Otherworld Adventure

Cecil was still a little lethargic from the after-effects of using Over Flash. If he had to, Cecil never wanted to use that technique again. Just one shot and he was rendered incapacitated soon after.

It didn"t suit his fighting style, but he did think that it could be used as a last resort... if he ever needed it for that matter.

Lucia was bugging him and fretting over his condition the entire journey back towards the city. The rest of Cecil"s party could only smile wryly looking at the couple. One was constantly worrying over the other while the other one was only brushing it off lightly.

"Well... 12 is the normal age where n.o.ble children get engaged right? Then are Cecil and Lucia n.o.bles?" Ghina whispered towards the merfolk girl sitting next to her.

"No...Well, at least I don"t think so. I mean... the two of them don"t look like it."

"...yeah, you gotta a point there."

"Well, maybe their parents arranged for it. I mean even commoners do the same too, you know."

"Oh! Yeah, you"re right!" Ghina said in realization. "Though, I do feel bad for Lucia..."

The two girls turned their attention towards Cecil and Lucia who were having an argument.

"Like I said, stop worrying already! I"m fine now, sheesh! What"re you my mother?" Cecil said while backing away from the foxkin girl leaning close to him.

"Hah! In what way is that pale looking face of yours fine?!"

"My face is always pale!"

"Pfft, last time I checked it was a bit tan!"

"Well, now it"s pale! I spent awhile in the dungeon and had no contact with the sun after all!"

"You"d only be pale if you didn"t have contact with light at all! And the dungeon is full of light you idiot!"

"So now I"m an idiot? Aren"t you being too harsh towards a sick person?!"

"Now you admit that you"re unwell?!"

"NOPE!"

"Well, TOO BAD! YOU ARE SICK SO SHUT UP AND SLEEP!" Lucia said and abruptly sent a chop towards Cecil"s neck.

Cecil easily blocked the chop, but didn"t expect her other hand to come flying at him as well. It was even enhanced with Elemental Burst so it came pretty fast that Cecil couldn"t block it in time.

"Gah—"

Her chop struck him on his nape and Cecil immediately fell unconscious on top of Lucia"s lap.

"Good boy~"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...Lucia..." Fina had a strained smile on her face.

The rest of the party could only stare dumbfounded at the couple. The boy was sick! And Lucia just sent him to sleep with a karate chop! He was just being stubborn, but was there a need to be so unreasonable, was there?

The girl in question even had a satisfied look on her face as if her previous act of aggression wasn"t anything bad.

"...How unreasonable..." Ghina softly said.

"Strong!" Lu Garulle smilingly exclaimed.

"I guess even Cecil loses sometimes." Light said wryly.

The group arrived at the city an hour later. Somehow, Silver was waiting for them in front of the gate as if he knew that his master was currently in bad shape.

"Silvy! Good boy~ come carry your stupid master. He did something unreasonable again so he fainted!"

"You"re the one that made him faint!" the rest retorted in their heads.

The small puppy-formed Silver immediately changed his size and grew bigger. Ghina, Light and Lu were very much surprised to see this. Lucia quickly loaded the unconscious Cecil onto Silver"s back and the group proceeded into the city, heading back towards the academy.

When the group got back to the academy district, Ghina opened her mouth to speak.

"Fina, the report"s already finished. I guess we"ll separate now?"

"Okay! We"ll hand in the report once Cecil"s written down his opinion."

"We already wrote his. He did tell us to just right down that it was boring."

"Nonono~ we can"t have that! I"ll make sure to tell him to right a proper one!"

"Uhm...okay."

"Okay everyone; we"ll see each other tomorrow! Party dismissed!" Fina declared, imitating Cecil"s way of dismissal.

When everyone dispersed, Lucia giggled and said, "That was a good imitation of Cel! Party dismissed! Hehehe~"

"Ahaha! I just thought it"d be proper!"

"Let"s head back Fina, we still have to take care of this sleeping idiot."

"...you"re the one that smacked him to sleep."

"Hm? Did you say something Fina?"

"No~pe!" Fina replied with a playful grin.

******

It was the end of the week and everyone in S cla.s.s had finished their a.s.signments. This week didn"t have any cla.s.ses since the instructors had to give the first year students time to finish their dungeon explorations.

Cecil and his cla.s.s party had already turned in their report. Lucia and everyone else"s party had done so as well. Cecil"s group had submitted a report about Angla"s Public Dungeon, Lucia"s group report was about the Great Erlutian Forest Dungeon and Velicia"s group was the same, but instead of the forest area which Lucia"s group had explored, Velicia"s party went up to the upper floors of the dungeon. Ainz"s group also went to the same dungeon as the two girls, except he went to the underground floors instead. Eli"s group went to the Wyrm"s Lookout, which was a field dungeon based high up in the Anglaria Mountains close to Angla City,

Everyone had a nice experience dungeoneering with their cla.s.smates. To many of the students, it was their first time dungeoneering. It was a good thing that everyone made it out there safe and sound.

