Chapter 44 – 044. The Witch’s Master
“Aww! It’s over!”
Erin collapsed on her floor, screaming at her.
“In 10 minutes, we will start training on mana management.”
“No, witch.”
“Illyana.”
“Miss Iliana. Please take a little more break… Let me sleep for 1 hour, no 30 minutes! There is no strength in the body.”
“No.”
“Yes…”
She let out a cry filled with relief at the fact that her physical training was finally over, but Erin replied with a crawling voice at Illyana’s words, which instantly poured cold water on her.
Since her training partner suddenly changed from her Eunhyun to Illyana, she seemed very nervous at first and hesitated.
It was not a great honor for Erin, who didn’t even know her magical ‘M’, to have a high-ranking wizard, one of the heroes who saved her continent, take care of her training, but it was a burden on her.
It was also because Illyana, who oversaw her own training to her Erin, was in a way more strict and difficult to deal with than her Eun-hyeon.
Once she has digested the prescribed amount of training, she never interferes beyond that, but she doesn’t take it kindly by being flexible or talking to her while training.
Consistent with her complete indifference, the figure of her sitting in her chair and reading her magic book exudes an aura that is difficult for Erin to approach, as if expressing the words ‘do not disturb’ with her whole body. It seemed like
Beep! Beep! Beep!
At the sound of her regular alarm, Illyana pulled out the watch she had in her arms to check the time.
“It was lunchtime.”
“Ah!”
At those words, her Erin’s complexion began to noticeably lighten.
The term lunchtime is not a 10-minute break, but a minimum 2-hour break after lunch is guaranteed.
As Illyana adhered to her training manual that Eun-hyeon had prepared for her, Erin waited for her witch’s declaration with her face filled with anticipation.
“Let’s eat and eat.”
“Yes!”
Erin, who showed her grin, received two lumps from Illyana.
Then, after confirming their identity, her Erin’s complexion hardened.
It was two pieces of hardened biscuit-like snacks, so-called energy bars, a meal replacement food.
“Hey, Miss Illyana? I ate this for breakfast, but do I eat this for lunch too? ?”
“Is there a problem?”
“No, that…”
Erin didn’t respond, and she opened the package of an energy bar that looked like her flour was tightly pressed and put it in her mouth.
She drank the bottled water, probably because of its unique stiffness, and felt the texture like a soft cookie, and a slight sweetness and savory taste spread in her mouth.
‘I want to eat the soup Hyuni made…’
Realizing how much care Eunhyeon had made for lunch on the first day of training, Erin was forcibly chewing and swallowing the stiff energy bar.
Erin looked at Illyana, who was reading her magic tome, eating the same energy bar she had given herself.
When she met her for the first time, she was mesmerized by her beauty, which was so beautiful even for a woman like her.
However, since she has been living in her house, she is now very disturbed that her illusions about her have been shattered.
‘Is that person really the greatest wizard in the world? It seems like he likes to be in the corner of the room because it’s just annoying to move…’
He hates moving so much, and when he needs to move somewhere, he shows the waste of mana using high-level magic called teleport, and cooking is also annoying, so he piles up energy bars in his house and lives with them for three meals a day.
For Erin, living her daily life in this way is not so miraculous, it is astonishing.
Erin wondered that she wasn’t like this when her Eun Hyun was around, so she asked Illyana just in case.
“Illiana-sama by any chance… Don’t you know how to cook?”
“Huh. Can not.”
Come to think of it, she always remembers that when she was eating, Eun-hyeon was cooking.
“Cleaning… ?”
“Why do you do that?”
“Are you doing laundry?”
“What’s wrong with not doing it?”
“Omg…”
If she didn’t, she could only think of one person who was most likely running the household.
Illiana calmly affirms her Erin’s question without taking her eyes off her magic book.
Does this witch have no shame?
Come to think of it, Illyana didn’t touch her chores at all.
Isn’t Eun-hyeon, her lover and training herself, who manages everything in her house?
Erin felt depressed that she hadn’t had a proper meal ever since her sister-in-law went on an expedition with Eleanor.
Still, one of the pleasures of being able to endure the training was the delicious dish made after the hellish training, but there is no way you can feel the rewards of training with two pieces of biscuits called energy bars that make your throat choke.
‘Are you saying I have to eat only this energy bar for three meals a day and train until Hyun-i comes?!’
It was the moment when the complexion turned white from the terrible imagination.
“Once you’ve finished eating, let’s start class.”
“Yes?!”
Erin shrieked in surprise.
Seeing her stare at herself with a desperate expression on her face as if her world had been destroyed, Illyana looked at Erin with a gaze asking what was wrong.
“I… Weren’t we taking a break after lunch? ?”
“I won’t do physical training. What I’ll teach you from now on is how to train on mana management. I’ll explain the method, but I won’t take questions about theory or principles. If you’re curious, ask Hyuni later.”
“Yes? What is that…”
“I don’t know much about these concepts and theories. It was Hyeon who taught me magic in the first place.”
“Yes… ?”
What does this mean?
Erin asked with a dumbfounded face at the shocking fact that there was someone else who taught high-ranking wizards, of whom there are only ten on the continent.
“So, then, is Hyun-i also a high-ranking magician? That’s a higher digit than Illyana-sama’s… ?”
