How to Survive as a Genius Spy in the Game

The scythe lying on the floor still held an ominous and eerie aura. However, it was better than before.

When Tsukva was holding it, grotesque darkness rippled over the scythe. Carlyn thought that Tsukva’s lingering thoughts might have been parasitic on that scythe. And that was true.

After checking the scythe, Carlyn relaxed and lay down. Of course, he didn’t lie on the floor. He was in a position with his back supported by winds.

Naturally, he didn’t forget to cast purification on his body and clothes that had been rolled and injured during the battle.

Denif also saw Carlyn and just lay down spread-eagled. The two caught their breath while lying down. Carlyn only rolled his eyes to look at Denif.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“No. I feel like I’m dying.”

Denif answered in a very hoarse voice. The two turned their heads while lying down and made eye contact.

Both of them looked terrible. They burst into laughter at the same time.

Denif had sustained more injuries. Blood was flowing from his shoulder, side, and arm.

Having small holes in the body was bad enough, but the arm was even worse.

And the clothes and skin touched by the wave of darkness were also stained as if burned black.

“Are you really okay?”

Carlyn held back his laughter and got up. Quite a lot of blood was flowing from Denif’s arm.

“I told you I feel like I’m dying. What are you nitpicking about?”

“You laughed too.”

“Should I cry then?”

“Wait a bit.”

Carlyn took out a hemostatic agent, applied it to Denif’s wound, purified it, and then tightly bound it with bandages. He had basic knowledge of treatment.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem like there would be permanent after-effects. Denif also examined Carlyn.

“I’m grateful, but shouldn’t you stop your bleeding too?”

“I should.”

Carlyn nodded and applied the hemostatic agent and wrapped bandages on himself as well. Denif frowned slightly as he moved his body.

“You tied it too tight.”

“Then bleed to death.”

“You’re talking so coldly? What should we do now?”

“We got the scythe, so we should get out of here first.”

“No, I mean here.”

“Huh?”

“The darkness above has disappeared too, are we really going to collapse it?”

After Tsukva died, all the darkness enveloping the floor and ceiling of the temple had disappeared.

Now the outline of this huge cavern could be clearly felt with Carlyn’s winds.

It really seemed like they could collapse it. Burying a temple that worshipped devils, it wasn’t a bad idea.

“Sounds good? Let’s do it right now.”

“Let’s rest a bit more first.”

“You can move mystic even while lying down, can’t you?”

“……”

Denif silently glared at Carlyn. Then he glanced at his own body as if to say ‘look with your own eyes’.

The bandages he had wrapped were already stained with blood. Carlyn shrugged.

“So what?”

He wasn’t particularly concerned. He had confirmed while treating that it wasn’t life-threatening and wouldn’t leave after-effects.

Of course, having holes in the body and deep cuts on the arm were major injuries, but for individuals of their caliber, it was a bearable level.

Carlyn also had two holes in his body, didn’t he? Denif’s face was full of betrayal as he teared up.

“You, you…… cruel……”

“Stop acting.”

“Hey, you heartless bastard.”

“I’m not saying to collapse it right now, just try doing it little by little while lying down.”

They were resting, but they didn’t have much time given to them either. Denif pouted.

“I’ve been doing that from the start.”

Silence fell again, and the two quietly caught their breath. It had been a long battle. No matter how well-trained their bodies were, their breathing was very labored.

Muscle fatigue and exhaustion followed as it had been a battle using all their strength. The loss of blood made it feel even worse.

In the silence, along with the sound of soil rustling, bits of dust fell from the ceiling.

“Can’t you stop this from falling?”

Carlyn grumbled as he pushed away the soil with winds.

“This is ridiculous. I’m dying here and you have so many demands? If you’re going to block it anyway, why don’t you dig a bit with winds too?”

“Should I?”

Carlyn also adjusted his winds, carefully. It would be a disaster if it suddenly collapsed while they were lying down.

The rest they took while using Mystic Power didn’t last long. It wasn’t great to just lie still right after battle either.

The two got up after the bleeding had somewhat stopped. Of course, this was possible because of their superhuman-like bodies.

As soon as they got up, they started by stretching to loosen their muscles. They felt pain because of their muscles, but endured it.

“How is it, do you think we can collapse it?”

“I think it’s possible, but to do it properly, we should get out of here first.”

“Does the sand reach from outside? I thought it didn’t.”

“Couldn’t we do it from the entrance and run away as soon as it starts collapsing?”

Carlyn nodded and walked towards Tsukva’s Scythe before leaving. Denif asked cautiously.

“Is it okay to touch it?”

“The strange darkness has disappeared, so.”

Carlyn carefully grasped the scythe. The eerie aura was still there, but there were no strange signs.

It was because Tsukva’s lingering thoughts had disappeared.

The two escaped to the entrance riding winds. While doing so, Carlyn finally remembered the slaves outside.

We’re going to collapse this, but what about those people? However, the brief consideration was meaningless.

“What’s this?”

Because all the slaves who had been sleeping near the entrance of the temple inside the tunnel were dead.

All the mana lamps inside the tunnel were also broken. The slaves illuminated by the glowstone looked as if their vitality had been sucked out by darkness.

“Looks like they were consumed by the darkness when we were fighting earlier?”

“That saves us some trouble.”

Denif said matter-of-factly. In fact, it wasn’t wrong. They couldn’t have moved 20 people with their injured bodies anyway.

