Chapter 222 – Gaut
Honestly, it’s been quite a while since I’ve had an argument like this.
My reputation was very high in the royal capital, and I didn’t want to fight in the first place because I was afraid of the law.
However, the nuance of those gangsters was almost ‘Hey~ Brother~ The atmosphere is nice~’, so much so that I even felt nostalgia.
“Die!!”
“Uh huh.”
I suppressed and twisted the arm of the demon that was right in front of me with one hand.
“Apap! Apap!”
Then the demon writhed its body while letting out a pitiful scream.
I used him as a shield to prevent other guys from easily attacking me.
“Ugh! Cowardly!”
“Isn’t it cowardly for multiple people to attack one person?”
“That’s what you told me to do!”
Wow, you don’t want to lose even one word.
I threw the horned demon that was in my hand towards his companions.
Then, three or four of the guys in front are hit by the horns and fall like dominoes.
“You bastard!”
Seeing that, other bully demons rushed at me with bottles of alcohol, but I used the Jangbaekken technique I learned from my teacher and naturally let them go.
The teacher, who was impressed by the sight, said with interest.
“It looks like you haven’t neglected your training.”
“I learned something while being beaten, so how can I forget it?”
When dealing with scoundrels like this, using magic is a luxury.
I neutralized their attack with the trick of coming first, and gave the demon that attacked me the experience of free-falling on the back of my head by walking on my feet.
Uddangtangtang!
Five demon gangsters who were quickly subdued.
When it appears that the decision has been made, the spectators around start whistling and clapping.
“Awesome!”
“Heh-“
It was the moment when I puffed out my chest with confidence and tried to look back.
“Don’t move!”
One of the demon gangsters, who I thought had fallen to the ground, held one of the group hostage and shouted that.
“…”
As I stared at him, the demon boy brandished the knife in his hand and said.
“If you move even one step from there, this little boy’s life will be over!”
It’s this pattern until the end.
I sighed softly and lifted my right foot significantly.
“Don’t move?!”
Then the demon gangster shouts with a puzzled expression.
But I paid no heed to his words and stepped forward with my raised right foot.
Thump-
“They say if you move it’s over? Why aren’t you doing anything?”
“Profit!”
It was a moment when the guy, who was very intoxicated, was trying to apply strength to the knife in his hand.
“Who are you talking about, a skinny little boy like a scarecrow!!!!”
Dorothea, who had been taken hostage by the guy, got angry and kicked him in the groin with all her might.
Bye!
“Big!”
A demon sweeps away with foam at the mouth, accompanied by the sound of something breaking.
However, the sight of Dorothea, who was still stomping on the guy’s head with her shoe, seemed like an evil spirit itself.
‘Stupid guy, that’s why he took Dorothea hostage.’
Of course, unlike the other party members who were adults, Dorothea, who was small and alone, would have looked the most formidable.
Dorothea dusts off her clothes with a very irritated face.
One of the demons who was staring blankly at Dorothea shouted with a surprised expression.
“Now, wait a minute! I’ve seen that person before!”
“That person?”
Other demons look at the sudden title with curious expressions.
The person who suddenly spoke was probably a retired soldier, or a demon with scars all over his body.
“I am Dorothea, the former Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King Army and the witch known as the Walking Disaster!”
Then the demons started to murmur.
“Well, now that I think about it, I’ve heard that if you see blood-red hair, you should run away at all costs.”
“I heard you have an extremely hysterical personality?”
“The identity of that terrifying fire witch is like that.”
Little boy
“I don’t know what to do.”
“Who’s the kid!!”
When Dorothea growled in response to the last words, the onlookers fell silent with stinging expressions.
Thanks to Dorothea’s identity being unintentionally revealed, the hostile atmosphere towards us was relieved.
In particular, the five gangsters crawling on the floor were gaping with pale expressions.
You could even give it a title like, ‘The guys who accidentally started a fight in a bar are actually colleagues of the former Four Heavenly Kings?!’
While shaking my palms and looking around, I asked the innkeeper standing at the counter.
“What should I do with these guys?”
Then the innkeeper answered in a cold sweat.
“Just throw it outside… No, that’s okay.”
Indeed, it’s simple and good.
When I snapped my fingers, the gangsters floated up from the floor, took their turns, and were kicked out of the bar.
After confirming that the situation was somewhat resolved, I said I would change my clothes for a moment and then went up to the second floor.
***
I roughly wiped the beer off my head with a towel, changed into new clothes, and came back down to the first floor.
Unlike before, when there was a lively atmosphere, the inn has become as quiet as ever.
Of course, the main cause of this depressed mood was Dorothea, whose identity was revealed.
“I don’t think everyone knows whether they’re drinking with their mouth or their nose because they’re watching you.”
“Do you understand? It’s the fault of those who started the fight first.”
You are right.
When there was a fight with the neighborhood gangsters earlier, the guys who were all tacos and took the lead, now look at us and stand in disbelief, and I am once again reminded of the fact that demons are weak to the strong.
