Volume 6 Chapter 309: Unexpected Emergency Closure of Needham Lake
Translator: The Light
Edits by Kenny
At the hunting grounds near Needham Lake, Olsylvia City, Olsylvia Academy’s magic department’s Special Cla.s.s 3 juniors were on their hunting mission. By the time Bella rushed over, she had found that the girls from the special cla.s.s were all gone, leaving behind only the boys.
The head of Special Cla.s.s 3 of the magic department, Great Magister Orlando, sat down with a serious face atop a stool and looked somewhat normal. However, Bella had a hunch that something was off about him. When they parted ways just now, she saw some girls in Special Cla.s.s 3. Could it be? Did Orlando send the girls back on purpose and left the boys here to wait for them?
Bella was currently wearing an invisibility suit and was hiding behind a rock, observing the magic department’s Special Cla.s.s 3. After coming out of the vacuum, she was in a bad state. To make matters worse, the girls from the magic department’s Cla.s.s 1 and Mentor Catalina were still waiting for Bella to get back.
But Bella felt a little hesitant when she saw Orlando there. Orlando was a Great Magister. Moreover, she knew that “Invisible Seventh Chapter” Anna Rosa from their cla.s.s knew invisibility magic. She might have prepared something special to break through her own invisibility magic. After taking a clear look, Bella found that there were a few special crystal b.a.l.l.s right next to Orlando.
The “Eye of Truth” was a tool that was specialized in detecting invisibility magic, and a single one cost over 10,000 gold coins. That gentleman Orlando really was rich enough to drop money on something like this. Bella was watching the crystal b.a.l.l.s from a distance. There was a strange sphere that looked just like a real human eye inside of the “Eye of Truth,” which made Bella s.h.i.+ver. She likely wouldn’t be able to go over. The possibility of the invisibility suit being useless was high now.
However, Bella wasn’t the only one hesitating. Orlando was getting tense on his side too, he just didn’t show it on his face. He was the one who summoned those Slime Hunters. Based on the progress, they should’ve sneaked in a long time ago and succeeded, but he didn’t get any news. Could it be that they encountered an accident?
“This guy! Does he not use the toilet or whatever?! I need him gone for now. Seriously! Do I have to...”
After seeing that Orlando was just sitting there without making any movement, Bella had no idea what to do for the moment. At this moment, she turned around and saw the azure waters of Needham Lake right behind her and thought of a somewhat risky solution. Bella retreated over to the lake and found a small F-cla.s.s beast, a juvenile Giant Crab.
“Let me give you a gift in return, Orlando. Seriously, I’ll count this as a mosquito bite... That hurts! I’m going to stew you for dinner if you turn out to be useless later...”
Bella reached for her right hand and bit her finger before dripping her blood into the baby Giant Crab’s mouth. After she was done, the eyes of the F-cla.s.s Giant Crab instantly turned blood-red as Bella quickly threw it back into Needham Lake.
The blood of a Demon King could be used to turn a magic beast into a ferocious demon. This was a rough way to do it, but Bella had just casually created a boss. The right way to do it was to raise and nurture the magic beast for some time and wait for it to recognize its owner before performing the awakening ritual. But time was short, and Bella couldn’t wait anymore. This was the only way to go.
The peaceful surrounding by Needham Lake didn’t last long. Soon after Bella tossed the Giant Crab in, a strong dark aura poured out from the lake. Then, a gigantic bubble formed at the center of the azure surface of the lake. It seemed like a monster was coming out of the lake. At the same time, the red color of blood quickly spread out from the water, covering the entire surface of Needham Lake.
“Oh, I gave it too much blood... Seriously. Forget it, it’s not like anyone saw it. I’ll just pretend it’s wild!”
A humongous Giant Crab emerged from the lake, and the gigantic Giant Crab that stood at fifty meters tall looked ferocious. This guy had already reached the battle prowess of an abyss demonic being. After smelling the scent of a living person, the Giant Crab climbed ash.o.r.e and began its attack against the magic department’s Special Cla.s.s 3!
