Chapter 242 – Gaiden – Part 0, Chapter 16
“Hmm… Why is this happening? Wait a minute. So, if I touch this part here…?”
“Ugh, hungry …?! ♥”
“Sueuuuuu-isn’t this right?
“Kuk, hah…?! Haha, haha…! My, what the hell are you doing to my head… Ughhhhh…!!”
“Ah, that’s it. This part is linked to the senses.”
Ange averted her gaze with a paler complexion, like a victim of cosmic horror. In terms of a TRPG, the dice fumbled continuously, and it looked as if the sanity was cut by more than half in an instant. Who would think I’m an old god full of tentacles from outer space?
I was just, well… Experimenting with how and what parts of the human psyche could be affected with this power I was using.
“Anje, can I tell you something interesting?”
“Hick…! Again, what are you going to do…!”
“Now, how are you?”
In front of Ange’s eyes, I created an illusion imitating her head. She stared blankly at the translucent reflection of the landscape in her own head.
“Now, if you touch this place… The sensations are maximized and all sensations become excruciating pain. But if you touch this area at the same time, you can turn that pain into pleasure. What will happen then?”
“Sleep… Kyaaaaah…! 5 grains…!?!?♥”
When she stimulated both parts of her brain at the same time with her fingers wrapped in black magical power, the same magical action was applied to Ange’s brain connected to her virtual image, causing Ange to close her eyes and move her body trembled. She maximizes her senses so that even the air touching her body feels stabbing pain, and at the same time converts the pain into pleasure.
By inscribing the two magic formulas into her brain at the same time, Ange’s body became extremely sensitive and she reached climax several times in one second without even touching her hand. Before long, Ange’s body was limp, like a doll whose threads had been cut. In the process of touching her head, the brake I had planted in order to prevent me from accidentally touching something and dying of shock was activated.
“Heh, heh, heh…!!”
As she approached the danger of death from shock, the brake automatically activated, deleting the two formulas I had planted a moment ago and returning her body to its original state. As soon as Ange regained her consciousness, her head was on the verge of being eaten by a series of climaxes that turned her eyes white.
Of course, there was no place to run because it was inside the dungeon, but as if she couldn’t afford to make such a rational decision, she clung herself to the wall trying to get even a little further away from me. It was an appearance that did not seem to be a knight commander.
“Hmm… But thanks to you, I can get a sense of it to some extent. You’re writing it like this?”
It was impossible to learn it as knowledge because my head couldn’t follow it, but through several actual experiences, I learned how to use this power with my body through experience. I don’t know what kind of magic circle to draw for what I want, but I have a sense of how to use this power for that task.
Since the magic circle was not drawn, the amount of magic power leaked out like hospital bills without medical insurance, but it was not a big problem for me, who had no limit to magic power anyway.
“Baron.”
“Huh? Mars, what’s going on?”
“What’s going on? Have you forgotten already? Didn’t you decide to visit the Magic Tower?”
“Ah… Was that today? I was so busy doing some experiments that I didn’t even notice the time passing. Then… Anje. Get some rest while I’m back.”
“Hey, hey, hey…!”
I left Ange sobbing in the corner of the prison, locked the prison door, came out of the basement, and prepared to head straight for the Mage Tower.
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Mage tower.
The setting is different for each fantasy novel, but at least in the world of the Luminous Goddess, the Mage Tower is an independent force that does not belong to any country, and is a specialized institution that specializes in training outstanding wizards. Belonging to the Mage Tower means being recognized for your abilities as a mage, and the influence of the Mage Tower is so great that there is a saying that the presence or absence of activity in the Mage Tower indicates the level of the mage.
“I’ve been waiting for you, Baron Ragnar Armageddon. Rumors about you are very common. Yes… You know how to use magic even though you didn’t go through any other training process, did that kind of talk go around?”
…And to say that belonging to the Mage Tower means that its abilities are recognized, conversely means that wizards who do not belong to the Mage Tower are not recognized for their abilities.
