Chapter 179: High Society Debuts Are Difficult! (9)
"Trouble." As I was peeling and eating the meat from a large crab leg in the banquet hall, I felt my hair stand on end from a strange commotion.The source of the disturbance was in the annex building, about 50 meters away from this adults' banquet hall.Clearly, some problem had occurred.Soon, Salome, who had been talking about 'what makes a good wine' among the crowd, slightly furrowed her brow.Then she approached me and asked,
"You felt it too?"
"Yeah."
"Is it Brigitte's doing? That Brigitte, not even showing her face at the banquet hall, what kind of trouble is she causing now?"
It wasn't strange for Salome to suspect that. After all, what had just stirred my feelings was magical power similar to Brigitte's.But there was one difference - it had a bit more of an evil karma.A magician with power similar to Brigitte's but with abundant evil karma—As far as I knew, there was one such person.
"It's Valdes, the Mage of Desolation."
"...What? That monster? Didn't your party kill him?"
Salome was shocked.Valdes, the Magician of Desolation.He was a monster who had driven people to despair with overwhelming firepower on the battlefield where the fate of Pandemonium and humanity was at stake.
I had been keeping his soul well in my shadow, but it was lost on the day of the Great Cataclysm when Nocturne was resurrected.I had been looking for him, not knowing where he went, but to think we'd encounter him in a place like this.Should I step in?As I was thinking that, someone shouted.