(EP.282)King #1
282 – King of Thieves #1
As I was sitting in the carriage and thinking for a while, someone stabbed me in the side.
“Tae-oh, what are you thinking?”
She was Narmi. It seems that Narmi and Mirna Young-ae exchanged each other’s turns. I decided to shrug my shoulders moderately.
“I just didn’t think much of it. Before this evening, I wanted to get to the city’s Big River. I heard that if you follow this river, you will find it.”
“I see! I thought I was thinking about Tefer, the one I heard about earlier. The missing archmage girl.”
Is it the missing archmage girl?
It was definitely a story that would draw attention, but I thought that Matoap had already taken care of it without even needing to use my hands.
Did I mention that the White Horse Tower is in the city we’re heading to, Big River? If you are in the city, it would be enough to visit at least once to check the situation and hear the report.
“By the way, was that kid Tefer really attacked by thieves? A 5th rank archmage is invincible from the point of view of thieves, right? is not it?”
In response to Narmi’s curious question, I looked out the window and looked at the long stretch of the river and thought for a moment.
The number of wizards in the 5th rank is so small that they are counted among the top 20 in the world.
Of course, the individual’s abilities will also be strong enough to be counted in the double digits if the wizard is limited.
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Conversely, thieves are weak compared to wizards.
They’re weak and mean, so they’re stealing.
In general, I think it would be difficult to deal with a genius wizard who broke through the 5th rank even if there were a lot of thieves… .
Stella added a word to me while I was in my thoughts.
“Fighting is not about numbers or calculations. Especially in terms of survival at the risk of life, there are more and more variables. If there is a variable, even an archmage can lose to a thief.”
“What is that variable?”
Stella seemed to be speechless for a moment at Narmi’s bold question. Soon she folded her arms, closed her eyes, and muttered softly.
“If it is the most classic variable, there was an opponent to protect. It’s like taking a hostage with a mean feeling like thieves, right? Because the wizards of the White Horse Tower are kind-hearted.”
hostage
It certainly made sense.
“More than that, did you say Miss Narmi? It’s a different feeling with my older sister, Mirna. Do you think you resemble your mother Alana more than Aleister-senpai?”
“Do you know my mother? Rather, do you see my dad as a senior? The professor is older.”
In response to Narmi’s innocent question, Stella smiled and spoke lightly.
“The methods of calculating the ages of elves and short-lived humans are different. Well, if you count the general short-lived species, do you think they can be considered to be around twenty-three by now?”
Is that so?
When describing the age of a dog or cat, I’ve often heard it said, “This 15-year-old dog is an 80-year-old man in human age.”
Maybe the elves are calculating their age that way too.
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Narmi smiles at him.
“Then, if I calculate my age in an elf way, I can say that I am about 120 years old! Tae-oh, I’m 120 years old!”
It’s good that Narmi is always bright.
how am i
My original age is about 25 years old, so if you count this as the age of the elves, I’m about 150 years old.
“Well, I am now twenty-five, so I was older than Professor Stella in terms of the age of an elf. In the future, please use respect for me as an elder.”
“What? Hey, where is that?”
“Uh-huh, who dares to say that to an elder?”
“What?”
Stella is confused.
So we spent our time in the carriage chatting and chatting. It’s good to sit still and enjoy the scenery, but time goes by quickly when you have a taste for chatting like this.
Thanks to that, we were able to get to the Big River before the sun went down. Hippogryphs pulling wagons run really, really fast.
“It took nine hours, but in elf time, it must have arrived in less than an hour, right?”
At my question, Stella trembled with her pointed ears exposed through her hair.
“Okay. Stop telling me I’m wrong Being an elf is just an elf-style joke.”
“I’m joking too.”
Hi-Hi.
It’s quite fun to make fun of elves. It’s fun.
Maybe the nymph’s genes, which are deeply embedded in me, have an instinctive interest in tormenting and teasing elves.
Anyway, when I entered the gates of Big River, a fairly large northern city. We were able to meet several groups of guards blocking the front of the wagon.
“Are you Sir Teo Gospel and Draco and her companion, General Stella von Belhawk?”
Just as it is natural to feel embarrassed when the police suddenly calls on you even if you have committed no crime, when the security guards check your identity like this even if there is no problem, you will feel uneasy.
“I’m the Tae-oh gospel, but it’s true. What’s going on?”
The captain of the castle gate, who checked our IDs, bowed his head and gave a solemn answer to my reasonable and dignified answer.
“I was waiting. The guide will arrive soon, so please wait a little bit.”
We got off the carriage and sat down in the guard’s office. I don’t know what was going on, but at least it didn’t seem like they were trying to harm us.
* * *
Did you wait 5 minutes? A man with a nice white beard entered the guard room.
A stylish monocle outerwear in a clinging suit. The figure holding a bent cane is an old gentleman who never fails.
As he bowed his head toward us, Stella’s eyes wide open, sitting on the chair as if bored.
“Aren’t you Dolches?”
“It is so glorious that the fairy princess remembers all of this body.”
Dolches?
