Chapter 430 – Chapter 430 Magic School Shutra (3-41)
Karin was slightly wary of me, but she wasn’t even hostile towards me.
It was just that her last words and dreams had influenced her actions, and she seemed to be wary of them.
As the sun went down, it was evening.
“In one more day, you will reach a crossroads where you can face the dean.”
“Yes. Then I will prepare to heat the iron ore.”
“… I wish you well today.”
I started preparing to heat the iron ore like yesterday, receiving Karin’s generous thanks.
While the soldiers were gathering iron ore, they looked around.
There are about five thieves sneaking around us right now.
I had already checked all the temperament windows because I had caught the sneaky roaming well earlier.
‘It’s their territory, so they hide well.’
[Skills are poor compared to soldiers, but the quality of hiding is excellent.]
As Armonia said, their fighting skills were significantly lower than that of the soldiers, but what they excelled at the most was hiding.
If you hide well in such a state and launch a surprise attack all at once in the middle of the night, you will be able to fight with overwhelming superiority in combat.
It can be seen as naive, but in terms of using the environment and ability well, it could be seen as belonging to the upper ranks for a thief.
But there was one problem.
‘I can’t see the wizard….’
When I heard Karin’s explanation, she said that there is a mage among the bandits.
It was clear that he would come because he said that he would mainly use magic to disrupt operations.
[Perhaps a mage isn’t just an ordinary subordinate. It is likely to come when it is ready.]
‘I wanted to see the temperament in advance…. I’ll come while you’re sleeping.’
If they had been hiding like that, they wouldn’t be ambush right now.
While sleeping….
As I waited with such determination, the soldiers began coming towards me with iron ore.
And in between….
‘A boundary is a boundary, and a caliber is a caliber.’
Karin was cautiously approaching to see my magic circle.
I used the magic circle and spread the magic like yesterday, and Karin and her soldiers started to admire my magic like yesterday.
Each of them had a different way of admiring them, but most of them were happy that they had something to brag about, but Karin just looked at them.
It was the kind of look that made me want to imprint the magic scene I used in my head for the rest of my life.
That’s how I made several iron ores to spend the night warmly.
Karin has humbly thanked me today as well.
“Thank you very much.”
“It’s okay. I just did my job.”
“… Could you please give me some time after this is over?”
“Time?”
“Yes… I have something important to tell you.”
“All right.”
There was no reason to refuse.
She had a rough idea of what she wanted to say.
It must have been a story about the Loewe Merchant Army.
‘But just in case you don’t know, let’s go into Chimmong today and see what kind of relationship I have with Löwe.’
[I will have Lena and Beatrice on standby.]
‘If it looks like it’s about to be attacked, I’ll get a rough feeling, so wake me up right away if I feel suspicious about my movements.’
[All right.]
With that decision, I began to enter the small tent, holding the iron ore wrapped in cloth.
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This time, instead of entering Karin’s dream and appearing, he began to slowly observe her past while manipulating little by little.
And the more I looked at Karin’s life, the more I could only admire her.
Her teachers, who taught her, made her exclaim, admire, and make her jealous just by treating her once.
What was truly remarkable was Karin’s talent.
Her talent was not limited to one field.
‘Talent that blossoms absorbed knowledge into talent…. He’s a real genius.’
Once it entered her own head, it could be said to be a talent for comprehending it perfectly and assembling it with other knowledge.
Real genius….
However, there was a fatal problem with such talent.
‘Because magic doesn’t just happen by putting it in your head.’
First of all, you need to be able to handle mana. That starting point itself didn’t exist.
So she began to expand her lack of magic into other realms.
While Louis hadn’t mastered magic yet, he built up his own forces and created a business.
‘… What a dog He thought of it at the age of 10 and put it into action.’
Despite her young age, Karin was struggling to become her successor.
What was surprising was how he contacted me.
Actually, I thought Karin was planning to use me because she didn’t want to marry Jeff.
But her intention was purely that the Loewe Company, which she secretly runs, would step into her strata.
He always wanted to hold hands with me.
‘It wasn’t a bad intention. By the way….’
What was unexpected was around the time Louis entered Strauss.
Karin secretly screamed at her every day and immersed herself in using her magic circle, but she was accepting her situation well.
Married to Jeff?
In Karin’s heart, that part was making disgust flow like filth.
But even so, she was accepting.
Because it’s Anna’s order.
And she thought it was a duty she had to accept as a self-restraint from the Brandtrup family.
Anna’s daughter, Brandtrup’s son Karin was determined to marry Jeff with just those two facts.
So why was she being cold towards Jeff and messing with him?
Surprisingly, the reason was interesting.
