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Chapter 356

The Gods do not care about maintaining the things that already exist, but rather nurture new lifeforms. Negary suddenly realized something. After being converted into a weak lifeform like a maggot, after a period of adaptation, his thoughts had cleared up, and various understandings of life were always able to touch Negary's heart.

"A rotten, old, and unmotivated life is not worth maintaining." Negary was constantly using his mental fluctuations to interfere with Landier's thoughts. As a maggot, the only thing he could rely on was this ability to survive.

In fact, Negary couldn't even go too far, because once Landier realized his mistake, all he needed to do was pick his ears, and he could easily kill him. This feeling of being so weak and fragile as a lifeform allowed Negary to view life more and more seriously.

The weak will obey their leader's decisiveness and will, and Landier, who has such a clear weakness, is the weak one. While residing in Landier's ear, Negary was able to sense Landier's mental fluctuations and learned of one of Landier's secrets.

Landier was Roger's loyal friend, and this was because he liked Roger.

Although it was considered a pleasure for men of the upper echelons to play around with other men, they could only play around, and one of the men had to be a plaything. If they developed feelings for each other, that would be a disgrace to their family.

As for two men joining together to form a family, that was even more forbidden, so Landier could only hide his feelings and act as Roger's good brother to accompany him in his antics.

This is Landier's weakness, Negary thought to himself excitedly. When a person has an obvious weakness, then he is a weakling, and the weak will only obey the strong, which is him.

However, before Negary could think of a way to exploit Landier's weakness, he received a grievous piece of news. The Apostle of the Demon, Roger, was about to be burned at the stake to be purified. This caused Landier to freeze for a while, then he immediately rushed towards the square where the execution was to take place.

That idiot, he's so close to Roger. If I just go and save him like this, I'll only be treated as an accomplice of the demon and be burned at the stake together with him. Although Negary's body had been converted into a maggot, after adapting, he was able to think purely with his soul, thus regaining the sharp mind of his youth.

Negary easily saw through all of this. Roger had been pushed out as a scapegoat, and the one who took his life would soon be able to take everything away from him.

If you want to save Roger, you must do as I say. Negary continued to influence Landier's mind, finally stopping him from rushing into the square. In the end, this man with a different sexual orientation was still a normal person who had yet to step out into society.

Normally, Roger would be the one making the arrangements, and he would just silently carry them out. Obviously, without Roger, he was panicking and instinctively began to listen to the strange voice in his mind.

"In this situation, you need to notify the people of the House of Mages. Those greedy bastards wouldn't sit and watch a person made of mana be burned" Negary continued. For the people of the House, every mage was a treasure, providing power in life, and providing for their bodies in after die.

Although Roger was only a dabbler, he had come into contact with mana and had access to magic, so even if he was guilty of a crime, he wouldn't hand it over to a bunch of normal people to judge, nor would he waste it by burning them.

Of course, under normal circumstances, as the dean of the institute, Negary was in charge of this matter, and he could burn it if he wanted to, but this wasn't a normal situation.

"Even if that person has stolen my identity, at this crucial moment, the House of Mages will definitely try to probe us. I will give an excuse to the House of Mages, and they will naturally use this excuse to probe that person."

Negary understood the House of Mages very well. With his current form, if he were to be exposed, he wouldn't receive help from the House of Mages, but rather the passionate research of those people. Regardless of whether the reincarnation ritual succeeded or failed, the person who stole his identity would still be probed by others.

It was possible that the reincarnation ritual succeeded but greatly damaged his strength, or it was possible that the reincarnation ritual failed but greatly damaged his own strength. Negary was a respectable person, so everyone would naturally have to consider the situation, whether to burn incense or spit on him.

After all, Negary had too many resources at his disposal. If Negary ran out of resources, the people of the House of Mages would use the excuse of helping the alliance to take over Negary's benefits. This was the rule of the upper echelons of society.

Without a choice, Landier could only follow Negary's instructions and use a special method to file a complaint to the House of Mages.

Quite obviously, some people within the House of Mages were also waiting for a suitable opportunity, so the House of Mages' enforcers were dispatched. A group of people with credentials stopped the execution at the stake, saying that they wanted to bring Roger out to investigate the cause and effect of the incident with the demon in the academy.

"We have received a report that Roger Cleves was involved in a certain malicious incident and needs to be investigated and interrogated. Please hand him over to us" Brewer, who was standing in front of the enforcers, spoke to the enforcers who were carrying out the execution at the stake.

Even so, the eyes of the enforcers were still focused on Negri, the guy who was suspected to be Negary's reincarnation. These people understood that while their mission on the surface was to investigate Roger, their true mission was actually to probe Negri.

If possible, Brewer didn't want to accept such a troublesome mission. He only wanted to live a peaceful life, but small fries never had freedom. If he didn't accept it, he wouldn't be able to keep his position as the captain of the enforcers.

"Probe, huh?" Negri clearly understood what was going on: "One Quirl wasn't enough to dissuade them, I underestimated their greed"

The hex Negri used on the Quirl family earlier was a show of his fist, but those guys weren't very clear-headed, or perhaps Negri's display of his fist wasn't enough to quell their greed.

"Roger Cleves is a student of our Mobis Institute, so it should be up to our institute to decide how to deal with him, right?" Negri stood up and walked up to Roger. At this point, Roger's expression was still ashen, without any will to live.

"That's why I hope that you will cooperate" Brewer also forcefully spoke. Since they had already started probing, there was no point in trying to fish in troubled waters, as that would only make both sides unhappy.

"If you want me to cooperate, that's fine, but Roger has obtained a demonic ability after having an illicit relationship with a demon. Our people spent a lot of effort to capture him, if you guys cause unnecessary trouble, don't blame me for holding you accountable" Negri walked up to Roger and undid his restraints. At the same time, a stream of vitality mana flowed through Negri's hand into Roger's body.

"Of course, there's no need for Mister Negri to worry about that" Brewer took a deep look at Negri, then waved his hand to have someone tie Roger up and take him away.

At this point, in the classroom, Ferd suddenly appeared from the ceiling. His gaze seemed to be able to pierce through the classroom and all obstacles to see the restrained Roger.