Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 171

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# 172

A Mercenary, Not Really 1

Legion called for Vede several times outside the smithy.

“Vede! Vede!”

A sense of unease washed over him.

“Lulu! Lulu!”

No one answered.

He grabbed a passing dark elf and asked,

“Hey!”

The dark elf, startled by Legion’s voice, trembled as he replied,

“I don’t have any money.”

What nonsense!

“Not that. Have you seen any dwarves around here?”

“Dwarves?”

“Yeah. There were two of them. Vede and Lulu.”

“I haven’t seen them. The forge has never been lit here.”

“What are you talking about? They were supposed to be making weapons here.”

“Really? I’ve never seen this smithy lit up.”

Legion’s heart sank.

Could it be…….

Could it be… No, it can’t be.

I saved them from the three-headed Medusa. I even saved Lulu from being turned to stone. Surely they wouldn’t repay kindness with betrayal…….

Well, they certainly could. Yeah.

Legion rushed to Ssencca’s house. He moved very quickly, but still slower than children running.

He arrived at Ssencca’s house, breathless.

Legion’s forehead collided with Ssencca’s door. With a cracking sound, part of the house collapsed.

Ssencca wore a pleased smile.

Recently, Haimo had given him some ‘Hydra Jerky’ as a thank you. Elves tend to prefer vegetables over meat.

Dark elves weren’t much different.

People say that dark elves were abandoned by God and became a different race, but that wasn’t the case.

They’re just a different color.

Humans have white people and yellow people. At the end of the western continent, there are even black people.

It’s the same thing.

Ssencca had also heard rumors of blue elves, though he had never seen them.

So, I wish people wouldn’t look at dark elves with prejudice.

Anyway, he didn’t understand Haimo giving him the jerky so preciously. Jerky is just jerky, isn’t it?

Haimo, sensing his thoughts, grabbed Ssencca’s hand and said,

“Super-powered stamina booster. Full operation 24 hours a day.”

“Wow! Twenty-four-hour full operation?”

“I don’t have a lover, so I don’t know what the effect is yet. But with this, your breakfast will be different.”

“Really?”

“Try it.”

Ssencca swallowed hard. Ever since Legion burst through the door that day, he hadn’t been intimate with his wife. His wife’s irritation grew day by day.

But… with this jerky?

Ssencca set a date.

He washed himself clean and called his wife.

While his wife was washing, he chewed the jerky thoroughly and swallowed it. An amazing thing happened.

The dead poet was revived.

Ah! What emotion!

Just as he was about to make love to his wife-

Half the house collapsed.

“Heuk, wh-what is it?”

A giant armored warrior appeared, his eyes gleaming. He asked urgently,

“Vede! Where did Vede go?”

He asked so urgently and desperately that Ssencca couldn’t even get angry. He covered his junk with a towel and replied awkwardly,

“He said he was going out of town to get materials.”

“When?”

“Soon after you left.”

“Didn’t he say when he’d be back?”

“No, he didn’t.”

“Did it seem like he was going to collect materials?”

“Hmm, now that I think about it, it’s a bit strange. He was fully armed. I didn’t understand why he was carrying so much.”

Thud-

Legion knelt down.

Yeah, they could stab me in the back and leave. That’s how the world is.

But they should have left the Lacto Lerium!

You goddamn dwarf bastards!

Legion slowly began to get angry.

Mandragora, my ass!

The best toilet craftsman or whatever! If I catch those bastards, they’re dead!

Legion’s subdued eyes began to shine again.

* * *

-Thank goodness.

Mark’s trembling voice was heard.

Yeah, thank goodness.

Legion had placed a tracking spell on the Lacto Lerium. It was Lacto Lerium, a mineral with value that cannot be converted into money. Ordinary people cannot even imagine such a mineral.

There was no way he could carelessly entrust such a mineral to Vede, whom he had just met.

The highest grade Lacto Lerium.

Just in case, Legion had placed a tracking spell on the Lacto Lerium.

Where are those bastards going?

-Moving east.

Good.

Fortunately, the path of the Magic Tower and the path those bastards are moving on overlap.

I’ll catch those bastards first…….

Getting the Mandragora from the Magic Tower comes later.

Anyway, it was frozen, so there was no way it could die. Maybe the subordinates should be grateful to me. Since they are frozen, they will never age.

It’s okay to be a little late.

Legion slung his iron sword over his shoulder and left the dark elf village.

Natalia and Rene cried, asking when he would come back, but he didn’t hear them.

Catching those bastards was the priority.

Vede. Lulu.

Somehow, I didn’t like their names from the beginning.

* * *

Height 163 centimeters.

Weight 80 kilograms.

Rough hair and a thick beard.

His appearance seemed more grumpy than Nolbu [a character from a Korean folktale known for being greedy and unpleasant].

Thanks to that, he was rejected by every woman. It couldn’t be helped. Once he was hooked, he persistently chased after them and courted them. Women were horrified and avoided him.

However, based on his innate strength, he had already surpassed the level of a 5-star master by the time he was twenty years old. To hide his appearance, he raided an ancient dungeon and obtained legendary armor. It was armor that could perfectly hide his appearance.

He is now a 7-star warrior.

He had gained invincible power, but his appearance did not change.

People think that all strong people are handsome, but I hope they realize that there are some who are not.

It has been 7 years since he started his career.

