Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 190

# 191

“When are you coming home, bro?” (1)

Lord Ford couldn’t believe his eyes.

It was like a nightmare.

The thirty knights he had brought were elites from the Ferrari Knights [a prestigious knightly order].

They possessed formidable combat power, capable of wiping out an average infantry company on their own.

They were subordinates whom Marquis Porsche and Lord Ford had painstakingly raised, each one as precious as any jewel.

Yet, those subordinate knights were—

Pow, pow, pow, pow!

“Kuaaaak! Unbelievable! Who the hell are these monsters?”

“We can’t catch them. That pervert’s movements are too fast!”

“Th, this can’t be happening. Dodge! He’s activating his Aura Blade [a weapon enhanced by concentrated life energy]!”

They were falling too easily.

The attack power of those men was beyond imagination.

Moreover, their movements were so fluid and coordinated that it seemed as if they knew how each other would move.

No matter how much the subordinates changed their positions and patterns, they couldn’t even graze the hems of their clothes.

“I know! I know who that man is!”

One of the subordinates shouted. His expression was twisted horribly as he recognized the opponent’s identity.

“Who? That pervert with the pigtails?”

“I don’t know if he’s a pervert, but… I remember seeing his face once before.”

The subordinate trembled as he spoke.

His face turned pale.

“Who is it?”

Lord Ford asked, but the knight couldn’t answer immediately.

The moment he realized his identity, the hairs on his body stood on end, taking him back to that terrible moment in his memory.

It was a rainy day.

He remembered it clearly.

It was the night he and twelve of his colleagues were drinking at a tavern and got into a brawl with local thugs.

‘How dare those neighborhood thugs pick a fight with us?’

The result was decided faster than flipping a palm. It was an overwhelming victory for the knights.

They easily knocked down the thugs and, intoxicated with victory, began to harass them.

They felt good.

It was as if everyone in the world would soon kneel at their feet.

That was when that man intervened.

“That’s enough.”

“What, you bastard!”

“That’s enough education for them. Don’t ruin our drinking mood, and you guys get out of here too.”

A colleague next to him swaggered up to the man.

Then, he grabbed the man’s hair and recoiled in surprise.

“It’s an ogre!”

The man kicked the colleague as if he was annoyed.

“Who’s the ogre!”

The colleague rolled out the door with a single blow, crashed into the wall, and passed out.

Even then, they hadn’t grasped the situation.

Three or four colleagues moved quickly and punched the man in the face. They naturally predicted victory, but….

That thought was shattered in less than five minutes.

All twelve knight colleagues were left in the back alley with broken limbs. The knights begged for their lives in the rain.

They were beaten so badly that their consciousness blocked out the memory of that day. It was a taboo that the colleagues should never mention again.

Later, he found out who that man of immense strength was.

The portrait was of an incredibly handsome man, but….

That man had the worst face he feared seeing in his dreams.

The man’s name was ‘Crazy Dreyger’.

He was one of the kingdom’s Seven Great Powerhouses [the seven strongest individuals in the kingdom].

“C… Crazy who?”

“It’s definitely Crazy Dreyger.”

Lord Ford gritted his teeth. Now that he heard it, aside from the hairstyle, the atmosphere and weapons were similar.

Moreover, the overwhelming force.

If not Crazy Dreyger, who else could display such martial prowess?

‘Is this completely twisted?’

He sorted through his thoughts. He had invested enormous funds and resources into this operation. It was an operation that absolutely could not go wrong.

But from the start, nothing had gone right.

Why?

All because of that Don Quixote.

That bastard had taken out all the snipers and helped Baserabap escape.

Gritting his teeth!

“If it weren’t for that bastard….”

And then Crazy Dreyger suddenly appeared.

Personality aside – women aside – private life aside – he was a figure who had entered the kingdom’s Seven Great Powerhouses purely on skill.

When the Seven Great Powerhouses were first discussed, most people expected that the Seven Great Powerhouses would come from prestigious families who inherited the secrets of the royal knights or noble families.

And in fact, the Seven Great Powerhouses were initially selected that way.

But what do you know?

