Chapter. 12. Lettuce to Wind Mage (8)
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“The magic tower of the Ridflow School in Tobrun was very beautiful. Although it wasn’t as good as this place, it was great enough to leave its name in history. “It was made around a very large magic stone, the value of which cannot be converted, so it is called ‘gradeless magic stone,’ so its value is indescribable.”
“Ah yes…”
“The river gathered from all directions swirled around the tower, passed through the top room where the magic stone was, and the river water filled with rich mana flowed down to all parts of the tower. It was beautiful. It was truly a paradise-like place for a water magician…”
“It seems like…”
“Do you know that it is Grim Mild’s spirit spring water? Located deep in the forest, it is a place where spirits that love humans gather. The foundation stone of the tower was made from a rock embedded in the deepest part of the spring. They said it was a really great deal. It’s literally like something out of a heroic poem…”
“….”
Jerrit!
“Answer me. “It’s about something you’ve destroyed with your own hands that will never come back.”
“Yes yep! I’m listening! “Otman!”
gulp.
The professor cringed involuntarily at the sound of his voice, which had a somber tone that was hard to believe that the face of an old water magician was full of kind smiles every day.
Ottoman Baudelaire. Looking at what he does, it’s enough to say he’s a 6th rank wizard, but he always says he’s a 5th rank wizard. From Leadflow Magic Tower. The professor’s magic teacher.
He was still grinding his teeth against the fact that the object of his deep-seated resentment was his favorite student.
“I… I understand. After that incident, I heard what happened as people rushed out of Roderick’s royal family and started poking around as witnesses. Isaac Mandalius was Mute’s minion and you had no choice but to stop it… no choice! …..I can understand why a gongma crystal the size of a three-story building was crammed into the tower. A wizard always has to think rationally… I mean…”
“Ha haha… That’s right, right? Anyway, the guy who was acting as the owner of the tower was a Prakchi, and seeing as he was using the precious unpaid magic stones with his disciples, there was already no hope….” “
So, I will ask rationally. “Why did you do that to me?”
“Ugh-”
Bang!
The professor’s heart seemed to drop as he heard Ottman’s chilling voice.
“Uh um…”
“I’m still afraid of heights. Although I have lived as a wizard, I have never once been discredited as a noble of the Baudelaire family! I have never done this before! Breaking your underwear in front of all the nobles and residents of Tobrunn! I cried like a little girl and was hanging around and shaking wildly!!! To whom? To that ‘Red Mute’! Right now, right before my eyes, this guy is holding me in his hands again! Right on you! this guy! this guy!”
puck! puck!
The professor humbly accepted Otman’s angry kicks and carefully climbed onto the white frame with Ottman on his back.
“Ouch! Otman! Oops! “I’m a lot stronger than I thought… Wow!”
“Damn it! Damn you! I considered you like my own son! You’ve been fooling me this whole time! Let’s pretend the tower is gone! Where did all the treasures stolen from the tower go? “I saw it disappear with my own eyes, along with people who specialized in that kind of work!”
“Uh… it’s good, I wrote it…”
“I contacted my old disciples through sacred communication at the temple in the Margrave’s territory! Do you know what they are doing now? He’s working as a trainee supply officer for the military! Like a portable well! Those young people who should be saving every minute and every second to delve into the deep principles of magic are treated like living military canteens! Oh no! “This is truly the last day!”
“If you’re a water resources company official, it’s not that bad….”
“I was wondering why you got caught up in such a case, and it really makes sense! It’s natural for sin to be punished! A vicious guy, like rotten meat that fell into a well! May three generations be buried in dry land! “This guy!”
“Oh my! We’re really at the end of the ottoman, so let’s stop now! yes? I’ll reimburse you later! “I will do it!”
“What kind of money do you have?”
“Uh… Lucilla will do it! maybe!”
“Ayyyyy! “This guy is rotten from the root!”
Whoa!
“Oh my gosh!”
The professor breathed a sigh of relief with his blue, bruised eyes as he watched Ottman huff and puff as he swung his old arms wildly until they got tired. Even though I said that, I didn’t get angry and fire a water cannon like I did when I first said ‘I’m a red Mew’ at that restaurant. To be honest, after what he had done, he was willing to take out his anger on me as much as I could. It’s just a bruise or something. By the time I take a look to see if it was there, it’s all gone.
Otman knows that too, so he’s taking out his anger on a common sense level rather than making a hole in my body.
Chuck chuck!
Felix Home was easy to climb because it was shaped like a hemisphere with numerous white curves overlapping. Otman, who was watching the curve of the building’s exterior wall gradually become gentler, asked in a slightly anxious voice.
“Let’s take a look one last time. The people remaining in the building provoked the wizards as much as possible. Are you saying you’re going to destroy this building, direct the wizards’ anger towards the ‘Red Mute’, and then hide somewhere in that rocky area and have them search that wide rocky area like teeth with their surging rage?”
