chapter 31
31. Society (6)
-The lord of demons?
-Yes, he said with his own mouth that he was the lord of demons, Baltan.
I remembered a conversation I had with Jesse a while ago.
One of the five lords of the demon tribe, the puppeteer Baltan.
I could easily recall the settings for him.
So I could be sure.
This guy is not a bullet.
It’s just a doll of Baltan.
The round light in those eyes proves that.
“Your body… … So where is the owner?”
Illuid’s eyes fluttered wildly.
It was an expression of how he knew that he was not the body.
But in an instant, he changed his expression and made fun of his tongue.
“Kuuk, the eyes of Lucas under the heavens are nothing but buttonholes. Where do you find the body, I am the body!”
it sucks
The aura with the energy of perm was raised even more.
“Ouch, shuffling!”
Then my aura began to burn like a small fire on his arm.
An Illuid writhing in agony.
disgusting
That painful scream felt like a pretense.
“Tell me, Illuid.”
“Ugh, so, so… … .”
Yes, as soon as the name of your body appears, I will kill you without pain. Hurry up, answer me right away
“Wow!”
Whoops!
‘uh?’
I didn’t even have time to use my hands.
It pierced my own chest with the use of one remaining arm.
Blood splattered in all directions, and Illuid’s body fell backwards.
The vitality had faded, and the traces of the doll left in her eyes were disappearing.
“Ugh, cool, cool. Lou, Professor Lucas… … Can you hear me?”
Unlike before, a voice that does not feel the magic.
The unpleasant feeling was also gone.
“Sir, please save me. Please live, please save me.”
I want to be saved, but I can’t. The death that Baltan dolls face is not death, but extinction. Already his whole body has turned to powder and is shattered and scattered.
If someone who is about the size of a saint performs a ‘miracle’, it is absolutely unreasonable.
And it is not him who is asking the Illuids to spare their lives.
“Hey, I’m fine with anything. My family, my family held hostage by him… … .”
Illuid could not finish his speech.
He disappeared without leaving a corpse.
‘… … Yes, I will keep your request.’
“Professor Lucas!”
“professor!”
The professors, including Heinz, arrived soon after.
They had very serious faces as they had heard of the situation when they arrived.
“Illuids are demons, is that true?”
Ronald asked loudly, but he refused to speak.
Because there is a ‘real’ bullet in it.
To manipulate the doll to self-destruct, you need to be at a certain distance.
And those gathered here are the ones who meet that condition.
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Most of all, the shells surrounding him trembled for a brief moment.
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My mind and body are so tired.
Wow-!
tremble!
At that moment, the sword I was holding in my hand cracked and split.
The shards did not scatter in all directions, but it was enough to break the meaningless silence.
“I will tell you the details tomorrow.”
“Yeah, it is.”
Upon stepping, the crowd split and made a path.
“Let’s go, Lit.”
“yes? yes!”
Ritt, who was very timid, followed him in stride.
I remembered every single gaze that was watching our backs.
* * *
“Whoa-!”
Lucas left.
It was only then that he took a breath he had been holding.
‘What does this energy mean?’
Dangerous.
This room as well as the remnants of that energy that had remained in Lucas a while ago.
The strong energy that seemed to squeeze his neck gave ‘him’ so heavy that it was hard to even breathe.
It is as if they are trying to exclude their very existence.
“Well? Are you okay?”
“Um, yes. It must have been a bit of a shock to hear that the Illuids I trusted were demons.”
“okay. just don’t do it I’m in a big shock too. The demons were walking under the roof of Grasco.”
“It’s terrible.”
“Anyway, this is… … .”
“Yeah, it shouldn’t leak out of Grasco.”
This will be treated as confidential, which is only handled within Grasco.
However.
‘It’s a big deal… … .’
It may not be relevant to you.
It must have already reached Orpega’s ears… … .
‘You have to find a way. Orpe had something to convince him… … .’
The bone was throbbing.
* * *
“Hey, can you postpone the lecture?”
Alan, the chief decision maker of the Ermel Society, could not hide his absurdity at the late-night call.
A lecture scheduled for the first day of the conference right now.
It is not an exaggeration to say that virtually all the attention of this conference is focused on Lucas’ lecture.
Even the tickets for that lecture are sold out right now, and even the tickets are secretly circulating, so you can see how much interest is there.
‘Someone who doesn’t even know where you’re from… … ‘
Lucas received a call asking to postpone the lecture schedule. Moreover, he shows the arrogance of not being able to tell the reason.
“Tell me to do it.”
Even so, the leadership is out there.
It is far better to postpone the schedule than to refund a ticket that has been sold out a lot.
‘Can’t wait to see how well the lecture was prepared.’
okay. You have the initiative, so please give me permission.
Instead, I will clearly check with my own eyes how well prepared the lecture was.
If you have prepared a lecture of a poor quality and rhymed with it, you will pay the price for it.
Alan got up and picked up Lucas’ thesis.
In order to embarrass him in the lecture, I am about to analyze every nook and cranny.
* * *
“… … .”
It was late at night, but I couldn’t sleep.
It was a brief moment, but he took off the mask.
It was a moment that I was not even aware of, but I could see it in my ‘eyes’. The ‘shell’ surrounding him was shaking.
‘Then where is the real ‘he’?’
I never wrote that Baltan disguised himself in his image.
All of this was because the background of Grasco was pushed beyond my story.
Occasionally, it was used to introduce Lucas, but the process of Grasco’s collapse was not dealt with in depth.
It was, that complacency came back to me like this.
‘for a moment.’
With a flash of thought, I got up and picked up a book.
And then I read it as fast as a scan.
