White looked extremely angry.
He got that guy to take care of that matter, but he didn’t even manage to settle it. Instead he lost his own life.
That small bastard was already a bother; he didn’t expect that the older brother would be this troublesome.
“I do not know. Maybe there is something wrong with the information.”
The black clothed man bowed once again and apologized, “I hope Young Master can understand; a small place like White River Valley is too remote and our intelligence network hasn’t been set up there.”
“No matter how, it impossible to make a mistake this big!”
White took a deep breath, displaying a pondering expression. “This Marvin isn’t as simple as he looks. He is shrewder than his brother.”
“Being able to kill an apprentice wizard and his followers is a proof that even if this guy’s strength is of the 1st rank, he is at the peak.”
“Decisively using that Ninth Month Medal, it looks like he want to makes this affair big…”
“I have to admit, he is smart. But in front of the Unicorn family, these tricks won’t help him. They will instead send him to the underworld!”
The black clothed man nodded.
The Ashes Tower is in the middle of getting in touch with the South Wizard Alliance’s arbitration staff. I guess they will go through a process.”
“It’ll be easier to handle the process.” White sneered, “The arbiter, the judge, switch them with our people.”
“I’d like to see what trick this Baron Marvin could use!”
“Yes! I’ll take care of it right away!” The black clothed man immediately withdrew.
…
Meanwhile, in a side room next to the dorms.
A dense smell magic medicine filled the atmosphere. There was even some mist in the room.
An incense burner was set up by the bedside, emitting some kind of peculiar smell. It had the effect of increasing focus.
Marvin silently entered. There was another person apart from the unconscious Wayne lying down on the bed.
It was a young girl, looking about 11 or 12 years old. She was surprised to see Marvin coming in.
“I’m Wayne’s older brother, White River Valley’s overlord, Marvin.”
He introduced himself in a simple manner.
“Ah! Greetings.” A hint of shyness could be seen on the girl’s face. “I am Lulu, Wayne’s classmate.”
Classmate?
It wasn’t that simple, right?
Marvin speechlessly looked at the girl and the unconscious Wayne. Feinan’s nobles matured very early in that regard. They usually wanted to experience the forbidden fruit at around 11 or 12 years old. Wayne was only 9 and already had a girlfriend?
This was too fast.
But with the wizards status being very high, looking for a few women wasn’t very hard. Marvin looked at this Lulu girl. An apprentice wizard with the potential of an alchemist. But her talent wasn’t high. Thus progressing any further would be very difficult. Her looks were pretty good, but still not to the point of attracting upper layer’s wizards.
She stood at Wayne’s bedside, somewhat pale.
“Miss Lulu has stayed to take care of Young Master Wayne after he caught the illness.” The old butler’s explanation arrived just on time.
Marvin nodded and thanked her.
But he soon changed the discussion. “Miss Lulu, you probably exhausted yourself these days. Since I already arrived, you can go rest as I’ll take care of my younger brother.”
After looking blankly for a moment, she glanced at Wayne, reluctant to part with him. Then she nodded and left.
Only the old butler and Marvin remained in the room. The two looked at each other as the former seemed somewhat surprised by Marvin’s changes.
That was a kind of spiritual transformation. Even though Anna sent a letter mentioning this, when the real Marvin was standing in front of him, it felt like an illusion.
The current Marvin was like his grandfather when he was young.
Wise, full of energy and full of determination.
These were essential qualities to be an excellent overlord.
“Young Master Marvin…” The old butler said in a low voice, “You don’t need to be too worried. The Academy’s teachers were quite angry, they are working hard to look for the culprit.”
“I believe they’ll find an answer soon.”
Marvin didn’t say anything. Rather, he silently look at Wayne lying down on the bed.
A thick blanket was covering his own younger brother. His pale face looked terrible, his cheeks were hollow and his hair had started to wilt like a withering tree.
“Hmm?”
Marvin frowned.
He softly opened the blanket. Wayne’s stomach was ice-cold but his heart was still beating vigorously.
“He would wake up three times everyday in the middle of the night due to nightmares, and then keep crazily vomiting.”
“The things he keeps vomiting are… Filthy things,” the old butler explained.
“Toads, poisonous snakes and so on. I already explained everything in the letter.”
“Wayne’s teacher said it could be the work of a twin snakes follower.”
Marvin calmly covered him with the blanket and slowly shook his head. “It’s not a twin snakes follower.”
“Ah?” The old butler was somewhat stunned.
“It’s not the work of a twin snakes’ follower. It’s someone copying the twin snakes cult’s tricks.”
Marvin’s eyes turned cold.
“This isn’t an ordinary curse. It’s some kind of compound curse.”
“On the surface, it looks like the twin snakes cult’s [Hibernation]’s curse. But in fact, under the disguise of Hibernation, there is one more curse that’s constantly draining Wayne’s vitality.”
“He is currently very weak and I have to immediately remove the cause of the curse!”
Marvin firmly readied his two fists, overworking his brain.
