084 – Security (9)
Rain Rover, Bergang, and Rakan were dressed in their robes and headed to the audience to meet the emperor.
In Bergan’s hand was a heavy bag, which contained Tigris’ memoirs.
“It’s finally over.”
The Rain Rover seemed a little refreshed, and her footsteps were very light.
The 15-volume regression book and the 10-volume directory handed over by Tigris went through the hands of Rain Rover.
I felt like my eyesight had deteriorated as I had sacked the Imperial University and spent almost all day and night sharpening.
Now, all I had to do was hand over this memoir to the emperor and explain.
“You’ve been through a lot.”
“It’s hard. Sir Berggan suffered the most.”
Berggan’s current position was very shaken.
It was because not only the Church of Lux, but also the ministers were putting pressure on whether Bergang was doing something wrong.
However, after about a week or so since Bergang imprisoned them, side effects were starting to appear, as described in Tigris’ memoirs.
They were getting dry even after eating, and their hair was starting to fall out.
Besides, they couldn’t stand their thirst for blood, and they were surviving with water and wine instead, but that patience will soon run out.
“Rakan, did you happen to see that quest today?”
Rakan nodded.
“yes. That’s right.”
“What quest is it?”
“·················ogue.”
I wondered if he seemed a little hesitant, not like Rakan, and then he opened his mouth.
“Dance in front of His Majesty the Emperor…”
“How many points then?”
“500 points.”
“·················ogue.”
“But if you take off your jacket…”
“Until there. I can’t help you take off your jacket and dance.”
If you do that, you can earn 1,000 more points, but it was disappointing.
Rakan is now starting to come up with quests to resist from the power of the state rather than shame.
In order to get points, you had to do criminal acts such as screaming and running like crazy in the front yard of the palace or crossing the walls of the Imperial Palace.
To be honest, every time such quests came out, I couldn’t help but feel chills on my back.
“But what dance are you going to do?”
“Ah, I did some shuffle dance when I was in Korea. It was very fashionable among my friends.”
“Shuffle dance……?”
“Can I show you now? I practiced really hard yesterday.”
Rain Rover chuckled and shook his head.
“no. We’ll see you later anyway, so let’s see then.”
It is said that Tigris sometimes feels dizzy just looking at Rakan, but Rain Rover seemed to understand why he said that.
At that moment, the auditorium door opened and an eunuch came out.
“Your Majesty the Emperor is calling you to come.”
The eyes of Rain Rover, Bergang, and Rakan changed.
From today onwards, the world will change 180 degrees.
“Then let’s go in.”
* * *
Tigris and Trisha gathered in front of the promised water mill.
Trisha had seven packs of blood all over her body.
“uh?! Tigris-sama!”
As he smiled brightly with blood dripping all over his body, T-christ was a bit bizarre.
“Can you give me that clean artifact? It smells like blood.”
Tigris said, handing Trisha the Clean Artifact.
“Do you usually have a lot of blood in your battles?”
Trisha said, scratching her cheek in embarrassment.
“My fighting style is a little different. I don’t like it either, but I’ve gotten used to it, so I don’t know how to fix it.”
Fighting like a shower with blood every time is not a good habit.
Even if you don’t know human blood, the blood of monsters is poisonous because it can be poisoned if done wrong.
And the smell of blood is the main culprit that attracts monsters.
Fortunately, there are no monsters around here. If there were monsters such as goblins and orcs, Trisha would have had to fight one more time at the watermill.
“I think it’s better to give it a try later when I have time.”
Trisha returned the clean artifact back to Tigris.
Tigris put the regular sword and mask he had been using before and took out the Salamander’s sword.
“uh? Aren’t you going to wear a mask now?”
“The Marquis Baros is a 6th circle barrier wizard. It would be right to be fully prepared.”
“Well······.”
Trisha also took off her mask and put it in her pocket.
“Then there was no need to wear this mask, did it?”
