EP.72 The next magic tower owner, Resty (lower)
I have met you before.
many.
The answer was somewhat expected. Resty knew quite a bit about Professor Rania.
Because that record is also posted on the Gray Magic Tower.
‘I was taught by Professor Rossell for ten years.’
Although she was buried under Raniel’s name, she was also one of Rossell’s long-time students. A person who became an official disciple only after the Gray Wizard disappeared.
It wasn’t that rare.
Although the magic family has a strong sense of one-man succession, they often bring in one more disciple just in case.
Resty thinks.
Ten years ago, it was a time when gray wizards were just beginning to appear in the gray magic tower.
‘And, there will be some connection with Professor Rania.’
Because he lived in the shadow of that wizard for ten years.
It was only recently that Professor Rania was recognized as Elder Rossell’s adopted daughter and disciple.
Over ten years.
For a time that cannot be easily guessed, she must have lived hiding in the shadow of the gray wizard.
It may be very rude to ask such a person this. Maybe he touches on trauma.
Nevertheless, Resty opened his mouth.
I asked questions that I had never been able to ask before.
“···What kind of person was Raniel?”
“What kind of person are you?”
“I’ve seen it a few times at the Magic Tower. However, I have no idea what kind of person he is…”
I was constantly compared.
However, Resty actually knew very little about the gray wizard. He always faced him only with his achievements.
Gray wizard.
Raniel van Trias.
Lesti does not know Raniel as a person, not as an achievement. It won’t be just Resty. The same goes for the wizards of the Gray Magic Tower.
I know the symbolism of the character Raniel.
I know the achievements and feats he has accumulated.
However, I do not know the person named Raniel.
“What kind of person was he?”
Resty is.
“As the next magic tower lord, how would you live?”
I was curious about that.
“I want to ask you that.”
With that question in his mouth, Resti looked at Professor Rania’s thoughts. Contrary to what I thought, he didn’t seem offended.
“Uhm…”
Rather, he gave an expression of confusion.
“···well.”
Eventually, she opened her mouth with difficulty.
“It looks like you, doesn’t it?”
“···yes?”
It’s an unexpected answer.
Resty blinked at the answer. Professor Rania tilted her coffee cup and said.
“When the Gray Wizard first became the next Magic Tower lord, do you know the situation at the Magic Tower at the time?”
“···No, I wasn’t at the Magic Tower at the time.”
“When did you say you entered the Gray Magic Tower?”
“It’s been about 6 years since I came here. “I was selected as the next Mage Tower owner about three years ago.”
“Six years ago… right before the Gray Wizard left the Magic Tower? “Then it’s safe to say you don’t know.”
She laughed bitterly.
“That person wasn’t that different from you.”
“…It wasn’t any different?”
“It means I was ignored like you. Being criticized by elders, being ostracized by fellow wizards… things like that. “The Gray Magic Tower must be quite brutal.”
“···yes?”
That gray wizard was treated poorly?
‘You look like me?’
Resty tilted his head.
The gray wizard I ran into while staying at the Magic Tower… was always confident. He never shrugged his shoulders.
Every time he passes by, the wizards adjust their posture. In order to show at least one more research result, he pounces on the area where Raniel’s gaze falls.
The gray wizard Raniel was such a person.
A person who shines just by existing.
‘···Such a wizard was ignored?’
It was not easy to imagine that sight.
As Resty tilted his head, Professor Rania continued.
“You don’t get scammed just because of your background, right?”
Resty nodded.
Certainly, it seemed like he had never been criticized for his origins.
“That’s a good thing.”
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Professor Rania shook her coffee cup and continued.
“The Gray Wizard was criticized precisely because of his origins. What would a wizard from humble origins who lost his hometown know? “It was like that.”
“···Only because of where you come from?’
“Yes, just because of his origins. First of all, he was the adopted son of the Trias family…but he was from a refugee background. “It’s really funny, they didn’t even accept the paper because it was dirty.”
When I heard it, I was speechless.
Looking at Resty’s expression, Professor Rania burst into laughter.
“Isn’t it absurd?”
“That’s… yes.”
“Your origins… um, I’m a bit sorry to say this, but you also came here as an adoptive daughter, right?”
“Yes, I’m from an orphanage.”
