Chapter 1332 – Grindel
It was an intangible appreciation that it was slow enough to make me yawn, and by the time I finished it, boom!! Do-base was kicked in the abdomen and was pushed out.
Rumbling.
Even though Doruji is being pushed, he stares straight ahead so as not to miss the intangible movement.
However, it didn’t seem like Muhyeong would be able to inflict any additional damage.
“Are you looking down on me?”
The moment Doruji grinned, his new form suddenly disappeared.
And after 1 second. Pak. He swung his intangible hand, and his hand held the fist that Doruji had swung.
Giiiiing.
Suddenly, intangible hair slowly fluttered.
It was as if only his time had slowed down.
But.
Wow!
“Tsk…!”
When Doruji groaned as Muhyeong clenched his fist, his hair naturally fell down as if it had never happened before.
“You haven’t changed, you’re stealing. Provocations that don’t work and even those techniques.”
“Ha. Even though it’s a technique, it’s an unreasonable provocation? Mr. Tofute, would you like to check what’s over there?”
“It’s okay. You can see it from here too. There are only True Dragon Noble Phantasms and magic tools.”
“…Can it penetrate the wall? What really happened to Tofute-san’s body?”
Seeing Do-roo-ji grumbling and losing his fighting spirit, Mu-hyeong also let go of his fist.
“That’s not a magic tool. To be exact, it is a magic weapon. “There are a lot of them, and they are all expensive.”
“That inspiration. Are you interested in weapons now?”
“Do you want to take a look? “Maybe you’ll be surprised?”
Why are you so surprised?
Without even looking at him, Muhyeong turned his back and walked towards the exit.
Doruji, who was staring at his back and caressing his fist, grinned.
“Be careful, Tohute-san.”
“Now it’s intangible.”
Doruji’s voice poured out from behind the intangible figure that did not even ask what to watch out for.
“Tohute-san’s body is so unique, right? There are a lot of wizards who are anxious to study it.”
“You guys are hiding it, so keep it well hidden. The moment you get caught, it will be over.”
The intangible just disappeared.
Even after his intangibility disappeared, Doruji continued to stare at the spot where he was with hot eyes.
***
The man in front of me. He feels something deeply when he sees Guy.
“Uhahahahahaha!!”
Ah. Fiery is definitely a cheat key. That is.
He was blunt and wary when I pretended to be friendly, but now he has relaxed after a glass of firey.
He took it as if he was reluctant and drank it, but his expression changed.
It seemed like he wanted another sip because he kept losing his appetite, so I was willing to give him another drink.
“No, no. I’m on duty.”
“Hoo.”
Drinking alcohol during working hours is taboo, but I think it’s okay to enjoy drinking as long as you can do your work properly.
Gaiji was a man who knew how to keep good.
“You gave me this precious thing. He was a better man than I thought.”
When I just smiled shyly, Gaiji, who was laughing loudly, looked at me.
“Okay. What do you want to know about me?”
I have no particular questions.
I was just trying to attract attention so that the intangible bastard could infiltrate.
However, I am going to give you some information, so I can’t just miss this opportunity.
I thought for a bit and then asked.
“Has Muhyeong had a bad relationship with your family from the beginning?”
Gaiji closed his mouth and made a sour expression.
Ah. Is this messed up? The moment I want to He opened his mouth.
“It had to be bad.”
Haha. Gaiji let out a deep sigh and had a surprisingly sad expression on his face.
“Can you imagine how a person who cannot use magic at all will be treated in a famous wizard’s house built in a closed place?”
“It seems difficult.”
“It must have been difficult.”
What is this guy? Don’t you hate intangibility?
Did being a little drunk give you some sympathy that wasn’t there before?
Why do you sound sad when talking about the intangible past?
But I soon felt that Gaiji truly felt sorry for Intangibles.
Even though the level of regret was low, his eyes and voice conveyed sympathy and guilt for the intangible.
“Tohute was more diligent than any of us. He thought the reason he couldn’t use magic was because he didn’t try hard enough.”
Gaiji’s eyes became faint as if he was reminiscing about the old days.
“Everyone knew that his physical ability was extraordinary since he was young, but in a wizarding family, physical ability has no value. Being intangible and unable to use magic, he was always looked down upon by the head of the family, and was verbally abused by his aunt.”
