I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 100
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Chapter 100. Select the Head Professor (3)
「Wait. You’re the landlord so you can see all the items, but how did the board members discover them?」
At Ginseng Superior’s question, Ruin sighed nonchalantly.
How did they discover them, indeed.
‘If they’re board member level, they all have insanely high Luck Power. They have the eyes to find one or two things.’
Though hidden by magic, their Luck Power was at a level that could pierce through that magic.
‘Though they’re still low-level items at best.’
That’s when it happened.
“Damn! Professor Wayne came out with an item!”
“Stop him!”
As the voices began to scatter, Ruin’s eyes flashed. At the same time, Ruin disappeared in an instant.
The place he finally appeared was none other than behind the fleeing Teaching Assistants!
“Are you all that’s left?”
“Gasp!”
“Ahhhhh!”
How did he catch up?!
“For now, cool your heads underground.”
Underground…?
At the same time, the Teaching Assistants who looked around screamed.
“What, what is that!”
A grotesque scene was unfolding around them.
“H-heads!”
Their classmates and seniors from the same research lab were rolling around with only their heads showing. So that’s what those roars and screams from earlier were about.
“Everyone’s been beheaded!”
No, to be precise, they were buried with only their necks sticking out, but there was no way that scene could register properly.
“Run outside the Academy! We’ll die!”
At that voice, Ruin sighed.
And at that moment-
Thud! Thwang!
Screams echoed along with the thunderous sound.
“Kyaaaah!”
In the blink of an eye, all the Teaching Assistants were buried underground. With only their faces sticking out above ground.
He had thrown the Teaching Assistants into pre-dug holes like planting radishes. And finished by burying them with only their heads exposed.
Soon, Ruin, who had firmly pressed down the topsoil with his feet, clicked his tongue.
“Know this. I extremely hate inefficiency.”
「What does that have to do with burying people in the ground…?」
That’s when it happened.
Clank! Clank!
“!”
Deep in the Black Forest, heavy metallic sounds could be heard. Soon after, burly soldiers clad in iron armor appeared with heavy steps.
‘Living Armor.’
They were ‘moving armor’ born when the vengeful spirits of soldiers who died in war possessed iron armor.
Ruin frowned and surveyed the surroundings.
Somehow, only Teaching Assistants had been visible from earlier, while Kalon himself had been strangely quiet.
“To release something like that… Kalon played quite a trick.”
Living Armor originally doesn’t respond to magic or Physical Power. Because they’re monsters possessed by vengeful spirits, they persistently cling unless you separate the soul or sever the connection.
But it’s not like there’s no method.
‘In the end, if they’re useless, that’s that, isn’t it?’
Whoosh!
Ruin kicked off the ground and burrowed between the enemies’ joints.
Clank!
Ruin’s hands swept by as fast as steel.
Finally, the armor’s waist twisted around, its chest bent downward. And he folded another one in half and slammed it into the ground.
Crash!
Ruin immediately gathered nearby debris, shaped it like a steel pipe, then drove them between their joints.
Crack! Crack!
So it can’t be reassembled at all.
The moving living armor struggled as if begging for its life.
“If it’s useless, it’s just scrap metal.”
Ruin dusted off his hands as if brushing away eraser shavings.
Just then, Teaching Assistant Lily and Kalon’s teaching assistant, who had been at the forest entrance, approached in surprise. They seemed to have rushed over after hearing the loud noise.
“Professor! Are you alri… huh?!”
Kalon’s teaching assistant was horrified to see the juniors with only their heads sticking out.
“Th-this is…!”
Then Ruin brushed the dust off his suit and said.
“Your cute companions tried to interfere with me. Dig them out in a week.”
Kalon’s frozen teaching assistant just gaped. Upon hearing the loud noise, he naturally thought it was the sound of Ruins getting beaten.
‘The teaching assistants were the ones who got beaten?’
D-don’t tell me he really caught all the companions armed with artifacts? Even though they’re all from the Combat Department?
Moreover, those artifacts were ones that had been actually used in Rhine and proven highly effective?
That’s why Kalon’s teaching assistants seemed greatly shocked too. Kalon said Ruins wasn’t qualified to be a Haven professor, but seeing it in person, that wasn’t the case at all…!
‘Isn’t he stronger than other professors?’
But regardless, Ruin looked at the teaching assistants coldly.
“So. I’ve even caught the interfering monsters, so the test is over, right?”
“What?! You already caught the living armor too?”
Instead of answering, Ruin pointed to one side. There were armor pieces writhing as if begging for help.
Right. As monsters meant to interfere with Ruin, they should normally be unscratched by regular attacks…
The armor monsters that should have been fine were dismantled piece by piece and assembled in a mess. For instance, arms were attached to the buttocks area, legs to the head area, and so on.
He had even driven steel pipes like stakes and fixed them to the ground so they couldn’t return to their original form.
The teaching assistants could only gape.
‘Did he just dismantle those high-level monsters and reduce them to this state?’
“Well, I caught even the interferers, so I pass, don’t I?”
Kalon’s teaching assistants just looked around nervously. Of course, just restraining them like that already made him seem like an amazing person, but…
“Ah, as a Demon Hunting professor, shouldn’t you completely dispose of the monsters…?”
Ruin pointed angrily at the monsters.
“Who’s going to break the core filled with the Chairman’s fortune?”
“B-but.”
