Ruler of the Game 457

Chapter 457 – Mythology Academy

The appearance of a stone that constantly blocks long-range attacks along with about 5 shields. Seeing that, Seong-il puts on a satisfied expression and thinks.

“It’s really nice. It moves so fast and so precise.”

Satisfied with the defense ability of the Ethereal Stone of matter, he continued the experiment with his alter ego for a while.

“Oh…The duration is quite long? Even with full power to defend, it lasts for almost an hour.”

Seong-il looks satisfied with the power of the Ethereal Stone, which lasts for quite a long time even without consuming his inner strength.

“If you use your inner energy…”

Upon giving the stone a command, the ethereal stone quickly sucked in his energy. Perhaps it was because the internal energy of the Heaven, Earth, Yin and Yang intercourse was so pure, Stone seemed to be supplementing magic with internal energy without any problems.

“Hmm… It sucks about 20% of my inner energy? It’s quite a waste…”

Seong-il focused on thoroughly understanding the limitations of the Ethereal Stone of matter. He chews and tastes the stone for a while, checking everything.

“Okay… At this point, I think I’ve figured out all the passive skills…”

Seong-il, who has grasped everything about passive skills, wants to experiment with active skills for the last time.

“Children! You worked hard. Stop attacking and bring the metal.”

“Huh!!”

At Seongil’s words, the alter egos stopped throwing and picked up the metal pieces scattered around and set them down in front of him.

“Strong will…”

Seong-il begins to inject his will into the Ethereal Stone. Then, Stone begins to absorb Seongil’s energy in real time.

“Keuk… It’s going to consume all my energy in an hour?”

An active skill that consumes several times more energy than a passive one. Seong-il puts on a tired expression and tries to project the power of the stone onto the metal in front of him.

“Oh…”

Interestingly, the lumps of metal begin to mutate according to his will. They begin to change shape as easily as Seongil wants, just like clay dough.

“When you change something, there is an additional consumption of magic power.”

A tricky active skill that consumes a lot of additional internal energy. However, since there are as many advantages as there are penalties, Seong-il highly considers the potential of the Ethereal Stone of matter.

“…It’s not at the level of omnipotence, but it’s amazing to be able to freely control materials such as metal.”

Seong-il manipulated and played with materials like that. After a certain amount of time, he feels an extreme sense of exhaustion rushing through his body.

“Like… Considering the consumption of mental power, even if you drink and use mana potions, half a day is the limit. I can’t handle more than that.”

In addition to simple internal energy consumption, a lot of mental power was also consumed in a relationship that required a high degree of concentration. Seong-il grabs his head, which is pounding with a headache, and thinks as he opens the mana potion and pours it into his mouth.

“Rather than the Stone of Spirit, the Stone of Matter will be more useful right now.”

Seong-il was compared to the Ethereal Stone of Black Ball and Mind. He eventually decides to use the points to purchase the Ethereal Stone of the material.

***

“Shit… I wanted to buy the Ethereal Stone of Spirit, too, but it’s a pity.”

Seong-il muttered after purchasing the material Ethereal Stone. Sooner or later, he decides to quickly attack Claudia to gain additional points.

***

“Hmm?”

Seong-il was taking a break in the dormitory after finishing the experiment. He suddenly confirms that a message has been sent to the leading department-only contact item late at night.

“What?”

A sacred day for holding items and examining their contents. He confirms that a familiar name appears there.

“I am preparing hard.”

“Ah, it’s Yudi.”

It seems that he is working hard on a plan to capture Claudia.

『What, how are you doing?』

『Huh… It’s hard to explain in writing, but when is the meeting…』

Reasonable words of Yudi. It must be that her status is still an ordinary academy student anyway, so Seong-il goes out to meet her without any burden on her.

“Here…!!”

Two people who met in a park where people were rare. Her holy day approaches and whispers to her with her hood pressed down.

“Did you manage to get out of the scene?”

“It’s thanks to Seongil-nim giving us a lot of items.”

