Episode 121 – Knights, Wizards, and Magic Swordsmen…? (2)
Osley came out of the barracks as if he were running out.
And at the same time as coming out of the barracks.
“what?”
I was able to run into Xian standing outside the barracks.
Even the knight standing next to him.
It seemed that he had come directly with the article.
Soon after, Xian said to Osley with a slightly troubled expression.
“I came here because I have something to tell you, but do you have something urgent?”
“······ Come in.”
Osley went back into the barracks.
Xian entered the barracks like that.
Xian could see Bendington sitting first.
Osley went to sit next to Bendington.
A large chair suitable for its gigantic size, like a bear would sit on it.
Xian didn’t need that much, so he went to a suitable chair and took a seat.
Before long, Osley’s gaze turned to Xi’an.
“I found out who was behind the black magic.”
“That’s right.”
“How?”
“What… I happened to…”
Xian smirked and blurted out his words.
Where should I begin to explain?
And I doubted whether an explanation was necessary.
Actually, I am called a saint in the Holy Empire.
These are the people who healed the plague at that time.
No, I’m not very good at medical knowledge.
So, how did that happen…
It was clear that such an elaborate explanation would have to be made.
Wizards who like to grasp and explain phenomena.
So, I don’t know if it’s Panat.
It was not a good thing for Xian.
Sian shook his head.
“How come…”
But Osley didn’t seem to be like that.
Although I hate that the article is troublesome.
But that didn’t mean that he was simply ignorant.
They were people who never opened their mouths no matter what they did in the first place.
They were the ones who kept their mouths shut even when Osley thrust a sword right in front of them.
However, he opened his mouth to Xian right away.
Osley asked, ‘Could it be that Xi’an also has black magic powers…?’ I couldn’t help but doubt that.
But is it because of Bendington’s good explanation?
Or maybe it was because I heard the word saint.
“Looks like you knew something from the start.”
Osley is only suspicious.
I didn’t ask any further questions about it.
Anyway, the important thing was not that kind of process and explanation.
“Who is it?”
Terrible momentum erupted from Osley’s whole body.
It wasn’t against Xi’an, it was anger towards the people behind it.
And Xian understood Osley.
Xi’an also came to this place, and what state the north was in.
And how the northerners are suffering.
I mean, I’ve seen it with my own two eyes.
So, Sian understood Osley’s anger.
And that’s why Xian came to Osley himself like this.
“Um… I can’t pinpoint who it is.”
“Can’t say anything specific? What does that mean?”
“I’m going to tell you first, but I came here because I thought it would be better for you to see it in person like me. To be honest, I also felt like I had to meet him in person. Previously···.”
Sian looked at Osley and spoke again.
“First of all, it is not the concept of behind the scenes… as His Excellency thinks.”
“Isn’t that the concept behind it?”
“Exactly not behind it, I’m not sure.”
Xian immediately spoke.
“I am an elf.”
“Elf?”
Osley’s head tilted.
It was the same for Bendington, who was listening next to him.
That said, it’s an elf.
Elves were a fairly rare race on the continent.
Even more so because he hates humans.
Are those elves behind it?
“Could it be that the elves hated the humans?”
“That I don’t know either. That’s why I meant Gingaminga too. It’s possible that it isn’t. so···.”
Xian looked at the greatsword hanging from Osley’s back.
A greatsword almost as large as Xian’s height.
To put it simply, it was like swinging an adult man.
I knew Osley was a Master Intermediate level, but…
No matter how much I thought about it, that was not something a person could wield.
well, anyway.
“Even if we meet, I think it would be better to take out that greatsword strapped to your back a little later.”
Osley is a Marquis of the North and a Master Intermediate level.
That Osley pulled out the sword didn’t mean simply pulling out the sword.
A needless misunderstanding might cause you to see blood that you don’t need to see.
so.
“Do you mean to talk first?”
“That’s right.”
Xian calmly nodded.
Osley looked at Xian silently.
Silence that subsides for a moment.
Although Osley’s anger was more terrifying than usual.
The position of Marquis of the North, there are times when you have to control your anger.
“······ good night.”
Finally, Osley nodded.
#
A place people have heard of.
So, the place to meet the elves was a bit far from the village.
We had to climb another day or so to the north.
And if there is anything you need help with.
So, people told me that this was the place they told me to come to if they needed help from the elves.
‘Did elves help people?’
Elves basically hated humans.
How can they like people who capture them and use them as slaves?
Even though he didn’t attack at all, he was basically hostile.
It was impossible to help people so willingly.
‘Does he have other plans?’
It was strange to see people’s attitudes like that.
Because they really thought of the elves as benefactors.
There was no room for doubt as he would not open his mouth even if he held a sword in front of him.
‘hmm···.’
Xian thought deeply, but…
I also couldn’t figure out the answer.
So, Xian set out to find the place where the elf was.
And those who followed such a proposal.
First of all, conversation was the priority, so the number of people was minimal.
