Encounter (4)
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“You didn’t hate me, did you?”
At the woman’s question, the wizard turned his head without fiddling with the artifact.
“Do you hate me too?”
“I don’t like it. In the first place, you often did things that were disrespectful to you.”
“Don’t you think about what you did?”
“It was necessary.”
“You acted like a fool in front of me, but you guys were all assholes.”
The magician muttered while activating the hidden circles one by one.
“So he was just like that, and you are the same now.”
The wizard, who was giggling, quickly erased his expression as usual.
The woman looked at the rotating circle as the numbers were called more and more, and she closed her eyes with a confused face.
“…does it make sense? It’s like this.”
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
The wizard asserted.
Miracles were needed over and over again for what they were doing now to have meaning, and wizards were not originally a people who depended on miracles.
However.
One day, small, small, small coincidences overlap and overlap.
In the distant future, if you reach my descendants.
“…If that’s the case, please tell me.”
Beyond me with the knowledge I left behind.
Grasping the power of the stars I couldn’t reach.
“You must kill ….”
*
The time for the devil’s interrogation has come.
If there is an accomplice to the nobleman, the interrogation had to be finished quickly, as he could do it again.
Jimmy, who had to do this occasionally as a mercenary, was interrogated, and Ray and Jenkinson agreed to help Jimmy.
Ray asked as he went to the cage.
“Where is the elf’s weakness?”
A vital point, or a part of the body that is culturally important.
And the elves had one institution for both.
Jimmy answered, pulling his ear.
“It’s here.”
The elf’s ear was a very delicate, complex and sensitive organ, which allowed elves to have far superior sensing capabilities than humans.
Hearing that the elf’s ears act as a kind of radar, Rey was startled as he fiddled with his own ears.
“So it’s called the erogenous zone.”
“What have you been in estrus these days?”
“Am I not saying something very nonsense?”
If it’s an organ with sensitive senses, it can play that role in the end.
“If you’re curious about it, go and lick it yourself.”
“Hey, it’s a joke, a joke.”
For the remainder of their walk down the hallway, Jimmy, Ray, and Jenkinson briefly discussed how to interrogate.
“Jimmy and I will play the bad part.”
“Then what am I supposed to do?”
“If Jimmy and I scare you hard, the Master pretends to stop us like a knight and wins the hearts of the elves.”
“…that’s a good way.”
The three of them mocked each other and arrived at the front of the cage and looked at each other.
Jimmy was the first to slam the door into the cage and shouted as he went through the soundproof barrier that surrounded the elves.
“Hey, sweetheart!”
It was a pretty sloppy attitude.
So the interrogation began. However, the elf did not open his mouth easily despite the pressure of Jimmy and Rey.
Miner wasn’t stupid. I wandered through the Count of Phillips and saw too much with my own eyes.
If I kept my mouth shut here, I would die, and if I opened my mouth, I would die sooner.
Miner didn’t even say his name.
Jimmy took out his hammer, judging that the interrogation would not be easy, and Ray drew his dagger.
Rey stepped behind the elf and held a sharp, glowing dagger over her ear.
“Hey, you idiot. If you keep doing this over and over again, you can turn me into a idiot without ears.”
Hearing Ray’s words, Jimmy chuckled.
You’re an earless idiot.
Miner trembled in fear and contempt.
At that moment, Rey quickly swung her dagger.
🤩🤩!!!
A harsh wind blew through Miner’s ears.
The cold-headed Miner turned white and couldn’t breathe properly.
However, the severed ear never fell to the floor.
Rey’s dagger only lightly brushed against his ear.
Blood was oozing out of the small wound the dagger had made.
Ray and Jimmy burst into laughter again as they watched the elf’s shrunken face.
The elf, who later realized that his ears were unharmed, shouted, unable to contain his rising emotions.
“Hey, these demon-like humans…!!!”
The tears that had welled up in the elf’s eyes eventually began to flow one after another.
The sight of Miner crying sadly, with a beautiful appearance like an elf, was enough to move the emotions of the viewers.
However, the opponent was not good.
Jimmy and Jenkins were obviously good men, but they were people who knew their priorities better than anyone else.
His heart was not shaken by the tears of an elf that would harm the territory.
Ray had nothing to say.
Rather than hesitating when the elf cries, Rey pretends to giggle with excitement.
Seeing that vicious Rey, Miner wept even more sadly.
“Uhhh…!”
It was scary and lonely.
Miner didn’t want to die here like this.
Miner, who was a direct descendant of a high elf who was cursed and kicked out by the World Tree, had to live with the subtle contempt and discrimination of his people.
I didn’t like it, so I left for the human empire.
I thought that if I had my own skills, I would still be able to give strength to people and live with them.
In fact, he was hired by a high-ranking aristocratic family and was treated and lived in his own way.
However, while performing a mission he thought would be simple, he was caught by monsters, and now his honor is insulted and he is in danger of losing his life.
It wasn’t cold, but my body was trembling.
I miss my hometown and family that I thought I had separated from my heart.
