How the Shadow of the Marquis Lives

Episode 88

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Soldiers’ boots stepped on the entrance to the village. In front of them were several knights leading soldiers, Wilfried, and Xian.

The villagers didn’t know why, but went into the house and locked the door to avoid getting caught up in something useless.

A child tried to open the window and look outside out of curiosity, but the adults stopped him.

While the unsettling air was spreading, Xian led his soldiers and knights to a tower that stood tall in one corner of the village.

When they arrived in front of the tower, there were people who greeted them.

No, rather than welcoming them, they seemed to be silently protesting that they should not come any more. They were wizards wearing navy blue robes with the pattern of the Thunder Mage Tower.

Seeing the soldiers coming, dozens of them also gathered and opened the door of the Mage Tower and came out.

“Aren’t you the lord’s son? Why did you come to visit me like this?”

And the young wizard at the forefront.

It was Hector, the disciple of Claude de Cannes, the lord of the Thunder Mage.

“I came to ask you something.”

Xian glanced at Hector, then glanced behind him. But among the many wizards, there was no one he was looking for.

“Where is the tower owner?”

Not to mention the tower owner, even the elderly wizards were nowhere to be seen. The only ones there are relatively young wizards like Hector.

They showed no concern for the fact that soldiers from the lord’s castle had come.

Same with Hector.

Rather than being embarrassed, he replied with a slightly grinning expression.

“Master left the territory for a while because of work.”

“Day? When will you come?”

“well… … I haven’t heard anything about it. Until then, though it’s not enough, I’ll be acting as the pagoda owner.”

So if you have any business, you can tell me, said Hector.

While frowning at a strange sense of incongruity, Xian gestured behind him.

Then the soldiers came forward, pulling a prisoner’s cart loaded with the masks of his subordinates.

The mask, as well as the upper body, were all stripped off.

“You’ve probably heard that bandits are extreme lately. These are the thieves we caught this time.”

“… … .”

“I wouldn’t call it an unknown scar.”

Hector narrowed his eyes as he looked at them in the cart.

Thin brain marks on their bodies. Even if one person could be dismissed as a coincidence, it was hard to escape that all 10 people had such scars.

“It’s a brain scar.”

That’s why Hector acknowledged it rather coolly.

“Are you admitting it?”

“yes. It looks like a familiar face. You are the disciple of our mage tower. but.”

“but?”

“They were excommunicated in the past for violating the rules.”

Hector gestured to a wizard beside him.

Then the wizard entered the Mage Tower and came out with some papers.

Hector handed it over to Xian.

“… … .”

excommunication documents.

It was not an improvised document, but a formal document dated in the past.

The date is one month ago.

‘It’s the date the householder left.’

Noting the date, Xian closed the papers. Hector smiled at him.

“I never thought that the identity of the thieves was these guys… … . No face. Apparently, they had a grudge against being excommunicated and turned into a band of bandits.”

“You believe that?”

“What are you talking about? Am I only speaking the truth?”

Seeing him continue to flinch, Wilfried approached, frowning.

Then he whispered in Xi’an’s ear.

“What are you going to do?”

“What the heck?”

“There is no justification for coming out like that.”

Everything in this world needs a cause. No matter how strong you are, you cannot start a war just because you are strong.

Even the lord of a territory could not assume tyranny without a cause.

Even more so if the opponent is one of the 5 Great Magic Towers, the Thunder Magic Tower.

“Please leave here for now and interrogate me a little more. New evidence may be discovered.”

Wilfried spoke to Xian.

Considering the relationship between the family and the Mage Tower, that was the right procedure.

Xian looked at Hector.

He seemed elated as if he knew this fact well.

However, there was one fact that neither Wilfried nor Hector knew.

“Sir Wilfried.”

“yes.”

“Redeem them all.”

“… … yes?”

Wilfried was taken aback by the unexpected instructions. Xian glanced at him once, and then he gestured towards the soldiers.

The soldiers also looked puzzled like Wilfried, but they started moving anyway.

It is a model of a good soldier not to obey the orders of his superiors.

“What are you doing!”

As the soldiers began to move, the relaxed expressions of the wizards collapsed. The smile disappeared from Hector’s face.

“You hear about it in prison.”

they didn’t know

Xian had no reason to think about the relationship between the family and the Mage Tower.

* * *

“It’s like an idiot who doesn’t have a case like this!”

Hector flushed and cursed and ran into the tower. The young wizards behind him followed him into the tower.

Xian blocked the soldiers who tried to open the tower gate with a gesture.

“Don’t force your way in, surround yourself.”

“yes!”

You don’t know what to do if you try to force it in. It was a place that was no different from their castle.

“Sir Wilfried, will there be enough supplies?”

“Yes, yes. It’s not too far from the lord’s castle, so it’s enough… … .”

“good. Wait like this for the time being.”

