Episode 119
Episode 51. Everything comes back (2)
“Huddin is the one who was banished half a year after I was adopted by Pobianga.”
Cahel began to describe the character Hudin. Inevitably, Cahel’s own family, the Povianga, had no choice but to reveal the shameful past.
In the first place, there was no affection or loyalty to the family. Even now, after becoming an adopted son and becoming an Archmage, the family has ignored and discriminated against Cahel. Cahel was in the position that Pobianga could perish at any time.
However, in order to remain loyal to the family head of the previous generation, he had not bothered to talk about Hudin until now.
While the other old wizards of Povianga kept quiet about Hudin because it was a disgrace to the family, Cahel was because of Radion Povian’s request.
Now it was time to unravel the long-held story to Yuma and his comrades.
“Adol Povian’s father and predecessor, Lady Radion Povian, was a good man. Without his consideration, I would never have survived in Pobianga. Hudin was Radion-sama’s adopted son.”
“Radion Fovian. I’ve heard the name. He was said to be the best wizard next to Archmage Risol.”
Yuma had read that name in the Imperial Yearbook. As a eunuch, the only thing I enjoyed was being able to read the print to my heart’s content.
“okay. Radion-nim was the best mage I’ve ever seen. Maybe even after a hundred years, there won’t be a wizard like him. Even Adolfo Vien is inferior to Lady Radion.”
“I heard the story of Sir Radion from my mother. He was very gentle and hated war. I like to travel.”
“That’s right, godmother. When Her Majesty Asuka was the princess, Lady Radion was the head of the imperial mages. But even His Majesty will not know that he adopted Hudin.”
Radion travels to the Eastern Kantra Empire and encounters a suddenly activated demon cave. It was a disaster when two Shelobs came out at the same time.
One of the people he saved in the course of subjugating Selob together with the Kantra regular army was a boy named Hudin.
Recognizing his talent, Radion immediately adopted Hudin and returned to the Empire. It was to compete with his own son, Adol, and make a person who showed more achievements a candidate for the next head of household.
“They tried to put forward a commoner, and a commoner from the east, as the head of the household… Povianga must have been upset.”
“Radioon is not like Duran Zach. Those who knew that Houdin was adopted were very few in the family at the time. It was because Radion-nim was so careful. He cared for Hudin very much.”
“How did you find out about Sir Cahel?”
“I also learned magic directly from Lady On for a while after I was adopted.
Me, Hudin, and Adol were the three children that Radion-sama taught.”
Hudin was a boy with more potential than Cahel and even Adol. Surprisingly, the son did not reject Hudin or neglect him. I wasn’t even friendly.
The three spent about three months learning magic from Radion every day.
“To Hudin, Lady Radion was both a savior and a god. He was aware of his talent even during his days living in the slums of Kantra.”
“It must not be easy to recognize one’s talent at such a young age. Especially if you are a slum commoner who has never learned magic.”
“Real geniuses have a completely different perspective from those who are only slightly talented. Houdin knew from birth that natural phenomena are magic in themselves, and manipulating them artificially is magic. Yuma, you know that feeling well, don’t you?”
“Hmm.”
“Haven’t you ever felt the same feeling as Houdin when you saw a sword? Why can’t everyone just use a sword like this? The feeling that it looks so clear and it’s an easy job.”
Yuma didn’t really deny it.
Before returning, he became a eunuch before he could fully enjoy the feeling. The limits of his status as a commoner were also clear.
“Hudin wanted to surpass Lady Radion. He wanted to become a god himself. Because he always told me and Adol that he would one day become a god.”
“That Hudin must have had a bad puberty.”
“He was too serious to be seen as just a kid’s ramblings. Hudin has been dabbling in black magic ever since.”
This was the reason he thought of Houdin as soon as he heard that Cahel was a black magician.
“At the time, Radion-nim had several books of black magicians.”
“The mere possession of the magic book would amount to treason, right?”
Zishka interrupted.
“Godmother. From time immemorial, Pobianga has been tricking the imperial family.
Radion-sama was concerned that someday the age of black magicians would start again, so he studied the method of dispelling black magic.”
“Even the kids in Hale Square know that the Povianga are a family with a lot of schemes. Well, it has nothing to do with me now.”
“I can tell you with all my honor. Lady Radion only studied the ceremony to cancel the black magic.”
Yuma sighed in admiration.
It was the moment when he realized that it was thanks to Radion that he was able to dispel the dark magic of the demons a little during the Dragon Horse War.
At that time, the imperial castle had spread some dark magic cancellation ceremonies to the wizards.
Even the Empress Hella Rose did not know the source. All I know is that it was a book I found while rummaging through the secret storage in the imperial castle.
