Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 135



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Episode 135.

“Rilun.”

“huh?”

Lirun, with her hair braided into two pigtails, was fiddling with seeds in front of the village chief’s house.

The girl’s magic has great potential as it is something that Beina has possessed for decades. The only flaw is that it requires a medium called a seed, but the power of the vines is that strong. It is something that will be of great help in the mine restoration work.

“It’s like killing two birds with one stone by training in magic and getting Gorton back.”

Gorton is still trapped in that cold, dark, smelly place.

I also wanted to collect his body.

Now that I have some free time.

“What is killing two birds with one stone?”

“It’s a saying that a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law are good together.”

“Do you and your sister-in-law like each other? Do you like each other? Are you having a baby?”

“I don’t know. Anyway, you go to Petri. Hopper, it’s Baron June’s orders.”

Anyway, he’s a guy who lived in Petri.

If we go together to Petri and help restore the mine, it would be good for him because he could recover his father’s body, and for Ronobe, it would be good because he could get a source of income.

“Who is that?”

“me.”

“Is this the Baron that my brother gave me?”

“Yeah, isn’t it great?”

“Awesome! But what is that?”

Was it because of Ira? He didn’t know the greatness of the nobility.

“A commoner like you wouldn’t dare make eye contact with a person of such high status.”

“Huh? Are we like a king and a princess?”

“Rain, similar.”

Although it was not at all similar, Ronobe tried hard to appear calm.

“Wow, that’s amazing! So Baron Jun can do anything?!”

“Then, you can do anything.”

“Well, then! So you can bring the dead back to life?”

“… no.”

“What, I can’t do anything.”

Rirun was greatly disappointed. It wasn’t his fault, but Ronobe was needlessly intimidated.

It was unfair.

“Even a king can’t do that…”

“Princess too?”

“huh.”

“Then, then! Can’t you become a great wizard too?”

“Hmm… Is that a lie?”

If you become a great wizard, it might be possible. It would be a miracle if you could revive a dead person.

Of course, this is not the important thing.

“I’ll tell you when the time is right. Let’s go.”

“Tirneun also asked me to go somewhere…”

“where?”

“Aros? Arusu? Go there.”

“Are you talking about Aolos?”

“Ah! Yeah! There! That’s right, that’s right.”

After Gaisha died.

Tirn left Gradas shortly after the funeral. It is said that he came to Sist, where he had spent the last time with Gaisha, and took her belongings before leaving.

He probably went to Aolos.

“You’re still young. He said he’d come pick you up when you get a little older. Until then, take care of your brother.”

“Hmm… really?”

Tirn has its own life. It seems that he wants to take Lirun, who inherited Aolos’ blood, there to broaden his horizons.

There was nothing bad.

Because Lirun was a child who had to live a life as a wizard from now on.

“Oh, there’s someone I want to introduce to you. We’ll be working together on the mine restoration. It would be a good idea to get to know him in advance.”

Ronnobe introduced Peter.

The two were also similar in age.

“…”

Peter looked up at Ronnove.

Ronobé patted Peter’s head and introduced him to Lirun.

“He is my disciple. His name is Peter. He is a magician like you. Take care.”

“…!”

Peter approached the timid staff and held out his hand. It was quite a courageous move. However, Lirun looked at Peter’s hand and then looked up at Ronobe.

“There’s no way a kid this small could be a wizard. There was no one my age in the Sist besides me.”

“This guy, Lirun…”

Very arrogant.

Maybe it’s because I’ve been announcing myself as a wizard in this rural village, but I guess I’ve become quite arrogant since I last saw you.

There was no frog in the well.

“Peter, show me the Master’s teachings.”

“!”

Although I didn’t teach him anything in particular, he is still a disciple. A teacher and a disciple are like parents and children.

Parents are the mirror of their children.

Peter used magic.

It was Suin.

Soon the ground rose into a square shape like leather and rushed towards Lirun.

“uh!”

The magic’s activation or casting speed itself wasn’t that fast. However, the speed at which the leather-like ground cover flew away was quite fast. At that moment, Ronobe was startled.

Lirun spread out his palm.

