Chapter 312 – #311 Fierce Battle With the Cult Leader

“Laysha. I will report to you.”

“Okay. What happened to them?”

A cave full of darkness.

The voices of the two people echoed.

In response to Raysha Bissain’s question, the reporter spoke.

“Currently, we are stuck in the village at the bottom of the mountain. However, it doesn’t seem to be as effective as we thought.”

“Hmm?”

Ray Chavis Ain turned her head and looked at him.
The moment he met those eyes, the reporter couldn’t help but tremble. Her eyes… He was not a normal person.

A deep madness was overflowing within him.

“It’s not effective…? That can’t be possible. Aren’t you guys mistaken?”

“Well… I saw religious people being brought in from Haran. I guess that’s why.”

“Cult… Yes, it is the Cult. Hehe. Bringing in the Cult means that there is someone who knows very well about these symptoms.”

Lei Xia nodded her head gently.

“I understand. You go outside and instruct the kids. The enemy will arrive here soon, so prepare to fight.”

“Yes.”

“And on the way, I brought all the remaining villagers here.”

“You mean all the remaining… People…?”

“Yes. Everything.”

Gulp. The reporter swallowed dry saliva and lowered his head.
The moment he turned around, what he saw was… It was the corpses of people filling the cave.

Perhaps, if he hadn’t been a student at the academy, he would have been met with the same words as them. Feeling relieved and afraid at the same time, the reporter carefully moved his feet out of the cave.

“Now, come to me quickly! Let’s end our unfinished fight! Haha!”

The sound of maniacal laughter filled the cave.

***

A day passed, but the curse still continued.

Treatment and recurrence again, treatment and recurrence again.

So far, there was no sign of fatigue on the faces of my followers, but I felt that it couldn’t go on like this.

‘It would have been nice if there had been some progress in evangelism.’

There was hardly any room for faith to enter the hearts of the soldiers who rolled and rolled in the battlefield.

To begin with, the Church of Eos was a group of people whose faces were not even shown on the battlefield.

In fact, it was not easy for the soldiers who had seen their behavior to have friendly religious beliefs.

– So what are you going to do?

‘Let’s go and solve it ourselves.’

– Well, that would be nice. I don’t think taking them away will help.

In particular, Haran is an area included in the front line with Argentina. Since there was no Church of Eos, there was no problem using the power of Beres.

We were quiet, killing time, and quietly melted into the mountain as darkness fell.

With Naiad at the forefront who knew the way, there was no need to worry about getting lost even in the dark forest.

‘But it’s strange.’

– What?

‘At this hour, you might see one or two beasts or monsters, but there aren’t any?’

Although I could hear the sound of grasshoppers, I could not hear the cries of any animals.

It felt oddly uncomfortable to just chalk it up to my mood.

[Shall I take a look?]

‘No. That’s not important right now.’

Because we had risen to the level of sword master, we had already almost arrived in the village on the mountain.

When Naiad reached the top of the mountain, she stopped moving, and I also stopped and looked over her shoulder, and soon a small basin caught her eye.

[Over there.]

About 1 km away. Where Naiad’s fingertips pointed, there were several lights that appeared to be torches.

It was a village large enough for approximately 500 people to live in.

– What are you going to do? Charge like this?

‘No. Let’s take a look at the situation first and then go.’

As she approaches the village, she moves towards the place where she hears signs of people. People who still look young are gathered together and whispering.

I strengthened my hearing with magical power and listened to their conversation.

“What? They took the villagers again?”

“Uh. Today in broad daylight. They said they took them all this time.”

“Crazy… Isn’t that girl really crazy? How can a person…”

“Shh. If that bitch hears you, you could end up like that too. Be careful what you say.”

“B-but…! That’s not true. How can we as the same person… I… I didn’t follow you here for this. Furthermore, I came because I heard Professor Aslan was alive…!”

“Me too…”

– Huh? Are they academy students?

It was like that. They were Imperial Academy students.

The commoner students that Bella talked about disappeared in large numbers as the spring semester began.

After listening to the story, it seemed like the being who brought them here was using the villagers to do something.

I thought I knew who it was and what it was trying to do.

“… Not this. I can’t take it anymore.”

“Jack. What are you going to do?”

“I didn’t come here to help with this ugly thing. If there’s something wrong, I need to fix it now. I’ll stop that bitch.”

“Well, but… We might be able to save Professor Aslan.”

As one female student spoke, her boy named Jack grabbed his wand tightly.

“No. The way I see it, it’s impossible. Even if it were possible, the Professor Aslan I know would never want something like this.”

Then he suddenly started moving his feet. The other four students who saw this looked at each other and grabbed his shoulders.

“Then let’s do it together.”

“You guys too?”

“Yes. You are not the only one who feels this is wrong. We… And most of the others feel the same way. We are all going to find out together. I will not help with this any longer.”

“Hey, you guys might die. I’m an orphan, but you all have families at home, right?”

“Taking responsibility for one’s actions. The professor always said that that is the duty of those with power. We have a duty to stop this. Death is the next thing to think about.”

