Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 121

Originally, I Was Handsome 2

What is this? A pig?

Lonestar stared at the short, fat man standing behind the soldiers. Meanwhile, Legion’s height was shrinking, returning to his former self.

156 centimeters tall and 154 kilograms.

Seeing Legion happily thinking, ‘Yes! I grew 1 centimeter!’, Mark commented:

-How delightful.

Shouldn’t I be happy?

I think my appearance is becoming almost explosively handsome these days.

-I’m going crazy because of you. I think I’m becoming addicted to severe acquired appearance deficiency syndrome. No matter how I look at it, it’s all because of the ‘Diets are bad for your health’ passive skill. If we don’t come up with a solution soon, it’ll be a disaster.

Whether Mark said anything or not, Legion was genuinely satisfied with his appearance.

But that guy doesn’t recognize me……

“Who are you!”

Lonestar widened his eyes and glared.

“How dare you enter this place without permission! You’ve lost your nerve.”

-Hehehe, see? That person doesn’t recognize you either. It’s all because you’re fat and ugly. Face reality.

Mark, can you be quiet?

“You don’t know who I am?”

“Do I need to know you? I’ve never seen a pig like you before.”

Lonestar, still trying to maintain his dignity, didn’t utter the words that were rising to his throat, ‘Get lost, you’re ruining my appetite from the morning.’

“Haa-! This is a bit annoying. Okay, fine.”

Legion tapped the shoulder of the kneeling soldier.

“Hey.”

“Yes? Yes?”

The soldier was startled.

Right now, the lord’s son and the butler don’t know what’s going on. But he, along with many others, witnessed it with their own eyes.

Over 200 soldiers being dragged in with their arms and legs tied.

No one didn’t know who they were.

They were the lord and soldiers who had left with great fanfare just a few days ago. No one was wondering why they were in such a state.

“They lost.”

“Yes, they lost.”

The reason they were in such a state was immediately spread throughout the territory.

The lord was defeated. What does it mean that the lord was defeated! It means that the lord might change.

“Ah, this might get a bit tiring if I mess up……”

“Which side should I take?”

“Should I go say hello first?”

These were the conversations of the original influential families or wealthy people.

“Eh, I just hope they take less taxes.”

“Even if it changes, wouldn’t they collect less this year to gain some popularity?”

These were the words of the tenant farmers.

Because for those who are tenant farmers anyway, the existence of the lord has no value other than whether they take more or less taxes.

In any case, for that reason, many people were clinging to this procession.

“Honey, what’s going on? Where’s my little uncle?”

“Oppa [Korean term for older brother used by a female], where did my father go? No, more than that, what’s with this appearance?”

“No, way……”

“Lord, please say something.”

The Beech Viscount’s territory residents looked at the Legion Baron’s exclusive servants who were pulling the carriage, hoping for something.

The exclusive servants didn’t say anything to the territory residents.

They just hit them every time someone answered.

It was Legion’s order, and it was quite effective. The questioners stopped at some point, and the exclusive servants also relieved all their pent-up frustrations.

“They’re just the families of the guys who invaded us anyway. Help them feel more pain.”

Legion muttered casually.

As prepared in advance, as soon as Legion finished speaking, the exclusive servants began casting magic.

Hundreds of fireballs floating in the air created tremendous fear among the territory residents.

The fireballs exploded everywhere.

Kukukukung!

The stables exploded, the warehouse burned, and the mansion collapsed. People screamed and ran in all directions. The exclusive servants didn’t intentionally hit people.

But it was enough to throw the territory into chaos.

“This place is ours now.”

Legion muttered while still lying in the carriage.

“You bad bastard! These are territory residents who don’t know anything. Don’t harm them!”

The Beech Viscount shouted with a desperate voice. Legion didn’t even look at him and extended his staff.

Thud! With a sound, his teeth fell out.

“Cough, cough. How dare…… a mere baron…… to me, a viscount……”

“Still haven’t come to your senses, Beech Viscount.”

Legion looked down at the Beech Viscount.

The Beech Viscount glared while blocking the blood flowing from his face with his palm.

“To be honest, I’ve wanted to cut your head off dozens of times already. Do you know how many of our territory residents you killed?”

Legion suddenly shouted as he 벌떡 일어났다 [suddenly stood up].

“A whopping three thousand!”

The exclusive servants looked at Legion with bewildered eyes.

Even if we combine our entire territory, it’s less than a thousand people? And the most injured person is Grandpa Martin, but that grandpa twisted his back after falling from a rock while running away, and he originally had a pre-existing condition……

The Beech Viscount also looked at Legion with a bewildered expression.

We killed that many? Really? Without me knowing?

“Even though I spared you, how can you be so shameless! I am barely suppressing the urge to cut off your head right now, Beech Viscount, on behalf of three thousand of my territory residents! Why? To protect the families left behind for them! I’m just keeping you alive to continue their remaining lives with your ransoms!”

Legion began to lower his voice as the viscount’s territory residents who were running away stopped.

“So don’t provoke me anymore! I don’t have any more patience than this. And if a proper ransom doesn’t come out of you and your subordinates……”

Legion smiled and continued.

“I will take the value of the lives lost in my territory five times over from this place.”

