I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 5] by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub

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The instant he stepped into the dungeon, Soma muttered in understanding as he looked around through narrowed eyes.

“The seal certainly shouldn’t be broken before something is done about this.”

“I am impressed that you discerned that with one look. It gives me more confidence that we shall be able to rely on you.”

“Well, I believe it’s too early to sit back and relax. Not even I have fought the Archdevil before.”

He exhaled at the sensation on his skin. The dungeon was filled with an evil aura so strong, it felt like it could warp his vision. That was a vague description, but it was the only way to describe the feeling, which was far from vague. Although Soma only experienced it as a sensation of evil, a Middle-Grade Skill user would have fainted as soon as they entered, let alone someone faint of heart.

It would be difficult for even the middle schoolers to act as they usually would in here. That was how disastrous the dungeon’s current state was.

“I suppose I can assume that the dungeon is like this because of one of the Archdevil’s power fragments?”

“There is no other possible cause that I can imagine.”

As the name suggested, the Archdevil’s power fragments were remnants of the Archdevil’s power that he had left behind. Although they were remnants, they were extremely powerful, originating as they did from a former god, so they had proven impossible to destroy. Instead, they had been split apart and sealed away individually.

And one of them was sealed here—in the academy dungeon. Actually, that order was backwards—the dungeon had been built to contain the power fragment after it had been sealed away.

Though they were fragments, they were still very powerful, to the point that it was obvious where one was sealed because it affected its surroundings. Their strategy to minimize those effects had been to create a dungeon above the seal.

That was also why monsters that were too strong for their floor sometimes appeared. Those that were continually influenced by the power fragment underwent sudden transformations into stronger monsters.

More specifically, the plan had been to allow the fragment to exert all of its influence on the monsters in the dungeon and use up its power that way so that it wouldn’t affect anyone else. When monsters were defeated, their power fully dispersed, and that way, those responsible for creating the dungeon could minimize the effects.

But it hadn’t turned out like that in reality. It had been centuries since the Archdevil’s defeat and the construction of this dungeon; people had forgotten what it was made for in the first place.

Not only that, the dungeon had apparently been left unattended for decades, according to records. There was a limit to how much power monsters could absorb, and this dungeon was set up so that new monsters wouldn’t be generated until some were defeated. As the monsters were left undefeated, the fragment’s influence began to grow to the point that it couldn’t be kept under control just by having the students fight monsters.

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