Chapter 110 - A Fire

 

There were burns all over her body. Some parts of her hair were also singed. Her face was covered in tears. The dagger that was pointed at her chest shook heavily. With her eyes closed, the girl was repeating to stab herself and stop.

“Don’t do it,” Azriel spoke in the softest way possible. The girl was startled and dropped the dagger. The dagger sank in the water with a plop.

“Uh…,” Sophinea, who tried to say something upon seeing Azriel, was taken aback and covered her mouth with both hands. Azriel now knew why that girl kept covering her mouth. It was because she was a ‘nameless wizard’ who invoked magic randomly like a disaster  whenever she opened her mouth.

‘The magic that’s invoked recklessly must be the cause of the scars all over her body.’

A nameless wizard could not regulate the magic that was invoked. Therefore, it would be easy to hurt people around her. And the person who was always the closest to the invoked magic would be herself. Azriel saw that Sophinea’s chest had been burned black as Sophinea was looking back at Azriel. The burns on her both arms were the most severe.

‘Perhaps she made fire while holding the teddy in her arms.’

She would have barely survived by abandoning the burning teddy and jumping into the water. Luckily, the fire that was spreading from the teddy did not go near the pool. If she was slightly unlucky, she could have died by the fire she caused. Sophinea looked at Azriel with widened eyes, still covering her mouth.

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“Hi. We’ve met before, haven’t we?” Azriel spoke with a smile. The girl glanced through the invisible barrier surrounding Azriel with surprised eyes and nodded little.

“Wait for a moment. I’ll put out the fire first,” Azriel approached the teddy that was spurting fire. She could hear a stuffy scream from the direction of the girl. Not minding that, Azriel scooched down in front of the teddy. Despite the raging flames below her nose, they could not penetrate her barrier. Azriel identified the magic only by examining for a short moment. ‘It’s incredible magic.’

The mana that was poured in the teddy invoked gravitation and recklessly swallowed mana from the surroundings before turning that into fire and gushing it out. Hence, this was not ‘conjuring’ but ‘magic’ for certain. The magic that Rhema said disappeared after ancient times. Azriel had guessed that it was magic, judging by the size of the flames, but she became curious after realizing it clearly. Rhema clearly  said that there were no true wizards in age, but there was magic of ancient times before her eyes.

‘How did it… Oh,’ she remembered the conversation about the Colte ruins she had with Rhema. When she asked if nobody could open the door of the ruins since there were no wizards like ancient times, he said:

“Of course, there aren’t, but there are people ‘who could become a wizard.’ The ones that would’ve become outstanding wizards if they were born in ancient times.”

“The wizard who came to Colte wanted to use you for such a purpose. Was it Tarbo Tameion?”

‘Did that ‘people who could become a wizard’ indicate the people who were called ‘nameless wizards’ today? Then, the nameless wizards were originally the people who could become great wizards, but they can’t become proper wizards because ancient magic is extinct? Is that why there was no illness like excessive mana disorder in ancient times?’ she thought.

Azriel looked back at the girl in the pool. The young girl was shriveled, pale, and covered all over with wounds as if she was abused. Her eyes were sunken and dark, her cheeks were wet with tears, and her hands were covering her mouth. The fire had swept everywhere and even hurt her. Sophinea certainly tried to take her own life a moment ago. She barely looked 12. The suicide rate in nameless wizards was extremely high. Many also died from accidents, and often they were murdered, mostly by their families. Thus, even with light symptoms, it was hard for them to live over 20 years of age. ‘…This is too much.’

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