＜ 8 : Awe and Fear (4) ＞
“Now I understand.”
The entrance to the cave with no one in it.
There, with the spell book open, Yutenia murmured while reading the spell book alone.
Yutenia, reading the spell, was wearing the clean tunic she had just received.
It has been a week since she received a book from a great person whom she serves.
In the meantime, Yutenia has been busy trying to understand the magic book.
And so far, the desired results have been achieved.
“What I learned from my father was also very helpful.”
Yutenia’s slender fingers turned the pages of the thick magic book.
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Magic is not an easy science that anyone can understand.If it wasn’t for the minimum education that Yutenia learned as a noble, it would have taken more time to understand the magic book.
Fortunately, Yutenia had a natural talent for dealing with magic.
That’s what it meant to understand a piece of magic in just a week.
“Then now… we’ll have to check it out.”
tuk.
Yutenia, who covered the opened magic book, stood up.
Yutenia got up from her seat and walked slowly towards the outside of the cave, holding the magic book in her arms.
jerk. jerk.
Eutenia’s light footsteps passed through the bushes.
After coming out of the bushes, Yutenia began to scan the floor to look for large stones.
One rocky stone.
And next to it is a flat stone.
Jutenia looked at the stones around him and lifted a stone of a suitable weight from them.
“Are you okay with this weight?”
A heavy feeling came from her palm holding the stone.
Tuuk. tuk.
After lightly throwing the stone he was holding in his hand, Eutenia took a stance.
Immediately after that, he threw the stone he was holding vertically high and reached out toward the sky.
A blue haze rose from her palm and began to wrap around Yutenia’s body.
The moment when the magical energy that enveloped Utenia begins to spread around.
Utenia condensed the magic and used magic.
“Barrier.”
Tuo-!
A stone that had fallen over Yutenia’s head collided with the translucent barrier and bounced off.
A hemispherical protective shield around her protected her from stones.
Low-level defense magic, Barrier.
Seeing the shape of the barrier spread out to protect herself, Yutenia looked at it with twinkling eyes.
The bluish-looking barrier prevented any substances from approaching her.
Yutenia tried to puncture the barrier that spread around her with her hand, but the concentrated magical power was blocking even Yutenia.
“It’s amazing. I guess this is magic.”
Whoops.
After watching the barrier for a long time, Yutenia waved her hands to disperse the magical energy that had been gathered.
The agglomeration of the strong magical power is released, and the barriers around it disappear without a trace.
It was a supernatural miracle that she had created in the air with just her hand gestures.
It was the moment when Yutenia became interested in magic.
“If you continue to learn these magic, it will definitely help him in his dreams.”
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Magic is the science of reproducing objects and phenomena.By studying the flow, phenomena are reproduced, and objects are imitated by observing the substance.
Therefore, magic that has reached its climax sometimes creates miracles against nature.
And Yutenia was a human born with a talent for learning such magic.
It doesn’t take long for a genius to realize his potential.
It was the same with Utenia.
Recalling the contents of the magic book, Yutenia stretched out her hand towards the front where there was no one there.
“shield.”
A translucent blue light barrier appeared in the air where Eutenia’s hand touched.
The shield magic was not contained in the spell book that Yutenia received.
Having understood the characteristics of the barrier, she directly embodied other magic.
After creating a shield in the air, Yutenia reached out and tapped the shield slightly.
Tuung—.
A ripple broke out in the place where Eutenia’s hand touched.
“It looks like it still needs some improvement. Do you want a little more magic power?”
Yutenia, who had touched the shield several times, moved her hand and scattered it as before.
I tried each magic once, so I thought I’d try it after modifying it.
It was the first magic that Yutenia had to learn with fun.
After that, for a long time, Utenia watched the magic change while using the barrier and shield.
Yutenia’s magic experiment continued until the sun went down.
* * * * * *
The Empire’s executive body, the Centirius branch of Cloud.
There, third-level investigator Rick Sway looked at his superiors.
Rick’s expression looking at his superior was more serious than ever.
It was Rick who usually joked with his superiors with a smile on his face.
But Rick was not in a situation where he could even show a smile to his superiors.
The reason was the incident that Rick was reporting.
“Rick… How did you say the amount of damage in this case was?”
The one-eyed investigator sitting in front of Rick asked him.
Second-level investigator, Hus Alamere.
Hearing Rick’s report, he was showing his uncomfortable feelings without any filtering.
“Four villages are gone.”
