Chapter 126 – Senior Hunting Season (4)

I don’t know about magic, I’m ignorant.
We don’t know by what principle wizards have mana and karma in their bodies, and we don’t know how it turns into a brilliant spark that lights up the world.
Even after gaining karma through 〈 evil transfer 〉, I have never succeeded in using any magic other than the inherent magic engraved on my body.
I thought it was simply because I was ignorant, but Terra presented a different opinion.

— That might be because magic doesn’t exist in your world, Lewis.

In the end, they say magic is about believing.
As Lehel told the students in Skandal, you can only perform miracles if you believe that something that does not exist exists.
But I’ve already spent a lot of time on the continent, and haven’t I seen with my own eyes that magic actually exists?
When I asked that question, Terra smiled softly and patted my head.

— It’s not a matter of space. If we take unique magic as an example, wouldn’t it be a little easier? It’s the eye that judges the world. You don’t have those eyes.
— To be precise, there is no need for it, Lewis. There is no need to use magic. Even with your eyes covered, the sword you wield is so strong.

As a result, since I no longer hold the holy sword, I have not used magic even now that I cannot fully use the power of a warrior.
However, apart from that, he knew better than anyone else about magic and how to deal with wizards.
Especially when it comes to black magic, which I have experienced countless times.

“Louis! Are you okay!?”

Before Carolyn’s shrill cries could finish, I closed her eyes and ran forward.
The stench of rotting flesh and the burning pain burn my forehead.
3rd tier black magic that flies forward and scatters corrosive poison, 〈Dark Arrow〉.
It is an excellent technique for keeping enemies in check in narrow passages.

The downside is that the user’s location is inevitably exposed due to the poison sprayed in orbit.
A wizard cannot run away from me as I run using the tingling flesh as a guidepost.
Perhaps Hublett was right.
Even if you can’t use magic, you can deal with them.

Usually, in the face of overwhelming power, talismans were meaningless.

“What are you doing! I told you to target the priest first… !”
“Damn it, I failed.”
“Omg… ! Stop it!”

You can’t make a sound.
A graduate student’s perplexed voice resonates loudly in a rusty sewer pipe.
Roylen’s magic also began to fly behind me as I increased my speed in pursuit of a clearer sign.
The water on her ankles froze and tried to block her movements, but compared to Adella’s unique magic, this ice was not even cold.

Kwaang——!

As I threw the first person I caught into the sewer wall with my outstretched hand, a sound that hurt my eardrums rang out.
While the other guys were fighting, they were hit by Roylen’s magic and fell down.
As I lifted my head from washing my face with sewer water, Caroline followed me hurriedly and extended her hand towards me.
The warm healing light was a feeling I had not felt in a long time.

“Hey, hey! Stay still! This is crazy… !”
“Oh my god… “I need to report this to the top.”
“It’s black magic, right?”
“Yes. “I do not define all black magic as black magic, but 〈Dark Arrow〉 is definitely an attack magic that only black magicians use.”

It is deplorable that the talented people who will protect the future of the country have become so corrupt.
Additionally, I started to worry about Darling even more.

“I have to go up first.”
“Yes? But…”
“Mr. Lewis’s injuries are serious. And the sewer system is so complicated that it’s difficult to explore further inside.”

I was fine, but as Roylen said, it was a narrow passageway with a maze-like structure without a single ray of light, so we might have lost our location if we weren’t careful.
In places like this, guidance is more important.
I missed Nova, who found a way forward without hesitation in any situation.

“Ugh… !”

At that time, a graduate student who had been thrown against the wall let out a small moan as if he had come to his senses.
Said Illen as she helped him up.

“Still, if we interrogate the students captured like this, we will be able to find out their headquarters much more easily. “It seems like I have a lot of mental contamination, so I need to do some purification work.”
“It’s an interrogation… “Good.”
“Saint Caroline?”

Illen gasped as he saw Carolyn’s smile as she rolled up her sleeves and approached him! She did and she screamed.
I couldn’t see because my eyes were covered with bandages——

“‘Purification work,’ I will do it. “I will pour out all the information in my head.”

The voice was eerie, like the whispers of the devil.

***

After her tiring day, Caroline returned to her residence, the temple.
Other teams were in the midst of exploring the sewer, so there were few priests left.
After wiping her hands thoroughly with a wet cloth in her single room, which was about 3 pyeong in size, she headed to her confessional without even having time to lay down her body.
Slam! The door closed with a sound, and as I was taking out a cigarette like always, Michelan opened the door and came in from the other side.

“You participated in the search operation on your own.”
“The holy sword could be buried underground. “Why not?”
“No, it doesn’t really matter. “It’s nice to see them running around trying to avoid failure at Skandal.”

She couldn’t even reach it anyway, but instead of answering, Caroline puffed out her cigarette smoke across from her.
Seeing that she mentioned it in the past, it seems that the location of Sark Lair was quite important.
Just as I was thinking that I could use this as a negotiation with the church in case of emergency, Michelan opened her mouth first.

“It seems clear that the hero is at Parenzia Academy.”
“Really?”
“Yes. “In this uproar, the Academy’s construction plans were leaked, and the designer was Terra Ernisten.”

