The wise man returns

Dark forest path already.

You can't even see your feet, so there's a line of people walking.

Whereas the man in the lead takes a leisurely step, those behind him stagger with a gasp.

Of course, the one who takes a relaxing step is Val. Thanks to various magic, his footsteps were not too relaxed.

"Huff, huff. ”

“You bastard! Slow down a little bit! ”

“We don't have time. Let's move.”

Then Rufus and his group of wallpapers follow him, breathing heavily.

For the first time in Wooded Forest at night, they can't walk as comfortably as Balin.

During the day, the roots of lightly avoided trees became an unexpected obstacle. Darkness was the only place with an open landscape.

Only the look of Balin coming forward is blurry now.

Rufus regretted his choice a few times a week ago, though he couldn't say.

“Oops!”

“Damn it, how much longer? ”

When the wallpaper that was walking behind his back fell on the roots of the tree, Rufus asked in a tired tone.

After glancing back, Balin gave the same answer about 10 minutes ago and then took a step.

“Almost there. ”

“How much longer? How many times have I told you that? ”

Rufus is furious. Instead, Valine smiled and asked the other way around.

“You still have the energy to be angry? ”

“What!? ”

Respect has made Rufus' speech even higher in a single piece of nonsense.

After that, the ten wallpapers followed, exhausted, looked at the two of them.

It was that hard to climb the mountain without a light.

I had to work hard enough or wear magic like Balin.

‘This should be enough. ’

The footsteps of Balin on the mountain path have stopped. As I looked around, I noticed a flat basin I had already seen.

The time has finally come for us to reveal our power deep in the forest that we cannot even find in the chaotic trail.

Rufus, who was barely on the front, stopped walking.

“Are you finally taking a break? Phew. Damn it. Where's his cave? ”

“I'm not resting. This is the destination.”

“... what? Crystal Cave!”

Surprised Rufus and Wallpapers look around, but no cave can be seen from anywhere.

Among the puzzling wallpapers, Rufus realizes the situation and grits his teeth.

“You cheated me! ”

“That's right. You didn't follow me, did you?"

In a calm voice, Rufus' words are blocked. Balin was suddenly half talking to himself.

But he didn't walk here alone. Rufus raises his voice without delay to the wallpapers standing behind him.

"How dare you insult me!? Boys, hit it! “

“Huff, huff. Son of a bitch! Whoa!! ”

“Hiyaaaaaaa!! ”

The wallpapers swoop in with their orders.

Even though they were already exhausted, the rush of close to twenty young men was frightening.

But the face of Balin facing this is nothing but relaxation.

If they were all knights, they would have won no matter how many fights they fought.

This time, the knights didn't come, so things were much easier than I thought. Balin wields her magic toward the approaching wallpapers, keeping her calm.

“H-hmm. ”

Dig. It was a simple one-circle magic with a simple effect of digging the ground.

The magic of the earth ends with just making a hole about a meter long. However, the pits that were created in the darkness had an unexpected effect.

“Woo!! ”

“Kuaak!”

Suddenly, about a meter of holes, wallpapers with their feet in them, fall screaming.

After that, the rushers plunge into one ice bolt at a time.

“Oops!! ”

“Hic!”

The wallpaper that falls from the back of the head or the back of the forehead with a chunk of ice.

Some of the dogs tried to cover themselves with their arms and legs, but there was almost no way in front of the flying ice bolts in real time.

Balin, who was watching the wallpapers fall, was pleased with herself as she grew accustomed to her abilities.

I almost said the starter language at first, but not after that.

I was able to cast my magic where I wanted, even without having to say it.

Now, fundamental achievements are low, so we're only using sub-magic like ice bolts and energy shots.

Enough time has passed to unleash the magic of the High Circle on your mind.

My hands trembled just thinking about how strong I was growing up to be.

“Well, what the hell! What's going on?! ”

Rufus' scream echoes through a brief memory.

Balin opens her eyes and looks at the fallen wallpapers.

Seventeen in total. Seventeen in the first place.

