CH 35

Benjamin, who was blatantly disturbed, narrowed his forehead and answered without looking at Oliven.

"Don't disturb me. If you disturb me one more time, I won't forgive you."

"So what if you don't forgive me? What are you going to do?"

As his specialty is sarcasm, he succeeded in attracting Benjamin's attention this time. He looked at Oliven's face with a cold stiff face, then sighed a little and looked away again.

"......A waste of time."

As if there was no more time to give, Benjamin's attitude, which seemed to have no regrets, made Oliven's veins pop on his straight forehead. He decided to reveal the reason why he had come all the way here, hiding his boiling inside.

"Master's magic stone responded."

"What?"

Then Benjamin's black eyes turned to Oliven. Oliven laughed in dismay as he looked into the eyes of his motive, whom he could barely meet. So, even if he tried to give him affection, he couldn't.

"Where?"

"It's not exact, but it came out roughly."

At Oliven's answer, the flow of the magic circle, which had been driving ceaselessly swallowed up mana, stopped. Only then did the barrier created by the magic circle subside. The papers with the messages that the master left behind were also neatly arranged along with the sound of their own rattles. Benjamin stepped out of the magic circle and hurriedly wrapped Oliven's shoulder.

"Tell me, where?"

Oliven laughed sarcastically at the act of being treated like a person who now exists.

"Why should I share what I find while you're stuck here?"

Then, in an instant, power entered Benjamin's fingertips, and his killing intent flowed out in a blink of an eye.

"Do you want to die?"

"Why? If I don't tell you, will you kill me?"

"......"

Benjamin did not answer verbally, but he answered with action. Dark red mana emanated from his whole body and poured toward Olive.

Boom!

With a loud roar, Oliven flew far away to the far end of the room and crashed into the corner.

"Hey, hey, are you really going to kill me for making fun of you?"

Oliven swept away his long, messy hair, protecting his body with olive-colored mana that resembled the color of his hair. He knew very well that Benjamin had sent out mana that contained killing intent. It wasn't once or twice, so it wasn't unusual. The only person who had a meaning for Benjamin was Master, so she was the only one for him.

"Tell me."

"I don’t want to?"

"Do you really want to die?"

"You're really trying to kill me, but you act like you don't want to."

Oliven shrugged and raised his head as Belluna did.

"If I die, how are you going to find out where Master's magic stone reacted?"

"It's just a matter of time, I can find it."

"Can you endure that time? Even now, you lose your temper and run wild like a brute."

At Oliven's words, Benjamin kept his mouth shut as if stabbed in the face. Only one existence called Master disappeared from this magic tower. Of the three disciples, Benjamin was the first to collapse.

"You pretended to be an adult. If Master had quickly realized that you were at the level of a beast, not a child, she wouldn't have left like this."

"......"

Oliven sarcastically said to Benjamin, who said nothing. It was then that Benjamin's body, who had been quiet for a while, began to hover a different level of magic than before. Dark red lumps of mana were slowly taking shape in both hands.

"......?! Hey, Benjamin, you, that thing!"

"Even if it wasn’t, it bothered me. Master has too many disciples."

"But it's just the three of us! Belluna, please stop Benjamin! He, he’s really going to kill me this time!"

With a pale face, Oliven asked Belluna, who had been standing in front of the door for a while watching them, for help. However, as always, Belluna drew a line with a cool face.

"The habit of being cheeky is something that Master always told you to fix. It's not bad to try to fix it this time."

"No, I'm going to turn to ash and die before I break my habit at this rate?!"

"Then I'll feel sorry for you."

"Hey, you crazy people! Don't you really miss Master!"

Before Oliven could finish speaking, a mass of mana made by Benjamin's hand was shot at him.

Boom, boom, boom!

Countless explosion sounds began to be heard in a dusty room. Belluna took a handkerchief out of her arms and blocked the dust that began to scatter. She then backed away for a moment and watched the fight between the two brutes.

"Oh oh, Miss Belluna. Are they having a blast again today?"

Upon hearing the roar, magicians who were doing research from all over the pagoda gathered, narrowing their foreheads. Among them, there was also the Fourth Elder who had contributed to the research for many years at the magic tower.

"It always happens."

