＜ 17 : Warlock (3) ＞
Roan Hebris.
He was a warlock who reached his mid-forties this year.
He realized early on that he had no talent for magic and turned to a warlock, but that didn’t mean he had exceptional results in black magic.
In order to overcome black magic, it took effort to the end.
Efforts to catch innocent people and make them a scapegoat for magic.
Black magic was essentially that kind of magic.
And Roan wasn’t the kind of person who could radically execute even such an effort.
In the end, I was stuck in my mediocre skills and just kept hovering in place.
The only difference was the fact that he had joined the bandits to sacrifice the prisoners he occasionally captured.
Roan’s own skills were forever in a state where he could not forget the glory of the past.
“It would be nice to sacrifice all of these guys.”
Roan muttered as he put the prepared ingredients into the boiling cauldron.
Roan’s eyes looking at the cauldron were filled with boredom.
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Making potions was also getting boring.Even though he knows that he will regress without even the least amount of research, he wants to let go of what he is doing right now.
However, it is impossible for the bandits who are with Roan to release him.
Potions produced by Roan, along with slaves, are one of the bandits’ main sources of income.
It’s not bad to live a life of support, but it was the human heart that sometimes wanted to get away.
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With his tongue stuck, Roan threw the clumps of hair she had cut from the slaves into the cauldron.
“If I had continued to learn magic, I might have been teaching magic in a mountain village somewhere.”
Although the achievement was inferior to that of black magic, the magician was still worthy of respect.
It was even more so in the countryside, which seemed to have nothing to do with magic.
Somewhere in the countryside, he is considered a geeky wizard, and he may have lost the opportunity to be called the wise man forever.
As Roan was thinking about that, a voice echoed from outside the tent.
What Roan heard in his ears was a familiar voice.
Because it was none other than the voice of the thief guarding his tent.
“Wizard!”
“What? I should have told you not to interfere while making the medicine.”
Hearing the thief’s voice, Roan spoke with a displeased expression.
If even a small amount of impurities enters, the effect of the potion becomes strange.
So Roan had told me not to interfere while making the potion several times.
However, the thief didn’t care about his voice, flapped the entrance of the tent and ran straight inside.
The thief’s eyes, breathing heavily, looked at Roan.
At the same time, a leaf carried by the wind gently landed on top of the cauldron.
Impurities were mixed into the medicine he was making.
Roan, who was watching all this, frowned.
“Wizard! You’re here!”
“Didn’t I tell you not to come in! There’s a foreign substance in the medicine!”
Roan shouted at the thief who entered the tent.
No matter how urgent it was, there was an order.
Despite Roan’s yelling, the thief shook his head with an urgent expression.
huh. The thief, who took a deep breath, spoke to him in a trembling voice.
“Wow, that’s a big deal!”
“What the hell did you do this for? Did the bandits even get annihilated?”
“The boss has been taken hostage.”
“What, what…?”
Hearing the story of the thief, Roan opened her mouth wide.
Hearing it, it was definitely a big deal.
Where in the world can there be such a absurd story that the head of a bandit is taken hostage?
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Moreover, if the level was to take the thieves hostage, it was a story that even a subjugation squad from somewhere had come.If caught by the subjugation squad, the warlock Roan was of course the death penalty.
Roan asked the thief with a nervous look at the unexpected turn of events.
“How many subjugation squads came?”
“Are you talking about subjugation?”
“Yeah! Subjugation!”
“I didn’t see the subjugation team, only two people came.”
“…?”
Roan looked at the thief with an incomprehensible expression.
But the thief’s face looked more serious than ever.
Two people.
It was said to only two people that the thieves were destroyed and the boss was taken hostage.
In a way, it was more serious than the story that the subjugation team had attacked.
“How about the armament? Did it seem like a knight came?”
“A man in sloppy clothes and a woman holding a book!”
“book……?”
“It seems that a wizard has arrived! Repel the other wizard with Roan-sama’s magic!”
The more he listened to the story of the thief, the more difficult Roan became.
A magician who quickly defeated a band of thieves.
And there are only two numbers.
Will Roan be able to win against such beings?
It wasn’t what Roan thought.
Roan had devoted decades to magic, but that didn’t make him exceptionally stronger than the others.
It was best to run away if possible.
“Wizard…….”
“There is no time! Roan-sama! Let’s punish the enemy with Roan-sama’s powerful black magic!”
