198. Suspicious Guest 3
‘Damn me! Damn it!’
The wizard who was caught in the red grip struggled and struggled.
I don’t know what this is, but it’s because it was never a human hand.
‘I have to get out of here quickly!’
He began to feel the smell of blood and the terrible black magic that emanated from the grip that held him.
I thought that if I stayed like this, I would surely die.
‘It’ll be difficult to cast at high speed because the staff was taken away, but I’ll use magic somehow…’
The wizard wriggled his hands to activate the magic, concentrating his mana.
Chow ah!
Chow!
However, instead of activating the magic, blood fountains soared from wounds all over her body.
It was like a tomato pierced by a thorn.
“Quack! Aww!”
The magician struggled in pain, but the grip on him did not loosen.
“Kkeuhuk…”
Finally, the guy soon became limp and stopped moving.
“Checkmate.”
Alec, who watched the scene, swung his staff and retracted his red grip.
dump!
The hand holding the wizard disappeared in an instant.
“Hmm, did you think I should have hit you lightly? It doesn’t look… not good.”
Alec moved closer, watching the mage’s body fall to the floor.
‘Aren’t you dead? Then it’s difficult.’
This is because it is common sense in the industry to capture the target alive unless it is already dead.
‘In addition, the older brother who entrusted the request seemed to be trying to get some information from this friend. If I kill him and take him back, I’m sure he’ll ask for a refund.’
A good detective doesn’t panic.
When a problem is given, it is only solved.
After thinking for a moment, Alec crossed his arms.
“Now that it’s like this… Shall we memorize a magic spell that can save anyone?”
Alec closed his eyes and opened his mouth.
“Have you done it?”
“Kuk Coke! omg…!”
“As expected, magic spells do not betray my expectations!”
“You crazy bastard! What magic spell is this!”
“I’m glad you came back to life very well!”
“Looking at it now, it seems healthy…”
The fallen wizard coughed and opened his eyes.
After all, I only fainted briefly from the shock.
“Well, that’s not important. You seem to be alive and well…”
“Ouch!”
As Alec smirked and spread his hands, red chains stretched out from the blood everywhere and grabbed the wizard.
“I will take you safely to the inn.”
– and again the present.
“What, when is this guy coming?”
“It’s coming.”
“Mr. Alec is back!”
Kang Seung-hyun and his party witnessed Alec smiling and bringing the wizard back.
Tie it tightly so that it cannot escape.
“Wow, you really caught it….”
“It’s as simple as this.”
‘How fast are your feet?’
Kim Ho-jung, who seemed to have forgotten the fact that he did not know that blood magicians have the ability to track blood, was thinking that Alec had sprinted and caught the wizard.
“Did this work well? It wraps around your hand tightly!”
Alec handed over the jewelry staff he had brought to Kang Seung-hyun.
Click.
A bright light emanated from the staff when the jewel decoration that had fallen off was inserted.
“As expected, the weapon of the Magic Association investigator is correct.”
“I don’t know what it is, but that must mean that I completed the request perfectly, right?”
“Yes.”
dump!
Alec put the wizard down on the floor, dragged an empty chair, and sat down.
“Then I guess I should get a bonus. If possible, with a bottle of alcohol.”
“Ask Kim Ho-jeong for it.”
“…I’ll have to drink water instead of alcohol.”
“Wait a minute! I have money to buy you a drink!”
Hojung Kim shouted, but Alec knocked on the table as if he couldn’t help it.
“Ziggs~ Would you like a glass of water?”
Ziggs poured me a glass of water without saying a word.
This behavior is a habit of taking care of the elders that is ingrained in the body when serving a human like Harvey.
“Huh! I’m going to live now!”
“You look very tired.”
“It was pretty tough. It was such a fierce and terrible fight that I had to cast magic spells.”
“…Didn’t I just say it was simple?”
“It’s a simple but tough fight. Like repetitive labor!”
‘Right. After all, a sprinting and running fight…’
Because of Alec’s words, Kim Ho-jung even more mistakenly thought that Alec had been in a running chase.
“They say they don’t have confidence in fighting, but they fight well.”
While the three of them were talking, Kang Seung-hyun looked at the wizard.
“Are we seeing each other again?”
“…”
The wizard who was caught kept his mouth shut.
He seemed to have no intention of saying anything right now.
‘What should I do… Huh?’
Kang Seung-hyun, who was looking at the wizard, saw something strange.
The whole body was covered with scars, but the most noticeable thing was that the tips of both hands were discolored.
‘Seeing that he wasn’t burned or poisoned… It looks like he tried to use magic while his mana was contaminated.’
The reason a wizard punishes a black magician is that, just like putting rotten oil in a car causes it to break down, if the magical energy inside the body is contaminated and transformed into dark magic, the magic does not work properly.
‘For a wizard to use magic while in a state of mana contamination is the same as self-destructing.’
This guy can’t use magic until all the contaminated magic power is gone.
“Damn it… I never thought he would inject black magic into that gap…”
His face turned pale, probably because he was well aware of that fact.
