True to his reputation as a scroll merchant, Willivence’s hideout was protected by a powerful magic circle.
It was only natural that it was a warehouse where numerous goods and funds were stored.
As the party took a step forward, they felt invisible magic wriggling here and there.
If it activates properly, it will take quite a lot of damage no matter how much the party’s current power is.
yes. if it triggers.
Leo clapped his hand.
He inserted his magic power into the axis of the scroll and magic circle that were about to be activated.
-puck!
– Kwajik!
A subtle sound was heard and the magic circles did not even work and failed to fire.
Hanson, who was walking in front with his sword raised, tilted his head.
“… Lowering? Did you just do it?”
“exactly.”
“From my point of view, it seems that the magic circle for preventing intruders has stopped working… .”
“The moment it was about to work, I intervened with my magical energy and interfered with the spell.”
Leo spoke casually, but not Hanson or the others who were listening.
“… it’s leo You talk really easily while doing nonsense.”
“I also agree with the princess.”
Elise’s words were received by Countess Ermeri.
The two of them got acquainted with each other once a few years ago, but they quickly became close despite seeing each other for the first time in a long time, probably because they are of the same fire type.
Anyway, Kizan and Hanson, as well as the two of them, were staring at Leo with absurd eyes.
To destroy a magic circle that hadn’t even been activated yet in that way.
If all magicians were able to do that, why would they spend a lot of money to set up a magic circle in their hideout?
It was a skill that only Leo, who could see mana, could show.
Leo shrugged.
“It’s not like I can stop everything like that. A few of them I had no choice but to let go.”
As Leo finished speaking, lights flashed here and there.
It was a precursor to a flame explosion as the scroll was activated.
However, one beat earlier than that, Leo’s magic was activated first.
[Waving Ice – Ice Bouquet]
– Papa Pang!
Small ice flowers bloomed where the scroll had been.
It froze the sparks that were about to come out.
It was very strange to see the sparks flickering inside the ice flower.
Countess Hermery quickly grasped the situation.
“You intentionally left only the flame scroll and the magic circle. Like poison gas, when it explodes, it removes harmful things so that they cannot be activated at all.”
“Yes.”
Leo nodded.
There were so many things inside, even Leo couldn’t blow them all off.
That’s why, when activated, the most lethal ones were suppressed first, and things like explosive scrolls were frozen after exploding.
‘To be able to grasp that far and act in such a short situation… .’
What does a 12-year-old boy say now?
Countess Hermery didn’t understand, but she didn’t try to understand anymore.
I haven’t seen this once or twice.
I thought so now.
* * *
Thanks to Leo’s efforts, the party made their way through the interior without any damage.
Most of the traps were taken care of by Leo, and even if it wasn’t, Hanson was guarding from the front, so he wasn’t hurt.
As a result, they arrived at the end of the hideout.
Gold was piled up to the ceiling there, and several boxes of artifacts and scrolls were rolling around on the floor.
“Wow… How much is all this?”
Countess Ermeri examined it admiringly.
Now that she had to run the county house and the magic tower at the same time, she knew the importance of funds better than anyone else.
One study of magic was digging the ground.
So it was only natural to look inside the warehouse and roll your eyes.
Of course, Leo also looked closely at the artifact with her.
‘Shouldn’t it be enough to divide it in half with the emperor? After that, if you order Gawain and sell it on the black market… .’
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Just imagining it makes me happy.
The only regret is that no trace of Willivence, the owner of this hideout, was found.
‘Is the information leaked? Or did he just accidentally leave?’
To be honest, it’s best to defeat Willivence and get riches here, but it’s a pity.
But that’s it, and right now it’s right to focus on the reality right in front of you.
Leo searched hard inside with Countess Ermeri.
Then Elise tapped Leo on the shoulder.
“sister? why? Do you want to have this?”
Leo tilted his head and handed over the golden necklace he was holding.
Elise shook her head as if that wasn’t the case.
“no. It’s not… Are we going to stay here?”
“then? Is there nowhere else to go?”
This underground hideout is in the form of a line, and they reached it by breaking through several traps.
There was no fork in the road, and this was a dead end place.
Alice, who came with me, should have known that too… .
“But strangely, I want to go somewhere else.”
“… so? Are you just feeling that way?”
“Yes.”
Elise nodded awkwardly, as if she wasn’t sure either.
However, Leo did not just ignore her attitude.
‘Ever since I was little, my older sister felt pretty good about it.’
The discovery of the elixir in the Great Forest, the discovery of jewels for gloves at the academy, and so on.
got pretty lucky
She is called the Fire Witch in the future.
It means that she has a strange sense enough to be called a witch.