“If it’s your aunt…”
“It’s my lord. She is… To put it bluntly, very vain.”
Vanity.
Muhyeong also said that when he emotionally shouted at Dofute earlier.
“She married Grindel through politics. He was from a fairly powerful family. The reason was that at the time, he was able to easily obtain the magic ingredients Grindel wanted from that family’s territory.”
“I see.”
Gaiji continued, saying that wasn’t important.
“There is a meeting place where wizard families gather. Usually, it is a place to share knowledge about magic, but for wizards or those sent there for political reasons, it is a place for politics or vanity.”
It was easy to imagine what kind of place it was.
Also. I wonder what the intangible mother, who is said to be very vain, must have felt.
She would never want to be ignored.
“Grindel is a powerful family among wizard families. Many families flattered and bowed their heads. Even in that atmosphere, stories about Tohute always came out.”
A child came from a family of wizards who couldn’t use any magic.
That was enough to cause ridicule.
She did not dare to speak to anyone’s face, but her intangible mother could not bear her whispers and glances from behind her back.
Invisible’s mother, who originally believed that her child’s success was her own success, was very zealous for learning, and from then on, she pushed her to study to the point of extremes and scolded Intangible why she couldn’t use magic. Does.
“That was abuse.”
Contrary to the elegant atmosphere seen from the outside, he was driven by evil.
She said that even Neiru and Doruji, who were so bad-tempered, shook their heads at her.
“The head of the house didn’t do anything well either.”
He did not push the intangible, but treated it with complete indifference.
Perhaps indifference could have been more painful for the intangible.
“Before Haichi appeared, the person Tohute wanted to be acknowledged the most was the head of the family.”
Before showing up?
It was a bit annoying, but I didn’t want to ruin the conversation by asking now.
I listened in silence.
“It’s just my opinion, but the matriarch’s indifference must have been much more painful for Tohute than her aunt’s polarity. I’ve only just realized it, but children are the ones who need attention.”
“Yes.”
I remembered the orphanage I used to live in.
I naturally thought of the new kids who came in every now and then, sobbing and crying for their mom and dad.
“Not only the two of them, but also other members of his direct lineage, as well as magicians in general who were not blood relatives, began to openly ignore him. If it weren’t for Hachii, he might have left a long time ago. Oh, of course.”
Gaiji smiled bitterly.
“I ignored him too.”
“…”
“No. He pretended to ignore it.”
He pretended to ignore it? Gaiji laughed and said at my questioning look.
“Tohute’s physical abilities were too extraordinary to be ignored. I knew that too and tried to get the matriarch’s approval in a way other than magic, but you felt it too, right? The matriarch lives a life other than magic. Death too. He doesn’t even care about blood ties. He doesn’t mind doing dirty work.”
Despite my struggles to be recognized, the intangible gradually lost its place.
Meanwhile…
“Hachii appeared.”
Hachii was not a member of Grindel since childhood.
It is said that he was the family head’s half-brother.
“Unlike us, he was a man who was aware of the world. He was stronger than anything else.”
Until now, the man who didn’t even know he belonged to Grindel had the most Grindel-like magic.
It is a flame like the sun.
“Oh oh…!!”
“Haha. Are you interested?”
“Honestly.”
“Haha. You are a wizard too.”
There was a slight misunderstanding, but there seemed to be no need to correct it.
“Hachii treated us very kindly. Well, as you can see, aren’t our immediate descendants all have the same personality? Who could not be crooked in a place like this…”
They have dirty personalities. You knew it too.
“Orute has a good personality. “He suffered a lot of discrimination, but he got along well.”
“Mr. Orute?”
“That sister’s magical talent is not so severe that she cannot use mana at all like Tohute, but she falls short of the standards of the head of the family. She is discriminated against quite a bit, but that shows she has a pretty good personality. Let’s go back to the story before.”
Hachii had a good personality and his abilities were better than anyone else’s.
The object he was most interested in was intangible.
“Hachii valued his intangible physical abilities very highly. He suggested that he not necessarily go down the path of a magician, but rather go down a different path. At the time, he was jealous of the attention, but now… Hachii’s insight is really clear. “I can’t help but think it was outstanding.”
Muhyeong, who was treated as a non-existent person at home, naturally followed Hachii.
Suddenly, it seemed like he wanted to be recognized more by Hachii than by the head of the family.
But the direction of his efforts was wrong.
