Episode 40 Adrias’ explanation
Borgien, a territory adjacent to the border of the northern mountains.
Although it was not a front line, it was a territory connected to the Wailing Gorge, a front-line fortress, and was always a crowded city for supply of supplies and a vacation spot for soldiers.
Count Hicksham Borgien, the lord of Borgien, was talking to someone in his office.
A space where there is only the lord, Hicksham, and a strangely dressed figure, with all his associates bitten off.
Hicksham took the cloth bag held out by his opponent.
“This is… … ?”
“Once every three days, dip it in its blood and stamp it with the nail provided. Repeat this four times and the curse will come true.”
“thank you. Jester.”
The person called Jester was a man dressed strangely, with his head covered in a triangular conical hat, and judging from the content of the conversation, he was by no means a good person.
When the meeting was about to end after a deal that both parties were satisfied with.
“smart!”
Someone knocked on the door, making a loud sound with their mouth.
Hicksham frowned.
“sorry. Jester. “I clearly told you not to let anyone come near you.”
“You can do that.”
“then! “Of course it can.”
The sudden sound of words made both of their eyes turn towards the door, and before they knew it, a completely unexpected person had entered the office.
“Salem Yedidiah… … !”
“Yes, yes. nice to meet.”
Jester let out a cry of astonishment, and Hicksham looked at the two, wondering what was going on.
“Jester, who is the author?”
“Are you the lord of this place? Sorry. “I had to talk to this friend for a moment, so I had to come here.”
Salem calmly walked over, picked up the bottle of alcohol on the desk, and drank.
Then, I sat down on the desk and looked at Jester.
“Hey, Jester.”
“… … There really is no case. Salem. “He’s very friendly.”
“Do you understand now? “Isn’t there something you have to say to me more than that?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
As Jester finished speaking, light suddenly erupted from Salem’s left arm.
The light seemed to be engraved on Salem’s left arm, and it was all kinds of bizarre and strange magic circles.
Salem laughed, emitting light from his left arm.
“Are you really looking at me like a dick?”
“Is it because of this attack?”
“Do you understand?”
Hicksham didn’t know what was going on, but the man who entered the room didn’t look ordinary, so he quietly stepped back.
“We targeted Diene Alven, the daughter of Bahat Alven. Did it catch something?”
“Look at this bastard. “Do you really think I came here without knowing anything?”
Flames bloomed on his left arm, which used to emit light, and Salem’s clothes burned up.
The hand covered in flames could hardly be called a human hand; it looked like a devil’s hand.
“… … “What can I do for you?”
“okay. “It has to come out like that.”
Only then did Salem relax his expression and shake off the fire in his left hand as if putting out a matchstick.
Then, the left arm, which looked like the hand of a devil, instantly returned to its original shape.
His exposed arms, which stand out with strong muscles, were full of magic circles drawn with tattoos.
“You ignored my warning and dared to ask a mercenary to assassinate Adrias. This is because they ignored me and treated me as food. hmm?”
“Let me borrow your industrious sloth for another week.”
“Is that the end? “I think I should at least lend it to you right away to ease my anger, right?”
“Runa has it now. If you want to get it from him, take it from him.”
“good. very good.”
Salem stood up with a satisfied smile.
And before I knew it, I saw Hicksham about to go out the door.
“Oh, my lord? I’m sorry today. Did I just rush in because I was a little impatient? “Just talk to that guy.”
He waved the bottle as he passed Hicksham.
“This tastes good. “Can I borrow some?”
As Salem left and the door closed, Hicksham just stared blankly at the door he had left through with a bored expression on his face.
To him, it was a sudden thunderbolt.
“Stupid things.”
Jester cursed softly and looked back at Hicksham.
“I have work to do today, so I’ll have to go first. “We can guarantee the goods, so you don’t have to worry.”
“Yes, yes. Please come in.”
“Oh, and please pretend you didn’t hear what just happened. “If you want to live a long time.”
“Oh, I understand.”
As Jester left the office, Hicksham, who was left alone, muttered.
“How on earth did this happen…?” … .”
* * *
A few days have passed since the Black Robes’ attack.
A total of 13 people died in this attack, including 9 students and 4 teaching assistants.
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It was a smaller number than expected, but considering that the total number of third-year students in the Faculty of Magic was only about 300, it might have been thought to be a large number.
‘Should I say I was lucky? Fortunately, Diene and I were among the first to be discovered, so the damage was not severe. Otherwise, we would have killed more students.’
Still, due to this incident, Tolman Benuel was suspended until the next semester, and not only the Alven family, but also the two deans of the academy and the principal began an investigation.
‘It’s not that Tolman didn’t do anything, but there were victims anyway, so it couldn’t have been helped.’
The number of opponents was greater than expected.
Excluding the people who were cornered by Diene, dozens more Robites fought fierce battles here and there on the mountain, and the leader, ‘Kidwell of the Black Tongue’, was instantly killed by Ivy.
I, who belatedly hid my mask and sword, was able to join safely by lying that an unknown masked swordsman had saved me.
Many people went out to search for the masked swordsman who was supposed to have saved Dienne and me to find out his identity, but in the end, they were unable to find him.
