Memoirs of a Wicked Magician - Chapter 114

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Chapter 114
Liriope looked at Cassel as though he were a curiosity.
So he worried about injuries without hesitation?
Then again, thinking about it, Liriope herself paid no mind to strangers getting hurt or not — it was all the same to her.
“Not as much as you, though.”
At Liriope’s answer, Cassel flinched.
“What do you mean by that…?”
“I’ve only ever seen Belkiers injured once in all this time. So naturally, I’ve had far fewer chances to worry about your wounds than his.”
“Oh, come on. That’s what you meant? I thought…”
Cassel seemed to deflate a little.
Then he suddenly bristled. “Wait, but how strong is that guy? You’ve only seen him hurt once?”
“Yeah, and that was three years ago, I think.”
“We get sliced up all over the place in the Tainted Sanctum and even in lessons if we’re not careful. Don’t you two just sneak off on your own expeditions to hunt shadows in the Tainted Sanctum and go have fun instead?”
Cassel grumbled, clearly wounded in his pride.
“Oh! There’s your sister and Milena!”
The two fell silent at that. Caliona and Milena had come into view.
“Liriope! Cassel! Over here!”
“Liriope, you’re safe!”
The four of them exchanged warm greetings.
“Liriope, are you all right? The space twisted so suddenly.”
“Yeah, and you two, no injuries?”
“Caliona’s fine, and I just scraped my calf! It’s not serious though.”
While the three girls quietly checked on one another, Cassel, sensing an odd pang of exclusion, edged in beside them.
“Don’t I get a little attention too?”
“C-Cassel, you’re tough. About 21% of your body is Magic Stone anyway.”
“That’s exactly why you should worry more, isn’t it…?”
After confirming everyone’s general safety, Caliona opened her mouth carefully once more.
“There’s something I need to tell you first. Milena and I ran into someone while we were exploring.”
As Caliona twisted her body slightly, a figure that had been concealed behind her came into view.
“What the—! That’s one of the ruin monsters!”
The moment Liriope and Cassel spotted the figure lurking silently at the edge of the light, they reflexively took defensive stances.
“No, it’s a person! Just… a bit of an odd appearance.”
Caliona hastened to explain when she saw their reaction.
But their alarm was hardly unreasonable. The person behind Caliona had a sack pulled over their head like some kind of ruin monster.
“A person? Then why do they look like that? Did you check if they’re actually human by taking off the sack?”
Still suspicious, Cassel turned to Liriope, who gave him a meaningful look.
“Cassel, look at that cloak. That’s Belegot.”
Only then did Cassel’s defensive edge soften slightly.
Liriope turned to Caliona. “Do you know this person?”
“Well… not close, but I know their face. They damaged their face somehow, and they insisted on wearing that over their head, so I just left them to it.”
Caliona seemed a bit flustered explaining.
A terrified whisper escaped from the person behind her.
“I… I don’t want to die… I don’t want to die…”
Judging by their state, they must have suffered some serious shock while wandering through the Hart Ruins.
‘Well, if you accidentally wandered in here alone, that would be enough to rattle anyone.’
Liriope, recalling how many times her own heart had nearly stopped, could muster no kind words about this dreadful place.
[No, actually, it’s far safer and more pleasant than other ruins of the highest danger level, I think…]
Od muttered, their voice barely a whisper.
“Since I found them, I’ll look after them. Don’t worry about it.”
Caliona approached the huddled figure and spoke to them.
“Come on, get up. I’m not sure why you were like this, but we need to get back to the Magic Tower.”
“The Magic Tower?”
The trembling person suddenly lifted their head sharply. Then they began to shriek as though seized by a fit.
“N-no! I won’t go back! Belkiers might kill me… I won’t go!”
Belkiers?
Liriope’s eyes snapped downward, confirming the blue-green cloak once more. Through the folds of fabric, she glimpsed five and a half pairs of wings emblazoned there.
Just then, Od displayed the figure’s Mana Capacity in her vision.
