98 – Shadow (21)
Damian approached another spirit nearby. It took halfway backwards, and at once its ankle was cut off and its head was grabbed by him.
He proceeded to dismantle the Black Spirit without hesitation. In a way that thoroughly torments and torments.
Once again the terrible screams rang out. Listening to it made his head throb.
And the more she watched the bizarre scene, the more the ominous aura that weighed down Luna gradually faded.
The black spirits finally tried to escape from Damian. But he had no intention of letting go.
Damian casually picked up the shadow links on the ground and began to pull them one by one. They scratched the ground with all their might, as if they were being dragged to hell, but to no avail.
The Black Spirit, dragged helplessly, had to be mercilessly slaughtered by Damian.
What is Damien’s true identity, so he can unilaterally overwhelm them?
I wasn’t sure what ability he possessed, but I knew for sure that Silverin hadn’t accepted him as a disciple for no particular reason. To Luna, Damian was the second most special and bizarre existence after Silverin.
Luna’s body became lighter and the shackles of her curse gradually faded.
And fear hung over the numerous thought forms that were hiding in her forest and watching Luna.
It was only then that Luna was able to properly understand the meaning of the play.
Her thought bodies that prey on her were the real audience for this play.
It was to show an example of what would happen if you touched someone wrong.
Twelve black spirits were torn apart by Damian, leaving only one in the end.
Damian mercilessly tore the last one without thinking. As if he were about to present a spectacle they would never forget to the spectacles hovering around him.
The black spirit’s desperate scream lasted for a very long time.
After disassembling every last one, the sword finally disappeared from his hand.
Finally everything is over.
Damian writhed as if feeling dizzy, and eventually sat down with his back leaning on Suho’s neck.
He took a moment to catch his breath.
“It’s nice to be quiet now.”
Her energy that had weighed her down completely disappeared. Not only that, but the energy of the thought body that was wandering around was completely erased.
Shoot ah
As the wind blew, I could hear the wood grain rustling in the forest. It was a sound I hadn’t noticed in a long time. The world became so quiet that my dulled senses were awakened again.
Luna also sat down on the spot as her legs gave out.
And the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time poured out like a flood. She didn’t want to show it, but she couldn’t control it.
Luna covered her face and let her tears flow.
“Yes… It’s quiet… I like it…”
***
A peaceful evening. Tricia rested her chin on her kitchen table and stared blankly into space. And across from Lyria, Tasogot sat with her hands on her lap.
They did not exchange a word with each other. An awkward silence ensued while waiting for Damian.
As promised, Damian was making Sancrotis-style apple pie in the kitchen.
After a tedious and awkward wait, Damian entered with a steaming apple pie on a tray.
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The faces of the two brightened at the same time when they saw Damian.
Damian placed the apple pie in the center of the table and moved back to gather the rest of the utensils.
Lilia stood up and tried to help, but Damian said firmly.
“It’s okay, sit down.”
When he left again, the faces of the two were as lifeless as before.
And when he came back with a plate, fork, and knife, his face lit up again as if he had matched the sum.
“I waited a long time. Let’s eat.”
Damian cut the pie into eight parts with a knife and placed one slice on Trisha’s plate and two slices on Lyria’s plate.
Tricia’s face, which had been swollen with anticipation, was suddenly irritated.
“Why am I a piece?”
“Lilia had a hard time getting the materials.”
It was entrusted to Trisha, but since she didn’t know anything about how to get the materials, it eventually fell into Lyria’s hands.
With her proud face, Lilia cut a piece of her apple pie and put it in her mouth. She said then, licking her mouth.
“It’s nothing special. That’s my job… !”
Lilia’s confident words subtly stimulated Trisha’s nerves. But what did she say? She couldn’t tackle. Trisha really didn’t do anything.
Damian asked Lyria.
“How does it taste?”
“Mmm! It’s so so delicious!”
Tricia took a bite of her pie with a fork, her cheeks puffed out slightly. He put it in her mouth and chewed it, showing a lukewarm attitude.
As her expression grew more and more teary-eyed, Damian quickly grabbed a piece of pie and put it on Tricia’s plate.
“If it’s not enough, I’ll make more for you, so eat as much as you like. There are too many ingredients.”
“….”
Her expression was still sullen, but Trisha’s fork speeded up a bit, as if the taste was there. Thanks to her quick first aid, the situation made her feel worse.
When Lilia stopped eating, she asked Damian.
“Don’t you eat Damian?”
