episode_0042

“Is something wrong?”

Noan looks this way, wondering if he did something wrong, but it’s my fault for not saying anything in the first place.

It’s not that I don’t feel sorry, but it’s definitely wrong to be angry at someone who has done his job well.

“No, no. Well done. If there is anything that looks like a nucleus left, would you please find it? I will look for the wizard here.”

“Yes! I understand.”

Hiding my regrets, I felt uncomfortable having Noan search the corpse, so I left him to search to see if there were any hidden items nearby, and I walked towards the dead wizard.

Since he’s a wizard, there might be something good about him. We have to find evidence, and it’s a double duty.

“Huh?”

However, when I approached the wizard who had died from excessive bleeding, turned his robe over and took it off, I noticed something strange.

There were tattoos drawn on the guy’s body.

“No way?”

Just in case, I suppressed my dirty feeling and took off the dead guy’s shirt completely, revealing the tattoo that I was now starting to get used to.

“What on earth is this? It keeps appearing in front of me.”

The same tattoo as the one engraved on the bodies of Dheable and Gilbertan. A pattern that looks like a drawing of the devil.

By the third time, I couldn’t ignore it.

If you look closely, you can see that some letters are connected to form a shape.

At this point, you don’t have to be an idiot to know.

A wandering killer, a soldier of the legion directly under the demon king, and a wizard who attacked us.

Although they seem to have nothing in common, it is clear that they are the same organization or faith.

Deheble and Gilbertan were guys who craved power.

However, I have never heard anyone express their faith separately. If so, it may be some kind of pseudo-group.

‘And these wizards might be the same guys. ‘You’ll find out when you interrogate him.’

The rest decided to scoop up the guy behind them and looked through the rest of their luggage.

“Oh. You’re lucky.”

When I searched the dead wizard, I found two gold coins and five dwarven coins in the pocket behind his waist.

These guys are carrying around a huge amount of money.

‘Peria would like it.’

Looking at the contents, I’m guessing, but if that’s the case, then at least they definitely weren’t the ones who attacked us because they were in need of money.

They say that combat dolls are expensive, but they are the ones who bring several of them.

At that time, the presbyopia was brought to me as if there was a residual nucleus.

“Brother. Here it is.”

“Were there any left? Thank you.”

The number of nuclei brought by Noan was two.

Noan calmly dealt with the approaching battle dolls while pushing the wizard. Then, he found the carefully hidden cores, which were the size of small pearls, and smashed them all with an axe.

The core that Noan brought now was that the wizard fell first before destroying all the remaining battle dolls, so there were only two intact battle dolls left.

“Looks like it’s over.”

Deshade appears to be hearing the sounds of battle and walks out from inside the cave.

“Not yet. I have to ask him what his purpose is. But what is that?”

When I heard Deshade’s voice, I turned around and saw that Shin was holding a rather large rat in his arms. The rat doesn’t make any noise or show any cuteness and just sits quietly in the embrace.

“I don’t know if it was because the ground was shaking, but he jumped in and fell into my arms. It seems like even tiny creatures recognize God.”

When we think of rats, we remember that they are the cause of the Black Death. I don’t feel very good when I see a rat that I have such an image of in my head, and a rat as big as my fist.

“If you touch something like a mouse incorrectly, it spreads germs. Throw it away quickly.”

I tried to shoo away the rat, but Thistle stopped me.

“It’s okay. This is a dew mouse that likes things to be neat. The pool they swam in turns into very clean water, so there will be no germs.”

‘There are all kinds of really strange creatures living here.’

It seemed like Thistle knew a lot about rats. I still don’t know much about the details of the beasts of this world, so I have no choice but to skip it.

Deshade leaves it alone and approaches the tied wizard. Now that the fight is won, we need to find out the purpose or the reason behind it.

‘First of all, I have to clean my mouth like I predicted.’

I thought for a long time about how to start.

‘Should I go with the bluff?’

First, I use only the information I currently have and combine it as if I already know deeply about the background of this matter.

“Yes. The level of magic is obvious. You accepted their offer because it seemed like you wouldn’t be able to succeed with magic anymore in the Magic Tower, right? They must have said to aim for God’s body.”

“Oh, how do you know that! Our organization must be thoroughly managed!”

The wizard is furious at me with a surprised expression.

I tried to get at least one catch, and the response was good. This is why I like doing things like this.

“Hmm? You were targeting my body? I didn’t make any reproductive organs, so I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

“God, please be quiet for now.”

It was starting to be fun for a while, but Shin kept getting angry and scolding me and continuing to interrogate me.

“Hmm, hmm! Anyway, people like you keep popping up here and there, making things difficult for people. Besides you wizards, there are two more. There was a human from the north and another person, a demon to be exact.”

The wizard stumbled in so easily that he began to fall.

“…Ugh, it looks like you clearly understood everything. It looks like those who were caught first handed over all the information, right? This is why I said not to accept this or that… but the truly talented ones were enough for us wizards!”

“No, even if you tell me, I didn’t do it, right?”

The wizard seemed to have been experiencing quite a bit of inconvenience, and quickly began to air out his dissatisfaction.

I don’t know what organization it is, but I do know that this guy was a wizard before he was a member of the organization.

Seeing as they didn’t necessarily come with other guys and only came as a group of wizards, it seems like even if they were members of the same organization, they weren’t very close.

“Yes. If you answer my questions well, I promise I won’t send you straight to the Magic Tower. They can send it to the security forces.”

After calculating many things, I thought this would be the best threat and threw it out.

