I Became a Mafia in the Academy

Chapter 301

I've never been a proper torturer.

Not only because my family doesn't like the idea of me doing it, but also because the act of torture is still very difficult and disturbing for me.

However, my opponent is not a human, but a spirit so it’s a different story.

-You damned human. No matter what you do to me, I will never open my mouth!

A poor damsel in distress, trapped by her enemies, spewing out embarrassing words.

"Yes, I know, you higher spirits can't be damaged by ordinary physical attacks, especially the earth spirits, and even aura or mana attacks don't hurt you much, right?"

The ones who gained tremendous defense in exchange for their slowness were the earth spirits, or earth elementals as they were called in the game.

They weren't nicknamed ‘pig spirits' in the game for nothing.

-Ha, you know that and you're still going to open my mouth?

"Yeah. I know that's what you're most afraid of."

CS has something called attribute system. You know, water is resistant to fire, lightning is resistant to water, that sort of thing.

And these spirits had something in common that interacted with each other.

"You know what this is?"

A black flame burned in my hand.

It was a flame created by mixing black flames with lightning drawn from the Black Mist. Upon closer inspection, red electricity surged above the black, blazing flame.

That's right. An attribute common to all spirits.

It was…….

-Eh, a dark elemental?! How could a human do that!

“Well, it’s a coincidence.”

The power of the dark spirits was a power that devoured and absorbed everything.

"Let's start lightly, shall we?"

Like dropping a ball of cotton wool, I let the flames from my hand fall onto the creature's leg.

-Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The creature suddenly grabs his leg and begins to twist and turn.

It's an exaggerated reaction that would make anyone who saw it swear at you for being such a dumbass…….

-Stop it! Please stop it!

"What? Do you want to talk?"

-I will talk, please! I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it!

Tsk-!

With the flick of a finger, the flame disappeared as if it had never been there in the first place but the marks on the spirit were clear.

His leg, baked by the flames and hardened to the consistency of porcelain.

He stared at his leg and grunted.

"Old man, he says he's ready to open his mouth!"

"Huh? Really?"

The old man, who had been carefully gathering grass in the back, looked up at my call.

Next to him, I see a teary-eyed, cheeky-eyed young man eating a bunch of nutritional pills.

"……What are you doing?"

"Ungi ahok's hio ahao ahana hui hao. Ehhhhhhhhhh!"

Roughly speaking, it's a grass that grew with the family's strength, so I guess it means he eats it all…….Isn't that a weed in the middle?

……It looks like he's eating it without stopping.

"Okay, tell me. Who are you guys and why are you so organized……and why are you doing this?"

To help him remember, I flick the tip of my index finger again.

He looks in my direction and opens his mouth.

-I, Kammuda, am the elixir administrator of the Spirit Realm! I came with my soldiers today because I sensed an intruder!

"…… Spirit Realm?"

I wondered, is this real?

"The Spirit Realm, what kind of bullshit is that?"

The old man behind me shook his head, puzzled by the unfamiliar words.

"Hey, explain as simply and to the point as possible."

-Ah, I see! So the Spirit Realm is…….

“Is the old man your friend? Don’t you show respect?”

Wraps a flame around my palm and smacks him over the head.

-Ew! Ew! I'll explain!

His explanation begins.

The Spirit Realm is a dungeon that recently sprang up near the DMZ, a land that has been untouched by humans for decades.

As its name suggests, it was a very favorable environment for spirits to live in.

Mana is abundant due to the dungeons in the area, making it a paradise for spirits.

The spirits began to expand their power by joining forces with other nearby dungeons, and soon became too large to be considered a single organization.

Thus, a kind of united nation was created, led by the leaders of each dungeon.

The Spirit Realm.

That's when they began to show themselves.

-Oh, and we were just managing the Earth Elemental's business, the elixir……!

"Hehe, this seems to be a bigger deal than I thought, Eugene, shouldn't we go back first?"

The Spirit Realm itself was too big for the old man's expectations.

"Once the Spirit King entities appear, it's a ‘raid' unit, not our territory. Even if we don't retreat completely, we should at least report to them within communication range."

Perhaps, if I were a normal person, or even an insignificant one, I would have thought the same thing as the old man but I'm not an ordinary person.

I knew the general flow of events, and I could predict how the game had come to this.

"Wait a minute, old man. Do we really need to go outside for support?"

