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Southern part of the kingdom of Ellas.
The granary of the kingdom and the economic center that even manages trade beyond the archipelago is firmly held by the long-established Dunarev family.
As a result, it is common for large festivals held in the south to be held by Dunareff and his blood relatives.
A spring social gathering after a winter festival and a good harvest event. Marie received a massage for her stiff shoulders while wearing a dress tailored just for spring.
“Egogo… My shoulder hurts.”
“Hmm? My daughter. Does your shoulder hurt a lot? Would you like Daddy to pat you?”
“Um… that’s it!”
“······!!”
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Now nineteen adults. Although he had come to an age where his father’s touch would be burdensome, Marie’s father, the Duke of Marde, had a shocked expression on his face.
“Well, until last year, nothing like this had happened…!”
“Oh, Ii too. It’s time for Marie to get to know a man.”
“Honey? What does that mean?”
At the words of his wife, the Duchess of Elencia, Mard’s pupils widened.
“It’s already been over half a year since our Mari dated Corin-kun. A long time ago——”
“mom?!”
Either that or not, Elencia didn’t hesitate to say something she couldn’t say to her daughter with a happy expression.
“I don’t have to use birth control——”
“Oh, really! Mom, don’t talk like that! Oh, with Corinne yet… that, that’s…!”
The girl, even her ears were red, poked her side in response to Elencia’s reproachful remark. But she wasn’t the only enemy.
“No, sister. You haven’t dated yet?
Second daughter, Yennefer Dunareff.
“Sister, didn’t you say you had a nephew?”
eldest son Eric Dunareff.
“What is it? Rumors spread that you did everything you had to do?”
“Weren’t you getting married after graduation?”
Twins Lily and Robert Dunareff.
“Your sister… are you marrying a knight hyung?”
Third son Barg Dunarev.
“Klaruk!”
Even her two-year-old daughter, Hilia Dunarev. They were the three sons and daughters of the good-looking Dunarev couple, but at times like this, they are often hit by concentrated fire from all directions.
“Aww, it’s noisy! With Ko, Corin… healthy… will go up step by step, if not too much!”
“Daughter? Why can’t you say ‘sane’? Didn’t you promise Dad?”
“Marie. Our cute eldest daughter. Look at this mother.”
“Uh, Mom?”
“Children should give birth to this mother. She is very much looking forward to her grandchildren.”
“More, let’s have Deokgu…”
“Deokgu is cute too. Come here.”
At Elysia’s words, Deok-gu, who had been swallowing the wine fountain from afar, came quickly to all fours. A 2.4m tall individual wearing a custom-made coat from a luxury brand, raising his chin on Elysia’s open palm.
“Please make my brother Deokgu soon.”
“eww···!”
“Hey, honey? What are you talking about?”
Slap your lips! The Duke of Marde immediately closed his mouth on the palm he covered.
“There aren’t many friends like that. If you’re lost, someone might steal you.”
“Mmmmm…!”
It’s not that I can’t guess. This is because strong competitors have already appeared.
Dutch.
A ginger poetry girl who is a demon just like herself.
A somewhat aloof and insensitive girl who won’t be interested in anything starts wandering around Corinne.
Of course, it must be because of that incident. because he did too
“You don’t like me, do you?”
A declaration of rivalry that went so far as to be explicit. After a fierce battle of nerves, Marie and Hwaran understood each other as enemies.
‘for a moment?’
The spring social gathering also ends in four days. Corinne left a sign to come visit her before the solar eclipse on February 8th, so we have to leave soon.
Of course, it takes about two weeks to arrive by Wyvern, so it’s plenty of time. But something… something ominous chills came over me.
Marie, who became a vampire, acquired something beyond a woman’s intuition. Her intuition warned her that something big was going on.
Specifically, about your own love front.
“Oh, Mom…!”
“What’s happen?”
“Can I go alone?”
“Cheer up, my daughter.”
Elysia smiled and waved her hand. Before Duke Marde could say anything, Marie was already running.
“Wyvern… no! I’ll borrow the Hresbelg!!”
“Sure.”
“Oh no! Where are you going, Mary! Vacations are for the whole family to spend together!”
The brothers and sisters help each other in the cry of the Duke of Marde.
“Ah~ You can make a family there, Dad.”
“A first-class knight’s brother-in-law… I should brag about it to my friends.”
There is no side to the Duke of Marde. Marie got on Deokgu with the full support of her brothers and mother.
“Let’s go, Deokgu…! Dad, let’s go find it!”
“Sniff…!”
Although it took a lot of time because it was a winter festival or a spring event, it was easy if you took the Hresbelg.
“In the East… there’s only Arisha! Corinne said she’s busy too…!”