“Oh, don’t worry. It’s not such a big deal. In addition to nurturing wizards, the Mage Tower is also in charge of managing dangerous magic items. There is no way you can learn that kind of magical ability alone without proper training, so there must be some powerful magic artifact. It must have been saved. We’re just checking to see if the magic artifact you’re using has been inspected by the Mage Tower.”
Naturia, one of the five elders of the Mage Tower and a master of nature magic, spoke to me with a benevolent smile.
If you listen to the contents alone, it sounds like you are worried that the magic items obtained by the young aristocrat may be dangerous, and you want to help. However, I did not miss the sight of a dark desire floating through the old man’s very thin eyes. He pretends to be for me on the outside, but in reality, the old man who reveals his grotesque greed for my magic is one of the most determined people in the Mage Tower…
The biggest problem for wizards is magic. The most important challenge for magicians is how to use magic, which is a resource for magic and at the same time the price to pay for borrowing power from a mysterious being in the other world, to produce the maximum result with the minimum use.
Maximum results for minimum cost.
In order to reduce the consumption of magic power, the magic circle is used to limit the size and direction of the power to be used, and the most important thing for the wizards of the Mage Tower is not to consume magic power, such as consuming spell chant or other offerings. It is an exploration of a way to use powerful magic without having to deal with it.
In that sense, the news that I, who was completely ignorant of magic, wielded my special magic and defeated Duke Grakas’ army, which included battle mages, at once would be one of the most important news for them. Maybe it could be a way to solve the problem of ‘magic consumption’, a chronic problem of wizards.
Perhaps you want to check how I was able to unleash such devastating magic that cost so much money. And with a high probability, a special magic artifact is the cause.
A conclusion that is very close to the answer. Except for one thing.
What I possess is not a powerful magic artifact, but one of the fragments of the power of the terrifying black magic that is trying to destroy this world. And this… Is absolutely not something a normal person would deal with.
If a wizard with weak self-control and strong curiosity acquires this power, the end will only be a disaster that will come after self-righteous and ruinous research that does not look around.
In the first place, I have no intention of handing this fragment over to them. This fragment is the source and the only weapon that allows me to act as a villain, but hand it over to an openly mad and drooling old man? Nonsense.
“So, the reason you invited me to the Mage Tower… Is that because I don’t know if I have a dangerous magic item, so I want to retrieve it?”
“If that item is a very dangerous item, the Mage Tower has a duty to contain it.”
“It’s too bad.”
I laughed at the old wizard.
“I don’t have anything like that, and even if I had one, I have no intention of handing it over to you.”
“Why?”
“Well… People who have never done anything for me usually take my things and take care of them, but who would just give it away as crazy? If such a dangerous thing really exists, and if you want to safely contain it. .. You can take it by force.”
As I said that with a cold smile on my lips, a large number of magical movements were sensed in all directions. There are three non-lethal subjugation magic to bind my arms and legs, and five offensive magic that might really kill people. If you include the mana that the old man in front of you is secretly raising, it means that as many as nine wizards are preparing to attack me at the same time in this small space.
Well… If you ask me if that’s dangerous, not really.
“Young man, such arrogant words are not to be said casually. Especially if they are words that you will regret in the near future with a high probability.”
“Well. Whether it’s arrogance or just a plain truth, we’ll see later. So, why don’t you stop doing these meaningless and nonsensical tricks? To be honest, I don’t want to harm this mage tower right now, If you put your hand first, then I have no choice but to respond accordingly.”
I showed off my magic in front of them. Magical power more than twice that of the combined total of the nine people.
Naturia’s narrow eyes widened.
That would be surprising. It was because a human who did not know how to properly handle magic quickly drew out magic that was difficult even for a wizard who devoted his entire life to magic training.
If I just release the mana I’ve gathered here, more than half of this magic tower will be blown away. So there’s no need to attack first.
“The thing you have… Seems to be far more dangerous than I thought. Such a huge, and so terrifying power…”
He says that words are a bad force, but his eyes glisten with greed. Yes, I’m going to be greedy. If this amount of mana can be drawn out on a regular basis, it will undoubtedly be a great revolution in the world of magic.
