episode_0064

“I guess that’s the ‘unlucky, creepy eyes’ my daughter was talking about.”

Marquis Lucio Anastasia muttered as she stared at the screen. The other nobles were also frowning at her.

“Have you seen it?”

Duke Moratium asked without naming anyone to answer. There was silence in the VIP room for a moment.

“…Wait a minute. ”

Duke Knight Sustained, who had been unable to take his eyes off the screen for quite some time, takes out a few notebooks that he always carries from the bag his secretary carries and starts looking through them here and there.

“Do you know something?”

In response to Count Iron Foxtrot’s question, Duke Knight Sustaind briefly replied, “I have some suspicions,” and then flipped through his notebook for a while.

“Here it is.”

Duke Knight Sustained, who had finally found what he was looking for, spreads the notebook out on the table so that everyone can see it.

-A separate note is made of any special details from the report of the Northern Marshal.

-During the invasion of the liberators and monsters, the reconnaissance team, who were returning from a reconnaissance mission due to poor timing, investigated the rear of the monster group. They confirmed a peculiar entity that had not been discovered before.

– It was a large eye-shaped monster (or liberator) floating in the air. It did not show any actions and did not use any magical or non-magical powers, but it continued to watch the battle.

– When the reconnaissance team that was observing this scene made eye contact, he disappeared, and after a while, the group of liberators was confirmed to have retreated.

-After that, attempts were made to use this for operations, but as of the update on the xxth day of the xxth month of the xxth year of the Imperial Calendar, the entity in question has not been found again.

“I see. It was discovered once and never seen again…”

“That’s why my memory was hazy. It happened quite a long time ago.”

The Duke of Knight Sustained nodded at Marquis Jude Goldbunny’s words. Countess Miho Iron Foxtrot’s opinion was that it was atrocious to even carry around such a note.

“…Isn’t there a better expression for being meticulous?”

The Duke of Knight Sustained looked at Count Iron Foxtrot with a regretful expression, but Count Iron Foxtrot simply hid behind his husband, saying, ‘This is contagious.’

“Let’s stop joking around and call the wizards we’ve each been hiding. When I checked again, the same location was captured on the screen again, but the eyeball was gone. Whether it disappeared or moved, the kids will have to go and see…”

As Marquis Goldbunny ordered her secretary to search for the wizards she supported in the name of her family, screams and cheers erupted from the VIP room!

“Wh, what?!”

As Marquis Anastasia looks at the screen in surprise, she sees the stadium shaking violently as if an earthquake had occurred.

-Ahh, the rough terrain is shaking as if there was an earthquake and the ground is rising!! Nothing is happening on the flat ground!! The rough terrain team’s big crisis! But isn’t it shaking too much? Anyway, let’s check out the rough terrain team’s disaster response ability!!

“That’s the eye trick!”

Everyone gathered in the VIP room realized that the situation was not normal, as the shaking of the rough terrain and the uplift of the ground were obviously unusual.

An unaware audience might think, ‘Oh, that looks dangerous,’ but it’s not just dangerous; it’s a truly dangerous situation.

“Shouldn’t the competition be stopped?!”

Count Iron Foxtrot hissed, but the magically gifted Sir Anastasia shook her head.

“You can’t just stop a fantasy spell of that scale. Doing so would destabilize the spell, and there would be a bigger and worse aftershock than the ground shaking.”

“Oh, then what should I do…!!”

Countess Miho, who is better at beating up things than anyone else, seems unfamiliar with this situation and just stomps her feet, while her husband, Sir Iron Foxtrot, tries to stop her.

“…Nicholas.”

Sir Kino Anastasia, the husband of Marquis Luciola, who was chewing her lip while looking at the screen for a moment, calls out to Sir Goldbunny, the husband of Marquis Jude.

“Why, Kino.”

Sir Anastasia and Sir Goldbunny. To those who don’t know them, these two males may seem like they have nothing in common, but they actually have quite a bit in common.

“Let’s go explain to the kids. I think it would be better to ask for the professor’s help rather than us, the audience.”

“Most of the kids I gave Starstream Coins to are professors here, right?”

“Oh, except for Dangun. He has a royal family.”

“You little slave.”

Sir Kino, or more accurately known as Marquis Young-sik Kino Arcaneleyline during his school days, was an academy classmate of Viscount Nicholas Starstream and they were close friends.

Many of their close juniors, classmates, and seniors are now professors at the academy.

“Honey, stay here. I’m going to meet some friends for the first time in a while.”

“Jude, bring all the wizards you support. Call the staff and leave the screen.”

The two males give their wives some instructions and leave the VIP room.

“…That look made me want to be with her.”

