I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 228

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Chapter 228. Gongmille (1)

The moment the air in the audience chamber had already frozen taut with tension, Ruin flicked his finger.

Then his magic power rippled like waves as the seal marks spread across the marble floor.

Whoosh!

“…!”

The Emperor’s Imperial Guards reflexively drew their swords but froze like rocks under the overwhelming magic power. They could only break out in cold sweat, unable to move a muscle.

Then came the magic circle rising from the floor. The Emperor’s eyebrows twitched as he watched it.

“This is… magic cast on me?”

Ruin gave a cold smile as if to confirm it.

“From the moment I already tampered with Your Majesty’s magic, the method to prevent Your Majesty from walking has become much easier.”

The Emperor’s heart sank.

“Didn’t I tell you? I only temporarily changed the conditions.”

“!”

“Your heart stops the moment you take seven steps – I can just change it back to normal, can’t I? Or rather-“

Ruin’s gentlemanly eyes gleamed menacingly.

“I could change it to ‘die after taking seven breaths.'”

“…!”

The Emperor glared at Ruin, but Ruin only raised the corner of his mouth. Soon, pressure like an invisible hand gripping his heart squeezed the Emperor’s chest.

“Your Majesty.”

Ruin’s voice was low and chilling.

“Your words are correct. Indeed, the Emperor’s sword needs periodic discipline. However….”

The magic circle crept up to the Emperor’s feet and touched his shadow.

At that moment, the Emperor’s heart dropped with a loud thump. The shock was so intense he even had the illusion that his breathing stopped momentarily.

Ruin’s eyes pierced through the Emperor.

“You should also know that I could make you unable to walk forever, or even stop your breathing entirely.”

The Emperor’s fingertips trembled. However, he soon managed to force up the corners of his mouth.

“…Is this a threat?”

Ruin smiled coldly and withdrew his gesture. The seal marks disappeared. However, the oppressive feeling still remained in the Emperor’s chest like an afterimage.

“A threat, you say.”

Ruin smiled brightly.

“I merely shared a method of discipline with you. In the way Your Majesty knows so well.”

The audience chamber was so heavy it was suffocating.

The Emperor still tried to maintain his smile, but his facial muscles had already stiffened. Ruin’s appearance was closer to an interrogator who had come to test the Emperor rather than a subject who had come for an audience.

“Don’t worry, Your Majesty.”

Ruin spoke in a leisurely voice, looking down at the Emperor.

“Surely I wouldn’t harm the Empire’s Emperor? If Your Majesty were to die, my beloved disciple would die with you.”

The Emperor’s fingers trembled. In the end, wasn’t this bastard threatening that he was only keeping him alive because of his disciple?

“Do you understand, Your Majesty?”

The Emperor’s lips forced a smile.

“…I will take your advice to heart.”

Hearing that answer, Ruin nodded lightly.

“Good. Then I’ll take my leave for today.”

He turned his back and strode out, like a master dismissing a servant.

The Emperor, left behind pathetically, clenched his fists which trembled incessantly, and the Imperial Guards closed their eyes and hung their heads.

“…For the Empire’s Emperor to be so suppressed by a dog-like bastard.”

The Emperor’s face, which had been calmly smiling, was now completely contorted. His eyes gleamed coldly, and his mind filled with decades of blood and political schemes.

Sure enough-

“Listen quietly.”

When the Emperor gave his low command, spies and a mage knelt from within the shadows.

“Shall we torture the Hero?”

The Emperor hastily stopped them.

“No, if we touch the Hero, judging by that temperament, he might go on a rampage.”

He was the bastard who went crazy the moment he saw self-harm marks and stormed into the Imperial Palace to threaten the Emperor. If Ruins Wayne really got angry and activated his spell technique, it would be troublesome.

Fortunately, he seemed to have some reason. The reason he came today was probably to signal that he wouldn’t bare his claws as long as they didn’t touch the Hero.

That’s why he said.

