Episode 122
EPISODE.61
After that, two more days passed and the scheduled departure time approached.
“Check one last time to make sure nothing is missing!”
“Raise the anchor, spread the sails!”
“Come on, move!”
Could it be because it was just before departure?
Even though most of the supplies were already loaded on the ship, the top members were busy running around the ship.
Of course, it was a different world for Russell, who spent time in a comfortable and comfortable cabin.
The voyage that began was much smoother than expected.
Because the ship was so big, even quite a few marine monsters got scared and retreated.
Besides, I don’t even get motion sickness.
If nothing special happened, it would take about three weeks from the port of the Naze Federation to the Kuril Islands.
‘I hope the voyage will continue in this way.’
During that time, Russell was able to spend a truly leisurely daily life.
A time when he can exist only as a wizard, escaping from the political status of being the son-in-law of the Ratmos family and the fiancé of the princess.
Although the position of the former was not dissatisfied, it was clear that the latter was relatively comfortable.
Of course, that did not mean that Russell shut himself up in his cabin and continued reading.
Occasionally, I helped with the ship’s work or moved my body on the deck.
Parbabat-.
Russell’s fists and toes roamed the air, creating an afterimage.
The sound of a crack in the wind stretches out sharply, and at the same time, Russell’s new model flips over twice in the air.
Parbat-.
Thanks to the relatively wide deck, it was an agile movement that could hardly be seen as a wizard.
Of course, even this was just the next best thing I chose because I couldn’t openly practice La Mancha in a place like this.
Then applause was heard.
clap clap-.
“Huh, great! I knew you were good at magic, but your taijutsu skills are also great.”
I turned my head and saw that Carl Neiman was using magic to keep three glasses floating in the air.
Aidan was standing next to him in a hesitant posture.
“It must be hot because you trained until just now. How about a cool drink?”
“Mr Carl. No matter how much it is, it’s a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit
of a bit of are you okay. It’s not like drinking until you’re drunk, so what’s so big about a glass of alcohol!”
Carl chuckled at Aidan, who spoke worriedly. He then handed one of his glasses to Russell and said,
“I used chilling magic to keep it cool. Go ahead and drink it all the way.”
Just like that.
‘Chilled beer and thin ice.’
The appearance of beer filled in a wooden glass was literally mouth-watering.
When Russell accepted the glass, Carl drank first as if he had waited.
Honey cake honey rice cake -.
Aidan, who was looking at that figure, said, ‘I don’t know.’ I took a drink with a smile on my face.
When Russell wore it, it was a little later. After removing the glass from his mouth, Russell looked at Carl’s wrist and asked.
“By the way, is it a bracelet I haven’t seen before? Seeing that you can feel the flow of magical power, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary ornament-”
As Russell said, Carl’s forearm was stuffed with a bracelet that hadn’t been seen before.
It was a bracelet with a green gem embedded in it.
“Oh yeah. What is this… It’s nothing. Just something to clear your mind? It’s something my master passed down a long time ago.”
Responding quickly to Russell’s question, he hurriedly put his hand into his chest.
Then he took out a bunch of trump cards and shouted.
“It’s a bit early, but shall we play today?”
Trump can’t play well, so he loses money every time, and he always sets the table first.
And…
about an hour or so later, a commotion broke out.
.
.
“It’s a pirate ship!”
At the cry of a sailor who was watching on the watchtower, an emergency was called on the ship in an instant.
From knives and spears to iron rods and cast iron pans.
In preparation for an unexpected situation, the combatable personnel prepared for battle with their own fighting supplies.
gulp-.
Amidst the silence, so calm that someone’s swallowing sound could be heard loudly, and the air above the deck was heavy like water-soaked cotton.
“Sleep, calm down.”
There was someone who skillfully stepped forward.
“Sword Wizard!”
It was Carl Neyman.
Only then did the idea that there were three wizards aboard, and morale spread across the deck like wildfire.
“Let’s see, five ships-.”
In the meantime, Carl Neiman used magical power to increase his eyesight and confirmed the size of the pirates as they approached the ship.
“Heh, it’s a big sailboat, so there are a lot of sharks flocking to it.”
Then, he asked Colin, the acting manager, who was in charge.
“What would you do? agent?”
“yes?”
“It wouldn’t be a problem to sink them at this distance, but considering the future going up, it seems like it wouldn’t be a bad move to pay the toll properly.”
“…Certainly there is a point in that statement.”
Colin nodded, as if agreeing to his suggestion.
Hiring wizards was just in case of any unforeseen circumstances. In general, it was customary to pay a moderate toll.
‘But will it be okay?’
Wasn’t the reason why he hired as many as three wizards because the goods on the ship were worth a lot?
In order to pay the toll, the ship needs to be brought a little closer, but if the pirates have other thoughts
…
“Don’t worry. Even if you act nonsense, there are as many as three wizards here…!”
“gibberish.”
Daang-!
Just at that moment, a beer mug flew in from somewhere and hit him at his feet.
Dingur-.
