Clearing the Game at the End of the World
Chapter 31: Eyelids (4)

As he came to his senses, Professor decided to calm down.

‘I think it is because I have been through so many good things lately that these days seem dull.’

Right. The wizard. Of course, the disgusting thing looking down at me like I am some experimental material gushing out and talking about everything like a casual thing.

Psychopaths are known to be diabolic, but even they wouldn’t use me as test material!

In the end, my body will have the same injuries as now. In order to prevent the infection from spreading, it is necessary to have a wound sufficient to force the infectious agents to repair the body.

Regardless of the intended use, it means that eventually, amputated body extremities are inevitably produced. And, of course, they are of no use to me.

‘Even though I can’t deal with some who might want useless things, one should at least show hostility or caution to others! You are stupid! Stupid professor!’

From now he had to change his thinking process. Just like they say about the losing head for the sake of saving ankles. He couldn’t feel anything because of the smashed spine.

Instead, get their favor.

‘By cooperating with experiments and showing an attitude of conformity, we break down the boundaries. Although it isn’t known, the best talents in the nation are the royal wizards and studying the relationship between infection and the human body. I am sure there must be some knowledge about healing my body!’

The one reliable rule in the game.

There was no unanswered question. After all, the game is meant to be cleared.

The key to getting out of this miserable situation must be hidden here. So until he replaces it, he has to follow Isaac.

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- Speedwagon : yo professor, I looked up what you asked.

- professor : how did it go?

- Speedwagon : none. Isaac Mandalius, 6^th rank. There have been no records of an NPC with that name in Reed Flow Academy.

- professor : sure, thanks.

- Jokass : Still there?

- professor : yes, yes. There was a commotion after he cut the limbs off.

- Jokass : I didn’t see that. You kept the screen off.

- Soygaybar : ah, I want to see it!

- takealook : how far do you go by choosing something like that to break the head?

- professor : it will appear as a pop-up at the top of the chat room, so if you want to see it, just agree to view and enter.

-Soygaybar: Ehhhhh~

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“None. It is not on record…”

A little, not very surprising.

Of course, wizards are the number one targets to avoid, but they are the best allies on the battlefield.

In particular, World 3 is a world view where many Mutes and large-scale battles occur, so players who have passed through it can replace and meet wizards who have appeared on the battlefield at least once. ‘Where to replace them?’, ‘What magic to use?’, ‘How to be friends with them?’, all the data was pulled out.

When a full-scale war begins, all knights, wizards, and soldiers from the nation are mobilized. Whether it is a research wizard or an apprentice, everything can be known. Yesterday, the city in the front was captured, and the next city in a couple hours. What is the reaction? If you want to live, anyone would have to come and help.

In any case, once the war begins, it will be exposed to the outside in some way. And the exposed wizards are all searched by the players who want to recruit wizards into their unit.

But what if there is no data on the high-ranking wizard of an academy? A 6^th rank?

‘Isaac Mandalius dies before the full-scale war.’

He’s a character that will die before the war. So his information was not known.

‘Being able to kill a 6^th rank wizard is unconditional to the unfolding story. This is a problem because there is no way the one who comes to kill Isaac would do that and just leave.’

After all, this Mandalius mansion means that it will become a dangerous area in the future.

Professor organized the tasks which had to be done one by one.

First, by showing good looks to wizards, he gets the most favor and draws attention to himself; he can afford it and replace a way to fix his body.

Second, escape from the place before the one who kills this wizard comes.

Third, replace a way to earn 1.1 million Shillings.

‘Man… the schedule is so tight.’

In the end, there’s a goal that shouldn’t be forgotten. The remaining debt is 1.1 million Shillings. 25 days of game time, it wasn’t that I didn’t have enough time, but I wasn’t sure how much time could be spared because of the circumstances. With fewer viewers, it is hard to expect sponsorship, which meant I had to make money in the game itself and then get out.

Count Mandalius mansion, 4^th day.

Knock!

The lock was unlocked, and the thick iron door signaled the start of the day.

“Professor, ah… It is time.”

