Chapter 167 – The Mage Tower and Nygard

When I woke up in the morning, I saw Bella sleeping so soundly that no one would know who was carrying her.

Turning over, we are much closer than before we fell asleep. The moment she opened her eyes, Bella was right in front of her nose, which was embarrassing.

“Huh.”

Aside from being embarrassed, chills ran through my body and I shivered.
The room was warm, but my body temperature was particularly low.
He felt the cold as a result of excessive use of ancient magic.

‘I did quite a bit of work yesterday. It’s natural to feel the cold.’

While fighting the fishmen for a day, he used [Quick Freeze] 6 times and used [Blizzard] 5 times. The cold that penetrated to the bone from the recoil made me tremble.

Knock-.
I got out of bed and took out a drink from a nearby backpack. When I drank alcohol with a high alcohol content, my body temperature rose and I became fat.

The life of a drunkard drinking from the morning.
I didn’t know that I would live like this.

‘You have to drink first. It’s a quick way to raise your body temperature.’

It was like a fire burning in my stomach. I set the empty bottle down on the table, and Bella, awake, rubbed her eyes and looked at me.

“…Eh. What is it? Drinking since morning? What are you going to do if you move while drunk and get hurt?”
“It’s okay because there’s nothing to do with the dreamer.”

I told Bella the secret the dreamers were hiding. Being intolerant of alcohol, there is nothing to get drunk on. It is possible to regulate your own body temperature by drinking alcohol.

“The ancient magic I learned gives my body a rebound. The more I use it, the colder I feel and my body temperature drops.
“So you’re saying you could freeze to death while using magic?”
“Theoretically, you could die. Of course, as long as you stop casting magic before you freeze to death. There are plenty of other ways to increase your body temperature.”

I haven’t thought deeply about the means to increase the body temperature yet. But Bella would sense her insecurities, so she put it mildly.

“Don’t worry, I’ve made a plan so you won’t freeze to death.”
“As expected, Mr. Luke has plans.”

Bella looked at me and smiled her sweet smile.

‘Actually, I don’t have any plans yet.’

I reached out my hand for Bella as she lay in her bed thinking to herself. It was time for her to prepare to leave, as she had to leave the villa in the afternoon.

“Mr. Luke. If you call me older sister, I’ll get up.”
“It’s snowing.”
“Whoops.”

Bella took her by the hand and pulled her up from her bed.
We each packed up and prepared to leave.

*

“Hey, why are you suddenly calling Bugilma sister? What happened last night?”

1:00 pm.
At the entrance of the villa, I joined the lovers who had packed their belongings. Rebecca and Kate looked at me curiously as I called Bella friendly overnight.

I told my lovers what had happened in the bedroom yesterday.

“Miss Bella is going to call me sister from now on. I think that’s better.”
“Huh.”

Because she knew that Bella had a fiancée, me and her lovers dismissed the issue of titles.
I asked Rebecca out of curiosity.

“By the way, Rebecca, what month were you born?”
“Me? I was born in December.”
“You’re young.”
“What is being young?”

I gently stroked Rebecca’s gruff hair.

You were born later than me. The season I was born in this world is autumn. My parents, who adopted me into the orphanage, told me my name and birthday, and I knew it because I jumped out.
You could say I’m more of an older brother than Rebecca.

“I was born in October, so I was born earlier than you. Call me oppa from now on, okay?”
“Brother is a piece of shit! What kind of brother is the difference of two months. He’s talking about it.”
“Even cold water has an up and down side, so don’t you call me oppa? Call me oppa. No, call me when you recharge your mana. Let’s play brother and sister in bed just once.”
“Yes.”
“Huh? Are you really going to do it?”
“No. Fuheh.”

As Rebecca shook her head teasingly, I sulked like a frog. The penis hanging between my crotch also became constricted.

It was my wish to be called oppa by pretty girls.
If Rebecca calls her brother when she is charging her magic, she is confident that she will ejaculate without erection on the spot. The efficiency of our magic recharge will increase rapidly.

“Kuh-kuh. If you call me sister first, I’ll think about it. Oh, of course, I’m just thinking about it.”
“How are you? You were born later than me.”

I turned her head toward Kate, crying and eating mustard.
Kate was packing her backpack, listening to our conversation like a radio.

“Kate. You’re a year younger than me. Isn’t it time to call you brother?”
“Mongma-sama. There is a condition for me to call Mongma-nim my brother.”
“On what terms?”
“I love Sister Kate the most in the world! She’d much rather have a blonde childhood friend than a redhead first love!” And I’ll call her brother.”
“Ah…”

I kept my mouth shut. From the side, Rebecca is staring at me with her cheeks puffed out. If you give in to temptation, you will be pinched.

“As expected, childhood friends are better than first love, right? I’m not an ordinary childhood friend. He heals me and takes the last hit instead. I’m a childhood friend with cutting-edge features. Let’s talk about it quickly.”
“I like both.”

I have two lovers, and it’s not easy to make them call me oppa.
I am sad and want to cry. Bella called us from a distance as we were wiping her eyes with the sleeves of her robe.

“Let’s go. Mr. Luke, please defrost the ice wall so we can get out of the villa.”

At Bella’s request, I took my staff and moved closer to the ice wall. Rebecca and Kate followed behind me, each carrying a weapon. No one knew what was going on beyond this thick wall of ice right now.

