Chapter 137 – Rune Mage

See you tomorrow.
Calling my name and asking to see you again made my heart flutter even though it was only for a short time.
Of course, there is no romantic connotation in that word at all.
It means that we will meet again tomorrow and put on a crazy magic performance together.

A few days later at 2pm.
As usual, I was putting on a magic show in front of the citizens with Bella the crow.

“It’s Wizard Luke and Fajirguzi!”
“Hwajirguzi, please give my daughter a wink!”

Thanks to Bella the Crow, my magical performance was a sensation among mothers of her children.
It was because my magic performance just happened to be a good spectacle for parents in another world who have nowhere to go to play with their children.

“It’s dangerous, so don’t bring the kids inside!”
“What is this bald head!”
“Don’t be bald, call him by his first name! My name is Brown!”

As the audience grew, Brown took on the inn staff to take care of the backyard himself.
Thanks to the magic performance, sales at the Tabard Inn are continuously rising these days.
From Brown’s point of view, I look like a blue bird that asks for money, so I have no choice but to take care of it.
I looked at Brown, who was acting like a performance staff, for a moment, then opened my mouth to the audience.

“Nice to meet you today. I’m Luke, the wizard who commands the crows.”
“Ooooo! Crow Wizard!”

As soon as he greeted them, enthusiastic cheers and applause poured in.
I’ve never been welcomed by people like this in my dream life.

“Today, I prepared a new performance with my pet, Hwasang Gooji. Let’s see it. Bell… It’s not Hwasang Gooji!”

Food Duck!
When I called her name, Bella the crow flapped her wings and soared into the air.

“Liquid.”

I pulled out a water whip and swung it lightly.
The wriggling water whip corrected its trajectory on its own, trying to catch Bella the crow.

Poof!
Crow Bella narrowly escaped the water whip that pursued her by performing spectacular flight techniques in the air.
Every time the water whip barely touched the body of the crow, the audience erupted in cheers.

“Fajirguzi is in danger!”
“Are you going to kill your own mascot?!”

Of course, Bella the crow won’t get hit by my water whip.
I’m just directing a risky scene by controlling the water whip in the air.
Just like pro wrestling, we just have a scripted match.
The audience exclaimed when several minutes passed without a scratch on the crow’s body.

“That crow’s flying skills aren’t normal. He evaded all magic.”
“As expected, Mr. Hwajirguzi! He might be the descendant of Huginn and Munin, the kings of crows!”
“Godjireuguji! Fighting!”

When Bella, the crow, dodged all the water whips and landed on my horn, several audience members applauded.

Chuck-!

Bella the Crow rewarded their applause with a double-handed salute.
In this way, we matched our performances for a week.
Every time I showed a splendid performance, the audience would throw copper coins in the backyard, but Brown, who pretended to be a staff member, collected them all and handed them to me.

“Luke. The amount you earned today is 1 silver. It’s like earning a lot from one day’s performance.”
“Surprisingly, it makes quite a bit of money. It’s less than working as an adventurer, though.”
“Think of it as earning pocket money.”

I managed to make money because I collected all the memes thrown by the audience.
After the performance, I was thinking about what to buy with the money I received today.
There was a woman talking to me from over the fence in the backyard.

“Adventurer. It’s been a while.”
“Well?”

As she looked up, she saw a familiar woman in her suit, staring at me.

‘It’s Hannah.’

It was Bella’s secretary.
Hannah was conducting research on Bella’s order to find a suitable class for me.
Class is what can be said to be the upper class of a wizard, but the class that suits me is so rare that it seems to take quite a long time to find.

Caw!

When Bella the Crow makes her appearance, she soars into the sky and she quickly runs away.
He probably keeps the secret of relieving stress by pretending to be a crow, even from his secretary.
Hanna put on a puzzled expression as she watched Bella bounce quickly.

“What is that crow?”
“It’s a pet I raise. It’s a guy that I usually release from time to time, no, it’s a year, but you don’t have to worry about it.”
“You have a unique taste in raising crows.”

Hannah nodded her head knowingly and revealed the business of her coming to me.

“Adventurer. After researching for a month and a half, I was able to find a class suitable for you. Now, adventurer, the way to become a high-ranking wizard as a wizard has been opened.”
“Thank you for your hard work. But it took much longer than promised?”
“It’s because the adventurer’s fate poem is so unique. My teacher, the professor of the Mage Tower, also helped me interpret it, but it was quite difficult. I had to go through the old history books of the Mage Tower to find out the adventurer’s class.”

