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Chapter 670
Chapter 670
There’s a Black Mage? (2)
Soldiers and servants crowded the massive training grounds.
The servants were gathered too, since the culprit could be among them.
After all, castle servants were in a position to come into contact with many people.
Soon, several ducks and hastily assembled wooden scales were brought in. Precision wasn’t necessary, only a rough weight comparison was needed.
W̄ ê b́n̆o v̌ ẽ l̈ Ê n ům а̃
People began murmuring as Ghislain rushed in, panting.
“That’s the method the mage suggested.”
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“Really? You can catch a Black Mage with something like that?”
“Wow, that’s amazing. The world of magic really is full of wonders.”
‘No, it’s not!’
He cried out in my heart. Maurice’s antics had been so ridiculous that he just mentioned it once for a laugh.
W e b̌ ñôv еl .Еn û m а
Now, things were getting so serious, he was about to be branded a total fraud.
“W-wait a moment!”
He tried to stop them, but it was already too late. Andrew, hot-blooded in his youth, acted swiftly.
“Everyone up! Since the mage said it, there shouldn’t be a problem!”
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The soldiers stepped onto the scales one by one. Naturally, none of them weighed the same as the ducks. On top of that, each duck weighed slightly differently.
Quack, quack, quaaack.
Ë n ũ mā_
Duck cries echoed from every direction. Still, the soldiers and servants stepped onto the scales with discipline.
Though the command was absurd, no one seemed to complain. Since it was a method suggested by a mage, people were uncertain but genuinely curious.
Julien, Deneb, and Kyle all looked at me. Their eyes were filled with expectation. That gaze was unbearably heavy.
Dark clicked his tongue and shook his head.
“What a disgrace. What a disgrace. You’re going to end up being called as ignorant as Maurice.”
The former Supreme Commander of the Ritania Kingdom, Maurice, had been mocked by many nobles for his gullibility and belief in superstitions.
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Now it was his turn to be the object of that scorn.
“Ugh...”
Even someone like him had no way to stop it when everyone was acting like fools. If he tried to halt things now, he’d only seem more suspicious.
In the end, every soldier and servant got on the scales. Yet not a single one had a weight close to the ducks.
That was only natural.
Quack, quack, quaaack.
E n û m̀.а́. ì ď
The training grounds were filled only with the sound of duck cries. Everyone was staring at him.
With no culprit revealed, an awkward silence swallowed the entire place.
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He took a deep breath, preparing to explain himself. But Andrew’s shout beat him to it.
“There are still servants who haven’t come out! Bring even the children helping with chores!”
“……”
Before he could even start explaining, things were already moving again. Now even the children who did odd jobs were being dragged out.
Е́ň ûm ã
“Huh?”
Among them, I spotted one peculiar child.
The child had a very small frame like the others, but his face looked incredibly aged.
"Uh, is that really a kid?"
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The child with the prematurely aged face exuded an extremely filthy and sinister aura. Perhaps he even smelled bad, because the people around him were wrinkling their noses and subtly putting some distance between themselves and the child.
Ghislain looked around at the people with an expression of disbelief.
Wе bñ o̊ v́ е l̈ Еn̈ u m а̂
"What? Isn’t that weird? Anyone can tell that kid is suspicious!"
If one were to pick the most suspicious person among the group gathered here, it would undoubtedly be that child(?). Kyle was also whispering to Dark.
"Is that really a kid? No matter how I look at him, he looks about the same age as my runaway dad."
"There are many mysterious things in the world. In our territory, there’s even a boy who looks like a girl."
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah, that’s why you shouldn’t judge people solely by their appearance."
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"Hmm, I see."
Strangely enough, Dark had said something reasonable. Because of that, even Ghislain, who had been ready to charge forward, stopped awkwardly in his tracks.
If he shouted “That kid is weird!” right now, as Dark said, he’d just be someone who judged others by appearances.
The children stepped onto the scale one by one.
Even if they were kids, they were old enough to at least do chores. So, there was no way they'd weigh the same as a duck. Everyone was heavier than the duck.
Eventually, Ghislain couldn’t stand this idiotic farce anymore and shouted. Even if he got criticized for it, he had to say something.
