The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

82 – Scheme

When Ross finished the meal and Lakar was cleaning up. Suddenly Ross opened her mouth.

“Okay, we ate too. Now let me explain the plan.”

At Ross’s words, La Carr stopped his hands from cleaning the tableware and looked at Ross with curious eyes.

“Before that, I have something to show you.”

Lakar asked with a puzzled look at Ross showing him an unknown seed on the palm of his hand.

“Why is this… ?”

Instead of answering that question, Ross pointed to the seeds with his eyes. Lakar lowered his gaze to the seed, and the seed in his palm suddenly began to grow rapidly.

“What, what… ?”

“I learned Master’s magic. I can use it to grow plants rapidly.”

In response to Ross’s answer, La Carre came up with a name from his memory.

“Master…. Scholar Lawton?”

“Right.”

For some reason, Lakar suppressed his curiosity at the bitter smile on Ross’ face.

“I will use this tree to clear the area under this mountain.”

After saying that, Ross knocked on the tree he was holding.

A thump was heard as if the inside of the tree was empty.

“This is a tree that bears fruit called papana. It’s empty inside.”

Ross threw the tree he was holding at Lakar. Lakar, who grabbed the tree, was a little surprised at how light it was compared to its size.

“The characteristic of this tree is that it has papa or oil inside. In the old days, they used that oil to make a fire.”

At Ross’s words, Lakar looked at the tree with curious eyes.

“When a papana tree catches fire, it explodes because of the oil inside. Most wildfires in the south where papana trees grow are caused by papana trees exploding after being struck by lightning.”

After finishing his explanation, Ross got up from his seat and pointed his finger at the bottom of the mountain.

“The river in the west. It will lure people there.”

“Manned?”

“Yes, I will light a papana tree on fire from the top of the mountain and throw the tree on the other side of the river. Then the forest below will become a sea of fire. We’ll head to the river to escape the fire.”

Lakar, who heard Ross’ plan, swallowed dryly.

Can I really?

Although it is a test without any restrictions. Burning the island was not an ordinary situation.

Of course, thanks to the shock artifact, dangerous situations won’t happen… He was taken aback by the unexpected situation because he was Lacar, who only thought of fighting together with Ross.

“But if you are driven into the river, you will be able to escape the fire?”

“I’m going to set fire to the west side as well and gather all the people towards the river. All beasts and monsters in the forest will be evacuated to the river due to the flames. Then the bottom will fall into great confusion.”

At Ross’ answer, La Carr wiped his face once.

“Great. I am also the manager.”

Ross smiled at Lakar’s sincerity.

“It’s not over yet. Come here.”

At Ross’ gesture, Lakar took a step closer.

“Can you see the upper reaches of the river halfway up the mountain?”

There was a huge river where Ross looked down with his finger.

“Uh… ?”

Realizing that the shape of the river was strange, Lakar narrowed his eyes and looked closely.

For some reason, the current was unable to escape downstream and continued to turn. When I checked the path going downstream, huge trees were blocking the path like a dam, blocking the water going downstream.

“Before I went up the mountain, I blocked it off with beanstalks and vines.”

“On purpose… ?”

“Yes. By night there will be enough water to wash away anyone downstream.”

The sight of Ross smiling, gave Lacard goosebumps.

Roth’s plan was risky, but it was just as great. If he hadn’t cooperated with Ross, he wouldn’t have thought of these things and he would simply have focused on solving his mission.

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No, no student would have thought of such a radical method.

Ross uses both the environment of an uninhabited island and his abilities. He devised a plan to exterminate everyone in the safe zone.

A situation where less than 3 hours have passed since the test started. Like someone who knew in advance and planned what would happen, Ross came up with this incredible plan in that short amount of time.

The ability to even think of the plan and immediately execute it was impossible for an ordinary person. Who could call such a Ross an inferior student? Ross’s plan will surely create a huge wind in Transcendence Academy.

Suddenly, Lakar said that if Ross had been born before the empire was unified. As a tactician, he wondered if he might have written his name into history.

“Ross, I think being friends with you was the best decision I made at the academy.”

Ross laughed at La Carr’s unexpected remark, stroked his chin, then looked down at him and opened his mouth.

“I will make you proud to be my friend.”

Hearing Ross’ voice filled with his confidence, La Carre turned his gaze to look at Ross’s back.

Suddenly, I felt the desire to kneel down and offer my allegiance to Ross like a loyal knight in a novel.

Ross was the ideal lord he had dreamed of.

A man who holds a spear at trolls to save people even though he has no strength, and walks his own way without wavering even when pointed at by others.

I couldn’t find the look of an inferior student who had a hard time wielding a spear anymore. When it comes to who has grown the most in the academy, Lacard could have chosen Ross without hesitation.

So he wanted to follow suit. How far he will grow, where he is looking. I wanted to see you together.

“Friends… It’s good.”

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Everybody had to run to the river to avoid the forest fire. Fireballs falling from the top of the mountain set the forest on fire in an instant, and the flames spread out of control.

