Return of the Class 8 Mage
20. The crown prince (5)
The Crown Prince (5)
*Rooaaarrr…..*
The fireball moves through the gymnasium floor.
Cecelia knew the spell very well.
Due to its slow flying speed, it was usually not used for duels.
Instead, his strength was extreme.
He had to jump to avoid it.
‘If not, I will die’.
The problem was the barrier he threw to protect him from the ice shards.
While throwing the barrier, he was unable to move.
He has two choices.
Choosing to die, or risking his body for a small chance at survival.
Cecelia chose, of course, the second option.
He didn't want to die like this.
“Cancel.”
The barrier that was almost destroyed collapsed.
As he became free to move, he used his feet to jump as far as he could to avoid the area of the fireball effect.
*Pkkkht! Pkhc! Pkkh!*
The ice shards pierced him mercilessly.
It pierced through his helpless body.
*A…..!*
He could not help but scream.
From the shoulders, sides of the body, arms and thighs.
Not only was the feeling pierced, but the feeling of being penetrated engulfed his entire body.
It was an excruciating pain that a normal person could not endure.
‘I survived.’
Nevertheless, Cecelia was convinced that she had succeeded.
The ice shards did not pierce his vital point.
He avoided the fireball effect area.
*BOOOOOOOOOOM!*
The sound of a huge explosion shook the entire provincial castle.
The fireball Cecelia had avoided had destroyed the outer wall of the provincial castle.
“Mana Barrier .....!”
Cecelia was rolling on the floor.
Then he reassembled the mana barrier.
Now the ice shards in the sky no longer threatened him.
“Celana! pants! Pants.......”.
His injured body spewed blood.
It covered the entire floor where he was lying.
But everything was fine for him. People will be here soon.
They'll cure Cecelia.
“No proof.”
He was satisfied because he survived.
There's no evidence. Proof of his true identity. He did not know how the boy knew everything, but he bet that he had no proof. He's very sure about that. He always acts thoroughly. He left no trace.
“And people will be more likely to trust me.”
She is a 3rd class witch from the ivory tower.
He sneaks into the tower and pretends to be loyal to them for 11 years.
He will not be suspected by the claims without evidence of the boy.
‘After I recover from my wound, then later I will .....’.
Cecelia makes her plans for the future,
“Cutting!”
Ian approached her and sat down.
There was an empty bottle where he stood.
‘That's it, half elixir.’
Half the potion that Ledio gave him as a gift.
Ledio said it would work as soon as he drank it, so Ian drank it before facing Cecelia. Satisfactory results. Cecelia was defeated and laid on the floor with a bloody body.
“But there will be some side effects.”
His mana is still beating strongly.
“I'll take credit this time.”
After Ian managed to calm his heart, he spoke slowly.
“By catching you.”
“Haha, can?”
“Of course.”
“Where's evidence? I'm sure nothing is left.”
“You're right. The previous time, you didn't leave any clues. ”
“Previous time?”
“You won't understand.”
Time before? Is he bluffing?
Cecelia was caught in an unspeakable fear.
“The proof is even you, Coldwalkers, don't know.”
“Are you joking.....!”.
“Quiet. You will see it soon.”
Then the situation went as they both expected.
“What happened...”.
“Wall, what...?”
Many people were enjoying the party. They were surprised twice. Once near the ruined provincial castle walls, and at other times by the bloody Cecelia.
“Celelia?”
The other two witches who had come with him ran over in a hurry.
With one look, he was seriously injured.
“What happened? This wound.... with magic?”
Suddenly two witches looked at each other.
There are five witches in Mogrian province.
Includes two witches with Cecelia, and a witch led, Marco.
And Marco was absent for the tower lord mission.
That meant..
“I did.”
Everyone's eyes were focused on Ian.
The boy admitted that he destroyed the wall, and injured Cecelia.
There was a brief silence.
“Tell us the details.”
A heavy low voice ended the silence.
The owner of the voice is the captain of the second royal knight, Oliver Raywood.
“What happened here?”
“Concidentally, I saw something that woman there...”.
Ian stopped and looked at Cecelia.
Cecelia made a curious face.
What kind of nonsense is he going to say?
“She was talking to a masked man.”
“Hah?”
With Ian's words, Cecelia sneered.
So he chose to lie.
There is no evidence or witnesses. There is no support.
It made him sneer.
“Continue.”
“Every time he sees me, he tries to kill me.”
“So you hurt him like that?”
“If not, I will die.”
It was a story he did not believe.
Cecelia is the official 3rd class witch of the Ivory Tower.
And did this kid beat him?
He had heard enough about Ian's rumors.
In the royal palace, and the northern region. Everyone was talking about Ian.
He was a genius like the First Witch.
He casts magic without learning.
He saved a great landlord, and was guaranteed as the Eternal Guest for the northern region.
But still, he couldn't just believe it.
“Can you prove it?”
A story that even Captain Oliver couldn't believe.
He questioned it as a formality, rather than him sincerely believing the story.
“It looks like they are trying to check something.”
“Checking?”
“Sort of marks on their body ...”
When Ian stopped on purpose,
“Check him.”
Captain Oliver ordered immediately.
He ordered to check not an ordinary person, but Cecelia.
“Hei captain! Enough insult!”
“Did you forget we are witches from Ivory tower?”
Of course, the witches from the Ivory tower complained. Most knights would not dare to fight two 3rd class magicians. Oliver Raywood is different.
