Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent chapter 120

120 – Something’s not going well. Scarlett.

The Cloud family.

A vast, endless manor. The overflowing power of capital. A power that has a place even within the imperial family. And….

The head of the Cloud family, Conrad.

With cross-shaped scars under his eyes and white hair neatly turned into an all-back, he lives buried in a lot of information these days.

“After-“

It still is. He kept his eyes fixed on the typefaces written on the data as he constantly spit out the acrid smoke of his cigar.

Usually, he would have time without error checking his family’s business skills or swinging his sword, but now only information is his interest.

It is because it is information related to the death of his son.

Kian.

Conrad, as his father, had to find out the circumstances of the death of his son, who had grown up to be a promising family while working as a cadet at the head of Cheongwoon.

“We completed the transportation safely after a week.”

And finally, the family cellar.

The brokers succeeded in getting ‘Kian’s corpse’. It took a week, but it was a good enough achievement considering that the body was quietly removed from the eyes of others.

“I had a hard time.”

Conrad nodded his head.

He planned to avoid even the eyes of the imperial family, so he wouldn’t have done such a dangerous thing normally. But the son’s death was a very special case.

“….”

I feel new when I hold the doorknob in the basement.

The act of checking his son’s body is mysterious.

After clearing his mind with just one cigar, Conrad opened the basement door.

“Um.”

The scenery he faced after finally opening the door was somewhat different from what he expected.

Conrad requested a total of four corpses of Cadet Chungwoon. However, aren’t there five iron plates placed there?

Conrad began to remove the white cloth covering the iron plate one by one. First, it was to find the son.

That’s one person.

Two people.

Three people.

When I finally couldn’t stand it and removed all the cloths from the rest of the iron plate.

“… Her.”

Indescribable emotions welled up in his heart, and his immobility was broken after a long time.

Both iron plates contained Kian’s body. To be precise, the son’s body was split in half.

Only then did Konrad realize why the number of iron plates was one more.

“….”

He chewed on his cigar. I spat it on the floor and looked at my son with enough force that my eyeballs burst.

What the hell happened inside the danger zone? He wondered why his son had to face such an end.

“… ?”

But Conrad soon felt something strange. As he faced his son’s corpse directly, he felt a strange sense of incongruity.

“Wait.”

It’s not just a sense of incongruity.

His intuition was speaking.

My son’s body is not the same as usual. It’s so unfamiliar and different from that….

Conrad carefully inspected the corpse here and there to find the cause.

I finally realized the identity of the sense of incongruity.

“Magi….”

I finally realized the identity of the sense of incongruity.

In the body of the son who followed chivalry, there was no energy that was supposed to be there.

The spirit of a knight who uses his unique ability is nowhere to be found. It is full of only insidious demons.

“How pitiful.”

Conrad muttered with a distorted expression.

I despise even my son. Putting aside his family and chivalry, the fact that he signed a contract with Mine in pursuit of his own interests feels pathetic.

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You weakling.

“There is honor in the Cloud family….”

My head gets cold.

Sympathy and sympathy for his son were erased in an instant, and only thoughts of family honor began to fill his mind.

Conrad quietly rubbed his chin and pondered.

How should we act to protect the honor of the Cloud family? Finding the answer wasn’t difficult.

He asked the broker, numbering about ten.

“Nobody else knows about this.”

“I think I ran into mages during the subjugation, but…. I bet there will never be anything else.”

“I got it.”

“Hey, then, as you promised….”

The brokerage representative rubbed his palms and looked at Conrad. His face was full of greed.

Conrad nodded his head.

And at the same time.

Chow-!

“Ouch!”

“Cheer, heck!”

The acrid smoke shot through the brokers’ shoulders, abdominal cavity, lungs, and heart at the same time. His unique skill, [Smoke], Minces them into a handful of meat.

Bitting on a new cigar, Conrad muttered.

“Take it away.”

Then a woman came in and quietly began to sweep the floor. She was Kian’s older sister.

Inhaling the smoke deep into his lungs, Conrad murmured as if sighing.

“… Are there only four witnesses left?”

The four representatives of the Faculty of Magic.

Now they would be the only witnesses.

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The morning of the fierce battle was bright.

The knight of the flames, her duel was moved to a neighboring area.

As it is not uncommon for armed conflicts between those who have crossed a certain level to erase the surroundings without a trace, it took a considerable amount of time to set up even one location.

And finally.

While Scarlett was waiting for a duel on a plain that stretched out like the sky, someone approached and started talking to her.

“Long time no see honey.”

The high-ranking knight, Selfen, spoke with a kind and alluring voice.

