Falling Mage and the Power of Divergence

Episode 9: Mad Scientists

Cold. Seyya awakens consciousness at once the moment she feels that way.

I woke up. When Seyya looked around, she found that there were walls and iron gratings spread out there made of inorganic material, in a chamber where they would have been artificially made.

"This place..."

Trying to remember what happened before he lost his mind, Seiya finds Zach and the others falling around. Zach and the others were all handcuffed and, looking closely at Seyya, handcuffed.

"Mr. Zach! Mr. Zach!"

Seiya rocks about Zach, who is losing her mind. Fortunately, Zach regained consciousness after only shaking it a few times, and the Hors regained consciousness immediately as well.

When Zach and the others regain consciousness realise they are in custody, they immediately ask Seiya for a stuffed explanation.

"Hey Annone. What did you do? Where am I?

Zach, who decides this situation is Saiya's crime, jumps at Saiya. Saiya began to explain Zach in a hurry.

"Mr. Zach, wait! I didn't do anything. Zach, it was the men of the Dark Organization who did this to you!

"Ah? Dark organization, huh? You think I believe that?

"It's true. Even I'm holding onto it."

"Ah? You set it up anyway."

Hoa and Shra give Sayya a help boat as Zach is grabbing Sayya with a loud scream. They both calmly determined the situation.

"Hey Zach! Looks like we got caught. Look at these cuffs. And making here..."

"That's crazy - I can't use magic."

"What, you can't use magic? What are you talking about? Oh, no, Annone."

Zach thought it was Saiya's fault that he couldn't use magic.

"Wait... I don't know either. But all we know is that we were shot like anesthesia guns and brought here."

What Saiya is saying is true, but if you try Zach, he suddenly lost consciousness when he was committing assault on Saiya.

It's not that easy to believe about Seyya.

"Zach, apparently what Annone is saying is true. These handcuffs are probably made of demon-sealed stones. It's about the Dark Organization that deals with the Magic Seal Stone. Besides, I don't think Annone can prepare a magic stone for an institution like this."

"A demon seal stone... is that true, Hoa?

"Oh, definitely. I had the actual thing touched once, but these handcuffs are the same demon sealed stone I touched then. Perhaps the killer..."

A magic sealing stone is, as its name suggests, a mineral that seals the magic of a magician.

It was originally used by the Episcopal Church and others to arrest sinful magicians, but in some back societies it was used for kidnapping and so on.

It is impossible for an individual magician to handle it due to its high rarity and not even cheap enough to be readily available.

"So this is what the teacher said in the morning about grabbing people? Shit, you're in trouble."

"Don't be. Considering the use of magic seal stones, the killer is a very large organization."

"What do we do?"

I finally understand that the status quo is due to a crowd grab, Zach.

Exactly because it is impossible for Saiya to get the demon seal stone, Zach also finds that Saiya is innocent. But Zach knew that when Seyya wasn't the killer, the situation would get even worse.

"He said the Episcopal Church is moving on this matter as well, but there's probably not a good chance that help will come at the moment"

Zach's face was not the usual bully, but the face of a serious intermediate family of magicians. I also get nervous about Hoa and Shra when I see that face.

No matter how many magicians I say, the contents are children and I don't know if I can make a sane decision about the situation. In that case, they will all follow Zach's instructions, as it is the teaching at the Senavian School of Magic that tells them to follow the highest status.

"What are you gonna do, Zach?

"I guess we'll just have to get out of jail"

Unlike usual, Zach also answers Seyya's questions properly.

Zach doesn't bully Saiya because it's a top priority to help him now. It is Zach's responsibility, an intermediate magician and leader of four, to help everyone out of this scene.

"What are you gonna do about getting out of jail?

"Yes, Zach."

Two that make me anxious, but they're both magicians. You have to get used to some rough stuff.

"We'll start with the four of us working together and asking for a chance to get out of jail.

"Oh."

"That's right."

It's perfectly natural that Zach should treat Saiya as a companion given the current situation, but Saiya is heartily happy that Zac put it into words and cooperated.