Before she knew it, a seed was planted in the girl’s fern-like hand.

“The vine of seeds!”

The stem of the seed grew rapidly and quickly grew thick enough to engulf Peter’s ground cover. It was quite a curious sight to see the vines and the ground cover entangle each other.

Lirun and Peter’s faces were distorted and they seemed to be struggling with each other. At first, Peter had the upper hand, but as time passed, Lirun was bound to win.

Because the vines grew endlessly.

“!!”

Thud. Peter fell backwards, biting his lip and blinking back tears.

“joy.”

Lirun proudly waved her two-pronged hair back, showing off her aura as a witch.

Ronobe was dumbfounded.

‘Is there a limit to the quantity or size of Peter’s leather once it is made?’

If you wanted to do something more, you had to cancel the magic you were using and create a new one. But that wasn’t the case with Lirun.

The vines that sprouted from a single seed could grow larger and larger over time. This was an advantage that arose because of the direction of the concept of magic.

“Peter, you have to work harder.”

Peter could have won.

What if the ground skin had been split into several branches and manipulated? If the range of the ground skin had been set wide from the beginning, it could have been an easy victory. It wasn’t even a proper duel, and it was just a test of each other’s magic, so it could have been a defeat.

But defeat is defeat.

Peter held onto Ronnove’s cloak for a long time, unable to shake off his anger.

“You went too far, Lirun.”

“Hey, don’t cry. After all, I won. You should call me sister.”

“Peter can’t speak.”

“Why can’t you speak? Is there bread stuck in your throat?”

“Don’t talk too much.”

“What is maltoosim?”

“That’s too harsh. Peter was born mute.”

“Oh, you’re disabled.”

Ronobe was speechless. It wasn’t wrong, but I didn’t know he would say something like that so openly. Maybe he’s still a child, but he doesn’t know what manners are.

“Well, it’ll get better soon. Anyway, get along well with each other. We need to work together to restore the mine.”

Lirun tilted her head with an expression of confusion before speaking.

“Grandpa said he’s having a feast today. He’s slaughtering two pigs this big! He’s even slaughtering a goat. Let’s go see.”

“Oh, okay.”

There is no place for children to play.

The pig and goat neck-snapping show was a favorite of the children. It wasn’t a very pretty sight, but the children here loved it.

Ronnobe pushed Peter’s back.

Then, Lirun grabbed Peter’s hand and ran to the scene of the pig butchering show.

“It’s a good time.”

Children naturally grow up through fighting. Now that he has a rival of the right age, Peter’s magic will gradually grow.

Ronobe looked at the backs of the girl and the boy before returning home. There was a mountain of things piled up in the house.

“What is all this?”

“Are you here?”

Liam was guarding the Ronobé house, which was surrounded by a shabby fence.

A knight guarding a thatched cottage in the countryside…

‘That’s not cool.’

But I had a rough idea why this was happening. It was because of the various items lying around Liam.

“Wool and wheat. And there’s wine too.”

“The residents left it behind.”

“Is it a bribe?”

“That’s what it is.”

“Good.”

Anyway, a noble is a noble.

The residents, who knew roughly that Ronobe had a dirty temper, quickly put their belongings down at his house. If Liam hadn’t been there, they would have waited with bated breath for Ronobe to come and tried to get their faces painted.

“But Liam, where are you going to stay?”

“of course…”

The eyes rolled back and forth.

It seems like he hasn’t really thought about it.

“Stay over there.”

“yes.”

The house right next door to Ronobe.

This is the house where Elicia used to live. Since she won’t be coming anymore, it’s better for Liam to stay here. He’ll have to rest in Sist for a while before heading to Petri.

‘There’s a lot to do.’

When Ronobe returned home, he went straight to bed, then jumped up and looked for a flower pot in the backyard.

“oh!”

These were pots filled with pepper plants.

Last time it was just a small trunk sprouting up, but now it has grown to the point where it could be called a tree. It’s definitely a good totem.

When I sprayed pesticides made from the Manchu totem, which repels bugs and grows crops, and the Manha totem, which creates water, the crops grew several times faster than before.

