Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 36

Magic Learned in Vain – 36 (36/502)

# 36

Unintentional Training 1

Legion was in the underground laboratory located in Paring’s mansion.

Wizards usually don’t open their laboratories to others, not even to their families. The only people they share their laboratories with are their teachers or a small number of colleagues who study magic together.

More than anything, even if Paring developed dementia, he probably wouldn’t open his laboratory to Legion. In other words, Legion sneaked in while Paring was away from home.

“This bastard dares to play tricks like that?”

He probably gathered his most precious treasures here.

*Let’s see. Let’s see if he can still smile so shamelessly after he finds out that all his treasures have disappeared from here,* Hehehe.

Legion forcibly suppressed the laughter that threatened to burst out.

Just standing here made him feel relieved.

The reason why Legion secretly infiltrated Paring’s underground laboratory was simple.

That son of a bitch humiliated me in broad daylight.

His mocking expression still hasn’t faded. If he hadn’t come up with such a ‘very excellent idea’ like this, he would still be tossing and turning in bed, consumed by anger.

But not anymore.

After tonight, he’s the one who’ll be tossing and turning, banging his head against the wall.

Because I’m going to sweep away all the valuable things here.

Still, it’s not *all* of his fortune, so is it *my* loss? Damn it!

“So, is there anything good?”

Legion asked.

-Scanning.

Mark searched every corner.

-There’s a jewelry box on the left. Take them all.

Jewelry box?

-Yep. There are quite a few rare jewels.

Oh, is that so?

Legion smiled and approached the jewelry box. His eyes widened as he opened it.

*Ah, looks delicious.*

That was the first thought that came to mind as soon as he saw the jewels.

*Am I crazy? What am I thinking right now?*

Legion was surprised and hit himself on the head. *Damn it, shouldn’t have done that. I almost broke my finger. What the hell is this head made of?*

Legion took all the jewels.

*There aren’t many, but they are quite rare jewels. I’m a little curious about what they taste like.* He shook his head again. *What do you mean what do they taste like? No, I was wondering how much I could get if I took them to a big city and sold them.*

Anyway, just taking the expensive jewels will make him quite upset.

-Ooooh!

Why? Why?

Legion asked urgently at Mark’s exclamation.

-Take down the picture in front of you.

This one?

Legion pointed to a picture of Paring. *Anyway, wizards are all out of their minds. I don’t know why he drew his nude and hung it in the laboratory.*

“It’s a safe?”

-That’s right, it’s a safe.

“Can you open it?”

-It takes 3 seconds to open the safe with my excellent artificial intelligence.

*At least I won’t starve to death if I’m with this guy.*

The safe is not enchanted. It’s a mechanical lock where you have to match 8 numbers. In fact, if you put a magic spell on it, it’s difficult for ordinary people to disarm [to remove or neutralize a magical effect], but rather, high-level wizards can easily disarm it. So, he used a mechanical safe with complicated formulas, but unfortunately, the mechanical safe is easily penetrated by Mark.

Beep-

The safe door opened in just 3 seconds.

“What is this?”

There was only one map in the safe.

-Heung-! Isn’t it a map?

“I know it’s a map, too?”

-Then what are you asking?

“I thought there would be something important, but there’s only one map in it!”

-Hoo! Come to think of it, it’s strange. It was quite difficult to open this safe. Show me the contents.

At Mark’s words, Legion spread the map on the central table.

-Oho!

“Why?”

-This seems to be pretty good.

“What is it?”

-There might be a jackpot.

“What is it?”

-It’s not in my data.

“What is it!”

-It’s a dungeon location. Some of them seem to be hidden dungeons.

“Hidden dungeon? What is that?”

-In short, it’s a place created by ancient dungeons, great mages, or great demonic beings, more significant than ordinary dungeons, and there’s a high probability that there are treasures of enormous value.

“Oooooh! Really?”

Legion’s expression brightened noticeably.