If we could all get out of jail like this, Saiya would still think that we could be friends in distress.

"I said jailbreak, so I need to do something about these cuffs first"

"Oh, yeah. Annone, what was the enemy like?

"Eh, I didn't see it clearly, but Gatai was not such a good bunch of guys, and he had a pistol in his hand. We were shot with that pistol and lost our minds."

Zach listens to Saiya's explanation and thinks about it.

"A pistol... the other person is likely to be a non-magician."

"Indeed."

"So what if these cuffs are gone?

"Oh, we win"

Zach's face is no longer a bully, but a face that says he's the leader who saved the lives of the Sayers. In response to the emergency, where it is said that it can be switched quickly, the boulders are an intermediate family of magicians.

The Sayers put nature and trust in Zach's appearance like that.

"The question is how to get the key to the cuffs back..."

"I don't think you're gonna get a lookout on your hips."

"No way."

"That's right, Mr. Zach. No way such a nuisance..."

Jalajara

That's when two fit men with jalajara and things like keys on their hips and a man in a nasty, unhealthy white coat show up.

"Apparently, it's happening."

"" "" Kitahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh "" ""

I see the Seyyas with a thin grin as the man in white says that, but the Seyyas really don't expect a guard with the key to come, and they stick around and scream.

Seeing those Saiyas, the man in white snapped his neck, but soon Zach asks the man.

"Oh, my God, what are you going to say? Lucius, how dare you put your hands on the house?

Against a man in white, Zach shows his style. It was a kind of intimidation, and a warning that if anything, the Intermediate Mage Clan would move.

"The Renias? I don't know such a clan. And you guys are my experimental tools. We shouldn't be making too much noise."

"Experimental tools, huh? Don't be ridiculous. Get it out now!

"You're a loud guy."

Zach was treated with experimental tools by a man in white and upside down, but when a man in white puts something like a remote out of his pocket and operates it, he suddenly suffers.

"Wow."

Zach's loud scream echoes inside the cabin.

"If I make the next noise, I'll run twice as much current as I do now. Keep your guinea pig quiet like a guinea pig. Finally, this is Frestan, and Windistan's common sense doesn't make sense. Just remember that."

"" "Become..." "

Frestan, the kingdom of Leiria, is a region in the upper third of the doughnuts from above, and its status in the land is not a family like Windistan, but a fully meritocratic region determined by the strength of the individual.

There is only one reason why magicians from other regions have been brought to Frestan like that.

Seyya had heard rumors before, but didn't really think it was happening. Though I don't think so, Seyya asks the dreaded man in white.

"Maybe what we were brought to is a human experiment for you to build strength within Frestan?

In response to Seyya's question, the man in white gives a happy look. From that look, Seiya understands that she has her own questions, and at the same time despairs.

"Talkable hungry ghosts are fine. Yeah, you're right. You guys need to be instrumental in improving our position in Frestan."

Frestan has only total meritocracy, so much so that the top of the church also decides in battle. In Frestan, where power is all, human experiments like this one are not very rare.

In particular, the magicalization of non-magicians and the construction of magicians are not represented, but they are quite present.

Seiya hits her doubts against the man in white.

"Wouldn't you be done if human experiments were discovered no matter how much Frestan? Besides, I think it's over now that the Episcopal Church has moved beyond being Frestan."

Seyya's right, the magician's human experiment is forbidden. If you find out about that, no matter how much strength you gain, you won't get status, etc.

But the man in white laughed with his nose at what Seyya had said.

"Cook, cook. Too bad, hungry ghost. There's nothing wrong with that. Because this is not Frestan, it's a dark realm close to Frestan."

"Dark realm... you guys are insane"

"Are you serious..."

"Oh no..."

When we heard the word Dark Territories, we were desperate, and at the same time we learned to fear the man in white in front of us. Dark realm, it is the land inhabited by the mighty beast, the Warcraft, who does not lean on men and others.

No matter how many ecclesiastical churches you say, you wouldn't expect the killer to be in the dark.

And even where the Seyyas escaped, there was no way they could have gone home safer than this was a dark realm.