I took care of it so that no one would run away.

All that was left was one Rufus, who had lost his mind.

“Phew.”

With a sigh, Balin narrows her distance to Rufus. Mana gathers in her hand.

Rufus' face turns pale as he looks at the shadow approaching him. You speak in a crooked voice as you step back.

“Ugh, ugh. Help me!”

“Help me? Didn't you just try to kill me? A week ago, he tried to pick up weaknesses and torture them. And now you want me to come and save you? ”

“Ugh, profit! If you kill me here, my father will not leave you and your family alone! ”

Rufus bluffing as if to think of something else.

But Valine asked Rufus backwards.

“Father? You mean the baron of soldiene?"

"Well, yes! My father will lead the knights and punish you! “

When I mentioned the baron and the knights, Rufus' face turned white.

The baron and knights, the father he knew, were invincible men.

All the villagers were stuck in front of their father, and if the monsters appeared, they were strangled before the knights' swords.

But Valine spoke nonchalantly.

“Yeah, maybe your dad can. ”

There, Balin blinks once as she stops speaking. Immediately, a lump of fire appeared next to Balin's head.

It was a class three flame system magic, a fire ball.

“Huff, huff! ”

A sudden, unannounced flame echoes out of Rufus.

“But you're not, are you? Then let's get started. ”

“Poetry, start? What?”

Rufus exclaims in a trembling voice as the ominous approaches.

Balin continues to flick his fingers without speaking instead of answering. Each time, Rufus' body continued to fall down one metre.

Balline flicked her finger five or six times and raised her voice to Rufus downstairs.

“I can't remember how many times I've used it since Dixon kept using it. Have you seen the count? ”

Somehow, Lupurs, the smiling Balin from up there, couldn't stand the fear of that expression.

Apparently a week ago, he was just a little annoyed at the time.

I couldn't figure out how I got that kind of power.

“Chuckle.”

Fear vanishes as soon as a lump of dirt from Balin hits your head.

Rufus opens his mouth with a trembling voice.

“What, what are you going to do? ”

“Isn't it obvious?”

Balin smiles bloody and throws the next chunk of dirt.

“I'll bury you. Here. Alive. ”

As soon as the horse is finished, Rufus' beast-like cry echoes.

But there was no roughness in Balin's hands.

In my past life, I thought only of magic. That's why I was innocent, and I believed others would be.

You hear Rufus' cry from below. The dirt was already coming to his waist.

“Consider yourself dead three years from now. ”

“Uuuhhhh!! No, please! Balin!!"

I scratched the wall to try to live, but I couldn't climb the wall in the first place.

It was when my whole body was buried and I left only my face.

“Huuuhhh... Help me. Spare me and I'll give you something good in return!! ”

“I don't think that's necessary. ”

“Jung, it's really precious! Your father doesn't know, but it's all a gamble! When I picked it up in the mountains...”

“Hmm..? ”

Balin shakes his hand quietly. The fly magic made from your fingertips turns to Rufus.

A shapeless wind lifts Rufus up. After returning from the dead, Rufus sighs and looks at Balin.

“Huff.”

Rufus' face filled with teary nostrils was very dirty because it was covered with dirt.

Moreover, the smell of the lower body is mixed and I can't really open my eyes.

I couldn't help but frown when I tried to make a bold face.

“Ugh... ugh...”

“What did you bring from the mountains? ”

“Uh, uhhhh...”

Rufus groans instead of answering to Balin with a stern question.

As it continues a few more times, Balin creates a fire bolt and flies it at Rufus.

“Tell me the truth! If you don't want to go back in. ”

“Hehe! Yes! Yes! Do you remember... the flood last year? ”

The Pokémon gives Valine honor while stammering.

Proof that my previous experience has just been immersed.

“The flood... yes. Do you remember?”

“A few days after that, when I went into the mountains, I found it. ”

“That's it. What's that? ”

“That... shiny stone tablet. ”

The eyes of Balin, which were thought to be simple junk or rusty spear knives, trembled greatly.

