Translator: Wan ED/PR: Fan
‘They took the bait, huh!’
Lucion now felt like he had a fishing rod in his hand and it just quivered.
[The enemy is coming, so why do you look so excited?]
Russell spoke up, suspicious.
Didn’t an enemy attack mean that there were really crazy bastards out there who dared to mess with the imperial family and the border?
As the saying went, you don’t mess with crazy bastards.
When Latta stared at Lucion, Lucion patted her, covering her eyes.
[The preparations were so thorough. If guests didn’t come, it would’ve all been useless. Lord Lucion is probably happy thinking about that.]
Bethel came out of the carriage and checked the surroundings.
[There are no warlocks.]
[Instead, the mages are quite prepared.]
Russell also came out of the carriage after Bethel, and felt the movement of mana around.
As if they knew about this place beforehand, enormous magic was prepared with the carriage in the center.
[The spell is almost completed… If we didn’t prepare like Lord Lucion said, we would’ve been in big trouble.]
The mana felt like an enormous curtain, and Bethel’s hand was itching to touch it.
[That’s right. That’s right. Whose disciple is it?]
Russell nodded, very proudly.
As Bethel said, if they weren’t well prepared against the magic per Lucion’s remark, even if they were the Imperial Knights, they would suffer great damage.
However, the escort group was already under a sturdy shield.
[This shield absolutely can’t be pierced.]
Russell said confidently.
“Don’t worry. The hunters are already moving.”
Carson spoke up calmly, so Lucion wasn’t flustered.
The mages were powerful.
However, occasionally there would be people who were drunk on their power.
That was called a mage’s rampage.
Once the mage starts to rampage, there was a fifty-fifty chance that the rampaging mages wouldn’t stop, so hunters were created to kill them, and currently those hunters were holding their blades to kill the mages.
Before the carriage departed, the hunters were sent forward first.
Lucion thought that the hunters were probably hiding around the mages right now.
“It hasn’t been once or twice that I’ve suffered an enemy’s attacks, so I’m not worried. I just feel sorry that all I can do is to quietly stay in the carriage.”
“This escort is for you, so don’t think about such things.”
“Yes. I’ll obediently wait until the enemies are slaughtered.”
Lucion put a macaron, which Hyum gave him before he got into the carriage, into his mouth.
Latta also opened her mouth wide, asking for one for herself, and he put one into her mouth.
— Latta likes it a lot.
Lucion didn’t have any worries just like Latta.
Russell was informing him about whatever was happening, and Lucion waited for Luminos to be thoroughly trampled with the feeling of listening to a radio.
Russell hovered over the top of the carriage, which had stopped, and looked down.
[The knights are currently maintaining the formation and protecting the carriage. The barrier is also doing well.]
Then Russell headed to a place a bit further away.
[There are 20 mages in total. Among them, ten are activating a huge spell, four are preparing to self-destruct and six… hm, they seem to be keeping watch. But what can they can do?]
Russell’s lips drew into a smirk.
Like Carson said, hunters were already moving, and most of the mages were within the hunters’ range.
He could see the hunters’ confidence in killing them at any time.
[Won’t the hunters kill the mages before the mages can even activate their magic?]
Russell raised the corners of his lips, like he was having fun.
[In the first place, the mages made a foolish move of choosing this location even though they knew it’s in a forest. There is no greater master of the forest than a hidden hunter.]
Bethel also said with mockery mixed in her voice.
The mages weren’t good at hiding.
As the magic grew larger, the movement of mana waves in the surroundings also grew larger, making it easy to detect.
[The hunters are moving.]
Russell said with a smile.
A mage was at their weakest when they shouted an incantation to use magic.
Russell knew this, and the mage hunters knew this even better.
The hunters started to deal with the mages who were observing the surroundings.
In groups of two, one person blocked the mage’s mouth, and the other wrapped the mage’s neck with a thin wire-like thread, ending their life.