“…I’m the one who had him on a leash…”

The Marquis Luciolas and Marquis Jude look wistful at the sight of their husbands.

“Oh no, it’s too high!”

“Damn, there’s nothing.”

Ion, Lulu, and Hoyo, who somehow managed to climb up to the stadium where the eyeball was discovered, discovered that the eyeball had already disappeared.

“Over there! Over there!”

Hoyo, who was the first to climb up to the roof of the stadium, looked around and discovered an eyeball still looking down at the stadium from a distance away from them!

“Hoyo, don’t go! You should prepare first!”

Lulu, who grabbed the back of Hoyo’s top and stopped her from flying away after clashing her two fists in the gauntlet so that sparks flew (“Kuh-he-ek”), started to use a spell.

“[Casting ritual, chanting omitted. Acceleration.]”

Perhaps because her proficiency in spells is higher, Lulu uses a shorter spellcast than Ain when using the same spells, and then uses several spells on everyone else before using the next spell.

“[Coordinates x 8633, z 122, y 329. Velocity 0. Constrain the target to a symmetrical 5-dimensional anisotropic cube. Bind the monster!!]”

Lulu, who was influenced by Ain during his private magic lessons, managed to obtain the 4th level spell slot, which she had only vaguely grasped. The proof of this is the 4th level spell she is currently using, Monster Binding.

A red, inexplicable shape surrounds the eyeball, and the eyeball is frozen in place, motionless.

“Ion, Hoyo! Go!”

At Lulu’s shout, the two of them run across the stadium rooftop. There is quite a distance between them and the eyes, but the two of them have considerable physical ability, so they quickly approach the eyes.

Hoyo, who was quickly approaching the eyeball, was thinking about how to beat it so that Ain would praise him for doing a good job, when the eyeball, which he thought had frozen, suddenly focused its gaze on him, and he was shocked.

“Eww, lucky tank!! This is set!!”

When Hoyo was surprised and shouted at Lulu, the eyes looked at Hoyo, Ion, and Lulu as if they were trying to remember each other, and then disappeared in an instant. The monster’s bonds also broke and disappeared at the same time.

“What the hell, you little bastard! You fooled me!! You pretended to be tied up and let your guard down!!”

Lulu, feeling like her pride was scratched, ran around in anger and approached Ion and Hoyo, who had become dogs chasing chickens.

“Where did you go?”

Ion looked around, but there were no more eyeballs on the stadium roof.

“Either they ran away completely, or they hid somewhere out of sight.”

“But the earthquakes keep happening!!”

Hoyo, looking down at the stadium, points to the rough terrain and shouts. As she said, the rough terrain was still undergoing an uplift accompanied by earthquakes, and the flatland Crystal was following closely behind.

“Damn, I can’t do anything!! I can’t help Ain at all, I’m an idiot!”

There was a sound of the air ripping as Hoyo threw his fist into the air in anger.

“Calm down, Hoyo. Ion, let’s go back for now. It’s not like we didn’t gain anything.”

“…Okay. I have to think about the next number.”

Ion also glared at the spot where his eyes had been as if he was angry, then turned around.

“Oh my, the ground!!”

The morning star’s shrill scream rings out, and the ground begins to shake and crash like crazy.

“What happened?!”

Elfin looks at me with difficulty, keeping his balance, but I have no idea what’s happening!

“Eww, eww! I don’t even know what this is!!”

I was also confused, so I quickly used the level 2 spell ‘Low Float’ here and there to temporarily put the students in a state similar to weightlessness.

Fortunately, no students questioned my use of a level 2 spell, perhaps because the situation was urgent. I guess I must have used an artifact this time, since the ring containing the level 4 spell that Bandi gave me worked so well in a public place. (The students’ priority was to get used to the low floating state.)

“Thank you, Ain. Fortunately, they didn’t attack from that side. If they were confused here, they would have barged in.”

Saetbyul expresses her gratitude and offers her opinion, but Elfin shakes her head, keeping pace with Crystal.

“I saw earlier that there are many shortcuts going from this side to that side, but there are none in the opposite direction, Saetbyeol Yeongae. And if they come in carelessly, they will have to experience this situation too.”

“I think Her Highness the Princess’s opinion is correct.”

Ina, one of the few students who didn’t seem to care about the shaking ground, approached Elfin, agreeing with her opinion, and Isul also came closer.

“What’s your next plan, Ain Youngshik?”

Dew asks, realizing that I am the bag of wisdom of Elfin, but I also have no pointed method for now.

“Let’s move forward for now. We still have the upper hand in terms of progress… It’s hard to deal with magic of this scale even with artifacts. We’ll keep the float low, so let’s see how things go.”

I answered while looking at a few students who were bouncing around here and there, unable to adapt to low affluence.