Chapter 354
It was a bunker in the underground labyrinth of the Devil Castle.
“majesty… … . Somehow, it seems that we did not enter the labyrinth.”
“I think so. I guess… … . I don’t know if I should call it an exit, but it’s clear that I’ve come straight to the place beyond the labyrinth.”
Tana and Charlotte seemed to have noticed that this was their real destination. It has to be, because no matter how you look at it, you can’t see this place as a labyrinth.
“Anyway, the reason we came here is… … . In the first place, the labyrinth is supposed to lead only the demon king to the right place.”
“majesty… … .”
Knowing what that meant, Tana was looking at Charlotte with a sad look.
“I am… … . It seems that he is in a state practically no different from that of the Demon King.”
I don’t know if it was me or Charlotte.
However, the labyrinth has a path that is only shown to Archdemon, and through that path, we reached our destination straight away without wandering through the labyrinth.
Charlotte puts her hand on the bunker wall and looks around.
“If you think about it that way, it’s not clear whether this space actually corresponds to the 6th basement floor of the Demon Castle.”
If the labyrinth was actually on the 6th basement floor, it would be possible to arrive just by going down from the 5th basement floor.
“Although the entrance to the secret passageway looked like a simple passageway, if it functions as a dimensional door, there is a good chance that we came to a completely different space, not the Devil Castle.”
As Tana said, there was a good chance that this place was actually a place far away from the Devil’s Castle.
Teleport could not be used in the castle, but there is a possibility that a warp gate was installed on a limited basis.
I don’t know how it actually is.
But the important thing is, if a certain starting point of the secret passage functions as a dimensional door, there is a pretty high possibility that the strict guys will be blown away into the labyrinth and the Archdemon will be sent to the right place.
However, in the end, things like principles are not that important to us now.
We have arrived at the secret space of the Devil Castle.
“Should I call it a refuge…? … . That’s how it feels.”
“It seems so.”
This huge space had a large quantity of permanently preserved food stored in the food pantry.
Equipment for training was piled up, regardless of magic and weapons, as well as reagents and plantations for alchemy.
I was looking around this bunker with a different sense of horror than Charlotte and Tana.
It is a space where you can live alone for a very long time. At the same time, equipment for training is also prepared.
Even at first glance, most of the books in the library were magic books.
Bali would have tried to come here, and it would have arrived.
In the original story, Bali would have been alive. Right in this bunker.
It gave me a very foreboding feeling.
Demon King Valie Jr., who must have burned with a vengeance while watching the destruction of the Dark Land.
Did Valie, who was a madman, gnashing his teeth here and spurring his training to take revenge on humans?
then.
Is it not Kantus Magna or Akasha, but Valier, who is responsible for the gate crisis?
If I’m the one responsible for the gate scandal, then what’s the point of everything I do?
Isn’t doing nothing right for the whole world?
but.
Nothing can be known.
We knew that Valie was alive at the time of the original story, but there is no evidence that Valie caused the gate debacle.
If nothing is done, in the end, if Kantus Magna and Akasha were the problem, the gate crisis will occur.
But what if they are unrelated? What if I just messed up something and the gate incident happened?
In the original story, Valie would have been an incompetent guy. My body data from the time speaks for itself.
Is it possible for that guy to become a wizard powerful enough to cause a gate crisis after only two years of study just because he had a vengeance?
My growth rate is also unmatched by others, so I wonder if Valie could have grown faster than me? would that be impossible?
It felt like my head would break.
I have never been so afraid of not knowing the future.
“If only the Demon King could enter this place, the current Demon King would have been able to enter this place as well.”
Unlike me worrying about a completely different problem, Tana was also worrying about her own.
“But why didn’t you come here… … . I don’t know.”
Bunker ready.
I didn’t know this place, so I couldn’t come.
“He must have judged that surviving the previous demon king was more important than surviving himself.”
This also has its own reasons.
Rather than surviving and becoming stronger, it was better to try to revive the already strong demon king, so he saved Charlotte.
That’s why the bunker remains in the Devil’s Castle without welcoming the person who should have come. Charlotte looks around the bunker as she examines each room.
