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The owner of the tavern led Vivian to the basement next to the warehouse.
The basement door was locked with a thick padlock.
moon crack. moon crack.
When I opened the door, what appeared in front of me was an iron fence.
It was a space created to trap people.
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Vivian followed the owner of the tavern into a prison-like place.Inside was a man covered in blood.
The man’s arms were tied to a chain attached to the ceiling.
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Vivian didn’t even blink an eye despite the splendid sight.“How far did you find out?”
“I have confirmed that he has magical powers in his body. And his deeds are also suspicious. It is unclear what happened at the time of the attack on the Regent Prince and on the day of the robbery of Gamyo. It is compared to the fact that everything else happened on the other day.”
“Other than that, it didn’t burn.”
“yes.”
The owner of the tavern answered faithfully.
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Vivian looked at the bloodied man with savage eyes.The guy who took part in the killing of his biological mother was right in front of me.
I thought I wanted to tear it apart and kill it, but it turned out to be just a tail.
I had to dig more.
“Tell me who made it.”
“I thought the damn regent did it, but was it a girl with no blood on her hair? Playing in the house is way too much.”
The bloody man mocked Vivian.
But Vivian was cold.
She looked at the man’s bloody hands and feet.
Nails and toenails all fell out and were a mess.
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Vivian gave a sly smile.“You don’t think there’s any way to bother you more? Will you make me beg you to stop killing me?”
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Vivian nodded to the owner of the tavern.Then the owner of the tavern picked up a salt jar nearby.
“… … !”
The bloody man took a small breath.
It was obvious what would happen if salt came into contact with the wound.
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Vivian asked.“Who financed you and ordered the raid? At least there must have been someone giving orders, right?”
“Hey! Would you like to speak to a co-worker like you?”
The man who spit bloody snorted.
“What? colleague?”
“Aren’t you enshrining a scarecrow playing in the hands of the United Kingdom as the emperor? There is someone else who will rule the empire!”
The bloody man’s words did not end there.
“Don’t cowardly torture me, but rather kill me. But know this. I am connected with my comrades by bonds stronger than blood. So if you kill me, you will regret it!”
He didn’t say that he was a follower of darkness, but the man’s true identity was clear.
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Vivian narrowed her eyes.That was then.
bang!
The ceiling collapsed with a huge explosion.
“What, what?!”
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Vivian panicked and stepped back.Meanwhile, the Dark Follower thought that a comrade had come to his rescue.
He shouted with a smile on his face.
“Kill those humans right in front of you!”
“I can’t. Now the damage is considerable, so I’m backing away.”
The man in the robe jumped off the ceiling and broke only the chain.
The dark follower, freed from his chains, clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘Coming to save me didn’t work out as well as I thought.’
If so, there was nothing I could do.
The dark follower followed the man in the robe and flew over the ceiling.
Then, he put an oath on the humans who would be beyond the rising dust.
“I’m stepping down like this now, but I’ll pay the price for making me this way!”
The dark follower disappeared like that.
“Clok choke!”
After drinking the dust, Vivian couldn’t even open her eyes properly, trying to chase after the Dark Follower.
“You must not go.”
The owner of the tavern hurriedly dried Vivian.
“But it’s an opportunity I barely seized!”
“Calm down.”
Tears welled up in Vivian’s eyes at this.
* * *
“Wow!”
The dark follower groaned.
He ran away excitedly, but his body was in tatters.
Even if he collapsed right now, there was nothing strange about it.
‘But the only place I brought… … .’
He looked back and yelled at his robed comrade.
“Are you going to save it and bring it to a place like this? Wouldn’t there be a better way to go?!”
A man’s voice echoed through the tunnel.
Where they are now is a large sewer tunnel in Velium.
Take a bite!
Meanwhile, rats were passing by them.
The sewage was flowing shallowly on the floor.
However, the comrade wearing the robe replied indifferently.
“The homeless come often, but they are filthy, so the soldiers don’t even care if they can. So this is a good place to hide.”
“huh. I just lived with my mouth.”
The dark follower leaned his back against the sewer wall.
“Where are all my comrades going, and are you the only one here? Did you die trying to rescue me?”
He was asking for responsibility for the failure of the rescue operation.
At the Dark Follower’s question, the man in the robe smiled only inwardly.
He was Ethan.
‘You seem to think of me as a colleague.’
People were making a lot of noise in the tavern, but they couldn’t stop Ethan’s ears.
Ethan, through a conversation with a tavern owner and a girl, learns that they are going to investigate the culprit in the raid on the imperial nobles.
‘I can’t miss the clue I barely caught.’
So Ethan immediately robbed the Dark Followers.
Rather, Ethan rebuked the Dark Follower.
“Why is that my fault? Isn’t it your fault for not properly understanding the enemy’s information in Velium?”
The Dark Follower was furious at those words.
“What? I heard your voice and it seems like you’ve never met me, so what do you know to say such a thing? Are you from another branch?”
“Is that important here and now?”
The Dark Follower snorted.
It was evident that he came from working in an unknown branch.
“It’s much harder to collect information in Velium than in the countryside. Do you know how hard I worked to gather information from here?!”
Meanwhile, Ethan only then realized why the Dark Followers were speaking against him.
‘I’m from another branch, so I’m going to treat you like an outsider, right?’
