Chapter 489 – The Four Wizards (1)
“Finally! Finally! The research has paid off!”
Along with the screams of the wizard who had been imprisoned for 60 years in the basement of the Mage Tower, golems made of flesh and decayed corpses rose from all sides. The face of the wizard who had lived for 90 years was already as good as a corpse. It has been a long time since he even changed his body into an undead by using his pride of undead magic.
His name His is Mad Crow. He was an authority on chimera research, which made a chimera by combining two living things, and was a symbol of all inhumane experiments tolerated by the Mage Tower. He was a person who caused controversy in the Mage Tower every time by announcing to the academic world experiments to create enhanced beastmen by connecting beastmen and real animals, and experiments to create new humans with the characteristics of both races by connecting mermaids and beastmen.
However, his real goal was not this simple chimera experiment. He wanted an undead legion.
When he was 30 years old, he was an ordinary criminal who lived facing books, but he had to be taken to the battlefield. It was because he needed a mage to create strengthening magic for his knights and soldiers.
The war broke out over a single pyeong of land between the two territories. The soldiers cried out, saying they did not want to die in a meaningless fight, and the knights of the Territory shed bitter tears even as they died from arrows. It was because he knew that there was nothing left in this war other than satisfying the greed of the lords.
Soldiers were carried away every day, and families groaned. Young people who pleaded not to go to war were dragged away and lost their lives. When the kingdom finally intervened and ended the war, the victors lost 9 knights, 1,300 men and executed 30 territorial representatives.
There was nothing different about being a loser. The land the winner had was literally just a little bit more.
Crow, the surviving wizard, had to work with the priests of the Archangel Church to collect the body. Crow, who was left intact in the middle of the bloody battlefield, began to think a lot about death from then on.
Why do people have to be dragged to the battlefield pointlessly and die? Isn’t it possible to fight a war without people dying? If people who have already died went to war instead, wouldn’t it be possible for no one to die? Wouldn’t an army of the dead be better than the living?
It might have gone wrong from there. Crow knew his thoughts were going in a bit of a terrible direction. So he went down to the basement of the Mage Tower and started his research. He ostensibly pretended to be researching chimeras. He connected a mermaid with a beastman, and a mouse with a dog to create a dog with a rat head. He even created a dog with wolf teeth and cat claws.
The people of the Society estimated Crowe’s budget while looking at his research as a kind of circus. Crow used part of his budget to smuggle corpses, airlifting dead mermaids and beastmen corpses from other wizards. And he embarked on an experiment to revive the dead through a secret workshop in one corner of the basement.
The spirit magic commonly used by elves and the resurrection magic studied by Crow were different. The spirit magic was magic that summoned that ‘person’, but Crow’s research was a study using only corpses. Crow felt there was little difference between the two, but he knew that the moment he published the study, he would be treated like a lunatic.
60 years have passed like that. It was the point at which the foundation of magic that could manipulate a terrifying and powerful corpse was established. One day, with the news that the supply of magic stones had stopped, a polite order to celebrate was issued. It was because the magic tower stopped supplying magic stones for inhumane experiments according to the atmosphere of the continent and the shortage of magic stones.
Some wizards were outraged by the matter and ran out. Most of them were sorcerers who studied gloomy magic so that they could not tell others. Crow also agreed with them and ran out of the mage tower. He had a total of three colleagues with him.
The first was the sorcerer Matthew, who liked to torment different races and carried out torture-like experiments on beastmen and mermaids. He denied his nature, but judging by the look on his face his when he put a barbed needle into a prisoner’s ear and stirred it, he was a person who became a wizard simply because he liked torture.
He stormed out of his mage tower, enraged at the term “Torture” For his ‘experiments’.
The second colleague was Escador, a wizard who was researching body modification. He was an eccentric person who changed his body to the extreme when he could not find his test subject due to body modification research. Currently, his body has seven arms, each with two eyes that he can see in different directions, and a large mouth on his stomach that he can chew and swallow any food from a plate.
His skin his was as hard as steel, so no knife could lift it, and because a magic circle was drawn all over his body his, halfway through his magic his could not penetrate. He was a human who took pride in his penis, which was as big and hard as a knight’s lance, by repeating extreme remodeling. .