“It doesn’t sound like there’s a particularly great treasure. Maybe it’s because it’s a refuge, but… … .”
There were no items that looked like special treasures. Still, there must be some incredibly powerful weapons or artifacts stored there for Valier.
but.
If it’s a very powerful artifact, you should think about using it to win the war. Hiding a powerful artifact here for future promise is itself an act of assuming defeat.
It is possible that there are no powerful artifacts stored here.
The Demon King did not hide here, so this bunker will be for Valie after all. It’s a place to buy time for Balie Junior, who won’t be useful in the fight right now, to escape and grow when the Demon King is defeated in order to promise later.
Aside from worrying about how much Valier’s ability was in reality.
Now, I am a superpower and a warrior at the same time.
If Balie was the main culprit behind the Gate incident, then Balie would have studied magic here.
If so, the place to check is the library.
Among the magic books in the library, if there is any magic related to the portal to another world.
Just burn that magic book.
Then everything I need to do is done easily.
Cold sweat broke out all over his body.
If this is the starting point of all your problems, you can finish everything by burning a few books.
You don’t have to live with dangerous things anymore.
While Charlotte and Tana explored this place separately, I headed to the library among the many rooms in the common room.
The wind was that.
If the books in the library are written in the Asmodian language, a situation arises where it makes no sense for me to read them.
So it had to be written in the common language, so that Tana and Charlotte wouldn’t suspect me if I read it.
If a language problem arises, you have to endure the hassle of having to come here alone later, not now.
“… … .”
The size of the library was quite large.
Fortunately, it was in a common language, so I was able to read it enough.
From introductory and introductory books, very thick books were put on the bookshelf.
I have no intention of studying magic.
The book I had to find was a book related to another world.
And if there is any, it would be nice if there was something about the magic that the demon king cast on Charlotte. It’s still unclear if Charlotte really suffered from magic.
There were quite a few bookshelves, so it would take me a year to go through all the titles, and if the titles didn’t hint at another world, I would have to go through all the contents.
It would be nice if I could come back with a guy with knowledge of magic.
I like Harriet, and I also like Elerith and Lucinil.
This is Dark Land.
Soon, there are many possibilities that there are magic or secret books of demons that humans do not know about.
As I passed the introductory books, other magic books came into my eyes one by one.
[Book of Salamandra]
[About Necromancy]
[Introduction to Soul-Soul Art]
sorcery.
I had no choice but to stop in front of the book.
It was a very thick book.
pertaining to marriage.
This is a book about how to deal with the soul. I don’t know if this is in the general magic system, or if it’s the devil’s secret technique.
However, if what dwells in Charlotte’s body is the demon king’s soul, then it must have been related to this soul magic.
I carefully took out the book and picked it up.
If you move on to the specific magic formula, you won’t be able to recognize it, but you can read the introduction.
[Seolhon is the study of how to deal with the soul, and if you want to master it, you must first understand the soul… … .]
There was a lot of talk about what a soul was, but it was written in such pedantic rhetoric that I couldn’t understand what it meant.
However, soon I was able to reach the part I wanted.
[Those who have mastered the art of soul divination can divide spirits that are normally indistinguishable, become able to manipulate the spirits of others, mix spirits with each other, turn living people into ghosts, You can do things that are normally impossible, such as taking out and transplanting it to someone.]
[However, I would like to add that in order to do such things, a complete understanding of the classifications described below is also required.]
“… … .”
split the soul
It would mean giving away the soul of a being.
mix the soul
It must mean that the souls of different beings can be mixed.
The previous demon king, Balie, must have been a master of the art of marriage.
Demon King Balie split his soul and put a part of it into Charlotte.
It is clear that the magic used on Charlotte was derived from the field of magic called soul magic.
I haven’t yet confirmed if there is magic related to the other world, but I found another magic book I needed.
One by one, I began to select from the bookshelf the other books derived from Introduction to Soul Art, which were written in the footnotes of the introduction.
* * *
There are more than six books related to the art of marriage. And the thickness was about three times that of a decent encyclopedia.
“this… … . what is it all about?”
