Under the Lamp (3)

Crunchy square-

Only the sound of a pen scratching paper settles in the quiet office.

The hand holding the pen diligently moved and wrote down on the white paper.

‘What should I do to catch the Witchbeast?’

Track and lure.

Of course it is important.

But the most important thing is to eliminate the retreat.

[Search and tracking of command object]

– Devise an efficient search/track method for the attached Magi pattern.

– Write and submit the conceived method in the form of a report in 5 pages or more.

– Form a team of 2 to 6 people.

-Deadline: 14 days

I gave the students an assignment and shared Maggie’s pattern as an example.

That magic pattern was the dark magic that had been read into Jason’s memory.

60 students majoring in Mathematics.

And friends and professors they will turn to for help.

The bigger and denser the social network they exchange is, the more it will become a net and trap the enemy.

all right With this amount of people, the scope of the magic detection test would reach the entire school.

“You won’t be able to escape.”

Is it hard to find at the student’s level?

There is no business in numbers.

Students will gain practical experience without realizing it, and they will be cornered as much as they are.

War is an efficiency fight.

I never take only one gain.

It promotes the growth of allies and the destruction of enemies.

After eliminating the enemy’s retreat and driving them into a corner, I will go looking for them.

This is my hunting method.

“·······.”

Originally, I was going to use a more moderate method.

I entrusted the investigation to the guard, and I was going to be faithful to my job.

Getting involved with students is something that as a professor should avoid.

However, my thoughts have changed.

I decided to actively seek out and completely eradicate it.

What they’ve done is to throw a gauntlet at me head-on.

I am not a person who has withdrawn enough to remain still even after watching it.

Although the students may be a little dangerous, if I overdo it a little, I can cope with it.

Crunchy square-

A period is placed on the sentence written above the letter.

I left the office with the letter in hand.

*

Cynthia’s dormitory.

There were currently four people sitting around it.

The reason there are four people instead of three is because a new person has been added today.

“So, you’re our Cynthia friend?”

A new person, Karina, looked at Estelle and Encia and asked.

“Just the same Joe-“

“Yes! Friends!”

Estelle cut off her words and Ensia answered vigorously.

friend.

At those words, Karina’s eyes filled with emotion.

What a nice sound!

Karina couldn’t hide her emotion when she heard that her timid brother finally had a friend.

“Thank you so much for getting along with my sister! Oh my gosh, what’s wrong. Cynthia, you’ve got all your friends!”

“sister···.”

Cynthia lowered her blushing face and shook her shoulders.

I didn’t know it when the two of us were alone, but Karina’s outstretched figure was too embarrassing to show to others…

Ensia laughed heartily at the two of them, while Estelle was trembling.

So I was even more ashamed.

Sometimes, there are times when a calm reaction is more damaging than a violent reaction.

“So, why did you call me?”

“I want you to help me with the group assignment…”

Carefully, Kang Yoo-jin presented the contents of the assignment.

Karina glanced over the outline she had received, then nodded as if she understood.

“Aha… the way to track the devil’s spirit. It’s a professor-like subject.”

“Yeah?”

“It’s nothing. Um~ You’re coming up with an idea to track this~”

Beast tracking spends a lot of time figuring out the target’s demonic pattern.

However, Kang Yoo-jin attached the necessary demonic patterns in advance, and thanks to this, they only had to come up with the best plan to track this demonic energy.

So Cynthia called Karina.

It would be most effective to ask the Witchbeast himself about the Witchbeast.

“···huh.”

Estelle, with her arms crossed, had a very dissatisfied face.

In fact, Estelle was able to solve the task even by herself.

However, the reason why they agreed to call Karina was because this was a group assignment.

If Estelle solves the problem alone, Cynthia and Encia have no room to intervene.

Even if the quality of the output is high, you will lose points in the collaboration section.

With Kang Yu-jin’s keen eye, he would instantly recognize Estelle’s magic pattern, so they couldn’t even pretend to be together.

