Chapter 26

‘Well, you’re still young. Pretty cute too’

Jayna wriggled her soft hands and fell into thoughts.

He may have come to become a servant, but he would soon be rejected for his lack of qualifications.

In addition to his outstanding skills, education was still an essential qualification.

So, those who passed the knight exam often learned liberal arts separately from under-qualified people and were given qualifications as knights.

The problem was, it was impossible for Izren, a hybrid, to learn liberal arts.

Knights, as well as decent nobles, rejected and spit out nasty words to Izren just because he was of a different race.

But there was also another reason why he ended up coming to the tower, which had nothing to do with handling a sword.

-Izren, I don’t think you’re not human. I don’t think you’re different.

-Your Highness.

-Can’t you just call me Rosian, not Your Highness?

Eventually, Izren, who wasn’t chosen by the tower lord, meets Prince Rosian, while wandering the empire and becomes his knight.

It’s an episode to emphasize that the main character, Rosian, has a personality that doesn’t discriminate against different races.

‘He won’t have anything to do with me.’

From the fierce reactions of the wizards, it was clear that Diamide would also have the same reaction.

Izren will be kicked out of the tower, just like what happened in the novel. Besides, she was also going to die at seventeen, so there’s no point in having contact with him.

As Jayna sighed and was ready to return to her room, she heard words that stopped her from leaving.

“Where does this kind of race come from? ” (Wizard1)

“Don’t talk nonsense, just give us your sparkling eyes. It looks like it’s worth the research.” (Wizard2)

Jayna’s eyes darkened as she looked down on the first floor.

‘Did the other dragons also look at me like that?’

-Because just looking at your eyes makes me feel dirty.

-You want to be treated just like any dragon with your hybrid blood? What a joke!

At that moment, the  Jayna who lived in the Balaur village overlapped with the current Izren’s image.

Jayna smiled indelicately, it was a smile that doesn’t suit her cute face.

‘Dragons are trying to kill the other one for being a symbol of negation, while these wizards were trying to pull out the eyes of this one to used in their research.’

“I came to be the servant of the Tower Master.”

“What is this garbage saying now?”

“I came to be the servant of Tower Master.”

“Are you ignoring me now? Why do you keep saying the same thing?”

Even at the taunts of the wizards around him, Izren repeated the same words like a parrot.

“I came to be the servant of the Tower Master.”

It was a harsh reality for a sixteen-year-old boy to endure.

But he just stood in the lobby, not even thinking of rebelling against the wizards around him.

Like waiting for someone to take him to the tower lord.

‘But nobody helps Izren.’

The Tower Lord left to another province to get ingredients, but Izren who doesn’t know it, waits a few days in the lobby, making him stand out in other people’s eyes.

And that attempt will soon succeed, just like what happened in the original novel. But…

After returning from the province, the Tower Lord Diamide gives him a congratulatory order with a single word.

-I’m here to be a servant of the Tower Lord.

-You didn’t come here to be a research material?

Izren immediately hardens at the words. However, there was no time to be shocked.

This is because the Tower Lord moved to capture Izren.

Izren, who thought he was going to be caught and become an experiment, quickly escapes to the outside of the tower, and his encounter with Diamide ends in just a few seconds. Izren’s efforts to become a servant somehow turned to be futile.

‘If you can’t be a servant anyway, you’d better leave the tower now, so you can still avoid hearing more of those harsh words.’

Hybrids, evidence of negation, useless garbage…

Maybe it’s because her image overlapped with Izren’s, who has done nothing wrong, but both were suffering just from being born…

Jayna couldn’t help holding the railing tightly with her hand.

Contrary to her initial purpose of just seeing him and leaving. Jayna ended up staying longer.

“How about digging out those jewel eyes? I heard there are a lot of people looking for it.”

“No, let’s just sell the whole thing as a slave, since he has a rather pretty face. I heard there’s a slave trading going on Amri.”

“Don’t you have a wizard’s researching heart? It’s said that eating the gem of this race can cure all kinds of diseases. So it’s better to use it for an experiment.”

Hahaha.

The wizards laughed and chatted loudly.

The Wizards of the Tower, who follow the logic of power, were jesting out words that would be hard for ordinary humans to say.

At that moment, Jayna found something she hadn’t noticed before in Izren, who had his hands on his back.

‘That…..’

He confidently said his purpose in front of the wizards, without changing his facial expression, so she thought he was okay.

But Izren was just a 16-year-old boy who isn’t different from his peers.

He’s not okay. He’s anxious.

His hands were speaking in his stead.

Sweeping the back of his hand several times, squeezing his fingers together, and drawing a pattern with his index finger several times on his palm.

