When Your Secret Crush Wizard Took a Love Potion - Chapter 71
And then, at some point.
The persistent gaze that had been scanning me from head to toe froze, noticed my disheveled appearance and turned as cold as ice.
“I thought that being together would be enough.”
Edgar looked even paler than someone who had just narrowly escaped danger. As he lowered his eyes, his long, elegant lashes cast a black shadow across his white cheek.
“I was too foolish. There are too many useless pests in this world.”
The man who lifted his head and looked at me with a smile had a fox-like grin full of sinister intent. If not for the voices of the mercenaries who had gone outside first, I would have demanded to know the meaning behind that malevolent smile.
“Is that a meteor shower?”
Hearing that innocent-sounding voice gave me an ominous feeling. Overcome with an unidentifiable sense of dread, I dashed outside the cave to see the vast night sky.
It was the most spectacular sight I had ever seen. Among the countless twinkling stars, meteors with long tails fell, standing out in their vividness.
“Do you know? They say if you make a wish while watching a falling meteor, it’ll come true.”
“Do you believe that?”
Those who looked up at the beautiful scene and spoke frivolously didn’t realize the truth.
This was magic. A high-level spell that forcibly pulls meteoroids from outside the planetary orbit and makes them fall. Meteor.
Hundreds, thousands of meteoroids, large enough to be visible to the naked eye, were plummeting towards our planet.
“Insane…”
My mouth fell open, unable to close. I knew he was mad, but the scale of this was beyond comprehension.
“Stop it immediately! Quickly!”
“Why?”
A hand that had reached out from behind gently wrapped around my neck. The voice, whispering and tickling my nape with its sharp nose, seemed absurdly romantic considering the magnitude of the meteors intended to scorch the land.
“All we need is each other, Chloe. We exist only to die from the moment we are born, so it’s just the natural flow of things. How or where mere mortals meet their end isn’t very important.”
No matter how much I loved my teacher, I couldn’t tolerate any more of this nonsense.
“Stop it already! Cancel it immediately!”
“Reversing the meteoroids I’ve already summoned is an extremely difficult request.”
“But you can do it!”
“Thanks for the high praise. But I can’t.”
Seeing his dismissive attitude, it was clear that no amount of pleading would make a difference.
“Why are you about to cry, Chloe? What’s so sad?”
Noticing my tear-streaked face, Edgar tilted his head in confusion.
“Are you seriously asking me that now?”
Thud, thud, thud… My heart pounded with fear. For a moment, I wanted to deny reality, but seeing the scale of the falling meteors, it seemed like humanity might be wiped out, leaving just Edgar and me on this lonely planet as the first ancestors.
Overwhelmed by panic and horror, tears welled up in my eyes.
“I have to do something… What can I do…!”
But Edgar seemed more concerned about my distress than the impending disaster.
“I’m here. So there’s no need to be scared.”
Foolishly, it was only then that I truly realized Edgar was not in his right mind due to the potion he had taken. The man, intoxicated by a feverish love, had centered all his reasoning around me.
He placed no value on any life other than mine, which was why he could act so recklessly. Whether a pebble on the roadside lived or died was of little concern to him.
“Look. The sky is so beautiful.”
The meteors reflected in his amethyst-like eyes, which sparkled even more brilliantly than usual, showed no hint of hesitation.
Who is this man?
Facing Edgar, who looked at me with affectionate eyes and smiled brightly under the beautiful night sky, I was jolted awake like being splashed with cold water.
‘I have to do something.’
What should I do? Should I set up a shield at every impact point of the meteors? To block not just a few but thousands of meteors.
It was an absurd idea.
Even if I drained my magic to set up a shield, it would only be enough to prevent a crater or two at most.
“This is an amazing sky. Should we try making a wish?”
Olio, who had come out of the cave, made a calm comment without understanding the situation.
In fact, he wasn’t alone. Many people outside had their hands clasped in prayer, gazing at the meteor shower that painted a dazzling display across the sky.