In response to Belluna's calm answer, the elder sighed quietly. Those three disciples were very famous even within this narrow magic tower. Some of the reasons were that they had a great master, and some were because they had such great talent that the master brought them to this magic tower to teach them directly, however…… The most famous thing was that all three of them were crazy enough to give up their lives in the words of their master. After those three’s master hid her appearance one day, the magic tower was turned upside down in many ways.

"By the way, you haven't heard from your Master yet?"

"We'll find her soon."

When her master was mentioned by the Fourth Elder, a strange incontinence appeared on Belluna's expressionless face. It was a sign that her mood was twisting, but the only person who could have noticed it wasn't here.

"Huh then…... Why can't you let go of your Master who has already left? You should be independent now."

"...... I’ll decide that, Elder-nim."

At the sound of Belluna's cold voice, the Fourth Elder knew that what he had touched was her wrath. He waved his hands and hurriedly excused himself.

"Ah, that's not what I meant."

"Fourth Elder-nim."

However, his excuses did not make sense to Belluna, who had already been twisted.

"It seems that I need to show you that I'm crazier than those two bastards."

Belluna's mana, colder than ice, spread out from her fingertips in an instant. The silver magic that resembled her eyes blew away the walls of the hallway without the Fourth Elder having time to use his hands.

"......The wall of the magic tower!"

The magic tower was built up with the defensive magic circles built up over and over again, nested in each of the small substances that make up the magic tower. On the wall of such a tower, Belluna created a huge hole in an instant.

"......Y, y, you, you just now…...!"

And that hole was right next to the Fourth Elder, too. The Fourth Elder, who almost collapsed rather than the walls, had foams in his mouth and staggered backward.

"......"

"......"

Even those who fought using all kinds of magic in Benjamin's room could not penetrate the wall of the magic tower. Because of Belluna's actions that pierced it very easily, Benjamin and Oliven, who were fighting inside, also forgot what they were doing and looked at her.

"Fourth Elder-nim!"

"Call the Second Elder-nim! Right now!"

Belluna looked at the other magicians rushing to the Fourth Elder who was falling behind with no emotion and said.

"Wouldn't it be weirder for Master not to go crazy among the incompetent who don't even know she's leaving the magic tower?"

Benjamin and Oliven changed 180° when they went crazy. Between the two, only Belluna, who looked rather normal, changed 360° went she went crazy. She looked fine on the outside, but in the end, it meant that she had gone completely crazy. The magicians realized the fact anew, took the fallen Fourth Elder, and left, thinking that it would be impossible to meddle in the affairs of her three famous disciples in the magic tower.

"Are you two going to continue wasting time?"

At the sound of Belluna's cold voice, Oliven drew back the sharpened mana on the nape of Benjamin's neck. Benjamin also collected the magical spear that was just about to poke into Oliven's eyes. Seeing the two people who naturally stopped the useless fight, Belluna nodded her head.

"If you are going to waste more, I’m going to put you to sleep again."

"Hey, do you know that I was delayed to find Master because I exhausted all my mana to escape the Swamp of Eternal Sleep?!"

At Belluna's words, Oliven cried out. How hard it was to find Master between Benjamin, who was running wild after Master disappeared silently, and Belluna, who was suffocating. While looking for him, Oliven worked hard even with insomnia to find out who was the owner of the unknown power that was the subject of the teacher's research and to make him pay for Master’s suffering from the disease.

However, if only Belluna did not follow Master's will, fell asleep and threw Benjamin and Oliven into a nasty magic dungeon called the 'Swamp of Eternal Sleep'. It was the magic dungeon that made even the best magicians in the magic tower suffer for over a week. The swamp of visual and auditory hallucinations, where they pick and show what they want to see, was fatal to Benjamin and Oliven, who were unstable because their master had disappeared. Benjamin growled, glaring at Belluna with his cool eyes.

"Keep the line, Belluna. If you do that kind of thing one more time, I know you'll be the one entering the swamp of eternal sleep."

"I'll think about it. As long as you don't hang out with that idiot."

"Who would want to hang out with him?"

Benjamin sighed as he looked at Oliven's bright red face, which Belluna was pointing at, then he said in a voice that he was sick and tired of it.

"You're the one who took that persistent worm-like bastard right in front of my eyes."

"I'll apologize for that."

Belluna gently admitted her mistake and raised her hands. When he saw that the two craziest people had the best communication, Oliven burst into tears with his frustrated heart.

"Did you both forget that I have Master's magic stone?"