As the owner of the unique ability [Enchantment], And a classmate of Scarlett, she was at least the same as she remained in Scarlett’s memory.

Pink hair hanging down to her hips, and a habit of licking her lower lip like a snake. Because everything is the same as before.

Scarlett only answered briefly.

“Did you come too?”

“Isn’t the reaction too stiff? I hate that. No. I like that he’s picky.”

“If you are a high-ranking knight, act appropriately.”

“Then will I become a swordsman at all? I’ll think about that later, did you see that?”

Selfen scans the people gathered to watch today’s showdown with his eyes. Scarlett’s gaze naturally followed her.

“Baby, can you see? So many gathered today. I couldn’t believe it, but Libra also came.”

Scarlett nodded her head in silence.

A group of people gathered far away. The number of them slightly exceeded Scarlett’s expectations.

Imperial officials and top heads of aristocratic families, just gathering them is great, but that’s not all.

Those who chose the path of wandering knights to become a swordsman also reflected quite a lot.

In addition, there is one more person, Libra, the one who cuts memories.

“There are so many familiar faces, right? Come to think of it, we are the only ones left in the family without wandering around~”

Knights who reach a certain level usually choose the path of a wandering knight. Putting everything else aside, it was only to advance toward the goal of becoming a sword star.

But Scarlett refused her freedom to wander.

The reason is simply, Judith.

“The family, the swordsman, I am confident that I will take care of everything.”

“Really? That’s cool~ By the way, wouldn’t it be nice to have this many people gathered?”

It was a matter of course.

There are not many spectators in a game where the outcome is obvious. Watching a one-sided match is exhausting, and watching it to the end is a waste of precious time.

Nevertheless, the fact that so many gathered.

It means that those who dared to visit this far have decided that the match between Scarlett and Plan is not obvious.

‘I neglected you for too long.’

Although Flan has recently risen to fame, he never thought he would move the hearts of dignitaries to such an extent.

Each of the dignitaries gathered here, the conversations they whispered, the anticipation on their faces, all made it possible to realize how much Flan’s prestige had risen recently.

“Baby. Will I be too far away? I don’t know anything else, but I hate being hot. Oh right.”

The selfie pen narrowed her eyes subtly.

“I have a lot of interest in your younger brother these days, if you like it after watching the duel…. Can I try to seduce you?”

“After the duel, the interest will fade.”

It was then.

People who were watching Scarlett from afar started talking. The knight of the embers narrowed his eyes and searched for the source of the sound.

“….”

I saw a flan walking in the distance.

However, what really surprised Scarlett was not Plan’s appearance, but people’s reactions.

The way he looks at the plan with his eyes wide open.

What Plan had accomplished was something Scarlett could have done as well. But why are people so passionate about Plan?

To the family traitor.

Even if the opponent is this Knight of the Remnants of Fire.

Flan came close to Scarlett at a steady pace. But he never said hello first.

Scarlett quietly looked into Plan’s eyes.

His unique ability circuit is burnt to pure white, and what flickers inside his eyes is not a flame at all.

But nonetheless.

Scorching heat

Scarlett did not forget the flames she saw in Berkel that day. No, she couldn’t forget.

How Flan was able to embody such a flame. Solving that question today was the fate and task that Scarlett gave herself.

In the end, it was Scarlett who broke the silence first.

“Hey, there’s no point wasting time.”

“I am always ready.”

Flan’s short answer.

After that, the two turned around. Since there was nothing more to talk about, they spread their distance and stood in their respective positions.

“Your arrogance also ends here today.”

With a small mutter, Scarlett raised her sword.

As she pulled out her sword, an unprecedented sharpness began to rage around her. Those who watched had to swallow their admiration quietly at the momentum.

The duel has begun.

From now on, the only thing you should believe in is yourself.

And his own sword.

And only his own flame.

The true Judith must be herself.

It has always been, and will continue to be.

Scarlett’s energy fell heavily. It was a serious energy that could only be possessed by being sure of her own beliefs without any doubt.

Unobstructed and lively, it ate up the air currents around her and gradually increased its momentum.

Of course we win.

The moment she made that decision, Scarlett raised the flame.

A flame that never goes out covers her sword.

“… ?”

No, that didn’t happen.

The black blade that Scarlett is holding is still just a sword. There was no fire on it.

“….”

The flames were raised once more.

Once, twice, three times. Repeatedly, the result was the same. Her flames never showed up.

The time when Scarlett narrowed her eyebrows without realizing it.

“Something is not going well. Scarlett.”

Flan’s cool voice hit me in the ear.