I Installed a Dating App and These Otherworld Virgins Became Obsessed With Me. 175

## Chapter 175 – 175. Phantom Thief Magician

#175. Phantom Thief Magician

I headed to the detached residence with Iris in my arms.

I returned to the room, but Sylvia wasn’t there.

She probably sensed my presence and left beforehand.

‘Well…’

After what happened, it would be awkward to face me right away.

I laid the sleeping Iris on the bed and quietly left the room.

Sooner or later, in three hours at the earliest, or by dawn at the latest, someone will realize that the Baron has been assassinated.

As soon as that happens, a massive search for the culprit will take place.

Of course, if it weren’t for the cooperation of the Baroness, Lina Hessler’s mother, it wouldn’t be strange if the Baron’s body was discovered right away.

‘If I leave, Sylvia will know and come back like a ghost, so I can put aside my worries about Iris for a while.’

As soon as I left the room, I used the Transparency magic.

If I were just moving around in the detached residence, I wouldn’t need to use magic, but I was going to the main residence from now on.

‘They say the culprit reappears at the scene of the crime.’

I didn’t know that saying would be so accurate.

It’s a bit unsettling that I’m the person in question.

I walked through the garden, following the magic emanating from the key.

The party was over, and the garden was crowded with people leaving the mansion. There were some guards with unusual auras among the escorts, so I moved while hiding my presence as much as possible.

Fortunately, I was able to infiltrate the mansion easily, taking advantage of the chaos.

‘It doesn’t seem to be the Baron’s office… the basement?’

The key’s magic was pointing to the basement of the mansion.

Of course, there was a basement in the mansion’s blueprint that I received from Lina Hessler, but it was just a warehouse that the servants frequented.

There’s no way the Baron, who is so serious about security that he carries a magically treated key, would have made an entrance in a place like a warehouse.

[Detection]

As expected, when I examined the basement of the mansion with magic, a space that wasn’t on the blueprint was revealed.

Thanks to that, finding the entrance wasn’t that difficult. When I reached a hallway in the corner of the first floor that looked deserted, I saw a wall that felt strangely out of place.

It was such a subtle sense of incongruity that I would have missed it if I didn’t have the key.

When I put my hand on the wall, my hand passed right through it. The entrance was hidden by the wall.

‘If you could pass through it normally, it would have been discovered a long time ago…’

I guess it’s a phantom that takes on substance depending on the conditions.

I boldly went beyond the wall, and a staircase leading to the basement appeared.

I tapped the stone wall. I tapped it with magic, but it didn’t even leave a scratch.

“…Who the hell made this barrier?”

It must have been made by a magician of at least the 3rd Circle, spending a considerable amount of time.

[Light]

I went down the stairs with the light made by magic.

I went down about 3 floors, and an old iron door appeared.

It was an incredibly thick iron door with no special pattern, and the unusual thing was that the keyhole was in the very center.

I put the key I took from the Baron into the hole.

With a click, the iron door opened by itself, and dust scattered in the wind.

Beyond the iron door, a small room of about 10 pyeong appeared.

“Wow…”

I couldn’t help but exclaim at the sight I was seeing for the first time.

As expected, the room was filled with a considerable amount of gold bars, jewels, and gold coins.

This must be the Baron’s secret vault.

It was a considerable amount, but there was no problem taking it thanks to the inventory.

As far as I know, one 1kg gold bar is worth about 100 million won. There are hundreds of them, so just the gold bars are worth hundreds of billions of won, and if you add all kinds of jewels…

“…I shouldn’t have sold the Minotaur’s magic stone.”

I suddenly regretted selling Minotaur’s magic stone. It’s not easy to get something like that even if you have money.

There was nothing better than that to use as a medium for the barrier. Or I could have ordered a wand or staff.

“Well, I can’t help it. I’ll have to go back to Earth soon and enter the upper gate.”

I could buy it at an auction, but if I don’t want to lose half of my hard-earned fortune, it’s much cheaper to get it myself.

While I was putting gold bars, jewels, and gold coins into my inventory, my heart was filled with abundance.

I felt another sense of incongruity on the right wall.

It wasn’t a magical feeling.

It just seemed cleaner than other places. As if it had been touched by human hands often.

[Detection]

There was nothing beyond the wall. But my gut was still telling me that something was wrong.

The suspicion only grew stronger as time went on.

I looked around the room, tapping or groping the wall to see if there was anything, but I didn’t find anything special.

Just when I was about to give up and go back.

Suddenly, as soon as I touched it, the wall was pushed in with a small vibration.

Then I heard the sound of machinery turning somewhere.

“Huh…?”

The wall that was particularly clean opened, revealing a hidden secret space.

I was embarrassed by the sudden situation, but I didn’t see any gold bars or jewels.

Instead, there was a small, old-looking box.

It was locked, but the key I had fit perfectly.

“What is this?”

Inside the box was a black bead.

It was sparkling like obsidian, like a jewel.

I wondered how expensive the jewel was that it was hidden separately, and then.

Ting-

[Information on the newly acquired item is being collected]

“…Huh?”

***

As soon as the day dawned, the mansion was turned upside down.

A maid who went to find the Baron, who was not in the bedroom, found his body in the office.

All the servants in the mansion, as well as the vassals who followed the Baron family, quickly gathered.

We, as guests, were no exception.

The sudden death of the Baron caused loud voices among the vassals.

