All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 124

124. Now, Let’s Die – 2

Even when I heard the word Pandemonium, I initially associated it with demons.

But I double-checked just to be sure.

Anyway, if it *is* related to demons, then it’s a target for elimination.

“Kill him.”

Balsik spoke in an arrogant tone, one befitting his status.

Then, he turned his attention back to solely stabbing the Nine-Tailed Fox.

“Keuhuk! Keuk!!”

Each time he struck, blood spurted from the Nine-Tailed Fox’s mouth.

Despite her injuries, she desperately tried to suppress something she was about to vomit.

Meanwhile, the demons roared at Ian.

“Die!!”

“I’ll tear you apart!”

And Ian roared back.

The Great Continent Shaolin 72 Arts – Using Lion’s Roar [A powerful sonic attack technique from Shaolin martial arts].

“Get lost! You evil things!!”

The demons, who were rushing in, froze at the resounding shout.

Balsik also flinched at Ian’s cry and paused his stabbing.

And Ian didn’t miss that opening.

“Kirke.”

Using World Sword [A sword technique capable of cutting through anything].

Heavenly Demon Divine Art – Solar Stance [A powerful stance that channels solar energy].

Solar Steps [A movement technique that utilizes solar energy for enhanced speed].

Flames erupted from Ian’s body.

The fire that spewed from the flames spread around in an instant.

“When did he-?!”

He was already in front of Balsik.

Balsik, flustered, tried to bring down the sword he was about to stab the Nine-Tailed Fox with, but Ian was faster.

The World Sword, capable of cutting anything, severed Balsik’s neck in one swift strike.

“What… is….”

Arrogance.

His arrogance, which led him to order his subordinates instead of facing a strong opponent directly, brought about Balsik’s pointless demise.

And the demons who saw it were shocked.

“L, Lord Balsik!!”

A Great Demon belonging to the Seven Deadly Sins being annihilated in one blow.

Could such a thing even be possible?

The demons looked at him with fear-filled eyes.

Toward them, Ian’s eyes flashed.

Seven-Colored Demonic Eyes – Using Red’s Compulsion [A technique that crushes the souls of the weak-minded].

“Kkeuaaaaaaack!!”

The nine demons screamed in agony as their souls were crushed.

They writhed on the floor, panting.

Ian, mocking them, approached and asked calmly.

“There’s a guy in Pandemonium who steals other people’s talents, right? Who is it?”

The demons didn’t answer his question.

Ian was almost satisfied with their resistance.

“I hope that resistance lasts until the end.”

The demons’ resistance didn’t last long.

Eventually, as two demons were annihilated in excruciating pain with their souls crushed, one trembled and said.

“Greed!! It’s Greed!!”

“How does he steal talents?”

“He performs a ritual! A, a ritual….”

The demon trembled in the pain of his soul being crushed and reported to Ian.

There are two ways to forcibly steal talent.

The first is to use the curse of black magic.

Receive hair, fingernails, and toenails, perform a ritual with them, and then bring the target and offer them on the altar to steal their talent.

But that doesn’t yield a large amount.

And the second is what Ian suffered.

That is, to perform it when they are young.

“The infinite potential of babies is very fragile, so they are given medicine to lose consciousness and then placed on the altar….”

As he kept talking and then stopped, Ian’s eyes flashed.

As the remaining demons also had their souls crushed and died, he smiled bitterly.

“They managed to succeed.”

It wouldn’t have been easy.

The method they used is a variation of the ritual used by the Sun-Moon Church to steal souls.

The law enforcers who performed the rituals there used to steal people’s souls and turn them into zombies.

The demons used a similar method.

However, instead of stealing the soul like them, they only steal the potential.

Remembering the demon who desperately shouted, Ian smiled bitterly.

“Humans and demons really do all sorts of things. Anyway, I know what I need to catch, so that’s enough.”

Now, all that’s left is that Nine-Tailed Fox.

“Heoeok… Heoeok….”

She seems to have been stabbed hundreds, thousands of times by Balsik.

Ian approached the Nine-Tailed Fox, who was desperately enduring despite spitting blood from deep wounds, and asked calmly.

