94 – Dark Magic Workshop – 3
“…”
I opened my eyes. I begged and prayed inwardly, hoping that I had seen it wrong.
Rather, it was my misunderstanding, so I frantically hoped that I could laugh it off like this.
However, the magic circle drawn on the scroll and the spell scribbled beneath it clearly revealed the fact that this was something for black magic.
My body was momentarily drained of strength, so I staggered and had to lean my back against the desk. The scroll slipped effortlessly between my fingers and landed on the floor.
I couldn’t come to my senses from the shock. It felt like I had been hit in the head with a hammer. My eyes spun around.
“This… there was a guy who was researching black magic… for real?”
With trembling hands, I picked up the scroll with the magic circle on it again. Patterns glowing in black and spells written beneath them.
And even a cautionary note that ‘I must use black blood’ written as if I was patronizing.
As soon as I saw that notice, I crumpled the scroll. Kkook, the paper crumpled and made a strange sound.
‘Bastards who have lost their coward heads.’
Grinded it. Idiots who don’t even know what this is and can’t even tell what it is.
He barely calmed his rapidly accelerating breathing. It’s been a long time since I’ve been so emotional.
No, the existence itself that could shake me like this was extremely limited in the first place.
We need to find that old wizard. You must find it, ask what the hell you did here and how far you got into black magic.
It wasn’t too difficult to find the place where Charlotte threw the wizard. It was because the wall on one side of the studio had collapsed as if an earthquake had occurred.
I grabbed the scroll with the black magic spell in one hand and propped myself up against the wall with the other hand, stepping over it.
It must have been a kind of magic barrier blocking the leaking of sounds and the smell of blood from inside. As soon as I entered through the broken wall, I could smell the fishy smell of blood.
I saw Charlotte’s back. The figure from the back with arms crossed under the chest, mana emitting and hair fluttering.
In front of him was a woman screaming in pain with her arms and legs bound by a glowing magic circle. Maybe that’s the person called the wizard.
The wizard’s hair was dark pink and was long enough to reach down to his thighs. Her hair was in a mess, as if she had been engrossed in this pointless study.
The pupils were black. Beneath it, even though the whole body was tightly wrapped in a black robe, her voluptuous breasts could be seen.
Perhaps he was in the middle of the torture, and blood dripped from his fingertips. His mouth was half open in pain, and tears flowed incessantly from the corners of his eyes.
Hearing footsteps, Charlotte’s red eyes turned to me. The frost-like expression melted away, and the corners of his lips slightly lifted into a smile.
“What did you come for, my dear?”
“I have work to do.”
“It’s something to do…”
Charlotte was about to ask what she was supposed to do, but she quietly stepped aside, perhaps seeing my hardened face and the crumpled scroll in my right hand.
I approached the wizard. Her eyes were half-closed, and saliva dripped from the corners of her open mouth, creating a silvery thread that connected to the floor.
ㅡWow!
He slapped his right cheek. The woman’s head swung to the left, then snapped back into place.
“hey.”
“…”
There was no answer coming back. This time, he slapped the other cheek. He turned his head to the right with a groan.
A pale red color was added to the saliva that flowed from the inside of the mouth. A moan escaped from between slightly parted lips.
“Charlotte. Wake him up.”
“I understand.”
At the same time as Charlotte’s answer, the magic circle that restrained her hands and feet lit up. The woman raised her head. I felt my pupils dilate even further, and my mouth opened wide.
“Quaaagh
A desperate scream rang out. He twisted his body around and vomited blood. It seemed like he was struggling to get out of the binding magic, but it was just a meaningless struggle.
The screams continued for about 30 seconds, and the light of the restraining magic circle gradually faded. The woman exhaled a heavy, gasping breath.
“hey.”
“…”
Still no answer came back.
“Charlotte. That one more time—”
“Yes, yes! I will answer, no! I will answer! Sorry! Sorry! So please! Please don’t do that again! I beg you!”
The woman shed tears and bowed her head with a trembling body. He grabbed her hair and forced her head back.
He met eyes that were engulfed in fear. Tears welled up under her eyes, and the whites of her eyes were slightly red, as if the blood vessels had burst.
“What did you do here?”
“It’s a business related to black blooded monsters—”
“That’s not what I’m trying to say.”
“Um, I don’t know what you’re talking about-“
“Keep going until I tell you to stop.”
“I’m sorry! Save me, kyaaa!”
