Episode 66 – Because I hid something like that.
66. Because I hid something like that.
The time when Leon and his party had just entered the city.
Near Freeville.
A man wearing a pure white robe and with round horns.
The expression on the face of the demon, Belger, was complex.
He was pondering the report he heard from the Sioux a little while ago.
—Goal.
Leon Crusiv, a boy with black hair and red eyes.
He was here now.
He leads a military force that is well-known among humans, called Mukwoldae.
Cracked.
Belger’s fingernails roughly scratched the armrests of the chair.
Although the goal was just around the corner, he was not happy.
Rather, I was suspicious and wary.
I thought that Leon had discovered the plan and came here himself.
Because he was a person whom the Great Devil Kryptos had personally ordered to deal with.
He is definitely not an easy person.
Shooaaa-
Drops of rain fell steadily, pounding the silence.
“······.”
Belger briefly recalled the past.
About a month ago, Belger and his brothers received an order.
To be exact, a thought containing the image of a boy and a short, one-word command to deal with him.
I had to find one person in this vast empire based solely on his appearance.
It took the brothers a week to finally find it.
There was a big clue that the clothes he was wearing were academy cadet uniforms.
Leon Crusiv, the third prince of the Cruciv duchy.
He was a very high-ranking nobleman, but there was no problem.
Isn’t that the status among humans anyway?
And the command had to be carried out unconditionally.
Among the brothers, Belger stepped forward.
Belger, who had been active in the empire for a long time, was fully aware of this.
No matter how insignificant people are, El Prime Academy is not an easy place.
He was certain that the limbs he had at his disposal were far from enough.
However, in order to deal with the target, it was necessary to invade the place.
Leon Crusif is a cadet at Elprime, and he spends most of his time there.
You could try external training outside of the academy or during vacation periods…
There was a bit of a shortage of power, and it was difficult to collect information about the academy’s academic schedule.
Delicate operations were difficult with the limbs under his control, who were starting to be called the blood donors in the world.
Also, it took too long to wait for vacation.
I didn’t want to test Kryptos’ patience.
In the end, it is an invasion.
He came up with a bold method, as befits a demon.
First, we chose a city with a reasonable population near El Prime Academy.
After that, he started mobilizing his limbs to create a magic circle.
Transferred to us by Kryptos.
It was a high-level magic circle capable of absorbing the souls of thousands of humans at once.
Although it takes some time.
If Jin is successfully completed.
It was not a task to catch and kill a single human being.
It could have gone beyond El Prime and turned the city itself upside down.
Yes.
If only I could complete the zine.
“······.”
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Bel Guerre drew long marks on his cheek with his sharp fingernails.
Black blood flowed and I felt a tingling pain.
The pain made my mind clear.
‘Until completion, there are five places left.’
Maybe now that the goal has come this far, things have become easier.
You can just kill him right after finishing the group.
But trying without completing?
‘······No.’
Belger shook his head.
He knew how to look at the situation objectively.
Prudence and thoroughness were his strengths.
Current power.
An ordinary human spirit with slightly increased physical capabilities.
And the ‘bastard’ tied up in the forest.
With these, there was no way.
‘That guy.’
Belger clearly felt it through the sensitive sense he had accumulated in the demon world.
Although it was a short moment.
The eerie, deadly and powerful energy seeped out of the city.
Among the humans who were with the target, the strong were mixed.
If he steps forward, the limbs will be swept away like insects.
What if his power was the same as when he was in the demon world?
After staying in Middle-earth for a long time, he lost his magic energy and lost much of his strength.
Even if I could somehow win the fight.
If the target just ran away, there was nothing I could do.
So Jin had to open it.
Pour everything you have, do whatever it takes.
It was also a golden opportunity to complete the mission once and for all.
‘First of all, it won’t work tonight.’
Time was needed to prepare ‘the guy’.
‘Tomorrow night.’
A time when even the sun above the dark clouds falls and the negative energy is the strongest.
‘At that time, it hits.’
* · * *
10 Minutes before 3:00 in the morning.
Hududududududu-!
The sound of rain is like a hail of bullets.
Wheee-!
The sound of the sharp wind is the shouts of soldiers.
Grung-grung!
The occasional thunderous sound felt like an explosion.
It felt like I was in a battlefield.
In such a heavy rain.
A city where narrow houses are so close together that they cannot create a proper alley.
“······.”
Leon was sitting upright on the balcony of a two-story house.
Keep your back straight.
The sword was placed horizontally on his lap.
The tightly closed eyelids did not tremble at all.
It was a roofless balcony with heavy rain pouring in.
Surprisingly, the black robe Leon was wearing was as dry as new.
The water droplets could not get close to his body at all.
It is only pushed away and deflected by intangible energy.
Gooooo-
Leon, who was channeling mana into his entire body’s circuits, concentrated all his energy and spread out his energy in all directions.
Now he was looking clearly at the surrounding area.
If you catch even the slightest hint of anything suspicious, you will be able to run straight away.
It was almost 3 o’clock.
The time of day when yin energy is strongest.
Leon further raised his vigilance and concentration.
After a few minutes had passed.
Bright!