W ё b̆ n о v̀ ĕl̇ Ëṅùṁ ã
"Hey, wait a second! That kid is suspicious! Is he really a child?"
Andrew called out solemnly.
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"Our territory does not condemn people as criminals without concrete evidence! And to judge someone based on appearance, how narrow-minded!"
‘This guy… he's unnecessarily righteous and upstanding!’
A noble like this was rare in this world. He must be a young lord who had just taken his position, filled with passion.
Yet despite demanding concrete evidence, he was weighing people against a duck. Ghislain was about to lose his mind from the absurdity.
È n u m а̌
Most of the children had now been weighed. The aged-looking child, who had kept a distance because of his stench, was the last one.
Ghislain shouted, as if he couldn’t bear to watch any longer.
"Stop! Stop! I’ll personally investigate the suspicious ones, so quit this idiotic nonsense! This is just some silly superst—"
Creak...
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Ghislain stopped mid-sentence, his eyes wide open. Silence instantly fell over the surroundings.
The scale with the duck and the aged-looking child...
Wėb́ń_о̀v̊ē l Е̊n um̄ã
...was almost perfectly balanced.
Quack, quack, quaaack.
Only the duck's cries could be heard. After a brief moment of silence, the aged child bit his lip and said,
"Kh… I had a bad feeling, but I didn’t think they'd use a method like this! Who the hell came up with this? Even we didn’t know about it!"
‘It was real!’
Ghislain gaped, utterly dumbfounded. Dark had the same look, his beak hanging open.
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A commotion erupted among the crowd.
“Kyaaah! A black mage!”
“Who would’ve thought a real black mage was hiding among us!”
“Zico was the black mage!”
People screamed and scattered away from the child(?) known as Zico.
Andrew drew his sword and shouted sternly.
Е̄ ñ ú m̄а̇. ї d
“You must be an accomplice of the black mage! No wonder you looked so suspicious!”
The child(?) called Zico twisted his lips into a smirk.
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“That’s right… I’m his disciple. Still, I’m impressed. I didn’t think my identity would be discovered in a small territory like this without even a single mage…”
Zico glared at Ghislain.
He had been assigned to the castle’s sewage and garbage cleanup. Thanks to that, he was able to keep away from people. He hadn’t even come near the knights.
The stench of death that clung to him could be masked with the foul odors of his job. On top of that, he used simple magic to dull people’s perception and avoid suspicion from the surrounding staff.
Е̌ ǹu̇ m̊ǎ.ī d
But to think he’d be discovered through a method like this one he had never even heard of!
“Was that your method? The laws of the world truly are mysterious. To think a duck of all things could expose a black mage. Thanks to you, I’ve learned something new.”
“……”
Ghislain couldn’t respond. He didn’t know why that method worked, either.
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Of course, the crowd’s reaction was ecstatic.
“As expected of the mage!”
Е̌ ṅüm̂а̄_
“To think it could be found this easily and quickly!”
“We must spread this method far and wide!”
The people looked at Ghislain as if he were a savior. Even Andrew, the lord of the territory, gazed at him with a proud expression.
The three companions with him were the same.
“That’s our Ghislain.”
“Seriously, Ghislain knows everything.”
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“What kind of experiences must he have lived through?”
All three were looking at him with admiration and awe.
“……”
Ghislain looked up at the sky for a moment. He didn’t even feel like thinking anymore.
At that moment, Andrew once again pointed his sword at Zico and shouted.
“Seize that scum immediately! We must hear what he's been up to!”
Е ń ûm̈ а̂. ї d
The knights and soldiers sprang into action. But Zico sneered and stepped back.
“Did you say he was a 5th-circle mage? I can’t take on a 5th-circle mage. I’ll be retreating now, so consider yourselves lucky.”
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As Ghislain had guessed, Zico was a 4th-circle black mage. He was strong enough to cause serious damage to the territory as long as he didn’t clash head-on with the knights.
But he couldn’t possibly withstand both the knights and a 5th-circle mage.
He unleashed all his mana, shrouding the surroundings in darkness. It was to make a quick escape.
