I Become a Mafia in the Academy

Chapter 92

The march signaling the start of the battle echoed through the cavern.

The entrance to the boss room on the 10th floor.

The leader of the villains, deployed to prevent any possible dungeon raid by the academy students.

'Miner' was currently watching through an ice crystal as the academy students who had reached up to the 9th floor encountered the villain, 'Snow Girl's gang,' who had come for this terrorist act.

"Ha, judging by how far they've come already, are they skilled? Or... did they just get lucky and wake up on the 9th floor?"

For him, who had been spending boring time guarding the 9th and 10th floors using his ability to break through the dungeon's terrain faster than anyone else, it was quite a sight to behold.

He set down the pickaxe he was holding next to him and, while observing the situation displayed by the magic of the villain named 'Snow Girl's gang,' took out a snack he had prepared in advance.

"Looking at the badge color, they seem to be freshmen... Huh? That hair color, is it the successor of the Cheongcheon Family?"

Expecting a routine outcome, the Miner smiled faintly when an unexpected character appeared.

"Wow, I thought it would be boring waiting, but this, things are getting interesting."

The Miner just chuckled and kept watching the guy beyond the ice crystal.

If he wanted to, he could go down to the upper floor to help, but the opponents were just academy freshmen.

If he were to lose to such rookies, he could only think that she was that weak.

To villains, comrades were merely disposable beings at any time.

"Then, shall we see the level of these academy freshmen?"

The blue ice crystal floating in front of the Miner reflected the situation on the upper floor.

* * *

"You arrived earlier than I expected? I thought nothing would happen for at least two days."

As the freshmen appeared in front of them, the villain 'Snow Girl's gang' giggled and cast magic at Youngje, who was watching.

"How cute."

As the gang member hit the head of the snowman she was riding, ice crystals rose from there, turning into blue spikes.

"First off, shall we exchange greetings?"

As soon as the gang member finished speaking, spikes shot out.

In response, Seah stepped forward from behind Youngje, spreading her hands wide.

At the same time, the ice spikes intentionally missed them, embedding elsewhere.

"Oh, coordinate interference as well? These kids are interesting."

As the gang member laughed at the unexpected skill of the kids.

"Ugh?!"

With a clang, the snowman the gang member was riding on shook.

Looking down to see what was happening, she saw Choi Yeon swinging her sword at the lower body of the snowman.

"Stupid girl! You think you can cut Snow with that sword?!"

Choi Yeon swung her sword at the snowman once more.

But the sword only bounced off without penetrating the snowman's body.

After bouncing back, Choi Yeon closely examined the snowman's surface and realized there was a layer of transparent ice around it.

"It's certainly hectic with three of them."

Muttering so, the gang member hit the snowman's head again.

Then, the ice crystals that sprang up from there fell to the ground, starting to form a new white body like bamboo shoots sprouting.

"Children of snow, won't you chase out those pests?"

In an instant, the area around Snow was filled with snowmen the size of humans.

In response, Seah and Youngje gritted their teeth, looking at the snowmen.

"Seah! I'm going to fire off a big one, so please target them!"

"Leave it to me!"

With Seah's confirmation, Youngje swung his fountain pen.

"grandioso(majestically)!"

A huge flame rose from the tip of the fountain pen into the sky.

At the same time, Seah, who had taken over the control of magic from Youngje, spread her hands wide.

At that moment.

"Scatter!"

Only visible to her eyes, the coordinates of the space and the path of magic movement.

Seah, predicting all of it in an instant, turned one pillar of fire into dozens of streams and dropped them on the heads of the snowmen.

As cold ice met hot fire, steam instantly filled the upper part of the cavern.

The 9th floor cavern was soon filled with thick steam.

But.

Groooaaan──

The snowmen, only slightly smaller in size, were still quite robust.

"Ahahaha! My ice freezes even magic, the ultimate nemesis of mages! Do you think something like that would work?!"

"No, it's enough."

At the cold voice coming from below, the gang member looked down.

Choi Yeon was swinging her sword at the smaller snowmen, finishing them off.

At that sight, the gang member's body flinched and trembled, but she hit Snow's head once more.

"Stop her!"

-Groooaaar───!!

With a sound too loud to believe it came from a snowman, it started to move.

Arms sprouted from its body, which had nothing inside.

Choi Yeon and Seah grimaced at the sight.

"Ew, what is that?"

"...Disgusting."

But as if their reactions were unimportant, frost began to form on the arms that had sprouted, creating ice crystals in the shape of swords.

"Snow! Wipe them all out!"

-Guooooo───!!

The snowman swung its sword, as large as its body, vertically at Choi Yeon.

Choi Yeon quickly tried to dodge to the side.

"...!"

However, her feet were already stuck to the floor due to the frozen ice.

Eventually, though she raised her sword, the overwhelming mass struck her head, causing a huge gust of wind to sweep through the cavern.

"Choi Yeon!"

Seeing this, Seah, who was fighting the snowmen with her bare hands, reached out towards Choi Yeon.

With a flash of purple light, Choi Yeon appeared in front of Seah.

"Thanks to you, I survived."

Perhaps due to internal injuries, bright red blood flowed from her mouth.

"Ah."

Wiping the blood from her mouth, Choi Yeon checked her sword and saw it was cracked.

"...Maybe two or three more times. We need to decide the match within that."

Calculating how many more attacks she could make, Choi Yeon began to think of a way to win, recalling their surroundings and their condition.

Could she cut the snowman with a secret technique?

