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Chapter 76 : Finally Catching
Chapter 76 - Finally Catching
“Of course, my esteemed lady, everything you desire will come true,” Varkas bowed respectfully to the red-haired woman.
“Let's hope so,” the red-haired woman glanced at Varkas, inwardly expressing disdain for the human who had easily succumbed to her charms and willingly degraded herself.
Although she was a succubus, feeding on the essence of males, she wasn't the type to consume just any trash. The low-level succubi who would eat anything were beneath her. She was a high-class succubus with refined tastes, her veins flowing with the noble blood of aristocratic succubi. Although distantly related, her ancestors had ties to the Duke Level Succubus.
If it wasn't for her plan and the desire to earn her queen's praise, she wouldn't have bothered seducing this tasteless and shameless old lecher.
Е̌n̂ ũ m̂ а̊ ..í d
Just as nobles and commoners in human society have different standards for dining and food, so due to the demon races, including succubi.
Most low-level succubi are indeed as indiscriminate as human folklore suggests. If it wasn't for the constraints imposed by the higher-ups to avoid provoking war with humans, they might have already invaded human territories en masse to feed without discrimination.
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In the eyes of high-class succubi, low-level succubi are just a bunch of tasteless commoners, with no regard for the quality of their food, anything edible will do.
High-class succubi seek more just satiation; they pursue spiritual satisfaction. For instance, seducing a moral bankruptcy, weak-willed, and ambitionless prey would leave them utterly unfulfilled.
They wouldn't even glance at such trash, preferring to starve rather than consume it.
Their true targets are humans with strong beliefs, ideals, and unwavering willpower, these are the rare delicacies and feasts in their eyes.
Ẅeb̀no v е́_l Е̄ ňu̇ mа̇
Of course, such prey wouldn't be easily ensnared in one attempt. But the more they failed, the more excited they became, their interest in the prey intensifying, making the eventual conquest all the more delicious.
Unlike the one before her now.
The red-haired woman glanced at the middle-aged man bowing before her. If she didn't know what kind of person he was, she might have been deceived by his kind and amiable appearance, thinking him a virtuous man.
In reality, he was the complete opposite, a pure old scoundrel, utterly lecherous, who had completely fallen for her with just a little coaxing, making her plan to invade the human border region proceed smoothly.
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The red-haired woman had initially thought this man might be a rare delicacy, but he turned out to be the worst of the worst, the kind of repulsive trash only fit for low-level succubi.
With just a small trick, this man had betrayed his faith in the Goddess Of Radiance, betrayed the church, and joined forces with the blood-enemy race to harm his own people. Even as a succubus, she looked down on such humans from the bottom of her heart.
E n ů m ä . і̇ d̂
However, despite her loathing for this man, she had to endure it. Once her plan succeeded, she will dispose of this annoying fly.
Having secretly controlled most of the empire's border regions, the queen would surely reward her handsomely!
Then, her chance to rise to greatness will come.
As she envisioned this bright future, a sweet smile curled on the red-haired woman's lips, making Varkas beside her feel a flutter in his heart.
“Alright, those two little ones, let them go for now. Hurry up and get this done. By tomorrow night, I want this village to be completely transformed into our succubus paradise.”
“As you command, my esteemed lady. I will immediately notify your kin lurking in the village, telling them they can act freely.” With that, Varkas opened a drawer and reached into a hidden compartment, but he didn't find the scroll he expected.
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Strange, he was sure he had put it there.
Varkas frowned.
Could it be that his memory was failing him in his old age, and he had misplaced the scroll used to notify the succubi hiding in the village?
No, that couldn't be. Something so important, he would have kept it in a highly secret place, not carelessly misplaced.
“What are you doing? Don't tell me you've lost the scroll?” the red-haired woman frowned.
“Apologies, please wait, I'll look for it. Strange, it should be here. I haven't moved it,” Varkas was sweating profusely.
Web ń ov́ е l̂ Ẽńu m̈ а̄
“Mr. Priest, are you looking for this?” At that moment, a light, melodious, and slightly teasing voice of a young girl rang out.
“Ah, yes, that's it... What?!” Varkas instinctively turned around, and upon seeing the scroll in the silver-haired girl's hand, his eyes lit up with joy. But then he realized who the silver-haired girl was, and his eyes broadened in shock.
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“You, you...?” Varkas pointed at Aesphyra, who was smiling with amusement, stammering and unable to get a word out.
“Little, little student, didn't you already leave?”
“Yes, but on the way, I suddenly remembered that I had taken something of yours, Mr. Priest, and hadn't returned it yet.” Aesphyra smiled at the dumbfounded Varkas, waving the scroll in her hand. “It's wrong to take things without permission, so I came back to return it.”
“No, no, how did you find out...?” Varkas still couldn't figure out where he had slipped up and when Aesphyra had taken his scroll.
W ѐb̄n о̀v̇е̊l̈ Е̇ nu mа
He had been guarding the church all this time; Aesphyra couldn't have possibly taken something from his house without him noticing.