The magic circle shone again. I let go of the hair I was holding. After staring at the woman who was shaking all over as if in a fit, she turned to Charlotte.
A cold hard face. The smile that remained vaguely disappeared, leaving only cold hatred.
I half expected Charlotte to react like that. That’s why I made eye contact with that woman on purpose.
Probably, I will never die gracefully.
“What kind of magic is that? Have you developed any new magic for torture?”
“Do you think I’m so idle, my lady? I won’t deny that there are quite a few magic numbers created for the purpose of causing pain to humans, but what you said is an insult that I can’t tolerate as the king of this kingdom. Doesn’t that mean that the king dared to create magic to satisfy his own self-interest?”
Seeing the words grow so long, I could understand what he meant. He smiled bitterly inside. Were you looking for an opportunity to get in touch with me in this situation?
“Yes? Then what should I do?”
Charlotte opened her arms wide.
“Hug me.”
“……I thought so.”
“You mean you don’t like it?”
When I shook my head, I immediately felt the warmth of a warm human being along with a small shock in my arms. Both arms were tightly wrapped around my waist.
Charlotte buried her face in my chest.
While contemplating where to put his hand, he wrapped it around Charlotte’s shoulder. The body in the uniform flinched and burrowed deeper into my arms.
Charlotte rubbed her body as if her own scent was smeared on my body, and as if my own scent was smeared on her body.
Sup, I heard the sound of breathing in from the face buried in my chest. The ghastly screams coming from right next to it were a bonus.
“You must have thought that I was only waiting for an opportunity to connect with you, even under these circumstances.”
I wasn’t even surprised anymore. Seeing Charlotte read my heart naturally, I smiled wryly and stroked her hair a couple of times.
“However, this is the situation, so it has to be like this.”
“What are you talking about?”
Charlotte, who had been held in my arms, lifted her head and met my eyes. It was such beautiful eyes that I felt like I was being sucked into them when I looked at them.
“I know very well how you feel about black magic. However, you must remain calm in times like this. Anger eats away reason, and emotion blinds your eyes. Judge with reason, my dear. .”
to judge rationally. It was perfectly correct. Because there were so many examples where choices made based on emotions produced irreversible results.
But it shouldn’t be like that. At least for now, you shouldn’t judge coldly and calmly.
“Charlotte.”
He sighed deeply and stopped the hand that was stroking his hair.
“I get what you’re trying to say, but this is an exception. You can’t be cold-hearted, and you can’t be. Maybe you get what I mean.”
“Didn’t you mean that black magic was that dangerous?”
“right.”
“If this is what you mean, I will say no more about it.”
Charlotte buried her face in my arms again.
“Just make sure you don’t make the wrong choice because you can’t overcome your emotions.”
While being held in the boy’s arms and feeling the warmth and smell to her heart’s content, Charlotte organized her thoughts in her own way. It was because I didn’t fully understand this situation.
As soon as the boy, who had never lost his composure under any circumstances, brought a crumpled scroll in one hand with a hard expression on his face, Charlotte immediately grasped its meaning.
There were only two things in the world that could produce such an expression on that face.
Black blood monsters and black magic.
According to the boy, black blood monsters are closely related to black magic, so in fact, it could be said that only black magic evokes such serious feelings.
So, it was not that difficult to predict what the magic circle drawn on the crumpled scroll would be.
But the problem is, when Charlotte first entered this studio, she hadn’t found the existence of black magic.
That was also the biggest question Charlotte had.
She acted as if she had come for the first time, but Charlotte had already figured out what kind of research was being done in this workshop.
So, in order not to show the boy another woman, I threw her into the other side with telekinesis. It was an impossible action without knowing the internal structure of the workshop.
If there was a scroll with black magic drawn on it, Charlotte would have noticed it a long time ago. There was no way he had passed by without knowing the magic circle emitting black light.
Besides, even when I pulled out all the memories of this wizard and examined them, I couldn’t find any memories related to black magic.
There is only a delusion that it is possible to manufacture a poison stronger than Tene’s leaves using black blood monsters.
Moreover, even though the magic circle was clearly shining, there was no sign of the magic being activated.
That’s why Charlotte was puzzled.
She knows better than anyone that the boy is not one to lie with black magic, and knows her own skills better than anyone else.
Charlotte, who came to her first, doesn’t know, and neither does the person involved in the research at this workshop, but only the boy knows.
It was questionable.
Also very.
