Estio Book 5
- Episode 6
By the way, the closest person to a wizard he knew was a battle mage who dealt with magical powers, Yeon Yeon-rang. Birang, who had no knowledge of the environment in which Estio was raised, took a deep breath in shock.
"You're a really weird person, mate."
"Is that so."
Birang couldn't quite understand how he was amazed like a child at a magical substance made from slime, possessing the most mysterious and unrealistic powers. When Birang, who didn't want to talk any more, shut her mouth, and Estio was silent at the same time.
After that, he went downstairs without talking. Only the sound of the stairwell resounding broke the silence.
As soon as they reached the first basement floor, this time a huge door blocking their view greeted them.
The door, which was tightly closed without a single gap, had no handle. Instead, a marble the size of a child's head was floating in the air. Inside, as if a shooting star was pouring down, countless sparkles drew and erased strange symbols over and over again. Mubin, who found the marble, approached it and said,
"Oh, it's a Telemarble."
"Telemarble?"
The answer came from Birang.
"Surveillance Magic Orb. A hologram object that allows you to observe this side from the other side. It is also often used as an unmanned reconnaissance tool in war."
Estio hardly understood Birang's explanation this time as well. It was no big deal because I didn't know exactly what a hologram or unmanned reconnaissance meant. Estio raised his doubts again.
"Where's the other side?"
"Hey, you really don't know anything."
With a sigh, Birang explained that he could see where the marbles exist by simply entering the channel and password from anywhere, as they exchange magical signals between all telemarbles and connect them. He still didn't quite understand, but Estio thought he was going to pass it on.
"Then he might be looking at this place through that marble from somewhere."
Then Moobin looked up at the stairs and said,
"Probably they've been watching all the time. I noticed small marbles hanging from the ceiling halfway down the stairs."
When Moobin, who was not a wizard, seemed to know the beads well, Estio asked curiously.
"How does Mubin know all that?"
"Um? Oh, I'm used to it."
Mubin smiled as he answered in a non-trivial tone.
"I have it installed in my house, Telemarble Device."
"......"
Even in the Duke's mansion, there were several managers who took turns watching only Telemarble. It was only then that Estio realized that he was a noble nobility. Leaving Estio with her mouth shut, Mubin pounded her marbles with his fist.
"But this design is bigger and more beautiful. As expected, Ignis, the best guild in the Empire."
Ji-ing!
At that moment, the door suddenly opened. It wasn't the sliding door you're used to. The door split in zigzags, as if it had been a two-piece puzzle from the beginning, and then opened on both sides of the cham.
Since the lighting inside the door was much brighter than the outside, light poured out like a flood to the place where the party was standing. It was such a strong light that Estio felt a little brighter through the eye patch that tightly wrapped his eyes. The rest of the people who had their eyes opened to the wind frowned at once.
"Thanks for the compliment, Duke Heiga."
A woman appeared in the light, clasped her white lab coat and bowed her head lightly. She did, but then she suddenly found herself awkward and corrected her greeting.
"Isn't this? Thank you, Your Majesty the Duke. ...Your Majesty, Hey?"
"The first name sounds the most rude."
"Ah! Excuse me. I've never learned aristocratic etiquette since I was born."
I haven't had anything to write about so far," the researcher added with a small smile. After some getting used to her bright light, Mubin was able to take a closer look at her opponent.
The researcher who opened the door was a young woman wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses and pinned long bangs over her bangs. Her pale pink bob hair matched her white skin, and her study suit was a little baggy for her small stature. One step behind her researcher were her two assistants.
"Oh my God, look at my mind."
A researcher who had been preoccupied with a high-ranking nobleman he had met for the first time in his life suddenly hardened his complexion. Then he took one long deep breath and then moved forward. The researcher stopped in front of Estio and spoke out in a loud voice at first, without Mobin having time to question the sudden action.
"It's an honor to meet you, guild leader!"
"Yes, nice to meet you. This is Estio."
"Of course I know. I've been keeping an eye on what's going on. Whoops."
Estio's expression darkened. Then the pink-haired researcher, realizing the mistake, waved his hand and added.
"Oh, no. I don't mean it in a bad way, it's because I'm actually a fan of Leader-nim."
"......?"
"I've admired it ever since I first heard the news! The ability to read minds is so amazing. I definitely want to test that ability someday, no experiment, no no, research it!"
I don't think it's meant very well, but I could feel the excitement in the voice that I really liked. Estio was stunned, not knowing what to say. The more he knew about the magic research department, the more difficult it was for him.
"My name is Shuanberg. Hey, just call me Shuan!"
"All right."
Estio nodded reluctantly and took Shuan's outstretched hand. Then Shuan's face brightened in an instant.
"Huk, I shook hands with the leader...! Now I must not wash my right hand."