“I am not hungry.”
Damian looked satisfied just watching them eat.
Tricia jumped first before starting a conversation with Lyria.
“Damian, you are assigning a group for a joint class tomorrow, haven’t you decided anything yet?”
Now, the joint class is just around the corner, but not much is known about what the class evaluates and what rewards it gives.
I only heard rumors that the joint class group lottery is conducted randomly.
“… I’m just going to do what I’m assigned to.”
If I group up with Luna, I’m sure I’ll get off to a good start, but I didn’t plan on that.
Since Luna still had to settle down, it was unknown whether she would participate in the joint class. Moreover, since her phobia of men hadn’t fully healed yet, she couldn’t suggest that she blindly join them in group activities that would involve camping out. She didn’t want to see a situation where she was forced to accept Damian’s offer even though she was reluctant to be helped.
For Damien, it was best for him to slip away quietly. The original goal was to become a clown, so everything I wanted was accomplished.
“….”
“Have you talked to Cecil?”
“Yes. But i think it’s hard She told her sister that she talked about your strengths, but she said that she has no intention of changing her group members. She said that if there was a seat, Candy would go first, Damian, and you wouldn’t come in.”
“… ….”
I was saying that Damian would always go in if there was a seat.
However, Damian had no intention of doing group activities with a mask on. Tricia agreed to this. She was at high risk of being discovered when she went camping and other activities.
In the first place, Damian didn’t even expect it, since there was no such thing as a job itself. The Cecile Damian remembered was not the kind of person who would abandon a friend for immediate gain. If I had that kind of personality, I would have been grouped with the top students with similar grades long ago.
In addition to joint classes, he said that there would be quite a lot of things to do in groups. Damian felt the need for an ally whom he could trust and depend on now.
Lilia cautiously asked a question.
“Hey… I’m curious, but maybe the person’s name is a real candy… ?”
Trisha said as if she was well taken.
“This is for adults, so kids shouldn’t wear it!”
At this, Lyria opened her ax eye and glared at her Trisha.
Damian put her apple pie on Lyria’s plate and said soothingly.
“Candy is my nickname. Nickname.”
The first condition for colleagues is not to fight strangely, but the problem was whether we could find such a person in Eternia, where only proud people gathered.
***
The head of the Ministry of Magic, Dunkel, sat at his desk in his office and heard a report from the librarian at the Pilion Great Library.
“The Unknown Knights have decided to join the joint class escort.”
A group of unknown knights made up of Masters Class graduates have decided to stay in Eternia for a while. There was also something to reinforce Eternia’s power, but the fact that the northern activities had to be suspended due to unknown dangers had a big effect.
“Good.”
Most of Eternia’s key personnel were dispatched to foreign countries, and there was a shortage of manpower. Joint class practices are conducted in vast out-of-field areas. I had to deploy border manpower to the outskirts of the practice field for the already insufficient manpower. The Unknown Knights decided to help, so there was no need to worry about this.
“And, the condition of the guardian tree is improving rapidly.”
“Oh, I heard that too.”
The Magic Society gave the official scientific name of ‘Shadow Spirits’ to those parasitic to the Guardian Tree and Luna.
He was pointed out as the main culprit who stopped the Northern activities of the Unknown Knights.
The strange thing is that a freshman in the masters class stepped in to solve the problem before any proper research was done.
“Did you say Damian?”
“Yes.”
Dunkel’s eyes deepened.
Sylverin’s disciple was technically equivalent to Dunkel’s son-in-law. She had always wondered what kind of disciples Silverin would take. She vaguely thought that she would reap the talents of an archmage similar to her own, but she was different.
According to the Masters Class report, Damian was the opposite of Sylveryn in almost every respect. Gender, let alone a great wizard, had almost no talent for magic and spiritism, and even their personalities were completely different.
She was puzzled when Silverin’s disciple was said to be a swordsman, but it’s different now. Where did he get this from? Silverine’s luck and discernment were unbelievably excellent.
He recalled in his head the scene of the previous fight with the warlock. Corpses, leeches, a sea of blood, a hill piled with ghoul corpses, a race floating in the sky. It was a hellish landscape.
That’s something a 17-year-old boy could never handle. However, at the end of the defensive line, he made the warlock retreat and survived the hell.
Furthermore, the Guardian Tree was freed by killing the Shadow Spirit, the remnant of the Warlock.
I couldn’t define it simply as an exceptional talent. More than that, it is unique.