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CLXXVIII.

“Hey, what’s that?”

Satan was so embarrassed that he didn’t even realize that he was stuttering.

Real-time footage that appears to be powered by the power of the magic god.

It showed what was happening on the continent that the Demon King was currently invading.

To be precise, I’m highlighting a candidate named Gray who is particularly irritating to the remnants among the candidates.

It’s not that they’re surprised that they’ve shown their enemies the appearance of a promising prospect. Of course, they’re a little surprised, but if it’s the magic god who did it, he can do worse than this.

The reason Satan was surprised was because of the phenomenon that suddenly appeared after Gray stabbed the human wizard’s chest with a qi spear.

“Why is that… … ?”

After the human wizard, that is, the wizard whose chest was pierced by Gray’s spear, died, his appearance suddenly began to change, and it was that of a demon.

A single curved horn, a strange appearance, and even two tails.

Is it because they see it not as the power of the remnants, but as the power of the magic god? Even the remnants did not realize that the human was a demon.

So when the candidate named Gray stabbed a human in the chest with a spear, he let out an exclamation of ‘Huh?’

That’s what happened,

“Were you a demon?”

“You were a demon?”

Not only Satan, but also the other remnants were all shocked and could not believe what was happening on the screen.

“Fuck.”

Oh, one person.

Except for the Leviathan of the time. That demon was a being belonging to the Demon King of the time, who was his subordinate, so it was natural to recognize him.

He was surprised in another sense when Gray killed his subordinate, a mid-level demon who had disguised himself as a human.

“How did you know that guy?”

“Well… … ?”

As you can see now, the intermediate demons were so perfectly disguised that even the remnants couldn’t recognize them if they just looked at their appearance.

Of course, the magic wouldn’t flow out. In other words, there was nothing that could have caught Gray, but Gray, the human, easily found and dealt with the demons.

“I can’t hear what the candidate is saying, but judging by the way things are going, it seems like the candidate knew this in advance… … Did the divine world tell him?”

“Huh? No way. You guys probably know how much points it costs to tell you all about that, right? Isn’t that why you guys always go out and dig and get killed by humans and can’t come forward?”

“This dog… …! Haa. So the divine world doesn’t know? That human finding the demon was a complete coincidence? Just because he got lucky?”

“No?”

“What are you trying to do!! You fucking punk! I told you earlier that the information wasn’t from the divine realm!!”

“Yeah.”

Leviathan looked so calm and composed that he seemed like a crazy magic god who gave different answers. It was to the point where I thought that if I just hit him with all my might, my wish would be over.

“Haa. Don’t joke around. There must be a reason you showed me this!”

“This isn’t a joke? Don’t you understand? I told you. I wanted to tell you, but those damn bastards were being so picky that I couldn’t tell you. But that’s not a coincidence.”

“Then… …. That human just figured it out? Using the power of Tegus to hide his magic, and using the power of that intermediate demon, Mimicry, to pretend to be human??”

“That’s right!”

The moment I thought that the magic god, who was so excited that he was clapping his hands as if he was proud, was truly an ugly face,

“Huh? Here we go again!”

The magic god focused on the image again, as his favorite drama did.

It was the same with the remnants.

Even though the God of Magic said that the human saw through it, it’s natural that it’s hard to believe it. How can a human be like that?

It was simply unbelievable that humans could see through the power to deceive even their own kind.

“Ohhh!”

But something unbelievable was happening on the screen, accompanied by the god of magic’s unpleasant cheers.

◈ ◈ ◈

When they heard that the Dean had come to visit, the warp gate management wizards gathered very quickly.

The demon who was dying on the ground right now had a human face and said 5 minutes, but it took less than 2 minutes for everyone to gather.

I pointed to the demon who was gasping for breath on the floor, holding on to his last breath with an expression that seemed completely incomprehensible.

“Witch. Please don’t show me this.”

I asked for a favor.

“willingly.”

The witch answered sternly and seriously, as if she had first been summoned by the Arcana, then lifted her golden broom and lowered it, hitting the floor.

Thud. Phew.

Mana swept across the floor like dust being swept away with a single stroke of a brush.

And until just a moment ago, the demons were nowhere to be seen trying to escape from their impending death.

Not only was it simply ‘invisible’, its panting breathing could not be heard, nor was its characteristic bloody smell smelled.

“Wow, wow!”

“Is the magic manifesting without a starter right now?”

“What is it? Who are you?”

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The witch’s response was satisfactory. One of the reasons I asked the witch to cover him up instead of absorbing him into the [Death] card was precisely for this show of force.

A big reason why they respect the Dean is because he is the most popular wizard of the Circle 9.

It may also be because they are the actual owners of the Tower of the Sage they are trying to enter.

What if, in front of those wizards, you show them magic they’ve never seen or heard of?

From now on, even if I, we, put a hole in someone’s heart again, I won’t unconditionally look at them with hostility like before.

It’s hard for ordinary people to understand, but that’s the way it is for the wizarding class.

The effects of the witch’s ‘demonstration of intelligence’ were immediately apparent.

“This person, that person. And the person at the end.”

