chapter 37
37 – The Demon Search Operation (3)
In the meantime, go back in time to the other side of the mountain.
Group A is searching a little further away from Deneb and Justina.
Cornet, Guinness, and Elfin, who protects them both, were walking while watching the sun fall.
I haven’t even heard the footsteps of the demons yet.
“Where are they hiding?”
“A demon?”
“Yeah, I’m afraid it will pop out of nowhere.”
“It’s scary, anyway, sorcerers.”
Cornet and Guinness are talking in whispers even though it is a real match.
Elfin contemplated whether to dry it or not, but she left it alone.
Not only did I think there was no way the demons would get scared and run away from the sound of the two children talking, but also because I was curious about the conversations these days.
“Do some strength training. It scares me because I just sit there all day.”
“hehehe, girls aren’t pretty when they have muscles like that.”
“Do you build muscles to look pretty?”
Elfin trembled slightly at Guinness’s thoughtless words.
Because she went around showing off her abs.
Everyone thought that she was proud of her abs, but as a woman, she was rather a deductible factor?
Obviously Master said that 500 years ago he preferred a woman with a good figure…….
“I heard that men look prettier with muscles?”
“Pretty?”
“Should I say cool? Can I touch you once?”
What are those stupid things up to now?
Elfin opened her eyes and had to resist her urge to look back at what Cornet and Gwyneth were doing behind her.
What children who are not yet 100 years old in front of adults…….
“Wow, that’s hard.”
“What are you going to do with this?”
“I’m curious. I don’t have anything like this in my body.”
“I’m not curious about what my body doesn’t have and yours does.”
“Aren’t you really curious? A place like this?”
Elfin couldn’t stand this conversation.
It was a very difficult subject for a virgin like Elfin.
She actually joked about s*xual harassment, such as asking Justina if she didn’t spin a web, but in fact, she herself wasn’t immune to this kind of thing either.
For the two of them to notice and stop, Elfin gave Guinness a short, bold word.
“What are you doing? I’m on a search right now Stay focused.”
“Ehehehe, sorry, professor.”
“Because it is a cat beast, is it at least in heat? Cornet is in trouble, so I’ll take care of that on my own from now on.”
“That, it’s not like that… ….”
Only then did Guinness and Cornette quiet down a bit, and Elfin could focus solely on the search.
However, when the silence came, her thoughts drifted to another direction.
Would Deneb really be safe?
‘Nothing special.’
At least according to the information obtained from the imperial family, the demons Elfin was chasing this time weren’t that dangerous.
One battle that took place while approaching the mountain behind Denbergen Academy.
It seemed that no soldiers were seriously injured in that battle.
I just wondered how the demons, who had a hard time even crossing the empire’s walls in the Devil’s Land, had come so deep.
‘The problem is that I don’t know the method.’
Elfin also vaguely guessed that her demonic brother and sister might be equipped with special tools to hide her identity.
Because the effect was too long to be said that he was using magic.
The problem was that the Empire had no information about such magical products.
I had never heard of a magic engineering technique that would make sure I would never be discovered.
‘Well, it’s something that needs to be caught and questioned.’
So the goal of this operation was capture rather than kill.
The first goal is to leave no traces of the demons hiding here so that there is no controversy at all.
As I said before, the demonic brother and sister got caught by the guards just once on their way here and fought a battle, but the other agents of the dark department had already organized it.
The guards probably don’t even remember that they encountered the demon brother or sister, let alone fought.
In other words, it was a story that only a few high-ranking people and students in the special class here were aware of the brother and sister’s existence.
‘After I’m done, I’ll just have to clean up the children’s memories.’
The second goal is to find out who is behind the demon brother and sister.
According to the testimony of the guards who fought a battle with the demon brother and sister, both demons were wearing magic engineering equipment.
The poor demons of the Devil’s Land are magical engineering equipment, and that’s a high-end item.
It was a story that could not be understood by common sense.
‘There must be a back stomach.’
For example… I ordered to aim for something in Denbergen Academy because I will provide magic engineering equipment to the demons of the demon world.
It may have something to do with why I was aiming for the academy in this way.
Anyway, if it becomes clear that the mastermind exists and is targeting the academy.
‘It’s going to be a long business trip. But what, could it be beneficial?’
It was clear that Elfin’s professor camouflage would increase by the end of the job.
It naturally reduces the time to find the flower of resurrection and the flower garden, but well…… Oddly enough, Elfin didn’t feel much pressure.
