The Genius Professor Wants An Easy Life - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79
‘First impressions matter.’
I rolled my thoughts over in my head.
The Massacre Beast was a creature that longed for humanity’s extinction to avenge her kind—meaning no amount of kindness would do anything but sicken her.
But if I treated her poorly?
I’d only fan the flames of her rage. There was no winning with her either way.
It wasn’t for nothing that rehabilitation was deemed impossible.
‘There’s only one method. I need to train her.’
“Why do you think I bought you?”
“I… I don’t know. Please spare me.”
“Stop pretending to be afraid. I’ve already seen through your act. You’re a Jewel Clan member who’s survived this long—you must have hidden strength tucked away somewhere.”
…….
Silphiné’s face went blank.
My spine should have crawled, but with the Black Flame Dragon’s help, I barely kept it from showing.
‘I have to play this carefully from here on out.’
Can a Magical Beast ever grow close to a human?
Impossible. Their genetics program them to instinctively regard humans as enemies.
And yet there are those who train Magical Beasts and put them to use.
I had to train the Massacre Beast through the same method.
‘It’ll be as dangerous as walking a tightrope, as difficult as climbing a cliff on one leg.’
The core of training is the whip and the carrot, but against a fearsome Magical Beast like the Massacre Beast, a whip would be useless.
I’d have to use a different approach.
I dredged up memories of dealing with my most difficult client and continued.
“Right now, you’d love nothing more than to kill me, wouldn’t you? No—you’d love to kill every human alive. Isn’t that right?”
…….
Silphiné stared directly at me.
Her expression said, ‘What kind of nonsense is this?’
“Whatever your true feelings are, I don’t care. You just need to work for me.”
“Work?”
“Murder. You’re going to see blood.”
!!
“I plan to dye this Dark Auction red with blood.”
The moment I saw interest flare in Silphiné’s eyes, I clenched my fists.
That was it—what I was attempting right now was Bait Training.
‘Follow me and I’ll feed you plenty of delicious meals, so please don’t eat me.’
At least until the food ran out, she wouldn’t try to devour me.
“Mm.”
Silphiné crossed her legs.
The pathetic act had been completely abandoned.
The Slave Seal carved by the Black Magic sorcerers was there, but thanks to my cheat ability, it had no effect on her.
“What if you trust me and I end up killing you too?”
Grin.
A smile dripping with sincerity.
This was the crucial moment.
I had to make her see me not as food, but as a master to be obeyed.
“If you wish to abandon your vendetta against your kind, feel free.”
!!
“I have no hobby of keeping a dog that bites its master alive.”
Hissss.
An intense pressure bore down on Silphiné.
Of course, it was bluster—but it was the Black Flame Dragon’s bluster.
Silphiné’s face went rigid.
Of course, fear hadn’t taken hold.
She returned to smiling within moments.
“Hehe, you’re more interesting than I thought. Fine. I’m looking forward to what comes next with you, Master ♥”
Her voice dripped with affectation.
Translated: she was restraining herself for now, but her heart was racing at the thought of the day she’d finally kill me.
‘What a fate I’ve been cursed with. What sin could I have committed to end up with a psychopath like this?’
The Massacre Beast wasn’t merely driven by vengeance.
She was a serial killer who relished murder itself.
A pleasure killer armed with the pretext of avenging one’s own kind was practically a complete entity that no one could stop.
Having cast the bait that the Dark Auction would be drenched in blood, things would be manageable for now.
What came after was the problem, but I’d already worked out a countermeasure for that.
‘First, I need to focus on stealing the Gray Sacrificial Book. It came up as a private lot, and the buyer is already set.’
Unlike before, when the auction had proceeded openly in front of everyone, this was a private auction conducted through the Sage Stone Server.
‘The buyer is Fox Mask. A Level 6 mage of no particular note. But that’s not the problem.’
I swallowed hard as I read the lot information.
The winning bid was 3.47 million pena. For its value, it had sold for an absurdly low price.
The real issue came next.
‘They’ve left it in storage at the Dark Magic Tower until the auction period ends.’
Usually, the item is collected right away, but sometimes people request it be held in storage at the Dark Magic Tower.
Out of concern that other attendees might steal or seize it.
In other words, I now found myself in a situation where I had to somehow spirit the Gray Sacrificial Book away from the Dark Magic Tower itself.
‘Damn it.’
Even thinking about it was unbearably dreadful, but it had to be done.
I stood from my seat.
“Prepare yourself. We’re going somewhere.”
I answered the butcher’s puzzled expression curtly.
“We’re attending the banquet.”
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The Dark Auction runs for a full five days.
Of those, the actual auction is only on the first day; the rest is an unbroken banquet of drinking and merrymaking, day and night.
‘This banquet is the real Dark Auction.’
The Banquet Hall has one rule.
You cannot harm a fellow attendee.
Beyond that, the Dark Magic Tower stays out of whatever happens.
‘Everyone here schemes in every conceivable way to “legally” steal each other’s treasures.’
To attend the banquet, you had to bring the item you’d won as your entry credential.
Openly telling everyone to steal from one another.
If you didn’t want your treasure stolen, you could stay quietly in the quarters provided by the hosts, but the Banquet Hall was packed with people.
All driven by greed to snatch as many other treasures as possible.
‘In any case, the Gray Sacrificial Book won’t be here.’
As I’d said, the buyer had requested that it be held in storage at the Dark Magic Tower.
There was no way it would appear at this banquet.
[Welcome. May I confirm your winning item?]
