Chapter.4 Eyelids (24)
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The professor decided to think about it after organizing the current situation.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: No shit! I told you to turn off the game and come out right now!
– professor: It’s okay, it’s okay. It’s almost done now and all I have to do is clean it up.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar: Hey! Something strange has entered your head! When people talk, listen!
The professor sighed and put the loud chat window out of his sight.
“I want to do that too, but what can I do when my throat is full of grapes?…”
More than anything, I’ve come this far and I’m ready to give up and just leave. This is not a safe zone. If you log out here, it will proceed automatically, but I don’t know what will happen. The debt must be repaid.
While the professor, who had finished organizing all the wizards after Isaac, was taking a break, the thieves guild members who had been attracting the attention of the Tobrun troops at the west gate arrived at the Magic Tower. As mentioned before, the guild members who brought a lot of large waterproof wooden boxes seemed a bit embarrassed when they saw the long purple pillars stuck in the tower and the inside of the tower in disarray, but as rakshasha guild members, they quickly came to their senses and did what they did most professionally. I started stealing whenever I could.
From shattered gold decorations, tattered chandeliers, and vaguely-looking statues to the old book magic artifacts of the Magic Tower and the robes worn by the wizards, well-organized boxes of stolen goods were piled up in the place where they had swept by like a storm.
While I was watching the wizards wearing only their underwear watching the magic tower being plundered with empty eyes, I began to hear the sound of clanking armor and horses’ hooves outside.
“You arrived quickly.”
In the distance, the Knights of Tobrun were crossing the city with red-faced faces.
One of the thieves who was tearing up the carpet from the floor of the magic tower saw the scene and quickly approached the Rakshasha.
“Master Tobruun’s forces are surrounding the tower. “I don’t think it will be late if I leave now. Should I take it and run?”
“Um… well? “What should I do…?”
The Rakshasha passed the questions he had received directly to the professor.
“I can’t go anyway. “They arrived on horseback, and the infantry is probably surrounding them like a pack of dogs behind them.”
“Then should we prepare for defense?”
“Uh… no? Just keep doing what you’re doing. “Shake it thoroughly.”
“….yes?”
“Anyway, they can’t come in anyway. Let’s see… Rakshasha, do I still look like a monster?”
“Well, I don’t know? “By my standards, it looks pretty good, right?”
“Ugh!”
This lady is really. It hits me hard all the time.
The professor turned to the thief next to him and pointed at his face, and he nodded in approval. Well, as long as it looks like a monster. This tattered appearance may be more threatening than the intact appearance.
After regaining his stamina to a reasonable degree, the professor stood up and approached the naked wizards.
The wizards, who were looking at the increasingly tidy Magic Tower with angry eyes, seemed nervous as the wounded Mute approached them.
“Let’s see… who wants it…”
“This monster! Not only did you kill Advisor Isaac, but you are also trying to kill us! As long as the owner of the tower returns from his absence, you… “Not like you!”
The old wizard was trembling with fear, but his eyes were wide open and he was criticizing the professor. Oh, great spirit. If there were more wizards like this, the war against Mute would be easier.
“Advisor Isaac? Ah, the Count was an advisor to the Magic Tower? no wonder. I thought he had a bit of a personality to be a top owner. But… didn’t you see something strange sticking out of Isaac’s neck?? “What are you doing with humans?”
“Iik! Didn’t you monsters plant it in Advisor Isaac’s body? You villain! Even your beasts and those vile thieves who are blinded by money and cooperate with you will be punished!”
The professor was about to say something, but when he remembered that he was a wizard, he immediately gave up and turned his head back to the other wizard. I would rather have a debate with a rock on the side of the road than persuade an old wizard who is the epitome of stubbornness and stubbornness.
‘Hmm… I guess the hostage would be a nobleman, right? There must be quite a few nobles among wizards. Where’s that cute guy…’
I shivered…
Ah, I found one.
“Hey you.”
“What do you mean me?”
“Yes you. “My skin is white and fair, as if I’ve never seen sunlight in my life, and I don’t have any calluses on my hands…”
“Oh no! I don’t like it! please please!”
“huh?”
I tried to say that he looked like a nobleman, but the wizard seemed to have misunderstood something else and began to tremble in fear. At that moment, the old wizard who had first spoken to the professor jumped forward, blocking the professor’s steps.
Quadang!
“Can not be done! You’re trying to prey on these young people with bright futures! What kind of nonsense is this?! If you want to harm me! Take me away! This Ottoman Baudelaire! As someone born with blue blood, I have no fear of death! Take me away! me!!”
“Otman Wizard…!”
“Ugh! “That much for us!”
Just like that, the wizards were taking pictures of each other in front of the professor. I’d like to take care of everything, but I’m sorry, but I need a wizard urgently.
“Blue Blood… Are you a noble?”