Izren was wriggling his hands nonstop on his back.

It seemed like he wanted someone to save him.

“Hoo.”

Jayna sighed and gently lowered her eyes.

However, Izren’s figure kept popping up in her head.

After a moment of pondering, Jayna soon made her decision.

‘Where could Michael-nim be, at this hour?’

She was thinking of getting the Tower Lord’s answer directly with the help of communication magic.

He would not be accepted anyway, so it would be better to end his hope and his suffering now.

‘I think it would be better to get him out of those wizards’ claws as soon as possible.’

Jayna turned and headed to Michael’s room.

*****

Knock, knock.

Jayna routinely knocked on the door several times and immediately opened the door and went inside.

“Michael-nim, please communicate the Tower Lord for me.”

She spoke her intention right away without hesitation, that’s because she’s sure that Michael already foresaw who will visit him anyway.

But today Michael greeted her with great surprise.

“Oh, when did you come!”

“Didn’t you hear me? I didn’t hide my presence….”

Michael seemed to have been concentrating on something.

“Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.”

Michael shook the air with his hands as if he were hiding something, but Jayna said exactly what she had come for, instead of paying attention to him.

“I’m here to ask you a favor. An aspiring knight is wanting to be a servant of the tower lord.”

“What? If it’s an aspiring knight, it’s a waste of effort to accumulate education here before officially becoming a knight. “

Michael laughed as if he were dumbfounded. Then he twirled his index finger in his head.

“Do you know if he has anything wrong in his head?”

“It doesn’t look like it.”

“What do you mean no? There were a lot of wizards wanting to be disciples of the Tower Lord, but I’m the only one who passed… So what I’m saying is, I’ve never seen a knight before, wanting to be Tower Master’s disciple.”

Michael said, not forgetting to mention that he was the only one who passed among the numerous wizards.

“There’s no point in asking the Tower Lord. And as a disciple of the Tower Lord, I should go and beat him half dead before letting him go.”

“Don’t do that.”

“Don’t? He’s a knight but still played a joke on the holy ground of the wizards.”

“It wasn’t a joke, it seemed serious.”

“Oh, the original crazy guys are in the tower anyway.”

Michael’s lips were raised and at the same time, there was a strange light in his eyes. as if something interesting had happened in a long time.

“Why else would a knight not go to Mugha* and come here instead?”

*Mugha- (I think) a place for a knight to study and practice. Just how the tower is for the wizards.

Is this the look in the eyes of villains in the novel when they look for prey?

When she remembered Michael, who was very interested in her when she first came to the tower, Jayna said urgently without realizing it.

“Because he’s a mixed race.”

“Yes, a mixed r— what did you say?!”

“Anything different from others is ostracized*. And if you are weak, you have no choice but to follow the lead of the strong.”

*ostracized- exclude (someone) from a society or group.

At Jayna’s words, Michael stopped moving.

Jayna’s voice echoed softly in his quiet room.

“Maybe he’s already got rejected from the other places and schools, and the tower is his last resort.”

“……”

“I don’t think he’s going to be accepted, but I think it would be better to reject him quicker and for him to leave the tower immediately.”

Jayna hesitated then added another word.

“He’s being bullied by wizards right now.”

Then she chose everything she wanted to say to Michael.

Yes, it doesn’t make sense to accept people of different races as a disciple.

So if he delivers the message to Tower Master now, Izren may at least escape the taunts and mockery of the wizards.

Jayna already expected Michael’s response to be a rejection.

“Okay.”

But unexpectedly, Michael nodded softly.

“Okay, I’ll pass it on to the Tower Lord.”

Because Michael unexpectedly agreed, Jayna asked again with a suspicious face.

“Is that a promise? Won’t you forget it later or say something else?”

“You don’t think I’m going to back out with my words, do you?”

It was a clear answer, but Jayna was still uneasy.

So she pulled Michael’s hand towards her with all her might.

But Michael’s hands were bigger than the average adult man’s, and Jayna’s hands were smaller than her peers.

Despite holding his hands with both hands, there was still much space left.

But Jayna didn’t mind. Michael won’t know the meaning of her actions anyway.

She’s just trying to make herself feel better.

“What the hell is this?”

“It means promise.”

Not knowing Michael was staring at her, Jayna hung his pinky finger seriously with her cute little finger.

As Jaina went back and leave, Michael thought with a blank face.

‘I was in the middle of communication magic with the Tower Lord, asking about delivery.

When Jayna suddenly came and spoke, he immediately cut off the communication magic.

‘He didn’t hear Jayna’s voice, did he?’

Michael, then again cast communication magic to Diamide with a worried heart.