“great. Let’s go where noona wants to go.”
Leo stopped checking artifacts.
“Countess Ermery, and Sir Hanson. We will look elsewhere, so please check here.”
“Yes. Please.”
The two nodded their heads politely.
As long as Leo was there, there was nothing dangerous, and they removed all the traps on the way anyway.
I thought it would be boring just to look around the warehouse like a child, so I went over it lightly.
Leo moved along with Alice and Kizan.
“sister. this way?”
“Well… no. slightly sideways there. I feel my heart beating strangely.”
They retrace their steps around the middle of this underground hideout.
Alice hesitated, but led her to where she wanted, tapping the walls here and there… .
– Kurleung
“!!”
The walls of the hallway swayed, revealing a passage leading elsewhere.
“I hope this… .”
Leo looked at Ellis with a startled expression.
I was wondering if you really found a secret passage like this!
“I think it is here. It feels like something is calling me… .”
“great. Let’s go.”
Leo, Ellis, and Kizan moved inside.
* * *
Willivence was trembling with anxiety.
After confirming the existence of the intruders for the first time, he deliberately canceled all familiar magic.
The enemies were a group of sword masters and mages.
If they notice and kill their familiar, the blow comes intact to the owner.
It will be incapacitated for a while with excruciating pain.
So, in case of an emergency, all familiar magic was canceled.
Instead, he believed in the scrolls and magic circles piled up in his hideout.
Even half of that would be enough to kill the intruders, and even if it didn’t kill them, it would force them to retreat!
But… .
“Why. Why can’t I hear the magic being activated!”
-bang!
Angry, he kicked the wall violently.
The sound of the magic circle being activated was not audible to him who was waiting in this secret space.
The screams of enemies poisoned by poison gas, the roar of explosion scrolls, the sound of thunderbolt scrolls, etc.
I had to hear something, but it was incredibly quiet.
It’s unlikely that they’ve been sitting quietly at the entrance all this time.
‘What do we do? Should I really just run away like this?’
In this hideout, the space where you can rest is designed separately, just in case.
In the worst-case scenario, you can evacuate at least your body.
However, when this happened, the gold coins and artifacts that were stored in the warehouse were like crazy.
Since the warehouse and this secret space are not connected, you will survive, but if you lose something more precious than your life… .
“Okay… .”
Willivence trembled at the impossibility of falling.
That was the moment.
– Kurleung
The stone wall moved with a roar, and three people with silver hair and silver eyes appeared.
“… … ?”
Willivence was taken aback.
no way how… ?
However, questions were questions, and his body moved instinctively.
He scattered all the scrolls he had.
At that time, Leo also reached out to face him.
-Fish food
All the scrolls were misfired.
* * *
‘Williams? Was this guy here?’
Shortly after entering the passage Ellis had guided me to, I arrived at a dead end, where I touched a similar device and the door opened.
Leo was surprised to see the fat and greedy man he encountered.
I thought Willivence, who judged that he was not in the hideout, would be here.
He took the lead by quickly throwing scrolls, but all of them were misfired with Leo’s gesture.
I felt it when I broke into the house of a black magician named Doodle before, but those who are in conflict with Leo are those who have deeply mastered the magic circle system.
It was because Leo, who could see mana in any magic circle, could easily destroy them.
Since the scroll is a type of portable magic circle, it barely worked on Leo.
It would be effective when Leo could not remove all of them by detonating numerous scrolls at the same time, but the limit was clear at this distance.
Soon after, Leo fired several spears of ice at him.
“Cheuk… .”
Willivence, who had been pierced in the leg by a spear, collapsed with a deathly moan.
He was a 5th-class mage, but because of his field, his interpersonal combat skills were weak.
Even though Leo dealt with it moderately, it was quickly neutralized.
“how… how to get here… .”
Willivence put on a look of disbelief.
Leo half-frozen him and tied him up.
After that, I looked inside.
There seemed to be nothing particularly special about this hideout-like place.
Then, Alice pointed to a small box in the corner.
“that. It’s been making my heart pound from a while ago.”
Leo tilted his head.
‘Doesn’t look like much?’
Compared to the boxes in the warehouse I went to earlier, they looked very old and ugly.
Then Willivence shouted.
“Damn it! So you’ve been aiming for this artifact! damn it.”
“?”
Leo looked up at him as he watched his seizure.
Willivence felt so unfair that he was even shedding tears now.
he shouted, dragging his frozen legs and crawling toward the box.
“How did I get the artifacts of the 5 heroes… ! These thieves! I will never hand you over!”
“… … !?”
Leo opened his eyes wide.
‘… What artifact?’