The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 377

Chapter 377

Elleris didn’t look very good.

It’s just to catch Cantus Magna, but it’s a plan to artificially create a dungeon that sucks in countless adventurers by digging up the ant hell.

I wonder why I have to worry about those who die after trying for a while.

It was strange that in the end someone agreed to die.

“I’ll go back when I’m done with my business.”

“I see.”

Antirianus, Galarche, and Lluen cast a teleport and soon left.

In the council meeting room, Lucinil Elleris and I were left.

“What about Ladia?”

“I told you to wait in your room.”

If I stay in such a cold and lonely place for a long time, I think I’ll get a mental illness. Are you okay?

I don’t care how Ladia is doing, but when I come here, it suddenly comes to mind.

It seems Elerith is taking good care of her somehow.

almost anything… … . I wonder if it should be seen that they are being bred.

Anyway, that’s not the problem.

“good. Ellerith and Lucinil, let’s go somewhere for a while with me.”

“Do you have anything else to do?”

I nodded my head at the silver-haired kid’s question.

“Let’s go to Demon Castle.”

“Are you talking about the Demon King? there… … . Oh, I see… … .”

“that’s right. They said there was a shelter or something.”

“Yes, I will go there.”

You need to find out if there is magic that can help with fake dungeon construction and camouflage.

But I’m blind to magic, so I don’t know if there is such a thing in the castle. Or even if there is, it’s already known magic, so you might hear from the order why you brought it.

So if you take two archmage level Lord Vampires, you should be able to find something.

* * *

I had told Lucinil about the bunker, and Lucinyl had also told Ellerith about it, so I knew about it. I don’t know if the other road vampires have been notified of this, but

I can’t even go to the devil’s bunker alone anyway.

There are still garrisons there and I can’t use magic, so I can’t avoid their eyes and go down to the 6th floor where the labyrinth is located.

However, the story is different if Lucinil and Elerys accompany them.

Instead of a warp gate, the area outside the castle was reached by using a series of teleports.

“It is very big.”

Lucinil opened his mouth and couldn’t shut his mouth at the majesty of the castle walls that could be seen from afar.

Although the castle was eventually captured.

“Let’s go.”

The three of us headed for the Demon Castle, paying attention not to be caught in the garrison’s field of vision, including making it invisible and suppressing noise.

“There is no need to seek out dangerous magic. It doesn’t have to be a dungeon trap or barrier. A magic book that is not too dangerous and can be used as a bait would be fine.”

“okay.”

“Yes lower.”

The Black Order will also provide bait, but we must also provide bait. Whatever the Black Order’s true purpose is, they are allies until they find Kantus Magna and find Akasha.

I may have to think about the future, but right now, Akasha is the priority.

If I were a person who walked the path of sorcery, I would think that I couldn’t scatter those bloody spellbooks casually, but I’m no stranger to magic.

I didn’t think it was a waste even though I knew it was valuable.

However, you cannot bring too many books. Maybe Charlotte will find out later that the book is gone. Of course, even if Charlotte knew it, she wouldn’t know that I took the book.

The garrison obviously didn’t notice us, and I, who knew the way, took the lead.

The inside of the castle was also very large, so we moved for quite a long time.

The garrison had completed their exploration of almost all areas except for the Labyrinth. And the commander gave up on the search for the labyrinth, and Charlotte didn’t question him about it either.

The garrison will soon withdraw saying they have not found out anything.

Elleris made a sad expression while looking at the demon castle.

He hated war, but for some reason, he was the only one in the council to swear allegiance to the demon king, became a spy for the imperial capital, and then returned to the demon castle.

I didn’t know what Elerith was thinking.

“I have to go to the 5th basement floor.”

I know where to go to the entrance to the labyrinth.

We walked diligently.

“There is no need to use invisibility. Are there no people at all?”

“okay.”

Lucinel spat out a bolmen sound as if it was absurd. Of course, that doesn’t mean I turned off transparency and noise canceling.

Because of Charlotte’s refusal to interrogate, Commander Earl Alfryd seems to think that he has in fact been exonerated.

So, the search stopped altogether. The garrison is just hanging around near the castle and waiting for withdrawal.

We soon descended to the 5th basement floor of the Demon Castle and reached the entrance of the labyrinth.

“Isn’t it that big?”

“Isn’t that all like that?”

“There is a place like this… … .”

“It’s called a labyrinth, but it seems that the path opens only when there is an Archdemon.”

At the time, I wasn’t sure if he was opening the way to Charlotte or to me. However, unless you come with Archdemon, this passage will lead to the labyrinth.

Fortunately, even in the state of Reinhardt’s appearance, the labyrinth guided me to the exit.

After going down the circular stairs for a while, I saw a door at the end of a long, straight hallway.

