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“Oh, there must be a lake here!”
A shaggy, muscular man appeared.
And behind him was a priest with a deep hood.
‘What are those guys?’
Scarlett walked over the lake and approached the two.
“hi.”
I could feel the aura that Kaden Hanson had in the rustic man.
So, when I told him what he felt, the man who was in a hurry was furious.
“How dare you insult the honor of my Master! Besides, who is ignorant? My investigator is wiser than anyone else!”
Scarlett couldn’t hold back and burst out laughing.
The road rampage was exactly the same as Kaden Hanson.
It was really fun.
‘It’s been a long time since I’ve talked to a person.’
It was only then that she realized that she had been sealed for a long time.
Scarlett looked now at the priest in the hood.
This time, it was his turn to make fun of him.
“Um, that’s weird.”
If you look at the traces of the use of divine power or attire, he was a priest of the Pars Church.
But for some reason, I thought it wasn’t the real thing.
“Why do I feel as dirty as when I met that damn dark wizard?”
The priest wearing the hood did not move.
Then it was the human heart that wanted to make fun of it more.
“Well, looking at the dismal figure, it seems that he is not a kind person like a saint.”
“dare!”
It was the priest who Scarlett was targeting, but Hanson’s disciple was caught in the provocation.
Hanson’s disciple immediately removed the priest’s hood.
Then what appeared was blue eyes.
Scarlett’s eyes widened as the priest’s eyes met.
‘What is this?’
It was a momentary feeling, but somehow it felt familiar.
An image of someone flashed through Scarlett’s mind.
– Your presence is disturbed.
It was the henchman of the Demon King who sealed himself with that word.
It was strange.
Everything he could see indicated that this priest had nothing to do with the dark wizard.
So, how should this be expressed?
Scarlett, who was blank, smiled like a mischievous person.
“You smell funny. What’s your name?”
* * *
“You smell funny. What’s your name?”
Ethan instinctively sensed it.
‘This witch is obsessed with something strange again!’
Ethan looked at Scarlett with disgust.
One hundred years ago, he planned to take revenge on the Demon King in the final battle.
To do that, we had to eliminate variables as much as possible.
The witch Scarlett was the first variable Ethan ruled out at that time.
why did you exclude it?
‘Because you don’t know where you’re going.’
Over a hundred years ago, Scarlett belonged to the Empire.
However, he was not a dark wizard who used magic, but a wizard who used pure mana.
The power she possessed was beyond measure even Ethan dared to measure.
However, it was not because of her power that Ethan sealed Scarlett.
Scarlett’s personality was the cause.
A wizard is usually considered a gloomy person who only studies in the corner of a room.
But Scarlett was different.
She rather enjoyed fighting.
Even when she was on the verge of death, she was a woman who burst into mad laughter.
– Ah ha ha ha ha! Has your heart been beating for a long time? Hey, attack more! Only then can you kill me?!
Seriously, would her nickname be a witch?
If the ball bounces on the floor, you can predict where it will bounce and the direction it will bounce.
‘But she’s totally unpredictable.’
You can’t predict it, so you can’t control it.
For just one chance to kill the Demon King, Ethan had to do anything.
That is why Ethan sealed Scarlett in the Black Mountains.
Recalling the past, Ethan was fed up.
During your time as the Demon King’s henchman, how many operations were broken because of the witch?
‘By the way, you’re involved with that troublesome thing again.’
When Ethan didn’t answer his name, Scarlett frowned in disapproval.
“What’s your name?”
“I am Ethan. And the guy next to him is Blake.”
“Hmm, it’s Ethan… … . Yes, Ethan. Why are you here?”
Then Blake opened his mouth.
“That’s it. To help those in need by solving the catastrophe that occurred in this mountain range… … !”
“Ah, the editorial is too long. Besides, there is no core. I’m not free enough to listen to an idiot explain.”
Scarlett waved her hand dryly.
It was blatant disregard.
“What? dummy?”
Blake smirked out of embarrassment.
It was absurd to say that he was an idiot who realized all the secrets of Gugeukdo.
“You really are a person who doesn’t even have the eyebrows for politeness! Ethan, you don’t have to deal with such a strange person. Let’s find another clue.”
“I will explain.”
However, Ethan ignored Blake’s rampage and stepped forward.
“Ethan, even you!”
Blake clutched his chest as if he had suffered a fatal betrayal.
Ethan opened his mouth.
“Recently, monsters have gathered in the Black Mountains and the number has exploded. Do you know anything about it?”
“Ah, you mean that?”
Scarlett smiled meaningfully and spit out a smirk.
“okay. Are you saying that gathering monsters is a problem? Then I will show you how to fix it.”
“what?”
Blake’s expression darkened.
He was ignorant, but he knew he could discern.
Blake pointed at Scarlett.
“What nonsense! The ashes from purifying the corpse engulfed by magic flowed here! We came here to chase the ashes! I think you are the cause?”
