Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 1015

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Chapter 1015

“He’s a very despicable and cunning fellow. Everyone be careful!”

Even without Lee Han’s warning, all the exploration team members were already on guard.

The deep underground waterways on the outskirts of the Capital, which they had visited to track monsters from another dimension.

A stranger appearing in such a place could never be an ordinary person.

“I’ll take the lead, so support me.”

“Yes.”

The knight-born exploration team member explosively poured mana into his sword. Surging aura flickered over the blade.

The other exploration team members behind him quickly drew their crossbows. They planned to restrain the enemy the moment their knight colleague charged.

Faced with that murderous momentum, the Demon-Worshipping Elf chose a response no one had expected.

He raised both arms and knelt down.

“I surrender. I’ve encountered a monster, so I can’t win.”

“…”

“…”

The exploration team members were flustered but didn’t stop. They immediately completely paralyzed and subdued The Other Person.

“Alsicle. Please handle the interrogation.”

“Right. Got it. Frost, forbid intrusion.”

Alsicle took over the paralyzed Worshipper of Evil Gods and cast mental protection magic.

There wasn’t much a completely subdued enemy could do, but enemies with twisted souls filled with madness like Worshippers of Evil Gods could infect others just by showing their inner selves.

Unless you were someone who would directly taste acid pools from other dimensions to check their toxicity, casting protection magic was the right choice.

“You’re a Worshipper of Evil Gods, aren’t you? Which god do you serve?”

“…”

Though the vocal cord muscles had been released so he could speak, the elf said nothing.

Alsicle frowned.

Worshippers of Evil Gods usually fell into two categories.

One was those who babbled like madmen trying to spread their insanity.

And the other was those who shut their mouths with conviction and remained trapped in their own world.

This elf seemed to be the latter. A much more troublesome existence to interrogate.

“Doesn’t look like he’ll answer?”

“Right. Interrogating him here seems impossible. We’ll probably need to take him out first.”

“You’re saying we should retreat?”

“Since things have gone wrong, retreating would be the right choice.”

The exploration team member looked at Alsicle with dissatisfied eyes.

They had spent so much time and money to chase monsters from another dimension, only to retreat because of one intruder.

“!”

The exploration team member who looked at Alsicle was startled. His friend’s eyes were brimming with tears.

They were tears of frustration and regret.

‘…I was stupid. Alsicle must be just as disappointed as I am!’

While the exploration team member and Alsicle shared their emotions, Lee Han was bewildered.

“N-no. Is it worth crying over?”

“I wasn’t crying! It’s moisture condensing because of the erosion from another dimension!”

Alsicle angrily denied it.

It was frustrating and disappointing not to even catch a glimpse of the monster’s tail, but it couldn’t be helped.

‘He’s really crying over this?’

To think he’d act like that over a monster that might not even be helpful.

Lee Han felt sorry for him and wanted to help somehow, so he spoke to the Worshipper of Evil Gods.

“If you have accomplices who came with you, at least tell us about them. We’ll take it into consideration. If you end up in Einroguard’s Punishment Room, the prison food…”

“Understood. The accomplices who came with me are as follows. Mage Criminal Kitarenannum. He’s contracted with a powerful demon. That’s why he’s chasing the monster too. Separatist Basirmac. He’s…”

“??!?”

“????!!!”

When the names of two major wanted criminals suddenly came up, the exploration team members were shocked.

“Kitarenannum is here!?”

“Basirmac, that bastard, we thought he’d fled across the sea…!”

“Wait. Why is he suddenly talking?”

Alsicle was the first among the exploration team members to sense something strange.

Why would someone who seemed like he’d keep his mouth shut until the world ended suddenly open up and speak so freely?

“In my opinion…”

Lee Han spoke with a serious expression. Alsicle listened intently, focusing on his appearance.

It was the boy before him who had made this Worshipper of Evil Gods speak. There must be something he’d figured out.

“…I think he opened his mouth because of Einroguard Punishment Room’s notorious reputation…”

“…A Worshipper of Evil Gods wouldn’t care about that!!!”

Alsicle shouted with a voice full of despair.

While ordinary criminals might fear Einroguard’s Punishment Room, Worshippers of Evil Gods were different. Weren’t they properly insane?

“Why did you speak up? Tell me!”

“…”

At Alsicle’s question, the elf closed his mouth again. Then Lee Han asked.

“If you want to receive prison food, answer properly.”

“Understood. The reason I spoke up is to avoid provoking the monster.”

“???”

Lee Han fell into confusion.

He couldn’t understand both the content of The Other Person’s answer and the reason for answering.

“Could it be that he answered because I spoke politely to him? You know, like how Alsicle gives you an extra sardine when you compliment his ice magic.”

“You, how do you know that…! No. That can’t be it.”

Alsicle wanted to question Wardanaz’s observational skills, but there were too many urgent matters right now.

“Let’s ask about other things first. What do you mean by monster?”

“Well, it must be the monster from another dimension. What kind of pointless question are you…”

Lee Han was about to scold Alsicle when he stopped.

The elf was pointing at him with his chin.

“…”

“…No! This cunning bastard is trying to sow discord?!”

“C-calm down, Mage sir.”

The exploration team members hurriedly stopped Lee Han.

‘This is strange.’

Alsicle fell into thought.

Worshippers of Evil Gods weren’t actually good at devising sophisticated schemes. Because their way of thinking was tainted with madness, something would always break down or reveal bizarre aspects.

