All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 266

266. Investigation Request – 2

“Huh?! What is that?!”

Blanche was startled to see something made of black smoke approaching.

As he cautiously aimed his spear, Wicalta urgently gripped his sword.

“That’s it! Our party was attacked by that….”

Before he could finish, the black smoke moved.

With the movement clearly hostile, Wildy immediately raised her staff.

“Elemental Shot!!”

The six magic circles that started at the end of the staff merged.

The energy of the elements gathered, and just as a strengthened beam was about to be fired.

“Ugh?!”

Wildy groaned.

External magic power was entering.

Barely enduring the unbearable revulsion, she managed to activate the magic.

-Kuuuung!!

A multicolored ray of light shot towards the black energy, hitting it directly and creating a huge cloud of dust.

Wicalta was surprised by the result.

The magician who had been with him had also tried to use magic after seeing that energy for the first time.

But for some reason, he couldn’t activate the magic.

Yet Wildy, who was even younger than him, was activating magic.

“As expected of Fredon Academy!”

“I, I have experience. Hooo….”

Wildy managed to say, suppressing the rising nausea, and Liza looked towards the dust cloud.

The enemy was not visible.

“Did we get it?!”

-Shiiiiiik!!

As if mocking her shout, black energy shot out from the dust cloud.

The energy, wriggling like a snake, aimed for Liza, and Blanche swung his spear to deflect it before shouting.

“It’s not over yet!! Haaaap!!”

Oura [Aura, internal energy] began to gather on the spear.

As the blue aura became more solid, he jumped up.

“Euryaaaaaa!!”

With a roar, Blanche threw the spear with all his might.

The spear flew at high speed towards the black energy revealed as the dust settled.

-Clang!

“Ugh?! My spear!!”

The spear, blocked by the black energy, bent.

Blanche screamed when he saw it.

“How much did that cost!!”

“…Is that what’s important right now?!”

Even though Blanche, who was at the Master level, gave it his all, it didn’t do much damage.

Wildy bit her lip tightly to suppress the tension, twirling her staff.

‘This feeling… this sense of incongruity.’

She glanced at Ian.

He had smiled coldly for a moment earlier, but Ian’s face was once again as indifferent as usual.

The feeling she got when looking at him.

And when looking at that black energy.

She felt the same sense of incongruity.

“Ian, do you know what that is?”

Wildy asked, looking at the swaying black energy, and Ian nodded.

“Rubellin’s puppet.”

“……Eeeeeh?!”

She never expected Rubellin’s name to come up here.

Wildy’s face turned pale, and Blanche created an aura sphere, baring his teeth.

“The final boss’s puppet. Shall we see how strong it is?”

Blanche shouted bravely and dashed forward.

And was knocked away with one hit.

“Uwak!”

“You were so confident?!”

She expected him to lose, but she didn’t expect him to be one-shotted.

Wildy was dumbfounded and cast a shield on Blanche, who had been thrown back.

“Ouch. It’s damn strong.”

If he hadn’t learned from Ian, he would have died when that energy hit him earlier.

His chest ached where he was hit.

Blanche gritted his teeth as he checked the dent in his armor.

“My spear! My armor! I will never forget this grudge! I’m going again!”

“Going where!”

Wildy grabbed the back of Blanche’s neck.

Because Ian was already stepping forward.

“Another puppet after saying let’s meet again?”

There was no answer.

The thing wrapped in black energy was just showing hostility as before.

Ian tilted his head, then drew his sword.

‘It seems like the connection is broken?’

It was just a puppet that had been used as a disposable tool going berserk.

The remaining black energy was just its remnants.

Ian looked at it with a nonchalant gaze and shook his head.

‘If I leave it alone, it’ll stop soon enough.’

Ian twirled his sword.

It would stop if left alone, but there was a high possibility that problems would arise in the process.

‘I don’t want to cause problems during the festival, so let’s get rid of it.’

-Shoooooong!!

The black energy flew towards Ian.

He knocked it away with his sword and quickly swung his sword.

-Slash!!

The black energy was cut, and a golden statue appeared from within.

Wicalta was startled when he saw it.

“Oh? That’s….”

“Do you know what it is?”

“Wait a minute. Just a moment….”

He hurriedly approached the golden statue.

He examined the statue, which had been smashed by Ian’s sword strike, and said in a reluctant tone.

“Isn’t this a statue of the Demon King?”

“Huh?”

Blanche, Wildy, and Liza hurriedly approached the golden statue.

They examined the statue and shook their heads.

“No? We learned about the Demon King even at Fredon Academy.”

“That’s right. There’s a statue of the Demon King in the main building of Fredon Academy. It doesn’t look like this.”

Of course, it was a statue to show his defeat to the hero.

As Blanche spoke, Liza nodded.

“There’s a statue of the Demon King who was defeated by the hero in the South as well. It doesn’t look like this.”

At the words of the three, Wicalta shook his head.

“The Demon King statue that you all know is the Demon King statue that was defeated by the hero Fredon Ivian.”

“That’s true.”

“Isn’t it the same thing?”

“I thought there wasn’t much difference….”

Wicalta shook his head.

He was an explorer who had been to not only forgotten cities but also dungeons and ruins all over the continent.

He had seen a lot of things.

“Among the ruins in the West, there are statues of the Demon King that were made before the hero appeared.”

“Oh… really?”

“Yes. But it’s not very famous. There are a few ruins that are accurately preserved by the Urkul family, a family famous for managing ruins in the West.”

