## Chapter 252 – (3)
“Just a trial…?”
“Yes.”
Come to the Magic Tower and experience magic.
After that, you can decide whether to join the Magic Tower.
That was their proposal.
A rather confident one.
As if they were sure that once we experienced magic, we would naturally come to them.
Dana’s expression seemed displeased at their words.
Yet, she remained silent, respecting our opinions as the parties involved.
“…You should think carefully. This is Eva giving you an opportunity. Dana could easily take a knight or two if she wanted to.”
As absurd as it was, it was probably true.
Her sponsorship was originally intended for that purpose.
Sponsorship to bring in promising talents every year.
And this is a fantasy world, after all.
Eva’s word carried more weight than our individual wills.
“I have no choice. I’ll be back soon.”
“…Okay.”
There was no other way.
We just had to go to the Magic Tower, learn some magic, and come back.
When I said I would be back soon, Dana’s expression softened a little.
I was curious, though.
The Magic Tower.
What kind of place would it be?
“Yes, I see! You can see mana!”
Eva, who had been muttering for a long time, looked at me with sparkling eyes and shouted.
She was sure I could see mana.
“No, I can’t.”
“What…”
I could vaguely sense mana, but that wasn’t how I saw through Eva’s disguise magic.
I had given her the correct answer from the start.
My five senses were more developed than those of most monsters.
Eva looked shocked that her assumption was wrong.
“I couldn’t be wrong…”
She’s quite a handful.
Even her elf disciple sighed.
“The sooner we depart, the better… but I have a favor to ask before that.”
“…Me?”
Before heading to the Magic Tower, I was to massage Eva’s body.
Dana had bragged about it, so Eva seemed interested in my massage.
“…You, you know what’s not allowed, right?”
“…Of course.”
Dana whispered in my ear.
“Not allowed” probably meant not to do anything inappropriate.
I nodded.
Of course.
I would only give a normal muscle-relaxing massage.
After saying that, I entered my room with Eva, who was still in shock that she had been wrong.
I couldn’t help but chuckle at the state of my room.
In the past, I had decorated my room like a massage parlor.
Eva looked around the room in disbelief at the sight.
“…Is it okay to have the knight’s quarters like this…?”
“Haha…”
Eva slowly changed her clothes.
She was only wearing a towel, but I remained calm.
[Wall: Magic]
[Favorability: +5]
Seeing such a wall naturally calmed me down.
If the wall is magic, what do I have to do to stimulate it?
Should I show her some ice magic right in front of her?
Thinking that, I slowly began to press on Eva’s body.
She said her butt hurt because of the carriage, but when I actually touched her, her neck and waist were the worst.
I was seeing the modern person’s chronic turtle neck and misaligned pelvis in a fantasy world.
“Well, I’ve been sitting for a long time… but why is that?”
When I asked just in case, the answer I expected came back.
It was the typical body condition of someone who sits for long periods.
I pressed firmly on her shoulders and around her shoulder blades.
“Ugh…”
I adjusted my strength a little, but it seemed the intensity wasn’t right.
Eva made a frog-like sound.
I eased up on the pressure and adjusted the strength to a level that an average woman could handle, and only then did Eva relax her body as if she were comfortable.
She’s a mage, so her body is weak.
Now that her body was relaxed, it was time to use my inner energy.
I couldn’t just loosen her muscles by rubbing them.
Unless I had professionally learned massage or something, I didn’t have that talent.
I simply used the method of directly loosening muscles using inner energy.
I placed my hand on her back and slowly poured inner energy into it.
“Eep?!”
Then Eva made a sound.
I tilted my head.
“Does it hurt?”
“No…”
That’s strange.
It shouldn’t hurt.
The inner energy was also seeping in smoothly without resistance.
But the voice Eva made was clearly one of pain.
Feeling strange, I slowly massaged her again.
Of course, while injecting inner energy.
“Hic!”
“…Huh?”
Tremble, tremble.
It wasn’t me who was trembling.
Suddenly, everything in the room began to tremble.
The bed, the perfume, even the clothes that had been taken off for a moment.
Some of the towels trembled and even fell to the floor.
Something like wind was spreading out from Eva’s center, and I could vaguely tell that it was mana.
She was the master of the Magic Tower, after all. It was an enormous amount of mana.
It was an enormous amount of mana, but why all of a sudden?
“T, the massage is over here!”
“I haven’t even started yet…”
“If it’s over here, it’s over here!”
