I Became a Fake Priest the Saintess Is Obsessed With

Chapter 78

78 – A grimoire containing forbidden knowledge

Day 1 of living in the Magic Tower.

When I came out of the room, I was greeted by books spread out everywhere.

Among them, there was one book that stood out. After reading it for a while, I realized that it was a grimoire containing knowledge that should not be contained.

I thought that Magic Tower also deals in this kind of thing, so I looked at the bookshelf and saw that the sign said ‘Novel’.

Ah, people here treated this as nonsense and accepted it as fiction.

The cover of the book is flashy, so it could be misunderstood.

Let’s read more about this later. Now is not the time to leisurely read books because there are guests scheduled to visit.

I put the book back and stared blankly at the ceiling.

I didn’t know it yesterday, but the green ceiling of the Magic Tower had a star-like structure with thorns piercing it.

It felt like the thorns on the ceiling would shoot down at any time and stab me.

Ugh, I don’t know who built the structure, but it has bad taste.

I looked away from the eerie ceiling.

“Hey… Are you the middle priest Ivan who decided to participate in the Great Sage’s experiment…?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

As I was killing time for a while, a young woman who appeared to be a wizard spoke to me.

When it is time for Scherer’s experiment, a research wizard comes to visit and it appears to be this person.

“Please follow me…”

“Ah, yes…”

The research wizard told me to follow him in a hunched position. The wizard’s eyes are wide open behind the glasses, and as you get closer, you can smell caffeine.

… This person seems to be living a very difficult life.

I followed the hunched research wizard and stopped in front of a clean-looking door. Seeing that the name plate says Research Room 4, it seems like research is being conducted here.

When I went inside, I saw a room that was entirely painted white and had a structure similar to a modern laboratory.

“Please sit here… I need to draw blood…”

“Why do I need to have blood drawn?”

“This is to distinguish the magical energy within the body and study its sacred power… It won’t hurt, so please give me your arm…”

To distinguish magical power… Well? The researcher might be surprised because I don’t have any magic power in my body.

“Here.”

I didn’t tell the research wizard about my body’s peculiarities, but handed him my arm with my sleeves rolled up.

She skillfully found her blood vessel and inserted her needle, and her needle took some of the blood from my body.

The research wizard transferred her collected blood into her sample tube and observed this and that.

Her eyes widened as she looked at my blood for a moment, as if she was startled. Then she tried this and that with blood again.

She investigated the ingredients using a quest spell, shook the coffin, and dipped a pure white paper that looked like a magic tool into the blood.

“Have you had any health problems recently?”

Still, he asked me, the owner of the blood, if I had discovered anything.

“Um… I was bedridden a few months ago due to exhaustion and overuse of magical power. I recently recovered completely, but do I still have any problems with my body?”

“Ah…Yes…I can’t feel any magical power in the blood…But I can feel the holy power, so it doesn’t matter…”

“I see… I need to take care of my body.”

Actually, that’s the constitution, but I didn’t bother to explain it.

It wasn’t a good thing to know and it was difficult to explain, so I just passed it off as a lie.

“You can go now…”

The research wizard, who was examining the blood again several times, spoke without even looking at me.

“Already? Is the research finished?”

“Yes… I heard from the Great Sage that today’s research only requires blood collection…”

“Um… I understand.”

I thought it was just because I only heard about the experiment and didn’t know what the research process was like.

I’ll have to ask Scherer about the research process later.

I pulled down my sleeves and stood up.

‘I’m done with today’s work, so I should read a book.’

Remembering the magic book I found before entering the lab, I left the room and headed to the bookshelf labeled ‘Novel’.

The books I had put on the bookshelf were still there.

I flipped through the cover, which felt overly flashy, and looked at the contents of the book.

“Hmm, we’ve almost reached the truth.”

The contents of the book were identical to the facts I knew.

To summarize the contents of the book, the author is a magician belonging to the imperial army and somehow ended up in the demon realm.

And there, I killed the demons and felt more than one thing: the nature and body of the demons were similar to humans.

Later, as a result of examining the bodies of the demons. I realized that they were a species that was no different from humans in the past.

He wrote this book to inform people of what he had discovered.

“Still, I didn’t realize the crucial difference.”

