Chapter 117: Seven Wonders of the Academy (part seven)
After taking a nap, I slipped out from the dorm with Tirnanog and headed to the school building.
I feel that my lack of sleep has mostly disappeared, but it may be better not to overdo it tomorrow.
Well, the Seven Wonders we’re going to investigate tonight is the 「Infinite Corridor」.
It is a mysterious story that says if one passes through the corridor of the school building at 02:00 am, they won’t be able to get out forever.
I met Klaus and Auguste near the school building.
“Sorry I kept you waiting, Klaus-sama, Auguste-sama. Are you both sleeping well?”
“You have time to worry about others? This more likely to have an impact on your academic work.”
“Sorry, Erica. It got leaked because Klaus hounded me hard.”
Auguste smiled shamelessly behind Klaus, who was glaring angrily at me.
It seems the fact that I was late has been leaked to Klaus.
Having a watchdog is scary.
“Yes, I’m going to sleep properly without exploring tomorrow.”
I reflected on it and responded obediently.
In fact, the three-days consecutive midnight search has been a bit tough for me, so the search would be about once in a couple of days from now on.
“Now then, tonight we will try to attack one of the Seven Wonders where it says the corridor of the school building will become a part of a labyrinth.”
“It’s some kind of spatial magic. That’s it. Now that you know, go back and sleep.”
“Eeeh……Klaus-sama, to return back before experiencing it firsthand is a bit……”
Klaus sighed deeply when I refused to back down.
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“Just for a bit then. This time, we will escape the labyrinth before it gets too late.”
“Can one escape the labyrinth that easily?”
“I have already encountered it. I also know how to escape it.”
“The Seven Wonders of our academy are actually boring, huh~ well, this time, it seems it will be a bit interesting though.”
As a matter of fact, I can hardly imagine how such a simple-made corridor becomes a labyrinth.
At the border with the courtyard there are only pillars, so it’s easy to escape.
Just as I was thinking about that, Auguste patted my shoulder and warned me with a low voice.
“There are two people coming from the west……they’re the prefects. Let’s get in before they notice us.”
Klaus nodded, shortened the chant and quickly cast Passwall.
Through the wall beside the front entrance, we moved to the corridor.
“So, how do we trigger that ghost story, Klaus?”
“Do you know that there is a 〈Foresight Well〉 in the courtyard? If we go to the classroom near that well, it will probably happen.”
〈Foresight Well〉 is a small round well on the far right of the courtyard.
We left the corridor and stepped into the courtyard, crossed the well and entered the corridor again.
It was also the classroom where I have my Elementary Alchemy class.
“It says the occurrence time is 02:00 am, that is correct, right, Klaus-sama?”
“Aah, from 02:00 am to 03:00 am when certain conditions overlap.”
I confirmed it while watching the clock.
It seems that we’ll be waiting for about 10 minutes.
I sat in the front seat with Tirnanog.
Klaus was standing with his back to the door, and Auguste sat at the table on the platform.
“Speaking of which, Klaus. What were you doing here at this time?”
“On that day, after a long visit to the library, I trained at the 〈Foresight Well〉.”
“Training until 02:00 am, huh……that’s just like you, Klaus-sama.”
〈Foresight Well〉 is a training facility for mages with rare aptitude such as future vision and past vision.
Although Klaus has the aptitude, it seems that he doesn’t succeed in future vision and past vision because there is a lack of longing for the past and the future.
“When I had been training for a while, I felt someone’s presence. So I followed the presence to this class, but it was deserted.”
Klaus predicted that they probably also used the Passwall magic.
A mage, huh, so it must have been someone who at least has enough mastery of magic to use scrolls.
Klaus didn’t chase them any further, as it was likely that they had already fled far.
“Later, when I left this classroom, I encountered the wonder of this corridor.”
After listening to the story up to that point, it was 02:00 am on the dot.
“Now then, let’s go.”
Klaus opened the classroom door while I activated the Historio Electrum.
I tried to follow after Klaus and Auguste, but someone held me back.
Tirnanog seemed to be having trouble in lifting my leather bag.
When I put my hand on the bag to help him out, my strength left me.
I just couldn’t lift the bag.
“Why……?”
“Place your space-expanded magic tools in this room. I will tell you the reason later.”
“Y-yes……I’m sorry, but you will have to stand guard here, okay?”
Following Klaus’ advice, I decided to leave behind my precious mobile-style Wunderkammer bag here.
For safety’s sake, I asked Tirnanog to be on guard.
When I went through the entrance of the classroom to the corridor, I felt that the air was somewhat different from the corridor we came from before.
It’s raining.
It was raining in the courtyard.
Because of the force of the rain, the scenery was so dark that we couldn’t see the other side of the corridor.
The corridor had a distinctive smell of wet soil and damp cold air.
Although it looks exactly the same except for the weather, there is a peculiar feeling of strangeness.
Speaking of which, I can’t hear the rain.
Does that mean the rain is also part of the wonder?
“Klaus, is this an illusory magic?”
“No, that’s not it. It’s an old spatial magic phenomenon. To put it in a nutshell, it duplicates the real corridors and connects them so one cannot see the joining points. It stretches on forever.”
Even in this situation, Klaus began to explain in a calm and indifferent manner as always.
“What made you unable to bring in your leather bag earlier, Erica, is the defense mechanism that was put into the space. When another expanded space is put into the infinitely expanded space, the collapse of space occurs centered around the latter. If there were no such thing like Barrier to prevent that, the collapse would expand everywhere rapidly, and everything would be swallowed up and disappear.”
I felt cold sweat flowing on my back.
Huh? Is infinite expansion that dangerous?
“It’s fine. The defense mechanism is functioning, so even if it is old, a safety device to prevent the space from collapsing was built-in.”
“So there are those that don’t have safety devices, huh……”
“There isn’t anything like that now. Everything has been destroyed long before Aurelia’s arrival. If you’re worried, do you want to escape from this place immediately?”
At that question, Auguste and I looked at each other with a complicated expression.
Klaus said that the space is safe for sure, but there is a possibility that something else has been set up in the other parts.
“I want to elucidate this phenomenon, so I would like to continue the investigation for a little longer.”
“Haha, I thought you would say so, Erica.”
“Let’s go then. It’s simple if you only want to destroy it or withdraw from this place, but elucidating this place would take a considerable time.”
We walked in a file with me in the center, Klaus at the front and Auguste at the end.
We didn’t know which way to go, so we decided to go clockwise.
Strange thing happened twice around the corner of the corridor.
Although originally we were supposed to have arrived at the other side of the corridor, there was the nameplate for the Elementary Alchemy classroom.
When I looked closely, the view of the courtyard was also the one with the 〈Foresight Well〉.
“We returned to the same place.”
“Oh……this is definitely the Infinite Corridor.”
Auguste murmured in admiration.
This confirmed the fact that this phenomenon is the Infinite Corridor, one of the Seven Wonders.
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I took out a chalk from my satchel and marked the door.
Klaus seems busy analyzing using Glam Sight.
Auguste, who was examining the door of the classroom where we started from, opened his mouth.
“This classroom door, it won’t open……”
Silence fell between the three of us.
“……perhaps, we can’t go back anymore?”
“It’s only due to the Barrier. It’s impossible to open and close the door, but if we destroy it we can return to the original space. It seems that the Infinite Corridor will disappear and come back at 02:00 am the next day.”
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