What Aine suggested was simpler than expected.
The proposal was to gather professors and students who were able to act immediately and prevent the casting of black magic.
Of course, it would be better to first seek out professors who are more knowledgeable in black magic.
With that in mind, I decided to first check to see if there were any professors still left at the academy, and Aine said she would call the students from both the girls' dorm and the boys' dorm together.
Because the British Academy was a fairly large academy, there were even professors who came to the academy from far away places.
And this academy also had a housing complex for the professors who came down that way.
You can think of it as something similar to the professor apartments you often find at universities.
And that meant that it was highly likely that some of the professors with expertise in black magic would remain at the academy.
Without hesitation, I ran straight to the housing complex where the professors lived.
weird.
Apparently, I was running towards the housing complex where the professors were living.
But why does it feel like the source of black magic is getting closer and closer?
'Could it really be that there was a member of Dark Wiz on the faculty?'
I feel like the absurd hypothesis I briefly thought of just in case is gradually becoming reality.
The British Academy was a large academy that received direct support from the Empire.
But if my hypothesis is true, it means that the British Academy has been carrying a huge time bomb that could explode at any moment.
And that meant that even in this academy, where security was more important than any other important place, there were several large holes.
Britain was already in an uproar recently due to an incident where students were indiscriminately assassinated by poisoning them in their snacks. If this incident increases anxiety and distrust toward Britain Academy, the number of people coming to Britain Academy will decrease significantly.
Then, it will naturally lead to the reduction of Princess Kreia's power, and at the same time, the princess's other competitors will naturally gain momentum.
...After safely resolving this incident, I'll have to dig deep into Dark Wiz's backstory and find his supporters.
Considering that the attacks are only directed at the achievements of the Rose family, Cray, Renia, and Princess Cray, Dark Wiz definitely seems like a group with a special purpose.
Anyway, right now, the priority is to deal with the black magician who is practicing black magic in the professor's housing complex.
Of course, I couldn't handle that warlock alone, so I had to somehow get into the faculty housing complex and ask the remaining professors for help.
A forced breakthrough would be impossible. The warlock isn't stupid, so he'd probably have at least some sort of black magic cast on him that would allow him to detect when others entered within a certain radius.
I honestly wasn't sure if I could go any further in, since I couldn't guess how far the range would go.
Even though it took a lot of black magic and mental power to cast a single, massive black magic spell, it was enough to pose a threatening threat to me, a person without magic power.
Maybe he'll just kill me with a blow so fast and powerful that I won't even be able to react.
Thinking about that, I couldn't move an inch for a moment.
At least the author had told me that even if I died here, it wouldn't be a real death, so I was barely able to muster up the courage to go further.
If we stop here, not only Aine, but all the students at Brittain Academy will be in danger.
Although this world is a world within a novel, it wasn't that important to me, as I had already formed many relationships within this world within the novel.
To me now, the world in this novel was no different from the real world.
So I took a timid but strong step to save them.
Of course, I tried to avoid being caught by the warlock as much as possible by taking a detour along the way.
In the pouring rain, I tried to enter the professor's housing complex without being detected by the warlock, and I wasted over 30 minutes.
At some point, even my umbrella started to get wet, so I managed to enter the professorial housing complex while getting drenched in the rain with my umbrella folded.
Then he knocked on the door of the nearest house and waited for a response.
Not long after, a professor opened the door and welcomed me.
"I was waiting in case you came, and you really did. Thank you for coming, student."
The professor must have known I was coming, because he greeted me with a rather calm expression.
I stood there dumbfounded for a moment, not understanding the situation, but soon after, the professor explained the truth about the situation to me.
"Actually, there are quite a few professors at our school who are well-versed in black magic. As soon as they discovered the signs of this black magic, they immediately contacted everyone in the faculty network. And those professors who are well-versed in black magic are going out and trying to deal with the black magician who is trying to cast black magic right now."
Fortunately, the professors were well-versed in black magic, and they noticed the ominous signs faster than we did and went off to deal with the black magician.
"The professors said that with that level of black magic, forcibly killing the caster and stopping the spell would actually cause the black magic to flow back, making it more dangerous. That's why they're trying to slowly weaken the black magic and capture the black magician, even if it takes a long time."
