Chapter 197 (1/2)

“What is this all of a sudden?”

“That is what I am saying.”

Hearing the explosion, the knights who ran out of the Inn where they were staying inside.

Upon arriving at the scene of the accident, they could see the village security and the other mercenaries.

However, if one doesn’t go out after hearing such sounds, it would be much stranger.

What they saw after reaching the vacant lot outside the village, were dead bodies and traces of flames and lightning strikes.

“Who the hell was fighting out there?”

“Those traces were done with magic, right? Maybe a magic tower?”

“But, there are days the fights in the magic world is turning much fiercely, right?”

The knights who entered the Inn with such talks found Luke sitting at the center of the pub sipping the beer.

“Uh? Lord… sorry. Captain. Were you here?”

“Yes, I went to the washroom for a while but when I came back no one was around. What happened?”

At the question of Luke, the knights approached him.

“It seems like a fight broke out in the open outside the village.”

Luke was the first person to witness the incident.

He managed to get back before the people reached there. And he had no intention of getting mixed up in the issue and telling the village men his name.

So he went back to the inn and pretended as if he knew nothing and heard the stories told by the knights.

“There were on or two scars on the body.”

“But the dead bodies. It seemed like the work of a warlock…”

At the words of a young Knight, Victor looked over at Luke.

It was because he knew that Luke was learning dark magic.

So as the night got deeper and the two were the only ones left, he tried to ask, “It wasn’t something I did.” Luke clarified before he could ask.

“Then…?”

“It was the work of another warlock. And the dead ones seemed to be the mercenaries of the Rokid magic tower.”

The wizards and the mercenaries who attacked the warlock stated that he was the enemy of the Rokid magic tower.

And from what Luke knew, Rokid magic tower was at war with the Veritas magic tower, and their Meister had been assassinated at the beginning of the war.

“Is it related to the magic tower war? Hold on, if the warlock fought with the Rokid magic tower mercenaries, that means…” Victor faltered from saying those words.

“Magic Federation, he seems to be associated with Veritas magic tower.”

“Unbelievable…! The Veritas magic tower studying dark magic?!”