I asked, warming up a slightly cold steak with magic.
“More than that, Glinda, can I ask you one thing?”
“What?”
“What on earth does ‘Gaut’ mean in what the elf named Akkad, who was the leader of Septeptrion, said?”
From what I remember, he clearly said that I was the Gaut of this unit.
And Glinda, who was asked this question, said, “Oh, about that,” And looked around.
It seems like a bad story to tell in a place where other people are present.
And when the teacher saw this gesture, he snapped his fingers and created a barrier of wind.
“You won’t hear what we’re talking about at any other table.”
“Thank you.”
Glinda slightly lowered her head as she said that and then explained in a quiet voice.
“In the language of the elves, Gaut means ‘wise man.’ If we were to replace it with a word commonly used by humans, it would be a wise man.”
“Sage?”
I naturally thought of an old colleague with blue hair who was working at the Demon King’s Castle.
However, the wise man that Glinda talks about is probably not a wise man in the dictionary sense.
And whether this prediction was correct, Glinda added a backstory.
“Generally, the word wise means a person with a lot of knowledge, but the wise man that the elves call Gaut is a little different from that. ‘Mimir’ was the first elf created by the Goddess of Wisdom, and those who were chosen by the Goddess of Wisdom were called Gaut. It’s there.”
“Mimir…”
It’s a name I’ve heard before.
The first high elf and the creator of hierarchical magic classified into a total of 10 levels.
The strongest mage that existed before Glinda.
Sophia, who was quietly listening to the story next to her, asked a question.
“Does that mean that the master is a being chosen by the Goddess of Wisdom, like a warrior chosen by the Goddess of Courage or a demon king chosen by the Goddess of Power?”
“Yes. In summary, that would be it.”
“…”
To be honest, I felt a little dazed.
It turns out that I am also a special being chosen by God.
“Can you tell me more about that Gaut thing?”
It must have been quite an interesting story, so Glinda nodded as the Master spoke while resting his chin.
“Yes, I will. As a former Gaut, you are fully qualified to hear this story.”
“… I’m Gaut too?”
“Yes. Gaut is born in one generation cycle. Unlike the Hero or Demon King, who must die when the entire generation is killed to create a new person, Gaut is continuously reborn as long as this condition is met.”
“The more I listen, the more I don’t understand. What are the characteristics of a being called Gaut?”
Then Glynda trailed off his words with a hmm.
“I think the story will be long if I explain it, is that okay?”
“Anyway, all I have left is time. It might be better because an interesting story came out while I was bored.”
Master said this and looked around at his companions.
Of course, no one said they didn’t want to hear it.
Just like the teacher said, it was an fascinating story.
After obtaining the consent of the companions, Glinda nodded her head and opened her mouth.
“This story goes back 3,000 years to the birth of Mimir, the first elf.”
***
You probably all know that there were three goddesses in the beginning.
However, according to the records of the elves, the first to come to this land was the Goddess of Wisdom.
The Goddess of Wisdom planted her own alter ego, the World Tree, on this earth and created her first elf, Mimir, in her own image.
Mimir, the guardian of the World Tree, was blessed with wisdom and knew everything in the world.
He was given the role of guarding the fountain of wisdom and delivering ‘civilization’ to the creatures living on this earth.
Afterward, the elves who inherited Mimir’s wisdom came to be called ‘high elves’ to distinguish them from ordinary elves.
This is because Gaut, who was blessed by the Goddess of Wisdom, only appeared in Mimir’s lineage.
This law has existed for a very long time, but it was first broken 500 years ago.
That’s because all high elves’ bloodlines except mine have been cut off.
In other words, the trait called ‘Gaut’, which was only expressed in the Elven royal family, can no longer be inherited.
The next generation after me, the last Gaut, so to speak, the 7th Gaut, emerged from the Dwarves, a race that can be said to be distant relatives of the Elves.
It was a dwarf called ‘Nakamura’. I met him in the past, and it turned out that he was a special entity, a reincarnation of a soul from another world. He had a lot of knowledge that did not exist in this world, and based on his knowledge, he advanced the technological capabilities of the dwarves, who were behind those of the elves, by several generations.
Gaut, who was born next, was human. Because the existing hierarchical magic system was created based on elves, it had many inconveniences for humans to use. The 8th Gaut, a man named Jegalhyuk, reorganized it by dividing it into ancient magic and modern hierarchical magic. Since then, all of Zhuge Hyuk’s descendants have been called wise men.
And the 9th Gaut is your teacher, Esmeralda. With her overwhelming talent, she developed a new magic system called magic and became the first among humans to break through the wall of the 6th rank. Originally, from the 7th level onwards, it was a level only allowed to elves. She, a human, was the first to pierce it.
Lastly, the 10th Gaut, that’s you, Kaldrassh. Like her teacher Esmeralda, she broke through the wall of the 7th plane and created magic using the newly discovered element, ether. Since his talent is extraordinary, he will leave many more achievements in the future.
So, personally, I am looking forward to your future actions.
It seems like your talent doesn’t end here yet.
