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The opponent was a boy who appeared to be about 15 years old.
Dark blonde hair and brown eyes.
The opponent was a nobleman with high stature, wearing a noble’s attire.
“Give me that wallet. Otherwise, I will kill you painfully.”
“Aren’t you the owner of this wallet?”
However, the voice that came out of Leon’s mouth could not be moderate.
That would be the case, the opponent was aiming for Leon’s life in the first place and deployed magic.
No matter how high the status of the opponent, it was not a situation where polite words could come out.
In response to Leon’s response, the boy began to recite the chant.
“Frozen vanity at the end of loss. Allow me to cry.”
Six arrows of ice appeared around him at the same time.
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Judging by the spear of ice used earlier, the boy’s status had reached at least three circles.
In addition to that, being able to deploy Ice Arrow, the 2nd circle freezing magic, through multicasting was definitely a skill that was not lacking to be called a genius.
But Leon was calmly jumping into his arms while the arrows were being created.
His casting was quick.
It only took 5 seconds to create 6 Ice Arrows.
But 5 seconds is a very long time.
If it was Leon, he could easily move 40 meters in the meantime.
Whoops!
“Gagging! How dare you…!”
A fist pierced with intent to stun is blocked by something.
As he could feel the faint flow of magical energy from his chest, he was probably wearing a daily protector.
A permanently activated artifact that enhances strength while maintaining elasticity by reinforcing physical structures such as leather or cloth.
However, since the function of the Daily Protector only blocks cold weapons or magical projectiles, it does not nullify the physical shock itself, so his face was distorted with pain.
However, the gnome opened its eyes and maintained its mental power.
If you put your mind to pain, the magic should be nullified, but he attacked Leon while maintaining the ice arrow he had made in advance.
“Linforce!”
Leon caught the flying magic arrow with a space stick.
By strengthening the molecular structure of the atmosphere with Linforce, it made it look like a viscous liquid, preventing the Ice Arrow.
Nevertheless, the Ice Arrow continued to approach, freezing and breaking the air, little by little.
‘It’s difficult.’
Defeating this boy wasn’t too difficult.
The problem was that the opponent was a high-status aristocrat, and this place was outside the wall.
Leon was the raider Leon, that is, the status of a commoner here, and even if a commoner injures the body of a nobleman, he cannot survive.
The guards could come and be caught right away, and even if the boy was overpowered and escaped safely, Leon’s status would be a wanted bounty.
However, if it was discovered that Leon was Leon as the cause, the mother’s life could be in danger.
It must have been avoided, so he could not use magic recklessly.
However, to resolve the situation through dialogue, the other person’s eyes were completely turned away.
“How dare the poor in the slums rebel against me?!”
The boy, who thought it was impossible to lay down a human life, had already made up his mind to kill Leon.
By the time more radical means flashed in Leon’s mind, the case was quickly resolved.
“stop. up to there.”
A voice that cools the air pierced his ears clearly and sharply.
At the same time, the surrounding temperature drops and everything freezes.
The viscous atmosphere created by Leon and the Ice Arrow created by the boy were all frozen once again and then shattered.
‘Magic Resonance.’
A phenomenon in which magical power responds to the feeling that it appears only to those who are gifted with magic.
It was a magical resonance that lowers the ambient temperature as opposed to the hit-up, which is a magical resonance phenomenon that raises the ambient temperature.
“miss? It’s this guy! I caught the thief who stole your wallet!”
“no.”
The fairy girl denied the boy’s words, but the over-excited boy kept talking, making sure he had no ears to hear her.
“I saw it with my own eyes! That guy just released the culprit who stole the lady’s wallet! It must be the pickpocket and his party!”
Leon, who had a bit of a prick at those words, frowned for a moment, but the girl’s attitude was still there.
“I said no.”
Frost fell around her at that cold voice.
The boy, who had just come to his senses as if he had poured cold water on him, turned away in surprise, and the girl left him behind and approached Leon.
“Thank you for getting my wallet back.”
Leon quietly handed her a wallet to her, who nodded, bowed her head and held out her hand.
Her small hands holding the wallet were very cold.
When Leon and the girl touched, the boy rolled his eyes again and glared at Leon, but Leon returned the wallet to the girl, put on the hood and immediately turned his back and left.
I thought.
‘Magic resonance.’
Magical resonance, the symbol of genius, was not an ability that anyone could handle.
The girl who performed the magic resonance was also a girl, but the ability of the boy who faced Leon was by no means ordinary.
Not at any other time, but at the time of the friendly match, seeing the prodigies he met, Leon was able to find Babane Bar with a strong feeling that he would soon be reunited with them.
It was midday when the sun was still in the middle of the sky, but Babane’s pub was full of drinkers.
Leon didn’t like the characteristic lethargic atmosphere of the ghetto, but at least this bar had a lively, buzzing atmosphere, so it wasn’t too bad.
Leon found a suitable empty seat and sat down, tapping the counter a couple of times to get the bartender’s attention.
“I want to order the strongest and hottest drink in this bar.”
Leon ordered a drink like a drunkard with a lot of pretentiousness.
It wasn’t that Leon really wanted to drink such a drink, but that this was the secret code for contacting the information guild at this bar.
“How strong are you looking for alcohol?”
At the bartender’s question, Leon held out a gold coin.
“this much.”
With that, the password was completed.
This information guild was an absurd place to eat 1 gold only on simple tangent lines, excluding the value of information.