Some of those Seven Great Powerhouses were utterly crushed by those so-called wild men.

That’s how the New Seven Great Powerhouses were created.

Except for three, they were all wild men.

The nobles protested. But they couldn’t change the kingdom’s Seven Great Powerhouses.

They had to be at least 7-star [a high rank in magical or martial ability], but….

No one could surpass that.

Two of them were gathered in the same place. He had never heard of wild men among the Seven Great Powerhouses joining hands before….

Then?

Lord Ford gritted his teeth. He had been completely played. Don Quixote! He was truly a terrifying man. Was he controlling all these situations right now?

“Cadillac.”

“Yes, Commander.”

“You must escape from here and report everything that happened here to His Excellency. Don Quixote is truly a terrifying man. Perhaps he is our true enemy. If we don’t defeat him, our entire foundation may be in danger.”

“B, but.”

“It’s okay, just go.”

“Hmph.”

Cadillac’s eyes welled up with tears.

His comrades approached and patted him on the shoulder.

“It’s okay. Not all knights have glorious ends. I thought this day might come.”

“Give this to my mom.”

“You take care of yourself, friend. Tell my girlfriend… to take good care of herself.”

They hugged each other for a moment. Cadillac, having performed his final ritual, left the battlefield.

After confirming that Cadillac had disappeared into the black smoke, Lord Ford unleashed his aura with all his might.

“You detestable Don Quixote! You have set our kingdom’s future back by ten years. Die! You son of a bitch!”

Lord Ford and the knights threw away their scabbards and charged at Legion and Dreyger.

All those attacks were blocked by Dreyger’s Supreme King’s Fangs [Dreyger’s signature weapon or fighting style].

Legion jumped in, one after another.

“Kahaha! If you give me 50,000 gold right now, I’ll spare you!”

But no one offered money, so he readily blew away Lord Ford and the knights with Dreyger.

They shouted until the end.

“Long live the kingdom!”

“We will be watching you even in hell.”

Legion, having defeated them all, felt strange. He had never done anything bad. He hadn’t done anything to be pointed at.

But what was this?

This uneasiness?

It felt like those who had disappeared into the flames were very good people… and he had become a very bad person.

“This is just a feeling, right?”

* * *

“This is not the time to be doing this. We must hurry.”

Freeza shouted.

He was right. Black smoke had already filled the underground chamber. The heat was so intense that it felt like he would evaporate with sweat at any moment.

Drop, drop-

Sweat dripped onto the floor.

Sizzle-

The sweat quickly turned into steam and disappeared due to the heat.

‘Mark! Can we escape?’

-You and Dreyger can.

‘What about the others?’

-Baserabap can too. The dwarves and Freeza can’t. The three guardian mages might if they’re lucky.

Legion looked at Bidet and Lulu.

They were looking at Legion with the most pitiful eyes possible. ‘You’re not going to abandon us, are you? You even made us staves.’

‘Ugh, why are you looking at me like that?’

Lulu quietly knelt on both knees. “You’re not just going to leave, are you? We’re not going to end things like this, are we?”

Legion shook his head.

Yeah, he couldn’t bring himself to abandon them. Then what should he do?

“Here. Come here.”

Freeza covered his mouth with his hand and pointed to a building that hadn’t caught fire yet.

“If we go into the building now, we’ll all die.”

Legion shouted in the voice of Sergeant Kim, who had returned from hell [a reference to a character known for being hardened and experienced].

Freeza trembled as he replied.

“We’re going to go underground. That’s the only way.”

“Underground? There’s another underground?”

“Yes. This place was originally a dungeon. I don’t know who made it, but it’s incredibly huge. That’s why there are still many places that haven’t been excavated.”

‘Oho! What’s this? It feels like the story is suddenly progressing?’

Come to think of it, he had forgotten, but this was actually a dungeon. A dungeon exists to be conquered. Naturally, it has at least one underground floor, and at most several more, or even over 100 floors.

If this was a dungeon, there was a high probability that there were more underground floors.

Why hadn’t he thought of that?

Because he initially thought it was an underground city. He had heard that it was a dungeon based on its scale and condition, but he had dismissed it. He hadn’t even considered that there might be deeper floors.

