NOVEL NEXT chapter 47
47 – Leaf-16
“Do you… Think I will be defeated that easily?”
Conrad raised her magical power. The earrings on his ears and the ring on his finger were shining.
“I am the son of the Urwid family!”
He was a wizard. His talent wasn’t that great, but that didn’t mean his power disappeared.
A lot of money and the glory of his family gave him numerous artifacts.
“Bah, take it!”
A fireball exploded from his hand. Looking at its size and casting speed alone, it could be seen as a very powerful effect.
However, Olivia moved forward.
‘Okay…’
Even without using the power of darkness, she was a strong enough knight.
Her sword split a huge fireball. Her cadet uniform was scorched here and there, but she didn’t even care.
“Uh, how…”
“Did you think I could possibly fall victim to an attack like that?”
It may have been acting, but I could say it was at a pretty good level.
Olivia walked towards him with long strides.
“Turn off, turn off!”
“That’s shameless. Didn’t you admit it with your own mouth? That’s what you did. At the instigation of that organization, you deliberately harassed the warlocks in the hope that your subordinate would die!”
It wasn’t bad. She had talent in her.
I don’t know if I was doing it knowingly or not, but I was naturally saying what I wanted.
A video recording device is not a technology that can be easily used, even if it uses magical powers.
Even considering Claire’s magic, it wasn’t best to drag it out for a long time.
“If you kill me… My family!”
“So as long as you don’t kill them, it’s okay, right?”
There was no mercy. Olivia’s sword sliced off Conrad’s arm with a single blow.
“Kaaak!”
“Yes, it hurts more! More than what the students who suffered from you suffered!”
In order to destroy the world, a stronger warlock is needed. More desperate warlocks who are prepared to sacrifice more.
And, I wasn’t the only one who knew that. Kazott knew that too.
The terminal unit I defeated or my collaborator Conrad may not know. They may just be moving for what they want, driven by Kazot’s secondary goal of ‘provoking conflict’.
However, the treatment of Conrad and the like was not something I cared about in the first place.
What is important is that this fight does not spread.
The fight that started inside the academy gradually grows bigger and spills outside the academy, and that’s fine as long as it doesn’t cause a huge fight.
That alone can protect the world. Summoning the Demon King will require a longer period of time, and may require gathering the ‘dedication of living humans’ for a period of time close to eternity.
“aaah!”
Olivia stepped on Conrad’s fallen arm.
“Damn it, let go of this. Let go of this…”
Claire, who made eye contact with me, gave her thumbs up to indicate that she was okay. However, the magic tool in her hand was slowly blinking a small light, indicating its limit.
“Let’s finish this quickly.”
Olivia listened to me and slowly nodded her head.
“Live. Live until you pay for your sins!”
“Why did you do that to me… Ahhh!”
Olivia’s strength lies in her fists. Conrad’s somehow smooth face becomes distorted after being hit by her merciless fist.
Conrad fainted miserably. Olivia must have come to her senses, as her eyes met mine and she looked embarrassed.
“Is this… what happened?”
“It was perfect.”
What increases conflict is distrust and hatred toward each other. The question is, ‘Why aren’t those criminals or would-be criminals punished?’
The rumor that ‘warlocks committed murder!’ Is definitely shocking. And the solution itself of expelling them from the academy, or more broadly, from this society, is reasonable.
So, we need to change the direction of that suspicion.
The rumor that ‘there was a secret organization in the academy, and they sold drugs and manipulated warlocks into doing terrible things!’ Is even more shocking than that.
If it ends at the level of simply ‘shocking,’ it won’t be anything more than gossip, but I had enough evidence to support the rumor.
“Okay…”
Olivia’s symbolism is also not bad. The fact that she went under Katarin is definitely a disadvantage, but she is also an element that can make a warlock feel a sense of kinship.
Besides, she was a very good knight. Although she briefly lost the trust of her princess, this did not stop her princess from labeling her a ‘public enemy’.
Not many people can deny her family name and the hard work she has built.