Along with Xian, the Marquis of the North, Earl of Osley.
and.
“How the hell didn’t you?”
It was Lorsilt’s fanat.
Fanat approached Xian and asked.
Panat’s clothes were very light.
It was the same when we first met, and even now.
Unlike Xian, who was dressed in fur.
Fanat was wearing only one neat robe.
He didn’t even wear a hood attached to his robe.
I’m not kidding, it was the perfect outfit to freeze to death in less than an hour.
However, Panat didn’t seem to mind.
Far from shivering, he was even sweating.
It seemed that he had used magic to warm his body.
‘I’m envious of that.’
Because I couldn’t do it with Aura.
Of course, if you raise your aura, you can endure the cold to some extent.
But that simply allows the body to endure the cold longer.
It didn’t get rid of the cold itself or anything.
Xian said as he braced himself against the blowing wind.
“What are you talking about?”
“You mean people didn’t use black magic.”
Xian slightly turned his head and looked at Fanat.
Panat’s expression full of doubts.
At the same time as curiosity as a pure wizard.
Xian was also able to get a glimpse of one fact that dwelled in it.
“Did you know?”
“What do you mean?”
“That people didn’t use black magic.”
It was the same question as Panat, but the meaning was different.
At first, Panat was convinced that people used black magic.
That’s why Fanat should have asked Xi’an like this.
‘Didn’t people really use black magic?’
or neither.
‘What do you know?’
did it come out like this
Actually, the wizards of the Arcanic Magic Corps.
They showed those two reactions.
But now Panat wasn’t like that.
How did you know that people didn’t use black magic?
In other words, Fanat already knew that people used black magic.
“I am not sure. I just thought it might be.”
As expected, Fanat already knew.
However, as he said, it seemed to stop at the level of possibility, not certainty.
Was that why you stopped Osley from killing people?
“How did you find out?”
Fanat asked Xian again.
In hindsight, even Fanat was only thinking about the possibility.
However, Xian saw through that fact at once.
That is not the same wizard, but a knight.
From Fanat’s point of view, it would have been crazy to be curious.
Since it wasn’t something to hide, Xian slowly opened his mouth.
“Because the madness was invisible.”
“Madness?”
Fanat tilted her head.
“Most of those who use dark mana fall into madness. It means you can’t overcome the nature of the dark mana.”
“But, isn’t it something that might be hiding madness?”
“It’s not a quality that can be hidden by hiding it like that.”
Because that was the equivalent of controlling madness.
Only demons can do that.
To be exact, the 7 demon lords.
And if you can hide it like that.
I couldn’t get away from Xian’s senses.
“How do you do that…?”
Fanat opened her eyes wide and looked surprised.
And Xian was a little surprised by Panat’s reaction.
That would be the reaction of Panat now.
It was a surprise how Xian knew so well about the dark mana.
And the rationale behind that surprise.
‘this···.’
Somehow, he spoke as if he had personally experienced the madness.
Maybe…
Fanat seemed to have used the dark mana himself.
research or curiosity.
Fanat touched the mana of darkness.
It was as if he had personally experienced the madness contained within.
“Are you interested in dark mana?”
“no way.”
Panat spat out the words resolutely.
Dark mana was a kind that should never be dealt with.
But Xian was sure.
Fanat is interested in Dark Mana.
I wasn’t interested so I tried it myself.
All wizards in the world have one purpose.
The truth that makes up this world.
The truth only God knows.
Bringing that truth down to the realm of human reason.
Thus, all reason is defined as a law.
To make all truth comprehensible to reason.
That is the ultimate goal of all wizards in the world.
And the mana of darkness was still an unexplored territory.
It was a known kind that couldn’t handle that power.
only a thousand years ago.
Only Elodie, who was Arnaise, used that power.
that means that.
It’s not that you can’t handle that power.
Still, the secret has not been revealed.
This is like a long-cherished dream that wizards must uncover.
However, one thing.
Only Xian knew the truth.
‘Something was written in Elodie’s record.’
Sian spat out in a passing tone as he recalled his memories.
“Dark mana refers to mana that has properties that go against nature’s mana. It also sacrifices the mind of a being.”
Then Panat tilted his head.
A clear curiosity peeked out between them.
“The more intensely the heart boils, the faster the mana of darkness builds up, and like that, the mana of darkness consumes the being with madness. So, the mana of darkness has been rejected for a long time.”
Panat quietly listened to Xian’s words.
“But do you know what it is? That there are beings who do not go mad even after using the mana of darkness.”
“Are you talking about Archmage Elodie?”
Xian gently shook his head.
Elodie is also correct, but before that.
“They are demons.”
“devil···?”
It was the situation when Elodie first became curious about the dark mana.
Elodie has seen demons using dark powers.
I was curious about the existence of a cool-headed reason, not just madness.
In the end, Elodie was able to find the answer from Kyle.
Kyle tells Elodie.
“Don’t you ever think that the premise is wrong?”
“The premise is wrong…?”
Xian told a story to Fanat.