Leon’s eyelids rose, and his blood-red eyes were revealed.
His head jerked to one side.
The end of the line of sight was east of Priville, well outside the castle walls.
“Aria.”
“Yes.”
Aria stood next to Leon with her eyes calmly sunken.
Leon took out the communication device in his pocket.
– Younger brother-.
“We’ll go.”
Leon cut off Hera’s voice that was coming out at that moment.
– Hmm, sure.
-Have enemies appeared? ······Oh, I see. Good luck.
– What came out? Which one?
Riel and Fenrir’s voices followed one after another.
The ability to feel this energy was limited to Riel.
Taaat!
Leon jumped from the balcony and put his mouth to the communicator.
I had to give an appropriate briefing for the others.
“A big thing is coming to the eastern gate. “We will go out and fight, so take our place.”
If we fight here, the city will be devastated.
The energy I felt was unusual.
The only group that could catch that was Leon and Aria.
Of course Hera could have stepped forward, but they were much closer.
Tadat, blame!
Leon’s new model, which stepped on Cheonryeongbo, ran through the winding alley like a gust of wind.
Aria, with blue mana wrapped around her entire body, followed at just the same speed.
Quickly heading to the eastern gate.
Leon hinted and spoke to Aria.
“Isn’t this the first time we’ve fought something like that?”
“That’s right. “I’m looking forward to it.”
Aria’s eyes were also shining brightly.
The only opponent these two have fought with is always the same person.
Looking at the vicious demonic energy I feel now, I will encounter a different enemy this time.
Not long after, they arrived in front of the low, low castle of Priville.
Paang-!
Without slowing down his speed, Leon concentrated mana on his feet and made his body float.
It is only about 4 meters high.
I was able to climb up the wall in one month without even stepping on it.
“······.”
The view that unfolded like that was completely black.
The sky is covered with thick dark clouds pouring rain.
Because of that, it is a dark dawn without a single ray of moonlight flowing through.
To pierce the darkness, Leon strengthened her eyesight with mana and scanned the surroundings.
Then what you see is a dull, gloomy forest.
The eastern forest, where one mercenary group was said to have been wiped out, stretched all the way to the horizon.
Between the castle and the forest, open land filled the short space.
And on that plain.
Something was pushing his feet.
Leon suddenly felt as if all his senses were wide open.
The body senses a threat and reacts automatically.
The border between forests and open areas.
A place where trees are sparse.
Smooth jet black claws stuck out.
The tree was so huge that it looked like a mere toothpick.
An equally magnificent body followed behind.
It had a long body like a centipede and countless legs.
Its many legs were long like a spider and flexible like an octopus.
The head was like that of an insect.
Compound eyes occupy half of the face.
Elongated horns on the chin like a stag beetle.
There is even a bunch of white tentacles in the area where the mouth should be.
“It’s so f*cking gross.”
“It’s disgusting.”
Leon and Aria frowned and expressed their feelings one by one.
He had all the external characteristics that humans instinctively loathe.
“What on earth is that? “Was there such a demon?”
“This is my first time seeing this too…”
Looking at the demonic energy felt and the overall dark appearance, it was clear that it was a demonic beast.
However, given that Aria does not know its identity, it is probably a new entity that humans have not yet identified.
It moved its terrible legs incessantly and quickly got closer to Freeville.
The scene was very foreign.
The house is of a size and length that can easily encompass one house.
Inevitably, the weight will be heavy.
Nevertheless, the movements were smooth and agile, like flowing water.
The ground we passed was only slightly pressed by grass, and there were no scratches.
Even with Leon’s highly sensitive hearing, he could not hear any noise at all.
It seems like a warrior at the level of a monster is stepping into the footsteps of a monster.
The magic that flows is not rough and violent like other magic beasts.
It felt somehow subtle, secret, and insidious.
“f*ck, if you hid something like that in the forest, the mercenary group will be wiped out.”
He was a perfect hunter.
It was a predator specialized in hiding and surprise attacks.
The image of a creature roaming the length and breadth of the forest, preying on humans, was clearly pictured in his mind.
It was at that time that he had run halfway across the plain.
Flash!
The brain fragment crashed into the ground, and in an instant, the world became bright with pure white light.
In that moment.
The guy’s head lifted slightly, and his compound eyes captured the two humans standing tall on the stone wall.
Then the two horns on his chin swayed from side to side.
It looks like he is drooling.
Or it seemed like he was ridiculing.
I am glad that the prey came out without running away.
“hahahaha.”
Leon let out a heartless laugh.
Is that bug?
It was absurd and shocking.
What followed was anger that immediately set my brain on fire.
“hahahahaha-!”
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Leon burst out in laughter.
—Suddenly.
And then, like a manic-depressive patient, his countenance suddenly hardened.
Growl! Pretzel Gwang!
A belated thunder echoed throughout the heavens.
“Aria.”
His voice growled low like that of a ferocious beast.
“Yes, master.”
Chijijijijijik-!
Aria answered, with blue electric currents coiled around her hands like vines.
“······.”
“······.”
The two did not talk any more.
Paaat!
The two birds jumped from the castle and cut through the windy and rainy dawn.