My Husband Is Not the Magic Tower Master - Chapter 94

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Episode 94

Whiiiiiiii―.
“…!”
“No, don’t go, Rose!”
In the span of a blink, everything around me turned black.
As if the sky itself had descended to brush my face, my body lost its footing in empty air and lifted.
“Gasp!”
How—how was this possible?
I could only let myself be pulled in, overwhelmed by the abyssal dark magic and the savage wind.
“This cannot be, Rose…!”
“Aaaaah! Rose, Rose!”
Carlo and Elline reached toward me too late, their hands grasping at nothing.
Rose had vanished, and the Portal to the Demon Realm sealed shut.
It had happened in a single instant.
“Ah… ahhh….”
Unable to grasp anything at all, Elline stared at her empty, clenched fists and slowly crumpled to the ground.
The strategy had succeeded—the Grand Mage had been sacrificed.
Just as everyone had anticipated, the Demon Realm’s gate vanished without a trace.
Then, as if in wait, the darkness that had veiled the sky slowly withdrew, pouring streams of clear light down upon the Kingdom.
As if it should have been this way all along.
The mages scattered throughout the tower began to shout in triumph, suddenly aware of humanity’s victory.
“We’ve won―!”
“Humanity prevails―!”
But was this truly victory?
Elline could not agree with their words.
Someone’s world had been utterly destroyed.
“Hic… hic….”
She had lost her only friend.
Perhaps that friend would lose her very life within that Realm.
“…No.”
Not that. Anything but that.
“Please.”
Elline gradually became aware of the loss, as if it were seeping into her skin.
Soon a vague sorrow gripped her, and tears began to flow down her cheeks.
Endless despair. Mounting, violent rage.
And then everything around her lifted into the air with a hollow thud―.
Before crashing downward with terrible, dizzying speed.
Along with a wide-ranging magic of Destruction.
“Wait, you…!”
For only a moment, Carlo had shared her despair equally—then his head snapped up.
He had sensed the danger instinctively.
“Damn.”
Why here, of all places―!
Carlo rushed to reach for Elline, who sat with her back to him.
Simultaneously, he issued an urgent summons to every mage remaining in the tower.
She had awakened to the ability of Destruction.
“Hundred-and-first floor—the Grand Mage’s Magical Power Overload. Bring everyone, now, and contain it!”
If they failed, at minimum an entire Territory would be erased.
The manifestation of Destruction’s ability—at its least, it could claim a single house; at worst, should fortune turn, it could steal every life across the entire continent.
“…I’ve lost both my fiancé and my friend.”
Elline murmured, wrapped in surging Mana.
“…There’s nothing left… no hope at all….”
“What are you―.”
Moreover, the destructive force’s power was proportional to the despair felt by the one channeling it.
“Stop talking nonsense and come to your senses, Elline.”
Carlo reached out swiftly and suppressed the magical power pouring from Elline.
Cough—!
Even as blood spilled from his mouth from the backlash of mana, her eyes had lost all focus.
Still full of despair, her words poured out.
“I’ve lost everything….”
“Lost everything? My apprentice is merely sleeping in, and my wife was only taken away for a time.”
“Ugh, she’s going to die…!”
“…You’re not in your right mind.”
There was no reasoning with her. If she wanted to die so badly, let her do it quietly alone.
Why was she already declaring other people’s loved ones dead?
Carlo wiped the blood from his mouth and swiftly struck one of Elline’s vital points with his other hand.
Thud—!
As the unconscious Elline crumpled to the ground, the destructive force raging in all directions came to an abrupt halt.
“Tower Master, we’ve come to help you… Huh?”
Just as the emergency summons brought every mage in the tower rushing to this place.
“…How absurd.”
Carlo let out a hollow murmur.
“Blond troublemaker, I’m sorry, but that woman won’t die.”
Now that she’d become a human chosen by the Demon Realm itself.
At first, he too had been worried Rose was in danger and barred her passage to the Demon Realm, but now he saw it had all been pointless.
He himself had been blocked by a wall when trying to enter the Portal.
Instead, the Demon Realm had directly chosen a human and dragged that person inside the Portal.
“…Even if she dies, she’ll open her eyes again somewhere. Just like in this lifetime.”
Carlo understood now.
Just as with the promise he’d made in his first life, Rose had succeeded in making a pact with the Demon God.
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At that same moment, impossibly enough, inside the Demon Realm.
The Portal Carlo had approached suddenly refused his entry and instead came barreling straight at me—the result being
that I was swallowed by the Portal itself.
‘How is any of this supposed to make sense.’
Once when I was Stein, once on a business trip with Carlo, and now this time.
‘Three times stepping foot in this wretched Demon Realm?’
I stood alone in the middle of a barren desert, laughing hollowly at the futility of it all.
And what I understood even less was this inexplicable magical power.
Whoooosh—.
A strange sensation as though deeply connected to this place, the Demon Realm itself.
I was dragged in as a target out of nowhere, and to make matters worse, this ability that awakened in me was related to the Demon Realm.
“…It awakens this suddenly, just like that.”
I opened and closed my palm several times, checking the state of this new power.
The color was a faded golden-sand hue that suited the barren land.
Normally, when one uses magical power in the Demon Realm, there’s a feeling of incongruity, like oil and water not mixing….
“But this is absurdly natural.”
Strangely, this power I felt seemed to blend well with the flow of the atmosphere.
Judging by the evidence, the nature of this magical power must be Assimilation.
“Or perhaps… something like Harmony?”
Why did I make that guess?
There was another reason that led me to this conclusion.
“Kee-yoooooong?”
“…It tickles.”
“Sniff sniff sniff.”
“Mm. Your breath is quite strong.”
Most crucially, I’d expected to become prey the moment I entered this place.
But the reaction was completely different from before.
“Hiiiii-ing.”
“Chomp chomp chew chew.”
At first, the Demon Beasts caught my scent and came rushing over at once, but the moment they saw the magical power in my hand and my face, their eyes grew gentle.
What, what is this. You were just smacking your lips and drooling at me a second ago….
As I stood there bewildered, the threatening environment surrounding me shifted in a strangely ironic way.
“Kyu-ing kyu-ing.”
“Ah….”
“Chirp-chirp.”
It was as if a beloved pet were expressing affection toward its master.

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