The Regressed Mercenary’s Machinations Chapter 107

Episode 107 I’ll make it a draw. (2)

Belinda put aside her work to stay by Giselle’s side.

Because I couldn’t just leave someone who couldn’t even walk properly on his own.

“It’s okay. It’ll get better soon… … . Knock knock! Knock knock!”

As expected, Giselle started talking nonsense and even coughed up blood.

Belinda sighed deeply and wiped away the blood.

“How can it get better! Do you think such a powerful poison will disappear easily? Even now, I am dying!”

Despite the constant nagging, Giselle just smiled.

Even though he looked sick to others, he could clearly feel the energy overflowing within his body.

As expected, his damaged body was completely restored in just two days.

Belinda, who had been waiting in front of Giselle’s room since dawn, was surprised to see him walking out normally.

“Huh? Are you really okay? What’s going on?”

Jiselle just shrugged.

Her body was still as thin as a skeleton, but her eyes had come to life and her movements had become lighter, so I couldn’t help but believe that she was okay.

“My prediction was right.”

Before drinking the poison, your mana amount has increased and your recovery power has improved dramatically.

Now that I’ve seen the effects, I can’t give up drinking the poison.

After that, the poison stored in the warehouse continued to decrease.

It was obvious that Giselle was drinking it.

There have been several instances where someone was found collapsed alone in the training ground after drinking poison.

Eventually, rumors began to spread that the lord was angry because Claude did not surrender properly.

“Why are you being so stubborn, General? Why are you pressuring our lord with a bet?”

“Why would someone who was happy to develop the territory suddenly want to die? It’s all because of the General!”

“We can’t lose our lord! We can never lose him!”

The people of Yeongji brought the portraits of Claude and Alfoy that they had obtained from somewhere and stabbed them with an awl.

Whether it was because of the curse of the people of Yeongji or because of the things that Giselle had passed on, Claude’s eyes became even darker.

He came to see Giselle every day and talked her out of it.

“Ah, my lord, let’s just stop! I said I’ll give you a draw. Do you know what you look like right now, my lord? A skeleton is coming to attack you!”

“Hey, are you scared? Are you afraid you’ll lose? Gulp!”

“Wow, this is crazy! You’re the lord! Aren’t you scared and acting like this?”

“Who would be scared? Oh, that’s okay. Cool! You came at a good time. Let’s check this too and proceed. Ugh… …”

Giselle clicked her tongue and handed over the documents. Claude’s face suddenly distorted.

“Hey, man… … You came for nothing. I’m really going to leave soon, so you’re being lenient.”

After the situation of coming for no reason and only receiving more work was repeated several more times, Claude stopped coming to see Giselle.

Giselle was glad that the nagging had been reduced and gave other people tasks to do like Claude.

While his subordinates were busy with their work and not paying attention, the number of times Jiselle collapsed decreased noticeably.

“I never thought I’d use it like this.”

Jiselle laughed bitterly as she looked at the last remaining vial of poison.

Blood Python’s venom runs out in a few days.

It was originally intended to be diluted in water and used for military purposes, but it all ended up in Jiselle’s stomach.

“It’s better to use it like this since it’s difficult to use anyway. This is all an investment, an investment.”

Jiselle poured the entire bottle of poison into her mouth.

It was completely different from when I first carefully poured in just a few drops.

Now, I can drink an entire bottle without any problems, except that my tongue will feel a slight tingle.

Most poisons will have no effect on him in the future.

This means that you can no longer use the trick of increasing mana with poison like you do now.

“This ends today.”

Jiselle sat down and slowly began to move her mana.

The poison that entered the body quickly mixed with mana, became one, and then spread throughout the body.

Jiselle, who had been practicing mana in a state of oblivion, opened her eyes after a few hours.

A crimson light flashed across his eyes for a moment.

“Now, I’m sick of poison… … . It’s a bit disappointing.”

After absorbing all the poison, the total amount of mana increased to an incomparable level.

If we only consider the amount of mana, it seems to be more than double the previous amount.

“I was really lucky.”

No matter how skilled Giselle is at mana manipulation, it takes a long time to accumulate a lot of mana.

However, because the poison’s aura was strong and matched well with Jiselle’s mana, the time was shortened significantly.

‘There are few elixirs that have this level of effect.’

Jiselle slowly got up from her seat and made a shallow cut on her palm with her dagger.

The long, cut palm healed smoothly in an instant without a single scratch.

Only a few drops of blood oozing out indicated that there had been a wound there.

“I like it.”

Jiselle squeezed his hand a few times and smiled with satisfaction.

* * *

After the poison-drinking training was over, Jiselle’s body began to gain weight quickly.

My skin improved and my eyes began to glow with energy.

Even someone who had no idea how to use their body could immediately feel the difference.

“Master, why do you look so healthy? Are you just shining for a moment before you die?”

“Why do you keep trying to kill innocent people? It’s just because you ate something good.”

“What good is that? How can you say something like that after drinking poison?”

But I couldn’t argue with it because I could see that my body was actually getting better.

“Do you really like it? Should I try it too?”

Belinda looked Giselle up and down with a meaningful look in her eyes.

Jiselle avoided his gaze and blurted out.

“Don’t worry, I won’t drink poison anymore.”

Claude, who was standing next to me, shook his head in disbelief.

