アプリをダウンロード
27.88% Law Of The Devil / Chapter 57:  The Richest Widow in the Empire

章 57:  The Richest Widow in the Empire

Duwei thought for a while.

Duwei had heard of The Marquise Lister before. Her title was not hereditary, but life-long. Such a title was only valid when the person was alive, and their descendants could not inherit it.

The Marquise Lister was a widow originally. Her husband was the uncle of the current King of the Empire Austin VI, who was a Duke. But, amazingly, this Duke was much younger than the King Majesty…This was not surprising in such a huge royal family.

Mrs Lister was born in a famous Sea merchant family in the Empire. She was very beautiful. When she was 15, she married the uncle of the King, who was forty something years old. But, when she was 22, she became a widow.

The Duke was very weak, and died when he was fifty. After the Duke died, the king entitled this poor widow a royal title…'Marquise'. According to the Empire Order, this life-long title was not hereditary.

Later, there was a rumour that the King of the Empire Austin VI loved this beautiful Marquise. A few years ago, this rumour was spreading over the world.

Finally, the Marquise had to move out of the Empire City when she was 30. She moved to the ancestral house in the Northern land alone in order to get rid of the rumour.

The Marquise after becoming a widow, used her previous last name, Lister. The Marquise Lister was very rich and famous among the Noble Circle in the Empire!

Although she could not inherit the title of the Duke, since the Duke didn't have any child, all the possessions was left to this young wife. The father of Ms. Lister, the Sea merchant, also left an incredible amount of wealth to his daughter!

Even in the Noble Circle, there was an indecent nickname about this woman, called the Richest widow in the Empire.

This was all the information of Marquise Lister Duwei had heard before.

"Oh, Marquise Lister. I heard of her name before." Duwei tried to act casually, and asked, "May I ask, which disease the dear Marquise has?"

From this question, Dardanelle and the other people were angry, but Dardanelle still talked about that, "Sigh, this was the most shameful thing of the Lister Family!"

But, he still told the truth.

The Marquise was now 33. Seems like the God of time* loved this woman a lot and offered her incredible beauty. Although Duwei hadn't meet her before, he heard that she was very beautiful before.

TL Note – In the raws, it was actually referred as the Time/Light Lady which can be termed as the God of time/light.

People said the Marquise had skin soft as a baby, as smooth as milk. Her eyes were as pretty as gems. Her hair was as shiny as the sunlight reflected by the river…you could not find any mark to show her actual age!

This woman had captured the hearts of many nobles, even the King.

To get rid of the rumour, Marquise moved to her hometown, but she still could not get rid of the trouble because of her beauty. Just two months ago, Marquise was hiking with her retainers when she met a lecher.

To be more accurate…This lecher was an asshole!

According to the description from Dardanelle, that old man was wearing a green gown, with a green flute. When he saw the Marquise, his eyes were blinking and immediately approached her. He not only praised the beauty of Marquise with some frivolous words, he even requested to play music for the Marquise.

This behavior made the retainers of Marquise angry. In the hearts of the retainers, the beautiful Marquise was like a goddess to them…

"Shall we check the style of the gown of that old man, and if he looks like the magician…we will throw this old bastard into the river!"Dardanelle said.

"Magician?"Duwei frowned.

"No, I don't think he was a Magician." Dardanelle shake his head, "That gown was similar. But I have never meet a magician with a green gown. Mr. Potter, you are a magician…May I ask, in the Magician level in the Magic Union, what level of magician wears a green gown? Seemed like none!"

After a while, Dardanelle explained, "We didn't punish him because he was a magician, it's because the Marquise was too kind. You should know that on that day, there was a Holy Knight from the Bright Temple protecting Marquise, a real Holy Knight, whom was called Knight Geoffrey! Mr. Geoffrey was a great knight, whose martial art was very famous in the Empire. He came here for appreciating the great donation to Temple from the Mistress. With Mr. Goffey, not to mention the fake magician, even a strong magician, Mr. Goffey was still able to deal with."

For this point, Duwei had nothing to say.

Great Knight was the top of the Knight unit. He was even the Holy Knight from the Temple of light! From Duwei's knowledge, the Holy Knight from the Temple of light was much stronger than the normal knight. It was because the weapon of the Holy Knight was supported by the Light Magic, and had a special effect. The senior Holy Knight could even use some magic skills!

A Great Knight was also a Senior Holy Knight. He could defeat a normal magician.

