#13
Coffee seems to be a really effective drink.
An overdose can turn a person into a living dead. It allows you to overcome your instincts, even for a brief moment.
However, there are also side effects.
Because it is forcibly quelling the irresistible lust for sleep, it sometimes turns people into madmen.
Now the man felt as if he was standing in the stage just before that.
—Square, square, square.
A man with wide eyes was mechanically teasing his hand. I was the pen, and the pen was me. All pens. Now the man became one with the pen.
I just transcribe the lines that come to mind. It really was no different than a magic machine. He blankly looked down at the paper and moved his hands in a hurry.
‘… I’m going to die like this No, are you already dead?’
I don’t even know if it’s day or night. Anyway, it was activity time. He continued the experiment all night and repeated the same routine until the results came out, then he lay down on the cot and slept as if he was exhausted. Then he gets up and squeaks again, sorting out the research data.
There is still a long way to go, but this is not the end. In the interim, documents related to research funding must also be prepared and delivered.
Is that all? There are all sorts of chores.
From cleaning the lab, to running errands from a lab intern who joined the office a few months earlier than men… …
‘You must endure. have to endure… … ‘
This kind of treatment for new mages is quite normal for Akasha’s Star. have to adapt so it survives It’s a hell of a monster. There are so many wizards all over the world that even the ranks once achieved are enough to make any officer of the magic corps funny. No, that’s the basics. Because ‘Akasha’s Star’ reached Exy (6) from the start of the tower.
‘More, you have to devote yourself.’
He felt that he was just like a frog in a well, with every passing day in the tower.
—Quick profit.
That moment.
The door opened and a bright light leaked in.
“Pente Shriel. Are the requested materials ready?”
“… … Ah, Sharpis-sama.”
The man’s name is Shriel de Laparte.
He was a senior graduate of Lorsen Academy’s Magic Department, and was a Pente (5)-level wizard who entered the ranks as the youngest low-ranking wizard of Akasha’s Star this year.
Shriel answered hurriedly.
“It is now being finished. If you wait a little… … ”
“What? When was the last time you asked for it, but you still haven’t finished it?”
It was yesterday morning. Even then, I was in the process of organizing data that had not been processed yet, and new data was placed there.
Besides, the quantity was higher. It was no different than telling him not to sleep. In fact, it must have been meant to end up staying up all night.
“sorry. I have other work to do… … ”
Shriel’s shooter, Sharpis, clicked his tongue.
“Tt… I know you’re working hard, but it’s too slow. So when do you think it will be put into formal research? If you can’t stand it, just hit it. The wizards above you are more than enough to solve the same amount you received in half a day. If you are a good wizard, you should also know how to maximize efficiency. what are you You don’t have to show results as much as the future is very promising, that you are the youngest tower, and that you are excited about it.”
“… … sorry. I will do my best.”
“Who can’t speak?”
“… … ”
Sharpis said, looking around the dark corner of the room.
“Make sure to finish it before lunch today. In the evening, I have to show the progress of my research to the Lord Matthew.”
Shriel shook her head for a moment. He had a slightly lost expression, perhaps from exhaustion, but he soon came to his senses and opened his mouth.
“… … Dear Matthew, you mean?”
Shriel belonged to the Aetheric Order of the three sects. The same goes for the shooter Sharpis. So, what Sharpis is talking about is——
“okay. I got the news that you’re coming back this evening. There will be a welcome ceremony, so make sure you attend too.”
“Oh, I see.”
“Don’t forget to finish it by lunch. never sleep If by any chance you hear the news that you missed the reception while sleeping here, then something very bad will happen to you. Do you understand?”
“… … Yes, Sharpis.”
“Then go on.”
-thud.
The door closed, and Sharpis left.
“… … ”
Shriel looked down at the densely packed letters and spells. Dozens or more remain after this. He tilted his head toward the ceiling and wiped his face. The days after Iptap were so busy, I didn’t even have time to think about anything else.
My wrist, which had been used forcibly, was burning as if it had been burned, and the nib was covered with black stains from young ink.
I’m at a loss as to how to solve this in four hours.
‘The Lord Matthew is coming back.’
Shriel had been given a single driving force.
The 3rd Horseman of the giant magic tower ‘Akasha’s Star’.
Tetra Crowley.
I’ve heard of her fame. If you are walking on the path of magic, how can you not know?
‘The Archmage above the Archmage.’
So, on this wide continent, Tetra is treated as out-of-standards alone.
Tetra was also one of the war heroes. If Elena Crymore had penetrated to the center of the southern demon realm alone and slaughtered every living creature there, without leaving a single piece, Tetra burned a part of the northern demon realm to annihilate it all at once. It was to incinerate the lives of demons by using etheric magic, a unique organ and skill that she ultimately honed.
The number of demons annihilated by a single great magic easily exceeds 30,000.
That day, someone said.
It is said that the sun descended on the earth.
Because of this, the demons feared Tetra more than Elena.
For that reason, the archmage who said that even the same archmage could enter one by one was Tetra Crowley.
The tetra, the living myth itself, is not easily seen. Even now, after leaving the tower for a long time, hasn’t he come back?
He was such a newcomer, and as his location was his location, he was not the kind of person he could meet because Shuriel, a low-level wizard, wanted to meet him.
So, for Shuriel, this was only one chance to get in touch with Tetra.
‘Never sleep. never.’
Shriel widened her eyes. Threads appeared in his red, bloodshot eyes. Shriel, who had awakened with the determination that he would definitely touch the Tetra in real life, held his breath and teased the pen.
