Chapter 77 – The Situation

Holy Order and the Magic Tower.

Since it was famous that their relationship was bad, it was everyone seated in the surroundings who fell into embarrassment.

“Your mouth…… is quite harsh, Inquisitor.”

Several people had been met, but this was the first time an Inquisitor had set his blade so openly.

“Your mouth must be harsh as well, right? If you do not remember what happened back then, it is a pity.”

Kane knitted his brows slightly.

Did he even meet him back then in the first place?

However, as if he did not care much, Kane’s characteristic sneer, which regarded everything in the world as trifling, hung on his mouth.

“It seems your grudge against the Magic Tower is deep due to the event back then. But it is a matter unrelated to me, Inquisitor.”

Rashid glared at the Magic Tower professor who passed by him.

He was surely smiling.

‘Well, everyone would look laughable to him.’

He might be excited at the thought of exchanging the entire world with the truth.

‘It’s not far off, Kane. You are next.’

While harboring embarrassment, Luna looked back and forth at the two, and then bowed her head to Rashid as the professor left.

“See you next time, Inquisitor.”

The appearance of her running away was caught.

‘Was her name Luna Maxion?’

Since she was competent, Kane would keep her by his side.

But he did not know what would happen to her later.

Rashid thought about her for a moment.

‘Will she remain at the university, or…… will she become a witch?’

If she graduates from the Magic Tower Academy, first, she is given the status of a mage.

Although her title would change depending on her career path afterward, if she specialized in combat, she often went to the Dharma Mage Division or the Purgatory Witches.

‘She doesn’t particularly seem like she would become a witch, though.’

Furthermore, the Purgatory Witches was a small elite force.

The title of witch was not something easily hung.

First, if one had no talent, it was an entrance cut.

‘More than that, that fellow will be planning to cooperate with Zodiac this time too.’

Rashid thought about the departed Kane.

‘Since there is no case where two fellows’ minds align so well.’

One fellow wants to swap the entire world for the truth, and the other fellow wants to send out the evil god of his own world into another world.

The one who wants to empty the world, and the one who seeks that empty land.

Could there be another match as perfect as this?

‘Thanks to them, only I will be going crazy.’

Both of them were not easy villains, and if those two joined forces, nothing would be as disastrous as that.

‘Kane is receiving the protection of the Magic Tower, and Zodiac is an out-of-spec being who has no need to grow further.’

‘He is…… a more difficult opponent than Kane.’

A being beyond the human and out-of-spec was indeed like that.

Rashid soon met Kaiser.

“I did not know you would visit so suddenly.”

Rashid, who did not particularly stand on ceremony, sat comfortably on the reception sofa.

Perhaps he was the only one whom he could treat most comfortably in this world.

Kaiser also softened, unlike before.

Rashid threw out a word.

“I saw Kane had come?”

“Ah, did you see him? Haha, this has become troublesome. He is a villain to be dealt with before long, but please endure it for now. Shouldn’t we catch the Empress of Blood first? And if we touch Kane, we might have to fight the entire Magic Tower.”

“Kane doesn’t originally align with this side. What on earth did you lure him with?”

“Well, I probably lured him with what he wanted, didn’t I?”

“Did you lie that you have the Tears of God?”

His seeing through it was accurate.

“It’s not exactly a lie, I just exuded that kind of nuance. Thanks to that, Kane won’t cooperate with the imperial family.”

Rashid asked, thinking about the stat of speechcraft he possessed.

“I heard that if you raise speechcraft to the extreme, you can deceive the opponent well.”

“Yes, that is true. Though it is not everything unless authority is bestowed, at least most people can be played with through three inches of tongue. This is also a magical power in a way.”

Rashid let out an absurd laugh.

“I didn’t even think of raising that kind of side. In the first place, wasn’t this game supposed to beat down and catch the villains by fighting, not by the tongue?”

Kaiser did not particularly deny it.

