EP4. The beginning of the journey (7)
“Oh, are you awake?”
Sean felt the world turn green. Levi’s beautiful emerald eyes, always the same, were right in front of Shawn.
Sean wasn’t surprised. He just smiled. Just like the smile Levi was making in front of him.
Sean looked at Levy and said in a voice that didn’t wake her up.
“Are you okay? Did something happen while staying up all night?”
I don’t know if what happened meant an attack by someone or something like Sean just in case, but Levy nodded her head because nothing had happened.
Sean looked to his side. He saw a young man who fell asleep snoring in his sleeping bag. Well, he didn’t look like a bad-tempered person, although he was a bit foul-mouthed and timid.
Sean got out of his sleeping bag, barely waking his shaggy spirit. Levi addressed her.
“You can sleep more and leave. You must not have slept much last night.”
“You stood up during the night watch too, shouldn’t you get some sleep?”
At those words, Levi glanced at the sleeping young man and shook her head.
“No, Mr. Cren woke me up very late, so I was awake shortly.”
Sean looked at Cren once, as if he was surprised by that statement, and smiled at Levy.
“Really? Then let’s get some more sleep. The two of us are talking, well.”
“Two of you?”
At Sean’s words, Levy sat next to Sean with a laugh that only comes out when the two of them are together.
The two stuck together every day, but their conversation always continued. Such a fresh conversation that never stops laughing.
As Shawn and Levy laughed about nonsensical things, Cren started rummaging in her sleeping bag as if waking up from the noise.
Only then, Shawn realized that quite a bit of time had passed, and began waking Kren up.
“Mr. Cren? Mr. Cren.”
At that, Kren mumbled and finally spoke.
“…Just a little more, mom…”
hahahaha, in the end Sean really waited a little longer. I expected to wake up if I waited, but that was a mistake. He fell asleep again.
Shaun woke him up once more.
“Mr. Cren! Wake up now! We have to leave!”
At that, Kren’s expression frowned, and she was annoyed in her sleep.
“…Ah, a little… Sigur…”
Shaun let out a sigh. No, what the hell did you do yesterday to sleep like this? I was grateful that Levy made less vigils, so she did me a little favor…
As Sean makes one last attempt to wake him, someone stops him. It was levy
“Levy?”
“I’ll wake you up.”
Shaun looked at Levy with a puzzled look on his face. It’s because Levi doesn’t talk to him. Levi only stretched out his hand.
Shaun’s expression changed from doubt to surprise. No way······.
To stop Levi’s murder, Shawn tried to call out to Levy, but Levi’s magic was one step faster than that.
With a whooshing sound, water poured out of Levi’s palm with great intensity.
“Evil! f*ck! Save people!”
Cren, who was hit head-on by the water baptism, stood up immediately. Kren felt himself all over himself and then let out a sigh of relief when he realized he was safe.
Sean pondered over what to say about Levy’s aggressive response, but he kept quiet because he thought it wouldn’t matter anyway since the results were good. He was frankly quite exhilarating.
***
After the three got up, they were heading towards Raes. To be precise, he was heading towards a valley where a rock had fallen and blocked the road.
I realized that there are vicious monsters in the mountains, and how can I get through the valley now that there are no wagons?
As she went back, reliving her memories of yesterday, Cren couldn’t stand her silence and asked her questions about yesterday’s events.
“Me, Mr. Levy…?”
She certainly remembers her words asking to be called comfortably, but she is a wizard by name, and there was also something a little ambiguous yesterday, so it was a bit of a burden to call her casually.
Levy didn’t seem to care much about the way Kren spoke, she said without even looking at his face.
“Yes. Why?”
Kren asked cautiously.
“That, yesterday… is what you said true…?”
It was only then that Levy realized what the man was talking about. I’m talking about a topic that was talked about yesterday when I was being chased.
“Yes. I don’t know about incantations.”
At Levy’s words, which were no different from yesterday, Kren realized that she was serious and not joking.
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“No, how can you not know how to spell when you know how to use magic so well…?”
It’s a spell, so even Levi knows roughly what a spell is. But she honestly knew for the first time that in order to use magic, she must know spells. Levi thought about the burnt magic book that was in the innermost part of her luggage.
Yes, Levi learned her magic through that spell book.
She
She knows a lot of magic, she said. Yes. All of those countless spells were written in her book. Although it was precisely marked with a code.
Levy remembered a conversation he had with Shawn when he was a child. Shawn ended the conversation thinking it was just a joke, but it was the truth. The letters that Levy had also seen for the first time in his life were not simply letters with a single meaning.
It was a password. Each stroke of the letter is imbued with magical power. If you learn the magic that is given to those strokes, it is possible to use a combination of letters combined with strokes, that is, complex magic.
Levy has learned all those letters in 8 years with his outstanding talent. He said that he could use all the many magics listed in the book. But there was something more important than that.
That magic book is a book that most of the entire book has already been burned. He had mastered a great number of spells with only a fraction of the remaining letters, but what if the book was intact?
Levy had no idea what the book was all about. Who the hell made such a book? Is it possible to make it?
Of course, Shawn knows all of this. Because there can be no secrets between the two.
But that man is different. Of course, Levy knew at least that the young man named Kren wasn’t a bad person. But there was never any reason to reveal such an important secret.
