Understand humans!

In addition to physical work, this is also a mental job. The books placed on the ancient tree must be roughly read by the assistant before being classified, saving Celia's time in selecting useful knowledge. After Celia finishes reading each time, she will burn two-thirds of the useless or collected pages on the spot, and then the assistant will move them to the underground tower for classification.

Even so, being Celia's assistant is a job that everyone in this magic town wants to do.

Because, after Celie finished reading books every day, she would throw one or two books that she thought were most valuable to the assistant who helped her manage the books. It was the guidance of these one or two books that enabled a magician to be exposed to magical theories that were far ahead of their time.

As for the magicians who are not assistants, they will gather at the bottom of the ancient tower and classify the books spontaneously. The underground tower has a wide space and they will maintain the books on the upper floors... and their reward is the right to freely browse through the magic books that have been read by Celie and are recognized as valuable.

However, for Aura, this job was pure torture.

Celia didn't have the magical knowledge she needed.

Even in the future, when the human magic system is fully perfected, the demon magic that has been analyzed will only be a few magics with inherent effects such as "killing magic" and "flying magic", and these are the results of humans putting all their efforts and spending hundreds of years to analyze them.

The magic system of the demons is called "an incomprehensible curse" by humans and elves.

Due to the differences in individual characteristics of the demons, the magic of the demons also has inherent encryption characteristics such as specialization, few books left, difficulty in statistics, and rare commonality. Even Celia, who came from the mythological era, knew very little about the magic of the demons.

Of course, even if she knew very little, it did not mean that the demons' "unexplainable curse" could pose a threat to her. Once a demon thought so, Celie would use a "curse" of the same scale that the demons had never seen before to make the demons suffer the consequences.

The long hours of unpaid work and the intense reading of classified books made Aula complain:

"Hey, Celia, this is so unfair, where is my reward?"

"Didn't I give it to you?"

"Those books are only useful to Zanze. Human magic books are too backward. They are at least a thousand years behind the magic system of the demons."

"I mean, didn't I let you stand in front of me alive?"

"........."

"If you don't want to do it, you can resign."

"No, no, no, I love this job! I'd be fine working until I die!"

"voluntary?"

"voluntary!"

Aura held the book in his arms, his eyes clear, without any trace of the bloodthirsty and cunning look of the demons.

Even Zanze praised her, saying that her head was empty. When a beam of light shone through her eyes, she could see her empty brain that would not even think of any tricks.

Aura, holding the book, disappeared at the end of Celia's sight.

After sorting out the magic books she was holding along the way to the underground tower, she returned to the surface and looked up at the thick ancient trees that reached the sky.

Among the emerald green leaves, you can vaguely see various old books supported by tree branches.

"Amazing."

She couldn't help but sigh.

No wonder even the Demon King said that he could not defeat the elf Celie. She is indeed the magician closest to God and is known as the "moving great magic book".

In this world, it is estimated that all human magic that has ever appeared or is currently appearing has been learned by her.

Faced with such an existence with no end in sight of power, even a god would feel despair, right?

But not Aura!

“Haha, hahaha, hahahahahahahaha!!!”

Where Celia couldn't see, Aura couldn't help but burst into laughter.

As one of the Seven Sages of the Demon Race and one of the top demons, how could Aura lose her spirit so easily?

Even in such a desperate situation, Aura is still planning a more favorable future for the demon clan.

The increasingly dark circles under the eyes are evidence of this.

With the convenience of being Celia's assistant, she could use the privileges of her position to do a lot of "eliminating the dross and retaining the essence" in the magic book she sent to Celia.

——Although on the surface, Celia had no intention of intervening in the war between humans and demons, in her eyes, magicians from either side were the same, just catalysts for the development of magic. She would not take the initiative to promote the development of magic on either side.

But in fact, since most of the magicians who study here in Celia are human magicians, the development of the human magic system is inseparable from this "neutral" mythological magician.

And Aura, who is located in this important source of human magic development and serves as Celia's assistant, how could he, as a demon, do nothing?

"I erased all the knowledge that could be related to the human magic system."

With her excellent memory and knowledge gained from in-depth research on the modern human magic system, Aura blacked out all the sentences that she identified as being related to, associative to, and driving the modern human magic system when she sorted the books for Celie.

She was certainly not afraid of arousing Celie's suspicion.

Because that’s what Zanze did too.

She saw with her own eyes that Zanze had crossed out some insignificant magical theories and conjectures, probably to do a rough screening for Celia and reduce Celia's workload of flipping through books.

Now, with her acting skills, she has perfectly deceived the mythical elf Celia and her human assistant Zanze and gained their trust. In the long run, if this continues, the development of human magic will be slowed down as long as small amounts accumulate.

"Master Demon King, just watch. Even if I am a prisoner, I will never forget to contribute to the cause of the demon clan!"

"I, Aura, will work diligently and never slack off."

Chapter 7 Today's Slackness

On February 18th, the 24th year of the Imperial Era, the weather was fine and Aura was slacking off.

“It’s time to work.”

Aura heard the noise under the bed and opened her eyes reluctantly.

She struggled to get up from the bed, and watched with sleepy eyes as her diligent roommate had already combed her thigh-length, body-covering pink hair, and was excitedly putting on her shoes, ready to leave.