Rick, feeling cramped, reported to the superior in front of him.
It is an incident in which four villages have completely evaporated.
It wasn’t that the village was burned down or looted by bandits.
All the equipment and facilities were left untouched, only the people were all missing.
It is not an event that can be explained in a normal category.
Hearing Rick’s words, Huss scribbled something on the wooden board he was holding and asked.
“Are there any chances of being attacked by robbers?”
“Things that could be used as money in the village were left intact.”
“Isn’t there anything missing?”
“Yeah. There was no sign of tampering.”
If the robbers had moved, there had to be no money left in the village.
However, in the village, there was no sign of looting, not even a proper bloodstain.
That was the reason Rick was convinced it wasn’t the work of a band of thieves.
Such a scene cannot be created only when the thief moves.
At least it wasn’t for money.
Hearing Rick’s story, Huss shook his head and asked the next question.
“Possibility of moving somewhere as a group?”
“No. In one of the villages that disappeared, there was a man with a handicapped leg, and he also disappeared without a trace.
It was Rick who was looking for traces of people around the village just in case.
Large-scale movements inevitably leave traces.
However, there was no trace of people moving in groups near the village.
The second possibility Huss considered was also pointless.
As the possibilities were denied one after another, Huss clicked his tongue and glared at the wooden board he was holding.
“Then you’re saying people just disappeared without a trace?”
“Yes, at least from what I’ve seen.”
“Detective Rick. Do you think that makes sense now?”
“I swear to God, what I have just said is true.”
That was the reason Rick came to Huss today.
No matter how much I looked around the village, I couldn’t find a single trace of it.
It is an incident where only the villagers disappeared as they left everything alone.
Considering Rick’s shallow insight, there was nothing he could guess other than the actions of the wizard.
Therefore, he had come to Inspector Huss, a high-level combat wizard, as well as a report.
But Huss was reacting a little bit even after hearing Rick’s words.
Even the wizard, Huss, seemed to have no idea.
“People suddenly evaporated. If it were me, I’d rather focus on the missing traces.”
“Inspector Huss. Is there any possibility that it may be the work of a wizard?”
“A wizard’s work?”
“The possibility that the village was erased using magic.”
Rick laid out his reasoning to Huss who was worried.
But Huss shook his head as soon as he heard the story.
Rather, he just looked at Rick with a puzzled look.
“It’s bullshit. If you used magic, there’s no reason for the things around you to be fine.”
“There is a possibility that magic was only used on humans.”
“Rick Swile. Does your sword move while cloaking enemies and allies?”
“……”
“If there was such a great magic, there would be no accidental death by the magic of allies on the battlefield.”
At Huss’ words, Rick became a savage dumbass.
It was Rick’s idea that something similar could be done with magic.
However, according to the battle wizard Huss, it was difficult to do such a thing, no matter how much magic.
There is no magical magic that identifies and moves objects and people.
That was the conclusion of this conversation.
It was Rick who felt more frustrated than before by Huss’ realistic story.
“However, some villages have disappeared without a trace.”
“I think it’s more likely that you didn’t find it than that?”
“…Detective Huss.”
“But if what Investigator Rick really said is true, I don’t know if someone made an offering to the evil spirit.”
“A offering…?”
tribute.
The moment he heard the word, Rick felt as if his chest had been opened.
It was the only clue thrown into the frustrating case.
Rick’s face with anticipation turned to Detective Huss in front of him.
“There is a saying left in the texts I’ve seen before. It means that priests who worshiped evil spirits sacrificed people for evil deeds.”
“The Priest of the Evil God…”
“Of course, but they all died in the last war. They moved directly from the Holy Land, so there must be none left.”
“Is that so.”
“Of course, I think you did your research roughly.”
Priest of evil spirits. offering. tribute.
Three keywords interlocked in Rick’s head to create a single picture.
If there is still a priest who worships evil spirits.
And if that power is concocting something by sacrificing people.
It was not incomprehensible that the four villages disappeared at once.
Rick, having come to a conclusion in his mind, decided to search around the village once more.
“Inspector Huss.”
“Are you thinking of going back to investigate?”
“I will find the traces of the evil spirit and return.”
“What? Wait there…”
bang.
Rick closed the door and walked out.
The number of villages where people are missing is four.
If you thoroughly searched the surrounding radius, you might be able to find traces of the evil spirit.
shudder.
Rick, who was holding the sword around his waist, moved towards the horse he had tied.