“No, I…”
“Roan-sama! It’s urgent!”
But he couldn’t afford to run away from the thief who looked at him with an ardent expression on his face.
The magician’s assets are magic books and research materials.
Even as a warlock, his essence did not change.
The moment he left them all here and ran away, all that Roan had built up over the decades would be in vain.
Whoa.
Roan sighed and walked past the thief in front of him.
As he walked out of the tent and headed out, he saw the head held hostage as he had been told.
“Oh, Roan…! Save me!”
As soon as the boss met Roan, he called out his name and asked for salvation.
Roan looked at the uninvited guests standing behind him with the captive boss.
One young man with an innocent-looking impression.
And behind such a young man, there is a girl holding a thick book.
The book that the girl was holding was overflowing with magical powers of unknown depth.
It was a supreme treasure that you can guess its value just by seeing it.
“Are you a wizard who lives here?”
Roan and the girl’s eyes met in the air.
The girl asked Roan for her identity with an innocent expression.
However, Roan was not swayed by the girl’s innocent expression.
The opponent in front of Roan was a wizard.
A magician with incredible magical powers that can’t even guess what kind of skills he has.
He was by no means an opponent to be looked down upon.
“Yes. I am the Warlock Roan Hebris. So, what are you?”
“Are you talking about me?”
“If you ask a question, wouldn’t it be fair to accept one question?”
“I think so.”
“So, reveal your identity.”
gulp. Roan, who swallowed his saliva, watched the movement of his opponent with a watchful gaze.
At Roan’s request, Yutenia stepped forward with light steps.
Yutenia’s steps forward came to a halt right next to the tied boss.
Yutenia stopped a little distance from Roan, and then opened her mouth with a soft voice.
“I am the Apostle, Euthenia Hirost. I am the Apostle serving the Great One.”
“Apostle…….”
“Was it a very unfamiliar story?”
“No. I feel like I know a little bit now.”
God’s messenger.
I don’t know exactly what kind of god that god is, but I can guess that it was unusual to meet an apostle of a god.
Anyone who walks the path of black magic must understand all kinds of rituals.
Offerings to evil spirits were no exception.
They offer sacrifices and receive the power appropriate for them.
That was the basis of the study of black magic.
Seeing the self-proclaimed apostle Eutenia, Roan realized that she had to make a quick decision.
“Is that so. I’m glad it was helpful.”
“This must be all I have to do.”
“I think you’re going to use magic.”
breakage.
A spark flew into Roan’s hand, who had raised his magical power.
Roan, who created an arrow of lightning, fired it straight at the target.
The arrow that flew like a beam of light collided with the target in an instant.
“Lightning Arrow!”
“Aww…!”
The arrow that Roan threw pierced the leader of the bandit next to Yutenia.
The body of the boss hit by the arrow flashed, and the boss bubbled in his mouth and began to convulse.
It was not Euthenia that Roan attacked, but the leader of the bandits.
The head of the bandits, hit by an out-of-the-box attack, screamed and passed out.
Yutenia, who was watching this, patted the cover of the book and said to Roan.
“You’re doing funny things.”
“From the moment I first saw you, the conclusion was already made.”
“is that so?”
“Please accept me as a disciple.”
pooh.
Roan knelt down and put her head on the ground.
This was the only conclusion Roan could draw.
A huge aura fluttering behind Yutenia, who moved the shadows.
From the moment Roan faced it, he realized that his opponent was an invincible existence.
He didn’t have a great talent for magic, but he was born with an ‘eye’ to recognize the level of his opponent.
The opponent is an apostle of the evil spirit.
While connected by a link between the being and something he served, he was drawing near-infinite magical power.
It was a existence close to the ideal of a wizard’s dream.
You dare to fight against such a being.
It was no different from a foolish moth leaping towards a bonfire.
At Roan’s request, Yutenia shook her head.
“I’m sorry. I don’t think I can make him a disciple.”
“……Yes?”
“Even if you recruit followers, you don’t receive disciples.”
“Then please accept me as a believer! I will serve the Great One!”
Hearing Yutenia’s voice, Roan immediately changed her plan and put her head back on her head.
If he couldn’t become a disciple, even a Shinto had to enter.
Even more so if it was a god with high influence that even an apostle could create.
Seeing Roan bowing her head in succession, Yutenia smiled.
A hand reaching out from the shadow stroked Roan’s head, who was lying face down.
“I think so. I’m sure the great one will like it.”