91 – The Final Trick – 4
“No…” … This can’t be…… This can’t be happening……. How could I…….”
Her words began pouring out of Laura’s mouth like rapid fire. Most of it was so fast and low that it was difficult to even understand.
Even the words she could barely understand were, ‘That can’t be possible. There were only things that were not helpful at all in understanding the context, such as ‘How did I do it?’
Laura, who had been muttering something frantically for a while, reached out for her notebook. She acted like she was possessed.
She quietly handed over the notebook. Laura took it, opened it with her trembling hands, and read each page with great care. She meant a blank page with nothing written on it.
The person reading it actually looked too serious to dismiss it as having lost his mind. So much so that she can’t even imagine turning over a blank page.
‘Is there something that only I can see?’
I tried using magic and using mana in a way that didn’t interfere, but it was still just a blank slate to my eyes. Meanwhile, Laura was looking at it intently.
“…… “Her Royal Highness?”
“Wow, hahahaha…… !”
“Your Highness?!”
About halfway through her notebook, Laura clutched her head and let out a moan of pain. He hurriedly grabbed her body as she was about to fall.
“Ugh…… ! Argh…… !”
As her pain seemed to be getting worse, Laura writhed around her. Her whole body trembled more violently than when she was excited by the pheromones. However, she never let go of her notebook.
As a temporary measure, a barrier was set up around the area and recovery magic was used. Green light permeated her body, but her struggle did not diminish one bit.
She wondered if it was the other side, so she tried using magic to remove abnormal conditions. There was no change. Laura was still writhing in her pain.
If both the recovery magic and the magic to remove status abnormalities did not work, I wondered what was going on in this situation.
“Ugh, ugh… ….”
While I was struggling to find a solution for her, the situation ended with Laura unable to overcome her pain and losing consciousness. In the meantime, she was still holding her notebook.
He put his finger under her nose. Fortunately, she was still breathing. He carefully picked up her body and laid her on the bed. In that brief moment, her pain was so severe that her face was covered in sweat.
I tried to pull out her notebook, but gave up when I saw that her fingers were very tightly pinched.
‘What on earth is it?’
To me it was just a blank notebook with nothing written on it, but to Laura it was something different. Now that the person involved was like this, she couldn’t even ask.
“I’m here…… What? What are you doing?”
As I was wiping the sweat from my forehead, Io came running into the room and tilted her head when she saw us. It was truly amazing timing.
I guess I should say I’m glad that I didn’t make any strange misunderstandings.
“It just worked out well. “Would you like to come closer?”
“Yes?”
Although Io was confused, he steadily followed my orders.
“Are there any letters visible inside?”
I carefully opened the corner of the notebook. Io, who was standing on the bed in a very awkward posture, as if he didn’t want to come in contact with the Empire’s next in line to succeed, craned his neck and looked into the corner.
“No. I can’t see anything. “It’s just a blank page?”
“…… “That’s right.”
Seeing that Io also appears to be a blank piece of paper, there is a possibility that a special spell has been placed on it so that only Laura can check it. In the end, I thought it would be best to ask him later when he woke up.
“What do you mean by this?”
“I asked because I didn’t know that.”
“…… Yes?”
“Don’t try to find out any more. “Because it has to do with this person lying here.”
Io was startled and jumped back like a cat startled by a cucumber. Nod, the head nodded desperately.
“Have you received a reply?”
“Um…… Well, I did get an answer…….”
The tail of his speech stretched out with a mischievous smile.
“I’ve finished preparing, so I can come to you right away?”
Laura didn’t open her eyes until we left the room.
Because I couldn’t guarantee what would happen next if I woke up carelessly, I had to be satisfied with protecting my body with an active defense magic circle. Because I don’t know if someone might come visit me while I’m away.
Naturally, I ended up going alone to the Wizards Association that I had planned to go to with Laura.
As soon as Io heard about the Wizards Association, he reacted very violently and quickly ran away, leaving only a request to request another request later.
“Stop. Are you Mira Krait?”
When I arrived at the Wizards Association building, a woman smoking a cigarette at the entrance stopped me. The woman stepped closer to the line, putting out her cigarette by stamping it out with her foot.
“That’s right.”
“Right? Why are the words a bit short? “I would have lived three times longer than you, traitor?”
Mr. Traitor, D. Has the rumor started to spread?
Well, it doesn’t really matter. Anyway, after a while, you will end up denying that proposition with your own mouth.
“Why would you speak informally?”
“…… Under. “He’s a better wizard than me?”
Since ancient times, there has been an idea that is common to all magic towers. That is, the idea is that whoever is good at using magic is superior, regardless of age or position.
If I think about what I’m going to do later, it won’t be a problem to use informal language in advance.
“It’s nice to have some spirit. “I liked it.”
The wizard seemed to be looking at me with evil eyes, but his expression changed in an instant and he tapped his shoulder with a smile on his face.
“Yes, the guy who brought all of us together must have that level of spirit. If I had been a shy person without anything, I would have been disappointed, right? Let’s go in. “I’ll show you the way.”
ㅡKuddeukdeuk!
The robe was torn from the wizard’s back as he tried to turn around with a smile, and wings and a tail sprouted out. Not only that, but even his arms had turned into dragon’s paws.
The wizard looked around his body and clicked his tongue.