Anyway, that’s where I’m nervous. If supplies run out in the magic tower, they have no choice but to come out on their own.

And besides this reason, there were other reasons as well.

‘In the end, it was true that the Dark Magic Tower was related.’

In other words, the speculation that he moved in the Dark Magic Tower for some kind of item being transported to the territory has gained credibility.

If so, the guys will be nervous.

Even at this moment, that kind of thing must be approaching the manor.

Even if you don’t know what that item is, it’s a long way to get it back once you enter the lord’s castle. That’s why they must have used the method of attacking the merchants transporting them.

So, if you block them like this, and be careful that the thieves don’t appear again.

Time was on this side.

“Young Master, are you okay?”

Wilfried said anxiously.

He couldn’t help but worry about the relationship between the family and the Mage Tower. Moreover, about the successor who made this decision.

“Don’t you remember seeing that masked bastard run amok in prison? They might be swarming in there, but does it make sense to just go back?”

“That is true.”

“Don’t worry. I will take responsibility.”

The truth was different. He didn’t care if the Mage Tower and the family grew apart or estranged from each other.

Rather, by doing so, if the influence of the family head was reduced even a little, there was nothing more to wish for.

Of course, the first priority was the clue to the Dark Magic Tower.

“All right.”

Wilfried, completely unaware of Cian’s intentions, simply admired his unwavering appearance.

It would be a virtue of a true lord to step back and take a cautious attitude to observe the trend a little more.

However, like Xian, when he acted once, it could also be seen as a virtue of the lord.

The basis of that action was to exclude all kinds of dangers towards Young Ji-min.

‘Now the womb of the heir lives in full view. I never thought the young master would change like this. Academy… … I didn’t say it was prestigious for nothing.’

Thinking slightly out of focus, he began to command the soldiers.

* * *

“sh*t! sh*t! You crazy son of a b*tch!”

On the top floor of the Mage Tower, in the tower owner’s office, Hector was getting angry.

This makes things difficult.

Originally, the plan was to return this position in moderation and then secretly send out troops again. To rob a god.

But to be confined to the tower like this?

The divine object must be coming to Yeongji at this very moment.

“What are you so mad about? If I wait for a while, I will give up and leave.”

“what?”

“By the way, Hector… … The medicine is slowly running out… … .”

The young wizards who followed Hector spoke cautiously to him.

ha. Hector sighed heavily, grabbed a few folded medicine bags from his bosom, and tossed them.

“It’s medicine!”

“Yaya! It’s mine!”

“Whoever catches it quickly wins!”

Young wizards frantically ran to pick up the medicine bag that had fallen to the ground.

Hector looked at him with cold eyes.

The identity of the drug is nothing more than a red powder ground with bloodstone. It contained the power of its owner very slightly.

However, these guys regarded it as an elixir that raised their level.

It’s only natural that they don’t know the existence of the Dark Magic Tower or the existence of hell and demons.

“What about the old people?”

“I’m properly locked up.”

“joy. I was relieved to see that those who used to carry electricity in the name of training were tied up and unable to do anything.”

“How can you get strong like this, how can you go through such harsh training?”

Hector snorted as he watched the young wizards put medicine bags into their arms as if they were precious.

Fools. The training to receive the thunder magic with the body is as effective as it is harsh.

Before he obtained the bloodstone, he had been steadily raising his level through training.

He said that he could do anything for the sake of the state, but in reality he fell away to a rather harsh degree.

If this isn’t stupid, what does it mean?

‘Well, I didn’t even include the smart guy in the plan in the first place.’

Not everyone is this stupid just because they’re young. The Magic Tower also had guns and promising young wizards.

Hector didn’t include them in the plan in the first place. He mainly recruited those who were particularly stupid and dissatisfied with the Mage Tower, and imprisoned the competent ones.

It was a somewhat rushed plan, but it was unavoidable.

Because the divine object was robbed by the Sword King and an order was issued to retrieve it urgently.

“Uh, Hector? Where?”

“In the basement. Don’t follow me.”

Leaving the young wizards behind, Hector left the office and headed downstairs.

deep underground. There was a punishment room for punishment further down the laboratory.

It’s a punishment room, but it’s practically a prison.

He was imprisoned in the deepest of the prisons.

A body withered in worn-out clothes. However, decades of scars engraved on his body reflected the life the old man had lived.

Even though he was locked up for a long time and couldn’t eat or sleep properly, his eyes were shining brightly.

“… … .”

A black jeweled dagger pierced through the chest and into the wall.

paper weave.

I try to raise brain energy, but it gathers in the black jewel sword and then scatters to the wall and disappears.

An artifact used to seal the thunder magic that only the owner of the Thunder Magic Tower is allowed to have.

“Master, how are you feeling?”

Hector grinned at him.

Originally, the tower owner who should have reigned at the top of this tower, Claude de Cannes.

He looked at Hector with haggard but unfazed eyes.