“Hmm? That’s right!”
Oh my. He is a nobleman and seems to have quite a bit of status!
Thump!
“Great! “You decide!”
“Ugh!”
“Ottoman Wizard!”
“Oh no!!!”
The professor lifted the old nobleman up with his large hands and placed him under his side, and then placed Isaac’s body, which had fallen on the other side, under his side, and walked toward the hole in the wall. The Rakshasha was hiding in the shadow of a half-collapsed wall right next to the hole.
When I peeked out, I saw a person who appeared to be the knight commander yelling at the top of his lungs in front of the knights and soldiers of Tobrun who had completely surrounded the magic tower.
“Listen, enemy of Tobrun! You have trespassed into Tobrun’s territory without permission! We destroyed the Magic Tower, our pride! They are terrorizing good citizens! Accordingly, in accordance with the laws of the Kingdom of Roderick and the laws of the Tobrunn City Council-”
“How many minutes has it been like that?”
The professor, conscious of the wizard standing next to him, deliberately spoke to the Rakshasha in a deep, low voice as if giving a command.
The Rakshasha seemed to have realized his intention and answered the professor by naturally kneeling and prostrating.
“Ever since he arrived, Red Mute has been doing that while interrogating the wizards. It’s been well over 5 minutes?”
“You’re welcome. “There is a stone head over there.”
“Hmm, I don’t think so. “How many of my colleagues crawled into the tower while that idiot was talking nonsense in front of me?”
As the Rakshasha said that, he pointed to the ceiling with his finger, and there were about three assassins hanging from the ceiling with strings wrapped around them.
“What did it look like you were looking for?”
“It looked like it was looking for something.”
also. It’s as expected.
‘Thank goodness it’s more rotten than you can imagine, noble friends of the city of Tobrunn!’
Under the circumstances, the Reed Flow Mage Tower conducted all kinds of inhumane experiments, including human experiments, and the lords and nobles of Tobrun appear to have cooperated or tolerated them.
Unless Magic Tower is a fool, there is no way he would not have provided at least one safety device while doing such illegal things and dealing with those dark-hearted nobles. The deal between nobles is that you have to put a knife to each other’s throats to get a smile. Perhaps those assassins… were sent by the nobles to find documents with unfavorable content against them. If an official rescue operation for the tower is carried out, such items may appear in the world.
The reason that idiot is talking nonsense is to buy time.
“so. “Did you find it?”
“Um… to what extent?”
The Rakshasha took out a rather thick book from his pocket, wondering where he had hidden it in those tight clothes.
“It’s the magic tower’s transaction ledger. “Is this a ledger with very detailed transaction records for things like dead bodies of mutes on the black market, handcuffs and iron bars that don’t seem to have anything to do with magic, drugs, human slaves, etc.?”
“Oh my.”
The secret ledger of the Magic Tower. It’s a good weapon. Since the transaction details are written down, the seller must also be written down. It is the perfect item to use as evidence in a noble trial. It’s a good product, but…
“Hmm… Isn’t there something a little more direct? “Something like a letter to a nobleman?”
“- If you do not release and disarm the wizards right now, Rodrik’s anger will rage like a fierce storm and he will condemn you to a hundred punishments-”
We need a weak shot right now. Gasp from that idiot’s mouth! To make sound come out.
At the very least, handwritten evidence from a high-ranking member of the Magic Tower is required. Ledgers and the like are items that are organized by subordinates, so if you put a metal plate on your face and say it is fabricated evidence, there is nothing you can say right now. We have to start the investigation and wait until it comes to light. However, if it is a handwritten document, the handwriting can be confirmed through magic, so it is proof that cannot be removed or removed…
“Oh, that.”
The professor took out an old wad of paper from his inventory.
[item: Isaac Mandalius’ research records]
“The evidence was in my pocket?”
An item found while searching the count’s mansion in Turan. You kept it because you thought it might be useful somewhere, right?
This is a very meticulous research record of what was done to a test subject named Professor. With this, you can’t take it off or put it on.
“Hmm then. “Excuse me for a moment.”
After completing preparations, the professor revealed himself through the hole in the tower with a wizard on each arm. Hmm, calm your voice. Give some muscle bumps too. Make it look as fierce and threatening as possible.
“-The good gods took care of the dirty evil deeds of you intruders…”
“Grrrrr…. That’s interesting. It’s a dirty evil deed. “What exactly are you talking about?”
As the professor opened his mouth, cutting off the nonsense of the person who appeared to be the knight commander, the excitement spread to the surrounding knights and soldiers, as well as the citizens beyond.
“Speak.”
“A talking mute… a really talking mute!”
“The monster that destroyed Turan!”
“The monster that defeated the sun of the battlefield destroyed the magic tower of Tobrun!”
‘Oh oh this feels better than I thought?’
