All Power Wizard Part 1 Side Story Episode 011
Ep 4. Light and Shadow (2)
“… … “You’re buying me?”
“I thought it was a rock, but it turned out to be a gold coin. Shouldn’t I, who picked it up, keep it? Of course, at a reasonable price.”
The boy wanted to ask what on earth he was talking about.
I also wanted to ask why the reasonable price for my ransom was hundreds of gold coins.
But I couldn’t ask.
This is because the old man continued to speak.
“Take the lead. Let’s go to where you live.”
The boy was worried.
Clearly, the orphanage director and his wife have good faces.
He would welcome the old man, but after the old man passed away, he would turn into a devil and beat himself up.
However, since I knew that the old man was a magician, I did not have the courage to refuse the order.
The boy began to walk towards the orphanage, taking the old man with him.
“Are you a wizard?”
“That’s right.”
“What would a wizard do in a place like this…?” …
The orphanage director and his wife looked at the old man who appeared with the boy with wary eyes.
But, how many years have these people been paying attention to?
When I saw ‘Bobbagji’ shaking with fear and lowering his head, a vague idea of the situation passed through my mind.
The director spoke hurriedly, putting on a good-natured mask.
“Did my child steal the wizard’s pocket?”
“oh my! sorry! Since these guys grew up without parents, this is usually not the case. I will teach you well so that you can understand… …
“Growing up without parents doesn’t mean you grow up without circumstances.”
“••••••yes?”
“If there is no such thing as a parent, you usually learn from it.”
“O 人、.”
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It’s a matter of giving a thumbs up.
A flash of life flashed in the director’s eyes for a moment, but he still did not take off his mask.
The opponent is a wizard.
No matter how unsightly a wizard he was, he didn’t want to get involved in something pointless.
He barely managed to hide his anger and raised the corners of his mouth as if to flatter himself.
“S-sorry. It’s all because I was immoral and couldn’t teach properly. Still, he’s still young, so couldn’t you show him mercy just once?”
“I didn’t come here to blame you for not having a case.
“I came because I wanted to buy this boy.”
“yes? I’m going to buy it, what does that mean… …
“Here, it’s Daegeum.”
The old man picked up the sack and threw it away.
Sigh.
“Hike, hee!”
In the sack, there was a lot of money, probably around 150 gold.
This amount of gold coins is an amount that would be difficult for Leverdine’s workers to collect even if they worked tirelessly for several months.
It was definitely a reasonable amount of money to pay for a boy of this small stature.
only… … .
The director began to quickly calculate in his head.
‘The amount of money Bobburoji will earn in the future… …
70 silver per day.
If you beg faithfully over the next few years, you will be able to make up this amount someday.
And what if, when the boy grows up and is well-fed, parts of his body are taken and sold?
After finishing the calculation, the director threw the sack at the old man.
“I have no intention of selling it.”
“… … “Is there not enough money?”
“Because he’s like my child.”
“Does this family even let their children steal?”
“Well, talk about what you know! “What did I order you to do!”
“If the amount is insufficient, please tell me. “I’ll give you as much more as I can.”
The boy was curious.
What on earth is it that the wizard is trying to buy by giving expensive gold coins?
For a moment, things like the forbidden physical experiments of wizards came to mind, but I just watched in silence.
Even if I had to die during the experiment, I was confident that it would be better than here.
It wasn’t just the boy who was curious about this reason.
“… … ‘I’ll pay you any amount’?”
“Sure.”
“What does this guy say?”
“I don’t know anything about that.”
The director’s eyes turned greedy.
He was confident that he was holding the hilt of negotiations.
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Even though the orphanage has been run for decades, this is an expensive job that will never come again.
“Then give me twice as much.”
The director thought to himself, ‘I called too much…’ … I was worried though.
When I saw the wizard handing me another bag of identical gold coins without saying anything, I was secretly delighted.
Human greed has no end.
The director’s wife also paid more than twice the total amount of 300 gold she received.
“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t do it. “I think I should get 500 more gold here, right?”
Total, 800 gold.
This is an enormous amount of money for poor city dwellers.
However, the old man handed it over very easily.
The gold coin is a flower that never dries.
The director and his wife are a little more greedy here.
I thought about doing it for a while, but… … .
In the end, I decided to do this.
Aren’t wizards very fickle beings?
The director and his wife clapped each other’s hands and cheered.
“Take him away quickly. “Now this guy belongs to the wizard.”
“I’ll give you time to say goodbye.”
“greeting? “What kind of greeting is that?”
“I am saying that I will empathize with the feelings of parents who send their children away for little money.”
Again, I give it a thumbs up.
The director scoffed this time, saying it was different when entering and leaving the bathroom.
“What, you do this even though you know everything? Sigh! I don’t want to see you anymore, so take me away.
Then, he glanced at the boy and smiled.
“But if you have nowhere to go, come back anytime. “I will make sure to leave your seat empty.”
When told to come back, the boy’s wrists trembled.
It is the fear of someone who has been hit.
The old man looked down at the boy indifferently, dragged him outside, and walked out.
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“You look like you have a lot of questions, so hurry up and ask before you explode.”
“… … Why did you buy me? Even spending a lot of money, like 800 gold.”
