101. Regular Meeting
After an instant conversation with Professor Buckingham, I returned to the classroom with light steps, as if I had just returned from a walk.
It hasn’t been 2 hours since I heard from Shaara that Professor Buckingham is suspicious.
Short is short, but long is a long time.
Thanks for throwing another river, but it was worth it.
When I arrived at the classroom, River stared at me.
“Atlas, you skipped the lecture earlier and went somewhere.”
“I have averted a threat from the future.”
When Amy heard that, she put on a look of disbelief.
“…Have you been here lately?”
“Well, it’s a big deal. Leave it for a long time. It’s better to end it quickly.”
“Looks like a great deal.”
They said it was great, but it wasn’t all over yet.
Until this job is over, we have to occasionally check whether Buckingham is working properly, and we also have to catch the unidentified people who have spoken out against Professor Buckingham.
He says that he is a professor in charge of liberal arts subjects, but seeing that he says he can’t even remember his name, it seems like he’s playing some trick.
The professor of combat magic, who was lightly aware of the degree to which the recognition-impairing magic had been activated, only said that he was a suspicious person with no memory and vague impression.
I don’t even think it’s strange.
I didn’t say this to deceive myself, I really felt that way.
There were several means other than magic to make them feel that way, and I don’t know what the answer was, but they all had one thing in common: not all liberal arts professors could use them.
Whether he became a missionary, an assassin, or a ghost, the details will be revealed at Buckingham’s next meeting.
“Then you come out with an F.”
“What do you want to hear next?”
“It’s easy to say… But if you went to do something more important, I can’t help it. But don’t repeat the grade because I want to graduate with you…”
“Don’t worry, I’m counting that far.”
“That… Did something really important.”
River, who cares about grades, paid attention, but that’s about it.
After that, he didn’t say anything to me anymore.
Even Amy defended me, so I could only express my regret.
“Come on, everyone will think it’s really strange, but there was a decision a while ago, so everyone told me to gather to tell them.”
In the classroom, Andy was gathering her students and messing with her.
Originally, now is the time to go to another lecture, but everyone returned to their respective classes, as if something had been decided.
Students questioned why they were doing this even as they gathered.
“Is this because something else has been decided?”
“It seems that the principal is very urgent to work continuously in such a short period of time.”
“…”
I glanced over and saw Woodville sitting next to Casey.
Did you become close during that time?
It doesn’t feel that close, but it doesn’t feel like Casey is pushing away.
Dorothy Woodville knew she was very good at putting people in the mood, but she didn’t know that Casey would do it.
Despite coming from a commoner, self-made family, he is by no means an ordinary person, to the extent of occupying the head of the class in this academy full of purebloods.
“The holding of the hunting festival has been confirmed in two weeks. Those wishing to participate in the hunting should raise their hands.”
“2… 2 Weeks???”
Students were shocked to hear that the hunting festival would be held in two weeks.
‘Has the principal gone mad in two weeks??’
It was absurd to think that the hunting festival was not a local marathon and that preparations could be completed in two weeks.
No, the marathon is slowly being prepared month by month, so why are you thinking of finishing the preparations for a festival in which the entire academy participates in two weeks?
Andy looked like he had given up.
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I don’t know what happened during the meeting, but Andy doesn’t seem to like it either.
The hunting participants that Andy is recruiting literally means the number of people who will participate in the main event of the hunting festival, monster hunting.
I was asked if I would participate because it was a festival, not a test.
“…Well, I only have to tell you within this week, so think slowly. If you get good grades, you get a bonus and there are prizes for the top 4 teams.”
Participating was an unconditional benefit.
If you participate in hunting, as Andy said, there are bonus points and prizes.
In addition, since those who do not participate in the hunting have to take on the hassle of automatically creating an event booth, the hunting festival was more comfortable for hunting participants who just had to hit the hunt comfortably.
“Atlas are you going to join that?”
River, who was sitting next to me, quietly asked me.
From what I’ve been asking, it seems that the decision of the river changes depending on whether or not I participate.
“Never do it”
I don’t think it’s necessary to play in such a place.
As long as it doesn’t give you something like a hidden piece hidden in the academy as the first prize.
“The winning prize is still undecided, then?”
“Yes, if nothing special happens, as before, medals and bonus points.. And a ‘monster statue’ made of pure gold will be presented as prizes.”
If things go according to plan, I’ll just pass on this one.
After Buckingham’s conspiracy and the guy who fanned it all are solved, the hunting festival will be a good festival for students to enjoy as originally intended.
“I’m going to enjoy the festival.”
Now I have to hunt monsters or something.
The solid gold monster statue given as a prize may be expensive… But the experience of the festival is more attractive than the gold nugget.
It may not be a festival I know, but it’s my first time at the academy, so I’ll enjoy it comfortably.
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Inside the black room that existed somewhere on the continent, not even the slightest light was shining, let alone sunlight.
As if trying to avoid the sight of a god looking down on humans from the sky, the windows were blocked up to the point where it was nerve-wracking.
I couldn’t see it because not a single light came in, but there were several chairs placed around a huge pentagram in the black room.
It was blocked so hard that even the oxygen inside seemed to run out, but there was no problem.
Because no one really existed in this room.
-Click!
In such a dark room, I heard something click and move.
This room, which makes it difficult to know who has gathered in an unknown place, is the meeting room of the Devil Church, which the church is looking for with so much light on.
-Support position
A noise began to be heard from the empty chair.
