EP.184 Omen (3)
Kalt ran through the forest with Rania on his back.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Due to his long experience on the battlefield, he was someone who never lost his composure in any situation… but not as much as he does now.
I can’t understand the situation.
My mind was confused by the sudden situation.
Even in the midst of confusion, Kalt did not stop walking. He kept his balance and she ran faster through the forest. A body that has begun to enter the ranks of superhumans does not get tired just by carrying one person on its back.
‘cold.’
Rania’s arm touched the nape of her neck.
My limp arms were as cold as ice.
Kalt ran a little faster. She kicked off the ground, ran out of the forest, and ran across Aplia. The people who saw that scene murmured, but there was no time to pay attention to it.
Where should I go?
Kalt asked himself.
The closest place to here. And, a place where you can check on the condition of your senior, a wizard. A place where you can still keep your secrets.
The answer came quickly.
Without stopping walking, Kalt raised his head.
A structure built in the royal capital. The tower that humans built to reach the truth of heaven was clearly visible even here.
A black tower soaring into the sky.
It’s called the Tower of Magicians.
Kalt muttered as he looked at the tower.
“Black Magic Tower Master.”
A person who knows Rania’s identity, but is likely to cooperate in this case. Kalt hurried his steps towards the tower where he was.
2.
“Go in carefully. Miss Chloe.”
“Yes, it was truly an honor to talk to you!”
The body of the girl who bows her head like that shows a lot of strength. Anyone can see that he looks nervous. Ayla smiled faintly at that sight.
“You can act comfortably. “This is already the third time we’ve met, and nothing has changed since the first time.”
“Joe, I will be careful…”
“Just be careful. See you next time, then.”
Chloe runs out of the room, shaking.
Only after the open door was closed, Ayla let down the hand she was raising. Her mask of benevolent laughter fell off in an instant.
“···Phew.”
Ayla sighed and lifted the hand mirror.
Look at your face in the mirror. What you check is your own eyes.
Golden eyes that are like a symbol of the royal family.
However, the cluster of lights symbolizing Ayla was not contained there.
‘As expected, it’s no use.’
There is still no platinum-colored halo in the eyes.
Hero candidate, Chloe.
I thought that if I stayed close to that girl who was related to the stars, the stars would give me revelations again… but that unfortunate thing never happened.
The stars are still silent.
It’s already been two weeks since I lived in the silence of the stars. Ayla lived in fear for those 14 days.
My heart tightens over a trivial incident. Everyone walking on the street seemed like an assassin targeting them. The ‘prophecy’ uttered before the star fell silent only forced Ayla into her solitude.
“how should···.”
Time just flows by incessantly.
Her time is bound by the language of stars and cannot move forward. A shadow falls on Ayla’s face.
“Whoa…”
I sigh for the number of times I don’t know.
It was the moment she sighed again. The escort driver’s voice came from outside the door.
-Princess. The Royal Guard has arrived.
“…Royal Guard?”
-Yes, I have something to tell you…
Royal Guard.
Hound, the royal family’s faithful hunting dog.
‘Why the Royal Guard suddenly?’
Ayla tilted her head and said it was okay to let them in. Soon the door opened and a man came in. It was a man dressed in a hound’s uniform.
“Hello, princess.”
An expressionless face, a lifeless voice.
“I came here because I had something to give.”
He handed Ayla an item.
“The restoration of the palace’s communication network has reached its end. Once the restoration is complete, you will be able to connect directly to the capital using this magic tool.”
What he held out was a crystal ball.
Ayla accepted it without much question.
“…is it black?”
“It’s because it’s not activated. When activated, it will shine gold, the color of the royal family.”
With those words left behind, the Hound leaves.
After he left, Ayla looked at the crystal ball for a long time. Black crystal ball. For some reason, it was a crystal ball with an ominous color.
‘It’s suspicious, but…’
It is an item given by Hound, a faithful hunting dog who would easily give up his life for the prosperity of the royal family. This is the moment when Ayla is about to let go of her doubts.
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『Don’t believe anything.』
The prophecy left by the stars lingers in my ears.
“Havel.”
Ayla called the name of the escort knight.
However, no answer came back.
“···Havel?”
I called again but there was no answer.
Ayla feels something is wrong. As she swallowed her dry saliva, she opened the closed door.
