The Vampire Is an Academy Honor Student

Chapter 026. growth (1)

“Have you made up your mind?”

“… … .”

Muller’s wide eyes narrowed at the man’s words.

Instead of answering, he looked at the bottle the man was shaking.

A bottle containing the blood of Dark Elf Ymir.

The moment you drink that, it’s impossible to turn back any more.

If you can’t endure it, you will die, and even if you can endure it, you will become a demon and live a life that is commanded.

“There is nothing to worry about. Because all I ask of you is the one thing I told you about before.”

“… … .”

“Wouldn’t that be better than being locked up for the rest of my life in this rotten prison?”

Müller’s long life in the back world made him realize, implicitly, that the man was not lying.

They really only wanted one thing.

If you consider this a bargain, it’s not a bad price to get out of this dark, dank dungeon.

Just one annoying thing.

“What do you gain by doing this?”

“You don’t know that.”

What he demanded was, ‘Find the horn hidden in the royal warehouse and escape’.

Robbing the royal storeroom is, of course, a difficult task, but I don’t think it’s impossible.

Is it because I don’t know the purpose?

Instinctively, I felt strangely dangerous, so I refused.

“hmm. Is it rejected again?”

Even though the second offer was rejected, the man didn’t look too displeased.

Rather, he had a relaxed expression, as if there was nothing urgent.

He said as he returned the bottle to his bosom.

“Next time, come back in a month.”

A special pardon will take place in a month.

Müller was not going to be targeted because the crime was serious, but it would be the best day to escape because it was a day when a lot of guards were leaving.

“I hope to hear another answer then.”

“… … .”

The man turned his back on Müller.

After he left, silence returned to the dungeon.

* * *

“Yes.”

Hwaran, a man who came out of the prison leaving Müller behind, laughed.

Aren’t you a very smart person?

I didn’t tell him, but the moment he blows the horn, he dies anyway.

He only asked for one thing because he could only ask for one anyway.

Although he continues to reject it as if he instinctively feels it.

“Well, maybe it’s just a matter of time.”

He has tasted the sweetness of sin once.

Although it is the demon’s touch, it will be impossible to resist the temptation.

“Is it half success after all?”

he murmured.

Initially, Ymir ordered two things: to seize the crystal plant and to use Müller to break the border line.

“No, there was one more.”

To be precise, there were three of them, including asking to find a young mixed-race elf between the ages of 5 and 60.

However, this was not an order, but rather a statement that it would be nice to find it, but it doesn’t matter if you can’t find it.

“There can be mixed-race elves in the first place.”

If you search the entire continent, there may be a few, but on the contrary, if you search the entire continent, there are only a few.

It means that there is no way that it will appear right in front of your eyes.

So I remembered what I had looked for a year ago and erased from my memory.

I couldn’t find it because I was looking for it again now, so I put off the thought that popped into my head for a while.

‘It’s a pity, of course, that I missed the crystal plant… .’

Since that Ian Karziel had stepped forward himself, there would have been no way for him to avoid annihilation either.

Perhaps Ymir-sama won’t give a censure for this either.

The only thing I was curious about was the whereabouts of the sujeongcho.

According to the words of the confidant planted in the military, a third party stole it in the middle.

However, they are still wandering around because they do not know the culprit.

It is difficult to see it as a self-made play by the military to deceive the eyes of the demons, but they have nothing to gain by doing such troublesome things.

In the first place, they wouldn’t even know where to use crystal plants.

‘Then who is it?’

No one guessed.

Are you saying there really is a third force?

It’s hard to believe, but that’s the most likely assumption right now.

“If I had to ask… Is it dark?”

A dark district created around the huge black market in the capital.

The kingdom knew of their existence, but was acquiescing.

Rather than accidentally messing with them and scattering them in a more secretive form, they chose to gather them in one place and make them easier to monitor.

Therefore, it is only a force that will be swept away without leaving a single speck of dust in the kingdom’s army the moment it crosses the line, but right now it is being raised enormously through black money.

“Should I just check it?”

The possibility was low, but there was nowhere else to check it anyway, so I decided it was better to quickly erase the possibility.

The black market arrived like that.

He had visited a mixed-race elf about a year ago, so he went to the merchant who handled magic tools with a familiar step.

‘I don’t know how to use it, but it’s got mana for now.’

If it were here, it would be classified as a magical tool rather than a drug.

“Sujeongcho… . No, I’m looking for a flower with mana. Is there?”

“A flower, you mean?”

Just in case, I went to all the magic tool shops on the black market, but I couldn’t find the crystal plant.

“Tsk.”

It was when I clicked my tongue when I heard that it was not available even at the last store.

A merchant who recognized him from a long time ago came up to him.

“I don’t know about that flower, but the elf is regretful. If you had come a little earlier, you could have made it.”

“Elf?”

Hwaran looked back at the merchant with a puzzled expression.

I hadn’t been here a year ago, so I didn’t understand what he was talking about.

However, the next merchant’s words opened his eyes, which had been quiet.

“A half-blood elf.”

