Return of The 8th Class Mage Chapter 68:

24  Dark Veil (2)

 

‘What is this place… . . ?’

 

After diagonally tunneling through, the outside was reached .

 

To his surprise, it appeared completely different than what he had imagined .

 

It was nothing, but a wide open ‘flat’ prairie land .

 

Nothing, but a wide prairie filled with only grass .

 

There were cliffs all around .

 

Has the earth been risen up?

 

‘No, wait . ’

 

It wasn’t risen up .

 

It was floating in the air in the first place .

 

That is, a piece of earth was ‘levitating’ in the air .

 

A bundle of clouds nearby has assured him .

 

It was a ‘levitating’ earth that has never been heard or seen before .

 

What is this place?

 

‘A human?’

 

Ian has recovered from confusion .

 

He located someone in the distance .

 

A man was sitting at the edge of a cliff .

 

At a quick glance, it appeared to be a human being .

 

He was sitting in a very precarious way .

 

‘What is that?’

 

Ian felt somewhat confused .  He came to this place chasing after his curiosity and feeling that something would be here .  But, he has discovered stranger things that were beyond expectations .  A wide, levitating prairie that was as high as to reach the clouds and even an unidentifiable human being .

 

‘This definitely looked suspicious . ’

 

He thought it to be suspicious .

 

 

As that would be the normal expected reaction .

 

However, his mind wasn’t having such a feeling at all .

 

Although it was hard to explain, he felt at peace .

 

With the entire landscape that came into his view,

 

And even that person, too .

 

‘Is it witchcraft?’

 

There was a high probability that that’s what it would be .  No, he was certain .

 

The problem was that even though he believed it to be witchcraft for certain, he wasn’t able to overcome it .  Ian doesn’t easily get tricked by witchcraft .   At least, once he detects witchcraft, he was always able to overcome it .  However,

 

‘He can’t feel it . ’

 

The power of witchcraft could not be detected .

 

It can only be overcome if there were physical evidences .

 

There would be only two reasons in such a case .

 

It wasn’t the effect of witchcraft to begin with

 

Or

 

‘The sorcerer is much stronger than me . ’

 

Ian is a 6th class mage .

 

He even possesses the knowledge of the 8th class .

 

 

No one would have stronger sorcery abilities than Ian .  At least there will be no one among the human beings .

 

‘If this was an effect of witchcraft,’ then there was only one answer .  The man that was still sitting on the edge of the cliff with his back showing, the ‘one who appears to be a human being’, that man must be the sorcerer of this witchcraft .

 

‘At a minimal, he would be comparable to my former self . ’

 

It had to be someone like the former Ian, that is, someone equivalent to an 8th class mage or with unlimited possibility of being greater than that .  That would be the only way to totally deceive Ian like this .

 

 

‘What if he was hostile towards me… . . ’

 

There was nowhere to run to .

 

It would mean a gamble for life in order to escape from that person .

 

Gulp!