Then he whispered quietly to the viscount.

“And I’ll burn all your land to the ground.”

Legion turned his back and walked towards the lord’s mansion.

“You impudent bastard! A mere baron! How dare a mere baron think he can do anything to me!”

The Beech Viscount shouted with a desperate voice-

The exclusive servants opened the door of the carriage and rushed inside. They began to beat the people inside without holding back.

Paak! Paaaak! Paaaak!

Faces were torn and blood splattered.

Some had their bones broken while blocking the clubs. There were a few nobles who rushed in at first, but soon their curses subsided.

In the end, the nobles grabbed the exclusive servants’ ankles and began to beg.

“Plea, please save me.”

This was the scene the soldier witnessed.

His heart is still pounding. He was too scared to stand there. There weren’t many enemies……

They were people who couldn’t be taken lightly.

He told Lonestar and the butler about the facts as they were.

“Ah, Father is a prisoner?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The soldier lowered his head, even though it wasn’t his fault.

“All the knights who went with Father too?”

“I think so.”

“But only 200 of them returned? What about the rest? What happened to the rest? As far as I know, the Alexander Baron family has only about fifty soldiers at most……”

“I, I don’t know either.”

“You bastard! Can’t you speak properly!”

Legion snorted at Lonestar’s words.

“Don’t shout, you idiot. You heard it all a while ago, what are you pretending not to know? Hey, Bacon.”

“Yes, Master.”

Bacon’s massive body entered the mansion. He was a man who exuded an enormous aura at first glance. The moment they saw him, Lonestar and the butler involuntarily closed their mouths.

Legion held out his hand to Bacon.

Bacon took out a considerable amount of documents from his bag and handed them to the soldier.

“Give it to that guy. He’ll know when he sees it.”

“Yes, sir!”

The soldier answered as politely as possible.

Lonestar might get angry at that sight, but right now, the knife is in the hands of this small but scary-looking pig, so there’s nothing he can do.

Lonestar received the documents.

“It can’t be! You’re Legion!”

“What can’t be, you son of a bitch! You’ve seen me before too.”

“헐 [Heol – Korean exclamation of disbelief]! That’s why it can’t be!”

Lonestar shouted without losing heart.

He can’t believe that the small, fat pig in front of him is Legion.

The law of immutable originals.

A handsome man is handsome even if he gains weight.

An ugly man is ugly even if he loses weight. That’s why so many people want to receive plastic surgery magic from the archmage, even if they have to pay billions.

But Legion was the most handsome of all the men Lonestar had ever seen.

Okay, let’s concede a hundred times that he gained weight like crazy over the past few months, eating, playing, sleeping, and deliberately gaining weight. Still, that height doesn’t make sense.

Lonestar looked at the fatty impersonating Legion while looking at the documents.

1. 3,000 dead territory residents.

2. 950 meters of collapsed castle walls.

3. 270 collapsed houses.

4. 45 collapsed mansions.

5. Losses due to war.

6. Approximately 270 bodies of enemy soldiers recovered.

7. 197 enemy prisoners (12 nobles, 32 quasi-nobles, 153 cavalrymen).

The Beech Viscount territory shall immediately implement compensation for the above as follows.

-Below-

1. Pay 1,000 gold as consolation money to each dead territory resident.

2. Pay 200 gold per meter for the restoration of the collapsed castle walls.

3. Pay 500 gold per house for the restoration of 270 collapsed houses.

4. Pay 3,000 gold per mansion for the restoration of the collapsed mansions.

5. Pay a total of 200,000 gold as consolation for the apology for the losses and damages caused by the war.

6. Pay 3,000 gold per body as compensation for recovering the dead soldiers of your territory.

7. For the prisoners, pay ransom, with viscounts paying 100,000 gold each, barons paying 50,000 gold, quasi-barons paying 30,000 gold, and other cavalrymen paying 5,000 gold.

The total amount of compensation for this war is six million eight hundred forty-five thousand gold.

“Pay up a total of 6,845,000 gold!”

There were no further words.

To suddenly demand such an enormous amount of money? This is an amount that Lonestar could never have imagined.

“How much is this anyway?”

So Lonestar asked the butler next to him. The butler swallowed hard and answered.

“It’s the total amount of our territory’s taxes for…… 7 years.”

쿵 [Kung – Korean sound effect for a thud]!

Lonestar shouted in a pale face.

“You crazy bastard. What kind of trick are you playing!”

Lonestar threw the documents on the floor. The butler picked up the documents that had fallen on the floor and read them again. He also seemed dumbfounded. He flicked them with his fingertips and threw them over there.

Meaning that it’s not worth dealing with.

Legion looked back and forth between the two with a smiling face.

“Are you the butler over there? If I offer to deduct about 500,000 gold for bringing me your neck, would the guy next to you accept it or not?”

The butler flinched.

Legion continued to speak while looking at him with the same smile.

“Bring it back after organizing it exactly as you threw it.”

The butler stood awkwardly, looking at Lonestar and Legion with a flustered posture.

“Why? Don’t you want to? Do you really think your neck is worth 500,000 gold?”

Legion twisted his lips and stared at them with a cold gaze.