Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 4

# 4

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Legion returned to the mansion.

As he arrived, the elderly servant Silcott, who was sweeping the front gate with a broom, widened his eyes like a startled rabbit.

“Lord.”

Yes, that’s right. Legion was a lord.

A lord with only the family name remaining.

A few years ago, his parents died in a mysterious accident, and he became the lord at a young age. But he became a lord at an age when he didn’t know anything and was busy playing around, so it’s safe to say there was almost nothing he could do.

So his uncle took control.

Since then, the territory’s taxes have tripled, and every winter, the territory’s people suffered from malnutrition due to lack of grain.

Legion told his uncle to lower the taxes.

“What do you know about governing the territory? Do you know how taxes are collected? Do you know how the collected taxes are used? Do you know how to build roads? Do you know who builds the walls? Do you know how to defend against invasions from other nobles? Do you know who trains the soldiers? You don’t know, do you? If you don’t know, shut up and sit down. Just eat the warm bread I give you in peace.”

“Am I not the lord?”

“You are the lord. So what can you do as the lord?”

“Anything.”

“Anything?”

His uncle scoffed.

Since his uncle took over the management of the territory, all the territory’s people’s complaints were directed at him, not his uncle. They all came back to Legion, the lord.

Walking down the street, he could feel the people’s anger piercingly.

The glares were like daggers stabbing his heart. Even if Legion’s head wasn’t very good, it wasn’t like he didn’t have any sense.

He knew well enough that something was wrong.

Since then, Legion began to oppose his uncle. His uncle would say to Legion’s face, ‘You rude brat, I’ve been raising you in place of your brother, and now you’re talking back because you think you’re so big?’ The servants and knights belonging to the territory were all watching. Legion’s face turned red.

Humiliation, unbearable insult.

Nevertheless, Legion couldn’t say anything to him.

The knights beside his uncle looked like they would draw their swords and cut off his head at any moment if an order was given.

Like an idiot… he was scared.

Perhaps from that day on, his uncle seemed to have decided to kill Legion. Poisoning his meals, loosening the wheels of his carriage, or someone setting a fire.

Legion felt a serious threat to his life.

There was no need to think twice about who was trying to assassinate him. Give up the lord’s seat. Then I’ll spare your life. It was his uncle.

Legion had no intention of giving up the lord’s seat.

He’s also short. He’s not very smart either. He doesn’t have great ambitions. But it wasn’t like he didn’t have any spirit.

Legion may not have money or power, but his pride hadn’t fallen to the ground.

People will say.

Does pride feed you? Is it more important than your life? Yes, it’s important to me. I will never bow my head to the guy who might have assassinated my parents.

Thanks to that, he almost lost his life tonight.

Should I say a crisis is an opportunity? He barely survived by gaining a strange ability.

Now it’s time to prepare for a counterattack.

Legion smiled at the old servant Silcott. He was one of the few remaining people who hadn’t been won over by his uncle.

Perhaps Silcott would rather leave the castle than follow him. That’s how much Legion trusted him.

“Where have you been since dawn?”

Silcott asked.

“Morning exercise.”

“Morning exercise?”

Silcott tilted his head.

In his opinion, the lord was someone who had nothing to do with physical activities such as exercise and training.

The Alexander family was a martial family [a family known for its martial prowess].

The family seemed to be born to become knights, regardless of gender or age. But strangely, the men’s lives were short.

Silcott was thinking that if the men of the Alexander family could live long lives, the kingdom’s power would have changed.

This family was under a terrible curse.

Among them, this lord was probably the worst ever.

He was not granted the overwhelming physical abilities that everyone in the Alexander family was born with. Even the smallest were over 180 centimeters tall. Legion’s grandfather was an unimaginable giant of 210 centimeters.

Big but fast.

There was even a rumor that the enemy countries surrounding the kingdom gave up invading because they were afraid of Legion’s grandfather.

This lord’s height is barely over 150 centimeters.

He had been sick since he was young. It didn’t seem like he would survive for long.

Still, Silcott did his best to assist Legion.

That Legion did exercise? It was as unbelievable as saying that a cat and a monkey got married and gave birth to a monkey-like cat.

“Really morning exercise?”

His clothes were covered in blood. Not only that. Didn’t he look like he had fallen into a swamp and barely survived?

“Do I look a little strange?”

“You look very strange.”

“Just pretend you don’t know.”

“If that’s what you want, Lord, but… what happened?”

“Maybe.”

“Is it related to your uncle?”

Silcott asked in a very low voice. He also knew very well that his uncle was aiming for the lord’s seat. No, if you lived in the mansion, there was no one who didn’t know that fact.

“Well, yes.”

“Surely he didn’t even send assassins, did he?”

Silcott looked quite nervous. His eyes were filled with the will that he couldn’t lose the lord in vain this time either. Legion was grateful for his appearance.

“Sometimes it’s better not to know. Just pretend you don’t know.”

“Still….”

“Really. It’s better not to get involved any deeper. You’ll get hurt.”