*Surung!*
Instead, he unsheathed his sword and pointed it at the witches.
Other knights would not dare to act like that.
“K, You dare .....!”
“BRAVE?”
The old witch's words irritated Captain Oliver.
He spoke to them anxiously.
“T, the..”.
This witch could not answer at all.
Although they were mages at high rank, they were inferior to the blood of nobles.
Regardless of what they thought inside, it was the rules and order of the empire.
“Let's heal him first ...”
“Do it later after we finish our work here.”
Oliver re-ordered.
Considering Cecelia's gender, she ordered the maid to search her body.
‘Here I meet this scary guy again.’
While looking at the captain's face, Ian recalled his previous life.
Imperial sword master, actually, ‘master sword continent’, Oliver Raywood.
The loyal knight who served the crown prince to the end.
‘He was killed by the witch Ragnar.’
On the final battle to protect the crown prince, it was him against the current tower lord and his witches, and he killed five people. And they were all higher than 2nd class magicians.
‘In history, he was only recorded as a traitor.’
The man who reached the top as a knight.
At least, Ian remembered it that way.
He must have reached a very high level as a swordsman.
Even witches did not dare to fight it so easily.
“Did you find anything?”
The captain asked the waiter.
“S, sorry sir. we can't find anything.”
“Are you sure of that?”
“We checked it several times, but ..”
No signs, nothing.
Then the two witches raised their angry voices.
“What I just told you! Do you really suspect one of us?”
“We'd better start curing him! Now too!”
Oliver did not listen.
He just looked at Ian and asked again.
“Are you lying?”
“No sir.”
After Ian answered briefly, he approached Cecelia.
While people wonder about his actions,
“Ya!”
“A, what...”.
Ian's actions surprised everyone there.
Men look away, and women don't know what to do.
Not only the servants, but also the wives of great landlords and even Margaret.
Furthermore, even Vanessa who had just come from the dining room was also embarrassed.
“Sini.”
Ian did not stop.
Instead, he pulled the cloth of Cecelia's top, around her neck, even stronger.
its revealed.
“I don't know what you're saying.”
There's only one.
Oliver looked at him firmly.
He didn't seem to feel any emotion about it.
“Continue seeing it.”
Now Ian moved his hand towards Cecelia's body.
This time, Cecelia was also embarrassed.
“Ap, what are you doing....!”
He was sure there were no signs.
It was no one else, it was his own body.
If there was some kind of sign, he should have known.
At that moment,
“Around here...”.
A small amount of mana is injected into Cecelia's upper body.
Precisely, mana disappeared after it wandered on his skin.
Suddenly a sign appeared.
On the top right side of Cecelia, where it had been swept away, something was revealed.
Mysterious patterns that light up blue.
People don't know what that pattern means.
However, they knew what kind of phenomenon it was.
“Mana... inscription?”.
Cecelia was the most surprised.
When was the inscription where tattooed on his body?
The tattoo means Coldwalker.
“I can't believe.”
He has no such memory.
He never tattooed any inscription.
When's? Whereabouts? Hows it?
“What are you doing?
While losing his consciousness, he glanced at Ian.
He must have used some kind of dirty trick.
If not, how can it be explained?
“I saw him do something with his hand.it looks like he controls mana.”
Ian started his lie without hesitation.
The lies that Cecelia scorned, now become believable.
“Of course he doesn't know.”
Coldwalker grew up in a special facility.
This tattoo is a kind of ‘stigma’ tattooed there.
Stigma that helps managers manage their young spies.
It happened when he was young, so it was natural that he did not remember.
“And I heard it from one of the managers.”
The manager was quite stubborn.
He is the manager of the Coldwalkers. It took a lot of effort to capture him alive.
He suffered painful torment for a year.
But in the end, he talked about it.
“Do you know what this pattern is?”
Oliver asked another witch.
As if the cat was getting its tongue, they just shook their heads.
“How about you, Mr Page?”
Ian also shook his head.
He better pretend he doesn't know anything.
“Hm.”
Oliver was deep in thought.
He did not know the meaning of the stigma.
However, Ian's words had support now.
The situation made Ian's words believable.
It should be checked on a larger scale.
“Cure him first. I'll interrogate him later.”
Oliver ordered his soldiers.
He looked at the two witches, and said.
“Please prepare Mana Prison for him.”
“Khmmmm...!”
Mana Prison was a special magician circle.
The magic circle is an anti-magic area that interferes with the flow of mana.
It was necessary to capture a witch.
“Captain.”
The vice-captain came to Oliver after he finished his order.
“What is it?”
“Why didn't you order to search near that area?”
“You mean, should we look for the masked man?”
“Ya so...”.
“It's a waste of time.”
“Hah?”
Oliver rejected the advice of the vice-captain.
“We should not dilute our power for meaningless searches. Instead, we should focus our energies on protecting His Majesty.
“Ehm.
“Don't forget. The reason why we came to the north. ”
It was a decision entirely centered on the crown prince.
And it was a wise decision as his bodyguard.
The vice-captain agreed with his intention, and he retreated.
*click*
Oliver said to Ian after he sheathed his sword.
“If everything that happened today is true, I will report it to His Majesty clearly.”
It was an indirect expression that Ian would receive a reward.
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That's what Ian wanted.
According to the characteristics of the current emperor, he would ask Ian directly what Ian wanted.
If it made sense, he would accept Ian's request.
In such a situation, Ian had some requests on his mind.
“Very many requests.”