Episode 3. Black Magic, Labs, and Vampires
‘I made up my mind to go, but…’ ….’
You think you won’t die, but literally you just don’t die.
I couldn’t imagine what would happen to me.
Of course, I couldn’t run away because I was scared.
Because what I needed right now was there.
‘Still, I’m reluctant. It feels like I have no choice but to go to work.’
The closer I got to the office, the heavier my steps.
My black magic teacher and academy professor Karon Diplen was a mid-level professor who, although not famous, had a fairly solid support base.
His unique cold-heartedness and calmness without recklessness became a powerful weapon to hide his identity as a warlock.
However, as cool-headed as I am, I wasn’t the type to be forgiving about my mistakes.
When I arrived at Karon’s office, I could see that the lights were on.
Fortunately, he hadn’t come to work yet.
smart.
“Professor Charon, this is Adrias Cromwell.”
I knocked on the door and waited for a while, but there was no answer.
After waiting for some time in the tense time, a small voice came from the other side of the door.
“Come in.”
I carefully opened the door.
There, a middle-aged man with black hair trimmed in an exact 5-to-5 part was sitting in front of a desk looking at a magic tablet.
For reference, that Magic Tablet is a magic tool, similar to a smartphone in the world I lived in.
“…Adrias.”
“Yes Professor.”
“Didn’t I say it was the 11th?”
“sorry. I misunderstood the date.”
A cold gaze passed over my body like a snake’s tongue.
After a moment of inconvenient time passed, he got up from his seat.
Soon after, he turned around and started walking somewhere in the office.
“I don’t want to put all my energy into something like you. I will still be punished.”
“I’ll take it sweetly.”
“Bring the corpse from the graveyard with the name Beyden written on it from the Binhartz National Cemetery. The deadline is two days.”
As soon as I heard about Bin Hartz National Cemetery, it came to mind.
Even just going back and forth would take more than half a day.
Still, there was no option to refuse.
The moment I refuse, I will be used instead of that corpse.
“All right.”
“Follow me.”
As soon as I answered, he touched a book in the study.
Then, the study was pushed aside, revealing a barrier.
“Be open.”
With a simple interaction of mana and the light emitted from his ring, the barrier that recognized the owner slowly began to fade.
As I followed him into the barrier, the smell of all sorts of reagents and rotting corpses filled me.
‘Even though Adrias has already seen it a few times, it’s uncomfortable.’
All kinds of dead bodies were strewn about as if they had come to a slaughterhouse.
The type of corpse was beast, monster, human, of course, there was nothing to cover.
“Whoa.”
I endured the frowning of my eyes.
Following Charon, we went a little further inside. This time, the corpses that were enshrined quite finely (?) were hanging on chains.
“Originally, it should have been done yesterday, but it doesn’t really matter.”
Charon, muttering to himself, put down one of the hanging corpses with magic.
“What are you doing? Are you still out of your mind?”
As I stared blankly at the corpse, Charon told me.
Then, as a reflex, my body began to collect unknown reagents.
It was a familiar movement.
‘This is like this.’
As my body moved, memories naturally came to my mind.
First, Mandragora’s blood was poured little by little onto the floor in the center.
Then Charon began to use magic to build a camp with blood.
‘Now about this… ….’
Torokan’s root powder was sprinkled here and there.
And arrange all the cursed objects and reagents that serve as mediators in the right places… ….
“It’s okay.”
Place the body in the middle and you’re done.
‘Was there such a complicated process?’
In the game, I just revived the corpses and summoned the undead with one magic.
It’s already a pain in the ass.
When the preparations were finished, Charon arranged the mana and composed the spell.
While watching the process, I looked back at the unknown gaze I felt from somewhere.
“….”
At the place where the iron bars were, a skinny woman wearing restraints was looking at me.
The memory of Adrias came to mind when he saw her.
‘vampire.’
No, Karon, did this bastard even have a vampire?
Unlike vampires in other games or media, evil vampires are treated as a heterogeneous species.
That’s why they didn’t die from being exposed to sunlight.
Instead, its rarity is enormous, and I can only count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen vampires in games.
‘And I did a retweet because he died every time.’
Each vampire is powerful.
In addition to his strong body, his unique blood magic gave him a perfect balance of battle and defense.
Charon is also a strong mid-boss level talent, but that’s about halfway through the game.
It was a question of how the current Charon was keeping the vampires in a restrained state.
