The Shepherd Alone on the Hill is a Genius Wizard-Chapter 90: I’ve Been Freed! (2)

Hearing the hypothesis that he would be used as a vessel for a god’s soul, Solif’s voice trembled softly.

[What you just said, surely you haven’t made it up?]

[If needed, I can show you some evidence later. If I made it up, you can kill me.]

The Solif from when they met at the beach probably wouldn’t have taken Turan’s words seriously.

Back then, he was just a runaway youth who had escaped from his controlling house.

But after being unilaterally oppressed like hunted prey by his house’s wizards who suddenly appeared, it was hard to dismiss this.

It perfectly explained why the house wizards showed no respect for him as heir and subdued him.

[Fine, I’ll believe that for now. But... do we really have to kill them all? We could just subdue the one in front of me and escape together.]

[It’s not just one or two people who know I’m attacking the Cobinus pirates. The moment I free you, it’ll be obvious who did it, and from then on we’ll both be on an irreversible path with Baraha, so if we’re becoming enemies anyway, we should cut down their forces and build up ours when we have the chance.]

Additionally, inflicting heavy losses here could help delay House Baraha’s pursuit.

Major houses needed many powerful nobles hunting Masu and maintaining territories to match their scale.

With powerful nobles dead, forcing other nobles out would weaken their foundation that much more.

After finishing this explanation and closing his mouth, Solif answered in a gloomy voice after a moment.

[Alright, I understand. What’s the second?]

[I’d like you to move with me and fully help with everything. For about twenty years.]

Twenty years was the assumed time needed for him to become strong enough to save his life from major house heads, if not match them.

Whether he’d meet powerful enough opponents to gain such strength would depend on luck.

Asking for complete assistance was closer to recruiting a subordinate than an equal partner - a condition that could feel humiliating for a top-tier noble like Solif.

Therefore, Turan added one bait that the other would have to take.

[In exchange for the second condition, I’ll tell you something you desperately want to know.]

[What is it?]

[I know where the drowned god’s corpse is.]

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After finishing negotiations and tactical discussions, Turan maintained stealth and re-entered the prison.

Then he went behind the noble still standing guard with a cocky attitude, covered his mouth with one hand and stabbed his throat with a dagger.

"Kuk-"

The Baraha noble tried to resist with bulging eyes in surprise, but it was impossible to overcome Turan’s strength, having far greater magical power and a well-trained body.

After stabbing his chest and stomach several more times after the throat, Turan threw the lifeless noble’s body forward.

Solif, sitting quietly in the prison watching this, spoke in what seemed like a deflated tone.

"You really killed him..."

"Yes, I really did. Now I’ll free you, so stay still."

Having already revealed he could use Zahar bloodline power after negotiations, that fact wasn’t surprising.

Turan lightly bent the iron bars to enter and felt the chains restraining Solif’s body.

According to his explanation, this magical device’s function was remarkably simple yet powerful.

When wrapped around a living being, it applied stronger binding force proportional to time bound, suppressing the target’s magical power use.

Though difficult to use by throwing and wrapping during combat, nothing was better for perfectly restraining a subdued enemy.

When Turan unlocked the padlock gathering the chains using lock-picking magic with wind magic, Solif stretched his arms and loosened his stiff body.

"Ungh, magical power really doesn’t return immediately..."

"Rest a bit. I’ll heal you."

Having already absorbed the healer bloodline power contained in the Mimicker holy relic before entering, Turan immediately cast healing magic on Solif.

With only 3/4 remaining after using a quarter on Bize, complete healing was difficult since stronger magical creatures required more magical power to heal the same wounds.

Still, since there were no serious injuries to begin with, he could recover enough to fight without issue.

While Turan absorbed magical power from the noble’s body after finishing his work, Solif, having fully recovered his body, muttered incredulously.

"Stealth and healing magic... aren’t you the reincarnation of a Prea god-folk or something?"

"Don’t exaggerate. Remember the plan?"

"Of course. How long has it been since I heard it?"

While leaving the underground prison together, Turan paid attention to presences felt above.

Though he’d worried, it seemed none of them had figured out what happened underground.

After sending Solif outside and going upstairs, Turan noticed the entire bedroom area where the nobles stayed was covered in magical power.

Clearly barrier wizard bloodline power.

’Well, with the Enril Desert right above, of course they’d be cautious.’

Of course, Zahar nobles had no reason to suddenly attack those who weren’t enemy houses like Arabion, but it was human nature to want to prepare if there were those with stealth abilities nearby.

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Even without that, they might have done it out of caution against vulnerability while sleeping.

After quietly flashing a signal fire outside while maintaining stealth, before long Solif began destructive acts outside, wildly swinging light whips like he had used before.

"I’ve-been-freed-!"

As he shouted with the rich volume characteristic of high nobles while light and fire erupted in all directions, the sleeping fortress instantly awakened.

While the pirates were thrown into confusion, Turan felt the barrier laid in the bedroom area being lifted.

"What’s happening?"

"That guy has escaped!"

"How? Wasn’t Enke guarding him!?"

"Someone go down to the prison and check if the chains are there! The rest follow me!"

Deep confusion was evident in the Baraha nobles’ voices.

Naturally so, as Solif’s escape was an abnormal situation that simply shouldn’t have been possible for them.

Therefore, in their rush across the corridor, they failed to notice it was thoroughly covered in black powder.

Of course, without an ability like Zahar bloodline’s suggestion power, it would have been difficult to notice in a midnight corridor.

While falling from the window with flight magic, Turan ignited the fire spirits spread throughout the corridor.