Sure enough, it was not the twin snakes’ skill; this was just a pretense, nothing more. Someone else was behind it.
And it was definitely someone in the Academy.
And someone close to Wayne!
“Hold on…”
Marvin suddenly raised his head.
He seemed to have guessed who!
…
Magore Academy, in a certain meeting room.
“I think I found the origin of Classmate Wayne’s curse.” A gloomy voice echoed.
“We have to severely punish this culprit.”
“What did you find? The final qualifying round will begin in a week, I’m afraid your apprentice won’t be able to take part in it,” said a sharp voice.
“How come?” The first voice angrily yelled, “Don’t tell me that someone openly framed my disciple, openly cursed Magore’s apprentice, and everyone standing here aren’t the least bit concerned?”
Everyone was silent.
Finally a voice broke the silence. “Hanzer, since this is your student, you suffered the biggest loss and you set out.”
“But that person should be a student at our affiliated college, if she wishes-”
“If she hands over the antidote to remove the curse, I’ll spare her life,” Hanzer firmly said.
…
“Thud thud thud! Thud thud thud” Someone was knocking on the door
The old butler was surprised.
Who would pay a visit at this time?
Following Marvin’s gesture, he opened the door.
A man was dressed in a full set of black clothes and wearing a black hat. It seemed very old fashioned, but very awe-inspiring.
Peak 2nd-rank wizard.
Marvin guessed in a split second. He didn’t dare to use inspect, as that would simply be an offense to that wizard. It might anger him.
He estimated from experience.
“Sir Hanzer?” The old butler said surprised.
> “This person is?” Hanzer was looking at Marvin in a odd way.
“I am Wayne’s older brother, White River Valley’s overlord, Marvin.” He introduced himself once again.
“Greetings. We quickly met when Wayne’s entered the Academy.”
Seemingly recalling something, Hanzer’s severe face displayed a slight smile. “And you also dared to kill at the gate of Magore Academy. You are the first in 300 years.”
“Someone wants to frame my younger brother.”
“I’ll make them pay the price.”
Marvin’s voice was very calm, but exceptionally cold. Even Hanzer, this kind of Master, couldn’t help but take a second look at him.
This youth seemed somewhat different from last time. When he heard about Marvin killing at the gate, he thought he was quite hot-headed.
But apparently he wasn’t.
But he didn’t come for this.
Hanzer said, “I already caught the culprit that put Wayne in this state.”
“It was his young girlfriend, Lulu, right?” Marvin finished his sentence.
“You knew?” Hanzer choked.
Chapter 70: Blue Morphine
Chapter 70: Blue Morphine
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“It’s not the work of the twin snakes cult.”
Marvin pointed at Wayne’s thin face and said, “If it was the twin snakes cult, Wayne wouldn’t suffer that much.”
“On the surface it looks like [Hibernation], one of the twin snakes cult’s trademark curses, which makes the target enter a permanent coma. But hibernation wouldn’t kill someone.”
“His heartbeat is also extremely strong, and this isn’t a symptom of hibernation.”
A hint of shock passed through Hanzer’s eyes. He couldn’t help but ask, “How do you know?”
“My grandfather was a high level wizard.”
Marvin had already prepared his reason. “Before setting off, I read through many books in the study, learning a lot of knowledge.”
“You and Wayne are just as smart, it’s a pity you didn’t have the talent to be a wizard.”
Hanzer nodded. “Right, I also felt that some people deliberately imitated the work of the twin snakes cult.”
“But how did you know it was Lulu? You should have just arrived?”
Marvin smiled. “Under the disguise of the hibernation curse is another curse that drains vitality. This kind of curse needs at least a week of daily contact and constant chanting of the curse incantation.”
“Wayne is a little antisocial, so he wouldn’t stay close with many people for a long period of time. Apart from the old butler, who is left?”
The only person remaining that had daily contacts with him was his little girlfriend, right?
A very logical deduction.
Hanzer shrugged helplessly. “You must be a very capable overlord!”
“Since you are here as well, do you want to join me in visiting the culprit behind Wayne’s situation?”
“This is your right.”
…
Magore Academy’s prison.
A young girl was sitting alone on the edge of a fence, looking exceptionally frightened.
This prison was set up on a nine story tall tree. Every branch ended in a wooden prisoner cell, hanging in mid air.
She was looking at the vast black liquid below.
If she fell down into this black liquid, she would dissolve and not even a bone would remain!
There weren’t many prisoners in the prison because most people that looked for trouble in Magore Academy would die.
Just as she was looking around, frightened, the prisoner’s cage started moving!
She was scared at first, but she soon reacted. ‘Someone’s is controlling this branch!’
There were two faint silhouettes on a distant platform.
The tall silhouette was chanting an incantation and that branch carrying her began to slowly move.
In the end, the prisoner’s cage landed on the platform.
She saw two people standing in front of her as the cage opened.
“Come out, Miss Lulu,” Hanzer said in a low voice.
Lulu timidly walked out from the prisoner’s cage.
“I don’t understand, why did you do this?”
“Who did I offend?”