“…First of all, let’s go to a place where we can talk comfortably.”

Seong-il takes Yoo-di and moves to the Inner Plain, as it is difficult if their tricks get into the ears of others.

“…So, what are you planning to do?”

“Ah, that’s…”

Yudi explains to Seongil what he wants to do. Upon hearing all of this, Seong-il’s expression hardens.

“…Isn’t that too radical? What if Claudia chooses the worst move?”

“Ah, don’t worry about that. I’ve been with Claudia-senpai for close to two years… You know her temperament well, right? If not, she will have no choice but to kneel…”

“Um…”

No matter how much it is, Yudi’s plan is too radical. As Seong-il stands there frowning, Yu-di desperately persuades Seong-il.

“I’m really confident to make it a success! I, Devin and Ron, the secret sanctuary where the three apostles of Tala used to come and go has quite a lot of useful items for the plan!”

“…Okay?”

“Yes! There are items that Tala-sama gave you for torture after capturing the unknown factor… No, there are items that Tala gave you personally. If you use all of the defense items equipped in the sanctuary, you will be able to succeed. “

Yudi desperately clings to Seongil, perhaps because her freedom depends on it. In front of Seongil’s eyes, she gets on her knees and bows her head to convince him.

“If this plan fails!! My soul will be set free anyway. In return, I will give my life to the Master! Hang myself…”

“…It’s okay. Don’t go that far.”

Seong-il’s heart weakened by Yu-di’s desperate, even mournful attitude. He sighed lightly before speaking to her.

“Then let’s do this. I will prepare as much items as possible to help my followers and colleagues, so let’s make a more elaborate plan. What do you think?”

“Of course it’s good!! But…”

“…?”

“I am… Two months at the most…”

“Ah…”

Perhaps it refers to the situation in which Tala realizes her own freedom. Seong-il understands her words and nods her head in agreement.

“Don’t worry. Instead, let’s plan well. It’s okay to overdo it, so tell us everything you need. Whether it’s good or not, okay?”

“Ah! Yes!!”

“…By the way, what are the artifacts in the sanctuary?”

“Ah, there is a device that inflicts pain or death upon revealing a secret to the wearer, and there is also a magic contract…”

“Hmm…”

Seong-il starts exchanging plans to teach Claudia with Yudi for a while.

‘…Originally, I would have just refused, but the response unexpectedly tells me that the plan isn’t bad, so I can’t just deny this…’

‘So… I need to get useful items from Yuna.’

Seong-Il plots to capture Yudi and Claudia. He moves to the Pineapple House to calm his anxiety.

***

“Good morning!! Seongil-kun!!”

“Yes. Manager.”

Seong-il, who was attending lectures as usual, entered the clubroom and practiced privately. Claudia and some seniors appear and greet him.

“Hey, is it training from morning?

Shuna, a red-haired sorceress, admires Seong-il, who meditates in the corner of the room in the morning.

“Ah, well… I practice lightly so as not to forget the meditation method I learned the day before. I’m not really trying hard.”

“Cook cook. That’s hard work~”

Shuna makes fun of Seong-il’s excuses as if they were cute. Then, Albert tapped her on the shoulder and said.

“Stop talking nonsense, come along and check the budget with me.”

“Hi-in… I’ve been working since morning…”

“It’s morning, so I’m working.”

Albert takes Shuna, who grumbles, and moves himself into her room. Naturally, when he and her Claudia are left in her room, Seong-il carefully throws her rice cakes at her.

“Chief. There’s something I want to tell you, but…”

“Hmm? Suddenly?”

“Yes. Let’s talk alone…”

“Huh…”

Claudia sweeps him with a strange look at the expression that they are alone. Then she smiles and readily expresses her acceptance.

“Okay! Come here!!”

On such a holy day, Claudia leads her to her own office.

“Hey! What’s going on?”

After sitting her holy day at the reception table, Claudia pours warm black tea and asks.

“…Yudi-senpai.”