I can’t believe everyone under my eyes is trembling in fear as they look at me. It feels strangely good. Come to think of it, there were quite a few people who played this game who played as villains. I think it tastes like this.
The knight commander, who was momentarily taken aback by my appearance, discussed something with the servant next to him for a moment, then raised his voice again and shouted.
“You evil monster! Somehow, I heard reports that a lot of unknown tragedies were happening in the city recently, and they were all your fault! How dare you eat people! “I will rip off your throat and cut into your stomach to comfort your good soul!”
“Grrr, bullshit coming out of a human’s mouth. “You have a special talent.”
“You insult me with this monster!”
‘You did the insult, man. Why are you going to blame the missing people on me?’
It’s political to this point. It’s really gone to the extreme. He’s heard no news of the assassins who entered the Magic Tower, so he’s trying to blame me for the missing people just in case. Looking at that reaction, the knight commander also said to Isaac. There was no doubt that he was one of those who took money and cooperated with illegal activities.
“You are not worth listening to anymore, human.”
The professor threw Isaac’s body, which was held at his side, at the knight who was talking nonsense. ”
Whoa!
What about this?”
“It’s Isaac! It’s Count Isaac Mandalius!”
“The 6th rank wizard is dead!”
The professor shouted to the knight commander, who was strangely relieved to see Isaac’s body amidst the ever-increasing fear,
“I don’t think we need to tell you who that body belongs to.” “
Ugh
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The professor held the rope that bound the old wizard at his side with one hand and held it out. The old wizard’s body, tied to a rope, swayed precariously in the air.
“Ugh! “Aaaah!”
“We have one requirement! If you don’t get your troops out of the magic tower building’s territory right now, I’ll drop a wizard from here every five minutes. “You know what would happen if a weak wizard who couldn’t even use mana fell from this height, right?”
Tiring-!
[Characteristic – ‘Honorable Soul’ is assessing the situation.]
The professor, who had been threatening for a while, bared his teeth and laughed at the warning of ‘Honorable Soul’, which appeared with a bright red warning sound like the last Rakshasha.
Yeah, I knew this would get caught at this point.
After getting hit in front of a Rakshasha the other day, I looked into this trait a little bit through people in the chat window, and fortunately, it was a trait that had already been exploited to some extent, so I was able to easily find a solution.
Honorable Soul is an attribute that most characters have with knightly blood, but even with the same name, the effects were often different in many ways.
‘Even knights have different personalities.’
Normally, one would follow the family’s knightly views, but the problem is that the family was ruined before this professor character could learn anything from the family.
‘The character’s consciousness is that he is from a knightly family, so he should follow chivalry, but he doesn’t know what that is.’
Therefore, this character’s view of knighthood has become that of a medieval knight, something you might only see in storybooks you heard about as a child.
The best chivalrous woman in this country is a woman, and the ultimate goal of the game is to defeat the Mute Queen, but assaulting a woman is not allowed. There was no contradiction like this.
‘What, you can’t do it because you’re a lady? If you see an ordinary wasteland woman holding a shotgun in each hand and shooting, you’ll be able to throw a knife instead of a fist, right?
Fortunately, the solution was very simple. Since the view of knights has not been established, it is fixed to this default value, so on the contrary, you can establish the view of knights. Of course, it’s up to me whether it’s a classic driver who protects his honor and serves his lady, or a taxi driver who lives his shit my way and swears at everything that catches his eye.
‘It’s a huge opportunity. Because Honorable Soul is an attribute that determines play style. This means that you can change it at will. The basic effect of [Knight character’s favorability +] is nothing more than a bonus.’
In the strategy, it is said that in order to change the already established view of knights, you must persuade the character who was at the time that view of knights was established. Is there any way that a kid who ran away crying after losing his family name would be able to withstand the influence of District 47?
‘Now, the wizards of this magic tower are like evil lords who filled their stomachs by sucking the blood of the common people, they are extreme sedists who habitually torture young trainees of the magic tower, and they are the kingdom’s mutts who studied Mute and tried to spread it among humans. ‘These guys are like cancer.’
Tick, tick,
tick!
[The trait ‘Honorable Soul’ has completed assessing the situation: /Corrupted Wizard! Enemy of the kingdom! He deserves to be hanged! How dare you defend such an evil enemy! Those knights are serving the wrong master! / Judgment – Pass]
In this way, it is possible to control the characteristics derived from the character history to some extent – Speed Wagon explained. Thank you always! Speed Wagon!
If I had started with a character who had already learned chivalry for 100 years from a family of knights with a long history, this kind of shortcut would not have worked, but in the case of the professor, the history itself is simply that of a teenager who lost his parents.
Shake Shake-
“Wooah! “Ugh!”
“Uhehehe! I mean, if the situation is right, you can do something like this!”
The professor shook the old wizard hanging from the end of his hand and smiled evilly.
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