The Academy’s Weapon Replicator Chapter 571

Episode 571

Chapter 151 Summoning (2)

“hmm.”

Merlin, who had been listening quietly, suddenly moved.

He walked slowly to an empty space where there was no one, picked up his cane and started scribbling something on the floor.

“Merlin, what are you doing?”

Arthur, curious, drew close to Merlin.

“No matter what, it’s dangerous if there’s no hint.”

Merlin continued to scribble as he spoke.

The graffiti wasn’t a drawing, it was text.

“I was going to show him this sentence.”

Arthur looked at the completed sentence and then said.

“… … This is ancient language.”

After Arthur said that, he listened to the sentence carefully,

“… … ‘For the Giant Who Will Overthrow God’… … .”

He said.

I was dumbfounded. If it weren’t for Hestia’s body, I would have laughed out loud.

‘Merlin, you can speak the ancient language!’

When I met Merlin, he acted as if he couldn’t read or write the ancient language, and as if he didn’t even know what the sentence he had received from Arthur was.

But to begin with, it wasn’t a sentence he received from Arthur, but one he wrote himself!

Even as I was dumbfounded, their conversation continued.

“Hey Merlin. Do you plan on living until then? Until he is summoned?”

“How could that be? Of course I will die. But my will remains.”

“… … Could it be, you mean ‘dream’?”

Merlin nodded at Arthur’s words.

Arthur said, stroking his chin.

“Yes, there was that Merlin who waited to give me a second sword. But didn’t he say he would erase it since it was no longer meaningful?”

“Yes. You have received a second sword, so Merlin in the forest is now meaningless. That’s what I thought.”

Merlin shook his head as if denying his own words.

“But things have changed. It’s funny how I feel my destiny in a place like this. It’s not that it has lost its meaning. It’s just that it has changed.”

As I listened, Merlin’s next words gave me goosebumps.

“That Merlin will now be waiting for him, not you.”

‘… … !’

─King Arthur once gave me this sentence.

─I couldn’t understand it even though I saw it, so I just remembered it as an image in my head.

─Can you read?

When I think about it, my first doubts in this world began then.

The giants who challenged God.

It was the first time I thought that they might not be enemies of humanity, but allies of humanity.

Arthur asked.

“What if he can’t read the ancient languages?”

“It doesn’t matter. If he really challenges God, he will eventually learn the ancient language.”

“If I could really meet him, wouldn’t it be better to just explain everything?”

Merlin shook his head at him.

Merlin looked at Arthur and asked.

“How much can you trust a stranger who claims, ‘I am on your side’?”

“… … Well. First, I’ll ask you what you think of the stranger.”

“Yeah. I mean, it’s unbelievable.”

Arthur nodded obediently at Merlin’s words.

“Even if he can read the ancient language, I have to pretend not to know the ancient language in the forest. If he is really summoned as we hope, he will be a very suspicious and cautious type. Appealing to such a person as an ally will only increase his suspicion. We have to make him realize it on his own.”

“Ugh.”

Arthur muttered, unable to tell whether he was impressed or dumbfounded by Merlin’s words.

You probably feel the same way I do right now.

There Arthur said.

“But you in the forest are also suspicious and cautious, aren’t you? After all, it’s you. Is there a way to tell you in the forest who ‘he’ is?”

“You shouldn’t tell.”

Merlin shook his head.

“I don’t plan on telling him anything in the forest. It’s better for him not to know that you’re dead, that I don’t have to wait for you to give me the second sword, or that I’m actually a fake. All I have to do is tell him this one sentence.”

“Why are you doing that?”

“Only then will the one we summon help me in the forest. Then I in the forest will know who to deliver the message to. As you said, I am suspicious and cautious.”

Arthur tilted his head upon hearing that and said.

“You, don’t you feel sorry for yourself?”

“Poor thing. But what can I do since it’s me?”

I swallowed when I heard that. It would be impossible for Hestia’s body, but I felt a lump in my throat.

Is this Merlin, the greatest wise man and great wizard of his time?

Then Jeanne asked Loki.

“Loki, when does the great magic begin?”

“There are only a few days left. We can’t witness the great magic anyway. It will be after we die.”

“… … That’s a bitter story.”

Jeanne pursed her lips as if she had chewed shit.

“There is no way around it. We are destined to lose. When the gods are confident of victory and return to their respective realms, then the great magic will work.”

“What does it mean to tie the feet of the gods who remain in the human realm?”

“The experiments with Fenrir have already been completed. The gods can never release it.”