"Marquise was kind, and didn't put any difficulty on that guy, but if that guy continued to muddle…"

The result was so simple.

That Goffey was obviously an arrogant man. As a knight, when he saw his beautiful Marquise being harassed, he should express his Knight spirit well.

So, Mr. Knight "punished" that fake magician in green robe.

According to what Dardanelle described, seems the knight didn't get any benefit as the fake magician escaped fast.

But, when the fake magician left, he dropped a word, "You won't be good because you offended me. Just wait for my curse! You are beautiful, but I will freeze your beauty…just like a stone!"

Dardanelle felt sad, "Although that guy didn't look like a magician, his curse was real!"

Three days later, Marquise got sick. Her skin was becoming stiff and petrified! It was just a small part at the beginning, but then it spread over the whole body,,,The Listers were afraid, we had found all the doctors, but they could not help. Finally, with the answer from a Magic Pharmacist, they found hope. It may be the Petrifaction Magic. It's not a normal petrifaction, even the magicians could not help with that.

To lift this curse, unless it was lifted by the person who cursed, or…

"Or, go to the Frozen Forest and find a magic monster called Golden Eye Python, and get its eyeball, that can help."Dardanelle looked decisive, "Marquise is the goddess of the Lister Family! Every honor knight working for Marquise is willing to die for Marquise! So, we came to this place."

Duwei sighed, but he was not as calm as he looked like!

Curse? Was that the Curse?!

Seems Dardanelle really didn't understand the magic well!

That guy in green gown might be a Magician! Also a very powerful magician!

Curse was the most difficult magic! Even some senior magicians could not learn this magic in their lives!

Duwei thought a bit and looked around, the old magician had gone already. But Duwei believed that if he tried to go home, he would probably be caught again.

It was because that old man said he would come back! So he could not escape…

"Ok."Duwei sighed, "I am ready to look around in the Frozen Forest, and perhaps, I can go with you. Maybe I can help a bit."

Although he said these, he thought, "This old man must be looking at me. As long as he is here, I won't get hurt."

The medicine Duwei gave Dardanelle was very effective. Under the effect of the Magic medicine, the wound on Dardanelle's body had been cured. But, the granuloma was quite disgusting.

But the warrior was not as lucky as him, the toxic fluid of the zombie monster could only be removed by the Light Magic in the temple. So, after discussion, only Dardanelle and Duwei stayed in the forest and continued to find the golden eye python.

The other injured just went back.

Then Duwei did something strange on the people of the Lister Family. He got an empty bottle from the back, then went to the burnt dead body of the zombie monster and extracted some toxic fluid and put it into the bottle.

The toxic fluid had the effect of being rotten and erosive. Perhaps, it might help in the future. 


章 58:  Snow Wolf Mercenary Group

Looking at this little magician using the bottle to collect the venom from the zombie beast, Dardanelle and the other two Lister family members were shocked. This little magician collected this disgusting stuff as though he thought it was a treasure, and stored it properly.

Looking at the repulsive rotten meat, they all sighed and wondered if this unfathomable magician could do what others could not.

The gravely injured Sword Warrior and the guy who spit out blood would ride on Duwei's sleigh and leave the forest. Duwei was tying the four malamutes to the sleigh. Since these dogs belonged to the old magician, Duwei just gave them away generously. In addition–because the path became increasingly arduous the deeper one went in the forest–they would have to walk, thus rendering them unable to use the sleigh.

However, before the two injured left, Duwei hesitated. Since both of them were injured, if they met any beasts on the way back, they would not be able to save themselves.

Duwei pondered this for a while; then, he gathered up the dragon poop powder that the old magician had spread on the floor the night before and used some paper to pack it well. While ignoring the strange looks from the injured, they applied the remaining powder on their body.

"This way, you won't have to worry about being attacked by magical beats again on the way back." Duwei said relaxingly: "You two have wounds and smell bloody, which I am afraid will indubitably attract the magic beasts."

"What's that stuff?" Dardanelle looked at the green powder. He made the same face as when Duwei asked the old magician about the powder.

"This…" Duwei smiled mischievously, "This is poop–Dragon's poop."

"Oh…" The three people were relaxed; not harboring any feeling of sickness or unease, they only felt shocked.

The sword warrior was, in fact, very happy and said, "Great idea! Haha, when we were in the northeast, we also spread Lion's pee on the tent to repel the wolves on the grassland. Haha… but this is Dragon's poop; a magician is really a magician! Can even get this precious thing…haha."

