Chapter 80 – D-4
“…Ha.”
Viola. She was an orphan who grew up without parents, but entered the Mage Tower with only her talent and aptitude for magic.
And one of the victims who lost her guaranteed future when Baron Ragnar Armageddon smashed the tower.
The Mage Tower, which reigned as an independent force without any pressure from any kingdom for a long time, foolishly and arrogantly believed in their own power and provoked the living disaster called Baron Armageddon several times. A tower with hundreds of years of history was punished by being erased from the map forever. And after this news was delivered, the perception of wizards in the Mage Tower completely changed.
Originally treated as state-class manpower that could not be brought in carelessly, the wizards of the Mage Tower became a nuisance that brought about disaster after the collapse of Baron Armageddon’s Mage Tower. Baron Armageddon was so dangerous that few people could stop it even at that time, so most people were reluctant to get involved with him.
After that incident, being from the Mage Tower became a stigma that eroded their prestige, and if they were wrongly connected, the thought that the arrows of Baron Armageddon’s anger might be directed at them was added, and the meaning of ‘from the Mage Tower’ changed to ‘guaranteed skill’. It has degenerated from a ‘magician’ to a ‘anxiety factor that may be linked to a living disaster’.
Because of that, the wizards who bet everything on a single mage tower ended up throwing their lives away, and most of them were so drunk that they cursed the name of Baron Armageddon, and cursed at them if they were talking about something ominous. He was forced to live a miserable life.
Viola, who was one of those people, did not just waste the rest of her life lamenting her life cursing Baron Armageddon, but became an ally of a man who called himself a warrior to avenge the man who took away her future and precious comrades. .
Of course, at that time, he did not believe that Luke was a real warrior. It’s just that in order to kill Baron Armageddon, you needed to get into a position that would make him accessible, and you just needed an achievement to do so. He needed to make a name for himself by making a big contribution to defeating Serberk the Destroyer, a nuisance between the two kingdoms, but there was no party to accept him from the Mage Tower.
Luke, who was a young man in a secluded country before becoming a hero, knew that he was an excellent wizard from the Mage Tower, but he did not know that his perception had changed recently, so he accepted her. Viola, who found out that he was doing it, remained as his party mate.
In the end, Viola was perfectly successful in getting close to Baron Armageddon, her initial target, but she didn’t have the strength to kill him.
Separated from her comrades, her body strangely transformed, her nemesis, who wants to kill her but can’t kill her, in the next room, day and night, as if to tease her.
In a situation of total impasse, the decisive trigger that caused Viola’s sigh to come out was the item placed with breakfast in front of her room this morning.
“This, this other…!”
An object that was too thick to hold with one hand, and felt unpleasantly similar to human flesh. At least she knew that the object, modeled after her penis, was a type of tool used by women to masturbate. The question is, why was it in front of her room…
“This other thing… When did I ask for it…!”
A small note next to a giant dildo read:
‘I’ll leave what I used, so use it as much as you need. Don’t do anything strange by catching an innocent soldier. -Mianor-‘
“That maid is really…!”
The heavy and disparate sensation of shaking in the hand is quite unpleasant. It’s uncomfortable as if you’re disposing of unnecessary things on yourself, patronizingly telling them to use them if you want to use them because you don’t need them. I was so annoyed with the attitude of putting such an obscene object in front of someone else’s room as if I knew everything, even though I had never asked for it, so I tried to throw it on the floor, but eventually I gave up thinking that even doing so wouldn’t work out properly.
Instead, I didn’t know what misunderstanding would happen if someone else found out that I had this, so I put it in the empty space under the bed so that no one else could see it.
…Absolutely not for later use.
“Come to think of it, it’s already been two days, but I haven’t been able to get a single piece of information.”
Yesterday and the day before yesterday. She watched through her clairvoyance magic in case any information would come out if she spyed into the room next to him, but as a result, all she learned was two stimulating pornography that would be enough for her lifelong daughter. It was a bonus that I lost two days of my precious time comforting myself alone because I felt my body heat up while watching it.
