CH 81

I never dreamed that wizard would have a friend.”

Luke murmured as he waved his arms to warm up. Daniel did not deny his opinion either.

“I was a little suspicious when Frey told Vikram to take out the wizards of the Magic Tower, but it seems that there are several colleagues who follow his skills.”

“But. That wizard’s friend… Do you think her skills are good?”

said Luke, looking around.

This place was at the foot of the mountain at the end of the Gelon Territory.

There are no private houses, beautiful buildings, or scenery around, so there is no reason to visit. But Vikram gave him the exact coordinates of this place.

[“Go here, Your Highness Grand Duke Prause. All the items the Magic Tower is trying to hide will go here.”]

[“Good work. Thanks to you, we also got the wizards, so this month we will pay special performance bonuses.”]

[“I will serve you with all my heart.”]

“If Vikram hadn’t persuaded the wizard, I’d never have noticed that there was a secret storage room in a place like this.”

Luke looked at Daniel with a slightly surprised expression.

“You admire his skills surprisingly easily, don’t you? You were worried that the wizard would become closer to Her Highness than necessary.”

“Never.”

‘After visiting the office of Her Highness the Grand Duchess several times. However, if I brought up the story for no reason, the Duke seemed to change the topic, so I evaded it.’

“Well, whatever that is. How are you doing with Her Highness the Grand Duchess these days?”

“What do you mean?”

“You’ve been so busy lately that you haven’t had time to spend with each other. As a loyalist, I’m worried”

He was pretending nothing was wrong, but Luke’s insides were actually burning.

Every night, Frey, reads fairy tales to the two boys with love, because of that she is not spending time alone with Daniel.

If only I hadn’t brought up the rumor!’

Of course, the Grand Duchess must have known that the rumors were false.

‘However, ‘Daniel did such a thing to reject me.’ she might be thinking like that.’

‘Her Highness the Grand Duchess is sincere enough to save my lord from being attacked by Gelon.’

Even though Luke was angry at first for touching the sacred tree, the more he looked at it, the more Frey seemed like a nice person. Not to mention her ability.

Luke became more complicated at the thought of his master’s happiness.

“Your Highness, I think you have to do your best to make up for the mistakes you’ve made.”

“I wasn’t following your suggestion.”

“Ah, are you going to do this to my loyalty to you?”

Daniel smiled and fixed his sword again.

‘Thinking that there must be something here that would make Frey happy made me motivated.’

After concentrating for a moment and grasping the flow of air, Daniel drew his sword.

Wushh!

Something started to react to the life that his sword radiated. Before long, a small building with magic scrolls spread like wallpaper appeared.

“Hey…Who would have known that the owner of the Magic Tower would have made emergency storage in here like this?”

Luke swung his sword and removed the magic scrolls.

Ordinary knights would have been blown away by magic, but it was very easy for him as a master.

Daniel stepped inside the door Luke had opened. The inside was filled with several undead monsters that had been anesthetized and asleep, as well as suspicious documents.

“Since there are so many undead monsters and the fog of Fall, they have been researching only in the basement of the Mage Tower.”

“But even if the Magic Tower detects a suspicious power, they will be able to attribute it to research.”

“Rather, if you felt demonic energy for a long time in here like this, you would have been caught right away.”

If Frey hadn’t resonated with the Mage Tower, Daniel would never have had the chance to steal the Magic Tower’s research materials.

It was around the time he was about to open the movement magic circle and send the knights to Grand Prause’s mansion.

“Who are you?!”

“If you touch the research data, you won’t forgive you … ”

Sensing suspiciousness, some cleaners from the tower popped out and shouted loudly and then froze.

“Grand Duke Prause?!”

“Thank you for noticing.”

“Stop, stop!”

“Don’t let the Grand duke’s knights go back to Prause!”

“Looking at him running with energy, it seems that this data is important.”

Daniel lightly straightened his sword. The hands of the wizard who recognized the identity of the sword began to tremble.

A long time ago. The first Grand Duke Prause, was said to be able to slaughter thousands of humans just by roaring in the form of a dragon.

What Daniel was holding was a sword made from the claws of that terrifying Transcendentalist.

Swishhh!

When Daniel lightly emitted magic, the magic circles created by the wizards shattered.

Suddenly, the huge dragon’s wings and horns appeared like a halo.

“Eh, what is this…”

“Attack it! No, use defensive magic!”

The wizards were so busy that they couldn’t properly build defense magic.

Luke’s heart pounded with fear and awe as well.

The large wings that seemed to have been formed by blue lightning were a symbol that only the head of the clan could have.

He swallowed dryly as he watched the helplessly overpowered wizards.

