How to Survive as the Second Son of a Mage Family - Chapter 141

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How to Survive as the Second Son of a Magic Family (141)

Crack—

The sound of the door’s lock mechanism falling off could be heard.

‘What kind of security is this?’

So being a prince doesn’t get you a special room.

The school rule about not making distinctions based on status seemed to be more than just words.

Even though I had broken the door handle, no sound came from inside.

I had broken it in case it wouldn’t open and I needed to use other methods, but since I had no intention of entering until Narke arrived, I stood still and lost myself in thought.

‘Is it really right for me to handle this?’

Of course, I was thoroughly prepared by now, but since I didn’t know what might happen, I didn’t need to get involved.

Whether the Antagonist had taken some drug and fallen asleep, or whether contamination phenomena that shouldn’t happen at school had occurred, there was no reason for me, a student, to solve it.

I could just contact them saying ‘I need to take an exam but he won’t wake up’ and be done with it.

Then Adelbert would be swiftly handled by the medical team the school called. Of course, that medical team’s skills would be inferior to mine, but they would solve it somehow.

“…”

But the stories he had told me over the past few days kept echoing in my ears.

If the Antagonist really wasn’t just sleeping, but had been contaminated…

‘Even thinking about it again, the Administrative Office won’t do.’

Unlike Bavaria, the Imperial Government had decided to designate victims as rampagers.

The Empire began to view them not as victims but as troublesome existences, and the thoughts of imperial citizens changed according to their intentions.

Now public opinion turns its arrows toward individual members.

‘A good thing. For the nobles.’

By placing the cause of wrongdoing on individual citizens, they could reduce the responsibility that the Imperial Court and Imperial Government should rightfully bear.

Such calculations lay behind victims becoming rampagers.

In other words, rampage is a crime in this society.

While 3+ only brought ridicule and surprise, news of his rampage would bring condemnation and contempt as well.

So after hearing what kind of frustration he had felt all this time, I couldn’t leave it to the school to handle.

‘…And.’

I can’t let go now.

I stayed up two nights because of this bastard, so would I let him become a useless card?

I even managed to raise that prickly bastard’s favorability somehow.

‘Wait.’

Come to think of it, why isn’t the proposal window appearing?

I should have filled 300 points by now.

I tried to call it up, but for some reason the window wouldn’t appear.

Then Narke warped into the hallway.

He looked at me and the door with confused eyes, then calmly stood in front of the door.

“Let’s go in.”

“Yeah.”

Narke changed his wand to a staff and struck the door.

Crash—

Seeing his lack of hesitation puts my mind at ease.

“He must have been very sleepy.”

Narke said while scattering magical power throughout the room to check if there were any watchers.

The Antagonist was indeed lying down sleeping soundly.

And it couldn’t possibly be just sleep.

People don’t normally sleep on the floor in front of a desk. It was obvious since he didn’t wake up even from the loud crash of breaking the door.

Narke stood in front of Adelbert.

“To think there’s someone who would do this to a prince, how surprising? Even if it were just sleeping pills, that would have been surprising, but I see it’s not just that.”

I’m equally surprised.

Giving him holy water in case the Antagonist might rampage was purely preventive.

The school is surrounded by multiple layers of barriers and is constantly purified.

There was no reason for him, who had only been on campus, to rampage just from emotional changes.

“By the way, this is the first case I’ve seen like this.”

“It’s probably the stage right before rampage. Unqualified and qualified are divided here.”

I answered Narke and checked my watch.

‘Only 40 minutes left already.’

I need to solve this quickly.

I silently knelt on one knee and sat beside the Antagonist.

“Narke. Let me ask you something.”

“So there’s something even the Crisis Response Headquarters director doesn’t know~”

“…”

“Haha, speak, Lucas.”

“I do know, but the situation is different. Right now in Bavaria, victims aren’t being cured and are dying. I contacted the Prussian Crisis Response Headquarters too, and it’s the same.”

“The drug Pleroma uses must have changed.”

“That’s very likely. So I’m asking whether it’s okay to use the existing method or not.”

At my words, Narke exhaled and fell into thought.

“You’re not asking if it’s okay to use medicine. You’re going to inject divine power into the core to extract the vitriol, right?”

“Yeah.”