The third wizard was not expelled himself, but he was the one Escador saved from being dragged to the execution site. His name His is Peria. He was a human who was conducting research on forcibly attaching animal ears or tails to make humans look like beasts. The fact that he had kidnapped a local noblewoman and attached animal ears and tails to him was discovered and he was being taken to the execution site under the guidance of the Magic Tower. Was
Escador rescued Feria for being a ‘comrade betrayed by the Mage’s Tower’, but after Feria heard that the young lady with her ears and tail was only 8 years old, she didn’t say a word to her.
The four wizards gathered like that decided to join forces for their own free research. When each of them saw the end of their research, they vowed to join forces to conquer the Mage Tower and open an era of free experimentation.
Struggle for freedom. They sincerely believed that.
And now. In a hut near the Dwarf Kingdom, Crow’s undead legion was squirming and wriggling, raising its momentum. Standing in the center, Crow was riding a skeleton warhorse made of dozens of skeletons intertwined and laughing vigorously. The Dwarven Kingdom was visible in the distance.
If his undead legion his wipes out the dwarf warriors equipped with fearsome weapons and innate fighting skills, the world will also recognize the usefulness of the undead soldiers. Crow thought so and moved forward.
Beside him, dwarves and skinny skeletons clinging to rotten flesh were moving like insects. The villages of the Dwarven Kingdom had yet to show any reaction. Crow cried.
“All! Charge!”
Following his cry his, the staff Crow held in his hand his glowed red. The corpses who looked at the light of the staff were running towards the palace with their mouths wide open. Crow let out his gnarly laugh and waited for the results of the corpses.
Bang!
Crow’s body his was blown away by the explosive wind. He was an expert in magic, but his physical abilities were slightly stronger than those of an average person. If he wasn’t undead, he would have been killed in an attack a moment ago. Crow also put the broken backbone together, thinking that the undead were the best. And he looked to the side. A large crater remained in the place where the undead had been walking majestically a moment ago.
As if a meteorite had fallen, hot heat was emanating from the hollowed ground. Crow looked at the castle again. On the other side of the castle, I saw a small pebble floating up. The stone was spinning at a furious speed and falling to the ground. Crow instinctively opened the barrier and screamed.
Bang!
In an instant, the stone collided with the barrier, and the stone pierced the barrier as lightly as passing through a snowball. As Crow tried to escape with his mouth wide open, a stone pierced his chest and landed on the floor.
“Ah ah ah ah ah! AA AA AA!”
Crow screamed in pain. The smashed body was not restored. It was because his stronger mana was interfering with his regeneration. The overwhelming magic power dwelling in the stone was rather disintegrating his body.
The world turned white. The magic power contained in the stone erupted and swept the area. The undead, unable to withstand the energy spreading like a storm, were being blown away by the wind. Crow was the same.
His whole body was being crushed to pieces one by one. Crow couldn’t stand the pain and let out his screams.
“Aaaaagh! Aaaaagh!”
Indifferent to his screams, the undead were only swept away by the storm with blank eyes.
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“Really… Excuse me.”
The Dwarf Finance Minister once again prostrated himself in front of Theoter. Then he got up again and looked into Theoter’s eyes. She was staring at the forest with a large bottle of wine. On the castle wall right below the two of them, a huge cannon made by the Dwarves this time was blowing steam.
There was once a large forest in the direction the cannon was aimed at. The forest no longer existed in that place where the dust rose. It was because a corner of the forest had turned into a large lake-like pit with a single stone.
The story was simple.
The Minister of Finance did his best to treat her to Shiotere, who came to the dwarf kingdom to play, and even prepared a performance of shooting a cannon to please her who likes fighting and excitement. When Theoter asked how strong the cannon was, the Minister of Finance merely replied, lying flat on his face her.
“It will be about the same as being stoned by Sir Theoter.”
And the cannon fired right in front of Theoter left a hole large enough to bury only a few people. Seeing this, Theo Terre immediately tore off the wall with her hands and threw the cannon in the direction from which it had been blown.
And with a triumphant expression, he pointed to the mark he had made and said:
“Did you see it? My stone sling is about this.”
Then, the Minister of Finance had no choice but to bow his head while forcibly pulling his trembling legs together.
“I’m really sorry.”