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Navier arrived at the river with her friends who had promised her cooperation, but many people had already settled down by the river.

The battle continued without a break due to the monsters and beasts rushing into the river to escape the flames.

The biggest damage was the appearance of trolls. One troll eliminated over 20 people.

It has been a long time since the river turned red with the blood shed by monsters and beasts. The hot heat approaching from afar, the bloody smell of monsters and beasts. This was already a battlefield.

“Let me cross!!!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! This is where we are already seated!”

“Where is that! Are you saying that if we can’t cross the river, we’ll all be burned to death here?”

“Don’t worry! Because it’s just failing the test. No need to be afraid! If you’re scared, kill yourself and get eliminated!”

A fierce confrontation unfolded over a river. The forces on the other side of the river, which had already established themselves in the west, held up arms and blocked them from crossing the river.

Those who fled to the river, whether chased by the flames, had to cross the river to avoid the approaching fire, which inevitably led to a confrontation.

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Navier told her friends with a sigh.

“I’m thinking of dropping us off here.”

If you just keep them from crossing the river, the people here will be swept away by the oncoming fire and will fail the test.

Those who survived the fire on the other side of the river would raise their grades further with survival points, so it was like blowing your nose without touching your hands.

As the man who couldn’t stand it and tried to cross the river came out, an arrow flew from somewhere.

“If it comes over, shoot! I warned you!”

“Hey you trash! Are you guys still in the same combat team!”

“Shut up! What a test!”

It felt like a battle would break out at any moment. When thinking about what to do with butterflies. Suddenly, a rock on the other side of the river caught my eye.

‘Wait, the boundary of the rock… ?’

For some reason, the boundary line of the rock half-submerged in the river was clearly visible. A quick look around confirmed that the other rocks were the same.

In other words, the water level is lower than usual.

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Navier’s head began to spin rapidly. A sudden fire, people driven into the river, and the water level lowered….

After putting them all together, Nabie got goosebumps on the nape of her neck.

“This is a trap! Go to the mountain, go to the mountain!”

At Navier’s cry, the people around him looked at him with bewildered expressions.

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“A trap?”

When Navier opened her mouth to explain. An explosion occurred halfway up the mountain.

Boom–! Bang–!

People’s eyes turned to the mountain at the sound of continuous explosions.

Quaaa!!!

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Navier shouted when he noticed a huge explosion and a surging current sweeping away everything like a tidal wave.

“Run to the mountain!!!”

Staring blankly except for herself and her friends who ran her straight ahead, the rest of her belated run were swept away by the current.

“Crazy bastard!!!”

She was convinced that the culprit behind this madness was at the top of the mountain.

As if she had been waiting to climb the mountain, it was because the trees were pouring down from the top.

“Me, Nabi! I can’t go up like this!”

As the trees continued to fall, the number of people following Navier decreased.

I collided with a huge tree falling from the top, and I was immediately eliminated from the test due to the impact.

“If you can’t steal points from the guy at the top, you’ll never get first place! The guy at the top is going to take the score. As long as we go up, we are unconditionally at the top!”

The eyes of those who were afraid of Navie’s cry became greedy. Everyone desperately started climbing the mountain to get points.

There was only one road to Jeongsan. Even that, there was a path that could not avoid the trees coming down from the top.

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Navier quickly checked the topography of the mountain and shouted.

“You have to run along the road! Everyone, don’t stop, run straight!”

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Navie, seeing other people running along the road, turned and headed elsewhere.

‘I’m sorry, but please delay me.’

If there is no road, you can make one. Thinking so, Navie arrived at the cliff terrain behind the mountain.

It was Navie who also learned how to climb cliffs when scouting the mountains with his father.

The sound of trees falling and the impact made the whole mountain vibrate. The screams of his friends could be heard in the distance, but Nabe bit his lip and continued up the cliff.

When she was going up the cliff for a while. Suddenly, the butterfly realized that the sound of the falling tree had stopped.

The silence where no sound can be heard. In that silence, the butterfly felt fear.

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Navier slowly raised his head and looked at the top of the cliff. A blond boy was looking down at him from the edge of the cliff holding a spear.

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Navie met her blue eyes and naturally realized that this boy was the culprit.

“You, you… !”

After checking his bracelet, the boy looked down at Navier with a cold gaze.

“I had a hard time. You are third.”

The boy said that in a cool voice and slammed the spear into the floor.

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Navier’s vision changed as she suddenly felt a pain in the back of her head.

The boy from her cliff looking down at her with her blue eyes disappeared, and Navier saw the image of her underground auditorium she had seen hours before.

In the auditorium, everyone was shocked and confused by the incident that occurred during the exam. Who would have predicted that this many people would drop out in less than a day?

Even the professors couldn’t hide their bewilderment at what had just happened.

In the midst of the chaos, Navie’s legs gave out and she sat down on the floor.

“This… This is nonsense.”

How hard I worked and trained for today….

The first time she entered the academy.

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Navier felt deep despair.