Chapter 129: Discovery (2)
The smell of gunpowder suddenly passes Selena’s nose, but the lingering scent of her mana is not felt at all.
“What, what! What’s the matter?”
Elodie looked behind her in confusion.
The attack that penetrated her mana detection was shocking, but neither Frontier nor Selena could react.
Selena said.
“It’s an old-fashioned bomb!”
“Old, old fashioned?”
“It’s a bomb made the old-fashioned way without using mana or magic power. “The bomb that was planted in the ground beforehand exploded due to manipulation!”
Bombs have no mana or life. There is no need for anyone to approach it.
“Well, then did our vehicle step on a switch or something on the ground?”
Asked Basileo. This was an answer that came naturally.
“No, it’s impossible.”
“Why, why?”
“Because there are other vehicles passing by on this road than us.”
Although there are few vehicles coming and going, it is not zero. In the first place, Selena saw the car that had started ahead of this vehicle.
If it was just like a landmine that explodes when you step on it, it should have already been exploded by the cars ahead.
However, this bomb is clearly targeting them.
‘I’m watching from somewhere! Me and Mr. Elodie, in a location outside of Frontier’s detection area!’
“Get off the road!”
“Okay!”
Lili immediately turned her steering wheel. The car leaves the neat driveway and races across the rough grass.
Bang! Quang! Kwaaang!!
Bombs destroy the roadway one after another. The road that Selena and her group had to run on rose into the sky.
And before that.
The vehicle that Frontier and his party rode in is still running on the road.
“Oh, no! Mr. Frontier!”
Selena shouted.
The bomb is planted under the roadway. If you leave the roadway, you will be safe first.
However, looking at the speed at which the bomb explodes now, the moment you change the angle, you will be caught in the explosion.
──Menosorpho.
A magic circle unfolds in an instant. With that, black liquid surrounds the entire car.
Whick!
Kwaaang—!
Just before the next explosion, the car rose into the air and avoided the explosion.
The car door opened in the air, and Frondier appeared out of the car.
“Who is it?”
It was ordinary words, but the voice was full of life.
Frondier gradually expands Menosorpho’s territory and sends his sixth sense everywhere, searching for enemies that may be somewhere.
Frontier reached the same conclusion as Selena.
There is someone watching them from somewhere far away.
“Let’s stop the car. “I don’t know where the next bomb will explode.”
“Good.”
Riri followed Selena’s words and stepped on the brakes.
A vehicle that veered off into the grass. And another one floating in the sky.
The two vehicles stopped in such a strange position, and everyone looked around.
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Frondier’s eyes were stinging with extreme discomfort.
‘It’s not even within Menosorpo’s territory.’
When we went to Tayvon and Göranhes, Menosorpo was so large that it covered the entire wall. Still, I can’t find anything.
‘Press the switch outside this area to detonate the bomb here…’ … This is not a matter of technique or skill. ‘It is a trap that has been prepared with great effort over a very long time.’
And it means that we have been waiting for Frontier to come here for that long.
Information is leaking.
That fact makes me feel sick, but I have to forget about it for now.
When you have to overcome an enemy whose location you don’t know.
───Moment.
“Ah!”
This time Elodie reacted clearly. Her mana sense reached.
But it wasn’t a human.
A single arrow heading towards them.
And where it aims,
“Selena!”
Elodie exclaims, and Selena listens to her son-in-law’s wind noise to determine her direction.
When she turned her head, the arrow was in front of her eyes. A high-speed arrow fired from a very long distance.
It is too late to avoid or block it.
Hissing─
The arrow pierced Selena in the middle,
Selena seemed to have flowed into the shadows.
“It was dangerous.”
And then Selena rose above the shadow of the Frontier.
Just before she was hit, she used transference to escape her position.
“The shadow that was brought together to protect Frontier, for my own sake…”
“Spend as much as you want.”
Frondier said with relief.
And.
──Be sure to hit the targeted enemy,
Peeing!
The missed arrow rushes towards Selena next to Frondier, breaking her air.
“… Ah.”
The momentary loss of guard that comes after dodging.
An arrow in the back flying through time.
In front of her is a master who must be protected.
Paaat!
This time, Frontier’s eyes widened, and the black sky flew in, blocking Selena’s path.
Kwazijic!
The arrow pierces even the dark sky,
Push!
It pierced that body.
Frontier and Selena opened their eyes wide and shouted.
“Pielot!!”
The arrow should have pierced the black sky and reached Selena’s body.
However, the arrow was blocked by Pielot’s body, which flew in with superhuman movement.
“… Flaw… Ugh… !”
Pielot could barely breathe through her pain.
‘Auror… !’
It was a long time before my body left, and it was impossible to think of blocking or blocking it.
However, Pielot is always wearing an aura of self-defense that is close to instinct.
The arrow pierced the aura.
The tip of the arrowhead pierced Frondier’s dark sky, Pielot’s aura, and solid body, flashing eerily behind Pielot’s back.
“Pielot! “Stay still!”
Carla shouted. Among these, she was the one with the most skill in her healing magic.
Pielot forced a smile.
