Dekan Really Wouldn't Take a Single Detour

Dekan stated his groundbreaking conclusion directly.

Morion was stunned.

In fact, ever since Dekan received the information from his Master, he had suspected that the final boss of this Shadow World was a powerful Blood Race.

Upon arriving in the Shadow World, the two things that felt most jarring to Dekan were—

Why does this small town have such an exquisite church?

And why is it necessary for a High Priest to reside permanently in a church?

According to Dekan's imagination, the most likely explanation is that a terrible monster is hiding beneath this church.

Drawing on his previous experience in the Shadow World [Wild Mountain Blizzard Mystery], Dekan searched very diligently for a magic circle in the church.

Even if he couldn't find it right away, Dekan was certain he would find it, even if he had to tear down the church and dig three feet into the ground.

It didn't take much effort; Cornelia simply made a slight adjustment to the church's layout, and he quickly found the magic circle.

The red light on the magic circle likely signifies that High Priest Kevin is dead and has become one of the sacrifices that allowed the vampires to revive.

However, the magic circle was too complex, Dekan couldn't figure out how many people would need to be sacrificed to revive the vampire.

"How long do you think it will take Dekan to unravel the mystery of this Shadow World?"

Students at the Havenlit Academy have already started placing bets.

Generally, the normal strategy involves gathering information, exchanging information, reasoning and verifying, confirming the mechanism, finding out the enemy's true identity, and then figuring out how to fight against and defeat them.

However, based on Dekan's previous performance, he always skipped steps, sometimes inexplicably reaching the finish line quickly.

"About three or four more days?"

"That's too optimistic. This is a sixth-order Shadow World, with extremely high complexity. Even if the three of them are incredibly powerful, it will be difficult for them to solve the mysteries of the Shadow World before half the time is up."

"Besides, look at them, they haven't actually gathered any intelligence at all. They spent the last couple of days collecting resources."

"But you really can't use common sense to predict Dekan's strategy. I wouldn't be surprised if he found the final enemy in another day."

Listening to the students' discussion, Claire, Croix's childhood friend, nudged him with her elbow.

What do you think?

Claire asked Croix coldly.

She was clearly still upset about the incident a couple of days ago where "Croix was fascinated by the performance of former Saint Knight Captain Judith".

5.

"Croix replied."

Five days?

Claire was slightly surprised; she hadn't expected Croix to be so conservative in her assessment of Dekan this time.

Croix: "4."

Claire: "..."

Morion quickly understood what Dekan meant.

"But how do you verify this hypothesis? We still lack crucial information to fill in and confirm the details."

"Don't worry, just watch my performance."

Dekan smiled smugly, then turned to look at the cross, appearing like a devout priest in the glow of the stained glass.

Even if you don't know all the processes and details.

Dekan is now fairly certain that one of the final mechanics of this dungeon will be written as --

Phrases like, "We must stop the resurrection of a certain Blood Race count or marquis; failure will have serious consequences," are used.

Dekan boldly speculated that the vampire's real name was the church's name, "Roderick."

Knowing a vampire's true name is a crucial condition for sealing them away.

Since the Holy Rite Church paid a huge price to seal away such a powerful vampire, it would certainly not hide his true name, but rather let future generations know it in the most obvious way.

So if Dekan is the one who sealed the vampires and then wants to build a church on top of it, then Dekan will definitely name the church after the vampires' real names.

Dekan then spoke into the air:

"Our mission objective is to prevent the resurrection of Marquis Roderick. If the mission fails, Marquis Roderick will be teleported to random coordinates in the challenger's original world after the mission time limit expires."

After saying this, Dekan paused, as if waiting for something.

However, nothing happened, Dekan sighed helplessly.

The Shadow World clearly does not approve of this behavior of skipping all steps and forcibly guessing the answer.

Then Dekan changed his wording again and repeated it to the air.

"Prevent Count Roderick's resurrection, or else..."

"Prevent the resurrection of Marquis Roderick, if this task..."

And so Dekan continued chanting, as if performing a one-man show on a bulletin board.

Each time, he only slightly modified the wording and expression.

And since he wasn't sure what rank Roderick was, he tried both the count and the marquis titles.

Morion's eye twitched; he had already guessed what Dekan was planning.

This was the first time he had ever seen someone so disgusting with the Shadow World.

Finally, after Dekan finished reading a certain sentence.

[...]

The quest prompts in the Shadow World have been refreshed.

[A new mission objective has been unlocked because a challenger has reached the correct conclusion.]

[Mission Objective 3: Prevent the resurrection of Marquis Roderick. If this mission fails, Marquis Roderick will be teleported to random coordinates in the challenger's original world after the mission time limit expires.]

"※! Is it really possible to trick people into giving away information about the Shadow World like this?!"

"Is all this guy can do is walk in a straight line?"

"He absolutely refuses to slowly unravel the mystery according to the mechanisms of the Shadow World..."

The students of the Havenlit Academy, having witnessed Dekan's conquest of the Demon Academy and the Wild Mountain Ancient Mansion, were familiar with Dekan's habit of skipping steps to find the answer.

But this is the first time the live stream has expanded to the Norton Kingdom.

This was the first time most of the public had ever seen Dekan play this way.

The Shadow World may not necessarily acknowledge answers derived through unconventional reasoning.

However, the judgment mechanism in the Shadow World is highly objective.

When Dekan read out mission objective 3 verbatim, the Shadow World could no longer believe that Dekan had arrived at the conclusion through guesswork.

I was forced to reveal the hidden mission objective 3.

If the Shadow World possessed emotions and could speak, then those last two lines of dialogue would surely be uttered through gritted teeth.

"See, that's how effective my reasoning method is."

Dekan said with a smug smile.

"Is it really okay for you to bully honest people like this in the Shadow World?"

Morion was a little worried that their actions would be targeted by the Shadow World.

"It's alright. Aside from giving me a couple of sarcastic remarks in the final review, it'll still have to handle things officially."

Dekan was already targeted last time.

As a result, the Shadow World still couldn't deduct their rewards.

Dekan already had a premonition that the Shadow World would scold him again during the mission evaluation.

But now he enjoys seeing the Shadow World get frustrated and helpless.