"……What are you talking about?"

I chose to listen to him rather than answer the old man's question.

"Hey."

-Uh, yeah!

"There's something you haven't told us yet."

-What do you mean? I said it succinctly and precisely!

This time, I wrapped the Black Mist in the black flames and stomped on his thigh.

"The power I'm using now. You left out the part about dark spirits, asshole. Fill in the blanks. Go."

-I will! I will!

As with any nation, not all spirits in the Spirit Realm got along.

There are spirits that are disliked by some, and there are spirits that are overthrown by others.

Among the spirits, it was the Dark Spirits that played this role.

-They are an abomination…….

They possess a dominance over all spirits, and their mere presence strikes fear into the hearts of other spirits.

-Thus, our spirits have driven them out, led by the spirits of light.

Led by the Light Spirits, who are the only ones capable of dealing damage to the Dark Spirits, the other Spirits succeed in ousting the Dark Spirits.

The Dark Spirits were also able to deal damage to the Light Spirits, but they were unable to stop the other Spirits from coming in.

Eventually, these events led to the dark spirits being driven out of the Spirit Realm and living in a small city in a dungeon somewhere in the DMZ.

"I guess even the same spirits don't get along."

The old man shakes his head and mumbles to himself after hearing the Earth Elemental's words.

"Well, it's not our place to say. Don't humans discriminate and fight with each other too?"

But this incident was actually a good thing for us.

"They don't say the enemy of the enemy is a friend for nothing, so maybe it's good for us, maybe we can get them on our side."

-Wait a minute, you're going to them?! What do you mean?! What do you mean?!

"You're talking back again, aren't you?"

-Uh, the Dark Spirits hate humans too! Even you guys will have a hard time even approaching them!

"Don't worry, I'll take care of that. So, where are they?"

-that's…….

Huh-!

-Uh, the Dark Forest! It's a place we call the Dark Forest. It's a fortress and a paradise of sorts for the dark spirits, because the trees grow so high up that they don't let in any light despite being a forest!

He eventually blows their location. At the same time, a place flashed in my mind.

"If it's the Dark Forest, then……old man, what was the name of the dungeon we're going to?"

"What? Let me see……It's definitely the Black Forest……No way?"

The old man seemed to realize what he was doing, and he flipped open the map and showed it to the spirit.

"Is this the Dark Forest you were talking about?"

-Yes, that's right, this is the Dark Forest!

"Ha, I get the picture."

Spirits were categorized as monsters, but they were also creatures that could be contracted to grant new powers to players called Elementalists.

And there were quite a few such Elementalists among the top heroes. …….

"It's possible that the spirits are using us."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do this."

Perhaps the spirits were trying to lure the Elementalists who had contracted with them into attacking this place.

It would be too difficult for them to clear out the dark elementals' lair on their own.

However, the problem was why it didn't go according to the flow I knew.

The full completion of the original Spirit Realm would be much later but from the earth spirit words, it sounds like they’re already trying to act as a nation.

So what's so different about it…….?

"Ah."

It dawned on me how things came to this.

Perhaps it had something to do with Dark Spirit that was now my shoe.

‘…Was this the reason why his commission fee was abnormally high?'

It started to make sense why he lived in a shabby shack and didn't use good equipment for his quests.

In CS, when you're on a quest for Dark Spirit, you'll sometimes get a mysterious note.

The content usually included things like [Supplies are running low.], [We need magic stones.], [We need new weapons], which were hard to see as related to Dark Spirit.

For players like us, all we could think about was, "Did someone take the target's documents?”

And of course, who would have thought that there would be an organization to take care of.

In our minds, he's always been a lone wolf, working alone.

In other words, I could argue that the reason this situation happened is because I dealt with Dark Spirit quickly.

"Well. It's settled. Old man, let's go."

"Hmm? Where to?"

The old man asks, looking puzzled as I stand up.

"Where we should go, of course."

"If that's where we need to go, then……Black Forest? You're going there? Didn't he say that the Dark spirits or something are killing people there."

"So we should go."

"……What?"

"I thought you said we had to call in reinforcements."

A subject without a leader, battling a larger force, isn't this the perfect situation to take advantage of?

"Okay, we're going to absorb the dark elemental forces."

"How are we supposed to do that?"

"What do you mean, how?"

We'll handle it mafia-style.