It was a significant success.

“We can mass produce pepper.”

It’s because I haven’t been able to manage it properly due to the amount of work I’ve been doing, but if I had sprayed pesticides at regular intervals, it could have grown faster.

Pepper trees, which grow well in hot climates, cannot be cultivated here.

But Ronobe can be cultivated.

This would provide an excellent source of income to build a foundation as a noble.

The answer just came out.

‘The sister doesn’t like grapes.’

Further south, in the village of Hopper, they plant peppers.

“It would be okay if grapes were grown here, but it would be a problem if peppers were grown here as well.”

The symbol of a thief may be triggered by a merchant blinded by gold coins or a noble related to him. It is better to do them separately as you may get involved in troublesome or dangerous things for no reason.

‘There wasn’t really anything to do in Hopper anyway.’

The name of the town, Hopper, is not a place with any notable minerals. They say there used to be some, but now there’s nothing to be found, so wouldn’t it be better to make a pepper farm or something secret?

Pepper and salt are expensive.

Pepper is more expensive than salt. It is not for nothing that the saying that pepper is worth its weight in gold was born. In this era, seasonings are extremely scarce. Cooking is also a secret, and the flexibility of recipes is absurd. A recipe from a skilled chef can be worth a thousand gold coins. A skilled cook is also a national asset. In such a situation, seasoning called pepper is a top-quality ingredient that brings out the flavor even more.

It tastes good even if you just sprinkle it roughly, but of course it has to be expensive.

Moreover, it is a fruit that grows only in hot regions.

Having lived in a country where distributors make their bellies bigger than their stomachs, Ronobe knew this structure better than anyone.

“I guess I should make some more flower pots.”

But since you’re not going to go straight into the hopper and live there, it would be better to make some more pepper pots.

“I also need to make a totem.”

In order to grow a vineyard, you need to make a lot of totems.

It wasn’t something that Ronobe had to do.

I had to tell the laborers to carve a large, good tree into a totem pole.

“Liam!”

“yes!”

Ronnobe took something wrapped in paper out of his mouth and handed it to Liam.

“eww…”

Liam blushed as he received the wad of paper covered in spit.

“Take that to Timber and tell him I’m going to make another statue like the one you made last time. He’ll make it for you.”

The wad of paper was Timber’s favorite tobacco leaf.

“You mean that long piece of wood that looks haunted?”

“Yeah. Yeah? Ghost, that’s harsh. I mean, do you know anything about art?”

“All right…”

Once it’s all made, it’s a simple matter of breathing soul into the totem with one’s soul.

“Oh, and ask me to make several flower pots. About the same size as this one. I’ll pay a fair price.”

“All right.”

This is why people must use people.

You can save time by hiring people to do the miscellaneous tasks that are too difficult to do alone.

“But where did Benny go?”

I can’t see it at all.

Seeing that there is no bow hanging in the house, it seems like the bow has gone somewhere.

“Are you out hunting again?”

The woman in the house keeps wandering around outside!

“Should we establish some discipline?”

Tonight, I need to tell you who needs to be quiet in the house.

“Is Baron Jun here?”

Someone came to Ronobé’s house while Liam was out and tidying up the flower pots.

Someone is doing it.

“Who are you?”

It was my first time seeing him. If he was from this town, there was no way he wouldn’t know Ronobe.

‘Are you a new immigrant…?’

But somehow it didn’t feel like that.

Judging from the neat material of the clothes he was wearing and his avant-garde fashion sense, he seemed like a man with connections to the nobility.

“Excuse me. If you were to say something to me…”

At that moment, Ronobe interrupted.

“You, a wizard.”

The man’s gaze became sharp.

But this is only for a moment.

Soon she smiled again.

“The one and only archmage of the kingdom. I am Mick, the messenger of Lord Ashwald.”

“!!”

The Archmage’s Herald!!

Ronobe took a step back without realizing it.

Gaisha’s voice came to mind.

‘The great wizard who has been protecting the kingdom for four hundred years!’

A messenger from such a great wizard.

I can’t help but be on guard.

“What does the Archmage’s messenger mean to me?”