That’s why Estelle agreed to Carina’s intervention.

‘It doesn’t matter.’

Even if you give an odd answer, you can edit it.

Kang Yoo-jin will also look at the corrections made by the team, so there will be no loss of points.

Estelle waited for Karina’s opinion without much expectation.

After a while, Karina, who had mastered all the Magi patterns, picked up the pen.

“This. I don’t know who the Magi pattern is, but I think it would be nice to approach it like this?”

The hand holding the pen began to write down the rune words on the paper without hesitation.

The eyes of the three turned to the paper, and soon widened.

It was because Karina’s answer was strangely penetrating to the core.

“Wow! This is-billion!”

“Move.”

Pushing Ensia away, Estelle glared at the rune word.

His eyes were fierce, and he was ready to fire even a laser.

“how···.”

“I’m a bit of an expert here.”

Since I asked the Witchbeast about the Witchbeast’s work, it was only natural that the answer came out well.

Not to mention Karina’s race is Dragonia.

As a race possessing outstanding intelligence among the monsters, it was not too difficult to explain their knowledge in runes in an easy-to-understand manner.

“Sister! You’re amazing~”

Ensia held Karina’s hand and stirred it.

It was a very violent handshake.

“Wow. I shook hands, but my hands tingle. Is this the thrill of longing?”

It was because of Karina’s magic.

“Noisy, magpie. Be quiet.”

“yes~”

As the two began to focus on the rune words Karina had drawn, Cynthia briefly tapped Karina on the shoulder and called her.

At her hand gesture pointing out the door, Karina nodded without saying anything.

“Then, shall I borrow your little brother for a while?

“Yeah.”

“Ng~!”

The two of them left the girls behind and went outside, first putting a barrier around them so that the conversation wouldn’t leak out.

After confirming that the sound was blocked, Cynthia sighed softly.

“I’m sorry, sister… I’ve bothered you.”

“No no. It wouldn’t be normal for you to call me.”

While stroking Cynthia, Carina replied indifferently.

“Shall we guess? Is it because of your body that you called me?”

“Uh, how did you know?”

“Ahahahaha. Of course I know. Even though Magi was sealed, I’m a Witchbeast?”

Karina smiled cheerfully and tapped her horn.

Thanks to the consideration given to her sister so that she would not be anxious, Cynthia was able to explain everything a little more comfortably.

The goblin fire he saw in the forest and the abnormal reaction of his body he experienced from it.

“Hmm. That’s a pretty big deal.”

Karina’s eyes turned into those of a reptile and shed strange phosphorescence.

Dragon Eye.

Dragonia’s dragon eye, an eye that has the power to see through all magic and magical structures.

Although the effectiveness has decreased a lot now, it was still possible to look into Cynthia’s physical condition.

“Hmm. As expected. Your demonic energy has thickened.”

“It’s getting dark… is it?”

“You know, on the record, your Magi was already a little bit awake. It’s a tight balance though… but I think it’s accelerated this time.”

The fire that had possessed Cynthia and infested the demonic spirit.

Even Karina knew that it was a demon.

Because she was also a Witchbeast, and the existence of the Demon Buddha is so public that everyone who should know knows about it.

“But it appeared in Helios…”

Originally, it is a dangerous technique that can only be seen on the battlefield.

Karina, who was struggling, first took out a bracelet from her bosom and gave it to Cynthia.

“This···.”

“It’s a bracelet that seals Magi. You can think of it as similar to my restraints.”

The difference is the degree to which you can put on and take off by yourself.

While putting the bracelet on Cynthia, Karina asked in a serious voice.

“You know? Your magic is dangerous, and you must never wake up.”

Although she looks timid on the outside, the magic that dwells in Cynthia is definitely Dragonia’s.

The dragon’s magic is truly unparalleled, and it’s not something that Cynthia’s weak body can handle.

By any chance, if Cynthia’s demonic eyes were opened, it could have eaten her by itself.

