164. Nirva
Winter break has begun.
From the standpoint of the students, the exciting time has arrived, but personally, I couldn’t erase the feeling that it was just the beginning.
Because you will be busier than when you were in the academy.
First of all, Hebson Len was the first one.
The time to move to Nirva, the city where his mansion is located, was also a waste, so I called a special person.
“This is the Aios dormitory? It’s nice, but I’m living.”
A mercenary geek who used warp magic to make my movement much easier when I crossed the border of dragons.
I could pay for the cost, so I only asked Bertia to recruit him, and since he was a mercenary, he called for money, so he joined right away.
The geek looking around the dormitory, which has been empty since most of the students have left, makes eye contact with me and makes a face.
“Long time no see.”
“I was never going to work with you again.”
Well, his reaction was understandable. From his point of view, the customer he needed to take back to his house suddenly went to another country because he was in the middle of the month.
“But it was too much money to turn down.”
Are wizards usually talking to themselves that much?
The geek mumbles and nods his head.
“But are all these people leaving?”
Geeks look around all the time.
Me, Rin, Ares, and Hayoon.
The important thing is that it didn’t end here and two more people were added, Sen and Dyna noonas.
In Sen’s case, he interrupted saying that he wanted to go with him because he had no place to go even when vacation started, and Dina noona forced her to come in, asking where she was going during vacation.
In fact, he recklessly shouted that he would be with May Plov as well as the two of them, but the dean dragged him back to his family.
In the case of Eve and Tana, I heard about it, but unfortunately they did not attend, saying that they would only become a burden in a situation where they could not protect themselves.
“Well, it’s nice that there are so many beauties.”
“Don’t roll your eyes needlessly and get ready.”
The geek was wasting time talking nonsense, so after scolding him, he looked back at Bertia and Elise behind him.
“I hope your journey is smooth.”
“I want to go with you too, but it’s a pity.”
Bertia bowed her head politely. Literally, it looked like a lady-in-waiting to see off the owner as she went out.
Missing Elise. In her case, since she is a princess, she had to return to the royal family. In particular, I heard that the royal family is noisy these days, so it needs to be organized.
“Hey, it’s done.”
“Spoken words to customers.”
Despite complaints, the geek only raises his glasses and proudly crosses his arms. It must be because he knows that there is no warp wizard with his level of skill among the mercenaries.
Maybe because there were a lot of people, the drawn magic circle was a little big. Last time I just touched it and it started right away.
“Joe, I’m a little nervous.”
“It’s my first time too.”
“It must cost a lot of money to hire such a wizard? Little brother, where the hell did the money come from the other day?”
Since Ares and Lyn are from the countryside, Warp looked a little uncomfortable, and my sister seemed curious about the source of the funds since I had been spending money since the last time.
“Ugh.”
Sen grabs the headband that is on his wrist, just in case, with the opposite hand. I asked Ha-yun to give it to me as a gift, and she valued it very much.
“……”
In the case of Hayun, he had a tense expression on his face, but that must be the case. I’m going back to the home where I broke the ties.
“Don’t be too nervous.”
As soon as I said a word from the side, Ha-yun said thank you with a light smile, and then our views changed.
“Come on, it’s arrival!”
Nirva arrived with a geeky voice welcoming us. I heard it’s smaller than Elgrid, but it’s still quite large.
At least, I heard that it is a bigger city than the Bayern I went to because of the competition.
“…is this correct?”
However, when we arrived at Nirva, it was a landscape that could not be called a big city at all.
The city had a dull gray color. It is so dark that you can feel as if the color has disappeared due to the refracting of light.
Unknowingly, I frowned and looked at the geek, but he also looked around, sweating.
“uh? uh? W, is this right?”
“Aren’t you straight?”
Of course, I was only thinking that I had come to another place, so the geek spits out excuses rather than excuses with a puzzled expression on his face.
“This is Nirva! It’s clear by taking coordinates and moving! Well, wasn’t it like this the last time I came?”
