I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 223

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Chapter 223. Mage King (1)

Ruin pressed his fingers firmly against his brow.

Past me, what the hell did you do?

At that moment, Lucherin smiled.

“There was no choice. The 2nd Prince gets killed by the Emperor for pretending to be a Prophet. But when the close First Prince protests, he gets killed the same way.”

Ah, so that was the reason. Even so, to kill his own children like that.

‘Emperor, I really didn’t like him from the start.’

「Aren’t you just disliking him because he has your disciple’s weakness?」

‘Be quiet.’

Ruin crossed his arms and asked Lucherin.

“Imperial Princess… how much do you remember from before the regression?”

Lucherin stroked her veil gloves with her fingertips and smiled bitterly.

“Compared to His Holiness the Pope, I’m just a Culprit. I can’t remember much. But at least I remember all the 9th cycles when you started your plan.”

“…!”

“Because making the 2nd Prince into a Regressor equal to the Demon Emperor required ten regressions. An observer was needed to watch that process.”

That makes sense.

“So you gave me your memory ability. So that I could remember all ten times as an observer. Because before the decisive 10th cycle came, this fact needed to be conveyed to you in the 9th cycle in advance.”

So that’s how it happened.

Ruin was convinced.

‘Well, whatever my past self planned, I have no intention of letting it go to the 10th cycle.’

Isn’t that obvious? With retirement funds and land right in front of me, how could I throw it away because it’s too precious!

‘There’s no guarantee I’ll have this big money again in the next cycle.’

Anyway, it fit together like a puzzle.

Combining the 2nd Prince’s words with Lucherin’s testimony, the scenario is ultimately this: He becomes the First Prince’s Master and makes him Emperor. And the Union is destroyed.

So he felt somewhat complicated. Even though it was to prevent the Demon Emperor’s regression, he wondered if he had done something that violated his own rules.

“…As expected. Was destroying the Union my doing?”

Then Lucherin slowly shook her head.

“No. Those who destroyed the Union were the ones who made the ‘Wish Stone’.”

“!”

Ruin frowned.

“The 2nd Prince said I made the First Prince into a tyrant and brought down the Union.”

Lucherin replied as if her view was somewhat different.

“The definition of a tyrant differs depending on who’s looking, doesn’t it? Even if someone creates a death list to punish traitors, if you don’t know the circumstances, they can only look like a tyrant.”

That also makes sense.

So he was somewhat puzzled.

“…If there were masterminds behind destroying the Union, why didn’t you tell the 2nd Prince that truth? As his Great Aunt, you could have informed him.”

Lucherin smiled bitterly.

“That was also your request.”

“!”

“If Ryle was made to hate you and Henry, he would harbor the desire to keep regressing and growing stronger. After all, Ryle is the hero who must oppose the Demon Emperor.”

Ah. That’s something Fire Butterfly would do.

Ruin reached a conclusion.

‘In the end, the root of all evil is… because of the Wish Stone.’

At this point, questions swirled in Ruin’s head.

‘Who are the ones who made the Wish Stone? What kind of people are they to plunge so many people into misfortune like this?’

Ruin asked coldly.

“Do you know about those who made the Wish Stone?”

Lucherin answered quietly.

“Those who came from a different world than Five Evils. They’re having the religious order create Wish Stones.”

A religious order. It’s perfect to use as chess pieces, but why would Five Evils do such a thing?

‘Did they create such a thing to defeat the Union?’

“What is their purpose? Is it to defeat the Union?”

Lucherin’s eyes gleamed.

“That could be it. But I know their immediate purpose. Ruins Wayne and I think they’re trying to create a higher-level Wish Stone. The current Wish Stone is incomplete.”

That thing that can even grant Regression Ability is incomplete?

As if reading that look, Lucherin said.

“Of course, I don’t know how they’ll create a higher-level stone.”

At those words, Ruin’s mind raced quickly.

The currently known conditions for generating a Wish Stone are three.

One. Massacre a large number of humans with the same beliefs.

Two. Kill a Hero.

Three. Have the Mage King summon it.

Ruin pondered thoughtfully.

The other conditions aside…

‘Hero. Why specifically a Hero?’

When thinking of Heroes, only one thing came to mind: Luck Power.

And in fact, the reason the Hero’s fortune became abnormally strong was because of himself.

‘Fortune becomes stronger when next to misfortune.’

Just as light shines more brilliantly next to darkness, fortune becomes clearer in desperate situations. Ruin knew this principle and had intentionally cultivated the Hero’s fortune by becoming an axis of misfortune himself.

Then a chilling hypothesis suddenly occurred to him.

‘The world becomes increasingly unfortunate due to the Demon Emperor’s regression. Then…’

As the world becomes more unfortunate, wouldn’t the Luck Power of all fortune holders living in that world become even stronger? Just as he, with the power of misfortune, had raised the Hero’s Luck Power.

In other words, not just the Hero, but everyone in the world was becoming potential ‘Heroes’.

