89 – Terror
“[Sylph]”
Appearing in her smoke, she summoned her spirit and sent her smoke that filled her surroundings up into the sky.
Only then did I confirm her identity, and I was filled with surprise rather than delight.
“Huh… Her Majesty the Queen?”
The elf queen in the white silk dress she met at the palace was using sylphs to deal with the thick smoke around her.
The ensuing water-attribute magic was extinguishing the fire in the burning building.
“I can detect where the explosion magic circle is installed, so hero, go to the refugee camp.”
“Yes? Ah yes….”
From the magic she uses to her ability to detect explosion magic circles…
Looking at her skills with her own eyes, it seemed unusual. Soon after, the elf knights who knew how to summon water spirits arrived, and she left as they were in search of the explosion magic circle.
“Ah! Karen…”
Sayre’s unexpected attacks…
I went to Karen in the refugee camp as the Elf Queen had said.
As well as the explosion sites that caught my eye the whole time I ran there, the whole city was already in chaos due to the aftermath of the explosion.
On the way back out of the city gate to the refugee camp, the situation was a lot better than in the city.
The fire caused by the previous explosion had already been extinguished, and the black smoke had turned white before I knew it, showing that it had calmed down to some extent.
As we passed between the tents here and there and approached the point where the explosion occurred,
There came the figure of Karen, who was digging the ground with her hands and examining the traces of the magic circle.
“Karen!”
“Hero?”
When Seir, the Four Heavenly Kings, self-destructed and approached Karen without erasing the scorched traces left on his body,
She looked a bit surprised when she saw my face.
“For now, we have to avoid this place. Explosions are happening everywhere right now.”
“Yes?”
“The explosion magic circles created by Seir, the Four Heavenly Kings, are installed all over the place.
Hearing my words, Karen stopped sweeping the floor, got up from her seat, and looked around.
Although the fire had been extinguished, many refugees and soldiers gathered nearby to restore the building.
“Karen, I think I need to come here for a while.”
Then…
A man who appeared to be a soldier was calling Karen,
The soldier must have seen something strange inside the tent, so he opened the entrance to the tent and tried to show us.
“Why?”
“There is a stone that looks like a magic stone here…”
As Karen and I approached the place, the soldier opened the entrance further and showed us the magic stone inside…
The size of the magic stone was already big enough to be called a rock, apart from the size of a stone.
“Magic Stone…?”
Karen saw the magic stone and went closer to see why the magic stone was there.
I wondered, I rubbed the ground around the tent with my feet, trying to check something.
And as I rubbed my feet, an unknown white line was drawn where the dirt inside was exposed.
Beside it was written full of characters I couldn’t understand.
“This can’t be…”
The size of this magic circle is completely different from the ones we’ve seen so far.
A while ago, it was a magic circle the size of a tent, but now it was a large magic circle the size of a dozen tents.
“Karen!! Hurry up and get out of here!!”
“Yes?”
“Look at the floor!!”
Karen, who was looking at the magic stone in the tent, looked at my hand, then she looked at the floor,
Only then did she realize that the large magic stone in the tent was the driving force behind the magic circle, and she ran out to avoid her body first.
But…
It’s already too late…
As if the time specified by the Four Heavenly Kings, Seir, was running out, the magic circle began to glow,
This was informing us that this magic circle would be activated soon.
Whoops!!
Kwaaa!!!!!!!!!!
*****
High Priest Radbod, a new warrior, and Saint Emilia, who had left the Eritre Empire, were stationed temporarily in front of the border of the Kingdom of Argen.
After some time had passed since she moved with the imperial army, Saint Emilia’s suspicions grew stronger.
First of all, Illuen’s suspicious behavior, and the fact that some troops are walking this long way without stopping without supplies, and a new hero who doesn’t even talk to him even though he is a member of the same hero’s party…
And, the terrible stench of the undead spread throughout this place where the army was stationed.
Even Lydia, who joined late, was unaware of this.
It was because the energy of the terrible black magic felt only by Saint Emilia, who used divine magic.