“… !!”

“I never thought there would be two people looking for it.”

He was an unusual guest, the merchant added, but Hwaran no longer heard his voice.

‘There really were mixed-race elves?’

Half-race elves are different from normal elves and dark elves in everything from appearance to atmosphere, so there is no possibility that the merchant is mistaken.

Maybe it’s because it’s a harvest from a part I didn’t expect at all.

Unknowingly, an impatient mind came up.

“How old were you?”

“That, well. I don’t know exactly, but I didn’t go over 100.”

“hundred?”

this made it clear

It’s what Ymir-sama was looking for.

I asked the merchant with a bewildered expression.

“Who bought it?”

* * *

“Roan, 221!”

After finishing the push-up, I exhaled a hot breath and lay down on the floor of the gymnasium.

A tingling pain rises from the arm.

“Whoa.”

While I was still breathing like that, I heard other cadets whispering around me.

“221 Roans?”

“Is it Karziel after all?”

221 is average.

But it’s not that they’re not making a fuss, my record was 57 just ten days ago.

In that short period of time, the record was raised 4 times, so it is a natural reaction.

“Let’s change.”

“Ah oh.”

And not only me, but also the gaze towards Dante has changed a lot.

It’s just that he was hiding it, but Dante’s original skills don’t suit the lower class.

Since the last survival evaluation has completely changed his attitude, there is no way he will not go unnoticed.

Is that why?

“They will do the promotion.”

I hear these words from time to time these days.

I didn’t know because I hadn’t heard from Rick, but he said that the top 3 people in the top 5% get a chance to take the promotion test at the end of the semester.

This is nothing to worry about.

‘Of course I have to pay.’

Theria Academy is an educational institution sponsored by the royal family.

Because of that, I know that the higher you go, the more benefits you get, and the more often you get missions related to the royal family.

Contact with the royal family will be helpful later in some way, so be sure to upgrade.

‘For now, Dante and I are certain.’

It’s okay because it’s not determined by the cumulative grade, but by the grade of the semester.

But I’m still not sure who the remaining one will be.

It wasn’t that there weren’t any cadets that stood out, but it was because most of them didn’t seem interested in promotion.

It was in contrast to the cadets in the intermediate class who were desperate to avoid being demoted.

‘Well, that part is what divides the difference in the first place.’

In the first place, cadets in the lower grades of the intermediate class are in fact not significantly different from cadets in the lower classes.

Rather, there were cases where they were worse than the upper class cadets in the lower class.

However, rather than the slight difference in skill, the cadet’s desperateness would have been more important.

“30 seconds left.”

I lost my mind when the instructor announced the remaining time.

“Huck, huck.”

“Just two more. what a waste.”

“No, I think I will die.”

Dante’s record was 398.

This is not the lower class, but it is at the upper level compared to the upper class cadets.

‘Originally, I could have done that much.’

Even after I stopped exercising.

Once again, I feel how excellent my physical ability was originally.

Still, seeing that my body is getting better quickly, it seemed that I could be at that level until I went to find Müller.

“stop. Morning training ends here. In the afternoon, gather at the archery training ground.”

At the instructor’s words, the cadets gather in twos and threes and disperse.

“Roan. Shall we eat together?”

“huh? Ah, lunch.”

There was no reason to refuse, so I nodded my head.

Recently, I had lunch with Dante instead of Rick, who I always took with me.

“okay.”

As we walked to the restaurant together, I was lost in thought.

‘About three weeks left?’

This is the period remaining until the princess’s birthday, that is, the period remaining until Müller escapes from prison.

I had completely forgotten about it, but I was able to recall it after hearing the conversation between Uriel and Dante a few days ago.

And after thinking about it, I thought about it a bit.

All I know is that a thief named Müller has escaped the dungeon and fled to the border.

After that, it was just that he summoned a large-scale monster through some method and pierced the wire.

There are more things I don’t know than I know, but I couldn’t help it because this case had never been dealt with in detail in the game.

Anyway, based on the information I knew, there were some parts that I couldn’t understand.

1. How did Müller escape the dungeon alone?

2. Then, how did you summon a large-scale monster?

Even if he fled to the border with number 1, he could not understand number 2 at all.

‘It’s not even a wizard.’

He’s good at stealing like a ghost, but he’s not particularly a wizard.

This is certain information because it is a fact that I found out while playing the game.

‘There is something I don’t know.’

It is a conclusion reached after much thought.

Whether there are other demons behind it or whether Müller is hiding magic.

What is certain is that the incident happened without anyone noticing.

Originally, if I couldn’t think of a way to make a follower until I went to catch Müller, I planned to get rid of him right away so that there would be no repercussions.

‘Then I can’t know the truth.’

So I had no choice but to revise my initial plan a bit.

Decided to sneak him one more time to find out what happened.

And this was too much for me alone.

Müller is a newcomer to the point of visiting the storehouse of a great nobleman, even though his combat power may be lacking.

Pursuing him secretly is something that no country can guarantee.

but.

‘I need some help.’

Noah would have been able to chase after him.