Episode 40. Adrias’s Exploration
Borgijen, a territory adjacent to the border of the northern mountain range.
Although it was not a front line, it was a city that was always crowded with people as a procurement and vacation area for soldiers as a territory connected to the valley of wailing, which was a frontline fortress.
The lord of Borgien, Earl Hiksham Borgien, was talking to someone in his office.
A space with only the lord, Hicksham, and a character dressed in bizarre costumes, with all his aides bitten.
Hiksham took the bag of rags that his opponent had given him.
“This is it…?”
“Once every three days, dip it in his blood and use the nail provided with it. Repeat 4 times and the curse will come true.”
“thank you. Mr. Jester.”
The person called Jester was a man wearing a bizarre outfit with his head covered in a triangular hat, but judging from the content of the conversation, he was by no means a good man.
When the talks are about to end after a deal that is mutually satisfactory.
“smart!”
Someone knocked on the door with a loud noise.
Hiksham frowned.
“sorry. Mr. Jester. I obviously told no one to come near me.”
“It can be.”
“then! Of course you can.”
As they turned their eyes toward the door at the sudden sound of words, a completely unexpected person entered the office before they knew it.
“Salem Yedidiah…!”
“Yes, yes. nice to meet.”
Jester let out a sigh of astonishment, and Hicksham looked at the two, not knowing what was going on.
“Jester, who is the author?”
“Are you the lord of this place? Sorry. I came here out of necessity because I have something to talk to this friend for a while.”
Salem approached calmly and took a drink from the bottle on the desk.
Then I sat down on my desk and looked at Jester.
“Hey Jester.”
“…There’s really no case. Salem. He is very careless.”
“Now do you understand? Don’t you have something else to say to me?”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
After Jester finished speaking, light suddenly radiated from Salem’s left arm.
The light seemed to be engraved on Salem’s left arm, but it was all kinds of strange and strange magic circles.
Salem laughed, emitting light from his left arm.
“Are you really looking at me like a dick?”
“Is it because of this raid?”
“Do you know me well?”
Hiksham didn’t know what the hell was going on, but since the man who entered the room didn’t look normal, he quietly backed away.
“We targeted Diene Alven, the daughter of Bahat Alven. Did something catch it?”
“Look at this bastard. Do you really think I came here knowing nothing?”
The left arm, which used to radiate light, now burst into flames, burning Salem’s clothes.
The flame-covered hand looked like a devil’s, which is hard to call a human hand.
“…What can I do for you?”
“okay. It should come out like that.”
Salem finally relaxed his expression and brushed off the fire on his left hand as if putting out a matchstick.
Then, the left arm, which looked like a demon’s hand, returned to its original form in an instant.
His exposed arm, which stood out with strong muscles, was covered with a magic circle drawn in tattoos.
“Ignored my warning and dared to ask a mercenary to assassinate Adrias. I saw this as rice because they couldn’t ignore me. hmm?”
“I’ll lend you a hard-working sloth for another week.”
“Is that the end? At least I have to borrow it right away, I think it will alleviate my anger?”
“Now Luna has it. If you want to get it from him, take it.”
“good. very good.”
Salem smiled contentedly and rose from his seat.
And before I knew it, I saw Hiksham, who was about to go out the door.
“Oh lord? I’m sorry for today. Did I just rush in because I was in a bit of a hurry? Talk about what you were talking about with that guy.”
He walked right past Hiksham, shaking the bottle.
“This is delicious. Can I borrow some?”
As Salem left and the door closed, Hicksham just stared blankly at the door he had left with a tired expression on his face.
For him, it was a sudden lightning strike.
“Stupid things.”
Jester turned to Hicksham as he spat out a low curse.
“I have work today, so I have to go first. You don’t have to worry because we can guarantee the goods.”
“Yes yes. Please go in.”
“Oh, and pretend you didn’t hear what I just said. If you want to live long.”
“I see.”
When Jester left the office like that, Hicksham, who was left alone, murmured.
“What the hell is this all about….”
* * *
A few days have passed since the attack of the Black Robes.
A total of 13 people died in the raid, including 9 students and 4 teaching assistants.
It was a smaller number than expected, but considering that the total number of 3rd year students in the Faculty of Magic was only about 300, it seemed like it could be considered a lot.
‘I must say I was lucky. Of course, Diane and I were among the first to be discovered, so the damage wasn’t too great. If not, I would have killed more students.’
Still, due to this incident, Tolman Venuel was suspended until the next semester, and the Alven family, as well as the two deans and principals of the academy, started a fact-finding investigation.
‘It’s not that Tolman didn’t do anything, but there were victims anyway, so it couldn’t be helped.’
The number of opponents was greater than expected.
Excluding the number of people driven by Diene, the Loebians, who numbered dozens more, engaged in fierce battles here and there on the mountain, and among them, ‘Kidwell of the Black Tongue’, who was considered the leader, was killed instantly by Ivy.
I came belatedly hiding my mask and sword, and I was able to join safely by lying that an unknown masked swordsman had saved me.