A fallen beer glass rolls awkwardly across the deck, and everyone turns their heads.
I watched the owner of the cold voice.
“Magician Reedman?”
At Russell’s sudden action, Acting Agent Colin watches him with bewildered eyes.
At that gaze, Russell responded in a cold, subdued voice.
“You’re thinking of getting the pirate ships close to the ship and attacking them all at once, right? It’s not that great of a trick compared to what I prepared quite meticulously.”
“Heh, hee, readman, what does that mean?”
“Why don’t you stop doing stupid acting?”
“…?!”
“Are there three wizards? After feeding the two of them a potion that dissipates mana?”
“What kind of medicine is that!?”
Colin, who had been shouting in embarrassment, only then noticed something strange.
Aidan’s face was covered with cold sweat, standing right next to the Russell or Ridman wizard.
“Isn’t it strange? Acting Chief?”
“yes?”
“Obviously, we moved through a sea area where pirates do not appear often, but not one, but as many as five pirate ships followed. Is this normal?”
“That means…”
said Russell, pointing with his fingertip to the bracelet on Carl’s wrist.
“Perhaps the bracelet is an artifact that transmits its location.”
“Quit-.”
“Since it’s a 4th circle mage, you are probably the captain or vice-captain. Are there any mistakes in what you said so far?”
Why is it such a big deal for a 4th circle mage to piracy?
The captain of the pirate ship that was smuggling elves was also an aura practitioner who could express swordsmanship, albeit clumsily.
Even while they were talking like that, the pirate ships were gradually narrowing the distance towards the sailboat.
“flaw-.”
It was then.
“This is why you’re such a quick-witted kid…”
The reason why a cold smile spread over Carl’s face, which had been full of drunkards and fluff until now.
“If you stayed still, you could have saved your life, but you’re making a mess of it and making yourself angry.”
Throwing off the mask he had been wearing so far, he glared at Russell with cold eyes.
He threw his hands into the air.
“Don’t even one of them move! From now on, I will decide the course of this ship!”
Jiji Jiji-!
With a beckoning gesture, a net of thunderbolts rises above the sky.
The threatening to drop it on the deck in an instant and electrocute the entire area at the moment of emergency.
Thinking that he had taken control of the deck, he turned to Russell.
“A clumsy smart guy. It was an accurate reasoning, but saying that you can do something after taking medicine…”
“Kkeok-.”
At that time, Aidan, who was sweating cold next to Russell, collapsed.
It seems that he forcibly raised his mana while his mana was dissipating.
‘It must have been a pain similar to having your intestines cut off.’
Nevertheless, to try to use magic to somehow overcome the situation.
Apart from lack of confidence, it was clear that he was a good person.
Immediately after, Carl sensed something was wrong and stuttered.
“Why can’t the medicine be like that…”
At first, I thought the medicine was slow.
Because there was a deviation of about ten minutes from a few minutes depending on the person.
But still, there is no sign of it, let alone a cold sweat.
This case was one of two things.
He has a skill so high that even halfway medicine won’t work, or-.
‘I have high coherence and chaste mana to the point of not being scattered!’
In Russell’s case, it was both.
“To be stupid.”
However, it was too late to notice.
“Why do you think I drank it when I knew it was drugged?”
“profit!”
“Now then, which one is more stupid here, you or me?”
“Shut up!!”
With a roar, he lowered his hand as it were.
Player must win!
‘I won’t even give you time to cast magic!’
Cloudy Ring.
Paget.
A small thunderbolt bounced along the ring on Russell’s finger.
After that, the weather in the sky changed.
Kurreung-!
Dark clouds begin to fill the sky as if it will rain once, and the net of the falling lightning is sucked into the clouds in an instant.
“What?!”
Rumble-!
Right after the blue light unique to the discharge phenomenon spreads over his embarrassed face.
Kwalung!
Five bolts of lightning fell on the horizon.
Accurately penetrated the decks of the pirate ships that were flocking to the ship.
―――――――――!!!
It was a torpedo with enough power to tear an entire pirate ship apart.
That was a whopping five shots, and the aftermath created by those five torpedoes was by no means light.
Blinding lights flickered over the sea, and at the same time there was a deafening roar.
Ripe fish float on the heated sea, waves roll wildly, and large sailboats roll.
It was unimaginable power that a 4th circle wizard could see.
“Ah Artifact…?”
Then he asked, remembering the lightning strike that bounced between his fingers, and Russell nodded.
“For now- it’s not like that.”
Of course, even without borrowing the power of the cloudy ring, I was able to drop this kind of lightning strike.
However, now he is not ‘Russell Raymond’, the 6th circle wizard, but ‘Leadman Louie’-.
“So this is also the power of the artifact.”
With a murmur, a huge fire erupted from under Carl Neiman’s feet.
The fire demon that arose slithered like a snake’s tongue and ate his limbs.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“If it’s unfair, next time I’ll hang the artifacts.”
A blatant lie, of course.
But no sane mage to recognize it was on deck anymore.
Roaring-!
dragon-swallowed wizard
