The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

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I threw myself into the passage and fell endlessly, unable to keep my balance as I passed through circular passages of all kinds of colors. After passing through worlds pouring out like a mosaic and passing through a passage made of dark blue bubbles, I finally arrived somewhere.

Rolling around on the dusty floor, I finally stopped falling and got up and looked around. A somewhat familiar landscape caught my eye.

“This place… .”

This was the campus of Transcendence Academy. It was truly a return to the original world. I never expected to return to the academy right away. Still, the fact that we had arrived in a safe place made me relax and I sat down.

If it weren’t for Raelan and Ilia’s sacrifice and a little bit of luck, I would have died at the hands of Roel. Even if you have the advantage in a one-on-one fight with space magic, you cannot beat Roel, who has crossed the realm of transcendence and reached the end.

Even getting a few hits against Roel, who was tearing apart my spatial magic, was difficult for me right now. As I took a moment to catch my breath, my excitement slowly cooled down. I still couldn’t believe that I had been to another world line. I looked down at my wrist with a bewildered expression, and saw that the runes had turned red again. This is proof that it was not a hallucination or a dream.

As I was wiping my face with my palm with a sigh of relief, a horrifying sound like tearing metal suddenly rang out everywhere. Perhaps an alarm spell has been activated.

I turned my head and looked around, but there was nothing in particular that could trigger an alarm spell.

While I was confused as to what was going on, I realized that the academy security knights were gathering where I was.

“Hey, you there.”

I got up from my seat and turned around when I heard a harsh voice calling me. There, a man with a rough voice and a matching expression was glaring at me with his brows furrowed. Looking at his clothes, it was clear that he belonged to the academy’s guard knights.

“Are you a student at the academy?”

I was puzzled by the way he was looking at me as if he was wary, so I nodded.

“yes. “This is Ross, a first-year member of the combat club.”

“1st year combat club… ?”

The driver looked me up and down as if he was suspicious, then suddenly held out his hand. I thought he was asking for a handshake, so when I slowly raised his hand and looked at him, the driver’s frown deepened even further.

“What are you doing now?”

“… ?”

As I scratched the back of my head not understanding, the driver shook his head and sighed.

“When I held out my hand, I meant to ask you to show me your student ID.”

“Student ID… ?”

Transcendence does not have a separate student ID. Students could be identified using magic installed at the entrance of the building, so there was no need for a student ID. However, the security driver is asking me for my student ID as if it were a given.

I felt an inexplicable sense of discomfort when I saw that sight.

As if I was the only one who felt something strange, the knight’s hand went to the handle of the sword on his belt. The driver, who was looking at me with sharp eyes, asked in a rough voice.

“… “If you don’t have a student ID, you can show it, right?”

“What is that…?” !”

He quickly took a few steps back and avoided the surprise attack aimed at his neck. Before I could even ask what he was doing, the driver immediately blew what looked like a whistle around his neck. As if it was a signal, the guard knights who were rushing toward me took out their weapons and began to approach quickly, surrounding me from afar as if to narrow me down.

I don’t know what the situation was, but one thing was certain. The knight in front of me would rather cut off my head than talk to me to resolve the situation.

Since he couldn’t just give up his head, he prepared for the attack by manifesting a spear of shadow, and the knight’s eyes lit up and he shouted loudly to those around him.

“It’s a devil’s invasion! “Everyone be careful!”

It seems that due to a malfunction of the alarm magic, they misunderstood me as a devil who infiltrated the academy. Of course, since he suddenly appeared in the middle of the academy, it could easily be misunderstood. But the other person did not give me time to speak.

The knight lifted his sword upward and struck it straight down with all his might. It was a powerful blow thanks to the clean movement. I reacted immediately, stepping back and simultaneously raising the shadow spear to increase the distance.

Kang-!

The spear and sword clashed in the air, sparks flying. The knight continued to swing his sword, closing the distance, intending to pressure me until his companions joined him.

It was possible to easily subdue the opponent by reflecting the attack with space magic or cutting the weapon using a dimensional passage, but in the position of having to hide space magic as much as possible to avoid the eyes of the church, there was no choice.

Once again, the knight slashed his raised sword towards me. This time we responded to the attack in a different way than before. I lowered my posture and used intangible breathing at the same time. As the moment became longer, I saw a sword slowly falling towards my head. The attack flowed by slightly twisting the body, and using the change in the central axis, the body rotated and struck the side of the knight’s sword as it struck the floor with the spear.

Kang-!

The knight’s sword, which had been hit in the side, slipped from his hand and rolled on the floor. When the knight, who lost his weapon in an instant, looked embarrassed and tried to distance himself, I immediately moved my legs to catch up and grabbed the knight’s neck.

Once I hold the hostage, the guard knights surrounding me will not be able to attack easily. It was an action taken with the judgment that misunderstandings could be resolved through conversation. However, when he felt the magic coming towards the arm holding the knight’s neck, he had no choice but to hurriedly push the knight away and throw himself backwards.

Kwakwagwang-!

An explosion created by magical power swept through the space where the knight and I were standing. Its power did not take into account the enemy or the nearby comrades. If you hadn’t instinctively sensed danger and avoided it, it was powerful enough to kill you.

I didn’t even have time to lie down for a moment. This is because the guard knights suddenly approached me and silently swung their weapons as if they were dealing with an enemy. He increased the number of spear blades, struck down all the swords, and stood up.

Without giving him time to rest, he ducked to avoid the magic that came straight at him, and at the same time changed the shape of his spear into a shield to block the sword aimed at his right leg. Attacks are coming from all over the place.