‘Well, that’s natural. ‘Because that’s me.’
No one could suspect that I was the masked swordsman.
Should we say that even if we can see the circumstances, we cannot imagine it?
For people here, dual core is a phenomenon that is not officially known yet, so they don’t seem to imagine a wizard swinging a sword.
But apart from that, there was another problem.
“hey. “Is class over?”
Ivy was waiting for me when I came out of the classroom.
I nodded, wondering how to get this off.
“yes. It’s done. “What’s going on?”
“Please follow me.”
It seemed quite serious, unlike the usual rough atmosphere.
She walked ahead without even listening to my answer, which only gave me a headache.
‘I’ll be questioned properly this time.’
Ivy looked at me with suspicion when she saw me show up late on the day of the attack.
Since Kidwell of the Black Tongue, a fairly famous warlock, was caught, it was believed that the main cause of this attack was the work of a black magic group, but I ended up getting caught up in the Volorik incident one after another.
At the time, it was right after the incident, so I was out of my mind, and I didn’t say much afterward because I needed time to recover, but I guess I finally got the date.
She even boarded the train.
I don’t know how far they were planning to take me, but I just calmly followed them.
The place Ivy took me was the training hall in the Knights’ Faculty.
Someone was training there, and when he saw me and Ivy appear, he disappeared somewhere.
“You’re not asking? “Why did you bring me here?”
“I trust you will explain it yourself.”
“okay? Then, straight to the point… … .”
Suddenly Ivy spoke for a long time.
At that moment, her muscles, breathing, and posture signaled that an attack was coming.
‘A horizontal cut raised from the bottom right.’
After calculating in an instant, I put my right foot back and turned around.
And then Ivy’s sword, which seemed to have been struck sharply, passed right in front of my face.
“After all, you are not an ordinary bastard.”
Ivy muttered as she saw me moving reflexively.
Her sword was swung in its sheath.
“What are you doing?”
“What are you doing? “Is now the time to ask that?”
Ivy glared at me with burning eyes.
“What are you doing, bastard?”
* * *
After finishing all the lectures as usual, Vivian Bellocan arrived at the training hall and warmed up.
Even though the days got colder, her daily life always went back to the same routine.
‘… … I want to go.’
But her intentions were now directed elsewhere.
A battle magic evaluation raid incident that occurred a few days ago.
There was an uproar even in the Knights’ Faculty because of that incident.
An attack that was clearly aimed at students, different from the one during Bolorik.
Thanks to this, even graduating students from the Department of Engineers were recruited and added to the workforce.
‘Adrias.’
The attack by the followers of the warlock group and mercenaries happened to attack Adrias, whom she had been thinking about recently.
Fortunately, I heard that he was safe, but apart from that, I wanted to meet him in person and check.
‘… … ‘Do you want to hate it?’
However, he hesitated because he had no contact with him other than Voloric.
When I first went to see him without thinking, I didn’t think anything of it, but after recently meeting him at the treatment center, whenever I stop to think about him, my face gets hot.
‘Why am I like this?’
Vivian hated herself like that.
If I had time to think about this, I should swing my sword one more time.
At that time, I felt someone coming into the training hall.
Vivian, who had been thinking about Adrias for a while, noticed that the people entering the training hall were Ivy and Adrias, and unknowingly hid behind the pillars of the training hall.
‘Adrias? why?’
Out of curiosity, she listened to the conversation between the two who entered the training hall.
The two entered the training hall and started bickering, which led to Ivy telling them to pull out their sword and Adrias refusing.
“I need to check on you. “If that sword is not for decoration, then pull it out.”
“I don’t know what kind of tyranny they are doing when they suddenly come to me. “I bought the sword for self-defense, not for this purpose.”
“Then I will let you draw your sword for self-defense.”
Slurp.
The sound of Ivy’s sword being drawn was heard.
Vivian, who was hiding behind a pillar, began to wonder whether she should come forward and stop it.
“… … I don’t know why you’re doing this. “Do you see me as a warlock’s stooge?”
“They say that coincidence is inevitable. “Did you happen to be involved in an incident that involved dark magicians who are normally hidden and hard to find, being discovered twice?”
“Are you driving me away without any evidence?”
“Then explain. What I still don’t understand is what happened during Bolorik. Just you and Chris, you two managed to catch a warlock who was using such large-scale black magic? “Who do you think is an asshole?”
“This is something that investigators have already pointed out. “I don’t feel the need to explain any further.”
“No, there is one thing I didn’t explain. Vivian Belocan. How is he going to explain it?”
Vivian held her breath when her name was suddenly mentioned.
And I pricked up my ears more than ever.
“… … “Why is Vivian suddenly appearing here?”
“You were definitely holding hands with him when I first found you. After that, I was shaking my hands trying to shake it off.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“She changed after returning from Volorik. “Didn’t you do something?”
Vivian clutched her chest as her heart pounded.
Please, heart. Please stay quiet for a moment.
“jeon… … She just saved her life.”
“what?”
“She was trapped in the warlock’s barrier, so I just went in and rescued her. That’s all she is.”
Vivian’s eyes opened wide.
fantasy,
