Episode 196
EPISODE.98
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The smell of high-quality disinfectant wafted through his nostrils.
The hospital room is decorated with luxurious but not overdone furniture, with the surroundings painted white.
A special room in the Royal Road Medical Corps. In the back of the room, two women were talking to each other.
One of them is a woman with purple hair and eyes the same color as his.
It was Hecate Latmos.
“It’s already been over three weeks…”
She opened her mouth as she stared at the young man who was lying on a white bed with his eyes closed and not even moving.
“When the hell are you going to open your eyes?”
Heavy sighs and worried voices. It has to be.
The young man lying on the bed now was Russell Raymond, Endymion’s Sacred Duke and her fiancé.
There was someone who responded to her sighs.
A mature lady wearing a white dress that matches the hospital room and a red cardigan that contrasts with it.
“According to the congressman, most of the physical wounds are after recovery.”
It was Daria Snowwhite.
She is also worried about her youngest pupil. Then she covered the back of Russell’s hand with her own.
Perhaps it was because she had aged about ten years after going through this incident, she ran her youngest disciple’s hand down with her hand, which had more wrinkles than before, and continued.
“I think… I think it’s more of a mental problem than a physical one.”
“…the spirit side?!”
Hecate jumped up at Daria’s words and stood up.
If the body was damaged, it could be restored unless it was cut off or disappeared somewhere.
However, when it comes to psychological problems, the story is different.
“Sir, is there any chance that Russell will never wake up again?”
Daria quietly shook her head at Hetake’s question.
“I don’t think so. Her Highness the Princess.”
“then…?”
“It will take some time.”
Because he’s the same wizard, he’s a senior who walked the path before him. Now she knew Russell’s condition better than anyone.
Russell’s condition seen in the middle of the battlefield the previous day was not so good.
Isn’t it the realm of a superman to tear down the walls that surround oneself and face a wider world?
It’s called exfoliation.
It wasn’t just expressing the process as coming out of the shell.
Just like the condition of a chick that broke out of its shell was very weak, the superhuman who had just reached the stage was also in an unstable state.
‘In that situation, the circle wasn’t even stabilized, but it was so unreasonable…’ He
would have had to walk a precarious tightrope, as if crossing a cliff for a thousand miles, relying on a single rope.
‘It’s good enough to say that the circle didn’t completely collapse…’
It was highly likely that it was thanks to the incredibly strong mana circle and the mana that was comparable to it.
Anyway.
“Perhaps Russell is in the process of digesting something he was grasping at the time as his own while recovering from his broken state.”
shaking dangerously.
In order to become a complete 7th Circle Great Mage with a solid fortress, not a pavilion built on sand.
“I see…”
The voice was quieter than before. However, he could not hide the bitterness in his eyes and the worry in them.
It has to be.
It was said to have saved the time, but in other words, it was the same as saying that you don’t know when Russell will wake up.
“Huh…”
Hecate stood up within one turn as he let out a long sigh and looked out the window.
“I’d like to be here all day, but it’s a pity that I can’t.”
Only three weeks have passed since the rebellion was suppressed. Problems still to be dealt with piled up like mountains.
When Hecate got up, Daria, who was talking with her, also got up.
“Go out together. Her Highness the Princess.”
As the archmage at the pinnacle of the kingdom, she also had something to deal with with this issue.
Daria stopped walking as if she had suddenly thought of the road to go outside, and put her hand inside the cuff.
And after a while…
click—.
The hospital room where Daria and Hecate escaped. A large lollipop was placed by Russell’s bedside.
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Russell woke up about ten minutes after Daria and Hecate had gone outside.
Quite an unfortunate coincidence.
‘Umm…’
Russell drooled as he slowly regained consciousness.
Somehow, my lips felt heavy. Not the lips, but also the eyelids and fingertips.
My whole body felt limp, as if I was being weighed down by something.
The saliva that couldn’t get out echoed from the inside of my lips and my consciousness was hazy.
A feeling of floating as if you had been dreaming for a very long time. Of course, I couldn’t remember the details of the dream.
‘Grunt.’
Once he was about to make a sound of pain, Russell carefully awakened his senses and went out.
As mana flows and conveys thoughts to the muscles, the senses of the whole body gradually begin to awaken.
‘How long have you been lying down?’
Along with him, the circumstances immediately before losing consciousness came to mind at a glance.
‘…I think it worked out well?’
What I felt along my back was the soft feel of the bed. If things went wrong, there was no way I could open my eyes in a place like this.
Even if it was alive, it would have been a cultist or Blaine’s laboratory.
My whole body trembled in an instant at the horrific sight just by imagining it.
It was thanks to that.
The senses that were awakened little by little became angry in an instant! what is expanded.
“Uh…”
Russell, who slowly regained his energy from his fingertips, raised himself carefully.
“Huh…”
He sighed and looked for water first. Fortunately, there was a glass bottle full of water and a glass of water by the bedside.