‘Has the fishman riot been suppressed?’

For one day yesterday, fisherman tribes from the Western Continent gathered and attacked the city. The suppression may not be over yet. If the fishmen decide to wage a guerrilla war in a flooded port city, they will persevere.

“Hagalaz. Melt it.”

I uttered an incantation and struck the ice wall with my staff. It’s an ancient magic whose efficiency increases according to the amount of impact, so it’s better to hit it hard when defrosting it. Bang! Bang! When I hit it, the area I hit melted quickly.

Soon, a doorway was born in the ice wall surrounding the villa.
I took the party outside and looked around.

“There’s no one on the beach, Bella.”
“Let’s go downtown. The water is much less than yesterday.”

Because of the riot, the beach is empty. The water, which was up to my ankles, was considerably lowered, making it easier to move. We immediately moved downtown and found citizens working to drain water from flooded buildings.

“It’s peaceful.”

The fishmen who attacked the city are no longer visible. There are only a few corpses of fishmen scattered around the corner of the street. I caught a citizen and asked how the fishmen’s attack went.

“Hey. What happened to all the fishmen? Didn’t they come in groups yesterday and make a mess? Are they still fighting?”
“Don’t worry. All of them were slaughtered last night. I heard that the leader of the fishmen was also captured and executed.”

A middle-aged citizen answered my question.
Hearing the answer, I felt a sense of wonder.

“If you’re the head of the fishmen, you mean Warchief Neptune? He’s dead?”

Is the warchief dead?
It was the warchief who used the escort warrior who pushed me to the brink of death as one of his subordinates. To be honest, he was prepared to fight to the death when he came after us.

“Neptune…? Ah, yes. His name was Neptune. If you go to the central plaza now, you will see his body hanging from the scaffold.”

It was a disappointing end for the man called the warchief of the fishman race to be executed. The tension was relieved, but he wanted to check with his own eyes to see if he was really dead.

“Who the hell captured the warchief? The knights of the City of Lotus?”
“No. Lord Cloud’s knights fought the warchief and the placenta was killed. The warchief broke into the lord’s castle alone, and it is said that he single-handedly cut down all the troops defending the castle. Fortunately, reinforcements arrived from outside the city before the lord died. You came.”
“Reinforcements? Is it the kingdom’s army?”
“It’s not the army, it’s the wizards. The wizards of the Mage Tower came to our rescue last night. They took care of the remnants of fishmen as well as the warchief. They are very grateful.”

Wizards from the Mage Tower came to the port city to help.
I was confused by the sudden name of a familiar organization.

“If it’s a magic tower, it’s in Yoensu. It takes about a week by riding a wagon to get to the port city. But the magic tower came here to help in just one day? That doesn’t make sense…”
“Well? I don’t know the details. Didn’t it use some great magic to fly here? If you want to know more, meet the wizards in person. They are staying in the central square now.”

Wizards do have good means of transportation. However, on the continent of Midgard, convenient means of transportation such as portals or space movement magic had not been developed. It means that it is impossible to shorten what took us a week to arrive in just one day.

“Thank you for your time.”

After I finished talking with the middle-aged citizen, I went straight to the central square with my party. In the large plaza where the scaffold was set up, he could see the corpses of decapitated fishmen strewn about.

“Ugh. I smell fishy.”
“It smells very bad.”

Lovers held their noses because of the fishy smell of the corpses.
I noticed the wizards gathered near the scaffold and approached them. But before I could even speak to them, the wizards found me first.

“Stop. Who are you?”

They are all wizards with magic wands.
Since they got a class like me, they can be called skilled mages. But, of all the wizards, there is one woman who looks strict. As if wary of the incubus, the female wizard gripped her wand tightly.

“I’m an adventurer on a quest. I want to ask you something.”
“What is it? Pretending to ask, isn’t it touching your chest and bouncing around?”
“No!”

He could hear the young wizards around him calling the female wizard Professor. Apparently, that old woman was the one leading the group of wizards.

“Professor Sera! What do I do with that incubus? Should I kick it out?”
“Just say the word! We will protect the professor in charge!”

It was a time when the young wizards were fiddling with her wands as they stared at a woman named Professor Sera. Professor Sera, who had been watching me closely as if suddenly, gave out a questionable voice.

“No, wait. Where have you seen that staff before…?”

The strict female professor’s gaze was on the pure white quarter staff I was holding. Professor Yeo, who was examining her quarter staff, at one point uttered a puzzled voice.

“Quarter staff? Are you sure you’re a rune mage?”
“That’s right.”

As expected of a professor, I took a quick look at her wand and quickly guessed what kind it was. Only a rune mage like me could use the quarter staff as a magic wand.

The female professor, realizing my true identity, stopped the young wizards.

“…You shouldn’t treat that dreamer carelessly. Even if you’re a wandering wizard, you’ll get in trouble if you touch a rune mage. Everyone, be polite to researchers of ancient magic.”
“Yep!”

The female professor’s attitude changed.
Just the fact that I was a rune mage made me feel respectful.
It is as different as the sky and the earth from the days when he was a wandering third-class wizard.

“Chelsea! You answer that rune mage’s question.”
“Okay, Professor Sarah.”

Soon a young wizard stepped forward to answer my question.