It’s effective but not a common treatment method.

Because there are few mages who can use divine power.

It’s usually only used on high-risk patients, so this bastard Adelbert should know how lucky he is.

Soon Narke nodded.

“Let’s try it.”

“You’re sure he won’t die, right?”

“Hmm… the future changes too easily to make definitive statements. But it is true that among the methods we could try, this is the most useful.”

That’s right.

Excluding this, there are no other methods.

After Narke blocked the door with divine power, he tapped the artifact at his ear to inform Elias and Leo of the situation. From what I heard him saying, he seemed to be planning to file a confidential report to Bavaria.

It wouldn’t be a problem if I went and recorded it, but since being thorough is good, I didn’t stop him.

I felt Adelbert’s pulse.

His magical power was fluctuating wildly. When I pushed divine power in, the Antagonist’s hand began to tremble. The imperial ring he was wearing kept scraping against the floor, creating an eerie noise.

‘I can’t get in.’

This happens often.

The vitriol’s power has already grown strong and is pushing out the divine power.

If I force divine power to flow here, the vitriol scattered in his limbs will concentrate in the core.

So in cases like this…

‘I need to inject divine power directly into the core.’

I struck the floor with my wand. Divine power gently seeped into where I sat.

Soon divine power enveloped Adelbert’s surroundings.

“Narke.”

“Yeah.”

Even though I hadn’t told him, he held Adelbert’s neck and shoulders with divine power. It was just like what I did with other mages.

I pressed Adelbert’s stomach with one hand and struck near his heart where the core would be with the other.

“…!”

The moment I forcefully pushed in divine power, dizziness washed over me.

Everything up to here hadn’t deviated from what I usually did, though?

“Lucas!”

Narke’s panicked voice reached me.

Only after feeling puzzled by that voice did I realize why he was so panicked.

My vision was tilting sideways. The moment Narke hurriedly grabbed my shoulder, my consciousness cut off.

* * *

“…!”

I bolted upright.

Even for winter, the blanket pressing down on my body was excessively heavy.

I threw off the blanket and quickly looked around.

‘What the hell.’

Where am I?

I was in a bedroom I’d never seen before in my life.

‘Again?’

My composure vanished instantly, but I took a deep breath to regain my calm and chanted the warp formula.

Nothing happened at all.

“….”

My face hardened involuntarily.

The first-year exam is starting soon.

No, there’s an even bigger problem than that.

Since the treatment isn’t finished yet, Adelbert could go berserk and die or become Pleroma. Of course, Narke might take him to the hospital, but….

‘Damn it.’

There are too many variables before the first-year exam time.

And I also have the second team announcement in just three hours.

So what’s this about being dropped in some unknown place?

‘Let me think calmly. A reason for sudden transportation….’

Was there some kind of spell cast on Adelbert?

Where some action becomes a condition, and the magic activates the moment that action is executed.

If this assumption is true, the target wouldn’t just be Adelbert, but would include anyone who came to treat him.

‘…Warping someone who came to provide treatment?’

It doesn’t make sense logically.

It’s a bit of a stretch, but… what if someone who suspected Lucas Ascanien might be Nicolaus tried to prove it?

My head went cold.

As long as that possibility exists, there’s no time to panic.

‘First, I need to properly assess the situation.’

This isn’t the first time I’ve been dropped in some mysterious place like this.

I didn’t want to accumulate this kind of experience, but thanks to it, I can now think coolly no matter where I end up.

First, judging by how luxurious and spacious it was, like the room I saw in Anhalt, the room’s owner didn’t seem to be an ordinary Nobleman.

I completely threw off the blanket and got up from the bed.

‘…These aren’t school uniform clothes?’

But they weren’t pajamas suitable for lying in bed either.

From what I could tell, it felt like I’d just opened my eyes, but seeing there was time to change my clothes, it seems I’ve been here for a while.

It’s unpleasant in many ways, but I don’t have time to worry about that now.

I immediately checked around my waist.

There was no wand holster or wand.

Thinking they might have used air magic again, I immediately snapped my fingers.

At that moment, golden magical power surged briefly in a strangely different way than usual.

‘Hm?’

The magical power is golden?

It was so natural I didn’t notice, but now I see the hair visible in my field of vision was also bright yellow.

