Disguised As A Teacher In Magic Academy

Chapter 40 - Steps to Truth (2)

It has been a long time since gunpowder-based weapons emerged as the world developed.

Nevertheless, witches and knights still maintained their position as the most powerful people in the world.

There's only one reason for that:

That was because weapons did not threaten the knights and magicians at all.

Knights with superhuman physical abilities can easily dodge or cut ordinary bullets.

Witches, on the other hand, do not have to do that.

The Silence of Fire Spell they used made it possible to prevent shots from entering.

Silence Fire...

It was actually a spell that suppressed the performance of gunpowder targeted at witches within a certain distance.

The spell made it possible to neutralize even a machine gun if used by a third rank magician.

If a rank 5 mage used a spell, they could even neutralize the cannons.

If a rank 6 Lexure mage used it, the flow of war would change from then on.

That's why magicians and knights can maintain their strength even when the era of weapons and gunpowder has arrived.

But the spell Ludger used ended up in the third level.

So Ludger realized that he could not go beyond that and covered up his lack of strength by strengthening the spells he cast.

When third rank magicians used to use Silence of Fire, their effective range was within a radius of 20 meters.

And the effective range of Silence of Fire that Ludger uses…

—Being in a radius of 200 meters.

“Damn it! Everyone, unplug your weapons!”

People affiliated with Shamsus school move fast.

They threw away their meaningless weapons and immediately took out their swords and batons.

Zzz.

Electricity flowed throughout the club.

Ludger raised his hand to look at such a scene.

Each of his hands held a revolver.

"Stupid! When you use Silence of Fire, even your weapons are useless…!"

Expel!

The man laughing at Ludger fell backwards as his forehead spurted blood.

Everyone watched the scene with pale skin.

'What just happened?'

"W-what?"

“How...?”

Ludger obviously fired his gun, but not the bullet he fired…

Witchcraft.

That's actually where the bullet is.

Therefore, there was no sound as he shot, and the Silence of Fire spell itself would not be affected.

“You... you...!”

"Do you want to fight an equal battle?"

Ludger laughed at the soldiers and fired random mana bullets.

Ratuta!

However, even though he was seen shooting randomly, the bullets hit their foreheads precisely.

In an instant, blood and screams ran rampant.

“These fools! Everyone, move!”

A large man wearing huge armor stepped forward. His reinforced armor, made of black synthetic metal, easily deflected the bullets from which Ludger fired.

It was a harness that had been reinforced and made with the recent development of techniques.

The movement is slow but very sturdy, and requires tremendous power — it is used exclusively for great knights.

"It's gonna be a little troublesome."

"Dead!"

The large man in reinforced armor rushed towards Ludger with his arms wide open.

His stomping steps caused a sense of intimidation as if he was a speeding tank.

Ludger was not panicked or scared at all.

After retracting his revolver, he took out two crescent-shaped Karambit— keris from his waist and grasped it tightly.

"You're going to do a melee fight as a witch?"

As soon as he reached out his hand to grip Ludger's collar, Ludger's figure distorted and disappeared.

'What? Where did he disappear to?'

As the man in reinforced armor was stunned by his departure, an overwhelming pain pierced his forearm.

Blood gushed from the gap between his armors.

“Aaaaaargh! A-what?!”

A dagger pierced between the joints of his armor suit.

“How? No, more than that, he's so fast that I can't even see.”.

Once he tried to move his left arm, there was no more strength left in his left arm.

It was because something cold and sharp had pierced his armpits.

"W-what...?"

Next are his ankles.

Before he regained consciousness, his leg tendon was cut off, and he knelt on the spot.

And lastly…

He felt a cold touch on his neck.

“T-please..”.

Cut it!

Ludger cut his throat with a Karambit dagger without listening.

"Damn! Gabe defeated!"

"Surge! I'll fight him!"

Back then, someone with a slightly different type of reinforced armor was standing in front.

He was wearing brass armor, which was not black but yellowish, and white steam came out from behind his shoulders.

—It is a reinforced outer frame made by steam engine.

Both of his hands held the barrel of a large rifle, and the end of the barrel of the rifle was connected to a large Tesla coil hanging on his back.

"Dead!"

Zzzzz!

Purple currents struck that part. The high-voltage current from the Tesla weapon, which would not be affected by the Silence of Fire, spread out in all directions and splashed out electric sparks.

“Bwahahaha! What can you do?”