It seemed like this guy thought that they had not received enough dragon's poop; seemingly, these preferred wanted more of the substance.

After sending away the two injured, Duwei began packing the remaining things. The old magician's items were too incredible; the bag he left contained many different kinds of magic medicine, even a small magic crystal. Duwei had a deep look: he could tell that these materials were used for setting up magic arrays. As a result, Duwei collected them all.

Dardanelle brought Duwei to their previous camp site. It was a disaster after being attacked by the zombie beast.

Dardanelle chose two arrow bags and carried them; then, he chose two swords from the dead bodies of his companions and did the same. Afterwards, he dug a hole and buried his companions.

They originally were an eight people group. Now only three remained.

There was a sleigh as well, but the malamutes had escaped during the attack last night. One was even bitten by the Zombie Beast. During the night, the body that remained had frozen.

The tent was messy, but Duwei and Dardanelle tried to find something useful in it. Finally, Duwei noticed the overturned sleigh.

The sleigh was broken already; in all likelihood, the zombie monster stepped on it last night.

Dardanelle was confused as he watched Duwei use a knife to cut the wooden boards from the sleigh. Immediately afterwards, Duwei cut some rope from the tent and tied two wooden boards to the soles of his boots.

"What's that for?" Dardanelle asked, confused.

"These will help us to walk on the snow. You can try it. They are very useful." Duwei said.

Dardanelle respected this unpredictable young magician very much. Although he didn't understand what the boards were, he mimicked Duwei's actions.

While on their way, he started to admire this young magician who could construct such useful paraphernalia.

As they went further into the forest, the accumulated snow became increasingly thick! When one stepped on it, the accumulated snow reach one's knees. However, the width of the boards could resist the sinking force by spreading spreading the pressure over a larger area. So when people walked using the boards, their feet would not sink deeply into the snow.

Moreover, Duwei even taught Dardanelle how to ski on the snow using the boards!

Skiing was one of Duwei's favorite sports in his previous life.

With the simple and rough "skis," it was easier to walk.

"Right…Dardanelle, last night you said there were five people running. I saw that the person at the front ran away…Is he also a person from the Lister Family?" Duwei asked randomly on their way.

"Hum… the Lister Family doesn't have such a coward." Dardanelle disdained him and said,"That was a leather merchant from the Southern town. We gave him money to guide us in the forest. But that stupid jerk brought us and walked around in the forest for 3 days, but still could not find the thing we wanted. This time, after we return, I will kill him definitely!"

After a while, Dardanelle whispered, "We are different from the other adventurers. We are from the Lister Family and, thus, cannot force our way past the border patrol team. We cannot make any trouble for the Lister Family. So, using the relationship with that guy, we bribed off the officer of the patrol team to let us go inside. But now, it seems like that guy most likely pocketed the money."

They kept on walking on the snow from early morning to afternoon. Even with the skis made by Duwei, under the freezing and windy climate and the snow, it was a harsh challenge for their physical strength and stamina.

Dardanelle was a warrior; he was much stronger than Duwei. But since he was hurt last night, and although the wound was cured by the magic medicine, the lost blood could not be replaced by magic. In other words, his body was inexorably weaker than before.

Duwei was very tired, too. Although he was stronger than before after doing the exercises that the old magician taught him, since he was only 13 years old, his body was not extremely strong. Without the skis, Duwei probably could not have made it.

If he knew flying magic, it would have been better. Duwei murmured a bit, but looking at the freezing wind, he sighed.

Even knowing flying magic, with his magic power, it was not sufficient for him to fly a long way under this level of wind.

They were heading to the north and went deeper into the forest. Dardanelle knew more about surviving in the wild than Duwei. From their conversation, Duwei surmised that Dardanelle was in a mercenary group when he was young. But he hadn't come to the Frozen Forest before. When he was young, he had been the guard of a leather merchant in the Northeast Grassland.

He was used to living in the wild.

Since the title of Marquise Lister was not hereditary, she could not have her own territory and private soldiers. She could not even recruit private warriors and armed forces as other nobles did.

Therefore, the people being sent to the forest were the servants of Marquise. Dardanelle was the vice captain; the captain died last night while protecting his companions.

"We didn't bring many people here as this place is too dangerous. People with normal skills would probably die or even become a burden." Dardanelle's nose was red because of the freezing climate. He stopped and rested for a while. In actuality, he was not tired: he just wanted this little magician to have some rest.

