Chapter 248

Chapter 248

Of course, Taedi woke up quickly this time as well.

A named character of her caliber also possessed exceptionally high faint resistance.

……Whether that was entirely a good thing for Taedi even in a situation like this, Roan could not really tell.

“Ah…… I guess I had a dream. Student Roan, in just a week, beginner magic─”

As it was the exact same pattern, Roan shook his head and pointed it out.

“You already used that one earlier.”

“Ah, I did, didn’t I?”

Taedi nodded and assumed the posture of sitting with her knees to her chest again.

Then she asked weakly.

“Don’t lie. How can a person complete beginner magic in just a week?”

She was so drained that he wondered if she had been more energetic even when she was just expelled from the Angolda Great Forest.

The time it took for Taedi to complete basic beginner magic was roughly one year.

Considering she had learned it solely from books without any proper teacher, it could be called a miraculous speed.

But what?

A week?

Taedi looked up at Roan with suspicious eyes and said.

“If that’s really the case, try using ‘Bloodthirsty Bite of the Abyss’.”

“No, Professor, that magic is……”

Roan twitched one eyebrow as if he had not expected Taedi to demand that magic.

Bloodthirsty Bite of the Abyss was the ultimate stage of beginner black magic, and was also the beginning of the ‘composite magic’ that would be fully utilized starting from the intermediate level.

Because basic-level spells of the four attributes—Abyss, Blood, Curse, and Attack—were evenly mixed, it was only classified as beginner level; its actual casting difficulty and power rivaled intermediate level.

As Roan wore a troubled expression, Taedi smirked.

“See? You can’t even use that, and you say you completed all beginner magic.”

However, Roan’s next words were a masterpiece.

“You are truly like a professor, naming a magic at once that is perfect for verifying beginner magic. As expected, I still have a lot more to learn.”

“?”

Taedi tilted her head.

In “God & Devil,” where it was possible to create one’s own holy magic, magic, and black magic, completing all beginner magic was naturally impossible.

Roughly, it was enough if one was ‘proficient enough in the chosen attribute to move on to the intermediate level,’ so it was indeed a suitable testing magic.

Since a black mage who could use a spell like Bloodthirsty Bite of the Abyss would be able to learn a simple magic like Abyss Blood Spear quickly even if it was their first time.

“It’s a bit much to use it in the air, so would you summon an Undercooked Corpse like last time?”

“D-Don’t bluff!”

“Yes? Didn’t you tell me to try it?”

When Roan reacted as if he could not understand Taedi’s words instead, she grumbled and summoned an Undercooked Corpse.

It was also amazing that she could use a spell like Undercooked Corpse while sitting on the floor like that.

Soon, a corpse that looked as if it had just died appeared in the classroom.

Roan glared at the corpse and prepared the magic.

Woooom─

Good grief, she was indeed a professor, ordering a bothersome magic. He could have just gotten by easily.

As Roan had to put a fair amount of effort even for himself into a magic mixed with four attributes, the False Divinity grumbled.

Since it was still difficult to disguise it perfectly as holy magic, it would show a bit of black magic.

‘……If she orders something helpful for class, I should rather be grateful.’

However, at Roan’s rebound, the False Divinity could not say anything.

Thinking about it, Acherandir’s classes were often unrelated to the class, absurdly rule-of-thumb, or possessed a level that ran wild.

Magic circles began to be drawn one by one inside Roan.

A six-circle black magic that required as many as three overlapping magic circles of Abyss magic!

Furthermore, it was not just finished by drawing according to what was set, but he even had to modify it flexibly considering the current environment, Roan’s situation, the target’s existence, and so on.

‘For holy magic, you only need to memorize Hilonian and the patterns, so this is indeed a bit bothersome.’

This was why black mages carried chemical reagents around, and even then, they were pushed back by clergymen and fled.

It was a system for experienced players that had high power but many constraints in actual combat.

Of course, Roan’s marvelous black magic talent stat of 100.

Creak─ Creak─

Cleanly swept away such constraints.

An ominous shape began to form at the head of the staff which was overflowing with Roan’s dark mana.

‘H-He’s really using it? Really? For real?’

Seeing that, Taedi was horrified.

It looked like a holy mouth delivering a gospel, and it also looked like the ferocious snout of a demonic beast that had just ascended from hell.

Something between grotesque holy magic and black magic, since it was not yet completely decorated.

