Clearing the Game at the End of the World Chapter 187

Chapter. 11. Wizard’s Wizard (5)

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“Let’s see… stew is a food that is cooked rather thick anyway, so there’s no need to add that much water, right?”

One more inconvenience because system assist is gone.

The sense of using magic has changed.

Of course, just because it was before, it didn’t feel like it came out when you just said, ‘Come out.’ However, if you just pull out the image, it will come out if you squeeze it, as if energy is gathering in the area where it appears, as if it were something serious.

But now… I can feel that mana through my senses.

Grumpy-

This is already the third time the fire has gone out because the soot-covered cast iron pot overflowed with water.

‘What should I say about this…? Should I say that my blood pressure rises refreshingly? Should I consciously say that I feel goosebumps running down my skin?’

“Hmm… If I roll up the cool part here in a cold, round shape…”

Sigh!

“Geuw! Gwaaaaah! Huge billion! Boooooo! “Ugh!”

“Oh, sorry!”

“Geuuu. Big little human. “I may be a troll, but I know at least three better ways to wake up than this.”

In the end, a lump of water that got out of control splashed on Notum’s face, which was sleeping soundly, and the other members of the group woke up one by one to the sound of Notum cutting new wood to replace the wet firewood.

“Mmm- you are full of energy since morning. “I arrived here yesterday amid all the chaos.”

“Good morning, Aldrich.”

“Hmm. Even with empty words, I can’t say it’s particularly good. Homelessness is difficult at this age. Yesterday, I crossed the mountain range to avoid those crazy undead monsters. “I guess resting for half a day won’t relieve your fatigue.”

Aldrich.

A warlock who was captured by the Ro-Haram Church and unexpectedly joined the party.

Although they are called warlocks, they are not a tribe that mainly performs evil experiments, but rather a wizard who engages in a somewhat primitive black magic called soul magic. Except for the fact that they are not very useful when the sun is up, they are good people and excellent party members with good skills.

“Oooh, Notum. You woke up early. Yes, a healthy soul resides in a healthy body. Good habits are the shortcut to creating a good life. Where did you wash your face? “I’m going to take a shower too.”

“Gwok. Ghostly old man teacher. “Methods like mine are not good.”

“Yes?”

“I was washed away.”

Aldrich chuckled as he saw Notum’s fingers pointing alternately at the wet floor.

“Hehehehe! I just need to know. They must have been experimenting with some strange magic again. Mmm, it smells good. “Is it stew?”

“yes. I wonder if it’s okay to eat meat in front of an elf… but the stamina of the party members is also important. Let’s see… When it’s half-ripe, it’s like pavlik seeds, and the leaves of a cypress tree…”

This is a recipe I often made when I was playing as a warrior character. If there had been a system, I would have been able to figure out how to make it right in front of my eyes, but as it turned out, I had to remember everything and make it one by one.

“ah. Wouldn’t adding a handful of tag berries be good for restoring energy? “I think I saw it in the corner of the cart earlier…”

The moment I stretched out my hand, remembering the bag of black berries I had seen in the corner of the cart while taking out the pepper,

What a treat!

“These are strictly personal items that I collected using my own labor! “Tag is a fruit that is dried and used as a luxury spice, so it is sold at a very high price in the inland!”

I was stopped by a small hand that came out from under a pile of luggage.

A girl with red hair and fierce eyes who looks roughly seventeen years old. She is a member of the Gold Geyser military family that she unexpectedly took over. What was the name…?

“…I’m not going to eat it alone, so can you give me some? “I think I just need to add a handful.”

“You’re asking for a handful with those ignorant big hands! I am Lucilla Aedran! In my life as a businessman, I have never accepted such a vicious deal, and I never will again! With just one pocket of this, you can have a top-class meal every morning at a mid-level inn in the empire, but you spend such a large amount of money for a moment of gluttony! Waste is human nature revealed in its most barbaric form!”

Oh right. Lucilla Aedran. He was that kind of guy with that name.

Although he was a bit picky, he was a useful guy.

