Ancient Remnants (1)
Estelle was treated with great respect wherever she went.
He was treated like this even in prison, as he was born with a high status and the ability to be admired.
For example, complaining about side dishes in a luxurious prison equipped with silk carpets, soft beds, and even books.
“Hey. If you’re going to bring a steak, shouldn’t you bring it with red wine? Is white good for a T-bone?”
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“······Eat what they give you.”
“Red Aoi Aai Ii In…! A 35-year-old Duna Yi Iin made in Southern Vineyards!”
“Uh… Okay. I’ll ask and come back.”
“And the meat got cold while I brought it, so do it again.
“Oh no!”
The low-level wizard who was watching over Estelle seemed to be getting on his nerves while managing this tricky prisoner.
but i can’t help but listen Because the monitoring of the saintess, which was directly ordered by the lord of the mage tower, was to ask her to do whatever she wanted.
Aside from that, he himself has some degree of faith. It is fearful to be punished by God for treating a saintess who is said to be an agent of divinity carelessly.
Of course, from the point of view that he belonged to the group that kidnapped the saint, his faith was seriously flawed.
In any case, her status as a saint was effective even during her kidnapping.
“·······.”
Seeing that the wizard had disappeared, Estelle knelt down and held hands as if she had waited.
“Lord——”
What she wants is to strengthen her muscles. Superhuman strength to overcome this difficulty. Clearly, holy power is flowing out of my body.
“Good.”
After praying, she pulled the iron bar as hard as she could.
-Turn it off! grunt! Oh, my palms hurt!
Estelle gives up in the end. Her holy powers and prayers were still unplayable.
‘What is the cause? Is it because of the Holy Grail?’
If so, it’s strange. Why is the Holy Grail neutralizing his prayers?
“Haa… At times like this, the prince is going to rescue the princess.”
In the end, all she can hope for is a heroic prince who will dig up this situation, not prayers and wishes for the Lord.
Of course, the Kingdom and the Church must have mobilized their troops to save themselves.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter how much the Mage Tower prepared, it was certain that they would be defeated in the end.
‘The problem is, what are you doing with my blood drawn every day?’
This is probably why Estelle is treated so luxuriously despite being a prisoner.
To keep her healthy, reduce stress as much as possible, and draw fresh blood.
A man named Dun Skys, who has Aedrin and the Holy Grail with the blood he drew, is doing something.
Estelle, who is frustrated because she doesn’t know what that something is, or who can’t display her holy power, is just a delicate woman.
What she can do is contemplate the overflowing time and pray as a habit.
“Lord, save me from this trouble, and have mercy on the innocent lambs…”
While praying, the saintess and the princess Estelle have questions.
If there is a God, if you are truly connected to God… why do you just watch this situation?
If it was natural, it was natural, and if it was disrespectful, then I had disrespectful questions.
* * * *
It is not easy to distinguish day and night in the sewer where not a single light comes in.
Depending on the biological clock, when I open my frosty eyes, I find something warm in my arms.
-Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hwaran let out a long breathing sound as if his body had been sunk in a cotton blanket.
As he gently stroked my messy hair, he burrowed into my chest even more.
“Shall I let you sleep some more?”
Others don’t seem to have arrived yet.
“brother?”
At that time, the girl lifted her head from her bosom. A blue-eyed girl lifted her buried eyes and looked up at me.
“Oops, did I wake you up?”
“Hwa is still sleeping.”
“Depending on your personality, do you have different sleeping and waking hours?”
“It basically follows the body. But when the body is asleep, the awakened person can do whatever they want.”
“Ohh.”
In other words, even if the painter has control over the body, if the painter falls asleep, Ran can take control.
“Then will it wake up soon? We have to see if other people come to visit us well.”
“that······.”
Ran, who is usually kind and helps with housework, rarely hesitates.
“what’s the matter?”
Ran didn’t answer my question, wrapped her arms around her waist, and rubbed her nose against my chest.
“Lana?”
“I just want to stay like this for a little while.”
I didn’t know what to do for a moment, then I just patted Ran’s waist.
“I feel warm and comfortable in my arms.”
“Because Yang qi flows out thanks to Clau Solas…”
“No, even without it. It would have been nice. I’m sure.”
“I see.”
Ran didn’t hide that he liked me. Rather, I appealed more actively than Marie.
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As I grabbed Ran’s waist and hugged her, Ran let out a panicked voice in her arms.
“Oh, brother?”
“Thank you. For liking someone like me.”
“······How is your brother?”
“Just. Just thank you for everything.”