“That is true. In fact, I did not care much about the ending. Since it was so perverted, I only did various other things. Instead, there is probably no user who knows more easter eggs than me. The famous Guppy Master would be the same.”

Rashid did not particularly dispute it either.

Because unless it was an element to see the ending, it was not important to him.

“There were indeed such people. Well, if you tried to see the ending normally, you wouldn’t have ended up like you. But is there really no Tears of God? Kane wouldn’t fall for a pathetic wordplay, would he?”

Kaiser showed a bitter smile.

“Yes, therefore, I did prepare it. Because I thought it wouldn’t work since the opponent is Kane.”

Speechcraft itself was a magical power.

Unless it was authority, it was merely a pathetic trick to Kane.

“But how did you even obtain that? There must have been really many things to do, right? Obtaining the Tears of God is a very time-consuming task.”

Rashid asked, recalling past memories.

“Do I not have frequent business trips? And I too have caught Kane before. So I knew about the Tears of God to some extent.”

“In that case, the matter I worry about won’t happen.”

“If you are worried that I might hand over the Tears of God, I will tell you in advance that such a thing will absolutely never happen. Unless I am crazy, would I hand that over to a psychopath who wants to swap all the people of the world for the truth?”

Rashid showed a thick smile.

“Then it’s good. That Tears of God, hand it over to me.”

The Tears of God was Element Zero.

As a substance that became the prototype of all traits, simply drinking it was an elixir among elixirs that raised all stats by +1.

Also, if synthesized without drinking, it was a Divine Primordial Matter that could create anything in the world.

Perhaps an alchemist would have evaluated its value higher than the Immortal Heart.

Since it was a substance that could literally create everything, copying the Immortal Heart would also be theoretically possible.

“Haha, you are indeed saying troublesome things. Its uses are infinite, yet you want to use it to raise a single individual’s military power.”

“A single individual? I am the only one who beats down and catches the villains in this world. Or is there even anyone other than me who can catch the villains?”

“It is possible for me too. Since, once I find my place, my subordinates will overflow. Quite competent subordinates, that is.”

Rashid shook his head.

His thought was that he was already late in terms of timing.

“You are already late to see the ending. In my standard, even if you catch Kane, you won’t be able to block Zodiac, will you? I see the evil god appearing in that distant future.”

“The evil god?”

Kaiser thought about the Evil God Transmitter, who was evaluated as the most answerless among several villains.

“Ah, there was such a person. The evil god…… you kept even that in mind. That is a relief. Since you know the solution.”

“It is the result of my concentrating on only one thing while you were digging into various strange things. At least I was a player faithful to the goal.”

“If I too were to make an excuse. If I had not done strange perverted acts and only concentrated on the ending, I probably would have produced the same result. Do you happen to know? The teaching assistant who came with the Magic Tower professor. If the timing matched, you would have seen her outside?”

“Why that child? I did see her outside.”

“Do you know? What will happen to that child later?”

“No, do I even need to know such a thing?”

Kaiser grinned.

“I knew you would say that. That girl, she will become a little witch later. Witches generally call a newly entered rookie witch that way.”

“That child will become a witch later?”

It was unexpected.

To think that child would become a witch later.

“Yes, she is quite versatile in many ways, and unlike a witch, her alignment is also somewhat neutral. Later, she will be called the Transcendent Harvester.”

A story that had little to do with the ending side.

“Is that woman also a hidden named character like the Dark Blood Ghost Executioner?”

“Yes, you can look at it that way. Since she is a witch, after all.”

“The risk?”

“The risk…… since she is in a teacher-disciple relationship with the Magic Tower professor, if you just get past Kane’s side, there won’t be much of a problem. Because her alignment itself is very kind. Instead, a problem might arise when you deal with Kane. Or it might not. This differs depending on the situation.”

“Aside from that.”

Rashid asked, recalling the woman he met earlier.

“How on earth did you win over the Crimson-haired Witch too? Normally, the witches would align with the imperial family’s side, wouldn’t they?”

“Ah, you mean Veronica?”

