I Became the Dark Wizard Who Rules Over the Heroines

94 – Compromise-9

“Okay.”

I was completely devastated. Looking at that appearance, it was impossible to imagine that she was the proud and strong warlock.

Catherine’s black dress, which had always lost its noble color, was a mess of dust and blood.

In contrast, her pure white and beautiful skin was also dirty with sweat and wounds.

Helpless Her Her Her Her burning magic Her Her Her lost its power Her Her her, and she stopped offering her ‘unsacrificing’ to Asmodeus.

He was just sitting on the floor, waiting for my mercy.

‘Thank goodness.’

I didn’t expect that her presence in Carbossa and Kelin’s persuasion would be able to change her.

To be precise, even though I had a guess, I couldn’t be sure. I couldn’t make a plan based on that.

But in the end, it was a success. Catherine gave in.

“I’ll accept it… No matter what you do to me.”

Katharine got down on her knees and bowed her head.

Done. Katharine is definitely conniving, but she won’t betray me for no reason ‘as long as she’s in that state’.

Of course, she is a cold-hearted person rather than honest. Even when I am in a desperate situation, she is not someone who will loyally betray me.

‘But…’

She is wiser than that.

No matter how weak I become, if that opponent is Kazot, she has no choice.

Since making the Erst family and territory great was her absolute goal, betraying me and joining Kazot was an act that had no practical benefit.

There is no way Katharine could not judge her situation properly. I can’t have the foolish delusion of thinking that I will never be able to make up for the weaknesses I showed today.

Katharine is the power I can use now.

“Okay. Then this is over and-“

“…What is it?”

Katharine looked at me with her puzzled eyes.

“Well, didn’t he just say a word? Wasn’t there something more like a ritual that a warlock would do?”

“There is such a thing… Right?”

When the superiority and inferiority between warlocks was determined, there were times when the winner imposed various restrictions to force the loser to submit.

“Are you… Going to trust me? That’s foolish. As a human Katharine, I’m grateful, but the thought of someone on the same boat being so clueless makes me uneasy. What on earth are you thinking?”

“Well, I don’t know how to write. That kind of thing.”

“…Yes?”

Kelin and Katharine looked at me at the same time as if it was absurd.

“Well, the thing that broke the restrictions on Kelin was-“

“Did I wake up?”

I looked at Kellyn with her mischievous eyes. Kelin nodded her head.

“There were restrictions on me, too… But most of them were restrictions that became meaningless the moment the ‘most feared warlock’ stopped being a young lady.”

“Aha.”

It was half an accident or a misunderstanding that she found out about my power

However, when I thought about how unusual it was to draw power from ‘Fragments of the Void’, I couldn’t say it was necessarily a misunderstanding.

In fact, in less than a year, I grew into a warlock capable of fighting and defeating Katharine on my own.

“I guess that’s how it happened. I didn’t break it on purpose.”

For a warlock of Katarin’s level, it would not be strange if he made such a choice for the sake of pharmaceutical efficiency.

Whether big or small, most restraints and restrictions diminish the abilities of the person being restrained. If someone was as trustworthy as Kellin, there would have been no reason to suppress them by signing a complex and rigid contract.

“Anyway… Why aren’t you doing anything to me?”

“Well, is there anything you want to receive?”

“That’s not it!”

I felt a little sorry for Katharine, but no matter what she wanted, I couldn’t accept her wishes.

“Unfortunately, no.”

“I’m not saying I want to receive it, but… I’m curious as to why. Why?”

“I don’t know.”

Catherine was wise. She remained silent for about 2 or 3 seconds, as if her head was blank, but then she seemed to realize and glare at me with a distorted face.

“You, Wade! Surely, you won’t say that what I thought was right?”

“Believe in yourself.”

“Seriously, are you coming out like that?”

Claire, who did not understand the flow of this conversation, looked at me with puzzled eyes.

“What are you talking about, Wade?”

“Katharine is bullying me. Why is that all I’ve learned?”

“Huh?”

“It’s true.”

Katharine woke up with difficulty and took a deep sigh.

“You should have noticed this a long time ago. This beast that is only strong in magic, she probably didn’t learn any other black magic other than what she learned at school… “

“Of course.”