People call him ‘Don Quixote Man, the Butcher of Death.’

He is quite satisfied.

Since he got that title, no one has ever ignored him.

“We’re here, Master.”

Jack Nitzer, the serial killer, bowed to Don Quixote Man. Jack Nitzer was a handsome man. He was much more handsome than Don Quixote Man.

He is the type of man Don Quixote Man hates the most.

Nevertheless, the reason he hangs out with him is because he is good at seducing women. He can’t seduce women on his own, even if he dies and comes back to life.

However, if Jack Nitzer is around, he somehow has a chance to talk to women. They often fall for him when they are drunk. He thinks that if it weren’t for him, he wouldn’t be able to get married or even date.

“Where is this?”

“It’s Signal Viscount territory.”

“Hmm.”

Don Quixote Man nodded.

It is said that there are dark elf slaves here that are so difficult to obtain. He is not popular with women, but he does not hate women.

In fact… he likes them very much.

He is thinking of buying a dark elf this time.

Elves are known for having perfect looks. Among them, dark elves are said to be top quality.

He is thinking of buying one and taking it with him.

He is Don Quixote Man, the Butcher of Death.

Slavery is prohibited by law, but who would dare say anything to me?

Don Quixote Man entered Signal Territory with Jack Nitzer.

It was a larger territory than he thought. But the atmosphere was somehow strange. It wasn’t bright, but their eyes were full of energy. The expressions of the territory residents looked very relieved.

“According to rumors, the lord directly manages slaves and drugs.”

“The lord himself?”

“He’s crazy. He’s not in his right mind. This is a county.”

“If it’s in the north, is it Persimmon Earl’s county?”

“That’s right. Persimmon Earl, the tiger of the north. There’s no way he’ll let this guy go. I guarantee that the moment it reaches his ears, Signal Viscount’s head will be hung in the marketplace.”

“I need to buy a dark elf before that happens.”

“That’s right. Since we’ve come this far, let’s do some drugs too. There’s a rumor that the quality is quite good.”

“You do it. Drugs don’t suit me.”

“Hehe, I understand. Then I’ll just do the drugs. What about the woman?”

“Make it a dark elf.”

“I understand. I’ll prepare it that way.”

He doesn’t need money. When they reveal his name, they automatically bow. It didn’t matter if the other person was a viscount or an earl.

He is one of the kingdom’s seven strongest.

No one would kneel before that mighty title.

There were some nobles who had opposed him so far. He killed them all. He even killed all the livestock in the castle. There were only rumors that he killed them, but there was no evidence.

He also killed the wizard who came to check.

Since then, no one has touched him.

He made a secret contract with the royal family. In exchange for disposing of their troublemakers, they would not touch him.

Thanks to that, Don Quixote Man became even more arrogant.

That’s why Don Quixote Man is considered the most nasty person in the kingdom, along with Dreiser.

Don Quixote Man and Jack Nitzer went to the inner castle where Signal Viscount resided. The guards blocked them.

“Where are you going?”

The guards asked.

“Tell the lord that we have arrived.”

Jack Nitzer answered instead.

“Who are you?”

“Can’t you tell just by looking at us?”

The guards looked at Don Quixote Man and Jack Nitzer up and down. They couldn’t tell just by looking at them.

“This is Don Quixote Man, the Butcher of Death. I am Jack Nitzer, the serial killer.”

Jack Nitzer said triumphantly.

The guards’ faces were severely distorted.

The people in the castle were on the verge of developing neurosis about Don Quixote Man. The castle was devastated by him.

Quite a few soldiers died too.

Signal Viscount twitches even at the ‘Don’ in Don Quixote Man’s name. The name ‘Don Quixote Man’ was a taboo word here.

But who?

This shorty is Don Quixote Man?

What kind of guts does he have to say that name?

The guard tapped Don Quixote Man’s helmet with his spear.

“Hey, get lost.”

Don Quixote Man couldn’t understand what he had just experienced.

This was the first time anyone had reacted like this after hearing his name.

Get lost.

What a novel reaction.

After seeing Don Quixote Man, the Butcher of Death.

“Do you want to die?”

Don Quixote Man’s eyes shone fiercely.

The guard snorted. He had seen Don Quixote Man’s bloodshot eyes. Those eyes were very well suited to the title of Butcher of Death.

It was on a different level from the eyes of this shorty.

The armor is similar to what that person wore. The helmet also has horns, and the color is black. But that was it.

“Get lost. This is not a place for trash like you.”

“You have invited death.”

Don Quixote Man’s sword flashed. His red aura stretched out, cutting through the guards and the castle gates.

That day-

Don Quixote Man took the lives of Signal Viscount and 50 soldiers. In short, he devastated the place.

But a strange thing happened.

Everywhere he went, people laughed and told him to get lost when he said his name, Don Quixote Man.

Don Quixote Man couldn’t understand.

Enraged, he destroyed everything he went to.

The Stone Head Church followers, who confirmed Signal Viscount’s death, could not hide their anger.

“Who did this?”

“It’s a guy named Don Quixote Man! He’s famous as one of the kingdom’s seven strongest.”

“Catch him! To hell with the kingdom’s seven strongest. Catch that bastard! Catch him and tear him limb from limb!”

The Stone Head Church and Don Quixote Man became mortal enemies.

They didn’t even know why they had become enemies, but they began to do their best to cut off each other’s lifelines.