Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 119

Chapter 119: Blackmail
“Don’t worry… it’s the perfect place”

The body of the woman froze in an instant, turning into nothing but a statue.

“Now I’ve got to get to work… it’ll be a hassle if she woke up”

While someone was frozen, killing or hurting them wouldn’t be possible, but kidnapping was a different question.

Naomi lifted the statue from the ground and carried it on his shoulders.

Struggling a lot because of his low strength and endurance, he somehow managed to bring it all the way to the main building, hiding from the cameras with his {stealth}(tier-3) spell.

Once in front of the dean’s personal room, he caught a bit of breath before knocking on the wooden door.

“Knock knock”

The sleeping man inside the room heard the knocking, but in dire need of sleep after the difficult and energy-consuming day of work, he just replied saying:

“Don’t disturb me, follow Maki’s instruction I have already told her what to do!”

And then turned on the other side of the bed, covering his head with the bent pillow.

“Knock knock”

“What is it?!”

He yelled this time… annoyed by the relentless guest.

“Knock knock”

“What the hell do you want?!”

He yelled even more loudly while getting up from bed and slamming the door open.

Even if he was still dressed in a grey night vest, he couldn’t care less about his appearance, he just wanted to see who was annoying him so much at this time of the night.

But contrary to his expectation, it wasn’t one of his men, nor someone who had come all the way there to ask him for help.

It was his ‘brother’ whom he hadn’t spoken with for various years.

He had just given him a position in the academy out of pity and had then moved him to the lower classes so he could actually teach something.

It was what you could call an unexpected guest for the Dean.

“You? What are you doing here?”

Said the man now calm and composed in a normal tone.

“Oh, my dear ‘brother’ I have come to ask something of you”

“What would it be?”

‘What’s with him? His way of speaking is strange, and also this confidence…

He’s acting like another person’

Naomi started walking away, leaving his brother behind without even replying to his question.

A disrespectful act, that he would’ve never dreamt of doing before these last few days.

“Hey! What the hell do you want?”

Asked annoyed his ‘brother’, walking outside his room to reach him.

“You’ll know in a minute, let’s pass by your office, it’s spacious there isn’t it?”

Feeling mocked, the dean couldn’t help it anymore, he was about to teach his bastard brother a lesson.

After being so ‘kind’ to him for all these years, letting him teach in the academy even if he was a terrible mage, all he had gotten back was this cockyness of his.

“Don’t fucking…”

Interrupting him, Naomi said with a weird and provocative tone:

“By the way, could you pick up that thing for me?

Gosh, you should be more careful with your colleagues, if I had placed it just a few centimeters to the left it would’ve shattered when you slammed the door.”

The dean was furious, but the words said by his bastard brother were weird, so lost in curiosity, he decided to follow the directions Naomi’s finger pointed to with his gaze, and turning around, he saw the reason that was backing his brother’s arrogance.

A frozen statue was just beside the entrance to his room, laid on the wall to keep it up.

The appearance of the statue was familiar, it was so familiar that he recognized it without having to take a second look.

His most trusted assistant and colleague… Maki.

His pupils shrank, and his eyes widened.

“What is the meaning of this…

A murderous aura gathered in the man’s body, enveloping his hands with a thick yellow aura, that lighted up the whole hallway.

…Naomi!”

“Uh uh, I don’t like that, keep those hands down, or else I’ll have to reply accordingly.”

“What can you even do?

Tell me, is it you who has brought the assassin inside? How could you? How could you have done that?!”

These words enraged Naomi, they enraged him so much that his head began trembling because of how strongly he was gritting his teeth.

“Brother… you never take me into consideration do you?!”

“What the hell do you mean?! It’s not about consideration, it’s about the lives of the students, how could you let some of them be killed? Don’t you feel attached to them?! Don’t you feel pity?! How could you bring-

“I didn’t bring anyone brother! It wasn’t anyone! It was just me! Do you understand?! I did that, and it doesn’t matter if a couple of students died or not.

