Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 130

Magic is a Waste to Learn – Episode 131

# 131

A City Hiding Madness 2

The Red Dragon Preitia’s lair was located in the northern part of the Düsselrf Mountains.

It had already been 2,000 years since she settled there.

She had never moved once. After leaving her hatchling stage, she settled here and never moved.

The reason for settling here was simple: it was quiet. There were no noisy races, and no annoying disturbances.

She liked the place and often spent her time sleeping or elegantly drinking tea.

Recently, she had been hearing rumors that bothered her.

The rumors were brought by the guardians who protected the lair.

-The Black Dragon is indiscriminately massacring monsters and other races.

Preitia snorted.

It was nonsense. This was where she had settled. What crazy dragon would cause trouble here?

However, the rumors that kept coming were extremely gruesome.

-The Black Dragon is eating ogres raw.

-The Black Dragon is capturing and raising all the monsters in the Düsselrf Mountains.

-The Black Dragon doesn’t care about Preitia.

Hearing this made her feel a little uncomfortable. Could there really be a Black Dragon in the mountains? She had never sensed the energy of the species before.

Soon after, several ogre-made guardians rushed into the lair, bleeding. They were all pale.

They knelt down and cried.

-Sob, sob, we were almost eaten by a fat human. Master, it’s so scary. He was smacking his lips while looking at us.

Only then did Preitia feel that something was going on.

Still, she didn’t move. She didn’t plan to move unless it was absolutely necessary.

Because it was annoying.

If it were the old days, she would have jumped up and shouted, “Hey! Who is it!”

Was she getting old?

She didn’t want to get involved and hurt herself. If a lively and young Black Dragon said, “Damn it, you bitch. Come at me,” how embarrassing would that be?

She had a similar experience a while ago.

She went up the mountain to manage her figure and met the most ferocious-looking human she had seen in 2,000 years.

Even an ogre would be better looking than that guy.

The son of a bitch was so good at swearing.

He was quite a strong human, but that was it. Strong for a human. He was far from being able to fight a dragon.

She beat him half to death and kicked him out.

She wouldn’t have cared if he had died. Thinking about his swearing still made her angry.

Anyway, she was quite injured because of him, and she had to go back to sleep for a few months to heal the wound.

But a few days ago, she started hearing a voice she had heard somewhere before.

-Preitia! It’s me!

-Preitia! I’m back!

-It’s me! Where are you? Didn’t you miss me?

He was like a stalker. It was a disgusting voice.

Was it Dreizer? Dres? He was a man with an appearance she would never want to eat. It seemed he hadn’t died.

She frowned.

If he was even a little bit handsome, she would have gone out to deal with him.

Preitia put on earplugs and went back to sleep.

* * *

“Huh……”

The man who threw the lasso pulled the rope back.

It didn’t budge.

René, with the rope around his neck, felt like he was dying. The boy’s face turned pale.

“What? Who are you?”

Legion asked, taking out his wallet from his pocket. He threw the wallet to Mizsette.

“Check that. How much is in it?”

“Huh? How much is there?”

“Five bills that can be exchanged for 1,000 gold each.”

Gasp, 5,000 gold.

Wow, there really are people who just carry around 5,000 gold.

Mizsette clicked her tongue. Well, he was someone who had so much money he didn’t know what to do with it.

“The bills are all there.”

“Yeah, that’s a relief. But who are these guys?”

Legion looked at the men. They were the kind of men who walked around with the long sentence, “I’m very mean, so you shouldn’t mess with me,” written on their foreheads.

Whatever.

Legion and the new employees weren’t afraid of that.

“That boy is ours. Hand him over.”

The man pulled the rope with all his might, as if he didn’t care if René’s neck broke.

“Ugh! Help me, please!”

René grabbed the rope with both hands and struggled.

If Legion let go, the boy would fly to those men. But Legion didn’t let go of the hand holding the boy’s arm.

Instead, he grabbed the rope with his other hand and pulled it towards himself.

With one hand, whoosh-

The man who had been smirking was startled and grabbed the rope tightly with both hands. Even with all five men holding on, they couldn’t handle Legion’s tremendous strength.

The man staggered and let go of the rope.

“You son of a bitch!”

The remaining men drew their swords.

Murderous intent dripped from their eyes. There were quite a few people coming and going on the street, but they didn’t seem to care. They didn’t even have any authority, so they were really bold.

Legion chuckled and took out his steel staff.

He had beaten so many people that the end of the staff was smooth. It was a staff that didn’t remember what its original ability was.

* * *

“I don’t know why this keeps happening to a nice guy like me. You, get up.”

Legion nudged the side of the man called Hwangso, who was kneeling in the front.

Hwangso got up with a very unpleasant expression. He glared fiercely at Legion. His face was bruised, but the murderous intent hadn’t disappeared from his eyes.

“Haimo.”

“Yes, boss.”

