Chapter 51 – 06. The Great Mage and the Elementalist (1)
[The Great Mage and the Elementalist]
Valdez was given a two-day vacation.
Although he had been in the knights for less than two months, he was still favored by the princess and the knight commander. He was able to get permission from them without difficulty. He didn’t have many people who cared about him anyway. He also tended to be more likely to take vacations for servants than for knights.
Training for Ethylene and Mari was still in progress, and there were problems with Beatrice, but it was a choice that took those into consideration.
“Beatrice will need some more time to think about it, and it’s time to worry about the other two.”
I was thinking of warming them up for the final spurt.
But that wasn’t the main purpose of his vacation.
– Found the Grand Mage’s dungeon.
Irena sent an urgent message through the crystal ball.
He’s the vestiges of one of our most important enemies, and I couldn’t wait. Although the distance is quite long, he sent me the coordinates from Irena and even prepared a magic circle, so I was able to get there with space magic at once.
“… Whoa. It’s been a while.”
“It’s been a while, Bocchan.”
“Valdes-nim…”
Unlike Irena, who welcomed him, Vilma called out Valdes’ name with a dark expression.
“Vilma, you… Did you recognize it?”
“…Yes.”
She answered and shook her head. To express Vilma’s feelings for her now, it would probably be close to despair. It was because he realized the dark reality of the wizard he respected.
“Let’s unpack the cloth later and go inside.”
“Yes.”
“…”
The magic circle was drawn outside the entrance because other elements could react to the mana or space magic itself after moving into the dungeon.
The dungeon left by the great mage was discovered in a pile of stones in a wasteland close to the Dezac Empire. To be precise, the entrance to the dungeon was discovered there, and the dungeon itself only appeared after going deeper.
What appeared like that was a huge laboratory and laboratory.
Vilma thought the size of this place was similar to the sum of the ten floors of the Mage Tower. The facilities there were also sufficiently comparable to those there. Some were even better equipped than the Mage Tower. The problem is that most of those facilities are in a dangerous direction.
Numerous human experiments, illegal research, and traces of forbidden magic lurk in the dungeon.
“How did you know Valdes-sama? About his reality his…”
Vilma asked muttering in her melancholy voice her, glaring at the terrifying artifacts scattered around her.
“In the first place, if he was a normal guy, he wouldn’t have betrayed me. Even the little ones he saw in the middle were suspicious.”
“… Betrayal?”
I tilted my head.
That’s ridiculous. It was a group of warriors who lived in Tsushima, but what kind of demons did he betray? Moreover, he died 12 years ago, when Valdez was very young.
“What, didn’t you tell me?”
At Vilma’s confused reaction, Valdes turned his head to look at Irena.
She shrugged her shoulders and put on a look of annoyance.
“Do I really need to tell you? I don’t know, but it doesn’t interfere with my work.”
“No, it is, but…”
“Hey, if it’s important, can you let me know too? You wouldn’t be able to say anything about it anyway because of that, um, dirty talk.
She was about to say that she was her colleague her, but Irena noticed her and quickly changed her words her.
“Don’t be alarmed, listen carefully.”
“Yes.”
“Actually, I’m the warrior Pedro. No, it was.”
“…Yes?”
“Look carefully.”
Valdez turned his head towards Vilma and pointed his finger at her at his face at her.
“Does it resemble a dragon love?”
“Uhhhhh! Is that so?!”
She was taken back by the unexpected fact.
The Dezac Empire gave preference to magic rather than swords, and among the warriors, the Grand Mage, who was the owner of the royal mage tower at the time, was included, so the achievements of the Grand Mage were more widely known than the Hero . It was patriotic propaganda targeting its own people.
Although some lies were mixed in, the feat of the hero was relatively little known because the great mage was active in many ways. Thanks to this, Vilma had never seen the face of the hero Pedro properly, and now he noticed that Valdes resembled him.
“How did the demons… Ugh?! Could it be that the homunculus using the hero’s genes… ?!
“What do you mean? I’m the one.”
“Eh? No, what is that…”
“The hero’s party betrayed me, that is, the hero. The hero didn’t actually kill the demon king and hid it secretly. So, after being betrayed, I went to the demon king, and the demon king reincarnated me as a half -human, half-horse.”
“Eek…?”
What is this all of a sudden?
But he had no reason to lie. He has nothing to use as a justification for invading the continent. For what reason have you been invading until now? However, even if I insisted on such a story, it would be impossible for people to suddenly side with the demons.