[37,400/42,000]
Judging by their voice and build, they seemed to be around the same age as the group. A mage with that level of ability…
“Hold on. Is this person one of the Magic Tower Master’s charges?”
Cassel reached the same conclusion, his face darkening. Before anyone could stop him, he strode forward and yanked the sack clean off.
“Wait, Cassel!”
Caliona cried out a moment too late — the face was already exposed.
“Gasp!”
“What… what on earth—?”
In that instant, they all drew breath in shock.
What emerged from beneath the sack was a markedly beautiful face — the sort the Magic Tower Master’s charges typically possessed.
Their androgynous features made it difficult to discern gender at first glance.
Beneath short, frizzy bright-crimson hair, eyes of pale blue-gray trembled with fear, glistening in the firelight.
But the neck, jawline, and cheeks of this person — whether girl or boy — were covered entirely in something pitch-black.
It looked disturbingly like decaying flesh melting away, and it writhed ceaselessly, twisting the contours of face and neck into something grotesque.
The moment Liriope glimpsed that hideous visage, a strange sense of déjà vu washed over her.
But the feeling vanished quickly, replaced instead by a pressing question: why was the Magic Tower Master’s charge here alone in this condition?
“You… you saw me…?”
At that very instant, a voice so chillingly sinister that it made the spine crawl pierced through their eardrums.
“When you go back to the Magic Tower, you’ll tell everyone you saw me, won’t you?”
They sensed instinctively that something had gone terribly wrong.
Sure enough, Killing Intent mixed with Mana erupted explosively before their eyes.
“So then… just die here, all of you!”
Indiscriminate magic swept across the group instantly.
“Kyaaaah!”
“What the—? Are you insane?!”
No wall, however sturdy, could withstand a stronger assault.
A torrent of Mana pierced through Liriope’s defense and raked across her arm and cheek. Only with Od’s aid did she manage to redirect it at the last moment — otherwise, it would have bored straight through her skull and killed her instantly.
[Liriope, light!]
Liriope swiftly unfurled a tight Light Net, ensnaring the shadows that clawed toward them like talons.
What slipped through the gaps, Od intercepted by redirecting Mana in her stead.
In that window, Cassel surged forward using his signature Body Enhancement Magic, channeling Mana into his fist as he closed the distance in a heartbeat.
“Look, sorry I saw your face, but why are you attacking innocent kids?!”
“What—?!”
Since mages typically fought at range, the attacker seemed momentarily off-balance.
“P-please don’t fight! Can’t we all just talk it out?!”
Meanwhile, Milena pleaded tearfully to end the violence. Yet the countless vine-like tendrils she’d unleashed whipped forward unrelentingly, piercing straight into the attacker’s body.
“No good! Don’t bother attacking — it won’t work! Everyone get back…!”
That was when Caliona cried out urgently.
Cassel and Milena’s attacks hadn’t connected cleanly, but they’d clearly dealt some damage.
Still, Caliona quickly pulled both of them back with magic, then raised the sturdiest shield she could manage.
“How… how dare these insects presume to challenge me…!”
At that moment, a Mana descended — turbid and heavy beyond all comparison — and began surging menacingly in front of them.
Liriope’s body went rigid with tension. She focused hard, preparing her next spell to escape this nightmare.
Flutter.
At that precise instant, a Black Butterfly fluttered into Liriope’s field of vision.
And simultaneously, a cool, calm, achingly familiar boy’s voice rang in her ears.
“Tired of living, are we, Tyrisha?”
She felt a presence materialize behind her — one that hadn’t been there a moment before.
The moment she registered that familiar boy, strong, solid hands enveloped her shoulders.
[99,800/179,000]
Mana capacity that defied belief.
As she turned her head, the first thing to catch her eye was a jaw carved as though from cold stone.
In eyes of such merciless gold, the afterimage of Mana shimmered like a flash of lightning.
With Belkiers’s arrival, the very air surrounding them shifted in an instant.

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