Even that was a book I found by chance, near the middle of the war.
The title of the book was ‘The Ceremony for Dissolving Black Magic and its Advanced Application’. Author is not listed.
“I don’t know what happened to the research results of the black magic cancellation ceremony.
I couldn’t find it when Radion-sama passed away and I was organizing my belongings.”
It’s in the Imperial Palace’s secret storage. I think Sir Radion kept it secretly. I didn’t say it out loud.
Yuma made up his mind to use Radion’s book from the beginning of this Dragon Horse War.
“Anyway, Houdin stole that magic book and learned some basic black magic. The characteristic of black magic is that it is very easy to obtain destructive power. By means of blood.”
So in the East, black magic was called blood magic.
“This guy who was a genius from the beginning even found a shortcut, so needless to say the result. At that time, even the livestock he secretly killed exceeded hundreds. And…
Cahel sighed for a moment.
“He ended up killing people to get a more efficient medium.”
“I hear you are crazy. If he’s a warlock, no, if he’s still alive, I’ll definitely catch him and kill him.”
Yuma thought of Amanzo and bit his molars. Anyway, those who tried to use black magic or demons had to be caught and killed.
As a human who experienced the Dragon Horse War, it was natural to hate those guys.
“The girl he killed was Jeanne Povian. He was born as a handicapped child and was the trouble of the family. I couldn’t speak or use my limbs properly.”
Even if they were handicapped, nobles were nobles. It is also noble. Being handicapped did not mean that a noble lineage had disappeared.
However, Jenne was always despised and ostracized within the family.
Except for Radion, there was not a single person in Povianga who was looking for Jenne on purpose. Even the old servants subtly ignored Jenne when no one was looking.
“Hudin killed Jenne and summoned a monster with her blood. Radion-sama was the only one who saw the scene, but Adol and I were able to see the monster’s corpse. I summoned it from our training ground.”
“I heard that he showed a very proud face when he showed Lady Radion the monster he summoned. I must have felt that I had already achieved such a great achievement.”
The monster, made up of tentacles and bizarre-shaped flesh, obeyed by rubbing its body against Hudin’s face like a puppy. The monster’s name is Alofa. It was an animal in the Demon Realm that uses orcs as its staple food.
If such a monster could be freely controlled, among the young wizards at the time, there would be no one who could beat Hudin. It was the same with most of the articles.
Hudin wanted his achievement to be praised by his god, Radion Povian.
It was a truly disgusting story.
“If the black magician helping Heize now is Houdin, did Sir Radion keep that man alive?”
“I saved you.”
“A man so soft was the patriarch of the Povian family?”
“Is that possible, Yuma? Death is a lighter punishment than you think.
After you die, it’s over. I feel neither pain nor despair. The afterlife is a realm unknown to humans.”
“Then what did you do?”
“What is the most painful thing for wizards? It will become a body that can never use magic again.”
It made sense.
There was a time when Yuma also longed for the end of death more than ever. It was the moment when he became a eunuch and was unable to hold a sword again.
I’d rather kill Mero then and I’d die too. It was something I regretted thousands of times a day when I was a eunuch.
“Ladyon has sealed all of Houdin’s magic. Humans destined to become wizards have a small hole in their nose and mouth. It’s like a passageway through which magical power comes and goes.
Mages call it ‘Hort’.”
It became very difficult to use mana if the Hort was narrow or absent.
It wasn’t impossible at all, but the wider the hort, the easier it was to use magic.
“Ladyon-nim directly supported Houdin’s hot with an iron. Also, mana is mainly gathered using the palm of the hand.
Hudin has both his arms cut off.”
“You need a tongue to chant the last spell. You need eyes to see what to apply magic to. Hudin was exiled with Hort blocked, his arms cut off, his eyes gouged out and his tongue cut out.”
That’s not soft enough at all.
Yuma withdrew the words he had just spoken into himself.
“Jenne’s cause of death externally became suicide. It is for this reason that Hudin’s story was a disgrace to a family that should be kept completely silent.”
“I don’t think I would be able to stay alive until now if I was kicked out after being punished like that.”
“That is what I think. But…
as I said before, I have a strong hunch that the black magician is Hudin. Somehow, I think Hudin is still alive.”
“You come here to hear the blessings of marriage, and then you hear all sorts of secrets. I can’t believe that Mama doesn’t know about such a huge conspiracy. Both the Puang Merchant and Winslting’s treason.”
Zishka shook her head and said.
“First of all, we have to depart for the Empire tomorrow. Hugo-nim has to negotiate directly with His Majesty. If you watch Hayes in the process, you can find out if he is Hudin or not.”
It feels like the clues are slowly being solved, but there are still many problems to be solved.
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