The two carefully headed outside. Denif picked up a sword that looked somewhat decent.

“Now we just need to collapse it, right?”

“Yeah.”

At the entrance of the tunnel, leaving the door open, the two focused on their mystic. Sand and winds headed towards the interior of the temple.

It wasn’t resolved quickly. About 30 minutes. Carlyn, who was adjusting winds while sitting in a chair, tilted his head.

“Are we doing this right?”

Since Denif, who was using sand, was controlling the collapse, Carlyn couldn’t get a sense of it.

“It’s working. It’s just that the top is solid.”

“If it’s ambiguous, let’s just go. We’ve achieved our goal anyway, so it doesn’t matter if we leave it.”

“Wait a moment, just wait a bit. This is the temple honoring that Great Devil, right? We must collapse it.”

And it was about 15 minutes later when a rumbling sound was heard. The ground began to shake roughly.

The two met eyes simultaneously.

“Run!”

The mountain began to collapse.

***

We escaped from the tunnel and headed straight south. We hadn’t cleaned up the traces of where we had stayed, but there was no need to bother.

Because an avalanche occurred as the mountain collapsed from the inside. It would have disappeared on its own. In fact, it was barely enough to escape the avalanche with our injured bodies.

‘The devil worshippers probably noticed too.’

There was another tunnel a few days’ distance away. Although it was quite far, the ground tremor was strong enough to feel almost like an earthquake.

They should have felt something strange over there too, and wouldn’t they come to check soon?

Therefore, it was important to move quickly from now on.

I felt some regret too. I wondered if we had collapsed it unnecessarily. If we had left quietly, we could have gained at least a few days.

‘The scythe is quite troublesome too.’

Moving while carrying Tsukva’s Scythe, which was nearly 2m long, was inevitably inconvenient.

I was planning to get rid of it, but I didn’t have the means right now. It was difficult to cut with Moonlight imbued with moonlight.

It seemed possible to blast it with a glowstone, but it was too precious to use here.

I thought we might need to borrow a Sword Master’s power or break it with Teme’s Spear.

‘A Sword Master’s Sword Energy might be ambiguous too.’

Although a Sword Master’s Sword Energy is certainly great, this weapon was no ordinary item either.

The rippling darkness had disappeared, but just looking at it gave a sense of ominousness and uneasiness.

A weapon wielded by one chosen by the Great Devil. It probably contained the power of the Great Devil.

Even though I was holding it, it was clearly no ordinary item. It felt like it was draining some energy too.

Therefore, my options now were two. Either go to the imperial capital, or go to Rudehrn near northern Kahalin.

Both felt a bit ambiguous.

‘If a Sword Master’s Sword Energy can’t resolve it, things could get bigger.’

There was also a worrying issue. Now that this has come out into the world, whether devils could sense it.

In fact, I had been harboring doubts since facing Tsukva.

If it’s the darkness controlled by Tsukva’s residual thoughts and the power contained in this scythe…

It seemed like the devils in the north should have noticed this long ago, but they were using people to search for it.

Seeing that there were two tunnels, it was certain they didn’t know the exact location.

Even if one of the two devils was recently summoned and building up power, it still didn’t make sense since one would still remain.

‘Even if there were other important matters, they would have prioritized handling this. Because one was summoned long ago.’

The first thing that comes to mind is that Tsukva had created an environment to prevent darkness from leaking before he died.

From a very distant past, they knew about the existence of Devil’s Blood.

A confidant of the founding emperor, and the figure who thought my ancestor was the dead emperor.

The first born Devil’s Blood.

When this blood was really thick, unlike me, they might have been able to freely activate that power.

‘If Devil’s Blood manifests, they might have been able to find this with it.’

When Tsukva died, it was the time when the founding emperor had driven out the Great Devil and devils had disappeared from this land.

Therefore, they might have done something to hide this scythe.

One chosen by the Great Devil. Seeing how strong such residual thoughts over a thousand years old were, it was a plausible speculation.

And now that this has come out into the world, devils might be able to sense it in real-time.

‘If that’s the case, going to Rudehrn could be a bit dangerous.’

No matter how great a Sword Master is, he can’t face a devil alone.

The reason they’re lying low now is because they lack the power for an all-out war.

But with just this scythe, they can summon devils and Great Devils relatively easily.

From their perspective, it’s worth rushing in desperately.

To go to Rudehrn, we’d have to cross through the north, so I thought it might be better to go to the empire by the shortest route.

Of course, since our physical condition wasn’t normal either, it might be better to receive Rudehrn’s protection.

‘Hmm.’

But considering various factors, it seemed better for us to head to the empire, even though it was dangerous. Because if we’re not careful, Rudehrn and tens of thousands of imperial soldiers could die.

If only I and Denif move, we could easily use glowstones in the worst-case scenario.

It might be that my head wasn’t working well because I was tired, so I told Denif my thoughts.

“What do you think, what do you think would be better?”

“Hmm. As you said, it would be better to go to Chenarus like this.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, going towards Kahalin feels a bit uneasy.”

Denif’s intuition is sharp. I’m confident in my intuition too, but Denif was surprisingly good.

It was as if he had the Death Avoidance trait like me.

If so, it was right to head to Chenarus. However, Denif’s expression was subtly uncomfortable.

“What’s wrong?”

“Just going to Chenarus feels a bit uneasy too.”

“Hmm……”

I thought for a moment and then continued.

“It’ll be tough, but let’s increase our speed a bit.”

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