Although he almost reached the truth, the author did not realize the difference between demons and humans.

Of course, it would be difficult for an individual to realize that.

By the way, it is said that the book was written to inform the truth, but the author’s mental state was probably poor, and the same content was repeated over and over again, or there were many words that could not be considered sentences, so it seems that people at the time treated it as a strange document.

Seeing it stuffed in the corner of the ‘novel’ bookshelf like this, you must have thought it was an empty lie.

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I was about to return the book to its original place and looked beyond the ‘Novel’ bookshelf to the ‘Common Knowledge’ bookshelf.

But I shook my head and put the book in the corner of the ‘Novel’ bookshelf.

Even if you move the books, it is obvious that the librarians will organize them, so let’s not do anything unnecessary…

I clicked my tongue and looked around at other books.

I took out a few books worth reading and read them, and as I looked for books about curses and iron structures to read, several hours had passed and it was already afternoon.

‘That’s right, I stopped by the workshop for a moment and wanted to make a few things.’

Through Scherer’s generosity, I was allowed to use the tools and materials from the Witchcraft workshop.

The items I made were used up during the volcano or clown incident, so I needed to replenish them.

This will be a good opportunity to demonstrate the abilities contained in the necklace, so let’s go to the workshop quickly.

‘I’m looking forward to it because it’s a witch’s workshop… ‘

With my expectations inflated, I quickly packed my bags and moved to the workshop.

The workshop is located next to the Magic Tower, so it was very easy to get there.

Honestly. Really honestly.

I thought that going to places like workshops would not be very inspiring anymore.

I saw with my own eyes the highest level workshops in Greytown, a dwarven village famous for its workshops, and thought that there was nothing better than this.

But it wasn’t. Witchcraft, the witches’ workshop, was completely different from the workshops I had seen so far.

So, it’s not that the level of Greytown or Dwarf Village is low, it’s that these witches’ workshops are very different from the workshops we’ve seen so far.

If the workshops in Dwarf Village and Greytown are places where things are made in a simple and plain manner, this place is like a place where performances are held.

Women wearing conical hats who look like witches control fire with wooden wands.

Fire, given magical power, takes the form of a human being, becomes a gentleman, holds the witch’s hand, and begins to dance a wonderful dance.

At that time, the other witches gathered various ingredients and combined them into three balls.

The gentleman flame let go of the witch’s hand, grabbed the ball, and performed a spectacular juggling act.

In the process, the balls gradually changed their shape and became knives.

The gentleman flame turned the knife several times and accurately hit the target.

In a performance that is truly difficult to see as an alchemy process, a sharp, well-made knife was born.

“Now, cool friend? The fee to watch the performance is 3 silver coins.”

As I was absorbedly watching the show, the witch who had just been dancing with fireworks tapped my shoulder.

She is smiling brightly and asking me for money.

… Was it for money?

***

Laboratory 4 where Ivan left.

The bent-eyed research wizard stared at the Ivan priest’s blood for a long time.

His blood appeared to be bright red, normal human blood, but it was very foreign.

As far as she knew, all living things in this world absorb mana in the air, convert it into magical energy, and store it in their bodies.

In other words, magical power inevitably exists in the human body, whether it is skin, blood, or organs.

However, Ivan’s blood had no magical power at all.

No matter how much magic I used to distinguish magic power or even if I put paper that reacted to magic power, I couldn’t feel the magic power even twice.

You might think it’s because Ivan has recently experienced exhaustion and overuse of magical energy, but there’s no way that all the magical energy in his body can disappear just because of that.

“Did you do well with what I asked you to do?”

When she was suffering while looking at Ivan’s blood, the great sage came.

“Yes… I took a blood sample as instructed…”

“You did well. You probably didn’t disobey my instructions and test his blood on your own, right?”

“Yes… The sample is on the desk, so take it with you…”

“Hmm, he’s my assistant as expected. It’s nice that he gets things done very quickly. I guess I’ll go then.”

Schler took Ivan’s blood from the desk.

There was just a little bit of Ivan’s blood on her hands.

This amount is not enough to even conduct a blood test, but it doesn’t matter.

For vampires, any research can be done with just a small amount of blood on their fingernails.

“I found an interesting person… Is this interesting?”

In the room where the Great Sage left, the research wizard, no.