My childhood friend the hero was genuinely angry

31 – Mages’ Matters (1)

“Is this the magic tower? It’s been a while.”

The place called the Wizard’s Tower is a very important place, and the value of this tower is inestimable on the continent, but this Wizard’s Tower is not located in the Empire.

The first Mage Tower owner who built this Mage’s Tower did not build it in the Empire because he was afraid that he would build the Wizard’s Tower in the Empire and become entangled with the Empire and be swayed by political strife.

For this reason, the Wizard’s Tower was located in a place far away from the empire and unconnected with the secular world in order to purely pursue learning.

Of course, even so, the Wizard’s Tower is a very important place, and because this and that kind of magic and magic tools are developed here, it is courted by various countries, and the Mage Tower, after receiving a reasonable price from them as it is, is necessary for them. Although it is a symbiotic relationship that shares things.

I feel that the first Mage Master’s efforts to avoid being swayed by political strife are quite fruitful.

Because of the physical distance, it was true that they were less affected.

Anyway, I arrived at the Mage Tower, and as I entered the Mage Tower, I couldn’t help but feel a bit worried.

‘What if… They don’t welcome me?’

When I was always going somewhere, I couldn’t help but feel stabbed in my heart.

Now I am a powerless commoner who left the warrior party, and I am a criminal expelled from the empire.

If I tried to enter the Mage Tower, wouldn’t I be barred from the very beginning? I had that thought for a while.

“Wow…! Mr. Xerath. I’m a fan.”

“It’s Xeras…! I believed that Xeras would come back. He returned to the Mage Tower after 2 years, 360 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes and 10 seconds.”

“Is that Mr. Xerath? That legendary wizard?”

“Wow…! Mr. Xeras. I love you. You look more handsome in real life.”

But I was really welcomed unexpectedly.

In the first place, the Magic Tower must have sensed this when I entered the mountain where the Wizard’s Tower exists.

Perhaps they knew I was coming and prepared for it.

I wondered if some kind of attack magic was pouring in, but that didn’t happen.

Innumerable Wizards of the Mage Tower welcomed me with cakes and fanfare magic.

Their welcome is, frankly, a little… No, a lot frightening.

“Ahahahaha… Thank you.”

And honestly, I couldn’t help but be a little surprised.

To be honest, I didn’t think I would be very welcome.

Yeah, since I was a criminal in the empire, isn’t it normal for people to treat me like this? I thought so, but it didn’t happen.

‘Am I more popular than I thought?’

On the contrary, the opposite happened. In this situation, I couldn’t help but ask one question.

Thinking about it, I thought I wasn’t welcomed until now, but I’m being welcomed like this.

Even in the Empire, the Kingdom, and the Magic Tower, I’m quite welcomed by people, but this is a little more popular than I thought… I don’t know.

‘I thought Master and the Hero would never be welcome…’

In this situation, I couldn’t help but wonder.

Actually, the reason I thought I wasn’t welcome was because my teacher and my childhood friend Chloe talked very loudly.

The master said that I was very uncomfortable in the Mage Tower, and the hero said that I was very useless in the empire.

I’ve been living thinking that I won’t be popular thanks to the words of such a warrior and my master… But the reality feels a bit different.

‘Has there been some misunderstanding?’

When I think about it now, I keep questioning it. I’m not sure why they said that.

But what? Rather than thinking about those things first, I think it’s more important to do what I have to do now.

I didn’t just come to this mage’s tower to play casually.

“Thank you, but I’m busy right now, so I’ll go see Master.”

“Yes…! Master Xerath.”

“I can’t disturb you. I’d like to talk about magic next time.”

I made my way forward, cutting my way through the throng of wizards flocking to me.

Now I had to meet Master and get information about Latika.

That’s why I asked the other mages for their understanding, and the other mages listened to me and immediately moved away.

“Thank you, everyone.”

I smiled at them and headed for Master’s second floor study room.

# # #

Cassandra.

As the director of the Academy’s 1st Laboratory, she has a truly outstanding position within the Mage Tower as she develops and proves countless magic researches and theories.

However, if there was anything more certain than those modifiers to describe her, it was that she was the teacher of Xerath, the wizard of the warrior party.