“···Sigh, gasp.”
When I opened the door, the first thing I saw was Havel holding his neck and holding his breath. Ayla looked at the person holding Havel’s neck with trembling eyes.
“you···.”
A hound who would have sworn loyalty to the royal family.
“······.”
He was looking down at himself with cold eyes. Finally, he slowly opened his mouth.
“『It must have blocked the starlight, how?』”
It is human that speaks, but the voice is not human. Something else is speaking through the human body. A horrifying sound, like scraping bones, echoed in Ayla’s eardrums.
“『Well, I guess it would be good.』”
He waved his hand.
A halo of light bloomed along the finger. What shines is black mana. Jet-black mana, like an abyss, attacked Ayla.
“Get ready to receive Him, star child.”
Ayla’s vision was dark.
3.
“To be honest, I’m very embarrassed.”
Yetual took off his blood-stained gloves and looked at the hound in front of him with his eyes wide open. His eyes were quite cruel, but he had to say what he had to say.
“What on earth is this…?”
The top floor of the Black Magic Tower.
Yetual turned his gaze towards the girl lying on the bed. She is a young, innocent-looking girl on the outside, but Yetu Al knows that what lies inside her is a gray wizard.
Yetual said, pointing to the girl.
“What happened to put the gray wizard in such a state?”
Who is the Gray Wizard?
He was the one who single-handedly dealt with the infamous apostate. He is that kind of person, but right now he is in a daze and doesn’t even show any sign of opening his eyes.
‘When you just got here, you were vomiting blood, right? I don’t understand why…’
As Yetual expressed his disapproval in this unbelievable situation, Kalt opened his mouth.
“I don’t know the details either. So, what is your condition? It seems a little more stable now…”
“stabilization? this?”
Yetual shook his head.
“All I did was stop the bleeding. That too is a temporary measure. “It will start again soon.”
“What does that mean? “What is the condition?”
“How should I explain this? It’s a total mess inside. So much so that I can’t even touch it.”
Yetual pointed to Rania lying down.
There was cold sweat on the girl’s forehead.
“It’s amazing to be alive. “On the outside, he looks fine, but on the inside, he’s already completely broken.”
His finger pointed towards Rania’s heart.
“There is something unknown stuck in my heart. “It pollutes mana periodically.”
Mana contamination.
Kalt frowned at those words.
“Pollution… you mean? “Is it like magic poisoning?”
“different. You can stop poisoning Magi by purifying it. Mana pollution is like death to a wizard.”
The moment contaminated mana passes through the passage, the contamination spreads to all mana. The more mana circulates, the more the passages in the body are shattered and the body collapses. Therefore, for wizards, mana pollution is like death.
“Pollution of mana causes mana to run wild. Uncontrolled mana tears the body apart from the inside. The more mana you have, the bigger it is. And, if you are at the level of a gray wizard…”
It’s probably at the level where an explosion occurs inside.
After saying that, Yetual frowned.
“So, as it is, the moment your mana becomes contaminated, it’s over. “A bomb exploded inside her body. Who will survive?”
There was a surprise. Here and now.
Yetual glanced at the girl.
The more I looked at it, the more it made no sense.
“The gray wizard is suppressing it through unknown means. Purifying the contaminated mana. Contaminated, purified. Contaminated again…”
He pointed to Rania’s chest.
Sophisticated circuitry was shining through the thin shirt.
“This unknown circuit is repeating this crazy thing. However, perhaps something stimulated it, and the contamination started building up at a rapid rate. “The speed at which this circuit purifies it cannot keep up, so this death occurred.”
That was the conclusion Yetual could come to now.
“To be honest, I don’t know. It’s full of things I don’t know. “I don’t know what’s stuck in my heart, I don’t know the pollution that keeps building up, and I don’t even know what this circuit is.”
‘I don’t know.’
Repeating such answers, Yetual feels helpless. He even feels ashamed of himself for being unable to come to this conclusion.
‘Even after looking like this, he is still a magic tower owner…’
I thought I knew a lot.
I thought I learned a lot. However, there was nothing he could do in the face of the unknown. Yetual had no idea what this thing in front of him was.
“…Can’t that thing in the heart be removed?”
“If it were possible, the gray wizard would have done it a long time ago. This is different. “It’s not something that can be eliminated.”
