Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 404

Magic is Learned in Vain – Episode 405

# 405

City Destruction (1)

Everyone in the camp woke up.

They couldn’t help but wake up. It would have been more amazing if someone could sleep through this.

A tremendous number of flares were constantly bursting in the sky.

Thanks to that, they could clearly see what was happening.

“W-What on earth is that…?”

Temptation, who had been pretending to be sick but quickly jumped up, was left speechless at the incredible sight unfolding before them.

The other scholars were the same.

It would be right to say their bodies froze.

Hundreds of giant monsters, a Bone Dragon, and a massive Steel Golem were fiercely fighting in the distance.

The monsters bit at the Steel Golem’s body with their powerful teeth. The monsters’ teeth shattered. It didn’t end there. Mamon had engraved over a thousand magic spells onto the Steel Golem’s exoskeleton.

Runic letters continuously flashed, activating the magic.

콰콰콰쾅!

Daganda Z’s armor exploded, blowing off the head of a monster.

It was an explosion with at least 6th circle magic power.

The outer shell had become as hard as steel through all sorts of experiments, but the inside was apparently not the same.

Flesh torn into thousands of pieces scattered in all directions.

-Krrr릉!

Daganda Z reached into the neck of a staggering monster and tore it open.

The body of the monster, dozens of meters in size, split in half! Daganda Z spun the split monster’s body around and threw it away.

The bisected monster’s body fell towards the camp.

쿠쿠쿠쿠쿵!

The monster’s corpse smashed two tents and a food storage.

Even though it was split in half…

Its size was unbelievably enormous. It was like ten large elephants stuck together.

“Oh my God!”

The scholars and mercenaries were startled.

They had overcome quite a few dangers until now, but they had never felt such a great danger as they did now.

What they were seeing was…

A monster great war.

There was no other way to explain it.

A Bone Dragon and a Steel Golem fighting against over a hundred monsters, each dozens of meters tall.

They didn’t know why the Bone Dragon and Steel Golem were stopping them, but the scholars and mercenaries put their hands together and prayed.

Please, don’t let them be breached.

If the Bone Dragon and Steel Golem fell, it was obvious that the monsters would trample this place.

“Shouldn’t we run away?”

Profiler asked Surprise.

“Run away?”

“Yes.”

“Where to?”

“Anywhere.”

“Do you think that’s possible?”

“Isn’t it your role to protect us? You shouldn’t say things like that. You have to protect us no matter what.”

“I wish I could. If we could save your lives by sacrificing ours, then we could receive quite a lot of reward even after death. But… look at those things.”

Surprise pointed to the monsters.

“The small ones are over 10 meters tall. The biggest ones are over 50 meters tall. They’re taller than the fortress walls. Do you think we can stop those things? If we could even buy some time, we would. But! If those things step on us, we’ll die without even being able to do anything. We can’t even buy time.”

“Then what are we supposed to do?”

“Wait.”

“Wait?”

“Yes.”

“Is there any way?”

“Duke Legion will be here soon. He’ll say something.”

“Where did he go?”

Surprise pointed to the sky with his index finger.

“The sky?”

“Yes.”

“I-Is he dead?”

Surprise frowned for a moment. He heard he [Profiler] was a genius. *What* kind of ridiculous thoughts is he having?

“He went to the sky.”

“When?”

“About an hour ago?”

“You should have told us as soon as the Duke went. This is not the time to be doing this.”

“We have to wait until he comes down. Where else would we go?”

“How can someone who went to the sky come down? What are you talking about?”

“What are you talking about? If you go up to the sky, it’s natural to come down.”

“Is the Duke becoming an angel? How can a dead person come down?”

“Huh? I’m telling you he’s not dead.”

“You said he went to the sky.”

“Does everyone who goes to the sky die?”

“Have you ever seen someone who didn’t die?”

“Um, no.”

“See? He’s dead.”