Even when he crossed the blue line, he was able to use his skills to increase the number of consumables, so he was able to spray Holy Flash Bombs from Roharam to the point where it hurt my eyes.

Now, as soon as the situation calms down, Tag Berry has been collecting things he can find around him.

In addition to that, seeing that there were several leather pouches piled up in the corner of the cart, it seemed like I wouldn’t have to worry about starving to death just by walking around with this guy.

Anyway, I’m in a really good mood this morning, but there’s no need to argue with this little guy. I have no choice but to scold them like an adult.

“get off.”

“….ah?”

“If you tease me, get off. I brought that cart all the way here? Shall we calculate the fare cost of a rickshaw pulled by a warrior capable of crossing the middle of the Blue Line? Do you really weigh everything? huh?”

“Well, that can be offset by my contribution to the party and the rewards I will receive when I join the top people in the future…”

“okay? So, the transaction is considered completed at that level, and you are excluded from any additional profits from now on? Hmm…. It’s a village of exiled elves who have been hiding for a long time… If I just pick up a few dishes lying around in the neighborhood, I guess I can put them up for gold class auction at the imperial valuables auction? You go and pick up some more expensive fruits. I will turn my life around by selling the remaining holy water. “Hey, you’re a land dealer who throws away the Manhattan Dream right in front of your eyes!”

“Ah…uuu….”

“Other than that. “You can stay in a happy relationship where you both provide what each other needs while maintaining the life of a single party member with us.”

“Hmm….. I was short-thinking….”

“Hehehe. “He’s kind too.”

Look at this. They understand because I tell them well.

When I put all of the tag berries I had received ‘cooperation’ from Lucilla into the pot and stirred for about 10 minutes, an unbearably appetizing smell spread through the cold air of the morning forest.

okay. Since I can’t go outside anyway and have to live inside for the time being, I’m definitely going to enjoy it. Although it may be a stew roughly cooked by an amateur like me, it is a stew full of fresh ingredients that we would never even dream of in real life. It’s not even a real ingredient; it’s a food from a fantasy world that you just pass over and think, ‘This is what it tastes like…’ when you eat it.

“Grrrrrrrrr. It smells nostalgic. Is this a southern stew? Adding a lot of spices and adding little water to make it thick… It’s not just an imitation. “I will eat well, Captain.”

As I was intoxicated by the heart-rending scent and inhaling it to the fullest, a large, fluffy guy suddenly approached me, smelling like a wet dog.

“What kind of werewolf carried you like that and you were still sleeping without knowing? “He has the best senses among us.”

“…I was having a bit of a nightmare.”

“If you had a nightmare, shouldn’t you wake up early?”

“Wouldn’t it depend on the type of nightmare? Perhaps because the environment was similar to my old hometown, the hometown where my tribe lived appeared in my dream. “I didn’t force myself to wake up because I was able to see the faces I’d missed for the first time in a long time.”

Dig, dig, dig!

Borka stretched out in his wolf form and shook off his dew-covered fur.

“Ahh!”

“You damn thing in front of the food bowl!”

“this. I’m sorry, Captain. “Maybe it’s because it’s a forest similar to my hometown, but without even realizing it, I end up acting like I did before.”

“It’s my hometown… I’m sorry. “I asked for no reason.”

“It’s okay. Aren’t you on your way to ending that nightmare? Rather, I feel like my will has been revived. Let’s stop chatting here and have something to eat. Because of my hunger, it was food that I was familiar with in the deep forest that felt like my hometown. “If everyone isn’t going to eat, I’ll eat first, even if it’s not polite.”

Borka Dalun. This guy is a werewolf who lived in the South and came out to find his kidnapped children. He was somehow captured by the Super Ray Cist Roharam Church and was also recruited into my party.

While selecting a group to join the battlefield at the Archbishop’s request, information came from the church that his children had been captured by the Empire, so it was decided to go beyond the Blue Line Mountains where the elves were.

That’s probably why he looks more motivated than when he was hunting down warlocks. Now, it’s like going to do your own work rather than doing what you’re told to do.