“Ah. the weather is quite nice~.”

For the past 3 days, Professor has been doing his best to get acquainted with the wizards. Actually, it wasn’t much difficult. Even if he wasn’t in custody, Professor would turn into a Mute if he left the place. Even if he was released, it was like being tied up.

Professor was very cooperative with the research giving him limited but enough freedom. Although immersed in an anesthetic bath, there were no chains now.

“Oh my, how are you feeling today? Um… just in case, how many do you see?”

The wizard brought breakfast, and Neila waved two fingers at me.

“Two. But why do you keep asking for numbers?”

“Ah, that? I am just checking to see if the person I am talking to right now is Professor or a Mute who had taken over the body of Professor. In particular, since some infectious agents entered your body came from that ‘white monster’, there seems to be a considerable possibility that it is highly intelligent even if it’s a Mute.”

After turning into a Mute, among the wizards, there is already research that I have been entirely infected.

‘The white one… no?’

[Your blood is an amazing food.]

‘At that time, did he release his blood through the wound on the cheek?’

He said he wanted my blood, so it was a chance. I didn’t see him as the kind of being to act like that.

“Is there anything to point out?”

“Ah, that… he said he wanted my blood and cut me on the face.”

“Ehhh!?”

Neila looked shocked as she took a parchment from behind and began writing on it.

“Why are you telling such an important thing only now!”

“Uh… you didn’t ask me. And it wasn’t special. A monster wanting blood, what is a surprise in that?”

“It is important! According to the testimony of Knight Charlotte, their queen seems to have the ability to pass on those traits to her kids by eating a strong human body!”

‘Oh. Has a lot of research been done, then? They know much more than anyone in year 124 should have.’

Apparently, as the city fell much faster in this world, this change seemed to have occurred because people’s sense of crisis was advanced.

“This is the part we were the most worried about. Although we defeated him, he recovered the white spear full of Charlotte’s blood when he ran away. If what they say is true, there may be a bunch of Mutes with power similar to Dame Agat in the future…”

‘Ah, it would be absolutely impossible…’

In the last battle, Turan suffered devastating damage, but the other side was defeated in the end too. In the process of cleaning up the battlefield, those who could purify were purified, and those who couldn’t be cremated were burned, and the queen starved.

‘What will they do with genetic information? They don’t have the resources yet.’

In other words, the Mutes now have only a half-finished blueprint with no materials to mass-produce the soldiers. Even if the materials were sufficient in the first place, it is challenging to create such high-level entities with the power of Charlotte.

‘In this world, I don’t have to worry about the Mute troops filling everything.’

That is why it is crucial how one starts to play. Just by winning the battle, one can change the whole flow.

‘But wait, Edeorna took Charlotte’s blood, but it also took mine, right? I think he was quite fine too.’

“You, Neila.”

“Yes.”

“Then is there a chance that the Queen will produce Mutes based on my blood?”

“Yes? According to your words, the white monster had its eyes on you, so wouldn’t he have given the information to Queen?”

“Oh.”

A Mute which has my traits… I wish they could be mass-produced. It will be fun. Troops of Mutes that crumble down like sweets.

“Is there anything else you are hiding? Is there anything special?”

“I never hid anything at all…”

Neila lifted my ankles and looked suspicious at me for a moment. Now that the talks are done, it is time to get to work.

“Then, shall we start today’s treatment… Uhm…?”

“Do it without feeling burdened. It doesn’t hurt.”

As I nodded, she closed her eyes and then cut my thigh with the blade she had created.

Slash!

The cut side didn’t matter, but her cutting was the scariest thing. Actually, this is just normal.

“Uh…”

“Enough. It is already healed, so open your eyes.”

Carefully, she opened her eyes at my words and began to wrap the cut leg with the thick cloth she had brought. In a short time, she looked exhausted. As soon as she entered, I would talk like this or that hoping for this pain to be delayed.

“A-are you really fine? No matter how much it is to save people, such a terrible thing… to a human…”

“Hahaha. It is fine. At first, I was angry too, but I think this is a patriotism I can do before I die.”