A lot of people searched for the masked swordsman who was supposed to have saved Diene and me to find out the identity, but in the end they couldn’t find it.
‘That’s not natural. Because that’s me.’
No one could suspect that I was the swordsman of the mask.
Should I say that I can’t imagine even if I can see the circumstances?
For the people here, dual core is a phenomenon that has not been formally known yet, so it seems they can’t imagine that a wizard wields a sword.
But apart from that, there was another problem.
“hey. Are you done with class?”
Ivy was waiting for me to come out of the classroom.
I nodded, wondering how to get this off.
“yes. It’s done. What are you doing?”
“Follow me.”
Unlike his usual bubbly atmosphere, he seemed serious.
She didn’t even listen to my answer and walked ahead, which only gave me a headache.
‘I’ll be questioned properly this time.’
Seeing me appearing late on the day of the attack, Ivy looked suspiciously at me.
Kidwell of the Black Tongue, a fairly famous black magician, was captured, so the subject of this attack was thought to be the work of a dark magic group, but I was somehow entangled in the Voloric Incident.
At the time, it was immediately after the incident, so I was distracted, and after that, I needed time to recover, so I didn’t say much, but I guess I finally caught the day.
She even boarded the train.
I didn’t know how far he was going to take me, but I just calmly followed him.
The place Ivy took me was the gymnasium in the Knights Faculty.
Someone was practicing there, but after seeing Ivy and I appear, we quickly disappeared somewhere.
“Aren’t you asking? Why did you bring me here?”
“I trust that you will be able to explain yourself.”
“okay? Then in a straightforward way… ….”
Suddenly, Ivy lengthened her words.
At that moment, the sight of her muscles and her breathing signaled that an attack was coming.
‘A horizontal cut that is hit from the bottom right.’
Calculated in an instant, I pulled my right foot back and turned my body.
And Ivy’s sword grazed my face as if it had been squeezed.
“After all, you are no ordinary bastard.”
Ivy muttered as she watched me move in an automatic reflex.
Her sword was swung with a sheath.
“What is this?”
“What are you doing? Is it time to ask that now?”
Ivy glared at me with burning eyes.
“What are you doing bastard?”
* * *
As usual, after all the lectures, Vivian Velokan arrived at the gymnasium and warmed up.
Even as the days got colder, her daily routine always went back to the same routine.
‘…I want to go.’
However, her intentions were now directed elsewhere.
The battle magic evaluation raid happened a few days ago.
There was an uproar even in the Knights Faculty because of that.
Unlike Voloric, the attack was clearly aimed at the students.
Thanks to this, even the graduates of the Faculty of Engineering were recruited to add to the manpower.
‘Adrias.’
The attack of the followers of the warlock group and the mercenaries attacked Adrias, whom she had been thinking about lately.
Fortunately, I heard the news that he was safe, but I wanted to meet him and check it out separately.
‘…Do you want to hate it?’
However, he hesitated because he and himself had no contact outside of Voloric.
The first time I visited without thinking, it was nothing, but after a recent encounter at the clinic, my face turned red whenever I thought about it.
‘Why am I like this?’
Vivian hated herself for that.
If I had time to think about this, I’d rather swing my sword one more time.
At that time, I felt the presence of someone entering the gymnasium.
After thinking about Adrias for a while, Vivian noticed that Ivy and Adrias were entering the gymnasium, and unknowingly hid behind the pillars of the gymnasium.
‘Adrias? why?’
Curious, she listened to the conversation between the two as they entered the gymnasium.
Entering the gymnasium, the two quarreled, leading to Ivy’s words to pull out the sword and Adrias’ refusal.
“I need to check on you. If that sword isn’t a decoration, go ahead and pull it out.”
“I don’t know what kind of tyranny it is when you suddenly come to me. I bought the sword for self-defense, not for this.”
“Then let me draw the sword for self-defense.”
Sureureung.
I heard the sound of Ivy’s sword being drawn.
Hiding behind a pillar, Vivian began to think about whether she should step in and stop it.
“…I don’t know why the hell you’re doing this. Do you see me as a pawn of a warlock?”
“If a coincidence overlaps, it’s inevitable. Are you saying that dark magicians who are usually hard to find are found twice in the case you are involved in?”
“Are you driving me away without evidence?”
“Then explain. What I still don’t understand is what happened to Voloric. It’s only you and Chris who caught a warlock who was using such a massive black magic? Who is not an asshole?”
“This has already been pointed out by the investigators. I don’t feel the need to explain further.”
“No, there is one thing I haven’t explained. Vivian Velocan. How will he explain it?”
When her name suddenly came up, Vivian held her breath.
And more than ever, I pricked up my ears.
“…Why is Vivian suddenly appearing here?”
“You were definitely holding hands with him when I first found you. After that, I was shaking my hands to shake it off.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“After coming back from Voloric, she changed. Didn’t you do something?”
Vivian clutched her chest at her beating heart.
heart please be quiet for a little while
“jeon…I just saved her.”
“what?”
“Since she was trapped in the warlock’s barrier, I just went in and saved her. That’s all.”
Vivian’s eyes widened.
