166 – Fog-13

In the cellar, a silent silence lingered again.

“…”

I had no intention of killing. Even to the end, he didn’t want her dead.

However, I didn’t have a choice.

It’s the Farseer who tried to kill me. I don’t know what he was plotting, but he was probably plotting something I would never have allowed.

More people could have died. Putting personal feelings aside, I have killed an evil sorcerer who was plotting something suspicious.

There was no excuse, nothing to be ashamed of. It had to be done.

I couldn’t imagine how many more sacrifices would be made if I left her behind.

is a wizard Even a fairly valiant warrior could not stop the damage if she started guerrilla warfare after making several strongholds.

So, this is the right thing. It has to be done. If the one here was not a Farseer, but an ordinary wizard I didn’t know, there wouldn’t be any reason to worry about it.

Nonetheless, I was desperately making excuses to myself. I couldn’t understand.

That I had to kill Farseer, but that I had to make sure that I would never see a former colleague again.

“ah…”

A sigh came out.

I may be thinking selfish and self-centered thoughts. It wasn’t that he had never had blood on his hands.

At other times, I swung my sword with my will against those who clearly harmed others with their own will, such as bandits or black magicians involved in this incident.

So, this is just lingering. Just because Farseer and I were close, they treated Farseer specially.

Even so, the emptiness in his chest was not erased.

Farseer’s face was never seen again. All that remained was the remains of a roughly crushed head.

Aside from her small body and the color of her hair, it was such a horrific sight that it was difficult to recognize that this was her corpse.

“…”

Blood was splattered everywhere. A little bit of my blood was also mixed in, but most of it was the blood that flowed from her body from my final blow.

It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a body. The corpse blown away by the orc’s club had never been more terrifying than this. And, a corpse that fell with a normal sword is no less horrific.

However, it had been a long time since I had seen such a small corpse. It was the last time I saw a village where all the members disappeared after being attacked by the Demon King’s army when I was in the most difficult and painful time.

And that, it poured out on me an agony that I can never get used to.

“why…”

I couldn’t understand. I didn’t agree with her process, but at least the purpose was noble.

It is not common for wizards to have altruistic wishes. The essence of magic is deception and lust.

Most of them had worldly desires such as riches and fame or power, and if not, they only had desires that were neither good nor bad, such as knowledge or exploration.

Farseer’s wish that no one would feel the painful sensations she had felt was a noble wish, given what she had done to achieve it. More like a priest than a wizard.

She gave up on her purpose. I’m not sure, but maybe it was because of me. When I think about her when I first met her and how she has changed now, it’s hard to imagine that she wouldn’t have been influenced by me.

Maybe it was because of me that she began to crave more power. Maybe this journey has been more painful than I thought.

To the point where I want to give up my dream.

The steps were heavy. The numerous corpses here seemed to be looking at me with resentful eyes.

There is nothing you can do for them. Another could save me from becoming a corpse, but I was helpless and worthless to someone who was already dead.

Report it to the guards and they will retrieve these bodies. However, I did not think that they would work diligently enough to confirm the identity and send it to the bereaved family.

Nobles or wealthy merchants would not have been attacked in the first place. It must have been corpses gathered from various places, so even if you try to find the missing person, you won’t be able to find the bereaved family easily.

Either dig a pit somewhere and bury them all together, or cremate them as a group in a huge fire a little away from the capital.

In the end, that was all I could do for them. The act of burying or burning corpses under water to ashes.

The exit from the cellar was visible. At the bottom of the stairs, the wizard who had guided me to this point was waiting for me with trembling eyes.

“Oh, is it over?”

“Yes. It’s over.”

she was afraid of me I lowered my head slightly to examine my appearance, and it was certainly not something I could reassure people about.

His clothes were torn to pieces, and there was blood everywhere. I didn’t feel it, but the smell of blood and the repulsive magi was probably stinging her nostrils.

“Did you bring Farseer…? Or, in there…”

“You’d better run away. Farseers… can’t move, but you don’t know how other mages will move.”

After seeing this scene, even the guards would not be able to move leisurely. Investigators will surely be dispatched to the Mage’s Tower to dig into what they’ve done.

However, it is not possible to neutralize all wizards at once. The wizards of the Mage Tower that remain will try to find out the source of the leaked information. This mage could be dangerous.

“Well, even so, treatment first…”

“You don’t have to.”

“Ha, but Farseer-sama too…”

I couldn’t bear to tell her that Farseer was dead.

More than I thought, she seemed to be thinking of Farsi more closely.

“no way…”

In my heart, a resentment that was too selfish and base took its place.

If it hadn’t been for her, I might never have known Farseer’s plan for the rest of my life. Even if she had made preparations, my visit here would have been an unexpected event.

If that were the case, I might not be aware of Farseer’s conspiracy for the rest of my life, or until I return. I doubted it, but in the end, I might not have fought her.

In this world, for the people living in the empire, something worse might happen, but at least I wouldn’t have to worry about this.

It might not have been necessary to kill Farseer.

“…”

However, in the end, this is just my selfish avoidance of responsibility. It was I who killed Farseer. not someone else

“No way… isn’t it?”

The wizard looked at me in disbelief. I couldn’t bear to look into those eyes.

Even though I knew in my head that what I had done was not wrong, I felt ashamed. I was afraid for her to see the murder I had committed.

“You just… suppressed it? So you won’t wake up for a while, right?”

“…it wasn’t that easy.”

If I had fought someone other than Farseer, I would have tried to subdue him somehow. Whether it was Eleanor or Nerwen, they were able to have the assurance that ‘with this level, they were definitely overpowered.’

However, Farsi is different. I saw the magic I had written down work even when she was unconscious.

I’ve seen huge magic cast with just a few flicks of the hand. When I heard later, it seemed like a lot of money was needed.

I couldn’t relax in a situation where she said that she had committed an evil act in front of me and would do it again.

“…you promised.”

The wizard sat down with his legs weak. Tears welled up in the corner of his eyes.

“I promised to treat you warmly…”

She may have been an accomplice too. In what Farseer did, this mage might also be involved.

But I couldn’t bear to say such cruel words in front of her crying.

“sorry.”

I knew I had no reason to apologize. It was a situation where I could die if I didn’t kill it, and there were plenty of reasons to kill Farseer.

However, it seemed that an apology would put me at ease more than no apology. I bowed my head.

After crying for a while, the wizard came to his senses and got up.

“…I want to get rid of the remains. Would you please turn a blind eye to that?”

“thank you.”

In her eyes as she clenched her teeth, there was a bit of resentment towards me.

“If you enter the magic tower… In Farseer’s room, there is a water mirror that is bent vertically.”

“…yes?”

“Go in once. Farseer said, never let the hero go inside. There might be important evidence… I don’t know.”

I was taken aback for a moment by the unknown words, but I nodded my head.

“I will.”

I climbed the stairs, dragging my blood-soaked legs. Until I came down from here, I was excited that everything was over.

Maybe I didn’t want to catch the culprit.

It might be that I wanted to find with my own eyes the evidence that Farseer had nothing to do with this.

“…”

Somewhere, it felt like a part of my chest was empty.