“yes. If nothing else, it is the home of all wind wizards who can never be recreated in history, so it would be enough to cause too much anger. It won’t be difficult to find the chamber maid hiding around here. “Of course, I will participate in the nest raid, so it will be helpful in terms of military power.”
“I understand up to that point. But how are you going to escape from those angry wind wizards? “I just have to act as a hostage, so there’s no risk of harm from them, but you don’t think they can stop them with just me, right?”
“Uh… you’re not just playing a hostage role.”
“hmm? “No?”
“There is such a thing! anyway. Otman, all you have to do is be captured by me and prepare to unleash defensive magic with all your might if the situation arises.”
“It’s a defensive magic. What is that….”
“Ah, it’s all here.”
Wow!
I gave a vague pretense and pulled my outstretched arm with all my strength.
The top of the building was not much different from the other walls. A collection of gentle curves intertwined with identical white curved pillars.
The professor put Otman down from his back, nodded to Otman who took two or three steps back, and then took a deep breath.
Huuuuup –
air entering deep into the lungs. I held my breath and imagined the air filling my body pushing the pressure from the inside out.
“Keueuuuu!”
Grumble-
A lot of blood vessels sprouted from his muscular body, and his skin slowly started to feel incontinence-
Puhwaaaaak!
Crackle, knock, knock!
The flesh cracked, blood oozed out, and it instantly began to transform into the form of a monster.
After the incident at the Margrave’s domain. Now I instinctively felt that the mute infection agent was completely under my control.
‘easy. No, it’s more than easy, it’s natural.’
Both the outer body and the essence of this body are now much closer to a monster.
All
you have to do is snap the string you were holding on to and let go –
『Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu rrrrrrr!!!!!!
The storm is slowly subsiding, as if all its strength has been used up.
The roar that rang out along with the transformation broke the Otman’s magic that was hiding the two, and I felt the robes flying in the storm stop one by one and look in this direction.
“Huuuuuuuuuuuuu….”
“….Professor. Answer when you hear me. professor!”
“Huh… no need to worry….”
The monster exhaled and gave a thumbs up, then extended his hand to Otman .
Unlike before, Otman was relieved to see that he was maintaining his senses, and when he leaned back on his palms, the monster carefully wrapped his arms around him and lifted him up.
Snap!
[Wow, the vocal cords must be full of muscles, what kind of voice is this… It must be much more comfortable this way.]
[Hmm? Can you use magic in that state?]
[In the first place, this body itself is a form combined with my magic. Those red parts on the joints are all blood armor. My origin magic.]
[Uhm…. It’s reliable. I’m ready.]
[Then… let’s begin?]
[….May the blessings of the great flow be upon you.]
“Uuuuu-!”
Under a stormy sky. The wizards flying around were gathering one by one at the sight of a huge monster that suddenly appeared above the home.
Guuuuu –
A huge arm was raised, the arm filled with unprecedented power swelled, and the scale-like carapace covering it was spreading out as if sharpening a blade.
“monster. “There’s a monster in the home…”
“What kind of monster is this on the roof…!”
“Uh oh. Oh, I can’t do it…. Uh oh oh oh oh!”
The moment when the wizards, who had been completely intoxicated by the storm, gradually became immersed in a sense of crisis.
Flash-blink!
The monster’s fist, raised high as a sign of lightning rushing through the storm, flew towards the wizards’ hometown.
Kwahiah ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!
To the wizards’ eyes, the entire process appeared as clearly as in slow motion.
Down, shattering the pouring raindrops. A giant monster’s arm heading towards their home.
A huge sound as if a mountain was collapsing, and a red mist bursting through the air that had evaporated under the weight of that huge force.
The monster’s large body, surrounded by red fog, looked more dynamic as it was backlit by the lightning, amid raindrops that were pushed back enough to sting the person who was hit.
Cooung –
But there was something that caught the wizards’ attention more than all of that.
thud. It was a large, smooth, pure white curve that slowly
but surely fell down the cliff.
The white-washed wizards began to scream as if the pillar falling down the cliff was the corpse of their biological parents.
“Uh oh oh oh. “Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!”
“Pillar! “One of Felix’s remains wrapped around the house!!!”
The identity of the curve was one of the many curved pillars that make up Felix Home. As the legacy of an archmage, he succeeded in dispersing the terrible physical force that was enough to create a vacuum around him, but several of the outer curves that had taken the impact beyond their limit ended up breaking.
Shuaaaa-
Shuaa-
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The wind had died down. The storm that was waning suddenly disappeared without a trace, and in an instant, it became so quiet that even breathing could be heard, and only the noise of the debris thrown down the cliff was quietly echoing.
Flutter- Flutter-
Whiiiiiiiiii-
The eerie sound of the wind began to swirl around the monster.
The wizards’ robes were fluttering under the windless sky. The young wizards and disciples who had managed to maintain their senses rushed to retrieve the broken and scattered fragments of the building, and only the wizards whose tops had turned were left, preparing to pour out their furious fury.