‘No, what on earth does between holy magic and black magic mean…… Does such a thing even exist?’

It was simple to express like this, but it was an unknown territory that had not yet been defined because no one had seen it.

Roan’s magic was shot directly toward the corpse created by Taedi.

The fangs revealed inside the wide-open mouth flashed in deep grey.

Crunch─

A terrifying sound of tearing flesh filled Room 101 of McGodal Hall and then vanished.

Splat─!

With the upper half of the corpse’s body completely gone, black blood welled out from the cross section.

However, the dreadfulness of Bloodthirsty Bite of the Abyss did not stop at simply formidable cutting power.

Gush─!

The blood of the corpse, which had been flowing normally, suddenly gathered toward Roan’s magic.

As it did so, the grey magic began to burn increasingly red.

And the moment that red light reached its peak.

Boom──!

“Kyaak!”

A tremendous explosion struck the air.

Taedi instinctively deployed protective magic.

Meanwhile, it was of a size that could cover all of Roan, Bel, and Charlotte.

Rumble─

The remnants of the explosion did not easily disappear but continued to collide with the protective magic.

‘What kind of beginner magic collides head-on with my protective magic!’

Taedi was realizing with her whole body that Roan’s magic was not just terrifying in appearance.

If it had been a black mage with lower skills than her, they would have been heavily injured just from this aftermath.

Swoosh─

Finally, the explosion subsided completely, and Taedi withdrew the protective magic.

Naturally, the corpse that had been the target of the magic was torn into gruesome fragments and disappeared.

Confirming that, Roan said with an embarrassed expression.

“I did not know it would be this strong. I am sorry.”

The place where he had learned this magic was naturally inside the Bell of Eternity, a space of his own.

At that time, since there was no particular target to test it on, he had ended up using it in the air.

Although he knew that the true power of this magic was the curse and explosion that occurred after devouring the target’s blood, to think it would be to this extent.

Naturally, it was an excuse that would not work at all on Taedi.

Jump─

Standing up from her seat, Taedi ran over to Roan and said.

“For now, I believe you completed beginner level.”

“Ah, yes. Thank you.”

Grab─!

Then she grabbed his collar.

Her hands grabbing his collar trembled, and her eyes trembled even more, indicating she had a lot she wanted to say.

“But it makes no sense! No, that the power is much stronger than what I know is okay, since everything else was like that, but how on earth in just a week?!”

“Well, I don’t think it makes no sense……”

Roan avoided Taedi’s eyes and slurred his words.

In fact, even if Roan were in Taedi’s position, he would not have believed it.

If someone had posted on the “God & Devil” community, “I finished beginner black magic in a week lol” or “I completed beginner black magic in a week, is it originally like this? Genuinely don’t know,” he would have left a messy comment telling them not to talk nonsense.

Since she ended it at this level, one had to highly evaluate Taedi’s character.

“No matter how good your talent is, if you progress so fast, huh? It’s not that you can’t, but it’s a bit like that, right? If so, why is there a professor and why is there a student? If we just say ‘I completed beginner level’ after a week, it’s done, right?”

Taedi shook Roan by the collar back and forth and poured out words rapidly.

Roan suddenly thought that if she had been born on Earth, she would have been popular even if she had been a rapper.

Maybe her nickname would be something like Elf Rapper.

‘She actually is an elf too.’

Roan also imagined Taedi wearing a tight leather jacket, or rather a baggy T-shirt.

……It meant he was simply letting Taedi’s nagging go in one ear and out the other.

When Taedi roughly finished what she had to say and fell quiet, Roan said with a highly apologetic expression.

“I am sorry, Professor.”

“Is it over just because you are sorry?!”

It was indeed over.

Since he could not reverse the beginner black magic he had already learned.

Roan thought he should explain the reason to some extent since Taedi seemed so disheartened (?).

“Actually, there is a secret to how I completed the beginner level in a week.”

“A secret?”

Taedi perked up her long ears.

[There is a secret?]

Bel also stretched his long neck.

‘Somehow, the mental age of these two…….’

Contrastingly to the two, Roan’s thoughts became complicated as he watched Charlotte quietly observing the class from one side.

In any case.

Clink─

Roan took out the Bell of Eternity that he had kept in his lucky bag.

“This is─”

“Th-The Bell of Eterniiity!!!!”

