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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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Area 4, the entrance to Death Valley. Edwin’s party, having traveled through the portal, first encountered a horde of monsters converging on the ominous magic tower in the distance.
“Everyone, prepare for battle!”
Growl!
Cough!
Having already defeated the three-headed Cerberus, taking down the hybrid monsters scattered across Areas 2 and 3 wasn’t difficult for Edwin’s group, but…
‘The entire island has become a barren wasteland…’
If the magic tower stabilized, amplifying the monsters’ malice and serving as a gateway to Pandemonium, this place would surely become a living hell. Edwin, the party’s leader, steeled his resolve.
‘Now… with Lev gone… I have to do this on my own.’
Before entering the portal, Lev had made a separate request to Professor McClone.
“Professor, I’ll head towards the magic tower.”
“??”
“Someone has to stop its activation”.
“B-But that’s dangerous!”
“Lev…! Then I’ll…!”
“No, I’ll be fine. Trust me. The monsters will likely gather at the tower… I need you to intercept them. Senior Violet should be there too.”
“Lev…”
“Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.”
“…”
“Just hold on. He distributed the emergency magic tools provided by the Academy and teleported alone to a different location.”
‘Lev… are you trying to handle this by yourself again…?’
He’d always resolved things behind the scenes, but this was different. The danger felt too palpable.
‘This time… I have to go help him.’
As Edwin strengthened his resolve, he spotted Violet, the Head of the Archery Department, fighting alone.
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“How did you… get here…?”
Violet, whom they miraculously found, didn’t appear to be in good condition. Edwin quickly explained.
“Something seems to be wrong with Mystic Island. Everyone’s evacuating. We… heard you were here and came to rescue you.”
“That’s dangerous…!”
“We’ll discuss the details after we escape… Melissa?”
“Look out!”
A fireball, illuminating the dark surroundings, hurtled towards them.
Whoosh!
Clang!
“Ugh!”
Edwin sliced through the fireball with his sword. Only a swordsman who had fully mastered their aura could cut through magic. He had grown considerably stronger in a short time.
“This is…?”
The density of the magic felt familiar, almost nostalgic. It wasn’t demonic; it was human magic.
“…”
The caster… was someone Edwin knew all too well. The pink-haired princess.
“Melissa, what are you doing?!”
At Edwin’s cry, a spark of recognition flickered in Melissa’s eyes, but she quickly shook her head.
“I, I… You can’t go. Kaelan told me… to stop you…”
Violet, observing this, turned to Aria and Yeriel.
“Can either of you cast Healing Revelation? There’s an injured person behind that rock.”
“…!”
Leaning against the rock, barely conscious, was Abelline.
“Ga…sp… H-Help…”
Aria took Abelline’s hand and calmly assessed her condition.
“…We need a flat surface to lay her down. The wound is deep… and tainted by black mana, so it will take time.”
“Understood.”
Violet approached Edwin and gave him instructions.
“You’re the vanguard of this party, Edwin Gwynne, correct?”
“…Yes.”
“You seem to know the Princess of Prominence, so please restrain her. Yeriel and I will engage the incoming monsters and buy some time. The priestess will heal the Valantes woman while you do that.”
“Okay.”
With their roles assigned, Edwin strode towards Melissa.
Thud.
“D-Don’t… come closer.”
Melissa trembled, fear evident in her eyes.
Thud.
“Don’t come…”
Edwin stopped in front of her.
Slap!
A sharp slap echoed through the air. Melissa’s head whipped to the side.
“Huh…?”
As confusion warred with fear in her eyes, Edwin yelled, “Melissa! Snap out of it! You’re a Clarice student! Neither of us are demons!”
“What… E-Edwin, did you slap me…?”
“Yes. Please, come to your senses!”
“…”
“I saw it. You flirting with Kaelan to join the selection exam. Honestly, it was disappointing.”
Shame washed over Melissa, and she stammered.
“Th-That’s… Wh-What’s it… to you…!”
“That’s why I said I’d wait…! We promised…! Why couldn’t you wait? Why are you listening to that bastard Kaelan?! What is this situation?!”
Melissa’s composure crumbled under Edwin’s reprimand.
“…I-I didn’t… expect this… Sob…! I didn’t know! But if I disobey Kaelan… I don’t like… the pain… it hurts…!”
She sank to the ground, sobbing, then clutched at Edwin’s pant leg.
“Sorry… I’m sorry, Edwin… Help me, help… You’ve always helped me, haven’t you? You’re a good person… So you’ll help me, right?! Please…! No? I can’t… I have to obey Kaelan…”
Trickle…
“!!!”
A puddle began to spread between Melissa’s trembling, bare legs.
“Wah…? No, n-no…”
She desperately tried to cover herself with her skirt.
“D-Don’t… look…”
But just as spilled water couldn’t be gathered, neither could the raw vulnerability of a princess be hidden. The flow continued unchecked.
“Ha… haha… Waaah!”
Her mind seemed to break. Ominous demonic symbols, like tattoos, appeared on the skin beneath her rolled-up sleeves.
‘Damn…!’
Edwin quickly covered her lower body with his robe.
“Hngh… E-Edwin?”
“Sigh…”
Edwin quickly pieced together the situation. Kaelan had placed a demonic spell on Melissa. And there was only one way to break a consensual demonic spell like that: kill the caster, Kaelan, or… Melissa.
