My Villains Episode 260
51. Farewell to the truth (2)
The inn we stayed in was originally the Alchemy Guild’s hall. It was for this reason that there was a reception desk that doubled as a bar on the first floor and several offices and warehouses.
So, when she first set foot in this guild hall, Ellen searched the warehouse first. It was because of the expectation that there would be valuable medicine. With bright eyes, ‘Heavenly Oreum Flower! The horn of the unicorn!’ How cute it was to rhyme.
But all he could find were thistles and millet plantains. While running away from the rampant vampires, it seems that they took all the valuables with them.
In the end, the warehouse full of clutter became a simple confinement room. It was perfect for confinement, as there were six small rooms blocked off by thick doors around a single space in the living room.
In the leftmost room among the six small rooms, there was a sign saying ‘Inorganic Material – Metal’.
Of course, what was in it now was not gold or silver or iron powder. It was Saitsu, a young old spell thief.
“Hey, look!”
As if he heard me and my men pretending to be there, he knocked on the door.
Until recently, he seemed to be dying at any moment, and he seems to have regained some energy. He must have gained hope thanks to Ellen’s promise to give him the ‘elixir of time’ if he would testify for him.
“what?”
“…that voice? Bloody- No, Phoenix Wonder!”
Saits shouted indignantly through the thick door.
“I am being treated unfairly!”
“…Inappropriate treatment?”
“exactly! Are you saying it would be right for me to lock myself in a closet like this, as I swore to serve the one who will be the owner of the palace?”
In my heart, I thought, ‘How can you believe the oath of a thief?’ I want to shoot at him, but…
No, I can’t. He’s the one who holds the key to clear Ellen’s name, right? It needs some appeasement.
“…The surroundings are so chaotic, so I’m locking them up for protection.”
“protect? Did you say protection?”
“okay.”
“Where is that nonsense saying that keeping you locked up in this cold cage is protection?” I replied with a small sigh.
“I’d rather be cold.”
“what?”
“When I think of the hard work I went through chasing you, my main food trembles. I want to give it to you right now, but I’m holding back because of Ellen.”
“I think it would be better for me to just stay there quietly than to be hit one by one for making eye contact while walking around outside. what do you think about it?”
After calming Saitsu appropriately, I glanced at my subordinates. Then Cole approached the room with the ‘Organic Material – Monster F’ sign and opened the door with the key.
A figure was strewn about in a room that somehow smelled fishy. It was a man with a bandage wrapped around his chest and his hands tied behind his back.
In the raid two days ago, we killed seven bounty hunters and a mage. All the remnants, including the martial artist Iljin and the arcane hunter Ashur, fled and were able to capture only one wizard who was severely injured by Ellen.
That wizard was a man right in front of his eyes.
When Steedman stepped forward and removed the gag from his mouth, the wizard groaned and spat bloody saliva on the floor.
“Master Hagni.”
“…a bloody examination.”
At first glance, the wizard seemed to be in his early to mid-thirties. I heard from Ellen that he was a man who received the title of master at a young age because he was talented in fire and earth magic.
“How are you feeling?”
As I crouched down to meet eye level, Hagni frowned and opened her mouth.
“Looks like you saved your life.”
“Yes, I’m glad.”
He stared at Hagni’s deep blue eyes and clicked his tongue.
“Looking at it this way, I can see that she is not from the same household as Ellen.” “
To chase
a little girl under the age of 20 all the way here to kill someone from the same family .”
The wizard’s full name was ‘Hagni Radakal-Aern’.
If the Radakalin family is the direct lineage of the great wizard Radakalin, ‘Radakal-Aern’ was a descendant of that family. In a word, Master Hagni means Ellen’s relative. It’s about 10 degrees.
“Age or family doesn’t matter.”
Master Hargni, wriggling and leaning his back against the wall, narrowed his eyes.
“Hérenard is an ungrateful traitor, a murderer and a thief. Since it is to punish such a woman, there is no reason to worry about blood ties.”
“You must have heard the old man locked in the room across from you. It was Saitsu who killed Ellen’s teacher and stole the forbidden book.”
Confirming that Hagni’s eyes were shaking, he continued.
“I heard from Ellen. You’re Galnar’s closest aide? You said you watched Ellen’s teacher, Jemar, die?”
“Then you must have seen the wound that killed Master Jemar. He said he died of a broken heart. It wasn’t a wound that a seventeen-year-old girl who couldn’t handle a spell could do.”
“…Herenaar is not an ordinary girl.”
“dog sound. When she was in the palace, Ellen was just an ordinary girl.”
He wet his dry lips and spoke with a groan.
“You must have learned magic using forbidden books. The blood of the Archmage would have made that possible.”
“If you awakened magic in the palace, wouldn’t other people know about it? Hundreds of wizards, including grandmasters, were all eyeless scarecrows?”
“…Or he must have used magic tools. Stealing the magic tools from Grand Master Jemar-” “All
Ellen inherited from her master was a wand and an hourglass and a few silver coins. There was no magic tool that could crush a person’s heart.”
When I was staying in South Harbor, Prince Ulkar gave me a covenant and gave me some information. It was a spy that a chaser had been sent to pursue Ellen from La Palais Palace.
At that time, the prince calmed me down and said this.
– Don’t despair too much. If Miss Ellen was the obvious killer, dozens of wizards would have poured out as her pursuers.
In a word, it means that even inside La Palais Palace, there are people who believe that Ellen is innocent. The circumstances I had laid out for Hagni must have been the seed of that trust.
