How to Survive as the Second Son of a Mage Family - Chapter 111

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How to Survive as the Second Son of a Magic Family (111)

A surprise attack is definitely effective.

To be able to take down all these clergy at once.

If they had been in their right minds, it would have been difficult to achieve such results.

“Phew…”

I looked around.

With everyone collapsed and not a single voice to be heard in the silence, scenery that hadn’t been visible before began to catch my eye.

Sunlight streamed down through the stained glass, making the floating dust particles glow softly.

It was such a peaceful sight that I could almost forget this was the heart of the Pleroma Diocese.

“Did I mention before? That I would soon be nowhere near your level.”

Leo’s calm voice echoed through the cathedral.

“By ‘soon,’ do you mean about 30 years or so?”

Special magic aside due to divine power, when it comes to general combat magic, I’m the one who can’t even reach Leo’s toes.

What toes? We’re just in completely different dimensions.

I only look somewhat useful because I’m bombarding with sheer quantity.

Leo let out a light laugh and shook his head.

“No. So, how far did you erase?”

“Double space magic, the Catacombs leadership, and memories about Nicolaus from today.”

Laypeople aside, these clergy are people who have captured and killed countless lives until now.

So while meeting them, I thought about either quietly sending them off or letting them live but erasing all their memories…

‘There’s one thing that bothers me though.’

It would be better to overturn things when Pleroma openly launches a first strike, rather than giving Pleroma the excuse that ‘Nicolaus has now invaded even the central part of the diocese, so we can’t just sit still.’

‘…I have to think about Bavaria too.’

I need to minimize harm to innocent people from my hasty actions.

That’s also why I erased the memories of Nicolaus entering.

Since I can extract Pleroma’s plans anyway, it’s better to let them sleep without even knowing they’ve been completely robbed.

“These people are sleeping, right? How long will they sleep?”

“Until someone pours mana into them.”

Simply shaking them awake is impossible. Unless you wake them by channeling mana, they could sleep for a year or even ten years.

Of course, they’d starve to death before then.

‘More importantly, I should start preparing to face Ainsiedel.’

For that, I need to get rid of this cathedral.

Having successfully rendered the diocese’s clergy useless, I can’t let Ainsiedel wake them up.

“Leo. What about Senior and Narke?”

Leo tapped his ear.

Though not visible, it seemed he had brought a sensory transfer artifact.

“They’ve destroyed all the documents and are looking for useful things in the Auxiliary Bishop’s office.”

“Good, that’s great. Then, ask them if they can lift this entire cathedral to the Intermediate Realm later.”

Leo relayed my words exactly, then looked at me and nodded.

It’s fortunate that Riechthofen and Narke are finding out the plans – I can save some stamina.

Actually, I was thinking of using mental magic on these people to discover their plans, but right now I need to conserve as much as possible.

‘Blood is practically coming out of my eyes now.’

The smell of blood in my breath is one thing, but how is it possible for even my eyes to sting?

As I was hitting my eyes with my fist, Leo looked shocked and tapped my back. Instantly, mana the same color as Leo’s eyes wrapped around my body.

[Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.]

“…!”

It’s a representative healing magic.

Unlike before, this wasn’t used in abbreviated form.

The pain that felt like hammers frantically pounding my entire body just from standing still had now improved considerably.

“Good effect. Thanks.”

“Don’t mention it. You being able to stand right now is miraculous.”

Leo said that, then quickly blocked his nose. Then he rummaged through his pocket, pulled out a handkerchief, and wiped away blood.

Plus and minus, it ends up being zero anyway, doesn’t it?

“…Are you okay?”

“I’m fine. If you can endure it, this much is nothing.”

Leo muttered.

“When I was young, I got rebellious for no reason and secretly ran away during magical medicine classes, but who knew I’d benefit from magic I learned so reluctantly.”

“So you run away too.”

“Haha… If I’d known this would happen, I should have learned more healing magic.”

Even now your skills are excellent though.

That aside, in a situation with curse magic like this, any magic becomes harder to use.

‘I have no choice but to wake up someone I know and order them to lift the curse magic.’

Just as I was about to move, Leo called out to stop me.

“Lucas.”

“Yeah.”

“With that face right now, they’ll listen. Let’s order them to lift the curse magic here.”

“Hmm.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re thinking the same thing as me.”

“Really? Then hurry up. I’ll use healing on you right after we’re done.”

Good.

There must be an Auxiliary Bishop here too.

I scanned the floor with my eyes.

‘He’s over there in the back.’

I approached the clergyman with a purple fascia tied around his waist, cleared my throat, and shot mana into his core.

His eyes snapped open.

“…Hueop…!”

“He wakes up quite dramatically.”

“Bi, Bishop? Just now someone attacked my core…!”

“Yes, I know. Get up immediately. We need to chase Nicolaus right now.”

The Bishop looked at the people sprawled on the floor and spoke with a face gone pale.

“Nicolaus, you say?! But right now…! How did this happen…”

“It’s Nicolaus’s doing. The mana curse magic currently placed on the space won’t work. We need to replace it, so hurry up and lift it first.”

“Yes, yes!”

The Bishop scrambled to his feet.

Since I didn’t know how Ainsiedel addressed the other clergy, I just blurted out what I had to say without any titles, but fortunately he didn’t suspect anything.

He had just woken up, and the surrounding situation was beyond words.

The Bishop quickly warped somewhere, then returned.

“I’ve lifted it! What should I do now, Bishop!”

“You lifted it?”

“Yes!”

At that resounding answer, I snapped my fingers.

Pure white divine power flowed smoothly out of my hand without any obstruction. I felt no pain in my core.