“Anyway, since they’ve spent their whole lives devoted to the study of magic, the reception of guests is very poor. Please, next time, please learn how to properly treat the person you invited before calling me. I’ll just go now.”
After adjusting and stabilizing the mana I had drawn up in my hand, I slowly walked toward the exit with the concentrated mana in my hand as if I could explode it at any time if I did something stupid.
If I showed an opening this much, it wouldn’t be strange if at least one impatient and aggressive wizard couldn’t hold back his anger and fired magic at the back of my head. Too bad. If someone attacked, I was going to use that as an excuse to destroy half of this mage tower.
Anyway, the place called the Mage Tower is not a very important place in the hero’s journey, and among the wizards who are candidate fellow warriors, less than half of them came from the Mage Tower, so there is no reason not to destroy it. Here, instead of getting hit in the back of my head and retiring, even the goddess Luminus would fully understand if I made the mage tower half asshole.
By the way, I looked at the faces of the wizards while having a fight with the elder of the Mage Tower, but the person I was looking for was nowhere to be found.
Cigarete Tabacona, the Smoke Witch, and Mystrina, the Mist Witch.
The fact that the two cannot be seen must mean that the contents written in the script are being carried out safely. Around this time, the two of them were exiled from the Mage Tower, robbed of their achievements by a hostile faction due to their innate lack of internal magical power.
I was worried that Mars and Ray were different from the script, but fortunately, there seems to be no major problem with this one. Fortunately out of misfortune If even the two witches had taken a different course from the script, I would have had to go to the goddess Luminous and ask them to overwrite the entire script and start over.
-Mr. Xxx… No, we should call it Rag or Armageddon now.
At last, the voice of a woman who gives off a mysterious and sacred atmosphere somewhere in my head is delivered directly.
‘Ah, Goddess. You came just in time.’
The owner of that voice was none other than the Luminous Goddess who brought me here.
‘Goddess Luminous, I have something I want to tell you.’
-Yeah? What was the problem?
‘That’s not just one or two problems.’
I told Goddess Luminus the story of Mars appearing in front of me instead of where he was supposed to be, the story of how he was betrayed by the villagers he was trying to protect while fighting against him, and the story of how Ray’s daughter went crazy and did bad things to her mother. A sacred sigh was heard.
– Haa… There are a lot of problems here and there. I was in the middle of fixing it because it seemed like there was a serious problem near the beginning of the story.
‘The script is open to all possibilities, but aren’t there too many variables? Most of the things that don’t even follow that properly… Why don’t we lead the party of warriors to a specific scenario?’
-Ummm… However, the audience expects a natural relationship and flow of the story, so if I intervene and feel the artificial flow, it could be a problem. In principle, it is impossible for me to be involved in this play (exam).
It’s a situation that takes your breath away. The Luminous Goddess couldn’t come out directly due to the circumstances of the gods, so in the end I had no choice but to act. I’m not a god, I’m just a human being, and I’m not bound by those principles.
– As for Mianor and the witches… I’ll leave it up to you. If it’s your problem, I think you’ll be a better fit than me.
‘Yes, I understand.’
Well, in the end, I got permission to harvest one of the two witches. Not long after I was expelled from the Mage Tower, I started looking for witches who might still be around here.
I had already decided which witch to take. I’ll take Mystrina.
When chosen as an ally by a party of warriors, Mist Lina can present powerful spells to the magic class, but she is not very helpful to the party other than the magic class. In comparison, Cigarette Tabacona supports magic-infused equipment, so she can equip everyone in the party with decent weapons. In order for the journey of the warriors to end successfully, it would be better to cooperate with the Witch of Smoke, so I will reap the Witch of Mist, the other side.
“Hmm.”
…Found.
Two women sitting with their backs against the wall.
A petite woman with red hair, tearing at her hair roughly and swearing at her, and a tall, dark-blue haired woman scribbling magic letters on the floor with a twig she held in her hand, with eyes that lost everything in the world. Female.
Cigarete Tabacona, the Smoke Witch, and Mystrina, the Mist Witch. They were the two I was looking for.