First of all, I confirmed that no matter what form I take, the Labyrinth will guide me to the right place.

Then what if Charlotte came alone?

I wasn’t sure about that part yet.

Elerys and Lucinil followed.

-When

I opened the door abruptly, I was able to reach the space I had reached before with Charlotte and Saviolin Tana.

“Wow what is this all about?”

Upon arriving at the huge cavity, Lucinil widened his eyes and looked around.

Ellerith was also puzzled as she looked at the passageways and rooms.

“On the demon king… … . Since when was this place… … .”

Elerith muttered blankly. Materials for living, including bedroom and kitchen alchemy reagents, and even a library. Lucinil and Elerith couldn’t contain their astonishment.

“It certainly seems to have been built to serve as a shelter… … . It’s a space that can’t be entered unless it’s an Archdemon… … .”

If I hadn’t lost my memory, I would have come here.

What effect Bali’s survival had on the original film remains a troubling question.

“I am amazed. Let’s go find a magic book.”

“Yes lower.”

“It’s not a very dangerous magic, but did you say it’s a spell book coveted by Cantus Magna, or a spell book related to traps or barriers that can be useful in dungeons?”

“yes.”

“good.”

Lucinil seemed to be thinking over the conditions I suggested, then went into the library with Ellerith and started looking.

I didn’t want to stay still, so I started rummaging through the shelves of the library.

“and… … . What a lot.”

“okay.”

To be honest, this library is more than just a few bookshelves. There were so many books that it became a decent library.

I wondered if these were all magic books, but when I tried to find non-magic books, I found those books too. Books on swordsmanship and weaponry were also occasionally seen.

“Hey Archdemon.”

I heard Lucinil calling me.

“yes. why.”

“Why is it half-worded?”

“Yes, why?”

“Oh, that. Anyway, you said you lost your memory and didn’t even know it was here, right?”

“yes.”

Through the bookshelves, I could see Lucinil’s worried face with his cheeks inflated.

“Then, if you hadn’t lost your memory, you would have come here?”

“I guess so?”

“Hmm… … .”

Lucinil tilts his head.

“Wouldn’t the previous Demon King have survived if he had fled here?”

“That must have been too.”

This was a place for Balie Junior, not a place for the former demon king. So instead of escaping into the labyrinth, Valie remained in the castle and fought Lagann Artorius.

It is absurd for the monarch to run away when the allied forces are right in front of the Devil Castle.

Lucinil nodded, wondering if that logic didn’t make sense.

“Anyway, I didn’t do my job here, because you couldn’t come in after all.”

As I became a junior in Bali, this bunker lost its role.

And it was only now, after quite a while, that I came to know of its existence.

Lucinil looked around the bookshelves, looking at each book one by one, then putting them back in while looking through the bookshelves, or floating them next to him with telekinesis. Ellerith was also looking around the bookshelf with a worried expression.

I found a book about soul magic here. I gave it to Charlotte right away, but I was thinking that maybe it would help Lucinil as well.

Since the library is huge, I wonder if there are other books on soul magic that I couldn’t find back then? Well, if this was a real library, there might be some spare books, but this isn’t a library.

I couldn’t find anything that met the criteria I suggested, so I was looking for other books on soul magic in case it would be helpful to Lucinil.

“Hey Archdemon.”

“Why do you keep calling me? And don’t call me Archdemon?”

“Then it’s Bali.”

“why.”

Lucinyl looks at me from across the bookshelf with some books floating around.

“You know what you see? Magic is blind.”

no this?

I was trying my best to help.

But it didn’t look like he was raising drugs, it seemed like he was really curious.

You wouldn’t know if you saw it, but I’m talking about not wasting your stamina and going to rest.

Come to think of it, I’m a bit curious about what the preserved food here will taste like. It seems that there is no book I am looking for anyway, and my role is to open the way, not to find the book myself.

I’m trying to

[Introduction to Soul Art]

A book in an inconspicuous place caught my eye.

I had the same book.

And I thought I knew why there was such a book.

It’s the same book, but the language written in the title is different.

The title is written in Majok language, not the common language.

It is a version in the demonic language of the art of marriage.

“Have you heard of Lucinil’s marriage ceremony?”

“huh? Sorcery?”

I look at Lucinil with a compendium of subjugation and demon language.

“For now, look at this.”

Get ready to say thank you, you little old woman.

* * *

Unfortunately, I didn’t hear from Lucinil.

It wasn’t because Lucinil couldn’t read the introductory text written in the Asmodian language.

“It’s something I know.”

“… … yes?”

Rusinil, who skimmed through the introduction, said so.

“It’s true that secret arts that deal with souls are taboo, but I’ve lived for years, don’t you know these things?”

