‘… What?’
A man suddenly appeared in the place where they were having a conversation in secret. Not just Peruda, but Archbishop, mage and even the homeless had their eyes wide open.
‘This runt… he is stealthy… I don’t feel his presence at all…’
Watching the man walking towards them step by step, Rebethra crumpled his face.
‘Is he an assassin?’
He wondered about that because he didn’t feel his presence at all although it seemed this masked man had been tailing him.
“You are?”
Before the sentence could finish, the masked man opened his mouth first and told them what he just heard from the secret conversation.
“You are the Archbishop from the Holy Temple, yet you are teaming up with a homeless from the Lower Solia and threatening the Head of the Magic Tower. As if that was not enough, a man who committed treason is included in the scene? This is… definitely a big news, right?”
The man tilted his head slightly to the side and tossed the question. Rebethra had his face darkened for a moment, but he soon smiled brightly and asked back,
“Haha. Oh my… I don’t know where you are from, but I think there must be a big misunderstanding. Threat? That’s not what’s happening here at all. I am just asking him for cooperation.”
“Cooperation?”
“Yes, just cooperation.”
Rebethra slightly nodded. The man in the mask, Riley to be precise, smiled as if he found this to be entertaining. He then asked the next question.
“You stirred up the people from the Holy Temple and sent them to charge in to the Solia Castle. Is that just cooperation as well?”
“Stir them up? What do you mean?”
“…”
Having heard Riley’s second question, Peruda looked confused. Meanwhile, Rebethra’s face could not look more violent than this.
“Just how long have you been…”
“You are not denying this?”
The voice coming from inside of the mask was echoing inside the mask, changing Riley’s voice. It was making others unable to identify the voice.
“In that case, how about the fact that you put the dark mage inside the body of dead Astroa, the dark mage that is famous for controlling dead bodies?”
Having heard Riley’s next question, Rebethra and Peruda both furrowed their brows.
The man in the mask, who appeared to be an assassin, said something that could not be taken lightly. This was why.
“Um. You are showing wishy-washy response to this question.”
Riley leisurely mumbled. He casually rolled his eyes and looked at Astroa. Astroa had been glaring at Riley since a while ago.
“Ugh… Ugh…”
Astroa’s body was shaking. Riley was wondering why, but what he said right after made Riley realize why.
“You runt… You were that runt!”
Astroa’s eyes were buldging with murderous intent.
Riley wondered if he figured out who Riley was despite wearing a mask. However, it seemed that was not the case.
Riley thought so because…
“You dared to do this to me, Astroa… How dare… I am a grand mage… Ugh… Fuck. My body is… moving on its own…”
It was because his face’s left and right each had a different expression.
It was as if he was suffering from a mental illness. One side of the face was breaking cold sweat, trying to calm his body down. The other side was exuding thick deadly aura toward Riley.
“S… Shut up! The owner of this body is now… Astroa! No, Hurial!”
It seemed that the body was losing control. It looked unstable. Riley twisted up the tip of his lips as if he found this entertaining.
“Just what is this?”
Not able to figure out what was happening, Peruda and Hamil tilted their heads side to side. It was Hamil that decided to act first.
“… Tsk!”
With an uninvited guest making an entrance to the scene, it seemed Hamil thought something was not right. Hamil slowly turned his body and was trying to leave the place. However, his ankle was wrapped tightly by vines and restrained him from walking.
“Where do you think you are going! You can’t run…”
“… Uuuaaa!!”
While observing Astroa going berserk, Peruda used his vine magic. However, Peruda could hear shouting of an old man. It was close to a scream.
“I’ll kill… I’ll kill you.”
The old man had foams coming out of his mouth.
It was hard to believe that this man used to be the grand mage of Seven Circles that represented Magic Tower. He looked pathetic.
Looking at the masked man, Astroa kept repeating ‘I’ll kill you.’ Not able to understand it, Rebethra turned his head with a confused look.
‘Hurial is not able to control his body?’
It meant the original owner of the body was showing a severe response.