18 episodes
“You look very surprised.”
Dump!
Ethan looked straight into Thomas’ face in embarrassment and broke his finger.
“Evil, ah ah ah ah ah!”
A cold sweat ran down his forehead from the pain.
Thomas looked around with a glimmer of hope.
But there was no sign of popularity.
Ethan asked as if he had noticed his heart.
“Isn’t it strange? Even when I scream, people don’t come.”
“… Dude, what have you done!”
The opponent was only a preliminary priest at best.
But Thomas was strangely gripped by the fear of death.
I had a feeling that I might die here.
“Well, what do you want? Just tell me and I’ll do anything… … !”
“Tell me everything you know about new magic research.”
“That’s all I said before. I’m just him, just an errand man!”
But Ethan watched Thomas silently.
Noisier, no more beaten or frowned upon.
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Violence was only a means, and the attitude he did not enjoy was evident.It was definitely different from the back alley bully.
Thomas was more afraid of it.
This is because these kinds of humans were not the type to be coaxed with words.
Ethan questioned Thomas as if he was stunned.
“Are you saying that I’m not a trivial errander who is ignorant of magic?”
“That, that… … .”
“I still have something to hide.”
Thomas struggled as Ethan rushed closer.
“Ouch! Oh, don’t come! Please save me! please!”
Ethan grabbed Thomas’s head and made him see the dark magic circle drawn on the floor.
“Can you see that magic circle?”
“I, that one?!”
Thomas’ eyes widened.
The dark magic circle drawn on the floor caught my eye just then.
“Cow, sound-eating magic?”
Thomas trembled.
miracle boy.
A young believer who resurrected the dead beast by the hand of the demon king uses a dark magic circle to torture people?
It was absurd.
‘Why can a person who uses divine power be able to use dark magic?!’
In the first place, all those who tried to use divine power and magical power at the same time exploded and died.
It was written that way in the magic book.
Much less, dark magic was used in the middle of the Nouvelle City, which is revered as a holy land.
But the priests didn’t seem to notice it.
It was unbelievable in his common sense.
For Thomas, it was crazy and hopping.
But for Ethan, it was easy.
New magic can be used as a raw material for all magic.
And magic that used new magic as a raw material had surprising characteristics.
That is, unlike divine power and magical power, it cannot detect magical energy or traces.
It was possible because the divine magic was not biased toward a specific energy.
Therefore, even if Ethan used dark magic in the middle of the new city state, the priests did not detect it.
But Thomas had no way of knowing this.
“Tomorrow is the ordination ceremony, but there is still plenty of time left. Let’s talk slowly.”
It was only slowly eaten away by the approaching horror.
* * *
“This is all I know!”
All that was left of Thomas was evil.
“So, it’s true that you did all the dirty work that the Harper family did, but you don’t know the story behind it?”
“okay! Do you know how noble these bastards are? No matter how much you deal with it, a humble person like me will not believe you even if you die!”
There was blood in Thomas’ eyes.
When his life was on the verge of death, his wrath against the Harper family had only erupted.
Ethan squeezed Thomas’s thigh.
Thomas’s thighs were already bruised.
Thomas felt terrible pain at the slight touch of Ethan’s hand.
“Ahhh!”
“It hurts my ears, so I shout out in moderation.”
Thomas laughed sadly.
Now I was about to lose my mind.
“ha ha ha… … . The miracle boy found out that he was such a wolf.”
Ethan’s eyes narrowed.
Thomas was telling the truth.
Again, the Harper family was related to the study of divine magic.
However, the details would not have been disclosed to those around them.
Because that was the Dark Follower, or the Empire’s way.
Ethan nodded slightly.
When the conversation barely progressed, Thomas thought the way was open.
He continued to think he was right.
“I told you everything I knew! So please, just save me!”
“Who saved you?”
“What?”
“When did I bet on such a condition?”
Ethan put his hand on Thomas’s head.
“Oh, no!”
Thomas’ eyes widened at the instinctive fear of death.
Death came quietly.
The new magic that struck Thomas’ brain gave him a powerful shock and painful death.
“If you want to know the truth, should you dig deeper?”
Ethan clicked his tongue.
It was a pity that the income was low for a blood stained hand.
However, he was able to confirm the conjecture he had made based on the past he had seen with his jet-black eyes.
‘The Harper family is a follower of darkness, and research on divine magic is currently in progress.’
Ethan gathered his thoughts and immediately activated dark magic.
Thomas’ body simmered and melted like a liquid.
Thomas’ body was destroyed at once.
A terrible stench from the body’s removal filled the narrow space.
‘I have to go back soon.’
Ethan turned his back and left the place.
* * *
Nouvel City State.
The cold air of the dawn had receded and the morning was coming.
People in shabby clothes were gathered at the checkpoint dividing the inside and the outside.