“That guy...”
Orlando’s face turned pale in an instant. His spiritual magic was useful against intelligent humanoid beings but was mostly useless against brainless abyss demonic beings. Hypnosis magic wouldn’t work on the Giant Crab, either. Originally, Supreme Magic Mentor Catalina might have been able to fight if she hadn’t fallen into his Slime Hunter trap, but now, he got rid of the strongest help he could’ve gotten himself.
The bodyguards brought here by the Special Cla.s.s’ students quickly launched all sorts of spells and attacks at the Giant Crab. Whether it was magic or physical attacks, none of it had any effect on the Giant Crab. Although a few of the light magic spells incited some small sparks, it still did nothing major to harm the crab. With a single brutal swing of its pincers, the Giant Crab managed to repel most of the bodyguards with high combat abilities.
Most of the affected bodyguards were blown away and were badly injured. The transformed Giant Crab had power greater than any adult dragon on this continent. However, it couldn’t be called an Abyss Demonic King yet. After all, it was just a baby magic beast that was casually boosted.
Bella took advantage of the chaos to toss rocks from a distance, destroying the “Eye of Truth.” Orlando, caught in the scuffle, had no time to care about the “Eye of Truths.” He was hesitant about whether he should ask Olsylvia Academy for help.
Bella slipped into a magical teleportation array, but she didn’t go looking for Mentor Catalina’s senior sister. After riling up something this big, Olsylvia Academy should be reacting soon. She put on her invisibility suit and found a fabric store close to the magical teleportation array, initiating her intrinsic “work” as a fas.h.i.+on designer.
As a veteran of the industry, Bella had quick hands. She quickly gathered a batch of good fabrics and planned to make a simple set of swimsuits before leaving. The shop owner of the fabric store looked startled at the beautiful blonde lady who had suddenly entered her store as if she had seen a ghost.
Bella was wearing the invisibility suit when she entered the store, so the boss didn’t see her. By the time Bella came out with a simple nightgown, she had already put her invisibility suit away and now could be seen by the store owner.
“Um, young miss, you are...”
“h.e.l.lo, madam. I’ll be taking these. Keep the change.”
“Miss... These see-through chiffon fabrics are very expensive. Someone has already reserved them...”
The fabrics Bella had her eye set on for the swimsuits were the uncommon Divine Silk fabrics. Due to how rare these high-quality fabrics were, customers had to reserve them beforehand if they wanted to buy it. Bella didn’t look too clearly when she entered, but this seemed to be a fabric store for n.o.bility. Many of the fabrics here were reserved in advance.
The shop owner looked troubled. However, Bella just threw out three colorless gems. The only people who could pay in gems were few even among the n.o.bility, and many royals weren’t even as generous as her! After all, the shop owner was a business person, so she couldn’t offend someone like Bella, who seemed to have such a deep pocket. So, she could only make an exception and sell her the other fabrics.
However, she couldn’t give her the Divine Silk that day. That was reserved by the Chaos Supreme Magic Mentor Lady Melvira. She could fool other n.o.bles, but Melvira won’t compromise. She was stubborn and won’t give up something on which she had set her eyes on.
“Miss, the others are fine, but that Divine Silk has been reserved by Supreme Mentor Mel...”
“A mage reserved it? Isn’t it just money? Just give her this as thanks from me...”
“But... Please wait...”
Bella ignored the shop owner’s shouts, and took out a small bag of magic beast cores, placed it on the counter and left. Those high-level magic beast cores were worth much more than the colorless gems, which caused the shop owner to freeze for a moment. Without her holding Bella back, Bella was able to leave successfully.
How could Bella give up that transparent Divine Silk that she specially picked out? If she picked the normal options, then her evil plan would have been ruined.
The Chaos Supreme Magic Mentor Melvira came to the fabric store not long after Bella’s departure to get the Divine Silk that she was supposed to get today. But unexpectedly, she came in to see that the shop owner had a complicated expression on her face.