Complex battle judgments were impossible. Using only experience and instinct, he blocked the attack, repeatedly avoided it, and moved forward.

However, the guard knights of the continent’s highest academy did not take it easy. By deliberately timing my attacks differently from other colleagues, I narrowed the distance and made myself vulnerable. Thankfully, it wasn’t a big wound, but the tip of the sword grazed his arm and leg, causing bleeding.

Nevertheless, thanks to our continued progress, we were finally able to lean against the academy annex building. The siege of the circular guard knights was lifted. I had confidence that if my back was safe, I would not be defeated by the majority. Before I had time to continue my thoughts, the guard knights attacked.

I also countered the attack without hesitation any longer. As he moved to the side little by little, he blocked the spear that the opponent was stabbing at from the front with his sword, and at that moment the shape of the spear changed. The blades of shadowy spears, whose shape and number had increased, ran along the side of the sword, passed through the cross guard, and pierced the opponent’s hand.

“Ugh… !”

“Ugh, the hand… !”

The knights, whose hands holding their swords were pierced by the spear of shadow, hurriedly fled the battlefield. It was a wise decision since I couldn’t hold a weapon due to an injured hand. That was also what I was aiming for.

The person who appeared to be the last remaining leader had one hand pierced and resisted until the end with the other hand, but in the end both hands were pierced and he was unable to fight. With the support of the wizard, I tried to catch him as he tried to escape, but I had no choice but to stop because of the figure that appeared with a loud thunder.

“I was prepared just in case… How dare you invade the academy by yourself!”

The giant, muscular man shouting in an angry voice was my teacher, Lycan. Somehow it seemed different from the last time I saw it.

Should I say that scars have increased on the muscles covering my entire body? Additionally, the large scar across his face made his originally hideous-looking face even scarier.

How many years had passed while I was traveling to another world line?

In any case, my teacher, Lycan, would be able to quickly resolve the misunderstanding. I urgently lowered the tip of the spear toward the floor and shouted.

“It’s me, Master! “This is disciple Ross!”

The lycan, whose muscles were twitching as if he was going to swing his fist at my words, looked straight at me.

“Ross… ?”

The Lycan’s eyes, which were staring at me, widened slightly. It seems he figured out who I am. Just as I was about to feel relieved, I barely managed to twist my head to avoid a huge fist flying at my face with the force of an explosion. I quickly took a step back and shouted.

“What are you doing? Me! “My name is disciple Ross!”

If you got hit with a fist, you would definitely die. It was a fist filled with that much power. This was not an attack that a teacher could make against a student. When I asked that in an angry voice, Lycan snorted.

“student? Hehe, I guess you didn’t forget that I was your homeroom teacher.”

Lycan with an evil smile said as he retrieved his fist.

“Okay, Ross. I clearly remember your name. “How can we forget the scum who sold his soul to the devil to gain power, then attacked the academy and slaughtered innocent students, only to have his head blown off by his older brother?”

“What is that… .”

For a moment, a thought crossed my mind. Could it be that this is not the world I was in, nor the world on the verge of destruction, but another world line…? ? I quickly raised my head and looked at the sky, but the sky was not split like I saw in other world lines, or the sun and moon were swirling as one. It was just an ordinary sky.

However, according to Lycan’s words, this world followed the same trend as the novel, and it was known that Ross died at the hands of Roel. However, looking at the clear sky, it seemed like a world where time passed more slowly than the world of Roel, which was about to be destroyed. Perhaps the world and timeline I was originally in may be the same. The only difference may be that I am not possessed.

“Holy shit… .”

If you think about it, I only know how to create a passage, but I don’t know where the passage is heading. Even if the passage was opened again, one should not be sure that one would be able to return to the original world. The fact that the runes were still on his wrist was evidence that he was deceiving the world with magic to avoid denying the existence of other worlds.

Wood-duk-

The Lycan, who was loosening his body while making scary noises, grinned and filled his fist with magic power.

“This time, I will kill you with my own hands.”

The palm holding the spear became damp with sweat as I saw the sight of the Lycan approaching with a deadly force threatening to kill me, along with a feeling of great intimidation. Lycan was a teacher with tremendous skills, so much so that he never defeated him even once while sparring with him.

I ran away to another world to avoid Roel, who was trying to kill me, and was in danger of being killed by a Lycan from another world. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Still, if this is another world, it means that you can use space magic without any worries. All you have to do is keep the Lycan in check as much as possible, and then use space magic to escape when you see an opportunity.

With that in mind, as I adjusted my spear and tensed my thigh muscles to counter the lycan’s attack, a huge magic spell suddenly appeared beneath my feet.

It was a secret magic to the point where you couldn’t even sense the magic beneath your feet until it was activated.

Without any time to escape, a tremendous amount of magical energy swept over my body in an instant, and suddenly my vision went dark and I felt something knock me down on a hard wooden chair.

My entire body did not move, as if it had been bound by magic. He couldn’t move a finger except to breathe. Even though his sight was taken away, his senses of hearing, smell, and touch remained the same.

I heard footsteps approaching me. The clicking sound of my shoes echoing around me.

Who could it be? I have never had such a powerful wizard as a friend. So, is the person who kidnapped me here an enemy? ?

The footsteps stopped in front of me. I suddenly felt a cool touch on my cheek along with the sound of my collar rubbing, and I unconsciously shrugged my shoulders slightly.

A sweet scent was mixed with the hand that carefully stroked my cheek.

For a moment, my vision, which had been dark, found light again.

And then I made eye contact with an unknown girl who was looking at me with watery eyes.

“… “Ross.”

The sweet scent that filled my nose was actually strawberry scent.