The beauty of life lingers between suffering and pleasure--Z.C
Finally, he managed to summon an empty carriage that was passing by. Brand, who was so tired that his arms were sore, found the dusty coachman particularly pleasing to the eye.
"Father…"
"Father…"
" Eh…Ah?!!!"
Brand, who was resting with his eyes closed, was so frightened that he almost fell off his seat. He glanced at Mia reflexively, but the little girl seemed to have fallen asleep and was leaning close to the mage without any reaction.
"Could it be that I'm hallucinating because of the aftereffects of the previous soul fusion?”
Forcing himself to calm down his chaotic emotions, Brand suspected that his failed experiment or some other reason had caused him to have some kind of auditory hallucination. After a while, when there was nothing unusual, Brand relaxed and leaned back in his seat.
"Father…"
This was not an illusion! The mage suddenly stood up. Fortunately, he was not too tall, or he would have hit the hard roof of the carriage.
Brand suddenly thought of the strange wooden leaf ring. Before he figured out the situation of this thing, he couldn't casually throw it into the dimensional space bag. The ring that he had just obtained lay quietly in a small box that he had taken out from his mage robe. Upon closer inspection, it actually emitted a faint glow.
"Father…"
Damn it! Could it be that the soul of an elf was inside the ring?!
"Coachman! Coachman! "Hurry up, I have something urgent to attend to in the learning area," Brand shouted outside the hood.
The carriage that suddenly sped up calmed the mage down a little. Mia was still sleeping soundly. Perhaps this was the best sleep she had had recently, even though she was in a simple rental carriage.
Bang!
As if it had hit something, the carriage jolted violently. Then, it rushed forward for a while and suddenly tilted down.
Brand used a magic gesture to activate the Levitation spell in his badge. He picked up Mia and dashed out of the overturned car door.
The Levitation Spell of the Mage Badge was only a simplified half-magic effect that could only last for ten seconds. Realizing that danger was nearby, the mages landed on the ground with Mia in their arms. Before they could stabilize themselves, Brand saw a few invisible objects coming at the carriage through the air field that had yet to dissipate. He used all his strength to roll on the ground beside him.
Although he was covered in dust, he was not hurt by that invisible thing. These invisible objects hit the carriage separately, and one of them even accurately cut the reins of two horses. The two frightened horses, who were already whining in fear, galloped forward desperately.
Vacuum Blade! This was the Vacuum Blade, a bow technique known as the Mage Killer. It used the high-speed vibration of the bowstring to guide the air to distort and produce the Vacuum Blade!! Brand had clearly seen several vacuum blades flying towards him through the air. Could it be that there was more than one enemy?!
Knowing that things were not going well, Brand gritted his teeth and began to chant the incantation to summon the Spirit of Words with all his might. He was still holding Mia in his left hand. Although it was difficult to use only one hand to guide the gesture, it wasn't a problem for Brand, who had already learned how to cast spells in battle last year.
As the last gesture and incantation were completed, a flickering spirit appeared in front of the mage-the Otherworld Servant. Celestial Hound. Although it was called a Celestial Hound, it was actually very different from a real Celestial Hound. At most, it could be considered a projection of a Celestial Hound, but this was already the limit of what a Seventh-level Wizard could do. After all, most Seventh-level Wizards could not use spells of the same level so skillfully.
Brand didn't dare to be careless. He stood still in the direction where the Vacuum Blade was flying towards. He stuffed Mia, who had woken up but hadn't made a sound, behind his loose robe and hurriedly cast a Mirror Shadow Spell on himself. Before Mia could react, he kicked the Celestial Hound that he had summoned.
The Celestial Hound, which had bared its fangs and claws, quickly pounced towards the shadows in the opposite corner of the wall. Brand, who had slightly entered the state of mind, began to prepare the incantation and hand gestures of the Gravity Spell.
"Roar!" The Celestial Hound whimpered as it flew back. It didn't even manage to touch a corner of the enemy before it was hit.