“It’s not that I don’t drink, it’s that I can’t drink. There’s nothing left in the warehouse.”

What’s the point of saying you won’t drink it now after you’ve poured out every drop of poison?

Still, Claude felt a sense of relief when he heard that such an outrageous act would no longer occur.

Even for someone as shameless as him, being looked down on by everyone in the territory was burdensome.

“Have you been to the warehouse? Then you must have seen the condition of the wheat grains.”

“I had to see it. It looked like a monster would come out if I planted it.”

Claude was surprised to see the wheat grains that Giselle had previously breathed mana into.

They had grown to the size of a man’s thumbnail, and each grain was emitting a soft blue light.

Just a grain of wheat!

It certainly had an unusual, rather suspicious appearance.

“It looks like you’ve grown up well. Now, I guess I should prepare for the next step.”

“Are you really going to plant that weird thing? There’s only two weeks left, so what’s the use of planting it? Stop being so stubborn.”

Claude looked Giselle up and down suspiciously.

“No, you’re not trying to get revenge by raising some kind of monster because you don’t have the confidence to win, are you?”

Jiselle snorted and got up from her seat.

“The second round of reclamation work is about to begin. Recruit workers.”

‘Oh my, you really need to be thoroughly humiliated to change that personality. You drank poison because you were so embarrassed by losing, so what kind of guts do you have? Do as you please, and if you fail, it’s your fault, my lord!’

Claude regained his strength, which had been slightly weakened.

While he was recruiting laborers, Giselle called in the wizards.

“Uh, what is it this time?”

Alpoy appeared with a face full of irritation and immediately spat out a curt reply.

Ever since Giselle did her poison-drinking show, people have been pressuring Alfoy to give up his bet too.

My heart has been pounding lately. Someone must be cursing me.

In the meantime, how much work is there?

The lord would often summon wizards to do tasks that would take too long for laborers to do.

Now, I was confused whether I was a worker or a magician.

“I need to engrave some magic on the runestone. It’s not a difficult magic, but it requires a lot.”

“What kind of magic is it?”

“A magic that keeps the surroundings warm, a magic that changes the flow of mana, and a magic that keeps the humidity constant… … Something like that?”

Not all magic is difficult.

Since the mana focus has to be large and fixed in one place, the rune stone cannot last long, but if it simply changes the flow of mana, it can be maintained semi-permanently.

“That cheap magic on that expensive runestone… … No, okay. What are you going to use it for?”

“I’m going to plant it in the open ground. I need to start planting wheat now.”

Jiselle answered in a feminine tone. Alpoy frowned without realizing it.

“You haven’t given up yet? Well, that aside. What happens if you put the rune stone in?”

“It will change the nature of the land.”

“under…….”

Alfoy laughed in an absurd manner and then started washing his face quickly.

It was hard to watch someone brag about using magic when they knew nothing about it.

‘I’d rather not ask him what he does.’

At that moment, Alpoy remembered the words of the old sage.

‘How can I find peace of mind and be happy?’

‘You shouldn’t argue with fools.’

‘I don’t think so.’

‘Yes, you are right.’

Alpoy attained enlightenment.

He closed his eyes and sat down without realizing it.

Mana began to slowly surround him, swaying.

The wizards around them were startled and quickly stepped back.

Jiselle also made a bewildered expression.

“What the heck? Why are you suddenly enlightened and acting like a lunatic?”

Even if enlightenment comes suddenly, you’re saying you’ll get enlightenment while talking about maintaining temperature?

It was clear that something strange was going on in his head.

After a while, Alfoy opened his eyes. A strange light passed through his eyes.

It was a very small realization, and his level of enlightenment was only as small as an ant’s eye booger, but his mind was more at ease than ever.

‘Yes, what’s the use of arguing with a fool? There’s nothing wrong with what the old wise man said. Just say you’re right and ignore him. There’s no need to blush when you don’t have much freedom left.’

Anyway, everything Jiselle says is just nonsense.

Why would you be so eager to correct someone who can’t even realize that he or she is wrong?

If you leave it alone, it will fail and become quiet on its own.

I feel a bit bad about wasting the runestone, but it’s not my money anyway.

Alfoy said with a soft smile.

“I will do as you said. I will prepare the required quantity according to the size of the open space.”

Jiselle furrowed her brows, feeling uncomfortable at Alpoy’s sudden change in attitude.

It is a very good thing that the level of a worker in the territory, an unpaid slave at that, has risen… … .

I couldn’t just like the other person because they were the other person.

But it’s hard to ask why she listens so well. Jiselle nodded her head sheepishly.

“Uh… … . Okay, do it as fast as you can.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

After leaving the work on the runestones to the wizards, Giselle called together a hundred mercenaries, led by Gillian.

The mercenaries, fully armed and mounted on horseback as ordered, could not hide their excitement.

Just thinking about the fight I’ve had for the first time in a long time makes my body start to shiver.

The porters approached and tied a large cart to each of the mercenaries’ horses.

There was a shovel made of iron tied to each cart.

One of the mercenaries, feeling a bit uneasy, asked.

“Why are you carrying a cart and a shovel over there?”

Jiselle answered with an expression that said, “Why are you asking such an obvious thing?”

“Of course you’re going to go digging, right?”

“Where are you… going?”

Jiselle, riding on the lead horse, said with a sly smile.

“Go to the Demon Forest.”