episode_0118

118. Reward obtained after revenge.

Inside a huge tent.

I looked at a fat man there.

I saw a man who looked like he was about to roll over and had a scared face.

“What are you thinking?”

“Well, that is…”

The man’s identity was the head of Zenith’s Trier branch. He was also the one who commissioned King Sal to steal my Salamander’s heart.

Soon I saw the man quickly moving his eyes left and right. It seemed like he was looking for a way.

And soon the man’s mouth quickly opened again.

“S, Spence!!”

He was seen urgently asking someone for help.

‘If you say Spence… do you mean the eccentric archmage who got a job at the top?’

Of course, an ordinary archmage would not get a job at the top. But he trusted himself to the top. To be precise, it could be said that it was taken over by Zenith’s overflowing capital power.

By the way, it seems that the great wizard named Spence also came to Trier. Just by hearing the man shouting, I could understand it.

However, unfortunately for the man in front of me.

“It won’t be of any use.”

“Yes?”

“I installed the magic in advance.”

“Uh, when!”

Nothing actually happened.

This was because I had installed the silence field in advance. Even if dynamite explodes here, no one will know.

“Oh, and don’t expect the employee you just sent. First, let’s go to a good place and rest well.”

“Such…”

I ignored his confusion and approached him.

There was quite a lot to ask.

“From now on, I’m going to ask you several questions, so don’t answer right away.”

“Yes?”

“The information you hear after being tortured is more accurate.”

“Now, wait a minute!!”

I smiled evilly. This man in front of me could also be said to be the criminal targeting me.

‘How dare you target me?’

I wasn’t nice enough to see something like this.

‘It’s been a while since I saw some blood.’

So I approached him with an evil smile.

And soon, screaming began to spread inside the tent.

“Aaaa!!”

Oh, the sound didn’t spread outside because of the magic.

It was such a pity for the man who was undergoing such terrible torture.

***

Outside Trier.

Grumbling.

It’s been a while since I burned several corpses.

Because of this, it felt like I had gone back to the past.

This was because the smell of burning corpses brought back memories of my past as a mercenary.

‘If you think about it, I’ve been in the battlefield for a long time.’

To put it simply, I was a war mercenary. It was said that money was made by fighting on the battlefield.

Of course, he lived a more miserable and cruel life than anyone else.

‘I did things like murder like I was eating a meal.’

There were times when hundreds of people were killed in one day. And at that time, I didn’t feel anything. That’s how dry I was.

But things were a little different now.

No, should I say it has changed a lot?

By creating a mercenary group, I had subordinates to take care of.

While attending the academy, I made friends and a lover. There’s even a little kid to take care of.

So is that so?

It definitely felt a lot different than before.

Should I say that I have a strange reluctance towards murder?

I felt like I had regained some of the humanity I once had. This incident made it clear.

Of course, now I had no choice but to kill him.

‘I knew I was the mercenary king.’

There were three corpses in total that I was currently burning.

It was Zenith, the head of the Trier branch, and two of his subordinates.

Those three knew my identity. So I had no choice but to kill him.

Ah, fortunately, the Archmage did not know my identity. It was as if he was just doing what the branch manager asked him to do.

‘If the Grand Wizard had disappeared, there would have been a real uproar.’

Of course, there is still chaos. In the square, the sounds of people looking for the branch manager continued to spread.

Still, I felt like I could somehow get over this.

This was because I had left a letter in advance for the branch manager.

‘I wrote that I would live well after hiding in the countryside. It may be strange, but you can’t help it.’

I didn’t know if there was a corpse. But that won’t happen.

Soon all three bodies were burned.

Perhaps because it was burned with magic, it quickly turned to ashes.

I used magic to send the ashes flying high into the sky.

Soon all the ashes were scattered in the wind. I could see that there was no chance of being caught with this.

‘Then, shall we move now?’

Currently I was at the very tip of the south-west side of Trier. A large castle wall could be seen right in front of us.

I didn’t come all the way here for nothing. There were many places other than here to burn corpses.

But there was a reason why I came here.

I quickly started looking around. To be precise, I looked obsessively under the castle walls.

Soon my eyes lit up.

‘There it is.’

I was able to quickly discover a suspicious place.

