Chapter 146

The bright light subsided and they appeared in an empty place. 

"Ho! I never thought that you were also able to use spatial magic and make such transfer magic that sent us to this place." The Tower Master marvelled at what Ludger had just done. 

"It was better to fight you in here rather than get everyone in Red Dawn into such danger. Besides, don't you need to worry about yourself right now?" Ludger said while activating another magic that created a barrier dome surrounding them.

"Isn't this the Arena of the Adventurer Guild!? So you connect your room to this place...Did you already know that I will go to meet you? How could you possibly know about it when no one able to know or detect my presence before?" The Tower Master's eyes shine with mixed emotions. 

He seems to be extremely interested in Ludger. At first, he just wanted to see the famous genius that is currently popular in this city. That's why he tries to get close to him but for some reason, Ludger seems to know and avoid him. The more Ludger avoids him, the greater his interest in him. In the end, he decided to join the tournament but before he was able to meet him, the news about Ludger who suddenly fell unconscious for a week.

The more he feels that something is preventing him from meeting with Ludger, the Tower Master becomes more obsessed with meeting him. It gets worse as the match almost ends. But he suddenly realized that there was someone who recording the matches. 

He started to think of a way to meet with the boy who piqued his interest. That's how he put a spell that is similar to tracking magic in the recording magic item that recorded his match. He waits until the recording magic item gets into Red Dawn restaurant and waits until the person who has it plays the recording. When the recording magic item exploded, he opened the gate and entered his room. 

At first, he was interested because the little boy that he saw for the first time was a person whose soul was half leaving his body. Besides the boy seems to be able to feel his whereabouts even when he uses his skills to hide himself. 

It was a strange feeling but he started to ask about his condition because he started to feel interest in the boy's identity. The boy seemed to be surprised and suspicious of what he was saying. 

'Interesting! Did he not realize his current condition? The soul didn't show this child's gender but for some reason, I feel he was the person that Our Lord is looking for. No, even though he was not the person he looking for, I still felt a strange obsession with this boy.' The Tower Master doesn't understand why he feels a strange obsession as soon as he sees Ludger. 

It was a strange feeling that he started talking to him as he wanted to know more about the person named Ludger. Ludger really didn't know anything about his condition but as soon as the Tower Master explained about his condition, he could see a slight change in Ludger's eyes. 

'It become more interesting! He didn't know about his condition but he seemed to know about the cause. His ability to sense us is a bit annoying but it seems to be caused by his condition. He was alive but also dying or did he just unconsciously want to die?' The more the Tower Master talked to him, the more his obsession became greater. 

But in that place, there's a person who prevented him from speaking to Ludger. It was the person who had the power to kill him, the Lord of the Labyrinth City, Duke Kadaklan. For unknown reasons, he seems to trying to protect Ludger from him. He didn't care about Duke Kadaklan in front of him and only wanted to get closer to Ludger. 

As he kept ignoring the Duke, Duke Kadaklan started to attack him with a small attack. Then Ludger also attacks him with holy magic. The Tower Master realized that Ludger didn't chant any spell as he used his magic.

It was something unusual or almost impossible especially when using a holy magic like what Ludger was using. Knowing Ludger's unique talents makes his obsession turn into something similar to madness. He wanted to quickly take Ludger away and carefully inspect him. 

But as it was not enough to surprise him, Ludger activated a magic circle and teleported them to the Adventurer Guild Arena. At that moment, the Tower Master realized there was something strange about Ludger. It made his burning madness become more intense as he wanted to capture and carefully examine the person named Ludger and the secrets he was hiding. 

"Why do you think that I will tell you if you ask me about it? Not even the people in this Labyrinth City who are close to me able to know about it. So how could I tell an unknown person that I never knew his name or had any interaction before." Ludger sneered as he felt the madness of the Tower Master.

'Will this act make him angry? I feel bad when he shows such madness and obsession with me. Why did he act like this?' Ludger has a really bad feeling. 

It was because the Tower Master's current expression is similar to the expression of Mordake when he became a believer in the God of Chaos. The crazy looks as if he couldn't see anything else besides Ludger and only have Ludger in his sight. 

"Right, you don't need to tell me the answer right away. We can spend our time to speak to each other slowly after I capture you and put you in a cage." The Tower Master makes a crazed smile.

Ludger feels freezing on his back and quickly sends some magic attacks to the Tower Master. Darius or the current Duke Kadaklan, Kismet kept attacking him with his unique magic but it was being bent by the spatial barrier that the Tower Master made around his body. 

'Shit! I never thought he was this type of delusional pervert. But why did this crazy pervert suddenly become obsessed with me? This is our first time meeting, right? Or could it be because of what he said about my soul? But the person that could be his companion that I met in the cemetery before never acted like this...No, it couldn't be...' Suddenly Ludger remembered something. 

Suddenly Ludger remembered that the person with a black robe that he met in the graveyard before had asked about his gender and said that it was a shame that Ludger was a boy. Then there is also a time when another person in a black robe keeps looking for his information and even spying on him for some time before.

'If I didn't remember it wrongly, didn't that black robe man and the black robe adventurer seem to have some interest to me? Like how he asked about my gender or when that person kept spying on me...Could it be it is related to what he said about the condition of my soul that he was saying?' Ludger trying to think about a way to stop the Tower Master's craziness that makes him feel chill on his back. 

"It started to get annoying with your futile resistance...or could it be because of them. Should I kill every single person that has a good relationship with you? Should I start with killing the Duke Kadaklan first?" The Tower Master's eyes seemed to be gleaming in madness as he turned his head to Kismet's direction. 

The Tower Master instantly started to attack Kismet with his magic. Pitch black magic arrow started to fly trying to pierce and tear Kismet's body.

Boom!

The Magic Tower Master's attacks exploded in Kismet's direction. Luckily he only got some scratches because he was still able to set a magic barrier item to protect himself. But it seems that the explosion is too powerful and breaks the barrier in the end. 

"Stop it!" Ludger shouted as he took out a sword from his spatial ring. 

It was the new sword that he made with the help of the Alchemy Guild before. As he poured his magic power into the sword, the sword became similar to a whip that moved like a snake that aiming at the Tower Master's body. Right, it was something known as a sword whip that Ludger often saw in the fantasy story of his past life. 

Clang!

But it couldn't pass through the Tower Master spatial barrier. The sword whip bounced back before it could touch his body. The spatial barrier perfectly surrounds the Tower Master's body like a perfect armour. 

'His spatial barrier is similar to cheating. How could I pass through that barrier?...Is it possible to do that? Let's try it out first.' Ludger suddenly got an idea. 

But before he do what he was planning, and started running to Duke Kadaklan, Kismet's direction. Ludger swing his sword whip and preventing the magic attacks from the Tower Master. The sword whip moves like how Ludger want as it was moving with his magic power. 

The trajectory of Ludger's sword whip is extremely hard to read. It was moving as if it was alive. The sword whip is able to move freely and turn on the air, hitting all of the magic attacks that the Tower Master aims at Duke Kadaklan. 

Boom!

Bang!

Clang!

The magic attacks caused another explosion as it touched Ludger's sword whip. It caused Ludger to get some damage as the shock from the explosion that engulfed the sword whip. The magic circulation inside Ludger's body becomes chaotic. 

Chough. 

Ludger coughed out some blood because of the shock.