Chapter 22. Dekan Start Drilling the Demon

"Not bad, Baron Bach. You've finally been honest for once."

I clapped my hands and praised him.

This made Baron Bach confirm once again that I could read minds!

Any lie was meaningless in front of me.

I could distinguish his true feelings!

"Alright, then your attack just now scared me and caused irreversible damage to my fragile soul, so you inflicted cruel torture upon me. Do you admit it?"

I continued to ask.

Baron Bach didn't hesitate for too long, once again frantically deceiving his own heart, and replied, "I... I admit it."

He guessed I was testing his loyalty and wanted to use lie-detection magic in various ways to adjust and educate him. No matter how absurd my words were, he had to cooperate.

I asked again: "Next, Cornelia tried to rescue me. You have a kind heart and decided to let me go, so she successfully rescued me. Do you agree?"

Baron Bach: "I agree, I agree."

【Mission Objective 2: Rescue at least three humans. Current progress: 1/3】

The smile on my face grew even brighter: "Finally, you suddenly don't remember that I'm human, right?"

Baron Bach: "Yes, yes!"

【Mission Objective 3: No more than 3 impersonators have their human identity exposed. Current disguise integrity: 6/6】

The mission interface changed just as I had predicted.

"Very good, Baron Bach. You are an honest demon now, and it seems you have finally opened your heart to me."

My expression was very satisfied, and I did not spare my words of praise for Baron Bach.

Baron Bach trembled, not knowing how to respond to my words.

To be fair, even if his fear of me now overshadowed all other emotions, the words "opened your heart" were still too much. But he didn't dare to refute and could only keep hypnotizing himself: I have opened my heart, I have opened my heart.

Only after confirming that he even felt some admiration for me did Baron Bach dare to open his mouth and reply, "Yes, I have already opened my heart to you."

"A promising pupil indeed!"

I slapped my thigh and stomped my foot, standing up from the chair.

I had finally succeeded.

I felt very happy and continued to instruct Baron Bach, "Alright, then I'll have to trouble you for a bit. You still remember the content of our conversation just now and your mental journey, right?"

"Huh?"

Baron Bach was stunned.

I frowned slightly: "You don't remember? Do you need me to help you recall it?"

Baron Bach instinctively shuddered: "I remember, I remember!"

"Good! Baron Bach, repeat the mental journey you just went through a hundred times, and shout it out loud!"

My expression turned serious as I commanded.

Baron Bach: "Yes!"

So Baron Bach began to continuously shout at me: "You are human! I tortured you! You were rescued! I forgot you were human! I have opened my heart to you!"

【Mission Objective 3: No more than 3 impersonators have their human identity exposed. Current disguise integrity: 5/6】

【Mission Objective 2: Rescue at least three humans. Current progress: 2/3】

【Mission Objective 3: No more than 3 impersonators have their human identity exposed. Current disguise integrity: 6/6】

【...】

...

(The following scene takes place with other characters and is thus narrated in the 3rd person.)

At the same time, the challengers who were conquering other classrooms elsewhere noticed the strange changes in the mission log.

Among them were veterans who had cleared Shadow Worlds multiple times.

According to their experience, Mission Objective 1 (increase exploration progress) was a "regular mission" with a large workload but relatively dispersed difficulty. And Mission Objective 2 (rescue three humans) should be a "high-difficulty mission" that could only be completed by clearing elite rooms or boss rooms. In the classrooms they had entered so far, they had not found any trace of humans. The humans to be rescued were most likely only in the more difficult elite rooms or boss rooms.

During the exploration process, they also needed to gradually collect clues to find the boss room and the boss' weaknesses.

But.

How was this mission already completed?!

They even found that the indicator for Mission Objective 2 began to increase steadily at a constant rate!!

In the end, it reached the extremely bizarre 【Mission Objective 2: Rescue at least three humans. Current progress: 101/3】 before stopping!

And Mission Objective 3, which was a "limitation mission," was repeatedly jumping between "Current disguise integrity: 5/6" and "Current disguise integrity: 6/6."

This Shadow World... had it malfunctioned and broken?

While they were happy and surprised, they also felt very uneasy in their hearts.

They had never seen or heard of such a situation...

They hoped that nothing terrible would happen next.

...

Meanwhile, the Heavenlit Academy Broadcast Hall outside the venue had completely erupted.

Both students and teachers were frantically discussing Dekan's outrageous operation.

Many people's mouths twitched as they watched; they had just recovered from a state of bewilderment.

Was a Tier 4 Shadow World supposed to be played like this?

They had never heard that one could do whatever they wanted when tackling a Shadow World of a higher tier!

Even if a high-tier veteran challenger entered a Tier 4 Shadow World, it was unlikely they would max out the high-difficulty mission to 101/3 within the first hour!

"Is there something wrong with Dekan, or is there something wrong with this Demon Academy..."

A student couldn't help but wonder.

"Is it possible that... Dekan just found the school that suits him best..."

...

Knight Faculty meeting room.

It was terrifyingly silent now.

The professors had been watching the battle situation of Dekan and Cornelia. Their initial worry gradually turned to relief, and then their expressions became stranger and stranger.

Was this this year's new student?

What kind of scenes hadn't they seen?

A human brainwashing a demon?

They really had never seen that...

They even began to suspect Dekan, oh no, including Cornelia!

Could these two guys have been demons all along?!

"...Does it seem a bit redundant for us to be worried about them?"

Professor Anno pressed his temples and said to the Dean.

He had thought that no matter how outrageous Dekan's actions were, he would no longer be surprised.

But now it seemed that one could not use the lower limits of humanity as Dekan's lower limit.

If they encountered a "challenger-versus-challenger" type of Shadow World in the future, he couldn't imagine what Dekan would do.

"..."

The Dean was also silent.

In the Dean's judgment, Dekan during the entrance exam wasn't this terrifying.

But ever since Dekan met Cornelia.

Everything had changed.

The two people in the world who should and could never meet had met.

In many story plots, the popular "boy meets girl" trope was often a story of the two healing and saving each other.

But the meeting of Dekan and Cornelia...

Was them blocking the path for each other to be considered human, and walking hand in hand into the endless abyss...

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