Genius Wizard Hides His Sword Skills [EN]: Chapter 118

118. Ailen Dolph

A life lived with a second chance. I, who wasn’t easily surprised by most unexpected situations, was shaken.

“You sons of bitches from the Magic Tower! You will all be judged by God!”

Horizo’s escape was deeply unsettling.

‘Why all of a sudden……?’

His escape from the Magic Tower’s prison facility wasn’t surprising in itself.

After all, I had cut the magic restraints binding him beforehand. There were plenty of opportunities for him to come out if he wanted to.

However, he had asked me to trust him and wait. It was hard to understand his sudden escape.

‘Did something happen?’

[Isn’t it just that he was bored of being locked up and ran away?]

‘That’s unlikely.’

Like the members of the Eccentric Faith I had seen so far, Horizo and Rio’s faith was beyond doubt.

They were willing to commit suicide for the cause of the Eccentric Faith. It was hard to believe that their faith had been broken by only two months of imprisonment.

“The world will not go as you want! For the One!”

Moreover, Horizo was cursing the Magic Tower while shouting the Eccentric Faith’s slogan.

[Well, that doesn’t seem likely. Something must have really happened?]

He was on top of the moving sphere, looking down at the lobby and peering around. Horizo’s head moved urgently, as if looking for something.

Soon, he checked each of the children inside the glass sphere.

“Kyaaak!”

“S, save me!”

The students were screaming inside. They looked terrified, as if they had seen a monster.

“You bastard! How dare you terrorize the inside of the Magic Tower!”

And Andrei began to chant a spell. Not only that, but all the professors gathered in the lobby were chanting magic spells at Horizo.

‘…….’

Horizo was excitedly scanning around. To the students and professors of the Magic Tower, he was just a monster.

‘What is it you want to say?’

It was clear that he would be seriously injured if things continued like this. Nevertheless, he was on top of the glass sphere and didn’t seem to want to come down.

Whoosh!

A fireball was fired at him.

“You bastard! How dare you come here!”

It was a fire pit raised by Andrei. Fortunately, it was inside the Magic Tower, so it wasn’t easy for the professors to use large-scale magic. Andrei chose a weak spell in case the equipment was damaged or the students were hurt.

“Hmph!”

Since Horizo had trained his body in the Eccentric Faith, it wouldn’t be difficult to avoid a single fireball.

He immediately jumped and landed on another moving sphere.

“You pig dogs of the Magic Tower!”

The problem was that the magic aimed at him didn’t stop at just one.

The magic aimed at Horizo became two, then four, and soon all the professors began to concentrate their fire on him.

Horizo dodged and endured, but it was only a matter of time before he was caught.

‘What should I do?’

It was a difficult situation.

I couldn’t help him, and I couldn’t shout at him. As a student of the Magic Tower, I could only watch.

“Is this all the Magic Tower’s wizards are capable of!”

Horizo resisted the professors’ magic and moved around on the glass sphere. He shouted and provoked them, but he looked precarious. He was desperately trying to avoid them, and he looked pathetic.

“You damn bastards!”

Horizo thrashed and continued to look around.

Then he stopped for a moment.

“……For the One!”

It was the moment when he made eye contact with me.

The moment he found me, he suddenly knelt on the glass sphere.

‘What are you doing!’

There were still dozens of spells flying towards him, but he didn’t seem to want to avoid them anymore.

Pazzzzzz!

Whoosh!

The light covered his body. He was quickly subdued, engulfed in magic.

“You bastard!”

“Did you think you could cause trouble in the Magic Tower and get away with it!”

The guards from the Magic Tower’s prison facility, who had been dispatched one after another, surrounded the glass sphere.

‘Horizo……!’

They covered his battered body with a robe and took him away.

[Oh no…….]

The commotion caused by Horizo was not long.

– Emergency situation over! The escaped criminal has been re-imprisoned. Students, please feel free to continue your activities.

The broadcast announced his arrest. With that, the hall was soon filled with commotion.

“W, what was that just now?”

“Wasn’t that the Eccentric Faith from back then?”

“Those people shouted that slogan too.”

“Did he escape? Is that even possible?”

However, I didn’t have time to chat like them.

Horizo seemed to be searching for something. His actions stopped after he found me.

‘……What was it you wanted to say?’

Clearly, there was a message he wanted to convey to me.

“Drew, just a moment.”

“Where are you going?”

“There’s something I need to check.”

I pushed through the murmuring crowd and headed to the moving sphere boarding area.

The spheres had stopped operating for a while due to Horizo’s appearance.

Woo-oong!

They were starting to run again.

[What are you going to do?]

‘Horizo must have left something behind.’

Among the dozens of moving spheres, my destination was clear.

