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A man in fancy clothes came down from the stopped carriage in a hurry.

He doesn’t even accept the service of the groom and servants he hired with great effort, as if he is faced with an opportunity that he doesn’t want to take away from anyone.

“Miss?”

So the man let the girl out of the carriage.

The girl’s outfit, which showed no trace of wealth whatsoever, seemed to speak volumes about the wearer’s ordinary status.

The exact opposite of men.

“Arrived.”

However, the man’s attitude towards the girl was very kind.

No. It was extreme.

“Thank you again for your kindness.”

“No, I was just passing through here. If you need anything else-”

“You’ve already helped me enough.”

“Don’t do that-”

He tries to do a favor, but he also looks at the girl’s expression.

The man was confused about his own condition.

Why am I like this?

He was not usually a person who was particularly kind to children or people of lower status.

Rather, as merchants, there were more cases of them being treated poorly.

But that wasn’t possible for this girl.

The girl possessed an indescribable specialness.

A specialness that cannot be denied.

It was not the kindness of an adult to a child.

It was a struggle to win the other person’s favor.

“Please, have a nice day.”

When the girl expressed her gratitude with a bright smile, the man had no choice but to leave with a heavy heart.

It was a shame that he couldn’t win the girl’s favor, but more than that, he was afraid of being hated by the girl.

The girl who arrived at her destination while receiving the utmost hospitality from a merchant she met on the street for the first time-

Pien took a moment to look at the house in front of him.

“…Phew.”

She took a deep breath and exhaled.

“Ah, ahh. Hmm. ”

Then, he stretches his neck, takes out a mirror from his bosom, and carefully checks his appearance.

Her innocent and innocent appearance made me wonder if she was really the same girl who had previously captivated the merchant.

dripping.

After completing all preparations, Pien knocked on the door of the house.

“Oh, P.N.”

Soon after, Risir opened the door and came out to greet her warmly.

Pien responded with a slight nod.

Carelessly.

But the tense atmosphere was clearly far from indifference.

“What about that perfect white dress?”

“…Your eyes aren’t slits. I like that dress too. But it’s too eye-catching. It’s not the right outfit for traveling. ”

As expected.

The indifference that is immediately stripped away by one word from Risir.

“By the way, what’s going on here?”

“…What?”

She promised to Risir and Pamon.

With the power of Jinjo, I will no longer harm innocent people.

So she could no longer be Dintal’s daughter.

In effect, it’s like losing your home.

So Pamon asked the two men:

“You’re not going to pretend to be innocent now that we’ve finished talking, are you? You must have said it yourself. Asking me to join you on your journey.”

“Sigh…”

“Haa!? What is that sigh!? That’s unpleasant! That’s rude! Do you think I deserve to be treated like that!?”

“No, that’s not it. It’s just that I can’t breathe in my lungs… Are you okay? It won’t be a very comfortable journey.”

“I’ll decide. I’ll tell you in advance, don’t get any weird ideas. I’m only going to accompany you until you build a separate foundation.”

“What a weird thought. Are you sure you shouldn’t be secretly messing with people’s brains again? Next time, it won’t end in a slap. Oh, wait. Did you actually slap them?”

“…”

If you give him attention, he’ll be happy like a puppy meeting its owner.

If given the chance, he will do his best to win your favor.

To Pien, humans were such beings.

Simple, foolish, and trivial-

But when I deal with this person, I get the opposite feeling.

Look at it now.

What is this dry response when I gave it the opportunity?

Treated like a child.

It was the first time I had experienced such treatment since I was reborn as a special being. It was humiliating.

Ever since her first meeting with Risir, Pien had been thinking about him all along.

‘I can’t forgive you… this humiliation… I will definitely return it… ‘

I will definitely make this foolish man my slave.

Although he could not use the power of Jinjo, that was not all that Pien had.

Pien knew better than anyone.

How attractive, beautiful and special you are.

“… Well, what kind of strange idea is this? Let me guess. ”

Pien approached Risir with a changed attitude.

The slender girl’s body was entangled. Pien looked up at Risir from just below with his eyes wide open.

It was a seductive movement that stimulated men’s lust.

