All-Master Player Of The Academy [EN]: Chapter 95

95. In Front of the Hawk – 1

Willis was taken aback by Ian’s cold reply.

“Oh. Um. Is that so?”

“Priest Willis! Capture complete!”

“Ah, I see. Yes. Let’s go to the temple for now.”

“Understood.”

As the paladins sealed Veriswell and took him away, Ian turned his gaze to one side.

“What is it?”

“The reason I fought the demon was to save our kids…”

Ian walked towards the ruins.

As Willis approached, curious, he grabbed the door in the floor leading to the basement.

– Creak!!

As the door opened, Willis’s expression hardened.

The strong smell of demons emanating from within intensified his discomfort.

“What’s down there?”

“Our kids and the Imperial Academy students are there.”

“Myaaa~.”

Myaane ran over from afar.

As Myaane jumped into Ian’s arms and acted cute, Osnen, Blanche, and Wilde also arrived.

“Ian! Are you okay?!”

“Yeah.”

“That’s a relief. I met Priest Aute outside and brought him along. Priest Willis was also in the village, I heard. You’re already here.”

Willis, who was standing behind Ian, waved awkwardly with a smile.

At that moment, paladins from the Order of the Moon and Aute popped out from the alley.

“Haa. Haa… Priest Willis, you’re already here. What happened to the demon?”

He asked, catching his breath with a flushed face from running, and Willis explained simply.

The demon that fought Ian was captured.

That demon is now sealed and on its way to the Temple of the Sun.

Only after hearing that did Aute finally relax.

“That’s a relief. There were no casualties even though a demon manifested.”

Of course, there almost was a major disaster.

The entire academy was nearly wiped out by the poisonous fumes.

Ian didn’t bring up that story and pointed below.

“Could you come down with me?”

“Of course. But I can sense the energy of a demon down there.”

“To be exact, it’s demon poison. Our kids and the Imperial Academy kids seem to have been affected by Veriswell.”

“Oh dear. I must go down immediately.”

Aute took out a Divine Mark, offered a prayer, and went down, followed by Ian.

When they went down to the basement, they found five students tied up with blank expressions on their faces.

Aute examined their eyes, mouths, tongues, fingertips, and bodies, and his expression turned serious.

“This is quite a strong poison. We must treat them immediately.”

Willis, who followed, also checked, but his expression wasn’t good either.

He was also a priest, so he could use healing magic to some extent.

But such a potent demon poison.

Treating this would be no easy task.

“Even if we treat them…”

They might not be able to use their original level of power due to the aftereffects.

Osnen sighed at the two priests’ opinions.

“I will send them to the Empire. If we entrust them to the Imperial Physician…”

“There’s no need for that.”

Ian, who had untied the bound students, said calmly.

“Just get me the ingredients I tell you. I’ll treat them.”

The academy was in an uproar at the news of the demon’s appearance.

Instructors tried to come out for battle, but it was only for a moment.

Because it was already resolved.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

They immediately took follow-up measures and investigated why the demon had appeared.

Meanwhile, the five students affected by Veriswell and Ian headed to the Temple of the Sun.

As they entered the treatment center in the basement of the Temple of the Sun, Willis asked Ian.

“Saint Ian, is treatment really possible? Ah, I don’t doubt you. I know that you can use healing magic and that you received high marks in pharmaceutics.”

But he wondered if it would be difficult to do it alone.

So he thought it would be better to attend Veriswell’s interrogation to learn about the detoxification method.

As he suggested, Aute, who came with him, agreed.

“I also plan to participate. Saint, please join us.”

“Are you also planning to use divine power, Priest Aute?”

“Huh? I don’t know if there’s any need for me to use divine power when there are priests from the Order of the Sun.”

Willis shook his head at him, who was trying to decline.

It was about catching a demon, so what did it matter if it was the Order of the Sun or the Order of the Moon?

“If we can get help from the Order of the Moon, I’d like to receive it.”

“If that’s the case, I should join you. I’ll bring others from the temple.”

Looking at Aute running off, Willis suddenly wore a bitter expression.

He never thought he would interrogate a demon twice in this place.

“Priest, we are ready.”

“Shall we go then?”

“Yes.”

Following Willis to the Hall of Shining, he saw Veriswell, bound there, laughing wildly.

“Hahaha!! You may act all high and mighty now!! But on the day our Lord comes!! The sun and moon will disappear, and the destined end will come!! Kahahaha!!”

He was quite talkative for someone who was captured.

The paladins couldn’t just stand by and watch his arrogant behavior.

They branded Veriswell’s flesh with an iron heated with holy fire.

“Kuaaa!!”

With the smell of burning sulfur, he screamed.

But that was it.

He continued to curse not only the sun and moon but everyone on this land.

As Hestian’s expression clouded, Ian grabbed his horn.

“Hey.”

Was it because of his cold voice?

Veriswell, who had been cursing at will, flinched.

Ian glared at him and uttered only one word.

“Shut up.”

Only then did he cautiously look around and shut his mouth.

Hestian smiled brightly at the sight.

“As expected of Saint Ian.”

“It’s nothing. More than that, Priest Willis, when are you planning to start?”

