Became a Lazy Confucius at the Academy

50 – Sleeping Dragon in the Forest (3)

‘What was that creature just now?’

Hugo suppressed the still-feeling fear and trembled his hands.

A blue-haired girl who didn’t feel like a human at all. Her warnings, which she did, stirred the terror in her abyss.

Is this real?

After becoming a warlock, he often hallucinates.

Hugo said that she couldn’t even tell whether the fox she had seen earlier was real or hallucinatory.

“… It was something I was determined to do.”

Warlocks are beings who do not hesitate to do anything for the sake of ‘power’.

Any wizard hates those who are not noble.

It was the same with Hugo.

But since he chose this path, he had to deal with it.

Hugo opened the cellar door.

Her musty smell stung her nose. When he went inside, the room was illuminated with bright light from countless magic circles.

A black orb shimmered in the center of the magic circle.

That’s a lump of magic that Hugo has accumulated while kidnapping children.

“If only I could absorb that mana…….”

Hugo recalled her past with sad eyes.

At the age of 78 this year, he has reached the 8th rank.

The 8th rank was a great achievement.

If you take a small step forward, you will be in the ninth place. He can be a great mage.

But-

It was a very low achievement for a mage tower owner.

Because the lord of the Magic Tower of Truth, who is currently leading the academia, was in the 11th rank.

It is not unreasonable that the Tower of Magic in Pisa, once the mainstream of the academic world, collapsed.

Because Hugo, who inherited everything from the Tower of Pisa, achieved achievements unmatched by the previous owners of the Tower of Magic.

I worked hard. The wizard’s aging curve begins in their 70s. The loss of memory plays a big role.

To overcome that, Hugo recorded everything, confined himself in a small room, and studied magic. He was 78 years old, but he had been locked up in his closet more times than he had seen the light of day.

Reaching new heights at the age of 78 was the result of countless efforts.

Although Hugo, who came out of the closet, is not a great wizard, he thought that at this level, he could become a resource to grow a talented person into a great wizard.

He intended to manage the Mage Tower, which had been neglected, and find a disciple to designate as the successor.

That’s it. Then……

I can at least apologize to the owner of the Magic Tower from the previous generation, who constantly believed in and supported me as a criminal.

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However.

“… ….”

There was no one in the Magic Tower.

There was not a single person.

Everybody ran away. No one believed in the possibility of this Magical Tower of Pisa.

As they ran away, they stole all the things that could be money that existed in the Mage Tower.

Hugo was desperate.

I know that it is my fault for neglecting his management and shutting myself in his closet.

However, Pisa’s Mage Tower is different from other Mage Towers.

The standard for receiving students from the Tower of Pisa was commoners.

The majority of them were even brought up from orphanages.

It is natural for a magician to pursue profit and gain.

But what saved them from the street was the Magic Tower of Pisa.

…… It shouldn’t have been like this.

At least, a few people had to stay.

It is clear that the children will serve as benefactors until they die.

It was all lies.

At first, I tried to gather students one by one, but-

It is a distant job in a situation where it is difficult to even find food to eat right now.

Hugo was half-conscious.

Then one day, a knight came, blowing black smoke.

A voice that can’t tell if it’s a man or a woman wearing a helmet.

Full of doubt as to whether he is really alive, he said with a scratching sound.

-Do you want power?

How many wizards can you reject there?

Hugo, who had already lost everything, was no longer rough.

Even if you are a black magician that the world despises, you have a desire to achieve the state without fail even by borrowing that power.

I believed that if I became the Archmage, the disciples who left would return.

When that time comes, he will scold you very hard and pretend he can’t win.

The Mage’s Tower of Pisa will return to its former glory and soar brilliantly.

“This is the end. I finally… !”

Hugo swung his staff.

The magic circle was activated and the black sphere shook.

The enormous magical energy contained within it was absorbed into Hugo’s body.

“Oh oh oh-“

Hugo’s pupils widened. He shuddered with ecstasy as if he had been drugged.

“This, this power…… !”

Hugo spread his arms. Tear up and smile

He is full of energy.

He was a mighty force that he had never wielded before.

“Are talented people born with something like this? Unreasonable, unreasonable.”

Keep, Hugo laughed with a suppressed laugh.

“Are you finished?”

“… ?”

A sweet voice tickled my ears.

Hugo shook his head.

The blond boy was staring at his chin with a bored expression.

“But you know. Did you kidnap kids under the age of 10 just for that reason? Thirty people?”

“You, who are you?”

Hugo rubbed his eyes. He pointed his finger at Louis.

“Okay. You are a hallucination!”

“It’s not a hallucination.”

“The magic circle of the Pisa Tower is absolute. No one can break through!”

“It broke when I touched it.”

Ruid stood up from his seat.

“Whatever your circumstances, the cost of my sister’s sleep deprivation will be high.”

“The bastard!”

It didn’t matter if it was hallucination or reality. Now, nothing is his enemy.

Hugo swung his staff. The blade of powerful black magic wedged toward Ruid.

Louise raised her hand with a look of complacency. He grasped the magical blade with his index and middle fingers.

