Chapter 16 Part2 (1/2)

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I hope you enjoyed the ad-free site for the 10-11 months, cough, maybe when I get a job I wouldn’t need to put in ads?

Chapter 16 part 2 – Thus the Magician becomes a hero

======= The Royal Palace’s office =======

Wilfred looked over the report. (TL: King Wilfred, if you can’t remember)

It was the results of the investigation that he ordered his va.s.sals to do during the previous meeting.

There were some notes about the Elder Torrent, but the investigation was still ongoing.

Based on the results of the investigation of the forest thus far, the Elder Treant’s roots were deep, far, and wide, which matched the report that Rafael gave. It was impossible to imagine how long they had been growing.

These roots were connected to wilted vegetation, which was most likely controlled by the Elder Treant. Dead plants could be found in the various cities and villages, and they were withered at the same time without any symptoms.

One after another, the investigations supported Rafael’s report.

If the subjugation was delayed, it might be possible for the kingdom to be destroyed.

Wilfred s.h.i.+vered at the thought of the worst outcome.

Perhaps it would be appropriate to call the people who partic.i.p.ated in the subjugation as heroes. But he felt complicated feelings in his chest, as he could only think that only one person should be called a hero.

The mysterious young wizard – Chaos.

Wilfred had heard of that name even before he received Wilfred’s report, and it was Izrael from the Royal Magic Research Insit.i.tute who told him.

Originally a researcher would not be able to meet the king under ordinary circ.u.mstances, but they shared the same teacher when they were young and were close friends. It was an event where a revolutionary medicine was produced that Wilfred learned the name Chaos.

According to Izrael, Chaos was the one who provided the knowledge of the raw materials to make an Elixir. Not only that, he even provided the materials required, as well as where to get them, to make the highest cla.s.s Health and Mana potions.

Izrael who had nothing but research on his mind, said pa.s.sionately that Chaos’s knowledge was one that the kingdom had never seen before and he should be recruited without question.

Wilfred himself wondered why Chaos taught the usage of these materials and had endless questions, but he thought that he could address him at a later time from Meldor and summon him to the royal palace.

However, he was not called in the days after, and yet there was another event about him.

Thieves who were trafficking people were caught. It was illegal in the kingdom because slavery was abolished. Normally they would have been caught and handled appropriately, but their hideout was a problem.

The bandits used the sewers as their base.

It might seem like a convenient place for the criminals to hide. But these sewers were specially locked because there were monsters in them which could easily overrun the area. The key was managed by the royal palace, and the Adventurer Guild which frequently eliminated the monsters would borrow it at fixed intervals.

Therefore it should not be easy to enter or exit the sewers. Nevertheless, the bandits discovered the door’s lock when they investigated the area.

In the bandits’ testimony, there was a person who brought out and duplicated the key from the royal palace. There were also a considerable number of aristocrats who were part of their customers, and government affairs were delayed because they had been exposed.

The bandits also mentioned about the details as to why they were caught. They had mistaken an adventurer who had black eyes and hair as a ghost, and they were caught because of him.

That was truly an unusual event and Wilfred had a lasting impression.

Then there was the case of the recent subjugation of the Elder Treant.

He did not think that the name Chaos would appear here. Thus he called Izrael to the royal palace to confirm if he was the same person and based on the description, it was indeed the very same person.

―― The Elixir, sewers, Elder Treant.

In all these events, the youth with black hair was involved in all of them.

Perhaps due to these events that were linked together, there was an illusion where he was trying to stand out in this kingdom. However, the Elixir was actually first taught in Meldor’s item store, and the information was only pa.s.sed to the Royal Magic Research Insit.i.tute later by chance.

The guild staff accepted the youth’s partic.i.p.ation in the sewer’s cleanup and brought him there by mistake.

Therefore these events could not be linked together.