“okay. Still, if you think about the reason why the elders didn’t criticize you because of your background… it would be because if they criticize you, they would have to criticize the gray wizard all at once.”
“…Didn’t you say that the elders looked down on the Gray Wizard?”
“It’s all a thing of the past.”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“In the current Gray Magic Tower, no one can surpass the Gray Mage, right? is not it?”
“·····.”
Resty nodded.
I know that better than anyone else. Because he was constantly being compared.
“Why would you do that?”
Professor Rania cooed and pressed the lid of the coffee cup with her index finger.
“Because I pressed it.”
The lid of the coffee cup was dented.
“Because it has been proven through achievements. “Because he defeated the elders with a track record that no one could ignore.”
She looks back at Resty.
“And, it didn’t happen overnight.”
“·····.”
“It took a very long time. “For a long time… well, we kept fighting with the elders.”
Resty blinked at those words.
“I saw him up close. That guy too, he had a really hard time at first. “He grinds his teeth several times a day saying he will beat all the wizards to death?”
Resty looked at Professor Rania.
Her eyes seemed to be looking into the distance.
“I said I would replace the elders, and I would write reports while losing sleep. It was normal for me to be ignored at the Magic Tower, and when I returned home, I would drink uncharacteristically. “I even whined to my teacher.”
That wizard has that human side?
Resty blinked and asked back.
“···Did you really do that?”
“Yes, because I saw it up close.”
Professor Rania sipped coffee and looked into the distance with longing eyes.
“Everyone is mistaken. “They praise him as a genius and admire him as an unprecedented magician, but if you look at him just a little bit, it’s true.”
she laughed
“That person is no different from you.”
“·····.”
“I guess I’ll just endure it. Work hard, grit your teeth.”
Resty kept his mouth shut.
I think about what I have heard so far. Professor Rania continued speaking.
“That’s right, he’s the next Ashen Magic Tower lord. “It seems like if you just sit there, anything will happen… but in fact, that’s not the case.”
Tuk.
“You get scolded and belittled until you leave your position. Continually, constantly. Because it’s like a thorn in my eye. Even if there is no next magic tower lord, the tower will continue to function.”
Tuk.
“So, except for the gray wizard, many of the next magic tower owners have become puppets. Because everything has become annoying. “You’re passing it on to someone else.”
I lift my finger from touching the coffee cup.
“still.”
The place the finger points to is Resti.
“It doesn’t look like you.”
“·····.”
“Is there something you wish for?”
“···yes.”
“I think the position of the next Magic Tower Lord is good. There is another purpose, right? In fact, the purpose is probably not grand.”
It’s something I haven’t revealed to anyone.
However, Resty nodded without thinking.
“···Yes i have.”
“I want to be recognized.”
“Tap,” Professor Rania spat.
“Even one person is fine. I hope that person is proud of me. “I want to prove that it was the right choice for that person to have me.”
Resty took a deep breath.
“How do you do that…”
“Because the Gray Wizard said that.”
she laughed
“Because I did it, and the gray wizard probably did it.”
Professor Rania looked into the distance and smiled.
“Actually, I don’t mind what anyone says about me. It’s okay to ignore me. “Everything is fine…”
She said.
“I don’t want to ignore the person who took me in. So, I’m just going up there and holding on.”
It was like that.
Resty nodded without thinking.
‘···Because I didn’t want the elder to be ignored.’
There are voices that disparage you. There were a lot.
It is not simply aimed at itself.
Being denied was the same as being denied by the elder who took over.
that.
More than anything else, Resty couldn’t bear it.
“If I had ascended to the position of next magic tower lord without something like that… I wouldn’t have been able to last three years.”
Resty looks at her.
I meet her blue eyes.
“···Professor Rania.”
And, I brought up a question that I had not been able to ask before.
“Have you ever thought that the expectations attached to succeeding the Gray Wizard are heavy?”
If you think about it, yes.
The professor in front of me has lived in the shadow of a gray wizard for ten years. He lived his life being compared.
It’s a ten year wait.
I waited for ten years without even being able to show myself to the public.
And when I came outside.
When he was recognized as a disciple by Elder Rosell, received the surname of Trias, and appeared in the public eye.
‘From the beginning.’
