Chapter 28: Dekan Announce a School-wide Holiday

I looked at the current exploration progress again.

【Mission Objective 1: Academy exploration progress exceeds 50%. Current progress: 26.4%】

【Remaining time: 6 hours and 22 minutes】

About 7% of the exploration progress was contributed by Cornelia and me.

If our teammates could continue to work smoothly, it would probably be no problem for us to reach the target one or two hours ahead of schedule.

But now, it was hard to say how much time would be left.

Because we had to consider whether the other teammates would lose another one or two.

If this continued, our pool party might be ruined.

"Sigh, let's continue working. I hope we can gather some information about the boss room."

Life is not easy, I sighed.

If we chose the method of clearing the world without fighting the boss room, we would lack the high exploration progress from the boss room.

In this case, to complete Mission Objective 1 (explore the map), the number of ordinary rooms we would need to clear would be more than the normal method, in order to make up for the exploration progress of the boss room.

But as long as we broke through the boss room, Cornelia and I might not have to waste so much time slowly clearing a large number of ordinary rooms.

"Although this exploration-type Shadow World is quite heartwarming and healing, the actions of random teammates are really unpredictable..." I lamented.

Even a story-based or escape-based Shadow World would be better.

The varying skill levels of other challengers wouldn't directly add such a substantial workload for me.

"Making me work overtime, it would have been better to match us with a competitive type..."

The most brutal type of Shadow World was the competitive type.

No PVE, just PVP.

Just annihilate all the enemy challengers and be done with it.

However, this type of Shadow World appeared less frequently and had an extremely high death rate.

There might even be incredibly powerful users of otherworldly magic cards as opposing challengers.

...

Cornelia and I left the broadcast room, sealed the door, and prepared to continue our work.

"Dekan, listen, is that some kind of noise?"

Cornelia suddenly said, staring in a certain direction.

"...Let's go and see. But let's dismiss the entire school first."

I trusted Cornelia's perception.

Her hearing and vision were far superior to mine.

It was class time now. If there was a noise in the corridor, it was most likely related to other challengers.

Demon students had no tasks to do. Unless they were driven out of the classroom, they generally wouldn't wander around in the corridor during class time.

It was very likely that other challengers were hiding from the Dean.

Or even being chased by the Dean, which would cause the noise.

If that was really the case, it would be best to shut down the Dean first.

...

(The following scene focuses on another challenger and is thus narrated in the 3rd person.)

On a spacious corridor, a heavily injured challenger was being hunted by the Dean.

He could only slightly delay the Dean for a moment by relying on control-type spell cards and the desperate resistance of his summons.

He staggered, his body swaying.

He seemed to have reached a desperate situation.

Originally, his challenge in the classroom had failed, triggering the teacher's killing mechanism, and he had managed to escape by a fluke.

On the way, he unfortunately encountered the Dean.

Now, even if he escaped into a classroom, it would be difficult for him to cope with the teacher's test in his current state.

He had to find the infirmary as soon as possible.

Although he still hadn't given up hope of survival, his speed was getting slower and slower.

And the Dean had completely eliminated his summons and was closing in on him in a matter of seconds.

He knew his fate was sealed.

From the moment he met the Dean in the corridor, it was basically a dead end.

No matter how he dodged, it was useless.

In the end, he still couldn't escape the fate of having his chest pierced by the Dean's bloody hand.

Everything was over.

He thought to himself.

Just as he closed his eyes, preparing to welcome death...

The school bell for the end of class actually rang at this very moment!

The Dean: "¿"

The Dean's hand froze in mid-air, his expression extremely strange.

Something felt wrong. Wasn't this class time a bit too short?

And just as he was about to kill this truant, the bell rang?

But he had no choice.

According to the rules, it was now break time, and he could no longer attack students.

The one who was even more confused was actually this challenger.

He could see the timer on the mission interface!

It wasn't time for class to be over yet.

Why did the end-of-class music ring?!

This could no longer be described as good luck; it was simply a miracle!

At this moment, two figures walked out from the end of the corridor.

Their steps were steady, unhurried.

They didn't look like students at all, but more like leaders coming for an inspection.

They seemed not to have seen the Dean at all and quickly walked towards this challenger.

(The perspective returns to me, Dekan.)

"My friend, you are safe now!" I said with a smile.

I had an impression of this challenger's face; I had seen him in the examination hall.

The challenger hesitated for a moment and looked back at the Dean. He saw that the Dean seemed to be in a frozen state.

After confirming that the Dean was really not attacking him anymore, the challenger quickly staggered towards my direction.

"The Dean's state... did you do this?"

This challenger recognized me and Cornelia.

It was these two who had broken through the examination hall.

When he saw the strange "Rescue Humans 101/3" on the mission log, the first people he thought of were also these two.

These two must be veteran high-tier challengers!

No matter what, he was saved!

"Who knows?"

I just smiled and then asked, "You're going to the infirmary, right?"

The challenger replied, "...Yes."

"Then let's go."

I took out a small bottle of potion I had purloined from the infirmary and handed it to him.

Then I supported the challenger's arm.

The potion could only alleviate his injuries; he still needed to go to the infirmary for bandaging.

If I could save someone along the way, I would still lend a hand.

After all, I was a kind-hearted young man.

"Thank you for your help!"

The challenger thanked me and quickly drank the potion. His complexion immediately improved a lot.

"Have you been to the infirmary?" the challenger immediately asked again.

Me: "Yes, five-star review."

The infirmary still had normal medical resources, but that demon school doctor had a serious perverse pleasure and generally didn't treat patients well. Even after the destruction by Baron Bach, there were still some remaining resources that could be used.

The three of us walked down the corridor.

I asked this challenger, "How did you get so badly injured?"

"My companion and I failed while challenging a Tier 4 classroom. When we were fighting that teacher at the end, my companion created an opportunity for me to escape... but he... should have already sacrificed himself in the music classroom... that damned! Hellish classroom!"

The challenger's expression gradually became sorrowful and unwilling, and tears welled up in his eyes.

I nodded, roughly understanding why "Mission Objective 3" had previously shown "disguise integrity 5/6."

The disguise effects of the six of us were actually very good.

If it weren't for encountering a demon with special means, we would probably only be discovered as humans when we were killed and turned into corpses.

However, hearing the challenger mention a "hellish classroom."

I couldn't help but become a little curious.

There was a place in this school that could be called hellish?

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