And what lies beside it is—.
‘It seems that the master has gone.’
A large lollipop whose origin is obvious to anyone.
widely-.
Russell, moderately quenched, straightened his body and rotated his mana.
‘Let’s see.’
It was because the sense of reaching the 7th circle before losing consciousness and collapsing remained. If what he felt at that time wasn’t an illusion…
Ugh-.
Beyond the original six circles, I could feel the seventh circle spinning with a faint outline.
It wasn’t filled with magic, but it was a definite seventh circle.
‘Circle 7…’
Russell clenched his fists as he faced the lofty realm.
‘I thought I’d never reach a point where I wouldn’t be able to reach you until I went back in time…’
It would be true for all wizards, but this 7th circle was a little more special to Russell.
It has to be.
As a family of founding contributors, it was this 7th circle that was written in the special case of the Raymond family.
‘Marquisate at the moment of becoming the 7th circle…’
It’s been hundreds of years since I started walking down the road of downfall. In that long history, except for the first generation and a few generations after that, no one in the Raymond family received the title of marquess.
Moreover, the reality is that he is the only one who has risen to the rank of Marquis with only his own abilities, except for the first Count.
In addition, through this incident, he even defeated his father’s enemy, Blaine, and the cultist.
‘It’s a bit regretful that I couldn’t do it all on my own…’
Russell, who had been muttering to himself, suddenly stopped thinking. It was because one of the words left by the cultist as he was dying ran through his head.
‘The darkness isn’t over yet, and an even greater darkness remains…?’
It is enough to simply dismiss it as a curse left by dying and pass it on.
But what if not?
What if there really are cultists out there somewhere and they’re trying to do something?
Perhaps Archduke Bismarck’s conspiracy was also part of the plan.
Some will say this.
Isn’t it an excessive jump and speculation without grounds? Actually, it wasn’t wrong.
However, it would be better to prepare for it in a corner of your heart than to be unaware of it, even if it is only one chance.
If this isn’t the end…
‘Next time, with my own hands…’
Crimson flames spread along Russell’s eyes.
Hwaaak.
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After a while.
‘hmm.’
Russell, who was checking his body condition, frowned lightly. It is not that there is a particularly sore or unhealed wound anywhere.
However, the balance of her body was terribly broken, perhaps because she had not been able to move properly for three weeks.
Even though he was a wizard, he was constantly training his body, so it was a change that he could notice.
‘I think I’ll have to invest some time in rehabilitation after I’m discharged.’
I will be discharged two days from now.
The reason why he was not discharged right away was because of the doctor’s opinion that although he had woken up, he should watch the progress for a few more days.
‘For now, let’s put it off until after we’re discharged…’
Next it was time to check the reward. I couldn’t even check what kind of reward the mission was because I was moving too quickly, but what kind of reward came out.
The moment she tries to open up the sub-space while feeling even a subtle sense of anticipation.
Jerk-jerk-.
The sound of footsteps echoed outside. It was the sound of two people walking.
The sound of footsteps that look formal yet somewhat urgent, plus the footsteps that look quite heavy.
As he stepped up to the 7th circle, his sharper senses than before saw through the masters of his presence at once.
Before the two hands could reach the door of the hospital room, a clap-.
Russell’s mana opened the door.
“…!?”
Beyond that, two men appear. A little startled by the sudden opening of the door.
A combination of a scholarly wizard and a muscular giant that is hard to believe is a wizard at all.
Russell’s two brothers, Hubert and Vermilion, were standing right there.
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“I must have lost quite a bit of muscle from not being able to move for three weeks, but it’s good that the priest is okay.”
Russell laughed awkwardly, feeling a sense of déjà vu for an experience that seemed like he had experienced it once.
‘I think I also received protein powder at the time…’
Anyway.
“I don’t know, but Master and Her Highness the Princess will be coming soon. It looks like you two have some business to deal with right now.”
After saying that, Hubert looked at Russell with serious eyes and said.
“More than that…”
“…?”
“Congratulations. Priests.”
Then Vermillion licked his lips.
“I was expecting this to happen sometime, but finally you overtake us.”
“…sorry.”
“What is there to be sorry about? It’s not that I didn’t know it would turn out like this, and congratulations on the success of the priest is probably the duty of executioners!”
Vermillion chuckled with a hearty face. Hubert, who was sitting next to him, also nodded.
“It would be a lie if I said I had no regrets. As a brother-in-law, I always wanted to set an example. However, congratulations to the priest are also sincere.”
As if in response, Vermillion asked, tapping him with a thick elbow.
“If that’s not the case, wouldn’t that mean that His Majesty the King is going to pretend not to know us now that he’s become a lord?”
“Could that be…?”
As he spoke, Russell felt something strange and fell silent.
Not a marquis, but a duke, so—
‘—Duke?’
Russell’s eyes widened like lanterns.
dragon-swallowed wizard
