Magic Is Learned For Nothing [EN]: Chapter 61

# 61

Good Friends Meet 2

“Clean all of this up. Hurry now.”

Bacon grabbed the arms and legs of the fallen knights and gathered them to one side.

They were all unconscious with broken limbs.

Bacon, having gathered them in a corner of the tavern, reflected on the ‘overwhelming situation’ that had just occurred.

Dreyger had snatched the wrist of the knight who placed a hand on his shoulder and simply snapped it with force. The knight screamed, kneeling, and Dreyger thrust his knee into the knight’s face.

Crack!

With that sound, the knight lost consciousness and collapsed without offering any proper resistance.

“Attack!”

The knights rose from their seats simultaneously. All of them drew their swords.

Indeed, knights.

Once they started moving, they were on a different level from any ragtag group.

Adept and-

Fast and-

Like young wolves.

They unleashed the combined techniques that had brought them many victories. The betting inside the tavern exploded, spewing hot air out the windows.

Tavern owner Pisar and his daughter Rose quickly grabbed trays and ducked their heads. Such incidents happened so often that they weren’t even told to avoid it anymore.

They just ran.

At that moment, tremendous magical power deflected all the knights’ techniques. No, it didn’t just deflect them; it swallowed them instantly.

Swallowed and spat them out.

Crackle!

The tavern ceiling split in half.

The heat inside met the cold air outside, creating steam like fog.

That was the end of their fight.

All twenty knights were lying motionless. Their energy channels were twisted, and they were spitting blood into their mouths.

Bacon was truly amazed.

He had never seen such a strong human before.

Clearly, he hadn’t even used all his strength. Even so, he demonstrated power far beyond what Bacon considered ‘strong’.

He seemed stronger than Master Lich Mamon and Sepia, who competed for the title of the strongest in the territory.

No, much, much, much stronger.

Only then did Bacon realize how incredible ‘Aura Users’ were. The strength of knights who used Aura and Blades was not something that could be described with words or spoken about.

It was literally worlds apart.

The giant man stood up.

To face twenty knights without even drawing a weapon, while sitting down. And he didn’t even get a scratch.

It felt like watching a funny comedy.

The giant man slung his massive battle-axe over his back and left the tavern. Rose, who usually spoke her mind, couldn’t bring herself to say, ‘Pay for the broken ceiling before you go,’ in this situation.

Before leaving the tavern, the giant man glanced at Rose and asked.

“How far is it from here to the Düsselph Mountains?”

“The Düsselph Mountains?” Rose asked back.

“Yes.”

“Why there?”

“I heard that dragons live there. Don’t you know?”

“Dragons? Are you perhaps a Dragon Slayer?”

“Answer my question. How far away are the Düsselph Mountains from here?”

“Strictly speaking, this is also the Düsselph Mountains. But since people live here, we also call it the border region. Welcome. This is the famous entrance to the Düsselph Mountains.”

“Is that so.”

The giant man nodded and walked out of the tavern.

Rose, gathering her courage, called out, ‘What about the cost of the broken shop?’ and received the reply, ‘Get it from those guys lying there.’

This is the whole story.

An incident that even the master didn’t anticipate had occurred.

Bacon was deep in thought, looking at the knights who were lying down, unable to regain consciousness.

What should they do with these guys? Things had gone completely wrong from what they expected.

“Let’s say we saved them,” Lotto said.

“Huh? What do you mean?” Bacon tilted his head, looking puzzled.

“I’m telling the truth. We saved the knights, and we’re going to take care of them with all our heart. Help them recover with good food.”

“Ah, that would work.”

Bacon’s expression brightened. Hearing Lotto’s words, it felt like a slightly tangled thread was being untangled.

There was nothing that couldn’t be achieved through the heart.

If they knew how much effort they had put into helping them… the knights would open their hearts and prepare to get married.

Like master, like subordinates.

“By the way, that man is really strong,” Lotto muttered, looking at the half-broken door the giant man had left through.

“Yeah. Really strong. A human can become that strong.”

* * *

Legion was very diligent.

Because he was fat, others might think he was slow, lazy, didn’t wash, and wouldn’t leave his bed with greasy hair, but that was not the case at all.

He only slept three or four hours a day.

From dawn to the time he went to bed, he devoted himself solely to training.

Yet, he still weighed over 120 kilograms.

Muscles and solid bones were growing inside the fat, but outwardly, it didn’t look that way, which was his only drawback.

Did he stay away from studying?

That wasn’t the case either.

Legion went to the library whenever he had time and read books.

If there was something he didn’t know, he asked Mark. Mark taught him most things, except for what wasn’t in the data. He was said to be a very advanced artificial intelligence, and he was quite useful at times like this.

Legion trained whether it rained or snowed.

His overall combat power had increased to 937, but he still weighed 125 kilograms. Every morning, his retina still displayed messages like, ‘Beware of high blood pressure, beware of hyperlipidemia [high cholesterol], beware of diabetes, and arteriosclerosis [hardening of the arteries] can occur when the weather gets cold. Be careful.’

Today, he spars with monsters to survive.

-Kuaaaaa (Run away! The Black Dragon has appeared)!

-Kukakaka (Abandon the useless baggage! Just take the valuables and run)!

-Kukikikiki (Euaaah! Mom, Mom! Where are you)?

-Kuaaang (Oh no, honey! Take the baby and run away. Let’s go together).

Legion was dumbfounded, watching the strange phenomenon unfolding before his eyes.

Today, he came to the Düsselph Mountains to spar with monsters, carrying his steel staff.