Quietly and decisively.
They were indeed worthy of being called hunters.
[The six watchmen died.]
Hearing Russell’s report, Lucion felt that the macaron melting in his mouth felt even sweeter.
‘There are still 14 mages remaining’
Lucion felt silence descend on the carriage, and lent his ears to Russell’s reports.
[Two mages preparing magic died]
[One mage died.]
[Five are remaining]
As the number of mages dying gradually went up, Lucion felt something suffocating around him being lifted.
[The magic is broken.]
At Russell’s words, Lucion had to exercise his muscles to swallow his laughter.
That was the worst-case scenario that could happen to a mage.
When their magic was broken, some of the mana used for the spell would fly back and harm the caster.
If it was such a huge magic, he thought they would probably die or become severely disabled.
‘As expected, authority is the best.’
He had so many knights surround his carriage just thanks to the title of a saint, and weren’t the defense mages moving after the barrier mages?
Lucion petted Latta, and looked at Carson.
Carson’s expression is still stiff.
Knowing that one mistake could bring very big consequences, he didn’t let down his guard, having a painful feeling about the time when Lucion was dragged to an enemy country in the past.
Lucion turned his gaze and looked out of the window.
The movements of the knights suddenly became busy.
[The enemy seemed to have noticed that their fellow mages died, and now nothing but the suicide bombers remain.]
Russell floated down from the top of the carriage.
“Now! Unfold the defenses!”
At that moment, Heint shouted, feeling a huge amount of mana gathering in all directions.
The best method against suicide bombers was to hide behind a sturdy wall.
Didn’t they bring the defense mages for that?
The mages scattered in four directions, hidden among the knights, and unfolded the prepared defenses according to Heint’s shout.
Uuuuung.
A serene light spread around the defense mages.
The eyes of the incoming mages were filled with frustration.
It was a perfect countermeasure.
Against magic, and against suicide destruction.
However, once they set mana to run wild and attempted to self-destruct, they couldn’t turn it back.
“Dieeee!”
The mage shouted, full of resentment.
Claaaaang!
They clashed with the defense mages’ defenses, and a loud sound resonated.
The defenses didn’t have even a scratch.
‘As expected from defense mages.’
Lucion saved Pete, who was the most outstanding defense mage among all of them if he stayed alive, and sent him to his organization.
‘With Pete, we can be safe even during a suicide bombing attack, right?’
[There is still one left alive.]
Russell paid attention to the only place where a sound was not heard, where one mage was standing, suppressing his mana rampage.
“Listen well, Saint Lucion Cronia! You are a symbol of this absurd world! We, Luminos, will kill you, and step on your body to proudly change this absurdity!”
Veins stood out on the mage’s neck as he shouted, and then he exploded.
His flesh and blood splattered in all directions, but nothing stained Lucion’s carriage.
With that, it was a complete victory.
No one was injured.
Once the hunters holding the mages’ heads returned to the carriage, the defense mages stopped their magic and the knights searched the surroundings.
“Did you… hear?”
Cerson asked, revealing discomfort.
“What are You talking about?”
It seemed that the mage was shouting something, but because he didn’t have as good of hearing as Carson, Lucion didn’t really hear anything.
Instead, he saw the scummy red thread when the mage was speaking.
However, the red thread naturally had to appear in this situation.
The in-novel Luminos was on the same side as the Hand of Void, and he was a mid-boss.
“It’s nothing, so don’t worry.”
Carson sewed his mouth shut.
[The mage organization called Luminos declared you as their target. How arrogant.]
Russell informed him, while gnashing his teeth.
Bethel was startled at that moment.
Because the fact that a person was someone’s target could put psychological pressure on a person, she was careful about such things when she was alive.
[Is-is that okay?]
Bethel carefully asked.
[It’s better than knowing nothing and being a fool.]
At Russell’s words, she saw Lucion nod slightly in agreement.
‘… With this, Luminos, me and Heint are tied together.’
