Magic is Learned in Vain – 362
# 362
The Wandering Monsenger 2
The Wandering Monsenger.
That’s what she’s called now.
But before she was cursed, she once reigned as the Queen of Hell.
As the only daughter of Dwayne Johnson, the Hell Lord, she commanded both the human and hell realms.
Humans trembled at the mere mention of her father, Dwayne Johnson, and her name.
But now, she has been wandering the human realm for hundreds of years.
She was born exceedingly beautiful.
Born with the blessings of darkness and moonlight, she became the envy of the world.
She was cursed.
To break it, she abandoned everything as the Queen of Hell and wandered the human realm.
An absolute curse that even the Queen of Hell could not undo.
And after wandering for hundreds of years, she finally found the one who cast the curse on her.
The witch in the woods.
Abraham.
No one knows who she is.
It’s unknown whether she’s human or some other race.
She has no desires, so she doesn’t appear before people.
Dark Wood exists in the human realm but could never be found. There was only one way to find Dark Wood!
Pure wishes.
‘Please heal my sick father.’
‘Please heal my sick mother.’
‘Please heal my injured daughter.’
‘Please let me get a pretty girlfriend.’
‘Please break the curse on me.’
Someone said their wish was unification. But it wasn’t a pure wish. It was a speculator trying to profit from land speculation by exploiting unification.
So, they say he never saw Dark Wood to the end.
At first, having a pure wish was difficult.
How could she have a pure wish for the one who cursed her?
Monsenger vowed to tear the witch in the woods, Abraham, to pieces if she found her.
But the more she did, the harder it was to find Dark Wood.
As time passed, she began to have a pure heart. She didn’t need anything else, just to have the curse broken. Then she could forgive Abraham.
Like that…….
Dark Wood opened.
However, the moment she stepped into Dark Wood, her murderous intent revived.
Hundreds of years.
After living for hundreds of years with a cursed body, how could she forgive the witch in the woods?
She accidentally found this restaurant. There was no one in the restaurant.
Monsenger is the Queen of Hell. If she were in hell, she could command over 60 million hellish beasts.
Of course, this is the human realm.
It’s different from the hell realm.
Still, she could summon as many hellish beasts as she needed to wipe out a city.
Also, not all hellish beasts were combat troops.
There were quite a few hellish beasts with good cooking skills.
Monsenger called the cooking beasts and filled her stomach to her heart’s content. And she drinks tea.
Dark Wood is a place untouched by people. Perhaps that’s why there were many fresh tea ingredients.
It was a tea that even Monsenger had rarely tasted. She sat on the second floor of the restaurant and drank tea.
Thinking about the witch in the woods, Abraham, whom she would soon meet.
Smirk-
Her cold smile froze even the teacup.
A sound broke her composure.
“Oh my, there’s another customer besides us. See? I told you this place is a hidden gem.”
Legion and Mibeak entered.
They glanced at Monsenger and sat by the window. They had already called the cooking beasts to clean up, so it really looked like a restaurant.
Only that spot in Dark Wood was bathed in sunlight.
“Wow, nice. Dark Wood.”
At the word Dark Wood, Monsenger narrowed her brows.
She had spent hundreds of years searching for this place. But those two humans seemed to have found it as if they were visiting a neighbor.
Monsenger was very uncomfortable.
She glared at Legion and Mibeak with a murderous look.
Mibeak glanced at Monsenger.
“Wow!”
He exclaimed without realizing it.
Mibeak had seen many beauties so far. But this was the first time he had seen a beauty who seemed not to exist in reality.
His eyes were fixed on her without him realizing it.
“Hey. What’s wrong?”
Legion’s blunt voice was heard.
“What do you mean, what’s wrong?”
Mibeak shook his head and sat next to Legion.
Legion looked at Mibeak. And pointed to the front seat with his chin. Is this guy crazy? What kind of absurd seating arrangement is this? Has anyone ever seen two men sitting side by side eating?
