Chapter 17: Misunderstanding

I’ve been investing more time in the magic formula I’ve been working on for the past few months.

Normally, it wouldn’t take me more than 15 minutes to finish the magic formulas Rachel gives me, without any help and just by looking up a few proper nouns.

But as I said before, there’s a reason why magic formula research has become a big part of my daily life.

‘Solving a magic formula and developing and executing it yourself are two completely different things.’

I had to find a way to very naturally hide the drug that disrupts mana, so that even Aura users wouldn’t notice it, and it had to maintain a natural appearance without any taste or being detected by anyone. It would be a disaster if Dylan or the head of the family, who have a good sense, caught on.

And I had to hide the magic tools that help with that in appropriate places. And I requested and observed other magic tools from Rachel.

So, what is the magic formula I created?

It’s simple.

Clap.

The incantation was a short clap of hands.

Everything was quiet.

The sound echoing from the ceiling in the dark silence was enough to capture their attention.

Aura spreads in the sky.

The count holding a sword, the merchant trying to escape by grabbing the doorknob, and the vassal running towards the back door.

Everyone stared at one place, looking up at the ceiling as if possessed by something.

“…What did you activate?”

Yuria, who was watching the situation, was more surprised than I expected.

This wasn’t a remark that belittled me. It was a question filled with genuine awe.

It wouldn’t be difficult to cast a sleep spell on individuals, if they weren’t resisting.

But it’s a different matter to cast it on one, two, and then on everyone in the banquet hall, which is about 500 people.

Even I don’t have that much mana.

I just used a little trick.

“Poison, the food that the merchants ate and were supposed to die from. I just took out the part that would kill them. Just in case, Yuria, I asked you to check it a second time and told you to leave the poison that wouldn’t kill them.”

“…Yes, but there was no magic in it. Let alone a scroll…”

Ah,

Yuria, who had been thinking quietly, exclaimed.

Poison. It was the poison that disrupted mana.

A magic that could theoretically be attempted by placing magic tools in a certain location. Even in this case, if there was no meticulous calculation, the magic tool and the drug in the body would not react with each other, resulting in failure. Therefore, she hadn’t even considered it. But this part could be sufficiently covered by Ian’s magic formula.

As expected, since she was the one who mostly installed the magic tools, Yuria, who had roughly finished calculating in her head, couldn’t hide her admiration for Ian.

Yuria grabbed the railing and looked down with cold eyes.

“……Fifteen, seven of them have already been subdued, and it seems that the rearguard is waiting. They’re all wearing skins or using very discreet stealth magic. If it weren’t for the magic tool, I wouldn’t have been able to find them easily.”

Now the banquet hall is bright. With a pure white light.

The white magic tool that Yuria had ordered emitted light.

A shadow passing by in the reflected light.

Such words were about to follow.

-Click.

Yuria, who heard a faint footstep, narrowed her eyes.

“…Master, they’re here.”

“Oh. I know. I’m watching everything with the magic tool.”

At that moment.

Thieves who were not affected by the magic rushed towards us.

I turned my head as expected.

“I knew you’d come first. The prettiest one here is Yuria.”

-Zap!!!!

A small magic tool on the building pillar emits lightning.

Lightning spread around Yuria, centered on me. The thieves, who were electrocuted without even a chance to escape, trembled their arms and legs and fell to the floor.

‘There’s no trap as specialized in subduing as lightning.’

But they weren’t knocked down. After all, a body protected by magic and trained with mana doesn’t break easily.

“…Ugh, damn it! What the hell is going on with this Count’s family…!!”

They shot crossbows attached to their forearms while lying on the floor. Judging from the magic circle I saw at the end, it was clear that they had been illegally enhanced.

‘Because Aura or high-circle mages don’t die easily.’

But contrary to their wishes.

Next to me was the world’s next strongest vampire, Yuria, who had drunk plenty of blood and was enjoying her meal.

A wave of blood with a single gesture lightly pushes away the arrows.

