Chapter 34 - The Lord of Poison (1/2)

“Maybe he got kidnapped!”

Pavian stood up and said to Kale.

“Kidnapped?”

Kale couldn’t understand Pavian’s words for a while. Kidnapped? What did he mean?

“Yes! Kidnapped! He got kidnapped on the way!”

Being kidnapped, it was a perfectly plausible explanation. After all, wasn’t he a once-in-a-century immeasurable talent?

“……That’s definitely possible.”

Kale nodded to Pavian after considering his words.

“I should have gone myself!”

Now fully convinced that Soo Hyuk had been kidnapped, Pavian grinded his teeth as he muttered. If Pavian had been there, then the safety of the new talent would’ve been guaranteed!

After all, who would dare to kidnap someone under a Spire Lord’s care? Even other Spire Lords wouldn’t be able to.

“Kale!”

Pavian yelled.

“Yes!”

Kale answered.

“Find him!”

Pavian yelled again.

“Yes, sir!”

Kale rushed out of the room as soon as he answered. After Kale left, Pavian sat down again and thought.

‘Who is it?’

Who would dare to kidnap the immeasurable talent?

‘I don’t know for sure, but.’

Pavian pulled out a bunch of vials from his sleeves.

‘I’ll kill him.’ (TL: I like him.)

He wouldn’t kill them straight away. He would slowly torture them with poison until they begged to be killed. Pavian would then finally kill them with the most painful method he knew. Pavian finished pulling out all sorts of vials from his clothes and started double-checking all his personal poison for the upcoming torture.

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“What, really?”

Kale asked again.

“Ye-“

“This isn’t time for jokes. He’s seriously angry this time.”

“I’m really not joking sir.”

Kale was speechless at the Magician’s words. Like Pavian, he had also been fully convinced that the immeasurable was kidnapped, but the Magician’s words changed everything.

Kale had sent teams of Magicians varying from Rank 1 to Rank 6 to investigate. They were finally able to locate the talent. He wasn’t kidnapped, or in any sort of trouble.

“He went to the library?”

The immeasurable talent had gone to the Matab Library.

“Why did he go there? Why didn’t he come straight here? Why would he do that?”

Kale felt like he was going crazy. Why didn’t he go straight to the Tower of Poison?

“I’ll continue my work then.”

Kale’s subordinate, Rank 1 Magician Peru said.

“Okay, but it’s true, right?”

Kale asked again as he held up a piece of paper.

“……It’s true.”

Peru answered. He then said goodbye and and exited the room. Kale stared at Peru’s back as he exited and turned his head towards the piece of paper.

“Eheww……”

Kale sighed deeply and also went out of the room.

“They wouldn’t deceive me like that.”

After coming out of Peru’s room with the paper in hand, he headed to Spire Lord Pavian’s room.

But when he arrived outside the room, his face crumbled.

‘What is this……’

There was a fishy smell coming from the room.

‘Is he concocting a new kind of poison?’

Kale couldn’t recognise the smell even though he was the Vice Lord. Just in case, Kale wrapped his mana around him to protect himself and knocked on the door.

“Wait a bit!”

Kale heard Pavian’s voice from inside the room.

“You can come in now!”

Kale opened the door at Pavian’s words. As soon as he entered, his mana cloak changed colour.

“……Woah.”

Kale was shocked at the phenomena.

‘What did he make?’

If Pavian told Kale to wait, then it was definitely dangerous. It looked like Pavian couldn’t fully get rid of the poison, but that tiny bit of poison managed to change the colour of Kale’s mana. It was definitely an extremely dangerous poison. Pavian was sitting inside with a dignified expression.

“Did you find him?”

“Yes, please look at this.”

Kale handed the sheet of paper to Pavian. Pavian received the paper and looked at the information.

“……”

Pavian’s dignified expression turned into a confused one as he kept reading.

“What?”

Pavian exclaimed. Kale opened his mouth to explain to Pavian.

“It’s exactly as it’s written.”

“……Then he wasn’t kidnapped?”

“Yes.”

Kale nodded.

Kale then tiled his head. Pavian wasn’t saying anything.

“Haa……”

Pavian sighed deeply.

“What a relief.”

He had thought that the immeasurable talent was kidnapped, but it seemed like this wasn’t the case. It was truly a relief for Pavian.

“Okay. But why did he go to the library?!”

The paper said that he had gone to the library, but not why.

“I think we have to ask that ourselves.”

Kale also didn’t know the reason.

“Okay!”

Pavian stood up energetically.

“I’ll bring him here now.”

“……Really?”

Kale couldn’t help but do a double take.

“Will you be going personally?”

“Yep. I want to move my body around a bit.”

“……I understand. Then I’ll go prepare……”

“No, you don’t have to prepare anything. I’ll just go now.”