Wizards of the Mage Tower (1)
The evening passed and the night of entertainment came.
Amidst the backstreet taverns receiving patrons, gangs patrolling the streets and prostitute-seeking men roaming around, the shady man in a robe is not very conspicuous.
“Welcome.”
If there’s a gray line between legal and illegal, there’s probably no place like a pub in a back alley.
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Manroji, the warlock of the Mage Tower, knows the ecology of the back alley quite well.
“Meals? Drinks?”
Hospitality that is not the hospitality of a rugged master to anyone. Manroji glanced around and found a staircase leading down to the basement.
“I’m here to play a game.”
“Go down the stairs.”
There is no sign of hiding. In fact, it’s not new to me because it’s happening covertly at a pub in a back alley, introducing gambling and women.
When you go down to the basement, the crowded crowds are fighting each other. The main games seem to be playing cards and craps-type backgammon.
“Hehehe…”
Manroji smiled and sat down.
Manroji, the 4th floor wizard of the Mage Tower, is a typical gambler.
To the extent that in every city he visits, he seeks back-street gambling.
If only he was different from the others…
‘He’s two pair. Is the other straight?’
The dark basement of a gambling house. A familiar bat in the form of a clandestine dangling. Sharing the view with the owner gave Manroji a lot of information.
“Hahahaha…!”
“Ay, you lost again!”
“Oh shit!”
A series of victories today. If you win too much, you will be suspicious, so while losing in moderation, Manroji tasted the joy of victory.
“Can I join you too?”
It’s time to slowly change the water. The new opponent was a certain beauty.
A beauty with short gray hair and an alluring outfit. The charming and arrogant charm of the eye smile that shed as if possessed stood out.
“Hehe, it doesn’t matter.”
Enchanted by the beauty at the moment, he decided to rob her. Make a woman he likes into an empty bag and demand her body. It’s a tactic he often uses.
An hour later, he was able to achieve his goal.
“Are you really… returning the money?”
“That’s right. Hehe, so quickly take off that cumbersome piece of cloth.”
Second floor rooms for lodging and prostitution. Manroji entered the room holding the hand of the woman he had made broke.
“Ah, I get it.”
A woman who became obedient after losing dozens of gold coins. Yes, no matter how arrogant I am, in front of me, I am just a girl.
Thanks to this, while staying in the city, there seems to be no day when the side gets cold.
“That, more than that… shouldn’t we know each other’s names?”
“Hehe, what can you do on your own?
“No, I need to know.”
It was in an instant that the atmosphere changed completely. The beauty, who had been trembling until now, suddenly casts a ruthless gaze.
“Legna Claire. I’m the owner of this building.”
“what?”
“Did we look like hukou, wizards?”
“······!!”
-puck!
Something struck Manroji in the back of the head, knocking him face down on the floor and losing consciousness.
“Huh~ Anyway, what are wizards?”
“Good work. Rather than that, wear some proper clothes.”
“Was it a little irritating for minors, boss?”
in the fading consciousness. What he heard in his ears was the voice of a arrogant beauty… and the voice of a strangely familiar boy.
·········
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…
Manroji opened his eyes and realized that he was in an underground room. And that there is someone watching over you.
“Who, who are you! Why did you do this!”
“Hello, wizard.”
“Suck…!?”
Manroji, who witnessed the owner of the voice, huck! and held his breath.
It was because a ripped-mouthed man in a custom-made purple suit and bizarre clown makeup was staring at him.
“You, who are you!”
“·······.”
“What, what? Why aren’t you talking!”
“No, wait. It’s been so long since I’ve seen the movie, I can’t think of the right lines. Huh… It’s been four or five years since I last saw it.”
“what···?”
“Shhhhh… It’s all a joke. Never mind.”
Manroji immediately radiated magic power towards the clown. Low level instantaneous magic dark fog. A backstreet gangster would be killed in an instant.
– Woe!
However, the moment the fog reached the clown, the light engulfed the darkness and drove it away. as if purified.
“What, what are you doing…!”
“Even without the sun, it’s like a curse.”
Her own magic doesn’t work. The enemy was right in front of me to perform intermediate magic. The moment I raised my mana, I’d stab a knife in my neck.
Manroji became urgent.
“Do you know who I am! I am the 4th floor mage of the Mage Tower…!”
“One thing is for sure. If you get caught in Gourachi, your life will be ruined.”
In his hand was a bat-shaped familiar.
“Shall we have a conversation, buddy?”