‘Wear… Are you saying you want to get your hands on the Potts family by ruining Jeff’s position before getting married? It’s really amazing.’
Instead of marrying into the Potts family and destroying the Potts family, she was contemplating how to raise its prestige.
It seemed clear that if Jeff had clumsy power, the Potts family would be doomed.
So Karin was deliberately trying to temper Jeff and put him in more trouble to get a hold of after her marriage.
So cruel that even Count Potts gave up and entrusted everything to her….
Karin wanted to make the Potts Countess, to which she belonged, the best family that would go down in history.
‘… It’s a tremendous pride.’
She knew a woman similar to Karin.
Lena.
Lena, who was so strong and confident, eventually collapsed.
But unlike Lena, Karin gave up on what she would give up, planning her future with her selfishness and her obedience to her mother.
Lena was a broken case trying to embrace everything.
Maybe Karin won’t be broken.
However….
‘I will live with an inferiority complex for the rest of my life.’
The feeling of being defeated by Lewis will probably never be erased.
Even if her Louise became her heir and her Karin married her, it didn’t seem like he would let her go easily.
I’ll make it worse somehow….
A summary of information was gathered.
But I had a question.
‘What have you done to Jeff? Let’s find out exactly what he did on the day of the banquet.’
It was the moment to look into her past.
Suddenly, a loud noise started to reverberate in her head.
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Lena’s voice came into my head.
[Master! The movement is unusual!]
‘Are they enemies?’
[Yes! It is estimated that about 15 people are currently surrounded.]
Lena sensed it, so it must be almost accurate.
[Currently, the enemy’s movement has been detected, and it is assumed that they are targeting Karin Brandrup.]
‘I knew it….’
The fact that she was a woman may have played a part, but it was likely that he had already figured out that she was leading these soldiers and tried to kidnap her.
Without a commander, most soldiers quickly become ragtags….
I don’t know anything else, but I had to prevent Karin from being kidnapped or injured.
But the problem was that I shouldn’t show myself paying attention before the bandits attack first.
‘Hmm… Armonia.’
[Yes.]
‘Are those guys capable of detecting my stealth?’
***
Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam!! Kwak!
“Huh!? What!?”
Karin was startled by the sudden explosion and started to panic inside the tent.
But suddenly, she was distracted by eardrum-piercing tinnitus and sleepiness from the explosion she heard right next to her, and she began to struggle in the dark tent.
Fortunately, the outside of the tent was covered in red, so she was able to figure out her entrance and get out right away.
And as soon as she came out of the tent like that….
“Me-that!?”
Sensing her red pillars flying toward her through her blurry vision, Karin began to cower in her fear.
Fortunately for her, however, the flames the size of her wrist did not overtake Karin. She just ran all over her….
The flames that flew around her landed on the stones around her.
“Eh, what is this… Maybe magic?”
It was a fleeting moment to think so.
Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam!!
“Kyaaaaagh!”
Karin was barely able to come to her senses when she heard a tremendous ringing in her eardrums again, and she fell down, unable to control herself from the explosion.
Even when she couldn’t come to her senses, she somehow managed to focus her vision and begin to grasp what was going on around her.
Her soldiers, like herself, were astounded and scrambled.
However, the volcanic stone exploding due to magic and the flames flying in the darkness made the soldiers who had just woken up confused.
“The enemy… Hurry… !”
“Fury… Magic… !”
Due to her tinnitus ringing in her eardrums, Karin can’t hear her soldiers properly and she just starts to focus on lifting her body after she fell from the explosion earlier.
But just as she was about to get up, she saw flames flying towards her once more.
‘Oh, no! Blood, I can’t avoid it!”
Because of the sudden situation, Karin’s legs gave way, and she was forced to avoid the flames even if she wanted to.
And she was put in the worst situation.
Quadang.
“Shut up!”
In a situation she should have avoided, rather, her legs gave way and she sat down.
‘This, at this rate!’
As her instincts did, she raised her arms and crossed them in an X to block her flames.
I knew.
Even though she obviously knows that this blocking doesn’t help at all, her body has made it that way.
That was the moment when her flames were about to overtake her.
‘… ?’
She didn’t feel the pain of the fire she was supposed to feel, only tinnitus ringing in her ears.
As her tinnitus gradually subsided, she began to hear noises from nearby soldiers, and Karin was able to catch a man’s voice among the screaming sounds.
“Are you okay?”
“… ?”
Karin lifted her head, alerted by the man’s voice that had been heard among the screams around her.
As soon as she lifted her head, the man opened his mouth as he threw the cloak over her.
“You are wearing that. It will be better than armor against flames and explosions.”
