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Wizards are a fundamentally suspicious species.

Doubt means having many questions and thoughts, and this is directly connected to the wizard’s thirst for learning.

So, a great wizard is also associated with a suspicious wizard.

Why does the sun move?

Why on earth is fire so hot?

Why do those blue particles floating in the air listen to us?

Is what we see really what we see?

Such questions and doubts pile up one by one to create the specialized profession of magician.

To put it simply, a characteristic that can be called a ‘wizard special’ is formed.

And with a similar view.

Natural geniuses tend to rely too much on intuition, because their intuition is so much better than other ordinary people’s, and because they know it so well.

Naturally, you end up relying on your own intuition.

Geniuses figure out things that others struggle and agonize over, saying, “Oh, if I just do it, it works.”

It was mostly due to intuition. It was like having a third hand, a third eye that others don’t have.

Geniuses are able to accomplish many things relatively quickly that others find difficult to do.

It’s so convenient that geniuses sometimes blindly trust their intuition.

You could say it’s a ‘talented special’.

And Lily was a human who fit both the ‘wizard special’ and the ‘talent special’.

I have had many curiosities since I was born, and I have often found solutions to them with my innate intuition and instincts.

Thanks to this, she quickly became a high-level wizard and gained many followers.

Being supported has become the norm, and living in expensive places has become a given.

Perhaps her characteristically rude and emotional personality was formed at that time.

However, with these two characteristics, there is one very small problem that arises… that is, a contradiction arises.

A wizard who doubts and explores everything in the world blindly believes only his own intuition.

It was endlessly contradictory.

If that intuition is distorted by ‘something’, she will be fooled more easily than anyone else.

Even if I found out about it later, it was already too late.

*

“Huh, huh······.”

Here is a woman crying so hard that her eyes are watering.

To his surprise, it was the woman who had been fighting with him until just a few hours ago. Her name was Lily Spencer Beatrice.

He is the youngest person to become a great wizard, and is the best among party members when it comes to being tough.

That person was now crying and apologizing to himself.

Because of this, Luke couldn’t help but be confused.

‘what.’

Perhaps she had dragged her feet longer than she thought. So much time had passed that she might have had time to reflect.

No, no matter what, it’s like that. Isn’t it too much to drag it out?

Or, he may have been brainwashed by the puppet master in some way, and is acting like this in order to somehow get himself out of it.

This doesn’t make sense, but her attitude is equally absurd.

‘Hmm… This one certainly seems more plausible.’

Wait a minute, does that mean the puppet master came here?

When Luke was seriously thinking about the sudden situation.

There was one person who understood this situation right away.

Julius von Eugracia.

Her eyes were trembling uncontrollably now.

Because that was the situation she was most worried about. If one of the party members returned to the past, it would mean that the worst thing would happen in the future.

The warrior died once again, meaning she too met a miserable end.

“Excuse me, Lily, can I talk to you for a minute?”

That’s why Yulis decided to take Lily somewhere else for now. First, they needed to talk only with those who knew the secret.

So, Yulis disappeared somewhere while holding onto Lily. Luckily, Luke was so deep in thought that he didn’t catch them.

When the two of them were left alone in a corner, Yuris asked.

“Now, tell me. What the hell happened?

···No, should I speak first?”

At first, I was a bit confused about where and how to start explaining. Judging from Lily’s attitude, it seemed clear that she had returned to the past, and in order to hear that, I had to explain my position first.

So, I was at a loss as to where and how to start explaining it, but fortunately, it didn’t seem necessary to explain it all in detail.

“You, you···.”

Lily because she noticed first.

“You too··· Heuk, sob··· You must have had a hard time. I’m sorry I didn’t know······.”

At that moment, Yulis was able to realize one thing.

Come to think of it, Lily must have seen the player log too. If so, she might have seen her changed attitude among those many scenes. She’s been sticking to him quite a bit lately.

Although the person involved may not know it, it was a change in attitude that could be immediately noticed by someone who knew the whole story.

Yuris sighed.

“Okay, that’s fine… The curse you have is pretty annoying. I guess that’s possible. But can you explain what happened?”

Anyway, there is no need to bother explaining this.

Yulis decided to get straight to the point.

When she asked, Lily opened her mouth, trying to control her emotions.

“Ugh··· That······.”

That’s how the story began.

Another story filled only with tragedy.

*

If you were to choose a particularly strong Four Heavenly Kings among all the Four Heavenly Kings of all time, there would be countless. However, if you were to choose the most fearsome Four Heavenly King, there would be only one.

Puppet Master Net.

He is a fairly old Four Heavenly King who is considered the elder among the Four Heavenly Kings. He is the one who invades the human world the most frequently, and every time he appears, the history of mankind is stained with blood.

However, because the guy’s lifespan is so long, the gap in his history is also so long… People sometimes forget that true fear.

“···It’s annoying!”

After Luke and Lily had a fight on the floor, Lily was in a bad mood.

