Youngest Scion of the Mages - Chapter 53
The youngest son of a famous magician, episode 53
[Current location: Old bandit village]
[30 years ago. It is a small village where bandits lived located on Yongdusan Mountain. This place was subjugated by ‘Magner’ who happened to be passing by. Killed more than 10 bandits alone without any weapons. This incident was not known to the world.]
Magner said he knew about Yongdusan, so I wonder if it was something like this.
‘But do you remember what happened 30 years ago simply because of the subjugation of bandits?’
The Magner set by Cha Seong-min is not that kind of person. When I was young, I defeated countless bandits. He has personally eliminated not only bandits but also many of the ‘harms’ that ‘Young Magner’ thinks of in this world. In the process, I also gained the nickname Tuwang. In fact, in the novel, Magner says, ‘I don’t remember. He also said, ‘When I was young, I lived a very busy life.’
‘I don’t think defeating such a small group of bandits will be particularly memorable.’
Larsen, the owner of Cheonan, continued to have questions about the world and setting. Cheonan interpreted this background a little more actively.
[Here, Magner meets ‘Mai.’ Mai was a mysterious woman who was kidnapped by bandits. Magner falls in love with Mai as soon as he sees her, and defeats all the bandits to rescue Mai. However, Mai was already addicted to poison. Mai dies before Magner descends the mountain.]
30 years ago, Magner was also in his energetic 20s. The story is that at that time, he saw a woman his age and fell in love.
‘Then is that why you haven’t gotten married and have been living alone?’
Usually, in this worldview, a person with a status of Magner level is bound to get married. This is because you have to leave a successor. It is also common for men to marry multiple wives. The opposite is also true. In fact, ‘Rose’, the head of ‘Blood Family Rose’, which is not a ‘famous family’ but one of the emerging powers equivalent to it, has as many as six husbands.
A glance.
Larsen stole a glance at Magner. Magner seemed lost in thought about something.
‘Is it because you really can’t forget your first love?’
Oh no way. Maybe they just didn’t get married because their lives were too busy.
“Master. “Is there anything special here?”
“You have to find that.”
“What will be gained if I help you a little?”
Magner raised his fist. Larsen knows the power of that fist.
“I’ll look for more clues.”
Only then did Magner lower his fist.
“okay. Look for it. “I am getting old and will be resting for a while.”
Magner trudged over and sat down next to a small well located in the middle of the village. Magnor knows about this well.
‘This well still remains.’
Do it. Who would be interested in a bandit village that was subjugated and disappeared 30 years ago?
‘This well… is a well filled with blood.’
30 years ago, Magner was feisty and had a cruel side. Some of them were killed and thrown into the well, while others were thrown into the well with their arms and legs broken. About 15 bandits died inside this well.
‘There was no need to go that far.’
In fact, they may actually have been bandits. It’s been so long that my memory is vague. Anyway, it was right that I overexerted myself. I slightly raised my fighting power. Although it is not possible to ‘search’ as well as wizards’ mana, it is possible to search to some extent with fighting power.
‘what?’
But it was a little strange.
‘No bones?’
There should be a pile of bones, but there aren’t. I didn’t feel it.
‘Who collected the bones?’
Why come all the way to this small bandit village? It’s not the case that it doesn’t exist at all. In the case of these wells, there are cases where the bodies inside are collected because they are considered unclean. That is, if there are private houses nearby.
‘In such cases, a talisman is often attached or a special barrier is placed… A barrier?’
Magner grinned.
‘There is a barrier over the well.’
who. why. For what reason did they put a barrier here? Was it to contain the ‘dead energy’ gushing out from the 10 or so corpses?
Magner turned his head and looked at Larsen.
‘Is he feeling it?’
Wizards perceive these barriers much more sensitively than martial artists. The areas they are good at are different. If Larsen were a good wizard, he would be able to easily recognize this barrier.
‘I don’t know what the barrier is doing.’
If there is a problem with the barrier, just destroy it. That is the style of martial artists. If wizards feel like lifting a barrier, martial artists feel like they are destroying a barrier. The method of destruction is different.
Larsen gradually walked towards this direction. Larsen actually knew about the ‘well’ from the beginning. In the first place, the location where Kashin obtained the ‘Millennium Dragon’s Eomsimgap’ was the ‘well’. So I kept looking for the well.
‘It would be strange if I found it all at once.’
So I just didn’t go to the well right away. It was accurately interpreted in Larsen’s Cheonan.
[Well containing the will of the barrier wizard]
[The ‘blood-stained well’ setting is activated by the will of the barrier wizard.]
Larsen’s heart began to beat quickly.
‘found.’
From the first time he came to Yongdusan, Larsen had been looking for this ‘blood-stained well’. When Cha Seong-min wrote, he did not include detailed settings for ‘Bloody Well’. The name of the place was simply ‘Blood-stained Well’, and it was here that Kasin gained inspiration.