Terra Ernesten.
She is a mysterious woman with many qualifiers, including the current great mage, but one thing is certain.
He is the pinnacle of all living wizards and the person whom Seongguk watches most closely.

“There must be a reason why she designed this place. “It is also suspicious that the structure of the sewer system is more complicated than necessary.”
“So?”
“Keep exploring. “Sometimes, to catch a spider, you have to put yourself in a net.”

I heard him get up with a small hesitation from across the room.

“By the way, through my last contact, I received a reply that they would accept the rental of the Wizard Board that I requested from the church. “A package will probably arrive at the temple in a few days.”
“Thank you for that.”
“It was nothing. “Go and rest, senior.”

I gave him a completely unthankful greeting and continued smoking even after he left.
Then, the dried blood stains under her fingernails caught my eye.

‘Was it too severe?’

She interrogated a graduate student who had used black magic, but she only identified a few small locations in the sewers and could not find the location where the students were being held.
However, apart from that, she was a saint to the outside world, so there would have been no need for her to come forward.

“Oh really! This is all because of that bastard… !”

Caroline mocked herself, ruffling her red hair.
Attacking her priest first was the basis of her combat, her attack aimed at her in the first place.
Why did you get hurt for no reason?
Even if I hadn’t been holding her hand, wouldn’t she have been able to avoid it?

“It’s annoying…”

Although they were treated urgently and sent away, the aftereffects of the wounds caused by black magic were greater than those of simple injuries.
The image of Lewis constantly suppressing her hurt flashed through her mind, and she was troubled for a long time.

***

“Teacher, are you okay?”
“Oh, I think I’m feeling better now.”

Adela, who was guarding her stall, could not hide the smile on her lips.
I got the opportunity to nurse Louis!
When I half-forced him to lie down on my lap, saying it was okay, the sadness of not being able to keep up with Skandal disappeared like melting snow.

“Is the search not going well?”
“Umm… It looks like you’re having a hard time. The academy site must be very large. “The place underneath is all tangled up in sewage and the streets are very jagged.”
“Hehe, is that so? Oh, would you like some snacks?”

She doesn’t know why, but she can use her limbs to pick up snacks with her hair and put them in her mouth.

“My hair is getting chewed… “I’ll get up and eat.”
“Gwae, it’s okay! Come on, it’s cool like this, right? “Just lie down.”
“Ugh… I can’t breathe…”

As I bent over his waist and placed my forehead on his chest, Louis gradually fell into sleep.
Once he was completely relieved, Adela carefully called in her ice duck outside her window.

“Come here, Miss Oh.”
“Beepee——.”
“Come and report. “What happened?”

After hearing about the series of events that occurred in Skandal, Adela felt even better.
The women around Louis, including Caroline, Lehel, Erzsebet, and Liv, seem to have had little contact with him.
Of course, there were a lot of other things going on behind the scenes, but even that didn’t reach her ears.
Adela patted her ice duck on the head.

“Very good. But why did it get so big?”
“Beepee——.”
“Is that really true!!?”

Adella heard from Ice Duck about the enormous mountain of bread that existed in the empire.
She promised herself that next year she would definitely study linguistics and go to Skandal.

“By the way…”

Now all that was left was to punish the vicious graduate students who hurt her teacher…
No matter how much I thought about it, there wasn’t a sharp answer.

From what I heard from Lewis, it seemed like professors were contemplating a strong response as the damage could increase due to those using black magic.
Like blowing up a sewer or spraying sleeping gas.
However, there are ordinary students who have been kidnapped by them, so it is not easy to proceed.

If you freeze the ground and make everyone shiver, won’t they all run out?
But you wouldn’t know, it’s hard to use that level of magic.
As Adela’s worries deepened, someone lightly knocked on the window on the second floor.

Smart.

“Who are you?”

The person who appeared was a woman wearing a red hood.
She came in through the open window and knelt down on one knee in front of Adela.

“You’re awake. “We were working in secret, waiting for Comrade Adela to stand up again.”
“Yes… ?”
“Last spring, how heartbreaking it must have been for the comrades who were unable to arrive at the voting site due to the princess’s wicked tactics… !”
“?”

In Adela’s mind, the presidential election was just a secondary priority to the Louis date.
However, the followers at the time survived, avoiding the eyes of the church and the school, and fueled resistance.

“Now that the Academy is in such turmoil, it’s time for us to rise again!”

It was also his followers who laid wreaths at the aquatic park.
And the place they were hiding was the underground sewer currently occupied by graduate students.

“You were there and then kicked out?”
“Yes. “The power of our seniors was so strong that we couldn’t put up even a little resistance.”
“Then… “I’m sure you know the structure there well, right?”
“Yes? Yes, that’s right. “It’s very clear.”

Adela’s lips drew a smooth line.
If done well, it can be helpful to the teacher.
Then you will love me even more.

She made the ice pick long and slammed it on the floor like a ruler sitting on her throne! She did and she took down.

“I will guide you.”

The cold spreads in an instant, and the blue hair strangely twitches in the moonlight.
The follower who witnessed the scene trembled with joy.

“I will follow… !”