"Hopefully with some motivation; Meleic won't go over to the conspiratorial side; you never know, maybe they have prosthetics or regenerative spells, and use frustration as bait," Mart thought as he headed back to his room and the system sent him a notification.
[Medium level charlatan (a demon must know how to deceive with his words): reward].
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Mart entered his room, sat down in front of his desk and began to review everything he had written down in his notebook, to check that he hadn't overlooked anything. He immediately noticed that there were two areas that he had not inspected and that with his current skills he would not be able to inspect; one of the areas was the teachers' dormitory; the other area was the museum and the vault that contained the most valuable and powerful artifacts of the Academy.
Mart closed his notebook, he knew he hadn't properly inspected the female dormitories either, but that might alert Selenia and then the group of conspirators and chaos would be inevitable, so he decided to watch from a distance.
Mart looked at the window of his room, the night sky was beginning to give way to light, so he hurried, went into the bathroom to bathe and then dress to attend his classes.
••••
At the Danteriar academy everything seemed to be going normally, the students were going to their classes, no incident out of the ordinary had occurred, Mart remained attentive for about three weeks, in which he did not change much his routine of training in the mornings, and in the afternoons studying, researching and perfecting his demonic spells and everything related to the curses he knew so far.
"...You have one month to do your essay on the scope of demonic energy in mid-level beings or an essay on demonic energy and its difference from the so called mana that humans use, choose well and develop a good paper..."
Professor Derec Mesef finished his class after assigning the completion of an essay. Selis asked Mart:
-What topic are you going to choose?
Mart had heard that those students who chose the second topic would be given access for a month to books to which only fourth year students had access, but as it was a demanding topic no one wanted to choose it, however the incentive of being able to access books to which he did not have access was enough for him to answer Selis with confidence:
-I will choose the second subject.
-Wow, you're going the hard way. -Selis said with a sympathetic look.
Mart nodded, then looked at Selis and Asfil, and said:
-I guess, you guys are going to support each other.
-That's right, we'll get an excellent grade. -Selis said, while Asfil just nodded.
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A few days passed and Mart managed to receive permission to access the section of the library that only fourth year students could access. He arrived at the library after classes had ended and approached Emy, in the last few days Mart's concern had increased, because in the last few weeks, the number of students with demon god energy had increased and they walked the halls quietly without showing any signs or concerns.
-Hello Emy. -Mart greeted enthusiastically, trying to put his worries behind him.
Emy looked at the notice Mart had placed on the reception desk, after seeing that the notice to the restricted section of the library, Emy looked at Mart who seemed quite relaxed and asked in a voice:
-Are you not worried about your note?
-Yes, it worries me, but I'll settle for getting a passing grade if that doesn't mean I can access the books I was looking for. -Mart responded without hesitation.
Emy stood up and said:
-Follow me.
The two walked with the shelves at their sides, when they reached the back of the library there was a black wall, Emy placed the notice on the wall and on the wall began to appear demonic symbols that then glowed with a red color until the wall began to change shape showing an angry face full of wrinkles with an open mouth in which there were hundreds of sharp fangs.
-This is really demonic. -Mart muttered as he saw the fearsome entrance he assumed he had to enter to gain access to the restricted area of the library.
-No harm will come to you, unless you try to steal a book in which case you will be chewed until you become a mass of flesh which will then be devoured. -Emy indicated in all seriousness.
-Is that a demonic beast? -Mart asked, hiding his nervousness.
-No, it's a demonic monster, an ancient one; that's all I know for now. -Emy said, looking at Mart.
Mart took a deep breath and after exhaling, he said goodbye to Emy to enter the library, first he walked through that mouth, the surface through which he was walking had a purplish color and the rest of the inside of that mouth had a grayish color, the smell was strange, like that of a set of different strong chemical smells, once he reached the end of the mouth, he saw how the entrance at his back closed, he swallowed saliva, but kept walking even though everything was dark.
-You're not digesting me, are you? -Mart muttered wryly in an attempt to keep calm, and a few seconds later a flash blinded his vision for a few seconds.
When Mart opened his eyes, what he saw was fascinating, white marble floors, golden walls whose edges had wood with well elaborated demonic carvings, on the ceiling, an impressive painting in which there was a map with the title Argaris Empire, in which there were also illustrations of the greatest battles that took place in the founding era.
As he continued walking Mart saw the wooden shelves of 5 meters high, and they were not few, they were hundreds of shelves, containing countless books, which stretched to a seemingly endless end.