That was the only place where the soil was neatly cleaned. Although it was subtle, it couldn’t fool my eyes.

I quickly approached there.

Actually, I didn’t just take revenge.

Surprisingly, they tortured the head of the Trier branch. There was more than one piece of information I gained.

Unfortunately, I did not receive the auction money. He said that the money had already been sent using warp magic.

But there was no need to feel too sorry.

This was because I received information that was more surprising than money.

‘You were making a deal with the Prophet?’

Come to think of it, King Sal knew in advance that a portal would appear above the academy.

Even back then, I doubted the existence of prophets.

And this time, I was able to hear it clearly from the Trier branch manager.

‘There was a deal between one of the only three prophets in the world and the Zenith Merchant Marine…’

The Prophet spoke of very few necromancers. When necromancy reaches its peak, it becomes possible to summon living souls. And it was the soul’s way of telling the future.

However, it was not completely accurate. Additionally, there were less than three necromancers in the world who could make prophecies.

However, it was also true that there was a high probability that the prophecy was correct.

Naturally, the prophet had no choice but to receive very precious treatment. He could be seen as a more valuable being than an archmage or a 3rd awakened person.

In any case, such a prophet and the Zenith merchant had a business relationship. Of course, the information that a portal would appear in the academy was also given by the prophet in advance. And Zenith Danang had told this to King Sal.

However, the relationship between the Prophet and the Zenith Merchant Marine did not seem to be strong.

I also heard this from the Trier branch manager.

‘So this is a strictly business relationship, right?’

It was just a client-client relationship.

And that means…

‘If I’m good at it, I can make a deal.’

That’s why I came all the way to the outskirts. This was because there was a medium here that could deal with the prophet.

‘This is an opportunity.’

My eyes lit up.

Indeed, it was an opportunity to borrow the power of a prophet. This could be seen as a very great thing.

‘You get to know the future.’

It was a power greater than any other power. Of course I had to get it.

I raised my hand. I was trying to dig into the suspicious place I had just discovered.

There was no need to get your hands dirty.

Soon the telekinesis magic was activated, and the dirt began to rise quickly.

‘Where should I look?’

It felt like an excavator was scooping up dirt. The soil was being dug up that quickly.

However, nothing suspicious appeared right away.

‘hmm? Should I dig deeper?’

It seemed like it was hidden quite carefully.

Soon the soil began to dig deeper.

It seemed like the height of one person had been sold.

At that time, a suspicious box was seen floating together.

‘yes.’

It was a box about the size of a commonly seen chest. I pulled the box out.

After that, I quickly opened the box.

Squeak.

‘hmm?’

Then a book began to appear. An old-looking book was inside the box.

I took the book out of the box.

It seemed like this book was the medium.

‘Are you saying you secretly hid this for King Sal?’

It was said that through this book one could make a deal with the prophet. And he said that there are only three people in Zenith who have a book like this.

As it happened, the Trier branch manager was one of them.

But he didn’t have this in his possession. It was because of King Sal, who was eagerly targeting this book.

He also knew of the existence of prophets. Naturally, I wanted to do business with him directly.

However, this book was a very valuable item even at the Zenith level. Of course I couldn’t give it.

So, as soon as he arrived in Trier, he hid it here without King Sal’s knowledge.

Anyway, my expression lit up.

And then I quickly started looking through the book.

‘First of all, there’s nothing on the cover.’

It just looked like a thick blank notebook.

However, it felt like a magic item. It wasn’t any ordinary notebook.

I quickly opened the book.

Once I opened it, I was greeted by the empty space typical of a notebook.

I quickly looked through all the pages.

Churrr.

As expected, it was a new notebook with nothing written on it.

But something was strange about this.

‘Surely the Trier branch manager wrote this book. There’s no way there’s nothing.’

I quickly took out the fan. After that, I put ink on it and tried to write.

But it was that moment.

[It is time for a new contractor to appear by now.]

‘hmm?!’

Suddenly, writing appeared in an empty notebook.

I looked slightly surprised.

I wasn’t surprised that the text suddenly appeared. It was because the content was surprising.

‘Did you know it would change hands?’

Is he really a prophet?

He immediately surprised me.