Ch. 142
Chapter 142
The moment Mireska and Garius's gazes turned to the workshop simultaneously at the sudden explosion.
Rumble-crash!
“Aaaaaaaah!”
Along with a tremendous explosion sound and a desperate scream from the workshop, Jeremy hugging the doll using both hands and feet came into view.
“Master, Heavenly God, Lord God, Witch-nim!”
To be precise, Jeremy screaming for all sorts of gods while flying high into the sky hugging the doll with all his might.
“He insisted so much that he’s a wizard, so why didn’t he use magic…….”
As Garius sighed briefly watching Jeremy, the witch smirked and said.
“He is using it. Four of them at that.”
Anti-Magic, Shield, Anti-Gravity, and even Fly.
“Pardon? Does that mean Jeremy succeeded in quadra casting already?”
To cast four continuous spells simultaneously, famous for being hard to maintain among 3rd and 4th circle magic, not low-grade magic.
As Garius, surprised by the common sense-defying words, looked at her, she smirked and reached out her hand.
“Shouldn’t we save him first?”
As Mireska waved her hand lightly, the screaming Jeremy floated down in front of Garius.
“Aaaa… Ah?, Ahaha…….”
Jeremy, landing in the same posture as he was screaming, rolled his eyes, laughed hehe, and continued.
“Ahahaha! Did everyone prepare well?”
Wondering what on earth happened in that short moment, as Jeremy covered in blood and unidentified black lumps all over his body asked awkwardly, the doll in his arms flashed its eyes and forehead as if protesting.
- Wizard, smart, prejudice.
- Human, wizard, stupid.
- Plan, abandon, recommend.
- Orc, axe, head.
The doll flashing words ceaselessly as if truly resentful after losing two feet and arms.
“…I thought Mr. Doll was quite taciturn all this while, but it seems I was mistaken.”
At Garius’s words who thought the doll was a taciturn knight until now, the witch who was staring blankly at that scene burst into laughter ‘pfft’ and then started rolling on the floor laughing.
“Kyahahahaha! No! That’s really because he’s pissed off! Even if the human is stupid, saying his head will be split by an Orc axe is too harsh!”
As Jeremy, dyed with a sense of betrayal at her words, looked at the doll with suspicious eyes, the words floating above the doll’s head slowly annihilated.
- Human, stupid, worry.
“Kyahahahaha! Human, you can really be proud of this! Really! Even an Ogre would find it hard to be acknowledged as stupid by him!”
How funny it was, she laughed stamping her hands and feet for a long time, then wiped her tears and asked.
“So, just what happened? And where did the arms and hands go?”
Although she sometimes forgets due to the unexpected soul entering, that doll was the first golem she made herself.
And a golem made using old trees hard enough that even she gave up on refining.
On top of that, worrying he might get hurt during training, the magic she wrapped around Jeremy’s body numbered over six, but the remaining magic was only one left on the mental side to resist charm.
Whatever happened inside, it means all other magic she cast was broken.
‘Just what did they do for both the doll and human to become like that simultaneously?’
As she tilted her head, Jeremy, rolling his eyes frantically, opened his mouth in a crawling voice.
“That, I really didn’t do it on purpose… The doll asked me to find a sword because he wanted to participate in this training too…….”
She knew that from the moment she saw the two heading to the workshop.
‘More importantly, I didn’t seal the doll’s sword?’
She only took it away because his obsession with the sword was too severe; she didn’t seal the doll’s sword.
Probably the last place it was…….
“I went to find a sword at best, but this guy saw some ladle? like thing and said that was enough.”
‘Ah, right! During an experiment, I needed a hard object with suitable length, so I used it, right!’
As the witch recalling the memory pulled her hat with both hands, words floated above the red-eyed doll’s head once again.
- Self, sword, sufficient.
It meant his own sword was sufficient, but Jeremy didn’t take it that way.
“They say a great general doesn’t blame his tools, but still, swinging a ladle seemed a bit pitiful…….”
So he forcibly dragged the doll who wouldn’t move and looked for the coolest sword among them.
If there is a very small problem, it is the fact that the doll couldn’t retrieve his sword he wanted to see so much, and Jeremy who decided to find a sword for him was a wizard to the bone.
“Hehehe… Still, I picked the coolest looking one.”
Jeremy, proudly taking out a stick only a hand span long from his bosom, started injecting mana into the stick.
“Even if this looks small now, if you inject mana like this!”
Vrrrooom!
Simultaneously, a huge blade settled on the stick holding blue mana.
“Like this! A sword appears! Wasn’t it really cool?! A sword made of aura, a knight’s romance and lifelong dream!”
Simultaneously, Garius, staring blankly at the fierce sword light, asked.
“I heard Mr. Doll can’t use mana, how do you intend to put mana in?”
“…Pardon?”
“Surely you didn’t just grab it because it looked cool without thinking about that…….”
As Jeremy’s urgent gaze turned to Mireska, Mireska spoke as if it were regrettable.
“Even more, that isn’t even a sword…….”
“Pardon? If this isn’t a sword, then what……!”
Pulling her hat with both hands again and hiding her body in the hat, she spoke in a crawling voice.
“That…….”
Although she was strong enough to create a clearing in the depths of the forest with magic and build a cozy cabin inside, it wasn’t that she wasn’t afraid of anything.