‘And when I killed Charon, I couldn’t find any trace of the vampire.’
Of course, I don’t know if this space was reproduced in the game, but I was puzzled to see that nothing related to vampires came out until I died.
‘Could it be that I failed to make an undead out of vampires?’
Even in Adrias’ memory, nothing related to it came to mind.
He only fed the vampires once a month.
As I recalled my memories step by step, I came to a sudden conclusion regardless of vampires.
‘Looking at this now, did I just get caught up in it?’
Adrias.
Looking at it now, it wasn’t just that he lacked talent, but he also had a lot of hukou temperament.
In the memory that came to mind, there was almost nothing I learned from Karon, but I was only diligently wiping the back of him.
I learned basic necromantic skills only in the beginning when I entered under him, but I didn’t learn anything after that.
Whoops.
A thought-awakening sound came from the magic circle.
The magic circle, which scattered an ominous red light, gradually accepted mana and built a spell.
Perseok. Puss.
As the light intensified, the flesh of the corpse lying there turned to powder and crumbled.
―That’s it.
what should i say about that?
zombie skeleton?
However, that thought came to an end when the undead collapsed from their seat for a moment.
“Failure.”
Calon’s voice was heard.
After Karon said that, he began to jot down something in his notebook.
‘Is it over?’
Did you just call me to do this?
Come to think of it, there were quite a few times when I was called for something more insignificant than this.
Unlike spitting curses inside, the body was diligently tidying up the dirty room.
“Adrias.”
“Yes Professor.”
“…professor?”
“I’m sorry, Master.”
There is nothing to teach, but the teacher is an asshole.
But I gave a loyal look like a fast-paced recruit.
“I think Angela’s food supply is over a month old.”
Angela was the name of a caged vampire.
“yes. I’ll take care of it after I sort it out.”
“Adrias.”
“yes.”
“I thought you’d changed a bit, but you’ve become more stupid.”
He went out after saying that.
Could it be that you’ve noticed that I’ve changed?
As I entered Adrias’ body, I also changed differently from my original personality.
Even so, he seemed to wonder if he was so different from Adrias.
“If you care about that, you’ll die sooner.”
He muttered to himself and continued to clean.
Anyway I’m a jerk
At most, the only person who cares about my changes is Charon.
If Charon’s reaction was just that much, he wouldn’t have to worry about his behavior every time he recalled Adrias’ memories.
I tried to use the necromancer just in case while cleaning.
It was just the right environment for me.
[Basic Necromancer: Cast Skeleton Summon.]
[Warning! There are currently no summons that can be summoned.]
Oh?
As I tried to use necromancy, the mana array came into my mind automatically, as if programmed.
After arranging the mana, the magic ceremony was organized in turn, and a decent necromancer was activated.
I felt strongly that it was a privilege for the players.
‘I don’t think there will be much pressure if I do this?’
Honestly, when I was making plans in my room, I worried a lot about whether or not I had to learn the basics of magic again, even for black magic.
In the end, I had to look at it for a long time, so I was thinking of borrowing a book from the library and studying on my own, but this saved me time.
‘Still, the things I need to learn don’t change.’
In general, black magic cannot be self-taught.
There was no particular reason, and there was simply no way to learn related knowledge.
Since black magic was taboo in this world, it was being taught in secret in the shadows.
If a book or data were widely available, I would try to study on my own, but there was no black magic book.
…Of course, this is the story of ordinary people.
I had the opportunity to study on my own.
‘It’s a black magic book that’s widely spread here.’
My first growth plan.
Those were Charon’s black magic books.
Until he gets stronger anyway, he has an unbreakable relationship with Charon.
Then you should make the most of it.
If it was the original Adrias, it was Charon’s things that he would not have even thought to touch.
If even one of these books is taken out, there will be an uproar throughout the country as well as the academy.
For some reason, Charon often left Adrias behind to do his own thing.
Of course, if you think about what you’ve done in the past, it’s understandable that you’re not wary of this hogu guy.
First of all, after finishing the cleaning, I went through the things in the lab.
Still, if it was three years since the beginning of Seodang, I could see roughly what it was like reciting Poongwol.
Wouldn’t it make a difference even if I used a little bit?
I immediately checked the black magic books that filled one side of the wall of the lab.
‘Introduction to black magic can be done in a basic lecture for black magicians. You can use black magic too!’