Come to think of it, didn’t Eunhyeon possess a strangely high level of magic knowledge?
She correctly identified her own condition, in which her soul was separated from her body due to out-of-body, which was trapped in the barrier of her time by the tree of wishes, and also presented her solution and solved her case. Did.
Except for the magicians belonging to the Magus, the court magic division, Eun-hyeon even showed a magical phenomenon that even the magic faculty at Aether School, where the best magicians in Korea gathered, could not figure out at once.
It also meant that she was a great wizard who was never ordinary as a wizard.
“No, he knows how to use magic, but he is not a wizard.”
“What is that… ?”
Erin asked back as if she didn’t know what she was talking about.
It was Eun-hyeon who raised Illyana into a high-ranking wizard, but she felt confused by the fact that Eun-hyeon was not a magician.
“Oh, I don’t know. First of all, I’m going to tell you what I can tell you. Do you want to learn or not?”
“I do, I will try.”
Despite not being able to sort out her confused feelings, Erin did not refuse her offer to teach her magic.
It was because I had the idea to accept everything I could do, learn, and use.
Looking at Erin’s nodded face with her hard face, Illyana recalled nostalgic memories.
She recalled a time when she had to grow up to survive, when a fledgling wizard who went to the battlefield with only basic knowledge was so eager that she had to ask a man who wasn’t even a wizard to teach her.
‘Did I have eyes like this at that time?’
Eyes with a strong desire to learn and grow all that can be learned.
Her self-confidence was a bit lacking, but she thought as she looked at Erin’s face, who had a desire to be confident in front of others.
‘Did I also look at Hyun-i with this kind of look?’
She has a great person in front of her, and she has a firm belief that she is someone who can help her grow.
Seeing her eyes full of her desire to grow and thinking about that, Illyana smiled involuntarily.
It was very annoying, but it wasn’t such a bad feeling.
“Ah…”
Seeing the black witch’s smile for the first time since she met her face, Erin looked at it stunned with the impression that she was ‘pretty’ without realizing it.
“Magic power is latent mana in the body, or another energy that makes up the human body. Just as blood flows through a person’s body, magic flows and circulates through your body.”
As she explains, blue aura begins to sway in Illyana’s palm.
“Managing magical power means manipulating this energy flowing in the body and utilizing it in some form. Wizards infuse magic into the spells and laws they create and manifest them in the form of ‘magic’, and warriors strengthen their bodies to improve their physical abilities, or put magic into their weapons to increase attack power. Each job uses mana in different ways. The way to use it differs from job to job and is endless, but the most basic way is that you need to know how to manipulate magic yourself.”
The blue mana floating on the palms changed, taking various forms, sometimes forming the shape of a number, and sometimes taking the shape of a letter.
That much meant that her Illyana had an excellent sense of manipulating her own magical power.
“The magic training you need to do from now on is simple. To feel the magical power, release it, and make it take a form like me.”
Erin listened to Illyana’s explanation and tried to feel the mana energy in her body, but she didn’t understand.
“Well, I don’t know. Do you have any tips or something?”
“I don’t know.”
“Yes?”
“I don’t know. I was able to feel mana from a certain moment and was able to manipulate it. This is where I started as a mage, so I told you this.”
“…”
Erin looked at Illyana with her bemused look on her face.
There is a saying in the world that people like Illyana are called.
She was a person called a ‘talented Chung’, which is not common in the world.
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Evening the next day.
As soon as she returned to the capital, Pernin, Princess Yuria said that she was grateful to Eunhyeon and said that she would return to the royal castle under the escort of the knights of the royal guard.
Alex asked Princess Yuria for her understanding to take Eleanor, who seemed tired, to her house, and they parted ways.
The person who played the biggest role in this expedition was Eleanor, who brought Eunhyeon into the labyrinth and was in charge of assisting and recovering the party, so Yuria also readily accepted Alex’s request without rejecting it.
That’s how Princess Yuria’s party ended up going their separate ways.
As soon as Eun-hyeon returned to the underground training ground, she saw Illyana sitting on a chair and Erin lying on the floor, dying.
Erin must have heard footsteps in her basement, so she turned toward her door and widened her eyes to see that the figure entering the training ground was a man with silvery white hair.
“Ah!”
Erin, who was limp due to loss of strength in her body, jumped up and ran to Eunhyeon.
“I’m here?”
Seeing Erin’s reaction, Illyana also looked toward her entrance and saw Eun-hyeon, and she was welcoming him back with a smile.
“Huh. Have you been training well?”
“Well, that’s okay.”
“Me, over there!”
“Huh?”
Seeing Erin show her welcome, Eun-hyeon thought that her attitude had changed quite a bit, unlike her first time.
When he first looked at him, he was shy and cautious because he was an unfamiliar man, but now he looked like a puppy meeting its owner, as if it would wag its tail vigorously.
“Hey, cook me dinner!”
“…”
Eunhyeon, who was silent for a moment and thought about the meaning of Erin’s words, glanced in Illyana’s direction.
His eyes narrowed as he looked at the heaps of energy bar wrappers left on the floor without being cleaned.
“Illyana, you can’t do it again.”
Since she was not confident, it didn’t take long for her to notice that Illyana, who was also jaded, had eaten her three meals a day with it.
“…”
Illyana naturally avoided Eunhyun’s gaze and turned her head away.