When darkness came to the forest, fearing darkness might swallow her, she was busy hiding in the blanket forgetting even magic training.
What contained all the fear of that time was that stick packed with hundreds of Light spells.
“Glow stick…….”
Sealed triply to hide the embarrassing past, starting from its name ‘Embarrassing Glow Stick’.
At least knowing it’s embarrassing for a wizard to be afraid of the dark, she imitated a sword, so maybe that’s fortunate.
“Pardon? Y-You’re joking, right? I really almost died trying to bring this!”
“No, that is a glow stick indeed… If you stick it in front of the house, it can light up everywhere needed… But there are so many swords there, why that of all things…….”
“There were three sealing spells on such a flashing sword, how could I leave it behind!”
Simultaneously with Jeremy’s shout like a scream, words floated above the doll’s head.
- Wizard, stupid, worry.
Looking at Garius nodding silently and Jeremy going berserk as if wronged, Mireska whispered alone.
“In the end, he broke my seal? Even if it’s a seal placed when I was young, not just anyone can break it.”
Seeing the doll half-destroyed, it seems there was a mistake in the process, but bringing the glow stick eventually means he succeeded in breaking the seal.
Even though Garius, two levels higher than him, couldn’t guarantee success.
“Did his understanding of magic circles naturally increase while training continuous magic multi-casting?”
Scanning Jeremy’s body with mana slightly, as expected, the wall of the 5th circle had crumbled long ago.
He just wasn’t going up thinking he wasn’t ready yet.
‘Is it because he’s human?’
Whenever she scolded him for being stupid, Jeremy habitually said being 4th circle at his age was genius enough.
Staying at 4th circle despite having crossed the wall means he believes reaching 5th circle is impossible for himself.
Indeed, nodding that it’s worth a dragon lending him as a gift, she suddenly raised her head.
‘Ah, right! Dragon!’
Since he lent such a funny human, she should fulfill her responsibility too.
As she moved her hand, the wood growing from the doll’s body turned into hands and feet, and a black sword fell in front of him.
“Now, is this enough?”
Two humans and one doll nodding looking at her.
“Then let’s go.”
Thinking this training would be especially fun, she stomped her foot, and four dolls disappeared simultaneously.
* * *
Ian felt lacking even with three bodies.
- Human! Faster! Faster!
Charging mana into the stacked magic stone Calua created, he checked the front.
‘Too fast.’
Already more than half of the Orc Legion left the 2nd area.
It was fortunate that the half remaining in the rear was becoming electric roast, but the problem was the legion’s lead.
‘At this speed, the Legion Commander might arrive before Count Sven.’
Since the Master Sven is moving with all his might following the squirrel, the best guide in the forest, it won’t take long.
The problem is that Mogul has to fight one-on-one with the Legion Commander in the meantime.
‘Since the compatibility is more advantageous on this side, he won’t be pushed back one-sidedly, but…….’
If it were an enemy Mogul could handle alone, he wouldn’t have brought Sven.
The Legion Commander is at least 7-star level.
Unless the goal is to buy time, to be sure of victory, the two must fight in optimal condition.
‘As expected, I should buy time from this side…….’
Even if the ranger unit poured Thunder ceaselessly, the Legion Commander and Royal Guards didn’t blink an eye.
Except for puffing nasal steam as if annoyed, pouring magic stones yielded no results.
‘Like Hoodwock said, if we snipe from afar or use stacked magic stones…….’
Seeing the Legion Commander running while splitting lightning with an axe, the thought disappeared on its own.
‘As soon as the bow is visible, the body will be cut in two and die.’
As long as the Legion Commander is alive, distance is not the problem.
The moment the position is revealed, death will be unavoidable.
‘…Mm?’
Ian’s gaze, looking for another way thinking being discovered means death, moved to one side.
‘Being discovered means death… Then isn’t it fine if just the appearance isn’t discovered?’
A knight following this side closely for a while.
Although he erased his presence quite excellently as if confident in tailing, it was far from enough to deceive the eyes of a dragon or Ian using 『Dark Emperor』 to reduce presence.
“Hmm…….”
Ian took out the bow on his back and tilted his head.
- Human! That’s dangerous!
“It is dangerous. Since they’ll find out it was shot from this side.”
That can’t be helped. Even if I snipe with a high angle while hiding my position as much as possible, the Legion Commander will find the firing point like a ghost.
“But, he’s not looking for us, is he?”
When the guys realizing there is an enemy come here.
Between the knight hiding over there and us hiding our appearance with dragon magic and Dark Emperor, who will be discovered first?
- Of course the knight will be discovered first! Besides that knight, other knights will also be discovered!
Four knights hiding and waiting for an opportunity.
Originally, I intended to deal with them on the spot when they use dirty tricks, but…….
Ian, nocking an arrow, pulled the string and said.
“In other words, this side has four lives.”
Simultaneously with the sound Thwack! as the arrow left the string, Ian’s figure disappeared as if melting into the darkness.
“Now, then tag starts.”
The taggers are the knights stupidly turning their heads.
Creak.
The string pulled once again became tight as if to break.
Thwack!
At the arrow leaving the string once again, a Royal Guard rolled on the ground.