Chapter 780 – 780. Wizard’s Tower (1)
“… Hmm. Huh!?”
Cha Hanseong, who had tossed and turned his body, stood up in amazement as soon as he gradually awakened his consciousness.
He felt pain in his muscles and bones all over his body, but when he felt the cool breeze blowing, he realized that this was not the usual place to sleep.
Raising his upper body and looking around him with a dumbfounded expression, Cha Han-seong realized that the place he was lying on was a cot in a tent.
And belatedly, he remembered why he was sleeping here.
“Okay. Yesterday, I…”
A fierce battle between a doll girl named Emilia and the Dominus doll troop commanded by the girl ensued, and she passed out at the end of the skirmish.
[Woke up.]
“… Durandal.”
Durandal, who was asleep inside Cha Han-seong, spoke to Cha Han-seong, who had awakened him.
[He is in good health. They said it was a mild concussion. Most of them were just bruises, so they said that they would recover naturally without using potions.]
“How did I fall?”
The aspect of the engagement was quite fierce, and Cha Han-seong remembered it until the middle.
He remembered how he took out his holy sword and struck Emilia’s arm with a decisive blow, and how he used that moment as a stepping stone to solidify his victory.
The problem is that I can’t remember anything else.
He couldn’t remember exactly how, in what manner and with what flow he had come to defeat.
[The doll deceived you by showing an opening, and hit your head, which was caught beautifully.]
“…”
[She thought she had a chance to win by breaking the doll’s arm, but she was too impatient. The doll rather broke and opened her left side, which made it impossible to guard.]
After hearing Durandal’s explanation, Cha Han-seong’s memories of that time came to mind little by little.
It is as described
Cha Hanseong broke Emilia’s left arm with the destructive power of the holy sword, and swung Durandal to inflict additional blows on her left side.
I was sure that if that extra shot went in, the victory would be Cha Han-sung himself.
[But the eyes were so focused on the left side, I couldn’t be wary of the other side.]
And it was faster for Emilia’s kick to hit the temple on the opposite side of Cha Han-seong, which had dug in to cut the doll’s side.
[With a really narrow gap, the doll’s attack was eaten first, and you fell unconscious.]
“That… I did. Under…”
Cha Hanseong laid down again on the cot with a dejected expression on his face.
He deliberately showed gaps, induced attacks, and showed impatience by showing victories.
It was a complete defeat that was pushed back even in psychological warfare.
“No. In the first place… Doesn’t it make sense for dolls to fight so much?”
Now that I think about it, it was really absurd to think that a doll that was not a person was fighting a battle using such advanced psychological warfare and strategy.
[A defeat is a defeat. I said it before, but I was too impatient.]
“…”
[Even if you deal fatal damage to your opponent, it doesn’t lead to victory. The option of driving an additional tarot wedge in itself was not bad, but if it narrows the field of view and rather leads to the result of showing the other person a gap, it would be an obvious mistake.]
It was an analysis close to the theory.
Now that I think about it, the defeat was obvious, but it wasn’t easy to accept it.
“Honestly, at that time, I really thought I had an intuition for victory…”
[It’s because of the difference in experience, so it can’t be helped. From an objective point of view, the defeat is obvious, but at that time I also did not think that your judgment was wrong.]
Durandal realized Cha Hansung’s defeat right after he was hit with a straight counter by Emilia and collapsed.
It was such a blink of an eye.
“Under… Shit… Next time, it will never be so easy.”
Cha Han-seong made a resolution while thinking of the next day, which might or might not have made him feel unfair.
Regret, resentment, and anticipation for the next win were combined.
“Are you awake?”
“Ah.”
Hearing the familiar voice, Cha Han-seong jumped up again from the upper body lying on the cot.
It was Eunhyeon’s voice that tightened the loosened tension again.
After entering the tent, Eun-hyeon smiled and asked Cha Han-seong how he was feeling.
“How are you feeling?”
“Ah yes. It’s okay. Except for the aches and pains in my body…”
“There will be some muscle soreness from the aftermath of yesterday’s training. The head was a light concussion, but there may be aftereffects, so if you feel anything strange, please tell me right away.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
Cha Hanseong felt strange for some reason.
It’s not because of body pain or aftereffects, but because this situation made me feel a strange sense of deja vu.
‘Somehow, it feels like being examined by a military doctor.’
“Cha Han-sung’s record is 1 minute and 13 seconds.”
“A record?”
“It’s time to hold out against Emilia and her army of dolls.”
“… Are you on the high side?”
“Hmm. It’s faster than Hongi. In the first place, there is only one record of Hongi that can be compared.”
“Yes?”
If her Hong is Eun-Hyun’s younger sister, she introduced herself.
Realizing that she was also a warrior accustomed to fighting, Cha Han-seong put on a surprised expression.
Eventually, she felt uncomfortable and asked Eunhyeon.
“I… Are there any records of Eunhyeon-nim or Erin-nim? I heard that Eunhyun-nim subdued all the dolls in less than a minute…”
“Oh, unfortunately, it cannot be compared to Erin’s or mine.”
“Uh, why?”
In response to Cha Han-seong’s careful question, Eun-hyeon answered with a wry smile.
“Me and Erin’s record is ‘the time it took to neutralize the dolls’. Wouldn’t it be a little ambiguous to compare it to ‘the time I endured against dolls’?”
“…”
“Thanks to that, our Hongi is very motivated. She doesn’t have one more competitor and she thinks she’s the most behind, so she grits her teeth and trains with the dummies.”