‘Of course, it isn’t okay. It isn’t a matter of pain but a physiological disgust.’

Isaac hasn’t come very often since the day I woke up. He would send other wizards who appeared to be helping him in research, who had been talking to me for the past three days and found an interesting fact.

‘12 wizards agreed to help that idiot. I feel repulsed, but it is needed, or there are 7 who help in research through coercion.’

In particular, Neila in front of me is someone who treated me the best. She is afraid to see the blood and looking at the casting time of her spells, she is not very good.

She is a person with a good side, which made me wonder how she is a wizard.

“The infection control wound is over… An anesthetic…”

“Ah, that, let’s skip that today too.”

“Huh?”

“I am a human too, and it is difficult to do nothing and just stare at the ceilings. I will walk around for a bit.”

“But… if I do not administer the drugs, it will be painful.”

“Well, there is plenty of solution left in the bathtub there, and it is true it hurts, but I think I will go crazy if I just sit down. And if I am drugged with the infection whispering to me, I might end up doing something.”

At a loss for words, Neila sighed and loaded the leg she cut onto the cart.

“… Can you please not tell anyone? If they replace out that I let the subject conscious after the—”

“Yes. Yes, I know. Leave the food on the desk and go to work.”

“Phew. Okay. If you ever get sick, don’t hold back and call.”

She looked concerned till the end as she led the cart to the door.

Kiik!

The sound of a key being used to lock the door and the sound of climbing stairs gradually receded, and then there was silence.

- Soygaybar : yah, she left

-Noru_is_druig: she went.

“Give me some time!”

- Speedwagon : Run the time for 5 minutes

Once I got to know the wizards, the first thing I did was to somehow get my freedom back. The method of suppressing the infection in my body was divided into 3 stages, solution, the wound, and the spine, which Isaac would crush each day.

As I said, the wound is meant to consume the power of the infectious agent and suppress it, and I heard that the bath filled with a Mute’s blood acts as a sedative.

It is said that if the surroundings are full of infectious agents like the self, the infection agent in my body recognizes that the infection process is done and will turn quiet. Yesterday, as an experiment, I took my hand out of the solution, waited but felt a tingling sensation, and decided to put it back into the solution.

Finally, my spine…

Surprisingly, there was no special meaning. When I first arrived, it was a measure taken to stop the progress of the infection, which was a mess inside my body, but Isaac decided it was convenient to use the subject with a broken spine, so he continued to do it.

So, after persistently persuading the wizards who came here with tears that the act of spine crushing wasn’t needed, only the wound and anesthetic water left, and the anesthetic was something I could use if I wanted.

There is no time now. Now that I was out of solution, the infectious agents will start to work in the body in no time.

Professor, who quickly approached the door, bit his wrist to bleed and applied enough on the iron door.

‘I was told that Mute’s blood rusts easily when it comes in contact with iron. I don’t know why the effect is like that, but my body is the same as a Mute’s, so it needs to have a similar effect.’

Due to the weight of the iron, the items are usually connected. Even if there is one weak part, it will weaken immediately and break down due to its immense weight.

Actually, I tried with a frail body last time. At that time, I took the solution in my hand and tried to spray it, but the wizards turned suspicious due to the mess near the door.

“Few minutes left!”

- Speedwagon : 3 minutes 47 seconds

- Jokass : it’s like watching an escape room on a speed run

After the corrosive door work was done, the hacksaw was scattered here and there. I don’t know what the hell I was doing before I woke up, but the amount of discarded hacksaws and tools was too much. And I gathered them all and applied Mute’s blood on them.

While moving to pick a hacksaw up, I scattered the parchment on the desk left and right.

“I am going to read it one time, so please say it right away. Report any important information immediately.”

- Soygaybar : isn’t this a cheat? What broadcasters pampering viewers? That I’ll be 2^nd!

- Speedwagon : 3!

- Holly : 4!

- Heungandumpling : 6! A study about the regenerative capacity and metabolism of subject. I didn’t know much about it other than how fast the hair grows. 5^th one

- takealook : I haven’t even started. 7!