“T, that’s right, isn’t it?”
“Go to the front.”
“Yes.”
Mibeak changed his seat as if he was disappointed. He wanted to see Monsenger a little more, but he couldn’t. He didn’t have the guts to say, ‘Boss, you can’t go to the front seat.’
He lowered his voice as much as possible and said to Legion.
“She’s a really pretty woman. To think that even a woman like that would come here, this place must be a real hidden gem.”
Legion glanced at Monsenger.
Monsenger also looked at Legion.
The eyes of the two met.
Legion shook his head.
“You have low standards.”
“Me?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m on the higher side.”
“No. Think again. I don’t think your standards are that high. What’s so beautiful about that woman?”
“What? She’s totally beautiful. She’s legendary. No, she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”
“When I look at her…….”
“What do you see, Boss?”
“She’s the ugliest I’ve ever seen.”
“What?”
“Ugh, it makes my stomach churn. I can’t even turn my head that way.”
Mibeak looked at Legion with a dumbfounded expression. He had felt it before, but President Le’s eyes were a little different from ordinary people.
He had never said that a woman he said was pretty was pretty.
What criteria do you have to meet to be called pretty?
“She’s really pretty.”
“Okay. Order food.”
“Yes. Excuse me. Waiter.”
Mibeak called the waiter. The waiter on the first floor did not appear.
Of course.
There are no waiters here. There are only cooking beasts in charge of Monsenger’s cooking.
“Excuse me? Waiter. There’s not even a common bell magic tool here.”
Mibeak grumbled slightly and called the waiter.
The cooking beasts were embarrassed. They came up the stairs and looked at Monsenger.
Monsenger nodded.
Cooking beast.
Combat power is between 2-star and 3-star warrior level.
They are called beasts, but they are quite beautiful when compared to humans.
As a neuter, neither female nor male, they can transform into men or women at any time.
They are not hermaphrodites.
Because they cannot have children on their own.
Cooking beast Yamadora approached the table where Legion and Mibeak were sitting.
“Why did you call me?”
Yamadora asked bluntly.
Mibeak was about to get angry at Yamadora’s tone, but he stopped. His usual theory is that if you’re pretty, you’re forgiven.
The waiter is also pretty, so she deserves to be forgiven.
“Ahem. What’s the most delicious food here?”
“We don’t have any.”
“Isn’t this a restaurant?”
Yamadora looked at Monsenger again. Monsenger nodded again. Quietly feed them and send them away.
“It’s a restaurant.”
“Then there must be a signature dish.”
“The taste is just so-so.”
“Ah! I see.”
Mibeak realized.
The operating method of this restaurant.
This is how they attract new customers. I like it.
“Then give me the food that the beautiful woman was eating.”
Mibeak pointed to Monsenger.
Yamadora, who felt a little better because the owner was called beautiful, nodded.
“Then just eat that and leave.”
“Okay. We’re all busy, so we’ll eat quickly and get up.”
Mibeak winked at Yamadora. As cool as possible.
Yamadora didn’t even snort and went down to the first floor.
Whether Mibeak and Yamadora were flirting or not, Monsenger was looking at Legion.
‘He’s the first man I’ve seen who doesn’t stiffen up when he sees me. Everyone looks at me with lustful eyes.’
I couldn’t read any emotion in that man’s eyes. He looks at me like I’m an object.
Considering the curse, it was absolutely impossible.
That’s why I was interested.
A man who can resist the curse on me.
But…….
I feel like I’ve seen that man somewhere.
I don’t remember his face (because he was wearing a helmet).
But I’ve definitely seen that unique atmosphere before. Her memory isn’t bad. If her memory was bad, she wouldn’t have been able to live in the human realm for hundreds of years.
Humans have very low intelligence.
After only a few decades, they forget all the people of the past. They even forget the names of close colleagues.
