31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 219)
A few days after an evacuation order was issued for the port city of Labene, an expedited investigation team was dispatched to the coastal waters of Labene..
They also frequently used the transference magic circle, which they rarely use..
“It's completely shattered.….”
“There is nothing we can do because a large-scale tsunami has occurred. Still, it's fortunate that there were no casualties. There was no damage other than the dock being destroyed and the ship taking on some water..”
“That makes sense. Things in the world look different depending on how you look at them..”
“It's the difference between a friendly tsunami and an angry tsunami. Well, a tsunami is a tsunami. The fundamentals don't change. Okay, let's stop chatting and go there..”
“I'm nervous because it's my first time being dispatched to an investigation team.….”
“Nothing special. Just go and find out the cause using magic traces, and if you don't think you can do it, just conclude that you don't know. Because no one is to blame.”
Several ships sailed into the coastal waters..
There was a deep sense of anxiety within the investigation team..
The magic traces made in the coastal waters were very unique traces that were difficult to see even if they devoted their whole lives to the study of magic..
“Everyone is coming!”
“Don't use your magic carelessly! You'll be sucked into the vortex.!”
“yes!”
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss For…
The wave height gradually increased..
“Check the wave height gauge.”
“Much higher than usual offshore standards.”
“We're almost there. Tie the chain you prepared to that rock..”
“yes.”
Wizards whine for a while and tie chains to stone pillars rising above the sea..
If they had magical power, they could be versatile, if not omnipotent, and there was a reason why they took on such tedious tasks without using magic..
First, an investigator from the kingdom was dispatched to find out the truth about the magic disaster, but he used magic around the whirlpool and was sucked into the center of the whirlpool..
From then on, using magical power in the vicinity was strictly prohibited..
Anyway, as the ship got closer to the whirlpool, the chains tied to the pillars gradually became tighter..
Deciding that they couldn't go any further, they observed a whirlpool in the distance..
“That's it….”
“magic disaster….”
Quaaaaaaa…
Quaaaaaaa-!
Someone took out a crystal ball from the ship that reached the nearest location..
Cheeeeeeeek…
The crystal ball was connected to somewhere.
“how to see?”
The person holding the crystal ball was covering one eye with an eye patch with a scale on it..
Soon, Santio, the owner of the Aries Magic Tower, appeared in the crystal ball..
The shaggy hair and funny glasses were still there..
“Frannan, have you arrived??”
“Yes, this is the place..”
The person wearing the eyepatch was Frannan..
He personally led the wizards of Libra to the South Sea of Prion in order to uncover the truth about the magic disaster..
Although all the magic towers were watching this matter with interest, only Frannan, who was closest to the magic tower, was able to act directly..
And the person chosen to help him make his decision was Santio. In this field, among all the top owners, there was no wizard who could surpass Santio..
Santio asked Frannan..
“…How do you see it??”
Quaaaaaaa…
Frannan answered, staring at the whirlpool..
“I'm seeing it as it is.”
“In my judgment, I don't think it's a natural phenomenon..”
“Is it possible for someone to artificially cause such a magical disaster? Then the question follows..”
Santio also nodded..
“Who on earth could make something like this happen??”
“…I know one person.”
Frannan and Santio looked at each other at the same time..
They knew one person who would do something like this..
No, most wizards would think of one person when they experienced something incomprehensible..
“Prince of Frost….”
“Did he do it??”
“You never know. It's just that that kid might be able to do something absurd like this. Well, it also plays a part in the fact that the public values him higher than his skills..”
“Jealousy seems narrow-minded.”
“joy.”
Santio said, tapping his forehead..
“I guess we can't take any magical action. The unknown being is not angry, so the magicians of the East will have no solution..”
“A new route should be built toward the Great Sea. Fortunately, since it is offshore, a new route will be created soon..”
“But it’s strange… . If it wasn't an individual incident, wizards would have been mobilized on a large scale. if….”
“No, there wasn't. There is no sign of a magic corps of that size moving. However, I did see something on the way here..”
“yes?”
Frannan showed Santio something he was holding in his hand..
“cloth?”
“Yes, it's a piece of black cloth, found everywhere. Some even washed up on the docks of Labene..”
“If that much cloth….”
“Yes, usually large organizations have uniform uniforms..”
“It could be a large-scale conflict between groups... . There have been frequent local conflicts on Pandea recently, but they have never shown their fangs to this extent.….”
“Anyway, I'll stay a few days and look for more..”