“It was used in case the civilians found out. The Marquis Baros is within this barrier, so of course there will be no civilians.”
“Then what are you going to do with Marquis Baros?”
Tigris said in a soft tone.
“Kill as soon as you see it.”
“······really?”
There was also a plan to assassinate the Marquis Baros at River.
However, he decided that killing the Marquis Baros would only have a bad effect on the Suin Autonomous Region, so he did not even try to assassinate in the end, but Tigris said that he would kill him at once, which was strange.
Does the Empire have the confidence to set things up quickly after killing the Marquis Baros?
Tricia was frankly more curious about how the Empire would react after the death of Marquis than killing Marquis.
“If the Marquis Baros dies, the southern provinces will be in a bit of chaos. But when we judged the risk, we decided it was right to uproot the Baros family now and get rid of it.”
“… Your Majesty the Emperor?”
“okay. And again, we will establish close relations with the Suin Autonomous Region and take tough measures against poachers.”
Marquis Baros, who ran a black market and encouraged the poachers not only to ignore them, but also deserved to die.
Whether for the future of mankind or for the beasts.
And when the southern provinces are completely under the emperor’s control, the link between Fogwood and the Gillion kingdom will be completely cut off, and the production of ‘evil spirit chimeras’ will be disrupted.
In conclusion, Tigris was nothing more than buying Rota and Arphem to warn them and buying them time.
It all depends on how well you use that time.
Tigris checked Trisha’s physical condition.
After killing all the mercenaries and running to the watermill, it seemed that his body had recovered.
“Then let’s go. And now that this has happened, let me tell you how the knight breaks the barrier magic.”
“Can I take it easy like that? The Marquis Baros is still a 6th circle mage.”
“The destruction of the original barrier magic should not be rushed. It’s like a bug struggling to get out of a spider’s web, and then its body gets more tangled.”
Tigris and Trisha slowly walked through the forest.
Like a jungle in summer, it was hot at night, but Trisha had a cold neck, perhaps because of tension.
The fear of the Marquis Baros was famous in the Suin Autonomous Region.
The guardians of the jungle who chased after the poachers who kidnapped the young beast were caught by the barrier magic and suffered all over again.
At the time, the jungle guardians were all veteran warriors with tattoos of Masarai’s Bone Needles.
Since then, it has been the main guideline of the Guardians of the jungle to never enter the barrier laid by the Marquis Baros.
Trisha glanced at Tigris.
As usual, Tigris walked comfortably, as if going for a walk.
‘Aren’t you nervous?’
It must be the first time to experience the barrier magic of the Marquis Baros.
I believe it because Tigris has done nonsensical things until now. If it had been with someone other than Tigris, he would never have entered into this barrier magic.
“Have you ever experienced barrier magic?”
“yes. I’ve experienced this when I got this Silver Myo’s Cloak. It was a little terrifying, though.”
The barrier magic that Trisha experienced was not a modern circle magic, but a barrier magic made through primitive runes.
Primitive magic didn’t mean it wasn’t terrible.
Trisha was caught in a labyrinth barrier that kept hovering around the same place at the time, but she couldn’t break it, so she died and started over.
“Since then, barrier magic has become one of those magics that can be avoided by looking at it. Unlike other magic, barrier magic cannot be solved with simple force.”
Trisha glanced at Tigris.
“But, how will Tigris break the barrier magic?”
“like this.”
Tigris pierced a tree.
He didn’t even use an aura and just stabbed it in the knot, but it went straight in like a sword had been inserted into a rotten piece of wood.
Some of the Salamander’s sword itself was good, but the tree itself was also strange.
– Kiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The tree screamed as if it were alive, and its trunk and roots shook.
However, the flames that rose from the Salamander’s sword completely burned the tree.
Tuk-!
As the tree was completely burned and disappeared, a black stone fell.
“······What is this?”