Haimo fluttered her bobbed hair and quickly ran to Legion and bowed her head.

“Look at him.”

Legion pointed to Hwangso.

“I’ll give you three minutes. Take the power out of his eyes.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Haimo stood at attention, bringing her legs together. She smiled at Hwangso. You’re in for it.

Haimo had personally learned hundreds of ways to ‘make a stubbornly defiant guy listen’ from Lich Mamon. Perhaps it was because they had a lot in common. They exchanged even the most useless information they had.

“W-What? Who are you?”

Haimo smiled at Hwangso.

“Just try to come near me. Don’t come any closer!”

Hwangso shouted urgently. He would rather be beaten by someone else. He felt like he would be subjected to strange things by that bobbed-hair pervert.

“What’s your name?”

Legion asked.

“My name is Hwangso.”

Hwangso answered loudly, assuming the invisible chair position [squatting with no chair].

Sweat was pouring down his forehead like a waterfall. Both legs were trembling as if they had springs. He just wanted to sit down and rest. But he couldn’t.

Hwangso would confidently say that the scariest weapon since he was born was definitely the staff.

“Hwangso? I asked for your name?”

“Just call me Hwangso. I abandoned my name with the past.”

“……”

Legion scratched his forehead.

This bastard is so cool. He abandoned his name with the past.

“Haimo.”

“Yes, boss.”

“This person hasn’t come to his senses yet. If you do this one more time, you’ll be standing in this spot instead.”

“What’s your name?”

Legion asked.

“My name is Sandra Bullock.”

“Sandra Bullock?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Hwangso was even more energetic than before.

He was standing on one leg in the invisible chair position. The nail was still under him. He was maintaining that position with superhuman mental strength and physical strength.

“Good. It seems like we can talk now.”

“I will answer with all my heart.”

“What guild are you guys from?”

“……”

“Why aren’t you answering?”

Hwangso couldn’t bring himself to say the words ‘drug guild.’ If he said those words out loud, he would disappear without a trace by the executives.

“It seems like……”

“I-It’s a thief guild.”

“A thief guild? You’re a bit violent for a thief guild, aren’t you? Anyway……”

Legion tilted his head and asked.

“How many thief guilds are there in this place?”

“Nine or ten, I think.”

“Nine or ten, he says. You just said you would answer with all your heart. You’re a good liar. Hey, Haimo.”

“Aaaagh! No, it’s not. Ten. There are ten. I’m sure.”

Hwangso pulled out everything in his head. It was as if he had to remember what the man in front of him did on the 34th month and 7th day of his life, even if he asked.

“Ten, huh. That’s quite a lot.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Good. But why are you chasing this kid?”

“Th-That’s……”

“Haimo!”

“Heuk, th-the truth is, he ran away……”

“So why did he run away?”

“T-To sell him…… at the slave market……”

Hwangso’s voice gradually decreased.

“Ah, so the thief guild catches dark elves and sells them as slaves? That doesn’t make sense. This bastard lied again. Haimo.”

Haimo smiled and grabbed Hwangso’s hair and shook it. Hwangso’s head shook violently from side to side.

Who the hell are these guys?

* * *

“Are you okay?”

Legion asked, looking at René.

Gulp.

René swallowed hard, facing Legion.

He was really different from what he looked like. When he first saw him, he looked fat but kind. Now he looked fat and very violent. The five drug guild guys were lying unconscious on the floor, beaten so badly.

Wasn’t he afraid of the aftermath?

Unfortunately…… their lives were only a few hours away.

There were widespread rumors that the lord was behind the drug guild. There was no one in this city who could suppress the drug guild, which had the power of the authorities behind it, with force.

He was grateful, but…… they were people who would soon be corpses.

“Yes.”

René nodded.

The boy turned his head to the handsome man with the bow. He was also a dark elf. But he didn’t seem interested in him. He didn’t seem to be from his village.

“So you were caught as a slave?”

“Well, that’s what happened.”

“It seems like there’s a slave guild in the city? Slavery should be prohibited in the earldom [territory ruled by an Earl].”

“I don’t know. It’s what humans do. It’s just sickening.”

“Hmm, I guess that could be the case. Anyway, you’ve been through a lot. Go on now.”

“Yes, thank you very much. Then……”

Looking around, René stopped and looked at Legion.

“Why?”

Legion asked.

“It’s advice. Get out of the city right now.”

“Hmm, I appreciate the advice.”

It seemed like he had no intention of leaving the city. René sighed briefly and disappeared into the darkness.

“Whoever this kid’s parents are, they taught him well.”

Legion smiled contentedly at the thought of saving someone.

“Ah, I’m hungry. Let’s go eat too.”

Legion said, stretching. He felt hungrier after doing a good deed.

But…….

Something felt empty. He quickly rummaged through his pockets.

Ahhhhh! Damn it!

The wallet was gone.