“Yes, I will contact you again in a little while..”
“Do whatever you want.”
Frannan and Libra pulled the chain and returned to their original position..
The people selected for the investigation team were veterans, so no one was afraid..
However, he was honest about his feelings about witnessing a man-made magic disaster right in front of his eyes..
“Can’t we go back a little sooner??”
“why?”
“I suddenly felt the need to urinate.….”
“Me too... . sorry.”
“Tsk tsk tsk… Anyone who sees a scene like that will feel like they're pissed. It's natural. But if you're in a hurry, you can swim in the sea.?”
“Well, what if magical power gets mixed into the urine and escapes?….”
“I'll be sucked into the vortex. While peeing.”
“I'd rather just die.”
Even after the return ship arrived at the dock, the Libra wizards continued to talk..
“Phew… This vortex is also something that academia is paying attention to, so I feel a great sense of responsibility..”
“I know the cause is not a natural occurrence, but it seems difficult to go any further than that.….”
“If it's artificial, what kind of group would do something like this? No, is there not a single eyewitness??”
“An evacuation order was issued in advance. Every single one of the bastards escaped from Lavene. Judging by the location of the whirlpool, fortunately it seems that the tsunami did not hit immediately. That's why everyone was able to evacuate..”
“It's a strange fate that everyone evacuated and there are no witnesses..”
“You probably wouldn't have seen it in Labene anyway. Unless you were someone who was there that day... To know the truth... what? But Frannan?”
“Oh, he said he would look around and left..”
“alone?”
“yes, alone.”
* * *
Frannan was currently exploring the area around where the incident occurred alone. I couldn't get close to the whirlpool, so I hovered near the columnar joints in the distance..
“hmm… It's a place where at least one survivor is likely to be washed away..”
The assumption that he survived after being hit directly by something with enough destructive power to artificially create a magical vortex made no sense, but for now, he had to assume that it was just one chance and persist..
Without that persistence, I couldn't figure anything out..
“You can climb around here….”
“Heo Eok….”
Frannan made eye contact with someone on a cliff face..
“…….”
“Heaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
“…I'm sure.”
The moment our eyes met, Frannan received a lot of information from the person whose body was shaking..
‘He knows about this.!’
Ogi and Guts have finally achieved one thing..
pot-!
Frannan ran forward and tried to catch the man..
“Oh my gosh!”
“at there! I have something to say!”
“Don't come oh oh oh!”
“I promise! I won't touch your body….”
Frannan got some more information from the man who turned and ran away..
One is that the man's eyes are somehow delicious, and the other is that even though he looks like a crazy person, the energy felt from the man is unusual..
pot-!
Frannan almost caught up with the man..
Sigh…
In front of Jeol-ae, he succeeded in catching the man..
“Aaaah! Let go of this!”
“Stay still!”
“Ahhhhh!”
Frannan realized the cause of the man's condition when he saw the black tendons growing on the man's face..
“…The magic power flowed back..”
“iced coffee….”
The man's movements soon quieted down..
I wasn't tired after moving hard..
‘soon… Die.’
People whose magic power flowed back usually met a terrible death..
Probably, this person didn't seem to have anything to do with the case either..
“you saw?”
“…….”
“You saw it that day. what happened over there.”
“Ahhh….”
A bit of gunfire returned to the man's eyes..
A man who exudes extraordinary energy.
He was Jaquon who served Bria..
A person who managed to escape by swimming alone and save his life by moving slightly away from the place where a terrible incident occurred..
However, he only gained a small amount and was destined to die soon due to the influence of Ur's magic..
“I, the spirit….”
“…government ordinance?”
“It's big... The spirit... show up….”
“and?”
Zakun said tremblingly..
“Hold your hand... Fingers... Aaaah! scared….”
Content that cannot be connected at all.
However, the man's next words made Frannan perplexed..
“There was… man….”
“There was a man? Can you tell me about your impressions??”
“I scolded you… I got scolded… immortality… golden….”
The expression disappeared from Frannan's face..
“pupil… Ugh… Ahhhhh!”
Fuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
The man's face turned red, then he vomited black blood and fell limp..
Chii Iik…
A signal came to the crystal ball..
Regular contact from Santio.
Frannan hurriedly infused magical energy into the man's body..
Whoa whoa-!
The man's body flew over the cliff due to telekinesis..
Crystal ball that catches Santio's signal.
“Frannan, did you find out anything? what? There….”