‘If this is a well stained with blood…’
Larsen realized.
‘Magner 30 years ago. The bandits must have been buried here.’
So this place would have turned into a ‘well stained with blood.’ It must have been a well that ate at least 10 people.
‘What is a barrier wizard?’
That is something that Cha Seong-min did not set. Although a considerable number of barrier magicians appear in the novel, there are very few barrier magicians who are free enough to spread a barrier around a well in a small village like this. As far as Larsen remembers, none at all. They are people with special abilities, and because they have special abilities, they live busy lives in the world.
Larsen asked.
“Master.”
“why?”
“Do you know anything about barrier magicians?”
“A barrier wizard? Why is that again?”
Larsen noticed Magner’s reaction in an instant. Magner didn’t give any special hints, but it was just read. It was purely a matter of intuition.
‘Magnor knows about this place.’
I also know that there is a barrier in place.
“Of course, Master, you already know that there is a barrier here.”
“Look at this guy? How do I know that? “I am a martial arts expert.”
A martial artist does not care about barriers. That is the pride and pride of martial artists.
“Think about it. “What type of barrier magician would go crazy and spend time, money, and effort to create a barrier in a remote well in such a small village?”
“There are a lot of crazy people in the world. “More than you think.”
“It seems like a barrier that has been in place for at least 10 years. But there is no pretense of popularity here.”
“however?”
“If the barrier magician is an assassin who has reached his peak, he may not leave a trace, but I think that is highly unlikely.”
At least it wasn’t in the settings created by Cha Seong-min. Even a fighting magner cannot erase traces of his presence as completely as an assassin. That is the background in this novel. Everyone has things they are good at and things they are bad at. A barrier magician cannot erase traces so completely.
“So, this means that the barrier has been maintained naturally for more than 10 years, but that is realistically impossible.”
Magner’s eyes narrowed.
“so. “What do you want to say?”
“This well itself is naturally creating a barrier. “Because special conditions met.”
“Are you creating a barrier yourself?”
“I feel like the power of the barrier has become much weaker than before. Nevertheless, if it is maintained like this, it must have been much stronger before then.”
Little by little, the picture was drawn.
“Maybe this well itself has a personality.”
“Is something like that possible according to the common sense of wizards?”
“It is possible. Numerous demons and monsters who are not human but act like humans. And spirit bodies. If you think about it, there are a lot. “It’s a world where undead also exist.”
Magner recalled 30 years ago. If Larsen is right, this well would have been even more powerful 30 years ago.
‘When I look back on my memories….’
I don’t remember much else. It seems like a hazy fog is spreading out. All I remember is that I defeated about 10 bandits and threw them into a well. And that I saw ‘Mai’ there. That’s all I remembered.
‘Why is that all I remember?’
I thought I remembered it pretty clearly. Tuwang Magner focused on the past. With amazing concentration, I tried to remember each and every event from the past. Things from 30 years ago. Even Mai, whom I met for the first time here.
‘I first met Mai in front of this well…’
When I think about it, it’s a bit strange.
‘In front of the well?’
She had clearly been held as a slave by bandits, and her condition had deteriorated to the point where she died while descending the mountain. But you were able to freely walk around the well?
Larsen said.
“The fact that an object possesses will and unfolds a barrier on its own means that there is a special setting in this world at stake.”
“Do wizards call these things settings?”
“yes. It’s called a set value. Supernatural things that are difficult to explain with human common sense. Those things are called ‘settings.’”
“Right.”
“I will tell this secretly only to my teacher. No one knows. “Only Master knows.”
Larsen lowered his voice. Magner is a man with a heavy mouth. A personality that does not betray that trust if the other person shows trust first. Magner frowned deeply.
“There’s no need for that. “I don’t know.”
Once you know a secret, you must keep it. Such a mission arises. That’s Magner’s idea. I feel better about not listening at all. But Larsen was stubborn. Larsen is gradually learning how to use Magner.
“I can somewhat read those supernatural settings.”
“I’m not listening!”
“Then why don’t you knock me out?”
Magner nodded.
“OK. “I’ll make sure you can’t wake up for three days.”
When he raised his fist, Larsen let out a word he had been preparing.
“I can sense the name ‘Mai’ from this well.”
“…what?”
“The name of this well is Blood-stained Well. It’s a special place. “This place feels like my sister’s arrangement.”
“….”
Magner couldn’t raise his fist. I just looked straight at Larsen. A well stained with blood. Larsen is a young guy who wasn’t even born 30 years ago. Now only 10 years old. There is no way we can know what happened back then. This is a story that is not even known to the world.
Larsen continued.
“But the interesting thing is.”
“….”
“I can’t feel the blood.”
A well stained with blood where no blood can be felt. Larsen grinned.
“how is it? “Do you have any clues?”
At that moment, a strange wind blew from inside the well. The light pink-colored wind blew out like smoke.