– Pien thought to himself.

Because it was a part that I confirmed in the mirror and even practiced.

However, there was a big difference between how Pien looked in the mirror and how Risir saw her.

Awkward body movements. Awkward eye contact.

Above all, her face was flushed with shame, as if she was trying to seduce or be seduced.

Risir simply patted her head as she looked up at him, wondering what he should do.

“Profit-“

Jinjo’s expression turned even redder as he was treated like a child as if it was natural.

“What are you?”

It was then that a crooked voice intervened.

Loera grabbed Risir’s arm and pulled them apart.

“Why are you here? He’s not Bendel anymore.”

At that gaze, Pien’s mood changed abruptly.

From a sloppy girl who always loses in battles of pride, to a girl with magical powers.

“That’s right. He’s not Bendel anymore. So he’s not your brother anymore. So it’s none of your business, right?”

“And, she’s not your fiancé anymore. It’s none of your business, right?”

“Oh my. Haven’t you heard? At Risir’s request, I will be accompanying Risir on this trip?”

“Rishir’s request?”

“Rishir’s request?”

Loera looked at Risir, demanding an explanation.

Risir added his own gaze to that and conveyed it to Pien.

“Am I wrong? In fact, isn’t this all because of your request?”

If it was a request, it could be called a request to not use the power of the truth on innocent people anymore.

It was only after the scary dark elf sister put strength into her eyes that she reluctantly accepted it.

However, Risir never specifically pointed out that fact.

“…”

It was quite sad to see him sneaking glances at me, perhaps because he was aware that I was putting on airs.

“That’s not entirely wrong, but…”

“Right!?”

[Please match the words] The world was delighted when Risir donated a coin to the charity shop.

Loera looked at the two of them suspiciously.

“What is that ambiguous attitude? What about the Dintal family in the first place? Did they agree? Probably not?”

How could one disagree?

The King commands in the name of the Master.

Dintal willingly allowed Pien to become a monk.

And soon they will completely forget about Pien’s existence.

“Of course you agreed. You know how special our relationship is.”

“I don’t think he thinks that way, though? Judging from his reaction.”

“…You’re such a shy guy, right? You’re acting like that on purpose because you’re embarrassed.”

“What do you know about this guy? You two have been together for less than two weeks?”

“What do you know about Risir? I heard that in Bendel, illegitimate children were treated as if they did not exist.”

“…”

“…”

As their gazes crossed, tension filled the place.

“Huh? Oh~ Are you Pian? Miss Loera? Let me introduce you. It’s Pian. She’s actually Jinjo? Isn’t she amazing? This is my first time seeing her? Is she dangerous? Just like I said~ But is it okay? Just like I did with the Dintal family, I tried to use my power of mental interference on Rishir, but I was normalized by Rishir’s special power – and now I’m Rishir’s servant.”

That was certainly the case before the dark elves showed up, carrying luggage along with plant zombies.

Pamon, who found them while passing by, fired off a torrent of words like a machine gun and then went on his way.

“True…?”

“From beginning to end…?”

“Normalization…”

It was difficult to confuse not just one but all three of them, but the dark elf managed to do it anyway.

***

Despite Risir’s concerns, Roera accepted Pien’s existence without difficulty.

Oh, really?

Were you controlling the Dintal family with the power of Jinjo?

You are amazing.

Here is a person as great as this teacher and disciple.

Jinjo was one of the more reasonable beings she had experienced recently.

Separately, Roera was not pleased with the Pien.

“She’s the girl who tried to make you her puppet. You want to take her with you?”

“Don’t worry too much. It’s true, they’re more harmless than mosquitoes.”

“Mosquito…”

Pien muttered with his eyes darkened.

“First of all, I promised. I will never hurt people with that power again. Since the Master has certified it with his magical power, it will work.”

“…Well, if that person had done something-”

Loera finally put away her expression of caution.

Risir looked at Loera like that and snickered.

“Were you that worried about your brother?”

Loera’s expression suddenly crumpled.

“What are you talking about?”

Loera, who was sitting next to Risir on the sofa, tossed and turned.

I thought he was leaving, but he wasn’t.

