Chapter 104: An Impolite Uninvited Guest

“Sorry?”

The first time he heard the news, Isaac simply couldn’t believe what he heard.

Then again, anyone would react the same way.

Especially if they had been living in that place for a while like him.

From its length to its height…

The overwhelming Malidean Wall.

Even if they told him it had collapsed or fallen, he would react the same way, let alone this.

“It literally disappeared. Vanished to thin air.”

The news was just too incomprehensible for him to accept.

But Princess Adeline’s worried expression, mixed with a gloomy atmosphere, evoked a sense of crisis he had never felt before.

“It’s hard for me to believe it either. The wall’s disappearance left us with tremendous losses.”

The princess shook her head, placing her hand on her forehead.

Having to somehow accept an unpalatable truth as reality and devise a plan for it…

Seemed to be quite a stressful endeavor for her.

“But we have to accept it.”

With a deep sigh, Princess Adeline declared again, as if urging him to accept the fact quickly.

“The largest wall protecting us… Has vanished…”

“Welcome back, Sir Baron!”

Back at the mansion.

Though he felt sorry for Karen, who had been looking after the mansion alone for so long, he didn’t have the energy to receive her warm welcome with a smile right now.

Karen understood this and went ahead to prepare some tea to help him relax.

“You must be tired, right, Sir?”

“Yes, thank you, Karen.”

Isaac took a sip of his tea before letting himself drown in his thoughts. The hot tea managed to calm him down a little as it went down his throat.

But, when he thought of the Malidean Wall, his calmness disappeared and he became agitated again.

How on earth is that possible?

A whole month.

Back in his previous life, the Malidean Wall held out for a whole month without any support.

That was also the reason why Uldiran Cardias was praised as Great.

A title that put him on the pedestal as Arandel, just in a different way.

But now, the wall disappeared in just a day.

According to the information from the nearby villages, the wall still stood tall like normal the day before.

But, the next day after the Transcendent Race’s sudden attack started, the wall just vanished.

I still can’t believe that happened…

His head was spinning.

He thought that as long as they could protect the Malidean Wall, the chances of them losing the war would greatly decrease.

Never did he expect that the Transcendent Race would employ such a bizarre method of attack.

[There are so many things about the Transcendent Race that we don’t know, it makes me feel uneasy.]

Clarisse was right about how frightening those unknown beings were.

Those beings, whose origins were unknown, and yet possessed deep history and traditions.

Isaac finally realized that he had underestimated them way too much.

What I’ve seen might not be everything…

I’ve seen countless tragedies and shocking scenes in my previous life, but those aren’t all there is to it…

Thinking this, Isaac closed his eyes tightly as dizziness struck him.

Thud!

At that moment, two people entered the mansion without saying a word.

Sharen Helmont and the Grandmaster.

“Isaac! Are you going to the North?! I want to go with you!”

“Haa, little one, didn’t I say I had something to tell him? Wait for me to finish.”

Seeing the two bickering as they entered, he took a deep breath and relaxed his expression.

Right, Silverna and the margrave aren’t the kind of people who’d surrender so easily.

We should worry about ourselves instead.

With the wall gone, the Demonic Beasts of the North are expanding their territory southward.

In other words, we have to fend off both the Transcendent Race and the Demonic Beasts at once…

As he was deep in thoughts, the Grandmaster sat directly opposite him.

“Ah! I was going to sit there!”

Seeing this, Sharen pouted and sat on his lap instead.

“Hmph!”

“The adults need to talk, so go away for a bit, little one.”

“Isaac, you’re going to the North, right? Can you ask them to put my name on the list too?”

“Are you ignoring an adult’s words?”

“List? What list?”

Unfortunately for the Grandmaster, Isaac was more interested in Sharen’s words than hers.

Pleased that he showed interest in her, Sharen immediately answered with a smile.

“Princess Clarisse said she’s going to dispatch troops for the North in three days! I wanna go! You too, right, Isaac?”

Having been in the North, he knew well.

That the Demonic Beasts would pound on the wall on every hour of the day.

Now that the wall was gone, they’d be able to rampage even more freely than before.

“Actually, I heard that the North is half devastated already. They said we can’t even go to where the Malidean Wall was now.”

“It’s to that extent, huh…?”

It wasn’t hard to imagine how chaotic the situation was considering how many Demonic Beasts were there up in the North.

“Fortunately, the recent Great Colony subjugation reduced their numbers quite a bit. Otherwise, the situation would be even more chaotic.”

As the Grandmaster picked up the conversation, Sharen grumbled, clenched her fists and stood up.

“You’re going right, Isaac?! The North is our home ground, right?! I’ll tell them that you’re going in advance, okay?!”

Isaac didn’t understand how the North could become her home ground, but…

“Of course I’m going.”

From the matter of the Demonic Beasts, to what happened to the Malidean Wall…

Silverna’s safety, and a few other things…

There were just so many things he had to confirm, so he nodded his head.

“Alright, I’ll write our name on the list! If we’re on the same list, we won’t be separated!!”

After saying this, Sharen quickly ran outside.

Thinking that he had to leave again right after returning to the mansion, Isaac couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile.

Now that they were finally alone, the Grandmaster opened her mouth.

“What do you think of this? According to you, the Malidean Wall should have easily held out for at least a month without support, no?”