When Hagni kept her mouth shut, I smiled.
“Set aside the circumstantial evidence, did the real culprit confess? Saits, the spell thief over there, is the one who killed Master Jemar and stole the forbidden book.”
“How can you believe the words of a thief?”
“Whether or not to believe the thief is not your decision. I heard there are infinite ways to reveal the truth if you take him to the palace anyway?”
After Master Hagni silently agreed, I added words while brushing my hair.
“And what matters now is that Ellen has rights and you have responsibilities.”
“Rights and Duties?”
“okay. First, Ellen has the right to go back to the palace and reveal the truth. He has that much right.”
“…Yes. Because Elenar is the descendant of the archmage born in Tirin Mel.”
good. I’m not the one who can’t speak the language.
“Then it is your duty.”
“You were tricked by Galnar into trying to kill Ellen. But you saved your life thanks to his mercy, right?”
“so’?”
“So what is it? If you have received a favor, you must repay it.”
“…How do you mean?”
“Cooperate. So that Ellen can return to the palace.”
Saying that, I stretched out my hand to the side, and the freckled mummy pulled out some items and handed them to me.
“Using what you had here.”
We got some loot while fending off the attacks of Iljin, the martial artist, and Ashur, the arcane hunter.
First of all, the most valuable item was the nine-ringed nine-ringed guhwanjang that Iljin had put into the ground… but this one was not suitable for use right away. This is because it was the exclusive equipment of the martial artist in the game, and it was too heavy and clumsy to use as a weapon in real life.
Next I got some weapons and some armor. As belongings of the famous bounty hunter gang, the ‘Black Wolves’, they were of good quality, so they were evenly distributed among the party.
The wizard who attacked the guild hall through the ‘passage of the earth’ and was stabbed in the neck by a bunch had a magic book and a small orb (寶珠). These were quite rare items, but compared to what Master Hagni, the true magician who barely risked his life, possessed, they were inferior.
“I heard that the magic circle engraved here is a ‘dimensional door’?”
“…Yes.” What I gave to Master Hagni was the golden plate and glass bottle he had.
The golden plate was literally a thin plate the size of A4 paper. It was made entirely of gold, so it was an expensive item in itself, and the strangely shaped magic circle was inscribed on it, giving it a more mysterious atmosphere.
The vial contained a viscous liquid. Ellen said it was a magic solution made by mixing dragon claws and coral with finely ground cinnabar and mercury.
“This is the portal to the palace, right?”
‘Dimensional door’ was a different spell that seemed similar to the teleportation spell. It is a method of making a passage in the dimensional gap and then compressing it, and it is said that it looks as if two distant spaces are connected on the outside.
Of course, it is a very high-level spell. It is said that there is no wizard in the middle world who can open a dimensional door to any space the caster wants without any preparation.
That’s why I said that the realistic limit was how much I could open a dimensional door to a fixed place using precious materials like the golden plate and magic solution I was holding.
Upon receiving the question, Master Hagni nodded after a brief silence.
“good.”
You seem ready to cooperate.
Just in case you didn’t know, I’ve prepared various tools needed for ‘persuasion’, but it seems like you’ve put a lot of effort into it.
“Simos. Bring Ellen.”
The pampered Simos, who left the warehouse at my command, soon reappeared with Ellen.
“Master Hagni.”
A cold voice and matching blue eyes.
Master Hagni looked up at Ellen and shook her chin.
Did he recall the humiliation of being overwhelmed with magic by the girl he considered the family’s idiot?
no, it was a little different. A piece of awe penetrated deep blue eyes that slightly resembled Ellen’s.
I wasn’t sure exactly where those eyes were coming from, but it probably wasn’t a bad thing.
Whoops.
A light breeze blew in the windowless warehouse. There was no draft in the warehouse, which the alchemists must have made with great effort for precious materials, so this was obviously an unnatural and artificial phenomenon.
“…Elenaar-sama.”
It was not unusual for Master Hagni, the collateral and youngest member of the family, to show respect to Ellen, who was the family’s descendant and a relative of her grandmother’s.
However, Ellen seemed to think that was not enough, adding dignity to her politeness by showing off her vast magical power.
Ellen stared down at Hagni, who bowed her head while being restrained.
Then he turned to me and said,
“Free me.”
was saying.
He had such an arrogant look on his face and his attitude was so nasty that he wanted to argue with him, but he decided to put up with it out of consideration for his face.
“…are you okay?”
WO ” Heh.
I scratched my chin for a while, then went over to Hagni and cut the rope.
“Hagni.” “yes.”
“What is the purpose of this spell board?”
Hagni lowered her head and pursed her lips before speaking.
“Galnar-nim told us to return using the spell board as soon as we deal with Elenar-nim.”
“process? Did you say kill me?”
“…yes.”
Raising her head slightly, Hagni quickly plunged her head into the sharper eyes and quickly continued.
“As Elenar-nim gained fame on the continent, Galnar became impatient. He said he was unhappy about the protracted work, but it was clear that Elenar was afraid that the truth would be revealed when he returned to the palace. That’s why they told me to kill them unconditionally without being captured…
When I took a sneak peek, Ellen seemed a little surprised. Even though Galnar was an asshole, he didn’t know that he would order his nephew to be killed.
“I will prove my innocence. I need your help with that.”
“…Yes, please tell me.” In response to Ellen’s question that followed, Master Hagni explained the operation method of the portal and the duration limit.
The moment to clear up the grievous false accusation was just around the corner, but Ellen’s eyes were chilly.