Some suggested that those who participated in the auction the day before should be called back immediately, while others said that it was unrealistic because many had left the castle early in the morning.

But at the housekeeper’s words that the guard had disappeared, the culprit was narrowed down to the guard.

Of course, only a few of these people are sincerely trying to catch the culprit.

“Everyone, please be quiet.”

As the commotion grew louder, Lina Hessler stepped forward.

Behind Lina Hessler were the vassals who followed her, and at first glance, it seemed that more than half of the vassals gathered here were there.

“First, I will organize a pursuit team to chase the guard, and then send obituaries to the nearby territories for my father’s funeral.”

She skillfully commanded the servants and calmed the commotion.

Everyone was about to move as if they were fascinated by her charisma.

“It’s you!!”

Suddenly, Henriot Hessler shouted loudly.

He also had vassals around him, but they were significantly fewer than the vassals who followed Lina Hessler.

“Haa… Brother, haven’t I told you every time? Don’t leave out the subject.”

The two glared at each other as if they were going to kill each other. The half-blooded siblings had long since turned into enemies who couldn’t wait to kill each other.

“You’re so shameless, you parricide who killed your father!”
“…You’re going too far. Are you trying to slander your sister without any evidence?”
“Ha, evidence? Who else but you could be the culprit by the process of elimination! The guard has no motive to kill the father and run away in the first place! On the other hand, you have more than enough motive to kill the father!”

Lina Hessler smiled faintly at his words.

“I’d like to hear it. What is that motive?”

It almost looked like a sneer.

“You must have been impatient, because if things continue like this, I, whom you hate so much, will become the next Baron.”
“Well, to my eyes, it just looks like a half-blooded aristocrat is struggling to live…”

At that moment, Henriot Hessler’s face contorted.

A half-blooded aristocrat, a statement targeting the fact that his mother was from a commoner.

“You’re clouding the atmosphere with just suspicion, just like before.”

Maybe everyone gathered here has thought about this at least once.

That it might be Lina Hessler, not the missing guard, who killed the Baron.

But that doesn’t matter now.

The important thing is to look good to her, who is the most likely candidate to be the next Baron.

Loud voices were constantly exchanged between the two siblings, but it was mainly Henriot Hessler who shouted. From his point of view, he would be desperate because he might be kicked out of the mansion, let alone the title.

Of course, whether he did or not, Iris and I sat on a nearby sofa and watched the situation.

“How’s your headache, Iris?”
“Ugh… I’m, I’m okay…”

Iris had been suffering from a hangover since morning. The drunkenness can be blown away with magic, but the hangover was another matter.

I should have prepared a hangover cure if I knew this would happen.

There were also glances that seemed to suspect us from time to time, but there was no one here who was crazy enough to touch us, who were Lina Hessler’s guests.

“Didn’t you order them to do it!!”

Of course, there was one guy who was so out of his mind that he couldn’t even tell the difference between heaven and earth.

“A wandering magician couple who don’t even belong to the Continental Magic Association was suspicious from the beginning! Didn’t you order them to assassinate my father!”

Henriot Hessler pointed at me and raised his voice, and the servants buzzed.

“What are the guards doing! Put them in jail right now…”
“Brother.”

Lina Hessler muttered as if warning.

“I will consider insults to my guests as insults to me. Guards, it seems that my brother is not in good mental condition due to my father’s obituary, so please take him to his room quickly.”
“”Yes!””
“L, let go of me! Do you know who I am to dare to touch me!!”

Henriot Hessler was dragged away by the guards.

There is a saying that the actual legal battle takes place outside the court, not in the court.

The moment he failed to prevent the assassination of Baron Hessler, he had already lost the succession competition.

-I’ll go up first.

After giving Lina Hessler a rough hint, I returned to the detached residence with Iris.

Back in the room, I laid Iris on the bed.

“I’ll touch you for a moment.”

I put my hand on Iris’s forehead and used magic. My magic, which contains a faint amount of divine power, may have some effect on hangovers.

“Hiss, haa…”
“Are you okay?”
“Yes… It’s cool…”

Fortunately, Iris closed her eyes with a pleasant moan, as if it was working.

I watched her with a happy smile and opened the inventory to take out the black pearl.

[Essence of Biresiel
Grade: Epic
Contains a large amount of magic.
Successfully consuming it will grant you a magic eye.
※Caution! Your body may be damaged upon consumption.]

It was the obsidian-like jewel that I had brought from the Baron’s underground vault last night.

At first, I thought it was a jewel, but it turned out to be a spirit medicine.

It was also a spirit medicine containing magic that I had been looking for so much.

With this, I might be able to find a clue to move on to the next realm.

‘It’s about time I made a strong energy.’

Right now, my dantian is forcibly getting along with the small amount of magic that the diamond energy has.

I had to increase the magic as soon as possible to balance the two energies, but I didn’t know any mental cultivation methods related to magic, so I didn’t have a proper solution.

I never dreamed that I would get a spirit medicine containing magic in a place like this.

‘Why am I so lucky?’

It seems that my fierce fate is finally loosening a little.

While I was looking at the spirit medicine and smiling, I heard a familiar voice.

“What’s so funny?”

Sylvia, who was running away as soon as she saw me this morning, was sitting on the sofa.

“What’s going on?”

She was still avoiding my gaze with her arms crossed.

“The Witch of Malefice has disappeared.”