Hachii tried to utilize his physical abilities, but his true intangibility was even more obsessed with magic.
“I think it was because of the matriarch’s words that bordered on brainwashing.”
“Brainwashing?”
“You are cursed. If you cannot use magic, you are of no use to the world. Those are the words.”
“Ah…”
Although he had respect for Hachii, it seems he couldn’t completely escape the matriarch’s words.
“In a normal environment, he would have made the most of his talents, but to Tohute, his constitution and abilities were nothing more than an embarrassment. He was obsessed with magic… And one day, an incident occurred.”
Event.
I felt like I knew what it was.
I opened my mouth.
“Test…?”
“That’s right. Ordeal.”
Gaiji nodded in the affirmative.
“I don’t know what you were thinking, but the head of the family put Tohute through an ordeal. Tohute didn’t refuse either.”
Trials cannot use anything except magic.
I had no intention of using intangibles either.
He wanted to be recognized by Hachii and the head of the family.
Well… The result, as you can see, was a failure.
“Even while his entire body was being torn apart by sharp teeth and nails, his eyes as he chanted magic… Were magical.”
Gaiji said in a confused tone.
I am at this moment. I realized that although he didn’t like the intangible, he didn’t hate it either.
“Hachii saved the intangible.”
Hachii, who burst into the ordeal, poured fire into not only the monster but also the ant hole-like hole, destroying the warp gate itself.
And he is said to have been very angry with his immediate family for the first time.
It’s a little different from what I heard.
Muhyeong said he was disappointed in himself.
“We had to punish Hachii for ruining the trial and destroying the facility. The head of the family thought about it, but ultimately decided to kick Hachii out of the family for quite some time. Hachii didn’t seem to want to stay any longer. However, he took the intangible with him. “I was going to leave.”
Hachii said he would wait for a while and that he would bring a suitable price for the destroyed facility, but then went out and went missing.
“Tofute said that he suddenly disappeared while fighting some monster… To be honest, I don’t think Hachii died. He was just like you, so he didn’t look like he was going to die.”
“…”
“Ah. Of course, that’s what skills are like, but personalities are very different.”
“Did you really need to say that?”
As I grunted, Gaiji giggled.
What can I say? This person. It’s more human than I thought.
“What happened after that… I don’t really want to think about it, but to put it bluntly, it was Tohute’s revenge.”
“Plural…”
“After Hachii disappeared, some ignorant scum mocked him. He burned down the facility, showed off, and said he couldn’t handle a single monster.”
Muhyeong continued to endure insults to himself.
Because I thought he was just telling the truth.
But.
I guess the insults towards Hachii were different.
“He thought he was going to die.”
Gaiji lifted his neck and clothes slightly to show the deep scar on his chest.
“Tohute, who gave up magic… Was strong…”
“Because he is impervious to magic.”
“I didn’t even need that special constitution.”
Even if I used buff magic that strengthened my eyesight or reaction speed, I couldn’t see any intangible movement.
Except for the head of the family, no one was able to withstand the intangible attack.
Intangible caught the head of the family’s tongue as he tried to say something and crushed it.
“That was Yakgwa. I took bloody revenge on my aunt.”
“Bloody revenge?”
“He was the only one in our Grindel family who hated Hachii.”
“…”
“As if they were waiting for him after he went missing, they spread gossip and curses about him, creating an atmosphere of ridicule. They even said to Tohute that he was still like Hachii, because he followed the same path.”
Intangible did not tolerate it.
Burari gouged out his mother’s right eye.
He cut the Achilles tendons in both legs.
She begged for her life, and she lived because she begged.
“If I hadn’t asked for forgiveness, I would have probably killed him…”
At that time, Muhyeong was filled with that much anger.
The guy left Grindel just like that.
The name Tohute became a taboo in Grindel… But its intense power was clearly imprinted and never forgotten.
He was a true hero and a comrade of the Sword of Light Flame. He made a brilliant return as the ‘Wizard Killer’.
“He killed that Herut, right?”
Gaiji said with a mysterious expression.
It’s rewarding to see Kaitz’s performance.
He did a lot of work to neutralize the stigma that Shaman was a criminal, and one of them was to announce who killed Hurut.
It is said that due to the events of Sil Money Burr, Heroot’s evaluation was at the bottom and Muhyeong gained great favor from the public.