Lucion already predicted it when he used the Imperial Knights.
Even though his prediction was right, he didn’t feel very good.
As Luminos in the novel was intertwined with Lucion and Heint.
‘But this is the end of those bastards.’
Lucion petted Latta again.
No matter the process, Luminos messed with him and the imperial family.
There is no way they will be able to escape the wrath of the emperor.
Anyway, the mages of Luminos asked for it, so he had no mercy for them.
‘Once I spill information and the emperor annihilates their base, it will be perfect.’
Lucion smiled, and the carriage that stopped before started to move.
If he could coax villains, he would coax them and help them to turn over a new leaf.
If he couldn’t coax them, he would just pull on the power he had and trample them, just like now.
***
After Luminos disappeared, the entire road back to the border was smooth.
Excluding the rattling of the carriage, the weather was good for a nap, and the atmosphere shortly after Luminos’ attack was bright, as there were no injured or dead.
As Heint praised Lucion as the biggest contributor in this matter, Russell was very excited, and Lucion pretended not to hear anything.
— But Lucion.
Latta blinked as she looked up at Lucion.
Lucion’s eyes were half closed.
— Are mage ghosts different? Latta is very curious.
The only special ghosts that they’ve met until now were Russell and Bethel.
‘Right. Is there something different about mage ghosts? Besides some ghosts that are Death Knights, I know that they don’t have any abilities they had when they were alive after death.’
Lucion glanced at Russell.
[They just have a lot of knowledge in their heads. Excluding some ghosts, they don’t have the powers they could use when they were alive. That would be a complete fraud.]
— Then Russell is one of the ‘some ghosts’?
[That’s right. Who am I?]
— Genius warlock! Ill-fated genius warlock!
Latta spoke with a bright smile.
[That’s right!]
— But what is ill-fated?
[It means ‘unlucky’, but…]
At that moment, Russell frowned deeply.
— What’s the matter? Does something hurt?
[Nothing like that. It’s just because I became a ghost at a young age.]
‘Why so flustered?’
When Russell frowned deeply, Lucion noticed that his eyes were filled with confusion.
However, because the tension left him completely, Lucion’s eyes slowly closed, and he was drifting into sleep.
Around afternoon, they stayed in the town with the gate for lunch.
It was the place where a corrupt warlock appeared and where he had met Heint for the first time.
— Nom, nom.
Latta wagged her tail, while eating meat with pleasure, and Hyum quietly held Lucion’s serving.
“Is it not to your taste?”
Carson asked.
“No. I just want to stay still because the wind is cool.”
In the wind that blew through a window, the scent of spring was still mixed in.
“Your judgment was extremely good. Thanks to you, we’ve saved a lot of people.”
Carson finally opened his itching mouth and praised Lucion.
“More than my judgment, it was possible because Hyung-nim listened to me. It’s all thanks to Hyung-nim.”
Lucion threw the ball from himself to Carson.
That was a fact.
It was thanks to Carson that they could prepare to block Luminos.
“Lucion.”
Carson called out to him, heavily.
“It may not be something you had wanted, but there will be a heavy burden on your shoulders anyway. Each one of your words will cause a big wave, and everyone will be paying attention to what you say and do in the future.”
Lucion observed a piece of cut meat, and then put down his fork.
“You’re the only one in the world. You’re an existence under the burden of curiosity and jealousy, and animosity beyond what you can imagine.”
“Yes. I know this.”
Carson didn’t talk anymore about this at Lucion’s reply.
Instead, he asked a different question.
“Lucion, what do you want to do in the future?”
Lucion, who was tied down by the past and couldn’t take a step towards the future, personally cut off that past and climbed this far.
He thought it was a time to ask about the future rather than the past.
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Translator’s note: It’s time to check how psychologically sound Lucion is!
Editor’s note: Because he’s not sound at all and Carson isn’t helping by teaching him bad habits?
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