Up until this point, Marie hadn’t expected it at all. The news of Aden’s eldest daughter’s engagement.
* * * *
Arisha is learning the sword, when was the last time she was motivated?
At first, she followed her sister whom she longed for, then she was possessed by the sword.
And the day he first cut someone, he was smiling.
It gave me goosebumps. I was afraid of myself. He remembered himself drowning in the black sea and struggling.
After killing her talent like that, she woke up again thanks to the advice and help of a boy.
The sword I grabbed again. I understood and accepted my demonic nature a little.
「KUKIKIKIKIKI──!」
And I realized That there is another being with a terrifying demonic nature like himself in this world.
It’s definitely a monster… a monster that uses swordsmanship. A beast that doesn’t just wield it instinctively, but wields it with a solid understanding of swordsmanship.
Sword Demon (劍鬼).
I saw and understood at a glance. That’s the sword ghost. that you and yourselves are the same.
And that’s not all. The guy is stronger than himself. He was an unstoppable force.
‘······scared.’
afraid. I am even more afraid to understand that talent and that demonic nature.
Because that is an existence possessed by cutting. I had a hunch that we would inevitably face each other again.
Even himself, who hates fighting, drools drooling while imagining cutting each other, but there is no way that a more beastly guy would not be looking forward to it.
we must kill each other
Did you know that seagulls are just beach chickens?
You have to learn. How to cut a bastard. otherwise die
-Fuck…!
“Ugh…!”
A sharp sword that cuts through the side. Arisha stepped back while stealing the blood-soaked uniform.
“Is it just this much?”
A savage looking down on himself with a mischievous gaze. Arisha looked at her grandfather with a fearful gaze.
A person too gigantic to face, like a mountain.
She is the next in the family next to her sister… No, maybe even more than that, she’s a blood relative, but even now, when I see her, I get goosebumps.
“You’re still a terrible basic, granddaughter.”
“I’ve grown a lot.”
“Don’t assume that our standards are the same as yours.”
The Sword Emperor’s gaze turned toward the horizon. The field of view of criminals is different from the width.
“But you’re faster than I thought. I’d never expect you to ask this old lady to teach you the sword.”
“Grandpa. That monster…”
“In my heart, I consider you to be my disciple. Heck, he probably sees me as a stepping stone for his growth.”
“Why don’t you kill me?”
“Because he is a talented person who will reach the Heavenly Sword.”
“······It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”
“That’s right. I made it.”
“·······.”
“Those who have reached this level! Able to slash the sky and slash the world! Truly the god of swords! I want to see such a swordsman!”
The more I listen to it, the more my grandfather’s world view becomes bizarre. Are you going to let such a monster go unattended just for that reason?
“I… I don’t understand Grandpa.”
“There is no need to understand. Neither blood relatives nor colleagues… the stubbornness of an old swordsman that no one can understand.”
The Sword Emperor aimed his sword at his granddaughter. The blood of his flesh and blood flows from the sword he just cut through his granddaughter’s thigh and waist.
“What can I say? In the end, the world is strong and self-respecting. Even the bystanders are the exclusive property of the powerful.”
“Ugh…”
It wakes up even though it makes a sound of pain. Even if I didn’t understand the madman in front of me, I needed his teaching.
“I’ll turn you into a ghost. The demon of the sword! kiII him and use it as food to pursue a higher realm. My true successor…!”
“A senile old man…!”
“Cuckold, now you’re starting to look like your sister!”
The sparring begins again.
If you watch it, it’s not a sparring, but a life-or-death battle.
* * * *
starry night. Arisha led her tired body to the empty lot where the task was being performed.
“You’ve grown up a lot.”
“Are you here?”
Corinne Locke. He is watching an oak tree growing in a clearing.
It is the fourth day since the last task was announced. The oak cane used as a seedling is growing rapidly, just as Uskias said that it could reach the sky.
“But it’s not enough. I’m sorry Yuel, but the growth rate is not comparable to the trees that Doomnorix grows.”
“Then… what will happen?”
“Well, somehow it will work out. Don’t worry.”
Corinne chews the preserved beef jerky requested by the druids of Pindias. Naturally, I gave it to Arisha.
“Oh, thank you…”
“Even the old Sword Emperor doesn’t care. I’m going to die of excessive bleeding before I can even climb the tree.”
“·······.”
Arisha looked at Corinne from the side as she chewed on the beef jerky and was curious.
What the hell is this person fighting for? Why did they come all the way across the border to do the druid’s work?
I don’t know where he’s finally looking, but what he’s shown over the past year. Looking back, one thing is certain.
help people
Even when he prevented the escape of a boar the size of a house and blocked Professor Permak from infiltrating the academy alone,
Even when confronted by the devil of the Vajra Buddha who cannot be matched.