“… You are too weak.”

Clang-!

When I applied a little force, the blade shriveled.

Hugo opened his eyes wide.

“Well, since your skills are so poor, you must have turned your attention elsewhere.”

“This, profit!”

Angrily, Hugo used stronger magic. Black spheres gathered in his hand. He stretched out her hand towards Louis. The sphere flew at high speed and hit Ruid.

Quang!

A roar was heard and Hugo’s mouth went up meanly.

“You did it yourself.”

“What?”

Whirick-

The dust was cleaned up in an instant, and Ruid appeared in perfect shape.

“—!”

“It’s pitiful.”

Louid looked at Hugo with sympathy.

“It is painful for humans to look at places they cannot reach.”

Hugo’s expression hardened.

I soon felt a strong rage as I was distorted mercilessly.

Ruid said without hesitation.

“Look. It’s only that much power in return for abandoning humanity. Even my fox can’t win with that little magic power.”

“Shut up—!”

Hugo roared and swung his wand at random.

It looked like a group of young children.

“What do you know about the subject of gaining everything overnight without even trying!”

“I hate people like you! I hate it so much! What someone has accomplished and won their whole life, how can you show off your arrogance when you have everything just by the luck of being born well!”

“Die, die!”

Hugo was madly using his magic.

A terrifying sound rang out.

Ruid, covered in magical remnants, could not be seen.

Hugo gasped and kicked his breath.

However, his gaze was fixed on Ruid.

“Yes.”

Hugo’s body flinched at the callous voice.

‘Very, what the heck?’

“I got this power without any effort. Not unreasonable.”

Hugo closed his eyes and spoke an unknown language.

It was the strongest magic written in the magic book that Chiron threw.

“But you know….”

Hugo shouted in a tearing voice.

“Shut up!”

Gooh-

The darkness of the abyss poked out its head.

Just by looking at it, twenty ominous hands stabbed at Ruid.

Louis frowned and put his hand in his pocket.

“If you twist it, you will be born again.”

Louis shook his hand as if it were insignificant.

Hugo’s magical energy, which contained everything, was destroyed by Ruid’s cumbersome gesture.

“And, not everyone makes trashy choices like you. I don’t know anything else, but you shouldn’t touch the kids.”

Louis reached out his hand towards Hugo and clenched his fist. The empty space shook, and dozens of chain spears pierced his body.

Ruid saw Hugo completely restrained.

There was no soul. In other words, it was a dummy. He seemed to have somehow managed to get out.

I didn’t think of chasing after him. Rather, he saved himself the trouble he had to do.

“Pay for your sins. Hugo.”

**

“Heo-eok, hee-yeok.”

Hugo hurriedly moved to the underground passage of the Mage Tower, grabbing a deep cut on his shoulder.

The last magic he used was ‘invisible darkness’, which is called the end of black magic.

It could also be used for offense, but it was field magic. You can move wherever there is a shadow.

Instinctively sensing that he was no match for Ruid, Hugo chose to run away.

However, the duration of the invisible darkness is only about 5 minutes. After that, he’d figure out it was a dummy, so he intended to run away as far as possible.

Hugo came out through the sewers. The soggy mud weighed down his feet.

‘I lived.’

It was when such a feeling of relief lingered in his head.

I heard a chuckle.

A blonde haired girl was walking this way with an expressionless face.

“I am Amelia Windsor, the head of the swordsmanship club at the Imperial Academy.”

Seureung-

With a sharp sound, Amelia drew her sword.

Hugo was startled and pulled out his wand.

“Just let me go.”

Amelia silently pointed her sword straight up.

Hugo slowly backed away.

“The children are alive and well.”

“Confirmed.”

“That, I just gained some magic power. I was going to release them all, really.”

It was hard for him to stare at the glowing wall even in the dark, having accepted the power of darkness.

“I did no harm to anyone. I’m thinking of emigrating to the Kingdom of Delphi. That, so… “

Hugo, rolling his eyes, looked at the ‘black hand’ that was approaching Amelia’s blind spot.

‘Enough!’

Hugo was confident of his victory.

But—

“It is a shallow operation.”

Suddenly!

Amelia drew her sword in the air.

As she slowly approached, her unseen hand was severed.

Hugo sat down vomiting black blood.

Amelia quickly approached and struck Hugo in the stomach.

He hit her on the back of the neck with his elbow.

Stubborn-!

Hugo’s neck was broken. He slammed his face into the butt.

“Say, save me!”

Hugo said in a boiling voice.

I rubbed my hands that couldn’t even move.

“Save me. Help me. Help me! Sin, I will pay for my sins! So let me put you on trial!”

“That is the law of the Empire.”

Amelia raised her sword horizontally and, without hesitation, stabbed Hugo in the neck.

Pu-wook!

“This is the Windsor way.”

Staring at Hugo with a cold gaze, Amelia shook her sword in the air.

After that, I stared somewhere.

It was a magic tower on the verge of collapsing.

“…… Louis.”

Amelia closed her eyes for a moment before opening them.

“You, go home and see.”

How to punish her brother for not obeying her, Amelia bit her molar.