“Kwaeuuu really?
With a faint groan, Conrad fell.
I sent a signal to Claire with her hand gesture, carefully accepted the magic tool she handed me, and placed it in her arms.
“Thank you all for your hard work. I’ll report back and do it tomorrow.”
I also broke one of Kazot’s plots.
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“Didn’t you say you’d go out as soon as you’re ready?”
“That’s what you’re saying… You mean the princess ordered that bastard Wade to investigate? She never knows when she might get caught. She has to escape somehow!”
Dawn was approaching, but Victor could not fall asleep.
It is a race against time. Wade let him go, but it wasn’t clear how long he could show mercy.
“Still, I didn’t know you would save me.”
I thought he was going to kill me. He didn’t think he would survive.
I tried making excuses, but I didn’t think they would work. Because most of those who were with the princess were like that.
“I lived because the captain was friendly with Wade.”
“As for the friendship… Something great happened.”
What happened between Victor and Wade was extremely trivial.
Victor, who saw Claire’s smooth beauty and rushed at her, was struck by Wade’s ‘dark arrow’, which concealed his power, and fell.
“I just saved his life. Well, I guess he seemed pitiful.”
That was all. Wade just thought he was worth living for, or at least he didn’t deserve to die.
“I was lucky.”
Victor also did not think of himself as a good person.
No matter how you explain it, in the end, you are a criminal who sells drugs.
The medicine sent by the people who escaped together was of good quality, and side effects were not common.
Nevertheless, he could not say for certain that no one behaved abnormally after taking the drug.
“I hope they just underestimated us.”
“Then you wouldn’t have chased us?”
“No, if you were truly soft-hearted enough to show mercy… You wouldn’t be able to live as a warlock for long.”
Preparation is complete. Victor, along with his friends and subordinates, prepared to leave the academy.
Kazot may have been terrible, but since they had already been discovered, they couldn’t continue to carry out their mission anyway.
“The day will be bright. Let’s go quickly.”
The place they were in was a temporary hideout secretly built near the dormitory. A place where medicine is stored and where they gather.
The moment he opened the door, Victor felt an overwhelming sense of pressure.
“…”
Noble. Beautiful. And, it’s cold.
The female knight’s eyes, which were sharper than the extremely sharp blade of her sword, were glaring at Victor.
“What? How…”
I heard that the student council was involved. She was told that the princess knew about this.
But I never thought that the person in charge would move on his own.
“…You managed to survive.”
Her eyes were burning like fireworks bursting from the sun.
If you look straight into those eyes, they are so hot that the eyeballs of the person looking at them melt.
“Eurishia… Your Royal Highness?”
“Don’t put my name in her dirty mouth.”
Victor changed his mind. It was pointless for him to be polite.
“Why did you come here?”
“To cut out evil.”
The sword she was holding was very slowly aimed at Victor.
Although there was enough distance, Victor could instinctively know.
The word ‘there is a distance’ is meaningless against that monster. The moment the princess wanted to, she could cut off Victor’s head before he even realized it.
“I won’t ask you why you did it. Why you spread drugs and got involved in someone’s murder.”
“Damn, it’s my fault? That’s it! If only you hadn’t taken our territory in the first place…”
“I’m tired of explaining it. I don’t want to come to the academy and listen to the talk of traitors trying to slander His Majesty the Emperor.”
“In the first place! Fabian didn’t die because of the drugs! He used black magic! If he really was in a state of ‘craving’ because he didn’t have drugs, there’s no way he could have used black magic!”
“Until the end, you don’t regret it.”
“I took medicine! And the effects of the medicine I sold do not include hallucinations or increased aggression! It’s a stimulant! It just clears your mind!”
“I don’t think I need to give you more time. You did something meaningless…”
“So, the reason Fabian killed those bastards! It was his own choice-“
The last thing Victor saw was the eyes of the princess who momentarily approached him.
A cold look that says they will not be considerate, that they will not acknowledge it.
Yuuri Sia had no intention of listening to him from the beginning.