In the end, all of that was just a process to help others, not yourself.
He was a boy like a righteous hero who seems to come out of fairy tales these days.
How could this person… have such a strong will?
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Just like his grandfather, Geomje, he was a person he didn’t know well.
“You must be working hard even late at night.”
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Just then, a cracked voice approaches from behind. Arisha looked back in surprise.
A dark-looking old man wearing a robe. Unlike Geomje, who was like a roaring active volcano, this one was like a forest in the middle of the night when dawn approached.
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“Dumnorix.”
A druid who assists Dun Skys and a legislator who is considered one of the greatest elders. He stares straight at Corinne with a white-tipped gaze.
“Coryn Locke. The Queen’s Spear. I wanted to talk with you at least once.”
“Do you want to persuade me as an ally?”
Corinne accepts conversations like a friend of 10 years even in front of enemies. That bizarre affinity is also a mysterious accident to Arisha.
“It can’t be. Not now, but I’m here to engrave the enemy we’ll fight next.”
The aged druid looks down on the human being himself, Corinne Roch, as if he is interested. What will the druid read from that gaze, like an old tree that looks like it has rotted away?
“Really? Then let’s think that we’ve gotten a little closer between killing each other later and ask one.”
“Tell me. Queen’s Spear.”
“Druids are those who love forests and spirits. Aren’t they conservationists or something? But why are they trying to ‘bring paradise’? A lot of people will die.”
It was the first time I had heard of it. Arisha was frightened by their extraordinary purpose. And I was surprised that Corinne Locke would try to fight them.
“There’s something wrong with the word love. We druids are just beings in nature.”
“Why is that person…”
Arisha instinctively realized as she met the gaze of Dumnorix, which looked like a rotten old tree. The crisis of life that is felt even when there is no particular threat.
“Why can’t someone who loves forests and spirits want humans to die?”
“??!”
I feel a chill chill. Corinne too, but her forehead was furrowed.
I don’t feel any emotions or thoughts from Dumnorix. There is a providence that is incomprehensible to the aged old tree.
“Human beings are destroying nature, and it will accelerate as the days go by.”
“I feel like a common environmentalist.”
“Not wrong. Just more extreme and evil.”
Doomnorix twitched the corners of his mouth inappropriately.
“Humans can die a little longer.”
Arisha swallows in horror. A simple and clear solution to the point of being evil yourself.
Is it such a broken logic that a bard who sings harmony between nature and spirits wants the extinction of humans?
My grandfather was also a madman, but they were more. A malignant person who is aware even of himself but does not hesitate to act.
When they even feel fear, Corinne grabs Arisha’s trembling shoulders and speaks.
“Take a good look, Arisha. These evil beings. I will kill them all.”
“Nose, Mr. Corin…”
At Corinne’s young declaration of flesh, Dumnorix laughs as if watching a young grandson’s joke.
“But, that won’t be now. And you’ll fail now, at least.”
“You’re confident.”
The eyes of the two glanced at each other’s cane seedlings.
Corinne’s cane grew about 10 meters despite Yuel’s sincere care. This alone is truly magic, but comparison is always relative.
“·······.”
already 30 m. If you look at Doomnorix, which grew three times in the same time even with simple calculations, you can see the end of this growth competition.
“It’s great that there are no red berries of the rowan tree, but will I be able to match the solar eclipse two weeks from now?”
“Why wait until the eclipse? It’s time to climb.”
“Hmm?”
Corinne stood up triumphantly. At Doomnorix, who gave him a puzzled look, he took out a bottle from his backpack.
It was a bottle full of finely ground golden something…
“Uh, Corinne. Did you use this for the cane task?”
Second, remember when you performed the task. A hidden card that Corinne took out when she was wandering around because she couldn’t find the oak tree where the mistletoe was parasitic.
“That’s… what the heck is it?”
Even beings in nature who have lived for hundreds of years have not realized their identity. That’s right.
There has never been a golden raw material in this bottle before, and there will never be one after that… It’s the only hidden piece in history.
“Look carefully. I’m going to try some magic from now on.”
Open the bottle opener and pour generously towards the seedlings. Like a farmer in an orchard applying fertilizer.
– Cuckoo! Kururuk…!
Cane seedlings that respond straight away. The sapling that absorbed the golden fertilizer wriggled——
“The miracle created by golden mandragora fertilizer. Let’s start watching.”
──It began to soar toward the sky while scattering a strange sound of growing pains.
【Golden Mandragora Fertilizer】
-> Helps the growth of magic plants.
-> Forms a range-type magic recovery field. 185 recovery per minute.