Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 122

Chapter 122: Demon pill
“You aren’t a second tier!”

“Did I ever tell you I was?”

‘This… fucking…

Fine! Let’s see how arrogant he’ll be when standing in front of him is N°1

I will enjoy every bit of your endless suffering when that happens.

Stupid kids like you aren’t worthy of so much talent, I will even things out for the heavens.’

With a smile appearing on his face, and his tension being washed away, Naomi now gave off the aura of a crazy person.

His mouth opened, and he began shouting as loudly as he could.

“Mr. 1, I have found the culprit! please come here and avenge N°2!”

This call for help made Hans raise his guard, making him expect a sudden attack or assassination from the other side, but nothing of the sort happened.

For a couple of seconds, Naomi waited for someone’s arrival, and Hans didn’t want to let his guard down by attacking him.

But after almost a minute had passed, an awkward situation came to be, and the two just stood one in front of the other, watching themselves while most of the remaining students took shelter under the school desks, and only the bravest out of them kept their heads high to witness the scene.

‘What? Why isn’t anyone coming? Is there a battle going on somewhere else?

Do I have to get out of here alone? I can’t do that, if my calculations are right, this kid must be at least sixth tier.

I need to hold on for at least a couple of minutes, if I do that I’m sure someone will come over and help me get out of this mess.’

That was Naomi’s objective, and with that in mind, he began casting his {partial freeze} spell, since even if it couldn’t hold a sixth-tier mage for its whole duration, it could still restrain them for at least thirty minutes, proof of that was also the frozen sixth tier mage right outside the classroom’s entrance.

But there was a problem now, even if his spell was really powerful for a fifth-rank spell, it was extremely slow, and that was why he could only use it on opponents whom he could physically touch or people who underestimated his powers.

Unfortunately for him, Hans didn’t seem like any of the two types, and his mana was running too low for him to just simply cast various spells throughout the whole room.

On the other side, Hans thought that this whole asking for help was just a bluff, exactly like the previously displayed spell, though while that was his hypothesis, he couldn’t be sure, and decided to avoid showing off his strength but instead hide it, so that if someone would come as a backup he could’ve also taken them off guards.

Hans wasn’t foolish enough to be hit by the slow and huge freezing spell, so in the meantime, he took the chance to charge up the tier-3 spell {fire javelin}.

The spell pierced right through the advancing freezing one, and even if that wasn’t enough to completely destroy it, it was still more than enough to almost hit the owner, making him lose focus and causing the spell to crumble without even reaching Hans’s feet.

“What’s wrong? Your plan isn’t working?

Did you have some teammates perhaps?

Well, I am sorry to inform you but there is no one other than the people in this room in the whole building… have you been betrayed? No, maybe abandoned would be a better term for someone like you.

No one is coming to rescue you, today is the day you threatened to kill my students, and for that very reason, today is the day you will die.”

As a response to the ice element spell which Naomi loved using so much, this time Hans cast his fourth tier ice spell: {glacial sword}

Breaking through the ceiling of the floor, it was still slightly smaller than when he used it for the first time, but the power wasn’t inferior.

An incredible force crashed upon Naomi’s body, making him fall and break right through the floor.

From the hole created by his fall, Hans could see him lying on the concrete of the lower floor.

‘I… have been betrayed? Did they betray me? Was I just a sacrificial pawn even for them?

I had been one for my brother my entire life, and I now discover that it wasn’t any better even this last year.

What a pathetic life.

I would make them all pay… if only I had the power, I would taste their fresh blood rushing down my throat, if only… if only.’

A week before Naomi’s last meeting with the bald man…

“N° 4, have you understood my orders?”

“Yes boss!” replied confidently the bald man dressed in black.

“But… may I ask a question?”

“Yes, but don’t let my only answer be useless”

“Thank you, boss, I would like to ask you if we are really going to promote someone as unskilled as Naomi Sato to the position of a numbered.

A stray dog would use our spell better than him, he is slightly bright, I’ll give him that, but his talent is as bad as that of a dying old man, taking someone like him would sully the reputation of the ice lord, since you are known for always choosing skillful individuals.”

“Don’t worry, he won’t make it to the numbers, I never intended to give that spot to him anyway, it’s as you say, if I taught a stray dog it would’ve held better results.

I picked him just because he had an interesting position inside the academy, and he was the only successful teacher desperate enough to take such an offer.

Other than that, his worth is zero, meaning that after the Japanese academy crumbles, he will return to be worth just that.”

“Boss, are you saying he won’t be able to live through the Academy’s disaster?”

“It’s not that he won’t be able to survive…

It’s that he can’t survive”

“Boss, do you mean…

“Yes, he will die in the Academy, that will be the best outcome for all of us”

“Won’t N° 1 be found out then?”

“Pfff, hahahaha…. No, it’s all a lie, N° 1 won’t even be there that day”

“I see”

“The only thing he will receive from us is this”

Said the ice lord, holding in his right hand a red pill.

The gaze of the bald man was focused on it as if it was the most valuable diamond on the globe, while the lord handed it over to him, tasking him with something to do.

“I’m assuming you’ve realized what this is from its size and color, isn’t that right?”

“This is… a new version! Has N°1 finally finished researching it?!”

“Hahaha, not yet, but he did bring me this magnificent progress.

This new stimulant will be called the demon pill.”

“The… demon pill”

“That’s right, you probably know it since you’ve tasted the old one, but these stimulants are also made from a part of some monsters’ bodies, meaning that every time someone injects them, their consciousness will fight against the monster’s instincts”

“Yes” nodded the bald man.

‘I haven’t taken it many times precisely because of that.

After I ate the pill, my mind felt like it could shatter at any time, and even after the effect ended, the severe backlash and aftereffects cannot be underestimated.’

“This one… is ten times as powerful”

“What?”

‘T-ten times? For god’s sake… if someone above the S-rank got their hands on something like this… wouldn’t the world stand beneath their feet?’

“Go, and deliver it to Naomi, tell him to use it only if necessary, even though it will be necessary”

“B-but… something so precious! Isn’t it wasted?”

“N° 4, this is the best way…

You see, there is a reason why I won’t be using this myself to take over the Tyrant’s position, even if I’m not completely sure it’ll be enough, and that’s because of its after-effects.

In comparison to the normal one, this one doesn’t only have ten times the strength, but also ten times the risks.

Whenever someone tastes one of these, they will completely lose not only their minds but also their bodies, turning into a full-fledged beast.”

“Like some of the devil worshippers?”

“Mh, they will become the same as the devil worshippers who choose to lose their free will and humanity to gain power.

Naomi Sato, one of the teachers at the Japanese Academy, is secretly a devil worshipper, who threatened and endangered the lives of the students…

I can almost see the headlines.

I bet the Academy won’t survive six months.”

…

A week later

“Understood?” asked N°4, who had now become N°3.

“Yes” replied Naomi.

“Use it only in times of dire need, because it won’t last long”

“Alright”

‘The association already trusts me enough to gift me something of this caliber, something that even that badly never received.

I… must be special.’

And then, when faced with imminent death against Hans, it came to his mind once again.

‘That is right. I-I still have that’

Barely managing to lift his arm, he took out of his jacket’s internal pocket a red pill before swallowing it whole….