Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 267

Magic is Learned for Nothing – Episode 268

# 268

The Advent of the Bone Dragon 3

Freeza and Vegeta also arrived in Poman.

They had been in the beautiful port city of Siem, a place where countless couples came, broke up, and found new lovers. Freeza had dominated the nightlife of that beautiful place, unexpectedly becoming a temporary lord and enduring much hardship.

But they were still just country bumpkins.

The beautiful natural scenery might be the best anywhere, but it was their first time seeing such high walls, the bustling streets inside, and so many people.

“Wow! The capital is different!”

“Look, look. More than thirty carriages can be seen at once.”

“Wow! Can humans build such buildings?”

“Ooh! Is that a bar? And a smithy! Wow! A department store, a department store! It’s a hundred times bigger than our department store.”

Vegeta grabbed the end of Freeza’s arm and said,

“Stop gawking like that. They’ll think we’re country folk.”

He seemed embarrassed by Freeza’s constant staring.

“Ah, sorry. But where are we supposed to meet Legion-nim [term of respect in Korean, similar to ‘Mr.’ or ‘Lord’]?”

“The letter didn’t say where to meet.”

“Then?”

“It said to dress nicely since we’re being promoted to nobles. His Majesty the King will bestow the title himself.”

“The date?”

“…….”

“Where do we receive it?”

“…….”

“Where do we go?”

“…….”

“What do you know?”

“Have we ever been around anyone who became a noble?” Vegeta retorted.

“No.”

“Then how would I know?” Vegeta pouted.

“Becoming a lord unnecessarily increased our work, decreased our income, and forced us to act nice. My wife is very unhappy. She says she can’t even carry her luxury bags these days without feeling guilty.”

“Tch! Is that my fault? It’s Baron Legion’s fault.”

“Sigh! Anyway, don’t blame me. I liked it much better in the underworld. And that’s not all. Aren’t the nobles and influential families of Siem quite dissatisfied now?”

“Who… is saying what?”

“Sigh…….”

Vegeta sighed again.

The nobles were all dissatisfied. They were constantly complaining about how the city was being run, questioning the role of the nobility in everything.

The very idea of a commoner without a title running the city was displeasing to them.

Rumor had it that the nobles were even plotting an impeachment. He wouldn’t mind stepping down cleanly… but the thought of being dragged down by others made him a little angry.

The nobles couldn’t act rashly either.

The authority of the mayor and lord created by the citizens! They especially remembered the death of Count Audi. His corpse was so gruesome that they couldn’t bear to look at it.

In reality, he had been killed by the Red Dragon Preitia, but the nobles believed that the enraged citizens had done it.

After all, he had tried to burn down the underground market, attempting to incinerate over 10,000 people.

Even the nobles who didn’t know about the incident were horrified.

The fact that not all nobles had been purged was purely luck.

The nobles who had been disliked by the citizens couldn’t even utter a word of defense before being beheaded. Their entire families, parents, and children, all vanished under the guillotine.

That’s why the remaining nobles couldn’t openly oppose Freeza’s rule of the city.

Wherever you go, the one with power is the best.

The most powerful person in the port city of Siem was Freeza. He had over 10,000 citizen soldiers who followed him. Inspired by his character, stellar free knights voluntarily came to pledge their loyalty.

Some of these knights were even at the 6-star level.

Vegeta was a skilled individual who had worked under Freeza for a long time, with quick wits and high loyalty.

Originally, when his entire family was at risk of execution, Freeza had intervened and saved them all.

At the time, Freeza thought that if he could just get Vegeta to kill his rival, it would be worth it, but Vegeta surprisingly became Freeza’s right-hand man and followed him like this.

And also, though unseen, twelve powerful knights were always subtly following Freeza.

Vegeta commanded them.

“Alright, alright. So what should we do now?”

“First, let’s drop off our luggage at an inn and then visit the information guild.”

Vegeta knew well the exploits of Legion. They would be famous enough here too.

“Good. Let’s do that.” Freeza put his hands behind his back and stepped inside the castle gate.

There was no one inside the gate. It didn’t make sense that there were no guards in such a massive castle. The gate was only half-closed.

“What’s this?” Freeza hesitated.

Vegeta felt the same. He frowned and looked around. All sorts of messy killing intent vibrated in the air. The twelve bodyguards who followed him also revealed themselves.

The killing intent was increasing.

It felt like a strange energy was enveloping the entire capital city of Poman.

Step, step.

They entered the inner city.

No people were visible. Lights were off, and glimpses of people could be seen through the curtains.

Why?

At that moment, explosions occurred in the center of the capital city of Poman. Although they were very far away, the explosions were clearly visible.

Flames soared hundreds of meters into the air.

Once it started, the explosions swept through a radius of hundreds of meters in a chain reaction.

Boom boom boom boom!

“Aaaaaaagh!”

“S-Save me!”

Thousands of citizens were running towards the castle gate.

An immense sense of fear filled the air between them. They were running like crazy.

“This way!” Vegeta quickly grabbed Freeza’s arm and pulled him back outside. An endless stream of citizens continued to pour out in front of them.

“What on earth is going on?” Freeza asked, surprised.

Vegeta jumped up and climbed onto the highest building nearby. His face grew increasingly grim.

“No way…….”

“Vegeta! What’s wrong?” Freeza shouted.

“Bone Dragon…….”

“What?”

“We have to escape from here.”

“Why?”

“This place will soon turn into hell. Ah, damn it.”

He couldn’t finish his sentence. Countless undead awakened by the Bone Dragon’s absolute power began to burst out of the ground.

