Chapter 86 – Aquarius (3)
“Whoa.”
The scene of the incident has been preserved. The person in charge was eagerly explaining that it was the result of a combination of several magics, but I couldn’t hear it. The scene of the incident was a corner room even inside the Mage Tower.
Mercenaries and priests went up to investigate Caroline, who was the owner of the room, and an explosion sounded shortly after. The person in charge hurriedly came upstairs and said that all the mercenaries and priests had already been smashed in the room and that Caroline had disappeared somewhere.
“It’s terrible.”
The scene seemed to have moved the word “Horror” As it was. The small alcove was full of blood. This was despite the fact that a considerable amount of time had passed since the incident occurred. Pieces presumed to be internal organs were attached to the walls, and the contents of the glass flask had deteriorated and had not recovered its original appearance.
“What kind of wizard was Carolyn?”
“We don’t have much to explain because we don’t know exactly about each wizard. From my memory, he seems to have been a pretty good-looking wizard with red hair.”
“It’s a rather vague memory.”
“Because she’s never encountered. Carlyn doesn’t come out of this room very well.”
“How did the bodies lie down?”
It was literally like a bomb exploded. Nonetheless, the bodies were fairly well preserved. I wondered if these were traces of the Mage Tower restoring the corpses using magical means, or if they were originally lying in good shape.
“Ah, that’s…”
The person in charge scratched his head as if he was a bit troubled and hesitated before speaking to me.
“It’s going to be kind of horrible, can you see it?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
After my permission was granted, the person in charge raised a wand with a reluctant face and swung it in the air while reciting an incantation. Then, the crystals embedded in the room began to glow and shoot small laser-like things in all directions. I frowned for a moment as the light dazzled my eyes.
The lasers slowly started creating some blunt shapes. They were lumps of various sizes, some like hands and some like human faces. These lumps were stuck to the wall. And it had a texture very similar to human flesh, and was covered in red blood…
“Chew…”
The light was reproducing the scene of the incident as it was. I was able to face the shapes of flesh scattered all over the place, the lower half of the body intact, and several corpses that had been thrown out of the room. The person in charge looked around the room, which quickly became a set for a B-grade splatter movie.
“How about it? It’s the field preservation magic that the Mage Tower boasts.”
“Has this happened often?”
The magic itself was great, but considering that the reason for creating such magic is to solve common problems, it was not a very welcome preparation.
“This is a magic that was used to recreate the scene before handing over the lonely dying wizards to their families. We also did not know that it would be used in a mass murder like this.”
Fortunately, the shapes made of this light did not feel texture unlike the real thing. When I kicked the foot of the priest lying on the floor, it crackled and slightly distorted the shape, but it did not give the impression that I had actually kicked the foot.
“It’s a huge explosion anyway.”
The furniture in the room is fine, but the people are all broken. Starting from the center of the room, blood was spreading in all directions as if exploding, and people’s corpses were also scattered in all directions from the center of the room. I found the look a bit odd.
“Doesn’t anyone visit Caroline’s room?”
“No. Since we go on patrol every week to check for lonely or accidental deaths, sorcerers aren’t too reluctant to visit.”
“Then why did Carolyn attack the mercenaries?”
Why did a human who didn’t even mind visiting attack the mercenaries? The mercenaries just came to inquire about Evangeline, not to investigate Caroline. There was no trace of Evangeline in the room right away. If I were Evangeline and I was thinking of disguising my identity her as a mage tower wizard, I would have hidden the things I really use in another hideout.
“Isn’t there something suspicious about the mercenaries and priests found in Caroline?”
“There’s something suspicious, but Caroline did a good job opening the door. Do you give instructions from the Mage Tower to have the wizards open the door when investigating the mercenaries?”
And if there was something suspicious in the first place, it would be enough if you didn’t open the door. There must have been not one or two wizards other than Carolin who wouldn’t open the door to the mercenaries in this Mage Tower. Then, among the wizards, there was no reason for the mercenaries to feel suspicious because they singled out only Caroline.
“We don’t force wizards to do that.”
“If Karlin were Evangeline, he would dare to hide suspicious objects in this mage tower, open a door that he did n’t have to open, attract mercenaries, and then he would dare to expose his identity to her and run away.”
“You’re not careless, are you? Everyone makes mistakes.”
She was a strict woman who forbade her to reveal her identity to him, and she wore her mask her even in the slave market. But does she make mistakes like that?
“It’s possible that Karlin wasn’t Evangeline herself, but rather her sidekick her. That’s why she got scared and ran away.”
“There is a possibility.”
The opinion of the person in charge was plausible. She said that if Karlin was one of Evangeline’s men, she could have raised her job alone and ran away, started by the sudden arrival of her mercenaries and priests her. But even if she did, there were more oddities about her.