Through their conversation, Duwei construed that Dardanelle was a passionate and congenial individual, and he also treated Duwei with much respect. After he came to this world, he hadn't made many friends. He quite liked this passionate warrior.

Dardanelle grabbed some snow and put it in his mouth. After letting his warmth melt the snow, he drank some water.

After quenching his thirst, Dardanelle looked at the sun in the sky and said, "Dear Magician…"

"Please use my name." Duwei smiled, "No need to use honorifics, Dardanelle. There are only the two of us and we are traveling together now. Furthermore, I am younger than you."

"Ok, Harry." Dardanelle refreshingly smiled, "I guess the afternoon just passed. In this northern area, it gets dark sooner than other places. We better hurry up and go forward, and hope that we can find a place to sleep before dark. Also, if I may ask, do you still have any dragon poop remaining?"

"I may have enough left." Duwei laughed.

"That's great." Dardanelle's eyes had a flash of sadness and whispered, "It's a pity… if we had met you one day earlier and you had that dragon's poop, we wouldn't have been attacked by that monster and the captain would not have died."

"He will rest in peace, my dear Dardanelle." Duwei comforted him, "We have to continue his mission. As long as we find the golden eye python, the dead's sacrifices will not have been in vain."

Dardanelle cheered up a bit and said, "Right! Harry, your words are reasonable… Magicians are talented and possess quite some knowledge, right? Let's talk more about you. You are so young. To have become a magician at your age is very impressive! Let me know more about your background, are you from a great family? I ask because only rich families have the chance to meet magicians and learn magic."

Duwei remained silent.

He was regretting that he'd lied at the very beginning. Being faced with this guy's smile, Duwei felt sorry and just said few things, then moved to another topic.

In the evening, at sunset, they finally found a place that was in a lower area. In this location, one would not encounter any wind.

But when they left the forest, they found that this place was occupied by others already.

"Warning!!"

There was a whistling sound in the forest. Suddenly, two men dressed in white emerged from the top of trees. Duwei looked at them carefully. These two people were wearing white coats, and the people at the back were fully armed! Some of these men were wearing coats whereas others were wearing leather armor. They also had different weapons on hand. Some of them carried knives, some carried swords, and some even carried axes.

The people at the back were carrying bows and arrows, targeting Duwei and Dardanelle.

They were humans, not beasts. The watchmen relaxed a bit.

"Great, two humans. Seems we met some interesting fellows." The person who seemed to be the captain came out and laughed, "Oh, it's rare to see people who can get so far into the Frozen Forest!"

Dardanelle was holding his shank, alert to these people. Duwei smiled and shouted, "Who is the leader of your group?"

"I am." The leader looked at Duwei with contempt, "Oh, it's a kid…oh, I know, you two are looking for a place to sleep? I am sorry, this place is occupied by us. If you don't mind, we can allow you to stay in the campsite next to us. But be careful, don't intrude on our circle."

"No no no…" Duwei shook his head, "encamping in the forest, we don't want to be dinner for the magic monsters! Let us in please. Can we join you in your campsite? It's only two of us, we won't occupy much space… and you are a mercenary group catching magic beasts, right? Perhaps, we can help."

These people looked around and suddenly laughed loudly. The leader looked at Duwei with contempt and said, "Kid, how can you help us? Are you going to wake up in the middle of the night and help us go urinate? Ha ha…go away! Since you are fellow adventurers in this Frozen Forest, I won't make any difficulty for you as long as you don't give me trouble."

Duwei stepped forward, "No, I insist in my request."

The leader got a bit angry, "Oh, do you want to make some trouble? Kid…"

Dardanelle pulled Duwei a bit and whispered, "I know the badge of these men, they are the 'Snow Wolf Mercenary Group.' They have many people here so we better not make any trouble." Dardanelle looked at the badge of the leader and said, "We will move to a different place."

Dardanelle had adventuring experience from when he was young. He knew the famous mercenary groups on the continent well, and he knew that he should stay away from this mercenary group in particular… because all of their members were Outlaws!

During their adventures, some of these people even fought against one another

It was common occurence!

Luckily Duwei and Dardanelle hadn't brought many things along. These guys knew that Duwei and Dardanelle were not armed, so they didn't pay much attention to them.

If Duwei and Dardanelle had brought many possessions…these mercenaries would most likely have wanted to kill them or rob them!

It's not wise to have conflict with them. Although the little magician was quite powerful, these ten people were only the guards on the outer layer; there might even be over a hundred people in the campsite.

