Episode 59
EPISODE.30
As time goes by little by little.
The pagoda owners who attended the pagoda meeting showed their appearances one by one.
“The Nugeleon Blue Tower…”
“The Akeos Imperial Tower…”
The name of the magic tower they belonged to resonated throughout the hall.
Subsequently, the owners of the towers who entered the hall noticed the passengers who had entered first, and kept an eye on them.
The lord of the four magic towers of the royal capital.
He bowed his head towards three of them.
“haha. Nice to meet you again. Long time no see. Seniors.”
“Lord of the window tower, lord of the salt tower, lord of the yellow tower. long time no see.”
“The Lord of the White Pagoda is nowhere to be seen, but it seems that something has happened.”
Some of them even noticed Russell sitting next to Daria.
“Oh, this young man is the one rumored to be…”
“He is a smart-looking young man. Your skills will be just as outstanding as your appearance.”
The compliments that follow one after another.
Although the words and rhetoric have changed slightly, they were generally compliments with similar meanings.
‘No matter how good the food is, if you eat it many times, you get tired of it.’
How much more is it different from a compliment?
Contrary to what she thought and looked back, the corners of Daria’s mouth touched her earlobe and did not know how to come down.
‘I guess not.’
It is a face that looks very satisfied and happy rather than tired.
After all, isn’t he a person with considerable talent?
‘Because that was the reason he attended the tower meeting in the first place.’
The real problem was Russell himself.
Hearing the compliments pouring down on him, it felt as if his face naturally grew hot.
I wondered if this was what it felt like to paint my face with gold.
‘It’s a little different, but it’s roughly the same. Anyway.’
A warm atmosphere continued for a while, and after a while.
“The Master of the Antigol Red Tower.”
A voice broke the atmosphere.
“-Blaine Trilogy and…”
A cry announcing the appearance of a new character.
The atmosphere in the hall changed completely.
.
. After
“And…”,
a rather long introduction continued.
It seemed that it was because several people were entering together.
However, no one listened to the introduction.
Because the attention of those in the hall had already been focused on the first name called.
Blaine Trilogy.
“That’s funny.”
“…”
“The tower lord’s greatest embarrassment is having to see that old man’s face like a raccoon again. I don’t like it.”
Tsk.
Hemingway Melville, the owner of the window tower, muttered and clicked his tongue.
Daria took it.
He replied, swallowing the candy in his mouth.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had inspiration and heart-to-heart.”
He added a giggly laugh, but somehow his eyes were ferocious.
Those eyes quickly flashed into Russell’s mind several pieces of information he’d heard long ago.
Before returning to the past, the information I heard from the future that hadn’t come yet.
‘The Blaine Trilogy.’
Russell didn’t know much about him.
But it was enough to infer this situation now.
‘Chief of the Arcane Magic Tower and at the same time the Archmage of the 7th Circle.’
Despite being over 90 years old, he is still an active player.
and-.
‘It’s just that even the king couldn’t become the owner of the four magic towers because of the different genealogy.’
A monster whose skills are evaluated as being comparable to Niccolo Machiavelli, the owner of the yellow pagoda, beyond the royal road of the white pagoda.
Of course, the atmosphere in the hall has changed not just for that reason.
Perhaps the most significant cause is-.
‘It’s probably because of the fact that he’s the head of the Grand Duke.’
Archduke Bismarck, uncle of the current king.
He didn’t reveal it openly, but he was definitely someone who had ambitions for the throne.
Those who support him are the anti-communists.
Blaine was the leader of the anti-aircraft faction.
There was no choice but to have an uncomfortable relationship with Hemingway or Daria Nicolo, who belonged to the royal faction.
at that time.
cooing.
The door opens and a heavy sound echoes.
Beyond that, the Blaine Trilogy emerged.
‘That person is the Blaine Trilogy.’
He was an impressive old man with neatly combed white hair and a goatee.
Although he held the long staff like a cane, he looked so correct that it was hard to believe that he was over 90 years old.
“hmm.”
After looking around the inside with a deep breath, he slowly moved into the hall.
After that, several Mage Tower owners came inside together.
They were the Mage Masters and their disciples belonging to the same faction as Blaine.
It was Blaine who said hello first.
“It’s been a while. Hemingway. And… Daria Snowwhite.”
Unlike the other pagoda owners, it looked like he was slandering the two, but it didn’t matter.
In terms of seniority, he was about ten years older.
“Long time no see. senior.”
Unlike Hemingway, who received the greeting with a calm expression, Daria revealed her uncomfortable feelings without hesitation.
“I hope I came again without dying. senior.”
A voice that reveals the feeling of suffering without filtering.
“!!!”
At that voice, the faces of those who followed Blaine furiously crumpled.
I was pushed out of the circle, but Blaine was my senior.
It’s not right to treat her like that, no matter how much she is Daria.
“…her!”
“I’m sitting in the seat of the yeomtapju, but…”
A few of those who thought so shouted and tried to step out.
“stop.”
widely-.
Blaine stepped out.
I touched the floor with the tip of the staff.
Silencing them with a light move, he responded to Daria’s words.
“haha. What to do when the time has not come yet.”
“joy. His time.”
Daria pursed her lips and grumbled, but spoke no more after that.
In the end, it was the owner of the window tower who stepped in to rectify the situation.
He was equally uncomfortable with Blaine, but he was also the one who hosted the event.
“Okay then. Almost all the people to come have arrived, and the time has passed.”
All vacant seats were a few seats that could not be attended due to circumstances.
Checking that most of the seats have owners -.
“I guess we can start walking around the tower now.”
-Announced the start of the Magical Tower Meeting.
It wasn’t that smooth.
It was the start of something that felt like a portent of blue.