* * * *
“Corin, here it is, here it is!”
Marie and I went to town. It’s not a big deal, but it seems that a distributor under the Dunarev family has officially entered Merkava.
「Dunaref Fresh Distribution」
It’s a boss that didn’t exist in the previous episode. Now that I think about it, a lot has changed in the school since Marie’s confinement in the previous episode.
Once the education was tasteless. for quite a long time.
“Senior, it was your company that delivered food ingredients before, right?”
“Huh? Ugh, I guess? I know that Dad is ‘donating’.”
“·······.”
Was it a donation, not a delivery? As I was stunned, Marie tapped my nose and laughed.
“I’m kidding! How can you give it to me for free when there are over 3,000 people including the staff?”
“Yeah, right? Well, even those many potatoes…”
“Ah, potatoes are part of the deliveries to the royal capital with my pocket money, and I’m giving them away.”
“·······.”
With a separate potato warehouse, that enormous amount of potatoes…
“But what are you doing here?”
“While we’re opening our shop, go and have a tasting. We’ve got something for you.”
“aha.”
The shop Marie guided me to… was quite large.
Is it the feeling of seeing the Nonghyup Direct Sales Shop in the days of Earth? There is even a restaurant on the second floor. It seems that the food industry is actively jumping into the food industry based on the vast amount of ingredients brought from the south.
But isn’t this the conglomerate’s dominance of the alley?
“This is potato puree, potato pancakes, potato rice cakes, potato meat, potato gnocchi, croquettes, fries, and pies, please!”
Marie probably wanted to show this to me, so she ordered the chef to cook this and that.
“Come on! Eat a lot of Korin!”
Potato dishes with the upper legs bent. It seems that there are all kinds of dishes that can be cooked with potatoes.
“······Senior, you need to know that you are addicted to potatoes.”
“Huh? Where’s the potato poisoning? Corinne too.”
“No, senior, how many potatoes do you steam every day?”
“Eighty green onions? But that’s for friends!”
“Have you missed potato dishes in your three meals a day in the past year?”
“Go, potatoes… they’re like rice.”
“Look. It’s an addiction.”
“No! I’m not a potato addict! I like corn, sweet potatoes, and carrots! I can quit anytime!”
Usually, I don’t express that I’m quitting with food. Carbonation addiction or caffeine addicts use the expression quitting.
“really?”
“Really!”
Seeing Marie’s confident attitude, I picked up some salt and sprinkled it over the steamed potatoes.
It is very appetizing to see the white crystals pouring rain water on the hot potato surface.
“············.”
“············.”
As she stared at Marie with a sticky feeling, the cold sweat dripped down Marie’s forehead. The golden eyes swayed back and forth between the potato and me.
“Can’t we just eat this and wait for the next time?”
“Just eat it all. Look at what you notice.”
“lol.”
With a big smile, she split the steamed potato sprinkled with salt on the potato straw and handed it to me.
“Well, Corinne will eat half of it.”
“It’s like that too.”
We resume eating. Then, suddenly, the story of the wizards of the Mage Tower came up.
“That’s right, Corinne. The wizards of the Mage Tower who visited this time.”
“Why is that story?”
“Corin said she would guide you personally. If it’s as it should, it looks like she asked me to do it.”
“Hoo~”
According to the history of the nuclear power plant, at this point, Marie is confined to the underground facility of the academy.
Research should have been conducted in the direction of suppressing and curing the vampire’s nature.
The reason why the Dunarev family did not intervene in the academy was probably for that reason.
However, the Magic Tower saw Marie in a different way.
A rare elder-class vampire. If you study that blood and flesh, you’ll make tremendous magical progress.
Indeed, mad wizards with no ethical restrictions. I try things like human experiments casually.
“Senior. I was thinking of telling you soon.”
“Ugh?”
“This visit from the Magic Tower must be because of you.”
“Uh… me, because of me?”
Marie put on a puzzled expression, but soon realized the meaning of my words.
She is also a genius wizard with great skills. Soon he realized the value of his blood and flesh.
“······why?”
Still, she couldn’t hide her doubts. Of course.
“If I… touch it, it will be a big problem?”
Marie Dunareff.
It is called the Potato Empire as a joke, but she is the owner of the grain belt responsible for the entire continent’s food and is the richest family in the kingdom.
In the history of the nuclear power plant, Dunarev is not mentioned as Marie’s exit, but now she is walking around in Marie as well.
Did you know that seagulls are just beach chickens?
You want Marie to touch Dunaref? For that experiment?