‘How… in this situation…!’
As he wrestled with this grim dilemma, Yeriel’s voice reached him from behind.
“Edwin, be careful…!”
“!”
Shriek!
Rattle, rattle.
“Hee hee hee…!”
Melissa fainted, and skeletal undead monsters swarmed her.
Swish!
Thud!
Edwin instinctively drew his sword and cut them down with a single, sweeping arc. But…
Clatter, clatter!
‘Kyaa…!’
The situation was deteriorating. Monsters from other areas were converging on them.
‘We have wounded here…!’
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Area 4, the center of the canyon. In the violet zone, scarred with remnants of a demonic settlement, a magic tower with an exposed, blackened framework stood precariously tilted, thrust into the earth.
Hum! Hum! Hum!
Kaelan, having infiltrated this place, slowly poured the mana he’d drained from Melissa into the central magic stone.
Once activated, the magic tower would automatically generate and amplify black mana. Purifying a demonic settlement like this would be impossible for the Empire unless they called upon the ancient hero, krun.
‘Damn… they discovered me…?’
His plan had gone seriously wrong. He was supposed to activate the magic tower, turn Abelline and Melissa into his subordinates, and return to the Academy smoothly. He’d even arranged it so he would be the one to defeat Yelodi’s summoned monster, becoming the hero.
He had plans for after becoming the Academy’s only aspiring hero, too. If he could brainwash Lily and have her control a dragon, he’d be able to claim Clarice’s sacred treasures, obtainable only by riding a dragon.
“That purple woman… that bitch…”
But all of this had been ruined because of that woman, Violet D’Crescent.
She had interfered when he tried to recruit Lily,
And thanks to her, he couldn’t form a blood contract with Abelin.
Therefore, he was currently using more mana than expected to activate the magic tower.
‘Well, a woman raised nobly makes me more excited~.’
Perhaps it was because he was handling dark magic.
Kaelan, who previously didn’t prefer women who weren’t docile,
Now wanted to subjugate her.
If he could, he wanted to tie her up and violate her right away to see her expression.
“High-class ladies taste better when handled roughly like tools…”
So once this magic tower was restored, he would taste her.
‘After that~.’
Yeriel Artina. Aria Bluebell.
The two women, whether they were perceptive or not, had never shown any interest in Kaelan.
‘They’re pretty smart women…’
He knew well that they hovered around Lev Denec.
Therefore, his best revenge would be…
‘I’ll have to take them by force.’
Lev Denec, taking those two right in front of him.
‘Taking them one after another…’
Messing up and dirtying their holy power completely, making them his slaves.
“Hehe. I know I’m being childish, but I like this kind of thing~.”
Unlike the previous ranking battle, this time he wouldn’t let his guard down.
He had already taken measures to ensure their complete submission.
It was the great demon Marcocias, who had instructed him to do all this.
-If the magic tower is activated, I will acknowledge your contribution and grant you one wish.
-Lev Denec, Edwin Gwynz… take everything from those two.
Because he had made a contract with him.
-…
Perhaps because he had poured a lot of magical power into the tower, Kaelan, feeling dizzy, opened the cap of a mana potion.
“Phew~.”
It was really not much longer.
Marcocias’s power of submission.
This was not an ability that humans or creatures could block.
“I really want it badly… Well, I’ll just kill the great demon or whatever later and take it.”
Just as he was about to pour the potion into his mouth.
.
.
.
-Piiiiiiiiiiiiiii——
-?
Suddenly, an unpleasant sound passed through Kaelan as if he had developed tinnitus.
“@$^&?”
He definitely said “what,” but he couldn’t hear anything.
-Piiiiiiiiiiiiiii——
Additionally, he couldn’t see anything because of the bright light.
-%#$#%?
-#$
-%$@*%@
Even after spitting out curses several times, no sound was produced.
-Piiiiiiiiiiiiiii——
Come to think of it, his sense of touch was still alive.
It felt like his right cheek, shoulder, and leg were leaning against a hard wall.
As he thought about this, excruciating pain suddenly came all at once.
“Kuhakkkak!!!hak! Uugghakahak!!!!!!!”
It felt like his internal organs were being twisted and wrung out.
An intense pain that made him feel like he would die instantly, rather than just being unable to breathe, began to pour in.
-Rub rub…
In fact, what Kaelan was leaning against wasn’t a wall.
He was just lying on the ground in an ungainly state.
And that was with something like metal skewers piercing him here and there.
“Ahak!kak! D-damn… kkuluk! It…! What is th..!”
He had to crawl if necessary.
Somehow, he needed to get near the magic stone… to notify Marcocias, or tell Yellody Latasia…
He needed to inform them of this situation…
-…Step. Step.
-!
Kaelan’s hearing returned.
And what he heard was the sound of chilling footsteps.
-Step. Step. Step.
Footsteps that seemed to belong to a human.
Gradually getting closer.
“Kuheu…kuheheuk…!”
-Click.
-!
Then something heavy and metallic was aimed at the back of his head.
“Kuhak..kkuluk! Kkuluk!!!”
As Kaelan’s breathing, sensing the danger, became more rapid,
The gray-haired man opened his mouth.
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