“Yeah, that’s right…”
“How was it? The battle with dolls I experienced for the first time.”
“It was a very fruitful time. And…”
Cha Hanseong continued with a determined look in his eyes that he would not be treated in vain next time.
“I want to continue.”
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Oh dear!
“Okay. Baby. Not nice.”
Illyana hugged the sadly crying Ilaina and patted her to comfort her.
No matter how many times I tried, parenting for the first time was really tiring.
There are so many reasons why Ilayna cries.
Babies cry for unexplained reasons, such as unchanged diapers, or hunger.
It was really difficult to soothe Elaina, who wakes up every few hours and cries sadly, even after changing her diaper and feeding her.
It wasn’t that hard on her body, but the mental fatigue caused by her lack of proper sleep made Illyana’s heart suffer.
Just in case, she pulled the top of her negligee aside to reveal her breasts and brought it closer to Illana, who happily sucked Illyana’s milk.
“Whoops. Okay. Enjoy your meal.”
Confirming that this time was the correct answer, Illyana laughed.
No matter how difficult and hard she was, she calmed down in an instant and her hard feelings disappeared as soon as she saw the baby at her breast.
So while she was breastfeeding the baby, Eleanor belatedly came into her house.
“I’m here.”
“Come on.”
Illyana immediately entered her room and greeted Eleanor as she announced her own home.
“Oh. Did you wake up because of me?”
“No. I think I just woke up hungry.”
“Okay.”
Eleanor let out a sigh of relief as if half-thankful, and smiled bitterly.
As she was also one of her babysitters with Illyana, she knew that it was not easy to calm a baby down once she started to burst out crying.
In particular, babies are very sensitive to changes in the atmosphere outside of her.
If the baby had woken up by her own appearance, Eleanor might have put on a very apologetic expression.
“Mrs. Iliana.”
“Huh.”
“I have a letter addressed to Illyana-sama.”
“Letter?”
Illyana tilted her head.
She’s not particularly proud, but her relationship with Illyana wasn’t that wide.
Her close friendships are almost non-existent except for the other heroes who worked together on her team.
However, in the case of these people, there is no need to send a letter because they communicate directly through a crystal ball for communication.
And now, in this dungeon house, she spent her days making love with her husband while studying magic alone, and now that she was absorbed in raising a baby, the fruit of that love, she could afford to form a new human relationship with someone. There was no
“Who? Maybe the Mervis Magic Library?”
Illyana immediately remembered Mervis, whom she had previously served as the head of the library.
Right now, Illyana didn’t have much contact with her except for her crystal ball for communication.
If she dared to deliver something, there were occasional cases where her Illyana’s letter would be sent to her other wife Eleanor’s ducal residence.
The letter from the current Librarian, Mervis, was such a case.
It was such a trivial letter, conveying urgent matters to her predecessor.
“No. That is…”
Strangely, Eleanor’s reaction was somewhat strange.
It’s as if she’s been given completely unexpected news, and she’s thinking about how to deliver it.
“This is a letter from Illyana from the Mage Tower.”
“Ah.”
Illyana looked slightly surprised.
She never thought that the Mage Tower would contact her and come.
“Hmm.”
He briefly thought about it, but he could only remember one person in the Mage Tower who could contact him.
“It must have been a call from someone you’re happy with.”
“Hmm? Why do you think so?”
“Yeah, you’re laughing right now.”
“I? Did you laugh?”
“Whoops, yes.”
Illyana is strangely clumsy when it comes to dealing with people.
As much as the likes and dislikes of those who like and dislike are extremely divided, it is easily revealed in their faces and attitudes.
That’s why Eleanor gave her Illyana the idea that the person in her Mage’s Tower was a person who was quite sympathetic to her.
Illyana laughed as if she was dumbfounded, but she didn’t deny Eleanor’s thoughts.
She is close to the correct answer if you have to ask.
“What… After all, you are a teacher.”
“A master?”
“When I was young, you were my teacher who taught me magic.”
“Ah.”
This time, Eleanor instead gave a surprised expression.
“What are you so surprised about?”
“Oh, no. I was very surprised… Even Illyana… You have a teacher.”
“Whoa, I thought I knew how to use all my magic from the beginning.”
“Yes. I just knew that.”
As if she really thought so, Eleanor answered without hesitation.
She told Illyana that she was the teacher who taught magic, so she couldn’t imagine it well.
The master who created the high-ranking magician named Eight Digits.
What kind of person is he really?
“Haven’t Eleanor ever been to the Mage’s Tower?”
“Yes.”
In fact, except for the Duchy or Pernine, Eleanor had hardly ever been to a foreign country.
Since she married Eun-hyeon, she has visited the forest of elves through what is called a honeymoon, but before her marriage, she has very little such experience.
If it was her experience that she only had once, she was able to use her divine power for the first time and she went to the Holy Kingdom of Erenia, where the main school of Vesta’s temple was located, to be baptized.
“In the first place, the place called the Magic Tower… It’s also not a place you can easily enter just because you’re a priest.”
“That’s right.”
Illyana leaned back against the head of her bed and stared blankly up at her ceiling.
Eleanor calmly waited until Illyana woke up from that thought.
“The contents of the letter. Would you mind reading to me?”
Eleanor hesitated for a moment at Illyana’s request, which was because she was in the midst of her breastfeeding while holding her tight.
“Are you okay? It could be a personal letter…”
“Are you okay.”
“Yes. If so…”
Eleanor quietly muttered the contents of the letter sent to Illyana from her magic tower.
