Episode 78
In the past, I used to think I was the best and bragged about it, but now I’ve become humble. It’s because I realized that if I show off recklessly, I’ll die in an instant.
“Show the results of your training.”
Soleil was the assassin who was hit the most by Iredem, and thus received many special privileges.
Among the believers who joined the Irederemnul sect, he taught the basics of Vinos’s swordsmanship to thirteen assassins. He only taught them the external form of swordsmanship, excluding the Aura training method.
Among them, only one, Soleil, was taught the Aura training method. Although it was only at a basic level, it was incomparably more efficient than the training methods he had previously awakened.
Phew!
Soleil, who was about to rush at Iredem, looked down at my side. Then, she raised her head and looked at me with a resentful expression.
The dagger stuck in Soleil’s side was one I threw.
“You just came back from the dead.”
“Go, thank you!”
Soleil didn’t have the luxury of pulling out her dagger.
He had to face Iredem’s Vinos’s sword in that state. Then, at any moment, when a weak point was revealed, the dagger flew without fail.
Pok! Pok! Pok!
Soleil was stabbed in the right side, thigh, and calf. Only then did he realize his weakness. He had been focusing on attacking, so his right side defense was weak.
He stopped throwing his daggers when Soleil started to naturally block Iredem’s attacks. However, he didn’t last long. It was because of the bleeding.
“next.”
While Soleil sat on the ground, applying herbs all over his body to stop the bleeding, the remaining twelve assassins rushed at Iredem one by one and were stabbed to death.
As the smell of blood wafted everywhere, I distributed thirteen pieces of paper to them.
It was a ‘request form’ used at Sumia Bookstore. It was written in code, but contained only the minimum information such as the subject of the request, location, and any special details.
The expressions of the assassins who checked the request became pale. This was because it was different from the assassinations they usually pursued.
The request contained a monster, not a person.
“Kill them. If you fail, I will kill one of you.”
“Hey, Irederemnul.”
“If you succeed, I will reward you all.
“Irederemnul!”
The assassins limped into the darkness. For now, they were targeting ordinary monsters for assassination, but as they grew, they would transform into assassins who would assassinate branded monsters.
“The rest of you, go back to your daily routine and continue doing what you were doing. Hit, break, swear, curse, rob, steal, seduce, cheat, pick fights, and cry.”
“Irederemnul!”
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“The transport of 213 slaves has been completed.”
He was a healthy slave with no special abilities. He was originally traded for 20 gold, but the Serpens top offered him at cost price. Even so, he still had to pay a huge sum of 2,750 gold.
Hebron had a slave force of 628 men. Only about 300 had completed basic training, and 111 were scheduled to be deployed within a month.
As slaves were purchased in large quantities in Hebron, the price of slaves in the slave market skyrocketed. Ironically, the prices of gladiator slaves and s*x slaves, which had previously been sold at high prices, were falling.
“What about magical talent?”
“The five of them created a wind and sent them all into the fire room.”
Among the slaves brought by Serpens, there were quite a few with magical aptitude. It was thanks to the horn I made for them. Those with genius-like talents had long ago been classified and sold, so those with weak talents were mostly found.
Raising a wizard was not as simple as it seemed. Whether slaves or commoners, those who could read and write were rare. Even those who could read and write were not at a level where they could understand the language of wizards.
In order to speed up the slow pace of education, rooms for fire, water, wind, and earth were created. They were all handled at the top of the serpent, similar to how the wind elementalist had to catch the wind naked.
“How many wizards have passed through all four rooms?”
“There are fourteen so far. Three have passed through three rooms, and seven have passed through two rooms. Since Wizard Batman has requested the entry of third-class wizards, we are currently constructing additional rooms for each attribute.”
The serpentine lord led me ahead. We arrived at a mud house with smoke billowing from the chimney. It was a shabby structure that looked like a cave, and only had one door.
Four aspiring magicians took turns going in and out, practicing mana. Every time the door opened, an exhausted man and woman collapsed, gasping for breath.
As soon as the door opened, two people came out and found me. They quickly took a pose. They sat cross-legged and practiced mana.
“Here and here. And you are here and here.”
The two flinched and focused their mana on the spot I had pointed out. Thanks to the magic eye, I could see through it to see how their mana flowed.
“Think of the flow. Just because mana gathers at a certain point, you shouldn’t concentrate it there. The core of the mana training method I taught you is flow.”
For aspiring magicians who were ignorant of magic, he taught a combination of the ‘Silas Mana Training Method’ and the ‘Labor Training Method’ of the Braio Dukes. It was a training method that allowed for a fast training speed while also aiming for a level higher than 4th class.
In the early days, they taught specific attribute-based training methods. This was because wizards, like spiritists, had special abilities for specific attributes. However, now, they have erased that common sense.
