“Seil Sieghart.”
The red-haired woman frowned at the papers strewn across the desk.
It was a pretty face, but not many people knew about it because it was hidden by scars across the cheeks and a stocky body.
‘There are not one or two things that are not clear on this test… .’
The woman sighed deeply, gathered the papers in one place, and stretched her legs out on the desk.
Then, with a cigarette in his mouth, he raised mana.
The small sparks created by the fingertips began to smoke slowly.
‘He’s the heir to the Sieghart family that fell from the sky… . Even though that happened in the first test, why the hell did the chairman put Rachel as their supervisor? To give you a chance to make up for it? No way. The chairman of the board is not that kind of human being. No, was that monster-like woman a human in the first place?’
No matter how much I squeezed my brain, I couldn’t understand why he had given such an order.
It was only more frustrating to know that he was originally an unpredictable person.
‘Are all transcendentalists originally like that?’
Chi profit.
Along with the sound of cigarette leaves burning, the smoke from the woman’s lungs filled the office.
“ha. I’m going to live now.”
smart.
“May I come in?”
“Come in.”
The one who opened the door was a man with a clean look. After looking around for a while, he said with an expressionless face.
“It is full of cigarette smoke. I am confused as to whether this is a smoking room or an office.”
“Only nag your daughter, Maxim. What happened?”
“I have something to tell you.”
“Should I listen now?”
“Your name is the General Superintendent, isn’t it? That is negligence.”
The eyes of the woman, who had just been concentrating on spitting out donut-shaped smoke, suddenly changed.
“There’s nothing I can’t say to my direct supervisor. If it’s something you want to do, I’ll deal with you anytime.”
The man groaned loudly and said straight to the woman who was warming up.
“Suicide is not my taste. I want to live long and thin.”
The woman asked with an uninteresting expression.
“You are still a bore. Look at it.”
“It is said that most of the groups who have just participated in the test have returned.”
“okay. Looks like it ended safely. for a moment… . mostly?”
“Yes, one group hasn’t returned yet.”
“It’s been a week since the test started, and there are still groups left? How many Georges?”
“Ten trillion.”
“If it’s 10 trillion, it’s the number of people who entered on the first day of the exam… . Could it be that Seil Sieghart is included in that group?”
Maxim answered in a mechanical tone as usual, but inside he was surprised.
It was because he had not called the test takers by name even once, although he had supervised the exam with her for quite a long time.
“… That’s right. Seil Sieghardt with student number 444, Eden with student number 66, Charlotte Meiji with student number 400, and Frey Caligo with student number 10 belong to this group.”
The woman jumped up and spat out the cigarette in her mouth.
The fluttering hair reminded me of a lion’s mane.
The woman tried to ignore her anxiety and asked cautiously.
“Is the Supervisor in charge of Team 10, Chief Instructor Rachel?”
“That’s right.”
“Rachel is… Where is the gold?”
“It is gone.”
-thud!
At the same time as the man’s answer, the desk split in half. The woman asked, her red eyes flashing.
“what? Live? What kind of bullsh*t is that? What about the deputy instructor? Where is the deputy instructor?”
Bella Trey.
True to her nickname of the red lion, her hair fluttered as if she were alive and breathing.
In response to intense emotions, mana is running rampant.
“Deputy Instructor… also not visible. sorry.”
A vein stood on the woman’s forehead. The air around her suddenly became heavy.
Maxim, who had been expressionless until now, also became pale as if breathing was painful.
Beyond simply spewing out mana, her life is dominating the entire space.
“… what? Are you telling me to look at this now? How have these motherf*ckers been doing their work!”
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Maxim muttered with a twist on his face.
“first of all… . How are you doing with this life? Then I really die.”
widely.
With one snap of her fingers, the air that had been oppressing the room quickly returned to normal.
“ha… . There’s no way you, an obsessive-compulsive patient, would make such a mistake, so there must be some other reason. What is it, tell me.”
After tidying up his clothes for a while, Maxim spoke slowly.
“sorry. To be honest, I know this now too. I’ve heard from other examiners that the Dean gave Instructor Rachel exclusive rights. With a limited number of 10, she will be entrusted with everything from reporting to evaluation until the end of this test.”
Upon hearing that, Bella’s face contorted like a demon.
“dean… ? This rotten inspiration… . How dare you ignore me, the Superintendent, and go beyond your authority? Take me to the room where Rachel was. I go myself.”
“yes.”
bang!
Bella Trey bursts through the door of the office.
Knowing that nothing would work when she was in this state, Maxim silently guided the way.
stride.
Bella Trey, who had been walking down the aisle like a bulldozer, stopped in front of the door.
“Are you here?”
“yes.”
As soon as the answer fell, she threw a fist.
Maxim thought when he saw Bella stride into the room where the door had been knocked off.
‘Not a red lion, but a red gorilla.’
The inside of the room was very clean, but I felt a strange sense of incongruity. Bella Trey, who sensed the identity of the discomfort, said with a serious face.
“… Maxim. Where is the crystal ball?”
“Looking at it, it looks like Chief Instructor Rachel or Deputy Instructor has it.”
Bella Trey has been guided by instinct all her life.
And that instinct always benefited her, and never poisoned her, so she trusted her instincts infinitely.
“Maxim. Could you use clairvoyance?”
“Leader… . no way… .”
With things going fast, Maxim’s tone from his mercenary days popped out without his noticing.
“Try it now. If it’s your level, you can squeeze through somehow, right? You must have the authority you received anyway.”
“Chief, no, Superintendent. As the Superintendent knows, it is forbidden under any circumstances for insiders to intervene through magic during an exam! Unless it’s really exceptional… .”
