I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 17: The Caged Bird

Translator: Lonelytree

“Have you all forgotten your identities? Before becoming a Mage, we were all children of nobles in the Saikas Empire!” Will shouted.

Barker and the others looked at each other and couldn’t help but fall silent.

They also understood Will. This feeling of falling from heaven to hell was indeed very uncomfortable.

Amidst the silence, Lin En suddenly spoke. “You should understand, Will. The Church will never change their treatment of us because of our identities…”

What was the most important thing for the Church as a religious sect?

Of course, creationism!

The legendary Lord [Ella] created everything in the world and sent down the Dew of Life, bringing life to the previously dead and desolate land. It was precisely because of this that everyone should obey the rule of the Holy Court.

Mages who tried to analyze the laws of the world and obtain power from it naturally became the archenemy of the Holy Court.

After all, this was the cornerstone of the theocracy!

“It’s different this time!” Will said excitedly as he looked at everyone. There was a fanatical glow in his eyes. “Joni, Jin En, Barker, the Holy Court’s primary target isn’t us. As long as we repent, Archbishop Antioch and Duke Nordland will definitely forgive our sins!”

“You’re crazy, Will!” Joni sighed. “From the moment we chose to become Mages, there was no turning back.”

Once they chose to become a mage, mana would forever flow in their bodies. This was a symbol of demons and humiliation in the Saikas Empire.

If Earl Eysker knew that his second son had become a Mage, his first reaction would definitely be to try his best to cut ties and expel Will from the family.

In other words, they would never be able to return to their previous lives…

“I’m not crazy. I know what I’m doing!” Will sneered and turned to look at Pigeon, who had been silent all this while. His right hand, which was behind his back, took out a few magic crystals from the hidden pocket of his robe. Suddenly, without any warning, he threw them at Joni and the others.

“Joni… Be careful!” Pigeon shrieked loudly. With her psionic vision, she could clearly see that every magic stone had a hidden rune engraved on it.

Just as Pigeon’s voice rang out, several Magic Stones exploded in the air, and sharp gravel fell like locusts.

The gray-haired mage’s expression did not change. She raised her right hand, and her fingers kept tapping as if she was playing the piano. The runes on the gloves that wrapped her slender fingers lit up one after another.

A faint flame appeared on his fingertip, and the Spark rapidly expanded. The scorching tongue of fire covered everything in front of him in just a second!

This was the first-circle upper-level spell,[Touch of Fire]!

Will had already planned his escape route the moment he threw the Magic Stone. He rolled around in a sorry state to avoid the scorching flames, and then he was about to jump out of the open window.

However, Lin En was faster than him. A diamond-shaped ice blade stabbed into Will’s ankle, and his body instantly lost its balance and fell to the ground.

A bone-piercing chill spread from his ankle, and Will instantly felt that he had lost all feeling in his right leg. He leaned against the wall and was about to say something in a panic when a thin [Magic Missile] flew past and exploded in his eye socket.

Scarlet blood mixed with brain matter splattered down, dyeing the wooden floor red. Lin En immediately turned his head to look in the opposite direction, and Joni questioned in disbelief.

“What are you doing, Pigeon?”

When she used the Touch of Fire, she deliberately reduced its power so that she could keep him alive and interrogate him for some information.

“It’s too late. I can only kill him first!” Pigeon hugged her head with both hands and shouted in fear. “Outside…There are at least a hundred guards outside. We’ve been surrounded!”

Hearing this, Joni ran to the window at once and lit up the dark night with a fireball.

In the midst of the explosion, Lin En could see groups of armored guards with crossbows on their waists silently rushing through the dense forest.

The leader of the group held a scepter and wore a white gilded robe. They looked at each other from hundreds of meters away under the illumination of the fire.

“It’s Archbishop Antioch of Nordland! We’re finished. We’re dead!” Barton recognized him at a glance and fell into despair.

He did not expect that the bishop of Nordland Hill would personally make a move in order to capture a few mage apprentices.

Lin En looked at the dim array on the ground. They should have stopped the message from being transmitted just now, which meant…

Everyone’s eyes turned to Pigeon at the same time.

“It’s not me… I didn’t do it!” The thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl shook her head frantically, her face filled with fear.

The chaotic situation on the battlefield and the Church’s threatening pursuers made Joni, who was already tense, feel dizzy. She bit her lip and forced herself to calm down as she spoke in a deep voice.

“Listen up, things are not that bad. There is a very wide drainage canal in the basement of this manor that leads directly to the river outside. We can escape from there!”

As she spoke, Joni turned her head and looked pleadingly at Lin En to keep an eye on Pigeon. She did not know who else she could trust.

..

A minute ago, in the dense forest outside Ur Town, hundreds of uniformed guards were slowly moving forward under the shade of the trees.

Priest Aaron, who was following the army, looked at the castle in the distance and asked in confusion.

“Archbishop Antioch, according to the plan we made earlier, shouldn’t we wait for these Mage-Apprentices to arrive at the port town before taking action?”

For this [Caged Bird] plan, they mobilized a large number of people to monitor the entire Ur Town. They were prepared to use this group of mage apprentices to follow the clues and send all the sinners who had betrayed the Lord’s faith to hell.

Now that they had taken the initiative to attack, it was undoubtedly destroying all their previous efforts.

“Aaron, a qualified hunter, not only needs to learn how to set up exquisite traps but also know when to draw the net,” Antioch replied in a low voice. “A sturdy iron cage might be able to lock up a clumsy ostrich, but once a griffin enters, it can break free from the cage and tear the hunter into pieces…

“Remember, excessive greed will only make you lose everything in your hands.”

The essence of the [Caged Birds] plan was that they had absolute control. No matter how the mage apprentices jumped, it was impossible for them to escape the trap they had laid.

However, Blaney’s death made him feel uneasy. There was actually an official Mage among the acolytes of Kru, which completely disrupted his plans.

Having fought with these devil worshippers countless times, he knew very well how difficult it was to deal with official Mages. The sorcery they mastered was all sorts of strange, and if one was not careful, one could die on the spot.

During the battle in Nordland, if it weren’t for Kru, who had stayed behind to cover the escape of an acolyte, it wouldn’t have been easy to capture him.