Lulu displayed an innocent appearance. She looked completely clueless.
“A woman’s acting…” Hanzer surprisingly said before Marvin could say anything.
“I have to say, I am deeply impressed by your acting skills.”
As a 2nd rank wizard, Hanzer had a sense of humor that didn’t fit with his outfit.
“As an apprentice alchemist, why would you do this? You’ve been with Wayne for more than half a year, why curse him? Did you really think we, the teachers, are blind?
Lulu turned silent.
She had already prepared herself for this. But once things really happened, she was still bewildered.
She knew that Hanzer had enough proof since she had already been put in jail.
Anything she said would be useless.
“I love Wayne. Really.”
She began to sob. “But, I really couldn’t do anything about it.”
“Looking at him everyday was so painful, I also felt like a knife was being twisted in my heart.”
“Someone forced me to do this. If I didn’t, I… In short, I would die in a very frightening way.”
“I was scared. Thus I did what he said. I didn’t expect it to be this serious.”
“I know I’m wrong. I truly didn’t want to put him in this state.”
…
The girl’s weeping became more and more mournful. Making people feel pity for her.
But it only gave Marvin the urge to vomit.
Using a pitiful appearance to gain sympathy, trying to come out clean after committing such a crime…
A 11 year old girl could be this shrewd?
This cruel world was truly forcing children to mature early.
“Shut up!” Hanzer strictly interrupted Lulu’s weeping.
“I only want you to do two things. First, tell us who made you do this.”
“Second, remove Wayne’s curse!”
“If you do that, I, in the name of Magore Academy, will pardon your behavior!”
Hanzer’s words had an immediate effect.
Lulu immediately stopped weeping. Her eyes displayed a hint of hope, “Really?”
Hanzer glanced at silent Marvin.
“Of course it’s true,” Hanzer affirmed.
He only wanted his disciple to recover at the moment. The rest…‘Hmph, the debt will be written down, no need to worry.’
Lulu stopped weeping and instead began to sort through her thoughts. She slowly said, “Firstly, I actually don’t know who. Don’t misunderstand, I truly don’t know. About a month ago, I got into gambling… In the end, the people schemed and I lost a lot. It was a huge amount and once Wayne knew, he said he would think of a way.”
“He was quite good to me, I knew this. But how could he find a way? He was struggling to pay for his own studies. There was nothing he could do to help me deal with that debt.”
“The people I owed money to were very frightening. Their power covered all of Magore Academy. I think Sir Hanzer might be able to guess.”
“I really couldn’t do anything about that debt and these people drove me crazy. In the end, one of the people in charge gave me an opportunity to settle my debt.”
She took a break after saying this.
“It was to curse Wayne?” Marvin asked.
She nodded timidly.
One must admit, even if Lulu’s charm could only be considered above average, her pitiful appearance could truly make someone sympathize with her.
“Who? The name.” Hanzer firmly said.
“[Blue Morphine]… That person’s name is Earl.” Lulu said.
“Earl? What kind of name i
s this. It’s a nickname at most,” Hanzer snapped, dissatisfied.
“I already told you everything I know,” Lulu said. “Removing Wayne’s curse is also very simple. There is a box under my bed. Burning it would be enough.”
Hanzer and Marvin glanced at each other.
“What’s Blue Morphine?” Marvin asked.
Hanzer stiffened. “An organization in Three Ring Towers. A group made up of children from great wizard families.”
Marvin nodded, no longer saying anything. But he kept in mind this Earl nickname.
Lulu shouldn’t have lied. Since the people behind the scenes wanted to do something like this, they certainly wouldn’t reveal themselves.
They were ready to use this terrible plan. After all, this was the wizards’ domain and Lulu being investigated was also a matter of course.
…
“Sir Hanzer…” Lulu looked at him full of hope.
“I love Wayne! If it wasn’t because I was forced and had no way out, I wouldn’t have done something like this.”
Hanzer was disgusted, but he still said, “I, in the name of Magore Academy, pardon your crime for the time being. If something comes out during the investigation that you didn’t explain beforehand, then the consequences… Hmph!”
“Thank you Sir!” Lulu was overjoyed at the good news.
But how could she have expected Marvin to suddenly walk toward her.
Hanzer looked distracted, apparently wanting to stop Marvin, but he ultimately didn’t move.
“Magore Academy pardoned you, but White River Valley hasn’t.”
“Wayne is White River Valley’s first heir. I am his older brother, and I still haven’t forgiven you.”
Marvin’s voice was very calm but it made Lulu very frightened!
“Sir Marvin! I really didn’t do it because I wanted to.”
“I really love Wayne! I looked at him suffering like that, and I felt pain as well. For real! I would have burnt the box a week later, and Wayne would have woken up. They only wanted to make him unable to compete, that’s all.”
“And he also loved me!”
Looking at Marvin getting closer step by step, she started talking incoherently. A magic seal had been put on her body, so she had no mean to resist.
“You said he loved you?” Marvin leaned to her ear and whispered, “But I don’t think you two go well together.”
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