Even after the greeting was over, the assistants sighed deeply from behind Shuan, who was still touched by emotion. And with her familiar attitude, she added one piece of information she had missed.
"By the way, Shuanberg-sama is in charge of this place."
It turned out that Shuan was not a general researcher, but the head of the magic research department.
"Fufu, welcome to Rangi too. Thank you for accepting the quest."
"...Noisy. If I had known that I was going to run into a leader, I would have never accepted it."
"Why? Are you two not on good terms?"
She was also personally acquainted with Yeon-yeon. When Moobin saw her as a friend, she had a strong feeling of unilaterally hitting her, but she was amazing that Yeon Yeon-rang killed her temper and took care of Shu-an's Chidam.
Birang completely ignored Shuan's questions about Estio. Shuan greeted the harsh Battle Mage alone and then guided the party to the lab.
Instead of Estio looking back at the automatically closing door again, Moobin brought up the main point.
"Then do you have a doppelganger?"
"Yes, I asked Rangi to take care of it... No, I asked the members of the Rang guild. He's so ruthless that I was worried that his neck might fly off, but fortunately he managed to hold it without damaging it."
Shuan, looking at the two chefs still handcuffed side by side like twins, was deeply impressed. The real chef's expression, who nearly had his throat blown away, shrunk like dried fish, but Shu An didn't feel any guilt.
Seeing Shuan's brazen expression, Mubin responded with an absurd expression.
"I really shouldn't have asked that lady if I was worried about damage. If Estio-sama didn't dry it, maybe there would have been a bloody storm in the kitchen?"
"does not matter."
Shuan pushed up his glasses once and smiled.
"There's no way to completely kill a doppelganger anyway."
"Huh, you're saying that monster can be immortal?"
"Actually, that's not a monster."
With light steps, she approached the two chefs in handcuffs.
"It is a kind of spirit. It is also a spirit derived from the physical world, not the natural world."
Hearing those words, Moobin took a breath and took a breath. In general, spirits are rare. Among them, the only spirits known to the world were the natural world with elemental characteristics, and Mubin was the first to hear about the material world spirits. he asked with a groaning sound.
"I'm just asking, were you guys even experimenting with making spirits?"
"Yes? No way! It would be great if that could be possible."
Shuan shook his head as if he was really sorry. And he told Estio and his friends how he discovered the doppelganger.
"It was purely coincidental. I was lucky enough to get an old mirror that said psychic effects were happening. While checking to see if a new enchantment might have caused psychics..."
Shuan stopped in the middle and raised a finger to point to the two chefs Chuck.
"That doppelganger came out of nowhere."
Of course, she couldn't tell which of the two was the doppelganger either. Huh, Shuan, who shed an embarrassing laugh, ended the introduction.
"Perhaps it is a spirit that naturally resides in a mirror after enduring a long time. If I had to give it a name, it would be 'mirror of the mirror'!"
Mubin and Yeon Yeon-rang, who belonged to the samurai, immediately agreed.
"Oh, that's right."
"If that's really a spirit, it won't be affected by physical power."
This was the reason why it was difficult for an elemental magician to deal with. Physical, magical, divine. Spirits are mystical beings that do not fall under all of these. The conditions for their selection of contractors were also difficult to understand by human standards.
He didn't express it, but when he heard about it, Estio also realized one thing.
'That's why I couldn't read the mind.'
Spirits are not living beings. Being a spiritual being without a body, it was natural that he could not read thoughts.
Still, he did not feel any emotions toward the doppelganger or the material spirit. Shuan politely requested him, possessed by a strange sense of being neither alive nor dead.
"Leader, we will take the spirit now."
"Before that, I just want to check one thing."
"Yes Yes."
Shuan, who heard the firm voice, stared intently at Estio. He was covered with an eye patch, so he couldn't make eye contact. Shuan suddenly wondered what kind of light his obscured eyes would have.
"What happens to the spirit of the mirror now?"
A young spirit born from an old mirror.
He couldn't find a contractor and he's just a blank slate who likes to play pranks on his instincts. It is impossible to kill If it was a spirit in the natural world, he would send it back to the spirit world, but because it was a material spirit, there was no place to return to.
"Um, I'll have to put it back in the mirror."
"seal?"
"Are the words a bit grandiose? Fufu, the material spirits have a strong attachment to the things they were born with. They use that nature to lock them in."
As Shuan spoke, he gestured to his assistants. The two assistants, fully understanding the boss's orders, brought the rusty wall mirror in front of them. It was so old that the decorations were all broken and even the mirror surface had cracks.
"If you set up a strong magical field around this mirror, you'll feel threatened that your mirror might break and you won't be able to escape from inside."
The spirit who found his mirror looked fiercely at it. Now, the difference in facial expressions was so clear that it was possible to distinguish the two chefs who were the real and the fake even without Estio telling them.
