The door opens, and a squishy mold pokes you in the nose.

The wooden floorboards make a squeaking sound that ignites the screams of every step.

Kim Sung-cheol sensed a maneuver that took place upstairs.

The pilgrimage quickly descends the stairs without a sound and hides itself in the darkness that lies within the dormitory.

Seeing Seong-chul Kim secretly, it seems like a good thing to observe.

Kim Sung-cheol pretended not to know and went forward.

Soon after hurting a few cobwebs with my hands, the candlelit restaurants appeared.

In the restaurant, there were five wooden tables for four to sit at once, and four of them were covered with unused white cloth, while the other one had a vase of lilies containing lilies that had not yet lost their freshness.

“Who dares disturb my rest? ”

It was around that time that Sung-cheol Kim opened his mouth.

It is the voice of a woman with a ghostly roar.

Perhaps Kim Sung-cheol is trying to mislead himself into a ghost, but such a trivial prank is not available to Kim Sung-cheol.

He proceeded forward with a expressionless face, then climbed up the stairs past the room where the mysterious woman had been hiding.

“You're fearless! How dare you ignore my warning! ”

Once again, the woman's voice echoes from behind.

At the same time, a strange wave spreads throughout the dormitory, and the surrounding objects begin to hover and shake ominously.

In addition, the damp cold season spread throughout the hall and the floating things began to flutter violently.

If the unsuspecting people saw it, it was a wondrous sight that remained even as a line.

But Kim Sung-cheol didn't even look at it and walked up the stairs.

It was when Kim Sung-cheol put his first foot on the stairs that the thing that came to mind sank down.

“Hey, you really want to die! ”

The girl's voice echoes from behind.

Kim Sung-cheol stopped walking and looked back.

A blonde girl in a white dress is shooting herself with an angry face.

Age range is 15 or 6.

She was a beautiful girl with a bud that could leave out the soul of a man when she grew up.

But there is one crucial problem.

There can't be a girl that age in the world right now.

The average age of the generation that nearly avoided the curse of extinction called the End Generation was in the early twenties.

All the lambs of the second world below died in agony under the curse of God.

Or stay alive, but not alive.

Kim Sung-cheol seemed to be the latter type of blonde girl.

Soon, Kim Sung-cheol found out why.

‘This guy. You're not a living person. ’

The girl hears nothing but irregular breathing, but no heartbeat.

In other words, it is a living corpse, as it is destined to be.

Having activated the spiritualist - the eyes of truth, Kim Sung-cheol was able to glimpse the more serious problems hidden in the girl's body.

Dozens of different types of conservation magic were covering her body from her head to her toes.

No matter what happened, I could feel the spirit of the alcoholic who wanted to protect her original appearance.

At that moment, Kim Sung-cheol felt a corner of his chest coming together and frowned.

I felt once again the desperate frenzy of the girl who could do anything to hold on to her precious life.

Different shapes, but the same thing I wanted to pursue.

“ ……. ”

While Kim Sung-cheol was silent, the girl came one step closer to Kim Sung-cheol.

She looked at Kim Sung-cheol's frowned face and smiled mischievously.

“Now you're acting a little surprised. ”

Kim Sung-cheol gazed at the girl silently.

“Now, can we get out of here? This is my house. We don't want outsiders like you sneaking up on us. ”

The girl shakes her hand and asks her to leave.

That gesture was enough to remind me of Kim Sung-cheol who was locked in a heavy memory.

‘Wait, I've been thinking about something else. ’

Kim Sung-cheol quickly regained his composure as he felt the bitterness spreading in his mouth.

He opens his mouth, gazing at the girl again.

“I'm sorry, I'm not an outsider. ”

“Huh? What does that mean? ”

The girl folded her arms and slightly spread her feet, asking her to tell me why once.

Kim Sung-cheol said in a bold voice why he came here.

“I'm new here today. And old Jogbat named the coffin my dormitory. Do you need any other reason? ”

“Really? That old Jogbat did it? ”

It works.

The girl looked a little surprised.

Kim Sung-cheol added a few words by pushing his strength.

“If not, then why did you leave so many common dorms and come all the way to this grim dormitory? ”

“Well... that doesn't make much sense either. I don't know anything else, but I have no right to refuse if old Jogbat chose to be here. I'll check with the homuncluses, but that's also later...”

The girl who acted like thorns would sprout in her mouth if she didn't expel Kim Sung-cheol right away, thought about the bear.

Soon after, she sighs and looks resigned.

“Well, I can't help it. I'm a student of Airfurt, too. I respect old Jogbat's opinion. It's tradition."

The girl who didn't know her name turned around, shrunk her shoulders, and soon she looked angry again, warning Kim Sung-cheol.

“My name is Sarah. I'm an Ice Science.I 'd rather not ignore my youthfulness. Because I'm five years ahead of you. ”

After introducing her, Sarah swoops back up the stairs.

“Use any room on the first floor. It's a little messy, but the cleaning supplies are in the storeroom next to the diner, so use them. Make sure to put it in its place after you write it down. And don't forget, it's a girls' school district from the second floor, so if you have any business, you'll need my permission under these stairs. I'm not very good at it. ”

After nagging like a mother-in-law, Sarah went up the stairs with a light gesture and disappeared into the darkness.

After returning to the static, Kim Sung-cheol stared at the direction where the girl disappeared for a while.

‘Undead who have not accepted death yet. ’

Kim Sung-cheol started looking for his room in the hallway again.

