Chapter 15 – 015. The Ghost of the Divine Tree (8)
“Illyana!”
As soon as he returned home, Eunhyun looked for Illyana.
“Huh?”
Wearing her glasses and reading magic books, she showed an unusually intelligent appearance.
Illyana took her eyes off her magic book at the sound of her voice searching for herself and saw Eun-hyeon, who had just entered and was standing in front of the front door.
“Let’s get ready.”
Illyana’s eyes widened as she heard her words and understood what they meant.
This was because it meant that the time had come to start solving the case in earnest.
“Before that, there’s someone I’d like to introduce you to.”
“Who?”
Eunhyeon didn’t even have time to answer, as his shadow moved slowly and floated upward, taking the shape of a human.
Illyana, who was watching the scene, frowned at her.
“A warlock?”
“Huh.”
“Huh… Okay. I know roughly what happened.”
Having already heard about Erin’s past from Eunhyun, Illyana wasn’t too embarrassed that she brought Elvin, a warlock.
Alvin gave a slightly surprised expression, as if it was unexpected.
“What are you so surprised about?”
“Jeon… She’s a warlock, can you let her into her house?”
Unlike when Erwin first met Eun-hyeon, she treated Illyana with respect from the very beginning, as her reputation was already known throughout the continent.
Illyana, a high-ranking digit mage with an eight-digit rating, said to have only 10 people even if she searched the entire continent, was the idol of all mages.
It was a truth that also worked for Alvin, who had entered the path of cheating called ‘black magic’.
“Why? Are you trying to do something to my house?”
Illyana’s expression, saying ‘That’s you too?’, Showed the confidence that no wizard could stand against her.
Alvin thought that her confidence and her self-confidence were amazing.
“Doesn’t the world despise a warlock like me? So I just thought I would be killed by the witch.”
There was no fear or fear on the face of Alvin, who said so calmly that she predicted her own death.
“It is true that among black magicians, there are many scumbags, idiots, and idiots who are ostracized by the world. But that doesn’t mean all warlocks are like that.”
“…”
It was neither a denial nor an affirmation of the warlock, so Alvin made a strange expression.
“Is there a difference in composition ratio? Just as there are swordsmen who are praised as heroes who go around saving good people with swords, and there are people who are accused of being crazy murderers who go around slaughtering people with swords. It’s just that there were more people who could be called ‘evil’ among the warlocks. There were also good warlocks who purely helped humans. Do you think there is a difference?”
In short, it was not that ‘black magic’ itself was bad, but that most of the people who used it were already distorted somewhere and had a way of thinking that went crazy.
“I do not know.”
Alvin already thought of himself as a villain.
The opposite sex is being consumed by her own magic, and over time it becomes more ferocious and aggressive.
She guessed that one day she would cease to be ‘human’.
“I already heard about your situation from Hyun-i.”
I know the situation.
Then it meant that this witch, like Eun-hyeon, knew everything she had done.
Illyana’s gaze at Elvin was something closer to pity or sympathy.
“Even in a state where reason is being eaten, it seems that people who have nothing to do with anything other than the purpose were careful not to harm them. You have suffered a lot.”
Alvin didn’t respond to her words of comfort that resembled compliments.
“Fortunately, it’s fortunate that he brought it in before things got too big. If you really did anything, your brother might have been erased from this country too. You know that?”
“… I am reflecting.”
Elvin’s sanity was engulfed by the shadows, and she fell asleep for several days to regain her sanity.
When she came to her senses and opened her eyes, she heard the news that her sister, Erin, had gone missing.
“Good. Are all the actors gathered now? It seems that preparations for directing have been completed. Let’s go now.”
“To Aether?”
“Huh. I put out invitations with you and Leo’s names on them for everyone to gather there.”
“Now they naturally sell our name.”
“You forced me to do the work and still won’t give me this kind of convenience?”
“Joy.”
Illyana turned her head and snorted at her, as if he didn’t like her.
What she didn’t like about her was that she always took the lead in a situation and worked it out, but she didn’t include herself in the feat.
She didn’t like the same look she had from 20 years ago.
The person who should be respected and praised more than anyone else in the world is Eunhyun, not them.
Whether he knew Iliana’s heart or not.
Eunhyun just smiled and walked.
“…”
Elvin didn’t get involved in the conversation between the two and quietly went into Eun-hyeon’s shadow and hid her body.
‘Who is it? This guy…’
It was the moment when she was able to see Eun-hyeon again, with whom she was close enough to joke with the high-ranking wizard of the Great Hero, whom Elvin admired.
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When the two arrived in Aether, Eun-hyeon confirmed that the school gate was open.
The two proudly passed through the gate and moved to the garden where the ‘Sacred Tree of Fernias’ was located where they had met Erin last time.
The sacred tree did not shine bright green like last time.
Rather, pretending to be an ordinary tree like this would be the appearance of the ‘Tree of Hope’ seen by the people of Pernias Kingdom.
There were five people near the ‘Tree of Hope’ in the garden.
A young woman and a man, and three middle-aged men.
If there was only one thing the five people had in common, it was that they belonged to high-ranking aristocratic families.
One of the five people in the garden recognized the new Eunhyeon and Illyana.
“A black witch? Why is that woman here?”
An aristocratic man with light blonde hair narrowed her brows and muttered that she did not know the reason for Illyana’s unexpected appearance.
Eunhyun heard that, but she ignored it and introduced herself in a loud voice, standing slightly ahead of Illyana.
“Hello. Everyone? I am the director of the Mervis Magic Library, an assistant in charge of training for Illyana Kennifer. It is called ‘Eunhyeon’.”