“It is a manastone used to build a barrier. The official name is called the medium.”
“Aren’t you, Tigris-sama, a wizard?”
“Just because you’re a knight doesn’t mean you have to know nothing about magic. In particular, if you want to learn spell hunting, you should be able to predict what kind of magic will come.”
“·······There are more things to study.”
“You still have a lot to learn.”
Tigris picked up the manastone, glanced at it once, and crushed it with a strong grip.
Then the magic stone disappeared with black smoke.
“But why are the magic stones so black?”
“Because it was built using black magic, not normal magic. Otherwise, I would not have been able to unleash such an effective barrier magic in one day.”
“Then how did you discover this?”
“It was discovered by the observation system auror operation technique called mana detection.”
“Do you feel mana? Did you have any Auror operation skills like that?”
“It is one of the best Auror operation techniques. It’s an Auror skill that is only found in the Imperial Palace library, so it’s not well known, and of course it’s not easy to learn.”
Tigris and Trisha started walking again.
“It’s a very difficult Auror operation technique, so it’s impossible to learn it right away, so please tell me how to deal with this type of barrier magic.”
Tigris raised an aura and created a sword.
Then, the silver-colored sword fluttered like a lamp in front of the wind and went out.
“uh? Why did the sword suddenly disappear?”
“Most barrier magic consumes a horribly large amount of mana. That’s why most wizards borrow the power of mana stones, not the mana they have accumulated in their bodies. But there are times when that alone is not enough.”
Tigris slowly entered the forest.
And in the same way, I put the salamander’s sword into the tree and set it on fire, and the black magic stone popped! and fell
Tigris struck down his sword and shattered the Mana Stones.
“So, we put in the ‘absorption’ related magic that steals the mana of knights and wizards who entered this barrier. At the same time as stealing the invader’s aura and mana, the stolen aura and mana can also be used to maintain the barrier.”
“Five······.”
Trisha had nothing she could do but open her mouth and listen to Tigris’ erudition.
And I was getting tired of the feeling of relief and the disappearance of my vigilance.
match!
Then Tigris slapped Trisha on the cheek.
“Calm down. Trisha.”
Trisha said, holding onto her tingling cheeks.
“Yes?! Yes?”
“Because there is no way that this kind of barrier magic doesn’t contain magic that can cloud the mind.”
Trisha didn’t even notice the fact that she almost fainted as she rolled her eyes for a moment.
Trisha turned on the debuff magic immunity effect while holding the sacred sword.
Then, a golden aura appeared on Trisha’s body, and her hazy mind returned.
“Whoa, I guess I should continue to use this Halhwal.”
“Do you have the ability to resist debuff magic?”
“yes. To be precise, it has the effect of removing not only magic, but all magic that harms the continuation of battle.”
“Then can you block attack magic?”
“There is a magic barrier that blocks attack magic. Our Hwa-hwal does a good job.”
“Almost all-round when it comes to magic.”
“I always owe a lot to Hwahl. Oh, of course, gurgling too.”
Tigris destroyed another manastone.
“Tricia, what kind of sensing-type Auror operation techniques you can use?”
“Complex sensing and even the manifestation of the sixth sense.”
“Have you not learned the ‘mana thread’ or ‘wave sensing’ that reads the flow of Aurors yet?”
“······Yep. That’s because it’s an advanced Auror skill that commoners can’t learn. I’m learning all kinds of things, but I haven’t mastered them yet.”
“Well then. First, let me teach you the ‘Thread of Mana’.”
“By the way, can you really teach me how to come here? Something’s wrong, isn’t it?”
Tigris nodded.
“This is one of the outer edges of the barrier. It is a place that is very far from the core of the barrier, so it is difficult for Marquis Baros to exert influence. And if you go around the outside of the barrier and break the medium of the barrier, the Marquis Baros will get hotter.”
“So, you’re saying that this is also an operation?”
“That’s it. It is also a method that works with other barrier magic, so keep that in mind.”