Although the Magic Tower makes money by selling magic items and rare materials, it is said that at the time of its establishment, it pledged to help the country by promoting the development of magic technology.

So, the country provided money to build magic towers throughout the kingdom.

Just like the relationship between a knight and a wizard, the nation and the Magic Tower have a similar relationship, so if a wizard commits a serious crime, the Magic Tower will deal with it strictly. Because it is a matter of mutual trust.

So, because the military is watching, most of them are executed or sealed as clearly as possible, as an expression of their intention that they have not betrayed the oath they made in the first place. This is because it is a matter of trust.

However, if they were to immediately transfer him to the military, there would still be a chance for him to survive as a magician.

If you are an excellent magician, if you have connections with customers among the nobles, you can survive through those connections.

Show him a hole through which to escape, and make him dig up all the information he has.

‘Of course, I don’t plan on sending you off favorably depending on whether or not you answer.

‘If you don’t like it, you should take it to the magic tower right away.’

“… Got it. I accept it.”

The wizard seemed to have gone crazy with all his thoughts up to that point, so he accepted my suggestion.

“Good. Well then, let’s do one first. Where did you get the information?”

The wizard looked at the dead wizard behind him and answered calmly.

He seems to have thought that since the other members of the organization were dead, there would be no possibility of retaliation later even if he wiped out everything.

“… During a meeting of the Immortal Agency, information came in through a source hidden in the Adventurer’s Guild. It is said that there is a wandering priest who seeks the arrival of God with his body. He ordered us to kidnap the body of a newly descended god because he said it would be good research material.”

I look back at Deshade, following the wizard’s gaze.

“What do you see? Yikes.”

Deshade feels the gaze and responds, but is hit on the head by Dewmoe’s rear kick, which is suddenly convulsing.

The dew mouse jumped down, looked around at us one by one, and then disappeared among the bushes.

“What is it? That guy.”

I only noticed it when I looked in this direction, but it had a strange appearance with completely red eyes.

Thistle approaches and wipes away the small mouse footprints on Deshade’s helmet.

“Really, this is why I like humans better than animals that suddenly rush forward.”

“Phew… Deshade, please…”

Deshade grumbles at the new topic.

‘They’re going to kidnap a god like that and use him for something.’

When I saw that, I thought seriously about God’s value, but I couldn’t say it out loud because Thistle sighed softly.

Let’s briefly summarize what he said.

Immortal institution, conference, information source, research material.

‘First of all, the name of the organization is an immortal organization, and there are members of the adventurer’s guild. ‘This must be a lie.’

Even if the word ‘immortal organization’ was just a name, I felt like they had deliberately reduced the information about the informant of the adventurer’s guild behind them.

I don’t know if that’s the only information that ends there.

If you look at the things that have been prepared to catch us, they are not items or magic circles that can be prepared in a day or two.

It is too thorough to believe that the preparations were made immediately after receiving the news from a spy in the Adventurer’s Guild who had just received news about us.

In terms of time, it can be seen that information was leaked from at least the security forces.

The interrogation continues to obtain more information.

“Then I have to tell you the next story. Research material? What did you plan to do by kidnapping God?”

“I don’t know. There is no way that the only high-quality material would come back to us. However, he said that if the research yields results, he will share them with us.”

‘Research. What kind of research are you doing? Just from the name, it seems like it’s a study on immortality.’

Immortal organ, research.

There is too little information. There are limits to summarizing the information based solely on the information he said.

This time, I couldn’t get a clear answer, so I decided to take another stab at it using only the immortality part as a keyword.

“Are you also interested in the power of immortality?”

“The power of immortality? no. That kind of power is nothing more than a curse. I don’t care about that. Rather, I only joined because the organization said it would support my research at Magic Tower. They promised that if they catch God, they will conduct research on it and then send the research results to them.”

‘I guess I didn’t get it right.’

It may seem like a waste of time, but there is now a way to catch the horse’s tail.

There are two things about research.

This is research conducted by individual wizards and research conducted by immortal organizations.

In that case, here, rather than asking questions about institutions that are not easily opened up, we will take a closer look by starting with the research done by wizards.

“Anyway, you were promised compensation from those guys. However, sending research results is an undetermined amount of compensation. Considering your personality, there must have been other obvious rewards besides that, right? What exactly were you promised?”

This time, we infer from the general characteristics of wizards.

They are wizards who are said to suffer headaches if they do not accurately reach the decimal point when calculating something.

A wizard like that said he would receive something and other things as compensation, so he wrote a contract, copied a copy, and kept it with him. There’s no way a wizard would move with such an abstract reward.

‘The research results will probably be a bonus and you will receive some amount of gold coins or some important materials.’

I tried poking it, but this time the wizard started to pull it away.

“Isn’t this enough? I don’t know any more. We also only receive orders through notes. I don’t know either because I didn’t dive deep in the first place.”

‘Are you trying to step out? Or is it really just a contract position?’

Even if he wants to find out more, the wizard doesn’t seem to have any intention of opening his mouth any longer. Even if I ask more questions, the answer keeps coming back that I don’t know.

Or maybe it’s because if you say anything more than this, the story will only end up being detrimental to you.

“The cub comes all the way here and closes its mouth.”

However, if you close your mouth here, there will be no reason to fight so hard to capture the wizard alive.

I was thinking about changing it to a physical interrogation from now on, but I feel a bit uncomfortable doing it with God and his priest right in front of me.

Then I got a good idea.

‘then.’

There is no way.

“Deshade.”

“Huh? What?”

I called out to Shin, who was watching me from behind.

“Please read that guy’s thoughts. What did you agree to receive in return?”

I decided to use the power of God.