‘How dare you attack it?’

* * *

At the same time, in the Grand Duke’s mansion.

“Master. The Magic Tower refused, saying that they would conduct an internal investigation only if more than half of the wizards wanted an investigation. Tsk, troublesome bastards.”

Wiz grumbled while bringing the letter with Anton’s seal on it.

But Frey just nodded. 

It was because she did not think that the Magic Tower, which had a deep connection with the Fog of Fall, would readily accept the investigation.

“To be precise, it is not a rejection yet. Half of the wizards belonging to the Magic Tower might agree to an internal investigation, right?”

“But the wizards are tightly united around the Magic Tower.”

“Since the circumstances have changed this time, I can only hope that the outcome will be different.”

A few days ago, Frey asked Vikram.

[“Vikram. Do you have one or two fellow wizards?”]

[“What do you see me as… There isn’t even one. It is a scholar who does research during free time.”]

[“Well, anyway. The Magic Tower will surely steal data related to undead monsters, so we need someone to steal the coordinates of the moving magic circle.”]

Vikram said that he did not raise colleagues, but fortunately, he knew a few wizard juniors who admired his outstanding achievements.

Surprisingly, some of them were in charge of cleaning.

[“That’s too bad. If you had figured it out in advance, you would have had a great influence within the Magic Tower if you had bought your junior food and deepened your friendship.”]

[“Scholars don’t do that, Her Highness the Grand Duchess. buying their food, too bad for research money.”]

[“….”]

‘I felt it again, but this idiot had a different way of thinking than me.’

[“And…Now that I think about it, coming out of the magic tower on my own isn’t such a bad thing.”]

Frey couldn’t guess the reason why he added that while avoiding her gaze.

Anyway, thanks to Vikram’s active role, Daniel and the knights went to the coordinates and intercepted everything the Magic Tower was trying to steal.

Wiz and Frey were checking the condition of the items as it arrived. It’s been a while since Frey signed a contract with him, so it was easy to work.

Wushh!

“Oh, there he comes again.”

“Looks like a document this time, not a bottle of the Fog of Fall, right?”

Prause’s knights, who had been waiting around, captured the items that had crossed over in the moving magic circle and presented it to me.

“This looks like the work log used by the general manager of ‘The Cleaner’?”

Judging from the fact that even personal items were handed over here, it seems that Prause’s request for a truth-finding request from the Magic Tower was sudden.

“Can this be used as evidence to prove how systematically the Magic Tower produced the Fog of Fall?”

The books showed that the tower had set the daily workload and produced the Fog of Fall. And How to increase production.

“It seems that if you lock undead monsters in a cage and then cast a magic that amplifies their anxiety, they will overdo it and produce more Fog of Fall.”

“It is the first time I have seen this type of magic. It seems to be a magic ceremony mobilized by higher-level spirits.”

Wiz looked at the magic scroll for a long time, fiddling with one-eyed glasses.

At this point, a fundamental question arose.

‘Where on earth was he going to use all this Fog of Fall?’

It seemed that they were selling it to people who were addicted to the Fog of Fall like Breck Vliette.

But it’s only a small amount.

“Wiz. After the magic circle closes, Read the books with Lina and investigate how they tried to use the Fog Of Fall.”

“Oh, my eyes are blurry these days…”

Even though he said that he seemed very happy to have been given the task of extracting information from a vast amount of data.

‘Gathering information is Wiz and Illina’s biggest hobby.’

Frey took a look at the vast amount of data passing through the movement magic scroll in turn.

Among the documents, there was one signed and sealed by Anton, the owner of the Magic Tower.

“Now that we have a lot of evidence, we can officially raise issues with the Magic Tower.”

‘Unless the wizards belonging to the Magic Tower banded together and insisted that we manipulated the evidence.’

“The key is how many wizards Vikram will collect. Will that wizard do well?”

Wiz must have heard what she suspected with sullen eyes and in the air was a moving magic circle that was completely different from Daniel’s.

Vikram trudged out of there holding a document and reported the situation to me.

“Lady Frey. I have received the signatures of the wizards. About 30%-”

“Ah…”

A sigh escaped from Wiz and Frey at the same time.

‘At least half of them must agree to give me a reason to remove the Magic Tower.’

But Frey couldn’t say that to Vikram, who worked hard and brought out the sociability he lacked.

“Good job, Vikram. Receiving 30% support must have been possible because you are a genius. There’s so much evidence, so it’ll work out somehow.”

Then he handed Frey the Document and smiled.

“All wizards except for 30% Wizard agreed to the Mage Tower’s internal investigation.”

“…!”