The moment you choose the three wizards, as if you were a nouveau riche who showed up at a luxury store,

“For Master.”

With the punishment’s trustworthy answer, she disappeared, leaving behind only the sound of her discharge, ‘Pachik!’

“Huh?!”

“Wow!”

“Cough!”

Three breath-stopping sounds are heard, almost simultaneous.

The wizards around the place where the corpse appeared retreated in a hurry, but unlike before, they did not ask me or us what we were doing.

I was just watching what would happen with the wizard’s unique curiosity.

and,

“Ohhhh!”

As if a celebrity had appeared, the moment the human form changed into that of a demon, the magicians watching cheered.

Anyway, there are no truly normal beings among wizards.

A wizard, a sorcerer, or a Circle 9.

Maybe the problem lies with the God of Magic.

Even though those who had been their comrades until just a moment ago were killed and their corpses were transformed into demons, the wizards were not interested in it.

No, it seemed like he had put that issue out of his mind for the moment.

They looked at the corpses of the demons that still remained with their eyes shining brightly. No, they glared at them. Like hungry beasts hunting for prey.

You need to ask a wizard for something, but he’s a very picky person?

Don’t worry.

When you visit a wizard, you can give him a special material as a gift.

For example, dragon blood, dragon scales, dragon hide, and if you have a piece of dragon heart? Then I’ll grant any request.

How do you get that? Dragons aren’t lizards, are they?

I knew that would happen, so I’m giving you this perfect example now.

The corpse of a demon. I will grant any request.

“Witch.”

“Yes.”

Of course, I have nothing to ask of the wizards here, so I took care of everything.

The biggest reason I didn’t put the Demon’s corpse on the [Death] card was because I wanted to find out something.

A demon tribe that doesn’t even have any magical energy! Isn’t that strange?!

It is not a concept that is simply internally manipulated, but it is at a level that even Pope Judas cannot detect.

With this corpse, the witch, May, and the two-horned one, we can definitely find out the cause.

By collecting the corpses of the demons, all the demons in the warp gate were dealt with.

“It’s over.”

There was a hint of irritation in the Dean’s words. I can understand his feelings to some extent.

Because this happened at a warp gate that falls under your control.

“It’s over. Here.”

It’s over. This is for the warp gate wizards here at Hubble.

“Huh? Ah!”

“Quiet.”

There are many magicians around me who are watching with sparkling eyes. It would be better not to open your mouth here. In a situation where you already feel like showing the demon tribe was a mistake.

“I won’t ask you to take what you saw today with you to the grave forever. I just want you to keep it a secret for the next few days. And from your family.”

As I looked into their eyes one by one and conveyed my words of advice, the wizards responded by nodding their heads confidently and powerfully.

“Let’s move.”

“Yes, Master. Move.”

We returned to Evergreen not through the warp gate, but by the dragon language magic of the Dragon Lord, Topplum.

When the light disappeared, replacing the astonished faces of the wizards who had seen us off at the moment when the magic of the two-horned beast was activated, we had arrived at Evergreen.

The place we arrived at with the magic of the two horns was a room. It was a spacious room decorated quite luxuriously.

When I opened the door and went out, the first thing I saw was a furnace and a stove that had stopped working.

And on one side was a huge anvil, with tools hanging neatly on the wall, including hammers and tongs.

“Blacksmith?”

It’s a blacksmith shop.

And if it is an Evergreen forge and a place where the two-horned one can use as a teleportation countermeasure,

“Slippery hand?”

“That’s right, Master.”

It is the space where Nitas enjoyed playing, and also the place where my favorite song, ‘Dūrámen’, was created.

Should I say that it feels new?

I feel a little strange. It’s also mysterious.

After looking around the blacksmith shop for a while and feeling mystical, we headed to the warp gate.

People’s eyes would be focused on the procession of the Academy’s Dean, Vice Dean Fletcher, and Arcana, including me, but not a single person pays attention to us.

that,

“Multiple transparency magic.”

A transparent magic spell that covers the entire party cast by Two-horned,

“It also moves at high speed with flight magic.”

Because you are moving using flight magic.

Leaving the Dean’s words of admiration or emptiness behind, we arrived at the Evergreen Warp Gate.

“Can you please call all the warp gate wizards?”

As before, he made the request, and the wizards who had been waiting quickly contacted him as if they were dialing an emergency contact network and said, ‘Gray has arrived.’

Unlike what was said to the wizards of Hubble earlier, ‘the seeker of truth has come.’

And much faster than I thought, almost to the point of Hubble, the warp gate management wizards gathered.

“Are you all here? Every single one of you?”

The reason I asked that question to the hastily gathered wizards was,

“Huh? I don’t see Chief Wizard Norman.”

I thought something like this would come out. And the invisible wizard,

“Huh? I don’t see Anna the Wizard. Is she out of contact?”

“Huh? I don’t see the Brown Wizard or the Cloud Wizard either.”

More came out.

Chief Wizard Norman.

Common wizards Anna, Brown, Cloud, and Aroville.

Apprentice wizard Koopa.

A total of six wizards did not appear.