- Jokass : 8

What was on the parchment they were remembering was the result of the royal brains studying the body while eating and sleeping all day. And this is useful information for me.

Dream!

“Kuak!”

Here. The feelings were coming simultaneously as pain squeezing pain in my whole body that disgustingly sweet scent began to wrap around.

[… give. Your body… to me…]

At the same time, Mental Weakness began altogether.

Flinch!

‘Slightly lowered door, a pile of rusty hacksaws hidden in a corner, wet parchment. Damn it, I couldn’t clean the parchment up. Even if I cannot read my share, I have people with eyes who can read and interpret it so…’

- Soygaybar : don’t use your brain and rest. I took screenshots.

’… You sure have sense in the weirdest manner.’

Ddud!

“Auhhhh!”

The agony of the infection spreading twisted his body as Professor crawled and threw himself into the solution.

Thud!

The anesthetic in the solution slowly permeates through his skin, and the blood of the Mute fills the surrounding area and begins to calm the infectious agent.

“Uhhh, dog-like… situation… Time?”

- Speedwagon : 4 minutes 43 seconds.

“Shit it. It went down.”

The time between coming out of the solution and on the set of seizures.

- Jokass : professor. I found something nice. [Infectious agents spreading through the whole body of Mute can be seen as the function of the brain. For him, the occupied brain is like a threat held in the hands of a puppeteer; the actual accident appears to be caused by a cluster of infectious agents. That means that the infectious agents of intelligent individual moves more complexly and can achieve a faster infection…] professor, is this what you are talking about?

“As expected. It is him. He has been buzzing around my head all day. I think he is gaining control over all the infectious agents in my body.”

Nothing hard to guess. My body is full of virus, and one of them stands at the top to control the others.

He is an entity capable of individual activities without the Queen’s orders. If it is a cell of a normal one not different from the queen biologically, it can control the infectious agents.

‘It must be because of him that the time I can move outside is decreasing.’

Gradually, the cycle of coming to me was getting shorter. Sometimes, for now, the reason is I could smell the sweet scent.

‘Looking at this rate… a week at most. If it is short, I cannot do anything more if we don’t solve it within 3 days.’

Feeling a throbbing sensation from the insufficient anesthetics, Professor closed his eyes. He couldn’t fall asleep because he was worried, but then he felt drowsy.

A daily routine for the past 3 days.

Knock

“Excuse me, Professor? Are you up?”

“Um… Roman? Is it Roman?”

“Yes~ I am in charge of today’s class~.”

The muffled voice of a man softly came as he was sleeping. One more wizard who would experiment with him. Roman. It must be lunchtime, then.

‘I was lucky today.’

Roman and Neila like me.

“Hahaha! It looks like you were sleeping fine!”

“I am a corpse except for the thick nerves.”

“Hahaha! That is weird. Seeing such an interesting person, I don’t understand why the other wizards are picky?”

“Well. When I met Roman, I felt delighted.”

“Oh, that is! We could have never met outside!”

Professor raised his eyes as he looked overjoyed.

‘I never met him. but I don’t know about it since we are in GG; you could be a spy.’

After the conversation with Isaac, I opened my eyes as I grunted, and when I saw the human in front of me, I wondered if I was looking at something in vain. Why is someone so precious in this shabby place…?

- Heungandumpling : Roman Gachaman! Gachaman!

- takealook : Nice God of Random… save professor….

- Soygaybar : damn it, the character I was playing got ruined because of this bastard! Ugh! Don’t mess with him! He will go very far!

- Speedwagon : information: Roman Gachman, avoid him, ranking 1.

“… Roman Gachaman.”

“Um? Where did you hear about my name?”

“Ah, I heard it from the other mages.”

“Ah.”

Roman Gachiamansion, a hero unit that is more famous than World 3 final boss Mutation Queen in the community, and the Galadrion Sword, the number one official NPC in combat power. Also known as Roman Gachaman.

‘It is him. the key to escape from this hell is this one!’

Looking back at Roman, who had a fantastic reputation in World 3. The eyes of Professor shone.