All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 243

◈ Chapter 243

122. So, you were here – 1

Sellem forced a smile at Ian’s mocking words.

“What do you mean…? Kuh!”

A sword strike, too fast to even see, aimed for his neck.

Sellem barely managed to roll across the floor to avoid the attack, gritting his teeth.

“Damn it!! Count Ian!! I was trying to show you respect!! Kill him!!”

Heavily armed knights surrounded Ian.

In the meantime, Sellem used magic to quickly escape.

Ian watched him retreat, smirking.

‘Track him.’

The system message appeared.

Hundreds of heavy knights began to approach.

Behind them, soldiers and mages prepared their spells.

Ian glanced around at them, flicking his sword.

“Get out of my way.”

No one answered.

They just rushed at him.

Ian spun his sword and swung it powerfully.

-Kuuuung!!

The heavy knights were pushed back by the immense sword pressure.

As the encirclement broke, the mages raised their staffs.

“Multiple Energy Ball!”

“Fire Storm!”

“Ice Rain!!”

“Chain Lightning!!”

A multitude of spells flew towards him.

Even Ian would take damage from that many spells.

The mages smiled with satisfaction, but then.

“Myaaaaaaa!!”

Mya Ne, who was in the bag, cried out loudly.

At the same time, all the spells that were flying towards them disappeared.

“Good heavens?!”

“Didn’t you know that the Mya Ne I carry around has the power of Dispel?” [Dispel is a magical ability that cancels or negates other magical effects.]

Ian grinned and approached those who were pointing their weapons at him in terror.

“Those who don’t want to die, step aside, and those who are prepared to resist…”

Ian stopped walking for a moment and lowered his stance.

“I’ll kill you.”

With his words, those who were ready to die charged at him.

Sellem barely escaped back to the mansion and shouted to his panicked subordinates.

“Gather the men! The men!! Ian Brandon is attacking!”

“Yes? What are you talking about…?”

“Now!!”

“Y-yes, sir!”

The elite knights of the Pilaike Knights, who guarded the mansion, moved.

As they hurried about, a middle-aged man in a white priest’s robe approached him, puzzled.

“Young Master Sellem? What are you doing here?”

“Ah, Aaaah!! Bishop Olstea!!”

The priest of the Sun Church in the Pilaike territory.

The Iron-Blood Duke had invited him in preparation for war, and he was puzzled by Sellem’s escape to the mansion.

“Count Ian is attacking!”

“Count Ian, you say… that person?”

“What do you mean, ‘that person’!! He’s a madman! A madman!! He suddenly attacked me, saying I was one of the Seven Deadly Sins…”

“A madman, you say.”

Sellem turned his head at the chilling voice.

The boy he had seen earlier was standing at the entrance of the mansion.

“Don’t run away pathetically; fight back.”

“C-crazy bastard!! Why am I one of the Seven Deadly Sins!!”

As Ian listened to his scream-like shout, he took a step forward.

Olstea, confirming the murderous intent emanating from him, stopped Ian in a fluster.

“C-Count Ian.”

“A bishop of the Sun Church, I see. May the sun always be with you.”

Olstea was relieved by his polite greeting, thinking that Ian was truly crazy.

His name was well known in the Sun Church.

In particular, Ian liked to donate to the Sun Church and the Moon Church.

He took holy objects in the process, but so what?

In addition, he had said that he would send several Titans produced by Fredon Academy to the main temple soon.

As such, he did not want to fight Ian, who was treated as a very important figure in the Sun Church.

“Um… what exactly is going on here…”

“Sellem Pilaike. That guy is Gehern, one of the Seven Deadly Sins.”

“Yes? No… there’s no way that Sellem is a Great Demon.”

“Right! And I’m a follower of the Sun Church!!”

Sellem was so angry that his eyes rolled back in his head.

He showed the Sun Necklace, the proof of his faith, but Ian ignored it.

“Crazy bastard!! Come out!! Come out!!”

The knights of the Pilaike Knights, who were in the mansion, gathered.

Each of them seemed to be quite strong.

As they came to the entrance of the mansion armed, Olstea hurriedly began to mediate between the two.

“Stop! Stop!”

“Bishop, step aside.”

At Ian’s words, Olstea looked at him with pleading eyes.

No matter how he looked at it, he seemed serious.

“There’s no way Sellem is a demon. He came to the temple this morning to pray, Count Ian. Aren’t you mistaken about something?”

Ian shook his head.

Olstea looked at Sellem, hesitating.

He saw the fear and anger in his eyes, as well as various other complex emotions.

Olstea approached him.

“May the Sun bless you.”

Divine power surged from Olstea’s body.

The divine power enveloped Sellem’s body, but he was not affected at all.

“See? Sellem doesn’t react to divine power at all…”

-Sreung.

Ian swung his sword at the air.

Sellem rolled across the floor again when he saw it.

“You son of a bitch!! Attack!!”

Sellem roared, having almost died again.

At his cry, the Pilaike Knights charged at Ian, and he raised his sword.

At the same time, dozens of magic circles appeared.

“T-that’s Chain Lightning?!

The magic circles of Chain Lightning overlapped.

The moment the power contained in the magic circles was drawn into the sword.

-Pajijijijijijik!!

Dozens of bolts of lightning stretched out through the sword.

As those wearing metal armor or holding weapons were electrocuted and fell, Ian pointed his sword at Sellem.