“So suspicious…”
“Huh? Why Emilia?”
Lydia asked the rest of her, which had been on her nerves due to her restless Emilia, but
Emilia pondered for a long time before she cautiously opened her mouth.
“Same as Iluen… High Priestess Radboud… And now everyone is strange, even the soldiers…”
“What? Doesn’t look like much of a difference to my eyes?”
“Can’t you feel it? These dark energies?”
“Dark aura?”
“Yeah… The energy that can only be felt in black magic.”
“Hmm…Well…”
Emilia told Lydia about the strange auras she was feeling now,
Lydia didn’t feel it at all, but rather she was looking at Emilia with her strange eyes.
“By the way, Emilia. Are you going to fight the hero like this? Judging from the momentum right now, I don’t think you’re just trying to scare me?”
“First of all, I pretended to follow the words of High Priestess Radboud and started off together… But I don’t know what to do in the future either.”
In fact, Emilia felt her strange aura felt by the High Priest Rod Board, and she started pretending to obey his words, but
She was helpless at the reaction of the High Priest Rad Board, who did not appear again after that.
The strange energy she felt…
In black magic, there are offensive and defensive magic, but there are also many mental attack magic that are famous in black magic.
One of them is mind control magic.
One of the dark magics that manipulates the opponent’s mind to act according to the will of the magician…
It’s not certain, but Emilia definitely felt the energy of the black magic from High Priest Radboud.
She and she seemed to have been caught up in something, but in fact she was brought here to the border of the kingdom of Arjen.
“Is there any news from the imperial palace?”
“Yes. Normally, she sent a letter to her brother, but for some reason, she seems to have no choice there either…”
“It can’t be helped… No matter how much command of the entire army was handed over to a new hero… It would be possible to recall the troops again… No way… What are you trying to do with a real hero?”
“I don’t think that’s the case… I think the imperial palace has its own circumstances.”
Saint Emilia tried to turn back this army to prevent the worst of her, but she was desperate to hear the news of her returning through Lydia.
If things go on like this… The worst situation of fighting the former hero and the current hero will happen…
Of course, she believed that the hero Carlos, who had her real holy sword, would win in the fight, but somehow, she couldn’t bear to relieve her uneasiness.
“It must be suspicious… Lydia, I’m going out for a while.”
For some reason, Emilia didn’t like the peaceful Lydia despite this serious situation,
After glancing at her, she left her barracks and headed for a place where the High Priest Rad Board might be.
The soldiers led by the hero stood in place like corpses, standing in line without the slightest movement.
Even the imperial soldiers who had led them had lost their morale and either sat helplessly or stood idle as if they were doing their duty.
Chin!
Emilia couldn’t bear to look around her and bumped into someone…
“This… Illuen?”
The person she bumped into is none other than the same party of warriors, and she was the princess of the elven kingdom just a few days ago.
Iluen, an elf who had now become a fugitive, stood there, staring straight in front of her, unmoving in the face of her shock when she collided with Emilia.
“Mi.. Sorry! Are you okay? Are you not hurt?”
“…..”
Emilia was hit harder than expected, so she looked around Iluen’s body to see if she was hurt anywhere.
“How have you been? I haven’t seen him since he left the Empire… What happened? Did you go through hardships in the elven kingdom?”
“…..”
Worried Emilia spoke to her, but Illuen’s attitude remained unchanged as she stood in her place.
“Ah.. Ah! That’s right… Illuen! Do you like to drink Won’t you go to my barracks? Let’s have a drink together after a long time.”
“…..”
“Iluen? Say something.”
Seeing her not moving even when Luen asked her to drink her favorite drink, in her frustration, she grabbed her by the shoulder and shook her.
Her Iluen’s mouth hardly moved.
“…. Er… Er… Emily…”
It’s not all of the names, but Illuen’s voice was definitely heard in Emilia’s ears as if she was calling her…
“Buy…Buy…Save…Give…”
Then, at her unexpected words coming out of her illuen’s mouth, Emilia stood still, frozen on the spot, staring at her illuen’s face.