“This really hurts…”
The bravado and jokes. However, cold sweat ran down her entire body. Carla couldn’t help but smile.
“Sit down slowly. “It might hurt, but I’ll take out the arrow later.”
“Yeah. “I know.”
Pielot slowly relaxed. It wasn’t easy to sit down either.
But then, this time, something entered Frontier’s magic circle.
Frondier’s face distorted.
“… “They are monsters.”
“What?”
“There are monsters coming from everywhere. And in the very center of this driveway, there is one of a different kind.”
The first shot aimed at Selena.
After that, as if there was a signal, enemies were caught everywhere.
Frontier’s reasoning is hopeless.
‘I know the maximum range of Menosorpho.’
What does it mean? There is no time to feel it.
I’m leaving now.
“You can’t deal with everyone. Let’s go through one side. “We advance to where Charon is, taking the shortest route.”
“There are probably the most of them there.”
Elodie said. She stood with an angry face for the first time in a while.
“I don’t know what or where they got caught, but they don’t seem to know what it means to mess with us.”
“Keep being careful with the arrows. “I just found out the direction of the attack, but there’s no guarantee that it’s just one person.”
Fron Deer said that to raise his guard, but he was actually convinced.
There’s only one archer.
‘It moved exactly like the arrow I just shot with Trisellakatos.’
What it means is clear.
‘Piljung’ is attached.
When I checked the shape of the arrow, it wasn’t Iokai. In other words, the bow will not be Trisellakatos.
In other words, it is not an absurd situation that the goddess Artemis participated as an enemy in this fight.
However, the bow itself with the ‘critical’ rating indicated that the enemy’s abilities were not something to be underestimated.
Meanwhile, Carla placed her healing hand on Pielot.
Soon the corners of his eyes became frowning.
‘I can’t recover.’
The bleeding doesn’t stop. The same goes for the wound area. When I looked at Pielot’s face, there was no sign of the pain getting any better.
“Pielot, this may be painful, but can you explain? Be as specific about your pain as possible. “I might have been poisoned.”
“… I feel like I’m being torn apart. “Continuing, focusing on the area hit by the arrow.”
Carla’s face turns cold. According to Pielot’s words, the wound is widening rather than healing. Pielot’s senses are probably unmistakable.
“… I can’t do it. There’s a risk of bleeding, but it’s better to pull out the arrow now…”
When Kala checked the arrow,
She saw something in her.
At the tip of the arrow’s feather, there was something very thin and shiny.
‘… Line?’
Joo Wook—!
When Carla noticed, her thread was pulled taut,
“K, keaaah!!!”
Pielot flew into the air. She is pulled by the arrow, endlessly towards the location where the archer will stand.
“Pielot!”
Frontier’s mana was boiling over.
Pielot was already out of his mind when he was hit by the arrow, but the moment he saw him being pulled down by the arrow, his eyes rolled back.
If you follow Pielot now, you will meet the owner of the arrow.
I will tear you apart before you even take a single breath. If he has a family, friends, or lover, I will show them all hell in detail.
Must kill. After keeping it alive for a very long time!
──Senior.
But just a moment.
It was Pielot, not anyone else, who stopped Frontier from taking any immediate steps.
I couldn’t make a sound though.
As Pielot was walking away, he looked at Frondier with his teeth clenched.
─Go.
“… !”
After hearing that message, Frontier eventually had no choice but to stop.
Watching his student being dragged somewhere and disappearing into the distance, he just clenched his fists and trembled.
“… Frontier, I’ll go.”
Elodie said.
“I don’t know who the enemy is, but I’m trying to draw you in. Everything that attacked Selena, everything that was hanging by the thread from that arrow, and everything that Pielot is now being dragged away! But if it’s me who goes, it’s okay. “I’ll get Pielot.”
“… No.”
Frontier said:
“If this is a trap he set for me, he can’t be safe, no matter who he is. This guy knows me, my surroundings, my abilities, and even the limits of my response. “He doesn’t know what he’s going to do.”
“… ! If so, even more so! “We have to save Pielot!”
“What he was targeting was Selena or me. It would have been best if Selena was taken and I followed. However, I would not have predicted that the arrow would hit Pielot.”
The place where Pielot is being dragged now is a hell tailored to Frondier and Selena. It is not tailored for Pielot.
So,
So, Frontier says.
“If it’s a trap set for me, it’s hard for anyone to survive. But Pielot is different.”
“… What… ?”
Elodie couldn’t believe that and asked back.
However, Frondier said no more and looked straight ahead.
“Is the car still moving?”
“…”
“Arald, Lili.”
Arald and Lili were at a loss for a moment, not knowing how to respond, but nodded.
“Okay, we can’t lose the car here. Riri and Arald keep driving, while Basileo and Carla stay in the car. Because it’s dangerous. “Me, Elodie, and Selena will clear the way.”
“Frondier.”
Elodie’s voice reached me once again. She with her mana.
“I told you that once.”
Elodie spoke out of her cold heart.
“If you make a wrong choice, please stop me.”
“…”
“Can you tell me that now is not the time?”