The Great Mage who transcends by returning, Episode 183
“…Ha ha ha.”
A middle-aged man was giggling blankly, staring blankly into the air in the thick smoke.
The only thing reflected in the blurry eyes is the past that has already passed a long time ago.
no it’s not the past
To be precise, the memories he recreated at will.
The purple smoke that filled the room was a drug that brought back those memories.
Men always used to immerse themselves in the past that was advantageous to them in this way whenever they had a chance.
“Mama Marianne….”
The man fumbled in the air, shaking his hands.
He was groping for a woman in his delusions that would not exist in the first place.
Two red bloodshot eyes.
He savagely crushes the enemy who would have taken the woman by defeating him in the first place, and finally gets her in his hands this time.
– i love you.
sweet confession.
In the delusional confession, the man laughed like a maniac.
“Heh heh…yes Aidan. you are wrong! I should have been with her… …!”
The time when I was about to shout out feeling pleasure in such empty joy.
“Hehe, you seem to be using our products well today. It’s really nice to see, Your Excellency Marquis.”
“…!”
a sudden voice.
Marquis Kellibos, a man who had been immersed in sweet fantasies until then, got up.
“What…!”
“I am, Your Excellency.”
With those words, the owner of the voice lightly snapped his fingers.
Then, the smoke that had just a moment ago disappeared as if it had been washed away, and an old man in a neat tailcoat appeared.
“You, you, Abba….”
“You go there. I don’t like being called my name for nothing. You know whooping?”
The old man’s eyes glowed strangely. Eyes with a spooky and ominous atmosphere.
“Ugh….”
The Marquis averted my gaze without even realizing it.
It was hard to meet that damn old man’s eyes from before.
But the Marquis quickly calmed down.
No matter what, he is also the owner of the four major families that support the empire.
“…What’s going on. Has anything been done about ‘the thing’?”
“Hmm, nothing is wrong. First of all, I’m not here today for that, sir.”
“Then why did you come?”
“That isn’t necessarily the only purpose for the two of us, is it? There must be something else.”
“…Walpurgis?”
The marquis’ eyes trembled.
His breathing became rough and his shoulders trembled.
That detestable bloodline… …!
How much patience have you had so far to take revenge on those who stole yours.
“Is something wrong with those heinous bastards?”
“Ah, not now.”
The old man said in a smirking voice with his hands behind his back.
“But it will happen soon. ‘We’ intend to make that happen.”
“…we?”
“Yes we.”
The old man laughed.
A shadow with horns and wings sprouted behind him, giggling and laughing.
Despair Evil Pain Hate… ….
Numerous things were swirling in the shadows.
“Originally, it was meant to be quiet. However, the spirit of the warrior is unusual.”
“Did you need to break it?”
“Yes that’s right. I have to make it slow to some extent.”
“haha….”
The Marquis knows what this old man really is.
devil.
Because that was not enough, he is the ruler who leads the demons.
A lump of evil that only took human form.
Even the Kellibos family, the 4th generation of the empire, could not deal with ‘them’.
An ordinary human dealing with a demon lord?
haha that doesn’t even sound funny.
Those are monsters that can turn humans into ‘stuff’.
Isn’t it possible to deal with them?
So he cooperated.
A betrayal of the Empire and humanity?
I don’t know about that.
Wouldn’t it be okay if I didn’t get caught?
The connection with the devil is thoroughly erased, so there is nothing to be found out.
‘The fact that the family was able to rise to this position in the first place was because of their cooperation.’
Anyway, his family can no longer escape from them.
Then there is only one thing left.
To work together reliably and get the most out of what you can get.
“…Listen carefully.”
“great.”
The old man let out a cold smile.
And the conversation continued.
An infinitely ominous and disquieting conversationalist.
* * *
“…hmm.”
I looked at the scene unfolding in front of me with a subtle expression.
Actually, I’m not the only one.
The other party members were also looking forward with indescribable expressions.
Indescribable divinity.
A scene full of sacredness must surely unfold before your eyes, but what the hell is this?
“The source of evil thoughts is the head. The head! If you break the head, the creature will surely die!”
Ariandel was breaking the heads of the monsters who tried to attack us with his staff.
no it’s not a wand
As long as her divine power is materialized on the staff, that is the same as a sacred object that extinguishes demons.
It’s not even a demon, there’s no way even a mere monster can withstand it.
“I don’t have a chance to step out.”
“I mean.”
“…But you’re really persistent and only breaking your head.”
It was as Eileen said.
All the monsters were reduced to ashes by the light of divine power, with their heads neatly evaporated.
‘I’m used to it.’
The feeling of being in this hometown.
Yes, this was the ‘Saint’ I remembered.
An all-weather warrior who exploded the heads of demons while brandishing his cane on the front lines… ….
He couldn’t understand why the saintess took the lead in ripping off the heads of demons.
which wasn’t bad
At that time, what our expedition needed was not simply a priest who was in charge of blessing and restoration.
What we needed was a warrior who could fight at any time and protect his body.
And Ariandel was the right talent for those requirements.
“Come to think of it, I guess I didn’t hear anything important.”
After a while, she, who was having a mad party with demons in the middle of it, approached while brushing off the blood on her staff.
“Where is your next destination?”
“Oh, if that’s the case… ….”
The original goal was to find the fifth tomb or collect the remaining ingredients for the elixir.
Either way is important.
Collect divine objects and complete the 8th circle.
At this point, the two were so important that it was hard to distinguish between superiority and inferiority.