Ruin clicked his tongue.
‘These petty Union pigs.’
There was only one way to eliminate living armor—
Destroying the core installed in the living armor.
But that gem happened to be a core filled with the Hero’s fortune. That’s probably why even though he clearly broke it, it kept regenerating.
…Damn.
‘That bastard Kalon. To think he’d use the Hero’s fortune stone like this.’
What was concerning was that seeing the embedded fortune stone was cracked, the remaining fragments had probably been used somewhere else…
“Anyway, I caught it.”
But then it happened.
Thud!
The teaching assistants were startled by the curse power that pressed down on the entire forest.
“What is it? What has this much curse power…!”
Ginseng Superior was also impressed.
「Oh. There’s someone this powerful in Union territory?」
And at the sight of knight armor slowly approaching from inside the forest, the teaching assistants turned pale.
Clank, clank.
“Th-that’s…!”
“Living armor!”
…What, why is there another one?
Moreover, it was clearly strong, emanating an ominous aura.
The teaching assistants looked terrified as if hearing this for the first time.
“What? Were there 3 living armors prepared?”
“I-I don’t know.”
“But it’s certain that Professor Kalon wouldn’t just sit still with his position on the line.”
“…”
At the same time, the teaching assistants’ faces turned pale as they realized the situation.
No, Professor. What on earth did you possess inside that?!
‘A core blessed with the Hero’s fortune isn’t enough for you?’
‘That’s beyond what even the Teaching Assistants can handle!’
Finally, the armored knight holding a sword came charging menacingly toward the Teaching Assistants and Ruin.
“Aaah!”
Crack!
The sword imbued with curse power aimed for the Teaching Assistants’ necks.
Originally, Living Armor was created by possessing a soul into armor filled with curse power. It seemed Kallon had stuffed in a skilled gladiator or something.
However, the Teaching Assistants turned around as if everything was fine.
“The Living Armor we made will listen to us.”
“Right, if we make it fight that thing, we’ll be safe-”
But at that moment.
Clang!
“Huh?”
The gladiator swung its sword.
And shattered the Hero’s Luck Stone embedded in the regenerated Living Armor.
“It shattered the luck stone!”
“It’s fine! Since it’s the Hero’s luck stone! The gem will regenerate agai…”
But the gem didn’t regenerate.
The Teaching Assistants had good reason to tremble in fear.
“Wh-wh-what?”
“Why isn’t this regenerating!”
“Damn! Then it’s a strong demon!”
And the opponent even had the Hero’s Luck Stone embedded in it…
“We can’t handle this!”
The Teaching Assistants had every reason to be in complete panic.
“P-Professor! Please save us!”
Kallon’s Teaching Assistants turned pale as sheets and fled into the forest.
But Ruin sighed and looked at the Living Armor.
‘Is this to make me fail?’
Of course, a special-grade hero could instantly create armor monsters like that. Though it was classified as a demon, strictly speaking, it was an object.
Skilled mages often used this magic to guard their mansions.
Anyway, well, I could tell they were showing off their skills specifically to make me fail, and I could see their abilities were quite impressive, but…
「Why does that look like a familiar face?」
‘That’s what I’m saying.’
Of all things, what possessed the armor was a ‘Shadow’ demon. Among them, a Battle Commander who serves the ‘Shadow King.’
And that Shadow King was none other than Ruin.
‘Huh, did they do some kind of random draw from strong demons?’
Well, yeah. Certainly, something of that level would be difficult for humans to handle.
‘What should I do?’
I can’t act familiar with my subordinate in front of these guys.
The only exorcism supplies in Ruins’ bag were ‘Holy Salt,’ which wasn’t much help.
Ruins Wayne had brought it since he was planning to give general education lectures on Demon Hunting Studies, but such exorcism items were useless against truly high-level demons.
‘Sigh. Can’t be helped.’
Ruin rubbed the back of his neck and sighed. And just as the armor came charging menacingly toward Ruin-
“Kneel.”
The armor went thud! and fell forward. It crashed down hard as if it had tripped over a stone.
The armor seemed confused and tried to get up again while reaching for its sword, but-
“I said kneel.”
Thud!
Ruin, with his arms crossed, kicked the armor with his foot.
Eventually, the armor that went clang! thunk! tang! clank! flying through the air had question marks floating above its head.
“???”
Ruin lightly stepped on the armor. Then he spoke in Demon Language. It was like telepathy.
「Can’t you recognize your master?」
“????”
The clanking armor looked at Ruin in confusion at the sound that echoed directly in its head.
「My King?」
And then it cried out as if deeply moved.
「I’ve missed you! My King! Where have you been all this time!」
At the crying voice echoing in his head, Ruin looked up at the sky as if he didn’t know what to say.
The story would be too long to explain everything.
“That’s enough, so you’ll have to get exorcised now.”
「…Excuse me?」
Exorcism, you say?
‘Well, it’s more like pretending to get exorcised.’
Instead of answering, Ruin took out a pouch of ‘Holy Salt.’
The Armor Spirit was bewildered upon realizing what this meant. No, I don’t understand the circumstances at all, but…
「…Surely not, my king. Surely you don’t expect me to pretend to be affected by mere salt?」
‘Yep.’
「I do have some dignity… to such a low-grade demon extermination item that even slimes would ignore…?」
Yes.
Ruin poured the salt with a swoosh.
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