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Episode 34. Nonsense
“What does the General think?”
“To be honest, I think it will fail.”
“Right? Aren’t wizards a very noble species? They would never do anything like light magic. I would appreciate it if you would listen to my suggestion and not throw fireballs.”
Count Wickers has had quite a bit of experience dealing with wizards.
Wizards are stubborn. So they don’t make good business partners.
Business requires bold action regardless of social status, but magicians don’t have that.
Wizards were a race of people who placed their magic above all else.
“If everyone refuses, we’ll only end up attracting so-so magicians, and that won’t do well in business. I also know a lot about lightening magic. I also know why people ask high-ranking magicians to do lightening magic.”
“I am ready to help you.”
“That’s right. At least we have to support Ethan’s business.”
I wasn’t expecting much, but I couldn’t tell him to stop.
It was quite pleasing to Count Wickers to see his sick son trying to do something.
“It’s okay if you fail. What’s important is that you do something. Besides, you were training the day you came back. You must have decided to do something.”
“I will immediately start searching for the magicians.”
* * *
Ethan gathered together the discredited wizards within the Tower.
“Are you talking about me?”
“Are you sure you came looking for me?”
“That can’t be true.”
Most people didn’t believe Ethan’s words that he had come to them. They were all so low on confidence.
“Are you sure you’re okay, Ethan?”
Yeorika asked, slightly anxious.
As for Marakhan, if he had known from the beginning, it wouldn’t have mattered. If Ethan was confident, he too could grow into a proper wizard.
But others didn’t seem that way at all.
Of course, the rooftop is not a place that just anyone can enter.
But the condition was so bad that I doubted whether it was right to take the test and enter the magic tower.
“It’s an outer tower, but it’s close to the center. Everyone is skilled, so they’re on this tower.”
Ethan spoke quietly to Yereka.
Still, Yeerika looked at the wizards with a displeased expression.
As Ethan said, they seemed like wizards who were earning their keep, but they didn’t seem like wizards that Ethan, who had recruited them, would be satisfied with.
“I know you guys are studying some amazing magic.”
Ethan’s words were sincere.
If I had heard it from anyone else, the word ‘great’ would have been heavily sarcastic, but not from Ethan.
“Your magic was not wrong, just a little bit different.”
Every single word was exactly what they wanted to hear.
Yeerika, who had been listening while stepping back slightly, crossed her arms and continued to watch Ethan.
If he were an unrecognized wizard in that position.
‘If I hadn’t learned my grandfather’s magic and were still a member of the first rank of that magic tower.’
I couldn’t help but be taken in by those words.
‘Because I’m being honest.’
He was truly an amazing person.
That person truly thought that the magic of those wizards was amazing.
So that’s why he has that kind of expression and tone of voice.
‘But these magics are really ambiguous.’
In Yeorika’s opinion, the magic they were studying was all vague magic.
Actually, I couldn’t understand why we were doing research.
If you belong to the Magic Tower, you will have a lot of materials and will be able to study more diverse magic.
“Sob. Ugh.”
Several wizards who heard Ethan’s words bit their lips and groaned softly. They had been treated like playthings for as little as one year, and as long as five years.
But when someone appeared who acknowledged their efforts, they couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed with emotion.
“Would you like to try out these magics that you’ve been studying with me? And I’ll show them to those who have ignored you.”
Ethan said.
“To the talented wizards of the Magic Tower.”
He said that he would make what they always imagined come true.
“I’ll do it!”
“I will sign the contract, Ethan!”
There was no wizard who refused.
“Whew.”
Yeorika let out a sigh without realizing it.
As I looked at them, I suddenly remembered the first time I met Ethan in the Dark Forest.
* * *
Please give me the Buma Tower.
Bumatopju thought that Ethan’s suggestion was a good idea.
The wizards that Ethan said he would take were the failures of the Magic Tower.
The Magic Tower is basically a place limited to magical research.
If that magic is supposed to succeed, no matter what kind of magic it is, they will not spare their support. But they have failed every time.
Yeah, good. Failure. When you study proper magic, there are a lot of times when you fail.
Failure is bound to be more familiar than success.
But what they were studying wasn’t some great magic.
“But I’m curious, Ethan Wickers. Why these children?”
The Buma Tower Master stroked his goatee and asked.
“They have potential. They will definitely become great wizards.”
“Well, if that’s what you want.”
From the perspective of the owner of the tower, it would have been better if they could send it out quickly.
“These people are no longer part of the Tower. I can guarantee it here.”
Ethan simply took them out of the tower and brought them to the Earldom of Wickers.
* * *
The County of Wickes.
The wizards who arrived at Baekjakyeong kept looking around in all directions.
I never imagined that the day I would leave the rooftop would come so soon.
I never thought I’d come here to do business.