Recalling the sights he had witnessed over the past two days, Viola fanned his hands to cool his burning face. In the first place, no matter how sexually promiscuous it was, it was absolutely not normal to do such a thing in broad daylight. No matter how much she watched the next room, it didn’t look like she would be able to get the right information, so eventually Viola decided to leave the room and look around the mansion itself.
“Where are you going?”
And as soon as she walked down the hallway, the maid appeared in front of her, and Viola had a reasonable suspicion that the identity of that woman might actually be a ghost.
She treated Baron Armageddon like that all day and acted as if there was no problem the next morning, and even when she left the room and walked a little down the hallway, she ran into him right away.
“You…! Why the hell did you put that in front of my room!”
“Oh, have you already used it?”
“You think you’re going to write something like that?!”
The viola’s voice rose by itself. At first she thought that this woman was also a pitiful victim, but now she is not. Whether she was a victim or not, it is now clear that she is his ally and she is his enemy. Moreover, she is an irritating woman who makes fun of people with useless things that she did not even tell her to do.
“Is it because it’s used? Don’t worry. I’ve only used it once or twice, and it’s like new.”
“So there’s nothing to write about!”
“You’ll regret it? Actually, that’s…”
At that moment, Mia took off the mask of a well-groomed maid and took on the face of a lustful prostitute who frantically shook her waist from midday to midnight in a man’s arms. And smiled.
“It’s made after the owner’s stuff, so it’s very pleasant. Well, it’s different from now because it’s been measured before, but even a woman with little experience can enjoy it quite a bit.”
Even though she was wearing neat clothes that didn’t reveal her skin at all, Viola was overwhelmed without even realizing it. This woman… What the hell is she?
“I-I’ve never asked for anything like that. Rather… Can I know where the library is?”
Then Mia nodded her head, as if she had never done that before, as she returned to her sullen, quiet maid form.
“The study is in the annex building. I will guide you.”
Viola followed maid Mia to the annex. In the meantime, she heard people’s voices, so she turned her head and saw a scene of soldiers beating a scarecrow. The majority of soldiers were men, but there were also women. As if noticing her gaze, Mia, who was walking in front of her, stopped and explained.
“This is the gymnasium. Baron Armageddon accepts anyone as his soldier, as long as he is competent and doesn’t harbor false ideas. And the Baron’s soldiers are trained equally, regardless of gender.”
“Hmph. Those female soldiers must have had a relationship with Baron Armageddon anyway.”
“…”
Viola habitually grinned in her disparaging tone, but she was taken aback when Mia refused to deny her own words.
Uh, maybe? No really? With so many pretty girls around you, you’re laying your hands on the female soldiers too?
You didn’t even lay a finger on me?
“That guy… How many women has he been involved with?”
“Miss Viola, does she remember how many breads she has eaten?”
“…Let’s not talk.”
Viola sighed and turned her head, imprinting her eyes on the soldiers in training on the gymnasium. With the return of Mars, all the main forces mobilized for the invasion of the territory returned to the territory, but their accommodation is a little far from the mansion. Even if Baron Armageddon calls the entire force, it will take at least 10 minutes for them to arrive.
If you want to defeat Baron Armageddon, you must defeat him within 10 minutes, because you have no chance of winning directly against the main force that gave Baron Armageddon the nickname ‘Black Army’. With that in mind, in effect, the few quarters she and her allies will have to take down will be these remnant troops behind the annex of her mansion. Those who, for their own reasons, did not go out to invade the territory and remained in the mansion and trained every day at the gymnasium, would be the first enemies they would encounter if they fought someday, so Viola had learned their faces.
There were also a few familiar faces among them. There was a soldier who escorted the beast trainer Ray when he fought against a huge beast that had been tamed in the north of Armageddon Territory, and there was a soldier who stood vigil during Baron Armageddon’s expedition to the kingdom of Elheim. And that soldier…?
“…I don’t think so.”
