The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 230

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Chapter 230

“Such showing off.”

Emeline laughed as if it were absurd, but her expression wasn’t unpleasant.

‘To dominate the airspace… That’s right! Pur, make it rain!’

[Ready.]

Pur’s special ability is ‘Rain Summoning’.

He is one of the few demons who can manipulate weather, able to freely make rain fall.

That maze was created by human magic.

Human magic cannot create things that don’t exist, unlike demons.

For example, you cannot make an umbrella without cloth.

That’s why people sometimes call magic ‘the technique of twisting the providence of existing things’.

In other words, that maze was created by rapidly growing existing grass and trees through magic.

‘So if unexpected elements like rain or sunlight appear here─’

As I drew up my Divine Power, the Etoile hidden deep in my pouch grew hot.

Soon, dark clouds rolled across the sky and a tremendous downpour began falling only around the maze area.

Then tree branches stretched out from the maze into the sky, closing off the upper part of the maze like covering a teapot lid.

‘─This is how the magic caster loses control of their own magic.’

Mina, who had been riding on top of the maze, staggered as she was pushed by the tree branches.

“Kyaah!”

“Mina!”

As soon as the panicked Allen shouted, Mina fell.

“Uh… huh?”

Mina, who had fallen with a thud while keeping her eyes tightly shut, slowly opened them.

Condensed air on the ground was supporting her like a cushion. The Activation Seal on Sandra’s hand glowed.

‘Sandra protected her with magic.’

The students from Mina’s team, including Sandra and Allen, quickly ran to her.

“Are you okay?”

“Mmm. Did you do this?”

“Yes.”

“Thank you.”

After confirming Mina was safe, Allen whipped his head around and glared at me.

“How could you do such a thing! Were you trying to kill Mina?”

Then Emeline let out a chuckle and retorted.

“Why such an overreaction.”

“Over─reaction? A student almost got hurt and you call it an overreaction?! Don’t talk nonsense!”

“It wasn’t even that high up, and there’s so much grass spread on the ground like this. Even if Sandra hadn’t saved her, she wouldn’t have gotten hurt.”

“Anyway, despicably interfering with other teams like that, this isn’t right!”

“The Professor called the life form we need to rescue in the assignment a ‘hostage.’ In other words, this is training to prepare for when hostages appear in battle. Are there cases in battle where the enemy shows human compassion?”

“Th, that’s…!”

Allen’s face just turned red as he stammered, and Emeline continued with an “Oh my.”

“I guess this kind of situation wasn’t written in your cheat sheet? That’s why you’re flustered, right? Actually, you’re not worried about Mina at all, you’re most worried about your own class assignment, aren’t you?”

“What?! How dare you from where─!”

“Seeing that you can’t logically refute it, I guess it’s true.”

Emeline smugly said “Right, Leblaine?”

I chuckled inwardly.

‘You can never beat Emeline in verbal combat.’

Even in the back alleys where dog fights were rampant, there was no one who could beat Emeline with words.

‘Anyway, now having more students in other teams won’t be an advantage anymore.’

Without communication stones, they can’t communicate, and I’m the only one who has broken through a barrier.

To know what level the barriers are and how many people’s mana is needed to disable them, they’d have to go in as a group and try dealing with one barrier.

I grabbed Emeline’s wrist and said.

“Let’s go in.”

“Yeah.”

As we entered the maze entrance, the students who had been in confusion followed behind us and rushed into the maze.

After going deep into the maze, I whispered to Emeline while sensing the students’ presence.

“You find the yellow barrier that’s supposedly the weakest and break through it.”

“I can’t see the center of barriers like you or Mina.”

“Read the magic formula and dismantle it.”

There are three colors of barriers in total.

Purple.

Red.

Yellow.

The barrier I just broke through was red.

“From those red barriers onward, they absolutely cannot be broken through at student level. Even I, who has far more mana than others, tremble in my hands and feet after destroying the center of a red barrier.”

“Then…!”

“It was originally set up to make teams fight each other. They want us to fight other teams and seize the yellow barriers. So I think…”

“Yellow ones are barriers weak enough to be disabled during combat with opposing teams?”

“Right. You don’t need to aim for the center. It should be at a level where you can destroy it by reading the magic formula.”

“The key is finding the yellow ones… but how do we find─ Leblaine?”

Emeline, who had been pondering while holding her chin, opened her eyes wide seeing me crawling up the maze wall.

I drew my sword from the scabbard at my side and cut through the roof of the maze.

And I threw Etoile from my pouch to Emeline.

“Hold onto this. You absolutely must not let others see it, okay?”

“What about you!”

“I’ll watch from above. I’ll shout, so run as I call out directions!”

“That’s ridiculous. Then the other teams will hear too!”

Having finally climbed onto the maze roof, I grinned wickedly and shouted.

“Agnes Tailor Shop!”

Emeline’s eyes widened as she gasped sharply.

Agnes Tailor Shop was to the left of Max’s Beggar Gang Hideout.

Emeline began running around the left corner.

‘Pur, make it rain only within a 1km radius around where I am.’

Rain poured down, and I was pushed by a massive tree trunk to occupy a position where I could see the entire maze at a glance.