Estio Book 5
- Episode 6
By the way, the closest person to a wizard he knew was a battle mage who dealt with magical powers, Yeon Yeon-rang. Birang, who had no knowledge of the environment in which Estio was raised, took a deep breath in shock.
"You're a really weird person, mate."
"Is that so."
Birang couldn't quite understand how he was amazed like a child at a magical substance made from slime, possessing the most mysterious and unrealistic powers. When Birang, who didn't want to talk any more, shut her mouth, and Estio was silent at the same time.
After that, he went downstairs without talking. Only the sound of the stairwell resounding broke the silence.
As soon as they reached the first basement floor, this time a huge door blocking their view greeted them.
The door, which was tightly closed without a single gap, had no handle. Instead, a marble the size of a child's head was floating in the air. Inside, as if a shooting star was pouring down, countless sparkles drew and erased strange symbols over and over again. Mubin, who found the marble, approached it and said,
"Oh, it's a Telemarble."
"Telemarble?"
The answer came from Birang.
"Surveillance Magic Orb. A hologram object that allows you to observe this side from the other side. It is also often used as an unmanned reconnaissance tool in war."
Estio hardly understood Birang's explanation this time as well. It was no big deal because I didn't know exactly what a hologram or unmanned reconnaissance meant. Estio raised his doubts again.
"Where's the other side?"
"Hey, you really don't know anything."
With a sigh, Birang explained that he could see where the marbles exist by simply entering the channel and password from anywhere, as they exchange magical signals between all telemarbles and connect them. He still didn't quite understand, but Estio thought he was going to pass it on.
"Then he might be looking at this place through that marble from somewhere."
Then Moobin looked up at the stairs and said,
"Probably they've been watching all the time. I noticed small marbles hanging from the ceiling halfway down the stairs."
When Moobin, who was not a wizard, seemed to know the beads well, Estio asked curiously.
"How does Mubin know all that?"
"Um? Oh, I'm used to it."
Mubin smiled as he answered in a non-trivial tone.
"I have it installed in my house, Telemarble Device."
"......"
Even in the Duke's mansion, there were several managers who took turns watching only Telemarble. It was only then that Estio realized that he was a noble nobility. Leaving Estio with her mouth shut, Mubin pounded her marbles with his fist.
"But this design is bigger and more beautiful. As expected, Ignis, the best guild in the Empire."
Ji-ing!
At that moment, the door suddenly opened. It wasn't the sliding door you're used to. The door split in zigzags, as if it had been a two-piece puzzle from the beginning, and then opened on both sides of the cham.
Since the lighting inside the door was much brighter than the outside, light poured out like a flood to the place where the party was standing. It was such a strong light that Estio felt a little brighter through the eye patch that tightly wrapped his eyes. The rest of the people who had their eyes opened to the wind frowned at once.
"Thanks for the compliment, Duke Heiga."
A woman appeared in the light, clasped her white lab coat and bowed her head lightly. She did, but then she suddenly found herself awkward and corrected her greeting.
"Isn't this? Thank you, Your Majesty the Duke. ...Your Majesty, Hey?"
"The first name sounds the most rude."
"Ah! Excuse me. I've never learned aristocratic etiquette since I was born."
I haven't had anything to write about so far," the researcher added with a small smile. After some getting used to her bright light, Mubin was able to take a closer look at her opponent.
The researcher who opened the door was a young woman wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses and pinned long bangs over her bangs. Her pale pink bob hair matched her white skin, and her study suit was a little baggy for her small stature. One step behind her researcher were her two assistants.
"Oh my God, look at my mind."
A researcher who had been preoccupied with a high-ranking nobleman he had met for the first time in his life suddenly hardened his complexion. Then he took one long deep breath and then moved forward. The researcher stopped in front of Estio and spoke out in a loud voice at first, without Mobin having time to question the sudden action.
"It's an honor to meet you, guild leader!"
"Yes, nice to meet you. This is Estio."
"Of course I know. I've been keeping an eye on what's going on. Whoops."
Estio's expression darkened. Then the pink-haired researcher, realizing the mistake, waved his hand and added.
"Oh, no. I don't mean it in a bad way, it's because I'm actually a fan of Leader-nim."
"......?"
"I've admired it ever since I first heard the news! The ability to read minds is so amazing. I definitely want to test that ability someday, no experiment, no no, research it!"
I don't think it's meant very well, but I could feel the excitement in the voice that I really liked. Estio was stunned, not knowing what to say. The more he knew about the magic research department, the more difficult it was for him.
"My name is Shuanberg. Hey, just call me Shuan!"
"All right."
Estio nodded reluctantly and took Shuan's outstretched hand. Then Shuan's face brightened in an instant.
"Huk, I shook hands with the leader...! Now I must not wash my right hand."