The eyes of Vegeta and the twelve warriors twisted in despair.

* * *

Legion was annoyed.

They all left me behind! If they were going, they should have taken me with them. How disgustingly petty.

He was exhausted, and the suddenly appearing undead only made it worse.

Damn zombies!

Damn skeletons!

They weren’t very strong, but they had no fear, so they clung on relentlessly. Awakened by the Bone Dragon’s powerful thoughts, they weren’t entirely unskilled either.

The Bone Dragon hated the living.

The undead, inheriting his thoughts, were killing everything in sight with indiscriminate hatred for life.

Dogs, cows, even pigs!

Legion gripped his twin swords and swung them like windmills.

“Are these guys crazy!”

Dozens of undead blocking his path were shattered by Legion’s swinging swords.

“How am I ever going to get there at this rate?” Legion glanced at the place where the Bone Dragon was rampaging.

“Huh? Huh? This isn’t good?”

Sarah Connor and Raiden’s horses were wrecked by the Bone Dragon’s tail. They fell between the Bone Dragon’s legs.

They’ll die if I leave them like that?

This is bad.

“My Skin Powder [a valuable cosmetic item].”

Legion’s chest tightened. He was filled with self-loathing for not being able to use teleportation magic at times like this.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t use teleportation magic.

The magic rejected him.

He had tried to use teleportation magic several times.

Magical power gathered, then dissolved and disappeared on its own.

Mark teased him.

-Magic is rejecting you, dude. To put it simply, it’s like saying it’s full, so someone has to get off. In other words, it’s too heavy to go.

What nonsense is that? Full? I’m just one person!

He tried dozens of times before giving up.

Simply put, it was like saying he couldn’t use teleportation magic without taking off his armor.

He had overcome all these inconveniences to get here.

He was almost at the finish line.

He couldn’t lose his Skin Powder here and live in his armor.

“My Skin Powder!” Legion swung his iron swords even faster! Even more fiercely, he sent the undead flying.

The citizens hiding in their homes watched Legion and couldn’t close their gaping mouths.

Hundreds of zombies were swarming towards him.

He was swinging his giant twin swords like windmills, sending them all flying.

Smash! Smash!

Parts of the shattered zombies and skeletons exploded in all directions, sticking to the windows. Eyeballs blinked, and broken teeth clattered.

“Mom! That armored monster is scary.” The children cried and clung to their mothers.

They were more afraid of Legion than the terrifying undead army.

* * *

Flap flap.

The Lich Mamon’s body floated in the air.

He was a 7-circle master like Legion, but their tendencies were completely different.

Legion only knew magic with aggressive tendencies. He couldn’t even use basic healing properly.

These days, just looking at attack magic, Mamon thought Legion might be stronger than him.

But still, as a mage, his overall abilities were much higher.

Especially operation.

The power of 250 years had given Mamon time to deeply contemplate magic, and as a result, Mamon’s understanding of magic was comparable to that of an 8-circle mage.

In any case, Legion’s growth was astonishing.

Mamon was a mage who was called a genius of the century 250 years ago.

Even he thought Legion was an amazing human. Watching Legion’s growth made Mamon feel very happy these days.

The place where that great Mamon had flown to!

Mamon wasn’t looking at the Bone Dragon.

He was looking at the people who had resurrected it, Duke Trebia and his party members.

Mamon and Duke Trebia’s party members made eye contact from the spire over a hundred meters high.

No one was surprised.

Duke Trebia and his party members were instead looking at the Lich Mamon with curious eyes.

“What is this?” Smith asked, twisting his lips.

“It’s a lich,” Berimord answered.

“Why is a lich here?”

“I don’t know. Hey, Lich, what are you?” Berimord asked the Lich Mamon.

The Lich Mamon’s long, beautiful, glossy black hair fluttered in the wind.

His wet hair created an even more grotesque atmosphere due to the pouring rain. The fierce light flashing within his skull was also more intense than usual.

Nevertheless, Duke Trebia and his party members were not at all afraid.

No matter what circle the opponent was, even if it was a Lich King who had reached the 8th circle, they would not be surprised.

They had the pride of being dragon slayers.

No matter how strong a lich was, they were convinced that it was weaker than a dragon.

However, meeting a lich here was a bit unexpected.

“Who made the dragon like that?” the Lich Mamon asked.

“We did,” Berimord chuckled.

“Quite interesting, isn’t it?”

“Do you know that the dragon’s soul is destroyed when it becomes a Bone Dragon?”

“Of course, I know. So what?”

“Dragons… are a medium connecting humans and gods. Their deaths should be respected. You have played a game with death that you should not have done as humans. Do you know the pain of the soul being destroyed?”

“Do we need to know that?”

“Too bad. You will know from now on. If you don’t know, you can learn from experience.”

The Lich Mamon gathered magical power.

His robe swelled greatly due to the powerful magic.

“Oh, he’s quite… a capable lich.” Reeves, who had been watching indifferently, showed interest in the Lich Mamon.

Everyone crossed their arms and looked at the Lich Mamon.

Their faces still showed no sign of losing their composure.

The Lich Mamon’s rage began to deepen.

An unbearable revulsion.

The dead have the right to rest in peace.

Even when he raised the dead, he only reconstructed their dead bodies so that their souls could be saved.

Mamon felt an unbearable revulsion at the act of disturbing the rest of the dead. He felt like he knew why humans had conquered the continent.

It was because of this unimaginable cruelty.

Disgusting things!

Go!

“Dark Shower!”

One of the Lich Mamon’s strongest techniques exploded, tearing through the air.