A wizard who can’t use magic will have nothing to resist.
“If you tell me the truth, I will spare your life.”
“….”
“You are the culprit who attacked the carriage, right? I don’t think I would have done it alone.”
The wizard kept his mouth shut, but
[Summons Pria’s crossbow.]
Got it! Cucumber!
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I’ll tell you! I say!”
After giving him some arrows, he immediately opened his mouth and started telling the truth.
– “It was our organization that raided that wagon.”
“You were a criminal after all.”
As expected, this wizard was a criminal belonging to a crime guild.
It is said that they received a request from someone to raid a wagon and kidnap passengers.
“You said you received a request?”
“These guys will do anything for money. Like kidnapping or assassination.”
“This request was human trafficking…”
“Human trafficking?”
The wizard noticed and opened his mouth.
What the client requested was hundreds of living humans.
“Hundreds of these humans?”
“It’s like the Azul continent where human rights are cheap.”
“What are you going to do with so many people?”
“I don’t know that either. It is our policy not to ask why, only to ask for money.”
“Good!”
“So, what is the identity of the client?”
“It is our policy not to ask about identity, only to ask for money. I have never seen a bare face.”
“Is money that good?”
Of course, this wizard did not know about the client. Even the magician’s colleagues would not know the identity of the client.
“Anyway, I was asked to consistently provide 3-4 people a week.”
The client added that if he touches the aristocrats, things will get bigger, so he wants them to target only ‘commoners’ who don’t have any problems even if they die or go missing.
“What is all this rubbish?”
“Kim hyung, guys like this are common. There are many people in the Azul Continent who ask for their families to be assassinated?”
“I really want to go home….”
It was a useful time to learn how the Azul continent is at the bottom of human rights.
“In order to avoid the eyes of the Adventurer Guild, we disguised it as a monster raid and left it unattended… So far, we have been able to work without being caught.”
“Did it rain on purpose?”
“To erase the remaining magic power…”
They were more elaborate than I thought.
Of course, Kang Seung-hyun found out about it.
“There must be a reason you deliberately chose a cheap wagon. Nobles can’t ride in a carriage like that.”
“Yes… that’s right.”
However, the passenger who hid his identity did not think of it, so his tail was stepped on like this.
“Ah damn it, I never thought there would be a Magic Association inspector among the passengers…”
The wizard had a complicated face.
Even if this guy is handed over to the Adventurer’s Guild, sooner or later the Magic Association will hire an assassin to deal with it.
“Don’t be too discouraged. If the investigator is alive and not dead, there is hope.”
“Is that so?”
The wizard had a slightly relieved face.
‘If the inspector dies and the plans for the Hind Branch of the Magic Association go overboard, I’ll take this kid to the dungeon and bury him in the dimensional rift.’
Of course, Kang Seung-hyun wasn’t expecting much, so he was thinking about how to deal with the wizard.
“Did you already sell the people you kidnapped?”
Ziggs, who was next to him, asked with a stiff face.
It seems that a friend who kidnapped people and did crazy things just a while ago came to mind.
“That’s not it!”
“So what?”
“That’s the date we promised today… I’m here to make contact with the client.”
Originally, he planned to sell the people he had captured after meeting with the client at this inn.
“Then let’s rob everyone in here!”
“There was such a commotion at Mr. Kim Ho-jeong’s inn, but he couldn’t come.”
“that’s right. They probably noticed something happened here.”
It was clear that the client had already avoided the spot or would not come at all.
“Anyway, the important thing now is that the investigator is still alive and not sold.”
“Let’s go find that friend first!”
As long as the inspector was unharmed, that was enough.
It doesn’t matter if you leave it to someone else to uncover the real dark side of this case.
“Where are the kidnappers?”
“It is in the second hideout. First, go to the first hideout and get the key, but…”
“Please guide me there.”
“yes.”
-Kang Seung-hyun and his party left Latika Inn.
The hideout of the criminal group to which the magician belonged was unexpectedly inside Hind Village.
“I live proudly on the subject of criminals.”
“Ah, that’s true, the upper part of the Adventurer’s Guild in Hind Village is rotten. That’s why it should be said that it’s easier to live in hiding than in other villages…”
The wizard laughed and murmured.
Come to think of it, if the Adventurer’s Guild had investigated the carriage accident more meticulously, they would have caught this trash long ago.
‘Chief Liwen… Should I kill him pretending to treat him?’
Seunghyun Kang was thinking about this and that.
“Oh, this way.”
The wizard in front pointed to an old house in the back alley of Hind Village.
“I’ll get the key from here, so please wait a moment.”
The wizard looked around and entered the house.
“By the way, I went to the inn, but nothing happened?”
“Iknow, right. According to fortune telling, someone said he would die.”
“You said you would die if you went to the inn, didn’t you say you would die in the inn?”
“Are you kidding me?”
It was the moment when Kang Seung-hyun and his party were chatting while waiting for the magician.
Kwaaaaang!!!
“uh?”
Suddenly, with a loud explosion,
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
A sorcerer’s scream was heard from inside the house.
