NOVEL NEXT chapter 76
76 – The Wizard of Gale and Fury (5)
Is it possible to cause symptoms of poisoning by drinking too much of this medicine?
But it wasn’t that strong of a medicine.
Unless it is a succubus’ bodily fluid, smelling it in the air does not have any effect.
“Are you okay?”
“Go away…”
Ornette got away from me, wiping her mouth with her sleeve.
“Just leave it alone. Don’t worry about it…”
“Really? Got it. Then I’ll report it to the border guards, so keep an eye on them?”
“Okay…”
At that time, border guards came running from the other side with loud footsteps.
It seems that someone has already reported the explosion in the building due to Ornette’s magic.
“Aren’t you the Lucas Guild Secretary?”
The guards who recognized me looked puzzled.
“Oh, yes. Hello. “What are you doing here?”
“I came here after receiving a report. So… They said the building was collapsing.”
Then the border guard glanced at the building behind us.
Although the door was broken and fell to the floor, the building was overall intact.
The garrison members behind him were whispering to each other.
“But why are you here, Manager?”
“Oh, that’s it. Please come in first. I was just about to report it.”
He dragged the confused guards and entered the building.
“Ugh?!”
The garrison members were scared when they saw the guild members lying in a row with their arms and legs tied.
In particular, in the case of the Tenevre guild leader, he was naked and it was embarrassing to even look at him directly.
I rolled up the tablecloth from the corner table and covered the body of the Tenevre guild leader.
This makes it look like a corpse, but it can’t be helped.
“What on earth is this?”
“This woman is the leader of the Tenevre guild. She is here. She was kidnapped and rescued from captivity by the leader of the Drefener guild.”
“Yes… ?”
“Do you know that the Lucas Guild was attacked in Tenèvre? Because of that, I’m trying to claim damages from the Tenevre guild leader, but do you know his whereabouts? This is how I found out that he was here.”
“Is that so… ? But what about these men?”
“Drepenner guild members and this woman here is the Drepenner guild leader. As soon as we came in, they rushed at us threatening to kill us, so we had no choice.”
“Ah, yes…”
The garrison members whispered quietly among themselves.
“Do you know what I’m talking about… ?”
“I don’t know.”
One of the guards cleared his throat and asked.
“Then do you know why the Drapener guild members are here? This is a bit far from where the Dreffener guild is located.”
“There is a secret underground passage.”
When I pointed to the bottom door I had come up from, this image appeared in the eyes of the guards.
That secret passage must have been opened without permission.
There is no way that city hall would have given permission for construction that would weaken the ground beneath other buildings without the consent of the city hall.
Dreffener’s sentence will go up again.
“I guess I’ll have to request support from headquarters for this. Go and report it to the head of the investigation department.”
One member hurriedly ran towards the garrison headquarters.
The remaining members walked around and checked the consciousness of the Drepenner Guild members.
However, not a single one came to their senses and opened their eyes.
“It will probably take a while for him to wake up. He got a good beating on the back of the head. If a statement is necessary, there are still some people in the Drapener Guild who are fine.”
“For now, I will wait here until the Chief of Investigation arrives.”
Meanwhile, the crew investigated every nook and cranny of the hideout.
“This is crazy…”
The crew members groaned when they saw the room inside the fireplace.
I saw all kinds of sex-related paraphernalia hanging on the wall.
As I was roughly organizing the scene, I soon saw Captain Vivian riding along at breakneck speed with a dozen investigators.
Captain Vivian suddenly stopped his horse and jumped into the building almost as if he was flying.
“Mr. Leonard!”
“Hello, Captain Vivien. As you can see, this is what happened.”
Captain Vivien, who had already heard the explanation from the crew on arrival, was not overly surprised by the scene and quickly gave instructions to the investigators he had brought in.
“Chief. If you go back to the guild along the passage over there, there are some who are still fine. Would you like to go there?”
“That’s right. The rest are strictly controlled here.”
I took Ornette along with Captain Vivian and several investigators and returned to the guild along the secret passage.
“It looks like this was done completely illegally.”
Captain Vivien muttered while sweeping the passage wall.
Soon we opened the floor of the Drapener Guildmaster’s room and came out.
When I opened the archive door, the guild members who were tied up with ropes started swearing at me.
However, when he saw Captain Vivian appearing behind me, he kept his mouth shut.
Captain Vivien had the guild members kneel side by side, stood in the middle, and listened to their statements.