“Eunhyeon?”
“Also…”
When I tried to remember who everyone was by chewing on the name of Eun-hyun, whom everyone had never heard of.
Princess Eleanor Armitas, the only woman with a red one out of the five, muttered while looking at Eunhyun.
“When the invitation with the Black Witch’s name on it came, I thought it was your handiwork.”
Eleanor glared at Eun-hyeon as if she didn’t like something about her.
“Huh? Did you not like something? I’m no different than the princess’s lifesaver, right?”
“What kind of mouth did you say such unscrupulous words! You were my ass… Awesome!”
The moment she was about to criticize Eun-hyeon with her angry face, Eleanor blushed and hurriedly covered her mouth.
She broke into a cold sweat at the fact that she had almost spoken her memory of her shame in front of others.
It must have been so ridiculous that Eunhyeon laughed while puzzled.
“What have you done to my brother?”
Seeing Eleanor strangely losing her cool, her brother, Alex Armitas, glared at her Eun-hyeon and asked.
“Yes? I didn’t do anything… Rather, I saved his life.”
It was so smirking and sarcastic that her shoulder shrugging with her expression of resentment made Eleanor even more angry.
“What have you done to the noble lady?”
“Oh, misunderstood. Miss Illyana! I swore that the only thing I could do was protect the princess so that things wouldn’t get in trouble!”
Eunhyun, who is faithfully showing her role as ‘Iliana’s assistant’ externally as there are many people watching, put on a tearful expression saying that it was really unfair.
Everyone except Illyana and Riod was making strange faces at the ‘pathetic-looking’ acting of the whole body, which was filled with the strength of a 400-year-old.
‘Ah, looking at this fake face. It’s annoying.’
Illyana frowned and said.
She said, “Okay. Let’s get down to business.”
“Yes.”
After Eun-hyun answered briefly, she, who was making a pathetic expression, smiled at the people watching her and said,
“Ruler! You seem to know each other very well, so there’s no need for a separate self-introduction time. Then, let me introduce you to another person we invited.”
Mate!
With two cheerful applause, Alvin jumped out of Eunhyun’s shadow.
“Oh… !”
“What?!”
Eleanor, who had already seen the scene once, and a middle-aged man who was well versed in magic recognized the true nature of the magic and looked at Alvin in amazement.
Lyod frowned and said.
“It’s black magic.”
“Yes. That’s the correct answer. This person’s true identity is Elvin Hersha. He is the son of Baron Hersha, who was known to have been executed this time for embezzlement of breach of trust. And… He is also the older brother of the missing Erin Hersha.”
“Hersha…”
Another middle-aged man was muttering the name and looking at Alvin with a nervous expression.
“You all know each other well, but the black magician invited this time doesn’t know these people, so I’ll introduce them instead…”
“You don’t have to. Because you already know.”
Elvin opened her mouth, looking at Leo de who was on the far left of her.
“The Knights of the Kingdom who were chasing me, the leader of Artia, the Marquis of Riod Olivion.”
Lyod and Alvin stared into each other’s eyes without speaking.
Afterwards, Alvin shifted his gaze to the side and continued speaking.
“The Minister of Finance of the Realm, Marquis Bernard Boris, who came to visit me after his father died and asked where the gold coins were.”
“…”
“The siblings of the Duke of Armitas who made a deal with me, but betrayed them.”
“What… Say?”
“Betrayal… ? What is that…”
Elvin left her brother and sister muttering with a startled blank expression and looked at the middle-aged man on the far right at the end, she said.
“Oliver Baotman, the principal of the school, who is in charge of Aether, the place where my brother, Erin, went missing.”
“Keugh…”
After naming all five names and explaining her connection to herself, Elvin looked at Eunhyun and asked.
“You think you know everything about this?”
“Yes. Okay.”
Eunhyun smiled and affirmed Alvin’s words.
‘Did you induce it? So that they deliberately explain the connection between me and Erin?’
There was no way she didn’t know the people she gathered here.
Seeing Eun-hyeon’s smiling face, she began to think that way even more.
As for Erwin, her attitude suddenly changed and she couldn’t adapt to Eun-hyeon’s attitude of respecting her.
“What are you saying.”
Alex came forward and asked Alvin.
“What does it mean that the duke made a deal and betrayed,” She asked.
Alvin tilted his head at her unexpected question.
“You really don’t know?”
“So what…”
“Come on, let me explain the story little by little.”
Alex’s accident was not working properly because the opponent who tried to kill his sister was in front of him.
With her wary face, she questioned Alvin and the quarrel was about to intensify, but Eun-hyeon stepped in and stopped the two of them.
“The reason why our witch and Captain Artia invited you to this place. As the black magician said, it’s because you are involved in the ‘Baron Hersha incident’ or related to those involved.”
“What?”
Alex questioned, questioning Eunhyun’s words.
“I mean. I will show you the case of Baron Hersha from the beginning to the end.”
At Eunhyeon’s words, all four of them, except for Riod, made a questionable expression.
It was because Eunhyun’s explanation was strange.
I didn’t understand the part where you said ‘I’ll show you’ instead of ‘I’ll let you hear it’.
That’s how they looked at Eun-hyeon with suspicious eyes, as if they were looking at a con artist.
Eun-hyeon was smiling regardless of their gaze, and snapped her fingers.
Right!
With a cheerful sound, the surrounding environment was distorted as if paint had been released into the water.
“Uh… ?”
Eleanor looked around her, startled by this strange environment, and clutched her brother, Alex, by the sleeve, in her uneasiness that she did not know what was going on.
The world began to change once Eun-hyeon snapped her fingers.