“Hey, this is a bit embarrassing. Have you mistaken me for some gloomy dark wizard now?”
Scarlett ruffled her long hair in displeasure.
“Ego. Take a good look, is this energy mana or magical power?”
On Scarlett’s hand, pure mana was generated.
Blake flinched as if he had been taken aback.
“I thought you were a dangerous person!”
Ethan nodded inwardly.
Even 100 years ago, people who knew that Scarlett was just a wizard had the same reaction.
-What? That witch wasn’t a dark wizard?
-Nonsense. Aren’t you a total dark wizard based on what you’re doing?
-It’s even more creepy that such a human isn’t a dark wizard!
Like this, from anyone’s point of view, Scarlett didn’t look like a decent wizard who handled pure mana.
“And the ashes you mentioned earlier are the vitality left in the corpse. That vitality has been absorbed here.”
Scarlett lightly tapped the ground with her foot.
“earth? What is there?”
“Exactly at the bottom of the lake.”
Then Blake’s gaze turned to the lake.
An evil dark magic circle spread across the transparent and clear lake bottom.
“… … !”
Blake’s face hardened.
Scarlett smiled, revealing this.
“Now you know? I can’t practice such evil magic. Rather, I was trying to get rid of this magic circle, but ignorant people mistook me for something like a dark wizard… … .”
It was like a clearing stream.
“Unbelievable… … . How the hell did this happen?”
Blake clasped his head.
Those with mana cannot use divine power and magical power.
Likewise, those with divine power cannot use mana and magic, and those with magical powers cannot control mana and divine power.
This was the common sense of the world.
This is because these three forces repel each other.
So it was clear that Scarlett didn’t create the Dark Magic Circle.
Because she is a magician who manipulates mana.
‘Above all… … .’
Blake looked at the magic circle that looked ugly.
In addition to magic, traces of mana remained in the evil magic circle.
It was a sign of an attempt to release it.
“Ugh.”
Blake was in trouble.
‘It’s obviously not a lie.’
But his instinct was warning him that this woman in front of him was dangerous.
Ethan looked at it and clicked his tongue.
‘You’re playing with it like a toy.’
In fact, it was very difficult to deceive those who had mastered Gugeukdo.
Like Kaden Hanson, his disciple Blake was able to spot the evil lie right away.
Although simple and ignorant, it is because he has cultivated a sense of hostility to evil.
Ethan turned and looked at Scarlett.
‘But deceiving such a guy.’
Ethan smirked.
But Ethan had no intention of exposing Scarlett’s lies here.
‘In a sense, it’s not completely wrong.’
In fact, the lake’s dark magic circle was created by Ethan.
The effect of the magic circle is to hold onto the life force of a specific target and stop all life activities.
Because of this, Scarlett was asleep without getting old.
However, as time passed, the magic that flowed in the magic circle would have gradually evaporated.
It was clear that the witch had poured mana into the gap to break the magic circle.
‘That’s why I woke up from the seal.’
It must have been the reason why the black ashes of the purified corpse flowed here.
Scarlett’s seal was released, but the effect of the dark magic circle continued to be broken.
So he was drawing life force at random.
Even the slightest bit of vitality left in the corpse.
While Scarlett continued to tease Blake, Ethan looked around the lake.
‘No.’
Ethan came here purely because of the incidental benefits that would arise from resolving the quest.
It was the precious object that was used to seal Scarlett.
‘Are you somewhere else now?’
That was over a hundred years ago.
So, even if the treasure had been moved to another place, there was nothing strange about it.
Of course, there were some guesses.
‘Since this is the case, I’ll have to match the beat to that witch.’
It seemed that Scarlett was going to do something with Blake and Ethan.
Ethan was sure he would find a treasure in the process.
‘After completing the quest, I will leave here as soon as I get my valuables.’
Ethan never wanted to associate with Scarlett.
The reason Scarlett was sealed anyway was because of the final battle.
So there was no reason to seal her up again.
‘Above all, there is no way to become a follower of darkness due to the witch’s personality.’
At first, Scarlett had no sense of belonging.
Just because you belonged to the Empire a hundred years ago, you couldn’t become a follower of darkness.
Even the Demon King had trouble controlling Scarlett properly, but the Dark Followers take such a witch?
It was nonsense.
‘… Well? no. That’s a pretty good idea, isn’t it?’
Ethan tilted his head.
I remembered that the witch had devoured the plans he had made in his previous life.
The result of the battle was victory in the end, but chess pieces that did not obey orders were only troublesome.
Ethan smiled slyly.
‘I want to beg on my knees to take that witch with me.’
If you have a witch you can’t control, they might show a break.
Meanwhile, Blake was still thinking.
In the end, he was forced to turn to Ethan for help.
“My friend, don’t look at me like that, and solve my anguish!”
After finishing the calculation, Ethan opened his mouth.
“First, listen to that story.”
Then Scarlett smiled.