‘I don’t know why the magical power color is like that. As for the hair…. I definitely wasn’t captured in Nicolaus state, was I?’

Suddenly, an inexplicable sense of foreboding swept through my entire body.

‘….’

I silently looked around. In one corner of the spacious room was a door that appeared to lead to a bathroom. I don’t know how I knew what the room was for, but my intuition was telling me.

My steps quickened without me realizing it.

The moment I opened the door without hesitation and stood in front of the mirror, I couldn’t help but be shocked.

“…!”

What?

I stood there with my mouth agape.

The person in the mirror wasn’t me. Well, it wasn’t originally me anyway.

But the shocking thing right now is, nothing else but….

‘…Cra….’

Adelbert is in the mirror.

‘…Are you insane?!’

I touched the mirror. As I extended my arm, Adelbert in the mirror extended his arm accordingly.

A sharp coldness seeped through the thin gloves. The sensation was real.

It was so absurd that only laughter came out.

“Hah….”

Hah hah hah….

I burst into laughter as I pleased and went out of the bathroom to sit on the bed.

‘This is insane.’

The second team announcement is in just three hours.

I could take Adelbert’s exam for him, but how can I meet my Friends looking like this?

‘…It’s time to establish a new hypothesis.’

Let’s discard the earlier hypothesis about ‘to verify whether he’s Nicolaus or not~’. That was premised on ‘when I am myself’.

Of course it was. Who would think this insane situation of me becoming someone else would happen again?

Going back, let’s start from the point that ‘I became Adelbert’.

There’s one problem here.

‘Why can’t I warp?’

I could use magic, but I couldn’t warp. I already know what kind of case this is.

‘It’s a different world.’

Whether it’s a simple world created by applying space magic, or a completely different world like this one compared to the reality I’ve known all my life.

There are some questionable points, but that’s the gist of it.

And I’ve already experienced a similar world in the Catacombs.

If I’ve entered Adelbert’s inner world or a space manifested from it, this insane situation makes sense.

‘…Fine.’

It’s not fine at all, but at least I know what I need to do and how I should move.

‘First, let me check the time.’

I opened the modification possibility window to check the time, then opened the window again one minute later by the clock here.

Surprisingly, only 3 seconds had passed.

During that minute, I tried self-attacking my core just in case, but I didn’t wake up, only pain came.

I lay face down on the bed like I was dead, then slowly got up when my core had recovered.

‘…Right. If things go well, I can treat him and send him to the Exam Hall.’

That is, if I can get out of here.

If one minute here is 3 seconds there, even if I mess around here for 10 minutes, it’s only 30 seconds passed.

And I understand one more thing.

Earlier I thought there was a possibility that the Pleroma guys had switched the drug.

Since this phenomenon didn’t occur when treating Victims’ cores before, if they really did switch the drug, I’m directly experiencing the effects of the changed drug.

Why would Pleroma bother to put this kind of function in the drug?

It didn’t take long to come up with an answer.

‘It’s an attempt to send even the Mages who come to rescue them all at once.’

The corner of my mouth involuntarily rose.

Look at these bastards pulling tricks.

Even I, who had experienced entering someone else’s body, was shocked for a moment, wasn’t I?

Ordinary people would be even more shocked than I am now if they became the Victim they were trying to rescue during treatment. And, just like in the Catacombs, Pleroma would have made sure to show the most shocking memories the Victim had.

Normally, one would go berserk and die, but unfortunately, it won’t work on me. In fact, it’s already half ineffective.

‘Now the key is how to get out of here.’

Fortunately, I have free will too.

Should I try it like with Leo?

It wouldn’t be bad to send away one by one those bastards who torment Adelbert in this memory.

Just then, the sound of someone knocking on the door came from behind.

Knock knock―

[I’m coming in.]

It was a gentle voice I was hearing for the first time.

There’s a high probability that bastard will be the first one I send away.

Suddenly, Adelbert’s heartbeat quickened. Whether it was due to Adelbert’s ego, a smile naturally formed on his face as soon as he heard that voice.

‘Well, look at this.’

Is this a shocking memory?

To smoothly replay the memory, I’ll set aside my will for now, and Adelbert’s words came out of my throat.

“Elias.”

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