The Shepherd Alone on the Hill is a Genius Wizard

Chapter 70 The Highest Person Passed Away (2)

After causing the flame storm, Turan quickly evacuated the camp using wind magic for propulsion.

Though he was hit by several spells during this, thanks to activating his Guardian magic device he only received light injuries.

Even those were immediately healed by consuming the healer bloodline mana remaining from earlier.

While the Corel coalition army was half-dazed as if fighting a ghost, Turan created another wind path and sniped one more noble.

The coalition's morale plummeted as they realized the enemy was precisely targeting only their nobles.

"Ugh, aah..."

"Surrender! We surrender! Please spare us!"

"What surrender! Everyone scatter and flee! He intends to kill us all!"

At one noble's shout, Turan proved that guess correct by throwing another stone.

If he could overwhelm them without using bloodline abilities he might have shown mercy, but once revealed, there was no option of letting them live.

If rumors spread of a Zahar noble far in the west, who knew when that might be connected to him.

["Let's attack together now, Bize."]

When he sent his voice to Bize who was flying with wind magic, it chirped and dove toward one of the scattered fleeing wizards.

A fleeing knight screamed as he was caught in Bize's claws and torn to shreds.

"Aaaagh!"

The surviving remnants of the Corel coalition scattered and fled in all directions while intuitively realizing.@@@@

Perhaps, none of them would make it out of here alive.

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"Forty-three total... Good, didn't miss any."

Turan counted while throwing the last killed knight's corpse into the camp.

Though he had killed people several times while living, forty-three was a number that exceeded his previous record all at once.

As his head cooled from its heated anger, that fact hit him with renewed bitterness.

Surely some among them might not have wanted to participate in hunting an owned magical beast.

Of course, Turan had only one way to consider them.

To simply leave without even attempting revenge in the first place.

Unfortunately, he wasn't good enough a person to consider the innocent to such an extent.

Once struck, he had to retaliate, and once retaliating, he couldn't leave future troubles.

Fortunately, it went much more smoothly than when leaving the Enril Desert, thanks to Bize's speed and endurance being much improved after fully absorbing mana.

It flew almost without rest and didn't complain of fatigue.

After flying for three full days while avoiding passing people with tracking magic, they gradually felt the terrain and climate changing.

When everything was completely covered in short forests and wetlands, Turan confirmed a village visible in the distance before landing nearby.

"This place smells really bad..."

A rotten stench wafted from the water pooled under the reed fields.

Though he quickly adapted since the sense of smell easily fatigues, it still wasn't pleasant.

Turan headed toward the village seen from the sky earlier with Bize at his side.

Having no information about this area, he planned to gather information about local customs and nearby cities.

'Oh.'

Though he hadn't noticed from above, up close this village had quite a unique appearance.

Nearly half the houses were built above a lake.

Not all houses were like that, probably about two-thirds were built that way.

As Turan approached, a middle-aged woman with dark brown skin saw him and shouted in surprise.

"Oh my goodness!"

Wondering why she was so surprised, he saw her gaze was directed at Bize hanging at his side.

"It's alright, ma'am. It's a good child."

"Never seen a bird looking like that before... But are you sick or something? Wearing such thick clothes..."

Come to think of it, unlike Turan, the middle-aged woman's clothes were much thinner with exposed arms and legs.

Perhaps because it was warmer being in the south.

It was quite amusing that while he was recently discovered as a wizard in Kalamaf for wearing thin clothes, here he was treated suspiciously for the opposite reason.

"No, I just came from far away. Are there any large cities nearby?"

"Cities? There is one if you go that way... but the atmosphere has been quite unsettled lately."

"Did something happen?"

Having recently ignored such an atmosphere only to learn a war was happening, Turan immediately probed further.

The middle-aged woman answered carefully.

"Well, I don't know which family exactly, but I heard the highest person recently passed away..."