The Returning Supervillain Raises a Hero

Episode 53. Floor Wars (2)

A week before the declaration of war.

“Hey, crazy Velvet. Do you have any results today? Is your face open?”

The lab building where Nam Man-hyuk’s laboratory existed and where the first and last five superintendents gathered. There has been a strange fad of keeping the door of the lab open recently in Black Shark.

“I told you not to call me that!”

To the cheeky boy’s voice that he heard every day today, the man answered without looking back.

“Since I’ve been living, the world has to go crazy to some extent to become a normal life. In that sense, you are doing well.”

The bravado of the little boy who couldn’t even buy half was a joke enough to put a smile on Velvet’s lips, who had not laughed in years.

“Don’t say nonsense, if you have a golden tip, give it out quickly and get out.”

Nam Man-hyuk was satisfied with his voice of goodwill and expectation, even though the words were rough, and he took out a piece of paper from his bosom.

“It’s a note with Whip’s advice.”

Whip is an eccentric wizard who remains here even after passing the upper-class test because the middle-class research environment is right for him.

Velvet respects Whip so much that getting his autograph was on his bucket list.

Hearing that it was a note from Whip, Velvet threw the flask he was holding and took the piece of paper that Nam Man-hyuk was presenting.

[I heard you are trying to make mud flowers through Dark Boy. A long time ago, I did a similar study. Don’t hand over the data from that time. Connect to the cloud written here and take it.]

“Oh oh. Ugh!”

Before checking the cloud address, Nam Man-hyeok intercepts the paper again and opens his mouth while waving in front of him.

“Well, I know it’s nice, but let’s start with work.”

“Uh… .”

While looking at the table of research on the holoboard, Velvet was engrossed in her research, and as she came to the last page, she carefully scrolled down, panicking as there was no research she knew.

“ah!”

Then, he discovered a new middle-class wizard who was conducting research that he had come up with in the past, and when he pointed it out, Nam Man-hyuk shook his head.

“Did you forget? Newbies are free. Golden tips are provided only when helping the research of middle-class sorcerers of the second year. That’s a contract, isn’t it?”

Necro school wizards are particularly closed. This atmosphere in the tower had a significant impact on the downfall, and successive tower owners made great efforts to change it, but it did not bring about a change in the end.

Nam Man-hyuk, who saw this middle-class situation while collecting information with the rebels, came up with the idea of connecting wizards and immediately put it into practice.

golden tip.

There are many undead here. There are quite a few people who have only studied in the closet for hundreds of years. There were not a few cases where younger juniors who were far away followed the same train they had taken.

There were a lot of wizards who knew that but pretended not to know, and everyone took it for granted. To the extent that it feels like a long tradition of this school.

In the eyes of a villain who sharply sharpened his senses at the forefront of trends and times, this closed community was a very easy structure to dig into. I was able to plant a nerve cord that will never be erased.

“no? Then take this next time.”

“Wait a minute! there will be unconditional … uh, this If this is the case, I know well!”

“where.”

Even if a study has failed, if it produces results, it is useful data. At least it will save the next person’s time.

Nam Man-hyeok, who was a little dissatisfied with being called Dark Boy even though it was clearly introduced as Dark Nexus, only exchanged Whip’s note and his materials after checking whether the research Velvet gave him was plausible.

“Okay, see you again.”

“Yeah, get out of here!”

Nam Man-hyuk giggled and closed the door when he saw Velvet giving a congratulatory order to see if he liked the data he received from the cloud.

When the door is closed, a signal not to touch it as it is being researched. Gesture for help if open.

Nam Man-hyuk, who scanned the Black Shark and collected various golden tips, entered a dazzling building two blocks away.

“Mr. Odd Skull. Oh man, isn’t the skirt too short today?”

“Oh my, hoho. Aren’t my legs pretty? A woman with a taste like a national treasure has a duty to show it to everyone.”

At first, I thought Nam Man-hyuk was also a woman with great confidence, but he is a man. Burn it too. And, by the way, Nam Man-hyuk is one of the few people who attaches the ‘seed’.

“Is he up there?”

Nodding his head to the boy who asked, pointing his finger at the lobby ceiling, Mr. Oddskull kindly guided him into the elevator.

“I asked when you went out during the day. Go quickly.”

“Hey, I’m not in a hurry.”

“Uh-huh! If you make the Lady wait, it’s useless.”

Odd Skull, whose voice and actions change as hard as a soldier when only talking about women.

He was a disciple of Tapju from the previous generation, and he failed during an experiment with a poisonous mushroom called lemon mushroom, and he became mad and had such a double personality.

Anyway, he was the person who opened the first golden tip by donating his research without any payment, so Nam Man-hyuk always respected him.

ding dong.

When you arrive at the top floor of the elevator and the door opens, a door with splendid gold decorations and all sorts of security magic appears.

As Nam Man-hyuk kicked the corner of the slightly opened door, Char Natalia’s thoughts fell sharply into Nam’s mind.

-Look out.

-If you were in a dangerous experiment, everyone would have died from the last vibration.

As Golden Tip is booming, there are a lot of studies that are gathering here and there. Although it is not a very rare or high-value research, it is of great help just to have an insight because the data itself contains the realization of the wizard.

… Char Natalia categorizes the research of the middle-class wizards that the Dark Nexus has collected at the same time as she read them all.