“We’ll start as soon as they arrive from the Temple of the Moon.”

After waiting for a while, priests from the Order of the Moon rushed in.

As they took their places with holy objects and Divine Marks, Willis looked at Ian.

“Saint, do you have anything to say to Veriswell?”

“Yes, I do.”

With his permission, Ian approached Veriswell.

“Wh-what is it?”

His eyes were clearly mixed with fear.

As he rolled his big eyes, Ian grabbed the demon’s horn, which was no different from his pride, and whispered.

“I hope you endure as much as possible until I’m satisfied.”

“…Huh?”

What did that mean?

Veriswell stared blankly, but Ian returned to his seat without explanation.

‘That’s right.’

Divine power would be used in the process of interrogating Veriswell.

From Ian’s point of view, who wanted that, the longer he endured, the more beneficial it would be.

Veriswell, who had no way of knowing that, tilted his head, thinking about the words from just now.

Before that question could be resolved, the full-scale interrogation of the demon began.

The interrogation itself was not much different from when they faced Voladi before.

And in the process, Ian acquired a reasonably satisfactory amount of sun and moon energy.

“This is quite a troublesome problem.”

There was one thing they learned from the interrogation.

The reason Veriswell came here was because he received a request from No Face.

The human who contracted with him wanted immense wealth and power.

So after the contract, he was able to gain money.

That was the connection with No Face.

Using the demon’s power to carry out No Face’s requests.

Through that, he earned an unimaginable amount of money.

This was the same case.

“But why that?”

When Ian asked, Willis and Aute tilted their heads.

“Yes? What do you mean…”

“No Face has been targeting Saint Osnen for a while. So I thought it might be the same this time.”

Ian shook his head at their answers.

“Why did he ask Veriswell? To be honest, that guy wasn’t strong.”

“Of course, not to Saint Ian…”

“And that guy. He’s not a demon who’s good at assassinating one person.”

As Ian said.

The poison or magic eye that Veriswell used earlier.

It was easier to catch a large number of weak people rather than catching one strong person.

“Then, do you think Veriswell came not only to catch Saint Osnen?”

“Yes.”

“But it’s hard to say that he lied.”

“Veriswell may have just been used.”

“And the disappointing thing is… he didn’t talk about the poison…”

“Veriswell is a demon who controls poison. So he wouldn’t talk about poison, which is his source.”

Aute nodded, feeling very sorry at Ian’s words.

“Let’s interrogate him a little more. We need to find out about the poison, even if it’s just to save the other saints.”

But Willis shook his head and looked around.

Everyone looked tired from using a lot of divine power during the interrogation.

“How about taking a break?”

At those words, Ian got up from his seat right away.

“Saint?”

Taking a break meant not using divine power.

Then he had to go do other work.

“I’ll go treat the kids.”

When he entered the sanctuary in the basement of the Temple of the Sun, the students were lying there.

They were purifying their bodies with holy objects, but they still hadn’t come to their senses because the poison was so strong.

And Aranse, Wilde, Bilfrost, and Osnen were watching over them.

“Ian, you’re here?”

“Yeah. Did you prepare everything I asked for?”

“Yes. Crown Prince Osnen used a lot of power.”

You could use the academy’s tools, but the problem was the ingredients.

But it was okay because Osnen went directly to the Empire to get them.

“There were only difficult ingredients to obtain. Some were recently obtained by the Imperial Family. I was lucky.”

Ian was satisfied as he looked at the piled-up medicinal herbs.

They were all usable.

“Wilde, help me a little.”

“Okay.”

When it came to pharmaceutics, she had never heard of anyone who was worse than her.

As Wilde trimmed the ore, monster materials, herbs, and bones from special places according to Ian’s instructions, he also combined the medicines.

Bilfrost was impressed to see him making medicine without hesitation.

“Hoo. Is that so… can it be made like that?”

Ian’s method was so rare that it was hard to find.

Bilfrost, who was interested in pharmaceutics, exclaimed repeatedly.

“That… boiling that down? Oh… liquefying it like that…”

As he watched without blinking an eye, Ian quickly made the medicine.

Songhwa Liquid is one of the elixirs of the Medicine King’s Gate in the Eastern Continent.

It is considered the best for purifying blood and stabilizing internal energy.

Although it does not have the effect of enhancing internal energy, the stabilization of internal energy is important for masters, so the heads of the Medicine King’s Gate always learned the manufacturing method.

“Ian, should we feed it to them? There are five people, but the medicine is only one bowl…”

Who should we feed first?

As Wilde asked, handing over the bowl containing Songhwa Liquid, Ian drank it all at once instead of answering.

The four people in the room were embarrassed.

Whether they did or not, Ian, who had drunk the medicine, put the bowl down.

“Why did you drink that?!”

Aranse, who was surprised, asked in disbelief.

At that question, Ian answered confidently as if asking why he was asking the obvious.

“Because I made it to drink.”

Everyone was speechless at his confidence.

Osnen and Bilfrost’s expressions hardened as they thought they had been deceived.

But Ian didn’t even give them a glance and took out a needle and stuck it all over Park Bare’s body.