Chapter 804 – 804. Calamity Assault (1)
“It’s done. Thank you.”
The adventurer’s guild’s office in the Mage Tower.
The receptionist woman bowed her head.
Erin, who was sitting across from her, confirmed the completion of her request and immediately accepted the reward the receptionist offered.
“Take care.”
Erin gave her a light nod and immediately left her office.
I glanced around the lobby on the first floor, where many adventurers and receptionists were talking, checking the atmosphere.
It was quieter than expected.
The atmosphere is quite different from the adventurer’s guild in the capital, Fernine, or Armitas Duchy branch.
A conversation between an adventurer and a receptionist who are arguing about the reward of a request.
The noisy sound of adventurers drinking from the tavern inside to soothe the hard work of the day.
Such turmoil did not exist in the Adventurer’s Guild of the Mage Tower branch.
“There really aren’t many people.”
Rather, there was no place that could be called a tavern in the Mage Tower Branch Adventurer’s Guild itself.
There were only guild employees who were doing clerical work.
Adventurers really only came here to solve business and did nothing other than that.
If you think about it, the atmosphere of the city itself, where this mage tower is located, is very quiet and calm.
The reason was that the relationship between the wizards of the Mage Tower and the adventurers was not very good.
Although they are between employees and employers, the wizards of the Mage Tower believe in their status and position and think of themselves as superior, and they only think of adventurers as runners who can do anything for money.
There’s no way the adventurers didn’t like the attitude of the wizards who openly ignored them.
However, the reason they couldn’t refuse the request from the wizards of the Mage Tower was because the amount of the reward offered by the adventurer’s guild in the Mage Tower branch was much higher than the reward offered by the adventurer’s guild in other branches.
Even though he hated the wizards of the Mage Tower, it was unavoidable because the adventurers were the top employers who gave a lot of money.
Isn’t it really useless at some point to be an emotional goal that can be healed with capital?
“I don’t care what it is.”
Erin was not particularly in need of money, so she was not particularly impressed.
The reason why he came to the adventurer’s guild of the Mage Tower branch and was active was to obtain materials for magic reagents to restore Eun-hyeon’s body to its original state.
Now that the purpose was over, it was just a trivial pocket money.
The difficulty of the quest itself was very easy.
Most of them were requests to obtain valuable magical materials that could not be obtained from ordinary merchants, or escorts of high-ranking wizards.
Among them, Erin’s favorite was her request to procure her precious magic materials.
In Erin’s case, the distance constraint was not a problem at all because she could use the gate, and since she could complete the quest simply and quickly, the income was quite good.
Of course, the biggest reason was that she hated being escorted by wizards even more than that.
“Ugh. I don’t even want to think about it again.”
Erin frowned at her, as if her feelings were hurt.
Being her first wizard escort wasn’t a very good experience for Erin.
She was on a mission to escort a magician belonging to the enemy tower to her parents’ house, and the deadline was about a week, but the wizard’s gaze was unusual for her.
Erin, who read his emotions, as well as the sticky gaze that scanned his body up and down, could not help but frown immediately.
Her biggest spectacle was the condition that she and her wagon would travel for a week and only use one tent in which to camp.
Men and women spend the night in the same tent?
It was clear what he intended.
Erin, who was upset with her, refused the request of the Red Tower Wizard who had come to her.
What happened after that was very simple.
The Red Tower Wizard is a low-ranking magician who is treated as a low-end even inside the Red Tower.
The wizard, who did not know Erin’s identity, was indignant and protested to the Adventurer’s Guild, but after learning that she was Erin’s identity and the favored wife of Illyana and Eunhyeon, she had to get down on her knees and pray until her palms were worn out.
However, even though Erin didn’t take any action, the mage who damaged the honor of her enemy’s tower met the funny ending of her being expelled from the tower.
“Eh. I want to see Hyun…”
Erin let out a small sigh and recalled Eunhyun’s face.
Now that she had all the materials and components she needed, and her metamorphosis had begun, there was nothing Erin could do for her.
I just waited for Eunhyun to wake up.
“I wanted to play with the younger Hyun more…”
When she heard that she was going back to her adult form, she showed a regretful look inside.
But she also knew that realistically she couldn’t stay that way forever, so she couldn’t use her swarm anymore.
Instead, when she got up, she would pamper her to be petted as much as before, and she consoled herself.
“Um… Shall we eat first?”
It was okay for her to go home and eat, but right now, both Illyana and Elenoa must be busy helping Eunhyeon metamorphosis in the basement workshop.
She didn’t want to bother her by going up to herself.
If I had to pick one thing that I regretted, it would be the trivial point of having to pay for food that tasted worse than Lily’s cooking.
“Well, is there anything special? In the past, she really couldn’t have dreamed of it.”
Erin laughed at herself at the thought of how her taste had become so luxurious.
In the past, it was normal to eat three meals a day with the same menu every day, with hard bread and plain soup.
Because that was the life of a commoner and it was natural.
However, if it becomes a daily routine to eat colorful, luxurious, and delicious dishes, it will become a matter of course.
Erin smiled bitterly as she walked along the city streets of the Mage Tower.
She tried to find a stall for a quick snack, but there was not even a single stall to be seen on the streets of this city.
All I could see were luxurious looking restaurants.
“Oh, I don’t know. First, we need to fill our stomachs.”
Erin said she went inside the nearest restaurant in moderation.
She felt the calm and quiet atmosphere of the restaurant as she looked around the interior.