"okay."
Furthermore, I was feeling needlessly anxious because there were still signs that large-scale black magic was about to be used, but when I heard an explanation as to why it was taking so long to stop the casting of black magic, I was able to feel reassured again.
The Dark Wiz guys were getting increasingly under investigation, so this time they probably made a less rational decision.
I felt even better thinking about Dark Wiz, who would become increasingly powerless with the capture of this warlock.
Now that I thought that the time would soon come when I could leave Aine in this world and return with peace of mind, I felt even more so.
No, it should have been that way.
'It's strange. The Dark Wizards have never used such large-scale, slaughtering black magic.'
A thought suddenly occurred to me, and it made me feel uneasy.
The first Dark Wiz black magician I met used a black magic called 'Reality Distortion Magic' to make all of Lenia's magical attacks go straight to Aine's mansion, and then tried to set up a situation where Aine, who was in a state of panic due to trauma, would attack Lenia.
Although the plan was blocked in advance, there was a record of attacking Cray and Lenia with an advanced black magic called Shadow Meteor in a hurry, but let's let that pass since the situation was what it was.
The next Dark Wizard I met was Dark Wiz, who tried to block out the sunlight that would shine down on the entire empire for two days with a black magic called 'Shadow Magic that Swallows the Sky'.
The black magic that the black magician cast was not very expensive, so the period of time it was activated was short, and even that was completely destroyed by Aine, so it did not shine much. However, it was by no means a light black magic, as it had once caused a disaster that could be called the worst disaster in the history of the empire.
And the black magic cast by those two warlocks had one thing in common.
The fact was that the black magic was black magic that did not directly kill people when cast.
Although 'Reality Warping Magic' can cause people to die by causing illusions, and 'Shadow Swallowing Sky Magic' is said to have caused the worst disaster in the Empire's history by blocking out the sunlight for a week, these dark magics do not cause direct harm to people on their own.
However, the black magic used by the members of Dark Wiz now was clearly different from the black magic Dark Wiz had been using until then.
In addition, he used black magic in front of the professors' housing complex, so he was quickly caught by the professors.
As if it was intentionally done to get caught...!
"Aine, Aine is in danger."
It was only then that I realized Dark Wiz's intentions and felt goosebumps run down my body.
If you cast black magic in front of the faculty housing complex at the Academy, the professors will likely try to deal with the incident secretly, thinking that it would be bad for the outside world to know about it.
A student or two who found the black magic strange might come to the faculty housing complex, but if the academy explained the situation appropriately and asked for their understanding, the incident would not become public knowledge.
Either way, some students who notice that black magic will surely panic.
If the professors had provided a proper explanation for this issue the next day, there was a high possibility that it would be somewhat resolved.
Of course, there is a good chance that this story will leak out, but by then the problem will have been resolved, so it will likely not become public knowledge.
But the students that day were the problem.
Students who are in a panic will come up with several solutions to overcome the current situation.
Sending one or two students to the faculty housing complex could be part of that.
But most importantly, as students from different grades are mixed together in the process, it becomes impossible to tell who is who.
Then, that would be the best time for the Dark Wiz members hiding in the academy to target Aine.
He'll take advantage of the chaos to kill Aine, and the Brittain Academy will take a huge hit to its image after last night's incident left a fatality.
And that will immediately lead to a decline in Princess Kreia's image.
Thinking this far and planning this incident, Dark Wiz was indeed a more vicious organization than I had imagined.
"I'm sorry. Something very urgent has come up, so I have to leave right now."
"Oh, oh? Okay. If you feel something strange, you should go and fix it right away."
I suddenly felt anxious and wanted to leave immediately, but fortunately the professor seemed to understand my situation and allowed me to leave immediately.
"Fuck, fuck! You idiot!"
I screamed something close to self-deprecation as I ran down the rain-soaked academy road.
More than 40 minutes have already passed since I left Aine.
At that time, it wouldn't have been strange if Dark Wiz had done something to Aine.
I was so drawn to that black magic that I was resentful of myself for not noticing the danger that was nearby.
Please don't be late, please save her.
I ran through the rain-soaked academy, praying earnestly.