The Guild Master of Demon Hunters that the Empire is Obsessed With

80 – The Wizard of Gale and Fury (9)

“So, the wise man told you to go there because there is an ancient document in the basement of the Demon King Castle that can help you create that substance?”

“That’s right. Could you please tell me?”

“I don’t know. There’s no way there’s a book like that in the basement of the Demon King’s Castle, right?”

“Then what on earth is there? Do you think it’s possible for a demon lord to not know what’s in the basement of his house his?!”

A wizard after all.

How can you get so angry even after getting beaten up?

It seemed like I hadn’t received enough etiquette training, so I clenched my fists, but someone gently grabbed my wrist.

“If possible, I prefer to resolve things through dialogue.”

Before I knew it, the Demon King had come this far, pushed me aside and stood in front of the wizard.

“You’re looking for a book in the basement of the Demon King’s Castle?”

“That’s right. But what about that… ?”

“I am the devil. “I am the owner of the castle.”

The wizard’s eyes turned to the straw hat on the devil’s head.

It seemed like the intention was to check the horns.

“I heard earlier about what book I was looking for. But unfortunately, there is no book about substances that can transmit the properties of substances without resistance.”

“Ah… Is that so… ?”

A deep shadow of frustration appeared on the wizard’s face.

“Then I have no choice. I have to go back…”

“Wait a minute.”

I pressed down on the shoulder of the wizard who was staggering up.

“You poured all sorts of magic, so you have to pay the price, right? You really meant to kill me, right?”

“What does that price mean… ?”

“If you’re going to kill someone, shouldn’t you be prepared to die?”

The color drained from the wizard’s face.

“Leonard. Let me go.”

The Demon King laughed and intervened.

“Just let me go.”

“What? They mistook me for you and tried to kill me. I think they were planning to kill the Demon King and rob the castle. Should we just let them go?”

“Okay. Send it to me. Instead, I’ll give you 30 more gold coins from the request fee.”

Is this eighty gold coins?

Then the story will be different.

He collected Nightrend and kicked other fallen wizards mercilessly.

“Wake up! Get out when I give you a chance!”

The wizards who were kicked by me stopped pretending to be dead and hurriedly got up and created a portal.

When the portal opened, the wizards threw away their advisor and rushed to escape into the portal.

He grabbed the shoulder of an old wizard who was trying to enter the portal after his disciples.

“You still have something to tell me.”

I asked the old wizard about the place where he met the wise man despite his impression of him.

“Okay. And if you happen to come back for revenge later, then, right?”

As he held up the Nightrend menacingly, the wizard became thoughtful and spat.

“Oh, I understand! I’ll never come back again!”

The portal disappeared after the old wizard entered.

“You know. And then you get subjugated.”

When I pointed, the devil smiled.

“I guess so. But what’s going on? I don’t think those wizards just came here for the first time.”

“Ah, the first wizard who came was the girl named Ornette I told you about.”

The Demon King had a curious expression and nodded his head slightly as if telling him to continue speaking.

I briefly explained what happened from the time I met Ornette until now.

The Demon King, who listened to the story in silence, nodded slowly.

“Then what about those wizards from earlier? Are they related to each other?”

“Well, given Ornette’s personality, I don’t think she’ll ever move with other wizards.”

“Hmm. If that’s you, then that’s probably true. But you said those wizards were wise men earlier, right? Isn’t it strange?”

Just as the Demon King said, I also thought there was something a bit suspicious about that.

They made the wizards go to the devil’s castle because there was a book that didn’t exist.

The people at the magic university would have been very intelligent, but they were fooled by those nonsense words.

Right now, I can’t really explain these two things.

“Isn’t it possible that the people who came to subdue you have all met that wise man?”

“Did you deceive me with your tongue and send me here on purpose?”

“Yes. Maybe Ornette met that wise man and became possessed, huh? I have a strong feeling that way.”

“It’s not an entirely absurd statement. But is your wizard, Ornette, the kind of person who trusts other people’s words?”

“That’s not true… Maybe that wise man has the ability to interfere with other people’s minds.”

The Demon King nodded as if my words were reasonable.

“Do you have any enmity with anyone?”

“Nothing. I’ve never been outside the wasteland. “I’ve never met another outsider here.”

“Hmm, okay… Then what on earth was that wise man who sent the wizards here?”

“Let’s do this, Leonard. You find the wise man and find out the inside story.”

“Me?”

“Yes. This is also a request. Fifty gold coins.”

Deal with the wizard for 80 gold coins and find the wise man for 50 gold coins. A total of one hundred and thirty coins.

It’s an offer you can’t miss.

It seems to be true that there is a mountain of gold coins piled up in the basement of the Demon King’s Castle.

“Okay, I’ll do it.”

Now then, where should we go now?

