Chapter 41 – Rocket Delivery
‘Tribal Wars’
It is a venerable card game with a history that goes back as much as 500 years.
In the early days, board games using only 40 cards were popular around bars, but gradually people expressed boredom with the entrenched meta, and the Merchant Guild of Nidavellir, who keenly caught the complaints, brought Dwarf scholars to their heads. It is this ‘tribal war’ that was ambitiously developed by facing each other.
A close-to-perfect balance created by the dwarves’ pervert-like craftsmanship and endless card combinations.
Official competition rules and ban limit cards updated once every half year.
It was the birth of a luxury card game that was literally unloved, at a strange level.
This quickly spread throughout the continent and soon became a great play culture that encompasses all generations regardless of gender or age.
***
“Blue-Eyes Green Magician’s direct attack! Wind Force!”
“Quaaaaagh!”
The score is 2:0
After a fierce duel, the captain of the black bear mercenary, who received the final blow, screamed and fell backwards with his chair.
The mercenary captain showed a great pantomime, to the point of embarrassing me for not doing anything, kuk! He looked up at me with a grievous voice.
“It’s my defeat. Your mage deck is ridiculously strong.”
I extended my right hand to the fallen man and praised him in the same way.
“But your Barbarian Warrior deck is also pretty strong.”
Then the mercenary captain, whose face had drained of poison, readily invited me to stand up holding my outstretched hand.
“This is also meant to be, so why don’t we have a drink together? Of course, as promised, I’ll answer any questions you ask.”
“Are you buying it?”
“Sounds of course! The first person to beat me has appeared, so how can I save money!”
If nothing else, I couldn’t stand free drinks and free meals, so I joined his table with the food and drinks I ordered after the crowd of onlookers had dispersed.
As expected, the mercenary commander asked me how I could become so strong, and I answered appropriately, “You just have to believe in the bond with the card.”
To sum up, my teacher and the owner of the Emerald Tower, one of the four major magic towers on the continent, Mrs. Esmeralda, finally broke through the wall and reached the 7th tier for the first time as a human.
It means that the one and only teacher has become stronger, so of course it should be celebrated, but on the other hand, I was worried.
It was because she was already a monstrous, strong old woman, and if she had attained enlightenment and become stronger there, it seemed that she would not be able to handle it on her own.
I inquired if there was any other useful information, and I was told that Oscar Wang’s health, though rumored, had deteriorated considerably.
Hearing that the tyrant of the Kingdom of Oz, who always shouted that we should drive out the demons and achieve a prosperous nation, today and tomorrow, made me feel quite good.
So after I had a hearty meal, I went back to my room.
I kept picking up snacks while talking, and I was full and sleepy.
I was going to move late at night, so I thought I’d close my eyes for a while.
She said that if Camilla were by her side, she would have asked to be woken up at 12, but unfortunately she had no one to ask for this time, so she had to wake herself up.
“Whoaaam~”
I yawned and threw myself on the bed.
A soft touch covers the whole body.
Perhaps from starvation, I soon fell asleep.
I gently closed my eyes in the slowly fading vision.
***
“Hot.”
It feels like I closed my eyes for a moment and then opened them, but when I woke up, it was late at night.
The moonlight coming through the window was quite bright, and the sky was clear, so it seems that there was a full moon today.
I took off the black robe I was wearing to hide my identity and put on a green robe, one of the symbols of the Emerald Tower.
On top of that, he hung the medals he received during the Man-Human War, and put on a gauntlet to cover his wrists in preparation for any bloodshed, and he was ready to go out.
You might think that it’s okay to dress up like this on the subject of going out for a night walk, but there was a way to do all of this.
Spell Armament – Whirlwind Sword Bone
Squeeze!
When I used the magic, an invisible, fine wind wrapped around my whole body, and I changed the refractive index of light in that state.
Just that alone completes the perfect optical camouflage, camouflage magic.
‘I’ll have to be careful from now on.’
No one should know my whereabouts.
There was no indication that he was going out on the inn list, and he got an alibi by saying that he was tired from drinking with the black bear mercenary guys just a few hours ago and that he would stop going to bed.
I took a few steps back from the window, then jumped over the wide-open window, stepping on my feet.
Fluff.
“…”
It was about two stories high, but when it landed, it made no sound because the wind was blowing under its feet.
The streets at night were quiet.
It was very difficult to find people wandering around, as evidenced by the fairly late hour.
Unlike the capital, which is always sleepy, people here seem to crawl into bed at night and sleep soundly.
Leaning on the blue moonlight, I slowly raised my body.
‘It’s to the southeast.’
I made a platform out of the wind, jumped up, and started moving on the roofs of buildings that were close to each other.
The arrival point is the largest and finest mansion in Hamburg that can be seen in the distance.
If you deliver Rachel’s forged letter there safely to the Marquis, the mission is complete.
***
The invisibility magic applied with the whirlwind skull was perfect, but there was one thing I couldn’t hide.
That’s the sound
The mansion with tight security, guarded by guards day and night, had a hideous atmosphere in which not a single ant could escape.
It was clear that if anyone could pick the safest place in the city, this would be the mansion.
I matched footsteps with the soldiers on patrol and entered the main gate.
If you go all the way in through the fine coniferous garden, which has been touched by the gardener, the next patrol team that will replace the soldiers walking with me will come into view.
As if the two groups knew each other, they exchanged greetings and then dispersed.
I started walking again, matching the sound of footsteps with the soldiers heading towards the inside of the mansion.
It was so transparent that visibility was low, but no one realized that I was walking around the mansion confidently, perhaps because it was night.
Every time I met a new soldier like that, I replaced the people I was with, and as I gradually entered the depths of the mansion, I realized that there was no one to move with anymore.
The long corridor in front of you is structured to resonate with sound.
If you walk alone, the sound of my footsteps will echo in the wide and large hallway.
Someone who heard it might think it was a ghost, and someone might think there was an invisible intruder and call in soldiers.
After thinking about what to do, I decided to visit the Marquess from outside rather than from inside.
Anyway, I already figured out where the Marquis’s room was.
Even though it was such a late hour, there was only one lighted room in the mansion, and the familiar reverberation of magic that emanated from it informed me that there was a Margrave of Hamburg whom I had met in the fortress.
I don’t know anything else, but I remember the magic patterns I saw once very well.
I came out through the hallway window, hung a rope around my body and climbed up the wall in an instant.
The Marquis’s study was about the height of the 5th floor of an apartment building, but if I stumbled upon it, it would be like lying down and eating rice cakes.
Climbing up the wall like a spider and landing on the roof, I walked lightly to the ledge above the study, where I tied the rope I had brought to the chimney on the roof, and then climbed the wall and attempted to descend the rope.
Charleureuk!
Tung!
The slack rope is pulled tight, and my body naturally stops in front of the study window.
The Marquis, who was inside, approached the window, wondering if he had heard me stepping on the glass in the process.
As soon as he reached my nose, I removed the invisibility magic from his body.
Then, the expression of the Margrave of Hamburg, who was standing by the window, turned into astonishment.
With a calm face in front of the margrave, I took out a letter from my bosom and shook it.
“The courier has arrived.”
