A Deal With The Frigid Wizard

Chapter 37

Count Gloria used the family’s privates as much as possible to find Jaeha.

The wizards of the nearby red tower branch and the count’s privates, who were urgently contacted by Hisran, scoured the area. However, there was no way to find Jaeha, who had long since left County Gloria with multiple movement magic.

Black magic was excellent in concealment by its nature. Hisran was able to find the place where Jaeha first arrived by tracing the dark magic in the statue with difficulty.

Perhaps, because of the relative difficulty in accessing the County, it was possible to trace it because of the faint black magic left on the statue, but since then, there were no traces left in the place, so it was virtually impossible to trace.

Nevertheless, he could not give up.

Jaeha was more than life to him. Who in this world would give up their life so easily…?

Except for the minimum number of people who were in charge of urgent or irresistible quests, such as those in charge of the defense of the red tower, all the enlisted soldiers of the red tower wizards and Marquisate Ephesion were mobilized, and the search scope expanded to the entire Kainus Empire.

Hisran, too, forgot to eat and sleep, and went on the search. He withered from suffering day by day, though Jaeha’s whereabouts were still far away.

“…It happened because of my greed. I should have sent her to the red tower.”

After such a painful week, Hisran moved to the eastern part of the continent.

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If there was the red tower as the magic tower representing the southern part of the continent, a blue tower existed as a magic tower representing the eastern part of the continent. The blue tower was located in Coperton, the capital of the Huinian Empire, a powerful eastern country.

The wizard representing the blue tower was Siord.

Even though he was a commoner and had no surname, still, no one could ignore him just because he was a commoner.

If Hisran was the best fire wizard, Siord was the best water wizard.

Like Hisran, Siord was also a tower master in his 20s. Therefore, Hisran and Siord were compared in many respects and had no choice but to be talked about in public opinion. It was one of the reasons why the relationship between the two tower masters was not very good.

Under such circumstances, it was unexpected that Hisran came to Siord for personal reasons.

“Hel… I don’t think so.”

Siord, who entered the parlor, was shocked to see his face. He heard rumors that after Hisran’s lover was kidnapped by a bunch of warlocks, he was going crazy. The rumor didn’t hold a candle.

The Hisran that Siord saw was like a corpse.

‘In just one week…’

Dry and dull skin and face. Above all else, the eyes that the people of the world praised as if they were made of gold were dead and wittering.

The smirk that felt arrogant had completely disappeared from his face.

With a blank expression on his face as though he had lost his mind, Hisran sat quietly on the sofa, waiting for him. Even if he changed, he changed so much that Siord didn’t even want to start a nerve war with him as usual.

“What happened that you came here?”

“To ask for help.”

Hisran did not hesitate or turn back.

As if he was in a hurry, he confided the reason he had come.

“Yoon Jaeha, she looks like she’s in her mid-late 20s, with black hair and dark brown eyes. I think she was kidnapped by a horde of warlocks via a moving enchanted statue from County Gloria. Black magic was detected on the statue. I need help from the Blue Tower Master and the blue tower to find this woman.”

“I heard rumors that your lover was kidnapped by warlocks. But, you want to borrow the power of not only the red tower but also other towers for personal affairs…? You seem to be out of your mind.”

However, Hisran was not offended by his cynical words. He just bit his lip and continued.

“…She is from another world who crossed the dimensional gate. She is most likely the most precious sacrifice to be offered to the God Tumor. It’s important to warlocks, so it’s also a public thing. Besides, I plan to pay the price.”

“Ha, pay…? Then, get down on your knees and apologize for the rudeness you’ve shown me, and then bark like a dog?”

Unless the warlocks fully exposed themselves, Siord thought that the red tower alone would be enough to deal with it, so he thought of rejecting him. Because of that, he made a provocation that was absolutely unacceptable to Hisran’s arrogant nature.

Slump.

…What?

What was he looking at now?

Siord had a hard time believing it even when he saw the current situation with his own eyes. In the Latio continent, second to none in arrogance, that Hisran Ephesion came down from the sofa without any objection and knelt on the floor.

“I apologize for all the rudeness and wrongdoing I have done to you. I was wrong.”

No, in Siord’s eyes, that wasn’t the truth. He was nothing but a mesmerizing doll, obedient to whatever he said.

‘…Is Hisran so sincere towards her that even his world collapsed like this?’

Rumors circulated that he was a eunuch, though he did not believe it. Although Siord spat out a few provocative words in front of him, he thought that Hisran wasn’t that interested in women. What a woman to make him that way.

Once again, his interest rose.

Though Siord’s thoughts did not last long, it was because Hisran made a pose as if to make a dog cry.

It was true that he and Hisran didn’t get along, but it wasn’t the worst of a relationship he had to make this half-mad man a clown, too.

Siord used telekinesis magic to put Hisran back on the sofa.

“You’re crazy beyond the rumors I heard. The deputy masters must be having a hard time.”

“Please.”

“…Can you hear what I have to say to you now? In the southern part of the continent, the red towers will be searching hard, so we will take charge of the eastern part of the continent. I’ll send some wizards who can read the memory of water to the south.”

“Thank you.”

“What, thank you? This is just a transaction. I’m going to leave this as a debt, so pay it back later.”

Having said that, Siord stood up first.

Strangely, it was not pleasant to see Hisran broken. Love was such a terrible feeling that even an Archwizard comparable to him could be destroyed in an instant.

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Hisran succeeded in receiving support from not only the blue tower but also the white and black towers. They had a kind of sense of duty to block warlocks’ actions and clear them out anyway as a wizard of the tower, and the Tower Masters were shocked by Hisran’s changed appearance.

Thanks to the mobilization of the four magic towers, he was able to broaden the search scope to the entire continent.

Even though there were several limitations to water magic, there was magic that read the memory of water. The joining of the Blue Tower Wizards, who could read them, and the Black Tower Wizards, who could practice mind-reading magic that read a few words from other people’s thoughts greatly helped the search.

Because of this, about a month after Jaeha went missing, after gathering information from the warlock’s minions caught by the four magic tower wizards, they were able to be sure that there was a holy land of black magic somewhere in the Kainus Empire and that Jaeha would be there.

There were a total of ten places presumed to be holy places of black magic.

They must raid these places at once to be effective. The wizards who went out to search were divided into ten groups. They gathered wizards from the four towers, but there was a limit to their number.

For the safety of other wizards, he decided to move with the knights of Marquisate Ephesion. He took charge of the hills near the capital of the Kainus Empire, which for political reasons, made it difficult for other wizards to search them.

Hisran and the Marquisate knights did not expect that there would be a holy place here. He simply hoped to hear quickly that they had found the Holy Land elsewhere.

But, they caught a clue.

At some point, the steps slowed down, and the cliff exuded a strange aura.

Sensing a suspicious look, Hisran, without hesitation, started a fire and burned the surroundings. When the lights went out, the cliff disappeared, revealing the charred vegetation, the floor, and the entrance to the cave.

The knights’ faces hardened. As soon as the barrier disappeared, he noticed that something was approaching from within.

Except for a few knights who deal well with auras, they won’t be of much help.

After making his own judgment, Hisran gave his knights the coordinates and ordered them to go down the mountain and communicate the situation to the other wizards.

“Even though Young Master is the Master of the red tower, it is dangerous to go by yourself.”

If he waited for the other wizards to join, he would be able to enter more safely. However, in the meantime, he did not know what was going to happen to Jaeha. If she was taken back to another place, it would be the end.

“Didn’t you see the fire before? If you’re here, my attacks will be blocked. Having no one is more helpful to me.”

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