Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 115

“Hmm, that’s right. It’s written there, Luthfel Castle. Good work,” Logan said.

“Yes, yes. Thank you, sir,” the hairy man stammered.

“You can go now.”

“Yes! Thank you……”

The blade made a soft *snick* sound as it sliced through the air.

“Gurgle.” A gurgling noise escaped the man’s throat.

The sword, which had lightly brushed past, grazed his Adam’s apple, and a fountain of blood erupted.

Logan closed the wide, accusing eyes that glared at him with resentment and tossed the hairy man’s corpse into the forest.

This man had lived three days longer than the others Logan had hunted down. He considered it a small mercy.

Logan didn’t look back as he descended the mountain.

“A merchant from Grandia? What brings a merchant this far?” the soldier asked.

“Haha. Well, you see, I got lost. I was trying to get to Luthfelheim……” Logan replied.

“Ugh. If you were trying to get to Luthfel and ended up here, you’re completely directionless, aren’t you? Are you really a merchant?”

“Actually, I had a guide, but he suddenly turned into a robber, and well……” Logan trailed off.

He swallowed the deadly truth, but when he showed the soldier the empty bag with nothing inside, the soldier nodded with the most pitiful expression in the world.

“Heh heh, oh dear. Tsk tsk. Well, it’s not much of a town, but take a rest. Prices are cheap, so if you have any pocket money, you can stay for a few days,” the soldier said.

He was a good fellow.

‘The only good Imperial is a dead Imperial, but,’ Logan thought.

Luckily for him, he wasn’t here to wage war right now.

Logan thanked the soldier, who didn’t even check his ID, and entered the castle.

Even though it was a rural castle he had never heard of in his previous life, it was several times larger than the old Maclane.

It wasn’t just a castle built for strategic purposes but a life-oriented castle built so that many people could live inside.

The difference between it and the kingdom could be felt even in a remote castle, and he already felt bitter.

Logan looked around and found an inn on the main street and went inside.

“Welcome!”

“Innkeeper, a beer and a room. I’ll be staying for a while,” Logan said.

Ting! He flicked a 10-gold coin, and the innkeeper accepted it with a delighted expression.

A sight that would have made the soldier who saw the empty bag frown.

But fortunately, the innkeeper wasn’t that soldier.

“But you don’t have the accent here? Where are you from to have come all the way here?” the innkeeper asked.

“I’m from Grandia. I’m a merchant who got lost,” Logan replied.

“Tsk tsk. Well, we have everything here, so take your time and see if there’s anything you want to buy. It doesn’t look like you have much to sell,” the innkeeper said.

“Thank you, innkeeper. Then, while I’m at it, could you tell me a little about this place?” Logan asked.

The innkeeper, who had snatched the flying gold coin in an instant, smiled and opened his mouth.

An hour later, the innkeeper comfortably rattled on about the target.

“A wizard? There’s a wizard here?” Logan asked.

“That’s right, my friend. At first, I thought he was a strange person, but the lord is treating him very well. I heard he’s a rare wizard?” the innkeeper replied.

He wanted to get some information, but the friendly innkeeper, who had brought his own beer, was fully immersed in gossip.

Thanks to him, he memorized the names of dozens of people in the territory in an instant.

It was really fortunate that the target was among them, though.

“Ahem. If there’s a wizard, maybe he’ll buy my stuff. Cheren ‘Crow’? That guy…… Ah, no. Where is he?” Logan asked.

“It’s Crow. You’re young, but is your memory so bad that you’re going to be a merchant? Heh heh. I’ll explain it well, so listen carefully,” the innkeeper said.

Logan cross-checked with the information he had.

Cheren Crow’s location secured.

‘It doesn’t seem like he’s using the name Crowne,’ Logan thought.

Logan picked up his bundle and left the inn without even checking the room the innkeeper had given him.

Perhaps he would never return to this inn.

“Is anyone there?”

Tap tap!

“Hello?!”

Tap tap!

“Just who is it!”

Bang!

“I told even the lord here not to make noise……. What. Who are you? I’ve never seen you before?”

An old mansion stood alone in a corner of the castle.

The one who burst out of the door was a hairy man with brown curly hair and thick sideburns, making it difficult to recognize his face.

The only thing that suggested he was a wizard was the old, worn-out robe.

There was no trace of that Crowne from his previous life, who wore the finest artifacts and had a neat slicked-back hairstyle with not a single beard.

“Cheren…… Crow?” Logan asked.

“Who’s asking? Who are you?” the man replied.

Fortunately, his rotten personality was the same.

Logan felt the five-tiered circular tower (Class) made of mana from the heart of that rotten bastard.

‘This is the one,’ Logan thought.

He unconsciously clenched his fist, wanting to chop off his head with Lux, which was hidden behind his back.

However.

“Ah. Haha. I am Royan Kairos, who came from afar to meet the wizard. Could you spare some time?” Logan asked, forcing himself to smile.

“Ha, what a 잡놈. Get lost!”

Bang!

He was turned away at the door.

“Ha…… I…….”

Logan looked at the sky and sighed deeply.

He was exerting all his patience, but only one thought kept coming to mind.

‘Should I kill him?’

The anger of his previous life, which he had been trying to suppress, was compounded by the annoyance of his current life.

However.

‘But if I can win him over, there’s no better ally than him. Let’s be patient. Let’s be patient.’

He grabbed the doorknob again, soothing his bubbling stomach.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Wizard! I came from the kingdom far away. Could you spare some time?”

Inevitably, his touch was a little stronger because he had put some emotion into it, but his tone was as polite as possible.

But this time, his patience was not rewarded.

