Return of The 8th Class Mage Chapter 9:
Guest to the House of Morgrian (5)
If Ian didn’t say that it was a wolf, people would definitely have thought that it was a puppy .
A puppy which had sharp eyes .
That’s what it looked like .
‘In my former life, I used to be able to summon a much bigger one . ’
For his current mana pool, it was enough .
Otherwise, he would be drained of all his mana .
‘That’s why conjure magics are not famous . ’
Nintey percent of all mages normally stayed in 1st class .
So tomost of the mages, conjure magic was only used when you wanted to see cute magical animals to play with them .
“Wow… I haven’t seen any such magic before . ”
“How about you? You came from the capital . ”
“You don’t say! Of course I’ve seen it before . ”
“Ooooh . ”
Soldiers started to chat about the magic .
They must have been impressed by the magic .
“Come here . ”
Ian called the wolf spirit to where the blood was shed .
It ran to the owner like a puppy .
“These smells, can you find where they lead to?”
The wolf spirit sniffed around the area .
It tried to track the lost people by smell .
“Mr . Mage . ”
“Speak . ”
“I am sorry to keep bothering you, but we have already released hounds . But they couldn’t find the way . Goblins must have left some fake smells to confuse them .
So, it was of no use to find them with the smell . ”
The knight said that indirectly .
What he said made sense .
However,
“People say a dog smells a hundred times better than a human, right?”
Instead of an answer, Ian asked a question to the knight .
“That’s what I have heard . ”
“A wolf spirit smells a hundred times better than dogs . ”
“Is, is it true?”
“I read it from a book . ”
“…… . Yeah?”
“‘Everything about magic,’ It’s a famous book, you know? Archmage Luke wrote it . ”
“I, I know of it, but…”
He said it confidently, but was all that confidence from the book?
The knight looked at the wolf spirit .
It’s cute sniffing made light of this serious scouting mission .
Look at its little steps .
‘Really? That creature?’
Furthermore, he said he read it from a book .
Well, the knight knew that the book was famous .
Even the knight himself had read it .
The book which described many kinds of magic .
It was written by a legendary mage .
But still… . **** .
Can Ian really be trusted?
When the knight’s doubt was growing larger .
*Howl . . howwwwl!*
The wolf spirit stopped sniffing and started to growl .
It sounded like it wanted them to follow it .
It was .
“Let’s move . ”
Everyone, including Ian, started to move .
The wolf spirit lead the way .
By moving around busily, it kept finding the trails .
It must have been similar in the world of his former life .
The conducting mage Marco, must have chosen the same way .
*sniff! sniff!*
It ran through the forest relentlessly .
Animals of the forest saw its body and ran away .
Even beasts were no exception .
Although it was a pup, but still it was a spirit of the beast .
It looked like any beast could swallow it with a single bite, though .
*pant pant*
The soldiers’ breath were getting rough .
Going deeper and deeper into the forest .
If people went further, they might lose their way .
When they started to worry about how to get back,
*grrrrr*
The wolf spirit suddenly stopped .
Not just stopped, but it took an alert position .
“Stop . ”
By Ian’s order,
“Halt!”
The veteran knight stopped the others .
They lowered their bodies .
*rustle, rustle*
Ian carefully stepped forward .
“A valley?”
In front of them, there was a huge valley .
It was so deep that no one could fall off safely .
There was a cave which was located on the valley’s rounded wall .
It was the perfect place for a den .
“Look… look there!”
A soldier who was looking down the valley shouted urgently .
Everyone’s face turned pale .
“Is, is it even possible?”
“Goblins… . ”
At the very bottom of the valley .
There was a shocking scenery that awaited them .
“I can’t even count how many there are…”
The goblins were gathered there .
It was simple to describe the situation .
But the problem was their numbers .
By glancing through, there were more than five hundred goblins .
At that moment,
*Doooom – Doooom – Doooom – Doooom – Doooom*
To the heavy sounds of a drum, the goblins started to move .
Quickly, they formed a circle, with a gap in the centre .
Also, they made a way which lead to the centre .
Like trained soldiers, they moved neatly .
“Wh, what is that?”
At the spot where all scouts were looking, an unknown monster was moving through the way the goblins had made .
‘Hobgoblin?’
This time, Ian was also suprised .
