LIGHTNOVELWORLD chapter 17
17 – reject-9
Outwardly, it just looks like a child.
Purple hair stands out, but not many people would feel that she was dangerous with just that.
However, anyone who knows anything about her will be afraid the moment they run into her.
“What are you doing?”
“I thought there was a commotion, so I used my hand for a while.”
The frog was terrified and croaked continuously, jumping pitifully.
“Did you know someone?”
“About family. But, he’s not that important.”
His heart, which had barely calmed down, beat faster when he saw her.
“Now, it’s yours. It’s a pity there aren’t many galleries, but…”
“What if I accidentally step on this?”
“It’s a mistake? Of course, I didn’t make it a size that was easy to step on, right?”
To the wizard, everything is a reducible asset.
Whether it’s a stone filled with fire energy in a place where lava is burning, or a unicorn’s blood and a dragon’s heart.
And, people couldn’t be an exception.
“It’s not permanent magic. If you step on it, it will return to its original size. Just as it was stepped on.”
I glared at her for a while.
“The imperial family will regard this as an ‘incomprehensible accident’, and others will fear me and hate me. You will not be bothered.”
She used to talk about how cumbersome, unnecessary, and inefficient the magic that turns people into frogs is.
If such a wizard would dare to turn a person into a frog and kill it, that would be something he would do when he was sure that this was an ‘efficient way’.
“Don’t you like the feel? Well, the feeling of stepping on an amphibian is terrible. I won’t mind the shoe marks on her back, so I don’t mind doing the dirty work for her?”
“Stop it.”
As soon as she heard me, she stopped trembling.
If I had shown even one-thousandth of that respect during the journey, I wouldn’t have been so angry.
“It’s for me.”
“I told you. It’s a gift.”
“why?”
I didn’t expect her to explain straight away. If you don’t think that handing over the information will be to your advantage, you’ll somehow turn around and move on.
“That’s… a little difficult to say here. Wait, will you give me some time? No, frogs don’t hear people. There must have been an easier way than getting your feet moving.”
She put my bodyguard to sleep with a gesture. It was a secluded place even within the imperial palace, so it was not noticed by others yet.
No, even taking that into consideration, this gap is strange. The sorcerer must have intervened.
Magic for disrupting perception would be something she could easily do after living for hundreds of years.
“First, I want to apologize.”
“I’ll ask again. Why?”
She bowed her head. Like a child scolded by an adult, he was rolling his eyes, not knowing what to do.
“I was foolish. Now I know. Who the real hero is.”
Should I believe this? Could this be her deception?
It was a pretty sincere apology from the outside, but there would be nothing more foolish than believing her appearance.
“Nothing will change now.”
If she really didn’t know, it would have been because it was something she never even imagined. The moment she noticed even the slightest hint, the information I knew would have already reached her ears.
“There are things you can change from now on! Aren’t they the ones who stole your glory and achievements? If I help you, I can bring them back.”
it’s an empty check It is true that she has achieved inhuman achievements as a mage, but to achieve them she will have to fight against the entire empire.
“I can’t believe it.”
“What can I do to believe you? I can kill most, if not all, of the imperial family here if you command me.”
A vicious aura lingered in the magician’s hand.
“Unfortunately, I can’t kill the princess you hate the most or the emperor who tried to deceive you.”
“Weren’t you a colleague?”
“What could be more important than the warrior’s wrath and the warrior’s revenge? I just want you to achieve what you want.”
A bitter laugh came out. The hero and the wizard seemed quite friendly, but to her it seemed that even that was a ‘disposable card’.
“What about Nerwen? What that bitch did to you was… very irrational. Give her enough time and you can turn her into anything you want. Unless the dwarf returns to the World Tree… “
“…”
“What about the saintess? Didn’t you lay out the unreasonable idealism, the rules that no one but the women of the goddess could abide by, and leave all the burden on you?”
“You knew everything.”
“I’m sorry… But, at that time, I wasn’t in a situation where I could fight the saintess.”
“Then what about you?”
Silence passed. As if she were on my side, she chatted quietly, but when it was her turn, she shut up.
“First, let’s loosen that up a bit.”
Her body trembled slightly.
Dissolving magic consumes more abilities and resources than casting magic.
Even turning her into a frog was sure to be an event that would empty her storage of materials hidden somewhere in the dimension.
“That, it’ll be solved in a month… Oh, okay! If you want, I’ll do anything. As long as my abilities allow.”
The wizard dropped the frog to the floor and cast a spell. A wounded female knight was standing where the frog had been.
“I’m sorry! Help me! I was wrong! I will not resist again, never again!”
She cried out, clutching at the sorcerer’s leg and praying. The sorceress kicked her with a wild leg movement.
“Hey, what can I do now?”
“Send.”
“Well, then the nobles will turn against you. Won’t something bother you?”
“Ah, no! Never again, never again will I attack Baron Leodrin! I will not testify against you! Save, save, save!”
The reason she was able to maintain her pride in the face of my beating was because I was sure I wouldn’t kill her.
Considering her family and status, it would not be easy for a noble to kill a noble. You would have thought so.
But the moment the wizard has already used the magic to turn himself into a frog, all common sense is broken. All that remains is her, whose whole body can be crushed to death just by someone tripping.
“Go, thank you! Thank you!”
There were bloodstains where she had passed. The female knight forcibly moved her limping leg and desperately avoided the spot.
“I-Are you going to be hostile already? I won’t ask for your forgiveness, but at least the chance to pay the price for your sins…”
“You guys take care of it.”
“Mo, I can give you everything! As you can see, a wizard who gave up his efficiency can do anything impossible.”
She desperately tried to convince me. As she said, there were few things that magicians could not do without the limitations of materials and abilities.
“What do you want?”
“Nothing, nothing! I just want to live as your instrument as a means of atonement.”
I thought I understood the mage to some extent, but I couldn’t understand her current behavior at all.
The same is true of current magic, which discards efficiency and efficiency and focuses only on cruelty.
It seems to cover the imperial family, but it doesn’t hesitate to cause terror. As if, rather than directly hostile to the imperial family, use yourself to get revenge on the imperial family.
“Isn’t that because I’m a hero?”
“Of course! The real hero, the hero chosen by the goddess, was here, but it was dark in my eyes and I didn’t notice! I’m sorry. Please forgive me…”
Even this could have been a deception. As for the hero’s power, the princess was already using it enough, but she had never seen a wizard fear her so much.
“If I wasn’t a hero, it would have passed without incident.”
She was speechless.
“Then, I have nothing more to say. If possible, please do not call me a warrior. Wasn’t my name you called a porter?”
“That’s because I really didn’t know…”
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t think of a reason for that wizard to be afraid of me.
There’s something I don’t know. However, I didn’t really want to know what it was.
Whatever it is, it must be something meaningful to the people here. I’m no longer interested in this world…
“Then, I’m going to ask you a personal favor, so would you please listen? Still, I thought it was the bond between the porter and the warrior party member who fought the demon king together.”
“Mu, of course. As much as I can, anything I can do!”
“It’s very easy for you to do. You don’t have to hurt anyone, and you don’t have to use any additional magic ingredients.”
“I can do anything. If you ask me…”
I bent down a little and looked closely at Farseer’s face. Looking at her trembling face, it was like a bad grown-up bullying a child.
Still, I am not the one who was at fault.
“Don’t appear in front of me again.”
that was all i wanted