Chapter 156 – The Trial of Nistrond and the Naked Half-Elf

Delia, who had been laughing for a while, couldn’t stop laughing when she saw that I had removed the protector.

“What, what… You removed the quarter staff’s protector? Does that make sense? Canceling is a skill that can only be learned in Ninggard or the Mage Tower!”

Canceling.
Perhaps modern wizards call the protector release technique that way.
In Rumi’s class, terms are at odds with modern nomenclature.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that knowledge is wrong at all.
You can tell just by looking at the first protector being properly released.

“What the hell! You weren’t a wandering wizard!”
“It’s a wandering wizard. He just has a good teacher.”

I couldn’t afford to use honorific words anymore because I was concentrating on the release.
I subtly changed it to short language, but Delia was so embarrassed that she didn’t even know I was using short language.
She just gritted her teeth and looked at me with a deceived look.

“Keuugh! I thought you didn’t know anything because the clothes were so flimsy!”

I dug into Delia’s gap and asked a question with a nonchalant expression.

“Is this the standard way to pass the Quarter Staff’s ordeal? From the beginning, this wasn’t an ordeal to acquire a Quarter Staff by using force or spells. If you passed the ordeal that way in the first place, there would be nothing left. Your magic wand would be perfect. You have to be in control to be able to use ancient magic. Am I wrong?”

Although she had no physical evidence and was guessing, Delia was very poor at hiding her feelings.
She looked at me with a terrified expression, as if asking how she knew that.

“Mo, how did you know, Mongma? It’s a genealogy that was passed down only among our members!”
“Someone told me.”
“Keueueueussok! There is a traitor among the members!”

I noticed it thanks to you, you Kamp girl.
I caught Delia’s mistakes, but I didn’t tell the truth.
If you listen carefully to what this little boy is saying, other useful information might come out.

However, even if the standard to pass her ordeal was leaked, Delia still had a feeble leeway.
She seemed to still have something she firmly believed in.

“Heng! I think I succeeded in canceling by chance! There are still many protectors left! Even if I wake up one a day, it’s 15 days! A day has already passed, so time is running out!”

Delia spread her breasts wide and reveled in her blizzard whirling around her.
It was a murderous cold to me, but she, Delia, she shivered but had a refreshing expression. The cold was the biggest ordeal that hindered me.

“The temperature in the storage room is 0.6 degrees right now. It’s completely winter. Can you concentrate properly in such a cold place? Bringing in outside items is prohibited, but your concentration will continue to drop. It’s absolutely impossible to get through within 5 days.”

In fact, it was possible to get all the protectors off within 15 days if you kept in top condition.
However, due to the fierce cold, my mental strength was slowly being eaten away. If you can’t deal with the cold, you’ll end up losing the bet. The miserable end of standing naked on a handstand must be waiting for me.

But, if there was a way, I had something in mind.
It was a way of digging into the rules of the ordeal, which were pretty loosely set.

“Yes. Bringing in outside items is prohibited. But isn’t it okay to drink ‘drinks’ outside the storage room?”
“A drink…? That’s it, of course it’s fine.”

As if she was talking nonsense, Delia gave me a sullen look.
Drinks are, of course, allowed as part of the meal.
If I ordered separately, I could get the drink I wanted here. It is the rule of the temple to provide plenty of food for the wizard who is going through a difficult ordeal.

So three meals a day.
At that time, I can order any dish I want.
Of course, as far as common sense allows.

“Delia. When you feed me tomorrow morning, bring me a drink. I want you to bring me the strongest drink in the temple.”
“The most poisonous alcohol…? Haha, aren’t you stupid?
“Yes. Wouldn’t it be beneficial for you? If I drank and stretched out, the time would be reduced.”
“Oh-ho-ho-.”

Delia nodded her head without much thought.
He seemed to firmly believe that alcohol would ruin him.

“I’ll see you tomorrow morning. I’ll bring you the very strong distilled liquor that the boss drinks. It’s a crazy drink with 90% alcohol.”
“Awesome.”

Delia wiggled her pointy ears wildly, as if she sensed her victory. The wiggling of her ears is a bodily phenomenon that occurs when a half-elf is intensely interested in something. She was only interested in me now.

“Euhahahahaha! The dreamer self-destructed!”

After Delia left her room, I focused on removing the protectors again. The cold continued to hit me, and my body trembled. If it wasn’t for his strong body, he would have already collapsed.

8 a.M. The next day.
Delia brought me breakfast.
As she promised, Delia had a bottle of wine in her arms. I also like alcohol to some extent, so I quickly recognized what kind of alcohol it was.

Vootka.
It is a traditional liquor with the longest history in the western continent. It can be said that it is a very friendly drink enjoyed by the common people and even some aristocrats. The number of degrees varies from 40 degrees to 96 degrees. Of course, even at the lowest temperature of 40 degrees, if you drink it raw, you will get drunk in no time.

“I brought it, but are you really going to drink it? Are you just trying to brag?”

Delia handed me a tray of meals and a boot car.
I checked the label to be sure, and the drink Delia brought was exactly 90% ABV. It’s good enough to think that it’s just drinking alcohol.

“Why do you think it’s a bluff?”

However, I rather piqued my appetite as I looked at the bootcar.
The surface of the sake bottle is frozen as if it had just been taken out of the freezer. A liquid of high purity flowed through the transparent bottle.
All of the dreamers like me like to drink since they were born. It’s easy to seduce a woman if you drink well.