Loki’s words have little change in tone, but they have a strange sense of trust. He is a cunning god who is good at playing pranks. His words have a persuasive power that can be said to overflow.

But then, someone else appeared out of my sight.

“Loki, don’t you feel sorry for Fenrir?”

The woman approached Loki, her voice trembling somewhere.

‘… …Who is it… …?’

This time it’s a face I really don’t know.

However, the hair color, eyes, and facial features reminded me of someone.

‘… … Cybel?’

No, no. It’s definitely a different person. They look alike, but they’re different.

But in this world where there are so many different appearances, Cybel is the only human with both pink hair and green eyes.

My question was answered by Loki.

“Idun, thank you for coming.”

When Loki said so.

Ssut─

“……her?”

I came back to reality.

So suddenly, without any warning.

And time began to move again.

Hestia was before my eyes.

We reached just before the summit of Olympus.

‘Yeah. You can’t stop time forever.’

Rather, it is surprising that this long period of time has stood still.

Right in front of you is the edge of the crater, a cliff that falls into the crater.

‘Wake up! You have to do what you have to do!’

I took a deep breath. My confused mind cleared up a little.

When the hooves of the unicorn carrying Hestia and Selena reached in front of him, I stretched out my hand.

“Selena!”

Selena jumped up on the unicorn’s horse and took my outstretched hand.

Kwak!

I held Selena and released her wings.

From here on out, it’s no longer my turn to fly.

Gravity will do the job.

“… … Hestia.”

In the brief moment of emptiness, I called Hestia’s name.

Hestia said.

“Go.”

As you said.

I tilted my head and looked down.

Selena and I fell into the ditch.

Slowly at first, but soon accelerates due to gravity.

Shh …!

The sound of the wind brushes my ears. Darkness brushes past my cheek.

“Selena, I’m asking in advance.”

I said as I was falling.

“Can it move properly even at terminal velocity?”

We’re about to reach terminal velocity, where we can’t get any faster just by falling. That means we can’t get any faster unless I spread my wings and accelerate or something. We’re already fast enough.

“What are you talking about, Frontier?”

Selena’s eyes sparkle blue.

“I can do anything.”

“… … That’s right.”

I agreed with Selena’s words without question.

Now I’ve decided that everything Selena said is true.

“Lord Frontier.”

Selena said, looking down.

“There is something blocking your path 10km ahead.”

“You’re blocking it?”

This crater?

“Could it be that we have already reached the lava?”

If that’s the case, then it’s difficult. We have to reach the underworld like this, but there’s already lava.

“No. It seems to be something, a wall of mana. And it doesn’t seem to be just one. And the next, and the next. You can’t see everything here, but there are a considerable number of walls blocking the way, in several layers.”

“Is this God’s interference?”

I also looked down and focused my eyes.

Although it’s not as good as Selena’s, if you use your sixth sense, you can see a little more.

“… … Is that it?”

As Selena said, there was something blocking the direction we were heading. It looked like a transparent wall, or a barrier. However, it would have different defensive power than a normal barrier.

“It’s one minute from now.”

“… … It looks harder than I thought.”

I frowned. It’s not like I can’t break it if I try, but it seems like it’ll take a lot of wear and tear. And who knows how many more of those there will be?

“Lord Frontier. I can see it with my own eyes.”

“what?”

“I can see the mana flow through that barrier.”

“… … Yeah, that was it!”

I looked at Selena with sparkling eyes. Selena has the skill to read the flow of mana and use needles to knock down her opponents. I heard that she has further evolved it to the point where she can now see the flow of mana of magic itself.

“… … .”

But when I looked at Selena, she suddenly became dumbfounded and looked at me.

“What’s wrong, Selena?”

“… … Ah, no. Anyway, I can see it, but that barrier is so big that even if I hit the weak point with a needle, I don’t think I’ll be able to get through it.”

“If that’s the case, it can be solved easily.”

I spread out my empty hands, not holding Selena.

“Tell me where you are. I’ll figure out the rest.”

“Okay. Now, please move 2 meters diagonally to the upper left.”

“Is that the weak point?”

“Magic also keeps flowing. The location of the weak point keeps moving, so you have to track it.”

I nodded and stretched my hand out to the side.

Thud!

As we lightly blew the black sky, our bodies moved slightly.

“I will throw three needles. Look at their paths and attack the point where the ‘fourth’ needle will be.”

“good.”

Selena’s pupils dilated slightly, and her breathing suddenly stopped.