I had been hugging Ran for a while.
·········
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…
I left the sewage management office and scouted the area. Runes were engraved all over the sewers.
Perhaps thanks to my magic power, which exceeded 10,000, the task of carving runes in one day was not as arduous as before.
Rather, thanks to the overflowing magical power, I was greedy to engrave the rune as large and precise as possible, so I could only engrave 40 characters.
“Brother, are you here?”
After reconnaissance and work at the Rune Factory, Oni Ran was preparing a meal of dried beef and coriander potatoes.
“Oh~ Corinne Potatoes.”
“It was developed by my brother, right? The reviews were good, right?”
Corinne Potato is a combat ration I developed during my first year home practice class. The motif is the history of combat food development in World War II.
“I received a commendation from the Kingdom Army for developing this and received a prize money.”
“Wow, that’s great.”
Ran responded by clapping his hands. She is roasting coriander potatoes in a field pot using a wooden ladle.
“Mashed Potatoes?”
“Yes. And this is a canned stew.”
A stew that simmers and exudes an appetizing smell. It’s taboo to eat smelly food in guerrilla warfare, but outside the management room, the sewage smells vibrate, so it’s okay.
“When I can enjoy it, shall I enjoy it?”
The beef stew and mashed potatoes Ran made were quite tasty to be considered war rations.
it’s good! It’s not to the extent of admiring it, but it’s a great meal in a poor environment.
“It’s delicious. It wouldn’t have been easy to make like this.”
Looking at it objectively, Ran’s cooking skills are considerable. Next to Marie in my vicinity. Arisha is, well, in charge of eating.
“Brother, I’m learning to cook these days. Flower arrangement and how to serve my parents-in-law.”
“uh?”
Even if it’s cooking, why the hell are you doing flower arrangements or attending your parents-in-law?”
“Why is that–“
“braided!”
The moment I opened my mouth to ask a question, Ran pushed the meshed potato that was being cooked into my mouth with a spoon.
A unique, bewildering gaze that can never be seen in Hwa. The way he smiles and looks up is cute.
“It’s a bridal class for only one person in this world.”
The heart is burdened.
At this point, it’s actually a confession.
Ran often approached me in this way.
It seems playful, but the gaze is very sincere… The unshakable and confident eyes convey my will.
To hear such a passionate confession of love is to inadvertently let go of one’s hands.
“Lana—”
It was the moment when he reached out his hand to the girl with a desperate gaze.
puck! Ran took a step backwards, slapping her hand roughly.
“This, profit…!”
Cheeks dyed in the color of autumn leaves. As if an earthquake had occurred, he wrapped his shaking pupils and ‘nearly touched’ head with his hands to protect them.
“You, you… just…”
What were you going to do? Hwa shows a bit of an exaggerated reaction.
“Is it angry?”
“·······.”
Anger that sends a resentful look without words. Hwa has a blunt expression by default, but there are times when her emotions fluctuate like this.
“Don’t touch me!”
“uh?”
As I reacted, the anger made me breathe harder and say it again.
“Don’t touch me…”
“why not······.”
Aren’t we still like that kind of brother and sister who don’t care about skinship?
“When you touch it… it makes me feel bad.”
“Is that enough?”
This oppa gets hurt when he hears things like that.
“I’m sorry.”
“No, that much…”
It was at that time that Hwaran was about to say something.
“Kong…!”
The door was violently kicked in and a large dog-man burst into the management office.
“Kkong kong! Kreureung kong!”
As usual, Deokgu is emitting ferocious howls without hesitation. The fact that Deokgu came means that he also came to Marie.
“Ugh~ Deokgu! Did you find Daddy’s smell well? I don’t know because my nose is stuffy, huh?”
The third day since entering the Iron Islands. Marie also joined the save point.
* * * *
The afternoon of the third day since Marie joined. Master Erin and Mrs. Josephine also arrived at the management office of the underground sewer system in the Mage Tower.
“I will prepare for a space jump anytime here.”
Ms. Josephine is in charge of the escape. As a combatant, she is also very powerful, but limited to the Mage Tower here, she is powerless.
As mentioned before, the Mage Tower has a history of being messed up by the Witch of Space during the Witch Revolution.
Due to the nightmares of the past, not only did they set up barriers throughout the Steel Islands, but they were also paranoidly blocked inside the Mage Tower.
Thanks to that, the Mage Tower wizards, who used the space magic circle to move between floors, even had a funny developer who said they developed the first elevator that works with a mechanical device.