“You can drink a little because you’re feeling frustrated after undergoing an ordeal. One shot of this will clear your stomach.”
“Mi, you crazy bastard! Bang! It’s not your stomach that gets pierced, it’s your intestines!!”

Click!
The moment I opened the stopper, a poisonous smell spread everywhere.
Delia looked at me in dismay as I had even unplugged her.

“Mum…!”

Stop! I would have tried to say
But before I could finish speaking, I grabbed the whole bottle and drank. From the moment I poured the bootka, it was like a fire was burning in my mouth.
Alcohol travels down the esophagus and reaches the stomach. As the alcohol began to break down, my body temperature slowly rose.

“Huh-!!”

The burning spirit of alcohol awakened my frozen mind.
The heat spreading through the body from the intestines quickly warmed the body.

“Ha, I emptied the whole bottle!”
“Thank you.”

The reason why I drank strong alcohol was to clear my mind and melt my body. You may not know what clear mind means here.
Alcohol was no different from a kind of awakening drug to the dreamer.

“Why is the tone so good?! It’s normal to get drunk!”
“Demons rarely get drunk. Our brains have a strong resistance to the anesthetic effect of alcohol. When we drink, our body temperature rises dramatically depending on the alcohol level.”
“Boo, I’ve definitely seen a drunk dreamer! Don’t cheat!”

I revealed to Delia the truth the dreamers were hiding.

“It’s all pretending to be drunk. It’s flirting to seduce the opposite sex. Did you think that a race specialized in construction work would stretch out at a drinking party?”
“That’s all acting!”

The people of the world don’t know that dreamers don’t get drunk.
This is because the entire clan is unified and keeps quiet about revealing their characteristics.
If you get caught, it will be difficult to work.

“Thanks to you, my body has warmed up! Now I can live a little better. I’ll ask for the same drink for lunch.”
“It’s great.”

My body temperature rose, and I was able to tolerate the cold to some extent.
After the meal, I proceeded to remove the protector again.
Of course, Delia didn’t bring alcohol to lunch.

“You have no alcohol?”
“That’s not good for your health. Drink a little.”
“Since when did you care about my health?”

I snorted and went out of the storage room to bring a drink. I already knew the location of the temple restaurant, so I just had to go there and order a drink.

Knock!
I deliberately drank in front of Delia. Delia grabbed the back of her neck as she watched me drink the strong drink like a medicine. Somehow she tried to interrupt me with trash talk, but she just let it go in one ear.

“Ooh, why don’t we draw!!”
“Fuck it.”

A day passed like that, and then another two days passed.
With each passing day, one or two protectors came loose. Time passed quickly and the promised date was approaching.

The day that 14 days have passed since the ordeal began.
It was the 14th day, with a day left in the full moon.
Delia broke out of her lab from the day before and watched me be put through the ordeal. She was now watching me, having given up even doing her trash talk.

“Ph, only one protector left!”

A total of 15 protectors.
All 14 of them were released.
At this moment, I challenged myself to release the last protector. As the last line of defense, the last protector was more sophisticated than the others. As many as 27 patterns were intertwined like a net, and it took time to figure out the structure.

Quadduk!
When evening came, I finally removed all my protectors. All the transparent shields disappeared, revealing Nistrond’s pure white body to me.

“Hagalaz!”

The moment he shouted the rune, Nice Trond’s body trembled. It seems like you’re trying to resist weakly, but it’s no use. Control of all functions already possessed by him has been transferred to me.

This magic wand is mine now!
I can use it however I want!

“Cease the blizzard and stop resisting.”

The moment the order was given, the blizzard stopped like a lie. I approached the Nystrond embedded in the ground and pulled out its body with both hands.

“Aaaaap!”

Crack-!
At the same time as the ice cracked, Nistrond jumped upward. With my quarterstaff in hand, I realized I had finally passed the ordeal.

“Hagalaz!”

Runes are the starting words of ancient magic.
The moment I finished my pronunciation, a fierce snowstorm blew around me.
After covering the inside of the storage room with snow, I realized in the middle of it.

That countless knowledge was flowing into my head through the wand.
It was the knowledge of ancient magic.

[Unique magic system driven by primitive runes.]
[Basic theory of constructing and transforming ancient magic formulas.]
[How to modify the quarter staff.]

“Ugh!”

Complex knowledge rushed in all at once, making my head pound.
A wizard who has passed the ordeal will awaken on the spot.

At this moment, I have awakened as a rune mage.

“It’s nonsense-!! It’s not even 15 days, it’s only been 2 weeks, but I passed the ordeal! This is a dream!”

He also won the bet against Delia neatly.
Now it was time to accept the naked apology of humiliation.

“Take it off, half-elf.”
“Hick.”
“Put your clothes in order and bow naked in front of me. It would be polite to put your underwear on top.”

What if this elf girl comes back and says something else?
I thought about it for a while, but there was no need to worry.

“Could the wizard speak two words with one mouth?”
“Keukssok! Just take it off!”

Delia hesitated, but eventually she took off her clothes in front of me.
The moment she took off the robe that wrapped her body, her body was revealed in a white blouse and skirt.

Her body is petite, but her breasts are swollen like those of a cow.
The silver-haired half-elf began to perform a striptease in front of me.

“Bo, don’t look…!”

See
Yes, take off your panties too.