“By the way, the explosion seems to have occurred in the middle of the room?”
“Yes. That’s right. It seems that the mana was strongly condensed and exploded.”
“If Caroline was in the room…”
I roughly deduced the location of Karlin from her explosion marks her. Two steps after that. There was a lab table and chairs. I said as I sat in the chair.
“Karlyn must have been sitting here.”
From the chair I could see the door directly in front of me. The mercenaries and priests must have entered through that door. As I drew a picture in my head, something strange happened. The magic explosion exploded in the center of the mercenaries and priests, so it was not strange that the personnel were scattered in all directions.
I looked at the wall behind her chair where Karlin was sitting. There was the wizard’s corpse. The wizard was lying with his back against the wall. If, as we expected, Carolin suddenly struck a magical explosion as soon as she entered, the fallen wizard here should have died with her head against her against the wall, not with her back to the wall.
If the magic explosion had hit the center of the group, this wizard who would have been standing in the front would have been caught up in the explosion behind him.
“Your face is seriously injured.”
However, the wizard’s face was completely smashed, and at first glance there was no wound on the back of his head. I told the person in charge.
“Could you go down and check the mercenary wizard’s corpse? You need to check the back of the head for signs of magic.”
At that, the person in charge drew a cane in the air, muttered a few words, then looked at me again and said:
“There were no signs of that. They said there were only some bruises.”
“Magic is convenient.”
“Would you like to learn?”
I shook my head. In this case, the situation was reorganized. Carolyn didn’t just throw magic at the incoming mercenaries. It was possible that the mercenary and her priests were surrounding Karlin. Carolyn uncovered some crucial evidence to the mercenaries. As the mercenaries and priests surrounded him, he made a final outburst of magic and then fled.
“Looking at the corpse, I wonder if it was surrounded by something. What did the mercenaries and priests see and surround Caroline?”
“Didn’t you find evidence that it was Evangeline?”
“Proof that you’re Evangeline? Where is that?”
“Isn’t it because Caroline ran away with her? It’s just to cover up even if she gets caught later.”
So, does the story end like this? I was scratching my head. To sum it up roughly, it was: Carolyn confidently let the mercenaries and priests into the room. However, Karlin, who was a dog’s asshole, was caught by the mercenaries with evidence that he was Evangeline or had a relationship with Evangeline. As a last resort, Karlin creates a magical explosion, kills all the mercenaries and priests, and escapes.
It seemed a bit disappointing, but it seemed that there would be no more ending than this.
The person in charge looked at the mage’s corpse stuck to the wall at the end of the room and said with regret.
“Oh, she was a lively young lady, but it’s a pity.”
“Was she a woman?”
I didn’t even check who the wizard was by looking at the personal details of the mercenaries. A pretty wizard, I thought it was a bit unfortunate.
“Yes. Now that her face her has been smashed, you won’t be able to recognize her, but … Is n’t she a very bold lady anyway? To come out in front like this to try to stop Caroline…”
You don’t know who it is because your face her is smashed? Are you coming forward to stop Caroline? Only then did I realize that I was thinking something wrong. Why is the wizard in front in the first place? Shouldn’t the priests and other mercenaries be in the front? Does it make sense for a wizard to be in the vanguard?
Also, why did I think that wizards must be in the Mage Tower? There are many wizards who just register their names in the Mage Tower and roam freely. There are so many wizards roaming around freely with signs saying they are mercenaries. What was I misunderstanding?
Why did you think Carolyn caused the magic explosion? There was one more wizard.
I drew a picture in my head again. A more natural picture.
Mercenaries and priests visit Caroline to investigate. Karlin gladly opens the door, and her mercenaries and priests rush into the room. Since they had to be equipped with various experimental tools, each room in the Mage Tower was quite spacious. Someone explains the situation as a representative and brings out documents for interrogation. As Carolyn focuses on her papers her, the wizard behind her pulls out her wand her and casts her spell.
And pop.
Carolyn, who was facing the wizard, is blown away and slammed into a wall with her face smashed. Her priests and mercenaries burst and fly in all directions.
“What color was this mercenary wizard’s hair?”
“It was red. Come to think of it, it’s the same as Caroline’s…”
The person in charge stopped talking and the expression on her face her hardened. It was clear that he, too, was going through the process of reasoning I had done slowly. He was speechless and looked at me. I urged the person in charge.
“Right now, contact Karlyn and her her family and ask them if there are any physical characteristics of her that would identify her as Karlin.”
Evangeline, this bitch was making fun of people. From the moment I recruited her mercenaries her, I was already playing in her hands her.