“There are rumors that Ruins Wayne has a terminal illness – find something we can use as a weakness from that. Furthermore, deploy spies to make him into humanity’s traitor.”

The spies bowed their heads.

“We shall obey your command.”

The Emperor muttered coldly.

“Mage King? A king who defies the Emperor will eventually drop his head on the guillotine.”

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Ginseng Superior screamed as soon as they came out.

「Hey! I was terrified thinking you’d actually kill the Emperor! I thought my retirement plan was ruined!」

‘I’m not that thoughtless either.’

「You, your eyes were rolling back though?」

‘Be quiet.’

Given his temperament, he wanted to change the condition to ‘die after breathing seven times,’ but killing the Emperor when he’d clearly be the culprit would only interfere with his retirement plans.

‘I’m going to live quietly while beekeeping.’

Normally he would have ended it at this level and made an appropriate report to Higher Command, but…

‘You dare touch my disciple?’

A leash, no less.

Ruin stroked his neck. His face quietly flushed with anger.

‘Since I’ve become Mage King, I’ll make full use of it.’

[Since you’ve become Mage King, save my Liza too.]

…Shut up, corpse.

Anyway, the Emperor might think he’s a rational guy, but that’s a delusion. As evidence, Ruin looked at the guys loitering around Haven.

Then from various parts of Haven, the voices of tense mages flowed out.

“Ah, how can they take our king away…”

“Take away my ass, ha, shit… Aren’t we really screwed?”

“Right. I think we’re already marked.”

“His personality is really dog-like-“

“Who said what?”

At the suddenly heard cold voice, the whispering mages froze. It was Ruin who had appeared.

“Stop the useless chatter and tell everyone to gather.”

At the crisp, resolute voice, the mages looked at each other and swallowed.

Tell everyone to gather…!

Someone shouted with an inwardly expectant face.

“Are you finally thinking of going to the Magic Tower…!”

Ruin didn’t respond. He just looked ahead and slowly moved his steps.

From various parts of the corridor, mages called the top elites gathered one after another. The sight of them wearing white uniforms streaming into the auditorium was a spectacle as if the continent’s magical power had concentrated in one place.

Ruin walked silently to the front of the lecture hall with his arms crossed. The auditorium was instantly packed with mages.

Dozens, hundreds of mages gathered in the auditorium like in their student days, murmuring. All their gazes were directed at Ruin. Outside, students were secretly poking their heads out. Eyes mixed with curiosity and fear.

“Is that… really our professor?”

“My goodness, the Magic Tower elites are gathered together like that…”

Then, Ruin slowly drew his magic wand from the lecture hall. At the same time, as he waved the magic wand like a quill pen, letters were carved in the air.

Swish, swish swish.

A shape that seemed to embody despair was created.

To the students it looked unfamiliar and merely fascinating, but the mages’ reaction was different. Being Union’s top elites, they instantly recognized what it was.

“Th-that is…”

“Impossible…!”

“Beyond vicious, it’s cruel!”

“But the spell technique itself is amazing!”

“As expected, the Mage King’s thought process is different…!”

Those covering their mouths, those whose faces turned pale. Everyone was looking at the long spell technique hanging before their eyes in shock.

At that sight, Ruin subtly raised the corner of his mouth.

‘As expected, elites. Unlike students, they recognize it at once.’

Ruin laughed lowly.

It was worthy of the mages calling it vicious.

‘This is the Solitude magic the Demon Emperor cast on me.’

Ruin recalled the time he had tried to obtain this spell technique before.

Actually, as soon as Ruin became Mage King, he had placed God’s Right Hand on his chest to try to resolve Solitude.

But at that moment-

“…Kuk!”

「Seed! Breathe! Breathe!」

“Heok! Haa…haa…!”

Ruin held onto his consciousness and breathed roughly. The bee in his heart thrashed madly.

He almost fell to his knees. Cold sweat flowed from his entire body, and he gritted his teeth at the pain that seemed to penetrate to his bones.