They were people from nearby slums who had heard that there was going to be a grand festival in Nouvelle City.
“Ugh! I heard that it smells bad since morning!”
The guards guarding the checkpoint covered their noses with the terrible stench.
At the door leading to the inner city, people from the slums had gathered.
They waited eagerly for the door of introspection to open.
“There is no need to come here because the food that the Holy Father gives is served in the outer castle!”
The guard beckoned the people to back off.
But the slum dwellers did not back down.
“How can you believe that?”
“It means we’re going to kick you out for being a bastard.”
“No matter what, don’t get out of here.”
They only glanced at them, but they didn’t move as if their feet were on the ground.
“These people are real!”
Ignoring me made the guard angry.
Delegations of various powers had come to the present state of Nouvelle.
This time, unlike other times, there were too many outside eyes.
So it was obvious what would happen if the stench created by the people of the slums reached the interior.
‘It means that the nobles who have come to the delegation will surely make a fuss.’
So, I was in the mood to avoid anything that could get me caught up in a book.
The guards tried to drive the people out as if chasing a crow that entered the field.
“Food will be distributed in the outer castle. Come back and go!”
“Hey there!”
Then, a boy came forward.
The boy’s cheeks were wide open as if he had been starving for several days.
“My mother is very sick. Is it possible that I can receive treatment from a man called the Miracle Boy? please.”
Then the people shouted for you to be healed, both of you.
“Please save my baby too!”
“Call the priest, please!”
The guard rubbed his forehead.
It was a pain in the ass.
Apparently, rumors about Seong Baek-soo and the Miracle Boy had spread to the slums.
“How do I do this?”
The next guard, who was on duty with me, asked with concern.
The senior guard could not hide his embarrassment.
“This is a big deal.”
“If you came here to treat an illness, not the food, you won’t back down easily.”
“okay. Maybe I should report above?”
The senior guard sighed.
For everyone in the world, their family is important.
But the slums have few opportunities to seek treatment because they do not have the money to call a therapist or donate to a priest.
So when this happened, I put everything aside and tried to get treatment.
That was then.
The calm voice of a boy who had not yet grown up was heard.
“I will speak directly to the other priest. So don’t worry too much.”
“Priest?”
“My name is Knicks Justia. I haven’t been ordained as a priest yet, so the title of a priest is undeserved for me.”
Hair stood up all over the senior guard’s body.
As the guard in charge of the checkpoint of the inner city, he always listened to the little things about the state of Nouvelle.
Among them was Nyx, a saint candidate.
“Oh really? Thank you very much!”
“Shh! Quiet.”
“Why?”
The senior guard stopped his ignorant successor.
But Nick smiled brightly.
“it’s okay. Because this has happened many times before. Even then, when I told them the situation and offered to treat them in the near future, they were all willing to wait.”
“Oh, I see, there were.”
The senior guard was amazed.
Certainly, when people wanting treatment flocked to us like today, the Pars Church used to promise treatment.
The people of the slums were satisfied with it and returned with thanks.
‘It’s not common, I forgot, but it’s a reliable solution.’
Having prepared such a countermeasure, Nyx remembered the purpose of coming here.
“I want to ask you, are there any believers who escaped from the inner city yesterday?”
“Are you a believer?”
“yes. A fifteen year old boy. He is about this height and his physique is taller and more muscular than I am.”
The Knicks eagerly described Ethan’s appearance.
But the guard had a troubled face.
“sorry. Because of the ordination ceremony as a priest, people have been coming and going frequently lately, so I can’t remember.”
“Oh, you are.”
“If there are any features that stand out, please tell me. We will think about it as much as we can.”
Nick hesitated for a moment, then coughed a few times.
“Hey, I hope you don’t misunderstand what I’m saying.”
“yes?”
“I think it sounds a bit odd. At a glance the boy… … .”
“Can I take a look?”
“At first glance, it looks unlucky, but if you look closely, should I say that he is kind? So, yes. You can really feel it once you see it.”
“… What do you mean by that?”
The guard scratched the back of his head and blinked his eyes.
It looks unlucky, but if you look closely, it looks good, right?
Whether or not it was appropriate to describe the appearance, it was a strange expression that contradicted each other.
The guard made a bewildered face.
Eventually, Nick sighed.
“no. I’ll look for more. There were a lot of mistakes.”
“Ah, Priest!”
Giving up on further explanation, Nyx turned back helplessly.
‘Where have you been?’
He was looking for Ethan, who suddenly disappeared last night.
It wasn’t just because his adoptive wife, High Priest Shunin, had told him to keep an eye on Ethan.
He suddenly disappeared on the eve of the ordination ceremony as a priest, so there were no worries.
That was then.
A boy appeared from the crowd of people in the slums.
The familiar face surprised Nix.
“Ethan?”