“Ethan.”
At that moment, Maracán raised his hand with an anxious face.
“First of all, I would like to thank you for signing a contract with us. But before that, I have a question for you. You said that your business is centered around our magic. How do you plan to do that? And… … .”
“And you haven’t seen our magic yet.”
They were grateful that people believed in them.
After hearing those words of acceptance, I decided to stay with Ethan without looking back.
That was why he was anxious. Ethan had not yet seen their magical abilities in action.
“I, I haven’t completed the magic yet… … .”
Some wizards were unable to perfect their magic.
But Ethan smiled at the anxious wizards.
Starting with Marakhan, all of those who were picked from the Magic Tower were wizards that Ethan knew.
Ethan didn’t know any NPCs in Mephans. He even remembered NPCs that he just passed by.
‘I picked people I know.’
Not a single one of them fails. In the future, they will become useful, if not great, wizards.
The potential is ample.
‘You just need to raise that potential a little bit.’
Then, instead of being a noble wizard, he becomes a wizard who will do anything for Ethan.
“You came here because you trusted me, right?”
“yes.”
“If I didn’t believe, I wouldn’t have come!”
“then.”
Wizards are inherently sensitive to their own magic.
Magic is entirely the property of wizards. No matter how much they cannot predict the future, for someone to touch it would be tantamount to hurting the wizard’s pride.
“Let me help you guys a little.”
“Are you saying that you will touch the magic we are studying?”
Ethan shook his head at Marakhan’s words.
“Just a little advice. The magic is entirely yours.”
Ethan first took out the pouches from the subspace pockets. They were pouches that were solidly filled with gold.
“This is the deposit.”
Jjang.
The pockets were so full that the wizards were amazed.
I opened it slightly and the inside was filled with gold.
Money is not important. It is only an additional factor in the completion of magic.
But they said it was a deposit.
It means that the value of your magic is this much gold. The moment you receive it, it is as if the value of your magic increases significantly.
Ethan looked at their expressions.
It was a method that was possible because they were thirsty for recognition.
“Can I give you some advice?”
“……yes.”
* * *
“Oh, my God.”
A small workshop.
Marakhan was horrified at the sight of the flames swirling around the dagger.
I just got some advice from Ethan yesterday. To be honest, I wasn’t feeling great.
Ethan is not a wizard. It’s obvious. Even if he had some knowledge of magic, it wasn’t specialized knowledge.
That’s why, no matter how much Ethan extended a helping hand to them, they couldn’t help but feel resentful.
But I held back and listened.
Because he was the one who acknowledged me and asked me to just try it, pretending to be fooled.
It was really important to pretend to be fooled.
That made the wizards put aside their pride.
So the magicians, including Marakhan, listened to Ethan’s advice. After remembering that advice clearly, they began their magical research in the workshop this morning.
“Seo, it worked. It worked.”
A dagger brimming with flames. This magnificent flaming dagger was exactly what Marakhan had been longing for.
Just did it a little differently, like Ethan said.
Just a little bit. I just took Ethan’s advice and it worked.
Maracana couldn’t believe this situation.
“Ah …
At that moment, a strange noise was heard from outside.
“Huh, huh, huh?”
And then there was a panicked scream.
“Could it be that all the other wizards succeeded as well?”
Those who came with Marakan were once noted within the Magic Tower, but because the magic they studied was so minor and impractical, they remained at the top level.
Although Marakan himself was not recognized, they were at a level where they had made even less progress in magical research than Marakan.
“Nonsense.”
This was ridiculous. This was really… … ridiculous.
* * *
“Ethan.”
“Everyone is energetic since this morning.”
Ethan could tell just by looking at their expressions.
‘I guess it was successful.’
It is bound to succeed.
Because Ethan’s advice was no different from telling me the answer sheet.
‘I’ve already experienced all these magics. I know the method.’
“How on earth… … .”
“How did you know all this!?”
“I couldn’t figure it out no matter how many years I studied!”
“I saw it in a book.”
The wizards looked puzzled at Ethan’s words. If Shudlen had been here, he would have been happy to see him, saying, “He is a prince.”
“You all know this now, right? You too can do it. You’ve succeeded with just a little bit of advice.”
Ethan downplayed his own accomplishments and simply praised them for their hard work.
“Then shall we begin the business in earnest? From now on, you will be selling magic. To be exact, it will be a business of granting equipment with lightweight magic and magic that you have been researching for a long time.”
“Lightweight magic?”
“The person in charge of the lightweight magic will be Yeerika here, and you will all be put into action as soon as you become accustomed to it.”
As Ethan pointed to Yeerika, Yeerika smiled at the wizards.
“I think you’ll get used to it soon.”
She said, gathering mana in her hands.
If you don’t get used to it, I’ll make you get used to it.
fantasy,