He felt good when he heard the words *treasures of enormous value*. The more money, the better. The reason why he was ignored until now was because he lacked financial power. More than anything, now, if he gets rare jewels, it’s like gaining that much power. Now, the importance of jewels has become much greater.

-I’ll tell you something more amazing. In fact, in the case of hidden dungeons, there is a very high probability that the traps have broken down because of the long time. In other words, there is a high possibility that there is no danger.

“Really?”

-Really. You are really the luckiest person in the universe!

“Oooooh! Good. Good. Very good.”

Legion clenched his fists.

He had already heard from Mark that there were several dungeons in the Dusselph Mountains. So, he was about to run there right away…….

-Go if you want to die.

The bastard said only one word.

Still, when he said he would go, he added one more word.

-At least half of them are trap dungeons, and there’s a high probability that half of the remaining half won’t be useful. I don’t know which one is useful. Especially with your abilities, you won’t be able to break the first trap.

But if it’s a hidden dungeon, doesn’t that change the story? It’s easy, right? It’s hard to find, but it’s not dangerous.

Legion put the map with the location of the hidden dungeon in his arms.

But-

-There’s no guarantee that hidden dungeons are always safe.

Legion didn’t know that Mark didn’t say this.

* * *

Legion and Sepia had been searching the Dusselph Mountains for a week. He prepared the items necessary for camping because he thought it would be a waste of time to travel back and forth to the territory.

Silcott was horrified and tried to stop him.

“Lord, no. How can you stay indefinitely in the mountains full of monsters? Training is good, and of course, Sepia is next to you, but you’ll still get hurt.”

Legion smiled.

“It’s okay. Anyway, if I stay like this, my uncle won’t leave me alone, will he?”

Still not relieved, he repeatedly asked him to return within ten days.

Legion answered that he understood.

That’s how a week passed.

*Haven’t found it yet?*

-Wait a minute. I’m still scanning.

Mark scanned 360 degrees sequentially. The spatial limit he can do is about 20 meters. The area roughly marked on the map is 3 kilometers in radius at the smallest and 10 kilometers at the largest. *I thought it would be easy, but this is not an ordinary task.*

*I could see why Paring couldn’t find the dungeon.*

-Go 40 meters to the east.

-Go 40 meters to the south.

-Go 40 meters to the south.

-Go 40 meters to the south.

“Hey, there’s a cliff there.”

-Then go 40 meters to the east.

Before he knew it, the night was getting dark again.

Whoo-whoo-

Creak, creak-

Grrr, grrr-

When night fell, all kinds of sounds pierced through the darkness. Sounds that couldn’t be heard during the day. It’s quite eerie.

Legion gathered dry branches and lit a fire.

When he gathered dry branches, Sepia seemed to want to help.

He uprooted dead trees nearby.

*Hull! What am I supposed to do with this? This guy is really too much. If I light this tree on fire, I’ll be up all night.*

Still, he quickly caught a roe deer that was quite useful. The two roasted the roe deer whole. Legion ate part of the leg, and Sepia swallowed the rest in one bite.

-Grrr, grrr (Brother, not enough. Hungry)!

*Damn it, this guy eats too much. Is this when you use the word cost-effectiveness [getting the best possible results for the resources invested]?*

“Bring two tomorrow. Endure it today.”

The guy sulked and sat crouched in the corner, sobbing. *He’s still quite cute because he’s young.*

*Oh, he’ll be in puberty in a few years. What is an ogre’s puberty like? Can I handle this? Suddenly, I’m scared.*

-Nimha!

Mark called him as he wrapped himself in a blanket and leaned against a tree to sleep.

Why?

-Turn off the fire quickly. Someone is approaching.

-Grrr (Brother, wake up. Something is coming towards here).

Sepia seems to have felt it too.

Legion jumped up and put out the campfire.

If it weren’t for the two of them, he would have gone to the afterlife without knowing that someone had appeared and put a knife to his throat.