* * *
Although the beginning was a bit noisy, the tour of the Tower went more smoothly than I expected.
Befitting the name of the Sorcerer Tower Society.
The beginning was a discourse on the subject the mage tower lords were researching or the results of magic.
The moment the story begins.
Russell was able to realize the reason why tower owners always accompanied their pupils.
‘The level is not only deep, but also wide.’
Indeed, I thought that this was the conversation of those who sat in the seat of the pagoda.
Russell tried to listen to all of the discourse.
I focused my mind not to miss a single detail.
Russell’s eyes sparkle and shine, and his desire for magic science rises like spring water.
Seeing that, Daria laughed softly.
‘It’s good that you brought the youngest. giggle.’
You will not be able to use or apply the knowledge you have gained here today.
Even if there was such a thing, most of the things that were difficult to learn at the level of Russell now.
However. nevertheless.
‘If I pile them up one by one, it will be of great help the moment they come.’
Even if he stopped at grabbing a few fragments due to his lack of talent, that too was sufficient income.
and.
There was a gaze looking at Russell from a little distance with a strange look.
Akarum, the mage lord of the Cargo Red Tower.
As Blaine’s disciple, he was the owner of that gaze.
.
.
No matter how deep the well is, if you keep digging it out, eventually the bottom will be exposed.
So were the discourses on research topics and magic.
Maybe it was because the discussion had already been going on for nearly four hours.
Suddenly, the number of pagoda owners had decreased considerably.
Some of them were also seen exchanging stories about their daily life or current situation in silence.
‘Maybe it’s this far.’
Feeling the waning atmosphere, Russell smacked his lips.
In my heart, I wish this time could go on for a few more hours, but that must be greed.
‘The income I’ve earned so far is not small.’
I even opened my notebook and took notes.
When I go back, I already have a lot of work to do.
It was then.
“Hmmmm. Rather…”
One of the tower owners opened his mouth while looking at Russell.
Everyone focused their attention with a clear cough.
“When would you like to introduce your new student? The lord of the tower.”
Around the time the Tower Tour was about to begin.
One of the masters of the Mage Tower who followed after Blaine.
As soon as his words were finished, all eyes in the hall were focused on Russell.
Daria replied.
“joy. After finding out all the things to know, what about the introduction?”
A voice that does not hide its roughness.
Topju, who first brought up the story in that voice, lowered her head with a shy expression.
But his interest in Russell had only just begun.
“Isn’t that the rumored young man who crashed the madman’s spandom? It is a nova.”
“To knock down an expert-level strongman even though he couldn’t break the wall.”
Expert class Auror practitioner.
A strong man who is otherwise called a master.
“When I first heard the rumors, I was surprised to see if they were exaggerated.”
“Nothing. It was a rumor that reflected the childhood of heroes in old stories.”
rumor rumor rumor.
The same words were repeated over and over again.
Feeling somehow uncomfortable, Russell rolled his fists under the desk.
It wasn’t my taste to paint my face with gold, but it seemed that the atmosphere was going strangely like this.
What Russell felt in it was a strange sense of incongruity.
It’s not a compliment as if it were a compliment…
‘Windcatcher.’
It was a sense of incongruity that Russell noticed.
There was no way she couldn’t feel it just because she was Daria.
So Daria lightly tapped the round table with the palm of her hand.
match-.
Waves of magic that started in the palm of your hand spread throughout the round table.
Woo woo woo.
“Don’t keep spinning around. If there’s something you want to say, bring it out right away.”
A hot yet straightforward way of speaking and eyes, as if formality or manners were to be given away.
Although the factions were different, they did not know Daria’s personality in her youth.
The bodies of those who spoke for the first time trembled.
maybe-.
‘This is probably the end of the wind catcher’s role.’
As expected by Russell, after the windswept momentum faded. There was someone stepping forward.
Blaine’s disciple and master of Kargo’s tower, Akarum.
That was him.
“haha. They probably just wanted to see the student’s skills with their own eyes.”
“You just wanted to see it with your own eyes?”
At that, Daria laughed. He looked back at the pagoda owners and their disciples who belonged to the Daegong faction and recited it.
“So, which of your students will be our youngest?”
His eyes, which were not even funny, were revealed without filtering.
Russell’s skills, known to the outside world, are in the middle of the 4th circle.
In comparison, most of their students had skills in the late 3rd circle or early 4th circle.
Not only was she one step ahead in her own skills, but she even studied under Daria.
“Chemm.”
“Hmmmm.”
They secretly averted their gaze and let out a coughing sound.
It was also Akairum who answered that.
“How about my youngest priest?”
He got up from his seat and continued talking while staring at the man sitting next to Blaine.
“Just then, my priest Jeron faced a wall a few weeks ago.”
“Oh, what do you mean…?”
Some of the anti-aircraft tower owners made a fuss when they said they were facing a wall.
Was it the reaction you wanted?
Akarum put his priest on the shoulder with a happy expression.
“Compared to the lunatic spandom, it may be a bit lacking, but how about it. It’s just that we’re about the same age.”
At the word that they are similar in age, Hwangtapju.
Niccolo Machiavelli stuck out his tongue.
“As for the similarity, it would be twice as big no matter what the face value is.”
A small murmured voice.
However, not one of those sitting in the seat did not hear the sound.
It has to be.
Because that’s what I was told to hear in the first place.
But despite this, Akairum’s face didn’t change even a single expression.
It’s a face that feels shameless as well as tenacious at first glance.
It started coming out shamelessly.
‘I’m sure he’s going to lay his bare face until the end.’
When Russell thought so, Daria asked him.
“What do you think? I’m the youngest.”
A green translucent window came to mind.
[Mission]
….
There is no particularly outstanding reward, but a chance to increase magic by obtaining magic stones.
There was no reason to refuse.
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