Even after the greeting was over, the assistants sighed deeply from behind Shuan, who was still touched by emotion. And with her familiar attitude, she added one piece of information she had missed.
"By the way, Shuanberg-sama is in charge of this place."
It turned out that Shuan was not a general researcher, but the head of the magic research department.
"Fufu, welcome to Rangi too. Thank you for accepting the quest."
"...Noisy. If I had known that I was going to run into a leader, I would have never accepted it."
"Why? Are you two not on good terms?"
She was also personally acquainted with Yeon-yeon. When Moobin saw her as a friend, she had a strong feeling of unilaterally hitting her, but she was amazing that Yeon Yeon-rang killed her temper and took care of Shu-an's Chidam.
Birang completely ignored Shuan's questions about Estio. Shuan greeted the harsh Battle Mage alone and then guided the party to the lab.
Instead of Estio looking back at the automatically closing door again, Moobin brought up the main point.
"Then do you have a doppelganger?"
"Yes, I asked Rangi to take care of it... No, I asked the members of the Rang guild. He's so ruthless that I was worried that his neck might fly off, but fortunately he managed to hold it without damaging it."
Shuan, looking at the two chefs still handcuffed side by side like twins, was deeply impressed. The real chef's expression, who nearly had his throat blown away, shrunk like dried fish, but Shu An didn't feel any guilt.
Seeing Shuan's brazen expression, Mubin responded with an absurd expression.
"I really shouldn't have asked that lady if I was worried about damage. If Estio-sama didn't dry it, maybe there would have been a bloody storm in the kitchen?"
"does not matter."
Shuan pushed up his glasses once and smiled.
"There's no way to completely kill a doppelganger anyway."
"Huh, you're saying that monster can be immortal?"
"Actually, that's not a monster."
With light steps, she approached the two chefs in handcuffs.
"It is a kind of spirit. It is also a spirit derived from the physical world, not the natural world."
Hearing those words, Moobin took a breath and took a breath. In general, spirits are rare. Among them, the only spirits known to the world were the natural world with elemental characteristics, and Mubin was the first to hear about the material world spirits. he asked with a groaning sound.
"I'm just asking, were you guys even experimenting with making spirits?"
"Yes? No way! It would be great if that could be possible."
Shuan shook his head as if he was really sorry. And he told Estio and his friends how he discovered the doppelganger.
"It was purely coincidental. I was lucky enough to get an old mirror that said psychic effects were happening. While checking to see if a new enchantment might have caused psychics..."
Shuan stopped in the middle and raised a finger to point to the two chefs Chuck.
"That doppelganger came out of nowhere."
Of course, she couldn't tell which of the two was the doppelganger either. Huh, Shuan, who shed an embarrassing laugh, ended the introduction.
"Perhaps it is a spirit that naturally resides in a mirror after enduring a long time. If I had to give it a name, it would be 'mirror of the mirror'!"
Mubin and Yeon Yeon-rang, who belonged to the samurai, immediately agreed.
"Oh, that's right."
"If that's really a spirit, it won't be affected by physical power."
This was the reason why it was difficult for an elemental magician to deal with. Physical, magical, divine. Spirits are mystical beings that do not fall under all of these. The conditions for their selection of contractors were also difficult to understand by human standards.
He didn't express it, but when he heard about it, Estio also realized one thing.
'That's why I couldn't read the mind.'
Spirits are not living beings. Being a spiritual being without a body, it was natural that he could not read thoughts.
Still, he did not feel any emotions toward the doppelganger or the material spirit. Shuan politely requested him, possessed by a strange sense of being neither alive nor dead.
"Leader, we will take the spirit now."
"Before that, I just want to check one thing."
"Yes Yes."
Shuan, who heard the firm voice, stared intently at Estio. He was covered with an eye patch, so he couldn't make eye contact. Shuan suddenly wondered what kind of light his obscured eyes would have.
"What happens to the spirit of the mirror now?"
A young spirit born from an old mirror.
He couldn't find a contractor and he's just a blank slate who likes to play pranks on his instincts. It is impossible to kill If it was a spirit in the natural world, he would send it back to the spirit world, but because it was a material spirit, there was no place to return to.
"Um, I'll have to put it back in the mirror."
"seal?"
"Are the words a bit grandiose? Fufu, the material spirits have a strong attachment to the things they were born with. They use that nature to lock them in."
As Shuan spoke, he gestured to his assistants. The two assistants, fully understanding the boss's orders, brought the rusty wall mirror in front of them. It was so old that the decorations were all broken and even the mirror surface had cracks.
"If you set up a strong magical field around this mirror, you'll feel threatened that your mirror might break and you won't be able to escape from inside."
The spirit who found his mirror looked fiercely at it. Now, the difference in facial expressions was so clear that it was possible to distinguish the two chefs who were the real and the fake even without Estio telling them.