‘…As expected, Demon Emperor. You set it up meticulously.’

Clearly even ‘God’s Right Hand,’ which had erased countless poisons and curses, couldn’t completely eliminate this Demon Emperor’s magic. He had secretly held expectations since becoming Mage King.

Still, there was gain. Though he couldn’t replicate it, he succeeded in reading the framework of the entire spell technique.

And currently.

‘Hehe… I finally obtained it.’

「Isn’t the important thing the antidote?」

‘We’ll see about that.’

Ruin smiled at just the right annoying angle as he looked down at the mages.

“Which one of you is the head?”

The flowing gazes gathered on one person. He was the Grand Mage who was the most senior among the Magic Tower Master’s deputies.

“Is it you?”

“Yes, y-yes. That’s me.”

Ruin nodded and pointed at the Solitude Curse floating in the air.

“This is magic I developed to destroy Pride.”

“Yes… wh-what?!”

The Grand Mage’s eyes widened, then quickly hardened with the expression of one who understood.

“…Certainly, such a perfect and… cruel structure is a first for me. Neutralization to the point of disrupting the target’s existence… truly…”

“Thanks for the praise.”

Ruin cut him off curtly.

“Now that you’ve confirmed it, we need to test it.”

The mages in the front row exchanged glances. Someone among them whispered.

“A, a demonstration?”

“The target would be Pride or… a mock golem…?”

Ruin tilted his chin.

“First, I’d like to test the head’s skills, so try using it on me.”

“What?!”

Even the students at the door gap simultaneously swallowed their screams. The Grand Mage’s pupils also shook as if hit by an earthquake. He had no choice but to react that way.

“That… no matter how you look at it, it’s a grade prohibited for human experimentation! Moreover, you are-“

“The Mage King?”

Ruin smiled lightly.

“Exactly.”

The Grand Mage immediately understood. Since he’s the Mage King, he must have a solution.

‘Right. What madman would make someone use that without an antidote.’

He comforted himself and gripped his magic wand. It was certainly difficult magic, but with the spell technique so cleanly revealed in its entirety, he could follow along. Rather, it was revealed so cleanly that it was like reading and following an instruction manual.

Sure enough, a pitch-black spell technique was carved in the air and fell toward Ruin like lightning. Ruin flinched and clutched his heart.

“Ugh…!”

A pretense of pain flowed out. The mages’ faces turned pale.

However, Ruin already had Solitude activated. In such circumstances, overlaying it again wouldn’t cause any change.

‘But I did obtain the magic. Hehe.’

With what just happened, ‘God’s Right Hand’ would have copied the Solitude magic. As evidence, a seal mark was carved on his forearm.

‘Now I can use Solitude magic too.’

He could use it on the Emperor.

So Ruin readily praised him.

“Good. Well done. You’re truly the head.”

“It’s an honor! Mage King!”

This was sufficient, but the most important thing remained.

「Right, you need to break your solitude!」

Sure enough, Ruin looked around the auditorium and spread his palm.

“Gentlemen, listen well.”

The mages’ unanimous response as they bowed their waists.

“Yes!”

“Originally, when you make poison, you also make the antidote.”

Instantly, the mages’ faces lit up brightly.

“Finally… you’re going to tell us the detoxification method!”

“Now we can finally clean this up…!”

Ruin chuckled. That laugh was like a young child holding a cruel toy.

“From now on, you will create the detoxification magic for this spell.”

“…What?”

Instantly, from the Grand Mage to the mages in the back rows, everyone froze.

“Um, excuse me… didn’t you have the detoxification magic-“

“No.”

Ruin’s smile grew even wider.

“Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to create it yet either.”

When the Grand Mage who had attacked Ruin turned deathly pale, the Assistant Mage beside him whispered with trembling lips.

“Then… the Solitude Curse that’s currently affecting him…?”

Ruin’s eyes flashed.

“You understand now? If you can’t come up with detoxification magic, your Mage King dies. Good luck.”

…What?!

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