The light-giving stone tablets have a rich chance of being magically processed.

It's a powerful artifact, or it's not, for a reason. It's so preserved.

If that's true, it was worth checking out.

“Okay, I'll let you live this time in particular. ”

“Go, thank you...”

“But first, what do you have to say? ”

After speaking, Balin slowly lifts Rufus to his feet. If I say the wrong answer, I intend to fall back into the pit.

Rufus quickly regains consciousness from the slow-paced threats. He falls flat on the ground, his hands clasped and begging.

“Please, I won't do it again. Again... I will never speak with Valine's family again. ”

Rufus trembles and says the answer Balin wanted.

Balin nods, and throws Rufus next to her.

Violent pain spread throughout Rufus' body.

However, in return, his heart was filled with a sense of life that he had regained.

“Ha. Ha. ”

Valine opens her mouth after exhaling.

“Number one. Again, again, me and my family. And don't be mean to the villagers. ”

"Huh, huh? “

“Be kind and diligent. Don't rot in your parents. Ha.”

Finished speaking, Balin kicks his tongue once more.

The Baron Soldier he remembers was a pretty decent nobleman.

I know that I can be respected by knights and landlords, as well as show mercy to the weak.

The problem was that he had wrongly educated his children, and the world of his past life was too harsh for him.

Daejundong, the red Orcs that covered the entire kingdom as well as Soldier territory.

Inside, not only the baron, but all the settlers were brutally murdered.

In the face of an unstoppable force gap, the baron has turned to ash.

Baron Soldier who met such a tragic end.

Of course, the Orc raid will not kill everyone in this lifetime.

It was Balin's plan to stand up for himself, stop it, and use that ball to spread his name.

But that and this are strictly separate. He pities Baron Soldier for struggling with death.

That's why I'm going to give him a gift in this life.

“Ugh, ugh. Okay, okay, okay. ”

Rufus nods, speechless.

Valine, who confirmed it, said the second condition as if it were flowing.

“Number two, don't try anything on me or my family. Never. You, of course, and so will your men. If you can't manage it, you die. Okay?”

“Yes? Yes! Yes!!"

This ensures safety for the family as well as rehabilitation.

However, Valine has not yet stated her final condition.

“Number three. If you tell anyone about what happened here today...! ”

“I'll never tell you! Believe me!”

We just don't know if he's trying to get over the moment or if he's really restrained and rehabilitated.

If that's the case, then you'll be forced to do so.

“Okay, I made it clear I'm not talking. I can't believe I'm saying this. I have to use this. ”

Valine says so, focusing Mana on her fingers.

The blue Mana burns with a vivid shape.

Rufus' eyes widen as he looks at this strange phenomenon.

“Well, what's that? ”

“Gold. If you break your promise, you will die instantly." ”

After speaking, Balin waves his hand before Michère Rufus reacts.

Embossed onto his forehead, it seeped into Rufus' head.

“Huff, huff! ”

In a strange sense, Rufus takes an elongated breath and looks at Balin.

Balin is putting the same mark on the other wallpapers.

Thanks to its unique ability, it took little time.

After finishing the job, Balin told Rufus.

“All right, it's over. Then you need to go back inside. ”

“Oh, yeah?! What?!"

Rufus screams in surprise.

I wanted to live as much as I could, but I was surprised to hear that I had to go back into that pit.

But Valine had no intention of forgiving Rufus with a stone tablet of her identity.

‘Even if I don't kill you, I have to give you a hand that you'll never think of again. ’

As you imagine, the fly magic moves Rufus back into the pit.

Balin glances into the pit with a relaxed look on his face. Rufus has a lifelike look on the floor.

I thought I was alive, but now that I'm back inside, I think I've had a pretty big shock.

I didn't intend to bury him like before anyway. Balin smiles and says.

“Well, have a good time. I'll be back tomorrow, so make sure you tell your men in the meantime. ”

After finishing his speech, Balin plunges the pile of dirt back into the ground.

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Here we go. Thank you, readers.