Unlike the books I saw at the academy, I felt a bit wild, but I took out the most basic-looking books first.
As I prepared to read the book in earnest, an intense gaze stabbed me.
“ah.”
My eyes met Vampire Angela, and I awkwardly scratched the back of my head and stood up.
‘I forgot to feed you.’
The guy’s rice was nothing special.
The corpse was already widely spread, so there was enough blood, and I only had to give a little blood.
As Adrias remembered, I brought a long hose, put it in a vat of blood, and passed it over the grate.
Of course, there wasn’t much blood.
Just enough to not starve to death?
Then a cracked voice was heard.
“you….”
I raised my head as I handed over the hose, wondering if I had heard it wrong.
did i hear it wrong
Still, just in case, I asked Angela.
“Did you just say that?”
I don’t remember ever having said anything about her.
It was the first time I had been under Charon for over two years.
But she was just staring at the hose in my hand as if she hadn’t said it before.
‘I think I said that.’
When I handed over the hose from a distance, she approached with difficulty and sucked the hose with her mouth.
I don’t know how he got caught, but he had a great will to live.
After finishing her meal like that, I started to read the book calmly again, but I heard the sound of talking again.
“Adrias.”
When I turned around, crimson eyes were looking at me.
“You are not Adrias. Who is it?”
I was not mistaken.
Instantly, the chicken meat stood up and the whole body stiffened.
However, he opened his mouth calmly without showing any expression.
“I don’t know what you mean. Who am I if not Adrias?”
“If it was Adrias, he would have made a fuss at the point I said it.”
“Funny. Are you finally crazy because you’re locked up? What do you want to say?”
“Get me out of here.”
“her. Am I taking you out because I’m crazy? What new way to commit suicide? I’m sorry, but I don’t intend to die yet.”
“If you don’t take me out, I will reveal your true identity to him.”
“Master? Master will surely believe you.”
“Even if you don’t believe it, you can make it suspicious. That’s enough.”
surely.
It might be tempting if someone I hadn’t spoken to in the past suddenly raises doubts about my identity to Karon.
“At least that’s better than letting you go and dying.”
“Are you afraid of being killed by him?”
“That’s that, but it’s obvious that you’re going to kill me too. Will you let me go because I’m crazy?”
“I promise. I will not kill you.”
Both of her eyes glowed red.
The light was like a light to attract prey.
“And I will kill him too. How is it?”
“Stop talking nonsense and suck blood.”
He said it like this, but honestly, it’s tempting.
When he dies, this place will all be mine.
Of course, I had to dismantle the barrier, but that was all I had to do with Charon’s ring.
“You will have to release me eventually.”
“….”
“If I tell him your true identity, will he really leave you alone? If that happens, you’ll have to release me to live even if you don’t like it. Letting go now before that time comes is the way to buy my favor.”
If it was originally the same, I would ignore it and pass by, but it makes sense.
It’s even more annoying because he said that Karon seems to have changed.
Eventually, I closed the book, put it back, and stood in front of the grate.
“okay. Have you made up your mind?”
“I can’t open this iron grate.”
“That won’t be a problem. All you have to do is release this restraint.”
Unlocking the restraints also requires magical dismantling.
Before thinking about whether I could do it, I asked for a definite answer.
“I swear to you that you won’t kill me before then.”
“Yes, I swear.”
“no. Be sure against the family name.”
“…Are you a family member?”
“Don’t pretend. Until you swear to the family, there’s no way.”
I said this, but honestly, I was skeptical.
Vampires have only one family.
And this is very important, but honestly, anyone would sell the name of the family in a matter where their lives were at stake.
That’s why there’s no way to verify authenticity.
“….”
But Angela took a break unexpectedly.
‘No, it’s just a verbal oath, but you’re saying it’s taking a lot of time like this?’
To be honest, I had no intention of releasing it even if I swore an oath.
I was just using this as an excuse to buy myself a little more time to think about it.
After thinking about it longer than expected, Angela finally opened her mouth.
“Okay. I promise you in Lucifer’s name.”
-Titling!
[Conditions have been met.]
[An object capable of evolution has been searched for.]
As soon as she finished her words, a message rang.
What is this all of a sudden?
[Angela Lucifer’s evolution potential is 55%]
[There are two branches when evolving.]
[Do you want to evolve?]
Why did this pop up all of a sudden?
And I naturally chose OK.