The sphere he was on when he made eye contact with me. I pushed through the crowd towards that place.

[Would he have had time to leave anything? He must have been too busy getting hit by magic.]

‘He touched the ceiling of the sphere when he knelt down earlier.’

It wouldn’t have been just an act of kneeling to pay his respects to me.

‘I’ll know once I go there.’

Students flocked to ride the re-activated moving spheres. Fortunately, there were almost no people on the moving sphere that Horizo had last boarded.

It was the place where he had been hit by magic at the last moment, so the students were reluctant to go near it.

Woo-oong!

The sphere approached in response to my mana. It was unscathed by the magic fired by the professors. As befitting the pinnacle of the Magic Tower’s technology, the moving sphere was not easily destroyed.

‘There it is!’

There was a black stain the size of a fingernail on the surface of the sphere. It looked like soot at first glance.

[Hmm. What is this?]

‘It doesn’t seem like a normal mark……. It could be a method used by the Eccentric Faith, so I should take it to Anghel.’

[But how are you going to get it? There are too many eyes watching to get on.]

There was no way to check the soot on the upper surface of the moving sphere here.

‘Let’s go upstairs first.’

The floor I chose to go to a place where there were no people was the 100th floor.

Woo-oong!

It was perfect to go to the research building, a place where ordinary students couldn’t go.

* * *

It wasn’t difficult to get the black stain from the research building. The professors were away for class, so there were even fewer people.

‘I have no idea what it is.’

Now I was just sitting in the classroom, observing the black stain left by Horizo.

He must have intended something. If he risked revealing himself, there must be a hidden message in this black mark.

[……It’s not just dust, is it?]

‘Come on, no way.’

[He might have left a message in a different way.]

‘I should take this to Anghel first.’

No matter how much the two of us racked our brains, we couldn’t figure out the identity of the black mark. If it was a way of communicating within the Eccentric Faith, Anghel would be able to recognize it.

“Alright. Everyone has worked hard. It’s the first day, so let’s finish here today. Dismissed!”

Andrei finished the class after a long speech. He quickly whispered in Drew’s ear.

“Drew, I’ll go out first. I think I need to go to the underground community I went to yesterday.”

“Huh? Professor Andrei asked you to come to the lab.”

“Something urgent came up. I’ll go there next time.”

“Heek! I, is that okay?”

After all, he was in a position where he needed my help. He wouldn’t be too angry if I broke a promise once.

“Yeah. Just make up a good excuse.”

“Oh, okay! I’ll tell him that I need to have an interview with Professor Alois on the first day.”

Drew had become accustomed to creating my alibi.

“Thanks.”

Before Andrei’s eyes reached me, I hurried to the back door of the classroom.

Woo-oong!

Thanks to the aura I lightly wrapped around my toes, I was able to maintain a faster pace than any other student.

“Why is he so fast?”

“Did he learn movement magic during the vacation?”

“Wow, that’s amazing. He’s improving every time.”

I pushed past the whispering students and boarded the moving sphere first.

* * *

“Hmm. This is the message we use.”

That was Anghel’s reaction after receiving the black stain. He was shining the black dust back and forth under the lights in his residence.

“Where did you get this? Did our children approach the Herald?”

“Do you remember the knight named Horizo from before?”

“Ah. You mean the child who is currently in the Magic Tower’s prison facility.”

Soon Anghel’s expression hardened.

“……Did that child cause any trouble?”

“Actually, he caused a commotion in the Magic Tower lobby this morning.”

“Huh! Are you saying he escaped?”

“Yeah. And after he found me, he seems to have left that behind.”

“Haa……. I’ll decode it.”

Anghel put the black mark on his palm and let his mana flow through it. His worried voice flowed out.

“Is Horizo safe?”

“His life will be safe. The ones who attacked him weren’t strong magic. But I don’t know what kind of hardships he’ll go through in the future…….”

He had escaped and caused trouble after being the one who committed terrorism against the Magic Tower.

[It won’t end easily.]

It was clear that he would receive much worse treatment than before.

“……It can’t be helped. If that guy wanted to convey a message to the Herald even in prison, it must have been worth it.”

Anghel would be more upset than anyone else. But he suppressed his sadness as much as possible and focused only on decoding the cipher.

Woo-oong…….

As his mana stimulated the black soot, the marks floated into the air.

[Oh. It’s writing.]

That black dust.

Swish!

It scattered into the air and turned into writing.

-For the One! There is something I must tell the Herald.

Aries and Carles, who were in the community, also paid attention to the sight.

“Oh, what is it!”

“That’s an amazing technique.”

Admun, who was watching from afar, made a small groan.

“……Huh?”

The phrases floated in the air. The first phrase of the code sent by Horizo was as follows.

– I have found Ailen Dolph.