“I didn’t buy you.”
“yes? I was sure I had a gold coin earlier… … . ah!”
The boy remembered that this old man was a wizard.
Haven’t you seen with your own eyes the magic that turns gold coins into stones and stones into gold coins?
“They treated gold coins like stones, so the right value for them would be stones, not gold coins. “By now, they are probably going wild and angry, saying I tricked them.”
The boy clenched his fists tightly, feeling an unknown sense of exhilaration.
I gained a little courage.
“… … Well, can I ask you again? “Why did you go so far as to save me?”
“How well do you think you know yourself?”
“yes?”
“In essence, karma is something you choose. “At least once in a while, someone will point it out.”
“… … “Are you saying I am like that?”
“You have both the qualities to become a wizard and the talent to become a knight. beforehand
Ignoring one’s predetermined fate is a choice, but failing to notice it due to ignorance is a misfortune. “Wouldn’t it be very unfair to discover that rotten talent in one’s twilight years?”
Wizard and knight… … .
The resonance of these two words actually made the boy’s heart sink coldly.
Only those who have dreamed can feel hot at the word dream.
Because the boy had never dreamed of anything, he reacted indifferently, as if he were just listening to someone else’s story.
The old man, who was looking at the boy, spoke with satisfaction.
“The eyes are like those of a knight, but the heart is that of a wizard. “Okay, what can I do?”
“How can you… … “What do you mean?”
“I have revealed your fate, and you are now free. You can ignore your fate and go back to the orphanage, or you can live on the streets alone. Of course, you can hold the hand I hold out here. “It’s up to you.”
The boy remained silent.
Because this whole situation was so sudden.
Just a little while ago, I was at the lowest point of my life.
It was not just the bottom, it was a life worse than that of a slave of the lowest class.
It was a series of painful times that made me want to give up everything… … .
He thought he would never be saved.
However, so many things have changed.
In this situation, most ordinary people would not hesitate to grab the hand held out by the wizard.
However, the boy was different.
“I do not know. I’ve never thought about it… …
His mind was already sick.
What big difference will life make if you become a wizard or a knight?
He had an unhappy life where he was already accustomed to sitting still.
The old man seemed to like the boy even more, and smiled slightly.
“It looks like you couldn’t find a reason to follow me.”
“… … yes.”
“Then, first of all, I have to make that withered heart start beating. “Follow me.”
The old man walked ahead, and the boy followed him.
But the steps started to get slower and slower.
This is because the place the old man took him was the same orphanage he had escaped from just moments ago.
“W-How can I come back here…” …
“Take this.”
“… … This?”
It was a dagger.
The blade was blue, and the handle holding the sword was also studded with blue gems similar to the color of the sword body.
It was even more puzzling because it was not an ordinary item, even for a blind boy.
The old man said just one thing to the boy who held the dagger.
“Gather the mana and condense it into this gem.”
“yes?”
“There is nothing to hide. Can’t you see Mana?”
“Well, how could that… …
The boy swallowed his saliva.
How on earth does this old man know so much about himself?
Yes, the boy vaguely knows what mana is.
Another substance mixed in the air.
Mana becomes his friend at bedtime as he is the only one released from the orphanage.
I gave it… … .
After playing around with it, I learned how to collect mana and turn it into a tangible substance.
How great is this?
I didn’t know that children without talent could not do this even if they woke up from death.
But how does the old man I saw for the first time today know that?
I’ve never told anyone… … .
“Go ahead and try it.”
The boy nodded and began concentrating mana.
Even though only a very small amount of mana was used, the body of the dagger began to shake.
Soon, electricity began to swirl around the dagger the boy was holding.
“Humans are very weak animals. So, when he falls, he tends to sit down like you.”
“But once you have power, things change.
all. You will be able to bring down those who forced you down. “What you have in your hands right now is power.”
smart.
After speaking, the old man knocked on the door of the orphanage.
Then, the angry director and his wife burst open the door.
“Oh my! You bastard cheater! “How dare you sell a rock by tricking it into gold coins?”
The director uttered an obscene curse and tried to grab the old man by the collar, but for some reason he could not even take a single step out of the door.
I couldn’t get out.
It was magic.
Thump thump.
I couldn’t move because I was blocked by the barrier, and the angry cries of the director and his wife quieted down, and before I knew it, I could no longer hear them.
The old man spoke to the boy without even looking at the director and his wife.
“Now that you have the power, you need to know how to wield it.”
“Go in and heal your withered heart.
Let them run wild to their heart’s content. Perhaps, by the time you open this door yourself, you will have found a reason to follow me.”
The old man did not kindly explain to the boy why he should stand up.
Instead, I tried to find out why I fell and teach that in order to get up from despair, you have to step on someone.
Blood, revenge, joy.
With these feelings, the boy will be able to find a reason to move forward.
No, I was sure that I would end up holding on to my pants and begging for strength.
The boy seemed to have made up his mind and entered the orphanage, holding the dagger filled with lightning magic.
The old man who was watching this quietly closed the door, took out a long pipe from the hem of his robe, and muttered while biting into it.
“Kkeokkeul, welcome to the world of demons. “Kid.”
