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High School Hack and Slash Chapter 42 Part 2

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Pasifista

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Madder red clouds reflected in the sky.

The border between black and red was the boundary between day and night.

The gradation of orange that stirred up nostalgia.

The border between yin and yang was ambiguous, and the color that looked like bloodstains was a symbol of calamity.

Since ancient times, the time that indicated ill omen had been called Omagatoki, 『the time of rendezvous with demon』 or 『the time of great disaster』.

When it came to the 『other realm』 space, there were many cases where the 『world laws (local rules)』 there deviated from the physical laws.

In particular, raid areas that were classified as 『Royalty』 type were spaces created by the raid boss monsters that were the cornerstone of said worlds.

The created space was cut off from the world, turning into an independent new world.

The size of the 『other realm』, in other words the world, was proportional to the boss’s rank.

The raid boss monster that came into existence in the dungeon was a singularity that greatly deviated from the stratum laws.

The foreign bodies that were ejected from the 『world』 known as the dungeon stratum crossed over the stratums, wandering around the dungeon like ephemeral existences.

The laws pertaining to the movement of such singularities were unknown, but it was known that the stratum laws would change at the dungeon points connected to a wandering 『other realm』.

From the point of view of the challengers who were conquering the dungeon, they were irregularities.

However, if they were able to subjugate such raid boss monsters, it would also be a chance to get their hands on irregular rewards.

The 『other realm』 connected to the charted domain managed by Toyoashibara Academy were put under surveillance.

The purpose of this was not to acquire special materials that couldn’t be obtained normally.

This was because it was said that the mutations that encroached from the coordinates linked to the 『other realm』 would cross over the stratum, and if left unchecked, would overflow from the dungeon and affect the above ground.

Therefore, when they received a report of the discovery of an 『other realm』, the academy issued a 『raid quest』 with high rewards and recommended an immediate conquest.

In the academy, 『military warfare (raid)』 was defined as a transcendental decisive battle (Overrule) that should be deal with by multiple parties attacking at the same time, as opposed to the basic party-level battle.

「Is it this way?」

「Beats me. Rather, I’m getting real lazy.」

Pushing their way through the dense overgrown bushes, the members of the compulsory supplementary lessons participating in the 『Goten no Zakurosan』 raid quest were walking.

The color of the sky, visible through the leaves that had begun to redden, was dyed with a similar madder red.

It was a mild autumn season that did not require special equipment such as cold weather gear.

In raid quests where diving for a long period of time was the prerequisite, the difficulty level of the field was one of the most important conquest factors.

If it was an active volcanic zone or extremely cold field, exclusive environmental equipment would be indispensable.

「It looks like it’s expanding quite a bit, but…. Isn’t that bad?」

The boy shuddered as he looked around the nature field, which could also be called an uncivilized forest.

A normal low stratum dungeon was basically a populated structure where chambers and corridors were fit together.

You wouldn’t get to see the vast infinite space dungeon, which possessed even no space limitation in the form of ceiling, except in the deeper stratums.

The 『dungeon』 that you dived into through Rashomon was by no means a stack of physical layers, but rather a kind of space-time corridor where multitude of spaces were interconnected.

「Well, I guess it’s going to be okay. 『Zakurosan』 is a raid that is frequently set as a quest target, after all. So the base ought to still remain, right?」

The other boy brushed off the branches with the machete in his hand.

The machete, which boasted a blade a size larger than a normal knife, was utilized more as a tool for clearing vegetation in jungle bushwhacking than as a weapon used in battle.

『Goten no Zakurosan』 was a quest that had become a staple, especially in the supplementary lessons compulsory raids.

It was a sealed other realm with 『None』 conquest record and estimated boss difficulty level of 『Extreme Class』, in other words it had turned into a quest that was deemed impossible to conquer.

As far as the academy’s countermeasure was concerned, it was none other than the passive coping method of offering sacrifices on a regular basis to stop the outburst of space erosion in the wake of its 『activation』 and waiting for the other realm to move to the uncharted domain.

