Chapter 630 - : Clash Between Red Dragon King and Luke 1 (1/2)
Belfair received a report from Argos agents a few days back.
An agent was spying the western part of Libiya Kingdom under the disguise of being a port merchant.
According to him, ‘Grain Chambers’, one of the top ten traders on the continent, suddenly brought in a large number of transport ships and sent them over to the Southern Continent.
It was natural to trade with the Southern Continent if any trading company was of the level of Grain, so it didn’t seem unusual to send in a trading fleet.
The problem was that the transport ships of Grain that was departing to the Southern Continent were empty.
The spy didn’t enter the ship, but he got information that the ship’s wight line was clearly out of the water.
Merchants, who didn’t want to lose any credit in the commercial activities, wouldn’t do that.
They would usually go to the Southern Continent to trade their entire products, so the ships always left the Rhodesia Continent full of goods, and when they returned, they would come back with the specialties of the Southern Continent.
But, the transport ship wasn’t of a small merchant, and the ship was said to belong to one of the top ten merchants on the continent, and it left empty?
‘The Grain Chambers has recently begun its trade in the Libiya Kingdom, right? Maybe they had something to do with the transformation of Libiya Kingdom.’
So, Belfair decided to find out more details about it.
Unlike Sebastian, who acted as a regent in the absence of the King, Belfair was acting more as an information agent in the dark to know the matters of the continent.
‘Well, His Majesty isn’t here, and there isn’t much work for me to do, so I’ll just go over there and check it in person.’
After chasing the trading fleet of Grain, Belfair turned into a bat and went to the coast of the Grenada Kingdom and had successfully sneaked in the transport ship.
However, the air around the trading fleet felt weird.
The number of sailors was fewer than he expected, and the bodies of those that seemed to have high status as merchants and captains were giving out magi.
‘What? Is there a warlock behind the Grain Chambers?’
Even among the warlocks, there were men who would subtly disguise themselves.
Moreover, unlike the other trading chambers, the Grain Chambers’s growth was quick, so there was much talk about it.
‘If the warlocks are doing a good job behind the scenes, including the transaction or investment, then such rapid development and growth wouldn’t be impossible. By any chance, are these men the warlocks that are going to the Southern Continent?’
Even if that wasn’t the case, Luke kept on asking the intelligence officials to find out where the remnants of the Veritas Magic Tower were hiding.
‘I don’t know, but maybe I’ll get a clue if I see this through.’
However, it wasn’t the Southern Continent where the trading fleet had arrived after a week.
Surprisingly, it was the Archipelago of Hell Islands where the fleet stopped.
That part of the sea was a place where traders never went because of the never-ending thick fog, reefs, and the fierce whirlpools, and the raids of monsters all throughout the year.
And so, in the past hundreds of years, no human had reached that place.
However, the trading fleet had gone into that place without any fear.
Belfair, seeing how skilled they were stirring their ship away from the fog and reefs, figured out that the fleet of the Grain Chamber hadn’t been to the Hell Islands just once or twice.
‘Is this their hangout place?’
Thinking so, Belfair knew that the men were sharp, finding the men were hard.
On the island where the fleet stopped, he saw a huge pyramid above the forest.
It seemed like it was an ancient building, but he could feel mana moving in the air as if the structure was still functioning well.
‘Huh! There are such ruins in the Hell Islands?’
It was when Belfair was shocked at the evil feeling…
Dadak! Dadak!
The wagons driven out by the warlocks from the woods began to come out.
One after the other, they kept on coming out.
There were coffins on the wagons, but surprisingly, there seemed to be Undead inside them.
‘I knew it…! These are the remnants of the Veritas Magic Tower!’
There were Undead and warlocks, who Belfair was familiar with.
Belfair was quick to identify it.
Grinding his teeth, he approached the pyramid slowly.
However, he stopped quickly.
One of the two warlocks, who were standing on top of the pyramid, used a dark bullet on him even though he was hiding in the branches.
“Kuak!”
The Dark Bullet was much faster and powerful than he thought.
Belfair was injured, but he still tried to run away immediately. However, a warlock was able to follow him.
“That bastard rat!”
Contrary to the thought that he would be able to catch the spy, Albert couldn’t get a hold of the spy, who escaped his grasp.
Albert couldn’t calm himself down by the fact that he wasn’t able to catch the spy. He ended up at the southern seashore in his pursuit of the spy.
Using the 9th magic circle spell, he began chanting.
Lightning Web.
Pajack!
A powerful lightning net covered a 20-meter area, and a scream broke out from the mouth of the spy, who was wearing a dark hood.
“Ackkk!”
Thud.
The guy, who flew in the sky, ran into the net and fell to the ground.
Albert moved close to the spy and spoke with a sly smile on his lips, “Kukuku, how dare you think that you could run away from my hands? Stop struggling and show yourself!”
When he went close to the spy and tried to kick off the hood on his head…
Swask!
Something flew in with an eerie feeling.
Shocked, Albert used Blink to quickly avoid whatever it was.
However, the blade, the aura blade, moved in the air and went for Albert’s neck.
“Kuak!”
In the unexpected counter-attack, Albert’s head and body got separated.
Like Nestar, his father and former Meister of the Veritas Magic Tower, he too was an Archmage, who didn’t just learn white but also dark magic.
However, the spy seemed to be an Intermediate Sword Master!
“Kuekk! Even a 9th circle Archmage would get hit by that surprise attack!”
Belfair took his hood down and looked elated.
In a normal sense, a 9th circle Archmage was powerful enough to be compared to a Sword Sage.
In addition, the opponent was learning dark magic.
Belfair deliberately pretended to be hit by the Lightning Web, knowing that he wouldn’t be able to win against the man in a direct confrontation even if he was a demon. However, he managed to attack him with a surprise attack.
While Belfair was feeling triumphant…
Swash!
Albert’s head and body, which were separated, began to reattach. Albert got up and frowned while touching the part of his neck that was cut off.
“That was pretty painful, an unexpected attack.”
‘Wh-what is this?!’
Belfair was stunned by what he saw.
Albert glanced at him and laughed.
“You must have been shocked since I didn’t die. This isn’t so unreasonable. It would be worthless to learn dark magic if I didn’t learn about resurrection and regeneration.”
Recovery magic wasn’t something that was exclusively for white magic.
Although it wasn’t common in dark magic, it also had Recovery magic.