Viola doubted her own eyes. A soldier wielding a sword as if to vent his anger at the Scarecrow, with her face as if it were dead. She was familiar somewhere, but she believed that the viola was an illusion. Because she was of a different gender than the soldier in her memory. Maybe… The soldier’s family? After concluding that, Viola moved her feet again.
“This is the library. Use it as much as you like, but please be careful not to damage the books.”
“OK got it.”
“Then I’m fine.”
After Mia left, Viola went into the study. Soon, her bookshelves, filled with books of all colors, greeted her. Viola felt relieved at the unfamiliar yet nostalgic sight. Even in her magic tower, she had few friends, so she spent most of her time in the archives filled with various magic books, and this library had an atmosphere similar to that place in her memories.
“Where…”
Unless Baron Armageddon is an idiot, there’s no way he’s keeping really important information out of reach of anyone else. But in a spirit of grasping at straws, Viola decided to seek out her information.
…It’s not because I’m afraid that if I’m in a room, I’ll stare at the scenery in the next room.
*
After about three hours of shutting herself in the study, Viola sighed as she put the book she had been reading a moment ago back in its place. He didn’t have high expectations, but he wasn’t earning more than he thought. Among the books here, all of the books related to her magic were the ones she memorized in one month at the time she started her magic. For him, a half-mage who learned magic by self-taught rather than the regular route, even this must have been quite difficult, and there were scribbles all over the place…
“…”
Looking closely, it wasn’t graffiti. Crooked letters filling the empty space. The memo, full of traces of writing and erasing many times, was similar to what other children who couldn’t keep up with their progress in the Mage Tower wrote in their books.
Why did this magic formula become like this and why did this result come out? It was a trace of long hours of effort that could not be easily disguised.
Viola rewinds her memory. All the nasty things she said to Baron Armageddon. Insulting words towards him. Fake wizards, half wizards, etc… Most of them were words that came over my shoulder from the Mage Tower. Many in the Mage’s Tower ignored, insulted, and denied Baron Armageddon’s magic. The reason she also joined in the action was because of her infinite trust in her mage tower. There was no way that the words spoken by the Mage Tower, where the knowledge and wisdom of smart wizards had been accumulated over hundreds of years, were wrong.
But when she saw these signs, she wondered if that was really true. A fake wizard in the first place, where is there such a thing as real or fake magic?
Sage Alace, who was the first master of the mage tower, the archmage praised by all mages, and a colleague of the first hero, said.
‘There is no set correct answer to magic, and each and every magic has its own truth’.
Baron Armageddon’s magic is completely different from hers in terms of how she uses it and how it is structured. However, it also has its own way. Was it really right to insult it as a false, half-fake wizard?
She sat alone in a place resembling a place in her memory, with the strange power that had always overflowed within her gone, and her anger and hatred towards Baron Armageddon faded because of her resignation due to the vast difference in power. Viola thought with her long, cool head.
In the meantime, she wondered if what she was doing was really right.
Man is a creature that cannot easily deny that he is wrong. The greater the time and effort expended on the behavior, the stronger the tendency. Rather than admitting that what he has done is wrong and meaningless, it is a human characteristic to insist on going his own way even if he himself feels something is wrong.
Even Viola could not admit that she was wrong in her actions. But when she wondered if it was really the right thing to do, she didn’t immediately get an answer.
Why did Baron Armageddon take down the Mage Tower in the first place?
“…Now there are probably only two people who know the answer.”
One is Baron Ragnar Armageddon, who is responsible for bringing down the Mage Tower.
And the other is Mystrina, the Witch of the Mist, who designed the magic formula used by Baron Armageddon to destroy the Magic Tower.
For now, the only person she can ask is Baron Armageddon. She was afraid to stand in front of him again, but Viola had to know nonetheless.
As a wizard, she couldn’t let what she didn’t know.
Viola put the magic book in her hand back to its original place, and left her study and headed for the main building. She went to the room right next to the room she was staying in, the room of Baron Ragna Armageddon, the owner of her mansion.
