763 Another Village
Not just Shirley. We also let the others to fight the master level mages.
And hearing that there are fight, the monsters started gathering. And some master level mage who are still going to train their physical strength asked the werewolves to fight them. Without magic. Only pure physical strength.
It was interesting. They could fight almost equally against the werewolves without using magic. Maybe after they got defeated by us, they learned how to fight against human-sized enemy.
Though they did it with those shabby knives. I’ll get someone to make them weapon later. If I give them Blobbies, the weapon created will have low durability. And after a few clash, those Blobbyweapons will be destroyed.
I can use Blobbies just fine since I can cover them with my Aura. But those master level mages can’t.
While they take a break and some other people and monsters want to fight, we told them about many things. Including what an Aura is.
“I was told that it would be difficult for older people who have gotten accustomed with magic to learn Aura. Especially if their magic level are high. So I suggest that you don’t try to learn Aura. But if you want it, I can only tell you to keep doing what you’re doing and train your body. If you’re lucky, you can probably learn Aura. But if you want to progress with your magic and surpass master level, I suggest you don’t try to learn Aura. You can still train your body, but focus more on your magic.”
That’s the only advice I can give to them who are still looking to learn about Aura. But I guess I don’t need to to worry.
After their loses against expert level mages, they realized that they still don’t know everything about magic. Forget about the stage beyond master level. They want to learn magic control first.
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And their current goal is to defeat Angela. Our strongest mage.
Angela herself is willing to accept their challenge. So it’s a win-win situation since Angela can keep growing stronger. Though I think that Angela will never lose.
It’s not just Angela who is willing to fight them. The others also agree to accept their challenge.
And when someone from the ten master level mages challenged other master level mages we recruited, the fight was close to equal. Because the new recruits learn more about magic control than the ten of them. But those ten managed to keep up with their physical strength.
For any normal master level mage, just being hit by a small magic by a master level mage will knock them out. Though they had barriers on so it takes time until the magic can hit them.
But for these ten people, even after their barriers are broken, it needs more than ten hits until they got knocked down. What a crazy bunch of people.
“So, are there only ten of you?” I asked after we told them everything and they decided to join us. Albert has confirmed that they can be trusted so it’s great.
“There were more. But once in a while, there are strong monsters that we can’t handle with our physical strength. And it was too late for us to eat these grapes. So some people were killed. That’s only in our village. Back in the past, we had a rivalry with another village in the magicless area. But it has been decades since we met so I don’t know their fate,” Halley, old man Henry’s great aunt, said that.
“So there could be more than one village over there. Do you know where it is? I’d like to check. Maybe they would come and help us,” I said.
“I don’t think you need to do that. Unlike us who want to get stronger by living there, they are those who escaped to that place. They are also master level mages, but they did crimes and being chased by other master level mages before taking refugee in that place. Maybe they have left. Anyway, they are the kind who would betray you without batting an eyelid. If you want, I can tell you where they were. But I still won’t recommend you to recruit them,” Halley said.
Well, I guess I’ll go there and kill anyone I see then.
“I will still go there. Maybe if they’re no longer there, they have gone somewhere else. If it’s to the kingdom, it will be bad. Even worse if they join the cult. Albert, I’ll bring everyone back now. Get ready since I might come to your location at any time later. As for you guys... where do you want to go?” I asked the ten master level mages.
“I’ll go back to Varadis. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there and I’m curious on everything I missed. And I may not join the fight. If Henry is truly a good king like what everyone said, it’s best for him to increase his lifespan by reaching at least master level. I’ll be his personal tutor while also learning magic control from his daughter,” Halley said.
“As for us, well, it seems like we don’t have any place to return anymore. We’ll go to Cassau with Angela and the others and learn more about everything we missed before we decide our own goals,” the leader of the ten said.
“Okay. Here are your phones. Everyone will register their contact on your phones before I return you all home. And this is Victoria’s clone. I call it Blobby. If you have this with you, as long as you are not in a place where magic is restricted, I can open a portal to your location. And this is Sonia’s soil. If you have this with you, you can call Sonia. She’s the ghost over there,” I said.
They have been introduced to the everyone. Including Victoria who was just an earring when they met.
They are master level mages, so they probably could sense Victoria before. But she was too small and weak so they didn’t think much about her. They only thought that my presence was weird.
They are good. I have some magic weapons that they could use. Maybe I’ll give them those weapons instead of making weapons for them.
After they learned how to use the phone, I brought everyone back to Earth. With Halley joining old man Henry and the other nine people going to Cassau.
Oh, by the way, I have opened several branch of clothing stores in other places. The girls I brought back from Monsters World are happily working there. And they made me richer.
Though I think most of the money is going to Sam. Well, she’s doing her best so it’s fine.
Even if she got more money, she has a huge business. She no longer stays next to my place. She has an entire mansion for her and her husband in the capital now. I heard that Ruby visits often.
She spends money almost as much as she gained them as she keeps looking for some more business to expand. While I spend money mostly on stuffs I needed. Though my money is also being used by the girls.
It doesn’t matter as long as she didn’t do anything bad with the money she made.
Yesterday when I met her, she was pregnant. And she only found out about it after I told her and her husband, Jeremy. The appraiser that Albert assigned to me who worked for her and in the end, they got married.
That will be the heir of a successful merchant. I’m sure with the right upbringing, he will be at least as successful as his mother in the future.
Anyway, after I brought everyone back, I returned back to the magicless area. And from where the village of the previous ten people was, I move to where they told me the other village is.
Riding on Ray, it didn’t take much time for us to get there. Still with Shelia in her human form and Victoria as my earring.
“I see it. That’s the other village here.”
The village is almost gone. Only the remains of the building that hasn’t been taken care of for a long time is there. I’m sure this place has been abandoned for a long time already.
“There’s a faint scent of a human,” Shelia suddenly said.
“Follow the scent. Maybe we could find something,” I said.
I couldn’t see anything, but Shelia can somehow smell something. So after following the track to where the scent lead us, I finally see something.
A human. And it’s not a stranger.
He’s the agent who was supposed to be investigating the city that is being surrounded by the magicless area.
“Hey! Wake up!”
He’s still alive. But his heartbeat is getting weaker.
I treat him with first aid since I can’t get him out of this place right away.
“Damn it. We’ll stop the investigation here. Let’s go back and get Kayla to treat him,” I said.
One thing for sure, we might be quite lucky. He still has his phone. So maybe whoever did this to him don’t think that it’s not anything special. Just a weird black mirror for them.
Let’s get him healed first and ask him how he ended up this way. As for the other agent, I can only hope that he’s doing fine.