Episode 123
EPISODE
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A high wave hits the bow and breaks.
The turbulent surface of the water and the water scales that reflect the evening sunset. Fragments of wrecked and dismembered ships floated aimlessly along the perimeter.
Perhaps because as many as five pirate ships were destroyed, and the number is not small.
Acting manager Colin instinctively pinched my cheek at that unrealistic sight.
“Ugh-!”
A throbbing pain came over me.
‘It’s not a dream to see me in pain like this.’
I thought it was all over even when the first situation went strangely, but I never thought things would turn out like this.
Although he himself said that he borrowed the power of the artifact, the wizard in front of him was their benefactor.
“Thank you. Wizard.”
Colin, who had recovered his mind belatedly, spoke deeply to Russell. Nodding his head as if to reciprocate, Russell reached out.
puck-.
With all of his limbs turned to charcoal, he rolled his eyes and kicked the body of the fainting sword.
“Since he has lost his limbs and has taken measures, he won’t be able to use magic for a while. So, do whatever you feel comfortable with.”
It wasn’t enough to damage the mana rod by infiltrating powerful flames into the body, and even infiltrating fire energy into the bone marrow.
In that situation, if you can recover your body in just a few months, you won’t be a 4th circle mage anymore.
“Once… I’ll capture you alive. The bounty is much higher for capturing them alive.”
Answering that, Colin shouted to the members of the upper ranks.
“What are you doing! Hurry up and don’t tie this guy down! Rescue the drowning pirates and tie them up! When I go back, I’ll hand them over to City Hall!”
Only then did Russell come to his senses and turn his head, leaving behind the hurriedly moving members of the upper ranks and sailors.
“and-.”
He stared at Aidan, who was lying on the floor in a cold sweat.
“- I will take this person for a while.”
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creak-.
Russell opened the cabin door and returned to his room and laid Aidan’s body on the bed.
thump creak-.
The old bed in the cabin creaked, perhaps because it had been put down roughly, and Aidan’s head lightly hit the wall.
“Ugh-.”
He moaned from the shock, but did not wake up.
Tadak tadak-.
Footsteps can be heard loudly due to the busy movement on the deck.
Ignoring the sound coming from above, Russell reached out.
He grabbed Aidan’s wrist and breathed magic into it.
Hwaaak-.
As his magical energy begins to flow along Aidan’s mana road, his situation is clearly drawn.
‘Well, most of these drugs are like that.’
Unless it was something from legends or myths, it almost didn’t work for magicians who had crossed the 5th circle.
Perhaps Aidan will regain his mana within a month at the most.
Of course, he could have used his hand to regain his mana before that.
Fire-.
Following Russell’s magical energy, intense fire arises and begins to burn the energy of medicine that has spread in Aidan’s body.
Along with that, the speed at which the mana dissipated gradually slowed down.
About ten minutes.
‘This is enough for first aid.’
Russell shook his head, checking Aidan’s face, who still showed no signs of waking up.
‘I need it to start a story…’
Since it’s a timid personality and an important item, there was a high possibility that he kept it in his arms.
Of course, it was not my taste to search the body of the same man.
‘after.’
After a brief sigh, Russell started moving and was able to obtain the object he wanted soon after.
‘This is it….’
A few sheets of parchment that were rolled up and the fine writings filling them tightly.
It was what Russell was looking for.
‘Was the research progress this much during this period?’
Russell’s eyes sank deeply as he peered into the parchment.
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“Umm…”
Aidan, who regained consciousness feeling a throbbing pain in his head along with a low moan, blinked his eyes.
It was an unfamiliar ceiling.
The ceiling of the small room he had been living in after he was kicked out of the Mage Tower he belonged to a few years ago for failing to show proper research results was not like this.
This must be in the shape of a ship…
“Hey pirate-!”
It was only then that Aidan spurred on and stood up, feeling the memories of the immediate past rushing in like a tide.
It was accompanied by a scream that seemed to be shaking.
Sitting in front of him is a middle-aged man with green eyes and gray hair.
He was a 4th circle wizard who introduced himself as Readman Louie.
“…What happened to the pirates in Mr. Reedman?”
Readman Russell closed the book he was holding in his hand at the sight of him trembling and asking.
widely-.
He spoke with calm eyes and a tone as if to reassure him.
“it’s okay. The pirate ships have all been destroyed, and the survivors and the pirate wizard named Carl… have already been captured.”
Hopefully the pirate didn’t use his real name.
The reason why he blurted out his words was because he had doubts about whether his name was actually a knife.
“That’s…”
He took the medicine to dissipate his mana, but how- Russell changed the topic as he saw Aidan muttering that.
“More than that.”
It was because I felt that if I left it as it was, I would have to explain everything, even the smallest detail.
“Did Aidan write this research material?”
As he tapped the parchment on the table with his fingertips, Aidan groped his chest with a puzzled face.
cried out in a startled voice.