Once you’ve found Dane’s reincarnation–though you didn’t want to admit it–wouldn’t it be safe to keep it by your side?
At least I couldn’t leave him alone with Justina.
Elfin firmly believed and had no doubt that Deneb needed the help of a normal person like himself.
‘Justina is dangerous, in many ways very.’
As the president of the academy, the school management is doing pretty well.
She didn’t even bother with that.
However, Elfin was certain that Justina was preparing an eccentric trip beyond her imagination, and she was sure that one day she would commit a major accident.
Her existence of Justina was also one of the reasons why her imperial family wanted to keep tabs on her academy.
“…… What is that?”
“Yes, professor. The sky is strange.”
“What is that?”
Even a tiger will come if I say it.
Anyone could see that the magic circle created by Justina was covering the sky.
I don’t know what happened, but Deneb was probably the cause.
She may be the head of the board who usually thinks of her students, but when she got involved with Dane, Justina’s taste was half gone.
“Ha ha.”
Elfin sighed and gripped her sword.
Should she go to Justina or Deneb?
If you want to solve the fundamental problem, it will be Deneb’s side, and if you want to put out the urgent fire first, it will be Justina’s side.
However, Elfin was not given long time to ponder.
“Kekekekekek!”
The sky at sunset.
A huge shadow covered the ground.
To be exact, only the land where Elfin, Guinness, and Cornet are located.
Elfin immediately pushed Guinness away and leaped back with Cornet.
Kooung!
“Ooh, were you looking for us? Kekekekekekek!”
Bizarre laughter, seriously white skin.
In contrast, black hair and a dark cloak.
Everyone in the room could immediately grasp that a large enemy had appeared with an impressive contrast of colors.
“Among the Demon Brothers and Sisters, is it the older brother? I never thought he would show up like this.”
“My name is Hans. You seem to be looking for it, kekekekekekek!”
“I see. My name is Elfin, the new professor at Denbergen Academy.”
Elfin pushed her false identity without blinking an eye.
“Anyway, I got some information about you, Hans. Is it your specialty to be strong enough for a giant?”
Sureureung! Elfin pulled out his sword and aimed it at the demon assailant.
“Let’s try a strength fight, once.”
The demon’s eyes were bloodshot, creating an eerie atmosphere.
Cornette drew her sword and stood on her guard, but Gwyneth panicked and fidgeted and tap danced.
Fortunately, Hans wasn’t aiming for those two.
I could tell when I saw it myself. It was a tough enemy for the children to deal with, but it was also a cumbersome enemy to fight while protecting the children.
‘Hmm.’
Meanwhile, Elfin stared at Hans’ huge body hidden by his cloak.
There were many odd bumps here and there.
Elfin recognized it at a glance and smiled.
“It’s kind of funny to have a power fight with a drug guy.”
“Be careful with your words, elf b*tch. It’s doping, not drugging.”
“That’s it. An overdose of magical drugs… If I don’t touch you, you’ll die within a year, so why are you doing this?”
“Kekek, kekekekek! What am I going to tell you about that? Yes?”
Elfin nodded her head.
“That is true too.”
The next moment, a thick piece of flesh floated in the air with blue blood.
“…… Ah?”
The sword of genius omits the process and leaves only the result.
Asmodian Hans exclaimed and stared at the arm that had been attached to his shoulder just a moment ago, flying in the sky with blood spattering.
For him, he couldn’t even tell when he had been hit, and he couldn’t even notice the moment Elfin started running.
‘f*ck, what kind of monster is this?’
It did a good job of calming down the insanity.
“Quaaagh!”
However, Hans’ response was swift.
I didn’t think of collecting his severed arm.
Instead of frightening or backing away, he walked sideways like a crab and grabbed the nearest tree with his hand.
Quad Deuk! His fingers were driven into a hard tree, and soon a tree was pulled out with a crackling sound.
As Elfin said, it was the strength of muscles made of magic engineering drugs.
Without hesitation, Hans threw a huge tree at least five times the height of an adult man at Elfin.
“Cornet! Take Guinness and avoid it!”
Elfin screamed and evacuated the student and straightened his sword.
A tree flying toward the elfin while lying flat.
It’s too late to avoid it, so there’s only one way.
Flame! The blade of the sword Elfin was holding was wrapped in red light.
She swung her sword from top to bottom.
Simple but heavy vertical cutting.
With a single sword, he split a thick old tree in half and threw it down.
Kooung!
“aaagh!”
But the flying tree was just a trick.
