I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines

45 – Leaf-14

“Come in. The inside has been cleaned up.”

There was no need to create variables. I left the party members alone and attacked the old man, and succeeded in taking him down.

“This, this…”

“Here is the letter he was writing. I have secured the key evidence, but there may be places I haven’t found, so search thoroughly.”

Claire couldn’t straighten her distorted face when she opened a letter on her desk.

“This is a joke, right? Wow, that’s stupid.”

“It’s not a joke. Although I agree that it’s a stupid idea.”

When extremeness exceeds a certain level, people feel an unrealistic sensation.

It’s scary to hear, ‘Today I’m going to kill a person walking on the street with magic,’ but if you say, ‘I’m going to kill all the people in the world,’ it becomes more funny than scary.

Because I believe it is not feasible, because it is different from the ordinary form of ‘evil’ that we easily encounter and feel in our daily lives.

“On purpose… It means they killed him on purpose. This is…”

“That’s right.”

I looked at the old man who had collapsed.

“How did that person…”

“I could have done it if I wanted to. I just didn’t.”

I wasn’t sure who the Kazot member who was moving now was, and there was no need to do anything.

However, the situation has changed.

Kazot seemed impatient and was speeding up the plot.

“I heard he was an incredibly strong person-“

“It was a surprise attack.”

If the fight had started with him equipped with armor and a sword after he was ready to fight, he would not have been able to be defeated so easily.

Although he was a swordsman past his prime, his swordsmanship itself did not disappear somewhere. Even a decent level of magic would not have been able to keep up with his movements.

“I bet you never thought you’d be attacked here.”

Kazot doesn’t know me. He may think I’m ‘a little intrusive’, but he probably didn’t think I would actively interfere with his plans.

Even as an old man, he never would have thought that there would be someone inside the academy who would attack him.

“I guess so.”

With a deep sigh, Lilian slowly picked up the documents that were scattered around.

“I didn’t even know I would be involved in something like this until a day ago…”

Fortunately, the people who followed did not have to participate in the battle.

In the worst case, I thought there was a possibility that he would not be alone but with other Kazot members.

“Anyway, this is over.”

Defeating the Kazot members was not a task that could be done this easily.

Right now, just having the strength to defeat them is not an easy task.

If you were a player following a normal growth path, even if you gathered the strongest party members at this time, you would not have been able to create enough strength to fight the Kazot members.

“…They are not weak. Once you defeat one, many will follow.”

Kelin muttered, and Claire was surprised to hear it.

“How do you know that?”

“…It was quite famous among this group. There were not many people who recognized the name of the organization as ‘Kazot’.”

I nodded slowly.

“I know. It’s not that hard. But look at this letter.”

“…”

“If we had left it like this, we would have proudly put on the guise of ‘ordinary students and professors’ and moved around as we please.”

In fact, neglect is also a solution. If I didn’t have the power, I would have had no choice but to make that choice even if I knew of Kazot’s plan.

“Why are you doing this? Someone like you?”

Kellyn slurred her words.

“Even if a fight breaks out, it really won’t exclude all warlocks.”

“Yes.”

“Their ratio will decrease a bit, and the weak ones will die… But there is no way the academy can kick out a warlock of the same level as Lady Katharine or you.”

“You don’t know that.”

Katharine’s entry into the Academy was in many ways a ‘negotiation’.

Margrave Erst gave Katharine, his daughter, successor, or something of greater significance, to the bosom of his empire.

Surely she will find collaborators within it, plot and corrupt her Academy, but there is no reason for the Empire and Katharine’s country to engage in armed conflict, at least as long as she is within it.

The empire is strong, but it is wider than that. It was not possible to pour all the soldiers into a specific area or bear the cost.

“Common sense says that, but… Not everyone moves rationally.

Reason is a calculation. It is a calculation of profit and loss. After setting a standard, reason is to set a goal that meets that standard and take actions appropriate to it.

And, there were quite a few people who did not want that. Because the members of this organization must have done that right away.

“I think I found everything! Where should I take this…?”

“Investigator. I’ll pass it on to someone I trust, so just keep it for now. Now that I’ve found this place, I need to move to the next location.”

“Is there still work left to do?”

“In the first place, you were moving to catch Conrad, right?”

I continued to search through the drawers without looking back. Because there must be a device somewhere.

“At this level, isn’t it okay to just invade?”

“Surprisingly, the security in the dormitory is quite tight.”

“Better than here?”

“Of course.”

That was a reasonable decision. Even if the instructors are separated, they are not people who could get hurt or killed by someone.

But cadets are different. It was a space where numerous people gathered, and many people were injured when security was neglected.

Although students may have left the dormitory voluntarily, it was not easy for outsiders to break in.

“It’s going to be a pointless fight.”

Of course, there’s no way I wouldn’t be able to take it down if the security is clumsy, but it’s not good for a fight to break out.

In an instant, work had to proceed so quickly that people who woke up in the morning wondered, ‘What on earth happened yesterday?’

“But… What?”

Claire tilted her head.

“There is a way.”

After rummaging through the drawers for a while longer, I was able to find what I was looking for.

It is a small stick-shaped magic tool. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary wooden stick, but it was a fairly important magic tool.

I wrapped the stick in the hand of the fallen old man and held it. Soon, a soft light came out.

“What? What happened…?”

“It’s a pager.”

They were delivering instructions and commands in a quite clever way. However, there are times when speed is more necessary than information security.

“Follow me.”

I moved in the direction indicated by the small light.

The information I had was limited, but not all the information was useless.

Although it was not possible to give immediate answers to dangerous questions such as ‘Who is moving now?’, It was possible to give correct answers to unchanging questions such as ‘How do they communicate in an emergency?’

“Let’s go catch Conrad.”

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It’s fast. Following Wade, who was constantly moving, was quite tiring.

“…”

As expected, it is strong. Kelin followed behind him, confirming that she was not mistaken.

No matter how Katarin is, fighting the ‘instructor’ directly is not an easy decision.

Even if we don’t lose, there are too many variables. It was extremely dangerous to fight with an ordinary swordsman who was not even a warlock.

It was even more so when I thought about how many warlocks were killed by insignificant ‘warriors’ and the adventures of those ‘warriors’ were passed down as stories.

But he didn’t look like he was going to lose. He didn’t even think about losing.

‘Is it right for me to be here…’

Although a lot had happened, Kelin still thought of herself as Katharine’s subordinate.

Even if he participated in defeating Kazot or helping in defeating Conrad, his feelings did not change.

Still, she never thought she would gain this much trust.

He probably knows that she is Katharine’s double agent. However, Wade casually dragged Kelin into this dangerous task.

‘…Let’s not be shaken. ‘My choice was not wrong.’

If Katharine had offended him just a little more, it was possible that it would not be the old man who was lying down, but Katharine.

Of course, defeating Katharine will be much more difficult than defeating that old man. It was not a question of strength or weakness, but a question of preparation.

Katharine, who defended her home with countless magics, was always on guard, and was suspicious of everyone who came near her, there was no way she could fall for such a simple surprise attack.

However, Kelin has not yet seen the limits of his power. She knew neither purpose nor principles of action.

She couldn’t figure out why he, who was trying to hide himself as much as possible, was acting so wildly. She couldn’t even figure out what had dragged Olivia into this.

And, he couldn’t even guess what benefit he would gain by preventing the conflict.

First of all, I had no choice but to follow. Because she was a weakling, and it was Wade who showed her mercy by not ending her life.

After organizing her mind, Kellin moved to follow Wade again.