“I won’t ask you in detail about what happened.”
I looked up at the Duchess, who held my hand tightly.
Unlike usual, her expression seemed very angry, but she looked sad nonetheless, so I couldn’t say anything.
“But I want to scold you for acting so recklessly.”
“…”
“You’re not going to do that again, are you?”
I couldn’t help but nod my head at the kind but firm voice.
But this was the best thing I’ve ever learned in my life.
So while feeling sorry for the Duchess, on the other hand, my heartfelt lighter.
To be honest, I still had ambivalent feelings toward the Duke of Elad.
In her previous life, she wandered the streets because of Duke Elard, and somehow infiltrated his house and even died.
However, since I was blessed in this life, I felt uncomfortable throughout the whole time.
‘Besides, it was something related to Jack and Diana, so I couldn’t just leave it alone.’
Above all, I knew the words of Count Valerie.
In the past, I was picked up by my Master only at the age of 10, and in order not to be abandoned, I learned everything from letters and numbers to stealth, martial arts, and miscellaneous magic.
In particular, when she was learning letters, she read the newspapers and reports in the guild, and read whatever she came across.
Then I found out by chance.
The work of Count Valerie, who deceived the Duke of Ellard, who was a great noble.
More precisely, it was discovered that Count Valerie, a long-time vassal of the ducal family, was embezzling the Knights’ budget through Sid Valerie, the vice-captain of the Lexion Knights, and increasing their fortune, and was brought to trial.
Sid Valerie had always been trusted by the duke, and Count Valerie was the head of the Council of Elders, so this incident became even more publicized.
Due to the discovery of diamonds in the Perion mines, which Count Valerie bought with the stolen budget, the Duke of Ellard had to go through with the trial very difficult in a situation where bribes and solicitations were exchanged.
The whole time, I was reading the guild’s report, saying, “They are vicious guys who make money with other people’s money.”
It will be revealed in the next two years or more, but since it was revealed so early, it will be possible to quickly find evidence of embezzlement without going to trial and avoid an embarrassing situation.
‘Yeah, that’s really good.’
Even though I decided to live this life freely without having a deep relationship with anyone, this can repay my debt, and above all, it is the right thing to do.
Just as I did my best for the Master who had given me to the guild, I also had to repay the favor of Diana and the duke, who were so kind to me every day.
I don’t know when I will leave, but it was time to make up my mind to do my best until then.
“Madam? How did you get here?”
Naturally, I thought the Duchess was taking me to the councilor.
But unexpectedly, the place she arrived holding my hand was the tower where the duke’s wizards gathered to do research.
Confused by the sudden appearance of the Madam, the wizards hurriedly prepared a place to sit.
I rolled my eyes here and there and looked inside the tower.
Since the existence of wizards itself was rare, it was the first time in my life that I had come to the place where they stayed.
The thick books piled on the floor and the desk and the strange-looking glass bottles with smoke spewing out were also fascinating, but as expected, the thing that caught my eye the most was the wizards themselves.
I can do simple magic too, but somehow my heart skipped a beat when I saw a formal wizard.
“I came because of this child. I need treatment right away, so could you call Telin for me?”
“Treatment?”
“The chief mage?”
When the Duchess looked at me and said, the flustered wizards made puzzled expressions.
Just like I did, I wondered why they were looking for a wizard instead of a doctor.
‘You don’t have to use magic to heal these wounds, you just need to treat them lightly.’
However, I kept my mouth shut as I saw the Duchess looking at my scars with a more painful look than mine.
I tried to avoid my eyes and found the wizards shouting as they climbed the stairs to find someone called ‘Tellin’.
‘Hmm… I thought they would teleport and move or contact with an artifact.’
Something a little different from my imagination, and for some reason, the impression of meeting the wizards subsided.
And after a while, a man appeared with long, violet-colored hair.
“Oh, you’re finally here! My disciple!”
Disciple? Who else came beside me?
The excited-looking man came straight in front of me as if the Duchess was invisible.