Kaiser covered his mouth with his hand and let out a laugh.

“If you pierce through her needs accurately, it is not impossible. Didn’t I tell you? That I have a somewhat perverted tendency. This is also one of the results.”

“Are those needs enough to beat the Immortal Heart?”

“Yes, isn’t she a witch? You shouldn’t predict normally. Because it might be a bit unexpected.”

“Surely those needs aren’t the Tears of God, right?”

“No. She is more interested in other things than that.”

“What is that?”

“Go and ask her directly about that. You will probably be on the same side as her until the conclusion of this fight, at least.”

Rashid distorted his expression, whether he realized it or not.

“That woman and I are on the same side?”

“At least you will have to cooperate.”

“You surely aren’t ignorant of what happened in the Holy Order recently, right?”

“I know, but. My life is at stake.”

Kaiser continued with a face stripped of laughter.

“As you know, there is a treasure in the imperial family’s side. The Immortal Heart. The regular Magic Tower people will show a lot of interest in the Immortal Heart. Probably, if not my effort, both Kane and Veronica would have aligned with the imperial family’s side.”

After a short sigh, Kaiser expressed his grievances.

“According to the information source, the Dharma Mage Division and another witch have aligned with the imperial family’s side.”

“Probably. Because the Dharma Mage Division will have deteriorated into something like Zodiac’s subordinate organization by now.”

“Zodiac…… anyway, I also made my own effort.”

His words continued.

“Since I am not the real Kaiser, I cannot guarantee whether I will hold out like him. In fact, I was curious how he survived in this situation. of course, we will be highly advantageous in the time battle, but the current situation is clearly dominant for the imperial family.”

His anxious appearance was not a lie.

“Knowing that they are disadvantageous in the time battle, they will try to target my neck by any means. Once my neck is cut off, the imperial family will firmly grab the victory, and she will be born. The Empress of Blood.”

“That sounds like a threatening word.”

“It’s not exactly a threat, I am saying the situation is not one to be so relaxed.”

“Aside from that, a witch has aligned with the imperial family too? Who aligned? The witch who aligns changes in every round.”

Kaiser spoke regarding the name he heard.

“I heard Gehenna, the Hell Girl, has aligned.”

“The Hell Girl…… a quite troublesome one has aligned.”

A witch without a heart.

Therefore, the Immortal Heart would be absolutely necessary for her.

“She won’t give up easily. Unlike the Magic Tower’s judgment, she will probably see it through to the end. Because she will need a heart.”

It was the same thought.

Kaiser made a request that was implicitly like a demand.

“So, whether you like it or not, it will be better to cooperate with her. Otherwise, the Tears of God.”

He made a sincere threat.

“I will drink it up myself. You know the saying that even a ghost that died after eating well looks good, right? It is absolutely not empty words.”

“It was indeed a threat.”

“Since a person’s life is at stake, of course.”

“Fine. Instead, hand over the Tears of God to me.”

“I promise. I’ll yield that to you.”

“But what do you plan to do with Kane?”

Kaiser had no hesitation in his answer.

“Is that any of my business? He seemed to intend to watch with his arms crossed anyway.”

“Will Kane stay quiet?”

Kaiser snorted.

“Once the imperial family crumbles, the next real power is me. He can’t come out so easily.”

“You underestimate Kane too much. You mustn’t ignore him. Because he is also sincere about the Divine Primordial Matter.”

“Since he is a villain I have strategy-tested, don’t worry too much. I know the counter-method roughly.”

Ending the conversation, Rashid stood up from his seat and gave him something like advice.

“As I said last time, I know the villain Kaiser well. I also know well how he broke through the crisis now.”

“What is that? The Magic Tower fellows cannot be won over with money. Since the Immortal Heart is a treasure of immeasurable value.”

The real Kaiser would have thought that far, but it seemed his thoughts had not reached that far.

Since it must have been his first time becoming Kaiser, it was natural, but.

“Contact the military. Because that is the answer.”