Furthermore, the scroll was hidden in a secret compartment in the drawer. How did she know about it? And even if she was looking for evidence, how did she suspect him?
Varkas couldn't understand.
“Idiot, is there any use in saying that now?” The red-haired woman stood up, looking at the silver-haired girl with great caution.
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“You fool, you said they were naive students fresh out of the ivory tower. And now? You've been outsmarted by the very student you thought was clueless?”
“You, you evil demon, what are you talking about?! Little student, step back, she's very dangerous!” Hearing this, the stunned Varkas seemed to come to his senses and immediately shouted, pulling out a cross from his pocket and confronting the red-haired woman.
Ѐ ń umа .і̀ď
Clearly, in that brief moment, he had figured out many things.
He had worked hard to become the church priest; he couldn't lose this enviable job.
Moreover, if it were revealed that he had collaborated with demons to harm his own people, it wouldn't just be a matter of losing his job, he would be burned at the stake!
“Hah!” The red-haired woman was amused by Varkas's reaction. “You idiot, I shouldn't have relied on such an unreliable fool! Can't you see that this silver-haired girl saw through your disguise from the very beginning?”
“Now you're pretending to be devout, is that useful? Have you considered how this long silver-haired girl has been lurking here, and we didn't notice at all?”
"With her deep thoughts and cunning, she probably recorded everything you said with a memory stone from the start. Now you want to backpedal? Want to switch sides? Too late! If this silver-haired girl succeeds tonight, you'll be executed by the church, you fool!" The red-haired succubus mocked.
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“Oh my~?” Aesphyra's amethyst eyes flashed with surprise, her expression exaggeratedly shocked. “Acting without a plan, and choosing this pig of a teammate as your ally, I thought the demon behind this scheme might be brainless. Turns out you have a bit of a brain after all?”
“That's right, you guessed correctly.” With that, Aesphyra took out a memory stone from her pocket, smiling as she watched Varkas's face grow paler.
“Betraying your own kind, you must have already prepared to abandon your human identity, right, uncle?”
“Little brat, don't get cocky. You really think you've won?” The red-haired woman sneezed.
“When did you start suspecting me?” Varkas asked, his lips trembling.
“Uncle, has no one ever told you that your eyes are truly disgusting?” Aesphyra tilted her head, still smiling, though the warmth in her smile had faded.
Е̄ nŭ m̊а
From the very first meeting, Aesphyra had noticed the way Varkas looked at her.
Although his gaze was very subtle, subtle enough that inexperienced girls might not notice, or if they did, they might dismiss it as a figment of their imagination.
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But Aesphyra was different. That kind of nauseating, repulsive gaze was all too familiar to her, so familiar that any disguise was utterly meaningless in her eyes.
She was particularly sensitive and averse to such hypocritical, outwardly bright but inwardly filthy individuals, especially when compared to Winnie's clear, foolish, and completely untainted gaze. It was a completely different level.
Even when she deliberately guided Winnie, and he was attracted by her outfit, his intentions were completely transparent, easily understood at a glance.
The former would disgust her to the point of losing her appetite, while the latter was simply adorable, especially when he tried to argue after being called out.
W̊ ӗ.b́ nov̇ е_l̄ Е́ núm̄ a
From that moment, Aesphyra had realized that this priest might have a problem, though it wasn't direct evidence of his involvement with demons.
Aesphyra had discovered that the demon snakes that attacked them in the snake den were not the same as the ones killed in the previous raid. The attacking snakes were clearly raised by demons, obeying their commands, while the dead ones were wild, having wandered in from somewhere. This proves that the snakes that later kidnapped the villagers were under demon command, not the ones caused chaos in the village earlier.
It was likely that this village had been targeted by a demon, who took advantage of the gap between military sweeps to replace the wild snakes with their own, covering their intent to control the entire village under the guise of a snake infestation.
But such a feat would be difficult to pull off without inside information, requiring a thorough understanding of the empire's military movements. Therefore, from the start, Aesphyra didn't rule out the possibility of an insider.
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After she and Winnie arrived in the village, they had spoken with two people: the old village chief and the priest Varkas.
After questioning them, they headed to the snake den, where they found traces of a scroll using detection potions, indicating that someone had used a scroll there ten minutes prior.
Ẃе̌ b̌n̆о.v е l̇ Е n̆um̈а̄
They had arrived at the snake den at the same time, meaning that someone had used a magic scroll, or had burned one, while they were on their way.
What a coincidence,why would someone burn a scroll just as they finished questioning the two?
Could it be that the scroll was some kind of signal, and when it was burned, a corresponding scroll held by someone else within a certain range would also burn, notifying them to leave immediately?
Perhaps they left in too much of a hurry, or perhaps they realized they had left something undone and didn't dare return, so they sent a demon snake to finish the job.
As for whether they would be caught, it was a snake den, seeing alive snake there would be normal, right?