“Whoa, whoa-”

Slurp-

gulp.

“Big! kill!”

A thick stew that warms and fills an empty stomach. Beef jerky from the Loharam Church that melts mushyly, tears gently along the grain, and exudes rich flavor with every bite. When your tongue gets tired from the rich taste, the unique aroma and refreshing taste of tag berries follow!

Seeing that the other party members, even Lucilla, who was complaining, quickly emptied their dishes and reached for the ladle, it seems that most people’s tastes are there.

Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit, hit-

Slurp-

“hmm. But is it okay for you to act like this even though you are a water magician? “Otman, that guy is strictly following a wizard diet.”

“Kwaauk! Because each wizard has a different mentality. Wizards believe that maintaining a state close to pure water will be more helpful for magic. I know something different from those Cheadles. The water vapor floating in the air is all water, and unless you only drink distilled water, you are drinking countless microorganisms and residues in it, and in fact, 70% of the human body is water….”

“microbe? Distilled water?”

“There is such a thing. Anyway, I don’t think eating rice has much of an effect on my mental state. “If you don’t get caught up in gossip, you can recognize it as nonsense.”

In fact, I promised myself that I would not give up the pleasure of eating even if it affected my mental image. The stew that a novice cook like me remembers from a long time ago is this great, but what kind of food is served at famous restaurants in Roderick or the imperial capital? Even when the world was normal, wouldn’t it be possible to get food on par with Michelin 3-star restaurants that I’ve never been to?

‘oh my god. I lost half my life! The best brain in a vat! The game has become 10 times more fun, right?

I was almost giving goosebumps from anticipation. I need to quickly persuade some elves and go over to the empire. The sense of using mana is also fun because you get used to it. It has become easier to create imagery than when there was a system in place. Maybe we could aim for the 3rd rank.

While I was thinking about this and that, the big cast iron pot was reaching its bottom. Wooden bowls piled up next to the bonfire, with each person saying that they had eaten well.

However, one of the dishes that was taken out returned to the same state as when it was taken out. one person. One person is missing?

“ah. Ottoman wizard. “I forgot.”

When I looked up, I saw a blue robe and white beard hanging from a tree.

You went crazy with the water spirit and hung it on a tree, right?

“Um… Hey Professor. Even though Otman is a skilled wizard, isn’t he an old man? “It could be too hard on the aging body, so it’s better to stop releasing it now…”

“Um… I don’t think that will work.”

“why not?”

Well, it’s sitting still like that for now, but if the rope gets slightly loose, it will fly like a jet ski towards the elf village.

The professor turned his gaze towards a place in the distance where the strong scent of water could be felt.

At first glance, the half-human-looking water spirit had a ‘creepy and unpleasant’ expression on its face. The cause is, of course, the Ottoman wizard. This human, Mana, moved slightly and when I checked, I saw that she was muttering something with a lot of moisture gathered around her mouth.

At a glance, it looks like a type of message magic that transmits vibrations through water vapor as a medium…

“Are you doing something like singing?”

“Uhm. I can hear it too. It’s a type of serenade that bards often play when you go to Roderick’s tavern. “Otman, my friend, my main strategy is to get old.”

Lucilla looked disgusted at Aldrich’s words.

“Ugh. So, that old man is just hanging around like that and flirting with the water spirit?”

“yes.”

“Overnight?”

“Hmm… The elf who welcomed us must have been watching us all night, so maybe that’s not the case? “She wouldn’t know if she hadn’t released her battle stance.”

“Ugh, what is that? “It’s like a real ‘wizard.’”

“okay. This is truly ‘wizard-like’ behavior. “Shame on you.”

As the professor watched Aldrich and Lucilla sighing side by side, he quietly buried his plan to move up the hierarchy in a corner of his heart.

‘…Because I was a bit dangerous too. ‘Let’s carefully consider becoming a high-ranking wizard.’

Even a gentle and gentlemanly old man like Ottoman changes like that. If I, who is evaluated as ‘clearly crazy’ in all social, objective and subjective evaluations, even possesses ‘wizard-ness’, it seems like something like the disaster of the apocalypse will occur. The only thing left intact is my mind, so I need to take care of that spirit.