The children looked at each other, nodded, and then dispersed throughout the village to persuade other students.

I looked at that figure in silence.

– Aslan. Why is dad smiling all of a sudden?

‘Ah. Those five people. These are the kids who took my classes at the academy.’

Even though he made an irreparable mistake, it was nice to see him trying to correct the mistake even now.

You remember and follow what I taught you.

Soon all thirty students gathered together and went to one building.

“Professor Laisha!”

The very top. A student who appeared to be a representative raised his voice loudly. Perhaps because he heard his voice, the second floor window of the building opened, and a woman stuck her head out.

“Hmm? I told you to prepare for battle because the enemy would come, but I don’t think I ever told you to review and wait.”

The student took a moment to catch his breath and continued speaking.

“You have done what no human being should do. You have used us to do that. We will not do that anymore.”

“… You were taken advantage of. So you won’t go along with this anymore? Chuckle. Interesting. So what do you plan to do from now on? Even if you tried to go back to the academy, you joined the rebels, so instead of going back to school, you’ll be put to death for that crime.”〈 Br〉

“I decided not to think about the future right now. For now, I just…”

“Just?”

“Raysha Bissain. I will stop you.”

The students each took a fighting stance and started fighting.

“That is the atonement we deserve for the people here… Who died through you and us.”

“Kkeukkkk. Ahahaha!”

A woman with navy blue parted hair sat by the window and laughed out loud. Soon her eyes flashed open, and her cheeks twitched up and down.

“You bastards are talking too much. I knew them and learned from them, so I tried to save their lives…”

Laysha stood up from her seat and raised her hand.

“Attack right away! Don’t give yourself a chance!”

The students who saw her actions moved quickly. The wizard immediately cast a spell, and those holding weapons ran straight into the building.

But soon all the students fell to the floor like dolls whose strings had fallen.

“Huh. Uh, how? I’m sure it will take 10 seconds to use it…?”

In Laysha’s hand was an unusual dagger.

It had a blade the length of a span, and four hands appeared on the handle of her hand, and an eerie red eye glow appeared at the base of the sword body, shining here and there.

“I pretended like that. That way, even if the arrogant bastards rise up, I can easily suppress them.”

“Oh my… Shit…”

“Okay then, everyone goes bye. I will personally use your blood as food to catch that guy.”

She then came down to the first floor and grabbed a student by the neck, raising her dagger. The blade of that strange dagger flashed coldly in the moonlight.

“You… You will definitely pay the karma you have accumulated for this…”

“Yeah. Just worry about you. I’ll never experience the feeling of having all the blood in my body sucked out and turning into a mummy again. So, let’s go?”

But she couldn’t lower her dagger.
Sabak. Sabak. This is because she suddenly felt a presence walking on the ground.

“You, are you…?”

Calmly moving her feet among her fallen children, she makes her way to where Leisha is. When she heard my footsteps, she turned to me and made an unknown expression.

“Huh? Sylma… Associate Professor?”

“Marquis?”

In the children’s surprise, Leisha opens her eyes wide like a startled cat.
On the other hand, her mouth is wide open, and she smiles brightly.
I looked into her eyes. Laysha’s emotions slowly flowed into me.

Joy, joy, rapture, anticipation, delight…

– What. Why is he feeling like that? It turns out that there was something between those two that I didn’t know about? It turns out that he was a hidden lover or a wife he abandoned in a past life?

Lei Xia threw down the student who was holding her neck.
She got up from her seat, stretched out her hands toward me, and took one step at a time.

“Well, finally… This day has finally come. The moment I face you again…!”

“Professor Laisha. Your condition is not very good. I have no idea what you want to talk about.”

“I guess so! You probably had no idea who I was until now!”

A glimpse of the pupil appears between the narrowed eyes. The woman smiles brightly at me with her eyes wide open.

My eyebrows furrowed at the sudden, crazy behavior of her clutching her breasts and trembling.
I focused on the dagger in her hand rather than on her actions.

‘Do you know what it is? Some demonic energy flows out from there.’

– Uhm. Well… I feel like I know what it is, and I also feel like I don’t. I think you’ll know right away what its function is.

She approached me step by step and stopped.
A distance of about 5 m.

She probably thought that if she got any closer than this, she would be in danger.

I stamped my feet and unleashed my magic. Immediately, the children who had fallen around them were released from the curse and began to get up one by one.

‘First, it seems certain that that was the object that was cursed.’

– Hmm. Place a curse using human blood…

‘Still don’t remember?’

– Sorry! Lol. You know me too. The memory doesn’t last that long except for the anus!

… I’m proud. In the end, we have to fight without any information about it.

It’s definitely not an ordinary item that makes me feel uncomfortable.

I talked to the children.

“From now on, you must leave here and go to the village below the mountain to join us.”

“Marquis. We will fight too!”

“It’s a distraction. It’s helpful for me to get out of the way. Go down to the village and quietly reflect on this incident.”

The children looked at each other and all moved down the mountain.

