A gentle black magician. (2)

“… yes? There is no black magic catalyst?”

“Is that so? The seniors took everything with them, so all that’s left now are a few used items that will break if you use low-level magic. It would be faster if you make it yourself.”

Nora, a dark magician with black hair and wide eyes who had been harshly scolded by the magic tower owner a few days ago, came to the black magic tower for the first time in three days.

Of course, on the lowest floor.

“Uh, uh… I can’t do it. I’m leaving for practical training at the academy in two weeks. Senior, how can it not work?”

“Hmm, the only useful thing I have is a mid-level catalyst. Would you like to buy this? Since it’s Nora, I’ll sell it cheap for 200,000.”

“Hiik… !”

It was a senior black magician who said he was not trying to scam people, but would sell it really cheaply, but 200,000 gold was by no means a small amount of money for Nora, who had just become an adult and was attending the academy as a student.

However, as her senior said, it took too much time to collect the magic stone catalyst and combine it directly, and she knew that if she did it wrong, it could cost more to make even a low-level one.

“Senior, 3-month installment plan… ?”

“… Phew. Yes, 3 months. Instead, if you can’t pay it back, are you going to spread the cute video you did on your sister’s birthday back in the day?”

“Hee Iik!! That’s so cruel… !”

It became like buying a senior’s items on installments and paying them back with one’s own dignity if he couldn’t pay them back.

With trembling hands, she carefully received the catalyst and put it in her magic bag, and began to talk to the senior who gave it to her at a low price.

“But, where on earth did the seniors go with all the low-level catalysts?”

“Huh? Oh, you know. At my sister’s command, I went to look for something for a moment.”

“ugh… “

A senior told her that he would look for her out of consideration, but she couldn’t know who that meant.

Ludis, a dark magician who was expelled from the kingdom four days ago. It was only today that she found out that her teacher, the magic tower lord, was turning all the power of the black magic tower into tracking him down.

“… Senior, do you think I was too harsh?”

“Huh? Well, honestly, I crossed the line a little bit. I knew that you and Rudis had suddenly had a falling out since a year ago, but you are still my best disciple, right? Besides, you know that, right? The Black Magic Tower was completed through the efforts of my sister and brother, and whose efforts it was.”

“… … “

The black magic tower is said to have grown to this size through the efforts of the magic tower lord, vice tower lord, and the best disciple, Rudis.

It wasn’t that she didn’t know that story, and in fact, it was with his help that she came to join the Black Magic Tower. However, the man who saved and helped her in the past has transformed into a crazy person who harasses, enjoys, and neglects those who are weaker than him.

Honestly, the person who was more shocked by that than anyone else was not the teacher, the vice-president, or the seniors, but himself.

That’s what she was thinking.

“Hey, Nora. I have no intention of blaming you. But, we could have talked a little more, right? We went to the academy together, and you were the only one receiving instruction from your older sister. You were closer to him than anyone else… “

“I did. Again and again. Please talk to me, if there’s a problem, let’s solve it together, really. I also had a really hard time.”

“… Ugh, yeah. I guess so.”

Tyr was a little moved by his senior’s words and cut him off, but he said, ‘It’s okay. Of course you did that too.’ Why did something like this happen when I said I understood and was neither positive nor negative? He only conveyed his feelings of concern.

And since it was obvious that Nora in front of her would explode if she continued this conversation, the senior black magician changed the topic to something else and continued to talk only about what was appropriate to relieve her upset emotions.

“… how is it? It’s funny. That idiot dropped the catalyst into the toilet and the magic made shit… “

“Hey, Yongpal!”

“Uh, hey. Nora. I guess it’s time for me to get to work. I’ll continue this story later, so be careful going in.”

“Yes. Good luck to you, senior.”

After seeing him stand up and approach the senior magician who had called her, Nora turned her back and headed toward the exit of the Black Magic Tower. and.

“… Ha, Mr. Fucked. Low level catalyst 400, mid level 100?? Oh, I can’t prepare this much because I don’t have gold horses?”

“Then we won’t do it. This is what we are supposed to do?”

“Mr. Ha. Senior, you know it too. We’re running out of low-level catalysts now. It’s barely possible to bring in all the people who were sent outside.”

“Oh, damn it. That bastard accumulated so many low-level and mid-level catalysts before going to school that I thought he was planning on staying for a very long time. Didn’t you try not to come back to the Magic Tower from the beginning?”

“Ah, Rudis, because of his personality, he probably just did what he had to do in advance. I guess he knew he would be deported… “

The story coming from afar made her shrug her shoulders and startle her without realizing it, so she walked faster.

‘Rudis knew he would be expelled?’

I knew that he frequently supplied catalysts to the Black Magic Tower.

However, she also knew that the process was not clear, such as where on earth such a huge amount of materials were obtained and how to produce so many catalysts with a low combination success rate. so.

-Hey, where on earth do you get all these advanced catalyst materials? Surely it wasn’t stolen from another lab or magic tower?

-Uh-huh! Stealing, can you even steal a unicorn horn? Ah, indeed. It’s possible because you’re a virgin… “

-Such a bastard… !!

At first she thought he was just amazing, but as she watched his actions gradually become more evil, she began to doubt everything.

Moreover, she didn’t even know how much money he had accumulated by making such deliveries.

Because of that, I couldn’t help but be even more suspicious.

‘… You bastard. The Magic Tower is in chaos right now because of Ji, so where did he run away?’

Unlike himself, who was always faithful to his studies and research, this man was always grumpy and only went to Magic Tower on his days off to deliver catalysts.

He was a person who only committed crimes and caused harm to others, but she felt disgusted that even such a person would disappear and her daily life would be disrupted.

– Kuuk.

