The Shepherd Alone on the Hill is a Genius Wizard-Chapter 126: A God’s Vessel Revealed (2)

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When Solif asked with a somewhat uncertain expression, Turan nodded firmly to confirm that wouldn’t happen.

Whether they had requested monster hunting or received money, the fact remained that the successive lords of House Baltas had shown him the courtesy of allowing use of the library.

"So whether we annihilate them here or not, we can’t hide our information. Plus, one more thing, according to the librarian, isn’t it pretty much established that there’s a god or something similar inside that Renode guy? What if he exercises his hidden power when in danger? If we mess up, we might have to be prepared for total annihilation, is it necessary to take such a risk?"

Hearing Solif’s words, Meisa just gnawed on her lips without making any retort.

The librarian, who had been sitting quietly listening to the conversation, spoke to Turan.

"You used to wander completely alone, but you’ve made friends in such a short time? To the point where you can have such discussions?"

"Yes."

"Hmm, treasure them. Friends with whom you can exchange opinions are more precious than a thousand gold pieces. Though actually, I haven’t experienced it myself, it’s just a maxim from books."

"I’ll keep that in mind."

When Turan politely responded and relayed the librarian’s words to the two, they also smiled awkwardly.

After thus refreshing the somewhat cooled atmosphere, Turan informed them of his conclusion.

"For now, let’s attack."

"On what grounds?"

"First, Renode’s magical power is at best at the level of a high noble. Even if two bloodline abilities suddenly appear there, I don’t think there’s much chance of him becoming dramatically strong enough to harm all three of us at once. If he could, why would he skulk around in hiding instead of openly acting as a god?"

"Well... I suppose..."

"Most importantly, this is an opportunity worth taking that risk. The chance of a god’s vessel being exposed this vulnerably probably won’t come twice."

"That’s true."

Even Solif, who had opposed the attack, nodded while saying that.

At this, Turan glanced at Meisa and said.

"However, I don’t plan to annihilate them. No, rather, it would be better to deliberately let some escape. Their main house is close by anyway."

"Why?"

"Because we can use this attack to make them suspect that someone else, not us, rescued the librarian."

Turan opened the Mimicker sacred artifact and took out two lumps of magical power from inside, holding them out.

They were the magical power of the Zahar nobles who had died in the underground labyrinth in the past.

"Because the ones who attacked the Nagin house nobles and stole the jewel box were nobles from Zahar."

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"We’re under attack! It’s Zahar, Zahar!"

"Quickly report to the demigods!"

"Help!"

In the dark night, as the barrier raised warnings, throwing knives flew in from all directions and covered the knights.

They had grown accustomed to the leisurely travel of the past two months and couldn’t react quickly to this.

"Li-light..."

One relatively quick-thinking knight hurriedly created an orb of light in his hand, but before the light could spread, something pitch black devoured it.

Along with this, when the knight creating the light had his head fly off, the Nagin house knights fled in disarray trying to avoid the invisible enemy instead of creating light to reveal their hiding.

"Stop, stop! Don’t run away, you cowards! I’m here!"

At that moment, the noble with the barrier bloodline who had accompanied Renode as an attendant rushed out of his tent while creating a huge light and hastily constructing a defensive barrier around himself.

Though they didn’t know why Zahar nobles had suddenly attacked, they needed to somehow regroup to survive.

"Rogi! Come to me! Protect me!"

The moment he called for his spiritually bound dog to strengthen his defenses, throwing knives flying in from everywhere ravaged his entire body.

Through his mouth and throat opened for shouting, and his chest.

Though far from a master’s technique, each contained magical power at the level of the highest nobles, enough to tear through a half-hearted barrier.

"Kuk..."

"The, the demigod has fallen."

"Everyone flee! Request support from the main house or elsewhere!"

Someone’s shout acted as a catalyst, and nearly half of the surviving knights scattered around the campsite and fled.

The three trained magical beasts tried to resist somehow, but without the ability to create light, they had no way to deal with the stealth ability.

While the three magical beasts died with their vital points torn and pierced without even proper resistance, Renode and the noble attending him, who had emerged from their tent a step late, created bright light.

And other knights surrounded the two nobles with their bodies to prevent them from being attacked.

Shortly after, as the stealth was dispelled, human figures appeared in the middle of the devastated campsite.

A knight pointed at them with a terrified expression.

