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Krrrr!
Beastly roars echoed from everywhere at once.
It wasn't the sound of just one or two creatures.
Thud.
A massive head forced its way up through a crack in the ground.
"It's a dragon!"
"What dragon comes out of the ground like that!"
"Just run!"
Davian turned his head.
'I can see why they'd mistake it for a dragon.'
Behemoth.
A monster from a dimension different from the Demon Realm.
It has a dragon-like head, but no wings.
Its body shape and size are similar to a dinosaur.
But it's not a dinosaur.
Its thick hide is imbued with defensive properties against all magic.
Magic attacks are fundamentally ineffective against these interdimensional monsters.
That's why the spy organization summoned a Behemoth here, where the only people around are magic professors and magic students.
A meticulously planned and thoroughly prepared operation.
Bang!
Professor Wendy's fireball struck the Behemoth's head.
"Everyone, get down the hill, quickly!"
The teaching assistants stood by Professor Wendy's side, preparing magic attacks.
Davian shook his head.
'It's useless.'
Magic attacks don't work on Behemoths.
Professor Wendy probably knows that too.
'Even if she knows, she has no choice. To buy time to evacuate the students, she has to do something like that.'
Latia shouted.
"Davian! When?!"
"Now!"
Whoosh.
Latia poured magic power into the summoning circles she had drawn.
Karin did the same.
Elraim and Colson, a little further away, also began to inject magic power.
Davian, leaving the fleeing students behind, stood next to Professor Wendy.
"You know magic attacks don't work on those things, right?"
"Davian! What are you doing here! Run!"
"I'll buy you time."
"What?"
"Summon a Demon Realm monster that can handle the Behemoth while I do."
Professor Wendy looked at Davian with surprised eyes.
A perfect strategy considering the Behemoth's characteristics and the professors' and assistants' expertise.
But Professor Wendy couldn't easily back down.
She knew what the strategy was, but...
She couldn't bring herself to leave those monsters to a young student and retreat to draw summoning circles.
Davian stepped forward.
Shlick.
Davian created an ice sword.
"If you don't summon a monster soon, the damage will be even greater."
Thwack.
Davian leaped towards the Behemoths.
There were six Behemoths.
In addition to the six, several more were poking their heads out from under the cracked ground.
Davian was the only one here who could inflict physical damage.
The rest were all mages.
Professor Wendy's hesitation didn't last long.
"Assistants! Summon Demon Realm monsters! Ones strong in physical attacks!"
Kreeak!
Flap!
With the sound of large wings flapping.
A gargoyle popped out of Latia's summoning circle.
Suddenly summoned, the gargoyle flew high into the air, furious.
Then.
It bared its claws and flew quickly towards the strongest-looking enemy.
Whack!
The Behemoth's thick, long tail struck the flying gargoyle's torso.
Squawk!
In the meantime.
Grrr!
Four owl bears were summoned simultaneously.
It was Karin's doing.
Monsters also began to be summoned from Elraim and Colson's magic circles.
Suddenly summoned and angry, the monsters rushed at the strongest-looking opponent, following their instincts.
A chaotic battle began between the Behemoth horde and the monsters that were being summoned one after another.
In the midst of the chaos, Davian slowly took down the Behemoths one by one.
The key to Davian's plan this time was maintaining balance.
You can forcibly send a summoned monster back if it's close to the magic circle, but once it's a certain distance away, there's no way to send it back, even if you're the summoner.
If he dealt with the Behemoths too quickly, the summoned monsters would run rampant.
If he just left them alone, the Behemoths, which were still rising from the ground, would win overwhelmingly.
He had to adjust the balance appropriately, taking down the Behemoths one by one.
Then, once he had taken down all the Behemoths, he could work with the mages to defeat the remaining monsters.
Thwack!
A not-so-large stone golem rammed into a Behemoth.
Davian, startled, turned around.
Karin Oberia was looking at him with a somewhat proud expression.
'She summoned a stone golem?'
It was the most efficient summoning at the moment.
Unlike other monsters that move on their own.
A stone golem falls to the ground as a stone when the summoner cuts off the magic power.
But.
It's that much more difficult to summon and operate.
Davian still can't freely summon a stone golem.
'Impressive. The Royal Secret Project.'
It was small in size, but.
A stone golem was a stone golem.
Its size was only half as big, but the stone golem's body check was successful.
A huge Behemoth fell backwards.
Thud!
Davian, who jumped straight at it, slashed the Behemoth's neck.
Kreek!
The ice sword was enough to pierce its hide.
But it wasn't long enough.
It wasn't until he had repeatedly struck the neck, turning around and around, that he was able to cut it off completely.
How much time had passed?
No more Behemoths were being summoned.
Five had been defeated so far.
Seven were in a bloody battle with the monsters.
At that moment.
Thud. Thump.
With the sound of the ground shaking.
Kuaaaaa!
A huge roar tore through the air.
Whoosh. Woosh.
The sound of a club swinging created a dull vibration.
Davian turned his head and identified the giant green monster that was rushing towards them.
'Magnum Ogre!'
A monster optimized for simple physical attacks.
Twice the size of a regular ogre, with immense strength.
A club that looked like a lightning-struck tree trunk.
But this clumsy-looking weapon is as strong as steel.
'Professor Wendy's work.'
Thwack!
The furious Magnum Ogre knocked away the stone golem that Karin had summoned in one blow.
"Hey! Not there!"
Karin shouted from behind.
The stone golem that had flown far away began to reassemble itself.
