Chapter 115 : Chapter 115
Chapter 115. The Last Night of the Exchange Meeting (2)
Ding.
[Unknown magic invades the user’s status.]
[Status Effect Nullification is activated.]
Radel checked the notification window and looked at Obsidian who had fallen on the floor.
It was an appearance of having been hit by a powerful curse, no matter who saw it.
If there hadn’t been Status Effect Nullification, the one falling on the floor would have been Radel.
Among the magic learned at the Academy, there was no magic that cursed the opponent. That was power given to those who contracted with devils by offering their souls as a price.
Those who use forbidden magic.
‘As expected, he is a heretic.’
When he heard the story from Tunia, he was half in doubt.
When Armandy said they called devils ‘master’ in the Black Order, when he looked up the name of the Archdevil he heard upon obtaining the black key in the library, and when Obsidian showed greed for the black key.
Combining these puzzle pieces, there was only one answer.
The reason Radel obediently followed Obsidian out was to confirm that speculation.
‘To think he would take the bait this quickly.’
Although he was surprised by the sudden use of curse magic, the result became certain.
“Are you from the Black Order, Professor?”
Obsidian ground his teeth at Radel’s question.
“You are…… toying with me.”
He was the Radel who willingly followed him out even after seeing through the illusion magic in the first place.
It meant there was an intention inside that guy’s head from then.
The 8th Prince’s shamelessness in asking if he was from the Black Order while knowing everything was dumbfounding.
“Since when did you notice my plan? Are you targeting us?”
Radel shook his head while looking at Obsidian’s bloodshot eyes.
“I don’t know anything about your plan, Professor. I haven’t particularly targeted you either.”
Since he just confirmed he was from the Black Order now, it was natural. He only showed a fake key just in case because he said he was looking for a key.
It was a coincidence that Obsidian took the bait with that key.
He didn’t move with a grand plan from the beginning.
So to speak, it was closer to getting caught by chance.
However, from Obsidian’s perspective, Radel’s actions seemed thoroughly planned.
Perfectly defending against hypnosis magic, illusion magic, and even curse magic was the proof.
“……A guy like a pawn of the Supreme Deity. My brothers will not leave you be.”
Obsidian ground his teeth and spat out words mixed with curses at Radel.
“To dare ruin the great plan. Your cunning tongue will rot away, and your soul will be torn to shreds!”
“I see.”
“Your noble bloodline will become wretched, and no one will listen to your words. You will face death more terribly than anyone else!”
It was a curse he had heard somewhere.
The heretics he saw at the Supreme Deity Order temple in Marcellent came to Radel’s mind.
Seeing that the words were similar, he thought this person would soon join them there.
But there was something he had to find out before that.
“By the way, why are you looking for this key?”
Radel took out the real black key from his bosom.
It was the moment Obsidian’s eyes rolled back.
“As expected, as expected it was you! This damned bastard……! Knowing everything! Cough!”
Blood boiled up from the excited Obsidian’s throat.
“Keuph! Our grand plan, master’s resurrection, do you think we will give up like this! Cough, because of just one of you!”
Toying with me?
It seemed his anger wouldn’t be resolved unless he killed that bastard even if he offered his remaining life.
Obsidian took out a dagger and slashed his chest without hesitation.
* * *
At that time, chaos erupted in the grand auditorium.
“Kyaa! Professor!”
“The Professor melted away!”
Professor Obsidian, who was laughing and chatting with students until just now, had turned into black water and melted down onto the floor.
“Everyone back off!”
“Dodge, fledglings! It’s a cursed slime!”
Professor Lilian and Professor Donton, who took out their staffs, ran over.
Then the liquid, which was thought to be just black water, wriggled and grew in size.
The slime, which grew by devouring surrounding objects indiscriminately, had now become big enough to touch the ceiling.
The grand auditorium turned into shambles in an instant.
‘Demonic energy!’
Gusto’s expression hardened upon seeing the slime.
This wasn’t just a cursed slime. It was a minion of devils polluted with terrible demonic energy.
It meant a heretic controlling that was definitely nearby.
Gusto blamed his complacency and looked for Radel.
However, Radel, who was with Edward until just now, was nowhere to be seen.
“Where is the Prince?”
“Uh, a student from Helsington School called him out earlier.”
Hearing the words of Edward’s group, Gusto left the grand auditorium without hesitation.
He had a bad feeling.
As expected. Thick demonic energy was felt from the garden side.
Rumble!
Gusto looked at the sky that had become darker than before.
Ominous energy swirling in the darkness.
It was proof that a passage to the Demon World had opened nearby. It was certain someone attempted forbidden magic.
When heretics summoned evil things from the Demon World, they deployed double or triple magic circles to avoid detection.
However, now it seemed they had no intention of hiding it at all.
At this level, the fact that forbidden magic was cast could be known anywhere in Marcellent.
It was a level where Inquisitors would mobilize immediately without permission from the top.
That they deployed magic without thinking about the aftermath to that extent meant…….
‘Surely danger has befallen the Prince.’
Gusto frantically roamed the garden looking for Radel.
“Prince!”
“Oh, Gusto.”
Fortunately, he could find Radel before long.
Seeing his seemingly unharmed appearance, Gusto sighed in relief inwardly.
“You must be careful, the evil energy is…….”
Gusto stopped running towards Radel and immediately shouted while drawing his sword.
“Back away from there!”
