95 – Dark Magic Workshop – 4
“So, are you asking me to believe that nonsense?”
“Please, please.
The woman continued to cough. Every time he coughed, the droplets of saliva that came out were mixed with bright red blood. After being slapped on the cheek a few times, it seemed that somewhere in the mouth had burst.
“…Well, okay. Since you’re saying that it’s not a lie, I’ll say yes for now. Let’s start over again.”
He clutched his throbbing forehead and let out a deep sigh. With Charlotte by her side, she was probably not lying, but the words were completely inconsistent.
“First, your name is Katherine, and you’ve been a sorceress in these damn back alleys for quite some time. Is that right?”
“Yes, yes. Yes, yes.”
From what I’ve heard, this damn sorcerer’s name was Katherine. I’ve been employed as an exclusive wizard for a long time under a criminal organization.
Of course, I did a lot of back work. In vivo experiments conducted with living people were representative.
Things like transplanting a woman’s womb to a man or conversely transplanting a man’s testicles to a woman. It seems that it was an effort to find out if the sensitivity to mana changes when the gender changes.
He hurriedly confided that he had experimented with a human, as if he thought it was a big sin, but to me, it wasn’t the living body experiment that mattered.
Right after Charlotte had just ascended the throne, when blood was blowing throughout the kingdom, hundreds of people were dying at the execution ground every day.
Christine killed dozens of religions themselves by offering followers of other religions as human sacrifices.
Serena is the one with less blood on her hands, but Serena also killed less than the other two, and in terms of absolute numbers, there are quite a lot of them.
This is only the number I personally checked, so if I add up the things I couldn’t confirm, I’ll probably skip five digits lightly.
So, it didn’t matter that he killed about a hundred people with only living experiments. What am I? Conversely, it was to the point that Catherine was bewildered.
“Second, the reason I studied black blooded monsters was because Marietta, your boss, ordered me to do so, and this entire building was the test site. Is this also correct?”
Catherine trembled and nodded.
I felt it from the moment I heard from Charlotte that research on black blooded monsters was being conducted in the basement of this building, but there was a different reason why the entire building was plastered in black.
At first, I thought it was simply that the ruler here liked the color black.
After hearing about what was going on underground here from Charlotte, I thought I was researching black blood monsters so that it would be easy to camouflage the incident.
In a way, it was a half-correct thought. Marietta, the boss here, tried to use the entire building for experiments.
“At first, I tried to change the color of the black blood, but it didn’t change, so I changed the interior of the building to black.
“Cheer, at first I was going to do it in the basement, but he said it was too narrow here. That, I need a vaporizing poison that is strong enough to pass through a slightly wider area.”
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. It wasn’t enough to study the black blood monsters on their own, so they tried to experiment with them in the middle of the city.
“How were you going to handle the back?”
“That, I’m good at that too. Hee hee hee! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
Katherine curled up as I raised my hand to press it around my eye. Even so, it was only to the extent that my back was slightly bent due to being blocked by the binding magic on my arms and legs.
“Well, okay. Let’s put that aside. Third, you personally obtained the materials for the experiment by entering the area where the black blood monsters were haunted. Right?”
Yes, this woman named Catherine was very talented in her own way. If he had been active in the sun properly, he would have easily won the position of the owner of the mage tower of a considerable number of mages.
First of all, no matter how limited it is, it is the fact that it can prevent the corrosion caused by black blood for several hours, and the fact that even after crawling into the battlefield with them, it is not enough to come back alive and well, it is like that.
When I first heard this, I was dumbfounded.
The area where the black blood monsters were subdued was designated as a nominal no-entry zone, but it was not thoroughly monitored.
It was because there was no reason to crawl there unless you were a human with an extra life.
Regardless of whether it is designated as a restricted area or not, it is a place that ordinary people cannot even access. It was like giving up my life if I went in for nothing.
Of course, in the adventurer unit, it would be possible to try at least a high-ranking priest or mage tower without dreaming, but those people are busy being called here and there.
Of course, that didn’t mean that this woman had any superpowers. He said it was pure luck that he came back alive, and he said he wouldn’t do it a second time.
They said that they rushed over with their whole body covered in protective magic and took whatever was around them. Even so, I had to live with potions for a while.
I was lucky because there was black blood among the random items I brought in.
“And the last.”
Last and most important.
“You never studied black magic? Are you kidding me?”
“I-I really do! Trust me— kyaaah!”
Catherine’s body convulsed when a strong current flowed from the restraining magic circle. My blood vessels burst, and my fingers and toes shriveled up.
A groan escaped from between clenched teeth. The limbs trembled all the time. When I glanced at Charlotte, the current flowing through the restraining magic circle stopped.
Catherine’s body limp. The tips of his fingers twitched occasionally.
“I told you. Among the stacks of your scrolls, I found a scroll with a magic circle drawn on it through black magic. You even held it right in front of my eyes. But what? Haven’t you ever done that?”
“Kehek, kek… it’s not a lie…”
“gibberish.”
Once more the current flowed, and a scream welled up. A little longer this time. I counted the time in my mind.
As if Charlotte had calculated exquisitely, Catherine convulsed madly in pain but never fainted or died.
It just continued to suffer until I gave the signal to stop.
“That’s enough. Charlotte.”
After about five minutes or so, the excitement at my words stopped. Katherine, who lowered her head, let out a hearty laugh.
“I’m saying this for the last time. Listen carefully. Why do you think I’m leaving so many other tortures and just running electricity? Right now, this is the simplest method. You’ll understand, too, since you’ve done some experimentation on your body as a human. People are vital. “If you get stabbed, you die very easily. Let’s reverse that statement. Conversely, people don’t die so easily unless they’re stabbed in the vitals.”
As someone who has been tortured countless times over hundreds of years, I knew very well where and how to break and tear humans in the most efficient way.
A declaration that she would inflict pain until the word that Charlotte often said, not to save, but to kill. It was I who first taught it.
Well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done it myself because I haven’t had much use for it.
I grabbed Catherine by the neck and pulled her towards me.
“If you want, you can repeat the torture all year long. I can directly experience how many pieces a human can survive even after being torn apart. I don’t have to. If you nail it to the nail, the worms will take care of it and happily devour that piece of flesh. If you don’t want to do that, tell me anything. How far have you progressed with the black magic you’ve been researching here?”
Catherine was silent for a while. My hand that gripped my neck grew stronger.
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Just when I started thinking about whether I should break my neck bone once and get it back, Catherine opened her mouth in a dying voice.
“Black… magic…”
“What?”
“Um, magic is…”
I relaxed my grip, wondering if I was strangled and couldn’t speak properly, but my voice was still small as if it were crawling in. He frowned.
“Speak louder.”
“The magic circle, this…”
“What is a magic circle?”
“Black…blood…”
I couldn’t even hear it well, but the gap between words widened as time went by. It was difficult to understand the words properly.
It was the very moment when I brought my face a little closer in frustration.
“What a cheeky bitch.”
With Charlotte’s words, a small magic circle appeared in front of my eyes. Judging by the type of spell, it seemed to be defensive magic.
I took a step back, dumbfounded at the blue glowing magic circle right next to me. Only then did I see what Catherine looked like now.
With his mouth wide open as if he were about to bite something, he was blocked by the magic circle and was stiff in a posture where he could neither close his mouth nor open it any further.
The woman who had just been dying had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the sorceress staring at me and Charlotte alternately with ferocious eyes.
I was about to hesitate for a moment at this sudden change of atmosphere, but Charlotte stared at Catherine, dispersing a terrifying chill.
“Did you dare to harm Jim’s man even though he had his eyes open?”