──Impossible.

The chance of success was extremely low, and if she failed, she would have to fight bare-handed.

Was there another way?

Choi Yeon quickly looked around.

The methods she could use were limited.

The opponent's ability was very incompatible with her specialty, speed, and the indoor environment made the cold accumulate, making movements feel increasingly sluggish.

In other words, it would be difficult to defeat it alone.

Then, she needed to create some other variable.

Her eyes turned to the other two, who were dealing with the smaller snowmen.

"...I'll target the sorcerer on top of the snowman. Can you provide support?"

The two nodded in response while fighting.

"I'll twist any magic aimed at Choi Yeon as much as possible."

"Did you think of a good strategy? I'll do my best to support."

Nodding at their responses, Choi Yeon prepared to charge out at any moment.

"Please."

"Allegro(quickly)!"

With a bang! Choi Yeon kicked off the ground and dashed towards the giant snowman.

And with it, Youngje's support magic.

As a result, Choi Yeon's speed, which had been slowed by the cold, began to gradually increase.

The gang was taken aback by the movements, which were clearly different from before.

"Snow! This time, slice it for sure!"

-Guoooooooo───!!

The snowman raised a huge ice sword, and the gang tried to change the ground to ice to block Choi Yeon's movements, but──

"Keep running!"

At that moment, Seah, who had pierced the face of the snowman in front of her with her bare hands, twisted her wrist and altered the coordinates where the gang's magic was to activate.

Ultimately, it ended up freezing the wrong place.

"That damn spatial mage! No matter what, you can't get up here── huh?"

The gang, who tried to block Choi Yeon's charge with another spell, soon realized that her hands were not moving.

Because her hands were stuck to the snowman's head.

"What the hell...?"

The ice mage frozen by her own creation?

While the gang was bewildered by such an absurd situation.

"Tranquillo(calmly)."

Youngje's voice came from below.

When the gang looked down, she could see Youngje smirking as if it was nothing.

"You... how the hell with ice magic!"

Just from what the gang had seen so far, there was enhancement magic and fire magic. Two types.

And now using another attribute magic here?

"Damn it...! Snow, fall back!"

The gang, trying to melt the ice with magic as quickly as possible, shouted out, but...

"──Too late."

Before she knew it, Choi Yeon had leaped into the air and raised her sword above her head.

"It was my first time fighting such a big opponent. It was fun."

Choi Yeon muttered so with a very calm face.

The blue aura that rose from her hand instantly engulfed the cracked sword.

It was a very beautiful blue light, but for the gang, just looking at it made her instincts sound an alarm.

──I'll die.

"This... damn it!! Miner! You're watching, right? If you're watching, come help me!!"

The gang screamed at the top of her lungs to the miner who was watching this scene through her magic.

However, there was no response from the lower floor, and a white slash fell from above 'Snow Girl's gang'.

"Yangdan(duality)."

────!

With a sound like cutting through a sherbet, the snowman's body exploded.

Kwaang──!

The fragments of the snowman spread out, causing a fierce blizzard.

At the same time, the white light dyed the surroundings white.

'White Out.'

It was the last magic 'Snow Girl's gang' cast just before being hit by Choi Yeon's attack.

"Haa... Haa...! I almost died! If I just quietly escape now...!"

Having escaped from Choi Yeon's attack thanks to the White Out, she slowly crawled towards the hole the miner had dug, lowering her body.

"Damn kids...! I'll get revenge. I'll definitely get revenge!"

While she was chewing over her silent anger in the white snowfield.

"Ugh?!"

With a short cry, she collapsed onto the snowfield.

Behind her, an unknown figure appeared and quietly looked in the direction of the children.

* * *

"Ha, as expected, they're just kids."

At the entrance to the boss room on the 10th floor of the dungeon.

There, the miner was watching the situation on the upper floor through the gang's magic.

"Ugh... It seems to be taking longer than expected, and the gang seems to be in danger, so should I go help soon?"

The miner trembled with excitement at the shock felt up to the 10th floor.

As he continued to feel the ground shaking, he couldn't suppress an unknown exhilaration──

"......Huh? Wait a minute?"

He suddenly felt something was off and stopped in his tracks.

A sensation he could feel because he was sensitive to vibrations.

He realized that the continuous vibrations were not occurring naturally but were caused by an artificial object, and he began to look around.

"Because of the guys upstairs? No, they weren't doing anything to cause vibrations, were they?"

With a hint of doubt, he looked at the huge stone door behind him.

The boss's room on the 10th floor, where the dungeon's boss was presumed to be trapped.

But the vibrations felt from within were too small for that.

"Then what the hell..."

At that moment.

[──Ding-dong.]

A sound too strange to be heard in a dungeon.

[──10th floor underground.]

"Wow, you can really get to the 10th floor in one go?"

"I pressed it because the light was on. I didn't expect to come this far."

"Then if we use this later, isn't it going to be super easy, boss?"

"No, then there's no fun in conquering the dungeon."

The miner slowly turned his head at the sudden sound of voices.

The pillar in the middle of the room, which he had always thought was just a decoration.

It suddenly split in half, and people came out of it.

"Huh? Boss, there's someone over there? Why is there someone with a hard hat in a dungeon?"

"......Hard hat?"

Soon, the eyes of the two people who came out of the elevator met with the miner's.

"......That's."

Yoojin's eyes widened in surprise as he immediately recognized the man wearing the hard hat, and then his lips curled up as if they would tear apart.

"──Found it."