As I was shaking my head for a while because I thought I might have heard the name somewhere, Narmi pointed me out.
“You are the top lord of the White Horse Tower. They are also called the Great Dolches.”
Ah, the top lord of the White Horse Tower.
When I asked where I heard it, I remembered the stories I heard when I was explaining famous wizards at the Ark’s Sage’s Association.
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Great Dolches. As I recall, he was said to be a man famous for his excellent magic skills and gentle personality. I felt a little nervous that such a man came out to meet us.
Dolches said.
“I heard that you are coming here from the village of Vilshcream. I heard that it is a journey to Sandora, but we will take good care of you so that we do not feel sad as we are staying in the city of the Tower of Big River.”
We followed him to a building called the White Horse Tower. I imagined a tower that stretched high into the sky. The building is surprisingly an ordinary three-story mansion.
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Narmi asked.
“Why is there no tower?”
Old gentleman Dolches smiles lightly at him.
“The tower was destroyed in the war with the demon king Solomon. The war that took place here was one of the most fierce battles of military personnel… .”
Shh.
Dolches pointed his hand around the garden.
“You can see fragments of the Broken Tower over there. We didn’t intentionally rebuild the tower so as not to forget the awareness of that day.”
Right.
We were led by Dolches’ hands to a room at the home of the white wizards called Mato Tower, and we showered and finished our meal.
As the saying goes, the service is all top-notch. Thankfully, there was no inconvenience. Rather, it is uncomfortable because it feels like they are looking into our eyes too much.
There may be a reason for such a respectful treatment.
After eating for a long time, while I was resting my body and mind with a cup of tea, an old gentleman spoke to me.
“You must be Sir Tae-oh.”
“That’s right.”
“I enjoyed the video of the duel trial. It was a great fight. Also, according to rumors, he dealt with the chaos of the Belhawks and had a discussion with Prince Reinhardt… ?”
Rumors are fast
He was a man who knew in advance that we were going to arrive, so it’s not strange to hear my rumors floating around.
He complimented me for a while for my magic and achievements.
I couldn’t stand it any longer, and I asked him about the kinds of stories that made me feel ashamed and diminished my mental strength when I listened to it.
“So, Dolches Ball. What are you going to ask me to do?”
“Request?”
“I can tell that the Dolches ball has something to ask of me. I don’t have much time to talk round and round, so I’m going to be rude and ask a question.”
Because there is no purposeless favor.
At my straightforward talk, Dolches began to drool with a slightly confused face and said, “Hmm.” At the same time, everyone around him had a somewhat gloomy expression on his face.
did you just ask
While feeling a little regretful, Dolches, the white horseman, said:
“I think you have already heard of the disappearance of Miss Tefer, the favorite of the White Horse Tower. There will be no stopping the story that is already spreading out of control.”
“So you want us to get your hands on it?”
At my question, the darkness that fell on Dolches’s expression grew slightly darker.
“That’s right. Although they say they used cowardly tactics, the thieves who deal with the favourites of the 5th rank… . Wouldn’t it be a big problem for the royal family’s well-being if we left it like this?”
That’s not right.
“In the cavern of the waterfall, a little off the Big River, there is a branch of the Black Robes. The leader of the gnomes, Ghidra, is a villain known as a mage-slayer. Please help… .”
“Hmm… .”
I thought for a moment.
“Why don’t we just ask for reinforcements from Angmar Royal Castle?”
“I don’t know what they will do if the fact that they requested an army from the royal castle spreads. Being at a corner, you might end up dealing with the held hostages… . It seems that a small number of troops to head to the base would be right.”
“It makes sense.”
“Also, I heard that Tae Oh is interested in the human rights of Imps. There are people who have seen the imps dragged to their stronghold.”
“Imps?”
Imps captured by bandits.
Just when I was told that Marmar was going on a trip to the northern city of Sandora, I began to feel a little worried and impatient.
“Do you not know the names of the imps?”
“I don’t even know that. However, I’ve heard of several groups of imps being dragged into the cave’s stronghold. Miss Tefer went into the den of thieves to save the Imps… .”
unacceptable
How dare there still be evils tormenting the Imps!
Worried that Marmar might have been captured, I began to feel that even the time I was listening to this story was wasted.
Do the people in the White Horse Tower who care about my favorite Miss Tefer feel the same as me now? When I came to that thought, I couldn’t stay still.
Shh.
“Where is it located?”
When I got up from the table and asked him urgently, Archmage Dolches, who had been suggesting a story to me, shudders as if in embarrassment.
“Sir Tae Oh, but the sun has already set. Night is the time for thieves. And, they may be trying to attract high-ranking wizards on purpose, so be careful.”
Are you deliberately attracting high-ranking wizards?
Without even having to ask why, Stella said.
“Disappearing imps, thieves aiming for wizards… . There seems to be one reason. The Demon King’s Crown. Could it be that it was a real story?”
At Stella’s question, Archmage Dolches seemed quite perplexed. Then he nodded in recognition.
“… The blood and blood of the hero Opal also cannot be deceived. Absolute Crown… , they have it.”