If Leon was a simple D-class attacker, it would have been a painful expense just for the tangent cost.
Fortunately, Leon was also a capable alchemist, and he had accumulated quite a lot of wealth over the past year and a half.
Soon the bartender beckoned to someone, and one of the waiters who was serving drinks to the customer came up to Leon and whispered.
“Come this way.”
The place where Leon arrived under the guidance of the waiter was a gloomy space after passing the wine bar.
To be gloomy, Leo wearing a robe made of leather from sneakers was also acceptable, but there were not many that seemed to have a magic circle to block the intrusion of light at all.
Through the window that looked like a ticket office, a man with a deep hood was seen.
When the waiter finished the guide and left the room, the other person only opened his mouth.
“It’s divine Leon, so you have a valuable guest.”
“…is it a display of information power? However, I don’t think it’s a good attitude to reveal the identity of a customer who is hiding his identity.”
The man, who was silent for a moment at those words, responded by twisting his lips under the hood.
“Okay. You’re right. I made a mistake. so? What kind of information did you come here for?”
“…Soon, a friendly match will be held at the Parostel Magic Family. I want to know about the information of the guests who will come.”
To that, the man responded with a smile.
“I think that would be a pretty big piece of information. The price will change depending on how detailed information you want.”
“How much is the most detailed information?”
“2500 gold.”
Leon was speechless.
How on earth do you ask for such a price for how much detailed information?
It was embarrassing at first, but while he was quietly organizing his thoughts, Leon thought that it might be the case.
It must be true, too, that the Marquis Parostel family invited guests directly into the family.
Considering the information about their personal lives and the secrets they may be hiding, they thought that it might not be that expensive.
“Look, is the information you are looking for a list of players participating in a friendly match? Then I offer 10 gold as information about the names of the participants.”
“Hmm.”
Leon thought for a moment before opening his mouth.
“I heard that the purpose of this friendly match is that the prospects of the magic family gather to compete and develop friendships.”
“Well, looking at the reality, it seems more like a fight for pride than friendship.”
Leon shook his head at the man’s four legs and asked.
“How much would it cost to extract detailed information about those prospects?”
“If that’s enough, 50 gold would be enough.”
Leon nodded.
Many wizards were invited as guests of the family.
But it wasn’t all of them that Leon needed.
It’s easy to say, and it’s a friendly match, but the real purpose is to foretell the future by competing with the talents who will carry the future of the magic family.
Naturally, the players the children of the Marquis Parostel family will face will be children of the same age, so if you can only understand their information, there is no need for information about others.
“Do it with that.”
When Leon immediately paid 50 gold, the man twisted his lips again and smiled.
“thank you. Guest. Please come again next time.”
Leon put the piles of documents the man had brought out in his pocket pocket, and hurriedly left the bar and returned to the studio.
And at the top of the opened document was a picture of a familiar face taken as an artifact.
“Aria Rothbane…….”
The girl’s name with blue hair was Arya Rothbane.
She was the third daughter of the Marquis Rosbane family, one of the four major magic families in the Philo Kingdom, and had a rivalry with the Marquis Parostel family.
And as she read the records of her life, Leon could understand why she had a similar expression to Lee Won-hyung from the past.
Arya Rosbane had a splendid birth record that could be drawn as a story about the birth of a hero in a fairy tale.
It must have been so, and it was born when the magic resonance, a talent that the mage family considered the most valuable, was created.
But the reality was not a fairy tale.
Arya’s magic resonance was a magical resonance of freezing that freezes everything around her, and because of that magic resonance, Arya’s mother lost her life.
Could that have been the cause?
Arya’s father, Marquis Libert Vince Rothbane, built a large and luxurious annex to allow Arya to live alone there.
Of course, it was impossible to neglect a genius child with a promising future born with magical resonance, so there were always dozens of employees around her.
So when she was five years old, she met her father for the first time and was able to learn magic directly from him.
However, the problem was the education policy of the Rothbane Mage family.
In that family, they had a belief that mental pain boosts mental strength, and they taught Arya accordingly.
He covered his eyes with an eye patch, put earplugs to cover his ears, and was gagged to make him unable to speak.
It blocks all senses and creates an environment where only magical powers can be felt.
In the end, she was locked in a solitary cell with her hands and feet tied with restraints so that she could not move freely.
at the age of only five.
Perhaps thanks to that, Arya was able to awaken her magical powers early, but her suffering had only just begun.
After that, the Rothbane’s mage family continued to train, but no matter how talented Arya was, she could not fully satisfy the family’s expectations.
One loss for one mistake.
If Arya’s learning ability fell short of the achievement expected by the family, the family took away valuable things from her one by one.
At first, the bunny doll that the nanny made for her birthday was torn,
The puppy her mother had raised during her lifetime was found in the grave the next day.
The gardener’s daughter, whom he used to be friends with, went missing with the gardener.
The nanny, who raised Arya like a real child, died after being beaten with a whip in place of Arya.
And it was around that time that her genius was fully awakened.
At the young age of 12, she was able to reach the level of 3rd circle, and she was able to freely handle the magical resonance that she could not control at all until then.
Leon’s expression looking at the record also subsided coldly.
Arya’s life was completely different from Leon’s, but on the other hand, there was something in common.
A powerless life that is swayed by the family and loses everything, yet nothing can be done.
Arya’s expression flashed into Leon’s mind once again.
The date of the friendly match was approaching.