“It’s tricky. So, are you done?”

-Yes, Dustin’s ‘Study of putting a rabbit in a wallet’ is intertwined with some of Hoelk’s ‘On biocompression.’

After a long report, Char Natalia held onto the Dark Nexus, who was about to leave, saying she had a hard time, and asked after hesitating for a while.

– Why are you doing this?

A few days later, the revolt begins. We received a report from Hydra this morning that the media domination was over and they were trying to convince a key person.

The progress of the wizards is good, but it’s not something to do now. She couldn’t quite understand why she was wasting her time doing the same research, just before sparks went off in her feet.

Nam Man-hyuk, who was about to leave, put his hand on the huge door and opened his mouth.

“That’s what I felt when I tried a number of upper-heads. They all have common weaknesses.”

-… which?

“betrayal.”

Kick, thump.

* * *

The status of Golden Tip soared day by day, and in the past, residents of the upper floors came to the middle floors while eroding their self-esteem.

Admiring the Dark Nexus’s tactics of slowly absorbing the wizards from the upper classes into the middle classes, the rebels postponed their scheduled declaration of war for a few days.

“why?”

Nam Man-hyuk, who heard the news through Char, asked with curiosity.

– Because it’s not just a fight to bring down the buttakers.

-The revival of the Necro School and the improvement of the pride of the wizards belonging to it.

– Going out to the sun.

Nam Man-hyeok, who had been savoring the thoughts that came one after another, brushed his chin and pondered.

“Then you want to save the high-level wizards as much as possible?”

– Of course.

“Ah, annoying. … Wasn’t it three days after the decision was made?”

-Yes.

“I get it. I need to get ready.”

3 days. A short time to prepare for something ahead of war.

However, the Dark Nexus has always been a surprise, so it was Char Natalia with small expectations.

* * *

“Jacker. What are your plans?”

“Oh, my dear wizard Mahatma. I remember what you said when I rushed to make a square with your name. ‘I will surely repay this favor.’ Now, Mahatma. Now give me a chance to repay that favor.”

Contrary to his calm words, Mahatma couldn’t do anything other than hold his lower crown firmly at the blazing light of Zacher’s eyes.

“Stupid things!”

wow.

Mahatma hurriedly took off the diamond necklace she had been wearing around her neck when it responded to a similar trigger.

Zacher was very angry at the unsightly appearance and tried to shout, but he sighed, feeling the emotions heightened by the mind-purifying artifact he was wearing forcibly subsided.

“… Do you know how many wizards from the upper floors have gone down?”

“I heard there were nine people.”

“30 people went down today.”

“What? in one day?”

“And the wizards who went down to the middle floor ate with the rebels because of the Golden Tip or something.”

“I can’t believe it. How can a senior mage use other people’s research data… .”

The trend of the upper classes to prioritize research achievements was created by these butlers, who ate the fruit in the name of testing.

From a third party’s point of view, it’s truly a win-win.

“I got a headache. We won’t lose because of recycling, but a lot of the geese that lay the golden eggs will die.”

“Really, Jack. Did you hear the news?”

“What do you mean?”

“Buno.”

“Why is that child again?”

“He went to the middle floor.”

fast.

Destroyed with a cracking sound in the mind-purifying artifact, Zacher vomited his anger and cluttered the conference room.

Whoa-!

* * *

profit.

The night before the declaration of war. After finishing all the preparations, while I was grilling pork belly on the roof of Black Shark, a crazy man came to me.

“The meat smells good.”

“Don’t give it.”

“… Buno Ramalit. Just call me Boo. Dark Boy.”

“Why did you come?”

I put him in the background and overturned the roasted pork belly.

“Resistance. What if it is?”

“good.”

As if surprised by my quick reply, he tilted his head and continued.

“Aren’t you in doubt?”

𝑀𝑒𝑒

Perhaps the sound of my laughter bothered him, his eyes narrowed narrowly.

“I do not care. whatever you do The result has been decided.”

“… That’s great confidence. All right, but surrender is subject to conditions.”

“Five? Can I hear what the great conditions are?”

When he puts the well-curved pork belly in his mouth and replies with a dry voice, the glow in his eyes disappears for a while and then reappears. Did you close your eyes?

“I am the corruption and weakness of the butlers. And we have a record of our research.”

If nothing else, the research record is something that Char can covet, so it gets a little interesting.

“I’ll give you all this, give me Char Natalia.”

Did you find out that Char and I have a contractual relationship? After all, it’s famous in Odd Skull.

Oh, Odd Skull was the name of the building with the best research facilities on the middle floor and the first name of the owner. When I later found out who the ghoul was, I was quite surprised too.

By the way, give me Char. This guy is too.

“Excessive greed.”

“Is that so. … May I ask what the conditions were that made me able to sign a contract with her?”

There is no reason to hide in this yard.

“I decided to give you the seat of the Necro School Matap.”

hahaha.

This time, she tilts her back from the other side and smiles with an exaggerated gesture. It seems that I was not kidding myself earlier.

“How can you—”

with daughter.

Seeing the key sticking out of my pocket, Boono hardens as if he had been enchanted by petrification.

“I think this would be it. What do you think?”

He remained silent until I roasted all the pork belly and put it in his mouth, but he moved his chin when he cleared the grill.

-Why do you have the master key of the tower? Dark Nexus.