“Oh.”

“Bi, Bishop?”

I looked at the Auxiliary Bishop who was staring at me in bewilderment and smiled coldly.

Then I caught the wand Leo threw and aimed it at him.

―Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.

Instantly, the strength left the eyes of the man who had been struck with shock.

I stepped aside to avoid his body falling to the floor.

Thud―!

I think I’ve thought this before, but it was worth studying divine power instead of attending classes.

I thoroughly cleaned up his memories as well and stood up from my seat.

“This actually works….”

Leo burst into laughter as if he couldn’t believe it, then used healing magic on me.

At that moment, Leo grabbed his ear.

“Let’s go out. They say we’ve arrived.”

I walked out of the cathedral, avoiding people’s arms and legs.

Through the door Leo opened, I could see Narke and Richthofen.

Richthofen looked at the fallen Pleroma members with a meaningful smile.

“…You really did it.”

“Of course. I’ve also lifted the curse, so feel free to use it if you need to.”

“Haha, somehow my core felt a bit lighter just now~”

“….”

Richthofen just smiled for a while, then struck his staff on the ground.

His golden mana surged up from his feet and quickly rushed into the cathedral.

[Si vis vitam, para mortem!]

In an instant, the people inside the cathedral disappeared.

Richthofen looked inside and asked me.

“You deliberately didn’t kill them, right?”

“Yes.”

“Good. I sent them to the Intermediate Realm, so tell me when you need them brought back.”

I nodded and asked a question.

“Did you find any useful information?”

“I did take a few things from the auxiliary bishop’s office. I also destroyed the contract with the Catacombs.”

“…Wait, you took them?”

“Ah, I know what you’re thinking, but don’t worry. Mr. Farnese made an interesting suggestion.”

“I moved some of the miscellaneous documents from that office to other clergy offices. Now those two will fight it out nicely~”

“….”

That’s a decent method.

Since he has insight abilities, he probably placed them in rooms of people who would fight each other.

While I briefly questioned Narke’s ethics, he handed me a bundle of papers.

[Request for Pleroma Alliance in Political Circles of Various Countries]

Below that, I noticed a sentence that Pleroma had emphasized with a fountain pen.

[*Always express anti-Pleroma tendencies and actively participate in related movements: maintain appropriate limits to avoid suspicion]

[*Prohibition of new blood importation and missionary activities until January]

“Unfortunately, they didn’t write the names of those politicians. They seem to have learned a lot from Strauchi’s time.”

They should at least have that much learning ability.

‘Various countries’, they’ve really spread far and wide.

‘When I return, I’ll start with the Bavarian administration.’

Let’s interrogate them one by one.

Now, the next page.

[Imperial Intelligence Department N.E. Task Force Promotion]

— Agenda Item “Promote the N.E. Task Force under the Bavarian Kingdom Intelligence Office of the Imperial Intelligence Department to the N.E. Task Office under the Imperial Intelligence Department.”

[12 members of the presidium: 12 in favor / 0 abstentions / 0 opposed : Passed]

“….”

N.E. means… Nicolaus Ernst, right?

It’s new to be so guarded against that they need to mark me as a group.

“Isn’t this a compliment?”

“You’re quite carefree~”

“There’s nothing I can do about something that’s already been created.”

I answered roughly and flipped to the next page, quickly skimming through it.

‘Hmm.’

Honestly, everything I read earlier was content I had somewhat expected, so it wasn’t very exciting, but this is good.

No, it’s beyond just good.

I didn’t just need to remove the double space magic, but also needed information to divert the Emperor’s attention.

With the information here, I can wrap up matters with the Emperor too.

I’ve decided how much to hand over to the Emperor and how much we’ll keep exclusive.

I handed the bundle of documents to Richthofen and looked at my friends.

“Now, let’s have a strategy meeting.”

“Strategy meeting?”

“Because the Bishop is still left.”

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Crash―!

Someone burst open the door and rushed into the cathedral.

The sunset was setting here too. The backlight made it impossible to see his face, but that silhouette was familiar.

The person who entered was panting madly and laughing.

“Haha… ha….”

This is the first time I’m meeting him in this timeline.

I looked into Ainsiedel’s shocked eyes and raised my wand.

―Enter through the narrow gate.

Even with my magic, Ainsiedel still looked around the empty floor and burst into hollow laughter.

‘As expected.’

I knew it wouldn’t work.

Seeing him rush in like that, I knew something had gone wrong, but there’s no way he’d come without any preparation.

He either put on the strongest possible physical barrier, or cast double space magic.

Ainsiedel looked around frantically as if I wasn’t there, then suddenly raised his head to look at me.

“It’s me.”

Ainsiedel grabbed the door and burst into sneering laughter.

“To think… you’d make me angry again in this way. I was trying to treat you nicely….”

‘Made me angry again’….

The first time would be Werner Strauch.

I smiled and said.

“Shall we start with introductions?”

“I know, you’re Nicolaus. You seem to know me too?”

“I know you well. Sit down.”

“Sit down. Right now?”

Ainsiedel laughed madly.

Crash―!

I caught his attack flying toward my neck.

I have no intention of falling for the same trick again.

He tilted his head and looked at me.

“Right, the one who killed Bern should have at least this much extraordinariness.”

“….”

The exact same words I heard before.

Anyway, he still approached me with mad snickering.

“What shall I listen to?”

“This isn’t a situation for listening.”

I pointed Leo’s wand at him and said.

“Dispel the magic.”

“What if I refuse?”

I answered Ainsiedel’s question with a smile.

“Then I’ll have to kill all your subordinates. I’m curious to see what happens when the clergy of Osnabrück all die at once.”

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