It was complicated and difficult.
However, there was a great secret hidden inside.
“Did you call me, Professor?”
“Deyan.”
I called Deyan very secretly.
“I have a favor to ask of you.”
“… … What is the professor asking me to do?”
“It’s not just a request from Deyan. It’s a request from Aerokk’s ‘shadow’.”
Deyan’s posture straightened.
“Is this serious?”
“Serious.”
“For Your Majesty… … .”
“I know everything I can’t hide. It doesn’t matter, just do what you’re told to do.”
“All right. So what is your request?”
“… … Find Heinz.”
“yes? what is that… … .”
“The guy pretending to be Heinz in front of us right now is fake. Find the real Heinz.”
“But how… … .”
I handed the book <Mana and Existence> to him with a face full of doubts.
“Isn’t this Heinz’s book?”
“okay. This is my most recent book.”
“Why is this… … .”
“I don’t have time to explain in detail, so please read carefully. This book is more difficult than necessary.”
“Yeah, that’s right. It was said that even the best scholars on the continent put out their tongues… … .”
“Heinz hates that kind of knowledge.”
Heinz is a person who believes that all knowledge in the world should be equally distributed.
But did such a person write a book that is difficult enough for even the best scholars to feel the wall? This is probably for some reason.
It can be thought that Heinz’s thoughts suddenly changed and produced such a book.
I can assure you that it will never happen.
The reason is that… … .
‘There’s no way I can make such a three-dimensional character.’
Because I know my handwriting very well.
Heinz is also a character I made.
I can’t see such a colorful change.
“There must be a huge code hidden in this book. Use Aerokk’s Intelligence Bureau to unravel it.”
“… … .”
Deyan hesitated.
All of this is just my hypothesis and has no basis.
It can be dangerous to run the kingdom’s intelligence service without certainty.
He needs something to move him.
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“In this, the life of a scholar who is said to be the best in the history of Aerokk depends.”
Deyan’s eyes became hazy, and then he found the gun.
“I believe. I will request the intelligence service to decrypt the code immediately.”
“Find it out as soon as possible. There is no time.”
“Yes!”
The reason I decided I didn’t have time was simple.
In the original story, the contact between Jessie and the demons would have taken place at least a year later.
That it’s been moved forward quite a bit means that there’s reason to move something fairly hasty over there as well.
In the worst case, the plans for the invasion of Grasco could be hastened.
[LIFE TIME : 25 months]
There hasn’t been a big change in my lifespan yet, but just in case.
‘It hits the player.’
Now that he believes that my identity has not been fully revealed yet.
Now was the right time to reveal his identity.
* * *
“Ronald, I was thinking about the Illuid thing yesterday as well.”
“Something?”
“How about asking for help from the Holy Empire?”
“You want to bring outsiders into Grasco? Ummm, that’s a bit… … .”
“However, I couldn’t get help from the royal family. To reduce the room for intervention in the royal family. Isn’t that what you want the most?”
Ronald was even more deeply troubled by Heinz’s words.
As he said, getting help from the royal family is a problem after that. In addition, the question was whether he could easily help in this situation where the fortunes of war were getting stronger.
“However, deciding on the help of a third country without consulting with the royal family can lead to big problems later.”
“I know you are worried. But it won’t last long as long as the barriers that Grasco boasts are broken. Trusting only Professor Lucas too much would put a burden on him.”
“But in order to do that, we have to break Grasco’s barrier. That could be more risky.”
“Can’t it be just a moment? I will go directly to Bertro.”
“You yourself?”
“okay. Since then, he is considered one of the best scholars on the continent. They won’t be able to reject me easily because they think of me. I will also make negotiations with the royal family.”
“Uh… … .”
Ronald was even more troubled.
“What are you so worried about… … .”
It was around that time that Heinz suddenly felt strange.
“Ronald, you… … You are taking time.”
Heinz immediately got up from his seat and ran to the entrance.
Because of Grasco’s barrier, he was unable to use his own power properly.
If other professors flock to it… … he is the end
“Don’t move, you demon Baltan.”
At that moment, a cool voice reached Heinz, no, Baltan.
“Lucas… … .”
Baltan bit his lips and called out Lucas’ name.
Other professors were also showing up one after another.
Ronald stood up and asked Lucas.
“I took the time as you said, but… … Is Heinz really a demon?”
“No matter how you look at it, you’re the president, haven’t you misunderstood something?”
Without answering at all, Lucas pushed the Auror into the sword.
The mysteriously colored Auror revealed his son-in-law.
“み, uh… … .”
The shell covering Heinz visibly shook.
Eventually, the shell became a black mist and oxidized, and a demon resembling a puppet, Baltan, appeared.
“Ha, yes, I admit it, Lucas. However… … You wouldn’t have expected this either!”
The professor who was right next to Lucas ran up to him and exploded.
You can’t do anything about Lucas with that, but it’s enough to buy you some time.
At this time when the skin was blocking their view, they started to run away with all their might.
“Huh, huh, huh… … .”
I ran and ran for a while. The dolls were spread out in all directions, interfering with tracking.
As they barely reached the outskirts of Grasco, Baltan caught his breath.
“Huh, huh… … Lucas, how did you notice?”
Anger surged.
His plan was perfect, but it was all ruined by Lucas.
“Orphew would have been fully prepared if the dog-like bastard hadn’t nudged him… … .”
At that moment, Baltan turned to the cool energy he felt behind his back.
Orpega, who had a funny face, was staring at Baltan.
Baltan was forced to squeeze his head to survive.
“… … Let’s make a 34-line poem with
“Five.”
“Orphega, great being!”
“buy.”
“… … ?”