Chapter 153 Someone’s Teacher – 1

Since when did I become a damn human?

Ah yes, it must have been from the time of horseback riding, which had become rotten. Yeah… that was the only thing I knew how to do when I grew up in the hands of bandits… When I was 13 years old, I killed fucking adults with people who were in a similar situation to me and took over their words and territory.

Well, it was obvious after that. I grew up watching and growing up, but I wasn’t going to become a saint, I just became a more damned magician than other magicians. They plundered, stole, and trampled on what they could see. Whether it was a merchant, a priest, a mercenary, a noble, or the same magician, it didn’t matter.

My notoriety skyrocketed, and the country sent troops several times to subdue us. But this wilderness was like the palm of our hand. Fortunately, I had talent in both tactics and martial arts, and even repulsed the knights who came to kill us, raising my nose.

On the way, I saw a woman with pure white hair wearing a black witch’s hat walking in the wilderness. Looking at it, it seemed like there was nothing to be robbed of, so I tried to send it with a broad generosity, but the woman said:

“Majeok play is over now, you fucking little bastards. Go back home and suck your mother’s milk.”

Feeling a tremendous sense of death from those words, I climbed on the horse and charged her with a spear.

“Die you bitch!”

“Rise, Horn of the Earth.”

And heaven and earth turned upside down.

“uh?”

Before I knew it, my spear and horse were taken away, and the woman was holding my neck with one arm and laughing.

“I’m not a bitch, but Skadi, the Mage Lord of the Earth. I was asked by the imperial family to subdue you guys.”

It seems that the matter has grown so much that the imperial family eventually asked for help from the Mage Tower of the Earth. Since I was already captured, I wanted to save the others as well.

“I’m the boss… So take only my head. I don’t need the other guys… Wouldn’t I get enough bounty even if I only took the head of the boss…?”

Then Skadi laughed like it was funny. It was so funny that I just laughed for about 2 minutes.

“Killing himself and asking for his comrades to be saved… It’s a bit corny, but he’s like a ‘man’. I liked it.”

“What?”

“You will become my disciple. If you are, you will become a great wizard.”

“No, wait…!”

I was just kidnapped That was my first meeting with my teacher, and it was the moment when I stepped into the world of magic.

—–

When I opened my eyes, the scars on my body were gone, and I was wearing a nightgown made of comfortable linen. I didn’t know what it was, but I was looking around when I heard a sound that sounded like someone was getting angry outside.

“It’s embarrassing to do this, Lord of the Tower! Our imperial family asked you to catch wanted criminals, but if you’re stubborn like this…!”

“Shouldn’t I just pay a fine? Or should we play dirty talking about how much money the Carben family, who lead the Knights, ate together with the bandits?”

“Quit…”

“Or should we just take the bribe I’m giving and move on as if we’re good to each other? I like both.”

“The elder will not sit idly by on this matter. Let’s see!”

“Yeah, it’s Nimi Mulberry. I’m not as scared of the rats as you say let’s see.”

So the fight was over. A woman named Skadi, who seemed to have easily won the argument, opened the door and came in and smiled broadly at me.

“Ohhhhh, you’re awake. I wondered how on earth you were alive with a body like that. To mount a horse and attack a woman with a body like that… Seriously, if a man has the strength to cross the threshold…”

“Stop the bullshit and who the hell are you? Who kidnapped me? If the bounty is for the purpose, right now…”

“Ay, if the bounty was for the purpose, I’d just hand you over to that bastard pig. What I need is something else.”

“other?”

“A flower-like 22-year-old, but her skills are the pinnacle of the earth’s mage tower! The earth’s mage lord, Skadi Tierra, makes even gods cry with her appearance! But, God hates perfection! Even she lacked something…!”

Skadi put her thumb on her forehead, her index finger pointed toward the sky, and her other arm wide open… in a rather odd posture.

“That’s the successor! There is no disciple to inherit the genius of this body, so the world is truly one-eyed sky high! Goseong falls! Truly a series of solitude, an understander and disciple who understands and inherits this genius. is necessary!”

“Don’t be silly, why did you bring me here?”