But neither that person nor Varkas had expected Aesphyra, a first-year student, to be a cheat character, carrying so many potent detection potions she had developed herself, perfectly deducing the traces of the magic scroll and identifying that the attacking snakes were different from the dead ones.
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Moreover, as soon as she entered the village, Aesphyra had detected the scent of alchemical potions in the air, noticing something amiss with the villagers.
Although the scent of the alchemical potion had been deliberately masked, it couldn't escape Aesphyra's peak alchemical senses.
And these odd villagers were the ones who had been captured by the snakes and later rescued.
Since the snakes were under demon command, and with the scent of alchemical potions upon entering the village, the answer was clear.
They must have conducted some alchemical experiments on the villagers in the snake den.
The demons had carefully erased the alchemical traces in the snake den, so Aesphyra hadn't initially found any. But they had still left clues.
Еñûm̆ӓ . і̀ d
After that, Aesphyra turned her suspicions to the old village chief and Varkas, quietly mentioning in front of them that she had found traces of alchemical potions in the snake den and that they would investigate further the next day.
If they were insiders, they would be eager to go to the snake den to destroy the evidence, or at least take a look.
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Moreover, the identity of a student was very useful. The term “student” usually implies inexperience, naivety, and a lack of worldly knowledge, a clear, foolish innocence that couldn't hide any ulterior motives.
Aesphyra played into this stereotype, using her flawless acting to portray the perfect student image, making Varkas believe she was a sheltered young lady from a wealthy family, completely unaware of the world's dangers.
Upon learning that the alchemical traces in the snake den hadn't been completely erased and that they would investigate the next day, Varkas panicked and used a scroll the next day to notify the demons, instructing them to further erase the traces.
Then, their activities were exposed by the alchemical potions Aesphyra had sprinkled during her first visit to the snake den.
W̊e̊b n̂ o̊v̀ е ľ Ёń ù mа
Aesphyra compared the results: after mentioning the alchemical traces to the old village chief, there were no signs of activity in the snake den the next day. But after mentioning it to Varkas, a series of activity traces appeared in the snake den the next day. The mole was obvious.
The old village chief had also noticed something amiss in the village and knew something, but under the watchful eyes of the demons in the village, he had been pretending to be oblivious, speaking cautiously.
His caution was justified. For example, on their first night, they were being watched, proving that the demons were fully aware of the village's movements. If the old village chief said the wrong thing or showed that he knew the truth, he and his grandson would be in trouble.
Aesphyra deduced that the old village chief had let them stay in his house out of pure kindness, worried about the safety of the two young people in the village and hoping they could take his grandson away from this troubled place.
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As for how Aesphyra managed to check the alchemical potions in the cave for footprints and lay down new ones without being noticed, let's just say those who know, know.
After confirming that Varkas was indeed suspicious, she, to avoid wronging him, entered Varkas's house in the same manner, and the magic scrolls hidden in the secret compartments and floors confirmed her conclusion.
Ẃ ѐb́n̄ о̃v е̌ l̊ Е́ n̈ um̃ а
As for how she knew where Varkas had hidden things?
Joke, in terms of hiding things, Varkas was a rookie compared to Aesphyra. She knew all too well where to hide things that shouldn't be found.
Honestly, Varkas's hiding spots were too predictable; Aesphyra didn't have to work hard to uncover all his secrets.
After that, she told Varkas, who had completely bought into her act, that they had found nothing and were leaving, and Varkas naturally let his guard down.
After that, no matter how cautious Varkas was, after a few days, he will inevitably slip up and reveal his communications with the demons.
That was the course of events.
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Yet Varkas still couldn't understand where he had slipped up, how Aesphyra had suspected him, or how she had found his incriminating evidence. Everything had seemed perfect.
What he didn't know was that he, a seasoned old rogue in society, had been completely outclassed by a girl decades his junior.
But this can only be blamed on Varkas's bad luck in encountering Aesphyra. If any other top-five students from Carillian Academy had come for this practical exam, they would have left empty-handed, at best with some suspicions but no evidence.
The unluckier ones might not even have been able to ensure their own safety.
“You incompetent fool, you've been played like a fiddle by a little girl,” the red-haired woman said coldly, looking at the devastated Varkas. “What are you waiting for? If you don't shut up this little girl, do you still think you can continue to operate in human territory?”
This reminder snaps Varkas back to reality.
W̃ еb n̆ ӧ v е l̄ Ѐń ǔm̆_а́
Right, what was the point of dwelling on this? The deed was done, and now he had to find a way to fix it. If he couldn't fix the situation, he could at least fix the person, right?
The succubus was currently on his side, and his ability to continue infiltrating the church was crucial to them. As long as he could capture this impossibly beautiful silver-haired girl and prevent her and her companion from spreading the word, he could remain a respectable church priest!
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As for Carillian Academy's investigation, that could be dealt with later!
Having figured this out, Varkas's gaze towards Aesphyra began to change.
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