“The wizard came in and started a riot demanding that the guild leader be taken away!”
As the Drepenner Guild members shouted, Captain Vivian looked at Ornette standing next to me.
“That gray-haired woman over there is a wizard, right?”
“Yes, yes. That’s it. They touched our wizard’s body first.”
I lied calmly.
“Right, Ornette?”
Ornette, who at first glance appears to be a minor, has a small physique and a gloomy expression.
Ornette, who was casting a gloomy shadow that wouldn’t be surprising if she cried right now, nodded slowly.
The faces of the investigators who saw that were distorted with disgust.
First of all, looking at the appearance, it would be more plausible to claim that the slender girl was forced to use magic for self-defense rather than attacking the guild members.
“What the fuck?! You touched your body?!”
“Quiet! Quiet!”
Captain Vivien screamed as the Drepenner guild members went into an uproar.
“Then why on earth did you visit here, wizard?”
“I was looking for the whereabouts of the Tenevre guild leader. I don’t know exactly, but maybe he read the traces here through some magical power or something? But as you can see, he’s such a timid and pretty girl that he almost got into trouble.”
“No, that’s not it?! Hey, you crazy bastard! What are you talking about?!”
“You should be quiet!”
Captain Vivian, who cracked down on the protesting Dreffener Guild members, spoke to both sides.
“The city hall wizard has already requested assistance. When he comes, we will be able to find out the exact details.”
As soon as the guard finished speaking, someone entered the guild again and again.
It was Isiste, a tattoo-addicted elf wizard with long ears and green eyes and a slender height.
Her Drefener guild members and her investigators were all entranced by her appearance and stared at her blankly.
That’s right, Isiste is now wearing a bright red dress that clearly shows off her curves and a garter belt… ? That crazy bitch?
Looking at the city hall wizard dressed like a spear ace, I felt like grabbing her by the back of the head.
Isiste, who was leisurely raising her decadent eyes, made eye contact with her and flinched and took a step back.
“W-what… ?”
“Welcome, wizard.”
Captain Vivien came to his senses and opened his mouth.
“This is the scene. So what happened now…”
Captain Vivian briefly explained the circumstances.
After receiving such a report, we were dispatched to a scene closely related to the Drapener Guild.
A big fight broke out, and the starting point was that wizard.
However, as you can see, the sorceress is a young woman and she claims that she used magic to avoid unpleasant physical contact.
Because of this situation, I ask the wizard to trace back traces of magical power and objectively analyze the situation at the time.
Throughout Captain Vivien’s explanation, Isiste’s eyes were filled with fear, never wanting to leave Ornette and me.
When I smiled and winked, Isiste even shook his shoulder as if his teeth were shaking.
“Would you like to?”
“Oh, of course.”
Isiste kept glancing at me and casting a spell.
When a rune tattoo on his left forearm she began to glow, everyone in the guild turned their attention to it.
Isiste felt the wave of magic and slowly walked towards me, following it.
He twisted his shoulder so that it wouldn’t touch me as much as possible and whispered softly to Isiste as he passed by.
“This month.”
“What… ?”
“This month’s salary will be garnished.”
The moment I heard those words, the light on Isiste’s tattoo faded.
“What happened, wizard?”
When Captain Vivian asked, Isiste pointed to the guild members without any sign of concern.
“You started first.”
It was a vague statement that left out exactly what was done and how, but the investigators immediately turned to the guild members.
Although she was dressed like a brothel prostitute, Isiste was clearly a magician exclusive to the city hall.
After she traced back the wavelength of her magic power, she said that the guild members were at fault.
“Then, let’s summarize the situation so far…”
Captain Vivien spreads his fingers.
“It would be kidnapping and confinement, construction of illegal facilities, and child sex crimes. And usually, if people who commit such low-level crimes are hung upside down and robbed, other crimes are bound to follow.”
Captain Vivien looked back at me.
“I still wanted to check out this guild once, and it just so happened to work out well.”
Captain Vivien’s eyes sparkled at the thought of earning a promotion.
“Then what should we do now? And what about the Tenebre guild leader’s new recruit over there?”
“If necessary, we will request your presence. And since the Tenevre guild leader is already a wanted person, we plan to detain him in the garrison detention center for now.”
“Okay, then I’ll go back.”
When I left the guild with Ornette, Isiste hurriedly followed after me.
“Hey, hey! Leonard!”