“…Yes.”
If the master of the Magic Tower doesn’t want it, there’s nothing I can do but stop.
But since she stopped it herself, I hope she doesn’t spread rumors later that my massage was terrible.
[Massage 2 women. (0/2)]
I couldn’t even complete the quest because of this.
I guess you don’t get credit for the quest if you stop halfway.
Tsk.
Clicking my tongue, I stepped back, and Eva changed her clothes.
While muttering something.
“W, what is this… messing with someone else’s mana circuits… really…”
Even if I eavesdropped on her muttering, I had no idea what she was talking about.
‘…Her favorability went up?’
[Favorability: +12]
It was a little, but it definitely went up.
Did she feel refreshed after the massage?
I don’t know.
Anyway, since she said we would leave right after the massage, we both finished preparing and went outside.
There wasn’t much to prepare.
We just had to bring our bodies, and the rest would be prepared at the Magic Tower, she had confidently assured us.
Since they gave us a choice, they would treat us well.
“Huh?”
Were we out of the room too early? Dana, who was standing in front of the door, looked at us strangely.
And Eva quickly passed Dana.
“You weren’t going to do anything, were you?”
Dana looked at me suspiciously.
“…I didn’t do anything.”
I really didn’t do anything.
“Eva’s face is red…”
Dana was just asking because it seemed strange, not really suspecting anything.
Even if I was really going to do something, there was nothing I could do in this short amount of time.
“Well then, I’ll be back.”
“…Come back safely.”
“Yes.”
I said my last farewell to Dana.
When we came out of the building, Ethan and the elf disciple were standing there.
“Eva-nim is…”
“She said she would be waiting in the carriage. Please follow me.”
Following behind her, there was a large carriage.
Everything was large about the carriage.
The horses, the carriage, even the coachman.
‘Was he a former knight?’
Judging by his size and scars, he wasn’t an ordinary coachman.
Well, he was the coachman pulling the Magic Tower Master’s carriage.
He couldn’t be ordinary.
When I got into the carriage, I saw Eva turning her head away from the window.
From this side, I could only see her ear.
Judging by her favorability, she didn’t dislike me.
But I couldn’t tell what state she was in since I couldn’t see her expression.
“Everyone’s on board, Eva-nim.”
“…Le, let’s go.”
“Yes.”
At the elf disciple’s words, Eva started the carriage.
As befitting of the large horses, the carriage moved with a whoosh each time I heard the clatter of hooves.
Even this speed was slow because we were inside the city, and it would be faster once we got outside.
Once we got outside the city, it might be almost as fast as a car driving slowly.
Ethan seemed fascinated by the luxurious interior of the carriage, and he kept looking around inside.
I also looked around the carriage and leaned back in my seat.
Compared to a normal carriage, it was really comfortable.
Eva had complained that she was too tired in the carriage before receiving the massage, so I was worried.
The seats were padded with soft cushions to protect against shocks, and the ceiling was high enough for someone my size to straighten their back.
There were also ornate gold leaf decorations inside the carriage, and if you looked closely, they were shaped like towers.
This is the Magic Tower Master’s carriage, huh?
“How long does it take to get to the Magic Tower from here?”
“….About 8 hours, I guess.”
8 hours.
Considering this is a fantasy world, it was quite close.
In some cases, it was common to travel by carriage for several days, camping along the way.
Of course, the large horses we were riding were playing a big role.
“Don’t you use teleportation magic or something?”
Ethan said what I was wondering.
Judging from Ethan’s question, teleportation magic did exist in this world.
At those words, Eva and the elf both sighed at the same time.
“…Because of those cowardly bastards…”
“Many conditions are required for teleportation magic. One of them is a place with elaborate magic circles engraved at the destination and starting point…”
Eva muttered, and the elf began to explain.
The long explanation continued, but to summarize, it was like this.
Most countries opposed drawing magic circles in their countries, so teleportation magic was virtually impossible to use.
They didn’t trust magicians.
They didn’t want powerful beings called magicians traveling through the country via teleportation.
Even this country, which had received a huge amount of sponsorship, would not allow that.
That’s why they were traveling in this carriage.
There was a reason why the two sighed.
Clatter, clatter.
As we left the city, the vehicle shook violently, and the sound of horses’ hooves and the noise of cutting through the wind blocked the conversation.
‘8 hours, huh.’
8 hours in this shaking and noise wouldn’t be easy.
