Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 116

Magic is Learned for Nothing – Episode 117

# 117

“Do you know who I am?”

Legion entered the territory.

The atmosphere is strange.

Usually, when you come to this area, you feel warmth, coziness, and the clear, beautiful sound of birds, but today, it feels like there’s something stuck in my ear.

Caw, caw, caw.

The number of crows is also higher than usual.

I don’t particularly dislike crows, but being here at this time makes me feel uneasy.

Legion looked towards the territory in the distance.

It’s past sunset, but thanks to the Iron Eyes passive skill, my eyesight is as good as any master-level ranger.

There are no people on the fortress walls, where construction should be in full swing.

And I can feel a different energy around it than usual.

“Smells like blood,” Dreyzer said.

Legion nodded.

I don’t know about the blood smell, but he also knew what this feeling was. It’s an ominous energy that you would find in a place with a lot of casualties.

Why on earth?

Thump, thump.

Legion walked further inside. As he went through the forest, the fortress walls came into view.

And-

At the foot of the fortress walls, there were dozens of dead horses and soldiers. Some were burned to death, others stabbed to death.

Legion narrowed his brows and approached them.

Who on earth are these people? Why would they be dying en masse at the entrance to our territory’s fortress walls?

“Looks like our kids did this…” Dreyzer pointed to the soldiers who had been burned black.

“Hmm, there was a large-scale bombing.”

“That’s right. The fire magic was launched from there.” Dreyzer pointed to the fortress walls that were under construction.

“At least 100 fireballs rained down from there to here. And these guys…”

The soldiers near the fortress walls mostly died from stab wounds.

It seems like there was quite a fierce battle. Armor was torn and crushed. Shields were split in half.

“This is…”

Legion saw a corpse that had died with a peculiar wound. The chest was cleanly cut off. However, there was almost no blood, as if it had been cauterized by fire.

It was definitely Bacon’s ‘Fire Blade’ technique, which has been rapidly developing recently.

It was a typical Legion-exclusive unit’s combat method.

“It seems like the enemy has invaded. Judging by the fact that the blood hasn’t clotted yet, it hasn’t been long. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like there are any casualties on our side yet…” Dreyzer concluded.

Legion agreed. But you never know what might happen next. His always playful eyes gradually turned cold.

“I don’t know who it is, but…” Legion held his middle iron staff and gritted his teeth. “You’re all dead.”

* * *

New Employees-

Hymo, Buffalo, and Heiler remained in a ‘place where death was certain.’

There’s no other way.

They were chosen by lottery and got the short end of the stick.

Their loyalty to Legion reaches to the sky, but that’s only to Legion, not to Legion’s territory, that’s what they thought.

So, they decided to draw lots.

Steel and Mizsett won some high-probability survival options, such as ‘Go to the Orc Warriors for SOS,’ ‘Take the elderly and children of the village and run,’ and ‘Secure the retreat route for the fleeing territory residents.’

Those lucky bastards.

Steel and Mizsett shed tears, alternately holding their hands and saying, “Goodbye, my precious friend. If you have any treasures to send to your family, entrust them to us. We swear we’ll send them.”

“Yeah, thanks. If you guys have anything to entrust to us before you run away, entrust it to us. We’ll gladly eat it,” Heiler replied with a smile.

Those bastards are happy even as they leave.

“Stamina buff! Mana buff! And stamina buff again! Huff, huff!” Hymo breathed heavily.

He gave all the exclusive servants nearby all the buffs.

Servants, they say…

I don’t know how those dog-bone-like servants are so strong. Servants are fighting against enemy knights. No, it’s not just that, the knights can’t withstand a few moves and fall down dead.

Servants stronger than knights!

It’s absurd.

But-

Hymo thought that our new employees were just as good.

Take Mizsett, for example. She broke through the wall of the 3rd Circle, which had been stagnant for years. Her attack power and defense power have become several times stronger.

She herself is surprised every day.

“It’s all thanks to Legion.”

She immediately joined the Legion Church. And she’s making flyers.

-Join the Legion Church. Believe and go to heaven, don’t believe and go to hell.

Hymo asked for a revision because it seemed too much. He said that if she made a mistake, she could be branded as a heretic and attacked by other religions.

She admitted it. So, the changed phrase was.

-You too, me too, Legion. Number 1, Legion.

I don’t know what she’s talking about.

I just left her alone.

All that matters is loyalty to Legion.

She took the villagers and left this place.

The villagers left like a tide. The children held Hymo’s hand, who they had become close to, and said, ‘Uncle, be careful,’ several times.

He doesn’t even know his parents’ faces.

He lost his parents during the continental war. I don’t know if they abandoned him or lost him, but anyway, he doesn’t have parents now.