There were ruins of those who worshiped the Demon King’s immense power.

The appearance of the Demon King’s statue in those ruins resembled the appearance of this golden statue.

At his words, Ian said indifferently.

“What does it matter if this is a statue of the Demon King or a statue of the hero?”

The only important thing was the spell formulas engraved on this statue.

Ian lightly waved his hand.

At the same time, the spell formulas engraved on the golden statue were quickly erased.

“What did you erase?”

“A spell formula for using puppetry. If this remains, puppetry can be used again.”

He erases the cards that Rubellin can use.

Making it impossible for him to do anything but step forward himself.

Blanche nodded as Ian spoke coldly, as he had been doing so far.

“By the way, that’s amazing. I can’t believe my attack didn’t work….”

“Aside from that, the magic interference……. Ian. That thing from earlier. Was that a technique you used?”

Ian nodded.

He had definitely used a technique to interfere with other people’s magic by channeling magic power.

“What is your relationship with Rubellin?”

“No relationship at all?”

If he had to define a relationship, it would only be that Rubellin could also use the power of another dimension.

Ian spoke nonchalantly, and Wildy groaned.

“I see.”

“What. Are you suspecting me?”

“Of course not. I can’t suspect you, even if it’s anyone else. Anyway, if Rubellin can use the power you can use….”

At her words, Liza was startled.

If Rubellin was on par with Ian, then he could also cause that powerful explosion.

Ian, noticing her concern, said nonchalantly.

“Don’t worry, he’s not on par with me.”

“Oh, really? That’s a relief.”

“But besides that, there are plenty of other ways to do things like massacres.”

“Ummm….”

“I’m curious about how much power that guy has. Well. Anyway, it’s resolved, so let’s go.”

“What are you going to do with this?”

Blanche asked, pointing to the scattered golden statue, and Ian kicked the statue with his foot.

“You broke your spear, so take it.”

“Oh, oh!!”

With this much gold, he could make more than four spears.

As he rejoiced, Wicalta wore a worried expression.

“By the way, why is the Demon King’s statue here of all places?”

Could it be a sign that the Demon King is about to be resurrected?

From the gods of demons to the Demon King.

He couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

“I don’t know….”

“Moreover, the Miyal Mountains used to be the Demon King’s base. I’m even more worried.”

Wildy, Blanche, and Liza couldn’t say anything at Wicalta’s muttering.

Since they had joined Wicalta, there was no need for Liza to continue traveling with them.

Of course, she had to reunite with the other scattered explorers, but that could be done quickly with Ian’s search.

“Thank you so much.”

“You’re amazing as expected.”

All the explorers who were moving with Wicalta were the ones Ian had seen.

As they sparkled their eyes, Ian roughly waved his hand.

“It’s nothing. But are you planning to continue the exploration?”

Wicalta looked at Liza.

She was the one leading this, so he had to follow her wishes.

“Hmm… I want to investigate more… but I think the Demon King statue we saw this time is enough.”

Blanche shook his head at Liza, who was hesitating.

“The Miyal Mountains are dangerous, so why don’t we start with another investigation?”

“Another investigation?”

“An investigation about the Demon King. If Mr. Wicalta knows well….”

“Ah. I don’t know that much.”

He just said what he had seen in the ruins he had visited before.

As he was embarrassed, Wildy smiled.

“Then why don’t we ask someone from the Urkul family?”

“Do we have to go all the way to the West? Okay.”

“Grajin is from the Urkul family, right?”

It would be better to ask him at the academy.

As Ian added another word, Liza nodded.

“Okay. Then we’ll go down right away.”

As Liza went down, Blanche immediately said in a serious tone.

“Hey. Isn’t something going to happen?”

“It will.”

“……If you’re going to say that, shouldn’t you be a little worried? How can you…….”

“Why bother when it’s something I can solve?”

“Tsk.”

Blanche clicked his tongue briefly, and Wildy sighed.

“Then let’s do our work.”

* * *

They caught all the drakes, fire tigers, and ogres in their assigned area.

The process took only four days.

“Ugh. That was tough.”

“But you got a lot, right?”

“Yeah. A lot.”

Training to endure fear while fighting drakes.

And training to fight strong enemies.

With this much, he thought he could beat Bala even if they fought.

“No.”

“No, how is that guy so strong?”

“He’s much better than you when it comes to talent?”

“Damn it.”

As Blanche grumbled, Wildy smiled.

“By the way, what happened to Liza? Did she find out well?”

“I don’t know.”

Ian, who spoke as if he didn’t care, opened the door connected to the academy.

Some of the instructors and students who saw them enter greeted them lightly.

Ian and his party, who accepted the greetings and returned to the dormitory, were embarrassed to see the scene in the dormitory.

Oerina was saying something to the students with a serious expression.

Ian was puzzled by their appearance, which seemed more serious than usual.

“What’s wrong? What’s going on?”

“Hey. Something big happened. Grajin and Widia have disappeared.”

“Didn’t they just go to the neighborhood?”

As Blanche didn’t care, she shook her head.

“I don’t think so. When I investigated, it seems like they went to the Miyal Mountains… Before that, they met Bala’s younger sister, Liza. Could it be related to something?”

‘Where are they?’

Ian asked Kirke, and Kirke, who had finished searching, immediately answered.

‘The ruins of Trimidon Gorge? Oh… there…….’