Episode 173
Episode 66. While the figures of the aristocrats of Ballinann Fovian (3)
disappeared completely, only the women dressed in slutty clothes and the handlers maintained their steadfast posture as if they already knew about it.
Barlinan snapped his fingers and the handler and the women left.
Yuma made eye contact with Ballinan, hiding his surprise.
Before he knew it, he was acting like a dignified nobleman, concealing his well-behaved and light eyes and words and actions.
It was to the point where I didn’t think he was the same person as the boy who was just playing around.
“It’s magic.”
“exactly. As you’ve heard, you have considerable insight, Baron Drake.”
It was still a boyish voice, but it contained a strange dignity.
Yuma felt like watching a play and let out a small laugh.
“Did you know I was coming and prepared for it?”
“Then it’s not natural. You have been visiting this gambling house since your days as a commoner.”
“Right. But it’s strange… Ballinan Phobian.”
“What do you mean strange?”
Yuma lowered his eyes to the rings on both of his fists that had just been cast.
“As far as I know, you can’t use magic.”
Yes.
The reason why Barinann Povian before returning did not stand out much compared to his older brothers.
The late child of the genius wizard Adol, Barinan Fovian, was incapable of using magic. It was only known to the public around the end of the Yongma War before returning.
Until then, Adol had absolutely kept silent about the fact that his late son was actually a magic cripple.
Even within the Povian family, very few people knew that Ballinan couldn’t use magic.
Yuma realized that the magic that Barlinan had just spread was the power of the artifacts embedded in his index fingers.
Even in ‘Morning Star’, I had experienced the illusion magic artifact.
“Huh…
Hearing Yuma’s story, Ballinan was quite shocked, and again lost the dignity of a great aristocrat and let out a rough breath.
The fact that she couldn’t use magic was Vali Nunn’s vice. He clutched his chest and sweat broke out on his face.
“after! Ha…
After some time passed, Ballinan seemed to have calmed down a bit, closed his eyes and took a slow, deep breath. Yuma was convinced that he was a mentally flawed human being.
“I don’t know how I knew that… but if you didn’t like me, I wouldn’t have been able to keep my breath even after talking about it.”
“hmm. I’m sorry.”
Now that he seems to have a crush on himself, there was no need to anoint Ballinnan’s deep-rooted inferiority complex.
“But talking as if he could kill me at any time is quite…
ok.
When Ballinan put the ring on his left index finger to his chest, a new strange phenomenon arose.
It was only for a moment, but suddenly I couldn’t breathe.
Yuma accurately recognized the moment when her breathing stopped forcibly. It feels as if water has suddenly filled your nose and throat.
‘What is this!’
Of course, it wasn’t fatal at all, as I couldn’t breathe for only about a second. However, Yuma was shocked that this phenomenon was caused by Ballinan.
You can force others to breathe. As far as Yuma knew, this was not the realm of magic.
“uh? Are you breathing normally? If you’re a beginner like you, you shouldn’t be able to breathe for at least 30 seconds.”
“…what did you just do?”
The effect that Barlinan had just created was, in some ways, more dangerous than Hugo or Duran’s overwhelming force.
Feeling nervous for the first time in a while, Yuma glared at Ballinan.
“Hahaha! What are you going to do if you won’t tell me?”
“Your neck and body will be separated.”
Sureureung.
It was half sincere.
As long as he experienced the divine ability of ‘breath force’, Ballinan was a dangerous mystery to Yuma.
A situation where Yuma doesn’t know anything about the restrictions of ‘forced breathing’ or the cost of the law.
What if the nerd in front of you could freely use this fraudulent technique just shown? He had to kill when he could without thinking about the aftermath.
Seeing Yuma’s murderous eyes, Ballinan decided to answer right away.
No matter how much he likes pranks, he really felt like he would die if he spit out nonsense right now.
“Huh. I’ll tell you! I borrowed the power of the Spirit King. This is my fund…
“What? Spirit King?”
“huh. Spirit King Igmeseus. You won’t even hear it. It’s hard to find people in the West who know the name. There aren’t too many of them in the East either.”
It’s definitely a name I’ve never heard of.
In the first place, ‘spirit’ was not a very familiar concept in the West.
It wasn’t that there were no spirits in the West. Just looking at Inz Vikan right now, various low-level spirits, including wisp, inhabit it.
However, finding a ‘spiritual priest’ in the West was a matter of picking stars from the sky.
In the West, wizards using mana were the mainstream, and in the East, spiritists who borrowed the power of spirits were the mainstream.
It was because of environmental factors.
Mana is much more abundant in the West, and spirits are much more abundant in the East.
That much was common sense that everyone on the Continent knew about.
“It’s hard to believe, but I’ll try to convince you first.”
It was Yuma who went through all kinds of mythical things after going through the Dragon Horse War and returning.
He has even seen the red moon of Amanzo, the demon god, and recently heard the truth about Hwa, so it’s about the spirit king.
