Return of The 8th Class Mage Chapter 12:
The Very Antithetical Alchemist (1)
After Ian was declared as an ‘Eternal Guest’ of the Mogrian house, the great landlord immediately arranged a convoy for Ian .
“I am not sure if we are the right people to **** him . ”
There were around a total of twenty people in the squad, including the veteran knight ‘Eric’, who went to the valley with Ian, and ‘Luca’, who called himself the Spearmaster . They travelled with him while guarding him and running errands .
“That’s what I thought . ”
The soldier Luca replied to the veteran knight .
Both of them saw the freezing **** that Ian made at the valley .
The landlord commanded them to protect him?
A random wolf spirit, passing by them, would laugh, if it saw this situation .
“Perhaps, we are the ones who are being guarded…”
“I agree . ”
The convoy was formed with twenty people,
By following Ian, they were heading to the end of the province, Lloyd village .
He was going to meet the alchemist who the merchant suggested .
“What do you think about it?”
Luca asked Ian who was walking in front of him .
Usually, people got scared when confronting mages .
Especially, if they saw the scene at the valley .
But this soldier, Luca, he didn’t seem to be scared of Ian,
Whether he confronted knights or mages, he was a very friendly guy .
‘Does he dare to risk his life?’
As Ian had seen him, he could make a conclusion .
Soon, this soldier would be rebuked by nobles or mages with bad tempers .
“Is it still far from Lloyd village?”
“Yeah? Ah, we will arrive there soon . It’s bit far, yeah?”
Instead of answering, Ian changed the topic by giving him a question .
As Ian intended, it seemed that Luca forgot about the question he asked previously .
However, Luca felt different .
‘Hwoo! It makes me so nervous, indeed . ’
By Ian’s question, Luca calmed himself .
Honestly, he was as afraid of Ian as the others .
Power was like a monstrous magic to nobles .
How would he dare confront such a person easily .
Furthermore, he hadn’t known him for very long .
‘But I have to endure . This is a chance . The only chance that is allowed to me . ’
The reason that encouraged him to dare to risk his life, it was an ‘interview’ .
An interview for his life goal! .
‘When would I have a chance to have a conversation with a mage?’
The dream he told his comrades about whenever he had time .
Writing a heroic chronicle after retirement!
Everyone laughed at his goal, but Luca was serious .
‘The Mage and The Spearmaster will be a masterpiece!’
The power of the dream was big enough to change his life .
He used to always drink whenever he got a day off .
Now, he learned writing skills whenever he had time .
The wage which was only spent on alcohol, was now spent to buy paper, books and ink .
‘Cheer up! I can do it! No hesitation! Go Go Go!’
With a small self encouragement, Luca grabbed his spear strongly .
Now the squads were close to the village .
“You will see the village when you climb over that hill . ”
The veteran knight Eric said .
It was a very far away village, as though someone picked it up and put it away from the province .
He had only heard of it in his former life, but had never visited there .
‘The alchemist Ledio, was it?’
The alchemist who came from the capital and lived in Lloyd village .
According to the merchant, he moved here to gather some specific herb .
The herb that only grew in north land, Ian could list few herbs like that .
‘Specifically, the herb that can’t be found in other places would be…’
There was only one herb like that .
The herb with a body that was too frail to be transported .
The herb with sensitive characteristics that couldn’t be cultivated as well .
‘The flower of Randor . ’
It was a rare herb,
But there was no known effect of it .
It was questionable if it should even be called as a herb .
‘Maybe he is not an ordinary alchemist . ’
He moved to north side to gather such a herb .
Perhaps two possibilities are there .
He knew its usage, or was just curious about it .
‘Ee shall see . ’
After he climbed to top of the hill, he could see the village .
It was the Lloyd village .
“Hmm?”
The village was in trouble .
Village people were forced to gather at the center, and there were men who were threatening the people with knives .
Even the soldiers who were stationed there were killed .
Surung!
The veteran knight Eric drew his sword .
These men were thieves .
“Take these youngsters only, we better go back now . ”
“What about these chicks?”