The argument with the warrior was one thing, but what was most unpleasant was that Yuris pushed her instead of the warrior.

Why? Why on earth do they protect the warrior like this?

It was understandable that he took action when the situation became dire, but Lily couldn’t understand why he was protecting him like this.

“I’m sorry. I was in a hurry to stop.”

“Okay, okay.”

That’s why Lily ignored Yulis’s apology.

Rather than an apology like that, the identity of the warrior needs to be revealed quickly. They couldn’t allow such a suspicious person to be in their party any longer.

Of course, I admit that my reasoning was somewhat flawed.

Since she was such an enigmatic person, it was difficult to even find a single piece of evidence. However, her own ‘intuition’, the ‘intuition’ that had raised her to the level of a great wizard, warned her.

That guy is dangerous, you know.

At least as long as her intuition is sounding the alarm, she won’t stop doubting.

That’s how she raised her magic power.

It wasn’t specifically pulled up to use magic.

When using magic, a specific trace called magic lingering scent is left behind. That trace follows the user around like a smell.

It was also a method frequently used by the Imperial Trackers.

It was a mark that was easy to erase as it was commonly used, but fortunately, it seemed that the warrior did not erase it separately.

If you look at the dark blue colored magic power that remains in the path he ran from, then you can see that he is a suspicious guy, so his magic power is also dark blue.

She quietly followed the warrior’s magic. The warrior’s magic, which was gradually heading towards the city center, soon subsided.

It went down into an underground waterway.

‘As expected! I knew there would be something!’

She cheered inwardly.

Surely, if it’s a waterway, you can avoid other people’s eyes.

The party members were probably out of their minds because they were fighting at the time.

This means that it is a space that is perfect for organizing something.

If so, there will definitely be some traces left.

Whether it’s traces of contact with the Demon King’s Army, or the Demon King’s Army itself.

Lily continued to follow the trail with confidence.

As she expected, there were traces of something.

However, in a slightly different way than she expected.

The pungent scent of blood tickled my nostrils. As I walked forward, the monster corpses increased one by one.

Among the curses that warriors have, there is one called the curse of activity. Simply put, it means that the warrior’s activity is hidden from view.

Perhaps this is why the battle took place in an underground sewer rather than above ground.

However, there is an obvious loophole in this curse.

The immediate result is that it is not easy to get rid of them. There is no way that so many corpses would just sink to the ground.

Likewise, it won’t turn to dust and fly away.

Of course, in the case of the dishwashing demon, it turned to dust and flew away······ but that guy was a collection of evil thoughts from the beginning and was also punished by the goddess.

It was so powdered that it could have disappeared.

So the guy is a special case.

In any case, the conclusion is that the corpses that the warrior had processed were preserved intact.

And Lily got to witness it.

“Huh, huh···?”

No matter how suspicious she is of the warrior, there is a limit to how much she can distort it.

“What the heck···.”

There were deep stab wounds all over the monsters’ bodies.

All of these were wounds inflicted by the warrior. In short, it means that the warrior alone fought off all these monsters.

Surely, that couldn’t be true… I thought, but the sight before my eyes denied my suspicions.

Even deep inside those corpses, there were surprising faces.

Oleg the Warlock.

The face of the guy she had only seen in books was now lying dead on the ground in front of her. Lily approached him.

As I approached, I continued to reason.

If the Demon King’s army had sent monsters towards this waterway in addition to the castle walls.

The warrior was the first to notice the change in this place and faced these monsters. Alone.

So what if we couldn’t stop all of these monsters and a few of them flowed in?

No, if no one had noticed the change before…

Creepy.

For a moment, a shiver ran down her spine. Maybe something terrible had happened in the city.

“No, wait a minute… that can’t be right…”

Of course, she denied it for a moment.

That he didn’t know about such a big deal. And that the warrior might have stopped it all by himself.

If his reasoning was correct, then he was angry at the warrior who had gone through all that trouble.

Even though she hated that fact, she wanted to investigate.

At the very least, I tried to find out some other facts besides the fact that the warrior had stopped this place.

However, such attempts did not last long.

Wow!

Because some magic circle was activated.

It’s not the magic circle that Oleg cast. He died a long time ago.

Likewise, it wasn’t a magic circle cast by someone else.

Because there is no living creature here other than her right now.

The subject of the magic circle was a scroll.

A very long time ago… someone made this long before I came here.

A collection of magical techniques that takes at least a year to draw just the magical formulas inside.

The magic has been activated.

The name of the magic is transference.

It is a magic that moves the target to another place.

As I said before, if I had to pick the most feared of the Four Heavenly Kings, it would be the Puppet Master. This is because of his cruel personality, and not just because he manipulates humans.

Puppet Net.

The guy who has been controlling life since birth is good at confusion and plotting. When he appears, internal strife also occurs in the human world.

“Huh······?”

So the next moment.

Pfft!

Lily was transported to an unknown location.