“Since this is such an unusual situation, shut up and do what you are told to do. I take responsibility.”
“ha… . I really don’t know.”
“When didn’t you?”
Maxim sighed and began to memorize the starter words with his eyes closed.
“To those who seek wisdom, to those who seek answers, and to all subordinate streams, please give me eyes to see the truth anywhere in the world.”
Maxim opened his eyes.
“—Clairvoyance.”
The twinkling red bloodshot eyes were proof that the magic had been successfully realized. However, the aftermath was so great that blood dripped from his nose.
Bella Trey, who saw the scene, spoke urgently as if it was not a big deal.
“Come on, share.”
“sleep… Poetry… yo. this.”
After a while.
Even in Bella Trey’s mind, the scene Maxim was seeing unfolded.
“… Leader.”
“okay. watching… .”
The eyes were all red, the hair was tangled in blood and flesh, and the whole body was grotesquely twisted.
it’s Rachel.
―No, it was something that was Rachel.
said in a trembling voice. The expression on his face did not change the whole time, and he was terrified.
“… me, that.”
“okay. It is evil.”
At that moment, Maxim closed his eyes and sat down.
“Kuk!”
Blood trickled down from his eyes.
“Maxim. As of the present time, the test is suspended.”
“yes?”
“I’m going to the exam center from now on, so you should contact the Blue Cross.”
After speaking, Bella Trey walked out of the room with a confident step.
However, apart from her confident steps, her hands were trembling slightly.
evil.
It was another name for catastrophe.
* * *
The moment she saw the demon spear Axion, Rachel screamed and disappeared in an instant.
“Ki-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i!!”
It was so fast that I didn’t even dare to chase it.
If he had been that fast from the beginning, he would have been caught before he got here.
I don’t know what it is, but I bought time to catch my breath. Eden and Frey approached me nervously and asked.
“captain. Is that really Instructor Rachel? How the hell did this happen?”
“Zile… . I can feel a tremendous amount of magic from it. Charlotte saw that and called it evil… . Confucius, do you know what an evil is?”
Ordinary people have no way of knowing about ‘evil’.
It is so unfamiliar information that even I, the person who made the setting, forgot it from my memory.
A story that comes down like a legend among black magicians.
It was called various names such as evil god, devil, and calamity, but black magicians called it ‘evil’, which means devil in the ancient language, with awe and fear.
Magical power and demonic energy have different characteristics.
In general, magical powers become more pure and pure with each repetition of training, but as demonic energy grows larger, it gnaws at the host’s mind itself.
An example of this is the tainted sorcerers of Magi and most black magicians become short-lived.
However, very few of them go through a kind of ‘awakening’ instead of dying.
Various hypotheses have been suggested, such as extreme stress that the mind cannot handle, contamination of mana, and runaway demonic energy, but the exact cause has not yet been clarified.
Just awakening, regardless of whether he was a famous sage in the past or a sword master who protected the empire, he transforms into a demon with only the instinct to kill.
There was no rationality like the demons, nor was there room for subordination like the monsters. It is a disaster that only pursues blind slaughter.
Just looking at the case where a famous knight in the past became an evil and destroyed a city, you could tell how out-of-standard it was.
‘I don’t know why he became evil, but it is certain that the situation is going like a dog. Fortunately, it’s about level 2, judging from the lack of wings and horns yet. Once you completely awaken, there will be no turning back. I have to put an end to it somehow before then.’
“I don’t know the details either. It’s just that this situation is not a simple test… ”
At that moment, my body was weak and my head was spinning.
‘uh… ? Suddenly power… .’
Surprised, Frey and Ethan came running and helped me.
“Zile! Are you okay?”
“captain! Are you okay?”
I feel sick to my stomach. A sense of exhaustion sets in, and the body becomes limp.
I managed to catch my spirit and raise my body. The axion he was holding in his hand disappeared.
‘No way, mana exhaustion… . Needless to say, at this timing… . Hell, nothing is real.’
This damn manatong caught my ankle again. Mana exhaustion came because of the excessive use of mana so far.
‘… No more choice. I’d rather use black magic than die here.’
For now, I plan to gloss over it somehow by mentioning the curse of the evil dragon, but if I get caught, I’ll kill everyone…
“Looks like you’ve made up your mind.”
Eden suddenly makes a nonsensical noise.
His expression is so dry that it is doubtful whether he is the same person as the one who usually has a friendly face. Emotionless eyes were staring at me.
“Either. What is that all of a sudden?”
Frey also looked at me and Eden with a puzzled face. Eden didn’t care about that reaction and smiled incomprehensibly while still focusing his eyes on me.
“hmm. I don’t have much time, so I’ll use a little drastic method.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Eden raised his hand and hit Frey on the back of the neck.
Frey passed out without even reacting to the sudden blow.
An impeccably perfect blow. Even though it was a surprise attack, Frey, who was born with the talent of martial arts, could not even react.
I gripped the nape of his neck with all my might, ready to break his neck at any moment.
“… What is this?”
His face was dyed red as if it were about to explode, but Eden just stared at me without any resistance.
‘As expected, you’ve been hiding your power until now. Is this the guy who created this situation after all? ?’
“… … .”
“Answer me right away. Otherwise… .”
silence.
My eyes widened as I looked at Eden.
“… … you.”
The man who had the face of Eden until just now disappeared without a trace.
“no way.”
The person in front of me was not Ethan, but a handsome man with blonde hair and red eyes.
“It is an honor to meet you. Apostle of Lust and Fury.”