I Possessed a Character in an Academy Without a Protagonist – Chapter 70

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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It was quite a majestic sight.

Students who had never even received military training standing in an orderly manner in front of the barricades and guarding.

It was a formation that Sergei had devised on the spot, taking into account everyone’s magic specialties, mana capacity, and so on.

If the 1st line of defense is broken, give up the fields and grazing lands and retreat into the village…

If the 2nd line of defense is broken, give up the civilian homes and retreat to the central castle…

If even the 3rd line of defense is broken, then it’s over.

The faces of the students were filled with a mixture of tension and fear.

Although they had heard they would fight magical beasts as part of the practice, they never imagined they would have to block a wave of magical beasts.

Before they knew it, darkness enveloped even the village, and an ominous atmosphere began to linger.

“The evacuation of the residents is all finished, right?”

“Yes, Professor. Everyone has moved to the shelter.”

It was safe to say there were no missing people.

Although such a situation didn’t occur often, it happened occasionally, so the residents here were doing evacuation drills almost every month.

“They’re coming.”

Sergei recited in a low voice.

The students could only tilt their heads, but I felt it too.

The vibrations of the ground shaking as the magical beasts were rushing in.

Basically, when different species of magical beasts encounter each other, they tend to fight.

However, when they detect something completely different, they stop fighting each other and… although not exactly working together, they all rush to eliminate that different thing.

Like right now, for example.

“My goodness…”

The vibrations soon grew, and the small trees at the entrance of Whist Forest were broken and fell.

At the same time, what leaped out were black hounds, orcs, and that was…

Damn it.

Fenrir, I guess.

Anyway, it was a rare sight that couldn’t be easily seen, with magical beasts of all kinds and sizes swarming together in a chaotic mess.

“Everyone, take defensive positions! When your mana is exhausted, replenish it with the mana stones provided individually! If you show symptoms of mana energy addiction, drink the antidote! But the antidote is not plentiful, so drink it sparingly!”

Sergei ran around shouting orders.

He could have used magic for amplification, but he seemed to want to conserve as much mana as possible.

Now it truly begins.

This battle, which I described in writing as the worst fight…

This battle that the tough Hertlocker confessed was extremely difficult.

When I actually faced it, no thoughts came to mind.

Only the things I had to do clearly came to mind.

“Teacher.”

“…?”

A hand was placed on my shoulder with a thud.

When I turned my head, Trie was smiling brightly.

At some point, Trie had borrowed armor from the village guard and had a sword at her waist.

“It’s a shame there’s only one real sword. If there were two, I would have given one to you, Teacher.”

“No. It would be too heavy for me and only get in the way. I prefer magic.”

“It sounds like a trick even if someone who will become a magic knight in the future says that.”

“What are you saying?”

“Hehe.”

Was it thanks to this girl that I couldn’t get too nervous?

Trie should be a bit reliable.

Especially if Trie was holding a sword.

“I prepared a gift, but… I don’t know if it will arrive in time.”

“A gift?”

“Don’t expect too much! Then I’ll go to my position!”

“…?”

Muttering incomprehensible words, Trie ran to the 1st line of defense along with the guards.

“30 seconds until the 1st wave arrives! Prepare wide-area magic!”

“…”

Sergei shouted and gave a signal to the students in the 1st row.

I was also in the 1st row that was supposed to shoot wide-area magic, but I was only going to pretend to shoot magic.

Because even if I shoot with my 1000 mana, it wouldn’t even be noticeable.

I was saving ‘Selection and Concentration’ to use separately later.

“Wide-area magic! Fire!”

Flames. Lightning. Sonic waves, etc…

Various wide-area magic were shot forward.

Each one alone didn’t seem particularly impressive, but when a dozen of them gathered, they spewed out a truly vast firepower, sweeping away the magical beasts that were rushing in recklessly.

Was this the reason why magicians were treated as tactical weapons on the battlefield?

It certainly seemed plausible that a military unit specializing in exterminating only magicians, like Hertlocker, would emerge.

“2nd row! Commence sniping!”

The sound of light, arrows, or wind pressure flew forward with a whoosh.

Magical beasts fell, and those behind them stumbled over the corpses, causing bottlenecks here and there, but it was insufficient to completely block them.

In the end, they were only delaying the time and had already almost reached the barricades.

Now the real fight begins.

“Hold on!!!”

As the magical beasts charged, the wooden barricades shook greatly.

The guards blocked with their bodies while thrusting spears through the gaps between the pillars.

Despite such efforts, the magical beasts kept piling up, and the barricades were slowly tilting.

Still, during that time, magic continuously fell on the rushing magical beasts, greatly reducing their numbers.

“Abandon the barricades! Retreat!”

As Sergei shouted, the guards all turned their backs and started running.

At the same time, it seemed the collapsing barricades would be covered by the pouring magical beasts, but…

“Raaaaaah!”

“Wow…”

The huge barrier Sergei deployed blocked them and bought time for the guards to escape.

He was enduring it while the weight of thousands of magical beasts was pressing against that wide-range barrier.

In the original work, Sergei rarely showed using magic, so I couldn’t feel the impact, but…

I thought this guy was truly tremendous too.

The barrier endured for a whole 30 seconds before finally breaking.

Well, from the beginning, it was too greedy to try to protect both the fields and the barricades at the 1st line of defense, which wasn’t very solid.

Now they could defend from a higher and sturdier stone wall.

Soon, the magical beasts crossed the fields and reached the castle walls.

“When your mana runs out, come back and replenish it! During that time, the 2nd row will fill the positions!”

Sergei tried to carry out a somewhat systematic command, but soon a melee began.