Lucinil wanted to have a soul, so he must have studied enough magic to deal with souls.

“This is by no means a common magic book, but unfortunately it is a magic I know.”

Lucinil quietly sweeps the surface of the Introduction to Soul Art book.

The fact that it was magic already known would mean that Lucinyl couldn’t achieve her long-cherished wish, even with marriage magic.

“I can fuse the souls of others into me, but I don’t have a soul. Then I will be absorbed rather than fused with another being. So I couldn’t try.”

The very concept of merging different souls does not apply to Lucinil.

After all, does that mean that magic that deals with souls is useless for beings without souls?

Then, what is a soul in the first place?

I had never thought about it. because you will have it.

Only Lucinil, who did not have it, desperately studied the soul.

Lucynil looks at me and smiles coyly.

“Anyway, did you think of me? Thank you.”

“It’s not like that.”

“Oh, you are such a person. okay. It’s cute.”

Why is this so ticklish?

By the way, the one who worried the most about the soul must have been none other than Lucinil. After I found a book about soul magic, I thought it might be of help to Lucinil… … .

The reality is quite the opposite.

The one who knows the most about soul magic has to be Lucinil. You must have been studying magic for a very long time to have it.

therefore.

It means that Lucinil is the one who has the best chance of answering Charlotte’s problem.

“There is something I want to ask you.”

“What?”

Lucinil nodded, asking if he could say anything.

“If there is a soul that has fused two souls, can it be restored to its original state? The state before fusion.”

Research on the soul-sucking technique is already in progress.

However, Lucinil has already completed all of its research. So Lucinil must have known everything about soul magic.

If the situation is urgent, Lucinil might be able to lend a hand to Charlotte. I’ll have to think about how to explain it and how to take it.

but.

“Can you?”

Lucinil’s innocent words shattered all my expectations.

* * *

Lucinil doesn’t know what I was thinking when I asked that.

However, the answer came back, asking if it could happen, as if it were so obvious.

“You can mix two glasses of water into one glass and divide it into two glasses again, but that won’t return to the original two glasses of water, right?”

“… … Is that a concept?”

“Actually, it’s a little different, but nothing different from that.”

Things that have already been mixed and become one cannot be returned to their state before they were mixed.

It reminded me of Charlotte, who was overjoyed after receiving the book on the magic of marriage.

However, if Lucinil’s words are true, Charlotte will not be able to achieve the desired result even with her research on soul magic.

If so, what should I do?

If Charlotte’s soul has already become inseparable the moment it combines with the devil’s soul, will Charlotte have to live like this for the rest of her life? Waiting to be consumed by the demon king’s soul someday?

“Why are you curious about that anyway?”

Should I tell you?

That the demon king’s soul still remains in the princess’s soul?

Lucinil might know the answer to what to do. To tell the truth, I should at least talk about what I want to do with it.

If it is, it will be.

It’s okay to say that there is no way.

Now I wanted to make sure of something.

“The previous demon king fused part of his soul into someone else’s.”

“… … what?”

At my words, Lucinil opened his mouth in a daze. As if I had heard an unbelievable story.

“no… … . did you do that?”

“The circumstances are certain.”

“Then even after taking a part of your soul and planting it in someone… … . You mean you were fine?”

“That’s right, I don’t know… … .”

I thought what the demon king did to Charlotte was terrible, but Lucinil seemed to accept it just the opposite.

That the madness of splitting one’s soul was already a very terrible thing to oneself.

“Is splitting your soul too hard for you to bear?”

“It’s hard to handle and it’s not at the level of malice, so it’s a relief that I didn’t go crazy. I probably couldn’t have kept my sane… … . How the hell did the previous demon king become the one who ate it?”

I don’t know if the ancestor Balie was crazy. But seeing as the Pandemonium War unfolded, it probably wasn’t that I was consumed by madness or that the taste had completely disappeared.

Planting his soul in Charlotte was something the demon king took a very big risk.

then then

It is also understandable that the spirit of the demon king who had consumed Charlotte’s body had almost lost Izzy. They didn’t even recognize me and I just felt like I was crazy.

The Demon King somehow managed to stay sane, but is it because the soul mixed with Charlotte is in a state where it can’t maintain the fact that it’s Izzy?

Upon hearing my story, Lucinil was dazed.

“That means… … . Knowing that I’m going to lose the Demon World War… … . It seems that they arranged it in advance to revive somehow. Whether that’s possible… … .”

Lucinil seemed to think that the demon king’s attempt was too dangerous.

“Do you want to completely resurrect the demon king’s soul?”

I shook my head at Lucinil’s question.

“No. I want to get rid of it.”

“… … ?”

No, what kind of motherfucker is this?

Lucille looked at me with that expression.