“Yes, that much is certain.”

Isaac, who knew Silverna—the Malidean Wall’s only survivor—well back in his previous life could say so with certainty.

Back then, she carried a completely different atmosphere than the lively Silverna he knew right now.

Which meant that she had gone through a much more desperate and tragic experience.

“If anything, I’m the most surprised of everyone here. If they could do such a thing, then, why didn’t they do it back in my previous life…?”

“Actually, there’s something that confused me even more.”

“Why they haven’t made another move?”

“Yes.”

The Transcendent Race managed to make the wall disappear.

But according to reports, only the Demonic Beasts were flooding southward.

If the Transcendent Race had moved, the North would definitely have suffered even greater damage.

“The wall’s disappearance and the Transcendent Race’s inaction must be connected somehow.”

“Maybe by doing this they also suffered that much damage themselves?”

“Yes, something like that.”

“It’s like, the price they have to pay for the sorcery?”

“Probably.”

“Speaking of which, I think your regression is also a type of sorcery.”

“…I think so too.”

Though it felt unpleasant to admit so, the phenomenon wasn’t related to magic, since he never really associated himself with the Magic Tower.

Besides, he had never heard of magic that could twist space and time.

Although he couldn’t be sure that it was sorcery, considering how sorcery had so many unknown elements surrounding it, between magic and it, it definitely leaned towards the latter.

Moreover, in his previous life, he had encountered sorcery more often than magic.

“Well, talking about it here won’t give us answers, it’ll just frustrate us.”

The situation only made them let out a deep sigh.

Whatever happened in the North, they had to go and see for themselves.

“Regardless, I need to make my preparation too. I need to go and talk with someone.”

“Talk? With whom?”

“Hm? Ah, someone I’m training. He’s quite useful, so I took him as a disciple—“

“…”

Come to think of it…

Isaac had never heard of or met any other disciples of the Grandmaster in this world.

“Is his name Damian by any chance?”

“Hm? How do you—ah, right, your previous life. He used to be a thief, but he’s quite use—”

“That bastard is a traitor.”

“…”

“He was the one who opened the gates of the town we were in.”

“…”

The Grandmaster blinked at him before scratching her head.

“Swear on your name. Are you really telling the truth?”

“Yes I am. It’s the truth.”

“Haa… I suddenly feel like smoking…”

The Grandmaster smacked her lips, closed her eyes, and let out a sigh.

“Anyway, I thought regression was a good thing, but… You have to live while worrying about a lot of things, huh?”

Knowing what she meant, Isaac nodded and let out a sigh.

“Killing him because he will betray us in the future. The logic has a rather bizarre flow, doesn’t it?”

Damian hadn’t betrayed them yet.

Killing him before that happened would just be strange.

“The situation was quite grave at that time, so he might have just done it due to that. It was the final battle where our defeat was pretty much decided.”

“That could be the case, I guess…”

“I’ll leave the decision to you, Grandmaster.”

“Ignorance was bliss.”

The Grandmaster grumbled, taking out some tobacco from her bosom as she stood up.

“I’ll be going. No need to see me out. Just take care of your guest instead.”

“Uh, sorry?”

Just like that, the Grandmaster left.

As she said, he could sense someone standing at the entrance.

“Baron Logaaaaan!”

Because that person called out to him so loudly.

“I don’t envy your busy life.”

The Grandmaster smiled as she went outside. She passed by the man standing at the entrance and left.

Isaac naturally came face to face with the man who had come to see him.

“Ah, Baron Logan!”

He was a young man.

At a first glance, he exuded a noble aura.

The one thing that was noticeable from him was his neat and stylish trimmed mustache.

Isaac could tell at a glance that he was a swordsman, and from his subtle aura he exuded, he was quite skilled.

“I am Leian Reeves of the Reeves family! You must have heard of my name!”

“Ah, the Magic Sword…”

A sword Isaac could never use.

The Reeves family a.k.a the ‘Magic Sword’, a name they received due to their focus on both mana and Aura.

Though taken aback by the man’s sudden visit, Isaac couldn’t hide his bewilderment.

But Leian Reeves, true to his appearance, overwhelmed that feeling with his flamboyant gestures and speech.

“I’ve come to ask a favor! Of course, I’ll pay a suitable price!”

“…This is quite a sudden occasion.”

“Ah! Our Magic Sword is brilliant at striking the opponent in a flashy, yet subtle way! Perhaps that shows in my actions too!”

That wasn’t a compliment.

Anyway…

The Reeves family was famous for their swordsmanship.

Naturally, Isaac had heard of them, but…

“Please tell me about Rianna Helmont’s preferences.”

“…Sorry?”

Those words were so surprising that Isaac was struck speechless.

As Isaac blinked and stared at him, the man, seemingly pleased with his successful surprise, explained with satisfaction.

“I’m going to participate in the dispatch to the North! I heard that by Princess Adeline’s order, Rianna Helmont is coming to the North too!”

“Rianna is…?”

“Hence why, I want to know! What Rianna Helmont’s preferences in men are, or her hobbies!”

“Are you—”

“Yes! I want to marry Rianna Helmont! Are you not her ex-husband? So—!”

“Get out.”

Isaac raised his middle finger and ordered him to leave.