“How many more floors are there?”

“Only the second underground floor has been excavated. We haven’t even fully explored the second floor yet. The second underground floor is also incredibly vast.”

“Okay. Let’s go. Hurry.”

Legion nodded and said.

Freeza took the lead and entered the wooden building.

It seemed to have been a tavern originally. It was a mess now, but quite a few expensive decorations were scattered here and there. He went down to the basement of the building. There was a door on the floor in the basement. It was a thick iron door.

He grabbed the thick iron door with both hands and pulled.

“Huh?”

“Why?”

“It’s locked.”

Freeza’s face hardened. But he wasn’t worried. What was there to worry about when there were two of the kingdom’s Seven Great Powerhouses and four mages?

As expected-

Dreyger opened the iron door with a single punch. A cool breeze rushed in from inside the broken door.

Kukukukukuku!

The fire engulfed the building.

The windows shattered and the flames spread in an instant. Nothing could be seen outside the windows. The world was dominated only by hot heat and black smoke.

“Hurry!”

Everyone jumped down to the second underground floor. Baserabap cast a spell to restore the broken iron door.

Clang-

The iron door closed again.

* * *

Earl Office’s castle.

It was desolate now. Earl Audi was the one guarding it.

The family members of Earl Office, who originally resided here, had been relocated to another place for a large sum of money. The son who inherited the title of Earl strongly protested.

So, Earl Audi showed evidence that Earl Office had plotted a ‘rebellion’.

Of course, the evidence was fabricated.

The faces of Earl Office’s family members turned pale upon seeing the evidence.

According to this evidence, maintaining the title was not the issue. If things went wrong, three generations would be wiped out.

Earl Audi patted the shoulder of Earl Office’s eldest son and said softly.

“Earl Office and I have been friends for ten years. I couldn’t bring myself to report this fact to the royal family. But I couldn’t overlook it either. Your father will bear the sin. Instead, you and your family will leave for another place. I have prepared another territory. The title of Earl will remain the same.”

Earl Audi handed him 100,000 gold.

Earl Office’s eldest son grabbed his hand and wept.

“Thank you. If it weren’t for you, Uncle, we would all have had our heads cut off and hung on the castle walls.”

Earl Audi gave a faint smile as he looked at Earl Office’s eldest son.

He gave Earl Office’s eldest son land frozen in the eastern tundra. In short, it was a place where people couldn’t live.

Earl Audi intended to get rid of all suspicious individuals along with him. 100,000 gold? It would be gone in an instant in that barren land.

Thus, Earl Office’s family and about 1,000 residents left for the tundra.

Now, all that remained was….

Earl Audi put his hand in his pocket and looked out the window. Black smoke was still billowing everywhere.

Three days had passed.

Even so, the underground was still burning.

He calculated the damage. About 10,000 people had not escaped from that place.

It wasn’t a war… the sacrifice of 10,000 people was truly enormous. They must have all burned to death.

Along with the Great Sage Baserabap.

Earl Audi felt no remorse for their deaths.

Thanks to their deaths, he had obtained this land.

Siem, the city that lays golden eggs. He intended to develop this place into the eastern capital.

“Hehehehehe.”

Laughter came out involuntarily.

It seemed like things were getting a little twisted because of Don Quixote or whatever, but the result was that an even tastier fruit had ripened.

10,000 people.

How many dissidents were mixed in among them? He had gotten rid of all those people at once.

He felt like his chest was clear.

“Kahahahaha!”

Earl Audi’s laughter echoed as if it filled the office.

* * *

At the same time.

The real Don Quixote was looking at the bounty portrait on the wall.

-Death Butcher Don Quixote.

Age unknown.

Real name not confirmed.

A giant nearly 2 meters tall.

Always wears terrifying iron armor. Weapon is an iron sword. A ruthless killer.

Crime: Traitor. Plotting to overthrow the state. Anyone who sees him should report him to the nearest government office. He is a very dangerous person, so never get close to him.

Reward: 30,000 gold.

Don Quixote looked at Jack Nicher.

“Why… why am I a traitor?”