Chapter 74 (1/2)

Chapter 74: Chapter 7 Excommunication-9

Nonmagical people have always existed. Throughout their short history, society treated them as either handicapped or sick. And as a result, the number of these people started to decrease drastically.

About 100 years ago, the 30 or so nonmagical people left in existence, realizing the difficulty of their situation, left to create their own city. That city became Wonderland.

The government welcomed this news because they had been unable to kill them for fear of the media or to leave them within their cities when they were so useless. And so, the government restored the capital and gave them Wonderland. And after many years, Wonderland became a refuge for outlaws. It had gained a strength that could very well become a threat to the government.

Afterward, magic in humans slowly started to disappear to a point where, even in Outhouse, although it was kept hushed, many of the residents had no magical powers. Whether you had magical powers or not became irrelevant.

Because the residents of Wonderland were able to create a world that didn't require magical powers and were successful in becoming powerful in their own right, this city's figures were a definite threat to the government.

The residents of Outhouse believed that Wonderland and the government had no relationship with each other whatsoever. In most respects, that was true.

From Heart's perspective, however, things were different. To the government, Wonderland was just a trash can in which to throw their fugitives. Heart was the head of those fugitives.

And this was the reason invaders had come to find Heart. Unfortunately, these invaders had chosen the worst time to mess with Heart as he was in the foulest of moods. Of course, they had no idea of this, but sometimes stupidity can be seen as a sin. Heart's men shrank nervously and gasped in fear the moment they saw Heart's crooked smile.

With his elbow propped against the armchair and his head lying on his hand, he stared at the unwelcome visitors with a tilted head. As his eyes burned with a mix of explosiveness and seduction, the mood became a bit erotic. The only woman who had followed them to catch a glimpse of an actual nonmagical being watched him with unfocused eyes.

Heart glanced at the woman, who looked lazy but had a glimmer of violence in her eyes. Although he had already been smiling, he looked at the woman like he was interested in her. When the woman blushed red, an old man coughed next to her.

”Eh hem! Our business is this. This matter has been taken up to the government, so we hope you will be accommodating.”

Heart's men frowned as they heard them talk down to Heart. Heart didn't pay much attention to them and instead started to count the days in his head again. Today had been exactly seven days.

That's enough. I'll have to get her. Right now. As he thought this, he heard someone cough. Heart looked up and stared at the man.

That man had hurt Whitey. No, to be more exact, all of them had hurt her, he thought. He laughed.

”What did you come here to get?”

He mocked them as if he hadn't heard a single thing they'd said. Heart's men who stood guard started to feel slightly sorry for the government researchers. Of all the people, they had come to Heart, and of all the people, they had come for that girl. None the wiser, the man yelled at him with a vein popping out his neck.

”The white-haired, brown-eyed girl. Our experiment! We already know she is here, so don't go pretending you don't know!”

”Even if you say it like that, I still don't…”

”If you make this more troublesome than it has to be, we will have no choice but to tell those on top! This one is important to the government as well!”

SoYoon was special even among the experiments. The other nonmagical subjects and even the other dimension jumpers had all died, unable to handle the experiments. Not only had she survived, but now she had become a monstrously powerful entity because of it. Her usefulness and her lack of resistance made them think that it would be safe to name her as an agent, but when she broke away from her leash and ran away, it put the government and the researchers in a tough spot.

There were three reasons the research facility and the government had an interest in her: first, her usefulness as a weapon; second, the danger of an unleashed animal; third, her mysterious ability to block the signal of the brand.

The most powerful magicians of their day had created the brand on her shoulder. The wizards of today only knew how to use it but didn't know how it actually worked. But if that signal could somehow be blocked, the implications were huge. It would lead the way for a new generation of more powerful magicians, and they wanted to be the ones to harness that power.

Heart had no interest in any of this. Truthfully, Heart wanted nothing more than for all the magic in the world to collapse in on itself, and he would be the first to stand on the sidelines cheering about its demise.

”Hm, a threat?”

He placed his hands behind his back. He grasped the handle of the ax he'd hid under his jacket.

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