I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines

30 – Tournament-9

“Good job. I will finish it.”

I simply waved my hand and cast a spell towards Olivia.

The magic energy touched her body. Her body shook with her wounds. What remained of Olivia’s spirit disappeared like a doll whose strings had fallen.

At the same time, the artifact was activated. A shield was created around Olivia’s body.

‘Whew…’

I should have expected this from the beginning. I was lucky to realize it before it was too late.

The situation was complicated.

Olivia was an orthodox knight who had taken an elite course, but she was now moving in with Katharine.

Kelin was Katharine’s confidant who shared her life and death for a long time, but she was now fighting alongside me, who was widely recognized as ‘the princess’s side.’

The more ambiguous and complex the situation is, the more Catherine’s political power shines.

No matter how things turned out, she would have been able to shape public opinion in her favor.

“You were worrying needlessly. Even without help, my side would have won.”

“I know.”

There was no need to mince words. The fight is not over yet, and Claire will be desperately resisting Katharine’s attacks.

“Think rationally. Don’t give up.”

I know very well what she wants.

Katharine knows how to influence people’s hearts, and she knows better than anyone else that she would have taken advantage of that fact.

“That… Thing.”

“Think for yourself. I won’t give you orders. This sphere will likely last quite a long time… If you can’t organize your thoughts, you can rest a little longer.”

With those last words, I easily escaped the sphere made of demonic energy.

“I’ll come back after I finish. Just wait.”

Kellyn was looking at me with her empty eyes.

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“…”

I know. Wade’s eyes told me he knew everything.

Kelin, who fell to the ground, thought again about the meaning. There was no room left for her to move.

“Think rationally…”

Her cold head told me what she was about to do.

‘If I killed her…’

Wade did not give Kellin any commands, but ‘Think rationally’ is a command. For a woman ruled by her fears, her words can have quite a significant impact.

As for Kelin, she had no choice but to think rationally.

‘Abandoned, lost…’

It was clearly a matter of carrying out Katarin’s orders, but Kelin already knew. How cruelly Katharine tramples on those whose hearts have once left her.

The reason Katarin and Katzot want ‘someone’s death’ is to create confusion.

What Katharine most desperately wants in the process is not to reveal that she is behind it. Or-

‘Becoming a victim…’

She can cry even if she is not sad. She can brazenly brag about how strong a friendship she had with Olivia, who is already dead.

People won’t believe excuses like ‘Kelyn actually joined Wade’s party under Katharine’s orders…’

Even if she believes it, Katharine will eventually stop doubting her if she first raises her voice and calls for her Kelin’s punishment.

‘I can cleanly escape suspicion…’

Kelin thought, ‘But it’s okay.’

She is the one who lost Katharine’s trust anyway. Even if she was abandoned, even if she was used as her lady intended, Kelin could give as much of her body as she wanted.

But Wade’s next words stopped her from shaking.

‘Don’t give up, will you?’

It didn’t seem like he, who was staring right into her head, would say something like that for no reason.

‘I knew it…’

She knows that Kellyn truly knows that she is not loyal to him. She knows that that interest is directed solely towards her mistress, her Lady Katharine.

‘Even though I know that…’

I don’t understand.

In fact, everything about her was her illusion, and he may not have had the ability to dominate her in the first place.

Extracting power from the fragments of the void may have been a trick of a talented magician.

But there were too many things that couldn’t be explained by that alone.

‘Why on earth!’

Claire suddenly became a ‘dark priest’. Behemoth disappeared without offering any resistance.

He chose to fight Katharine without her hesitation, and it was unrealistic to know that there was a warlock around her age with similar accomplishments.

‘What the heck…’

There was only one thing I could trust.

He did not give orders to Kellin. He moved for her.

Numerous questions lingered over her, constantly tormenting Kelin.

It was an unfamiliar feeling. While serving Katharine, the painful touch that she had forgotten took over her brain.

For Kellin, ‘making choices through one’s own judgment’ was not something she was used to.

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“You waited a long time, right?”

“It’s okay, I just endured it!”

I, who had just come out of the sphere, made eye contact with Katharine, who was looking at this place with cold eyes.

“…I failed.”

“Don’t make me tremble. I thought something really big was going to happen, right?”

As if she was waiting for me to come out, Katharine cast a huge spell.

A huge hand made of bone and blood appeared behind her back. It hit the ground at high speed, as if catching a mosquito.

“Ha.”

I spewed out a huge umbrella-shaped magical energy and stopped the skeleton’s grip from falling to the ground.

“Thank you! This too… I’ll try my best!”

Lilian fired arrows without stopping, but there were no effective hits.

Unless you prepare a special arrow or put a huge amount of magic into the arrow, her abilities cannot penetrate Katharine’s defense.

“I feel… Bad.”

Her mouth was smiling, but her eyes were not.

“Wouldn’t you please do the right thing and surrender? I don’t want to see blood on either side.”

“Isn’t it just sparring? Why are you so serious…”

I snorted and continued to cast magic.

Numerous arrows of darkness flew towards them. Although there were no effective hits, the enemy’s magic energy is probably still being faithfully chipped away.

“The understanding is complete. I wasn’t sure of your identity, but I could see how strong you were and how foolish you were.”

“Really?”

“You must have made a contract with a good devil. What did he promise? Did he give you the power to destroy the world?”

“Well, let’s come?”

Katarin waved her hand slightly from right to left. The earth shook, and the dust formed the shape of a skull.

“Grrr…”

The vengeful spirits of countless people who died in her fight and whom she offered as an offering are revived.

“Kaaa!!!”

A skeleton made of sand. Although each individual weapon was weak, reviving hundreds of undead like this without a body was definitely a threat.

“It’s meaningless.”

And I deployed the appropriate number of arrows of darkness and took them down one by one.

Delicate magic control was not necessary. You just take down so many monsters that it fills the stadium, and so many arrows of darkness that it fills the sky.

“It’s strong. It’s definitely strong. But… it’s foolish.”

Catherine’s patience was exhausted. She seemed to have realized that further fighting for firepower was pointless.

“If you were a truly wise warlock, you wouldn’t think of fighting a warlock stronger than you!”

As Katharine becomes serious, she begins to radiate magical energy without restraint.

The attack stopped. She probably thought it wasn’t necessary.

“Give in. Realize. How wretched and insignificant you are! How lowly you and the devil you serve are!”

Just like an animal puffing out its fur to make its body bigger, it is an act intended to put pressure on the opponent rather than for practical purposes.

But that was an act that was more threatening to the warlock than he could have imagined.

“What, what!”

“Everyone, calm down!”

Layla urgently stood up and protected the audience.

Even within the game, it was unusual for her to reveal her abilities in such a public place.

Although it may not seem like it, it seems like he was under quite a lot of pressure.

“Don’t be too sad. Like you said, it’s just a competition, right?”

Katharine smiled leisurely.

“It is a great fortune that she was able to protect her life and body even after suffering such a defeat, so please be thankful for her mercy…”

And then, she realized.

The fact that I was looking at her casually, without feeling any fear.

“Thank you!”

I waved her hand slightly and greeted her.

Instinctive fear is engraved in Katharine’s eyes.

The physiological fear of a person facing something that should not happen is engraved in their head.

“How, how… You.”

As if she was angry, she vomited out her strong magical power even more.

The energy of Asmodeus, the demon prince she serves, bursts out.

“I’ll be fine…”

Katharine was not able to understand her own words, her own eyes, her own senses with reason.

“There is, right?”

Her world, which believed that there would be no one stronger than her and that anyone who was her opponent would be a ‘warlock’, could be defeated at any time, falls apart.

I was just smiling in front of her.