THE RETURN OF THE WITCH
Guests in House of Mogrian (4)
The entrance to the Mogrian mountain was connected to the back side of the landlord castle.
That place, which was usually quiet, was crowded today.
All the warriors and knights, who did not set out to hunt, the people in the household, the owner's wife and the youngest daughter were there to pray for the return of the landlord and his guards to safety.
“Ian?”
A woman's voice called out to Ian.
That was his mother. He also came with people.
“I heard the story, so the owner is still in the forest somewhere ..”
“Yes, so I decided to help them find it.”
“What, Are you ...?”
Vanessa's face paled.
“It's too dangerous! You are young, and .. ”
“I'm fine, Mom. Have you forgotten? I'm a witch now. ”
“But..”.
It's natural for him to worry. Even though her son was a magician with great talent, he was still her son, before she became a witch.
“Do not worry. I don't like the others. I'll be back, okay? ”
After promising his mother a safe return, Ian walked with the soldiers.
The first scout troop who had been searching for the mountain looked extremely tired.
The scout that seems still energetic is the second scout squad.
“To get started, take me to where the trail stops.”
At Ian's request, a senior knight came out and said.
“According to the first reconnaissance report, the trail ends completely. We only found hints that there is a.s.sultu by many goblins .. ”
“I have a solution, so please lead the way.”
The knight's face became restless, when he was commanded by the youngster.
“... Yes, Mr. Mage”
He calmed himself and answered.
The commander is a witch.
The witch will travel with the crown prince.
Age is not important here.
If n.o.bles has rank, witches have rank and power.
A power that might be able to rule over the entire world, if there were enough of them.
‘Huh, let's see, how great the witch is’
The senior knight did not believe in Ian.
Of course he might have talent, because the crown prince is coming.
However, the rumors of his magic in the gymnasium, the rumors that the maids and servants had spread, he did not believe the rumors.
“Listening! The second surveillance force. ”
But, the knight had to follow Ian's orders.
She was a witch, and the army could do nothing.
The first squad has yet to find any critical clues.
It was unlikely that the second squad would find anything important either.
However, the owner is missing.
The knight had to rely on whatever he could.
“As Lord Mage ordered, mountain climbing.”
The knights and soldiers of the second scout squad rearranged their lines.
Suddenly, right before they started their march, the,
“Di, there!”
Someone pulled Ian's sleeve.
A girl with ginger hair, Only daughter of the owner, ‘Margaret Mogrian’.
With his appearance, he looks about 4 years older than Ian.
“My father ... my brother .. save them, PLEASE!”
His face was covered with tears and snot.
“If you keep it, anything, I'll do anything for you! Me, I can ask my father to give you money, land and servants! So, please…. ”
His attitude changed completely compared to the morning.
“I heard he spoke to my mother badly.”
It sounds like Margaret often acts badly on him.
In fact, it was more like he had just expressed his jealousy to the beautiful kitchen maid.
“Hmm?”
Ian found something on Margaret's finger.
Precisely, the ring on his right index finger.
It has a special aura.
“Mogrian Ring?”
It must be a low-level artifact, a Mogrian ring.
It seems the landowner gave it to his daughter, not recaptured it.
“I'll find it for you.”
“Re, really?”
The confirmation from Ian turned Magaret's face bright.
“But, keep your promise.”
“I'm serious! Everything you want....!”
“Think of that while I'm looking for scouting.”
“M, think of it?”
What's he talking about?
Margaret could not understand. Ian added words to help her understand.
“I don't want the things you've promised.”
“I, then what is ...?”
“That's the thing you need to think about.”
Then Ian looked to the other side, and Margaret followed his eyes.
There was Vanessa, whose face was filled with worry.
“……!”
He quickly turned his eyes away from Vanessa, as he understood.
His face revealed his complicated thoughts.
“Dan”
He continued the conversation. Margaret's face contained a hint of fear for her.
“Ring.”
“Ri, phone?”
“Lend me.”