Above all, the forced stop of breathing was the most shocking of all the techniques Yuma had ever experienced.
It was different from the cases where the pyramids could not breathe due to the overwhelming energy of grandmasters such as Hugo and Duran. It was an impossible realm if not for the power of a transcendent being.
As Yuma sworded Ascalon, Val Renann took a step closer to Yuma as if he was happy.
Somehow, the gaze was more burdensome than Igor’s bright eyes. It was because of the sincere respect that was evident in Ballinan’s eyes as he looked at him.
‘This kid… why do you like me so much? When did you see me?’
Ballinan was a year younger than Yuma.
However, unlike Yuma, who was naturally boneless and well-trained, he belonged to the side of being very small for his age, and on the outside, he looked much older.
“Are you not too embarrassed to hear the name of the King of Spirits? Even if you experience that power for a while. I don’t know why it doesn’t work.
ah! Of course I had no intention of killing you. I just realized that I can’t kill it anyway.”
There was no way that the power of the King of Spirits could be affected by ‘those outside the realm’ who did not even have the authority of the Demon God. That was a fact that neither Yuma nor Ballinan knew.
Yuma began to feel intense curiosity about this mysterious Balinan.
“Igmeseus is also very nice.
But not as much as you. Anyway, I don’t want you to say more that I’m a human without ‘Hort’. Everything else is fine.”
‘Hort’ was a bodily organ given to those born with the destiny of becoming wizards.
Small holes in the nose and mouth served as passages for magical energy.
Yuma had heard from Cahel the story of an earthquake led by Hort of Hudin, where Radion Povian, the former head of the Povian family, had betrayed humanity.
“You talk as if you would tell me if I asked. But my perception of Povian is that he is a fraud.”
The unscrewing behavior of young Povian in front of him could also have been calculated.
The Phobians he experienced during his time as a eunuch were truly all sly and unintelligible humans.
In particular, the current head of the household, Adol Povian, hardly showed up in the imperial castle. Even though he was the head of the imperial mages, he seemed to have little interest in the affairs of the imperial castle. In the political battle between the Zach family and the Rollmandy family, he always maintained neutrality.
Empress Hella Rosette often lamented to Yuma, saying that she did not know what was going on with the Phovian family.
“Yes, I will tell you everything. Because I want to be friends with you I was the one who moved the newsletter. Not the Povian family.”
“You did it on your own?
why?”
“I told you I fell for you as a man. The day His Majesty congratulated you for killing Heize, I watched you closely. The same goes for the imperial privileges.”
“Stop talking like that. I’m guessing it’s not Phobian. what do you want?”
There was no goodwill in the world without reason, as would be the case with rural villagers who had escaped from life. In particular, the world of the nobility was absolutely like that.
When a noble showed favor to a noble and approached him first, it meant that he had something he wanted to receive. Whether it’s riches, power, money, or justification.
Yuma hoped that the young Povian in front of him would stop talking nonsense and get to the point.
Ballinan smiled for a moment, then opened his mouth slowly.
And the lines he uttered were of a kind that Yuma had never expected.
“Make me the head of the Povian family.”
Saying so, there was no sign of the mischievous little boy on Barinan’s face at all.
Seeing those eyes, Yuma couldn’t bear to use the expression ‘joking too much’.
“It seems like a request that is not worth even half a penny to the extent of manipulating public opinion in the newsletter.”
“Could that be the end?”
“Anyway, it’s impossible.”
“Can’t you think about it a bit?”
“Even if I hold more power than Master, it is impossible to make you the head of the Po Bian family.”
“why?”
“You know best.”
If Adol Fovian’s other outstanding sons came and offered Yuma a bond, the condition and price could be heard.
But if it was Barinann Phovian, and no one else, there was no need for that.
The head of the Povian family who cannot use magic.
It was as nonsensical a story as ‘cold fire’.
“I will one day become a wizard who surpasses my father. And I think you are the one who can make me like that.”
“Why do you think it is me? I am a person who has no ties to magic at all.”
“Because you are the first person in the history of the empire to turn the impossible into the possible.”
“If that’s the only reason…
“Only! A commoner became an aristocrat. I think that’s far greater than the magic cripple being able to use magic.”
pure kid.
Yuma thought, deep down, that all of Ballinan’s foolish actions and light words and actions must have been the result of Phovian’s unique calculated intentions.
But now I see that Ballinan was just a kid who didn’t know anything.
Born as the youngest child of the head of a great aristocratic family, he has lived his life without knowing the fear of the world and seeing only the good things.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to force myself to do so.
But that didn’t mean it wasn’t worth talking to Ballinan.
‘The Spirit King…
The existence and power of the Spirit King Igmeseus. Perhaps this could be useful in the Dragon Horse War.
After meeting Kriesha Ainu this time, Yuma’s interest in transcendent beings was further heightened.
As if thinking of something, Yuma opened her mouth to Bali Nun.
“Balinen Fovian.”
“Yes, Baron Drake!”
“Are you familiar with the East?
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