He only has the village where he has lived.

He thought of the grateful person who breastfed him as his parents, and he thought of the villagers as his family.

Succeed-

I wanted to repay them.

But-

I realized a little that my parents and the grateful people were different.

One part of my heart aches.

Just because I heard the little kids tell me not to die. I’ve been living my life not caring if these little kids die or not.

…I don’t like children dying.

That’s why-

I save the children with my life.

“Haaaap!” Hymo blew off the head of a cavalryman who had crossed the wall. The height of the wall is only 2 meters [approximately 6.5 feet]. It’s not a wall made to prevent invasion.

It’s just a wall made for vines to grow well.

If we survive, I want to give the boss this advice.

The boss’s mansion is the last bastion. The last line of defense should be fortress walls, not these walls.

Hymo didn’t know that if the exclusive servants heard that, they might foam at the mouth and collapse.

“Sephia is about to fall!” Heiler shouted urgently.

“No!”

The guardian of the territory is Sephia.

There are Dreyzer and Lich Mamon who are stronger than him, but Sephia is the guardian.

Of course, in a symbolic sense.

His collapse means the same as ‘the territory is collapsing.’

Even if everyone else dies-

Sephia must stand on two feet.

“Buffer! Buff! Buff!” Hymo mobilized all the remaining divine power to replenish Sephia’s stamina and mana.

Even so-

Koo-oong!

Sephia fell.

The guys who invaded the territory weren’t empty-headed either.

The cavalrymen were aiming for us, and only the knights were fighting Sephia. In the beginning, Sephia blew away three or four knights with his tremendous power, but those who found a way to attack were by no means easy.

Sephia was caught in a cycle of attrition.

The exclusive servants were also in a difficult situation.

No matter how strong a magic warrior is, it was not easy to face hundreds of cavalrymen.

The overwhelming force surpasses individual power, which was not a lie.

Little by little.

Sephia and the exclusive servants were collapsing. In fact, it’s a miracle that they’ve lasted this long.

But if only one person collapses, it will pour out like a collapsing fortress wall with a hole.

If they collapse, all that’s left are the new employees.

The vigilantes will be annihilated in less than 10 minutes.

“Hey, you guys,” Hymo said, looking at the vigilantes who were desperately firing arrows.

“Why?” Hita replied.

Hymo knows him too. Buffalo hit him in the early days, but now it’s all resolved. They’re on a first-name basis, calling each other brother.

Everyone will be surprised, but Hita is the older brother.

He looks so young that I thought he was in his 20s, but it turns out he’s in his late 30s. Rose, who is pregnant, is in her early 20s.

Damn, thief.

“Brother, run away to the back.”

“Shut up. What do you mean run away when the territory is in danger? I’m going to fight to the end.”

“The territory is bullshit! What are you looking for now? Do you think I’m saying this because I’m thinking about friendship or loyalty? Now is not the time for that. I’ll be honest.”

“What are you going to say honestly?”

“Our territory is over now.”

“Don’t talk nonsense. This is our hometown. I can never let that happen.”

“Open your eyes wide and look at them. I don’t know them well, but one thing is certain.”

“What’s that?”

“They have no intention of letting any of us live.”

“……”

Hita closed his mouth.

I expected it, but when I heard it directly, I felt like my heart was collapsing.

To have the territory where I lived and grew up taken away? Everyone dies?

It wasn’t realistic.

“Go quickly! Go and evacuate your sister-in-law and children as far as possible. Move as much as possible and enter Dusseldorf. It’s still safe there. If you’re lucky, you might be able to go to the Orc village. They’ll protect the villagers.”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Brother!”

“I’ll never back down. Yeah, I’m sorry to Rose. I’m sorry to the baby. I’m sorry, but! If I back down here? You’re going to kill us all anyway, right? Then rather! It’s better to tie up their feet here, even a little bit.”

“Damn it! You’re stubborn! Do as you please. But…” Hymo looked back at the young men of the village with pitiful eyes.

They seem to be ready. They must be able to have this look because they are used to monster attacks.

“From now on, I’m going to give you brothers something called a buff [a magical enhancement]. It feels strange, so don’t twist your body for no reason.”

“Do it quickly if you’re going to do it. Damn it, they’re coming again!”

“I know.”

Hymo put stamina buffs on the young men of the village. Other buffs are useless anyway.

I just hope they survive for a long time.

It was then.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwang!

Over there!

A huge explosion occurred behind the enemy’s camp.

The explosion subsided in an instant, and an enormous energy began to surge.

“T, t, t…” Hymo’s expression, which had been crumpled as if he was about to die, was coming back to life.

Legion-

No, Legion has come.