“Ah, I’m going crazy. I’m telling you he’s not dead.”

Surprise scratched the back of his head. A genius? He must be a genius at making people frustrated.

“Listen, genius scholar. Listen to me carefully. The Duke went up to the sky like this. Like this. Walking.”

Surprise demonstrated to the scholars as if he were walking up stairs.

But he was not Legion. He couldn’t walk up to the sky like Legion.

Temptation and the scholars frowned. They didn’t understand what the mercenary captain was saying at all.

Surprise was just as frustrated. No one believed him when he said he walked up to the sky.

His subordinates were the same.

“Hey, how can a person walk up to the sky? You have to say something that makes sense.”

They only spouted nonsense like that.

Ahhh! I’m so frustrated. How can I make them believe me?

“Hey! Bbi-ggu.”

“Yes, Captain.”

“You saw it, right?”

“I saw it, but…”

“See? He saw it.”

“That’s… I’m confused whether what I saw was reality or a dream. Because no matter how I think about it, it’s something I can’t believe.”

“Wow! I’m going crazy. Hey, you idiot. You saw it with your own two eyes and you can’t tell whether it’s a dream or reality! Does that make sense?”

“That’s right. It doesn’t make sense. What I saw doesn’t make sense either.”

Wow!

I’m going crazy.

My anger soared.

The back of my neck also stiffened.

At this rate, I’ll be the only liar and fool.

“Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s escape this place even now and report the news of the Duke’s death to the kingdom.”

Profiler shouted to the people around him.

Everyone thought Profiler was right. If they pretended not to know about the Duke’s death, they might be punished with the extermination of three generations [a severe form of punishment in some cultures].

“Report what?”

At that moment-

A familiar voice was heard from the air.

The air?

Everyone’s gaze turned to the sky.

“Huh?”

In an instant, everyone stopped as if they had made a promise.

What is it? That was the expression on their faces. That was because it was a sight they had never seen in their lives.

Temptation had many magician friends. Because magicians were also deeply related to academics, he had many things in common with them.

Baserabap was one of them.

Magicians use a magic called Fly Magic.

It was a magic that made a buzzing sound like a fly while flying in the sky.

To be honest, magicians flying with Fly Magic are not very attractive.

There is also a lack of detail that makes it look like they are walking through the sky.

They opened their eyes and looked closely.

“T-That’s real.”

“T-That’s right. He’s really coming down from the sky. He’s really walking in the sky.”

“I-Is that possible?”

Legion jumped down in front of the scholars and mercenaries.

“Report what?”

“T-That’s.”

“But what are you all doing out here? Not sleeping.”

“W-We can’t sleep. Monsters are rampaging in front of us.”

“Ah, that.”

“Do you know something?”

“Do you see that Bone Dragon and Steel Golem over there?”

“Yes.”

“They are my subordinates’ subordinates.”

“Subordinates’ subordinates?”

“Yes. They’re chasing away the monsters, so don’t worry and go in and sleep.”

Everyone felt dizzy. Ever since they met Legion, they felt like they were somewhere far away from reality.

Bone Dragon and Steel Golem are subordinates’ subordinates?

In all my life, this was the first time I had seen a human being who used the Bone Dragon, a terrifying top-tier undead, as a subordinate’s subordinate.

Wait a minute, then the subordinate must be an even more amazing person?

“W-Who is the subordinate?”

“You saw him earlier.”

“Who?”

“Lich. He’s my direct summon, and those guys are Lich’s subordinates.”

People froze.

The sense of reality was too low.

The first thing that came to mind was that this man might be a demon.

How else could he have a Lich as a subordinate if he wasn’t a demon?

The same was true of the Bone Dragon and Steel Golem.

-Kuaaaaaang!

The people were startled by the tremendous fear. They flinched and looked in the direction of the monsters.

Over a hundred monsters were being beaten by the Bone Dragon and Steel Golem and chased far away.

Really…

It’s absurd.