A melee where fireballs poured down and arrows flew everywhere.

The unintelligent black hounds simply charged at the castle walls in droves and died, and their corpses became foothold, growing taller and taller.

The orcs stood a little further back, constantly increasing the number of casualties on our side by throwing stones.

The Fenrir, with their tough hides, served as shields with their large bodies.

A scout, a long-range dealer, and even a tanker.

Was this a fucking dream team or what?

It was truly a fantastic combination.

“Cough! Ugh…”

Students who vomited or had nosebleeds began to appear here and there.

Had the mana energy in the village already become too thick?

They gulped down antidotes everywhere.

If they drank it that fast…

“Professor! The antidote has run out!”

It would quickly run out, as expected.

Originally, only the amount for the village guards was stored, but suddenly dozens of students came, so it was consumed quickly.

Moreover, they were guys whose breathing became three or four times faster than ordinary people while consuming mana like crazy.

But by now…

“Professor! We found antidotes in the warehouse!”

“What did you say? How many bottles?”

“10 bottles. But… they all seem to have a very high concentration, equivalent to 100 bottles of commercial products!”

“Ho…”

It would be about time for the mana energy antidotes I deliberately took out to be discovered.

With this, they could endure for a while longer.

“Oh, they’re climbing up…”

“Orcs! Orcs are climbing over the castle walls!”

I had been fighting mindlessly for a while, and one side had become noisy.

Indeed, orcs were climbing over the castle walls, and the guards and students were trying to stop them.

Damn it.

It seemed the piled-up corpses of the black hounds had become a mountain high enough to climb over the castle walls in the meantime.

Now even the 2nd line of defense would collapse.

“Make way!”

“Teacher Schlus. I’ll go ahead.”

Something passed by with a whoosh of wind on both sides.

Trie and Sergei.

Sergei was holding a huge club he had picked up from somewhere, and Trie had drawn her real sword and was charging.

The two of them kept cutting down and beating up the orcs before they could even rush over, pushing them back outside.

With the benevolent and strong Sergei and the tireless Trie together, that side was definitely safe.

Even if high-level magical beasts, Fenrir, climbed over in droves, they would be able to handle them sufficiently.

But if the magical beasts started climbing over from other parts of the castle walls too…?

“Aah! Over here too!”

“Roar!”

Damn it.

The situation I was worrying about came faster than expected.

Along with the orcs, Fenrir were climbing over the opposite castle wall.

The students who had magical beasts right in front of their eyes fell into a panic.

“Retreat! Retreat to the 3rd line of defense! But if you have leeway, slowly fall back while helping your allies retreat!”

Unable to watch any longer, Sergei finally had to give the order to abandon the castle walls.

The 3rd line of defense was a tall spire, so it was practically impossible for the magical beasts to break through.

But they would surely destroy all the civilian homes.

We could only save our lives, and it would become our defeat.

Knowing that, Sergei must have had no choice but to hesitate.

The words to stay if you have leeway also came from that context.

First, remove the panicked ones who are of no help, and have the ones with excellent combat power fight, and if there’s an opening, drive out the magical beasts and think of taking back the 2nd line of defense.

“Are you Schlus Hainkel?”

“…?”

At that time, someone tapped my back from behind.

I turned around in surprise.

There stood an old woman holding something wrapped in a white veil.

Even as the students were screaming and running away, she stood upright and looked at me.

She seemed to be a resident here, a fearless person.

“Yes. That’s right.”

“Then take this.”

“This is…?”

I received the long object wrapped in a veil from the old woman with both hands.

At the same time, the old woman pulled the veil, and a sword with a brilliant appearance shone in the darkness.

This was… the training sword I used when sparring with Trie earlier?

No. It was the same as that training sword, but different.

The blunt blade that would only bruise and hurt even when hit hard had become as sharp as a razor.

Could it be that she had quickly sent it to the blacksmith to sharpen the blade for me?

“Who is this from-”

“…”

When I tried to ask, the old woman had already disappeared.

She was a person who appeared and disappeared mysteriously.

I turned around and looked at Trie, who was still cutting down magical beasts in front of the castle wall.

She seemed to have no room to spare a glance at me.

A gift Trie was giving me.

Now that I couldn’t use mana or abilities, I received something very precious.

“Grrr…!”

At that moment, a Fenrir that had completely climbed over the castle wall stood in front of me.

Before I knew it, the students and guards who were defending this castle wall had all run away.

No, it was wrong to say they ran away since there was an order to retreat if possible.

Anyway, I was alone here now.

No matter how strong Sergei and Trie were, it would be difficult for them to run over to save me while dealing with that many numbers.

“Roar!”

“Phew…”

Fuck, it’s really scary.

But I had no choice but to fight.

If I let the Fenrir go, the fleeing students would have their necks bitten off and die.

I raised the sword above my shoulder and took a stance.

A stance that was more advantageous for dealing with an opponent larger than me.

Then, the scenery in front of my eyes suddenly changed.

That scenery instantly covered reality.

‘Huh?’

A white snowy mountain.

A huge wolf monster glaring there.

And a boy standing alone in front of it.

It was a scene I had seen before through the ‘True Self’s Memory’.

Except for the fact that snow covered everywhere, it was almost the same as the current situation.

Yes. Schlus had accomplished it at such a young age.

It would be funny for me to be afraid now that I have an adult body.

With that thought, confidence welled up and a smile naturally hung on my lips.

The moment the white wolf charged at me, the snowy mountain scenery melted away and returned to reality.

“Come at me. Puppy.”

“Roar!”

The Fenrir’s figure rushed towards me.

Its movement looked strangely slow.

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