The Academy’s Undercover Professor – 124



◈ Episode 124 Stählern Kapelle (1)

Even though the monster of Jebodang was gone there were still a lot of things that needed to be sorted out.

“Everyone move! “There are still criminals remaining within the Kunst!”

The Clockwork Knights moved in perfect order and entered the auction house.

They suppressed all remaining remnants of the liberation army and captured criminals who tried to steal and run away.

Among them it was Casey Selmore who stood at the forefront and overwhelmingly swept away criminals.

She took down criminals without hesitation as if to relieve her anger over losing her lifelong nemesis James Moriarty.

After cleaning with water once my senses gradually returned.

She immediately analyzed the scene.

‘Have you caught everything at this point? Fortunately the most threatening warlocks were all dead.’

The warlocks who were thought to be the biggest challenge had already become corpses.

They all looked like they had died from being bitten by animals.

There was no need to conduct an autopsy to find out who killed it.

They may have come for the artifact but if they happened to encounter the monster of Jevodang it would have been their defeat.

‘More than that what happened to the monster of Gévaudan?’

I know that Moriarty defeated him but no matter how I looked at it there was something strange about the sudden disappearance of that big man.

Because of the exhaust fumes from the fight I lost sight of him for just a moment and after the smoke cleared I couldn’t see Jebodang’s monster.

Instead there was a large man with a blanket wrapped in something draped over his shoulders.

Maybe that’s the monster of Gévaudan?

‘That little something is the monster that ran rampant just a moment ago?’

It was clearly a test object created through some kind of experiment by the Black Dawn Society.

‘James Moriarty. He must be an official of the Black Dawn.’

As I was thinking that to myself someone approached Casey.

“Wizard. “The entire scene has been suppressed.”

Casey responded with a gentle smile towards the knight commander who was approaching with a salute.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

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“no. Rather we are grateful. “If it wasn’t for the help of the Colorful Wizard it would have taken a considerable amount of time to end this situation.”

The knight commander bowed his head saying thank you once again.

Although he was the leader of the knights representing Lederbelk and a strong knight he was nothing compared to Casey.

Isn’t he the famous genius detective and wizard who was given the title of Color from the Magic Tower?

In fact if she hadn’t used water magic to tie down Gévaudan’s monster there would have been a huge loss of life.

“Please call me a detective not a wizard.”

“Oh yes. Sorry Detective. And as instructed by Detective Biani the bombs used by the terrorists were recovered separately and left behind.”

“thank you.”

okay. Let’s think about Moriarty later.

What we needed to be most concerned about right now was this bomb.

I don’t know where the Liberation Army airlifted it from but the bomb they used was a special product that was unaffected by magic.

‘It’s a dangerous item. ‘The silence magic of fire doesn’t work.’

It has been quite a long time since science developed and guns and gunpowder rather than swords emerged as weapons.

Nowadays we live in an era where scary things like Tesla guns reinforced armor and tanks have come out.

In this rapidly changing world old things had to naturally decline to the other side of the times but wizards and knights did not do that.

This is because guns and explosives were still not a threat to them.

Knights even if they are just apprentices or higher are people who can see bullets and avoid them.

And wizards were able to use a magic called [Silence of Fire] which suppresses the action of ‘gunpowder’ which is the most important ingredient in firearms.

Therefore they were still the mainstream of the world and were scheduled to remain so in the future.

‘Gunpowder that the silence of fire does not work on. It may be okay for a knight but it is fatal for a wizard.’

Of course it does not mean that wizards do not have other means of defense.

However even a wizard cannot protect himself by surrounding his body with a mana barrier at all times.

‘Right now we are making crude bombs and using them but if we apply this to firearms as well.’

Casey tried to imagine.

A sniper attempts to assassinate an important figure in the country.

Usually the more important the event the more wizards maintain fiery silence and guard the surroundings.

That is why any surprise attack including bombs or guns does not work.

But what happens if you have this special gunpowder?

The sniper will pull the trigger very easily and the bullet that should have misfired will do its job and be fired.

And it hits the unsuspecting person.

‘…It’s dangerous. This is really dangerous.’

This is a game changer.

There is no way the liberation forces could have created something this dangerous.

They are liberation forces in name only but they are anti-socialist terrorists who fight against the state.

Although the scale is quite large and it forms a large organization there is a good reason for carrying out guerrilla warfare.

‘The liberation army does not have the technical ability to make such dangerous items. There is someone else. The person who created these dangerous items and gave them to the liberation army.’

The first thing that came to mind was James Moriarty.

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But this was not something that simply an individual could do.

There is a hidden force rather than a larger individual.

‘The Black Dawn.’

It wasn’t long before Casey became aware of their tracks.

Surprisingly the Black Dawn was a secret organization operating in secret throughout the continent long before she knew.

‘James Moriarty. No that man clearly belongs to this organization too.’

Black Dawn. These guys are very dangerous.

Maybe he was the one who took the lead in everything that happened in the Delica Kingdom.

The desire to find them right away was soaring but Casey decided to calm down for now.

‘There is still not enough evidence. There isn’t enough information. ‘I couldn’t figure out how big they were and how many strong people they were swarming with.’

In her view the man named James Moriarty was nothing more than a part of the Black Dawn.

It would be a high position at least equivalent to that of an executive but it would not be at the level of being called the boss of the organization.

The mere fact that there was someone who created the Black Dawn and led them made Casey nervous.

‘If he had James Moriarty under his command he would most likely be a very dangerous person.’

The more people like that try to blindly search for them the deeper they will hide.

I had to step on the tail step by step and aim for the critical moment when the body could not hide.

‘First we need to analyze how this gunpowder works.’

Fortunately she had an acquaintance who was very talented in this area.

It was Betty her assistant.