Brand no longer hesitated. He cast the Gravity spell that he had already prepared in advance using the area-locking method. He heard a sneer from the shadow, and a figure quickly flew towards him from the shadow in the corner.
The Intermediate Mage was not someone to be trampled on, so he struck the intruder with an Electric Shock. The opponent's slender body was covered in dazzling electric arcs, and the oncoming momentum was immediately stopped. Under the mage's astonished gaze, she did a side flip and perfectly dodged the continuous electric shock waves.
Brand, whose mana had been greatly reduced, had no other choice. The Ring of Mana aimed at him quickly spread out, sending the target flying a dozen steps away. Ring of Magic---A mage's close-range counterattack spell. Before successfully becoming a high-level mage, this was the only spell that could be used for close-range defense and counterattack. Depending on the difference in mana and weight between the opponent and oneself, it could knock the opponent back or even stun them.
Seeing that things were not going well, the person quickly retreated. Before he left, he said in a stiff accent,
"This is the home of the soul!"
Brand, who was covered in dust, looked in the direction of the enemy's retreat. After confirming that the enemy had indeed retreated, he felt as if his entire body was about to fall apart. After all, mages weren't professional combat machines. There weren't many spells that could be used in battle for an Intermediate Mage, and the next stage of specialized cultivation was something above the 8th Tier. The same battle was not worth mentioning to his peers who had specialized in becoming a level-8 Battle Wizard, but Brand was already half-dead from the devastation.
Giving up on the idea of rushing to the learning area overnight, Brand carried Mia, who didn't seem to be frightened at all, and walked back home weakly.
After returning home in shock, Brand, who had been scolded by Caterina, the head servant, took a bath and lay on the bed lazily, thinking about what had happened today.
Catarina, who was chasing after him relentlessly, rushed in without knocking on the door. She looked at Brand with a dark face.
"Sir, are you going to leave after bringing your illegitimate daughter back?”
" Eh…Ah?!"
Daughter, father... Brand, who had almost thought that the assassin was coming back, was so frightened that he jumped out of bed.
Seeing that it was Caterina, Brand replied listlessly,""Yes, yes, I'll leave it to you, Nana."
"Don't you dare lie to me!" Caterina was furious at Brand's perfunctory reply." I've never heard of Sir having a foreign lover. Although one of the child's eyes is swollen, the other eye is clearly wine-red."
Brand, who didn't want to argue with her, took a deep breath and told Caterina about Mia's background, but what he got in return was more blame.
"No wonder the wound on her face looked like she was whipped, and her feet were swollen black…You really didn't bring her back for treatment as soon as possible."
"Yes, yes, poor Miya, poor Nana, poor me."
Just now, because of the mage's 'heroic''rescue! Buy it? The female servant, who had finally managed to get a better look at Brand, snorted.
" I'm serious. I encountered an unknown assassin on my way home."
Just as the young girl was about to ask, the door frame was knocked twice. Riley, the cook, stood at the door of the bedroom, and beside her was Miya, who was crying.
" Sir, this child started crying when she couldn't see you. She didn't say anything when I asked her, so I brought her here." The cook was an old woman in the family, so she was not afraid of the mage except for respect. On the contrary, she was a little like Brand's aunt.
The little girl timidly stood at the door and looked at the mage. Brand felt a headache coming on. So, he comforted the frightened little girl for a while, and then spent a lot of time explaining to Miya that Caterina was the older sister, and the chubby one was Aunt Riley. They were all family.
What made Brand's chest tighten was that Mia didn't seem to be frightened in the life-and-death battle between him and the assassin. Why…
The little girl, who seemed reluctant, was finally coaxed by Caterina and the cook to sleep in the head servant's bedroom. Brand, who was finally free, fell asleep without even covering himself with a quilt.
After settling Mia down, Caterina returned to her master's bedroom. She looked at Brand, who was sleeping soundly, and frowned. She said softly,"
"What a person…"
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