I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines

50 – Collapse-2

“…What is that?”

As I looked at the little girl held in Claire’s hands, I felt an emotion that I couldn’t express.

“We caught a spy!”

Claire smiled confidently and swaggered triumphantly like a cat handing over a hunted rat.

“Xenia, how did you come here?”

“Well, I’m curious?”

She smiled awkwardly.

“It was amazing. When I saw you guys gathering together, it seemed like you were really planning to beat us.”

It could be said to be a bit arrogant, but Xenia had the right to say it.

The power of the princess’s party is frighteningly strong.

Excluding everyone else, even if you take just one princess, she is strong enough to surpass the four people here.

“I may be a bit unlucky to say this, but the other person is the princess, right? There’s also a saint. Well, the rest are just children.”

Although she called herself a ‘child’, considering Xenia’s magic skills, she was not someone to be taken lightly.

Wizards are basically strong in ‘prepared’ fights.

Even a skilled wizard can be reduced to a corpse if he encounters a robber with a knife on the street, but a wizard who prepares spells well and uses ingredients containing magical power without hesitation can annihilate a large army single-handedly.

“Honestly, there’s no reason to win, right?”

Xenia’s eyes contained pure doubt. As a wizard, she had a personality that could not contain her curiosity.

“Actually, I wasn’t thinking about it seriously either.”

“Right?”

Winning the first tournament was almost impossible with normal play.

If Daejinwoon is okay, you can climb to a higher place, but that’s all.

Beating Katharine’s party was almost impossible, and even more so, beating the princess’s party was beyond that.

Even if she fights with all her stats maxed out as an editor, the princess has the ability to overcome it.

If you ask her if she had much benefit from winning like that, it wasn’t true.

Excessive attention is toxic in most situations.

It was dangerous for the princess’s authority to fall, and obtaining the title of ‘the one who defeated the princess’ also had the potential to be problematic.

When someone receives glory, people instinctively judge whether the person ‘deserves that honor.’

As a princess, you could always enjoy the honor of winning a tournament. No matter what honors she achieved at the Academy, they were nothing compared to her bloodline.

But I am different. People inside the academy may know that I am strong, but people outside are different.

When they heard that a ‘warlock who was just strong’ won the tournament, it was clear that instead of praising my strength, they would discuss the ‘fall of the academy’.

“But now the story is a little different. There is a reason to win.”

“Why?”

“First of all… There are a lot of people who have high expectations of me, right? Even if I fight as hard as I can, and maybe even win, something that big might not happen.”

I have already become the hero of the Academy.

The achievement of defeating a member of a secret organization that was planning a terrorist attack is not an achievement that can be easily ignored by people outside the academy.

There will still be people who see me as a ‘newbie warlock’, but there will be fewer people who think of me as a ‘rolling stone with no qualifications for that glory.’

There is one less reason for me not to win.

“Doesn’t that seem like enough?”

“We may have to stop the princess.”

At the words I spoke, the atmosphere became cold.

Claire pounded on the desk making a fuss, and Lillian laughed awkwardly, sweat dripping from her forehead. It seemed like he thought what I was saying was a joke.

Kelin stood still, keeping her composure as much as possible, but her expression was also stiff.

“Ha, I see…”

But Xenia was slowly nodding her head as if she had heard an interesting fact.

“Why?”

“You’ll have to look at the situation to know that.”

First of all, Kazott’s plan was ruined. The cards they can use have been greatly reduced.

Of course, these are not all the units they have secured. Nonetheless, it was clear that the situation was not smiling on them.

They were able to seduce or recruit numerous members and collaborators, but that ‘incorporation’ involves deception.

To Conrad and the old knight, she would have advocated the cause of ‘Let’s drive out the warlocks and create a clean academy!’, But there was no way she would have advocated the same justification to the other warlock members.

Claiming that their purpose was not conflict and destruction but ‘very little’ chaos was a very basic and basic strategy for an organization to destroy the world to permeate society.

‘But, their strategy was revealed.’

There was no way their capture operation could have stopped completely like this. However, at least to ordinary people, the image of Kazot as an ‘anti-social terrorist group’ has been overshadowed.

Recruiting new members will be difficult. Even if they could recruit them, it would be even more difficult for them to come up with a cunning and evil plan.

“What do you want? Revenge on Katharine?”

“I think we’ve already accomplished enough. Well, I feel like it’s a little lacking, but… If we go any further, I’ll have no choice but to kill her.”

‘Katharin lost her powers.’

What makes a warlock strong is their notoriety. Infamy, in other words, is also interest.

She is the one who stopped the innocent me to show off that she ‘can do anything’ at her academy. But now she couldn’t get any attention.

She was defeated by me in the tournament, and Olivia, who I once reached out to with Kellyn, who could be considered her subordinate, was in my hands.

Kelin will eventually follow Katharine’s orders at the last moment, but what is important is the image. How she is known is more important than who she is.

She served Katharine for quite some time, but her role was not prominent. Katharine was more of a plotting character than showing off her notable movements, while Kelin was a woman who moved like her limbs along the way.

Most people did not pay much attention to the fact that she was involved in Catherine’s plot. Because the way the conspiracy progressed and the truth were desperately hidden by the Erst family and no one else.

Then, what remains is Kelin, who fought with me in the ‘fight to defeat Khazot’.

“Well, I heard that the number of warlocks who followed that woman has decreased significantly.”

The number of warlocks who are not afraid of Katharine has increased exponentially. They now serve me, not Catherine.

“It seems like there are more than one lady whose heart would be shaken by a single letter…”

Xenia laughed mischievously. It wasn’t wrong.

Warlocks were creatures who excelled at increasing their power by throwing away ‘things that can be thrown away.’

And their ‘things that can be thrown away’ generally included their own beauty and chastity.

“Really? Wade. It’s not like that, is it?”

“No.”

I smiled shyly and patted Claire who was clinging to my arm.

“Well, it wouldn’t be a problem if I had this many female students next to me.”

As a result, the number of cards that Kazot can use was greatly reduced.

Using the secured units is not an easy choice in a situation where you cannot check how far your information power extends.

In recruiting new members, the negative rumors that I confidently spread are an obstacle.

In order to use her Katarin, she is also in a hurry to organize her own forces.

“You don’t like Yurishia? You’re so friendly with her.”

“Just because you like someone doesn’t mean you can approve of that person’s every action and thought.”

Then, the only thing left is the princess.

It would be a risky choice for Kazott, but it is not impossible.

In order to cause a major conflict with the minimum number of people without raising suspicion, the most reasonable choice is to take advantage of the princess’s thoughts and movements.

“Well, I don’t have very high expectations. I’m just wondering if I’ll be lucky enough to win and get the right to speak.”

“Lie.”

Xenia and I looked at each other and smiled.

Of course, it’s a lie. I have the means to take her down.

“What are you planning to do?”

“You won’t be able to win with regular methods, so you’ll have to use a mean method.”

The princess also has weaknesses. She can only use it once, and her weakness is that it can take a toll on her the moment she uses it.

“I can’t imagine. It’s just a tournament. Is there a reason to do something like that?”

“Since it is a tournament, isn’t it a very suitable place to defeat the princess?”

And that weakness is not something that only I can use.

The current Kazot may not know it or use it, but it is not a weakness that will never be discovered.

“Think of it as training. It would be better for her to lose in a tournament than to lose in real combat.”

“…What are you looking forward to?”

Xenia smiled.

Like a child looking forward to the answer to a riddle with no answer, ‘defeating the princess.’