“Huh? Huh? Valdes-nim is the hero? The demon king reincarnates?”
Leaving the confused Vilma alone, Valdes went deeper with Irena.
After walking for almost an hour from the entrance of the dungeon, we arrived at the room where the great mage was supposed to reside. There were chimeras and golems that appeared to be guardians of dungeons in between, but those who had come earlier had taken care of them all.
A significant amount of books and papers were piled up in the center of the Grand Mage’s room.
“It’s well organized.”
“I’ve put together only the most important ones. If you need anything else, I’ll bring them.”
“Yes.”
Valdez sat down in a chair and began to read what Irena had gathered.
In her mind, she wanted to have her summarize her data of her, but apparently she herself had more magical knowledge than she did. She needed to read it herself, in case she missed anything important.
I wondered what the Great Mage was preparing. True to his grandiose nickname his, he was a genius worthy of being counted in the history of the continent. It’s just that Valdez himself is superior to him even in his magical talent. Although his talents were more focused on combat and black magic.
He was a great mage who was proficient in other fields than combat magic, so he probably could gain a lot from reading them.
By the time Vilma had sorted her thoughts out, Valdés laughed.
Haha!!”
“Oh, I’m surprised… Why, why are you laughing so much? Balde… That, Pedro, Mr. Pedro.”
“What are you doing?”
The girls, who were taking a break from the surroundings, suddenly saw Valdes laughing madly, and approached him, wanting to know what was going on.
“This asshole was a real madman. She’d be pretty much a nuisance if I didn’t find her now.”
“Huh? What the hell are you doing?”
“I’m glad that the hard work was worth it.”
He got close enough to Irena, then reached his hand her behind him and grabbed her hip her.
“Huh…!”
“Oh no!”
Beside her, whether Vilma was surprised or not, Valdez whispered while massaging her luscious flesh of her.
“You’ve worked really hard. I’m on vacation until tomorrow, so you can look forward to it tonight.”
“Yes, yes… ♡”
He shyly nodded his head.
His body his heated up just by imagining the reward he would give him. He did, but he tried to put up with it somehow. He still had a long way to go until night, and already this would shatter his pride as his as a secretary.
“What the hell is that!”
“Vilma.”
“Yes!”
“First of all, call me Valdes as usual. I’m comfortable with that too. You toured the facilities here? How was it?”
She hesitated for a moment, then opened her mouth with her sullen face.
“Honestly, I was disappointed with the previous Mage Tower Lord. Even a warlock would not conduct an experiment like this. Even being declared a continental achievement would not be enough. Tens of thousands of people would have died here. How much did he have to go through to prepare something like this…”
“That’s it? Anything weird?”
“Yeah? What a strange thing… Ah. Ah? That, come to think of it…”
She was intelligent, so it was not difficult to understand what Valdez was saying.
“This is strange. The Mage Tower lord said he died 12 years ago in a magic experiment. But the shortest traces here are from 9 years ago… Plus, it feels like something was removed vaguely.”
“That’s correct.”
After saying that, Valdez walked towards the study. The two women also followed him.
Arriving at the study, he fiddled with books and tools several times.
Kururu-
“Ah…”
“It’s a secret passage.”
After repeating about 10 times, a small mechanical sound and a hidden staircase appeared behind the study.
“The real thing was different.”
“Yeah, that can’t be…”
They headed down the stairs. Unlike other places, there were no lights here, so I had to create light with magic. Judging from the fact that there was no sign of accumulated dust or human presence, it seemed that this staircase had not been used for about 9 years.
“That old man must have felt the limits of his research his at the Mage Tower. Pretending to be a good human being was inconvenient for him to move. So he pretended to be dead and came here to continue his research. I guess about three years.”
“…”
Valdez walked the stairs and solved the things he had figured out and deduced.
“Then, the long research must have come to fruition. But it was not an ordinary experiment, so I couldn’t try it right away. The body has reached its limit, but the finished product hasn’t come out yet. So it must have been about 10 years.”
“There’s about a year left. So the boy…”
“Yeah. Realistically, it’s less than a year away.”
While we were talking, the stairs ended and a door appeared. Valdes casually put an aura on his finger and cut through the iron door. As they kicked the iron door cut in half and went inside, a shocking sight came into their field of vision.
“Hey, what the hell is this…”
“…Her.”
The first thing I saw was the corpse of an old man in a huge glass coffin. The glass tube contained an unidentified translucent liquid like amniotic fluid, and a number of tube bundles were connected to the old man’s head and respiratory system.