“I knew you would come find me in the end! I didn’t believe it, even when the duke said you kicked the chance to be my disciple!”
Shouting to himself, the man with his mauve eyes flashing seemed a bit out of his mind.
When I got scared and hesitated back, the Duchess hurriedly grabbed him.
“Tellin! Calm down. It wasn’t like that, but the child was injured and came to seek treatment.”
“Yes? Treatment? Didn’t you come here to become a disciple?”
Only then did the man stop and stare at me.
“Damn it. Every time I see you, you’re hurt.”
He clicked his tongue and sat me down in a chair.
Then, while drawing something in the air, he muttered and gathered his mana.
Soon, a round orb of bright light appeared from the air and covered the wound, healing it.
“Oh, yes. It was not my mistake.”
Tellin exclaimed excitedly when he saw my wounds that were quickly healing with a slight tingling sensation.
Perhaps this was the wizard who erased all the scars on my body.
I tilted my head at a completely different process from when I cast healing magic.
‘… Is that like a magic circle? Why does the wizard cast such a complex spell?’
Unlike the last time when I lost my mind, I stopped for a moment as I carefully observed that the wound was being healed with healing magic.
‘Come to think of it, divine power didn’t work…’
I forgot about it because the Duchess didn’t say anything after that, but I was worried that there might be something wrong.
But that thought didn’t last long.
It was because the wizards were sitting in a circle around me and glaring at me as a group.
“The amount of mana is great, but the affinity is amazing.”
“How could this be? It’s really strange.”
Because of the magicians who keep talking without even thinking, my ears became hot.
It was strange that the eyes looking at me were all twinkling.
So when the treatment was over, I grabbed the hem of the Duchess’s dress without realizing it.
Curiosity about wizards and the space they live in has long since gone far.
All that remains is my desire to get away from these strange wizards who seem to be thinking of conducting dubious experiments on me.
It was only then that the wizards, realizing my fright, hurriedly changed their expressions to benign and began to offer me various things.
“Hey, this is mana measuring ball. Does it look weird? Would you like to touch it?”
“Oh, don’t be afraid. It’s just like a toy. It never explodes!”
“Hey, that made her more scared.”
“Ah! Would you like to try this? Meal candy that I made over three months and ten days! If you eat this, you won’t have to eat anything for two days!”
“Giving that child something to eat, who is in a growing period and needs to eat a lot, what are you thinking! Just let them eat when they start working!”
“Don’t you watch your mouth? Don’t listen to that guy.”
By the time I was completely fed up with the mages who were chattering and fighting, I heard Tellin’s voice.
“Do you like dolls?”
The child’s body could not help it.
I looked up at Tellin, making the excuse that I was curious about the dolls made by wizards, despite my pride.
“A doll?”
“I made it for my assistant, do you want to see it? Well, my lab is at the top, so it takes time to go up and down. Would you like to go with me?”
“…”
He asked timidly at the voice that somehow seemed to lure a child.
With a voice that seemed to be coaxing a child, I asked uneasily,
“Why don’t you use teleportation magic? Or at least summoning magic?”
For a moment, I wondered if I sounded too childish, so I quickly raised my hands and pretended to summon an object by saying “Poof!”
At that sight, the wizards burst out laughing, and even the Duchess smiled.
Telin also chuckled lightly and said, “It’s a childish imagination. But magic is very difficult. Even if you use the appropriate elemental magic for each person, you have to use mana efficiently, which requires a high level of concentration, and understand the magical formula accurately, draw the magic circle and memorize the spell.”
“Elemental? Formula? Magic circle?”
I asked, bewildered.
Don’t the wizards not need those things?
When I was learning magic from my master, I only learned how to control mana efficiently and how to cast spells.
“Um, isn’t magic just about memorizing spells?”
“Haha, no way! Magic is not like an instinct. You have to learn theory systematically and study formulas. If you only memorize spells, even the palace mage couldn’t do that. Oh, maybe the archmage could cast magic like breathing.”
Telin laughed and joked that he was a once-in-a-thousand-year genius.
I froze.
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