357. The Secret Story of Lophemus 2
“Eh?”
Before I had time to say anything, an arrow flew at high speed from the end of the crossbow.
grasp!
“Keugh…!”
Doradel, whose shoulder had been pierced by an arrow, screamed with a contorted face.
“What is this? If the offer was burdensome, you could decline verbally…”
“Are you going to hold on to it until the end?”
Kang Seung-hyun looked at Doradel, smiled, and pointed at the pile of corpses scattered around the room.
“therapy? Stop talking nonsense. Everyone knows that they weren’t brought here to treat them, right?”
“what? really?”
“Think about it, Kim Ho-jung.”
Currently, the corpses of all the members of the Lophemus family have been found in a corner room inside the laboratory.
“They said they were definitely patients brought to treat them, but why did the alchemists neglect them without rescuing any of them?”
“I see…!”
Although these patients are not qualified as wizards and are close to commoners, they are Doradel’s relatives anyway.
However, it was strange to put such people in a corner room rather than the place where the experimental homunculus was produced.
“Of course, I may not be able to help because I am in a hurry to escape, but shouldn’t there be at least one patient who escaped on her own?”
In addition, as soon as the black magic disaster occurred, the alchemists abandoned everything they were doing and ran away, but it makes no sense that none of the patients died without being able to escape.
“Not all of the patients here were unable to move.”
“It’s definitely strange…”
I checked the piles of corpses just in case, but there were hardly any patients who seemed to have difficulty moving.
In the first place, the patients here came to be treated for magical problems, not physical injuries.
None of the patients who escaped were survivors.
“If you put all the circumstances together, you have no choice but to think like this. These people were imprisoned here.”
This isn’t even a mental hospital, so why lock up patients?
It is obvious that these people were brought here in the name of treatment and were subjected to human experimentation.
“Something was misunderstood…”
“If it was a misunderstanding and a nasty thing and it was really right, it wouldn’t have been hidden from the people of the Mage Tower.”
However, even today, Doradel tried to hide the existence of the alchemist under her command and the secret research from the people of the Mage Tower.
Just looking at this, it is clear that the work is not proceeding with purely good intentions.
“And there was something that kept bothering me.”
“Are you concerned?”
According to Dail, the Lofiarmus family is so miserable that even long-lived wizards live less than 70 years on average because of the curse.
However, in such a short-lived family, Doradel is ‘the only’ person to look past 100 and look 120 years old.
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t that guy have weakened the curse by killing his family members?”
“Doradel did that earlier. The information that ‘killing a family member weakens the curse’ is a secret passed down only to the head of the household.”
“ah!”
Kim Ho-jung was still confused, but Lee Ji-ah shouted as if she realized something.
“You think it’s strange that only that old man lived a long life!”
“ok? What are you talking about?
“Think about it, Mister!”
Lee Ji-ah pointed her finger at Doradel with the eyes of a bug.
“If this is a secret passed down only to the head of the family, then other head of the family knew everything, right?”
“That’s right.”
“If you think about this trash bean flour family, wouldn’t other family heads have lived a long, long life by killing all their sons, grandsons and daughters-in-law like Doradel?”
However, since only Doradel lived a long life in the Lophemus family, it means that Doradel was the only one who realized the weakening of the curse by killing kinsmen.
“A scumbag who prolongs life by killing family members is curing people who are about to die? It’s nonsense.”
Contradictions are not such contradictions.
In the first place, Doradel’s remarks sound plausible only to listen to, and if you think about it carefully, nothing fits with reality.
“Old man, I’m a person who can tell the difference between medical treatment and fraud.”
grasp!
Pak!
“I’m going to cheat while looking at people!”
Kang Seung-hyun pulled the trigger of the crossbow and Doradel hurriedly hid behind a bookshelf.
“Huh…”
Doradel’s expression changed to a calm one, probably thinking that there would be no point in cheating anymore.
“You bastard! Is it all a blatant lie to treat family members?”
Kim Ho-jung trembled and took out the golden glory.
Doradel, who had been looking at it with an expressionless expression, opened her mouth calmly.
“It wasn’t a lie. It’s true that I brought in children with low magical powers and treated them. The more ways there are to escape the curse, the better.”
“Is that so?”
“If it seems to be useful anyway, just use it to weaken my curse.”
Doradel spoke so casually and calmly that Kim Ho-jeong could not understand the sentence for a moment.
So Seunghyun Kang, who was by my side, interpreted it instead.
“They took the dropouts who didn’t even qualify as wizards and tested them on the human body and rolled them.
“You bastard son of a bitch!!!!”
It was the moment when Kim Ho-jung, who was enraged, was about to swing the golden shovel he was holding at Doradel.
Ugh!
“First of all, calm down.”
“omg!”
“I have nothing to say to you.”
Magical power emanated from Doradel’s hand, and a magic curtain unfolded in front of Kim Ho-jung’s eyes.
“If it’s okay, I’d like you to wait there until I talk to Healer Kang Seung-hyun.”
“hey! Get me out!”
yes! yes!
Kim Ho-jung hit the magic curtain with a puzzled face, but did not budge.
“How did this happen…?”
Lee Ji-ah, who was by her side, also looked at Doradel with a surprised face.
That would be true, too, because the surroundings are now filled with so much dark magic that even ordinary people cannot survive for long.