“What? Someone s.n.a.t.c.hed my fabrics... And this is what she left... Huh? Isn’t this the clip I gave to Catalina?!”
Melvira also froze at the small bag of magic beast cores which Bella left. There were a few dozen Grade A demonic cores from the Demonic Bears as well as a single core ranked grade S or above from the Demonic Beast Forest’s Demonic Bear King. The total worth of this bag of demonic cores was astronomical. Any other customer would have “forgiven” her with a big grin on their face, but Melvira was more of an upright person. She believed that she had been given a little too much and that she had to look for Bella to return the extra demonic cores to her.
Bella left in a hurry, so she accidentally left the blue hair clip given to her by Catalina as a token of her ident.i.ty in that fabric store, which Melvira happened to pick up. Melvira pondered briefly on it and wondered whether something had happened to Catalina. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have left her hair clip under the safekeeping of anyone else.
“So this is where you were, Master Melvira! Quick, come with me. Something happened at Needham Lake!”
Before Melvira could even finish thinking, she was approached by a mentor from the magic department. For the sake of their reputation, the head of Olsylvia Academy’s magic department ordered the area around Needham to be sealed off at once after what happened at the lake.
Deep inside the dense forests of Needham Lake, Olsylvia City, the returning Bella brought the bikini swimsuits that she created for the girls in the magic department. Besides the few beautiful young ladies that were already the part of Bella’s harem, most of the girls had never seen such a bold style of underwear before, and they were all looking at each other, unsure whether they should wear them or not.
Bella’s sinister hobbies brought her to create these near-transparent bikinis out of the Divine Silk with a few flowers and accessories sewn into a few key locations to act as a cover-up. Wearing them felt no different than wearing nothing, and it was as erotic as a pair of s.e.xy lingerie.
“Bella, didn’t we ask you to... Wait, why are you putting them on? This underwear is too...”
“These are swimsuits, Mentor Catalina. The kind you only wear when you’re at the beach. Please don’t mind them. Many girls from the knight department also wear these. You... No, we girls in the magic department can’t fall behind!”
“But... Wait, I’m not wearing... Hold on...”
“Big Sister Catalina, are you planning to go back naked without wearing it? Stop being capricious, wear it!”
Bella’s girls put Catalina under their control again. Under the tacit approval of Princess Eveny, Princess Effie, Princess Ariel with the onlooking President Lucia, who had no problems with this either, Catalina’s protests were invalidated by default on a majority rule.
Bella chose a peach-colored bikini set to match Mentor Catalina’s hair color and put it on her by force. Catalina’s hands were pulled back by Princess Eveny and Effie. Simultaneously, her snowy white thighs were pressed into a seated kneeling position by “Fourth Chapter of The Deep Blue” Sylvia and “Scarlet Red Fifth Chapter” Serena, and such she was unable to move.
Those who had no idea would think that these beautiful ladies colluded to “push down” Mentor Catalina. They were Bella’s girls, and if Bella wanted to do something bad, she only needed to shoot them a glance, and they would completely suppress Mentor Catalina.
“I’m the mentor, Bella! Can’t you give me something a little more conservative? This is too bold... If the academy’s disciplinary committee...”
“Nope, Big Sister Ingrid wears this type too, so just give up!”
The one Bella changed Catalina into was one of those popular string bikinis, the type which was linked together by a knot at the connections. How could Catalina dare to wear a bold style like this? Her voice had already lost the stern air of a teacher and had become a fragile big sister voice. However, Bella ignored her pleas and continued changing her.
As for whether the Disciplinary Committee would find out about this, there was no need to worry. The Committee Chief, “Ice Knight” Natasha, was on Bella’s side, and what she wore beneath her clothes was even spicier than this one, so there were no chances of her coming to check on someone from her own side.
