The Hero Party Couldn’t Kill Me

Chapter 2: The Mistakes of the Hero Party (7)

The Magic Tower is a group of mages who usually sever ties with the world and concentrate solely on research.

That’s why it is located in a very unpopulated area even in the empire’s capital, Solaum.

Unfortunately, because of the festival held to commemorate the death of the demon king, today I couldn’t find anyone passing by around the magic tower even after washing my eyes.

However, a cat with red fur, a bird with brilliant blue feathers, and a cat with golden fur continued to stare at the entrance of the mage tower from their positions.

– Did you come to fight Blanc Magic Tower too?

– Yes, the church requested it, so I accepted it. Well, I wanted to take this opportunity to hit the Blanc Magic Tower.

– I also received a request from the church.

They were talking to each other via telepathy.

Godfrey of Rogue Magic Tower.

Rachel of the Blue Mage Tower.

Alex of the Jun Magic Tower.

All of them are promising prospects in the current Mage Tower, and they came after receiving a request from Etoile to check if Edmund is in the Blanc Mage Tower.

– If only the Noir Tower gathers here, all the wizards of the 5 Great Towers will gather.

Godfrey, now in the form of a cat, looked around and said.

– You can’t make a request to a church that studies black magic.

– Well, that’s rather good. It’s an opportunity for us.

– Everyone, stop chatting and focus. When is Marion coming?

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Alex growled. With his detection magic, there was no Marion in Blanc’s Tower.

– Is your detection magic reliable?

– Are you suspicious of me now?

– Shh! Quiet everyone! Marion is coming.

At the moment when they were about to start a war of nerves, Rachel, who was looking at the situation after flying high, said.

As she said, Marion could be seen in Godfrey’s and Alex’s eyes.

Godfrey sneaked between the buildings, and Alex just curled up and pretended to sleep.

To my surprise, Marion passed them by unsuspecting.

– Everyone, when I call out three, they attack Marion.

Godfrey spoke telepathically, and Rachel and Alex followed suit this time without a word.

Without knowing anything, Marion disarmed her barrier at the entrance of the mage tower.

– One, two….

Godfrey waits for Marion to open the door.

But at that moment. Marion’s shadow twitched loudly….

Daat.

In the blink of an eye, a short dark-haired woman appeared from the shadow.

“Uh… ?”

And before Marion could even look back, the woman pushed Marion and went into the tower.

“Damn it!”

Belatedly, the rest of the wizards headed for the entrance of the Mage Tower at full speed.

Before the barrier closed, Godfrey and Rachel succeeded in entering the Mage Tower with a narrow gap, but Alex, who was delayed in starting, was eventually blocked by the barrier.

“Hey, Blanc Magic Tower is out of luck. To think that a human called the owner of the Magic Tower wouldn’t even notice what he was doing.”

When I entered the magic tower, a black-haired woman was bruising Marion. She smiled as she turned her head to see the wizards who had come in after her.

“Look. Now even the thief cat passing by enters the mage tower and throws it away. The state of the mage tower is very sh*tty.”

“Did you also receive a request from the church?”

Godfrey asked as he returned to his human form.

A woman with an exotic appearance that resembles Edmund, a foreigner.

At first glance, she looks young enough to look like a teenage girl, but in reality, she was Mina, a wizard who held a fairly high position in the noir magic tower.

“Oh, about Ed? Well? What do you think?”

Mina smiles and avoids answering. Before Godfrey could answer, Marion interrupted them.

“Eh, why the hell did everyone come here?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know? We have come to find Edmund’s whereabouts.”

“Eh, Edmund is not here! So please get out. Otherwise… Wow!!”

Godfrey quickly subdued Marion by casting a bondage spell.

Marion fell to her knees after not being able to use magic once.

Rachel then turned into her human and handed her her white orb.

“This, this… ….”

“It won’t take long. Of course, if you answer quickly.”

“Ji, what are you guys doing? I’m B, from the Blanc Magic Tower… Wow!”

“First question. Did Edmund come to Blanc Magic Tower?”

“Oh, I didn’t come!”

“You haven’t caught the Orb of Truth yet. Again.”

Rachel forced her Sphere of Truth into Marion’s hand and asked again.

“You didn’t come? Please stop.”

“… It’s true. Then the second question. Have you ever contacted Edmund?”

“No! So please….”

“The third question. Where did the demon king’s body go?”

“I-I don’t have it! Please stop now…….”

Marion finally starts to shed tears. Her truth orb remained consistently white.

“What happened? How was it?”

Belatedly, Alex entered the Mage Tower with Godfrey’s help and asked. Rachel looked up at him and said.

“I don’t think it has anything to do with Edmund. They say there is no body of the Demon King.”

“Are you sure you asked the right question? I’ll try it! How did you sell the Demon King’s corpse?”

“You should use your phrase of truth, fool.”

“Then you asked!”

“Ahhhhh!!”

The sound of Marion’s plaintive cry made Rachel and Alex stop arguing and look at her.

She was crying, dripping her tears and runny nose, to the extent that I doubted if that was the true title of a mage tower.

All the wizards who saw it were speechless.

“There is nothing more to see.”

Godfrey looked at Marion pathetically for a moment, then confirmed the message from his magic tower with the crystal ball.

“What do you mean by that?”

“I have found the supposed location of Edmund. And they say that the body of the demon king was confiscated by the princess and already burned.”

“Then did we just go in vain?”

“Not necessarily.”