But the wizard, who is more vulnerable to dark magic than anyone else, used magic with a calm face?
‘Does this make sense? It’s not? Can’t you?’
Kim Ho-jung is in confusion!
If you think about it carefully, it’s not normal from the wizard walking around intact to the fact that he came in here in the first place.
If you were an ordinary wizard, you would have rolled across the floor from the moment you set foot in this place, let alone use your skills.
“I didn’t expect you to accept it right away, but I didn’t expect it to be rejected like a knife. It’s cold, it’s cold.”
“Hey, won’t you open this?”
Doradel, who had put Kim Ho-jeong and Lee Ji-ah inside the tent, approached Kang Seung-hyun as if nothing had happened.
“I ask the opposite. Why did you think I would agree?”
Looking at what you’ve done so far, do you feel that way?
If you’ve heard, this kid must have a problem with his intelligence.
“There are some sacrifices, but in the long run it’s a way to save more people… I don’t think hypocritical words like that will suit you.”
“You know.”
“I just thought you would accept it because it wouldn’t hurt you in any way. If you only release the curse, you know better how I will reward you.”
money honor power.
Doradel, the master of the Golden Mage Tower and head of the Lophemus family, was a human being who could give her everything.
“Because I haven’t met people who say such things once or twice.”
Kang Seung-hyun sneered at those words and threw the knife.
Papabak!
Pak!
The flying knives stuck all over the laboratory
[Broken Blade]
Shupaat!
As it broke, fragments of the blade scattered in all directions.
Ooh ooh!
When Doradel stretched out his hand, a magical shield spread around him at high speed, blocking all debris flying from all directions.
Ugh!
sudden!
The magic shields that had been blocking the fragments suddenly flew towards Kang Seung-hyeon, covering them as if they were coating the fragments.
“What is that again?”
“Capture using a magic shield and return using energy flow conversion. It’s not that difficult a technique.”
In other words, all the thousands of fragments that had just been scattered were reflected towards Kang Seung-hyeon.
“You’re reflecting all of that?”
“It’s a scam!”
“As expected, a Mage Tower Master with 85 years of experience is different.”
Manipulating each and every one of the tiny fragments scattered in hundreds and thousands is not something that can be done with ordinary skills.
Even more so if it was not an ordinary fragment, but an attack aimed at oneself.
In order to do this in such a short amount of time, you will need a combination of magical talents, such as excellent mana control, reflexes, calculation ability, and perception.
Kang! Kang!
Kang Seung-hyeon took out a knife and parried all the flying debris.
“He takes it again. Are you a person?”
“Responding to fraud with fraud!”
An ordinary person would have become a beehive or a scabbard, but it was possible because Kang Seung-hyeon was able to follow the movements of most objects with the [Observation Eye].
“Aren’t you curious? Why, as a wizard, I can use magic in this dark magic.”
“curious! curious!”
“Ask Mr. Kang quickly!”
yes! yes!
Kim Ho-jung and Lee Ji-ah, who were knocking on the magic curtain next to them, shouted with curious faces.
So, as if to reciprocate the two’s expectations, Kang Seung-hyun said,
“I’m not really curious.”
“Oh really!”
Answering this, he rushed towards Doradel.
Whoops.
At that moment, Doradel’s surroundings were distorted, and Kang Seung-hyun’s attack could not reach them.
“This is a magic that instantly gives a big blow to space, weakens it, and twists and distorts its form.”
In addition, because the space was distorted, Kang Seung-hyun was put in a contradictory situation where he was trapped in an open space where he couldn’t even step out.
“You and I are facing each other’s eyes, but it’s as if there are separate dimensions that cannot reach each other.”
“I didn’t ask about that.”
This is why fighting with the members of the Magic Tower is annoying.
It’s because every time I use a skill, I’m bragging about my magic.
“Healer Seunghyun Kang, I don’t want to fight with you. Rather, I really need your help to break the family curse.”
“Then kill yourself now. Then I will do my best to break the rest of the family’s curse.”
“…”
Doradel just pretended not to hear that.
“It seems you don’t want to sacrifice yourself to save your family.”
“Because it’s a soft and fresh inspiration.”
Ignoring Kim Ho-jeong and Lee Ji-ah’s staring eyes, Doradell opened her mouth while still maintaining the spatial distortion.
“Originally, it was a proposal that I was going to bring up after you got to know each other a little more, but…”
“After you got to know each other? Do you want to go out to eat with the teacher? Sounds worth nothing! Don’t even dream! Our teacher Kang would never eat with someone like you!”
Whoops!
“…!! …!!!”
Doradel cast a silence spell on Kim Ho-jung.
Then he smiled and opened his mouth.
“Aren’t you a citizen of the Azul Continent? Aren’t they from another dimension?”
“How about that?”
“Then did you think I would be on the same level as you guys?”
Kim Ho-jeong had a surprised face, but Kang Seung-hyun was calm.
In the first place, the existence of dimension movers is not a complete secret, and since the adventurer’s association categorizes dimension movers separately, it is easy to find out if you investigate with a little interest.
“Then, of course, your true purpose is to return to your hometown beyond the dimension, right? But no one knows how many years or decades it will take.”
Maybe he will die of old age before he goes back…
That’s the fate of those who wander the dimension.
“But if you can break the curse on our family, I will help ensure at least a few hundred years of life.”