This person was confident.
I wasn’t intimidated by other people’s gaze. Resty was just amazed at that fact.
If it were you.
He wouldn’t have been able to bear the pouring gaze.
“Have you ever thought about quitting?”
At that question, Professor Rania blinks.
The pupils that close and open become narrow.
It’s an illusion.
Rania had no idea what she was asking. She also understands that what she is asking is her illusion.
however.
Resty may not know it, but the illusion was not entirely wrong.
The heaviness of the seat.
An expectant look at the seat.
Those were things the gray wizard felt every day.
“well.”
Raniel, who was playing Rania, laughs.
That’s an illusion. However, just because the other person is mistaken, he does not necessarily have to lie.
she is.
I answer that question not as Rania, but as Raniel.
“It was heavy.”
The position of the next Magic Tower owner was a heavy one.
The position of the wise man of the warrior party was even more important.
“Because my mistakes are not just mine.”
Master’s reputation is damaged.
Mistakes on the battlefield lead to someone’s death.
“All symbolic positions are like that, right? “It was so heavy… I felt like I wanted to hit it every day.”
There are a lot of expectations.
“Because you always have to be perfect.”
When I was the lord of the Gray Magic Tower, it was at least okay. However, it was different on the battlefield.
The wise man, Raniel van Trias.
Member of the warrior party, gray wizard.
The meaning of that name is great. Everyone has expectations of themselves. When he appeared on the battlefield, he always had to become a symbol of hope.
Even in hopeless situations, we had to have hope.
The battle line collapsed due to the Black Dragon, and the knights, who lost their commander, were disintegrating and had to be held back.
We had to see through the numerous traps set by the ancient lich, who had lived for hundreds of years, and come up with countermeasures.
‘I guess that’s all.’
Gletus the Apostate.
Even when encountering Ganicalt, the sword of death.
In a situation where there was no answer, the knights, warriors, saints, and shrines all looked at Raniel.
‘If it were me, I would look with anticipation that I would find the answer.’
It was always like that.
– Star.
It was the same when facing the Demon King.
-I will give half my life.
Raniel had to find a way somehow. Because that was the role expected of a wise man.
The role was heavy.
To the point where I want to quit right now and hit myself.
“Still, anyway.”
Every time, Raniel thought.
-Raniel.
What I heard from my teacher.
-Do not hesitate to take on a challenge for fear of losing. A wizard is a challenging being rather than a calculating being.
I used to think of those words.
-I will live a satisfying life for you.
“I thought I would regret it if I hit it.”
Raniel looks at Resti as Rania, as a professor, and perhaps as a teacher.
“It was heavy, difficult, and extremely annoying, but I felt like I would regret it if I quit. “I didn’t think I would be satisfied.”
“·····.”
“Aren’t you like that too?”
Rania takes a sip of coffee.
And then he spat it out.
“You’re probably going to regret it, so you’re still holding on to that, aren’t you?”
“·····.”
slowly.
Very slowly, Resty nodded. Rania laughs at that sight. She thinks with a smile.
‘I made a choice that I ultimately regretted.’
I think about holding on a little longer.
Still, it’s all in the past, so Rania gives advice as a senior who has lived a similar life.
“All wizards are like that.”
she laughed
“So, a wizard can’t die because of his expulsion.”
It was the laughter of a senior in life.
Resty looked at that smile for a while.
3.
Don’t make choices you might regret.
Make a satisfactory choice.
‘It’s really not that big of a deal…’
Funny enough, that was what I wanted to hear the most.
‘Because I was hoping someone would say that.’
Those words had some resemblance to the elder’s words in my memory. Resty thinks about those words.
‘A satisfactory choice.’
In the end, it’s the starting point.
But now I feel like I’m at the starting line.
“···Yes.”
Laughter escaped me inadvertently.
The chain that was bound to me at some point is no longer there. Conscious of the starlight shining in his eyes, Resty makes a promise.
Nothing changes right now.
These are the only things that need to change from now on.
The only thing that is different from before. It’s just that the way we look at them has changed a little.
‘From now on…’
This is the moment when Resty is about to solidify his resolve.
“hmm···.”
Suddenly, Professor Rania stretched out her arms.
“Actually, I thought about it a bit.”