But he had no choice but to stop laughing.

The high voltage current he fired did not move forward; it was as if it had been blocked right in front of Ludger.

"W-what?"

'Is it metal magic based on alchemy?'

Impossible, he was a man who specialized in metals among the properties of elements?

He's destined. Tesla's pistols that fired high voltage currents did not work against magicians who used metal element magic as their attribute.

He realized it, but it was too late.

Ludger pulled out his revolver again and fired out mana.

It hit right at Tesla's weapons port and made it explode.

Zzz!

Electricity spread everywhere, and everyone nearby burned to ashes.

The only survivor leaned his back against the wall and looked at Ludger, who was slowly approaching him.

Half of his body was already charred, and he barely breathed.

“Tracked. Gasped. Crazy bastards. Why are you doing this to us?"

He felt it was unfair for some reason, but Ludger did not even answer and walked past him.

He didn't kill her.

He couldn't stay in that state, so Ludger would have made him in pain a little longer.

'How many people have I dealt with so far?'

About 20 people.

There was still about half of the troops left behind inside the laboratory.

And seeing that they did not approach him, it was clear that they were preparing to meet him from within the laboratory.

Most importantly, he could feel that look…

The gaze aimed at him from the gap of the pipe covering the wall.

The eyes that glared at Ludger.

'Is black magic exploiting insects?'

Hans said that there were two black magicians inside.

He had heard that some black magicians could also explore areas that were hard for others to find by making use of insect sight.

Maybe he's the one watching Ludger.

"Phew."

Ludger exhaled lightly while swinging his right leg and walked lightly on the ground.

Clang.

The noise of the floor as his boots stepped on him.

It became an echo and spread widely and deeply into the interior of the laboratory.

***

Inside the laboratory…

The scientists there must be very anxious.

"Are you sure this is okay? We need to destroy the data now and pack the experimental drug..."

"Oh, it's okay."

The blonde man with a tattoo on his neck who stopped the weak scientist.

The blond man's clothes were also quite light, and he didn't seem to have any weapons, so it seemed like he was out just for a walk.

But everyone knew that the man was the most influential black magician in the laboratory.

The same was true for the giant bald man sitting quietly next to him.

The bald man's name is Veron.

The blonde's name is Bruno.

Although they had no blood relation, the two were black magicians who had their own reputation in the underworld—they were called insect brothers.

"Because there's only one opponent."

The younger brother, Bruno, stated the information he confirmed through the insects.

Yep.

Surprisingly, there was only one intruder.

He did not believe that only one person had exterminated two people with reinforced armor and one army armed with weapons alone.

"Who ... who is on earth ...?"

“We don't know that either. Maybe the Empire's security department has found us."

"Safety department!"

Security Department.

—An organization consisting only of the most elite forces within the Empire.

Among them, there was one Knight Order affiliated with the security department.

—Ordo Knights Nightcrawler

Of course, they were slightly different from ordinary Knights.

The scary thing about them is not only that each of them has a brutal individual strength but also that they will use any means necessary to achieve their goals.

They were Knights, but they did not act the same as the other Knights.

Instead, they kill their enemies by thoroughly dismantling their opponents' weaknesses, then breaking through those weaknesses and killing them.

They were Knights who could even kill a three-year-old child without mercy if that child was considered dangerous to the Empire.

No wonder they were called underworld demons.

"But the way he fought was a bit strange."

He wanted to identify his appearance a little more through the insects, but he did not know what tricks the intruder was doing because all the signals were cut off from the insects he was sending.

Did he notice that they were watching him?

He was also no ordinary person, considering he had come alone.

"Brother, we need to get ready."

"Yes." Yeah."

The older brother, Veron, stood up. The laboratory guards were also very nervous and raised their shields and weapons.

The hallway from the entrance leading to the laboratory center…

That was when they all prepared while staring intently into the hallway to deal with the intruder …

Strange wavelengths swept through the interior of the laboratory, and soon all the lights went out, and darkness enveloped the place.

“A-what?! Quickly and turn on the lights!”

"Turn on backup power!"

Seeing his men moving in haste, the younger brother Bruno looked at his older brother.

"Brother. But I think he's playing us?

“…”

"Brother brother?"

No response from Veron.

Bruno looked back at Veron. Even in the darkness, its large size could be clearly distinguished between silhouettes.

Silhouette Veron…

His head was cut off, and his corpse rolled on the floor.