“It’s a relief if you die, but if you do something wrong, you can just turn into a monster. Magi eats people’s reason, so they lose their reason and become a rampaging beast.”

“···gulp.”

“I can’t turn back Magi from waking up. So, never take off your bracelet, okay?”

Cynthia swallowed dry saliva and nodded.

I’m going to become a beast that has lost reason…?

As she imagined herself becoming a monster the size of a house and going wild, Cynthia’s face grew pale.

“I will never take it off…”

“Yes, yes.”

Hugging her sister tightly, Carina gazed at Helios’ distant campus.

‘The magic presented by Yujin Kang. And a ghost fire.’

Analyzing the Magi pattern, Karina noticed that an aura similar to this was faintly dissolved in Helios Campus.

I don’t know who the owner is or where he is, but I’m sure he’s still here.

magic prayer.

Even a ghost.

All of them are things that should not be in Helios.

There is no way that Kang Yoo-jin and the preparing messenger would not know this.

‘What are you up to…?’

Karina remembered the hunter who hated the Witchbeast.

I had a feeling that something unusual was about to happen.

*

“Kang Yoo-jin noticed us.”

A woman’s voice echoed in the confined space.

The woman’s voice had a sticky mage like dripping tar, and it resonated with a strange resonance.

“Are you sure you didn’t say it was okay?”

“It was fine. Not long ago.”

The woman in the robe bit her lip.

The speed at which Yujin Kang regains her strength is too fast.

As I saw when I summoned Aragos, he has only been able to use level 2 mind control yet.

There are only two circles.

As it was originally, Kang Yoo-jin was right not to notice their presence.

“First star. She played a trick.”

The opening of the record was an event no one expected.

The purpose of the first star was to promote rapid growth of students in order to cope with changes in the war situation, but no one believed it.

“It was for Yujin Kang.”

The strength Kang Yujin showed in the record.

They saw the scene clearly.

He accepted the magic of the record that no one believed he could handle, and because of that, he jumped up the hierarchy to the 4th circle at once.

And level 3 mind control.

Having even regained the power of ‘erosion’, he reproduced the ‘hive consciousness’, the original power of the demons, and did not dare to use the magical power of the forbidden land like limbs.

As a result, they still haven’t forgotten the moment when their carefully prepared plans went to waste.

“It was too hasty. I had to refrain from using the devil’s fire.”

“Who knew you’d even find a hut? That’s why it’s safe unless a professor of Skadi’s level decides to find it?”

“…the power of mind control was unexpected.”

How powerful was the control of the mind that was opened up to the 3rd level?

There was no one who accurately measured its power here.

There probably won’t be much of it, even if it’s the magic beast.

Because almost all of those who fought against Yujin Kang’s mind control died or went mad.

“… At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before we’re even found. You must have seen the assignment he gave to the students this time.”

Great Mathematics Challenge.

Asking them to find a way to track Magi patterns is blatantly aimed at this side.

If a student gets hurt, their presence is somehow discovered.

The professors start to deal with it, and the elder’s gaze will turn this way.

The place that was barely prepared for a long time disappears in an instant.

“It’s still a little early… but I think we should move up the plan.”

“If you advance…”

“To destroy the spirit vein.”

A huge stream of spirit veins that supports the dimensional intersection.

If that place is destroyed, even the ground of Helios, no matter how strong it is, will inevitably be shaken.

Although the refined demonic energy is a bit lacking, it will be possible somehow if they squeeze their own demonic energy.

Those gathered there nodded.

“Helios, humanity, let us die.”

Worlds collapsing to the demons.

The central dimension did not save them in the end.

In order to survive, they turned to the Demon Beast Army and swore to make the central dimension their enemy.

So he hid in Helios.

Seizing an opportunity, he imbued Helios with the power of the Witchbeast over countless years.

Now, it’s time to reap the fruits of that effort.

“They will pay for their crimes.”

The shadowy shadows melted into the darkness again like that.