「~Hisss, so sour!」

Plucking the pomegranate fruits that even within the scope of their sight alone were bearing fruits all over the places, the boy’s mouths constricted as he tossed the red beads into his mouth all at once.

As the name 『Zakurosan (Pomegranate mountain)』 implied, there were countless pomegranate trees constantly bearing fruit in this other realm.

It wasn’t a fruit that could serve as a stomach filler by itself, but it served as a valuable source of food.

The difficulty level for clearing it was 『Extreme Class』, but for the supplementary lessons participating members who had given up on conquering the quest from the start, 『Goten no Zakurosan』 that boasted low difficulty survival environment was a considerably good option.

「Oh. There it is. That’s the base point.」

「Yeah, it’s considerably covered in trees, huh.」

A conquest frontline base had been set up in a vacant land cutting through the bushes.

It was a base that would be built in any large-scale raid areas that would seem to take a considerable amount of time to conquer, not limited in 『Goten no Zakurosan』 only.

The entry point to the other realm had a relatively thin miasma, serving as a safe area just like the realm gate in the normal dungeon.

The base, called the base point by the students, was a simple D-shaped barracks (Quonset hut).

The outer wall of the barrack, which looked like a drum barrel split in two, was painted with camouflage, and the bare minimum tools necessary for sleeping and staying had been arranged inside.

Doubly serving as a measure against the subversive activities of raiding monsters, similar conquest frontline bases had been set up at multiple locations.

In the case of mature 『Extreme Class』 raid areas like 『Goten no Zakurosan』, the transfer point from Rashomon would also be extensive.

The two boys, who had already had experience in participating in the same quest several times since their first year days, also had the precedence of utilizing it.

When they opened the door located around the lid part of the drum barrel, there were already the figures of their comrades inside.

「Sup. It’s not over capacity yet, is it?」

「Yea. There’s still plenty of room.」

The preceding visitor, seated in a chair simply made from a log cut in a round slice, answered the newcomers as he opened his backpack and checked the contents.

The standardized capacity of the conquest frontline base was twenty people.

It was considered an unspoken agreement for the members who utilized it to be decided through first-come, first-served basis.

Though, as there were also bases that had collapsed due to aging or monster raids, not all participating members were guaranteed to be able to secure one.

The current situation was that fellow students had to make do and utilize the facilities.

For the supplementary lessons members with a low sense of conquest that would participate in the 『Goten no Zakurosan』, securing a comfortable living space was turning into a battle.

「Oho, starting right away, aren’t we~.」

Carelessly tossing down the luggage in his hand, the boy looked around the inside of the base, which had no partitions.

Having been set up as a frontline base, the interior space was cramped.

The height of the roof, which served as a passageway in the middle, was also only as high as being reachable by reaching out.

Ten pairs of beds were lined up on each side of the passageway, providing as much as no privacy.

The first four beds from the front had already been occupied and were in use by the preceding visitors.

The asses piled up on top of each other on each bed were bare, and the boy, straddling above the ass of the girl underneath, pressed her down as they raised a smacking sound.

If they used a single bed for two people, they’d be relieved of the number shortage.

The members who would come to be the first to arrive at the base were regular participants in the supplementary raid quests, so they had immediately secured their share and begun to enjoy themselves.

For them, it felt like an excursion where they could enjoy sexual venting girls different from usual.

For the boys, who were engaging in sexual intercourse on the hard mattresses that put emphasis on durability, the girls they fished along the way were no more than tools to kill time during their quest for sexual venting.

The way of them slamming their penises in without hesitation as a prior tasting was exactly like the figures of them taking a piss in a urinal.

「Well then, should we go for some manhunt ourselves, too?」

「If you’re fine with that one, I don’t mind you having a shot, you know?」

The boy who had been rummaging through his bag pointed with his chin at the girl who had come to be lying face up on the bed across from him.

Her skirt and panties had already been stripped off, leaving her lower body stark naked and exposing her legs in an M-shape.

She remained staring absentmindedly up at the ceiling, her flushing face was melting and panting from the lingering sensation.

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