She felt ashamed.
Not just him, but the Mogrians.
It seems they do not know the existence of aritifact
“Why is that so?”
“I can feel mana from him.”
“Mana?”
“This will help me find people. So...”
Margaret could not decide so easily.
The heirlooms that her father gave to Margaret specifically.
But Ian says there's some MP in it.
Mostly, he said it would help him find his father.
“O, okay.”
The ring was handed to Ian.
His finger was still too small, so he had to put it on his thumb.
* clap *
Right after she put on the ring, she could feel her heart beating.
This feeling, Ian liked it.
“Come go.”
He turned away from the young n.o.ble girl.
He stepped on the mountain ground with the scouts.
In general, it's not difficult.
Instead, there was a wide road like a road.
That is proof that they hunt quite often.
“Do we need to go deeper?”
Ian broke the silence and asked the knight.
“Not far from here, where the trail starts.”
“Does he usually start the hunt from there?”
“No, the goblins usually come out of the deeper area ... wait, it's weird”
The knight's face became more serious.
“I heard he goes hunting periodically.”
“Yes, every first day of every month. It's not something special. ”
“So they're all used to it. I mean, hunting routes for hunters. ”
‘Pemburs’ shows its owner and company.
In the eyes of goblins, they were simply goblin hunters.
“So that means...”.
“They might ambush them.”
“Did you say goblins do ambush?”
The knight disagreed with that.
“There is no way they could make such a plan ..”
As is known that their intelligence is quite low.
As humanoid monsters, they had some sort of intelligence, but were estimated to be only about the same as a 3-year-old boy. These brave creatures have the courage to attack first, and ambush the hunters by using the route?
‘Mustahil.’
Unless the Hobgoblins were living in the great fields south, far away from here, it was almost impossible for the goblins living in the province.
When Ian's thoughts reached this point,
“Here, as you can see, all these areas are ..”
The scout team and Ian reached a point.
Human red blood pathway and goblin green blood pathway …
It is clear that there is a battle.
However, there were no human corpses.
There were only goblin corpses on the ground.
“Has the victim's body from our side been collected?”
The knight shook his head.
“We couldn't find anyone when we first found this area.”
That means goblins took it all.
Whether alive or dead.
“There are so many strange points.”
First, the scale of the battle was simply too large.
There are more than ten goblin corpses around here.
When they were a.s.ultulted, there must have been hundreds of them.
“They don't make a group like this.”
They usually form as small villages and hunt animals or collect berries. However, these traces indicate that there are hundreds of goblins that are a. Ian was quite curious about this.
“Does anyone rule them?”
It has high intelligence, strength and the desire to gather all the goblins around the mountain. Creature ‘cla.s.s height’ who has charisma.
“Are there other monsters living on this mountain?”
“As I know, no.”
“Hmm.”
Thinking will not solve this problem.
Now he has to take action.
“Magician.”
With a calm spell, Ian raised his index finger.
He began to draw silver magic formula in the air.
“The spirit of wolves.”
As soon as he finished his magic formula, he triggered his second spell.
Then the sliver light became thicker.
The magic door opened slowly,
Silver light shot out from the gap between the doors.
* how – ow – wool *
Suddenly, the soldiers were confused.
Strange growls came out of the magic formula
It was the howling of a wolf.
“What? Where did that sound come from? ”
“Didn't he say wolf spirit?”
“But it sounds a bit strange ..”
When the whisper becomes silent,
Something small came out of the formula while struggling.
Then, * apelpuk*, it falls to the ground.
“Wo, wolf?”
As the soldier said, it was a wolf.
Out of nowhere, the wolf is called.
But, the wolf was a bit strange.
It was a wolf, but …
* arrrf ... arf? *
Funny growl, with puppy size.
Teeth that are not shaved because they do not grow completely.
The tail waved towards Ian.
“A puppy ..?”
As someone explained, it was a puppy.
Precisely, it is ‘wolf pup’ spirit.