Big as a male human, light pink skin .
It must be the hobgoblin that Ian had thought of shortly before .
‘But, how?’
Hobgoblins only live in the southern great grass field .
That’s what Ian had learnt before .
From now on, it seemed he was wrong .
‘So, it was acting as a leader to them . ’
What he could be sure of was that it ruled over the goblins as a king .
The king of every goblin on the mountain .
*Dooom – Dooom – Dooom*
Again, the drum started to bang .
More goblins appeared from the cave at the rounded wall of the valley .
They came out of the cave carrying something .
“Landlord…?”
The veteran knight said while standing up quickly .
It was the landlord, who was being carried by the goblins .
“He is still alive!”
“Also, our captain… . !”
It was not only the landlord .
His son, Labi Mogrian .
James, the Captain of the Mogrian knights .
Also the other surviving knights and soldiers .
All of them were fettered and dragged out to the centre .
*Kiak! Kiak! Kiak! Kiak!*
The shout of the goblins shook the valley .
They started to throw filth at the lined humans .
The valley was filled with hatred and madness .
The execution of the humans had started .
*srurung*
The veteran knight drew his sword .
Others did the same .
“We need to protect our landlord!”
They started to approach the cliff to climb down the valley .
“All of you guys will die .
Ian told them .
There were too many goblins .
They would never win the battle .
“But we can’t just sit here and do nothing!”
Of course, they wouldn’t listen .
Everyone lost their mind after they saw the landlord .
Ian had expected this .
“Just stay here and watch . ”
“What… . !”
Those were Ian’s last words .
He moved down to the valley without any hesistation .
“M, Mr . Mage!”
“Feather Fall . ”
The veteran knight shouted because of shock .
Because he didn’t climb down through the side wall .
He,literally, just jumped off .
It meant he would crash down .
“… . huh?”
But Ian didn’t crash .
Instead, he was falling slowly, moving diagonally leaving a trail behind him .
It was the effect of the slow falling magic .
‘I will land at the proper place . ’
At the very centre of the goblins .
So he will land very close to the landlords and other knights and soldiers .
He might be able to finish the goblins with a single blow .
By squeezing out the maximum power of the ring, there was a possiblity .
Most of all, they were all gathered in a nice shape .
‘I need to draw my full power from the very depth of my mana pool . ’
Ian started to draw in his mana .
The mana flowed to his right hand and it started releasing a freezing energy .
As it cooled, it formed icicles in the air .
“Kiak! Kiak! Kiak!”
As he approached, the shouts got louder .
The unique voice of goblins, which sounds like rupturing metal .
It wasn’t pleasant to hear .
‘A little bit more . ’
Ian twisted his body, and sharpened his landing angle .
So that he can land at the very centre of the execution area .
‘A little bit more . ’
He could see the landlord and people .
Still, there was a distance between him and the people .
‘A little bit more . ’
Now he has almost arrived near them .
He quietly flooded his mana to his legs,
So that it could handle the shock of landing .
“Kiaaak?”
One by one, goblins started to recognise him .
A human who was descending slowly .
The Hobgoblin gripped his axe .
“Cancel . ”
Ian’s body started to fall rapidly, because he cancelled the feather fall magic on him .
But everything was perfect .
The distance between him and the ground wasn’t long, and his legs were strengthened by mana .
These two were the only things he needed .
*smash!*
The landlord who had lost hope .
His young son and the other soldiers .
In front of them, Ian landed .
“Frost”
After landing, Ian lay his right hand on the ground .
“Nova . ”
Ian’s Ice spell which smashed the gymnasium before .
The range of it had absolutely exceeded its original level .
Frost Nova .
*Crac, Crack, Crackkk!!!*
The freezing energy released from Ian devoured the goblins .
It had stronger power within it than the spell Ian casted at the gymnasium before .
It was the result of consuming every bit of mana within Ian .
“Kiiiikkk!”
“Kiiiiaaaaaakk!”
The valley, which used to be filled with goblin shouts, became a freezing hell, filled with only screams of goblins .
“That is… . ”
The power of a mage that could only be imagined through books .
Scouts who observed its true power upon the valley .
They were speechless and blinked their eyes in astonishment .
The weapon in their hands seemed useless .
“…Mage…?”