Chapter 12: School Network Terminal - Open Chat Bulletin Board 8
621. Anonymous Priest, Year 2
Breaking news.
The <Machos> have defeated <Debubu>!
622. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
Wait, seriously?!
They finally won?!
623. Anonymous Mage, Year 2
That’s amazing.
They overturned the saying, “Muscles are useless against ghosts.”
…But why is it, I can’t really feel moved by this…?
624. Anonymous Priest, Year 2
Well, yeah.
I mean, it’s been ages since they first said they’d beat <Debubu>.
Guess the hype just cooled off.
625. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
<Machos>… tough luck, man.
626. Anonymous Mage, Year 2
Their rivals <Eden> are already about to move on to Intermediate Dungeons.
Can <Machos> really stage a comeback from here, I wonder.
627. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Got an interview!
I managed to hear their thoughts after the victory.
Couldn’t get one from <Eden> thanks to their fan club blocking me,
but this time it worked out.
628. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
It’s Investigator-senpai!
You’re exactly the kind of hero we were waiting for!
629. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
First off, their victory comment.
For some reason, all of them were wearing twisted headbands.
And then they said, “If we chant muscles, even <Debubu> can be beaten!”
630. Anonymous Priest, Year 2
What the hell does that even mean!? What happened to them these past few days?!
631. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Oh, and they also said, “You can call us the Phoenix Muscle Corps.”
632. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
No way! I can’t even defend that one!
And muscles don’t have a single shred of magical element in them!
There’s a limit to how far you can push “adventuring,” y’know!?
633. Anonymous Mage, Year 2
Guess <Machos> really are one weird party…
67. Anonymous Support, Year 3
Lately, there’s been talk about a carriage tearing through dungeons, scraping along the cave walls.
68. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
Hell yeah, there has!
69. Anonymous Spearman, Year 1
Honestly, I didn’t believe it either, but I went to see for myself.
It was real. Totally blew my mind.
70. Anonymous Priest, Year 2
With that many eyewitnesses, of course I wanted to see it!
I went too! …Didn’t get to see it though.
71. Anonymous Mage, Year 2
This is all recent, right?
I haven’t gone to check myself.
Do we know who’s behind it?
It can’t really be some new monster subspecies like the rumors say, right?
72. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Let me explain.
73. Anonymous Swordsman, Year 2
Investigator-senpai!
So you were investigating too, huh!
74. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Pretty much. This time, it was an official academy request.
If it really were a new type of monster, it could cause real damage.
But with the academy swamped preparing for Fated Day, the job got passed to us.
75. Anonymous Swordsman, Year 2
That’s because your investigative skills are top-tier in the academy!
As expected, senpai!
76. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
At first, it was just a rumor—“a carriage is rampaging through a dungeon.”
But there were so many witnesses, even some first-years came to ask me,
“Do carriages spawn in dungeons?”
Of course not! I shot that down right away.
77. Anonymous Priest, Year 2
That poor first-year…
78. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Anyway, to cut to the chase:
That carriage belongs to <Eden>.
The “new monster subspecies” rumor was total nonsense.
Besides, subspecies only show up in Advanced Dungeons, never in Beginner ones.
79. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
!? <Eden> again?!
Those guys are doing way more adventuring than we adventurers!
80. Anonymous Support, Year 3
Well, you can’t deny they’re never short on headlines.
81. Anonymous Mage, Year 2
Judging by your tone, senpai, you already suspected it?
82. Anonymous Support, Year 3
Pretty much. This feels exactly like something they’d pull.
But a carriage this time, huh…
Sure, it’s famous for 【Knight】-type jobs to fight mounted.
Usually that means riding a horse, a pegasus, a wolf… even a <Mochikko>.
But using an actual carriage inside a dungeon? Never heard of it.
83. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
Wait, hold up—
That last one, <Mochikko>, really caught my attention.
There was a knight who fought riding a Mochikko?!