Bzzzzzt!

“Get lost, you 잡상인 bastard!”

A threatening magic burst out of the doorknob.

A tingling shock in the hand that grabbed the doorknob.

Logan’s face hardened.

‘An ordinary person could die from this level of electric shock,’ Logan thought.

This son of a bitch……

Stories about Crowne’s personality, which he had indirectly experienced and heard in his previous life, came back to his mind.

강약약강. Weak to the strong and strong to the weak, a typical petty person.

The only problem was that, with the exception of a few of the Empire’s highest-ranking officials, most of them were stronger than him.

So there were so many anecdotes about being involved with him and seeing dirty things that it was not worth mentioning them all.

And experiencing it directly made his blood boil from his core without having to draw on the anger of his previous life.

Moreover, Logan couldn’t just turn away from this situation.

He had to solve the problem with this guy as soon as possible and go back.

‘If you don’t want to talk, I’ll have to force you,’ Logan thought.

The moment he thought that.

Bang!

Logan’s foot smashed the door of the mansion and sent it flying inside.

Crack!

As if showing the owner’s personality, the traces of magic left on the broken door flowed down Logan’s body.

But at best, it was only a 2-circle level, a magic that would only shock a regular knight, so it meant nothing to Logan.

“Cheren Crow. We need to talk!!” Logan shouted.

As he shouted, the hairy man came tumbling down from the second floor with a thud.

“You, what are you! You weren’t an ordinary guy!”

Zzzzzing.

Three bluish metal balls were floating around his hand, which he raised in a fuss.

The moment he saw them, Logan couldn’t help but flinch instinctively.

‘Orbs of Massacre?!’

What made the wizard Crowne most famous was the mass production of low-level artifacts, but in terms of combat, it was those round metal lumps.

An all-in-one offensive and defensive artifact that constantly protects Crowne and automatically repels enemies.

It is said that the Massacre Wizard’s combat power is lower than that of superhumans of the same level, but because of those cursed objects, no one could match his firepower in the massacre of civilians below the level.

As far as Logan remembered, it was an artifact that he never sold to anyone until the end.

‘No, no. He can’t be at that level yet,’ Logan thought.

Logan forced himself to control his momentary flinch and smiled.

“Isn’t the hospitality too poor for a guest who came from afar, Wizard?” Logan asked.

“Guest? What guest in the world breaks down the door and comes in?!”

“Well, isn’t it inevitable since the host won’t meet me? Here, I’ll compensate you enough for the door. I’m sorry,” Logan said.

Clang.

When he threw down a money bag full of gold coins, the wizard, who had been looking at him with a wary look, carefully opened the bag.

And when he saw the pile of gold coins inside, he gasped and widened his eyes.

“Hmm. Looks like you have some money, guest?”

“Enough.”

“Then I can have a conversation.”

The grumpy wizard led Logan to his study.

Sluuuurp.

“Well, well. I don’t have many guests, so the tea is to my taste, but it’ll be edible. So, why did you come to see me?” the wizard asked.

‘Don’t you know what respect is?’ Logan thought.

It’s mandatory in the common language of the continent.

Annoyance surged again, but this was nothing compared to before.

Logan sublimated his anger into a smile.

“I heard rumors of the wizard and came to offer you a recruitment,” Logan said.

The wizard paused at those words.

“Rumors? What rumors?”

He seemed more concerned about the rumors than the offer of recruitment.

His expression hardened as if he had a lot on his conscience.

‘This bastard must have done a lot of wrong,’ Logan thought.

No, it won’t be.

It’s just prejudice from the anger of my previous life.

Logan tried to think as positively as possible.

“I heard that you are a master of artifacts. I can guess just by looking at those things,” Logan said.

“Hoo. Where did you hear such rumors? I came from quite far away,” the wizard said.

It sounds like he ran away from far away.

Logan maintained his twitching lips and spoke as softly as possible.

“I was looking for a skilled wizard, and the information guild told me about you. Well, I can’t tell you the name of the guild,” Logan said.

When he told him some of the truth, his face hardened even more.

“Information guild? Where?”

Eyes that even showed murderous intent.

It was hard to dismiss it as a misunderstanding.

“Hmm. I came to offer you a recruitment, but it seems like you have a lot on your conscience?” Logan asked.

“What nonsense! I, I’ve lived so cleanly!”

It sounded like he had lived the dirtiest life in the world.

“But you don’t seem very interested in the recruitment, so what are you going to do if you know which guild it is?” Logan asked.

“Ah. Well…… Of course, I’m worried that they’re buying and selling my information,” the wizard replied.

“The information I heard is that a wizard who is good at making artifacts has appeared in this Luthfel territory. Hmm. Is it not your real name? It would be a bit difficult for me if you’re shady,” Logan said.

The current name Nox told him was Cheren Crow.

But the name known in his previous life was Crowne Ranfield.

I don’t know which one is his real name, or if both are aliases.

“Don’t be ridiculous! I’ve lived so righteously!”

Is it a prejudice that the more he gets angry, the more it is interpreted as he has done a lot of shameful things?

‘Whatever his ability, if he’s a trashy person who might stab me in the back at any time, I have to deal with him here,’ Logan thought.

The metal lumps floating around, which he thought were Orbs of Massacre, were only level 3 at best when he examined their power in detail. They were only artifacts that a 5-class wizard, not a superhuman, could make.

It wouldn’t be difficult to deal with him if he wanted to.

A cold light flashed in Logan’s eyes as he assessed the situation.

I need to check.

“Then, do you happen to know the name Crowne?” Logan asked.

At that moment, red beams of light were fired from the metal lumps floating in the air without warning.