Trisha had no idea how much Tigris knew.
Are you familiar with the Marquis of Baros or are you familiar with barrier magic?
Or is it both?
Tigris’ lecture proceeded immediately.
“First of all, the existing sensing system auror operation techniques were to make the five senses sensitive and detect them. However, it is different from the expression of the sixth sense. ‘Expression of the sixth sense’ is the process of complexly processing information such as the other’s gaze, life, and Auror’s wave to infer the other’s position and aim.”
Trisha went into student mode and listened to Tigris’ class.
“But such an expression of the sixth sense is very vague. Although it is called the sixth sense, the human body does not have a sense organ that can feel the sixth sense. So, the expression of the sixth sense is to use ‘tactile sense’, which is the most sensitive reaction.”
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Just as the sense of touch first senses when an invisible wind blows from behind, it detects the other person’s gaze and life through the sense of touch.“Wow, it seems that the real instructor was right. I learned the expression of the sixth sense by just being ignorant. I never knew that principle.”
“It’s not the fastest way to learn. In the end, if you had listened to me, you would have been blindfolded and hit the same.”
“Then, did you learn while getting hit with Tigris?”
“No, I didn’t have to learn vibration sensing first before learning the sixth sense manifestation.”
“… damn that’s unfair.”
Tigris broke another manastone.
“Anyway, the mana thread also reads the external aura and the flow of mana as a sensory organ called ‘sight’.”
“So you mean that you can see with your own two eyes the invisible mana?”
“okay. I understood correctly. And you already know how to do it.”
“Do you know what I can do?”
“Can’t you create a sword? Swordsmanship is a typology of Aurors. Of course, there is a difference that you typed it using your aura, but this time, you stimulate the mana spread all over the place to make it visible to your eyes. like this.”
A strange wave of Aurors flowed out of Tigris’ body.
Then all around the living silver auras were fluttering and swimming in the sky.
The scene was strange and mysterious, as if swimming with fish in the sea.
“······Oh my gosh.”
“Of course, it is very difficult to make it visible to others as it is now, and it is inefficient because it takes a lot of aura. But it will be easier than you think to make it visible only to your eyes.”
Trisha headed towards a tree.
The tree was strewn with silver threads.
Trisha cooks with the ‘Holy Fire’ contained in the sword of the sacred fire! stabbed in
Then the tree screams and pops! and exploded, and unlike Tigris, mana stones did not fall.
Because the power of sanctification itself includes the ability to burn unclean things, it was black magic and supremacy.
In the first place, black magic is the product of witches, so it was natural that she couldn’t keep up with the sword of the sacred fire that was made to hunt witches.
“Do you know how to do it?”
“I think I know what it feels like. That’s why I make invisible mana visible only to my eyes. To do that, I need to stimulate the mana spread around me so that I can see it……”
Trisha thought for a moment, then recalled the stimulus Tigris had shown him once.
Obviously, all of the mana around him instantly became the same as Tigris’ unique aura wave cycle.
Wouldn’t it be more visible to Trisha by matching the mana around her with her own Aura Pulse?
Trisha slowly exhaled an aura using her whole body.
Rather than simply exhaling, it stimulated them to match their own frequency and amplitude.
Then, for a moment, a wave of purple threads appeared in Trisha’s eyes.
“uh! I saw it! It was only for a short time, but I saw it.”
“You learn very quickly.”
“Hey! This is chewing gum.”
“Then you must find the medium of the next barrier.”
“yes. Wait.”
Trisha once again used the mana thread.
Then, flashing again, a purple string of mana appeared in front of him.
Trisha walked towards the tree where the threads of mana were clustered and thrust her sword.
– Kee hee hee hee hee!
Then, along with the tree, the magic stone burned and disappeared.
Trisha said, looking at Tigris, smiling broadly like a child.
“Oh my God, maybe that’s a genius!”