In the meantime, the Magnum Ogre rushed at a Behemoth and swung its club.
Whack! Thwack!
Kreek!
In the meantime.
The monsters summoned by other people also grabbed a Behemoth each and began to attack together.
They were all completely different monsters, but.
Whether they felt a sense of kinship as fellow members of the Demon Realm.
Or whether it was an instinct that they had to deal with the overwhelmingly strong Behemoths first.
Before they knew it, they were ganging up and attacking the Behemoths intensively.
The students who had been running down the hill had already taken their places behind Professor Wendy and the assistants and were watching this spectacle.
"What's going on?"
"Over there! Another Behemoth is going down!"
The four students who had finished summoning also joined the group.
Karin shook her head, watching the spectacle of monsters and creatures locked in a bloody battle.
"Davian was right."
Latia replied.
"I told you, you have to experience it to know."
Libel approached.
"Who could have done this?"
"I don't know."
"It's a meticulous plan. To summon Behemoths that are immune to magic to a place where only mages gather. Twelve of them."
Luna replied.
"That... wasn't it the organization that tried to awaken the Gray Witch and wipe us out when we went to the northern ice region?"
"The Marino Empire's spy organization?"
"Yeah."
"That could be it. We almost all died."
In the meantime.
Davian, who had taken down another Behemoth, slipped back.
Davian returned to the place where people were gathered.
"Professor. Doesn't it seem like things are balanced now?"
Professor Wendy nodded her head vigorously.
"Yes. It seems like the summoned monsters are a little more dominant now. It's all thanks to you, Davian, for reducing the number of Behemoths. Come to think of it..."
Only then did Latia, Karin, Elraim, and Colson's actions come to mind.
The four who could draw a proper summoning circle.
"Did you tell them to? The kids. To wait after drawing the magic circle without summoning."
"Yes."
"Did you know everything? About what was happening today?"
"I just felt like something was going to happen."
"Felt like it?"
"Yes. I just had a feeling."
Davian leaned over and whispered in Professor Wendy's ear.
"There's a spy among the assistants who attended here today. Of course, he's not the mastermind. A mere assistant couldn't pull something like this off."
Professor Wendy, startled, looked at Davian.
"Investigate."
Because they're so good at cutting off the tail.
The sooner the investigation, the better.
Thud.
The last Behemoth fell.
Most of them were unintelligent monsters, but.
Perhaps they felt a sense of kinship as fellow members of the Demon Realm.
Or perhaps it was an instinct that they had to deal with the overwhelmingly strong Behemoths first.
Before they knew it, they were ganging up and attacking the Behemoths intensively.
Instead.
They looked at the place where the humans were crowded together.
Kuaaaaa!
Kyaak!
Grrr.
The monsters began to rush towards the magic students.
That included the Magnum Ogre that Professor Wendy had summoned.
Karin quickly cut off the magic power connected to the stone golem.
The stone golem collapsed on the spot, turning into a pile of stones.
But the other monsters weren't like that.
But there was something the monsters didn't know.
Those humans who seemed to be watching idly over there.
It was that they were by no means weak and watching the fight.
Magic attacks don't work on Behemoths.
But that's not the case for these monsters.
Whoosh.
Swish.
Various kinds of magic were manifested from the hands of the professors, assistants, and students.
Swish!
Kaboom!
Bang!
All sorts of attack magic poured down on the monsters.
The monsters at the front were either roasted or had their bodies cut off.
The lower-level monsters, startled, were busy running away.
And the Magnum Ogre became even more angry and increased its speed.
'I'll take you on in particular.'
Davian's figure shot out quickly towards the Magnum Ogre.
He held a sharp ice sword in his right hand.
In his left hand, he created a small flame.
Davian shouted in a small voice.
"Festival of Fire."
Whoosh.
A summoning assistant was identified as a spy and captured.
Following Davian's advice, the academy locked the assistant in a place where no one could approach.
As a matter of form, President Hugo Molton himself took charge of the interrogation.
No one other than Hugo Molton was allowed to approach the building where the assistant was locked up to prevent tail-cutting.
Whatever Hugo Molton did.
The assistant rattled off the other spies involved in this case.
More people than expected were involved.
The academy spent busy days ferreting out spies.
In addition, Elton City declared war on spies.
They hired mercenaries with verified identities to double the security forces.
Anyone whose whereabouts were even slightly suspicious was arrested and investigated.
In the process, a hideout for the spies was discovered.
In the meantime, the second semester midterms were over.
Karin, who summoned and moved the stone golem, won the summoning magic test, creating a two-on-two situation with Latia.
And the final showdown, the mental magic test.
Karin chose a suitable monster and cast mental magic on it to avoid making the same mistake as she did during the healing magic test.
Surprisingly, when Karin sent a message to the royal family, a royal mage directly brought the monster through a warp magic circle.
It was a lizardman, a humanoid monster that was quite intelligent, contrary to its appearance.
"Ugh, crazy! The lizardman's dancing!!!"
"What the hell is she?"
"... He's a good dancer."
The students who saw the humanoid monster dancing were all in shock.
Judging by how familiar she was with it, it seemed like she had used it a lot before.
Karin smiled contentedly as she looked around at her classmates who were looking at her with amazed eyes.
Nowhere in the exam hall was there a casting target with higher intelligence than the lizardman.
No matter how much she looked around, the only casting target that looked even a little difficult was a monkey.
'Latia Meridiem. At best, she'll move a monkey or something. She's nothing special, but she's loud.'
Karin was confident of her victory.
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