“Haha, don’t be so cautious. I’m not here to harm Baron Jun, after all.”

Mick looked around Ronobe’s house and smiled. Only then did Ronobe look at Mick properly.

Age: mid-thirties.

He was a man with very white skin. He was more like a clerk than a knight. His hair was dark brown and in a bowl cut. He didn’t look bad. His fashion sense was a bit strange, but that didn’t matter.

“Then what happened…”

“Oh, look at my mind. I forgot to mention something important. But this…”

Mick laughed bitterly.

It meant that it wasn’t something that could be spoken of carelessly outside.

“…Please come in first.”

He was not a hostile person.

Just in case, Ronobe turned around and took out his cane and brought him into the house.

‘There’s a lot of oil at home.’

Whenever I had time, I would collect some oil and put it in a jar.

Don’t worry if anything happens. This is Ronobe’s house.

It was much more advantageous for him.

Even if Ronobe used some unknown miraculous power, he still had a chance of winning if he used the oil painting that would blow up the entire house. You might think it would be mutual destruction, but Ronobe had transformation magic. Although he did feel sorry for the things in the house, he did not feel as sorry as his life.

“Please wait. I’ll bring out the tea.”

“thank you.”

Mick looked around the house, smiling, not knowing whether he knew what Ronnobe was thinking or not.

After a while.

“It smells good. What kind of tea is it?”

“Aolus.”

This is a car I received as a gift from Gaisha.

It was bitter, but it had a sweet scent and was a soothing drink.

This is a car that no wizard can dislike.

“Oh… this.”

“Is this your first time seeing this?”

“Haha, embarrassingly so.”

The kingdom was surprised to find out that there were not many cars from Aolos.

‘Is the relationship between Aolus and the kingdom really bad? The kingdom’s wizard who will act as the archmage’s messenger must have quite a bit of wealth.’

Did you know that I was wondering?

Mick said after drinking his tea.

“Unfortunately, my master does not like Aolos.”

“Are you talking about Lord Ashwald?”

“yes.”

The Archmage hates Aolos.

It seemed like there was a story that Ronobe didn’t know about. Of course, it wasn’t something he was interested in.

I’m curious, but first of all, why did he come to me?

“First of all, on behalf of the kingdom, I would like to thank you for eliminating the evil wizard of the empire.”

“… Cloud was destroyed by Gaisha-sama, not by me.”

“Yes.”

Judging from the way he smiled, it seemed like he knew the inside story well.

It was a sentimental feeling.

“First, please take this.”

“What is this?”

“This is something the Master gave me. The Master likes talented young wizards. He said it was a reward for killing the Empire’s wizards.”

“…”

What a reward for someone who has no connection to anything.

Even after receiving it, I still felt a bit awkward.

The gift was a book.

“What book is it?”

“I recommend you read it slowly, but… for now, it is basically a book of magic written by the master himself.”

“A book of magic…? An artifact?”

“No. It’s a theory book to help you understand magic.”

“ah…”

I thought it was something like the scroll that Olaka used, but it doesn’t seem to be.

It ended well.

‘A theory book…’

Ronobe felt as if he was looking at a rather thick academic book. When he opened it briefly, he saw that it was densely written in small letters. There were no pictures.

“It is a very excellent book that cannot be obtained even with money. It is the first time I have seen it given to a non-student.”

“yes…”

Ronobe doesn’t know how to write.

So I can’t read what’s written. I’m already feeling dizzy just thinking about having to study.

‘I miss Benny.’

But it wasn’t that time.

“Is that all you need?”

“He told me to read the book and then come back with the answer.”

“What is your answer?”

“He said that once you finish reading the book, Baron Jun will naturally have something to say.”

What do you have to say?

What are you talking about?

What are you saying to someone you’ve never even met?

“What is that…”

When I told him that I didn’t know English, Mick smiled and answered.

“Let me give you a hint. Wouldn’t it be something like meeting the Archmage or becoming his disciple…?”

“ah…”

I think I finally got the general idea.

“But please make sure to give your answer after reading the entire book.”

It was quite a tricky situation.

End