episode_0014

I took Younes’ right hand and placed him next to me.

“Let’s go catch the sorcerer.”

“… I, I was ordered to follow Sir William.”

I said this while looking at Younes’s wall-shaped eyes that were staring at me.

“You just saw it. He can’t use his strength.”

Younes looked at me, his arms shaking.

“… If you are punished for being considered a deviant, can you take responsibility?”

Why would I do that?

I shouldn’t let that thought out.

“Just think about the results. If you catch the sorcerer, you won’t be punished. There is a surefire way.”

Younes’ eyes widened.

“Excuse me, is there a really sure way?”

How could that be?

I’m just trying to get you to follow me somehow.

According to what the great wizard senior said, half of it depends on the wizard’s own abilities.

“Yes, you can definitely succeed.”

“… Okay, I got it.”

Oh, it worked.

A joke with a soul.

Swish-

I opened my inventory and took out the potion bottle containing the blood of the Orc Commander that I had collected yesterday.

After hearing from the Archmage in the gallery how to track down the Orc Shaman, the first thing I asked Liselin was where she had placed the Orc Commander’s body.

In order to prove that it was true that the commander had been killed, the soldiers were able to extract blood from the body that had been moved to the warehouse using a cart.

The blood and flesh of the Orc Legion Commander.

That was all the supplies.

“Hehehe!”

A strange sound came out of Younes’ mouth as he looked at the vial filled with thick flesh and blood.

“Where are you going to use those…?”

I could see the corners of his mouth trembling.

“Do you know the tracking spell?”

Younes nodded vaguely.

“I should say it’s basic… I know about tracking magic using blood. However, the blood magic I know of, the 3rd-tier magic Sanguis Rebellare, can chase down beings with that blood, but it can only track the blood of the same target. Tracking a species with the blood of that species is a very high-tier magic. It can only be used at 5th or 6th tier.”

That’s what I heard from the Archmage, too.

” They said it would be possible. Regarding the orc shaman.”

“Huh?”

“I heard that if you properly cast a spell that awakens the traces of the spell imprinted on the blood, you can use the spell tracking spell to find out where the orc sorcerer who cast the spell is.”

Younes looked at me with a blank expression.

“They say that only the Orc species have traces of sorcery in their blood even after death. If you’re at the level of a legion commander, you’ve probably been taught a lot of sorcery by Orc shamans.”

Should I say that it is a strange face that is a mixture of stupidity and seriousness?

“Oh, oh, how can that be? There can’t be only one species of orc that does that…!”

It’s the same.

Yesterday, in the gallery, the same reaction continued as the comment that the great wizard senior had written in a row called ‘Expected reaction of a wizard’.

– The Archmage) You would cry out that there can be no such specific exception in the realm of magic.

“There’s no way there could be such an abnormal and unique exception classification in magic!”

– Grand Wizard) But, that’s why it’s magic. It’s a realm of the mysterious. It’s just arrogant to make a judgment.

Oh, but where have I seen this before? Isn’t this something someone posted when they were really climbing the tower? I think it was adopted and posted as a notice.

(N Archmage) Yes, I went up to the 30th floor and immediately went up to the climbing gallery terminal, and I gathered information that non-magicians might not know and uploaded it. In order to prevent as many senseless deaths as possible.

Honestly, up until then, our great wizard senior looked really cool.

Until the next comment is posted.

N???? No, you were that person?

n You were the ‘Undefeated Iron-Blooded Magical Girl Ophelia’? Where the hell did you go?

N ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋInvincible Iron, what is this? You’re bragging about yourself after laundering your nickname well and then getting caught after decades ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

N haha …

n The person who used that kind of thing is a ‘great wizard’, wow, simple and clear. He realized that simple is best. It’s a great development, lol. But he embroidered himself and got caught wwww

n Pioneer) Hard difficulty Those guys probably noticed it but they were pretending not to know, so why are you suddenly making a fuss by blowing yourself up?

(N) The Dragon King knew about Beltui too.

And the Archmage Senior didn’t leave any comments or posts until I closed the gallery.

Although he neither confirmed nor denied it, his senior’s disappearance was like throwing a huge weight on the positive side.

“Stop saying you don’t believe it and just try it.”

Younes still looked half-believing and half-doubting at my words.

“… Okay.”

oh.

I couldn’t help but feel surprised when I saw Younes holding the magic staff in his hand.

