36. Betrayal by a faction.
Akane's point of view:
When we were near the lake where the A's were before, Mr. Leonard was on his device looking at the screen with a worried look.
- Very well guys, please come closer.
'tech products in a dungeon are supposed to stop working when mana is present in the air or is it?
while thinking that, out of nowhere I heard a scream, Leonard turned his eyes to the fountain and saw a girl running, he immediately took out a pair of knuckles from his ring and went ahead to see who the problem was, from the plants appeared a shadow and Leonard hit there.
boooom
When I was able to open my eyes again, I saw a dead wolf with a hole in the middle of his body.
- eh? perhaps the dungeon was not clean?.
a girl said.
Leonard immediately pulled a blue flare gun from her backpack and fired it into the air.
- very well students, the walk is over, we have to go to the entrance now, in this state of emergency, I want everyone to be close, and I will be at the end if there is a wolf attack, although the wolf that kills must be a rank D, don't let your guard down and don't stop and please don't be alarmed, this is just a new experience.
As we were shocked, a boy yelled.
- But what will happen to group A?
- Don't worry, that alarm is for them to go to the entrance too, we'll go ahead.
- but perhaps they will not be in more danger?.
- They have Elizabeth with them and also the emperor's grandson, so there is no need for them to be alarmed.
he said that as he gathered us together and counted the number of students.
- All right, let's go.
Even though I was moving forward with everyone, Kumiko and I couldn't help but look back and worry, I just hope this incident doesn't cause injuries and death.
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As we walked, we heard the howling of wolves in the distance, we were all scared since no one except Leonard could fight and because a wolf could appear at any moment.
Even now wolves appear looking for the weakest, but a blow of air from Leonard sends them flying immediately.
As we arrived, out of nowhere I felt a strange feeling, as if destiny told me that I am following a route.
Although my family is a noble family, it is a place that always believes in destiny, strangely I always felt that I was on my way to destiny, even when I was insulted and beaten, I felt en route with destiny.
but when I met ren, that feeling disappeared, at first, I was scared, but the change was for the better, so I decided that destiny is not something always linked.
But right now I feel destiny with me again.
I don't know why, but I grabbed Kumiko's hand and she grabbed mine too.
When I saw the teleport door open at the end, I saw hope, but when there were no more trees blocking my view, I freaked out.
The ground we were stepping on was not in line with the path to the gate, we were 10 meters below it.
Leonard wasn't scared, and he pulled a hooked rope out of his backpack.
- We will have to climb the path, please from the smallest we will go up to avoid any attack.
and I throw the hook that is well secured, and we begin to climb.
Since some girls wore skirts, we went up almost to the end.
When it was my turn, with Kumiko saying she wanted to go last with me, I started climbing with her behind me.
when I saw the door, it was not the portal a blue tone but a gray, I felt fear, since that means that the monsters know of your presence and to get out you have to go unnoticed, which is impossible, or kill them.
After a while, Leonard came up, looking at the door, strangely he seemed calm.
Leonard then stepped forward and spoke.
- you know guys, in the dungeons there is a secret about the gray state.
- that if in case the monsters concentrate in a group and cut the tail of the group, the monsters will divert their attention to the tail, and the group will be able to pass without problems.
At that moment I realized that she was surrounded, along with Kumiko and 10 other people.
- You see Miss Scarlett, I'm a B-rank hero with debts, if I get the duke's faction out of here and eliminate the emperor's grandson and those nobles from group A, I'll gain strong support.
I was freaking out, looking at the guys around, I saw the 5 ren stalkers, along with bernard squirre and others grinning like vipers.
'So the reason why there were more people!?
-Don't worry Miss Scarlett, I'll tell her sister that she gave her life to save these boys.
and with that said, she stomped on the ground where we were, and she started to crack.
Feeling gravity pull me down, in my mind I imagined having my dagger at Leonard Wylde's throat.
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narrator's point of view:
after she fell, Kumiko touched Akane's cheeks to wake her up.
- Akane
- Akane.
After a while, Akane opened her eyes and looked around her.
She saw 10 other boys standing around her, some still passed out, and others holding their knees cringing every time they heard a wolf howl.
Akane was scared too, but she looked at the woman in front of her with a calm expression and tried to force herself to calm down and ask.
- What will we do?
- I suppose to go look for group A, they should be an hour from here.
- And how will we fight the wolves? Our weapons are in these boxes and we don't have the key.
- well, you see.
