I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 232

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Chapter 232. Leash (2)

“The defense formation has disappeared!”

The professors’ screams echoed through the corridor.

Ruin narrowed his eyes and rose from his seat. The surrounding professors stirred restlessly, looking at each other’s faces.

“Wasn’t Haven’s defense formation being maintained by the Hero’s Luck Power?”

“…This doesn’t look good.”

At that moment, Ruin’s heavy footsteps echoed through the corridor.

“The Chairman’s Office.”

Professors rushing along the corridor.

A suffocating, sharp tension in the air.

At the center of it all, Ruin walked silently forward. The moment he opened the door to the Chairman’s Office—

“…!”

The professors swallowed their screams. They had discovered the Hero collapsed on the floor.

“Chairman!”

“Uncle!”

Ruin hurried over and pressed his hand against the Hero’s forehead. His skin was burning red like a fireball. His breathing was rough, and scorching heat radiated from his entire body.

Ruin’s eyebrows twitched.

“…Damn.”

This was high fever magic. It was magic that destroyed the brain and could even lead to death in severe cases.

The Hero, confirming that the professors had arrived, tried to get up but—

“Uh… huh? Why… won’t my body… move…?”

Pain he had never experienced in his entire life. Like a child experiencing pain for the first time, he muttered stupidly.

Ruin’s eyebrows trembled.

“Of course, you idiot. How could you move with such a high fever.”

The Hero didn’t even have the strength to answer.

Ruin lifted the door-sized Hero and laid him down. And he immediately became certain.

‘…It’s the Emperor’s doing.’

「What? This is also the Emperor’s doing?」

‘He made him sick to drop his Luck Power and collapse Haven’s security.’

Why?

It was obvious.

‘To let Pride’s Special Grade Fugitives enter Haven.’

And that purpose was himself.

‘He’s trying to kill the Mage King.’

Then, one clueless professor raised his hand high.

“Since things have come to this… shouldn’t we first contact the Imperial forces and ask for help?”

Ruin smiled coldly.

“They won’t send any. It’s the Emperor’s doing in the first place.”

“What? When you went to see His Majesty the Emperor… didn’t the conversation go well?”

“…!”

At the mention of the Emperor, the Hero’s shoulders flinched. A trembling voice leaked out.

“Don’t tell me… you went to see the Emperor? …Was it because of me?”

Ruin’s face hardened menacingly.

“…Go to sleep.”

However, the Hero staggered as he tried to get up.

“I’m still… fine. I’ll handle the intruders. Special Grade Wanted Criminals are dangerous.”

“….”

Ruin visibly couldn’t suppress his anger and struck the Hero’s solar plexus with his fist.

“…?!”

The Hero immediately fainted.

Ruin, who had used Impact Healing, chuckled and muttered.

‘…You’re hastening your own death. Emperor.’

Soon the professors urgently reported.

“Starting with Toad… familiar Special Grade Wanted Criminals have been spotted everywhere!”

Ruin closed his eyes briefly, then gave his orders.

“Professors, make protecting the students your top priority. The Gongmi… no, the Magic Tower Mages should focus on maintaining the Academy facilities.”

“What? Maintaining facilities, you said?”

“That’s right.”

The surrounding professors looked at each other with bewildered faces.

“Shouldn’t catching the intruder be… the priority?”

“Since the Magic Tower mages are already here, we should all join forces to catch the special grade wanted criminal together-“

Ruin waved his hand dismissively.

Those bastards would definitely turn Haven into chaos. Ransacking his house while babbling about military funds to find his severance pay.

That’s why Ruin was furious.

‘My severance pay!’

It’s still here, in this academy! They must be thrilled right now. Entering Haven and excitedly searching for money under the pretense of killing Fire Butterfly.

Ruin spoke to the restless professors.

“We don’t need to waste our allied forces.”

‘More importantly, it’s better if my house doesn’t get destroyed!’

「You crazy bastard. Look after your own life first.」

The professors looked at Ruin in surprise. They thought the Mage King would send professors and mages into dangerous territory.

‘He values life more than we thought!’

Unexpected.

More trustworthy.

So the professors murmured thoughtfully.

“It’s good not to waste allied forces, but… still.”

“It’s fine. Isn’t this why we experimented using the Magic Tower mages.”

“Ah! You mean… ‘Solitude’ and the special grade wanted criminal we captured?”

Ruin smiled meaningfully and continued.

“Only someone with similar skills can handle those guys. We just tested the leash, so we can make him our ally and throw him at the enemy.”

The professors held their breath.

“…Is that really possible?”

Ruin nodded.

“War is an experiment. You only know by trying.”

Then, as if asking what this nonsense was, the Hero’s voice could be heard staggering up from beside them. He was breathing heavily.

“A special grade wanted criminal? With just something like that… I can’t let you protect Master-“

Ruin immediately threw his fist.

Bang!

The Hero’s jaw snapped back, and he fainted again.

“I told you to lie down quietly.”

* * *

The air inside the auditorium had already grown heavy and suffocating.

What was dragged out was none other than the special grade wanted criminal Echo. His neck was wrapped tightly with a leash layered with curses, covered with glowing talismans. His gait was already haggard, but his eyes still gleamed sharply.

“…Now I’m really going through all kinds of shit.”

As Echo muttered lowly, hushed murmurs arose among the students.

“Is he really a special grade wanted criminal?”

“Look at that curse power. It’s, it’s strong…”

Ruin smiled coldly.

“Now, this is part of Demon Hunting class. And if you want to live, prove it. Today the stage is wide.”

