How a Genius in the Kingdom of Magic Lives

Chapter 44

The Duke of Lyant was very impressed with this troop support.

It was because it was more than twice as large as he had predicted.

‘I can’t believe His Highness cares about me this much. I’m really thrilled.’

Since he is always stuck in the West, it is only once a year that he sees the king’s face in person.

In such a situation, not neglecting a simple request and repaying it like this made the old man’s heart more loyal.

only one.

I didn’t like the fact that I was given the role of a nanny.

‘Tsk. No matter what, childrearing doesn’t suit my constitution.’

The leader was a 10-year-old prince.

He could fully guess why the king had sent Prince Leo here.

He has been known as a genius since he was young, so it must be to let them experience how cold and hard reality is.

With Duke Lyant by his side, he won’t be in danger.

It must be the intention to feel the severity of the battlefield in moderation.

‘It’s amazing to be in the third class at this age, but… .’

In the enclosed letter, it was written that Prince Leo was a third-class wizard, so please take good care of him.

Even Duke Ryant was very surprised when he first saw it.

‘The best thing to die by a blind knife on the battlefield is a kid with good skills but no sense of reality.’

It wasn’t that hard to hear the news that wizards and knights who were first commissioned were killed by soldiers’ spears and knives.

It was a battlefield where people who had heard of genius like Leo died more and more.

And Leo also felt the feelings of the Duke of Lyant.

“Duke Ryant. Don’t you like that I’m here?”

“It can’t be. The reputation of the low has been heard all the way here, on the periphery of the kingdom. There is no commander who would hate a genius wizard of the 3rd rank.”

Duke Lyant shrugged.

But Leo didn’t get over it.

He obviously thought of himself as Jim Deng.

“I would appreciate it if you would entrust me with any mission without thinking of me as royalty, Duke.”

However, there is nothing you can do right now.

If Leo insisted on not ignoring him, Duke Ryant would see him as an immature prince.

‘I need some time first.’

There is a lot of time left.

In the meantime, if Leo proves his worth on his own, he will see it differently.

“what. You can do it if you want, but don’t cry later and say you can’t do it.”

“It will never happen, so don’t worry, Duke.”

Leo and Duke Lyant stared at each other.

Duke Ryant laughed.

‘It’s not like I’m a kid who can’t even handle my temper.’

I’ve heard that Kizan, the third prince, has a crazy temperament.

Despite being teased lightly, Leo still showed his composure.

First impressions were passable.

“I will remember those words. Lowering.”

* * *

late night.

A man was carefully advancing through the pitch-black darkness, where even the moon was obscured by clouds.

The man whose face was unknown because he was wearing a robe approached the wall.

It is a high and thick wall built to prevent the invasion of monsters from the west.

There is always a shadowy and damp place near there.

It was there that the man arrived.

he said quietly

“come out. I know you’ve been watching me for a while.”

I was talking to myself into the void.

then after a while

-Food Duck.

A bat soared out of the darkness and stopped in the air.

Then, to my surprise, a human voice came out of the bat.

– hehehe. That’s great, low. How did you notice that my familiar was watching?

At the words of the bat, the man took off the hood of the robe and turned it over.

Then Charangi, along with her silver hair, revealed her young but already beautiful face.

Leo.

He frowned at the bat.

“Don’t take the same test, right? If you try again like this against me next time, I’ll make the deal between us never happened.”

-this… . Unexpectedly, you have offended the low spirits. Plaster I will commit a great sin, low.

The bat made a motion of bending its back in the air and lowering its head.

Logan, the master of the Black Tower of the Medes School.

It was the identity of the person controlling this bat as a familiar.

Leo tutted and clicked his tongue.

“therefore. What is the purpose of calling me?”

-Aren’t you guessing too? This is about our deal.

“It’s a deal… . Wasn’t what I said before enough?”

– We should talk a little more. I’m curious. How the hell did you say you would end this monster commotion?

said the bat.

Originally, Logan had asked Leo to allow their school of Medith to settle in the shadows of the capital of the Kingdom of Rome.

You won’t have as much freedom as you do west of here, but it’s better than being ruined by monsters.

But Leo declined the offer.

And then, on the contrary, it was suggested.

He said that he would go to the west and solve the problem of the monsters, handing over the legacy of King Karst and cooperating with him.

– It’s very interesting. To think that each prince would try to make a deal like this with an evil warlock. ha ha ha ha

The bat giggled amusedly and asked.

-But lower. How the hell are you going to get rid of the monsters? They are so strong and numerous that even Duke Lyant, let alone me, cannot easily see them.

Logan’s concern was understandable.

It’s not like he’s just running away.

There was already a Dark Magic Tower that suffered damage close to destruction due to the monster’s movement.

If Logan doesn’t evacuate like this, he will go through the same procedure.

Leo replied with a smile.

“I really want to eat this raw. I can’t give away trade secrets so easily. you just have to wait patiently And you have nothing to lose, right? It won’t be too late to evacuate later when I fail.”

-… … .

The bat didn’t answer.

It seemed that he was struggling with Leo’s words.

Then he opened his mouth.

– Hmm. Okay. but lower.