The arrows fired one more time couldn’t penetrate the wall made of blood. The thieves, who saw that, swallowed their breath. The fact that all the thieves’ attacks were noticed by us from the beginning, even though they were ambushes, was the cause of their defeat.

Ian looked down at them, gently holding Yuria, who was sucking on his neck, which he had licked this morning. The sound of the thieves grinding their teeth in humiliation could be heard all the way here.

“Y, you!!!!! Bearing the name of a noble and raising a m, monster… I’ll kill you right now!”

One of them, whose electrocution had recovered to some extent, slowly got up from his seat and took out a blade from his bosom. It was clear that he was an Aura user, as Aura was gradually rising, but he couldn’t maintain the shape of an Aura Blade, or even a sword, so he was still weak.

The smoke rising from him due to the lightning, and the gaps in his burnt clothes made it easy to identify him.

Wrinkled skin, a wrinkled face, yellowed whites and unfocused eyes that were unnaturally curved to both sides. A crooked back and a single black front tooth.

The guy with that old appearance was definitely the one who was going to attack Dylan’s future heroine? Luciel.

‘In the original work, he tried to rape Dylan’s woman and got caught right in front of him and was dismembered. ‘

He’s a scapegoat in a common story where the NTR challenger gets disciplined.

But that doesn’t mean it’s not unpleasant.

As the thief’s mana soared, his original personality, which was elevated by confidence and emotion, was slightly revealed.

Yuria’s eyebrows twisted slightly as she heard the unpleasant voice.

“…Hehehe, young. Well-ripened. She looks like she has great breasts too, just my type. That kind of guy, hurry-”

When the guy’s laughter rang out, Yuria, who was drinking blood into her throat, stopped, as if she found it quite annoying.

“……..That thief, can I kill him now?”

Yuria slightly clenched her fist. It’s a habit when using blood magic. If my command, or permission, was given, it was obvious that the guy’s body would be torn apart at that moment.

‘But she doesn’t even question why those guys down there are like that, she just looks at Yuria’s body, she’s quite stupid.’

Well, I won’t say anything about her being attractive.
Even the places I’m touching now were only warm and soft.

“That guy won’t interfere with the plan, so it’s okay if you just clean up neatly.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Yuria, who had slightly fallen out of my arms, then stretched out her arm.

Then, when she clenched her fist, a blood spike that sprouted like a thorn from the crack in the floor accurately pierced the thief’s skull.

In addition, the thief who had shot the crossbow from below also died without even screaming. It was the result of her judgment that it was better to kill two if they were going to die anyway.

I wasn’t surprised anymore. Yuria is the final boss. If she had grown properly, she should be able to kill these small fry with a wave of her hand.

I looked at the thief whose body had collapsed, his strength drained.

Yuria nervously pulled me into her arms and buried her face in my chest.

She subtly rubbed her lower abdomen and thighs together, as if to say she wanted to be hugged, sending a silent signal to respond.

“…I am Master’s. I will give everything to you, Master. It’s shameful and unpleasant to have my name mentioned by such a person.”

“Yuria. You know you have to feed the familiar spirit, even if you don’t like it, right?”

“…Yes, Master.”

Yuria, with a slightly sad expression, stroked the wolf-shaped familiar spirit that came out of the shadow and ordered it to devour the thief’s cold corpse.

It wasn’t that the thief’s corpse was being desecrated. She seemed to be displeased that her subordinate was putting such a thing in its mouth.

It was a gruesome sight for an ordinary person, but my heart was surprisingly calm. Perhaps it was because I had imagined this situation many times. It was all going according to plan.

‘Besides, thanks to Yuria eliminating the troublesome deputy commander’s ability, many of the thieves are confused. There should be plenty of opportunities.’

Yuria sat down slightly and scratched the floor, waiting for the familiar spirit to eat all the humans with Aura.

In the meantime, as planned.

I walked towards where Rachel was.

…

Yuria’s familiar spirit was attached to my side.

A wolf with red blood dripping from its mouth.

For some reason, this guy followed me very well.

“Hmm….. I’m getting attached to it the more I see it.”