Someone had fallen in front of Radel.
A magic circle was rapidly being completed with the blood flowing from his body.
Before long, an entrance to the bottomless pit where the end couldn't be seen appeared inside the magic circle, opening its mouth.
Clatter.
Clatter.
The sound of bones clashing against each other came from inside.
“Keuk!”
Gusto blocked Radel’s front and wrapped himself in Divine Power.
“You must cover your ears and dodge. That entrance is connected to the Demon World.”
Just hearing that sound polluted the minds of ordinary people and put them under a curse.
As soon as Gusto finished speaking, demonic energy poured out with tremendous force.
Just as a hand made of bone was about to crawl out from the magic circle emitting red light.
Splash!
A baptism of water was poured onto the magic circle.
“……Prince?”
The always calm Gusto wore a rarely flustered expression.
Because Radel took something out of his bosom and was sprinkling it on the magic circle.
It was the holy water he received from Kirio last time.
Consecrated by none other than the Archbishop of the Supreme Deity Order.
The hand trying to come out of the magic circle flinched and stopped upon being hit by the holy water.
Clatter?
“It has an effect?”
Radel applied holy water to his sword.
Even after that, there was enough left to sprinkle a few more times.
Ding.
[Unknown magic invades the user’s mind.]
[Unknown magic pollutes the user’s mind.]
[Status Effect Nullification is activated.]
As Gusto said, notification windows kept popping up as if just being nearby caused a curse.
Did that mean without the curse, there wasn’t much difference from ordinary undead monsters?
Radel poked the hand crawling up the magic circle with the sword generously consecrated with holy water.
Clatter!
As expected, there was an effect.
Seeing the hand moving to avoid the sword, a smile hung on Radel’s lips.
“Gusto, can you pour Divine Power here to the maximum?”
“I will try.”
At Radel’s appearance, seeming unaffected even by demonic energy, Gusto’s mind also gradually became clear.
Gusto drew out Divine Power and poured it where Radel pointed.
Flash!
Clatter?
The clattering hands flinched upon being hit by Gusto’s Divine Power.
In that interval, Radel rushed in and swung his sword.
Clang!
Clatter!
Like that, the evil being that came up from the Demon World fell without even smelling the air of the ground.
Splash!
Even after that, whenever something tried to crawl out of the magic circle, Radel sprinkled holy water or stabbed with his sword, making it fall back down.
Thanks to that, Obsidian, whose life was prolonged as the summoning stopped, wriggled his body in shock.
Something impossible was happening.
What kind of bastard is that……?
* * *
Bang!
The door of the grand auditorium opened.
A group dressed in pure white priest robes entered swiftly.
They were Inquisitors of the Supreme Deity Order led by Kirio.
“Begin.”
As Kirio’s instruction fell, one Inquisitor shook the small bell he was holding.
Ding.
With the sound of the bell, white light spread through the grand auditorium.
The demonic energy stained on the bodies of the professors who just finished off the slime disappeared cleanly.
It was the Bell of Purification, one of the holy relics of the Supreme Deity Order.
After purifying the demonic energy, Kirio moved outside leaving only the Inquisitors who would organize the grand auditorium.
Because strong demonic energy was felt from there.
Kirio had arrived at the Academy leading the Inquisitors as soon as he felt the ominous energy at the temple.
With this level of demonic energy, the surroundings would have been more than devastated as soon as the magic circle was completed.
I should have come earlier, but it was too late.
Kirio recalled the dream the Archbishop spoke of. That darkness was covering the Academy.
He couldn’t shake off the ominous feeling.
Somehow he felt something must have happened to the Prince.
No matter if Gusto was by the Prince’s side…….
Kirio clenched his teeth tight.
The sound he had been waiting for reached his ears.
Clatter.
It was the sound of an evil being.
“Over there.”
And what Kirio saw running with the Inquisitors was a sight he had never seen in his life.
Clatter!
Radel and Gusto were diligently doing something in front of the magic circle.
Kirio’s relief at Radel’s seemingly fine appearance was brief; he soon felt something strange.
“Gusto, Divine Power at 9 o’clock.”
“Yes, Prince.”
“Right. These bastards are more persistent than I thought.”
Gusto, with the magic circle in front of him, was pouring Divine Power towards the inside.
Furthermore, wasn’t Radel swinging a sword at the magic circle?
“Is there Divine Power left?”
“It is sufficient.”
Even if Gusto, an apprentice holy knight, was one thing, for Radel, who had no Divine Power, to be that calm.
When the entrance to the Demon World opened, ordinary people couldn’t remain sane nearby.
Their minds would slowly collapse and they would go crazy.
However, Radel looked too perfectly fine.
“Coming again. 6 o’clock direction.”
“Understood.”
“Wait, this one is too fast?”
Splash!
Radel sprinkled holy water on the magic circle nonchalantly.
For such agile guys, holy water was better to respond with than Divine Power.
Clatter!
The evil hand shrank back upon being hit by holy water and ended up falling after being stabbed by Radel’s sword.
Radel turned his head toward the next target.
It was composure as if exterminating pests.
“Such a thing in the world…….”
“Oh Supreme Deity……!”
Other Inquisitors also wore expressions of disbelief.
Unable to take any action, they gazed at Radel’s figure.
Kirio was the same.
Deep emotion surged from his heart.
He gathered his two hands in front of the wondrous situation.
If this isn’t a miracle, what is a miracle?