Soon he found an empty room at the end of the hall and turned it into his own room.

As Sarah said, it was a dirty room full of spider webs and a pile of dust, but Kim Sung-cheol didn't mind.

At least there are walls and roofs to keep the rain and wind out, and beds to keep the hard body soft.

“Let's clean up tomorrow. ”

*

The next day.

Kim Sung-cheol was led by a life assistant to the teachers of the engineering division.

The teachers of the engineering faction were nestled within the walls and the steep, north-eastern cliffs of the highest point of the Airfurt School surrounded by rugged mountains.

“There was originally a magic powered elevator and now it's not working for some reason! ”

It was inevitable that Kim Sung-cheol and the life assistant had to walk up a close staircase on a cliff.

Especially in the middle, there was a section that had to be passed through a life-threatening jump, and the life assistant stepped ahead and jumped over the broken section, grumbling.

“Here! Cadet! I'm showing courage! If a human with longer legs and therefore better jumping power can't jump beyond this, then he can only be the same human being! ”

Kim Sung-cheol lightly jumped over the crack, colorlessly speaking.

I immediately smiled at the face of the single lifeguard.

“Th-that's a palace Summoner. He's not like the idiot he is! Well, they don't come in anymore. ”

After climbing all the steep steps that made the climbing climb, Kim Sung-cheol and the life assistant were able to arrive at the teacher of the engineering group located at the top of the mountain.

The teacher was a medium-sized stone building featuring a circular dome with a large telescope on top.

“Then let's go inside! Cadet!”

Kim Sung-cheol pushed the heavy door behind the life assistant and entered as an engineering teacher.

The open and illuminated landscape caught my eye.

There were only a few columns within the teacher, but without walls or steps to divide the space, there was only one space around the dome of the ceiling.

So there was a loud little sound, and everyone in the same room could see each other.

Kim Sung-cheol found two people in a teacher who should be called the synagogue.

One was an old man with half a hair and a beard.

Time engraved wrinkles were more stubborn than crow's feet, and tight-knit lips had a hardly open weight.

The other one was a brilliant young man who looked as opposed to the old man.

He was lying on a hammock connected between the pillars and the pillars, reading a thick book like a magazine.

It was the youth who responded to Kim Sung-cheol's appearance first.

“Look who it is. I've never seen a guest before. ”

He got up from Hammock and approached Kim Sung-cheol.

“How are you? ”

Kim Sung-cheol replied briefly, staring at the elderly who was sitting beyond the young man.

“I'm here to learn. ”

The young man smiled.

“It's been a long time. ”

He reached out to Kim Sung-cheol and introduced himself.

“I am Lenard Bottom, a poor wizard who is trying to learn the magic of perforation from Artuzius here. ”

“... It's Kim Sung-cheol. ”

Kim Sung-cheol held the man's hand, revealing his name.

“Oops. You have a terrible name. Are you from the Summoners? ”

Kim Sung-cheol nodded.

“I see. I'm from a Summoner. Somehow I told you it's been a long time since you've been a rookie. Anyway, that's a long story. It looks like Master is waiting for you. Let's go inside. ”

Leonard opens his front with courtesy.

Kim Sung-cheol didn't think much of Leonard.

There is little to assess except that the attachment is good.

I did not see any noticeable vulgarity, such as looking at certain areas repeatedly or talking in secret.

Kim Sung-cheol stood in front of an old man sitting on a stone staircase like a tree.

“I'm here to learn. ”

There's nothing worse for Sung-cheol Kim than that old man, but this time, I bowed my head.

That is the basic posture of the seeker of learning.

The old man stared at Sung-cheol Kim with stubborn eyes, then raised his finger and pulled out a book out of the air.

He took out the book that was in the soul storage.

The old man gave a thick book to Sung-cheol Kim and said in a loud voice.

“I'm a retired old man and I have nothing more to teach. Unfortunately, you chose the wrong option out of all the options, and you ended up having the misfortune of meeting me. All I can give you is this book. ”

The old man reaches out again.

“I'm too old to sell. Take it.”

After Kim Sung-cheol received the book, the old man turned his back on Kim Sung-cheol and took the pipe out of his arms and asked him.

“In a week, you'll have the opportunity to change your major. We can't afford to waste any time until then, so reading at least that book and building some basic skills will help you achieve your career paths in the future. ”

That was the old man's last word.

It is not a mere speculation or a test.

He didn't want to talk to Kim Sung-cheol anymore.

He probably won't listen to anything he says.

‘You said Altuzius Zero. The old man is cut off from the world. ’

I met an unexpected ambush.

I heard from Christian that Artuzius Zero, a professor of engineering, is a fierce old man, but I didn't expect him to be very confident in his mission at all.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol, who received the book, stood on the path of choice.

Leonard, lying sideways on the hammock, looks at Kim Sung-cheol with an interesting smile.

Now, few students came to visit the astronomers, but even a few of them stubborn Altuzius took a stubborn step.

Based on this world, the Summoner from this world will make similar choices.

What can we learn from those who refuse to teach?

And then a surprising thing happened.

Unlike the other freshmen, the black-haired man in shabby nightmares and worn old jeans started to sit on the floor and hand over the thick books passed by the professor.

I thought he would be bored for even a moment, but I didn't think he would get up.

Even small sounds pass through a single page in a loud synagogue are conveyed to everyone's ears.

When Sung-cheol Kim turned over the page thirty times, the old man looked back and finally turned his head and put a mysterious freshman in his eyes.