“omg! How do I do that with my research data…”
“It was unintentional because it came out in the process of first aid.”
When I replied with the words I had prepared in advance, Aidan’s shoulders drooped.
Nevertheless, he asked with a look of anticipation.
“Have you read it?”
“yes. Isn’t it a research and manufacturing method for additives that increase the potion’s effect by up to 20%?”
“Ahhh-.”
A pessimistic expression as if he had witnessed the world collapsing.
He let out an exclamation for a long time, then lowered his head and murmured.
“I know all too well that this is an absurd story. If you’re going to laugh at me, you’re welcome to laugh at me. To a mage like Mr. Ridman, it’s a study that looks unsightly, but…”
“Why are you laughing at me?”
“Yes. Why are you laughing…yes?”
He muttered optimistically, then raised his head like lightning.
I stared at him, wondering if I had heard it wrong, and Russell flipped through the parchment.
“I think it’s a study with enough potential.”
No, it’s not to the extent that it exists, but this is definitely a success. within a few years.
‘At that time, the sponsor of this research was the Mage Tower of the Empire…’
At that time, the news that this result was passed into the hands of the Empire made the magic world of Endymion feel very sad.
‘Although it was almost stolen from the Empire rather than sponsored.’
But now it was different.
“So, sponsor this research—um.”
Russell, who was about to say sponsorship, hesitated for a moment.
The word choice was not right to simply call what he could do from now on as sponsorship.
Soon Russell had chosen the right word.
“I would like to help a little.”
“Any help?”
In this situation, if you say help, you have no choice but to think of financial support.
Aidan’s eyes widened at the nonsense that followed.
He couldn’t tell whether this moment was a dream or real life.
However, within a moment, Aidan’s shoulders shrank again.
“…As you can see, the required material and research funds are not common. The price of the additive itself is also expensive, but it takes more than a few hundred bottles of potion to secure proper data.”
Maybe thousands of bottles, I didn’t know. And the price was absolutely not an amount that a freelance 4th circle wizard could afford.
So, the story that Readman Louie is impossible.
But what about Russell Raymond?
He smiled and handed a piece of paper in front of Aidan.
“If you go to the Salt Tower with this and explain the situation, they will never treat you rudely. Master will fully recognize the value of the research materials.”
What was stamped on it was a clear seal, not a fake identity, but a seal stamped with Russell’s real identity card.
“War Mage Russell of the Flame Tower… Raymond Russell Raymond?!”
He trembled once as he fumbled to see the seal stamped on it.
“Are you Sir Russell Raymond?”
“Shh-.”
Russell, who used magic to silence the sound, raised his index finger to my lips.
Then, the color of the eyes was restored to their original color.
“yes. Right now I’m borrowing someone else’s identity for circumstances, but Russell Raymond is right. This hair was only colored with dye.”
Red eyes, as well as black hair, were not common throughout the continent.
In addition, there is no way not to believe that the subspace is opened to reveal the robe with the seal of the Tower of Flames.
“Three three three three my God! I never thought I would meet the famous Sir Russell in person! How did a low-level wizard like me get such a blessing…”
Does this man talk more when he is surprised or flustered?
Russell spread his palms toward Aidan, who was constantly talking.
“I think you’d better calm down.”
“yes. to. yes yes It should be. You really need to calm down.”
Russell asked, confirming that his breathing had subsided.
“So, what I said earlier is my suggestion. Would you like to do that?”
He was the one who had covered the research expenses himself by reducing what he ate and wore.
This escort mission was also to earn research funds, but the Salt Tower might support all of them.
“Of course. Of course you should!”
he exclaimed happily.
It was the moment when Russell recruited Aidan Aul, a wizard with a great talent for medicine, into the Tower of Flames.
“That Russell-.”
And one thing Russell misunderstood is…
“-Can you give me an autograph if you don’t mind?”
Aidan Owl.
It was the fact that he was an avid follower of a magician named Russell Raymond, not one of being more talkative when surprised or flustered.
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After one big wave has passed.
The voyage from there went smoothly.
Of course, it was burdensome that Aidan was sending an envious glance that was a bit excessive, but whatever.
‘Because that also ends today.’
From far away on the coastline, the appearance of the Kuril Islands was getting closer.
It was said that the size of the island was comparable to that of a fairly small and medium-sized country.
As rumored, the end of the island could not be seen properly.
‘That place is the Kuril Islands.’
The place where the traces of the dragon are connected and the place where the parchment points.
‘Should I check the location again?’
Thinking so, Russell opened the subspace. He pulled out the parchment he had tucked deep inside.
“uh?”
But what
‘Did the contents change?’
Unlike the first dotted maps of parts of the Kuril Islands, now only two lines of text remain on the parchment.
A place where a river of fire overlaps with a river of ice.
Go back to the end of the river of fire.
Russell, who was reading the text in an unexpected situation, murmured.
“Why is this happening again?”
dragon-swallowed wizard