Perhaps because she was a demon, something might happen if she was left out of sight, so Celia arranged a room for her to be together with Zanze.

Zanze didn't care.

Aula was very dissatisfied.

Because of the magic of obedience, she lived a life of being served, free and unconstrained, and her schedule was as she wished. However, Zanze had a regular schedule, calling her to get up early, reminding her to eat, and scolding her for going to bed late.

"woke up?"

"Comb my hair."

"The Great Demon can't even comb his hair?"

"Help me get dressed."

"Can't the great demons even learn to wear simple human clothing?"

"Help me put on my shoes."

"Can the Great Demon Clan have some sense of hygiene? I washed your boots for you last time, didn't I?"

Zanze had also been with Aura for over a month, and knew the character of this stupid demon. If he left her alone, she would probably braid her hair in front of her eyes, and her clothes would fall off halfway through the walk. As for shoes - she would probably come to the library barefoot.

It's simply a useless demon clan!

"Zanze, carry me."

"...Aura, I want to remind you that I just can't stand your slovenliness, I am not your slave."

"Ah, isn't it?"

"What's with that surprised look on your face?"

"Huh? I thought I already used the obedience spell on you."

"If you really use it, Lady Celia will let you know the consequences."

"Hey, if you hadn't been under my obedience spell... would you still obey my orders?"

"This is not an order, it's just mercy for a useless demon."

"Then please have more mercy on me!

“…Shameless”

"Please, I'll do anything if you agree to be my slave!"

"........."

Every punctuation mark in the demon tribe's promises cannot be trusted - Zanze had learned this from his time with Aura.

She put the specially made hat on Aura's head, pressed it down to cover Aura's face, and finally silenced Aura's shameless request.

This is a purple, wide-brimmed lace hat that matches Aura's hair color. The decoration is a bit too gorgeous, but through clever design, Aura's horns are just concealed.

Except for the first day, Aura always wore this lace hat when meeting people. Except for Zanze and a few people he met on the first day, no other magicians in this small town knew that Aura was a demon.

Aura held up his hat with both hands and said dissatisfiedly:

"Please be gentle, my horns are sensitive."

"It won't break, whatever."

Zanze still didn't care. Her attention was not on Aura. After putting the hat on Aura, she opened the door and prepared to leave.

Aura touched his left horn lightly and followed suit.

The demon's body recovered very quickly. The axe wound that almost cut her horn in half has now healed. The new keratin has no difference in color from the old one and looks exactly the same.

-

After entering Celia's permanent palace, Aura suddenly felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere today.

After looking around, I noticed that a mountain of books had been piled up around Celia's high throne.

This is extremely abnormal.

Because today Aura and Zanze had not yet started the work of roughly sorting the books from the ancient tree and moving them in front of Celia, the area around Celia's throne should have been empty.

"You are here."

"Lady Celia, we're here."

Celia's voice came from above, and Zanze responded. Aura looked in the direction of the voice and suddenly discovered that Celia had arrived without her knowing. She was not sitting on the throne in a strange posture reading as usual, but squatting at the highest point of the mountain of books.

Like a clever cat standing on the top of a cone.

"Zanze, Aura, take a look at these books, do you find anything wrong?"

Zanze looked over when he heard the voice, casually picked out a few books from the pile of books, and frowned. These were all magic books that Celia had read and had been classified into the underground tower. How come they were brought back by Lady Celia again?

Other than that, she didn't notice anything wrong.

On the other hand, Aura behind her, after seeing the names of five or six random books in the pile of books, immediately reacted, his legs trembled, and sweat flowed down his face.

Isn't this a fucking magic book that she has tampered with, deliberately crossing out all the knowledge related to the future human magic system.

Aura thought that Celia wouldn't notice it. It had clearly been classified into the underground tower, so why... why was it dug out again.

"Aura, are you sweating a lot? Are you hot?"

Celia was the first to notice Aura's abnormality, narrowed her eyes, and asked her.

"Uh-ah-it's hot-"

Aura took off her lace hat and fanned it lightly at her ears. Perhaps it was because of the crisis that the demon's instinct to preserve their lives took effect again. Aura, who was not good at concealing her emotions, managed to remain expressionless and indifferent like other demons.

Celia's prying eyes stayed on her for a long time, and finally shifted away.

"The only thing that all the books here have in common is that a certain paragraph on a certain page has traces of blackening."

brake!!!

Aura's pupils trembled as if struck by lightning. Countless possible punishments that Celia would inflict on him if his little tricks were exposed emerged in his mind.

The lightest punishment is to cut off her hands. From now on, she can only use her feet and mouth to meet all her needs in life. It is estimated that she will need Zanze's help for the rest of her life.

In this case, Aura can only find a way to turn Zanze into his slave.

This is not a problem.

As long as she kneels down and begs Zanze, Zanze will definitely agree!

——As a selfish and cold-hearted demon who is extremely good at imitating the pitiful appearance of humans to gain sympathy, this kind of thing is easy for Aura.

The most serious case is to have their horns broken off, their limbs cut off, and be raised like insects. In this situation, Aula can only pray that Celie will not deprive her of her hearing, vision, and ability to speak, and at least let her beg for mercy and get herself a comfortable treatment.

Aura's thoughts were constantly changing, but in the outside world, only a few breaths had passed. After examining the expressions of her two assistants, Celie finally set her sights on Aura.