Kumiko said as he grabbed a thick branch and pulled out a knife from don't ask me where and he started to sharpen it as he sat down.
- Some of the things I learned quickly when one day some thieves with weapons appeared to us while we were returning from a shift.
- that ?.
- When you go to fight, always use what you have at your disposal, he said, and I throw hot coffee around one of the guys, and I throw oil on the ground, in the end, we knocked out the guys, and Ren extorted them for making them lose their money Of purchases.
he said as he approached one of the boys.
- if you want to live, you will have to use this.
and so I remembered what ren told me before while he was going to uproot a log.
"will fight"
Akane realized that this wasn't over and that she wouldn't be food for wolves.
all the boys around decided that they would not die here and each grabbed a spear-shaped log which Kumiko sharpened, Akane lent him his knife to sharpen hers as much as possible, then returned it to Kumiko.
and so 9 people from rank E and 2 from rank D, walked through the place. towards the center with a Kumiko leading and Akane in the rear for her good senses.
After 15 minutes of walking, Akane with binoculars saw group A in the distance, After approximately 40 minutes of walking, she was glad for a moment since they were on top of a dirt slope.
Luckily there was a path to the right, and following the route, Akane was nervous all the time, the feeling of being with destiny did not disappear, and she began to think that maybe this could be her end, but she decided that those ugly ideas would be bad, and just continued to focus on the surroundings, because as the dungeon woke up, not only the wolves came out, but also some other animals, luckily they only saw a boar a while ago and Akane killed it quickly.
When they went down the slope, howls of wolves were heard around them, they formed a formation that is to make a circle and advance slowly.
They all looked scared as they knew that the wolves never attacked alone, they just waited while the howling was everywhere.
In a moment everything calmed down.
As if there was never a wolf, and at that moment of highest tension, Akane heard a scream at 8 o'clock, it was a girl who saw a wolf coming, but nervousness did not let her act and she inadvertently raised the spear of wood, and the incoming wolf just charged forward, tackling the students and scattering them.
after she fell, Akane stood up immediately and saw Kumiko sticking the spear in her throat a wolf that wanted to attack her.
Another wolf jumped out of her trees towards Kumiko, when she took her spear out of it, it broke and without a choice she put it in front of her, blocking the wolf.
In the original story, Kumiko would not have agreed to be in group B, since because of her massive obsession with kiriko she would have gone with the other group as a favor from the director and would be with kiriko.
In the original story, after falling down with the other boys, Akane would have taken out her final resolve alone hoping to be a leader like her sister, and made a plan to go to the core thinking that there were only monsters on the first floor, but with the attack of the wolves, all that plan would go to the pipe when seeing everyone else leaving her with a wounded leg and alone surrounded by wolves, she would run scared, until finally falling off a cliff that led to a hidden area on the third floor, and she would be just alive thanks to the lake that would have slowed her fall, but half dead.
There she would find 2 things, a rare ring inside a box, and a colorless ostrich-sized egg.
She would eat the egg and there she would awaken her true power.
But now, seeing the wolf wanting to eat her best friend, she ran and speared the wolf in her neck.
after killing him, she similarly smiled at Kumiko and held out her hand to get up.
looking around, the others looked anxious, and the girls smiled at them to calm them down.
But out of nowhere 2 wolves appeared, who attacked the only 2 girls who were standing, Akane dodged and kicked Kumiko to get her out of the way, and in doing so both were propelled to opposite sides avoiding the jump of the wolves.
A wolf addressed each of them, Akane watched in slow motion as Kumiko stabbed the knife that she brought to the wolf, and after doing so, she ran straight towards her, looking to her left she saw the wolf's open mouth approaching, and she could only think.
'Thank goodness I gave Kumiko her gun back earlier.
when she was inches away from being bitten she also remembered a face that always looked at her with annoyance, but that annoyance she liked.
'thank you for wanting to help me sensei, but it seems that she will not be able to survive.
her when she was closing her eyes, thinking one last time about what it would be like to serve ren to be as prepared as Kumiko.
In her field of vision, a black sword with blue lines was being fired at the wolf, piercing it through her neck, causing her to fall at Akane's feet.
the surprise would be an understatement for young Akane, she saw someone hooded coming out of the brush.
- So my apprentice you want to die without saying goodbye? Too bad not on my watch.
(image in the comments)
He saw his teacher with a smile on him.
along with his voice.
-Rest Akane, you were able to survive, I'm proud of you.
Akane then closed her eyes and fainted with a thought.
'I survived.