Seeing that the mentor had also agreed, the girls in the magic department’s Cla.s.s 1 also changed into their new swimsuits. After the knight department, Bella finally managed to market her own products in the magic department. After they were done changing, Bella took out the teleportation magic scroll she bought from outside earlier and brought the girls to one of the Rose Society’s territories, McPherson Monastery’s back garden. The holy spirit of the third generation Pope McPherson had been closed for some time, so no outsiders were there.
Bella didn’t care about the Abyss Demonic Beings at Needham Lake anymore. It was just a Giant Crab. She didn’t believe that Olsylvia Academy’s magic department couldn’t deal with it. However, the facts proved Bella wrong. Olsylvia Academy’s magic department really couldn’t deal with that demonic being. There were other existences inside of Needham Lake.
Shortly after the retreat of Bella and the group, the Special Cla.s.s 3 students of the magic department left as well. They were miserable, and many of their bodyguards died before they could escape. As the head mentor of their cla.s.s, Orlando left his students and ran at the first opportunity he could find. Even if he were the heir of an imperial duke, such actions also came with severe disciplinary consequences. The head of the magic department who had rushed over had no choice but to announce on the spot that he would be temporarily confined for a week as his punishment.
When the head of the magic department, Wind Holy Magic Mentor Alcott, arrived with a group of supreme magic mentors at McPherson Monastery, it was already the third period. This is the Radiant Church’s sphere of influence. Even if the Rose Society took over, the Radiant Church’s essential influences still lingered.
Wind Holy Magic Mentor Alcott didn’t want to come to this place that was known as the Midnight Forbidden Grounds, but he had to. Bella had abducted thirty or so girls from the magic department’s Cla.s.s 1 as well as their temporary head mentor, Supreme Magic Mentor Catalina. Among them were also three imperial princesses, so this was a problem.
Tensions were high on the outskirts of McPherson Monastery. As soon as Wind Holy Magic Mentor Alcott and the rest appeared, they saw the members of the Radiant Church’s knights stationed nearby, as well as the Pope’s Papal Guard, numbering in the thousands. And, the one leading the group was the recently appointed chief captain, Sister Mathilde.
“Sister Mathilde, what are you...”
“Master Alcott. This place is now off-limits to visitors and tourists. After Grand d.u.c.h.ess Baize attended cla.s.ses in your magic department, she found that there are many problems to be found! You were trying to harm people with demonic beings, and she has already informed us of the Radiant Church in full detail!”
“As witnesses, the girls from Cla.s.s 1 of the magic department and Master Catalina must stay here to aid in our investigations. You can go back now and wait for the academy’s notification!”
“This... Sister Mathilde, you must have been mistaken... I...”
Wind Holy Magic Mentor Alcott had a tense look on his face. The biggest stain of his career was that he put out a transfer order for Orlando’s sake and personally transferred Catalina to his cla.s.s. This was, at best, a bribe. But to harm someone with demonic beings was a terrible thing to do. He may be punished by burning at the Radiant Church’s trials if things wouldn’t go well.
Alcott tried to argue, but seeing the letter of appointment in Captain Mathilde’s hand with the joint signatures of the Radiant Church’s four Holy Maidens, as well as the papal heir, President Maria, and Cynthia of the Holy Swordsmen, he had no choice but to take his men back.
Bella was standing behind one of the windows on the second floor of McPherson Monastery, watching the situation unfold with Princess Ariel. Bella was the one who sought out those of the Radiant Church as she wanted to turn Catalina into her “private mentor.” The only thing she could do was force the stubborn head of the magic department to give in.
It was a little unbelievable for a demon king to act as a whistleblower to the Radiant Church about the Human Race summoning demonic beings. But as long as it got the job done, Bella didn’t care about her work ethics as a demon king. The next step was for the other side to admit their wrongs and seek her out for a secret bargain.
“Bella, with that plan of yours, it seems that Big Sister Catalina won’t be able to escape...”
“Don’t get me wrong, Ariel. I really wanted to discuss magic with Big Sister Catalina, but she wouldn’t understand, so I had to... Huh? When did you put that on?!”
“Silly Bella. You just noticed? What do you think? You like my swimsuit?”