“Look at their faces you fool . Would anyone buy them?”
A cunning voice .
It was the conversation between thieves who were committing robbery and human trafficking .
“Hmm, but what a waste . ”
“Let’s sell these youngsters and quickly move to Coldwood . ”
“Hehe! Yeah, that area has pretty chicks . ”
There were five stationed soldiers and twelve boys who would be able to fight .
However, there were twenty one thieves .
It was a battle that they couldn’t win, compared to the number and combat experience of thieves .
Furthermore, they were assaulted suddenly .
“D . . daddy!”
“Douglas!”
There were parents who tried to stop their kids being taken away .
One of these parents was the alchemist, ‘Ledio . ’
He desperately held his son, ‘Douglas . ’
“Give me the boy you bastard!”
However, it was a meaningless struggling .
This weak alchemist wasn’t strong enough to hold his son from the muscular thieves .
“N…no! Not my son!”
“Shut up . ”
*smack! smack! smack!*
The thief kicked Ledio’s stomach many times .
“Hurkkkhhh!”
Ledio’s eyes rolled up due to severe pain and he let out what seemed to be a deathlike groan
“This dying **** dares to act against me?”
Before he got kicked, Ledio’s face had already turned grey .
Furthermore, he was very skinny, like a wooden stick .
It was obvious he was suffering from a nasty sickness .
“Daddy!”
The young son, Douglas, struggled to escape from the grasp of the thief .
“Let me go! Let me go! Daddy!”
“Huh, they both are **** a lot . ”
The thief said annoyingly .
He drew a dagger from a sheath on his thigh .
“Would you shut the **** up if your daddy dies?”
“… . . !”
With the threat, Douglas closed his mouth
“Say one more word, then let’s see what I would do . ”
“Sniff… . !”
“Oh? Did I just hear something?”
The thief smiled sinisterly, while revealing his dirty teeth .
He loved to steal money and **** a girl . .
However, the most entertaining thing was this .
Killing, and playing around before killing .
Just like this time .
“You cried, didn’t you?”
“N…no… . . !”
“Wow, now you talk?”
He started to tease the boy .
“Tsk, That crazy dude started it again . ”
Even other thieves looked at him uneasily .
When people were gathered, there was always at least one abnormal man .
“Finish it quickly and bring the kid!”
“Hehe! I know, I know . ”
The thief crouched in front of Ledio, then said .
“Don’t worry . I will sell him at a good place . ”
He whispered while showing Douglas’ face to Ledio .
“No… . Douglas… . Don’t go… . ”
Even he couldn’t control himself, he stretched his arms, to grab his son .
“Bye bye . ”
The thief grabbed the knife in reverse .
He was going to stab the back of Ledio’s neck .
He loved decapitating people .
“D…daddy! DADDY!”
While the boy screamed desperately,
*Peeerrrk!*
It was a weird sound .
Not a sound of something being penetrated clearly,
Nor a sound of something being smashed .
Some kind of sound that was in between that .
The sound came from the thief’s head, while spreading his red blood everywhere .
“W…what was that? What happened?”
The thieves were panicking .
While looking around carefully, they reached out to the thief who lay on the ground .
“Ice… . ?”
It was an icicle, which had each side sharpened, that penetrated through the head of the thief .
Well, more accurately, his head was blown up .
“W . . where! Where did it come from!”
The thieves looked around cautiously, trying to find the source of the icicle .
“T . . there, over there!”
One of thieves found something .
He pointed to the hill side .
“T . . the p . . provincial army?”
The knights and soldiers rushed down beauteously .
That was the only thing they could see .
Because they were already panicked at the scene .
“W . . why are they here!”
“Damn! Run away!”
Still, there was a long enough distance between them that they can run away from them .
That’s the conclusion the thieves made .
They were sure about it without any doubt .
*Peeeerk!*
Suddenly, another thief fell down .
Again, it was an icicle .
*Peeeerk!*
The icicles came spontaneously .
It never missed once .
*Peerrrk!*
They couldn’t figure it out, that the icicles were coming from the top of the hill, even at the moment when they were dying on the ground .