.
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He used Light, a spell from One Circle Magic.
With a ball of light floating next to him, the man approaching this way asked,
“What are you?”
Riley, who had no intention of telling him, brought out the mask from his pocket and put it on.
He focused the mana to his eyes and strengthened his eyesight, increasing the view distance and the width of the view field. Having looked at the man approaching this way, Riley realized that it was the old mage he ran into last evening at the Main Plaza.
‘Astroa.’
Riley came to the Magic Tower’s basement after hearing stories about it from Nainiae.
Although it was best to not run into anyone, he expected that it would be difficult not to.
‘It stinks.’
From Nainiae, Riley heard about what was going on in the Magic Tower’s basement, and he came to this place to confirm if there were really human experiments taking place here.
Although he couldn’t confirm the human experiments yet, there was something else that he found.
‘To think that they are making narcotics…’
Narcotics.
It was a terrifying substance that could make people become dependent to it from using it only once or twice. The substance could destroy the lives of these people from addiction.
All of these grass piled up here were narcotics.
“What’s this? I was wondering what kind of rat you were…”
Astroa noticed the mask that Riley wore and in reaction, started to have a blood vein bulge on his forehead.
The air in the basement started to shake, and the pile of wooden crates also vibrated even though there wasn’t anyone touching them.
Astroa was about to explode out of anger.
“Why are you so angry?”
After slightly altering his voice with mana, Riley asked Astroa.
By Riley’s easygoing tone of voice, Astroa tightened his fist and took another step forward.
From his glare, Astroa was daring Riley to say one more word.
“Since you sent me a present, all I have done was return your good will, so what’s the problem here?”
“…”
Riley was talking about the incident in the Main Plaza where he divided the Fireball launched at him from the sky into three pieces and sent one back to Astroa.
“I’m the kind with the personality where I always return the favor in folds, so I paid you back in twofold. I wonder if… you received my ‘gift’ well.”
Riley directed his gaze toward Astroa’s arm.
Judging from how there was a blood stain on thickly wrapped bandages on his arm, it appeared that Astroa certainly had received the gift that Riley threw at him, although it looked pretty painful.
“Um. It looks like you took it pretty well.”
“… You runt.”
Astroa glared at Riley as if he was trying to punch a hole through Riley with his gaze, but then he flinched his shoulders.
It was because Astroa noticed the narcotics that Riley was holding in his hand.
“Ah, this?”
Riley continued as he shook the pieces of grass he was holding in his hand,
“This is yours, right? Astroa the grand mage, Sir?”
“…”
“This, isn’t this banned in Solia? I’m right, aren’t I?”
Astroa, unable to answer, only gritted his teeth.
Noticing Astroa’s lips twitching, Riley continued on,
“Actually, I came to dig around about something else… but this… I think people will flip out when they hear about this. Don’t you think?”
In to a wooden crate, Riley tossed in the pieces of grass he was holding. As he lightly tapped the crate with the side of his foot, he looked behind toward Nainiae and said,
“You know this friend of ours too, don’t you?”
Eventually, having discovered Nainiae’s presence later, Astroa’s face turned red as if he was about to tear her apart immediately.
“You bitch… How dare…”
“I’m just…”
As if she was remembering the times she had to take unknown drugs from him, she was shivering and gradually becoming stiff like a stone. To the front of her, Riley stepped in,
“You are the one that abandoned her, and you didn’t even do anything to take care of what came afterwards, so for you to act like this now, aren’t you being a little petty? Aren’t you supposed to be the Grand Mage of the Magic Tower?”