The mages were fixated on the core bag. They held their inner urge to snatch the bag and claimed it down.
They weren't stupid after all. They knew the consequences if they dare to do anything.
Noah looked at their expression and felt disappointed.
Well, they aren't stupid.
"As you can see, there are no monster invasions for now. So, you guys can return back. Also, send all the folks of this town back. Living alone is kind of pain in the ass."
"Ok lord."
Feeling a little disappointed, the mages decided to turn back.
"Hey, you..."
"Hmm?"
Every mage turned.
Noah pointed at the arrogant mage.
"What's your name?"
"Me?" "Yes." "I am Silv Le Dimur." "Ok."
Silv tilted his head confused. But he couldn't imagine what happened after that. Noah's hand emitted bright light.
The light was pure dark. From the looks of it, one could guess, it was black mana.
"What the hell?"
Before he could blink, a fierce wind blew across his face making him close his eyes reflexively. When he opened his eyes, he couldn't believe his eyes.
Blood splattered all over the place. His mage companions had turned into balls of meat. One couldn't even make out their shape, let alone their expression. The ball shrank down and condensed into a black ball.
The black ball floated in the mid-air and flowed inside Noah's body.
Silv blinked repeatedly, but couldn't believe what he was seeing. It wasn't an illusion, nor it was a dream. The fresh smell of blood drifted into his air. The bright red color flashed in his eyes.
He nearly peed himself, his knees gave up and looked at Noah horridly.
"E-Evil magician..." Silv muttered in a low voice. His voice shook and his body trembled.
Noah looked at the blood everywhere.
"Haaaah" He took a deep breath, and an evil smile crept on his face.
He spread his hands and immersed himself looking at the pool of blood. The peaceful scene turned eerie. One couldn't even imagine what they were seeing. The scene of the gruesome death of the mages could kill a human with a weak heart.
"W-Why?"
Silv muttered.
"What do you mean why? They were.... of course, greedy for the cores. So, I just punished them." Noah's eyes had no life. He looked like a creepy doll. He didn't even have a slight change in his expression despite killing 4 people in one go.
"B-But they didn't do anything!" Silv tried to reason with Noah.
"They could in the future. What if I was just a normal person with these cores? Won't they kill me to obtain these?"
"That doesn't sound logical!"
"Anyway, I just needed a reason to kill them."
"Yo-You mean, you just wanted to kill them! Then why did you do all that acting?!"
"Hmm, I need a reason to kill someone, don't I? I can't just kill anyone without a reason."
Silv's eyes flooded with tears. He shouted, his fear decreased, but the liquid didn't stop flooding down. His hands didn't stop shaking, his legs didn't stop trembling and his heart didn't stop pounding.
He felt he was meeting a demon. No, not even demons are cruel like him. They won't kill anyone this gruesomely.
The dark energy that entered inside Noah could be called dark mana. These are used by evil magicians who became stronger the more they absorb this mana.
Noah of course found this spell on the magic spells he found in the library. Evil magicians are despised by every race since they consume every race.
Noah learned more than 6 spells, and one of them was a dark spell. The dark spell is the spells of dark magicians, he found them in the old book. The spell was hidden and Noah accidentally stumbled against it.
The dark mages aren't violent as they are mentioned. They have their consciousness and know what they are doing. They just want strength and they are willing to do anything to obtain that.
However, Noah didn't lack power, he just wanted to learn any spell. Killing and wanting to kill his own desires.
"Silv, right?"
Noah looked at Silv.
Silv stood and raised his shaking arm. He tried to cast a spell and managed to cast it successfully. He was a fifth-tier mage, so he had absolute control over low-level spells.
He fired Crystal Balls, Ice Spears, and Fire Bomb.
Noah blinked his eyes, not even annoyed a little bit.
He swiped his hand.
Layers of the barrier formed in front of him. He also cast a big magic circle.
"Fierce Wind"
Again, a fierce wind blew. But this time, it was more fierce. The wind blew stronger and stronger. Before the spells cast by Silv could reach Noah, they were blown away.
"Whisky Tornado"
Noah didn't have to speak while casting, but he just wanted to.
The tornado was thrown toward the spells blown away.
The cyclone caught those spells. Ice spears and crystal balls rotated around the tornado while the firebomb exploded. The tornado rotated fire and drifted into the barren lands.
Silv tried to fight again, but-
"Don't resist"
Noah cast fireballs repeatedly. The fireball came at Silv at incredible speed. Some fireballs graze his skin, some exploded in front of him and some managed to hit him.
He had also cast a defense spell around him. Three magic circles were around him which created a solid barrier condensed from mana. It managed to stop many fireballs and protected Silv.
But rapid explosion weakened the barrier, and mana continuously drained from him.
In the end, he fell to the ground due to mana depletion.
"I said not to resist, didn't I?"
Noah flicked his fingers at Silv. He smiled. This time, Noah's smile looked normal. But for Silv, this smile was scarier than anything he had seen in his life.
"W-What... do you... want?" He spoke slowly.
"You are useful to me."
*****
This chapter may look a little forced and filled with nonsense. There was no warning as to why Noah is like this. It doesn't seem to make sense, right?
But it does. It's all hidden in his past life. But, this will be a whole other volume.
I want to try making suspense. Hope you like it.
That's all.
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