Only My Magic Levels Up - Chapter 78



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“Thank you for saying so.”

Damus smiled contentedly.

“You are the second most trustworthy person I know.”

“Unfortunately, it’s not the first. Is the first Lilia?”

“It’s me.”

“ah.”

Galen laughed. How dare he put himself on the list so caustically.

“Anyway, I don’t know what to do with myself when you think so highly of me.”

“I am being sincere. I entrusted you with the supervision of the ruins because I judged you to be trustworthy based on your actions, and since you have returned with results beyond my expectations, I should trust you even more.”

“I did it all for my own good, so it turned out well.”

“Yes, you can continue to do what you want. As I said before, doing what you want is in line with the teachings of the church, so there is nothing better than this.”

“If you still think that way, I would be grateful.”

Galen scratched the ball. Damus added with a grin.

“If I didn’t trust you in the first place, I would have cut off Bishop Lilia a long time ago.”

“yes?”

“Would you have let someone who would be responsible for the future of the church hang out with someone so suspicious? Of course, when I realized that he was such an absurd talent, it was already too late since the two had been together for quite some time······.”

“Isn’t it the pilgrim’s freedom to decide who to go on a pilgrimage with?”

Lilia asked with innocent eyes, as if asking what was the problem. Damus sighed as if he couldn’t stop her.

“Freedom. It is freedom, but… it’s rare to live under the same roof. Even if it’s temporary. What would other people think?”

“Don’t you think, ‘The two of them are really close!’?”

“···As you can see, Bishop Lilia is like this, so I didn’t separate them. You should also act wisely.”

“Well, this might sound like an excuse, but… I just found a house with a training ground, and Lilia forced me into it.”

“There are plenty of rooms available, so why don’t we just live together?”

“Like this.”

“You didn’t say no either.”

“Well, I don’t hate it······.”

“Okay, do what you want. Why would an old man interfere with the young people and talk back?”

As the two men continued to argue, Damus shook his head and changed the subject.

“Anyway, to sum it up, it means that I trust you that much.”

“Isn’t the reason you came here this time also because something came up that required faith?”

“That’s right. Would you like to hear it?”

“After hearing that, I will keep my mouth shut.”

“It’s a story that involves two people.”

Certainly, Damus’s trust in Galen had increased since they first met.

Previously, it was ‘I can’t tell you all the information until I accept the request’, but now I see that they just tell me everything.

By the way, what could be the story that is related to both of them? Both Galen and Lilia perked up their ears.

“You did a great job in the Dawn Archipelago last winter. Of course, you were instrumental in eliminating the pirates that were rampaging, but the key was the cavalry.”

It was a heartbreaking story for the victims, but in reality, neither bandits nor pirates were a major threat.

Except for very few exceptional cases, most of them were just a bunch of idiots gathered together.

If it gets too turbulent, it may be possible to crack down on it at the city level, but it is not something that needs to be taken care of at the church level.

The only exception was when a cavalryman suddenly appeared, causing chaos in the church as well.

“Didn’t Bishop Roald destroy that necklace?”

“That’s right. But I don’t know if you guys know this, but the process by which the pirate leader at that time acquired the cavalry was not very clear.”

“Oh, I remember!”

Lilia clapped her hands together.

“You claimed you got it by chance?”

“I knew it. The boss never said anything else until the very end. Even though I questioned him until he died.”

Damus casually mentioned torture.

The church does not even treat the leader as a human, as he once again massacred the fleets of Belpass and the Dawn Isles with his cavalry charged with people’s sacrifices somewhere.

Galen didn’t care at all. Whether he was killed alive or not, it was all his own karma. If he was to pay for his sins, he could die a few more times.

His attention was focused solely on why Damus had brought up this story.

“Was the price high?”

“According to Bishop Roald’s report, there was a gang. That is, until they started taking full action.”

“Then it doesn’t mean he lied, but that he truly believed it?”

“That would be true. But a horse soldier is something that is impossible to obtain by chance. At least from the leader’s perspective.”

Damus said bluntly.

“The devil is a creation of the devil. Not the fake devil you saw in the cradle, but a real devil. In this day and age, all devils are thrown into hell beyond the abyss, so the wandering devils are also things created in the past.”