Records of Elodie seen on a smartphone.
Kyle told me the story he had told Elodie with a little dramatization.
In addition, Elodie has also elaborated on this…
‘I have to find out what he’s talking about.’
Xian didn’t understand that.
Well, although I was able to take out my smartphone and look at Elodie’s records.
There was no other reason to do so.
Still, I told you what I remembered.
and.
“Uh, uh, how…?!”
Fanat must have been quite shocked by that alone.
Fanat’s eyes opened as if they were going to tear.
Farreu, the trembling pupils turned towards Xian.
Well… it had to be.
Even if it is fragmentary knowledge.
What Xian said was Elodie’s knowledge.
The truth that makes up this world.
The truth only God knows.
Bringing that truth down to the realm of human reason.
In a way, a wizard can be said to be someone who challenges the authority of God.
And the one who comes closest to such divine authority.
A person who is said to have seen through the truth of the world.
Arnaise from a thousand years ago.
It is the great mage Elodie.
Whether it’s the star of the empire or Nabal.
It was the same even if I brought Egritte right away.
“No, that’s ridiculous… You…!”
It was clear that Egritte would react the same as Fanat.
Kyle, who was even called the strongest Arnaise.
A demon from the source that even Elodie could not dare to touch.
There was also an explanation for it.
“You can’t…! Can you use magic!”
Fanat made a misunderstanding that wasn’t even mild.
“······ yes?”
Xian looked at Fanat with an absurd expression.
If only I could use magic.
If so, why are you wearing fur clothes like this now?
Like you, he must have used warming magic or unknown magic.
“This… this is not at all a magical level of understanding that a knight can have…”
But Fanat didn’t seem to think so.
A wizard who understands the laws of phenomena.
And sword and magic.
Aurora and magic, to be exact.
These two could not coexist.
Auras are things that are mere imaginations of individuals, and have descended into reality as if they were the laws of the world.
It was a truly absurd power that ignored the laws of the world.
But the wizards already understood.
That the strict laws of phenomena cannot be twisted.
that it is impossible.
I already understood with that brilliant head.
Therefore, magic and aura could not coexist.
This is an absolute rule.
But what Xian looks like now.
Xian was ‘understanding’ the magical phenomenon.
Even in some parts, he possessed knowledge beyond Panat’s understanding.
that means that.
It wasn’t just about pretending to know, it was definitely ‘understanding’.
It established and ‘understood’ the strict laws of this world.
Even so, he was dealing with the power of the Auror at the same time.
“The magic swordsman actually existed…?”
So I had no choice but to make this misunderstanding.
Panat looked at Xi’an with astonished eyes.
From nob le mt l. co m
Just looking at it, I’m getting a ridiculous misunderstanding…
Xian did not understand magical phenomena.
It was just reading the knowledge Elodie had written down.
“No, that’s not it—”
no way. done.
what explanation do you have?
You’ll find out later that it’s not natural.
Xian just shook his head.
The reason Xian talked about Dark Mana to Panat was simple.
It seemed that he would continue to study the dark mana.
If you study for no reason and fall into madness… that was also a bit difficult.
Because if a genius like Panat was stained with madness, the evil of the century could have been born.
but what
The explanation for clarification was also annoying.
I don’t even feel the need to.
More than anything.
“Looks like we’re almost there.”
I have almost reached my destination.
#
In a forest covered with pure white snow.
All the trees were bare and bare from the cold.
To be honest, I wondered how the trees were in this cold place.
So, is it dead or alive?
I didn’t even know that.
“Is this here?”
Osley asked, and Sian nodded calmly.
“I told you to wait here, but…”
Right then.
I felt a presence in the distance.
Osley and Sian turned their heads at the same time.
After that, Panat turned his head.
At the same time, Osley’s eyes were slightly different.
Xian’s appearance.
Xian sensed the presence of people just like himself.
Xian sensed at the same time that even Fanat was one beat behind.
Master Intermediate Osley.
In other words, Cyan’s senses are comparable to those of Master Intermediate…?
Of course, it wasn’t really like that.
presence coming now.
It was because he felt the power of demons in that being.
But Osley didn’t know that.
That’s why I didn’t take my eyes off Xi’an.
Without knowing how Osley felt.
Xian looked at the distant, approaching being.
Someone was jumping up and down the bare tree, approaching as if flying.
The wavy hair and slender figure that flashes through the gaps.
It was telling me that that being was a woman.
Soon after, the woman came closer.
He didn’t seem very old.
The exact age could not be determined, but it did not escape the scope of youth.
Her skin was white and transparent, like the snow that had fallen around her.
Her hair was also of a lustrous white color.
With two bright eyes and distinct features.
She was a woman of beauty that could not be easily seen anywhere on the continent.
A pure white woman whose eyes are dazzling because she is not bright.
However, the pointy ears that stand out from the side indicate that she is not human.
She was telling me she was an elf.
The elf’s eyes turned forward.
eye contact.
“what?”
The elf tilted his head.