“That unchanging, unapologetic attitude! That unusual amount of magical energy felt in your body! And the strong energy of the earth felt in your soul! Ummm! You’ll become a great land mage lord!”

“So what’s the point?”

“You become my disciple!”

Skadi was looking at me with a confident expression. In the first place, I had lived a life far from magic, so the answer I would give was clear.

“I refuse. Find someone else.”

“What? No, why? No, a disciple of the Mage Tower? A position where everyone is impatient because they can’t do it? Why? No, why are you saying that?”

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Now, even with respectful words… I thought it was really pathetic that an adult could be that ugly.

“No, if it’s that good, the guys who ask for it will do it. Why do you make me do it? It smells bad.”

“I’m sorry…”

“There must be something behind the scenes. Do you know that there are only one or two people in the world who try to trick people like that?”

“But there aren’t many kids who show talent! By chance, if you show talent and bring them in, they just don’t sleep for a few days and run away with what they told you to do!”

“No, no. You’re a complete slave. That’s it.”

Then Skadi grabbed my pants crotch and started crying and begging. It was so ugly that I wondered if I was really an adult. I tried to shake her off and run out the window. Because getting involved with such troublesome work was an absolute specification.

“uh…?”

I just tried to move my body a little, but blood gushed out.

“I stitched up the wound that was patched up in a mess. If I move now, the wound will explode again? So, sleep peacefully and get treatment first.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. I never agreed to do something like your disciple…”

Skadi said while still smiling and tapping my forehead.

“Ask to be a disciple and treatment are two different things.”

“What? Why?”

“How can I ignore a child who is full of scars? How can I, with a heart as fine as silk, watch such a thing?”

“Then why did you cover me just now?”

“You just want to?”

I couldn’t understand.

“What kind of stupid reason…!”

“I do what I want to do. That’s because I’m a ‘wizard’!”

Before I knew it, I heard a knocking sound outside the window, and the rain began to fall incessantly.

“Now, even if you run away on a day like today, you’ll only catch a cold, so let’s go to sleep.”

Skadi, the woman sent me no hostility. In her beautiful red eyes, I felt emotions I had never felt before. I couldn’t explain what that feeling was, but I thought that if it was… such an innocent person, it might be good to work together.

“If it’s temporary, I’ll do it.”

Skadi’s expression brightened noticeably.

“Really? Really? Really? Really?”

“It’s noisy. And if it’s temporary, I’ll just run away at night.”

“Yes, I’ll make sure you don’t get tired of it. I’ll make sure that your eyes are relaxed and you can’t live unless you are a disciple of the Earth Magic Tower!”

“I’m quitting.”

“Oh, I’m kidding. I’m just kidding. Let’s do the full-scale work after I get better and go to bed today.”

“What kind of kid am I, Koo?”

I forcibly covered the blanket and turned my head. Anyway, I thought it was a woman who left her mind somewhere else. I thought that if I got tired of it after a while, I would secretly take the money and run away, but I started to hear a sweet voice.

It was the first time in my life that I heard such a sweet voice.

“That unknown bird in the sky~ Why is it chirping so sadly?”

“Why does the nameless flower in that field hold dew like tears?”

“Why is a drunk stonemason so angry that he is so unfair?”

“And why are you crying so sadly?”

“I’ll get rid of everything that makes you cry.”

“My pretty child.”

She was singing with the background sound of rain falling outside.

“What the hell is that song?”

“It’s a lullaby I made myself. How did you make it well?”

A lullaby he had never heard before, an innocent touch he had never felt before, a warm bed he felt for the first time in his life… My head was confused.

“The lyrics are childish.”

“That… it’s because you lack literary sensitivity! How many books have you read?”

“I don’t know the letters.”

“Then, starting tomorrow, learn to read and read books! Where is a kid with no literary sensibility discussing the works of this Hemp Tower?”

Certainly she was an excellent teacher. It was because I, who was a fool who did not know a word, instilled various knowledge including writing in just one day.

Of course, it didn’t take long for the evaluation of her to change from ‘excellent teacher’ to ‘overworked demon’.