Considering the difficulty level alone, it was a basic level of black magic. Personally, anyone who learned black magic from a teacher would have learned that type of magic as if it were natural.

However, the only magic I learned was the black magic I learned at school.

“Ugh…”

No matter how evil black magic was, there was no way that black magic, which dominates and oppresses others, could be taught in an academy that operates under the protection of the empire.

“Even so, for a warlock like you, there must have been a separate way to learn it, right?”

“I didn’t think it was necessary… And in the first place, it wasn’t easy to personally contact a warlock at the academy.”

In my Magi, there are no ‘sects’. Since there is no devil to serve, you cannot use the devil’s authority to pressure someone.

Even within the game, the black magic related to redemption was nothing short of a trap.

If the binding force is vague, it is no different from not doing it, and if the binding force is strong, the weakening of the ability is so severe that it is meaningless.

‘Only here, it seems natural among warlocks to bind each other with such contracts…’

There was even an added requirement that he had to be stronger than the warlock who would be his subordinate, so he did not feel the need to learn it.

“Such…”

“Katarine, you might not know because you’re usually surrounded by warlocks, but I’m not.”

There would have been ways to learn the spell separately from a teacher or personally hire a warlock. To be a bit extreme, there was also a way to learn from a fellow student.

But not all of them were options I could choose. The moment the black magic teacher asks, ‘Why do you need that magic?’, She takes advantage of my weakness

Hiring a warlock was not easy. Considering the image I was trying to create within the academy, contacting an unauthorized warlock posed quite a risk.

Contacting Kellyn and other students is similar. Even if it wasn’t an extreme case like Katharine, there was a need for others to be afraid of me to some extent.

Not many people thought that someone with this level of power would only use magic ‘learned at the academy’.

Only someone like Katharine thought of it as a deadly tactic ahead of the final battle.

In the end, the biggest reason I didn’t learn the magic was that there was no need to do it.

“That was stupid. I knew you could only use the magic you learned at the academy, but my thoughts didn’t flow that far.”

As if confessing it, Katharine sighed.

“But, you won’t have time to stay like this, right?”

“Why?”

“New friends will be coming. They will have realized by now that our fight is not over.”

A Kazot executive will be approaching here. Of course, I didn’t know that either.

“It’s blocked over there, right?”

“Yes?”

Of course, the level of the executives who came to ‘clean up’ couldn’t have been that high. A high-ranking officer like that would have tried to attack me along with Carbossa and Wilhelm a long time ago.

However, in this situation where we were all exhausted, the thought that one more fight might break out was not pleasant.

“East and west. At the end of the village. Can’t you feel it?”

“…Could you please get me up? I think I need to at least keep my eyes on you.”

I put my arm between her armpits, lifted her up, and walked her toward the window.

“Oh, I can see it. Did you call me?”

“If I had been called, things wouldn’t have been resolved this hard.”

“…I see.”

Her eyes strengthened by black magic, she clearly saw what was happening far away.

/////

“What are they, Yurishia? They never said we had to fight these guys!”

Xenia pouted her lips, spreading her colorful magic everywhere.

Fireballs, ice arrows, colorful magic projectiles.

It was the magic of an archmage that an ordinary person would never see in their lifetime, but it was shabby compared to the one next to him.

“That’s not important. From the looks of it, they are dark wizards who are plotting an evil plan, so you can just think of them as getting off the hook and punish them.”

A princess holding a sword was cutting down her enemies.

“It’s overtime, it’s overtime! At first glance, it doesn’t look like I’m wanted anywhere, so why am I using my magical power to do something like this-“

“If it’s a reward, I’ll give it to you. I’m sure your father will be happy.”

“Ugh…”

Xenia shook her head, but she had no choice but to immediately catch the gangsters who were moving into the city with a terrifying magic bomb.

“It’s annoying!!!”

“Oh my, Xenia. You seem to be lacking vitality in life. When you have time, come to our church and think about the purpose of life-“

“I hate that even more!!!”

Under the saint’s protection, the archmage’s magic and the princess’s sword danced.

The Khazot organization around Karbossa was annihilated without leaving a trace.