“In the old days… Are there cases where horsemen are found in ruins?”

“Yes. More precisely, it is practically the only source of supply for cavalry. The only places where old items remain undiscovered are the ruins.”

“Well, but the church doesn’t go along with every exploration of the ruins, right?”

Galen tilted his head.

“That’s right. If they were to explore the ruins on their own, there would be no reason or justification for the church to interfere. The Steelwall family, who almost broke out into war, was the only exception.”

“Then, even if the horse soldiers are discovered, there may be authors who hide them with evil intentions.”

“That’s the problem.”

Damus agreed with a displeased expression.

“No matter how much you preach the evil of the devil, will it work on those who already have evil intentions? There are many cases where greed obscures one’s conscience. There will always be foolish people who think it’s okay as long as they don’t use it openly.”

But because of that, the ways to obtain the horsemen were limited.

Basically, you need to have enough power to explore the ruins. If you want to keep the secret, you need to be a single force.

The idea was that, even if it wasn’t a prestigious family, it had to be at least a fairly successful family that owned gold and ruled over a city.

Or was it secretly excavated from such a family?

Something like that happened in the past and was secretly passed down.

Or, it may have been secretly leaked later when the family fell into ruin.

The route of acquisition of the horsemen was generally one of these three.

Strictly speaking, the leader is the one who obtained the leaked soldiers through the third method.

“A single horse soldier cannot be released without being known to be a horse soldier. Just by making contact, you can tell that it is suspicious.”

“It may sound a bit unpleasant, but I think it would be considered a valuable item among the villains.”

“That’s right. It’s not something that would just appear out of nowhere in front of someone whose family was insignificant and whose family was ruined. I think it’s fate, but… where could such a fate be?”

“Your Majesty, do you think someone deliberately handed over the horsemen?”

“I was just guessing at the possibility. I knew the boss’s true intentions, and I knew he would be out for revenge, so I thought he might have created a plausible situation and pretended it was natural. Until yesterday.”

Damus spoke with emphasis on the last sentence, then paused for a moment before continuing.

“And today, months of investigation have yielded some results.”

“Have you caught the tail?”

“I don’t know if it will end with a severed tail or a tail that connects to the body. But shouldn’t we pull it and see? Approach it stealthily, in one breath.”

“Do you want me to take on that role?”

“Two months ago, you agreed to keep what happened at the ruins a secret.”

“yes.”

“Thanks to that, your and Bishop Lilia’s presence has not yet been revealed.”

After coming to the northeast, the two people’s external activities were limited to relics. Since they hid that, it was not known.

“The most fatal situation is when you get stabbed by an unprepared opponent.”

Damus’ eyes, staring intently at Galen, shone brightly.

“How about it? Want to give it a try?”

*

The next day.

After eating breakfast and taking a short rest, Galen and Lilia went out to the backyard.

For the first month, when Damus came to visit every day, it was time for me to receive teachings from him.

It was the time of sparring that started the day even a month after Damus stopped coming.

But today the atmosphere was a little different than usual.

Because Galen accepted Damus’ request yesterday.

In other words, today was my last day in this mansion.

“I will write down everything that will be difficult to write in the future today. With land and fire.”

“great!”

Galen, who had informed Lilia in advance, stepped back a little further than usual.

I open my eyes halfway and recall the sensations.

For an ordinary wizard, there should only be one, but Galen, who learned five types of magic, has five unique senses.

Among them, I choose the fifth one, who is the newest, but has the second highest level.

‘Territorial advance.’

The territory also means that the land around Galen becomes like a territory that he owns.

It also meant the surrounding soil itself that had changed.

The unique feeling of magic is the feeling of magical power spreading out like roots in all directions from the ground Galen is standing on.

The magical power that spreads out like that transforms the surrounding land into territory, and soon.

Sssssss!

He sent out soldiers made up of territories, and so he advanced.

The clay dolls I had been sick of seeing at the ruins made an appearance.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A dozen or so dolls took heavy steps at the same time.

Pot!

A sword of light grew out of Lilia’s hand.