I can’t believe it even while watching it.

Watching this scene, Temptation swept his chest several times. Duke Legion is definitely a demon. He felt like he should go back to Poman Castle and quickly report this fact.

Now he understood Baserabap’s intentions.

He wanted me to find the demon’s weakness.

I’m sorry, friend.

I couldn’t find this demon’s weakness with my abilities.

The demon’s promotion to Duke must have been because he had seduced His Majesty the King.

Cold sweat streamed down Temptation’s spine.

He had met the greatest enemy ever.

How can I get this demon away from His Majesty the King?

“Okay, okay, go in. Let’s all sleep. We have to leave early tomorrow.”

Legion waved his hand and returned to the barracks.

Legion went back to the barracks, took off his shoes, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep quickly, but the others didn’t.

For a long time, they just stood there blankly, watching the barracks where Legion was sleeping.

The Desert of Blood.

The habitat of monsters.

One of the kingdom’s three forbidden areas.

But today, it didn’t feel like this place was dangerous.

The dangerous thing was not the monsters.

The demon sleeping in the barracks was the most dangerous.

“Let’s have a drink.”

Surprise said.

“Let’s do that.”

“Yes. I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep unless I drink.”

Sleep was already gone.

After seeing the monster great war and Duke Legion doing the Sky Walk, it was strange to be able to sleep comfortably.

They drank until dawn.

* * *

Neck House Border Military City Tema.

One infantry corps of 35,000 men was stationed there.

You can think of it as playing a similar role to the Baroque Kingdom’s military city Focus.

The military cities Focus and Tema have no border. Instead of a border, the Desert of Blood was in place.

So, their spies come and go through that place. To prevent that, the scouts of Focus and Tema went out to the desert every day without fail.

If they meet each other, a battle will inevitably occur.

The people of the Neck House Kingdom hated the people of the Baroque Kingdom so much that they could be said to be ‘irrational’.

Although the two countries attract tourists and export and import goods for their mutual benefit, they fundamentally distrusted each other.

On the walls of the military city Tema.

Soldiers were standing guard on the walls, facing the desert.

If you go inside, there is nothing but sand. But this place is on the outskirts, so the floor was quite solid.

Cactus can also be seen everywhere.

The weather was hot, but water resources were quite abundant.

Nevertheless, the reason why they built the walls so high was because of the monsters that occasionally got lost and appeared.

Monsters are less intelligent than *monsters* [referring to a specific type of creature in this world].

From a human perspective, *monsters* are *monsters*, but they are close to demihumans. They each have their own civilization and language.

Occasionally, there were *monsters* that used hieroglyphs.

But *monsters* were just that.

They live only for predation. They can only eat and kill.

Even pretending to be dead doesn’t work in front of them. If there is a living thing in front of them, they kill it first.

What would happen if such *monsters* appeared in a city where humans live?

They commit endless slaughter.

That’s why they built the walls so high to stop them.

The highest point is 70 meters.

The lowest point is also 50 meters.

The dwarves who designed this wall boasted that no *monster* in the human world, except for dragons, could cross it.

That’s actually the case.

The *monsters* that occasionally appear have never crossed this huge wall.

“Jon-na.”

“Yeah.”

Jon-na, who was leaning against the wall and dozing off, answered with his eyes closed.

He had been drinking until dawn last night, so he almost missed his guard duty. Fortunately, he wasn’t late, but he couldn’t help but feel sleepy because he wasn’t sober yet.

“Is it the time for a sandstorm to come?”

“No, sandstorms come once every quarter. There was a sandstorm last month, so there are still three months left.”

“Then what is that?”

“What?”

“Open your eyes and look.”

“Hey, I told you. Leave me alone for an hour or two in the morning.”

“Sorry, but I think you should see that.”

Jon-na frowned and opened his eyes.

“What is it?”

“Look at that.”

His colleague pointed to the horizon beyond the wall.

“Huh?”