The funny thing was, that after returning from the dungeon, Light was now constantly by Fina"s side when they weren"t in cla.s.ses chatting her up.

Fina appreciated the company while Eli, Velicia, and Lucia were constantly sending her meaningful and playful looks, which of course the girl in question did not quite understand.

Cecil was still feeling a little downtrodden however. For some reason, his arms were semi-paralyzed until now. It was hard for him to move his arms and there were short bouts of intense pain being transmitted from the mana pathways in his arms. It was already 3 days after he had used Over Flash, but there were no signs of it healing.

"What the h.e.l.l"s wrong with my arms?"

Cecil of course didn"t tell any of his friends about his dilemma. Especially not to Lucia, who knows what kind of unreasonable fit she might throw if she found out.

"c.r.a.p... I"m never using that skill unless I"m about to be killed! Darn... the pain"s killing me...that"s ironic." Cecil retorted at his own thoughts. He wouldn"t use the skill unless was going to be killed, but the pain coming from the after-effects was killing him instead.

It was a good thing that Cecil could control his facial expressions, if not he"d be wearing a dark frown all day long with the short grimaces of pain flashing every now and then.

"I hope my arms heal before the next segment starts."

When all the cla.s.ses for today were finished, the academy had every student a.s.semble at the large stadium before they went back to their dorms.

Instructor Jin explained that the headmaster would be announcing the ending results of the tournament"s first segment today. There was also a slight change to the second segment of the tournament and the headmaster would explain to the student body regarding those changes.

*****

In the stadium, the headmaster was now on top of a podium addressing the student body.

"My young students... it"s been 2 months since the start of the school year and here we are at the end of the tournament"s first segment! I congratulate you all for doing such splendid work for this past month!"

"WAHHHHH!!!!"

The students cheered at the headmaster"s words. It was kinda funny though since technically the students had been doing community service for the past one month. Adventurer quests had rankings and low ranked quests mostly had miscellaneous tasks like finding a pet, mowing the gra.s.s in some areas or picking up the trash in the city area, basically community service-like quests.

But it was a good thing for the academy since it helped build a positive image and it showed that although the academy had its own isolated district they still cared and played a large part in the city"s system.

"Today I will announce the top 10 rankings for our tournament"s first segment!"

The large, aqua screen monitor floated down from above the stadium"s arena. Immediately the screen lit up and the rankings from 1-10 were displayed. With no due fanfare, the headmaster immediately exclaimed.

"Rank 10!"
Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

At the headmaster"s words the placing for rank 10 lit up and letters began to form next to it.

Cecil looked up at the monitor and saw the party"s name, "Natural Disaster? What kinda team is that?"

"Audrey Flei, Anixio Las, Anixia Las, Barth Flux and the other members of the party! Please come up to the podium!"

From the 3rd years" seating area, a beautiful, s.e.xy, red and yellow feathered Harpy drifted down to the podium where the headmaster was standing on. Behind her, 2 identical, child-like half elves followed suit, as well as 7 other students, totaling 10 people.

"Woah, 3 Kings... seriously?" Ainz exclaimed.

"3 Kings... but they"re only 10th ranked." Fina said anxiously.

"Look at the score! It"s only in the 8000s!" Velicia exclaimed.

Everyone around her began eyeing her differently. It was ONLY in the 8000s? A small group of 10 were able to acc.u.mulate over 8000 points... that alone was noteworthy already!

Lucia smirked and so did Eli. They had kept track of the numbers and tiers of quests that their party had done in the past month. It was safe to say that their points were well over 8000.

"Hehe... we got this." Lucia said smugly.

"Isn"t that a given?" Eli responded similarly.

The headmaster smiled at the 10 students and turned his attention back to the front. He opened his mouth and exclaimed,

"Rank 9!"

The rank 9 placing lit up and words once again began to form.

"Alchemist Faction!"

"A production faction actually cinched 9th place?!"

Everyone was in awe at this. Normally production factions such as the Research, Alchemist, and Ironforge factions were never able to get a spot in the top 10. Just what could have happened that shot up their points?

"They have over 9000 points!"

"It"s over 9000!!!"

"PFFFTTT!!!" Cecil started laughing immediately after he heard that.

"Who the heck said that?!"

"What"s wrong Cel?" Lucia asked.

"N-nothing... pfft... man, didn"t think I"d hear that on Alterna..."

"Hear what?"

"Nah...It was just something funny from Earth." Cecil snickered as he whispered to Lucia.

The leader of the Alchemist faction with 9 others walked down towards the podium. The principle continued announcing the next rankers.