Shuriel’s hands danced as fast as if they had wings. Square, square, palak-. Square, square, palak-. The brain rolls tight.
‘can do.’
At this speed, you can hit it in time.
I had that certainty.
—Square, square.
In the middle of the morning, nothing but the sharp nib scraping the paper quickly resounded over and over again.
Awakened Shuriel miraculously finished the deadline.
That evening came.
‘My lord, why… … ‘
There was no welcome ceremony. The Tetra Crowley did not appear, and the grandly prepared banquets and celebrations did not find their owners.
Standing at the edge of the lined-up crowd and preparing for a standing ovation, Shriel felt like she was about to cry for the third time in her life.
#14
“No, that’s why I said I’m coming back in April on purpose. How the hell did anyone know and spread the news of his return to the tower?”
The head of the Aether School, and the office of the 3rd Templar Lord.
“This is nonsense. Obviously someone messed it up. Who is it? Who are you? Is it Elena that b*tch!?”
Tetra Crowley, who felt an eerie feeling as soon as she saw the procession of crowds from the entrance of the tower, and who spread the rumor even though she entered the country secretly, warped to the office through the registered coordinates.
Tired is disgusting Banquets are even worse.
Tetra, who had been tearing her hair for a while, and groaning, thought that it would have to be manipulated as if she had returned as scheduled in April after playing around here and there.
After all, I was here to take a rest and recuperate. In April, I was thinking of leaving only my face on the tower for a while and then leaving again.
Tetra sat down on the chair. said the chair.
—Your ass is stiff. master.
“Yeah, it seems that after sitting on the ground for a long time, my hips have adapted to the environment and have hardened. But do you want to follow?”
—I was just concerned about my master’s health.
“I worry about the owner of the chair. very disturbing, very disturbing. I’m in a very uncomfortable state right now, so could you please shut up?”
—… …
The chair listened to Tetra. After that, he didn’t open his mouth. No, do you have a mouth?
Tetra’s office was nothing more than a gigantic library. A ceiling that soars to the sky. Books floating around the bookshelf as if there was no gravity.
Tetra raised her hand behind her back. It flew out from somewhere and swam softly and was placed on Tetra’s palm.
opened the book This time he raised his other hand. The feather pen landed in Tetra’s hand. Tetra shook her pen while making an impression.
—Uh-huh. I’m dizzy
“There is no ink. Fill it up quickly.”
-Yep.
The feather pen flew somewhere alone.
Certainly, this place was unusual.
Talking chair, talking pen, floating book and so on.
These were all the work of Tetra.
To be precise, it is a copy of the soul (魂) transferred to an ordinary object. Even if it were a clone, the memories of the past would not be contained anywhere, but the personality with intelligence remains the same.
It was just adjusted to Tetra’s taste.
Putting your soul into things Even if it is evaluated as a Saihan magic, there is nothing to say. It is not doctrinally correct. It is something that no one but the Tetra would dare to attempt.
Conversely, being a tetra, in this vast world, only she was able to continue such research.
The reason he did this was because, like any archmage, these processes were closely related to the ultimate goal of the Tetra.
In addition to this, there were many other works by Tetra, but among them, the representative one was——
cut profit.
“Come here, my lord… … ”
“Maru woo woo woo woo! I wanted to see you!”
The thing she loves the most.
It was not a human cloned soul, but a homunculus that artificially obtained life with a created soul – ‘Maru’.
“… It hurts, it hurts. I told you not to run too far. I am still weak.”
“Ugh-.”
con. Maru placed honey chestnut on Tetra’s crown.
If there was an ordinary person with common sense in this place, I might have fainted by surprise.
Tetra is a person who cannot treat even the dignified and dignified emperor of the empire. If Tetra ever had to visit the Principality, he would treat him like a semi-emperor. To put honey chestnuts on the head of such a supreme archmage? It was something that my head couldn’t even imagine. However, the tetra was not an ordinary head. Maru was born under her. So the floor was not normal.
Tetra shed tears even after being hit quite hard, and smiled again with a scruffy face, then suddenly turned into a gloomy expression.
“I came running to see you like this, but you are always cold… … This sister is sad… … ”
“Isn’t that your mother, not your sister?”
“Hey! I said sister! You look so old!”
“Ah yes… … ”
What about Tetra? Maru nodded her head.
“Oh. master.”
“why? Are you hungry? Still, there is one thing I brought from the North Continent… … ”
“No, not that. I have news to tell you.”
“… … huh? What?”
Maru inherited Tetra’s knowledge. Unless you are a high-ranking official from Akasha, Maru’s existence is kept strictly confidential. In fact, while Tetra was leaving, Maru was in charge of most of the agency work. Of course, his appearance is not revealed to other wizards. From the beginning, Tetra didn’t want that. I don’t know if it was ‘completed’, but it could never be released yet.
Aside from just acting as an agent, Maru was often connected to his owner, Tetra.
for example,
This was also the case.
“Two days ago, Elena-sama’s ‘stigma’ was used.”
“——! what?”
Tetra’s body, which was about to melt, hardened. For a moment, I must have heard it wrong, but Maru’s expression remained the same. Oh, I guess it’s true. Maru isn’t the type to play around with things like this.
… I have to go.
I was really going to take a little break.
I can’t leave until I know what the stigma was used for.
‘It’s you, Elena… … ! This damn b*tch… … !’
When the situation reached this point, Tetra, who was convinced that Elena must have been the one who secretly announced the news of her return to the tower.