Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 7] by Mao Nishiura

Author:Mao Nishiura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, magic, adventure, isekai, reincarnation, academy, fantasy world, magic academy, aristocrats, male protagonist, swords
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

The Snake Chases the Rats

We waited around half an hour for the blood to drain from the two runesheep carcasses. The younger kids then bound each carcass by their feet to two separate branches. With the two long branches hoisted over their little shoulders, we began to make our way back in the direction we’d come from.

Two rouvultures, a type of carrion bird monster, were circling overhead. They must be looking for scraps.

Unfortunately, unlike in some of the fantasy web novels I’d read, there weren’t any magical 4D storage bags in this world that could hold an infinite number of goods without getting any heavier. The littler kids looked like they were struggling—after all, some of them hadn’t even learned to use Strengthening Magic yet. I wanted to help them out, but Pops had ordered us weapon bearers—me, Amur, and Roy—to stay at the ready in case of monster attacks. Well, I guess it’s just another opportunity for them to get used to hard work...

We’d made it about three hundred meters back toward the path when we heard a low rumble coming from somewhere in the east. It was the sound of shaking ground, like a tiny earthquake. The sound of something running.

And it was running toward us.

I strained my eyes until I could make out the source of the noise. And there it was—around five hundred meters away and quickly approaching was a swarm of meadowmara. About twenty of them by my quick estimation. The ratlike monsters weighed around twenty kilograms apiece, and they were stampeding right toward us.

What the hell? According to my beloved Encyclopedia, meadowmara were meant to be incredibly timid monsters. They were supposed to flee at the sight of humans...

“Shit!” Pops shouted. “That’s a Gryetess snake after them! They’re leading it straight to us!”

I looked again, and then I saw it. A ridiculously big brown snake was slithering through the grass behind the pack of meadowmara.

A Gryetess snake would chase anything that moved. Like Amur had explained, the plan had been to freeze in place if we’d encountered one, waiting until it either passed us or until Pops could deal with the beast. Unfortunately, that plan would no longer work. If we froze where we were, the meadowmara would crash right into us, bringing the snake along with them. The slithering beast in question was rapidly closing in on us, not slowing even a little as it flung an unluckier meadowmara into the air and swallowed it whole en route. All ten or so meters of its stupidly large body were on a collision course for our little group. This snake could definitely swallow a human just as easily, and at its insane speed, I knew I wouldn’t be able to outrun it, let alone the younger kids.

Pops swore loudly. “At least it’s not elementally affined—small consolation, though!” A Gryetess snake with elemental magic would have vividly colored scales speckled across the rest of its dark brown skin, although the color would depend on which affinity it possessed.

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