They are just worthless piles of mud, grown up with a diamond spoon in their mouth!

Money! Family! Power!

All they could’ve ever wished for, they have it all, a bit of retribution is nothing but right for them!”

“You? How could it?.. How could it…

“How could it be?! Did you think I was just worthless trash?! You kept me here out of pity, treated me like I was nonexistent as if we had never been brothers.

There was only one reason why I regained my will to live, and that was thanks to your mother.

After she passed, I promised myself I would’ve helped you, I would’ve stood by your side to repay her.

But what did you do?! You blamed me for her death.

Both you and your father looked at me as if I had killed her.

…

Someone like you isn’t worthy of all the fame and powers you possess.”

…Brother… have you lost your mind?”

“Brother? Brother?! I don’t have a brother like you! Not anymore!

Take that annoying bitch and follow me to your study, or else I’ll turn both of you into frozen shards!”

Like that, Naomi walked away, directed toward the Dean’s office.

“What I want is simple, give me your authority, and your influence.

You have one hour to decide… because if you don’t, she will meet the same end as the others.

Well, it’s fifty minutes now.

I warn you, if you try to flee and leave her behind I will follow you to the ends of the planet and rip your frozen body to pieces.”

“Well then, good luck.

Also…and do me a favor:

Don’t lose that useless hope of yours, because it’s funnier to see you struggling thinking you can do it.”

Naomi proceeded to the Dean’s office, using a fire spell to pass through the locked door by melting it.

He sat on the seat his cousin usually sat in, and turned around, watching the whole academy through the huge window behind the desk.

“It’s good the view from here isn’t it?”

Asked a voice.

Naomi was quite surprised, but he soon calmed down and replied:

“It is, but it would’ve been way more satisfying if I could’ve just taken it for myself”

“Hehe, don’t worry, once you complete this mission you will basically be the one in charge of the Academy, but you can’t expose yourself because people will question your powers, and revealing that you don’t have any would cause you a little trouble wouldn’t it?”

Naomi clicked his tongue at this remark before continuing:

“I guess so…

By the way, how did you do it?”

“What?”

“How did you kill those students while they were under the spell you gave me?

Even the system description of the skill says it’s impossible.”

“That’s because your spell is just a partial version of the real spell, the one our master uses”

“Your master?”

“Yes, he is technically now also your master”

‘My master… I don’t like being under others, not after having worked all my life under my brother.

He is someone who has to do with ice spells, and if even the baldy is calling him master, that means he must be really powerful.

Someone like that doesn’t really exist-

Wait…

“Master…

said the man with a shocked face.

“Is our master perhaps…”

Just from the face, the bald man could tell Naomi had realized who they were talking about.

“Yes, master is one of the seven seats, the ruling lords right under the Tyrant.

The ice emperor.”

Somewhere in Russia…

In a freezing cold plane of ice, only a black castle stood out.

It was massive, and its building style was similar to that of the Gothic cathedrals.

The inside however was quite empty, especially the great room, where the only furnishings were a red carpet that led to a giant and magnificent ice throne.

A man who looked like a beggar was kneeling on the red carpet.

‘Of all places… it had to be this, why did the boss choose to build the base here, I’m freezing to death.

It must be at least fifty degrees under zero here…

Brrr’

A shiver ran down his spine.

The white bearded man seated on the throne spoke in a low and composed tone:

” N°2 is dead you think?”

“Yes sir! I have investigated, and there seems to be no trace of him”

The man reflected for a second before ordering:

“Go! And search again.

In the meantime, you will be promoted to N° 2, and tell N° 1 to get on the move, we might have something to clean up in a bit.”

After the beggar-looking man was sent out,

The ice emperor remained alone in his castle.

Sitting on his throne he mumbled to himself:

‘Someone we have no knowledge of is capable of killing N°2?

Hehe… if I am not wrong, they must be one of ‘them’.

Even if they aren’t… this will be fun.”