Such a Worshipper of Evil Gods wouldn’t attempt such low-level discord sowing.

Then he really did regard Wardanaz as a monster…

“Are you from the Prahgal Order?”

Alsicle asked just in case.

Considering what the Prahgal Order had suffered, it wouldn’t be strange to feel Wardanaz was like a monster.

“…”

Of course, no answer came back. Alsicle sighed deeply and said.

“Wardanaz. Ask for me instead…”

“Are you from the Prahgal Order?”

“No. I serve the Great Prophet.”

“The Great Prophet means…”

“The Ksaksa Rigol Order.”

The exploration team members grimaced with disgust.

Among Worshippers of Evil Gods, there were those who considered it sacrilegious to dare speak their god’s true name.

The Great Prophet was the title that the Ksakasarigol cult worshippers used to refer to their god.

If Prahgal was the god of life (at least by the worshippers’ standards), then Ksakasarigol was the god of prophecy.

Those who worshipped this evil deity were people who would do anything for perfect prophecy.

Those who chose prophecy as an end, not a means.

If that prophecy seemed likely to go wrong, these madmen would forcibly twist reality to make it come true.

It was understandable why the exploration team members despised them. While there were no evil deity worshippers one would want to befriend, the Ksakasarigol cult was particularly bizarre in their principles of action.

They were the type to set fire to a perfectly fine city and insist ‘these people were supposed to die anyway’…

“Great Prophet or not, why am I a monster?”

‘Could it be because he licked the acid to check its toxicity?’

One of the exploration team members thought to himself.

However, the reason the elf revealed was completely unexpected.

“You are a monster that devours prophecy.”

“…This bastard is still trying to sow discord!”

“Calm, calm down! Wardanaz! Calm down and ask!”

“…What do you mean by a monster that devours prophecy?”

The demon-worshipping elf explained calmly.

When prophesying the world, there are opponents who are easy to predict and opponents who are difficult to predict.

And among them, there were bizarre singularities that, once triggered, would twist all prophecies completely.

The worshippers feared these as monsters that devour prophecy.

“If we carelessly provoke you, up to half a year’s worth of prophecies will all become tangled. I’ll answer all the questions you want, so don’t go berserk.”

The reason the elf surrendered was simple.

If by any chance they fought with Lee Han and the stimulated Lee Han went berserk, all the prophecies would become tangled.

The reason the elf confessed everything about his accomplice was the same.

If by any chance they moved without information and the stimulated Lee Han went berserk, all the prophecies would become tangled!

“Isn’t this sowing discord??”

When Lee Han spoke with such extreme anger that he seemed ready to throw the elf right into the acid pool, Alsicle calmed him down.

“There’s some truth to it.”

“What truth is there! Are you taking that bastard’s side too, Alsicle!”

“Ah, no. I don’t mean it that way. It’s actually a real concept! And you have so many contracted beings.”

A cornered rat may bite a cat, but with the mage from the Wardanaz family before them, there was no telling what might really happen if he was cornered.

Just the transcendent beings from other dimensions that Alsicle knew of were already…

“There’s the Spirit King and Lord Gonadaltes too.”

“The skeleton? He’s not that strong though.”

“…Principal. You crazy bastard.”

Alsicle shuddered anew at Wardanaz’s catastrophic naming sense.

“Ah. But the Principal isn’t really a contract…”

“A priest relationship is also a contract. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, it’s not complete nonsense.”

Lee Han looked at the elf with suspicious eyes.

He was somewhat convinced, but didn’t completely believe it.

“If you were so afraid of stimulating me, why did you come here?”

“There was a higher possibility that you wouldn’t come here originally.”

“Ha! Look at this bastard making excuses!”

“Wardanaz. Calm down and let’s extract some information…!”

“Understood.”

Lee Han eventually gave up on tormenting or interrogating his opponent and turned toward information gathering.

Mage criminals, separatists, even apocalypse believers.

It was such a tremendous gathering that the vicious mercenaries who came with them seemed like mere crumbs.

“Is it a monster valuable enough for all that?”

“It’s a monster that came from the void between dimensions. If it can be controlled, its value is higher than any monsters in the Empire.”

“!!!”

Everyone in the party, including Lee Han, was shocked.

When mages studied dimensional studies, they learned to distinguish between safe and dangerous dimensions.

However, there were also voids that existed outside such dimensional classifications. These voids were the outer seas of dimensions where exploration itself was impossible.

A monster that came from such a void was on a different level from monsters that could generally be found in dimensions.

“This… shouldn’t we annihilate it rather than capture it alive?”

“The monster seems stronger than we expected. We need to report this immediately.”

“Defeated.”

The elf suddenly spoke up. Lee Han shouted as if he had expected this.

“So this party will lose. Did you see that, Alsicle? This bastard is trying to bewitch people with false prophecies and deceive them again.”

“Not you. The other intruders underground have been defeated.”

“…”

The exploration team was shocked by the news that the major criminals mentioned earlier had already been defeated.

What???

“Monster, hurry and move upward. You must not go berserk.”

“Ha. Didn’t you foresee that your comrades would be defeated?”

“That was within the expected possibilities. It doesn’t matter as long as this monster doesn’t go berserk.”

The elf spoke of Lee Han going berserk as a more terrible disaster than the monster from the dimensional void sweeping through and ravaging this underground area.

Lee Han nodded.

“I think I’ve asked everything, so can I make him shut up again?”

“Just bear with it a little longer, Wardanaz.”

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