Firearms in a Fantasy World

Chapter 101: The Wizard

Translator: Cinder Translations

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Three years ago, Maltz Kent was bitten by a strange bat while out hunting. When he returned home, the wound began to fester and pus, and after enduring for a few days, he developed a high fever and fell into a coma.

Doctors summoned to the house shook their heads in despair. According to them, the Kent family should start preparing for the worst.

Just when the family thought the Earl's time was near, a mysterious figure appeared at their door.

This was a traveler physician who called himself "Bennett," claiming to have a method to save Earl Maltz Kent.

The Kent family, desperate as they were, allowed Bennett to try his luck despite his bizarre appearance, more resembling a barbaric mercenary than a physician. After all, things couldn't get any worse than they already were.

To everyone's surprise, this Bennett did have some skill. Through his mysterious potions, Earl Kent quickly woke from his coma.

However, whether before or after the Earl woke up, Bennett the physician forbade anyone from witnessing his "treatment" process.

The Kent family was deeply grateful to Bennett the physician and treated him as an honored guest for over a month.

Only Earl Kent himself knew that this "Bennett," their savior, was not a physician at all.

He was a wizard!

Yes, a wizard! This illness made Maltz Kent realize a truth:

Wizards and magic weren't just scare tactics invented by the Church to frighten the ignorant masses; they truly existed in this world.

While his body lay comatose, his mind endured a series of nightmares:

He found himself trapped in a vast labyrinth.

He searched everywhere for an exit, but the maze seemed to shift around him. Whenever he tried to retrace his steps along a path he remembered clearly, he found it had already changed drastically.

There were no terrifying visions or monstrous creatures, just something far more dreadful—monotony, an extreme form of monotony.

Wherever the Earl looked, besides himself and the brick walls forming the labyrinth, there was nothing else.

The Earl soon became tormented by this monotony. He prayed to the Lord of Light, hoping even a sudden appearance of a terrifying monster would shake him.

After what seemed like an eternity, a mysterious voice suddenly appeared out of nowhere, calling his name and guiding him on how to walk.

To the Earl, this voice was his savior.

Guided by the mysterious voice, he finally walked out of the maze in his dream, and at that moment, his body woke up from the coma.

Opening his eyes, the first thing the Earl saw was Bennett's face, marked with mysterious patterns.

For some reason, he immediately recognized the person in front of him as the owner of the mysterious voice in his mind.

"Hello, Mr. Bennett!" This was the first thing he said after waking up.

Even he didn't know why he could call the person in front of him by name, as if he had known him for a long time. Despite this realization, apart from the name "Bennett," he still knew nothing about this person.

The Earl had thought of taking this somewhat sinister physician to the Church for "verification," but what happened later made that thought disappear without a trace.