And if…

‘Say killing one Hero produced a low-grade Wish Stone. Then what if we killed 1,000 Heroes… no, thousands of Heroes?’

Ruin narrowed his eyes.

“…I see.”

Like the final puzzle piece fitting into place, a chilling truth was revealed.

Ruin spoke as if making a deduction.

“Their real purpose is to transform all the world’s heroes into Heroes… and use their destruction as payment to create the ‘Ultimate Wish Stone’.”

“…Excuse me?”

“Of course, this is just my speculation.”

However, Lucherin’s face turned deathly pale. The possibility was very high.

And in this case… what would be most threatened was…

‘Haven.’

And all the Military Academies.

There were hero candidates with humanity’s greatest potential there. Their numbers alone were in the thousands, and if they all became Heroes and then died? And if the Five Evils were involved with the Wish Stone…?

‘It makes sense that they were targeting the Military Academy.’

At the same time, Ruin’s eyes flashed with realization.

‘Could it be that Catalun marking Judith or Ruins Wayne was also…?’

It was said that the Mage King could summon Wish Stones.

‘Usually such synthesis requires a magic circle and sacrifices.’

The Mage King might be the one who draws that magic circle. And with high probability, the sacrifices would be Haven’s students…

Ruin grabbed the back of his neck.

‘No way!’

His house wasn’t a dark magic altar, and he couldn’t let all those students die.

Why?

‘Property values will drop!’

「Wait, is that the problem?」

It is a problem!

‘I finally managed to seduce a Hero and was about to get Haven!’

「…Let’s not go there.」

Anyway, he could guess why Ruins Wayne had given up the position of Mage King.

‘He gave up because annoying guys kept bothering him to summon Wish Stones, didn’t he?’

「That shut-in young master might really have done that.」

Ha. Anyway, what was important to Ruin was this.

‘Make either Judith or Karin the Mage King.’

Then first lift the Solitude Curse…

‘Can you lift the Demon Emperor’s Solitude Curse? It’s special magic that even the Continent’s strongest couldn’t manage in the end.」

Then the answer was simple.

‘Create a Mage King stronger than the strongest.’

Judith or Karin had that level of potential. Beyond simple ‘Special Grade’, they could aim for the stage above that.

「Hey, that’s a stage close to godhood.」

Right. God Slayer – the stage of one who could kill gods. A Mage King of that level could probably eliminate Wish Stones too.

「Wouldn’t it be better if you just became the Mage King?」

‘That’s bothersome.’

「Hey.」

‘I’m joking. How could I, who can’t even use magic, become a Mage King? I need to cultivate one.’

Thinking this, Ruin quickly asked Lucherin.

“Do you happen to know about the 【Ultimate Super Rare Limited Edition Alice – 10th Anniversary Memorial Figure DX ver.】?”

The item that the past Mage King supposedly divided his power and sealed within. If it was Lucherin, who was close to Ruins Wayne and was an observer, she would surely know the whereabouts of that doll.

Sure enough.

“Ah. If it’s that item, I’m keeping it safe.”

Oh! To think he’d find it this easily.

“I’ll have someone bring it.”

Good. With that, he could quickly make either Judith or Karin into the Mage King.

After waiting for a while, an attendant soon brought a doll. Golden sealing tape and luxurious printed wrapping paper. The name written on it was long and majestic.

-【Ultimate Super Rare Limited Edition Alice – 10th Anniversary Memorial Figure DX ver.】

“…They really made something like this.”

Ruin pressed his forehead.

The level of completion was truly shocking. The gradient of the pupils, the sculpting of the fingertips, even the embroidery expression on the hem of the clothes. He couldn’t understand why they put so much care into making this character.

Ruin was dumbfounded, but well, it didn’t matter.

‘Let’s go find Judith and Karin.’

But that’s when it happened. Something burst out from the shadows. It was a corpse breathing rotten breath as it kicked out of a coffin – Ruins Wayne.

[My Alice!]

He tightly embraced the doll with his corpse hands. Then he held it carefully.

At the same time, something amazing happened. The Mage King’s power that was in the doll seeped into Ruin’s shadow. This was because Ruins Wayne was currently in a state of being swallowed by Ruin. As evidence of this, a strong power seeped deep into his heart and soul.

「…Wait, what’s coming in?!」

At Ginseng Superior’s cry, Ruins Wayne’s corpse muttered.

[The Mage King’s power.]

Even Lucherin opened her eyes wide.

“…That’s impossible. The divided power!”

As the power flowed in like a rampage, Ruin’s pupils shook. His chest was pressed down heavily and his head rang like thunder.

And after a moment, considerable magic power flowed from Ruin’s body.

Ginseng Superior’s jaw dropped.

「Crazy, did you just become the Mage King? That’s amazing! The Mage King who is the Magic Tower Master and rules over all mages of the current era? You’ve completely hit the lottery!」

“….”

However, Ruin himself opened his mouth.

Hey! I can’t use magic!

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