At that moment, the auditorium doors burst open urgently as professors rushed in. Their faces were all pale and their reports urgent.

“Toad has… taken students hostage near the South Gate!”

The entire auditorium stirred.

“We’ll deploy immediately!”

“How dare he target the Mage King!”

The mages rose up in unison. Screams also erupted among the students.

However, Ruin snorted.

“Good. He came looking for us himself.”

At those words, the air twisted strangely. Unlike the mages who stared at each other blankly, unable to grasp the meaning, Ruin’s face bore a cold smile.

Meanwhile, at the South Gate.

Toad, covered in explosives and curse seals, was gripping several young students in his massive hands.

At that moment, as Echo was dragged out by the mages, Toad’s gaze immediately fixed on him. Recognizing his scent instantly, Toad tilted his head.

“Echo? What are you doing there?”

“Ha, fuck, don’t ask, you bastard.”

“Don’t tell me… you really sided with the Mage King?”

Tension surged once again.

Echo couldn’t meet that gaze directly and squeezed his eyes shut.

“Haah… Damn it. I trusted Butterfly again. I’m really crazy…”

Butterfly?

At that moment, Toad grinned wickedly. With his rotten-looking face, his red tongue stretched out long, following Ruin’s shadow.

And as if he had found the person he was looking for, his face immediately brightened.

“Found you.”

Toad pointed his finger at his own eye and smiled like a beast.

“I’ll get revenge for my eyeball. I’ll do the exact same thing to you.”

The mages’ faces hardened. The obsession and madness in his tone revealed his past grudge with Fire Butterfly.

That’s when it happened.

Crash!

One wall of Haven collapsed as black fog rolled in. From within it, another shadow revealed itself.

“…Hmm. I wasn’t the only one who gathered here.”

A Special Grade Wanted Criminal wearing a pure white mask.

Chains dangled from each wrist, and the stench of black blood wafted with every step.

His name was Sand.

The mages recoiled in horror at his presence.

“Another Special Grade Wanted Criminal?!”

“How did such bastards get into Haven…!”

However, Ruin turned away as if uninterested.

Sand and Toad tried to follow him urgently, but at that moment Echo stepped forward.

Click!

“You can’t follow him now. I’ll stop you.”

Then Toad flew into a rage.

“Echo, what are you doing? Don’t tell me… you really became the Mage King’s dog?”

Before he could finish speaking, Toad raised his arm to the sky and reported mockingly.

“Reporting to headquarters. Echo has betrayed us.”

Instantly, Echo’s leash glowed red as a curse flowed in like lightning.

“Urgh!”

Echo’s knees buckled as his entire body began to tremble. The leash tightened to his bones, cutting off his breath.

“Gah, gasp! Huk!”

Toad laughed with satisfaction at his suffocation.

“Pitifully, while you merely sided with the Mage King, we received greater power from headquarters. Specifically for dealing with this Mage King.”

With those words, black curse power covered the surroundings. Students screamed, and mages hastily put up barriers. Echo gritted his teeth.

“Damn it… To be humiliated by a leash again…!”

“Just a leash? We’ll deal with you, the traitor. Let’s see what a bastard caught by a leash can do after betraying us.”

That’s when it happened. From somewhere, a cold and intimidating voice flowed out.

“Then I’ll just remove that handicap.”

“?!”

Toad looked around frantically. Soon his voice echoed out.

“Protect the facilities from now on.”

Instantly, the mages looked at each other in shock. They had realized what Ruin was trying to do.

Sure enough.

“What?! Here and now?!”

“That’s directly connected to the Five Evils’ curse formula! It’s reckless!”

However, Ruin’s voice was resolute.

“You don’t question my orders.”

Instantly, the Head Mage gritted his teeth and swung his staff.

While the mages cast facility protection magic, Ruin swung his magic wand. Then Echo’s leash came off with a clank and metallic sound.

* * *

Imperial Palace. Guards in gleaming armor all knelt in unison.

“Guhk!”

“Gragh!”

They were instantly struck down by something and collapsed.

What emerged from among them was none other than Ruin.

Step. Step.

The sound of shoes echoed through the Imperial Palace.

When those footsteps finally reached the throne, the Emperor’s complexion stiffened.

“…Why are you here.”

The Emperor’s voice mixed surprise and displeasure simultaneously.

Ruin slowly moved forward. With each footprint stamped on the red carpet, the air itself grew heavy as if submerged in thick ink.

“It seems my warning… didn’t sound like a warning to you.”

Then he moved his fingertips as if stirring the air.

At that moment, a pitch-black seal mark floated in the air. A spell technique created by ominous curves and angles intertwining with each other as if written in blood.

‘Solitude Curse.’

The Emperor’s pupils flashed.

“That is…!”

The Palace Mages all flinched in unison. They realized just by looking how vicious the magic Ruin had deployed was.

However, Ruin casually waved the spell technique with an indifferent expression.

“Your Majesty, I do not joke around. Especially… when it comes to someone touching my disciples.”

At Ruin’s words, cracks appeared on the Emperor’s face for the first time. Even the overwhelming presence that had been pressing down on the throne seemed to vanish before the black spell technique before his eyes.

As proof, even the Court Mages were terrified.

“…That’s…not ordinary magic.”

The Emperor seemed to notice as well, gritting his teeth.

“Stop this, Ruins Wayne. If you are the Mage King, wouldn’t it be wise to choose a path that benefits us both? If the Emperor and Mage King join forces, the continent will-“

However, Ruin cut him off with a cold laugh.

“Bullshit.”

“…What?”

“Mutual benefit? So you butchered my disciple for that? What kind of nonsense is this.”

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