“Uh, Mom…!! I want to go home, huh…!”
‘Hmm…?’
Ray was a little confused.
Assuming a mentally-armed soldier who would not yield to all kinds of torture, he entered the cage, but the speed of the elf’s mental exit was not normal.
At this point, it seemed that there was no need to shake the mind by writing a complicated Good Cop Bad Cop operation.
‘…Shall we cut it once?’
Like a neutered cat, if I cut off the ears in half, wouldn’t it spit out everything I didn’t know?
While I was thinking about something like that, I felt someone’s sharp gaze.
“…?”
Rey lifted her head and looked at the crowd of lights in human form. It was Aptel.
Aftel was looking at Rey with a very astringent expression on her face.
Aftel’s expression like that was the expression he had shown once when he heard that he was going to destroy the relic.
Ray frowned.
“Why again?”
[master.]
Aftel looked at Rey and Elf alternately, then opened his mouth.
[Are you racist, Master? We recommend that you avoid using racially discriminatory derogatory terms such as gwijae.]
“…”
Where did that AI break down?
Rey opened her mouth in disbelief.
However, regardless of Rey’s reaction, Aftel continued to speak.
[An elf’s ear is a precious organ. Don’t touch it carelessly. Is the master a savage? How can you be so savage and savage?]
“No, what the hell…”
Rey, who had been arguing with Aftel, shut her mouth.
Suddenly, the conversation I had with Aftel at the obelisk of the Imperial Palace Tower flashed through my head.
– Hey. You… no, wasn’t the owner who made you also a wizard? Why do you hate wizards so much?
– My wise master knew that most wizards, including himself, were serious personality breakers. Because of this, my personality was created based on the person of a third person, not Lisilote-sama.
– Who is the third party?
– I do not know.
“third person…”
Judging from Aftel’s reaction, the person who became Aftel’s base is an elf.
An elf deeply associated with the Archmage 600 years ago.
An elf whom Lysilote trusted enough to adopt in place of her personality.
After much deliberation, Ray came to a possibility.
“Maybe you… the original of your personality…”
Looking at the personality of the elf that was wearing the image of Ricilote in her youth, Rey took a step back involuntarily and sighed.
It seemed now clear to me why Lisilote did not have to duplicate her own, but instead kept the personality of another person.
The character who is the basis of ‘Aftel’ and the personality that the Archmage Lisilote wanted to convey to someone in the distant future.
“Your original was… Resina.”
Here is another remnant of a hero who, after saving the world 600 years ago, fell under the curse of the World Tree.
*
Count Phillips, who had reached the Signy Mountains, sighed deeply as he looked at a half-crowded mountain.
It was too loud and huge for an incident that was just caused by Ray’s pranks.
First of all, the mountain had to be restored, albeit clumsily. It would have been nice to be caught off guard over and over again if left unattended to be the traces of such a high-level magic experiment.
The Count murmured after looking at the scars left by Luna for a long time.
“The chest…”
“Don’t you think it’s getting grander?”
The Count looked back at Rei with an annoyed expression on his face, then agreed.
When I looked at the traces of this enormous magic, my heart was pounding.
“Can a wizard perform such a miracle…”
This was the reason why wizards were treated more seriously than knights.
It is often said that an expert can deal with wizards under 5th circle, and a graduate can deal with high-ranking wizards.
If the wizard wasn’t prepared for battle, that’s right.
On the contrary, the unprepared wizard was easily hunted down by the knights.
Being an 8th circle wizard, it was not possible to develop 8th circle magic at once.
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No matter how simple the 8-circle magic is, it took several hours to develop it properly.
However, if there was an enormous amount of money and time, it was possible for the wizard to develop and prepare the magic in advance.
In the case of Luna too, over a few weeks to several months, the mass of energy that had been compressed and fixed in subspace little by little was consumed in this magic.
This was the difference between a wizard and a knight.
Even if you gave the knight a few months of time, it was difficult to prepare anything more than honing his skills a little.
In a few months for a high-ranking wizard, one high-ranking annihilation magic could be sufficiently prepared.
This was the reason why the wizard was always at the center of the tactical strategy of wars between countries.
Of course, if there were uninhabited masters, this balance would once again be disrupted, but there has never been a single time in human history where there were more than five masters at the same time.
Count Phillips opened his mouth again after silently appreciating the scene that was too transcendent for a human to have done.
“But didn’t you say that Luna has now reached the level of 3rd circle?”
“That’s right.”
“No matter how much I prepared in advance, is it possible for the 3rd circle to perform this kind of magic power?”
“As a general rule of thumb, no matter how low you set it, it should be a 7th circle.”
“…Lay.”
“Yes.”
“Can you control it?”
“You don’t have to worry too much. Luna is kind and… she will become a great wizard.”
It was Ray’s unchanging belief.
Rey, who calmly looked at the collapsing mountain, brought up the main point.
“I have something to tell you. About Resina.”
The count’s expression hardened once more when the sensitive name came out .