In any case, inside this mage tower, Josephine cannot use space magic other than leaping to the marker on the other side of the strait.
In that case, it would be better to leave the role of battle mage to Marie.
“Please stay here, even the Dutch students. You and I will protect this place.”
“······huh.”
Because it was originally scheduled, the anger remained in the management office without saying anything. But it’s staring at me blankly.
would be worried He was so angry that he stroked his hair.
“······!”
I didn’t touch it very hard, but I was angry that I couldn’t lift my head. The state of anger has been strange since this morning.
“·······.”
Again, Marie stares at that anger for some reason.
“Corin. Let’s go.”
For some reason, Marie urged with a cold gaze. We hurriedly started climbing towards the magic tower.
* * * *
The Magic Tower is a comfortable paradise for so-called elitists.
Except for the Forbidden Forest created for cultivation and experimentation of magic crops, the entire Steel Islands are exposed to a cold and harsh natural environment.
Of course, wizards also bring in outsiders to import food and materials, but even they form a small village in the port and can’t even get near the mage tower.
How close-minded these elitists are is that even the chores inside the Mage Tower are done by mages… that is, lower class mages, familiars, and spirits.
In college, graduate students tend to the professors and even prepare meals. Seriously, would a wizard from the 20th year of the Mage Tower come to the continent as if running away and set up a Mage Tower restaurant?
In this way, the people who seek learning, whether it be the earth or this world, are wasting their time on futile things.
“Hmm… that’s a bit big. Should I have gotten a smaller one?”
“I can’t help it because Master is originally cute. If it’s really uncomfortable, should I exchange it for mine?”
“Umm… no. The disciple is tall, so he looks small even with the biggest robe.”
What you need to infiltrate the magic tower full of wizards is the magic tower robe.
We got something from the continent in advance, so we got the magic tower robes and disguised ourselves as wizards of the magic tower.
There was a badge on my robe that symbolizes being a 4th floor wizard, and at this level, I am a wizard who does my part, but I was in charge of meals at the Mage Tower.
Shall we call it a very inefficient group or a closed group?
“So… what are you going to do next? I’ve reached the 4th floor, but…”
“Corin, Deokgu says the saintess smells far above.”
Deok-gu is chasing Estelle’s scent in Marie’s shadow. Since she’s a saint, at least she shouldn’t have been placed on the lower level.
“You can go up to the 4th floor without any restrictions. From the 5th floor, you must have the license of an ‘assistant professor’ level wizard. It is quite cutting-edge. It is biometric recognition using fingerprints.”
It is a kind of magical pass that is circulated inside the Mage Tower. From the 5th and 6th floors, the assistant professor level, from the 6th floor, the professor level… and from the 7th floor, only the heads of schools could enter.
“Master, what are you worried about? We have a high-ranking mage to help us.”
“Hmm?”
The one who proved my words was none other than Marie. A doll crawling up in the shadows at her word.
The skin was crumpled, and the salty fingers trembled.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Nogu, who looked around anxiously with cloudy eyes, looked at Marie and us and exclaimed! and held his breath.
“Hello, Chunshik.”
“Heeik…! Lady Dunarev! Oh, no, Master…!”
Chunshik bows down in fear. Who would dare to predict?
This shabby old man was one of the seven mages who once commanded the Mage Tower. It’s the Red Faction’s Elder Admalek.
Of course, now it was just Marie’s familiar ghoul.
“Chunshik, I told you. Hurry up and do biometrics.”
“Ha, but…!”
“If you don’t like it, you can cut off your wrist and put it on.”
“Oh, I see! I see!”
Marie’s attitude toward Chun-shik is brutal.
Since he was the one who kidnapped himself and tried to use him as a test subject, he doesn’t need mercy, but sometimes when he sees Marie, he is frighteningly cold.
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Thanks to that, going from the 5th floor to the 6th floor was also passed with a free pass.
“Chunshik, you’re back in.”
“Ah, yep! yep!
Chunshik, who is disturbed by his secret movements, is put back into the shadows and he finds the stairs leading to the 7th floor.
From the 7th floor, the realm of the elder class mage.
From memory, Estelle was in the special building on the 8th floor. It was a place where the magic tower lord, Aedrin, confined experimental monsters for experiments.
Perhaps, at this time, not only the Magic Tower Lord, but also Dunskys would be there. You have to be careful not to run into them as much as possible–
“Hey, you guys there!”
Turning your gaze, you see a wizard with seven jewels on a golden badge.
In other words, the 7th floor mage. He is also the professor of the Golden School, a professor level.
‘Corin, what are you doing? Should I ask?’
