Witch, Fireball and the Evil God of Steam
Chapter 105 - 104: Ghost

Chapter 105: Chapter 104: Ghost

Amidst the malicious gossip, the magician slinked back to his temporary abode.

He sat on the hard bed, clenching his fists tightly.

"How humiliating, being a transcendent, yet being publicly humiliated by an ordinary person."

"Who?"

The magician shouted sharply, turning his head to look.

In his sight was a man wearing a white shirt and navy suspenders, stained with dust, with several slits worn into the shirt.

Almost immediately, he drew his wand, aiming it at the unexpected guest who somehow sneaked into the barracks.

"Don’t be tense, I’m here to help you."

The man casually ignored the wand, saying, "I know many things about you, born in a frontier town of the Empire, at age ten a group of strangers you never met visited your home, they talked to your parents about you for a long time, you saw them emotionally moved, shedding tears of joy in front of you, then, they allowed those people to take you away, bringing you to a place called the Astrology Society, where there were many children like you."

"Who, who are you exactly?"

The magician’s voice trembled as he stared hard at the babbling man, in his thirties, similar in age to him. They had never met before, yet the man seemed to know everything about him.

Unknown panic enveloped him.

"You once thought you were very special, you fought hard in the Society to learn everything you could, yet over time you realized a truth — though you’ve become a transcendent, people like you are everywhere, passing the Tier Two Mage exam was already your limit, you moved to the dream city to live, only to find you were not valued, your situation was barely better than those mercenaries, but you owed the bank a huge debt which you have no idea when you’d clear."

The wand fired a red orb at the man in the corner of the room, but the man easily dodged it.

The man did not get angry, instead he smiled at him creepily, as if everything in his heart was clear to the other.

"This time is the same, isn’t it?"

The man walked step by step toward the magician, though unarmed with no sign of attack, he made the magician retreat continuously.

"Wasn’t that the president of Gear City’s business association? Normally you’d have no chance to speak with him, do you know why he came here? Because a big figure arrived in Gear City, if you can please him, with one word he could forgive your debt, maybe your future path would change."

The man drew closer and closer, his voice sounding like a devil’s whisper in his ear, "You know clearly, if you can go to the imperial capital, get the magic potion from the Astrology Guild, you’ll have a way to pass the Tier Three exam, over there, you will usher in a new start..."

"Who exactly are you?"

The trembling wand pointed again at the man.

"You already have the answer in your heart. Catch me, I’ll take you to the imperial capital."

"Kane!"

The magician shouted the man’s name, answered by cheerful laughter, watching the man run out of the house, laughter growing distant toward the direction of the mine.

He heard the shouting from outside, "Or, let Talon catch me, you’ll get nothing, you can’t attain anything either!"

The magician chased out recklessly.

Anger, panic, and the greed reawakened intertwined at this moment, irresistibly casting the Knockback Spell — this wouldn’t kill Kane, but would knock him away, he just needed to hit once to render him immobile.

The magician saw himself closing in on Kane, close enough to instinctively ignore many unusual details.

For example, the people outside the mine suddenly decreased.

The sky’s color became odd, the bodies piled up vanished, the pervasive smell of blood no longer detected.

He chased all the way to the mine entrance, forcing the riot-triggering culprit to a dead-end.

Kane turned to face him, arms open wide, waiting for the final blow to come.

The magician saw the red orb collide into Kane, finally hitting the hateful man before him.

He watched Kane soar into the air, crashing heavily against the rail at the mine entrance.

At this moment, the long-repressed humiliation in his heart released, he couldn’t help but shout loudly, "It’s me! I caught Kane!"

"Bang—!"

Behind him came the sound of a gunshot, followed by excruciating pain.

The magician lowered his head, looking at his abdomen, where blood kept seeping out, unable to believe he turned around.

The sky’s anomalies unknowingly returned, the air filled with the pungent scent of blood.

He saw the dark muzzle of guns uniformly aimed at him.

"Bang—!"

"Bang bang—!"

This person must be insane.

Even Ethan was shocked to see the magician collapse in a pool of blood, his grip on the wand losing strength, the red sandalwood wand rolled to the side.

The magician’s eyes were wide open, a look of being unable to rest in peace.

But just now everyone saw, saw the magician, as if bewitched, charging here, as Commercial Association’s president Talon completed gas tank arrangements, just as he turned was hit by the red orb face-first, crashing heavily into those gas tanks.

This was less than ten minutes since he was publicly humiliated by Talon, making people instinctively think he was enraged, sneak attacking Talon.

But Ethan felt, there must be a hidden twist.

Before being shot, the magician shouted loudly, but the shouted were words in an incomprehensible language.

Talon stumbled forward supported by subordinates towards the magician, his face ashen looked at the bleeding holes on the magician, still dissatisfied, lifted his foot to stomp the body’s chest several times, then drew the revolver, emptying all bullets.

Until the magician was dead beyond revival, did he let subordinates carry away the corpse.

Meanwhile, the gunmen who came with the magician said nothing, no one stepped forward to stop.

The crowd’s gossip grew increasingly lively, everyone shocked by this sudden scene, Ethan left the crowd quietly, walking towards the magician’s barracks.

He quickly found traces of a fight indoors, the magician recently cast Knockback Spell here, the corner wall indented, meaning he encountered someone else in this room.

And at this moment, the crystal communicator transmitted Kitty’s voice.

"This is Kitty, I’ve finished investigating, Kane isn’t in the mine, maybe he never existed from the start."