“Um? Yudi?”

“Yes. It’s a bit strange.”

“To?”

Claudia puts on a puzzled expression at her unexpected statement. To her, her holy days begin to recite little by little the lies she had prepared in advance.

“Honestly… The assassination that happened last time.”

“Ah, that case…”

A word of Seongil that makes the hall heavy. When the incident in which there were two traitors among the trusted members comes back out of Seong-il’s mouth, Claudia’s laughing expression hardens again.

“Yes. That incident. At that time, I was not in a hurry and just passed it over, but now that I think about it, Senior Yudi’s attitude at the time was strange.”

“…Which?”

“Devin, it’s Ron’s previous night watch, but the fact that I didn’t check for abnormalities, and the fact that the assassin broke into my room immediately after being shifted.”

“!!”

Seongil’s words made Claudia flinch.

“…Apart from going right away. It’s a bit strange that two men came in to assassinate me right after my shift.”

“…Surely.”

“Under that circumstance, you would have seen Ron, the third shift, but you didn’t report that?”

“…”

Claudia’s expression turned cold. As the atmosphere seems to be ripe, Seong-il carefully recites the prepared rice cake.

“No matter how you think about it, it’s strange. So…”

Seong-il quietly takes out the memory jewel from his bosom and hands it to Claudia.

“…This?”

“Let’s look at the memories.”

At Seongil’s words, Claudia calmly holds on to the memory jewel and examines its contents. Perhaps because she has used it before, she uses the item with ease.

“!!!”

Then, the appearance of Yudi from memory. In the middle of the night, she broke through the park deep inside the academy and infiltrated somewhere in the back mountain.

“… Personally, I was a bit suspicious. Whenever I had free time, I was following Yudi-senpai for a few days.”

“No way…?”

“Yes. Then I witnessed this scene.”

“Um…”

“In case you didn’t know, after seeing this scene, I followed the senior for two more days, but she always moved to this place.”

“…”

Claudia puts a serious expression on Seongil’s remark. She asks Seong-il with an expression full of her anguish.

“…So, Seongil-kun thinks she’s also an apostle of Tala?”

“I don’t know.”

“Hmm…?”

Claudia puts on a slightly puzzled look when her holy day changes her words by directing the conversation as if Yudi is Tala’s apostle.

“… Honestly, wouldn’t it be possible to know only after checking her to the end? It’s a bit problematic to interrogate her only with her circumstances.”

“Ah, well, that’s right.”

“After I found out that there were two traitors in the leading team, the atmosphere in the leading team deteriorated a lot, but I don’t want to make hasty judgments.”

“Ah…”

Claudia understands Seongil’s words. She asks Seong-il with an expression full of her anguish.

“…I want to ask what exactly Seongil-kun wants?”

“The manager wants me and me to secretly follow senior Yudi.”

“Yes?! Just the two of us?!”

I agreed with Seong-il’s words that since Yu-di is a traitor, let’s follow her, but the two of us are alone. Claudia is taken aback when he tells her to do it secretly.

“Yes.”

“Why?!

“Because the leadership doesn’t want to be broken anymore.”

“!!!”

Seong-il’s answer hits the mark. When Claudia, who is at a loss for words, stays still, Seong-il quickly continues her words.

“Isn’t that right. There’s already a traitor inside, so it’s a leader in a gloomy state, but there’s an additional traitor here? Then the atmosphere will flow even worse.”

“Um…”

“Even the former is better.”

“Is it better?”

“Yes. In the former case, the suspicion turned out to be certainty, so we might be able to just sort it out and move on, but if our suspicions turn out to be false, the lead team…”

“Um…”

Though speechless, the intelligent Claudia easily understands Seongil’s words.

“… Mutual distrust may shake the foundation of the leadership team.”

“Yes. So now, before I’m sure. It means that only the two of us, the manager and I, will follow.”

“Surely…”

Claudia closes her eyes, leans back on her chair, and begins to think hard about something.