The village in the basin, where about 500 people live comfortably, was soon enveloped in dead silence.

I raised my head.

Even when all traces of her children disappeared, Ray Sha Vis Ain hugged her own body and trembled.
She mumbled something with her mouth.

“Haa… Aslan. Aslan…”

– Are you crazy?

My business partner just replaced my thoughts.

Surely… In her past life, Isley wasn’t in her right mind either. He was as pervert as he is now, and was quite a cocky boy.
Of course, I’m still not sure if the woman in front of her is Islei or not…

‘There has been a saying like that since ancient times. A whip is medicine for a crazy bitch.’

The moment I took a step away from her to put her words into practice, her strange behavior suddenly stopped.

Haha… As I was imagining what would happen in the future, I ended up looking pretty unsightly.”

No matter what she muttered, I used her magic on her.
At this time, when I had not yet come to my senses, it was an opportunity, and I was filled with the desire to quickly end this matter and return to the capital.

However, my helpless magic that flew at her soon lost its power and disappeared.

“Heh. It’s no use. If I borrow this piece’s ability, I can nullify all of her magic.”

“You’re holding something interesting.”

“Kkkk. It’s something I personally brought back to the cult temple to kill you.”

“As expected… Is your true identity Islay?”

At my question, Laysha grinned.

“Yes, Aslan! I have dreamed of this day for 25 years! Just for the day when I will take revenge on you!”

When she mentioned my past life’s name, I finally realized why she was smiling like a crazy bitch at me.
Under. Right. So, I wasn’t the only one who was reincarnated with memories?

“Back then, I didn’t think there would be a wizard at all, so I didn’t take this, but now it’s different. Hehe.”

At his confident attitude, I moved my feet slightly nervously.

The two of us looked at each other in the village vacant lot and drew a circle.

“If you want to get revenge on me, just call me out quietly. Why did you make such a fuss?”

“Because I needed to check if it was you.”

“But the residents here… Weren’t they saints who followed you? Was there a need to kill them all?”

As I came, I saw that there were a lot of cult symbols and related items made all over the village.

At this rate, it was no exaggeration to say that the residents here had already become fanatics.

“They are consumables. Garbage that exists for me. So believer, you can increase them at any time?”

“…”

“And their deaths were never in vain. They died for me…!”

Raysha opened her hand to me. Soon, magical power formed on her hand and a bolt of electricity shot out at me.

I immediately increased magical energy throughout her body to offset the damage.

Kukwakwakwakwa-

The electricity flowed down to the ground, kicking up dust. I also fed her a counterattack right away.

[Lethargy]

The magic manifested without chanting flies and lands on Laysha. However, she immediately loses her strength and her magic flies out into the air.

“It’s no use!”

Lightning struck again.

I quickly pulled out my sword and cut it in two.

At the same time, he sprayed sword energy and fired it at Raysha, but it was blocked by something. An intangible membrane surrounded her entire body.

‘Nullifies magic and blocks physical attacks. Make up for the lack of magic attribute… It’s a real pain in the ass.’

It feels like looking at the Philosopher’s Stone.

That strange thing that was made to imitate a dragon heart.

I continued to cut down the lightning fired by Raysha with my sword.

As if she had an infinite supply of magic power, she blocked my movements by pouring out the fastest and most powerful magic without stopping.

But when it had little effect, she raised her dagger.

“As expected, magic won’t work for you. But this is different!”

Suddenly, a red energy overflowed from the dagger, and it shot towards me.

I quickly threw her body to the side, and it skipped over and hit the floor.

Passut-

Black ink splattered on the floor and soon disappeared.

“If you get hit just once, it’s over for you! Let’s see how long you can avoid it! Haha!”

Like fire arrow magic, red energy was condensed and shot at me one after another.

There was some kind of unclean energy in it. I didn’t know what would happen if I got hit, so I couldn’t stop moving.

Pot. Pot. Tsupot-

For now, all I could do was quickly avoid it.

As I moved my feet without stopping, the red energy mercilessly pierced through the afterimage I left behind.

“Fuck. You’re so good at dodging!”

Perhaps deciding that things couldn’t go on like this, Ray Sha suddenly raised her dagger high in the sky.

“Let’s see if we can avoid this!”

Her dagger trembled, and she shot a red energy high into the sky. Like a fountain in a fountain, the red light spread widely and fell over the entire area.

“I sent it flying across the mountain. The blood of as many as 500 people was used? No matter how fast you move, Aslan, you will never be able to avoid it!”

It was just as she said.

It was as if red blood was falling across the entire area, with no room to escape.

“Just look forward to it. I will make your reincarnation so painful that you will hit the ground and regret it. I will make you spend eternity in pain, unable to live or die! Furthermore, I will see your ruined state in my eyes and enjoy it!”

I heard Raysha’s voice shouting excitedly, and soon a red energy fell and touched my body.

And at that moment, my partner spoke.

– Oh, I remembered what that dagger was!

Just. I remember it so quickly. Think about it before something happens.

Leysha opened her eyes wide and shouted.

“It’s over, Aslan!”