Aren’t people overdoing this “adventure” thing? What about us regular adventurers…
84. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
I’d never heard of it either, so I checked.
Turns out, the <Great Library> has a recipe for carriage equipment.
85. Anonymous Priest, Year 2
Carriage equipment? Details, please.
86. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
To be precise, it’s a recipe book for vehicle-type equipment, carriages included.
It listed various vehicles, from simple minecarts to small carriages.
Ah, you’ll have to go to the Great Library yourself if you want the crafting details.
But nothing in there matched the kind of extravagant carriage <Eden> has.
My guess is they got a rare recipe drop. Can’t fully confirm it yet,
but I’m almost certain.
87. Anonymous Support, Year 3
I see. Got it—
I’ll spread the word around.
88. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Thanks. That should put the rumors to rest, and I’ll be able to report back to the academy with good news.
Since the academy didn’t provide any backup this time, the reward points are extra sweet.
Guess we owe <Eden> a bit of gratitude.
89. Anonymous Adventurer, Year 2
Hey, wait! Don’t leave me hanging—tell me more about the Mochikko Knight!
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823. Anonymous Traps Specialist, Year 3
Any girls out there still without a job!?
If you are, tell me—I’ll carry you on my back all the way to the venue if I have to!
824. Anonymous Alchemy, Year 2
Cut it out, you creep!
You’re obviously full of ulterior motives!
Everything you say is just sleaze from top to bottom, so don’t you dare reply to him!
825. Anonymous Traps Specialist, Year 3
Wh-what the hell!? No way!
I’m not that full of ulterior motives, okay!?
I’ll really get you to the venue, I swear!
826. Anonymous Axe-user, Year 2
The moment you limit it to “girls only,” you lose all credibility.
827. Anonymous Support, Year 3
You lot sure have energy to be posting here.
I’m dead tired already.
Well, at least the academy points we get out of this are tasty.
828. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
This is the once-a-year jackpot after all.
If we escort struggling students, we get points too!
Hey, first-years lurking in this thread, don’t be shy—speak up!
829. Anonymous Spearman, Year 1
Uh, can I ask a question?
These “points” senpai keep talking about—what are they?
830. Anonymous Traps Specialist, Year 3
Ah, sorry bro, but no thanks.
I’m way too busy looking for troubled girls right now.
Come back when you’re a girl, and then I’ll answer your questions.
831. Anonymous Alchemy, Year 2
Don’t mind him, he’s just an incorrigible pervert.
As for the points, you’ll learn about them as soon as classes start.
832. Anonymous Support, Year 3
To put it simply, they’re called Quest Points.
They’re rewards given for contributing to the academy: completing academy-issued quests, events like this one, guild battle victories, and so on.
You can exchange them for all sorts of things—materials, items, resources, equipment, even facilities.
Since they’re academy rewards, you can get rare stuff you’d never see in the campus shop. Of course, the rarer the prize, the higher the cost.
833. Anonymous Axe-user, Year 2
Basically, when we help students in trouble, the academy counts it as a contribution, and we get quest points.
For example, I’ve been hauling dragon statues around to rack up mine.
834. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Once a year, on this day only, the academy hands out points like candy.
They’re so swamped they’d borrow a cat’s paws if they could—so for students, it’s prime time to rack up points.
835. Anonymous Spearman, Year 1
Wait, seriously?! That’s a thing!?
So if I contribute, I get points too!?
836. Anonymous Investigator, Year 3
Sorry, but first-years should sit this one out.
837. Anonymous Spearman, Year 1
Eep!?
838. Anonymous Axe-user, Year 2
Yeah, the teachers might appreciate your help, but we upperclassmen aren’t gonna see it kindly.
Better to leave today’s work to us.
It’s for your own good.
839. Anonymous Spearman, Year 1
…Y-yes, sir.
840. Anonymous Traps Specialist, Year 3
Uh, so girls are suddenly going out of their way to avoid me. What should I do?
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