In fact, the word corpse was not accurate. It’s just that I can’t confirm whether I’m alive or dead. But if I was alive in that state, it seemed like it would be terrifying. The old man was naked, and one of his shoulders was stained black.
“Lord of the Magic Tower…”
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face.”
Of course, the identity of the old man was the previous master of the mage tower, the great mage.
“That wound…”
“That’s the group of bodies I was talking about. The traces of the curse I suffered while fighting the Elder Lich. And the other side.”
Following his words her, Vilma looked at his opposite shoulder his, more precisely at his arm his. There are blurry but marks of being cut and reattached.
“It’s the scar I cut when I betrayed you. The saintess probably pasted it on, but someone cut it, so I’ll stick it perfectly.”
“…”
“If you come all the way here, you’ll know what that old man has prepared, right?”
Vilma was devastated.
To use the things obtained through experiments and research from the upper level is merely to change into a homunculus.
Among magicians, there was a culture of subtly sharing the treatment of the magician and the noble through the purpose of research.
The most rewarding purpose is the search for pure truth. Other than that, there were various purposes, such as for the people’s livelihood and becoming the strongest wizard, but there was only one at the bottom.
Body replacement for longevity. At least it was okay to change one’s body into a lich or study immortality. In the case of Rich, it was only an intermediate process to achieve the purpose of research, and immortality is to benefit all humans.
However, body replacement through homunculus or chimera is only for one’s own self-interest. And the necessary research and experiments inevitably had to be accompanied by numerous sacrifices.
“Perhaps the new body is connected to that glass tube.”
There was a male homunculus that looked very strong and sturdy at first glance. It was clear that the mana circuit and mana contained in the homunculus would be enormous, and even the physical abilities and senses would be superior to that of a superhuman.
“Okay…”
“Now I’m going to swap that body.”
“…Yes?”
What else does this mean?
Vilma thought that from now on he would break the glass coffin and kill the archmage who was still alive. However, he could not figure out why he was doing such a thing.
“Ah. Come on, no way…”
“Oh, her brain her works? Right. I’m going to put that old man’s mind inside a sturdy female homunculus, just by adjusting her rough senses of her.”
“…Oh My God.”
I thought it was too terrible to call it revenge.
“Hey, Mr. Valdes? No matter how much, I don’t like that kind of thing…”
“Are you crazy? Why am I fucking like that? Of course, I’m trying to make you suffer until I’m about to die. Besides, the old man still has a granddaughter and a student. Of course, I have to show you how to fuck and eat those bitches. It’s a bonus that the empire is destroyed.”
“Ah, ah…”
Irena, who listened to the conversation beside her, let out a sigh of relief.
If Valdes told her to fuck a homunculus containing the spirit of a great mage, she would never object. No matter how much he is the demon king who will rule the continent in the future, such a monstrous taste could not be tolerated.
If such a thing were possible, wouldn’t it be possible to transfer the spirit of not only the offended women but also the men? If you do something wrong, you could come to a situation where your rival or side room becomes a man instead of a woman. That kind of thing was never refused, both as a subordinate and as a lover.
“Then do we keep guarding this place?”
“Well….”
At Irena’s question, Valdez fell into thought for a moment.
Looking at the unfinished homunculus, it seemed that at least the activation of the magic that moved the mind of the great mage would take two to three months. Until then, it was too wasteful in terms of manpower to leave the two alone here.
“What happened to inciting the nobles to riot?”
“The goal is deeper than expected and there are many gaps, so it is going easily.”
“Then let’s get your hands off of that. In fact, it seems that the royal family is starting to notice. From now on, I’ll use my hands to put pressure on the royal family.”
“All right.”
“And…”
That time when I was about to talk about future plans and missions. Suddenly, it felt like a weak vibration with a roar.
“Kyaaak!”
“What is this again?”
Now they are located below the existing dungeon. Even so, it was not an ordinary thing that vibrations resonated all the way here. It wasn’t even like a light earthquake.
“You guys come up slowly!”
With an unknown feeling of uneasiness, he quickly climbed up. The closer he got to the ground, the more familiar he felt.
“Ha, damn that’s right.”
As he finally came out of the dungeon with explosive speed, he could see it.
“Kyahahahahaha!!!!”
The figure of a bluish-colored giant running rampant behind a certain pink-haired crazy woman.
“… Yuelli.”
“As expected! As expected! His appearance his has changed, but it’s definitely Pedro!!”
– Huh, is this real?
Her name her is Yueli. She was a spirit sage of the hero’s party, and she was a madwoman.