“You must awaken all attributes of mana before moving on to class 2.”
Such an absurd order was given. It came from my mouth. But the aspiring magicians accepted the delusional story as truth.
“insect!”
In the hot fire room, you could feel the heat all over your body. This room was built based on the ‘sauna’ that had been popular in the Duchy of Breio for over ten years.
After testing with several slave wizards, it was confirmed that 1st class basic magic could be awakened without any theory. They learned magic with their body, not their head, and at that time, they could realize attribute magic just by applying continuous shocks.
Bam!
The door to the fire room opened with a loud noise.
Two men crawled out like dogs. A servant came over and sprinkled water on them and offered them water to drink.
A man and a woman who had been practicing aura outside entered the room of fire. If they repeated this, they would eventually be able to awaken fire-attribute mana.
A wizard was assigned to the room of fire. Laszlo, a third-class wizard, was invited by the wizard Batman.
“We produced three fire mages last week. One of them also awakened his water magic.”
“Good.”
Saunas were operated by pouring water on hot stones. The inside was filled with steam, and there were occasionally people who awakened the mana of fire and water at the same time. According to conventional magic knowledge, their magical talent was limited to 3rd class. However, those who perfectly awakened the four attributes displayed powers of 4th class or higher even when they reached 3rd class.
Bam!
The aspiring magician burst out, unable to bear the heat. I kicked her shoulder, which was sprawled on the floor.
“One of the basic magic principles.”
The woman recited the
“It’s subtly wrong. It’s different and it’s different. Who read the
“I will correct it!”
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The woman who answered was a slave. She was not even able to read or write perfectly.
Still, it was possible to listen and memorize it. It was something I just had to keep at it until I got it.
“László, read the Hebron Basic Magic Encyclopedia again to the aspirants.”
“Yes, my lord.”
As I gestured, the doors to the chambers of fire, water, wind, and earth opened. Those who had been suffering inside jumped out and lined up.
I looked down at the aspiring magicians sitting cross-legged and said.
“Listen and practice Ora. Save your time. Your time is mine. Those who are capable will be free, but those who are not will be enslaved for life.”
“insect!”
Of the fourteen people gathered here, twelve were slaves. The other two were also my fiefdoms, so I could treat them like slaves if I wanted to.
“I meet you, my lord.”
The 5th class wizard, Batman, approached me with his disciples. He left the Serpens upper echelon and became Hebron’s exclusive wizard.
“Meet the Count of Hebron!”
Batman’s disciples bowed deeply to me. Half of them were slave magicians who had completed basic training, and the other half were recruits from outside.
The recruited magicians were provided with the
In a typical baronial household, even a single wizard would be rare, but in the Hebron Viscounty there were as many as fifteen wizards.
The only 5th class was Batman, and Jansen from the Baronial Territory of Nurhah attained enlightenment and became a 4th class wizard. There were two 3rd class wizards, five 2nd class wizards, and six 1st class wizards.
“It’s a good thing I had something to show Batman anyway.”
I took a wad of paper from the pocket on Syang’s saddle. It contained the magic formula I had written the night before.
Batman recognized the magic formula right away.
“Oh! It’s magic theory. But such a concise spell! It’s a 3rd class magic, but its efficiency is comparable to a 4th class. And this magic… … W, could it be… …?”
“It’s a transparency magic.”
“Oh! A third-class invisibility spell! I’ve heard that something like this is possible, but I’ve heard that it only exists in theory and has never been implemented.”
The theory was created by Luis de Breyot when he was five years old. When I reviewed the theory I wrote at the time, I found many loopholes. The biggest problem was that I thought others would know what I knew well, so I skipped over it.
That was also a common weakness of geniuses. They assumed that others knew what they knew and moved on.
“But if it’s written here, then isn’t it possible to cast the invisibility spell not only on the wizard himself but also on others?”
“That’s right. That’s the essence of this magic. I’m not a magician, so I haven’t been able to confirm it.”
Invisibility magic was a 4th class spell. Even that was a short spell, so it was easily dispelled. Stable invisibility magic was a 5th class spell.
Even this great 5th class magic was only good for hiding the wizard himself. The invisibility magic that erased the form of others was a 6th class magic, and there were less than five wizards in the kingdom of Zenon who had mastered it.
Batman was completely absorbed in the magic theory I had written. He kept twitching his lips and mumbling, then ran his hands through my clothes.
Batman took a flask out of his pocket. It contained the lowest-grade healing potion he had ever made.
Phew.
A faint light appeared on the flask, then disappeared. The reddish liquid inside remained intact, as if floating in midair.
I was amazed at Batman’s skills. I had no idea that he could implement invisibility magic and even transformation just by looking at it once.
“Poem, this is a strange magic. It’s the first time I’ve heard of a transparency magic that hides the boundaries of a target.”