Alex licked his lips while looking at the magic books tightly packed on the bookshelf.

The Blanc Magic Tower, which has always produced the best research results since the empire was founded. I hate to admit it, but there was a huge gap between the Blanc magic tower and the other magic towers.

Even if you take just a few of the magic books piled up in the Blanc Magic Tower, their value will be considerable.

Just as Alex was about to touch the magic book, Mina, who had been watching the situation quietly, stepped out.

“Don’t think of stealing cowardly.

“You are laughing. After all, didn’t you come here because you coveted the magic of Blanc’s tower? What is it?”

Alex tried to get his hands on the magic book again, ignoring Mina.

That moment.

Sharreuk.

A shadowy soldier appeared from behind Alex’s back and grabbed him.

“What, what?”

f*ck!

A shadow soldier who knocked Alex out by punching him in the back of the neck before he could react properly. And he dragged Alex out of the mage tower.

Godfrey and Rachel hesitated at the sight and stepped back. But before long, a shadow soldier appeared behind them.

“Why are you helping that nerd?”

“… Just.”

At Godfrey’s question, Mina smiled slightly. As she gestured lightly, the shadow soldier dragged Rachel out of the mage tower.

“Where!”

Godfrey tried to resist by destroying the shadow soldiers with flame magic.

But when Mina summoned more shadow soldiers, she couldn’t hold on for long and her arms were grabbed and she was kicked out of her mage tower.

After kicking out all the intruders like that, Mina secretly looked at Marion.

Before she knew it, she stopped crying.

“Thank you.”

“Whoa, what do you want?”

“I’ve seen it, but in the future, other magic towers will try to invade Blanc’s magic tower. Today, I was just sending the losers, but next time I will send even more kids.”

“… ….”

“But you’re not as good as the wizards in the academy. No fight at all.”

“So you want to protect me?”

“Uh, let me freely look at the spellbook in this mage tower instead. I don’t even want everything, I’ll be satisfied with 5 or 6 books. That doesn’t sound like such a bad deal.”

Mina smiles leisurely and extends her hand. Marion looked at her Mina for a moment, then opened her mouth.

“Well, I don’t think that is necessary.”

“Are you going to fight the rest of the Mage Tower by yourself?”

“Ho, I am not alone.”

Thump!!

As soon as she finished her words, the stone statue that had been standing still on her wall arrived right in front of Mina’s nose.

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Mina smiled after confirming that appearance.

“Looks like you inherited the authority of the Tower Master somehow?”

“Please go back too, Mina.”

“Let’s ask one thing before we go. How is a half-penny like you going to save Blanc Magic Tower?”

“I… We will keep the tradition.”

Mina manages to hold back her laughter at Marion’s answer.

“Then, see you next time.”

And Mina disappeared in an instant, just as she appeared in the beginning.

***

“I think it will be possible if I just say the conclusion. But there are some problems.”

When the sun goes down. Finally, Raphaella came back to me with a new magic circle.

“Tell me.”

“First of all, I still haven’t figured out the ingredients needed for copy magic. Precisely, it failed to determine the ratio.”

Did she use the ingredients then Peshi Ma? No matter how much I think about it, it doesn’t seem like she summoned something else. However, she could have written it right away from the space.

“Still, this doesn’t seem to be a big problem as long as the ingredients aren’t in short supply, as there is analysis magic in the magic formula drawn on the magic circle. I already prepared all the ingredients.”

“Wait a minute, what material?”

“Ingredients from which human flesh, blood, and bones can be made.”

“… ….”

“Oh, don’t worry. It’s not like using dead people’s bones or anything like that.”

Rafaela took out her ingredients from the space and showed them. Somehow, it contained the powder and liquid you would find in a science lab, but there were no shady ingredients anyway.

“The problem comes next. It takes a lot of mana to activate this magic circle. Maybe, even the mana I have is not enough.”

“That much?”

“Yes. Some of the mana consumption of this magic itself is high, but I also have a very low proficiency, so the expected mana amount is higher. That’s why I may have to use Edmund’s mana as well. Would it be okay?”

“Of course it doesn’t matter.”

“That… It is because of the next problem.”

Raphaella can’t get her words out easily this time. I waited patiently for her to open her mouth.

“… Since I didn’t fully understand the principles of this magic circle, the success rate isn’t very high. And, there may be several side effects.”

“What side effects are you talking about?”

“The length of the new arm may be different, or the length or number of fingers may be awkward. It may break more easily than the previous arm. Still, it’s okay if you treat it somehow after that.

The problem is, while the magic circle is being activated, the shock mitigation magic may not work properly.”

In other words, there may be no anesthesia.

“How much does it hurt?”

“It’s hard to explain exactly, but it hurts beyond imagination. To the point where you could really faint.”

“… ….”

I realize it all over again. What a great wizard Pesima was.

Of course, even Raphael, who can analyze a magic circle he has never seen before and can do this much, isn’t an average bet.

“… What are you going to do?”

Rafaela carefully asked me, observing my reaction. I looked at her left arm for a moment.

The left arm turned dark green. I couldn’t feel any more sensation, and the poison that had consumed my entire left arm seemed like it would spread all over my body at any moment.

The worry was not long.

“Rafaela.”

“Yes?”

“I will trust you.”

I smiled softly. I hoped that this would not burden her, but fortunately the expression on her face seemed to strengthen her resolve rather than collapse under her pressure.

“Yes, then follow me.”

Rafaela helped me stand up.

And I, after coming here, was able to leave the room for the first time.