“May I ask you something?”

“Eueu… eu….”

She still hasn’t regained her senses.

Well, it would be more amazing if she regained her senses after being stabbed like that.

Moreover, she was attacked by a Great Demon belonging to the Seven Deadly Sins, not just a person.

Ian took out a potion from his bag and poured it into her mouth.

But it doesn’t seem to have a big effect with just this.

“Prepare the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan’s acupuncture.”

Using the acupuncture of the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan of the Eastern Continent [A specialized healing technique used by the Nine-Tailed Fox Clan].

Even in the Eastern Continent, which was excellent in medicine and magic, there was a sect that treated animals and monsters.

The Nine-Tailed Fox Clan, where a Nine-Tailed Fox was the master of the sect, was that place, and their acupuncture should be able to treat this Nine-Tailed Fox.

Kirke quickly analyzed the Nine-Tailed Fox’s condition and told him where to place the needles.

“Myaaaaa….”

She must have envied the energy of the sun and moon being sent as the needles were inserted.

Myaene whimpered softly and paced around Ian for no reason.

Meanwhile, Ian, who had inserted all the needles into the Nine-Tailed Fox’s body, opened his bag.

There were quite a few holy objects in the bag.

“Do you want to receive some too?”

“Myaa! Mya!”

He received a lot of help from Myaene in the tower.

So, it wouldn’t be bad to share some.

“Wait a moment.”

“Myamya!”

The energy of the sun and moon is absorbed from the holy objects taken out of the bag.

Ian took a low breath as all the energy was completely absorbed to the point where all the holy objects were destroyed.

“Now, you’ll quickly undergo a metamorphosis.”

Congratulations.

The dantian [An energy center in the body], which had expanded since the first metamorphosis, was slowly crying out for its limit.

It desires more energy of the sun and moon for the metamorphosis.

Feeling that, Ian lifted Myaene.

“Myaaaa….”

The energy of the sun and moon is sent.

Myaene’s body, which was purring and accepting the two energies, was becoming even whiter.

Just as the patterns on Myaene’s body were dyed a clear gold color.

“Eueu….”

The Nine-Tailed Fox slowly began to regain her senses.

“If you’re awake, let’s talk.”

“Eu… who, who are you…. The Mara [A type of demon in Buddhism] bastards….”

“They’re all dead.”

As Ian said it as simply as if he had stepped on and killed a bug, the Nine-Tailed Fox blankly looked at him.

“And this… what is this needle….”

“I thought you were going to die if I left you alone, so I treated you a bit.”

“…Thank you.”

“If you’re thankful, spit out the stairs you’re swallowing. From what I can see, that seems to be the reason Balsik stabbed you.”

At his words, the Nine-Tailed Fox’s eyes sharpened.

“How did you know that?”

“It’s not a big deal.”

At the lukewarm reaction, the Nine-Tailed Fox watched his mood and said.

“This above… is the end of this tower.”

“I thought so. And the reason the demons attacked you is….”

“The end of the tower. To cause the dimensional gate connected to all the worlds included in this tower to go berserk.”

The berserk dimensional gate will completely devour the tower and the worlds of the tower.

Whether they use the pillars or aim for the tower’s rampage.

In any way, by collapsing the tower and flooding the worldview, they were trying to bring about destruction.

“Do you know why they’re doing that?”

The Nine-Tailed Fox said powerlessly.

“Your world. The world where this tower exists is a world that should have already ended.”

“Hmm.”

“They are only postponing that destruction by connecting with other worlds….”

The Nine-Tailed Fox’s voice was weak.

But her eyes were shining fiercely.

“They have been planning to occupy the world after the destruction… for a very long time….”

“I know.”

“Setting up… Huh?”

Every time he caught the demons until now, they had the same story to tell.

That they were things that should have already been destroyed.

When he heard that.

And.

You also knew when you first came to this world.

“That’s right.”

This world has long since exhausted its entire worldview.

The only way for such a world to maintain its world is just one.

That is to receive the worldview from another place.

“And this tower must be playing that role.”