“Ac, I guess I turned it off earlier for no reason. Please do me a favor. Can I smoke a cigarette? Oh, strictly speaking, it’s not a cigarette, but a mixture of herbs.”
“As much as you want. “I don’t care.”
“Thank you, hey. Anyway, you brazen bastards, since you said this isn’t cigarettes, until the end… ….”
Even while he was mumbling and cursing his colleague, a cigarette spontaneously rose from the inside pocket of his robe and was placed in his mouth. Suddenly, the tip ignited on its own, emitting light and heat.
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The wings, tail, and mutated front feet that protruded beyond the robe gradually disappeared. The wizard took a deep breath of smoke and looked back at me.
“Aren’t you surprised when something like this happens right in front of your eyes?”
“Because I know what it is. “It’s a side effect of failing while researching dragon transformation magic, isn’t it?”
“To be exact, it ended up being half-successful. I turned into a dragon, but I couldn’t control it. My body keeps trying to change on its own. I keep trying to become a dragon because I die even if the transformation lasts only 30 seconds, but what can I do? We need to use medicine to stop it. “There are so many experiments I haven’t completed yet, so I can’t die already.”
The wizard chuckled.
“Do you think I became famous though? It is also known to academy students like you. Or did you study especially hard?”
I heard about it from Priscilla. He is a character who is only mentioned in passing in the middle of an episode, but if you pass him by more than a hundred times, you will naturally remember him even if you don’t like him.
I guess they didn’t really want an answer either, so that was the end of the conversation. We arrived in front of the presentation room without saying a word, and the wizard teleported in first, saying he was looking forward to it.
‘I should go in too.’
ㅡKwaang!
I opened the door with force. The eyes of the wizards inside suddenly shifted. The owners of the magic towers rising throughout the empire were looking at me with cold yet passionate gazes.
A cold gaze is distrust, and a hot gaze is anticipation. The ratio was roughly half and half.
“You really came, Mira Krait. “I heard that you are being detained in the imperial palace with the crown prince on charges of treason.”
The older man sitting in the front seat stroked his beard and looked at me.
“If I were someone who couldn’t even break through that, I wouldn’t have been able to bring them all together.”
“…… “Hoo?”
While the old man narrowed his eyes, he quickly checked the number of wizards. There were 53 people. There are 50 magic towers across the empire and this is a meeting where only magic tower owners can participate, but there were 3 more people there.
In other words, the Grand Wizard is present, his identity hidden. The rest knew that this was what the Archmage was doing, but they were unable to stop it.
Who else would be able to come in here other than the Archmage? Even the emperor cannot enter the Wizard Association building without permission. Because I don’t know what will happen if I come here.
These people are truly worthy people.
“Before we start, is there anyone who didn’t come?”
Even though I asked the question very casually and informally, no one pointed out anything.
Instead, the eyes looking at me narrowed a little more. He said he would evaluate more rigorously whether he had the ability to do so.
“Anyone who doesn’t come after seeing what’s written in the letter is disqualified as a wizard. “I threw away all the research I was doing.”
Just like the old man, the woman sitting in the front row with both legs up on the desk with a languid expression said as if throwing something out.
Because she was wearing a loose-fitting dress, her insides were clearly exposed, but neither she nor the wizards around her seemed to care at all.
“So, get started quickly, kid. “I’m still dying of curiosity.”
“Good. “It happened to be a presentation that required audience participation, so they could help.”
“Tell me.”
The woman lifted her chin.
“I need to see some blood. Do you want to hurt me or hurt me?”
“Oh my, what a handsome man. How could you ask a woman that question? Okay, let me tell you something special. “Of course I’m the one who puts it on.”
“Then you can attack me. “It won’t kill you, but it will have a definite visual effect.”
There was no Q&A to follow. As soon as the woman snapped her fingers, her entire left arm was severed. Her arm, which had been severed from the shoulder down, rolled on the floor, and blood poured from the cut side like a fountain.
‘…… Now that I think about it, has my left arm been cut off already for the third time?’
For some reason, it has become an area with many hardships.
“Originally, I was going to do it with my right arm, but it looked like I was right-handed, so I did it with my left arm. “Sorry if not.”
Even when the woman saw the blood flowing out in front of her eyes, she did not blink.
In fact, it was the same for everyone here. Including me. It hurt, but it was bearable.
“It’s okay because I’m her right-hand man.”
The bodies of the wizards watching bent forward a little more, as their curiosity deepened at my aloof attitude. I asked the woman again.
“I’m asking just in case, but you didn’t just pretend to cut it, right?”
“This is the first time I have been asked if I just pretended to cut off my arm. “Are you out of your mind?”
I was told that I was out of my mind by a member of the Wizards Association. She continued speaking, feeling a little shaken.
“Because it is a magic that must be confirmed. “What is the answer?”
“For the honor of Jeoktap, I really cut it. That’s enough now, right? “Quickly start the next step.”
“That’s right.”
He picked up her severed left arm and used recovery magic.
“…… !!!!!”
As light of a color that people in this world could not see even if they had lived in their entire lives appeared from my grasp, the woman jumped up from her seat and opened her eyes wide.
The remaining 52 people did the same. There wasn’t even a single exception. From the moment the green light came out, there was no one sitting in their seat.
He said, twirling her shoulders to confirm that her arms were joined perfectly.
“Who wants to experience it for themselves?”
At the same time as those words were spoken, a total of 53 blood fountains sprang up.