Nora walked towards the academy, clutching the bag containing the Intermediate Catalyst she had obtained cheaply and thinking that she had more and more things to blame for him.

For a moment, I forgot that it was I who had banished him.

“Fucked. Hey, that won’t work. Let’s just import it from the empire.”

“Yes?! No, if we import this amount, our department will be at a loss this month!”

“You asshole, don’t you know? Why did Rudis try to make the catalyst explode and deliver it to the Academy?”

“… Ha, I’m going crazy. senior. No matter how much we say it is for the sake of Nora and the younger black magicians who entered the academy, if we continue like this, we will be ruined.”

“Tsk, what can I do? Without a good catalyst, a black magician cannot even properly train. At least my sister and her best disciple paved the way for us to get here. It is the job of our seniors to help our future juniors study while using good things at the academy, not in dark alleys like us.”

“… That’s what Rudis said. Ugh, so we’re going to pay for real trouble and do it?”

“That’s right. Oh shit. Rudis, how did that crazy bastard make catalysts for 50 people every month? The success rate for this is extremely low… “

The voices of the two people managing the empty catalyst warehouse have not yet reached the girl who kicked him out.

*

“Oh! It’s awesome. Is this a black magic catalyst? It’s like a jewel~!”

Yuria was jumping up and down with the black magic catalyst I had created, sparkling cutely like a girl befitting her appearance.

-Rumble.

And the elastic and broad mind that made her forget her age was stealing my attention as well.

Damn it, you’re stealing my attention even though there’s a self-hypnosis spell in effect. That heart is at least Lv. Is it possible to achieve 5?

“Rudis, how much does this cost for one?”

“Uh, that’s mid-level, so it’s probably around 500,000. Oh, isn’t it? Since it was 500,000 in the Kingdom, it might be a little cheaper in the Empire.”

“Hiik~? 50?! No, didn’t you say it was a part-time job?”

“Oh, the cost of the material is expensive. Still, it’s surprising. The Imperial Magic Tower doesn’t know me very well, so I wonder why they trusted me and handed over even the basic materials to me to do the work.”

It’s truly amazing.

I don’t know if I had experience working as a black magician in the Empire, but this is my first time coming to the Empire, so what on earth did I trust in entrusting me with the production of an intermediate catalyst?

It’s amazing that they trusted me that they wouldn’t run away with the materials, and it’s also amazing that they handed me expensive and important materials and tasked me with delivering 10 mid-level catalysts within a week.

But thanks to that, I was able to earn more than minimum wage, so I just feel grateful.

Even if you exclude the self-price they gave you, there will be approximately 120,000 gold left per piece. but.

“Rudis, but haven’t you already made all 10?”

“That’s right.”

“… Didn’t you tell me to deliver this in a week?”

“To be exact, 10 in one week. I was told that if I couldn’t make it, I would have to pay back the cost of the material with my own money, and if I could make more, I would accept it at the same price within the deadline, so I was told to make as much as I could.”

“Huh~? Is that why you came out like this?”

It was a very big problem for me that there was no reason it would take a week to make 10 pieces. I went to the Imperial Magic Tower to get some work done, but it ended too quickly.

I didn’t want Yuria to see me unemployed for the remaining six days, so we went to a monster habitat outside the empire to collect materials to make a catalyst.

“So, what monster do you plan on hunting?”

“Aren’t you opposed to it? You said monster hunters and adventurers are not allowed.”

“Hey, hunting monsters only two hours away from the capital is not a monster hunter, is it? It’s not even an adventure. If I can earn money through this ‘safe’ job, my sister will live on forever~! I agree.”

For the former knight leader, the strongest man in the kingdom, it seems that hunting monsters near the city is a very safe thing to do.

She naturally took the obsidian-like catalyst I made… I don’t know why, but after tucking it between my chest, I pulled out the longsword from my waist and started swinging it lightly to warm up.

Damn, I envy you catalyst.

“So, which subject is the subject, an orc or a troll?”

“Is that the type of monster approaching from two directions?”

“Oh my~ Rudis-kun, that’s the correct answer! Did you know that a monster was approaching?”

“Did you really think I was so preoccupied with making catalysts that I wouldn’t know?”

“Hehe~ I thought you would be busy looking at your sister~?”

Could it be that you noticed that I was setting my sights on a heart as wide as the sky?!

When I got a little creepy and thought I was frowning without realizing it, my sister said, ‘Hey, you don’t have to look so straight. I know I’m being picky… ?’ He continued speaking a little sullenly.

Phew, I guess I was mistaken. but.

“Haha, I got caught. Actually, I thought it was cute to see my sister liking the catalyst, so I realized it a little late.”

“What?!”

I thought that making Yuria, my benefactor, look sullen in order to protect my self-esteem was a betrayal, so I decided to build her self-esteem with the truth, with a little bit of truth removed.

She is shaking her tail and blushing as if she is surprised by my words, and I forget that I am the mother of a daughter who is the same age as me.

“Lu, Rudis. If you play around like that, your sister might get the wrong idea.”

“You are mistaken. Because that might be true.”

Smiling slightly bitterly, I stood up and looked into the forest.

Orc on the right, troll on the left?

“Phew… They say it’s before the battle. If you make my heart tremble like this, will my sister collapse while fighting?”

“Phew! Would you just stay behind? I can handle it all by myself.”

“You’re kidding, right? Except for my older sister who decided to be my protector, I won’t let you fight alone.”

“Thank you. Well then, I’ll take over as the troll. It’s important material.”

“You’re not an orc? Then, can I ‘tear it all up’?”

Seeing her brightly smiling and asking a trembling question, I also smiled and answered.

“Ocs are more useless than dog shit.”

Green pigs don’t go well with black magic.