If Monsenger had the same intelligence as humans, she would only remember the humans she had met in the last few decades, like an old woman with dementia [a general term for loss of memory and other mental abilities].
Maybe she would have forgotten her father’s name.
Compared to humans, Monsenger’s memory is far superior.
Nevertheless, she couldn’t remember where she had met that man.
That man…….
Who the hell is he?
* * *
Vigilance is essential in war.
All the troops under Legion know that.
If you fall asleep, you’ll become human candy for Sepia, so you can’t not know. Moreover, Sepia appears without even emitting murderous intent.
Without a sound-
Swish-
The feeling of having your head swallowed by something huge while dozing off can never be known unless you’re the one experiencing it.
Even if you only experience it once, you can never fall asleep while standing guard. Just thinking about Sepia makes your eyes widen instinctively.
The fear engraved on your spine once is what raises the soldiers’ power to the extreme, rather than saying it a hundred times.
Lauzel, the head teacher who is serving as the military officer of the Legion army, turned 1/5 of the troops into guards.
Dreiser asked Lauzel.
“Our unit is in good shape. It’s far better than other units. Of course, we trained in the Dusselph Mountains. But the march has just ended. Shouldn’t we take a day off?”
“That’s why it’s 1/5. If it were any other time, I would have turned 1/3 of the troops into guards.”
“Is that what it says in military science?”
“Of course. There’s also a saying that you can forgive an incompetent general, but you can’t forgive a general who neglects vigilance. There’s nothing as scary as assassins who appear when everyone is resting.”
Dreiser nodded at Lauzel’s words.
He was a man who became more and more desirable the more he looked at him.
I couldn’t understand why such a man was only working as a school principal.
The most curious thing is his former job.
Dreiser doesn’t think Lauzel is a former herbalist.
Legion insisted that he was a former herbalist or a teacher, but no matter how you look at it, that’s not it.
What kind of herbalist has mastered imperial studies?
Look at Lauzel’s appearance.
He’s quite handsome.
His handsome appearance and flamboyant speech.
That erudition makes everyone’s mouths drop open. When you listen to him, you listen intently as if you were possessed.
He’s definitely a nobleman’s lover.
The husband found out and tried to kill Lauzel. He was lucky enough to be saved by Legion.
Dreiser was thinking about getting hit by a stone by Lauzel, who would come to his senses.
Anyway, the situation went as Lauzel wanted.
There were complaints from the unit leaders, but it was Lauzel’s order, who had Legion’s absolute trust.
It’s obvious what will happen if you disobey.
They sighed and put 1/5 of their unit members into guard duty.
Abdul Jabbar and Sachs Finn stand guard together.
Abdul Jabbar is a unit leader among regular soldiers. Nevertheless, he stands guard.
Abdul Jabbar, who was seriously injured once and whose life was in danger, was told by his unit members to rest, but he shook his head.
“I can’t do that. Give me the first watch instead.”
The unit members didn’t object to that.
They were grateful for Abdul Jabbar’s willingness to lead by example.
Sachs Finn was one of the soldiers who survived Lilac’s attack.
Perhaps that’s why he was especially close to Abdul Jabbar.
It was around the time when their lewd jokes were in full swing.
Abdul Jabbar’s mouth stopped. At the same time, Sachs Finn also stopped. He felt that the unit leader’s movements were unusual.
Sachs Finn increased his magic power and focused on his vision.
He couldn’t see anything with his eyesight.
“I can’t see anything?”
“Shh! Go and wake everyone up. It’s an enemy attack.”
“An enemy attack?”
Sachs Finn asked back in surprise. He is also a fairly skilled soldier. He could cast Mana Blade without difficulty.
Nevertheless, he couldn’t see anything.
“Is the enemy nearby?”
Sachs Finn asked back, holding his breath to the extreme.
“They’re nearby.”
“How far?”
“At least…… about 3 kilometers.”
“…….”
Sachs Finn was speechless.
You can see that?