A noise was heard in the conference room where there was no one there and there was no sign of human presence, and then smoky shadows appeared on the chairs.
It looked like a phantom that would disappear at any moment, but its presence gave the illusion that people really appeared.
[Then the regular meeting begins.]
The phantom standing in the center proclaimed.
Currently, the Devil’s Church does not operate a headquarters called the General Headquarters.
They are operated strictly as a point organization, and organic movement between each organization is impossible.
The reason why they feel like an organization connected to each other is purely because of this meeting, which is held on a fixed date.
This structure, in which organizational power is inevitably weakened, is not what the Devil Church itself wanted.
The devil worshipers who tried to form a mass rather than a dot were all smashed to pieces.
In the past, the ‘Holy War’, an operation to subdue devil worshipers, in which all forces on the continent rose up centered on the church, destroyed the headquarters of devil worshipers who were united as one.
In order to confront the church and the masters who conducted the holy war, 2,000 devil worshipers and their surrounding lives were sacrificed to descend, and two great demons, ‘Leviathan’ and ‘Bealzebub’, descended and suffered great damage from the masters. The demons were returned to Hell.
Based on the shattering experience of that day, the devil worshipers began to operate as a thoroughly dotted organization.
I absolutely hate to unite with organizations, but as a good example of that, they identify each other’s existence and share opinions only through meetings, but even that is not directly participated, but by sending only their own alter egos ‘remotely’ as a technique using demonic energy, Conduct meetings without knowing their location and identity.
Even if one person gets caught, the rest are safe.
Once destroyed, the devil worshipers mingled among the people under the guise of churches and multiplied again.
It was simple to attract believers.
For ordinary people, God’s favor is too far away, and the sweet devil’s whisper is too near.
The church, which thought that it had completely eradicated the devil worshipers, is still fighting a war against the shallow and widespread devil church like cockroaches.
[All the rituals performed at the academy have failed.]
[Failed, everything succeeded.]
[What success is crazy when not a single person died properly?]
[The plan to make the dungeon runaway and offer the students as sacrifices to Belphegor… The demons that were mass-produced in the Clover Kingdom did not produce the proper results.]
Their topic this time was the story of two series of incidents that took place at the academy.
It was a very absurd situation.
The two things I mentioned above are all rituals of success.
The great devil Belphegor descended on the academy, and the demons created in the Clover Kingdom successfully awoke in the middle of the academy.
All rituals are successful.
However, it did not lead to great damage.
Belfegor was not able to kill a single person and was expelled to hell, and the demons fought with the academy professors and were all subdued.
To make matters worse, even the Master Swordsman, whom they managed to side with, had died.
[How is the Clover Kingdom going these days?]
[God’s guard dogs are pretty good, so they’re having a hard time. It will be captured in the next three days…]
[I think it’s time to get out of here.]
[I was going to do that anyway… I could have made a puppet state. Too bad.]
The failure of the Mine Terror led to the capture of the base that had been painstakingly prepared in the Clover Kingdom.
The Church that smelled the smell and the Empire, which needed a target to vent their anger, disbanded while investigating the Clover Kingdom, and the Devil Church branch there, which had a close relationship with the royal family, fell into great danger.
[The Great Devils were very disappointed with the series of failures. The following ritual must succeed.]
The phantom in the center spoke solemnly.
It seems that there are a lot of lingering lingering feelings about the plans that were successful but failed in the end.
[But… Do I have to keep targeting the academy?]
[What are you talking about?]
[Looking at the previous two… Common records, I was convinced. The fact that the ‘Master’ is currently hiding in the academy. As long as the master is guarding it, it will be very difficult to hit it. ]
Until now, the academy’s only weakness was its handling of demons.
It is worth defending against low-level demons and demons, but there is no means to deal with believers or higher-level demons and demons.
There is one paladin and one heretic questioner on standby at the academy.
It is impossible to withstand the onslaught of the Devil Church alone.
However, despite the descent of the Great Demon, the academy persevered.
Even though one of the greatest forces of the Devil Church stepped forward, they were unable to capture it.
Is it really the right choice to keep sending people to the fortress-like academy with insufficient troops in this situation?
Aside from Akadaemi, there were plenty of painful places in the empire.
[But the academy must be destroyed. It is the wish of the great devil ‘Satan’ to watch over the chaos of the empire that will lead to the destruction of the academy.]
When I heard the word Satan’s wind, I couldn’t continue.
The opinion of Satan, the great devil, who created a grand plan to descend hell instead of the gospel of God, was absolute within the Devil Church.
Because the way they behaved was Satan’s will.
[I don’t need your thoughts. ‘Satan’ wants it. Then we must be willing.
Even if thousands of our corpses pile up, if the academy collapses as a result, tens of thousands of people will die in the empire.
Don’t be afraid of failure. Even if your soul dies, it will live forever in Satan’s hell.]
The phantoms who hold the most powerful voice because they serve Satan directly.. Looking at the devil bishop, some phantoms frowned.
They were all demon bishops serving other great demons.
It is said that the devil bishop who serves Satan, who has the greatest influence on the present world, has the most say, but in the situation of the devil bishop who serves other great devils, it seems that the devil bishop of Satan who is installed as if he is the leader.
At that moment, an unknown illusion stepped forward.
[Then… I’ll give it a try.]
It wasn’t identified because everyone had the same vision, but it was a ghost with a very confident voice.
[Demon Bishop of Belphegor… Would you like to try it?]
[Yes, I will try to convey the words of the great devils to the academy. ]