Perhaps it understood my words, the tail of the guy walking in front of me wagged.

“Should I name it Baduk?”

“…”

For a moment, I remembered Yuria’s face, which had been serious for the first time when she heard these words.

I was so surprised when I saw the text window saying that my life was in danger in the hologram window.

I made a resolution not to name things carelessly in the future.

No, but it’s black, and Baduk. Why, what. What’s wrong.

“Yuria’s name was… Lobel, was it?
I’m sure Baduk is better.”

-Woof.

Are you a dog.

The guy seemed to like the name Yuria gave him, so he barked accordingly.

It likes to have its head stroked and acts cute, so it’s fair to say that it’s just a neighborhood mutt, not the monstrous Fenrir that appears in the later part of the story.

“Grrr.”

While walking down the dark hallway, the wolf split into three.

It meant that three enemies had appeared.

This guy, Yuria’s familiar spirit, can split into up to 100, and they all recover after a day unless the main body dies.

Of course, crossbows can’t penetrate the thick leather and bounce off.

Even if the opponent is a mage, it can negate it with a breath.

Besides, if they haven’t crossed the wall of either Aura or Circle, their physical abilities are so great that they can’t even follow them with their eyes.

Each individual has tremendous performance abilities. In this plan, these guys weren’t even getting hurt, they were just eating humans and getting stronger.

Of course, the trash that appeared in episode 1 had no chance against the final boss’s loyal familiar spirit.

Perhaps the only ones in this mansion who could completely eliminate this familiar spirit, which also had regenerative abilities by consuming humans, were Rachel, who was the Ice Palace Mistress, or Karman?

As expected, the guys who had their arms torn off or were already being devoured by dozens of wolves screamed.

“Wh, what is this mon-”

“Kyaaaak!! My, my arm…!”

“Brother Ruth, these guys…. cough!”

It’s refreshing to see them die without even being able to resist.

‘Yuria’s ability is so convenient, I love it. I can eliminate half of the variables in the plan with just one familiar spirit.’

Yuria had memorized the faces, characteristics, and scents like hair of all the nobles who visited here in advance, so she could accurately distinguish fakes.

It’s easy to hide the scent of blood, but if you remember the characteristics like this, it’s easy to solve.

Besides, if there’s even a slight scent of blood, this guy will rush in and take their necks without mercy.

As expected, while passing between the tables, he bit the head of a nobleman who was standing still.

When I looked closely at his body, it turned out that he was an assassin who had disguised himself as a nobleman by wearing the nobleman’s skin, and had fallen asleep after eating the food.

‘By the way, I don’t see the leader, he was supposed to be around Dylan.’

I have to deal with it before the rest are sacrificed to the devil.

The reason I cast a sleep spell on everyone was to maintain Yuria’s secret and absorb the devil.

It was also to prevent them from taking over the bodies of the nobles and offering themselves as sacrifices.

In addition, to gain combat experience and to finish things safely.

Dylan fights here, not moderately, but involving everyone around him.

It means that a banquet of blood, an environment that the devil likes, will begin.

The current Yuria cannot defeat a mid-high level devil.

And devils usually hate vampires.

The reason is that they have been on extremely bad terms since long ago, so if they found out that Yuria was a noble of vampire descent, they would definitely try to kill her first.

‘…Oh, there he is.’

Fortunately, while I was going over the plan, the wolf signaled that it had found Rachel’s scent.

As soon as I found her, I picked her up. Surprisingly, Rachel was light. About 50kg for a 170cm tall woman.

Rachel was fine. It was just that various parts touched because of the way I was holding her.

Rachel, as if sleep-talking.

Wrapped her legs around Ian’s waist while in his arms.

And then she put her head on my shoulder and hugged my neck.

A posture where her lower abdomen repeatedly touched my navel and swayed.

Does she enjoy this position with Karman? No. Rachel’s relationship with Karman ended long ago, after she gave birth to me.

It meant that they were far apart as a couple.

In her dream, with someone….

I was about to think that.