“This old life, I decided to dedicate it to the Alexander family. What can’t I do for you, Lord?”

“I’ll just take your heart. I’m tired, so I’m going in.”

Legion waved his hand and went into the mansion.

“Ah, just a moment.”

Silcott called out to Legion. Legion turned to Silcott with a look of, what’s wrong again?

“He’s here.”

“Uncle?”

“Yes.”

“What’s that man doing here so early in the morning?”

“I don’t know. He brought a lot of subordinates with him.”

Legion tilted his head. He had never come so early before, so why was he here this morning?

-Do you really not know, think about it.

Mark’s voice was heard.

What an impudent tone. I’m thinking because I don’t know.

-He’s sure you’re dead.

I’m dead?

-That’s right. Judging from the circumstances, it seems like he’s planning to take over your title and territory.

Ah, I see.

Legion finally nodded.

Perhaps he came early to hear the sad news of my death. This is truly a tragedy. I don’t know why he’s so greedy for a mere baronet title.

“Okay. Thank you.”

Legion nodded slightly to Silcott.

Silcott didn’t seem relieved. He kept moving the broom he was holding from side to side.

“Are you okay?”

Silcott asked worriedly.

“If I’m not okay?”

“I’m afraid your uncle will do something bad to you.”

“Ah, it’s okay. You don’t have to worry.”

Legion smiled and slowly walked up the path that Silcott had cleaned so cleanly.

Silcott watched with worried eyes until Legion’s figure disappeared.

* * *

Hehe, I knew it.

Legion smiled bitterly. He looked at his uncle, who had a very surprised expression as if he had seen a ghost. Not only his uncle, but also his vassals were the same.

In particular, the expression of the magician Pering, who led the assassination plan, was very bad.

“How can you….”

His uncle stammered.

Hey, Uncle. Saying, how can you? is no different from confessing. How can you aim for a title without being able to hide your emotions like that?

“How am I alive, you ask?”

Legion asked with a smile.

His uncle also inherited the family’s bloodline well. He is a giant over 2 meters tall. He seems to be proud that he is one of the top five in the kingdom in terms of strength alone. There was a widespread opinion that if he had mastered the lost family’s internal energy technique, he would have become a top-notch knight.

In other words, it also means that he remained a knight with only strength because he could not master the mind technique.

I don’t know, but his uncle must have poured a lot of money to find the lost family’s internal energy technique.

Such an uncle’s flustered appearance….

Serves you right. You son of a bitch.

“What? Ah, no. Not that.”

His uncle quickly shut his mouth. He almost confessed to trying to assassinate his nephew with his own mouth.

There are many eyes, ears, and mouths in this mansion’s dining room.

If you make a mistake, rumors spread.

Rumors have no feet. The speed of spreading is faster than light. If that happens… you have to kill everyone in the mansion.

“Why are you making such a surprised expression? That’s how life is.”

Legion sat in a chair opposite his uncle.

He crossed his legs and picked up the salad on the table with his hands and put it in his mouth.

It was a very rude act.

His uncle will continue to aim for his life. There was no need to be servile to someone who was aiming for his life. The moment he sent the assassins, the blood relationship was completely severed.

The giant man in front of him and himself were just ‘enemies’.

Legion swallowed the salad he had chewed with a crunch. He wiped the sauce on his hands on his pants.

His uncle frowned at Legion’s actions.

“If you’re hungry, eat properly. Or wash up and eat. I can smell the stench from here.”

“Stench?”

“Yes, stench.”

“Ah, I see. Do you see this hard thing here?”

Legion pointed to the blood on his clothes. The color had already turned dark red and changed like a solid, so it didn’t look like blood. But there was no one who didn’t know it was blood.

“By the way.”

But they pretend they don’t know.

“It’s the blood of the assassins.”

“Hmm.”

At the word assassin, his uncle let out a shallow groan. Then he glanced at Pering next to him.

How did you handle the work?

A look of reproach.

Pering bowed his head and glared at Legion with angry eyes.

What are you going to do if you glare at me? You son of a bitch.

“If you ask how I survived, one guy stabbed me in the neck with a dagger. Like this.”

Legion realistically reenacted the situation.

His uncle and vassals, who were embarrassed by his actions, frowned and watched. Legion’s energy, which was clearly different from yesterday, made them unable to move rashly.

What should I say? It’s very unsettling.

“That blood splattered when I killed him. There were five of them in total. I blew off the heads of two of them. They completely disappeared. The remaining two didn’t seem to know what was going on. What is this? How can such a weak guy kill us? While they were panicking, I tore their insides to shreds and killed them. I have a very broad mind. So I killed them without pain. The assassins must have gone to their mother’s side in peace.”

The dining room became as quiet as if cold water had been poured on it at Legion’s words.

“L, lie!”

The magician Pering jumped up from his seat.

Legion slowly tilted his head back. He arrogantly looked at him from a sitting position.

Then he stretched out his middle finger and pointed it at Pering.

“What’s a lie, Pering?”