The true teacher of this era who raised the legendary wizard Xerath, that was her true value.

‘How did this happen…?’

But actually, other people might think so, but I didn’t think so.

Because she didn’t remember teaching Xerath very well.

I just taught Xerath the basics. She just taught me a little bit of the basics, but Xeras grew into a monster on his own.

So from her point of view, she was honestly very embarrassed.

At first, I thought she was a cat, so I gave her food and raised her diligently, but when she grew up, she was a tiger.

However, the people around him regard him as the person who turned a cat into a tiger.

Moreover, even Zeras, the tiger herself, was at the point where she said that her teacher’s contribution was the greatest.

From Cassandra’s point of view, to be honest, the situation was very frightening.

‘Huh… I’m not that kind of person…’

Her red hair, her haughty look, her height, her sharp eyes, and her low talkativeness. She spends all day studying in her laboratory, and is often misunderstood.

I am often plagued by endless rumors, such as that I have a cold and ruthless personality, that I was looked upon with contempt for talking to you, that I made a mistake and had my limbs cut off, and so on.

But she was never that kind of person. Rather, she was just a very, very timid person.

Whatever she looked like, she was quite timid.

Even though she is over 200 years old and has the status of a witch, she is afraid of trivial things.

‘I’m scared too…’

That’s why she was such a person that even her students were afraid.

The news that Xeras has come to the Mage Tower now, she is probably coming to see her if she sees her coming up to the second floor.

The news frightened her.

‘In the first place, she didn’t want to accept Xeras as her disciple…’

Besides, in fact, receiving Xeras as her disciple was a very strange fate, and there was no other way to explain it.

A warrior named Chloe, in fact, it was as if he had been selected as her teacher by her.

In the first place, there were so many people who wanted to recognize and teach a mage with a mass of talent like Xerath.

If you teach him, you will surely be able to carve a big mark on your reputation and achievements.

If you are a wizard who wants to succeed, of course there is no way you can refuse it.

Unless you’re a wizard like Kisandra who doesn’t particularly care about that, everyone knew.

However, such greedy wizards were demoted early on without a mouse or a bird knowing.

I didn’t know at the time why so many wizards had disappeared, but Kisandra came to know when she took on the role of Xerath’s mentor.

They disappeared because they were threatened by the hero…

Chloe was never unaware of the hero’s obsession with Xerath.

‘Huh… I’m scared…’

In the end, he was the last of the teachers that Xeras could choose, so he had no choice but to take on the role of the teacher himself.

If, for some reason, Xerath discovers that he is not an outstanding teacher, how will Xerath react?

Wouldn’t he be overcome with feelings of betrayal and try to harm himself? Besides, even if it wasn’t for that, he might be killed by the hero Chloe.

He said he dared to hurt Xerath…

I will never forgive you.

For that reason, I said a lot of nonsense to try to somehow separate Xerath, but unfortunately, even though Xerath was a disciple, he was very different.

Even if you talk like a dog, you can understand it perfectly. To him, who was a genius in the first place, such efforts were of no use.

So she continued to assume his mentorship, trembling inwardly.

‘It’s something even Xerath can’t do…’

Furthermore, fear is a feeling of fear these days, but I also feel a lot of guilt.

Although I was forced to enter into a teacher-teacher relationship, I was still in a teacher-teacher relationship for three years.

She said that even though she wore a mask and she didn’t really deal with him, Xerath was her apprentice nonetheless.

Even if it was only a false relationship that started out of fear at first, the affection born from it could never be ignored.

So, I can’t help but feel guilty…

Looking at Xerath who follows him and says thank you…

I feel that deceiving such a good person is really not something a person would do.

“Master, may I come in?”

So she couldn’t help but be confused now.

Just then, a man with a familiar voice knocked on the door of his laboratory.

Perhaps his disciple, Xerath…

As she looked at him he said he had to choose.

As for what to do from now on…

‘Okay…! Now that it’s like this, let’s face it.’

And among those choices, she chose to confront them head-on.

Let’s meet him first…! Let’s speak properly…!

She was determined not to waste any more time.

Cassandra made up her mind and prepared to face Xerath.