Ethan clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘If it wasn’t an insider, I wouldn’t be able to blow information well.’
So Ethan went to the dark follower.
“What, what?”
The Dark Follower raised his arms in bewilderment.
However, Ethan unexpectedly injected magical energy into his body.
It was only a very small amount of magic.
However, in the state of exhaustion of energy, the whole body was filled with just that.
The dark follower’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Hey, is this?”
“I’ve given you magical powers, so take care of yourself.”
Ethan nodded lightly.
“You’re giving away your magic power… … . Hmmm, I apologize for what happened earlier.”
But the other side had a sensible face.
Ethan was satisfied with that.
‘This should be enough for that guy to trust me.’
I thought for a long time, but a body that was not bound by either magical powers or divine powers was really useful.
In particular, it showed its true value when deceiving others.
Ethan asked.
“What are those guys?”
Perhaps he had decided to trust Ethan, the Dark Follower replied with a relaxed state of vigilance.
“Are you from the United Kingdom?”
“Well, you can do that.”
“Then you don’t even know. those guys are Remnants of the Empire.”
* * *
“leftover?”
That’s what I heard from the graveyard old man.
The dark follower frowned as if he had seen something dirty.
“I and my comrades all consider it a blessing to manifest as a constitution with magical powers, right? But despite their blessings, they dare to reject the darkness. They are garbage that deserves to die if it is. Most of them are descendants of those associated with the Empire in previous generations.”
Only then did Ethan realize the identity of the people gathered at the tavern.
‘The regent’s daughter was also manifested as a constitution with magical powers in that way. If so, doesn’t the regent still know that his daughter has magical powers?’
The Dark Follower started healing by using the magic power Ethan had given him.
However, in order not to leave traces of dark magic on the outside, a very low level of magic had to be used.
As a result, treatment was very slow.
Meanwhile, the Dark Follower asked Ethan.
“Did you bring the nameless poison?”
Ethan’s eyebrows rose at those words.
That was the reason Ethan had come all the way here.
“no. I didn’t bring it.”
“It’s strange. Obviously, they said they’d supply an unnamed poison when sending out the next support staff.”
Ethan thought for a moment.
‘Take a look?’
It was an opportunity to clear his doubts.
“I guess it’s because it’s hard to find.”
But at those words, the Dark Follower suddenly raised his head.
“What are you talking about? Who said the real nameless poison? Of course, I was talking about mass production.”
The grumbling dark follower paused.
He stepped back and looked Ethan up and down.
“Where do you belong… Whoops!”
Ethan’s new model flew.
He quickly grabbed the man’s neck and pushed it against the wall.
“It’s too late.”
Ethan chuckled.
‘Well then. A real nameless poison can’t be used so easily.’
By clearing the doubt, this guy’s usefulness was exhausted.
The dark follower struggled with a creaking sound.
Ethan muttered as if he had just remembered something.
“Ah, why did you bring me to this sewer?”
The reason was simple.
“It doesn’t matter if a corpse is found here.”
Ethan gave his hand one last time.
Then the man’s struggles stopped.
* * *
Meanwhile, at that time, the back alley of the tavern.
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Vivian climbed to the ground and arrived at the place where the basement ceiling had collapsed.The owner of the tavern followed her.
This was to prevent unexpected actions.
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Vivian coughed.“Clok choke!”
The dark alley was littered with the rubble of the basement ceiling.
Besides, the dust had not yet settled.
But there was no room for hesitation.
“We need to find some clues to track down. Help me too.”
But the tavern owner dissuaded her.
“Lady, I think you should stop.”
“This time it’s just chasing! Why are you drying it?”
“Look carefully around you.”
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Vivian lit the lamp on the floor with a puzzled face.“… Ugh!”
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Vivian was astonished.Masked men were lying on the floor.
Judging from the appearance that was not intact, it was clear that he was already dead.
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Vivian sat on her knees on the floor.And I checked the bodies one by one.
‘Everyone was killed by dark magic!’
The tavern owner also followed her to observe the body.
He found a tattoo on the inner wrist of the corpse.
“Lady, here’s a tattoo.”
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Vivian’s eyes narrowed.“This… It’s a combat slave’s tattoo.”
It was a tattoo worn by those of the lowest rank among the Dark Followers.
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Vivian found traces of magical power flowing through the body of the masked corpse.“Not only do I have magical powers, but I also have tattoos. These are obviously dark followers.”
“When I met him earlier, there must have been a battle here.”
“There was a battle here, but no one noticed?”
Even though I said it with my own mouth, Vivian got goosebumps.
The tavern owner raised another question.
“Who the hell made these guys like this?”
“I know. All of that was done by dark magic. Perhaps… … .”
is it mine
But Vivian was speechless.
It wasn’t certain yet, so I couldn’t come up with a guess.
The owner of the tavern robbed and got up and urged Vivian.
“Anyway, go home quickly. The guards will come soon.”
The sound of the basement ceiling collapsing was quite loud.
Someone must have already gone to call the guards.
So there was nothing good about discovering Vivian’s identity.
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Vivian just nodded and left the place.Wearing a robe, Vivian walked down the dark night streets.
That was then.
“Everyone, hurry up!”
Guards with torches were running from the opposite side.