In a word, you can’t go wrong.
Even so, it was an unbelievable urban landscape, but Hayoon supported the geek’s words here.
“Nirva… I think that’s right. The buildings I remember and the city look the same. It wasn’t that bleak.”
“What?”
“I’ve been here once, and the distance is the same as back then.”
After Ha-yun, Sen was added as an addition, and now I had no choice but to admit it. This place, which looked like a ghost town, was Nirva.
Then, for some reason, Nirva, which was full of life, became like this without a single person.
As I was struggling, I heard Rin’s voice slowly pointing to the end of the road.
“There is something over there.”
“That’s where the Ren family mansion is.”
Ha-yoon answers Lin’s words. I followed the main road they pointed out with my eyes, and at the end of it stood a huge mansion.
“I think it would be right to go over there first.”
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Just in case, I walked in the lead, but Dina-noona hit right next to me.
“Originally, my sister goes first.”
“…Stay by my side in case you don’t know.”
That’s how I walk down the street with Dina noona at the head. My vision was blurry, as if there was dust in my eyes, and it was difficult to breathe properly.
We thought that if we moved, anyone would come, but as if it was really empty, there was no sign of popularity in the city except for us.
“The city has changed like this, but what is the kingdom doing?”
Ares, unable to bear the frustration, shouted. However, his voice also drifted through the city hollowly.
“Hey, can’t I just stop and go back?”
A geek who raises his hand and says he doesn’t want to be here.
Seeing that he, who had been waiting for even me who entered the dragon’s border, was so anxious, I felt that it was definitely not a normal event.
“That end is the Ren family mansion.”
The splendid mansion was also dyed in gray. Looking at it like this, it was a lump of dust that spread throughout the city like an epidemic.
Seeing that, Dina-sister sighed.
“It’s a much bigger mansion than I thought.”
Certainly, the average mansions are large enough to be called cheap. The fact that it occupied the end of the city’s road showed how great the influence of the Ren family was in the city.
Seeing us like that, Ha-yoon replies that it’s not that great, as if it’s uncomfortable.
“Because it was a family with a lot of money. He was ridiculed among the nobles as a pig without honor because he had never made a proper feat after going to war.”
“Money is the best.”
Ha-yoon glared at the geek who was chattering from behind. He covers his mouth with both hands, saying he will not offend customers.
At that time, Rin comes out between me and Dina-sister and reaches out to the door of the mansion.
“I think there is something here.”
As Rin said, the intuition that the main culprit of this situation was at the Ren family’s mansion grew stronger in me too.
“If you knock on the door, it won’t open.”
He draws his sword and immediately cuts through the door to enter. Even though I only passed one door, I feel like the worst feeling of disgust enters through my mouth and nose and builds up in my body.
As the mansion was large, the garden at the entrance and the first impression of visitors was also spacious. Although thoroughly maintained, this too was dotted with gray and looked lifeless.
“……uh?”
Because I was the first to take the lead, I had no choice but to capture the scene first. I unknowingly exclaimed.
in the middle of the garden.
A marble statue in the shape of a clock in a fountain that no longer runs. There, the only man in this place who did not lose his color was hanging with a sword stuck in his chest.
“Hebbon… Ren?”
“Uncle?”
Ha-yun’s uncle and a passionate follower of the shaman of time. I implicitly thought that Hevan Ren was the culprit for changing the city like this.
He struggles to move his eyes that can’t open properly. He vomited blood as if we had caught our eyes, but he left a word.
“Uh, why me…”
After saying that, Haven Ren slowly lowered his head. As if he had been dead from the beginning, but came back to life to leave us a word.
I couldn’t get the words out when I saw him dead as if it was too natural.
The door to the mansion at the far end opens, and a couple walks out. It was the first time I saw them, but my first impression was that they were strangely familiar faces.
They were approaching us with bright smiles, which gave us a strange repulsion.
One of us stepped forward as if possessed by something.
“mother? father?”
Unable to hold back her tears, Hayun stretched out her hand and shouted.