The more Hanna talked about her hard work, the more interested she was in my class.
What kind of hipster-like class was it that made it difficult for even the Mage Tower professor to find?

“So what? Can you tell me here?”
“I can tell you about the class name.”

Hannah told me briefly.

“Rune Mage. It is a class with the longest history in the Midgard continent. The class of ‘Two Wizards’, which can be said to be the founders of wizards, was also a rune mage.”

Which class has the longest history?
The ancestor of wizards was in the same class as me?

Five.
I was looking forward to it because I felt that it was a good class.
As I gulped, Hanna waved her hand and gestured for me to follow her.

“Come with me to the adventurer’s guild. I’ll explain the adventurer’s class in detail in front of Lady Bella.”
“You mean go to Bella’s office?”
“Yes, I’m not sure if she’s in the office right now. She’s often gone lately in the afternoon.”
“It’s okay. You should probably be back in the office by now.”

Of course I would go back
Because Bella herself told me that she always goes back to the office after the gig.
Watching me speak confidently, Hannah tilted her head.

“How do you know, adventurer-nim? I didn’t even tell my secretary when Lady Bella would return.”
“Somehow I think so. Let’s go.”
“…Hmm?”

After tidying up the backyard, I left for the adventurer’s guild with Hannah.

*

The assistant guild master’s office on the top floor of the guild headquarters.
When we entered the office, Bella welcomed us today in light clothes.
Bella had her office window wide open to cool off as she had just returned from a flight before we arrived.
It was autumn, so a cool breeze came in and it was cool.

“Surely Miss Bella is in her office.”
“You’re lucky.”

Lucky you!
I passed it off with this one word, but Hannah didn’t particularly ask me how I predicted the future.
As loyal as her secretary would be, she only posted her report to her employer, Bella.

“Miss Bella. I succeeded in finding the adventurer’s class.”
“Oh, yes? What class?”
“From now on, I’m going to explain it to the young lady and the adventurer-sama.”

Hannah and I sat across from each other at a guest table set up in the office.
As Bella sat at her desk and looked down at us, Hanna began to tell a story.

“Before we start talking about rune mages, there’s something to check first. Adventurer. How much do you know about the history of magic?”

The history of magic is probably the study of how magic in another world was first born and developed to the present day.
I didn’t learn the history subject from Rumi, so I didn’t know the details.
I told Hannah honestly that I didn’t know.

“I don’t know. But what does the rune mage have to do with the history of magic?”
“If you know the history, it’s because the explanation can be appropriately omitted. But if you don’t know, I’ll tell you what you need. I’ll explain the story of the ancestors of wizards lightly.”

Magical progenitors.
Humanity’s first wizards who created magic in another world.
It was their story that Hannah was trying to tell me.

“A long time ago, the continent of Midgard was ruled by an ancient race called the Asher. The Asher saved mankind from the giants of Jotunheim and other vicious beings. Among them, two particularly famous people on the continent There were heroes, Odin and Loki.”

Odin and Loki.
I know very well that it is a name I have heard a lot somewhere.
Not here in another world, but in the days when I lived on Earth.
He must be a god from Norse mythology.
After being reincarnated as a dreamer on the Midgard continent, the most amazing thing was the myth of another world.
It’s because the place names and proper nouns match surprisingly well with the Norse mythology I heard on Earth.

‘It’s a strange thing.’

I don’t know why this coincidence happened.
However, the Norse mythology I knew and the mythology of the other world did not match perfectly, and there were some differences.
So it was better to listen in silence than to pretend to know.

“Odin and Loki, the most outstanding heroes of the Asher tribe, waged war against the giants of Jotunheim along with their fellow tribesmen. However, compared to the ancient giants, the Asher tribe lacked strength. The difference in natural strength To overcome this, Odin and Loki one day developed a new technology of war, and that technology of war is magic.”

Magic was developed for warfare.
Indeed, it is true to the Midgard continent, the world of real men.

“It is said that magic that uses the power of runes to create mysterious miracles was of great help in war. Odin and Loki overcame their inferiority and won the war against the giants with magic. At this time, 24 primitive runes were used. It’s an ancient rune magic, and Odin and Loki called themselves ‘Rune Mages’.”

Hanna looked at me and added a word.

“It can be seen as the same as the adventurer’s class, Rune Mage.”