Just the two of them were not enough to fight against these mercenaries, so it was better to not make any trouble.

"Hey, Dardanelle, listen!." Duwei was excited, he was so sure that the old magician was there nearby…

Duwei made an expression of pride deliberately and looked at the leader. He was wearing leather armor and had an outstanding weapon. However, he probably he had just a small role, "Oh, you are the Snow Wolf Mercenary group, right? You, should be the little leader, can you possibly represent the whole mercenary group?"

Duwei was right, this guy was only a little captain who was responsible for the alert nearby. He frowned, "Kid, what are you going to do? If you want to suffer a bit, I don't mind to stretch my body a bit."

Then he held his sword with a weird smile and walked towards Duwei.

However, after a few steps, he froze!

Duwei was still standing there with a smile. But he lifted his right arm with his palm facing up, and made a burning fireball!

The people in the mercenary group were not idiots! They looked at this smiling kid who easily made a fireball!

"Snow Wolf mercenary group, are you going to treat a magician in this way?" Duwei smiled with contempt, "Ok, I will remember that."

After Duwei completed his words, he pulled Dardanelle, "Let's go, my friend. Seems like these people are very strong and they don't need a magician. In this dangerous place, they even don't understand the rules of mutual help."

Magician! This kid was a magician!

All the people were shocked including that leader. He looked at Duwei, not with contempt, but respect!

"Go away! A bunch of idiots!" There was a yell coming from the forest and there was a very tall and strong man coming out.

He was wearing rhino leather armor. His shoulders were exposed in such cold weather. His muscles explained everything. He also had on a white cap, and had a yellowish beard. He seemed very strong. He wasn't carrying any weapons. But when he walked out, the patrol people moved back, "Commander!"

That commander stepped forward immediately and stared at the leader, "You are such a shame, my bro, move back."

Then, the commander ignored his men and walked to Duwei and smiled, "Mr. Magician, my subordinates were so rude! I apologize for their rudeness!"

Duwei smiled, "You are?"

"This is the commander of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Group, Bein Heinrich!" A mercenary shouted. His voice was loud and contained a little bit pride.

Dardanelle's eyes were blinking and he whispered, "This guy has a nickname – he's called 'Son of the Storm'. He is a famous person in the circle of mercenary groups in the north continent. He is one of the three heroes of the northern mercenaries. I've heard his name before."

Bein Heinrich laughed a bit and said, "Son of the storm–this name was only given by others. Ok, the introduction is complete. Dear Magician, may I know your name?"

"Harry Potter." Duwei answered. "I don't have a magician gown or badge, but this is common in this area, I hope you can understand." He looked at the eyes of the commander, Duwei said, "I and my companion don't have any bad purpose, we have our things to do in this Frozen Forest. I believe, in this area, if there is a magician joining your mercenary group…maybe for a couple of days, it's mutually beneficial, right?"

"The Snow Wolf Mercenary Group always welcomes the joining of a magician!" Bein Heinrich laughed, "I am always preoccupied whenever I come to this place. Those magic monsters are so annoying. If we have the help of a magician, our business will get substantially better!"

Bein Heinrich looked at Duwei and looked forward to his answer.

"I am willing to provide some help." Duwei answered Bein Heinrich happily, "Mr. Commander, as you see, we only have two people. It's better to have more companions in this area, right?"

"Please bring Mr. Magician to our campsite at the front, there are two nice wines in my tent." Bein Heinrich laughed and led the way enthusiastically.

Dardanelle frowned and Duwei pulled him to the side and whispered, "Dardanelle, stop saying that! This is our first time coming to this Frozen Forest! We don't know this place! But these guys are frequent visitors to this place! They understand the landscape and the environment in this place well! It's better than searching aimlessly in this area by ourselves!" 


Load failed, please RETRY

バッチアンロック

目次

表示オプション

バックグラウンド

フォント

大きさ

章のコメント

レビューを書く 読み取りステータス: C57
投稿に失敗します。もう一度やり直してください
  • テキストの品質
  • アップデートの安定性
  • ストーリー展開
  • キャラクターデザイン
  • 世界の背景

合計スコア 0.0

レビューが正常に投稿されました! レビューをもっと読む
不適切なコンテンツを報告する
error ヒント

不正使用を報告

段落のコメント

ログイン

tip 段落コメント

段落コメント機能がWebに登場!任意の段落の上にマウスを移動し、アイコンをクリックしてコメントを追加します。

また、[設定]でいつでもオフ/オンにすることができます。

手に入れました