< Chapter 85 - Kaisa Orphan #3 >
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Unfortunately, it was impossible to have a proper conversation with Wolf.
Because the condition was so bad.
‘Well, if Wolf was in good health, he wouldn’t have left the pirate island and left Kaisa behind.’
Although the injury itself has been treated, he has been unconscious since collapsing during the battle.
‘Wolf, you’re not going to die, are you?’
‘If you say it’s just accumulated fatigue, I’ll wake up. I’ll wake up by tomorrow morning at the latest.’
But it was too late.
So Uther and Cordelia began to rob the rest of Kai’sa’s crew.
From the beginning, they were all rough around the edges, as they were none other than Caesar’s men, but the power of class and money was truly great.
“That is what happened, Count.”
“Okay, thanks for the detailed information.”
After handing over a few silver coins to the hairy sailor who was bowing his head like a gentle lamb, Uther and Cordelia left Caesar’s mansion after leaving their luggage with the butler who had been fidgeting for some time.
“what do you think about it?”
“It seems like we have a strong enemy.”
The story of the hairy sailor was summarized as follows.
After the Black Shark’s gunfire destroyed a number of ships anchored at Pirate Island, the infiltration team led by Kai’sa took advantage of the commotion to land.
It was a golden pattern of sorts, where Kaisha took advantage of the confusion to subdue the enemy’s core in one breath.
But this time there was a problem.
The core of the pirates was too strong.
‘Among the landing party led by Caesar, only three survived, including Wolf and Talbo.’
The crew waiting on the Black Shark chose to retreat as soon as they saw the unconscious Kaisa being dragged out by the pirates.
Since there was nothing I could do, I stayed to at least deliver the news.
‘Of course, it seems like they just made up an excuse for it.’
Anyway, according to Furbo’s testimony, it was the Iron Masked Swordsman who defeated Caesar.
Although Furry himself couldn’t see properly because he was fighting the pirates, it seems that he didn’t just defeat Kai’sa, he overwhelmed her.
“Do you know who it is?”
The male prosecutor wearing an iron mask.
Uther shook his head at Cordelia’s question.
“I don’t know. Even though it was a surprise attack, considering that they overwhelmed Caesar, there aren’t many candidates… but they all use swords.”
The first thing that came to mind was deep sea pirates, but as Uther himself said, most of them used swords, so it was hard to say who exactly.
It was a mask that anyone could put on by turning it inside out.
“It could be a person on Malekith’s side.”
“Children of Malekith?”
“It could be one of them.”
Malekith was an agent dragon.
He has an entire army of dragons under his command, and it’s possible that one of them was involved in this.
“I said I haven’t seen the furry one fight properly. It’s in black form, so he might have subdued it with magic or supernatural powers.”
“Ugh.”
In the end, it was said that it was impossible to figure out who the enemy was.
“Anyway, if I lose to a strong opponent, I guess I’ll have to go with infiltration.”
“Should we sneak in, save Kaisa, and then run away?”
“Well, either way, we need to secure Caesar first to avoid a hostage situation.”
“Well, it would be awkward if he threatened me with a knife to my neck.”
Cordelia nodded and asked again, raising her hand.
“Then, teacher, are we going to go find a boat now?”
“No, I’m not going on a boat.”
“Huh? Then how are you going to go? Are you going to jump around on the ocean now?”
When Cordelia asked with wide eyes, Uther suddenly looked sad and said.
“Cordelia, you really are so forgetful.”
Melissa too, and this time too.
“Ugh.”
Cordelia had nothing to say about Melissa’s case even if she had ten mouths.
As Cordelia began to groan, Uther smiled slightly and said,
“I think you forgot because you haven’t used it in so long, but we have this, right?”
A ring placed on Yuder’s palm.
Cordelia blinked for a moment at the sight she had not seen in a while, but soon remembered it.
“Phantom Steed.”
A flying ghost horse.
“We will run across the sea.”
In the darkness of night, over the pitch-black sea.
Cordelia closed her eyes for a moment and imagined what Uther’s explanation would be like.
Two people sitting on top of the Phantom Steed galloping over the sea.
Although Uther said he was running in the darkness of the night, in Cordelia’s imagination, he was somehow running towards the sunset.
No, I had to. It looked much better that way.
Sky and sea.
A world that turns red starting from the horizon.
The two people on top of the Phantom Steed, which had stopped running, looked at each other.
The sound of waves breaking and scattering.
In a world that is otherwise quiet, I listen to the sound of heated breathing.
They yearn for each other, feeling the beat of their hearts.
And then at some point.
The sun is setting.
The long shadows become one.
‘Oh my, what should I do? What should I do?’
Somehow, I imagined that many important things, such as rescuing Caesar and the pirate island, had disappeared, but there was nothing I could do about it.
If Dahlia had been there, she would have nodded in agreement.