It was because a tank appeared right in front of me from among the clouds that arose when the tree fell.
The tank’s name is Hans. Thanks to the magic engineering drug, I rushed at least four times the size of an elfin, and my field of view was full.
Cornette, who was watching from her side, closed her eyes tightly, thinking that no matter how much an elfin was hit by that torso head-butt, she would be hit hard.
Kwajik!
But what happened next was beyond Cornette’s imagination.
Obviously, Hans, who had been running toward Elfin, was as hard as a stone.
Elfin didn’t use any kind of petrification magic or freezing magic.
I just reached out the hand that wasn’t holding the sword, grabbed Hans by the neck, and threw him to the ground.
However, in the aftermath, a wide, shallow pit was dug in the ground centered on the floor where Elfin and Hans were.
“Big… heck… !”
“So, I said let’s fight for strength.”
Cornet couldn’t believe it.
The fact that a slender elf grabbed a huge monster by the collar and subdued it so that it couldn’t budge.
Shaking her head in annoyance, ripping off her golden hair that clung to her forehead, blowing through her mouth, she smacked her elbow down on Hans’s head.
No, she was about to hit it off.
“…… What?”
In that moment, she confirmed that there was something that an elfin shouldn’t have.
Hans’ right arm, which must have been cut off just now, was growing back.
But there’s no way Elfin could have stopped just because of this.
It was a fact that even a child could understand that Hans, the demon, administered illegal magic engineering drugs, and there could be one or two of those drugs that speed up natural healing.
However, the embarrassing thing was that Hans’ arm had become three.
‘Why is this moving?’
Obviously the first right arm of Hans, which was completely cut off earlier and fell to the ground.
The right arm crawled across the ground as if it had a will of its own and climbed up the body of the elfin.
I had never heard of an arm that was separated from the human body moving freely.
This is often the case among high-ranking skeletons, but…….
‘That’s a skeleton.’
Isn’t this really no different from living undead?
Elfin tried to deny it, but she frowned at the thought of an impossible truth, her talent for black magic that runs in her own blood.
By the way, this situation was quite embarrassing.
The severed arm of Hans who climbed up the elfin and clung to her arm. And Hans’ left arm holding the severed arm. Her arms continued to connect, and in a situation where Elfin subdued Hans, she was in a state of being held by Hans in reverse.
In an instant, Hans’s severed arm, which climbed up on Elfin’s arm, moved to Elfin’s sword, and he gripped the blade tightly.
Bagak!
Blood flowed from Hans’ hand holding the sword, but as a result, Hans didn’t give him a chance to deal with it and succeeded in breaking Elfin’s blade.
“Damn it.”
Elfin let go of his sword and took a few steps back.
The broken sword was no longer a useful weapon.
In the first place, as long as the opponent had the bizarre ability to move freely even if body parts were cut, it was meaningless to cut and cut.
Elfin glared at Hans’s body as he tried to get up, wriggling like a lump of flesh from a peeling off cape.
Yeah, I’d rather make it with minced meat so that you can’t move at all….
“Cornet.”
“Yes?”
“Throw the ax!”
The name of the cornet suddenly called.
He was bewildered but threw the ax without hesitation.
As soon as she received it correctly, Elfin, holding the bag of swords in her hand, spat the saliva in her mouth onto the ground.
“f*ck, did you know what would happen without a knife?”
Hans was strangled by Elfin’s hand and couldn’t breathe for a while, then hurriedly tried to inhale oxygen again.
I looked around as soon as I opened my eyes, but there was no elfin in front of me.
The place where she is is above Hans’s head.
She jumped up with an ax and climbed onto Hans.
“What a f*cking b*tch! Come down and fight fair and square!”
Hans’ severed arm jumped in again, trying to somehow protect his head, but Elfin’s target point wasn’t his head.
Without mercy, Elfin cut Hans’s arm in half again.
Each of her fingers, her severed wrist, was cut into smaller pieces, so that the shape was unrecognizable.
“Are you an idiot?”
“Ke, Keee!”
“What kind of party is it with a doping bastard?”
Every time the elfin struck her axe, her blue blood splattered and her filthy flesh splattered.
The figure of Elfin now was neither a gentle academy professor nor a stealthy and speedy captain of the imperial family’s dark department.
A crazy butcher who just cuts and disassembles huge chunks of meat.
If packaged well, it would be like a berserker who fights without sparing his body.
It was the true form of Elfin, a warrior born through Deneb’s training, but it was a little different from Cornet and Gwyneth’s point of view.