She took off her shoes, turned around, and placed her legs on Risir’s thighs.

“Roera? I’m starting to get worried, oppa. Do you usually show off such avant-garde manners in front of other people?”

“Of course I’m only doing this in front of you.”

“That’s right? Surprisingly, there’s one more person here besides us.”

“You don’t have to worry about him since he’s a servant. Oh, I don’t know. My legs hurt so I’ll just stay like this.”

The older brother couldn’t stop his younger sister, perhaps because her voice sounded like she was whining or because of her mood.

“Poem, isn’t it like that!?”

Instead, Pian, sitting across from him, stood up and raised his voice.

“Then what is it?”

“I, I- You know! I’m Risir’s fiancée!”

“Ah~ I guess so.”

“You’re already so close that you’ve even kissed Risir!”

“Ah~ So… What?”

Loera’s head turned slightly and looked at Risir.

“What does that mean?”

The strength of the leg placed on the thigh is strengthened.

“Rishir! You were happy too, weren’t you…! You wouldn’t say no, would you!?”

Pien walked up to Risir and hung onto his arm.

To commit an act that is written as sensual seduction and read as childish tantrum.

“It’s heavy…”

Risir was slowly crushed by the weight of the two.

***

I’m ready to leave.

I don’t know, but it certainly seemed like that to the teacher.

The plant zombies that had been busily moving around the mansion have disappeared without a trace.

It was not long after that that the Master called me.

“My disciple? How are you, your preparations going well?”

A lively smile as usual.

The teacher brought up future plans.

“If only I could, I would travel with Risir and teach him various things?”

“But, as I have said many times, there is still much work left for the Master to do.”

“Besides, the journey is going to be quite rough, so I don’t think I can bring myself to take Risir with me.”

I wasn’t surprised at all.

As you said, this was something the Master had been paying attention to from the beginning.

I listened calmly to my teacher’s words.

“If only I could, I would teach my vision magic to Lisir, even if it meant forcing myself to do so-”

“That magic comes with great limitations and sacrifices in learning.”

“More than anything, because of the perception that it is a cursed magic of the dark elves, you will be far from a normal life.”

“My good disciple might say it’s okay? I don’t want that, do I?”

“It’s not too late to decide after experiencing and feeling a little more.”

“So, my disciple?”

“My brief teaching ends here.”

With her usual lively smile and voice, she puts an end to this meeting.

It felt a bit dry for a farewell, but I felt better because I thought that was more like a teacher.

“It’s really short, like art. Even if you go under the restaurant, wouldn’t it tell you more than this?”

“My disciple~ I’m sorry~ I’m a bad teacher~ But your arms and legs are long, so aren’t they fun to look at~?”

The teacher’s useless words.

“It’s so ugly, it’s like art.”

Mr. Duran’s comment on top of that.

It was a shame to think that this would be the last time I would hear this.

but-

“Will we meet again someday?”

“Of course. Maybe, maybe? The next time we meet, maybe Risir will be my teacher? Given the speed of my student’s growth, it seems quite possible.”

“Of all the things the Master has said so far, this was by far the one that warmed my heart the most.”

“Oh my, really?”

“I will definitely become a disciple who can do that, and I will make my teacher feel the despair of abandonment.”

“Watch what I say.”

“Duran~ What should I do~ My disciple is angry, right~? Right~?”

Suddenly, I remembered the day I first met the two of them.

One is a book, but anyway.

The teacher said this many times.

I, who treats dark elves as ordinary people, found it to be a very special experience.

It was the same for me.

My teacher, who treated me as an illegitimate child, was an incredibly special experience for me.

What would have happened if I had not met the Master?

Could we find a new path called magic?

Could it be possible to become independent from the Bendel family?

Could you have made peace with Loera?

“Master.”

“Yes. My disciple.”

“It was a short time, but it was a time that changed my life. Thank you.”

“…”

I saw it for the first time. The characteristic lively smile on the Master’s face disappeared.

The dark elf with silver eyes looked at me with a calm face. Wait a minute.

“Eww~ My disciple~”

The teacher, who had returned to his original expression, hugged me while crying.