“…How do you know that?”

“Anyway, that’s not what I want either.”

Ian was already collecting this worldview.

If he completes the worldview collection, this world will not be destroyed due to a lack of worldview.

So, it was better to eliminate this tower that could collapse this world.

“I’ll take care of that part, so spit out the stairs.”

And he stroked her fur and said.

“7th floor. King of Tianzhu [An ancient Indian kingdom]. Old Mistress of Aplyong Cave [A powerful demoness from Chinese folklore].”

The Nine-Tailed Fox, who was called the mother of the Golden Horned and Silver Horned Brothers in Tianzhu [Characters from the classic Chinese novel *Journey to the West*].

It was known that she died after being hit by Zhu Bajie’s [Another character from *Journey to the West*] muckrake, but in reality, she survived and became a youkai [A Japanese term for supernatural monsters or spirits] who converted to Buddhism.

When Ian revealed her identity, the Nine-Tailed Fox, Old Mistress, stared at Ian intently.

“Who… are you. There’s no way a stranger would know about me… ?”

Ian didn’t answer her question.

He just smiled.

“Spit out the stairs.”

“…There’s a condition.”

“What is it?”

“Let’s go up together. If you do something wrong….”

If he tries to make this tower go berserk like the demons, she will stop him at all costs.

As Old Mistress glared with fierce eyes, Ian nodded.

“Let’s do that.”

As he accepted, stairs that hadn’t been there until now appeared in front of the destroyed furnace.

And Old Mistress quickly transformed into a virtuous middle-aged woman.

Only then did she climb the stairs with Ian.

As the two passed through the light clusters, a different place appeared.

It was quite a wide place.

But it was a place that was difficult to think of as a world.

“This place… was the laboratory of those who managed this tower.”

She said in a bitter tone.

She had met the managers when she first came here.

She wanted to kill all of them who had made holes in other people’s worlds to save their own lives.

But.

A body that had converted to Buddhism could not kill people recklessly.

So, she only gave a warning.

Not to let the rampage happen.

“After several hundred years passed. Eventually, one world dried up.”

And the tower began to lose control.

“Since it couldn’t receive what it should receive, it received even more from other places. As it did, subordinates were born, and more problems arose.”

She clenched her fist tightly.

“In order to prevent that, they touched other dimensions, and eventually, a catastrophe occurred.”

The dimensional gate began to go berserk.

As it did, all the managers were caught in the dimensional storm and died.

Old Mistress swept her hand over the almost broken desk.

“This place is….”

“Please be quiet for a moment.”

Ian, who stopped her from talking, looked at one place.

There was a small hole spinning rapidly.

That is the dimensional gate.

But what Ian was focusing on was something else next to it.

There were two spheres connected to the tower’s artifacts or facilities.

Similar to the artificial sun of planet B119.

Similar to the artificial moon of planet B119.

It seems they were made by arranging the artificial sun and moon that can only be made there in the way of this world.

“You sent the sun and moon to each world using that.”

“That’s right. Originally, those didn’t exist.”

She pointed to a place where a destroyed crystal mirror was.

“They peeked into other worlds with that and created the sun and moon. They deserve to be punished by heaven.”

Ian looked at it and burst into laughter.

Those who touch taboos never know their limits.

“That’s what I’m saying. Well. It’s a good thing for me.”

Congratulations.

Anyway, if he has those two, he can immediately do the second metamorphosis.

“You… what are you trying to do?”

As Ian approached the dimensional gate, Old Mistress asked worriedly.

Ian answered obediently to that question.

“I’m going to send you back to your original world. And….”

He pointed to the rotating dimensional gate.

“I’m going to close this.”

At his words, Old Mistress asked awkwardly.

“How… are you going to do that? Even I, who have absorbed the legacy left by the managers here, can’t do it?”

No.

There was something more important than that.

“Why… are you trying to do that?”

Ian.

No.

The infinite reincarnator who collects countless worldviews smiled.

“As long as I’m collecting, I don’t want even a worldview that’s not a big deal to be mixed with other things and become tainted or destroyed.”