Looking at it this way, it seemed like there were so many different party members that I couldn’t handle it, even though I’ve been through a lot of hardships before birth.

“Let’s quickly clean up and get up. “Just tie Otman down to the ground.”

“…Wouldn’t it be dangerous? I don’t think I’m in my right mind yet. “You could end up in a big accident ahead of diplomatic negotiations…”

“But we can’t just leave it hanging like that until we leave here. Also, there is no guarantee that they will come to negotiations.”

Sreuk-

Slurp- Slurp-

Sabak!

Rustle!

As the sun rose to some extent and sunlight began to seep into the vacant lot,

As if they had made an appointment, well-armed elves and spirits began to appear one by one among the trees.

The movements were so stealthy and fast that neither I, whose senses became sharper after being eroded by mute cells, nor Borka, a werewolf, could notice.

Among the elves who climbed the tree as if they were one living creature and surrounded us, an elf with a familiar face approached the group, chewing on tree bark.

Grumble!

With the water spirit that sticks around like a shadow.

“…I waited one day as promised. Thank you for responding to rudeness with good intentions. Narim of Kaneran, Idrasil, grants you permission to enter. “Your group of warriors can communicate with Mother’s Branches relatively freely, as long as their free will is not violated…”

“…..”

“….human? Are you listening?”

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

That’s a lump of water. That’s just a lump of water. It’s just H2O that’s alive and moving. It’s like it’s the materialization of coolness, it’s as if you can reach enlightenment in an instant just by looking at it, and it has the transcendent beauty of water in the form of a living thing… Ugh!

“….wait for a sec.”

“hmm?”

“Just wait one minute, elf.”

For some reason, the professor, who was feeling like he was resisting mental contamination, left Hydrasil behind and approached a nearby tree that was over 3 meters in diameter…

“Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Boom boom boom boom!!!

He started banging his head against the tree.

“Hey!”

The unlucky elf on the tree gets scared and moves away, leaves start to fall, blood splatters, and something like white brain matter begins to slowly come out among the blood…

“Ah, it’s a dog… Gaeun, it’s refreshing… Diplomacy… I can show off the ugly moss before the end of diplomacy…”

Rattling, rattling!

“Rain, Vivia…. Dwell on my arrow….”

“This human…. As a ancestor, as a branch of the Great Mother, I give in to that and that….”

Rattling, rattling!

The professor, who had finally finished the crazy act of ‘purification’, approached the elf in the middle of the siege, which had almost doubled in size, and held out his hand.

His eyes and tongue were half-open, and he looked like he had lost his mind, and he was bleeding profusely and walking unsteadily.

“Jo Na-na…. Cough! Good, hmm! Morning, elf. Huh! hmm! Ugh! “There was a brief commotion.”

“Joe, jojojo….. good morning….. human.”

At that moment, Idrasil had no choice but to admit it, even though his pride was hurt.

She, a member of the noble guardian class, was overwhelmed by the endless madness of this human disguised as a warrior.

Not only she, but all the people who had unknowingly stepped back about 10 meters and had arrows on their bowstrings felt an unknown fear at the person who suddenly cut themselves to the point of death and asked for a handshake.

Ssaaaa-

Deep in the forest with the sound of the wind passing by.

As the sad love song of the old wizard hanging from the tree rang quietly, the professor succeeded in making a lasting impression on the elves who met him for the first time without even realizing it.

“Gwook. The soul of a crazy big little human had just slipped out through the cracked head. I saw it clearly. “It was within reach if you stretched out your hand.”

“…I’m so glad we’re not the same person.”

“It’s a bit unfair to treat wizards like humans. “I hope you don’t pass me on to the same level.”

“Aldrich, you are also a wizard…?”

“Ah, I’m a soul mage. A spiritualist. We barely use mana. We don’t even deal with mage souls except for some crazy people.”

Of course, it also left a deep impression on the group of people who had been together for several months.

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fantasy,