“Welcome. Are you alone?”
Immediately, an employee came up to Erin and spoke to her.
“Yes. What?”
She nodded her head lightly and looked around her dining room, staring at one of the tables where Erin was eating her meal.
“Nera?”
“Hmm?”
Nera, hearing her own voice, stopped her spoon and turned her head in the direction of her entrance, where her voice was heard.
She was eating lunch by herself when she noticed her Erin and gave her a bewildered look.
“You…”
“Are you eating alone?”
“Yes.”
Erin tilted her head.
It was strange that she, one of the elders of the Mage Tower, was eating here alone.
It was very surprising that she, who could enjoy top-notch cuisine to her heart’s content even inside the Mage’s Tower, dared to go out and eat alone.
“Why? Do you find it strange that I am eating alone here?”
“Yes? Oh no. Just…”
“Whoops.”
Nera laughed.
But was it an illusion that I felt a gloomy feeling in that smile?
“Sit down, if it is all right.”
“… Yes.”
Erin hesitated for a moment, but she refused, so she accepted Nera’s offer to sit with her.
As soon as I sat down across from her, Nera opened her mouth.
“Actually, it is. The original owner was there.”
“Yes? Ah… Who are you?”
“The man I was supposed to meet today.”
“…”
“Whoop, whoop. Whoop whoop.”
Facing Nera, who let out her grim laugh, Erin twitched her shoulders in surprise.
“I was supposed to see it here today, but I was suddenly hit by the wind. What is it?”
“Oh that… Okay…”
“Whoops. Dare… How dare you hit me?”
The corners of her mouth were raised in a smile, but in fact her eyes were so ferocious that if the scoundrel were in front of her, she would throw a harpoon.
As if her Nera was expressing her feelings, Erin sensed that her magical energy was flowing from her, and Erin felt exactly how angry her Nera was.
It was a great shock to Nera that he cheated on himself, one of the three elders, the most powerful in her tower.
Not to mention her ignorance of suddenly breaking her promise that she had made in advance for no reason, and the fact that she suffered it herself seems to have hurt her pride quite a bit.
Erin was at a loss as she didn’t know what to say.
After looking around her to find something to change the subject of, the waiter brought the menu at just the right time.
“Hey, what’s delicious here!?”
Erin hurriedly glanced over the menu and changed the topic.
“Well? I’ve been here for the first time too. In the first place, I only lived inside the Magic Tower and never went outside.”
“Yeah, that’s right…”
“The reservation for this store was also made by the other person. But did you hit the wind without warning? Whoops.”
It was a big deal.
The question that tried to change the topic was rather a matchstick that gave birth to a bigger fire.
Erin frowned at the contents of the menu board as she hurriedly rolled her eyes to and fro to find another subject.
“… Expensive.”
She wasn’t particularly trying to save money, but she was, and she wasn’t the type to waste, so this price was too luxurious for Erin.
“I’ll buy you anything.”
“Yes? But I’m so sorry for that…”
It’s not that she doesn’t have money, so why should she get it from Nera?
It wasn’t that shameless.
“Instead, that person named Eunhyun. Could you introduce me too?”
“No. It will never happen.”
Erin replied promptly with a straight face.
Erin, who had been perplexed and in a cold sweat until just now, seemed to be asking what this meant, and Nera laughed.
“Why? There would be no woman like me.”
Why is it that there is no one, there is Illyana-sama, Eleanor-sama, and Lilina herself.
And will Belldandi, who always guards and watches over Eun-hyeon, accept Nera?
Absolutely no way.
“Because Hyuni has me and Illyana-sama.”
“What will change if I add one more person there?”
“Yes. Absolutely not.”
Erin was adamant about this part.
“I am really sorry. He’s a good man… It’s really amazing how Iliana Gogull caught such a man.”
Although not a wizard, he has expert knowledge of magic, alchemy, and pharmacy, and knows how to use them.
And he is above all handsome.
Seeing how she took care of her wife, Illyana, she somehow felt envious.
She once worked together in the Mage Tower, and since she possesses the same witch traits, her feelings are even more special.
It’s like, ‘But I’ll get married sooner than him.’ She thought about how she felt when her friend announced the news of her marriage.
It was a very complex and subtle feeling.
“It was just a complaint I made. Rest assured, I really have no intention of trying to seduce your husband.”
“… I know that.”
Because Erin read Nera’s feelings, she seemed to be aiming for Eun-hyeon, but she knew at least that the way she spoke wasn’t sincere.
It just couldn’t have felt that good.
“As an apology, I will buy it for you today. Do you feel free to do it?”
“… Thank you then… Excuse me.”
Erin let out a small sigh and appropriately chose the cheapest item on her menu.
“Give me this and this…”
That moment when I told the clerk my order.
Erin’s head jerked reflexively.
“Why?”
“…”
Seeing Erin looking up at her with her strangely hardened expression, Nera gave her puzzled look.
As if tightening her stiff body and the loosened tension, her sharp eyes were directed to the empty ceiling of the building.
No. What Erin was looking at was not the ceiling of the building.
Beyond the ceiling and the roof.
Erin sensed something in her beyond.
At first, something indescribable reluctance.
And that reluctance gradually increased in size like a cloud, and by the time I figured out what it was, it was already too late.
“… ! Nera! Something out of town… !”
But by the time Erin sensed it and hurriedly called Nera, it was too late.
Wow!
A wild storm of magical power hit the barrier of the Mage Tower City.