"There, those guys..."

Under the bright light, three Zahar nobles revealed themselves.

All wearing large cloaks covering their entire bodies and masks on their faces, they were hard to distinguish except for their different builds.

Of course, the identity of these three Zahar nobles was Turan, Solif, and Meisa.

It was relatively recently that Turan learned he could guide the magical power in the Mimicker sacred artifact to others.

The catalyst was a casual comment from Solif while training magic at the hot spring area with the two.

’It would be convenient if I could extract and give you the solar bloodline’s magical power.’

Though there was quite a lot of Baraha bloodline magical power in the sacred artifact now, it would eventually run out since it was consumable.

Plus, Meisa’s storm bloodline also had lightning power that Turan didn’t have yet, so it would be useful if he could grant it.

However, hearing this, Turan changed his perspective and instead reached the thought that he might be able to give the magical power in the sacred artifact to others.

More precisely, it was a thought he had had before, but he hadn’t had the chance to try it out while hiding the item’s identity.

After all, it was relatively recent that he had gained companions with whom he could share the existence of the sacred artifact.

Of course, as can be seen just by the fact that the two people are now using Zahar’s stealth ability, the experiment was successful.

Seeing Turan’s group reveal themselves, Renode’s secretary shouted urgently.

"Why are you attacking us!? Even if Nagin has formed a marriage alliance with Arabion, we’re not at war with you! This is murder without cause! Do you want Zahar’s infamy to spread throughout the world again!?"

"Do as you please."

Turan answered in a distorted voice while creating a fireball above his hand and shooting it toward the Nagin camp.

The other two also joined in, either creating and shooting arrows of light or striking down lightning, and the Nagin house mages who faced this realized the difference in power after a single clash and turned pale.

"Wh-what is this..."

Turan’s group’s attacks surprisingly simply crushed Nagin’s resistance.

Though it wasn’t a very familiar attack method, the difference in basic capabilities was overwhelmingly large.

The knights were swept away after barely withstanding one or two attacks, and though the two nobles fought quite well among them, they too were struggling.

Before long, when the secretary also had his throat pierced by a throwing knife, only Renode remained able to fight properly.

A knight who barely survived and was rolling on the ground muttered quietly.

"Mo-monsters..."

To face these opponents, they would need the elites from their main house two days away, no, perhaps the head of the house would have to come personally.

But no matter how powerful a mage is, they can’t notice and come to a fight from this distance.

However, among those despairing, Renode Nagin narrowed his eyes and glared at the Zahar nobles surrounding him instead of being frightened.

Like someone suspecting something.

After a moment, he clicked his tongue and raised both hands to the sky.

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"Damn, no choice huh."

The moment Renode muttered that, Turan, watching from opposite while wearing a mask, finally felt the change in the symbol residing within the opponent.

Depending on how much skill he showed here, they would decide whether to flee or subdue him.

If he turned out to be an unmanageable powerful being, the plan was to immediately use stealth to split into three directions and escape, with Turan riding Bize to retrieve his two companions.

Like Badal in the past, the symbol change was instantaneous.

Within the symbols that originally only had ruler and tamer, two additional symbols arose.

They were crossed axes and a raging blizzard.

Turan could recognize that the blizzard was the symbol of the frost bloodline, which had been one of Arabion’s vassal houses in the past.

’Axes, frost, ruler, tamer? What kind of combination is this?’

As if answering Turan’s question, the symbols within Renode began to intertwine.

However, unlike Badal, only two of them merged together.

While the blizzard wrapped around the crossed axes, the ruler and tamer bloodlines proudly maintained their places as if saying they had nothing to do with those others.

At that moment in reality, Renode was gathering a large amount of moisture in his hands and freezing it to create an axe.

"Re-Renode sir?"

"Before we fight, let me ask one thing - does anyone among you understand what ’agreement’ means? No, are you really from House Zahar in the first place?"

Ignoring the knight’s question that seemed to ask what he had done, Renode looked at Turan’s group surrounding him and asked.

There wasn’t a trace of fear on his face.

Of course, looking at the power now manifesting in Renode’s body, it wasn’t entirely groundless confidence.

His magical power, which had been at the level of a high noble until just now, had now reached the top tier, specifically around the level of Meisa and Solif.

If he hadn’t been surrounded by three top-tier nobles of equal or greater power, he probably could have overcome this crisis.