He folded the blanket, put it in his backpack, and moved away.

He lay down on a hill a little further away and watched the situation. Sepia also hid right next to him, but it wouldn’t be visible here because it was a dark forest.

Step, step-

The sound of footsteps is getting louder and louder. *I know now. It’s not one person.*

“Is it three people?”

-It’s five people.

Mark told him. Around that time, he could see who the other person was. *This bastard is quite quick at understanding the situation.*

One is Paring.

*I thought he would appear soon, but I didn’t know he would come this quickly. Well, he wouldn’t be normal if he wasn’t furious because all the valuable things in the laboratory were stolen. Furthermore, how much more would he be if even the map showing the location of the hidden dungeon disappeared?*

The other four also have faces.

One is Gibbs, who swore allegiance, and three are assassins in name only who had been badly beaten by Legion.

“There’s warmth in the campfire. That guy was here until a little while ago. He’s definitely nearby.”

Paring said, grinding his teeth.

“Is it really the Lord?”

Gibbs asked.

“I told you it’s him. How many times are you going to ask?”

Paring’s voice was mixed with annoyance.

“There’s no evidence. Frankly, I can’t believe it. What does the Lord lack that he would steal Paring’s things? In fact, even if we had just cut off his head that day…….”

The Lord won the battle against the Lich.

No one knows what happened to the Lich. However, it was clear that the Lord had taken over the Lich’s dungeon. The Lord released the dungeon and distributed quite a lot to the Lord’s people.

The Lord is now incredibly rich.

Why would such a Lord rob Paring’s laboratory? Furthermore, that morning, he could have just killed Paring as promised, and there would have been no problem. No matter how he thought about it, Gibbs thought Paring was overreacting.

“Show you the evidence?”

“Evidence?”

Gibbs asked back.

“Yes.”

“Show it to me if you can. Then I’ll believe it.”

Legion, who was listening from afar, also perked up his ears. He made a mess of the underground laboratory, but he didn’t leave any evidence. *What is it? Even if he had suspicions, Legion thought there was no material evidence.*

Paring pointed to one corner of the campfire. There was a large butt print.

“It’s the seat where the ogre sat.”

“Ah…….”

Gibbs immediately understood.

Among the Lord’s people, there was no one who didn’t know that the Lord had an ogre as a pet.

At first, Gibbs didn’t believe it.

Who in the world would raise an ogre as a pet? Not only Gibbs, but no one believed it.

Does that make sense? Raising an ogre?

How horrified was Gibbs when he saw the Lord walking around with an ogre, which he had doubted?

The Lord said with a smile.

“Don’t be so scared. Our kid doesn’t bite.”

*Nimi [a Korean slang expression of surprise or disbelief, similar to “WTF”], what do you mean he doesn’t bite.*

After seeing the ogre in person, he unknowingly peed his pants. *At least put a leash on him!*

Legion, who was listening to their conversation, frowned. *Ah, damn it, I’m an idiot. I didn’t even erase that.*

-Hull, you’re an idiot? How can you make such a mistake? What the hell are you doing?

*I know it well even if you don’t say it. I’m screwed. But is that guy trying to kill me now?*

-Find the dungeon before you die. Aren’t you curious about the dungeon?

*I’m so curious.*

-So, find the dungeon first…….

*Find it? What.*

-You keep the good items and give the bad items to Paring. Say that’s all there was. Insist that you borrowed the map of the hidden dungeon.

*Oh, that’s good?*

*Good my ass. The moment he says that, Paring will fire magic like crazy. As expected, it’s too easy to deceive him because his IQ is low.* Mark didn’t bother to say this.

-So, get out of here quickly. Don’t get caught by Paring and get scolded.

Legion nodded and retreated while maintaining a crawling position.

-Grrr (Brother, let’s go together).

“Shh, be quiet. If we get caught, we’re screwed.”

-Grrr (Okay, brother).

The two quickly ran away from that place.