Yetual shook his head.
“I’m entangled in the center of mana. It means that it is intertwined with the foundation of the soul. The moment you remove this…”
he declared.
“You’re going to die. must.”
“Snap,” Kalt gritted his teeth.
“Then is there anything we can do right now?”
“I don’t know. What should I do…”
That’s the point where I’ve said that.
The sound of the bed being pressed down was heard from next to me. Kalt and Yetual looked to the side at the same time. The girl lying in bed was slowly getting up.
“Seniors!”
“It’s noisy, so shut up.”
She staggered and raised her hand.
With five fingers sharply raised, she stabbed them into her chest. Sigh! Half of her fingernails were dug into her skin, the tips soaked in her blood.
Pop, pop, pop.
She moves her fingers just like that.
Circuits are engraved as the pure white skin is torn. A burning sound is heard. Even though she spits out dark red blood again and again, she doesn’t think about stopping her fingers.
“···You’re crazy.”
Yetual, who was watching this, muttered.
I am engraving circuits on my body with a sober mind. Not only does it endure the burning pain, but it also forcibly captures the mana that would otherwise be running wild and chopping up its body and uses it to draw circuits.
It’s a pain I can’t even imagine.
Amidst such pain, the girl maintained her sanity and strengthened her elaborate circuitry. The wide-open blue eyes are clearly looking at the circuitry in the chest. I could even feel madness in those eyes.
‘It’s something you can’t do without going crazy.’
Eventually, she pulls out her finger.
Blood dripped onto the bed with a patter. Finally, she spat out blood.
“Huh, huh…”
She exhaled and raised her bloody hand. Her thumb and her middle finger slowly clicked together and she snapped her fingers.
Pajik!
Blue sparks flew out.
Pajik, pajijik. The spark that jumps out reacts with the communication circuit engraved in Yetual’s office. The circuits in the room were red and overheated.
Kwarung!
Soon, a sound like lightning rang out and all communication circuits were shattered. As Yetu Al’s eyes widened, Rania lifted her head, catching her breath.
“Black, magic tower lord.”
Half-closed eyes.
Cold sweat trickled down and formed on my chin.
It seemed difficult to maintain consciousness, let alone speak. Even in that state, she barely opened her mouth and spoke.
“Soon, a customer will arrive.”
“···customer?”
“I gave the signal, it will come. “Whether it’s an old man or a young elf, if a unique-looking person comes…”
Please open the door.
With those last words, Rania fell down. Seeing him say everything he wanted to say until the end, Yetu Al stuck out his tongue.
“···A guest is coming?”
Regardless of whether he is old or young, he is a unique-looking person.
What on earth is that vague explanation?
Yetual tilted his head. However, it didn’t take long for him to understand what that meant.
– Lord Magic Tower, a guest has arrived.
Approximately thirty minutes later, a communication came from the lobby of the Magic Tower.
-The old man who introduces himself as ‘Cardi’… or young? I do not know. Anyway, an unknown person came and made an absurd threat to destroy the magic tower if I didn’t send him up to the top floor…
Yetual frowned.
“···Just send it to me.”
An acquaintance of the Gray Wizard.
A person who can help in this situation.
If he was that kind of person, there was a possibility that he would really bring down the Magic Tower, rather than just making an ‘impossible threat’.
“Please guide us as quickly and politely as possible.”
With those last words, Yetual cut off communication.
Really, today was a confusing day.
“···There’s the Hound.”
“yes?”
“Do the Gray Wizard’s acquaintances not know that there is an amicable solution?”
“What do you mean?”
“No, it’s okay…”
It was the same for you too.
Yetual sighed deeply.
“It’s urgent. “I need help right away.”
This man in front of me is also the same person who grabbed the guard blocking the path a little while ago as if he were going to kill him, then snatched the communicator and threatened to open the path right away.
‘I’ll be amazed. really.’
Yetual shook his head.
The communication circuit that had been carved at a great cost was shattered, and the prestige of the Magic Tower fell to the ground. Yettu Al, caught among superhumans or near-superhumans, felt himself becoming infinitely smaller.
‘···I can understand White’s feelings a little.’
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I tried to bring a little more, but as I kept writing and deleting, the amount ended up getting smaller.
I’ll write more tomorrow and bring it back…