“Cornet, I… What is that?”
“…… I do not know.”
Cornette suddenly remembered what Deneb had shown her during the sparring.
Now Elfin looks like Deneb at the time, but what to say. It was a little different.
It’s not something I should say to the professor, but this is a little…….
“Looks like a crazy b*tch… ….”
Gwyneth spat out the words Cornet hesitated.
If you look right next to Elfin, who laughs louder than Hans’ scream, you can’t help but say that.
But Cornet and Guinness knew only one thing, and the other two did not.
If it hadn’t been for this way of relieving stress, Elfin would have gone mad a long time ago.
‘This sounds crazy… ….’
Of course, there was no big difference in the eyes of others even now.
Under the pure white magic circle floating in the sky.
Elfin can’t regenerate or move again, but after confirming that Hans is still holding her breath, she casts a trapping spell.
Hans, who was more like a lump than a demon, couldn’t resist.
Then Elphin returned the soiled ax to Cornet, wiping her bangs from her sweat-stained hair.
“You go down immediately. I’m going to Yuzu.”
Then he looked up at the sky and muttered.
“There is still some time left, so if you run away now, you will be able to live.”
***
“…… Human?”
I glared at the black figure and clenched my teeth.
The enemy who invaded the academy was said to be a demonic brother and sister.
There is no way for demons to become human, so that’s a third person… Otherwise, it means that he is a human who cooperates with the demon brother and sister.
‘But, what about that leash?’
However, the story is different because he witnessed the magic engineering brainwashing leash.
That human must be being manipulated by a demon brother and sister.
Anyway, this is a troublesome situation for me.
“You mean you can’t kill, damn it.”
There was talk of capturing the demon brother and sister alive, if possible.
I had to dig up information or something like that.
However, the human mage in front of me was several orders of magnitude higher than the strength of the demonic brother and sister I assumed.
If I fight with the mindset of capturing that thing alive, I will die.
But if it is a magic engineering leash, there is a possibility that an innocent human being is being used as a plaything by demons.
“Mr. ! That cloak is a magical product! I’m using magic to form a barrier around here so that no matter how close you come, you won’t notice that we’re fighting!”
“Thanks, Charlotte! In the end, we have to deal with each other!”
That’s what you said, but you don’t have to do it.
It’s the same as cutting the leash on the neck of a serpent monster.
All I have to do is pull out my sword, instantly rush in and sever the leash to free that mage from brainwashing.
“Wouldn’t you like to say aloud before the fight? You’re like a wizard, but you also have your own kind of honor. Huh?”
“…… I am a witch.”
I tilted my head at the voice I heard.
Before it was a woman’s voice, it was very thick and thick.
Suddenly, a hypothesis comes to mind when combined with the skinny body I saw inside the cloak.
‘Old man… Is it a grandmother?’
It is common knowledge in this world that old wizards are powerful.
How did the demons find such a person and brainwash them?
Maybe he’s a professor from an academy I don’t know much about.
‘However, the magical items that were wrapped around her body… ….’
Unfortunately, I don’t know much about magic engineering.
However, as soon as she saw the cloak, she figured out that she was using a barrier magic to cut herself off from her surroundings. Unlike me, Charlotte seemed to have some knowledge in magic engineering.
‘A leash is a leash, but cutting off the cloak is more urgent.’
Only then, support from Elfin and Justina will be possible.
I want to solve it on my own, but I had to admit that my strength alone was not enough to subdue an enemy of that level.
I gritted my teeth and gave strength to the hand holding the sword.
I kicked the ground and rushed to free the poor old mage who was squatting and muttering incoherent words.
“I am a witch… witch in the woods… An evil witch who creates a house of sweets and tries to eat ignorant children….”
An old wizard who kept repeating strange words like a witch, a witch, a witch even when I approached her.
She created sharp icicles in the air without a chant.
Five or six icicles flew in exactly the same way I walked.
If you get hit by one, it’s a fatal wound, and even just brushing against it will lead to necrosis of the skin.
I concentrated my nerves, brushed off some of them, and avoided others with shadowy walking, slowly but quickly approaching the mage.
Suddenly!
Then he slashed the tip of the cloak by scattering golden swords, but it did not break the function of the cloak at all.
‘I’m almost there!’
As I licked my lips in regret, I twisted my body and tried to strike.
However, the old wizard, who fluttered his cloak and took a step back from me, looked this way and spoke another meaningless word.
“…… Save the bad witch.”