‘The yellow barrier is… over there.’

Since light emanated from the barrier, I could confirm its location through the tree branches.

‘I can also sense Etoile’s position. Now I can determine where Emeline is.’

I concentrated as much as possible and spoke to Cheolsu.

‘Cheolsu, tell me what you can see from Etoile.’

[Blocked 2km ahead!]

I threw the Mana Condensation Core 2km ahead in Emeline’s direction of movement.

[The wall has been destroyed. Contestant Emeline is startled but soon jumps over the destroyed section!]

“Aria Salon!”

Aria Salon was in the 8 o’clock direction from Max’s Beggar Gang Hideout. Emeline ran toward 8 o’clock.

Since I couldn’t communicate with my familiars if I got too far from Etoile, I used Pur’s special ability to proliferate tree branches as close to Emeline as possible.

[Yellow barrier, found!]

‘Is it at a level Emeline can dismantle?’

[It seems so.]

About 5 minutes later, a signal came from Cheolsu.

[Dismantling complete! The hostage is… so cute…]

‘What?’

[It’s a puppy.]

“Emeline! I’ll protect it, so send it up!”

“Got it!”

I cut away the upper part of the maze, and Emeline climbed onto the wall surface and lifted the puppy up onto the roof.

The puppy wagged its tail frantically and jumped into my arms.

“Aww, yes. It’s dangerous here, so let’s go to that safe place over there.”

I moved Pur’s dark cloud to the end of the maze. I carefully trimmed the sprouted tree trunk with my sword to make a cage so the puppy wouldn’t get hurt.

After placing the puppy safely in the cage and turning my head, other students were climbing up onto the maze roof.

‘You want to try copying me?’

I grinned as I watched Allen climbing up.

“Are you trying to use me as your cheat sheet this time?”

“Shut up. Sandra, charge straight ahead. It’s yellow!”

While Emeline and I were rescuing the puppy, that team must have tried dismantling other colored barriers. And they probably figured it out like we did. That students can only dismantle the yellow ones.

I tapped Allen’s shoulder lightly.

“Hey there.”

“What. Can’t you see I’m busy─?!”

“This is my spot, so get lost.”

“What…?”

“I said get lost, dumbass.”

I kicked Allen and made him fall.

‘Idiot, why do you think I had Emeline, who’s weaker than me, dismantle the barrier while I came up here.’

Because I knew that as time passed, teams would start copying us.

“Emeline, Agnes Tailor Shop!”

[Blocked 3km ahead.]

“Send the puppy up!”

And making every student who climbed up fall.

Emeline, Cheolsu, Pur, and I worked together perfectly.

We’d already dismantled yellow barriers five times. We also handled a 2-point red barrier, so we were leading with 7 points.

Meanwhile, battles broke out between other teams inside the maze.

They seemed to realize that finding and securing hostages hidden by other teams was easier than searching for moving yellow barriers.

‘Good, about 30 minutes left now.’

Now I should go down and handle the other colored barriers.

But that’s when it happened.

“Wow, this actually works.”

Someone climbed up onto the maze with a familiar voice.

Mina, who had condensed air like Sandra did, was floating in the sky.

“Sorry, Leblaine. Our team is running out of time.”

“We’re running out of time too.”

“Allen and Sandra absolutely have to get into Class A because of their families. I’m the team leader, so I have to do something for my teammates.”

“So?”

Mina pointed her sword at me and said.

“Let’s duel! The winner takes all the hostages we’ve rescued so far. How about it?”

“Why should I?”

“Huh?”

“I don’t want to. Our team has significantly higher scores than your team. Even if the evaluation ends like this, our team would be first place, so why should we duel?”

Then Allen, who had been looking up at the sky from inside the maze, shouted loudly.

“You’re refusing a duel challenge?! Don’t you know chivalry?!”

“And you, who claims to know chivalry, want to take all the hostages that other teams worked hard to gather in just one duel?”

“Wh-what?”

I didn’t respond to Allen’s words. Just as I was about to turn around, I heard Mina’s voice from behind me.

“Are you running away? Because you’re afraid you’ll lose?”

I turned my head and glanced at Mina.

“You know what, Mina.”

“Yeah, tell me.”

“You would die if I just flicked my finger.”

“…What?”

“It’s true.”

Tilting my head, I took a step closer to Mina.

“Even if all of God’s power was inside you, you still couldn’t beat me. Because you don’t know how to use that power.”

“That’s just your opinion. We’d have to compete to─”

“Thirteen years.”

No, if I add my previous life, it would be an unimaginable amount of time.

“I’ve trained with all my might for years beyond your imagination.”

“I─”

“If you want to compete with me, don’t stake something like this evaluation. Stake something more valuable.”

“…”

“That way, the years I spent training with my life on the line won’t seem ridiculous.”

Mina’s and my gazes clashed in mid-air.

“What should we stake?”

I smiled brightly and said.

“How about Etoile?”

“Eto… what?”

“The sacred relic kept in the temple. The one that will be bestowed upon the true Child of Fate.”

Mina’s eyes widened, and I smiled cheerfully.

“Should we stake Etoile?”

─I said.

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