstances. If no such thing happened and time was left, that would be all the better.

As soon as he entered, the sound of a monster roaring echoed from a distance. At the same time, the sound of footsteps approaching was also echoed. Judging by the overlapping sounds, it seemed like there were quite a few of them.@@@@

Not long after, a troll revealed itself. He quickly estimated the numbers.

‘One, two, three, four... a total of twelve?’

Normally, the number of monsters increases fourfold when a person enters alone. So, there would have been three originally. One troll per person.

Although he had to face twelve times that amount, it didn’t matter. If you bring such halfway decent monsters in such middling numbers, they are not threats but mere nuisances.

He made a gesture as if grabbing something from thin air. Suddenly, light and wind rushed together in my hand. Then, the handle of a sword appeared, followed by a crossguard above it.

Soon, a perfect sword shape was formed. It was a sword with a blue overall appearance with patches of yellow, the sword that had been engraved into my soul in the first world.

It was ‘Eternity’.

*Roar!*

They roared and closed the distance as if they were competing to touch me first. Their roar echoed down the corridor like a chorus.

A common attribute of trolls in most works of creation is their regeneration. Therefore, the way to counter them varies from one work to another.

Whether you have to cut off the head and neck and wait for a certain amount of time for it to die, or you need to extract or separate the heart for it to die, or you need to chop the whole body almost into a pulp by overwhelming firepower, or burn it.

Generally, there are these four types.

‘They said that here you have to remove the heart for it to die.’

It was fortunate that there was no need to crush everything from the limbs to the head and torso, then remove the heart and burn it separately.

-Whoosh.

I heard the sound of the wind. I moved out of my thoughts and started moving. The closest one had approached far enough to hit me by swinging the wooden club it held in its hand.

I swung my Eternity in response to the trajectory of the swinging wooden club.

The wooden pieces, whose thickness was similar to a human thigh, and the sword, which was about half of that thickness, were pitted against each other, but Eternity easily smashed the wooden club to pieces.

While it was stunned at the cleanly cut club, I quickly approached it and stabbed Eternity deep into its chest where the heart was located. The blade penetrated the skin and muscles without any resistance and pierced the heart.

‘I wonder if this will work on this brat?’

I didn’t know if it would work on an artificial life created by human magic, but it seemed worth a try. I poured mana into Eternity.

*Roar!!*

At the same time, I felt something welling up in Eternity.

I had a bad feeling. I took out the magical device and was about to set the direction to the dungeon where the other two were when I stopped in my tracks.

The two blue dots were frantically blinking.

This does not mean clear for starters. This was undoubtedly a very rapid pace. Thus, there was only one explanation remaining. What the rapidly blinking blue light meant.

A distress signal.

‘....What just happened?’

I was taken aback. Diana might have requested aid, but Warde did not seem to be the type to ask for help readily.

Still, the two blue dots were blinking at an extremely quick pace.

Based on the fact that a red flare did not appear in the sky, it seems that an emergency wasn’t called for assistance from the professor. However, it would become dangerous if they did not borrow my hand either.

We will look into the circumstances later. For now, it was important to help them. I pushed off the ground using my body’s full strength. The scenery around me whizzed by.

By the time my speed had decreased repeatedly, my blue dot had arrived very close to the other dungeon entrance.

‘What are those.....’

Upon reaching the dungeon entrance, I was sure something had gone wrong when I saw its appearance.

From a glance, hundreds of various types of monsters, including trolls, orcs, scorpions, and killer wolves were gathered together and swaying. The common feature among these numerous monsters was that they were the ones Jayna had warned about beforehand, saying it would be good to know how to tackle them as they may appear as monsters.

‘This is why I hadn’t seen any monsters in the forest.’

So, they were all gathered here.

‘But... why?’

I questioned myself, but no answer came.

“From the start, those things weren’t real monsters. They were nothing more than fakes created by the academy. They weren’t supposed to deviate from the parameters set in advance.

‘Hehe?’

Suddenly, a few killer wolves raised their heads, sniffing the air, then turned. As soon as they spotted me, they began to drool profusely and bare their teeth.

Not much farther, the whole bunch that was gathered at the entrance were turning towards me. As the monsters coming towards me parted, the dungeon entrance was faintly filled with the characteristic color of the demon world, purple.

It was the erosion phenomenon Priscilla had described in great detail.

‘...The timing is off, and the place is wrong. The butterfly effect is truly powerful.’

Just as the purple haze began spreading in the air, the screen went blank. As soon as I confirmed this, I injected mana without hesitation and blew up the screen.

However, the red light that should have signaled standing coordinates was not emitted.

‘Well, I roughly predicted this...’

The trees engulfed in the seemingly smoky, yet light, purple hue, began to contort conspicuously. Even that was exactly as Priscilla had described.

Demonization.

I pulled out my sword again. As I infused it with mana, a faint blue light glowed around the blade. Pointing the tip of the sword at the enemies, I muttered incredulously.

‘It’s only been a week since I enrolled here, If they are coming out like this, how big of a fuss are they planning to make later? Huh?’

They, of course, didn’t hear my words and like real monsters, they rushed at me fiercely.