She walked at the same speed as the clay doll that was walking towards her, and swung her sword just as she almost made contact with the doll.

Crunch!

Likewise, the clay doll swung its arms, but Lilia had the advantage in speed.

The sword of light that cut off the doll’s arm did not lose its momentum and cut down the torso all at once.

Even in the ruins, she needed blessings when dealing with special clay dolls, and she just ignored the lower-level ones.

The clay dolls that Galen summoned were almost the same in speed and hardness as the regular clay dolls from the ruins.

Since Lilia had become stronger than before, it was only natural that she would be easier to deal with.

But for some reason she looked cautious.

Whoosh whoosh!

Of course, it wasn’t just the clay dolls that were attacking Lilia.

Didn’t Galen announce in advance that he would use earth and fire?

As she was about to cut down the doll, a fierce flame burst out from under her feet, trying to engulf her.

Lilia, who had been expecting it, quickly dodged to the side. The flames only burned the poor dirt that remained.

Although she managed to escape safely, the other dolls continued to move as if they were surrounding her.

Before the radius of action could narrow any further, Lilia’s light sword preemptively cut down the dolls.

Crunch! Crunch!

But the clay dolls didn’t care at all whether they or their comrades were broken.

Just to hinder Lilia’s movements, he drove her to one side as if he was hunting her.

Kwakwakwakwa!

The flames of the Vanity Flame continued to follow Lilia’s path, rising up continuously.

“Ugh, this is really······.”

Lilia, who was increasingly being pushed out, had a sad expression on her face.

The dolls that Galen summoned were much smaller in number than the ridiculous amount of dolls that had been pouring in from the ruins, making them much more useful.

The problem is that, unlike then, the doll is not the main attacker.

The real attack that threatened Lilia was a wild fire that burned without warning.

I had to avoid it because I couldn’t just burn it.

In every location you try to avoid, there are ghostly clay figurines sitting there.

Even if it was something that could be split with a single swing of the sword, it had to be dealt with at all costs because it would attack this side if it wasn’t split.

If even a little bit of time was wasted, the flames would flick their tongues to devour her again.

Sssssss!

Moreover, Galen did not make a bunch of clay dolls from the beginning, but instead took them out of the ground whenever necessary and used them to block Lilia’s path.

If the backyard had been incredibly large, it would have been difficult to keep the remains of the clay figurines piling up in the limited space.

Lilia’s movements became increasingly slow as her ankles became trapped.

“Oh, that won’t work!”

Eventually she declared her surrender.

As Lilia withdrew her light sword, Galen withdrew his magic as well. The disintegrated dolls turned back into a pile of dirt.

“Even on the last day, I can’t get out without using a blessing.”

“I also used two spells.”

Lilia was disappointed, but it was actually an expected outcome.

If she has levels, I think the state where she unlocks the Miracle of Blessing is higher than the individual levels of Vanity Flame or Territory March.

However, it was difficult to deal with two magic spells at the same time without using a blessing. It was literally like dealing with two golden wizards at the same time.

“It’s a shame that clay dolls can only be used in this way. It would be good for dealing with thugs, but······.”

“Are you absolutely unable to make custom clay dolls?”

“I can make a few, but I’m not sure.”

Galen tilted his head.

“In the ruins, I felt even more scared because I had to fight the special agent, but now, even if I make the special agent, won’t they just ignore me and attack me?”

“Well, it’s sturdy, but its feet are too slow! If it sees a wizard controlling it, it’ll probably attack the wizard first.”

“So, in one-on-one situations, it would be better to make a lot of weak ones like this and use them as a distraction.”

“What relics could have made it possible for so many strong men to be created······.”

“Isn’t that a jewel level? It’s still questionable how the relic itself, not a wizard, could use the jewel’s magic······.”

“If you think about it, it has some similarities to the horse soldier.”

“is it so?”

“The thing is, I don’t understand the principle!”

“Oh, what am I saying? Still, the magician is better than the relic. I said that the ghost necklace is one of the strongest magicians.”

That doesn’t mean the Ghost of the Sea was weak, though.

In other words, the limit of the horsemen is gold.

“As long as it’s not a jewel, it’s fine.”

This one has five golds.