“This is driving me crazy!! It’s not me!! How am I one of the Seven Deadly Sins!! What are you talking about!!”

“That’s right, Count Ian! Stop it! Why are you doing this?!”

Olstea desperately tried to stop Ian, as if he was about to shed tears.

He looked at Olstea, who was pleading in front of him, and said calmly.

“That guy. He sealed himself in that body.”

“What… what nonsense are you talking about? No matter how much you seal it, you can’t hide the malice…”

“If you completely seal your power, you can completely hide your malice.”

“Don’t be ridiculous!! Ian! You just want to kill me!! You damn vicious bastard!!”

Sellem continued to shout as if he was wronged.

Olstea bit his lip slightly, looking back and forth between the two.

“Count Ian, I cannot believe what I have not seen.”

“I understand.”

“So, as a priest, I have no choice but to stop you from committing a pointless killing.”

“I see.”

As Ian nodded, Olstea raised his hand.

At the same time, a light burst into the sky, and paladins and priests from the Sun Church, not far from the mansion, came out.

“Bishop?! What is this…”

“We must stop Count Ian!!”

“Huh?! C-Count Ian?!”

“Oh. Sir Flat, is that you?”

It was Flat, the paladin he had met on Mount Kiledi before.

He was leading the other paladins, and he looked around, perplexed.

“What in the world is going on?”

“I’m catching a demon.”

“A demon!! You crazy bastard!!”

Sellem screamed, and Olstea had a serious expression on his face.

Even the Pilaike Knights were nervous.

Flat sighed as he looked back and forth between them.

“I don’t know why you’re doing this… but Count, please calm down…”

The system message appeared.

‘I know.’

Let’s just finish this quickly.

Ian glared at Sellem and stomped his foot.

Demonic Divine Art, Chapter of the Moon.

Moon Shadow Step [A technique that allows the user to move with incredible speed, becoming almost invisible].

In an instant, Ian’s body disappeared.

Before the surprised people could even exclaim.

He had already appeared behind Sellem.

And he swung his sword at Sellem’s neck as it was.

-Kwaduk!

It was caught.

The knights of the Pilaike Knights were taken aback when Sellem, who wasn’t even wearing gauntlets, easily caught the attack.

“Y-young Master Sellem?”

“How….”

Even the skilled knights of the Pilaike Knights could not see Ian’s movements.

But how did Sellem see his attack and even catch it with his bare hands?

While they were wondering, Sellem said coldly, his previous emotions completely gone.

“How did you know?”

“Isn’t it strange that a so-called mage avoided my attacks twice?”

“Don’t tell me Young Master Sellem is a Master?!”

“Were you hiding your skills?!”

As the knights of the Pilaike Knights rejoiced, Sellem, who was holding the sword, sighed.

“Ha. These morons. This is why humans are doomed. They can’t even stop one of these guys.”

“…Yes?”

The atmosphere changed.

Sellem’s voice, which had been fearful until just now, had become extremely cold.

“What do you think is the reason I hired you? The reason I gave power to the Iron-Blood Duke.”

“Y-young… master…?”

“It was to prevent things like this. But seriously… Ah. Never mind.”

Sellem slowly swept his hair back.

And he let go of the sword he was holding and swung his arm.

-Kwaaaaang!!

A huge explosion erupted where Ian had been.

At that moment, Olstea, Flat, and the priests of the Sun Church were horrified.

“W-what is this?!

“Oh, Sun….”

An enormous malice was spreading.

It was enough to easily surpass the demons they had met through demon hunts so far.

A terrifying and vile malice was overflowing from Sellem.

“S-Sellem?”

“Saints my ass.”

Sellem, stained with the swirling black malice, snapped his fingers.

At the same time, a mass of malice poured out and flew towards Olstea.

-Seogeok!!

Ian, who had appeared out of nowhere, lightly cut it down.

As the malice scattered in the air, Sellem bared his teeth.

“So, you’re a demon slayer. You’re pretty good. How did you figure it out? No one has noticed my seal for this long.”

He let out a hollow laugh and shook his head.

“My plan, which I had been preparing for hundreds of years, is collapsing because of you.”

If demons appeared in the world, made contracts, and openly harassed people.

Naturally, people would keep the demons in check.

That’s what he was aiming for.

A method of hiding himself as much as possible, going under those with greed, fulfilling their desires.

And making them fight each other to lead to the world’s destruction.

He had been preparing carefully for a long time in case the plan to destroy the Tower of the Forgotten City failed.

In the process, as long as he hid his malice, the fools easily believed him.

So, although it took time, it had been going well without much expenditure of power.

But all of that was collapsing.

“You interfered with the collapse of the tower, you interfered with my subordinates gathering talent… and you even attacked my base here.”

Sellem slowly closed his eyes.

And after letting out a small sigh, he opened his eyes.

His eyes resembled those of a reptile.

“What should I do with you?”

He shrugged his shoulders and raised his hand.

His body was dyed black.

It grows.

It becomes huge.

What came out of the black energy that had grown to exceed the mansion.

“…M-my god.”

“Oh, Sun….”

It was a giant dragon with seven horns and jet-black scales that now only appeared in legends.

“Shall I kill you?”

The moment Sellem, no, Gehern of Greed, one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Hell, opened his mouth.

“Try it.”

Ian’s sword flashed.