That was the moment.

Red light flashed in the bat’s eyes.

At the same time, a black mist began to roll in from the surrounding darkness.

– How confident are you?

“what?”

-I am a 6th class mage. No matter how much this is the domain of the Duke of Ryant, it’s enough to invade the familiar. But… Even though he came to see me like that, he didn’t even bring an escort with him.

The voice from the bat changed to scratching metal.

Leo looked at him calmly.

Before he knew it, a thick black mist covered his surroundings.

It was then that Leo opened his mouth.

“What kind of confidence do you have? of course.”

Leo spread his hands.

– Damn it.

Ice with the attribute of light rises, creating a frosty fog.

Frost Fog spreads with the light ice attribute!

A holy frost mist illuminated the darkness and swept around.

“I believe in my abilities.”

-Suddenly!

When Leo flicked his hand, a sword made of ice structure was created and split the bat in half.

A bat loses light from its eyes and falls to the ground.

However, the mouth that had been cut in half moved and spat out words.

-Keu, hahahaha! You are so amazing! Sosin was sincerely amazed.

Leo looked down at the bat.

-Yes. At this level, you can become Logan’s trading partner. I get it, lower. I’ll be waiting for you.

Eventually, the bat’s mouth stopped.

I was holding on to it with powerful black magic, but now I really lost my life.

Looking down at him, Leo moved his body.

– Jerking away.

Through the darkness, he returned to his room.

* * *

As soon as Leo returned to his room, he sat down in his chair.

Then he took out a small crystal ball and placed it on the table.

It was a pair of magic tools called contact crystal spheres, and it was an object that could communicate with the connected crystal spheres.

The price was so exorbitant that even Prince Leo could barely get one.

-Giying

After a while, the crystal ball came on.

It was a face I had seen before.

Gawain.

He was a prisoner that Leo saved while destroying the Nerian Guild.

“Gawain. How have you been?”

-Lowering! It’s an honor to see you again!

Gawain prostrated himself over the crystal ball.

Leo waved his hand.

“Ahh. You don’t have to be so polite. Don’t do that again.”

-… I get it, lower.

Gawain looked at Leo with strange eyes.

In fact, I was still bewildered.

‘Is this what people say crisis and opportunity come together? Not too long ago, I thought I was going to die… .’

Originally, Gawain was a man who worked as a small information vendor in the back alleys of the capital.

However, as the Nerian guild expanded its territory, he and his daughter were captured by them.

If nothing happened, he would have been tortured to death, or sold into slavery.

Such was the case with the words of those who worked in the shadows to make a living.

But life has changed.

Even though he was young, it was thanks to his benefactor, Prince Leo, to whom he was loyal.

‘I still don’t know what kind of image I am and people trust me.’

Leo ordered himself to build a shadow force.

I threatened him not to even dream of betraying him, but in fact, he let him go halfway through.

Of course, I had no intention of betraying.

But I don’t know why he was chosen.

He doesn’t have any special abilities or backgrounds.

I thought about it for a long time, but in the end I couldn’t come to a conclusion.

‘Whatever it is, this is an opportunity.’

Gawain thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and acted upon it.

Although he lived as a back alley third-rate gangster, he was a confident Gawain when it came to using his brain.

He quickly took control of the capital city in the shadows.

There was nothing difficult about overturning Leo’s halo and using the might of a knight named Drexla, whom he had supported.

After that, as ordered by Leo, he greatly expanded his original business.

I decided to properly create an information organization that handles information.

It is still in its infancy, but there have been some achievements.

He was able to collect rumors that people in the sun couldn’t collect from beggars and back alley trash.

-I also found some information about the disappearance case you ordered.

Prince Leo’s first command.

Out of the blue, it was to find out about the people who were missing in the Duchy of Ryant, which was in the middle of blocking monster attacks.

“Oh yeah? Tell me.”

Leo’s eyes lit up.

-As you said, there was a missing person. Although it is common for commoners to disappear… Certainly, there have been a number of mysterious disappearances recently.

‘Also… .’

Leo nodded.

I had been guessing in my heart since I heard from Logan, the Black Tower Lord, but it changed to certainty.

‘Are you sure. This is what a vampire did.’

If you look at the continent as a whole, you can see that the western part is the human formation and the eastern part is the heterogeneous formation.

The human formation in the west was torn into one empire and several kingdoms, and the place where the different races lived in the east was called the Outer Magician, and all kinds of different races were scattered.

Among them, it was the vampire that Leo suspected as the main culprit of this situation.

‘This western monster Jun-dong. This is the exiled vampire prince, Prince Charpin. It’s a situation he caused by manipulating monsters.’

It’s an event that happened in the game.

However, it was not a very important event because it ended on the Lyant Duke ship without the player intervening.

To be sure, I entrusted Gawain with collecting information, but after hearing about the missing person, I was convinced.

This was obviously Charpin’s work.

“i get it. If there is any important information in the future, please contact me.”

– Yes, lower!

Contact was lost in the crystal ball.

Leo got up from his seat.

I went out, tying the laces of my robe again.

Then, as if she had been waiting, Celise approached.