“Hey, Cordelia?”
“Huh? Oh, oh, oh. Yeah, we’re going to run across the sea and rescue Caesar, right? That’s cool, that’s cool. Let’s do that. Yeah, like that.”
Hehehe, her smiling face was really cute, but Yuder couldn’t help but be curious.
Where in that story was there anything embarrassing about it?
And why are you still secretly avoiding my gaze?
‘Anyway, whatever.’
I guess it’s because it’s cute.
Yuder nodded moderately and pointed towards the sea again.
“Let’s eat first and leave at sunset.”
“huh!”
nightfall.
Sunset.
A smile spread across Cordelia’s face.
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Of course Cordelia knew too.
That means imagination and reality are different.
The sunset was much shorter than expected, and Yuder was busy finding the right direction on the vast ocean.
Cordelia herself was busy hiding Phantom Steed with various magics.
‘It’s scarier than that!’
The sea at midnight was more scary than romantic.
The dark sea stretched out endlessly, and it felt like a monster might jump out from within.
So instead of looking around, Cordelia just clung to Uther’s back and kept reciting spells.
With his eyes tightly shut.
And how long did it run like that?
Just when I thought I had been running for at least an hour, Yuder suddenly spoke up.
“Cordelia, it’s that island.”
Cordelia opened her eyes slightly at Uther’s words, then stuck her head out and looked straight ahead.
The sight of a dark island in the dark sea was truly eerie.
‘It’s like school.’
School at midnight.
That place is strangely scary.
Cordelia said, putting a little more strength into the arm that was holding Uther’s waist.
“Let’s go quickly.”
If you enter the island, you won’t be able to see the island, so it will be less scary.
“Okay. I’ll ask you to do some magic.”
“huh.”
Cordelia added a silencing spell to the dark magic she was already using. This was to hide even the sound of Phantom Steed’s breathing.
‘It’s a bit new, but you’re really capable.’
It was said that each wizard had his or her own area of expertise.
This is because magic itself is a discipline that requires a vast amount of knowledge, and because the innate aptitude for it was limited to begin with.
Doesn’t this happen often in reality?
For example, you may be good at math but bad at English, or you may be good at basketball but bad at soccer.
But Cordelia did everything well.
In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was an all-rounder in the realm of magic.
The elemental magic series, which was originally my specialty.
Here, dark magic including curses and necromancy was added due to witchcraft, and upon awakening as an angel, she became proficient in divine magic and life magic.
‘And you’re seventeen now, right?’
Even though it was difficult, it was too difficult.
However, his magical power already surpassed that of Adelia, one of the commanders of the Royal Magic Corps, and the number of magic spells he could use was greater than that of an elder of the Magic Tower.
‘So from now on, we’ll be using spirit magic here too?’
He was also a contractor for the Spirit King.
‘and.’
When I think about it, it really is a monster.
What kind of scammers are these?
Looking at the entire history of the Pleiades, it is doubtful whether there was a wizard of Cordelia’s age who reached Cordelia’s level.
‘As expected, our Cordelia.’
Our beast.
Our family’s fraudster.
Of course, if you look at it that way, Yuder could be said to be a monster among monsters.
In less than a year, he transformed from a weak and sick person into a powerful man who could stand up to the Ten Swordsmen.
[Yuder, are you there yet?]
[They’re all here.]
After answering with message magic, Uther landed on the shore of the island and sent Phantom Steed back.
[Pirate Island W. Do you know what kind of place it is?]
[huh.]
Because it was an island that I had to raid at least once while playing as Caesar.
Although I didn’t know the entire map by heart like Uther, I had a rough idea of its general structure.
[It’s an island that was abandoned after being used as a prison. Thanks to this, it’s no exaggeration to say that there are plenty of places to lock people up.]
But there was no way a hostage of Caesar’s size could be kept anywhere.
Because of this, Yuder was able to roughly estimate the location.
‘The number of ships anchored here.’
Two pirate ships.
Judging by the size and shape of the ship, the number of pirates staying on the island is around seventy.
Here, Uther hid in the bushes to increase precision and spoke to Cordelia.
“Stay behind me. Okay?”
“Okay. But what are you going to do?”
In response to Cordelia’s question, Uder pointed to his own eyes and opened the Heavenly Gate and the Fifth Gate to activate his power.
Tusian.
A gaze like an X-ray that sees through both rock and skin, rather than seeing the skin beyond the hem of a garment.
It was a huge burden on the eyes to look through everything that came into view, not just a small area, but Yuder had already reached the level of a superhuman in terms of endurance.
After repeatedly observing the group by activating regenerative powers and repairing them as soon as their eyes were damaged, Uder finally closed his eyes after observing them for almost three minutes.
“Whew.”
“Are you okay? Do your eyes hurt?”