“Here she is.”
[Yes, confirmed. Rabbit Mask has arrived! Fanfare~ Everyone, please welcome our guest!]
The noisy Banquet Hall fell abruptly silent.
Everyone turned to look at me.
“Rabbit Mask?”
“Who on earth are they? Paying 50 million pena?”
“Even my master couldn’t see through that Rabbit Mask’s identity.”
“Your master? Isn’t that someone approaching the Master level of Level 7 advancement? That’s absurd. Could that Rabbit Mask actually be a Level 8 Transcendent Being?”
Eyes filled with wariness.
Naturally so.
An unfathomable cultivation level.
Enormous wealth.
And on top of that, the presence of the Black Flame Dragon.
By any measure, I was a figure of considerable importance.
And then something happened that only deepened the misunderstanding.
“M-master. I’m scared. Please protect me.”
The butcher clung to me, trembling dramatically.
Wondering what scheme this was, I watched as the butcher broke into a playful smile.
—Just having fun.
‘…They really are a natural troublemaker. The problem is all the bloodshed whenever they play pranks.’
The attendees stirred at the butcher’s display.
“In just half a day, they’ve made those proud Jewel Clan members submit like that?”
“Those stubborn creatures would sooner be tortured into idiocy than ever bow to anyone.”
“What’s their real identity? Could they possibly be one of the Ten Demons?”
At the suggestion someone voiced, the hall turned cold.
No matter how much they whispered among themselves, the Ten Demons was a name too dangerous to speak aloud.
The one who’d first broached it fell silent quickly, but the word had already burned itself into everyone’s mind.
Each murmured softly to their neighbors.
“There’s no way one of the Ten Demons would come to a place like this. They must’ve sent a representative.”
“And this mere representative is that powerful?”
“Wait—did anyone else see that Infinity Card the one in the Rabbit Mask pulled out? The symbol on it looked familiar somehow…”
I offered no reply.
‘Whatever you lot prattle on about, it’s beneath my notice.’
I left my expression contemptuous and cold, and my arrogant demeanor only deepened their misunderstandings.
‘Now it’s time for them to take the bait.’
And soon enough, the whispers began.
“The symbol carved on that card—isn’t that the Reverse Heaven King’s mark?”
“…You’re saying the one in the Rabbit Mask is the Reverse Heaven King?”
That was the moment.
A low voice hissed from directly beside me.
“Ban Ecclesia, what in the world are you doing?”
I turned to find a noblewoman in a Mantis Mask staring at me with cold eyes.
Impossibly, she knew who I was.
She hadn’t seen through the mask.
“First you ignore his commands, and now you’re impersonating him? Do you have a death wish?”
This noblewoman was also a servant of the Reverse Heaven King!
She was exactly who I’d been waiting for.
I turned to address her.
The moment our conversation began, I wove a magical barrier so those outside wouldn’t hear us.
“And you—aren’t you also defying the Reverse Heaven King’s will?”
“What did you say?”
“Your presence here wasn’t sanctioned by the Reverse Heaven King, was it?”
I lifted the corner of my mouth and spoke her name.
“Isn’t that so, Duchess Bess, the Witch of Cruelty?”
!!
That was right.
The noblewoman was none other than Duchess Bess, mistress of a renowned house of magic.
‘Duchess Bess has always had deep ties to the Reverse Heaven King.’
It wasn’t merely because she was a named villain.
She was connected to the Reverse Heaven King’s true identity.
The two of them shared an intimacy that surpassed all others.
“What are you getting at?”
“Aren’t you here to procure the Brain Squad with the Reverse Heaven King’s money for Joanna? That’s something he wouldn’t have authorized, is it?”
It was an elixir said to enhance intellect.
The side effects were severe, but the results were certain—it was wildly popular among mages.
Yet she had failed to obtain it.
“The winning bid was merely five hundred thousand pena, and you didn’t even bring that much to the Dark Auction. Isn’t that awfully stingy? Or is the Reverse Heaven King the stingy one? No matter how you look at it, you have a relationship with him, and yet he won’t approve even five hundred thousand pena.”
“You…!”
“Never mind. I’ll handle acquiring the Gray Sacrificial Book that the Reverse Heaven King requested. Don’t concern yourself with it. But will you truly return empty-handed?”
Duchess Bess fell silent.
“Bring me the Kekmyeong Elixir.”
!!
It was a superior elixir beyond all comparison to the Brain Squad.
An elixir that enhanced not only intellect but magical talent overall.
The winning bid had reached three million and five hundred thousand pena.
“By what means? The one who won the Kekmyeong Elixir is the Knight of the Dead.”
A Level 6 necromancer.
Though Duchess Bess was more accomplished, the problem was that her opponent belonged to the Cult.
Untouchable.
“I can manage it. But I need one thing from you in return.”
“In return?”
“Nothing too difficult or demanding, I assure you.”
Duchess Bess let out a snort of derision, but she couldn’t hide her interest.
“Simple enough. Be my companion throughout the banquet, and serve me as your master.”
“What? You want to die?!”
“Everyone already knows in secret that you’re deeply connected to the Reverse Heaven King. If you serve me like a master, they’ll all be certain that I’m the real Reverse Heaven King.”
Bess ground her teeth audibly.
‘As if I enjoy trailing around with you. I’d rather do a sexy tango dance with that bald old man Hans.’
The flowers in both her hands were the Slaughter Demon and the Cruel Witch.
It was quite literally a banquet in hell, but there was no helping it for the sake of her goal.

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