“What should I do~ I tried not to cry so shamefully in front of my disciple~”

The teacher cried in my arms for a while.

…only made a crying sound.

***

“Lastly, my disciple? Will you accept this?”

The teacher took out a small glass bottle and placed it on the desk.

“What is this?”

“Duran~ I shook it off and what, I shook it off. Then what will my disciple think of me~”

“The kindest, strongest, most beautiful, and most irresponsible teacher in the world.”

“Oh my, my disciple~ You’re so touching until the end~”

The teacher lifted the glass bottle and put it directly into my hands.

It was a rather ordinary glass bottle, the most precious treasure Bendel possessed.

The contents were a transparent liquid with no special features.

“What is an elixir?”

“…!”

But the moment that word came out of my master’s mouth, my heart started beating fast.

elixir.

It was the object in this world that best fit the description of a treasure, as it could only be completed by adding the touch of a master to rare materials.

In this fantasy world, power is the most meaningful value.

Everyone was willing to burn their body and life to gain that power.

The elixir omits, shortens, or transcends such exhausting processes.

A single click can bring about accomplishments that would otherwise take months, years, or even a lifetime to achieve.

This is a real cheat key.

People who had money and power were all anxious to get a taste of the elixir.

However, it is not an elixir if everyone who wants to drink it can drink it.

Even a family as wealthy as Bendel cannot drink it, so how bad must it be if they keep it in a safe?

Its value is beyond imagination.

If it were my original self, it would be something I would never be able to obtain even if it took my entire life.

Even if I had gotten it, I wouldn’t have dared drink it, and would have exchanged it for cash and pursued a comfortable life.

“Wow, isn’t this too ordinary for a elixir…?”

“This is proof that it is a valuable elixir, not a cheap one.”

“Uh… is that so?”

“From production to long-term storage. In order to preserve and maintain the value of the elixir while keeping all of that in mind, extremely detailed refining and processing are required? Even external factors are brought in to invest in the substance. It may look ordinary, but inside that bottle, there is magical knowledge and technology that even I cannot fathom.”

“Hey, can you give me something like this…?”

My voice trembled on its own.

Even if you are a master, it is not often that you get the chance to obtain a treasure like an elixir.

“Yeah. That’s why I want to give it to my disciple.”

“… Master!!!”

“My disciple~”

He lifted the elixir up again and examined it from side to side.

“Then what should I do…? Can I drink it here now…?”

Crackle crackle.

“No. This is not a suitable place to drink elixir.”

“Is there a suitable place to drink the elixir? What are the criteria?”

“The elixir changes your constitution? And that constitution that changes drastically is directly affected by the surrounding environment. Hyerin is not a bad place. Rather, it is okay. However, it is not okay. The elixir must be consumed perfectly in the best environment and conditions.”

The Master’s eyes were shining for a rare moment as he spoke.

“Could you explain it in terms of material value so that a disciple who is not familiar with this magic can understand it easily?”

“It’s a value that can’t be measured in money, but – let’s see… a mansion in a big city?”

“A, a mansion in a big city…!?”

Could you roughly understand it as something like an apartment in downtown New York?

So, if I drink the elixir wrong, an officetel in the heart of New York will be blown away?

“Yeah. If there’s a loss of 10% of the elixir ingredients, it’s like losing a mansion in a big city. ”

Even 10%?

“Kuaaah-!!!”

“My disciple~ Do you like it that much~?”

I barely managed to regain my composure and continue the conversation.

“Then, Master, where would be a good place to drink this elixir? The zodiac?”

“The Zodiac is good. But it’s too far. So, my disciple, how about Bondales as your next destination?”

Bondales.

It was a city that was located two or three villages away from Hyerne.

The keyword that comes to mind is Karaoke Tower.

Numerous adventurer guilds and merchant houses.

“It’s not as good as the other representative magical cities, but it’s not a bad city for expanding your magical knowledge.”

“Can I take the elixir here?”

“I’m not saying you should just drink it up as soon as you arrive, but there are a few suitable places.”

here.

here.

And- here.

The teacher wrote down on a piece of paper the places that were suitable.

“Okay, then~”

match.