And Levy heard it through Shawn’s story. What happened with Tina unnie? Of course, if you ask her if she hates Tina, she’ll have to think about that, but Sean is the most important thing to her anyway.
If Sean could be harmed, he would nip it in the bud, no matter how trivial it was.
That’s why Levy shook his head and spoke.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t give you more details.”
Jeop, Kren didn’t have all her questions answered, but she did, and she couldn’t ask more. Even if she was herself, she wouldn’t tell me.
At that moment, Shawn, who had been walking quietly, suddenly stopped. Then he put his finger to his mouth and gestured for silence.
At those words, the memory of yesterday comes to mind, and Levi and Cren become quiet. After making sure they heard him, Shawn listened quietly and focused.
A sound coming from afar, little by little.
As he listened more closely, Shawn realized what that sound was like. He had always been training with Wilhelm and was familiar with it.
It was the sound of swords clashing against each other.
Sean pondered for a moment. Should he turn around and go or should he just go and check.
The worry was not long. Sean decided to check.
There were two reasons. First, the direction the sound is coming from is the direction of the valley, and no other road to Laes is known, and second, that innocent people may be in danger, as Kren did yesterday.
Sean shared his thoughts with them. Levy immediately nodded her head, and Kren gave her a frightened look, then finally nodded her head in affirmation.
The three lowered their bodies and slowly moved toward the sound. The sound was getting louder and louder. Shawn realized the battle was on a fairly large scale.
The three finally reached the epicenter of the sound. Hiding in the grass and watching, as Sean had predicted, two different groups were fighting.
And soon the three realized that a group of people was familiar.
“…Over there!”
“…They are thieves.”
These were the thieves I met yesterday. From Sean’s point of view, it seemed that the outcome of the fight had already been decided. The thieves’ defeat was dark.
The bald man, the leader of the thieves, was already kneeling at the gray-haired man with a sword aimed at his neck. Said the gray-haired man.
“It’s pitiful that leaving the mercenary corps is barely stealing.”
At those words, the leader trembled and trembled as if his pride had been hurt, then clenched his teeth and said.
“Shut up. Kill me now.”
The man snorted at her and said coldly.
“You have a bad habit of talking to the person who was your superior. Okay. I will kill you at will.”
After he finished speaking, he cut off the boss’s head without a moment’s thought. At that clean attack, the head of the head rolled on the ground as it was.
With a neat gesture, the man shook the blood from his sword into the air and put it in the scabbard. And she spoke in a calm tone.
“Go ahead and deal with it. There is work left to do.”
It was like her man’s words. The remnants of the bandits who rebelled were defeated one by one by those who seemed to be his subordinates, and met their deaths as they were.
After the fight, a woman came up to him and said,
“Captain. Tidying up is over.”
“Yes. Get ready to set off now. Let’s go. Oh.”
The man exclaimed and turned his head as if he had forgotten something.
“There are still rats left.”
Suddenly, his cold eyes turned to a forest in the distance.
Sean realized they had been discovered. Fighting against that number was tantamount to suicide, and even though they ran away, they still had horses.
Sean’s judgment was quick. He raised his hands up and made a sign of surrender as he came out of the grass. Levy, who had been watching Shawn’s actions, did the same, and Cren, who was hesitant, eventually came out.
The man asked.
“So, what are you guys doing?”
Sean said.
“We are not bandits. I am just a passing adventurer.”
The man nodded at her and said.
“Go on an adventure…. Why did the adventurer come here? This is not the road.”
“I heard the sound of fighting on my way to the valley, so I came to help.”
“Help…. Ha, is there any way to prove you guys are adventurers? If you are registered with the association, there must be a certificate.”
Sean thought about that for a moment, then shook his head.
“We are just starting our adventure and have not registered with the Association yet. That’s why I was heading to Laes,”
“It’s getting harder and harder to believe you. How am I supposed to believe it if you just ask me to believe it without any evidence?”
Sean was speechless. He was at a loss as to how to prove their innocence. At that time, Levi, who was listening quietly from behind, spoke.
“We were coming with the merchant. Ride the carriage.”
Even though the person with whom he was talking to changed, she said as if nothing had changed in the end.
“Yes. But maybe my eyes are weird, I can’t see the merchant and the wagon. Are you trying to blame my eyes?”
Levy looked around for a moment. The eyes of her companions were not kind. She already seemed to regard them as enemies.
Levy trembled, but swallowed her saliva once and spoke in a confident tone.
“I met a monster. So the merchant died and the wagon was also broken.”
“Monstera…”
“We met just last night, so there are still traces of it.”
The man asked.
“What kind of monster was that?”
“I met two guys. One was a black guy with an arm that looked like an awl…”
“And?”
“It was a monster with huge arms, walking on all fours and sensitive to sound.”
“Orchi Magna.”
“Yes?”
The man said without paying attention to her question.
“You said there would be traces left, right?”
“…Ah, yes. It will definitely still be there.”
“Guide us. If it’s really clear what the monster did, I’ll acknowledge your innocence.”
Levy, realizing that things were finally back on track, looked at Sean with her sigh of relief.
Sean raised her thumb at Levy. Levi also responded in the same way.
The man said.
“I’m late to say hello. My name is Hector, who leads the Silent Wolf Mercenary.”