I spread out the map of the empire in my head and looked for a suitable place.

Desire Arid, where the Demon King’s Castle is located, is a very large wasteland with no artificial structures other than the Demon Castle.

The closest city is Quarantine City, an imperial territory to the east.

Wizards also said that they met a wise man there, and other than there, there is no other place in this area where people can stay.

Okay, let’s go there. But it’s a bit far to walk.

“Is there such a thing as a wyvern? I have to go to Quarantine City.”

“The wyverns are too much there. It’s difficult to control them after landing.”

The Demon King’s left eye turned red.

Soon, something came running towards us at a tremendous speed from the drawbridge behind, kicking up dust.

The stuttering one from before was a centaur.

Are you really telling me to ride that thing and go to the city?

A girl with no clothes on and her breasts exposed?

The centaur stopped in front of me, raising a huge cloud of dust.

“B-boo, did you call me?!”

“Okay, Kendi. Give Leonard a ride.”

“Ah, yes! Ah, I understand!”

The centaur turned to me and asked.

“Where, where, where are you going?”

“Let’s go to Quarantine City.”

“Quo, qua? You don’t know that! You have to tell me! If I don’t, I’ll end up in a strange place!”

This centaur named Kendi.

It’s so crazy.

It was very awkward to ride on Kendi’s back.

When I was riding a horse, there was nothing blocking my view, but now Kendi’s humanoid upper body was standing there.

“Can you bend down a little?”

“Okay, then I can’t see!”

Noisy, this word.

“Have a nice trip, Leonard. While I’m in the city, I bought you some delicious Kendi.”

Then the devil took out a gold coin from his pocket and handed it to me.

It looks like he’s so full of money that he can’t control himself.

“Okay. I’ll be back. Kendi, let’s go.”

“Where?!”

“To the east.”

“Dongjjojojo side?”

“You just have to go over there! Keek!”

As soon as he pointed with his finger, Kendi shot forward like a bullet.

The speed is so fast that it takes your breath away.

I knew that centaurs run fast, but I never imagined they would be this fast.

Since I didn’t have a saddle or reins, I felt like I was going to fall if I stayed like this, so I hugged Kendi around the waist.

If she were any other human, she would have been mad, but Kendi, a centaur, didn’t react much.

I also had no feelings about hugging the waist of a naked woman.

Because getting hit on top of a centaur running in the fiercely sharp winds of Deser Arid felt like being cut to pieces by a sword.

So she lowered her head and didn’t say a word until she saw the outline of Quarantine City in front of her.

“Hey, hey, can I just stop here?!”

“Stop, stop!!”

When she stuck her head out to the side of her, Kendi’s hair was yanked like a rein by the building that was right in front of her.

“Keck! It hurts!”

As Kendi screamed, passers-by looked at us with gloomy expressions.

Everyone has a lifeless and worn-out face.

Quarantine City gave off a very dark impression, befitting an imperial city.

Everything in the city held a shadow of the past, as if it had fallen behind in the rapidly changing world of the past few centuries.

In the middle of the buildings, which were built with an irregular mix of stone and wood, tunnels and roads emitting black smoke were entangled like snakes.

The smoke seemed to envelop the entire city in a dark gray color and even block sunlight.

Most of the buildings were old and broken. It was a chaotic tangle of old cathedrals with high ceilings, old factories, and old tenement houses with broken windows.

In the messy alleys between the buildings, there were many strange shops where you couldn’t tell what they were selling, and in front of them, people in old clothes were trading something in a suspicious atmosphere.

A city with the most old and dark scenery anyone can think of. That was the typical form of quarantine poetry.

There is a person called the wise man here.

I don’t know if I can find it.

Oh, before that.

He made a noose with a rope from his waist and threw it around Kendi’s neck.

“What, what, haha?!”

“It has to be like this. Otherwise you could die.”

Kendi, who was about to protest something, became aware of the gazes of the people around him and immediately shut his mouth.

This is because an extremely wary light appeared in people’s eyes at the sudden appearance of a monster.

Who is the monster! As soon as you shout, they will rush in and beat you to death.

Sure enough, the imperial guards came this way, pushing people from the other side.

“What is that?”

The guard pointed at Kendi with his chin and asked bluntly.

“Oh, this? It’s my product. “I caught it in the wasteland.”

“It’s a product?”

I showed the rope that tied Kendi’s neck to the guard, who narrowed his eyes with a suspicious expression.

“There are surprisingly many people who like this kind of thing.”

With a sly smile, he slapped Kendi’s butt.

Then, Kendi raised his hind legs and made a strange sound like ‘Ahhhhh?!’.

The guards, who understood what I meant, clicked their tongues with expressions of disgust and left.

The passers-by who were watching us were also disgusted and dispersed.

As expected, everyone is strict when it comes to suspicious tastes.