Because it was such a vast mountain range, he could find monster villages endlessly just by searching the entrance.

So he fought them as they came.

Now, he could handle an average ogre well enough without using magic. He even went into the swamp himself to get hydras, which were far better for stamina than eels.

The hydra had at least two heads.

They wouldn’t die unless all the heads were completely destroyed.

At first, they were disgusting, but they were quite lucrative. Since they didn’t die, he only needed to pluck one head at a time, and it would live again next time. Pluck it again, pluck it again, pluck it again…….

Once, a hydra cried in human language.

“Please, brother, just let me go.”

Legion felt too embarrassed to pluck any more heads because it cried so sadly. So he made a suggestion.

“This bastard, you use your head? I’ll let you go if you tell me where the others are.”

That bastard told him about a five-headed one, and Legion moved the location. That guy told him about a seven-headed one again, and soon it looked like he was going to a nine-headed one.

Mark praised Legion.

-I pay my respects to you for being the first on the continent to succeed in hydra farming. If you process it well and sell it, you will make a fortune.

Really?

Legion smiled with a proud heart. The business ideas kept increasing. Even ten bodies wouldn’t be enough.

The problem was that.

Legion was looking for the Giant Troll tribe, said to be the strongest in this area.

The size of an adult was over 5 meters.

Their combat power was weaker than ogres, but they were not completely pushed back thanks to their powerful regeneration and unique slippery skin mucus.

If two of them gathered, their combat power was enough to fight an ogre!

When he first fought a Giant Troll, he had a hard time because of that skin.

Now, one or two were not enough for Legion. He was going to fight about five of them at once.

But what? As soon as the troll on guard duty discovered Legion, it started ringing the alarm bell like crazy.

He had never seen a troll on guard duty before.

He had never seen a troll ringing an alarm bell either.

And then all the trolls in the village began to pack their bags and flee.

Falling, tripping, children crying, and mother trolls hugging those children and screaming.

Why on earth?

“Why are they doing that?”

Legion was genuinely curious. Of course, he came to the Düsselph Mountains for training, but he had never killed monsters.

Nor had he killed other races.

So why were they so scared?

Of course, there was something Legion didn’t know. That in auto mode, Mark was roasting, boiling, frying, and slicing monsters to eat.

Thanks to that, Legion had no idea that he was being called the Black Dragon or the Demon King of the Düsselph Mountains.

-It’s time to descend the mountain.

“Descend?”

-That’s right. There are no more monsters in this area that can be your opponent. You need to find stronger monsters and go deeper into the mountains. That’s how your skills will improve.

“Hey, this is far enough from home, why are you telling me to go further inside?”

Further inside was beyond the village of the Amazon Orc female warriors.

Monsters were monsters, but just going back and forth would take a lot of time, and just going back and forth was no easy task.

-Since you can’t leave the territory often, it would be better to just hole up and train for about a week a month.

“Ugh, how did I end up like this.”

Legion tore at his hair.

The more he trained, the more he felt like he was falling into a swamp. He didn’t know why he had to go to such a dangerous place to lose weight.

Kukukukukung!

It was then.

A tremendous explosion erupted in the distance. Legion was so surprised that he bent his waist halfway in an unsightly manner.

Whoosh!

It was like a volcano was erupting. Enormous fragments flew in all directions over his head.

“What, what is it? What’s going on?”

All sorts of things were happening today.

-Mana collided.

“Mana collided?”

Legion asked, tilting his head.

-It means two powerful energies collided.

“So what does that mean?”

-How would I know? Whether it was an earthquake or a volcano erupted. Check it out if you’re curious.

Ugh, this rude bastard.

Inevitably, Legion moved towards the location where the explosion occurred.

* * *

Legion saw a giant man who was badly injured.

He staggered and fell in front of Legion. He seemed to say something.

“I, I am……(I am Dreyger. You’ve heard of me, haven’t you? Save me quickly).”

Legion listened to his words and inferred the rest.

“He’s saying he’ll do anything if I help him, right? This old man.”

-That seems to be the case.

Mark agreed.

“But the injuries are really severe. How can I save him? He looks like he’s about to die.”

Legion frowned, looking at his completely burned body. The magic circle shining armor was completely broken and no longer functioned properly.

The weapon he was holding was also broken in half.

Armor and weapons engraved with runes.

Items with the word magic attached to them are always incredibly expensive.

Magic armor is expensive, but these items with properly engraved runes would probably be worth whatever you asked for.

A man armed with weapons and armor engraved with such runes.

No matter how you looked at it, it was suspicious, but Legion didn’t think much of it.

“In exchange for saving him……. I’ll take the items.”

Legion took off the armor from the man’s clothes, who was only panting with his last breath. He forcibly took the weapon from his hand. The man tried to resist, but he couldn’t move.

He didn’t have the strength to move a single finger.

He forcibly took it and put it in the space expansion bag he had snatched from Lich Mamon. It was light and small, so Legion used it very usefully. It was only possible when there was mental communication.

“You…… (You bastard, just try touching my things).”

“You’ll work like a dog in exchange for saving your life? Really? I already have a lot of servants. Do I need another servant?”

-You’re swamped with work. To have to take on even these useless tasks. But what can you do? You have to save people first.

“Yeah, that’s right. I’m a lord. I have to help the unfortunate.”

Legion grinned, looking at the Axe Master Dreyger, who was lying down, barely clinging to life.

What? Just what is this pig?

He was feeling the greatest unknown fear he had ever felt in his life.