This was because it was something that went against the expectations of the great wizard senior.

– Grand Wizard) If you ask them to look for traces of witchcraft, nine out of ten will ask what kind of magic they should use.

But I didn’t ask that question.

He bent down as if he knew what magic to use, looking at the legion commander’s flesh and the blood sloshing inside the potion bottle.

“Do you know what magic to use?”

Younes nodded slowly.

“First of all, Exploration is my main specialty, so… I know that the magic I should use in this situation is Arcana Rebella.”

The name was the same as the magic that was in the comment of the senior, ‘Ophelia, the Undefeated Magical Girl’.

Still, this guy is a smarter wizard than I thought.

Younes sprinkled blood on the flesh as I had told him, then cast the spell.

Younes’ mouth opened slowly.

“I will reveal the secret.”

And at the end of those words, a dark red color bloomed on the orc commander’s flesh.

Younes’s expression changed little by little.

“… The traces of the spell are really imprinted on the blood. I really don’t understand why only certain species of orcs have this characteristic. ”

Now the embarrassment and disbelief were gone.

“Originally, it was a spell and a magical protection, and when the recipient died, the traces of it disappeared, but only the Orc race remained like this.”

The expression on his face now seemed to be one filled with the inquisitiveness of a wizard.

“This is my first time tracking a spellcaster, but I think I can approach it the same way I would track a magic caster.”

The third-tier knight who came as support was a dud, but fortunately, the wizard seemed to be a useful person.

Chi-chik!

Just as another spell was being cast, drawing a circle around the wine glass, a blue light flashed before Younes’ eyes for a moment.

“… I can see it. The direction is shown as a blue line. But it seems like it’s a line that only my eyes can see. ”

Younes, who had been speaking, suddenly returned to his blank expression from a moment ago.

“Hehe! This, this means I have to follow you around and guide you myself!”

I wasn’t embarrassed at all.

Because I originally planned to take it with me.

“Please guide me.”

“Hic!”

“I won’t let you die.”

While I was reassuring Younes and convincing him, Liselin, who was standing next to me, poked her head in.

“I’ll go with you. If you want to cut the orc shaman’s head.”

Younes’ personal protection can be left to Liselin.

I feel like I’m becoming a worse person, but I can’t help it.

Liselin said that she would pack potions and light rations and that they should leave in twenty minutes.

“Ahem!”

William, a third-rank knight, glared at me with a crumpled face and a cough, and that was all he could express his dissatisfaction with.

“I can’t completely trust what you say, so I’ll focus my efforts on dealing with the orcs I see.”

Was it because I was blatantly fooled? Was it because I got hit a few times? There was nothing particularly wrong with the behavior itself. It could be said to be completely normal.

Someone had to worry about guarding the walls themselves.

If that breaks, my quest will break too.

“Very good idea, sir.”

At my words, William’s shoulders suddenly shook.

Why are you like that?

“Please take good care of it.”

I then moved with Younes, Liselin, and a second-tier Lucerna mercenary.

In front of the castle wall.

‘At least by tomorrow, you have to defeat the boss and go to the waiting room on the third floor to participate in the exchange meeting.’

Quick and easy.

I quickly decided to take down the orc shaman.

***

Kwaaah!

An orc’s scream echoed in my ears.

This guy also had an excessive red glow in his eyes, so he must have been blessed by an orc shaman.

According to Liselin, a frenzied orc.

At the entrance to the forest there were no orcs with eyes like these.

It was midway through the forest that we started to encounter each other.

[Magic Body Strengthening Lv.2 – Activates skill.]

I felt the magic spreading through Manahart.

With a black javelin and a black spear, he struck the head of the orc rushing from the left vertically.

I slashed the heads of two orcs rushing from the right with my straight sword.

Blood and flesh clung to the armor.

Currently, the level has increased by 1 from the starting level of 8 to 9.

Unlike the starting point of the second floor stage where you could level up by killing just five or six orcs, the level did not increase even after slaughtering over twenty orcs.

But what I definitely felt had improved was my sense of combat.

It was as the Sword of Light said. The duel with Golem MK2 was definitely a great help to me, but the stepping stone for my growth was actual combat.

Immediately after killing the two frenzied orcs who rushed in without hesitation even after seeing three people die.

I could hear the trembling voice of Younes, who was standing awkwardly next to me.

“We’re almost there. We’re getting close to what we suspect to be an orc shaman.”

at las.