The teacher concluded the conversation with applause.

“My disciple~?”

And then he got up from his seat and spread his arms.

I approached the teacher and gave him a hug.

“Please, be safe, Master.”

“Of course~”

“At least until I come and succeed my master…”

“I wasn’t joking~”

“Please be safe, Mr. Duran.”

After the greetings, Master and Mr. Duran immediately left Hyerin.

I also immediately left the house to find out how to get to Bondales.

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[Title: Ah, f*ck, the witch of the western forest, should I just skip it?]

Content: Is the difficulty really that high?

What the f*ck is mummu

What the f*ck is Dilong?

I feel so ashamed because I keep getting beat up by a guy with a name like that.

– : Is Mummumiham your friend?

– : Hold on with evil and courage, you have to eat what you have to eat

– : [Photo] It is better to catch the witch of the western forest because the elixir option given as a reward is ridiculous.

– [Writer]: Ah, look at the options, damn it, I can’t skip it like this

– [Writer]: If you kill a witch, she drops that?

– : There is a separate reward for the witch. That is what you get when you kill the witch and raid the Bendel vault. In fact, you can think of that as the core farming item for Hyerin.

– : Just take your time. If you look at the reward options, you’ll see that it’s not a place made to be broken in the beginning.

-[Writer]: If you’re not even going to drink it, why don’t you just give it to me? F*ck

– : Try raising your favorability

-[Author]: Is it possible to increase the witch’s favorability rating?

– : First of all, the human race is impossible.

-[Writer]: What the f*ck, you can only choose the human race

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▶Another Tale◀

This is another story.

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[stop]

[Please stop!!!]

[The man screamed]

[But they didn’t care]

[“Eron, oh my, Eron…!!!”]

[She was the man’s colleague]

[I was willing to give my back to you in a place where life and death intersect]

[She was the man’s lover]

[Holding her hand, feeling her soft skin, looking up at the night sky, there was nothing more I could have wished for at that moment]

[But now-]

[She was screaming and calling another man’s name]

[in his arms]

▶ Case 17: A tainted relationship

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“Then, let’s go.”

The scenery they had seen began to move.

It wasn’t long before the silence was broken by the clatter of horses’ hooves and the sound of wheels rolling.

“Okay, then-everyone. We will be together for a long time, so how about we introduce ourselves to each other?”

The voice was so beautiful that you couldn’t tell its gender just by listening to it.

Her neat blonde hair was shiny like ripe barley.

His bright white teeth, revealed with his habitual smile, contrasted with his slightly tanned skin, and his thick eyelashes, unusually male, seemed to draw attention to his clear, sky-blue eyes.

A handsome young man who aroused the affection of both men and women alike spoke kindly to the people sitting across from him.

“My name is Aaron.”

The man sitting across from him answered.

“This is Risir.”

Eron’s gaze was fixed on Risir.

It was a gentle gaze that at first glance aroused favor in the other person.

That’s why it’s usually unimaginable.

‘He’s a nobody.’

The fact that the owner of that gaze was secretly smiling with a mean sense of superiority.

After finishing his exploration, Aaron began to leisurely check on the other passengers.

“… !”

Eron’s gaze was fixed on a girl among his companions sitting next to Risir.

The pitiful atmosphere that is not completely hidden even with the hood pulled over the gray robe.

Eron, who had been looking back and forth between Risir and the girl for a while, smiled brightly in anticipation of this journey.

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Risir. I hope we can be of good service for a short time.”

”Yes, Mr. Aaron. Please take good care of me too.”

I laughed at that foolish sight of her smiling so calmly, not knowing what would happen next.

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■Eron

Level: 19

Race: Demon [Emma]

Series: Wizard [Mental Magic/Black Magic]

Skill: Power of Enchantment [Mental Interference (Lower)]

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[There is a special object around you]

[affected by the target]

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[The target’s influence is too strong]

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[Abnormal Status]

[Abilities related to ‘Power of Charm’ are greatly reduced]

▷ Skill: Power of Fascination [Mental Interference (Lowest)]

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[The target’s influence is too strong]

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[The target’s influence is too strong]

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