Still wearing a vacant expression, Ghislain pulled his staff back. Then, he hurled it with all his might.
Е̊ ñům а́. ï d̆
“Magic Missile.”
Paaaang!
The staff shot through the air at a tremendous speed. He could use Magic now, but he didn’t want to.
His head was too much of a mess for that right now anyway.
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“Haht!”
Zico was startled at the sight of the approaching staff(?) and quickly deployed a shield. It was a Shield of Darkness cast at full power.
Е̄ṅ ú m̀а . іd̄
Kwaaaang!
But despite his full effort, the shield was shattered effortlessly. The staff pierced straight through Zico’s abdomen, and he collapsed.
“Guh! How can a mage have this kind of strength?!”
Amazingly, Zico didn’t die. Black energy gushed violently from the hole in his abdomen, but he got up as if nothing had happened.
Realizing that his opponent’s magical power was no joke, Zico tried to run away again. But Ghislain was already moving.
“Haste.”
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Fwoosh!
As he sprinted forward, his body became lighter and his speed increased. At the same time, he snapped his fingers.
“Fireball.”
Fwoooosh!
In an instant, ten fireballs surrounded Zico.
He panicked at the sight.
Е̃ ṅ.ũ mа . і́ d̆
“W-what?! Multi-casting?”
Multi-casting was a technique that only a genius among geniuses could demonstrate. And to cast ten spells at once meant not only extraordinary calculation ability but also extreme sensory control.
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In truth, Ghisalin hadn’t actually done multi-casting. He didn’t even know how to do that.
He had simply forced out his mana and redistributed it in bulk. It was a technique only he could pull off.
He reached Zico in a flash and grabbed him by the throat.
“Ghk!”
Е́ n̄ ü m̀_а̀ .іd̈
His body lifted effortlessly. Only then did he realize why this absurd situation had occurred.
“You… you’re a chimera.”
A chimera is a being created by forcibly combining the bodies of various animals or humans.
Chimera experiments were the most common type conducted by Black Mages, since dealing with corpses was their specialty.
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Sometimes, they even turned parts of their own bodies into chimeras to enhance themselves.
Helgenik, who he’d fought before, had done exactly that with his own body.
W̌ е̊ b̀ǹо v̄е ĺ Е ň ûḿ а
Zico too was already half a corpse. Some of his organs and bones were missing or replaced with something else.
And with his small frame, it made sense that he was about the same weight as a duck.
As Zico squirmed in his grip, he asked,
“Who… who the hell are you?”
He couldn’t understand why someone this powerful would come to a small barony like this or even why he was working as a mercenary.
A genius mage like him should be treated well in a Magic Tower, living a comfortable life.
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But right now, his words didn’t register in Ghislain’s ears at all. He shut his eyes tightly.
‘This is bad.’
In the time I came from, the duck superstition was well known. Among scholars, of course, it was treated as ignorant nonsense.
But in this era, people didn’t seem to know about it at all. It was a very old superstition. Why did no one know of it now?
He realized a truth he didn’t want to accept.
Next to him, Dark drove the point home.
Еn̂ůmа
“That superstition… I think it spread because of you, Master.”
He swallowed hard. It seemed that, just as Dark said, the origin of that superstition was Ghislain.
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Coincidence piled on coincidence until this absurd situation had happened. He wanted to set the record straight, even now but the atmosphere made that impossible.
“Waaaahhhh!”
“The mage is amazing!”
“He took down a Black Mage in one blow!”
Eǹ ǔ m̆а
Everyone was excited. Cheers were erupting all around.
“…Guess I have no choice.”
Having made up his mind, he tightened his grip.
Kwaang!
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Still holding Zico by the throat, he slammed him into the ground.
“Guhuhk!”
Ŵ ё bn o v él̄ Е̇n̆um̌ a
Zico, struck hard on the neck and head, coughed up black blood.
Looking down at him with a solemn expression, Ghislain said,
“You dare hide in this estate and scheme with wickedness? Did you think I wouldn’t find you? For trash like you, one duck is more than enough.”
“Waaaahhh!”
The cheers grew even louder.
At this point, there was no turning back, he’d just have to brazen it out all the way.
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