Chapter 33 (1/2)
Invitation of the Ivory Tower (3)
“Thank you for accepting the invitation of the Ivory Tower”
Firstly, the Tower Lord greeted Ian
Ian was a 12 years old young boy
Nevertheless, he greeted him with manners
“Come, sit there comfortably”
Mages surrounded Ian with circle
The chair was located at the centre, so that every Arch Mage could see it
And Ian had set on the chair
“It may confuse you, I understand”
The Tower Lord lightly yielded his the staff of the Ivory Tower
Soon, blue colored mana formed words in the air
“But there is no need to be afraid or shrunken As a member of the Ivory Tower, everyone had passed this process once”
Those words were a report of Ian
From his brief introduction to his private actions
They did good job on it
“As heard, I knew your talent, but still you had done s you did”
While reading the record, the Tower Lord said
Although he had read itit as he was still interested
“But, we are brothers and sisters in mana, which is thicker than blood, aren’t we? But if anyor suspicions between us, we better solve it now”
Suspicion of the Ivory Tower, and their spying
In addition, a rooic
As Ian had expected
So, he prepared the stone heart mushroom
‘They are overlooking their ic’
The best of bests of the Ivory Tower created this interrogation ic
They must have trusted and felt proud of it
If Ian can overcoation,
‘No doubt will be left of me’
Then, they would only care for Ian’s ‘talent’
A precious talent
“Uh, are you going to tor bad?”
Ian replied as if he knew nothing
With a warm smile, the Tower Lord replied
His smile harmonized ith the wrinkles on his face
“Haha! You joking, right? Those barbaric methods are not our style We will just ask you some questions You just have to answer it”
While he saying that, the Tower Lord glanced at the Arch Mages
It was a silent sign to start the interrogation ic
A time has come to test Ledio’s potion
“Ian Page Born in 488 in i traveler, Pran Page Mother was a kitchenincorrect?”
“Everything is true”
There were no lies
he asked continuous questions related to Ian’s identity
Ian answered it calmly
The main questions started after that
“How did you know that goblin corpses can be sold to receive money?”
“I heard it before and tried it Just in case”
“I wonder your relationshi+p with the alchemist, Ledio”
“My mother has a weak body I needed one who can brew potions for her, a es earn a lot, don’t they? So I hired him”
“What is the real purpose of visiting the old Ivory Tower ruin?”
“I had seen it in a lot in books I wished to visit there once in my life”
There were many questions that were sharp
Of course, it could be expected
Ian just needed to answer it step by step, as he prepared
Everything he said, would become the truth
“Do you ree, Cecelia?”
“Of course”
“And you said that you saw she waswith masked man, and Cecelia attempted to kill you whenever she saw you at there…… You sure what you said was true? She still kept silence about it”
“I do I was close to death”
Endless questions froes
Whenever Ian answered one, then a second question came
“And you truly never learned ic from no one?”
“Yes Never”
“Then, fro elements, to frost nova How do you know all of those for persuasive”
Magic was spelt by quickly calculating forh mana brain However, did Ian said he hadn’t learnt any fores, it was impossible
“Please don’t tell ain”
A state mana test in his home town
The questioner knew it in detail
However, Ian answered similar to that
“…… I just visualized”
“Visualize?”
“For exaine a fire appears on my palm”
While answering, Ian sparked a small fire
It was a weak level of fire ball
“I just iined it One day, it became real”
Casting spells by just i?
If iine a small fire, then fireballs appeared
If he wanted to suic
If he tried to freeze his surrounding, then Frost Nova
“What nonsense are you sayin……”
It was totally nonsense
All of those Arch Mages shouted
That interrogate spell would figure out his lying
However, nothing had happened
It only said what Ian said was crystal clear
The result hadn’t changed
‘He’s not lying?’
Arch Mages quickly checked their interrogation spells
However, nothing had changed The strongest interrogationtruth
‘How this could happen?’
The first ends
Was Ian truly his reincarnation or someone like him?
‘If he is telling lies’
It also didn’t make sense
It ic couldn’t work on him
What that would mean?
‘Has he achieved a higher ical class then us?’
The interrogation spell which was casted by the Tower Lord and Arch Mages
And the e as invulnerable from it
‘That’s impossible It makes no sense at all’
Rather, trusting what Ian had said made more sense
Actually, it had to
“Hmmm……”
Endless questions had paused for a while
While everyone aiting the Tower Lord’s decision,
“Humph! I don’t care about it!”
A lady who hadn’t questioned to Ian once
She used to be the youngest 4th class e, before Ian had appeared
‘Lady of fla the table Her nicknaic, but also due to her impatient characteristic
“Who the heck are you?”
“Helene! Calm down The Tower Lord is with us……”
“Co those boring things Let’s ask so we really wanted to A real question!”
Mages who are on even same class had their level difference
And Helene was one of the strongest 4th class es
At least, for now
“With your da up bullshi+t, huh? Would you pleaseeee- tell me?”
Helene said very aggressively
Other es looked embarrassed, but they looked Ian with interest
They couldn’t ask like that, because of their pride
‘Yeah That’s how she was’
In his former life, Helene acted the same
Rude and aggressive voice and language
“I thought you already knew it, don’t you?”
“What?”
“It’s on there as well”
While squaring his shoulder, Ian pointed first sentence of mana words on the air
A section where listed his brief information
“Ian Page Born in 488 in i traveler, Pran Page Mother was a kitchen e”
Furthermore, he started to read it for her
Every single words, slowly
“I don’t knohat to say anumore”
Ian’s word contained disregard
And Helene knew it
“You dare spea………!”
“Halt!”
The Tower Lord’s short shout stopped Helene’s angry voice
Even Helene couldn’t go against him
“Let me ask a last question”
This tiht siht If what Ian said was true, they had to ade
‘However, isn’t it too… plain?’
The Tower Lord was curious
Ian’s body kept showing plain bio signals, for any questions they did
It ht be just due to his calm characteristics
However,
‘It needs to be checked’
A question that ht sway his calmness
The Tower Lord asked a question to do it so
“On the day you did the mana reaction test, I know there was some kind of problem Do you remember the soldier, Jonathan, who insulted you and your mother, don’t you?”
Ian nodded quietly
There were no specific bio signal change, yet
“On the next day, the soldier found was dead”
With a sharpened eyesight, the Tower Lord continued his question
He focused to catch any sort of mental disturbance from Ian
“Perhaps, the death of the soldier, is it related to you?”
The Tower Lord was a smart man
He was different to others
He didn’t overlook their ic
He didn’t stop doubting, and testing every possible case
‘However, he wouldn’t know it’s the power of a potion’
It was the limit of the Tower Lord for now
Mages and alchemists were quite close
They had many chance to collaborate
They often received good elixirs
Precisely however, their relationshi+p wasn’t horizontal, it was rather a vertical relationshi+p
‘So, es only know the basics of it’
Like Ian knew soes knew basic of alchemy
Harbert wouldn’t be exception
Rather, he would know it better than others
‘However he doesn’t know existence of the mushroom’
The potion that could avoid the interrogation ic
Any rasses that had such effect
He wouldn’t even able to is
‘I better erase the effect’
In es
They could use their own mana to remove the poison out of their body
And that hy Ragnar asked Douglas to brew a special poison in former life
‘He said it would be the last question, didn’t he?’
The Tower Lord cared how he looked
He was likely to keep the promise that he had spoken once
Only if he got satisfying result
‘I will give you the answer you want’
Ian removed the effect of the stone heart potion
As he determined, he opened his mouth