“Oh oh… How can this happen… Felix of the great wind… Truly, how can this happen? Oh oh oh….”
Among the wizards flying out of the building one after another, there was one who particularly stood out.
A wizard with white hair and wearing old green robes similar to other wizards. However, the deep blue wind that swirled around him was spewing out terrifying mana, unlike the old wizard’s ordinary appearance.
It’s a face in my memory. When I visited this place a few hours ago, an old wizard with a very bent back ran towards Otman with a wheezing look on his face, saying ‘Uhehehe~ Biburumi~’. Even though his face was full of wrinkles, he was an old man full of innocent cuteness.
Flap –
He was walking through the air with a cold face as if he had never done that before, and when he waved his hand once, a blue wind burst out from under the monster’s feet, and the building, which was still vibrating from the shock, could be felt becoming quiet.
The old wizard’s cold eyes fell on the monster.
“Goyanjigo… It was not a robber, but a mountain animal… Did you say it was a red mute? “Do you understand what sin you have committed?”
A deep blue wind was mixed with the wizard’s every word. The monster faced the wizard with a fierce grin amidst the wind that seemed to force the breath out of his lungs.
『Well… you know… I’m recommending those who have been wanderers since birth… to live according to their true nature… in a somewhat coercive way.』
Crack! Pead deud deuk!
“On the subject of a cocky, arrogant and foolish beast…a wound that cannot be washed away from our only sanctuary! How dare you defy your godfather’s legacy-!!!!”
Kiiiiing-!
Woo-woo!
Every time the wizards surrounding the groove swung their wands, the circular ring of wind that formed above the groove was spinning faster and gaining more power. The ring, which had suddenly turned bright green, was now spinning on its own without the wizard’s support, sucking in all the wind from the nearby valley.
Cheoeok.
The moment the wind’s rotation reached its peak, a staff filled with bright yellow sparks between six glowing holes pointed at the monster.
“Die, beast. “No wind in the world will ever pass by you again.”
『If you can. Wizard.』
“Ah, you can do it. “I can do it….”
Fall, fall, fall!
Small sparks gathered at the tip of the wizard’s wand rose toward the sky.
As it passed through the round circle created by the wizards, its body swelled in an instant, and before we knew it, it grew into a gigantic spear of lightning aimed at the round aiming point.
“Felix Drixiel’s Great Magic. [Call – Giga Lightning.] Enough… I can do it to the point of overdoing it…”
The professor gave up dodging as he saw the pillar of lightning rising so high in the sky that the end was unknown. It’s true that I provoked him with the intention of getting a big hit.
‘You crazy bastards… This is a traditional magic that can be cast by 15 people of the 5th rank, one of the 6th rank, and even with the assistance of an anti-magic building?’
I wanted to get rid of it right away, but I had to wait a little longer. If those selective lunatics had come to their senses just a little longer, maybe….
Sigh!
‘done!’
There was no way he wouldn’t have known that even hostages would be caught up in such ridiculous magic.
Windcutter flew in secretly with a cool story. The wind that cut off his arm passed at such a speed that it seemed like it was at the end of the 6th level, and the area around the arm that was holding Otman was seen to be covered with a dark green curtain.
[done! Pull out the shield, Otman! Quick!]
[Now what about you! No matter how much you get hit by something like that-]
[I’m right next to you, so hurry!!!!!]
At first, I was planning to roughly report the situation and escape through the siege, but I changed my mind when I saw the movement on the other side.
Wind system magic’s best advantage is its fast casting speed, but it creates the spell so slowly and so slowly that it can be seen? It means that they have other plans than just trying to catch me and kill me.
In the current situation, there is only one reason to hesitate to attack from the other side.
‘Otman. ‘It was a good idea to bring him.’
There is also an intention to save Ottoman over there.
The place where we are standing now is the auxiliary organ of the thunderbolt magic that will hit my head.
If you control it delicately from over there, even if it doesn’t reach the target point, you will be able to sufficiently disperse the aftermath.
‘In the first place, you can’t hide from people who use the wind to run 3D radar by area, and you can’t run away from people who fly without air resistance, right?’
So cheat.
Even though he shouted and knew that he was at a disadvantage in a one-on-one battle, he increased his size and provoked the enemy to prepare his best attack. Exactly in the very center of Felix Home, on the hole where the letter was sucked in in the morning.
Sigh-
“Oh my… [Water Shield]! [Ottman Baudelaire’s Backflow Field]!”
The severed arm and the ottoman inside it fall into the curved building, surrounded by a barrier of water and wind.
The moment when the blood that spurted out in excessive amounts, even considering that the arm was cut off, managed to follow Otman and the arm inside the green curtain.
Cracking- crackling-
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Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
After confirming that the hostage was safely secured, the old wizard lowered his staff and a huge pillar of lightning exploded over the monster.
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