“He succeeded… He doesn’t have to be tied to Grindel anymore.”
“…”
There was silence for a moment.
She heard more than she expected and was organizing it in her head when Gaiji opened his mouth.
“Hey, Gwangyeom. Are you going to exterminate Grindel?”
I answered carefully.
“…Report the situation.”
“Hot. You’re not saying no.”
Gaiji didn’t look displeased.
She said rather convincingly.
“Well, I guess it’s worth it.”
We stare at each other for a second. I opened my mouth first.
“If you want extenuating circumstances, why don’t you cooperate? If Mr. Gaiji is not particularly guilty, we will actively make him not guilty.”
Gaiji shook his head at my appeasement.
I made a sweeter offer.
“I want to forgive everyone, not just Gaiji. This is… A friend’s house.”
“Hmm?”
Gaiji looked surprised.
“I heard that you are a man who is almost pathologically fair about crime and punishment. Even if someone close to you commits a crime, you are the kind of person who will punish them right away.”
“It’s a nonsense rumor. There is no one with as much confidence as that.”
Haha.”
Gaiji laughed bitterly.
“I’d like to let you know what I think. The one in charge of ‘economy’ is in a different line.”
“Economy.”
A metaphor for dirty business.
“To develop new magic, an absurd amount of money is needed. Especially since Grindel is neither a member of the Magic Tower nor receiving government support.”
Gaiji looked up at the sky and sighed.
“…Even so. Okay. I crossed the line.”
Gaiji closed his eyes.
I asked quietly.
“Aren’t you planning on secretly killing us before we are exterminated?”
“Hot. We were all almost killed by Tohute who couldn’t take off his boyish style. He’s grown up and there’s you too, so what can we do?”
Contrary to his overbearing attitude, he seems to have been aware of the power gap between us.
No. Rather, this person. They appear to have no idea about the divine power that Grindel appears to have acquired.
Maybe it was acting… But my senses were telling me it wasn’t acting.
Then Gaiji spoke.
“Anthill.”
“?”
“I’m talking about the holes on all sides of the Cave of Ordeals. They say one of them is connected to a secret laboratory.”
“…”
To be honest. Not here, but in a far away country. Seeing that research centers and factories were built in remote areas, I thought that Grindel’s main house might not have space for dirty purposes.
Even if the place is protected by a snowy field, you never know when and what kind of people might visit it.
However. Is there a place like that here too?
I’ve been to numerous areas where outsiders are prohibited, etc. I asked while thinking of suspicious places in this house.
“What is the warehouse at the entrance doing?”
“Hmm? You really care about that warehouse? It’s a place where you do something, you sleep, and it’s just a warehouse. There’s nothing special about that place other than the fact that it’s a bad place.”
“Is the site bad?”
“I heard that too, but I don’t know the details. Anyway, can I ask you a favor?”
I listened.
It must have been for this favor that he spoke frankly and gave information that could bring down Grindel.
“It’s okay if Grindel goes extinct, so please help the head of the family to continue research.”
“…”
That was also unexpected content.
I thought you were going to ask me to remove myself from the ruling again.
“His passion for magic is pathological. It gives me goosebumps. And… He has the vision and talent to match.”
Gaiji passionately said that he would definitely develop a new magic someday, and that magic would revolutionize the world.
“I know he’s got dirty blood on his hands. He could be in prison. He can just do his research…”
Step by step.
Footsteps were heard at the entrance of the building.
When I looked at the entrance, I saw a man walking out with his hands in his pockets.
What. Why does that kid come out so confidently?
The intangible was just coming out of the entrance, twisting its mouth.
Gaiji narrowed her eyes at me and I slowly avoided her eyes.
“…I can’t help it.”
Gaiji sighed heavily and glared at her intangible form.
“Tohute. You are not qualified to enter the storage room.”
I’m back to my normal tone again.
Intangible chewed and walked away.
I followed behind him and bowed my head to Gaiji. He chuckled, crossed his arms and waved his hand slightly.
I am ah It made a sound and stopped.
Gaiji had a question mark in his eyes.
“?”
“You said earlier that it was unexpected because it was different from what I expected, right?”
I grinned and pointed at Guy in a shooting position.
“You too.”
“Hot.”
Gaiji laughed and quickly stood up as if he had become lax and returned to his duty of guarding the warehouse.