‘Wait, wait. If you make a fuss here, you’ll get tired.’
what to do to kill? Most of the high-ranking mages expected to be on the front line, but they didn’t expect to be caught already.
“You guys…?”
The magician gradually approached. It was the time when he was about to take out the spear hidden in his robe.
“Hello, Professor Airak!”
Suddenly, Master called the other person by name and approached.
“What? You, you?”
Professor Airac hesitated when Master approached him without hesitation.
“My name is Elia, the upper post grade on the 5th floor. Master Elder Blaine told me to get the BF1207FF3801 magic tool from the laboratory in Buildings 6-8.”
“Uhh… is that so?”
“Excuse me, can I know where buildings 6-8 are?”
“Uh… go over there and go left in the hallway for three more blocks.”
“Wow, thank you!”
Master skillfully roasted and boiled a professional-level wizard. No, rather than being baked and boiled, it feels like I was fascinated.
“Kuh, keuhmm…! You there… did you say Alia? When it’s over later… I, would you like to have a cup of coffee with me?”
“Huh? Is that so?”
“Yes, yes. Come to my office later.”
Master jumps up and down as if he’s done it. We pretended to follow Ailak’s gaze and head towards the 6-3 laboratory.
“How did you do it?”
“All the major wizards of the Mage Tower know about it. I have visited the Mage Tower several times in the form of Eriu Casar.”
“Oh~”
Then, it is not strange that he knows the face of Ailak, a professor-class mage.
“Then let’s hang around here for a while and go up.”
“Corin… that guy, he’s still looking at us.”
Ailak’s gaze is still on us. To avoid suspicion, he turns to the lab and gets out of sight.
I felt the presence of people in the hallway, so I had to go somewhere to avoid getting caught again.
The place we entered is the nearest laboratory after turning off the hallway. A dull darkness lurks from the entrance, as if it wasn’t a wizard lab.
“Master, what was that just now?”
“Huh? Ah, if it’s an experiment number, it’s just a rough guess. The Magic Tower records numbers like this.”
“No, a guy named Ailak fell for Master.”
“Hmm? Corinne too. What do you mean by that?”
Master slapping me on the shoulder. No, was that just real? Ailak’s gaze was unusual.
“Hmm~ People have been treating me kindly since before. Don’t they all have a kind heart inside?”
“Ah, I guess.”
“Huh? What?”
“Because Master is beautiful. Originally, people are weak when it comes to beauty.”
“Oh my goodness···.”
“… Corinne?”
“Doesn’t Marie-senpai feel it too?
“Huh…!”
I was bored until the popularity of the corridor disappeared for a while, so I checked the laboratory.
-Kong! I’m sorry!
Deokgu’s voice could be heard from the hem of Marie’s robe.
“Are you Deokgu?”
“What happen?”
“I think Deokgu is scared of something.”
“Are you Deokgu?”
“Is there something in this lab?”
It was the first time I came to the Magic Tower at this time, but I turned my eyes towards the surroundings.
Being a laboratory in the Magic Tower is a blessing in disguise. Some places conduct experiments on materials used to make furniture for everyday life, while others conduct experiments on the human body of the Infernal Magician.
It is difficult to predict what will happen if Deok-gu is wary of such an experiment.
“In case you don’t know… let’s check and go.”
Even if the plan goes well, an all-out war with the Mage Tower cannot be avoided. If so, it would be good to do what you can here as much as possible.
“·······.”
“·······.”
The laboratory… No, at this point, it’s not strange to say it’s an experimental building.
The magic tower consists of a total of nine floors, but its height is much higher than that of ordinary buildings.
It would be easy to think of Korea’s huge landmark department store as divided into nine floors.
Dull lighting of green noctilucent light. The floor is slippery, like grease scum.
“Master, have you ever been to a place like this?”
“No, I don’t show the laboratory building to the director of the academy. Even during the Witch Revolution, I was busy destroying everything, so I never came here.”
“Corin… Deokgu wants you to go across the street.”
Unlike us, Deokgu seems to have sensed something.
The stench was foul, like a mixture of blood, oil and rotting flesh. I thought he managed to sense something by smell in a place like this…
“ah.”
My steps stop, and my heart naturally slows down.
“Corin…”
something is watching us
Something huge…
“no way······.”
Master’s astonishment erupted from his nurturing. We instinctively turned our gaze to the right…
“──────”
I met the huge eyes.
Like master like students. Erin just lucked out and immediately find the giant hadn’t she. MC is sharing some of those Protag luck with her.