Taedi’s eyes, which were already large, went round as if they would pop out.

Well, for any named character, it was normal to recognize the Bell of Eternity, and for a black mage, it was even more normal to be terrified like that.

It meant that at the very least, she would not say something like Ludiac’s, “It’s a bell, isn’t it? Pretty~”.

Taedi said, trembling as she hid behind Bel and Charlotte.

“Y-You finally plan to capture and confine me! Where on earth did you get such a dangerous item? The Saint of the Bell should have possessed it!”

There were circumstances, but the story would be too long if he explained all of it now.

“It’s not that, but thanks to this bell, I was able to learn up to the beginner level.”

“Because of the Bell of Eternity……?”

“Yes, how it happened was……”

Roan cut off all the prefix and told only the necessary parts.

After listening to all of Roan’s story, Taedi nodded, though her face showed she could not completely believe it.

To this extent, Roan could reasonably understand.

“No wonder. I wondered how you obtained two black magic books in Acherandir…… Anyway, inside the authority where time does not flow, you used the Holy Spirit to enter the Bell of Eternity and trained?”

“You are precise.”

Taedi was dumbfounded.

It was already mind-blowing that a black mage possessed two authorities that even clergymen could hardly obtain, but to think he even received the Bell of Eternity and utilized them to train in black magic.

‘At this rate, later they’ll probably make him a Saint, Pope, and Holy Emperor all. ……Huh?’

Taedi, whose thoughts reached this point, tilted her head.

Roan as a Saint, Holy Emperor?

Of course, the Saint positions were already full, and even if one position became vacant later, it would be too late for Roan to newly become a Saint then.

But in this world, one never knows!

……The existence who best proved that was indeed Roan right in front of her.

‘If Student Roan becomes the Holy Emperor, wouldn’t that be good for me?’

Surely he was not a person cold-hearted enough to forsake his school teacher.

Taedi smiled broadly and nodded to Roan.

“Indeed, Student Roan. The more I see you, the more genius you are. How did I obtain such a disciple?”

“……Did you eat something wrong, no, are you okay?”

Roan was about to dare ask the Lord of the Dead Forest, ‘Did you eat something wrong?’ but hurriedly corrected his words.

He could say she was just too shocked, but for that, her expression was too devious.

Just like Uli’s expression in front of a pile of money!

However, Taedi shook her head and patted Roan.

“I’m fine. Student Roan, always cheer up in the future. And don’t forget that I and the Dead Forest are always behind you……”

‘Seriously, what is wrong with her?’

Taedi was a good professor, but she was not a character to cheer him on normally like this either.

She was undoubtedly making a firm misunderstanding.

Anyway, Taedi, who had been pouring out praises about the connection between Roan and herself for a while, began to show interest in the Bell of Eternity.

“But it’s really novel. Training inside the Bell of Eternity.”

At this, Roan asked suggestively.

“Would you also like to try entering once, Professor?”

“Shall I……!!!!”

Taedi, who was about to readily nod out of pure curiosity, was startled in an instant.

“Why are you acting like that?”

“To think you tried to put me in the Bell of Eternity so naturally!”

Roan tilted his head, wondering what that meant.

But he immediately understood the reason why Taedi was doing that.

‘Ah, this was an item for confining black mages.’

Though it had fallen into Roan’s hands and become weirdly altered (?) now, the Bell of Eternity was actually a holy relic of terror itself to black mages and heretics.

Urnm─

Even then, weren’t twenty people confined in it.

The False Divinity vibrated as if it found him pitiful.

Roan reassured Taedi.

“Do not worry. Why would I go out of my way to confine you, Professor?”

“Who knows!”

It was a reasonable statement.

Since there was more than one or two black mages who had been caught without knowing the reason.

“Even if I caught you inside the school, I couldn’t explain the reason, could I?”

“You can just tell a moderate lie!”

“No, what do you take me for……”

Roan felt a bit wronged by Taedi’s reaction of treating him like some shameless swindler, but soon realized.

……That the black mages currently confined in the Bell of Eternity had also been caught by framing them as kidnappers.

Of course, since those guys had committed bad deeds to that extent in the past, he did not feel guilty.

“See? You have nothing to say, right?”

“Even so, if you are caught, Professor, I won’t have anyone to learn black magic from.”

“……You completed all of the beginner level on your own anyway.”

“…….”

Now, he really had nothing to say.