So, at first, I was quite worried about which one to prioritize.
But the trouble didn’t last long.
Even if you obtain a sacred item, your circle is low, so you cannot progress.
Just reaching the 8th circle changes a lot.
First of all, it’s important that you don’t have to rely on circle expansion.
There are a total of four key ingredients needed to make an elixir.
Spring of Abundance The spirit of Tesis The spirit stone of the beginning The breath of Mayer.
so a total of four.
Now all that’s left is two halves.
‘The spirit stone of the beginning, Mayer’s breath.’
Of course, the other two are by no means easy to obtain.
In the first place, how could it be easy to manufacture the elixir of heavenly blessing?
But two of the most difficult ingredients have already come together.
The other two are relatively easy to obtain compared to Yeongcho and Spring Water, so the difficulty of making the elixir has gone down considerably.
but.
‘…I mean, I’m reluctant.’
I’m very reluctant to approach ‘there’ personally.
Of course I know I have to go.
Based on the information we knew before regression… …What I have to do there is not just collecting elixir ingredients.
It is.
“…Is Mikhail all right?”
“Oh, it’s okay.”
I shook my head with a wry smile at Ariandel’s concern.
“The next destination is ‘Malien’.”
“If it’s Malien….”
“Youngjiji is famous as a mining town within the empire. A land where numerous miners and dwarves live together. and….”
Of course, Malien is not just a mining town.
The owner of this empire’s oldest mining town was a family I was familiar with.
The owner of Malien… ….
“The family of the Marquis of Kellibos.”
“…!”
At my words, everyone except the saintess instantly flinched.
I must have realized the meaning of the words I had just spoken.
It is no exaggeration to say that there are few people
living in the imperial aristocratic society who are unaware of the deep-rooted ties between my family and Kellibos.
Ariandel looked at me quietly.
She must have been unaware of the situation after having been working as a saint for a long time, but… ….
“Not a good thing.”
From the surrounding atmosphere, it seems to have a hunch that it is never an ordinary thing.
“Yes, it’s likely going to turn into a mud fight.”
It’s obvious, but the Marquis Kellibos wouldn’t sit still either.
The family was like that even before the return.
Despite the bottomless and endless hostility towards our family, there were many things that were overly sensitive.
Regression does not mean that all information is known.
Of course, there are things you don’t know.
Right now, Malien is like that.
I know that something suspicious happened and that it was one of the starting points of a disaster that would happen later, but… ….
That’s it.
exactly what happened
We don’t know what caused the problem until it was involved.
This is because the series of events that took place in Malien happened when mankind ‘could not have coped with it’.
‘Because I can’t just leave Kelly Boss unattended.’
Myrun is in the midst of trying to purify his family, but that won’t be enough.
To some extent, our intervention will also be necessary.
“In other words, in a way, it goes directly into the mouth of the enemy camp….”
“What will happen?”
“Of course it would be dangerous.”
“That would be it too.”
To be honest, I couldn’t say the risk was low.
Of course, if you look at our face, we are not the ones who get lost.
Aren’t Rian and Aileen the only butlers who have reached the 7th circle right now, who are close to the top level of experts?
but.
‘I don’t think that Marquis will ever be beaten twice.’
I remember the obsession bordering on madness of the Marquis in the capital at the time.
he hated me
No, to be precise, I hated the blood of ‘Walpurgis’ in my blood more than anything else.
As if the fact that my mother’s blood mixed with that of Walpurgis was unacceptable.
If everything goes according to plan, I shouldn’t run into the Marquis, but as always, there’s no way the plan will go as planned.
Maybe you’ll find out something you don’t want to know.
“…Tsk.”
But what can I do?
If it’s something you have to do anyway, trivial worries won’t help.
I just sorted out my thoughts and came to a conclusion.
There is no more hesitation.
“then Let’s go.”
Yes, go if you need to.
Even if that is the way to the mouth of the serpent called Kelibos.
* * *
The mining town of Malien.
As if the word ‘mine’ is not attached in front of it for nothing, what you see around you are rugged stone mountains.
I hadn’t even reached the city yet, but the majestic sight filled my vision.
Stone mountains rising high into the sky.
On the peak, white ice caps show off their presence.
Is that all?
Befitting the nickname ‘mining’ city, several races are already visible.
“Dwarves, tunnel fairies, and mountain giants…There are so many different races that I can see.”
“What kind of land is that?”
It is too much land for Kelibos.
Malien is complicated.
It’s true that Kelli Boss reigns as the owner of Malien, and Kelli Boss actually monopolizes the profits from this land… ….
‘There is no authenticity.’
Originally, the owner of this land was not Kelibos.
It was a long time ago, but originally, this place was a land where the ‘heterogeneous tribes’ that can be seen now live in harmony.
But a long time ago.
The ancestors of Kellibos took away the rights of the land from them through some kind of agreement.
The result is what it is today.
The heterogeneous tribes seen today have degenerated into strangers.
“What do you think Mikhail?”
At that time, Ariandel, who was walking side by side, asked.
“Nothing special. I just need to say something…” ….”
I looked around Malien.
Certainly, the land was too generous for Kellibos to be the owner.
It may be fine right now, but the prosperity of this land will never last long unless there is a suitable owner.
“I think there is another suitable owner for this land.”
It seems that those ‘owners’ have already lost their awareness of their qualifications and will.
Okay.
Because I had a knack for reviving the embers that had been extinguished for a long time.