Then he spread his hands out in front of Resty. Resty looked at what he held in his hand.
“I think I can help you with this much.”
“···what is this?”
What was placed in that hand was a key.
Judging by the mana flowing through it, it seemed to be a key that interacted with magic tools.
“Is there still the Gray Wizard’s laboratory left in the Magic Tower?”
“Ah, yes… I heard that they left it behind in case you came back.”
“Um…A3 or something? “Third drawer on the A3 line.”
“···yes?”
Professor Rania laughed bitterly.
“The Gray Wizard left it behind before he left. “If the elder behaves like an asshole, throw what’s in that drawer in front of him.”
“···Throw it… Throw it away?”
“I don’t know either. “Just throw it out there and tell us what you want, and we’ll give it to you.”
She winked.
“What are you doing? “I’m not accepting it quickly.”
“…This is not what I left to Professor Rania…”
“What should I do when I go to the Gray Magic Tower? “I just hate annoying things.”
When Resty did not take it, Professor Rania eventually stretched out Resty’s hand and forced the key into his hand.
“…I can accept something like this…”
“Just accept it.”
She shrugged her shoulders.
“It seems like the professor writes a letter of recommendation for the top student in each class, but since I don’t have a letter of recommendation I can write right away… I guess I’ll just give this.”
“···First place?”
“Yes, you are first place. “Where can I go and talk about this?”
She let out a mischievous laugh.
Resty tilts his head at that laugh.
“…You couldn’t solve them all?”
“You solved it up to number 7. Even though I explained it that way, the other kids could barely solve it 6 times. “You are uniquely number one.”
Weird, really?
I think it was a problem worth solving.
Seeing him grumbling like that, Resty suddenly smiled and responded.
“Because the problem was too difficult.”
“You tried so hard to explain it?”
“You can’t solve everything just by listening to an explanation. “Time was a little tight.”
Something is strange.
“···is it?”
“Professor’s class is difficult.”
“really? I heard you can do it…”
How long has it been since I spoke this comfortably?
It was an itchy, slightly strange sensation in my throat.
“·····.”
Resty looked at the key in his hand.
An old copper key.
Holding the key in his hand, Resty looks at his watch.
Dang, daeng.
Just then the bell rang.
It was time for the students to return to their respective dormitories. After the terrorist incident, Aplia temporarily moved up the dormitory’s curfew.
Even though the sun was just setting, it was time to head back.
“Ah, is it already time to go back?”
Professor Rania nods.
Resty slowly stood up. The two walked along the garden. Exit the garden and head to the square.
The moment you enter the square, there is a fork in the road.
One side leads to the professor’s office, and the other side leads to the central academic building. On the road illuminated by the sunset, Professor Rania stopped for a moment. He then waves his hand.
“Go in.”
“Yes, Professor.”
Resty walks first.
Rania stops in her seat and looks at the back. Then, the moment she took her steps again.
“Professor Rania.”
A voice calls her to stop.
If you follow the voice and turn your head, you will see Resty looking back. Purple hair flutters in the spring breeze.
With his back to the sunset, Resty smiled.
A smile that was not a faint smile, a sneer, or a laugh like always, flowed from the corners of her mouth.
“thank you.”
The sun sets.
She smiled brightly in the garden at sunset.
···Aplia is the cradle of learning.
Many talented people learn.
Gain enlightenment through learning.
It is not simply a story limited to magic. Learning will be used in a slightly broader sense.
And, here is a wizard.
The wizard is young. I have been learning magic since I was young, but I have not often used it the way I wanted to.
She was always afraid of something.
He couldn’t overcome the weight that was oppressing him.
“·····.”
Here, there is another wizard.
The wizard had experienced many things. He achieved most of the accomplishments a wizard could achieve. However, what remains at the end is regret.
That wizard.
I see a wizard walking a similar path as me.
“okay.”
The gray wizard smiled as he looked at the child who looked like him.
“I will cheer you on.”
A word from the author (author review)
Resty Eleanor.
Because he is a very important character and has many characters, I thought a lot about how to give him a narrative.
As a result of that consideration, the number of characters was 15,000, or almost three episodes… Still, I don’t know if readers will understand.
I just hope you enjoyed reading it 😀