“The Mage Tower is Tates Baltazar’s servants.”
“Tates… Baltazar. Isn’t that the scary person Corinne is trying to fight?”
“Yes, anyway, if the world is destroyed by the arrival of paradise, the power and wealth of the secular world will be fine anyway.”
That is the scary thing about Balthazar and his forces.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter what crazy thing you do, it’s okay to act without looking back a bit.
The destruction and reset of civilization, the arrival of new gods. After all, you only need to go to paradise.
“That, you’ve been doing such a scary thing…”
I told the story to the party members roughly.
I intend to confront the terrifying being called Baltazar. What I’m doing is to thwart and ruin their plans.
But this is the first time I’ve talked about it in such detail.
“Collect all the original runes, open the way to paradise… Tír na nóg, prove your qualifications as the supreme king with the four treasures, and usurp the throne.”
After that, using the control of the paradise obtained, release the magical beasts of the shadow paradise all over the world.
“Destruction of civilization. And reset. After wiping out the ground, it opens a world where new gods were created. Ha… It’s not even a third-rate fantasy novel.”
“I think it’s scary that you actually have the power to do that.”
Marie listened to my story seriously and did not deny that it was absurd.
“Corin, the fact that you told me this story…”
“To save the world, I will mobilize whatever means I can. How far can you trust me, senpai?”
“·······.”
Marie was silent for a moment at my question, then stood up with a smile.
Across from the table, come and sit next to me…
“Corin. Corinne doesn’t have to ask me that question.”
Took, the girl’s voice, leaning her head, contained more calm and firm will than ever before.
“I mean. I can do anything Corinne wants. No favors… Corinne is my Corinne.”
“senior······.”
“Hee hee… Still, I’m glad that Corinne wants my help like this. Corinne knows everything and is very good at it… It was sad that I didn’t have anything to help.”
“So far, seniors have been very helpful. The King of Iron Mountain, the Festival, and the Secret Druid.”
“I’m greedy. I want to get far ahead of everyone else.”
Marie makes a heroic expression as if she is willing to endure any adversity.
“Sir, actually… I have something I want to ask of Corinne…
“Please? Senior?”
“Wealth, rather than a request… a reward? I wonder if something like that is necessary… Motivation or something…”
Motivation. It doesn’t matter. But Marie has a favor for me… do you have it?
“It is. It is not…”
Marie smiled blankly and rubbed her fingers meaninglessly. how much time has passed
It means clearing your throat, swallowing your saliva, and speaking in a silly accent.
“Can I ask you to do something for me when Corinne is done?”
“Uh… sure. No, you can just say it now.”
“That, that sounds a bit shameless…! A little… I need a little time!”
What is it? Marie has a favor for me.
“Okay. What can I do for you?”
It’s real. There’s nothing I can’t do for Marie.
“Then senior… wait, would you like to go somewhere with me?”
“Ugh?”
Marie tilted her head cutely.
* * * *
I took Marie and headed to my own ‘Happiness Inn’.
Built specifically for the festival, this inn still functions as an inn.
Management itself was entrusted to Lenya, an executive of the Information Guild, but it was also used as my hideout.
“Ko, Coco Cocorin? This, what should I accept?”
“Yes? I didn’t hear the back story.”
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For some reason, Marie was trembling. He rubs his hands against each other and cannot let go of them.
“That, Gurukuna… I don’t need to do anything like a request… Ha, huh?”
“I’m going underground here.”
“Uh, underground? That, if that’s the case… wouldn’t a place with good lighting be better?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Oh, nothing! Corinne, do what you want! Me, I’m just fine!”
Marie talking nonsense.
Marie seemed to be unable to move her feet, so I grabbed her hand and went downstairs.
The basement of the inn is not used as a guest room, but as a storage room. But when I built this inn from the beginning, I built it with thorough security equipment in order to use it for some purpose.
“Here.”
“Whoop, whoop, whoop…”
Do you hate dark places? Somehow, I took Marie, who clearly looked nervous, and entered the dark basement room.
“Hey, this is it. Ha, actually… Because there are many ears in the dormitory… What about the bed…?”
Upon entering the room, Marie couldn’t walk more than half a step and stopped. It deserves it. At the center of the basement, the warlock Manroji I kidnapped yesterday was tied up.
“Senior. Please.”
“Corin?”
I said while holding onto Marie’s shoulders, who clearly looked nervous.
“Please make him a vampire.”
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I don’t know, but my smile must have been twisted pretty wickedly.