As I took out the books and started stacking them on the table in the common hall, Tana and Charlotte stared blankly at them.
“I think this is the magic used on you.”
“!”
“I-really!”
Charlotte looked at the pile of books, among them the introductory book, and widened her eyes.
“Spirit… … alcohol?”
“Yes, even though there are no artifacts here, it seems that there are magical secret books of the Pandemonium.”
In order to grow Valie, there were powerful magic and other visions of the Pandemonium in the library.
There is no treasure here, but the real treasure will be the spellbook in the library.
There were other ideas that derived from it.
If the sorcery of souls is a magic system that humans don’t know about, and if the things in that library are the secrets and prohibitions used by demons, including the demon king.
They could be used as bait to draw out Cantus Magna.
Whether that’s something you should do or not, you’ll need to think about.
Tana and Charlotte aren’t wizards either, but they started reading the introductory part of the introductory book I had read.
It is clear that these two are gradually feeling the feelings I felt.
“The magic system that deals with souls… … .”
Charlotte’s fingertips were shaking, and Saviolin Tana seemed to doubt her eyes.
Shortly after, Charlotte shut her mouth, as if she had read the part about the things you can do once you mastered the art of persuasion.
“I found it… … . this… … . this is it… … . It was this… … .”
It is by no means a small amount.
But if you make a royal mage or whoever master this soul art.
Charlotte’s condition could improve.
If so.
Even if my identity is revealed later, Charlotte will think that I did not help to resurrect the demon king.
“Go, thank you… … . Thanks, Reinhardt.”
Charlotte trembled and carefully hugged me, and I hugged her like that.
Charlotte will get better.
but.
Having taken on the new problem of surviving Valieri, I could never feel at ease.
* * *
There was no treasure in the bunker, but more books than treasure were sleeping.
Dark Land’s magic, or the devil’s only magic.
There were obviously general spellbooks, but there were also spellbooks for prohibition, and there were also spellbooks with only the magic name written on them without even knowing what kind of magic it was. Of course, it might be because I am unfamiliar with magic.
“This… … . My problem is also a problem, but it is a very big discovery.”
Charlotte decided that the real value of bunkers was in their libraries, and that was true. Me, Tana, and Charlotte entered the library and went through the magic books on the bookshelves.
“I think it would be nice to bring the royal mage with you later. of course… … . It would be a hassle for His Highness to come back in person.”
You can reach the bunker only when Charlotte comes by yourself.
And that would be true. However, not only Charlotte but also I will be able to enter the bunker. If you come back with an expert on magic, you will be able to properly understand the value of this magic book.
“For now, let’s just bring a book about the spirit of marriage. You never know what could happen if you wrongly unleashed an overly dangerous magic into the world.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Charlotte was in a position to be cautious about unleashing dangerous spellbooks called the devil’s magic into the world rather than blindly retrieving them.
That choice is better for me too.
If all the magic books in this library are transferred to the imperial family, they will be out of my hands. These spellbooks are important in their own right, but to me they are bait to use when contacting Kantus Magna, which may happen in the future.
Just as Antirianus has a lot of forbidden alcohol, so Cantus Magna came in contact, I will be able to contact Cantus Magna with these magic books as bait.
So it’s good that these magic books remain in this place, except for the books on soul magic.
It is still unknown whether Balie is the culprit behind the gate incident or not.
Is it fortunate or unlucky?
Regarding magic related to another world, at least there was no magic book that could be recognized just by the title of the book.
The possibility that Balie was the cause of the gate incident is slightly lowered by this.
Charlotte’s expression as she leafed through the bookshelves was full of memories.
“If I go back to my original state, I will never come back to this place, right?”
“I don’t know, but… … . I think it probably is.”
If the demon king’s soul is removed, it would be natural, but it is natural that Charlotte cannot pass through this labyrinth that only opens the way for the demon king.
“Then, I will retrieve these magic books before removing the demon lord’s soul from my body.”
That you can get out of a situation where your soul is being eroded.
Charlotte’s face looked so happy when she found the clue, it seemed that all my worries had disappeared for a moment.