“Oh, it’s okay. And… I think I get the general idea.”
Everything from where Caesar is being held to the placement of the pirates inside the building.
Of course, if you use the clairvoyant as widely as you can now, you can only see skeletons, so you can only tell where people are, but as I said before, Uther had a map of the pirate island in his head.
Just by knowing whether or not there were people at a certain point, I could get a general idea of the situation.
‘It’s a bit unfortunate that we can’t pinpoint the location of the strong man who subdued Caesar, but there’s nothing we can do about it.’
Just this alone could be considered fraudulent reconnaissance capability.
“Caesar is locked in the special room.”
“The thing that’s in the deepest part of the underground?”
“Oh, that.”
As expected, it was Caesar who was trapped in the deepest place.
If he was caught in a place like the top of a spire, you could just fly over and rescue him, but if he was underground, it was a different story. The best option was to infiltrate and rescue him yourself.
“Okay, I have some magic prepared for today too.”
Cordelia clenched her fists and nodded again.
“Then shall we go?”
“let’s go.”
Taking advantage of the gap in the clouds that obscured the moon, Uther and Cordelia escaped from the bushes.
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The biggest problem when infiltrating was sound.
This is the sound of movement.
The sound made by enemies who have identified this location to notify of an intrusion.
Therefore, if you can do something about the sound, the difficulty of infiltration will definitely go down.
Just like now.
“Silent Field.”
A new witch’s spell that Cordelia can learn as she is promoted to a 7th-grade angel.
It was ironic that Cordelia’s magical power had grown stronger because her angel rank had increased, allowing her to learn witch spells, but it was a spell she had always wanted to learn ever since she had obtained the witch’s spellbook.
‘Field magic.’
A spell that changes the environment within a certain range centered around the caster.
However, it had no effect when used alone. It had to be mixed with at least one other magic to have a proper effect.
Because it required the caster to cast it at least twice and consumed a lot of magic power, it was a low-efficiency magic, but on the other hand, it was also a magic that could produce infinite effects depending on which magic was combined with it.
Cordelia’s choice was a combination with Silent, a silence magic.
The entire hallway that Cordelia saw was enveloped in enforced silence.
And that’s why Uder showed up so openly.
“—-!”
“—?!”
“———-!”
The pirates were surprised by Uther’s appearance and opened their mouths wide to shout something, but it was no use.
There was no voice that could escape the space covered in silence.
Uther laughed cheerfully.
Even that laughter was obscured by silence, so he laughed even louder and kicked the ground.
First wind of trust.
It boasts incredible speed, but it is bound to attract attention because it is accompanied by thunder.
But today was different.
There was no sound, so the pirates felt as if they were facing a ghost.
‘Bam! Bam! Bam!’
Cordelia gaped open her mouth and made a sound effect on her own, while Uther mercilessly moved his hands and feet to slam the pirates into the walls, ceiling, and floor.
This time there was no sound.
Cordelia laughed at the sight of what seemed like a video being watched on mute, while Uther continued to fly.
After instantly taking down five pirates who were in a state of panic, he threw a bottle that was rolling on the ground and knocked down the last one who was running away.
‘wow.’
They say that if there are no witnesses, it’s an assassination anyway.
Isn’t this magic specifically designed for assassination?
When Uther turned to Cordelia with a satisfied expression, Cordelia shrugged her shoulders in excitement.
He spoke in silence, not caring at all.
‘Am I awesome?’
‘Oh, that’s awesome.’
Because the two of them had eyes.
The two people, smiling brightly among the pirates who were unable to even groan while lying down, moved towards the special room again.
“—-!”
“——–!”
“—-?!”
The pirate who was ringing the bell without making any sound was slammed into the wall, and the pirate who was blowing the trumpet with all his might was slammed into the ceiling.
And during all this, no alarms were sounded, so no pirates swarmed in.
‘Indeed a wizard.’
Beings who create miracles under the name of magic.
Cordelia shrugged her shoulders every time Uther raised his thumb, and it wasn’t long before the two reached the front of the suite.
‘It’s a lock.’
A dull lock sealing a large, black steel door.
Cordelia tried to use the magic to unlock the key after collecting the Silent Field, but Uther shook his head.
Because there was a magic that was useful to Yuder too.
Grab the lock and pull.
Remove the metal ring from the lock body.
The sight of the lock disintegrating with a single click was truly magical.
“Wow, physical magic.”
“It’s easy, right?”
Uther shrugged his shoulders, and Cordelia also gathered her hands together and said in prayer.
“May your muscles always be with you.”
But still, it can’t be like Landius. This is just right.
Uther smiled again at Cordelia’s hopeful eyes and placed his hand on the steel door.
He looked back at Cordelia and said.
“Open.”
“huh.”
Cordelia, clutching the moonlight tightly, took a step back, and Uther opened the steel door.
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