Frannan shook his head..
“no, nothing.”
“okay….”
Chubbyeoung-!
“hmm? what are you talking about….”
“I wonder if the dolphin can swim.”
“…okay. Now that I think about it, my contact will interfere with the investigation, so please make the next contact directly, Mr. Frannan..”
“I get it.”
Chii Iik…
Frannan chanted while holding the disconnected crystal ball..
“What on earth are you two doing?….”
Golden eyes and a huge spirit.
It was Snowfall and Ur who caused a magic disaster that would be remembered by wizards.
* * *
【You know, it's starting to get dangerous.….】
A little rascal said to Kangseol in a lantern.
Sigh.…
The ocean currents of the Great Sea are quite arbitrary. It was okay up to the coastal waters as the impact was minimal, but as you moved further inland, it was easy to get caught in the current..
This strange ocean current was, to put it bluntly, a random space trip. A device that, if caught, will quickly fly somewhere in the field..
Several days had already passed since the incident occurred and it had flowed to the Great Sea, so it was unclear where Snow's body was flowing now..
Snowfall had used up a lot of consumables before doing anything, so he had survived safely so far, but now that he had been unable to wake up for much longer than expected, the situation was quite precarious..
At the very least, if you are on a large ship, you can resist the ocean current to some extent, but can a human body, which is not even a small ship, resist the ocean current?.
Snowfall's body had already reached a place that was incredibly far away from Labenoe. I don't know where it is.
That's why grief crawled out of the lamp and sat on snowfall's body..
【excuse me? excuse me… really dead?】
New love…
I love you so much…
【breath! Are you breathing? Uh oh….】
Bitan shouted hurriedly..
【Artificial respiration! need to do artificial respiration….】
Grief that suddenly hardens your expression.
【It's still too early to get there... Things are a little like that between us, right? You too?】
Of course, there was no way I could hear an answer from Kang Seol..
Something was busy coming and going under the sea..
【Yeah, it's a shark.!】
I even used consumables to make creatures avoid approaching, but it seemed like my time had already run out..
【go away! go away! Hehehe….】
Strangely enough, the evil spirit, Heartan, was protecting its owner..
After driving away the shark, Grief sat on Kang Seol’s chest and continued to think for a while..
【after… In the end, does this body have to step forward? good!】
Kikluk… Kikluk…
seagull sound.
There was no response from those around me..
【But what should I do after I step forward??】
Grief found something to do.
【okay! Just take this guy to land.!】
Grief became busy from then on..
Using Kangseol's body as a stomach, he tried to move forward by swinging his arms vigorously.…
【Chi, it's sinking! dismissed!】
I even tried to train a passing sea turtle by slapping its head..
【bald head! Come on! don't go!】
The night of the Great Sea was cold and scary.
Even though the grief was born in a terrible place, the continued cold and loneliness made him shrink..
【Now stop fooling around and get up, I'm bored.….】
A completely intimidating heartbreak..
Tuk… Tuk…
And then something happened that bothered him even more..
Crying-!
Shoot aaaaa…
It rained.
Getting wet one way or another was all the same, but the heavy rain amplified the fearful side of the sea even more..
Crying-!
【no! don't sink!】
When the heartbreaking snowfall was swept away by the waves and tried to sink, it whined and tried to raise itself to the surface..
I was so anxious that everything would end like this..
【Don't die before you fall!】
right then.
Crying-!
Sighaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
A huge ship was passing nearby despite the wind and rain..
【conceive! ship! I lived! It's here! here! There's a human here! It hasn't fallen yet! give me a ride!】
Indeed, the ship stayed nearby, as if it had heard the desperate cries of sorrow..
A silhouette was seen on the deck..
【Hey you! Give this guy a ride and I won't take revenge.!】
“…….”
Whirling-!
The rope flew and reached Bitan..
【Tie me up? okay! This is the only time I'm doing what you're told.!】
The rope was carried by the waves and tried to move away from the hand of grief..
【No, I'm kidding! I'll endure it one more time!】
Fortunately, the grief that held on to the rope.
Heartbreak tied Snowfall's body with rope..
【pull!】
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss For…
Lament and snow were dragged up on the boat..
【Phew… you! huh?】
“huh?”
The person who threw the rope looked at me in sorrow..
【Argh! Hey, it's a talking skull.!】
“Argh! Sea urchins talk?”
A bizarre skeleton spewing green flames where the eyes should be was horrified to see the grief..
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