The Devil Who Grants Wishes

105 – Runaway (2)

“…What.”

Elias, who comes out the door after cleaning up the messy lab, faces waves of all kinds of people.

The wave of the person did not say a single word until he opened the door completely and looked ahead, and Elias, who witnessed the huge crowd, suppressed his astonishment as much as possible and asked what was going on.

“What experiment… did you do?”

“Experiment?”

“Yes, ah… that’s… I’m not asking for anything… It’s just that a huge amount of demonic energy flowed back into the Mage’s Tower… that’s…”

Seeing the young mage speaking so cautiously, Elias finally recalled how the incident had affected the Mage Tower.

Certainly, the demon’s presence was enormous, and the magi that it emitted naturally was grandiose to match.

In the first place, since everything in the laboratory under the influence of the mana accumulator was destroyed to the point of being unusable, Magi must have leaked out of the laboratory.

“…I made a mistake.”

Recalling that fact, Elias hurriedly begins to come up with an excuse.

I could tell the truth about what happened, but if I did, the owner of the Mage Tower would lose face by being stigmatized for having made a deal with the devil.

“To say it was a mistake—- heh heh…!!”

“Eh, Mage Tower Lord… that’s…”

“I think that’s a good enough answer.”

Instead of answering, Elias held up the crystal of the Demon God in his hand, and the wizards of the Mage Tower who saw it were shocked and doubted their eyes at the same time, as if they had promised.

Even wizards who are researching divine powers, and wizards who don’t know the details because they haven’t researched divine powers, everyone can’t help but think of one fact when they look at that crystal on an equal footing.

deity.

There is no magician in this mage tower who can maintain his composure while looking at that thing that thrills his eyes just by looking at it, and that thing that imprints in his head that he is a god just by just looking at it.

“Oh my God… really successful…”

“Ha, just once! Let me touch you just once!”

“Me too! I’ll touch you too!”

“stop!!”

The scene, which became chaotic in an instant, disappears in an instant as Elias shouts.

When he shouted out with mana in his voice, Elias’ shout, which had changed like magic, was enough to restrain the wizards.

“If you know what happened, stop disbanding everyone and go back. And since I have to research this, I can’t give it to anyone in the meantime.”

Elias speaks noblely on the outside, but inside he is burning.

For Elias, who is arrogant and proud of himself, there is nothing more humiliating than being told that he did something he did not do.

But I can’t help it.

If you tell the truth about what happened, let alone lose your face, the devil who wanted to act secretly wouldn’t want it.

‘…I haven’t heard the name. I didn’t have time to ask because I was distracted, but I’ll definitely ask when we meet again later.’

Elias, who made a quick decision inside, declares to the wizards gathered in front of the lab to return quickly, and at the same time, he thinks that if he meets Faust again, he should ask for his name.

And seeing Elias thinking about them in front of their eyes, some wizards are seized with endless jealousy and anger.

It doesn’t wear out, and I can’t even touch it, no matter how much the mage tower owner says, it’s tyranny and violence.

“…”

The more they look at God, the more magicians are seduced and encroached on God, narrowing their thinking.

This is not brainwashing.

It is only a manifestation of the desire for elevation to the status of a god, which a living being should have, and this means, in other words, that nothing can solve their symptoms.

In addition, because of the inquisitive spirit unique to wizards, the malice they emit is enough to make even Faust startled.

“Come back!!”

“…let’s go back.”

Until they were forcibly disbanded by Elias, some wizards could not take their eyes off the gods.

No, even after dispersal, even if it’s a bare wall or ceiling, the wizards turn their heads and look in the direction of their divine prestige.

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[The mage tower’s conversion to dungeons is caused by the mage’s research failure.]

‘Research failed…’

Lucia relives in her heart what her lovely father said.

Research failure, conversion of mage tower to dungeon, runaway of mana accumulation.

Certainly, the course of events is easy to understand and, thanks to that, it is easy to judge where and how to intervene.