* * *

Workers cleared the collapsed rubble and escorted the injured.

Lederbelk city police set up a guard line to prevent people from entering.

Beyond the no-entry guard line it was full of people who came to see what had happened in the middle of the night.

As Enya watched the scene at the scene she recalled the disaster that had occurred a moment ago.

In addition to the unexpected attack on the auction house the monster of Jebodang who was known to be dead appeared.

Even more so it was an unidentified group that subdued the monster of Zevodang.

‘Detective Casey called them the Black Dawn.’

She is familiar with the name James Moriarty.

The godfather of the criminal world that shook the Delica Kingdom three years ago.

The fact that he was still alive and belonged to an organization called the Black Dawn was very shocking.

More than anything the person who made Enya’s head dizzy was the masked man she fought with.

‘That man. I knew the swordsmanship I used.’

The Joiners family has been a legitimate knightly family since ancient times.

Other knight families were reluctant to use it because of its overly practical and brutal arcane swordsmanship but even so their status could not be ignored.

In fact Enya proudly rose to the rank of senior knight not long after joining the Nightcrawler Knights.

Even an ordinary knight could not block the sting sword she wielded.

‘That man knew my swordsmanship.’

Very few people knew about her skills.

Even fellow Nightcrawler Knights don’t know.

The only people who know are her predecessor Lloyd and general manager Terryna Ryan Howl.

Could it be that information about the family’s arcane swordsmanship was leaked?

‘Maybe it’s someone I’ve encountered in the past.’

Who is it? Could it be that they were enemies that they tried to kill long ago but failed?

Suddenly as she tried to recall the past her heart began to throb and hurt.

It was not a physical pain but a recurrence of a long-ago psychological wound.

‘no. He probably isn’t. ‘Let’s not remember what happened back then.’

This wasn’t what was important now.

Enya took out a communication device that could only be used among the Nightcrawler Knights.

She sent a signal to the leader through the communication port.

“Captain. “This is Enya.”

She emailed everything she experienced and saw today.

And finally I added this.

“And Casey Selmore is here.”

After completing the communication Enya visited the Third Princess to check on her condition.

At that time the 3rd princess was with a girl named Betty.

‘Did you say you were Detective Casey’s assistant?’

However the princess’s reaction to seeing Betty is somehow strange.

“The princess. Are you okay? “What’s going on?”

“That’s who he is….”

Erendir pointed to Betty with a trembling hand.

Enya was also puzzled by that reaction so she checked Betty’s appearance and found that she was standing up with her eyes closed.

‘what? ‘Have you fainted?’

No other than that it’s standing fine.

Are you sure you sleep standing up? When she was training at a military academy she had slept while walking during a march so it wasn’t something she couldn’t understand.

“I’m not breathing.”

“yes?”

Enya checked Betty’s condition just in case. He placed his fingers on Betty’s neck and checked her pulse.

Her eyes were closed as if she had fallen asleep her body was cold and she was not breathing.

Did you die? suddenly?

It was so shocking that she died because there were no injuries anywhere to be seen.

At that moment Casey who had sorted out the situation inside came towards us.

“What’s going on you two?”

“Ke Casey! “Mr. Betty Ms. Betty…”

Erendir cried.

However upon hearing those words Casey’s reaction was ‘Oh that’s right.’

“ah. “Betty you fell asleep again?”

“yes? So you fell asleep? “He’s not breathing right now!”

“You don’t have to panic too much. hmm. “Well it would be better to see for myself what I already know.”

As Casey said that he undid the hem of Betty’s top and pulled it down exposing her back.

Erendir’s eyes widened as Betty’s pure white skin was revealed.

“Ke Casey! “What are you doing now?”

“The princess. wait a minute.”

Unlike Erendir who cried out in horror Enya discovered something strange.

“There’s a groove on your back?”

“I enjoyed it.”

There was a tiny groove in the center between Betty’s shoulder blades.

Casey took something out of his pocket.

It was a small key.

Casey inserted the key into the slot on Betty’s back and turned it clockwise.

Kirilik. Hehehe.

The sound of machines and gears meshing together was heard and soon Betty opened her closed eyes.

“Hi!”

Erendir was startled when Betty who had not been breathing a moment ago opened her eyes.

“Has Boo been resurrected?”

“No princess. Rather than resurrection… Ms. Betty was not human.”

Enya’s sharp gaze examined Betty’s condition.

Casey nodded putting her hands on her hips.

“yes that’s right. My assistant Betty is no ordinary person. No it’s not human to begin with.”

“Not human?”

“As you just saw Betty is…well a machine. To be exact a self-driving machine. “It’s an Automaton.”

It was only then that Enya realized how Betty had shown such fearsome strength that was not appropriate for her size when she heard the word automaton.

If he were indeed a machine made of steel rather than a human being made of flesh it is understandable that he showed such tremendous strength.

“Oh Automaton? But Betty certainly seemed like a person just like us…”

“You are sharp princess. that’s right. “Betty can think like us and even has emotions of joy and sorrow.”

It was an automaton equipped with so-called artificial intelligence and emotions.

A machine can do that?

no. In the first place I have never heard of a machine that looks so similar to a human.

“For an automaton this elaborate it should have created a lot of buzz.”

“Betty is different from the crude automatons commonly known.”

“yes?”

“It was secretly created in the Kingdom of Delica a few years ago… It’s a kind of secret weapon.”

There was a slight shadow on Casey’s face as he said that.

“An illegal project carried out secretly in the darkness of the Delica Kingdom. Among them Code Name Beta is one of only two successful works. That’s Betty’s real name.”

There was no time to be surprised by the shocking truth that came out of Casey’s mouth.

“Huh? Wow! Casey! “What did you do to my clothes?”

Betty who came to her senses screamed when she saw her top half falling down.