Since the Mage Tower has to become a dungeon and the mana accumulator has to run wild due to its influence, research failures must happen as scheduled.

What happens after that is the problem.

Immediately after a research failure, the magic tower turns into a dungeon, and at that moment, a huge amount of monsters pour out, so you must intervene in the research failure.

“No, this isn’t a place to play—hehehehe!?”

Lucia, who was waiting in the waiting room at the entrance of the Mage Tower, glanced at the wizard who appeared in front of her and felt relieved.

Fortunately, if the wizard’s reaction was like this, it would be very easy to infiltrate the Magic Tower.

I was worried for a while, but looking at the reaction that is not different from other people, it seems that the infiltration of the magic tower will proceed as planned.

“Ah, ah… Are you a wizard? If you’ve told me in advance, I’ll meet you in a more luxurious drawing room instead of this waiting room—”

“So, what happened to what I said?”

Lucia, who had received only surprise and envy from others until now, knows very well what that wizard is thinking when she sees her.

The desire to make it belong to the Mage Tower at all costs.

Lucia, who knows how to deal with desire, cuts off the wizard exquisitely and gracefully, reminds the wizard of what she said before, and forms an obvious power relationship in an instant, and the wizard is confused and does not know what to do.

“Ah… that’s…”

“Didn’t you hear?”

The sorcerer, who only heard the report that a troublesome aristocratic girl has arrived, pays the price for it without properly listening to what the aristocratic girl demands.

Lucia’s appearance and clothes, which were stunned by the overwhelming difference in magical power and were so beautiful, prevented the wizard from responding properly, which created very good conditions for Lucia to rampage.

The wizard sweats without saying anything and sends a request for help to the staff, but the staff can’t help as much as they have already heard from Lucia in advance.

[If the person coming is likely to disrespect me for not listening to my prior request, please just stay quiet.]

Lucia already expected this to happen and told the staff in advance.

Why did that wizard come without properly listening to the requirements in the first place? It was because she acted as an idiot, low-class aristocratic girl who didn’t matter much, and made meeting her seem useless.

Beautiful appearance, graceful posture and clothes, overwhelming magical power, atmosphere that cannot be approached, and the mistake of the intended opponent, Lucia, who uses all of these very exquisitely, has been able to completely control the wizard as she wants.

“Sorry!! May I know what you asked for…?”

“Well… I can’t help it. I just wanted to see the Mage Tower. Especially the laboratory.”

“Laboratory… that’s…”

The sorcerer’s breath caught.

Showing the laboratory to a mage who is not affiliated with the Mage Tower is obviously something you shouldn’t do.

Above all, a high-level wizard would be able to figure out the structure of magic circles and magic tools just by looking at them from a distance, but such a high-level wizard couldn’t give Lucia a tour of the lab.

“Well… I can’t help it if it doesn’t work. I was going to decide whether or not to enter the Mage Tower by looking at the level of the laboratory.”

“Yes?”

“I’ve only had a lot of unpleasant experiences. Enough then—”

“—-Now, wait a minute! Wait a minute!”

However, if Lucia comes out like this, the story is different.

The sorceress, who is already completely caught up in Lucia’s pace, makes a hasty decision after hearing Lucia’s ambiguous remark.

Although it is purely Lucia’s choice whether or not to enter the Mage Tower, and nothing has been decided, the wizard decides to give Lucia a tour of the laboratory.

“I’ll show you the lab. So, please take your anger out…”

“Hmm…”

The wizard, who realized that he had cut off Lucia’s words belatedly, fretted and looked at Lucia, and Lucia acted a little angry at such a wizard, but at the same time made an interesting expression.

“Well, fine. I’ll take a look at the lab.”

“thank you!!”

The wizard doesn’t feel anything strange about Lucia’s choice of words for taking care of the lab, and Lucia ridicules the wizard.

Even her father didn’t know which research would fail, so she, the only wizard in the warriors’ party, should have infiltrated the Mage Tower herself, but Lucia didn’t feel bothered by such an act at all.

I just feel honored and happy to be able to help my dad.