222. Trauma (3)
“What, what! That guy!”
“What’s so fast… Ugh!”
The field of view changed rapidly.
Cutting down the soldiers lined up in the hundreds of meters of corridor, Schluss was advancing at an astonishing speed.
In the meantime, the veins in his eyes burst, his vision reddened, and the muscles of his whole body ruptured, signaling his limits.
The internal circuit ran out of control and was eroded by magic energy.
But Schluss didn’t stop.
I just cut and cut until everything in sight stopped moving.
“Archers! How can that bastard…”
My ears went numb, and then I couldn’t hear anything.
The field of view gradually narrowed, but there was still no problem in fighting.
However, they couldn’t show off their overwhelming performances anymore.
As the spears and knives of the soldiers of the Kingdom Army, who had narrowed the encirclement, were flooding in, the scars increased.
The skinned limbs were no different from those of a corpse.
I could see white bones already showing through the huge wound on my arm, but I was moving as if I didn’t feel any pain at all.
‘It hurts, I’ll search…’
No matter how you look at it, the senses that are now connected are not 100%.
Even so, the unbearable pain stabbed me to the point that I had the urge to release the crystal ball right away.
In reality, Schluss was feeling the pain of doubling this.
He was fighting, feeling all the uncontrollable pain from the surge of adrenaline.
“Die······ die······ die······!”
Even as I was thinking of other things, Schluss continued to slash his soldiers.
The archers who came up to the wall belatedly turned into pieces of meat without a chance to resist and rolled down the wall again, and the spearmen who were trying to push me away with their spears were busy cutting them off as soon as I dug into the inside of the spear blade.
Maybe it was thanks to the enemies kicking the corpse under the ascending foot.
The soldiers of the Kingdom Army soon began to walk backwards, as if they were terrified.
“Seo, isn’t it the Imperial First Sword?”
“What? The Imperial First Sword?”
“Retreat! Retreat!”
“Where… Ugh.”
I tried to chase the enemies who were trying to escape, but my legs didn’t listen at the amazing timing.
The enemy had already left the main gate and was on the run.
The sight of thousands of soldiers fleeing in confusion was quite spectacular from the top.
At that moment, the field of vision went black, and everything went black.
“·······.”
Now it’s time to collapse and rest, but Schluss started to go somewhere, groping the floor.
He knew he was looking for his father’s body by looking at the stone floor and the direction he was touching.
At that moment, a sudden wind blew and I felt warmth.
I couldn’t hear or see, but I could tell that the lord’s visit had been opened.
“·······.”
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Schlus’s lips and tongue moved busily.
It seems like he’s saying something, but I had no way of knowing what he meant.
Then his big hands grabbed my shoulders.
“·······?!”
Then I was pushed back and felt the fall.
At the end of the infinite fall, a huge shock hit my back.
The touch of cold water in midwinter froze my senses.
I lost consciousness in an instant.
‘sh*t…’
This bastard was kicked by the lord because of what he said.
After making thousands of enemies retreat.
It was just ridiculous.
The time when consciousness subsided was only for a moment.
I woke up with the sensation of someone grabbing my clothes and pulling me.
The cold sensation like the ice field that paralyzed the whole body disappeared and the surroundings gradually became warmer.
A small hand like a fern caught my hand wandering in the air.
I noticed it as soon as I touched it.
This warmth. These long fingers. This gripping way.
This was clearly the hand of young Iris.
‘That’s how it happened…’
After this, I didn’t really need to look any further.
Because I’ve already seen it in “Memories of the Body” Before.
After this, Schlus will wake up in the monastery and learn to see and hear with mana while receiving Iris’s devoted care.
I turned my memory all the way back.
Scenes were assigned and passed quickly.
In it, Schluss left Eisburg and traveled across the country.
It was to find my mother.
He earned one day, ate one day, slept one day, and moved again the next day.
Since I had to pay for lodging and transportation every day, I had no time to accumulate money.
Along the way, he got caught wrong and served time in prison.
Schlus finally reached the islands after ten years of travel.
“Marie Ale? I think I heard that he works at the Imperial University.”
“Imperial University?”
I went around the country and got intelligence from the island I finally arrived at.
Schluss used the pennies he had saved in his pockets to buy decent clothes, shave his head and trim his beard.
Unless it is during the semester, outsiders are not allowed to enter Imperial University for any reason.
Unless there are exceptions such as entrance exams.
It was good even for a short while.
I just wanted to go inside and ask for a name.
“Are you taking the entrance exam? Please come this way.”
Schluss tidied up his clothes and proudly entered the Imperial University.
“Wait a minute.”
“Fill out and submit your application form quickly.”
“Ah. I’ve finished writing, but it’s nothing else…”
“What’s the matter?”
“Oh.”
At that moment, I felt as if something was suddenly cut off.
It was a familiar feeling.
What unfolded after that was a sight I knew well.
Yes. This was the sight I saw when I first possessed this world.
“Why are you doing this? Please pay quickly.”
“Yes?”
“I told you to turn it in. Time is up. Give it to me.”
“·······?”
His breath was choking.
‘Ha, f*ck…’
So you’re saying that I possessed and stood in the way of Schluss right before he met his mother?
Mr. Marie didn’t recognize me because I thought my pseudonym Schluss Heinkel was my real name?
And that’s why Mari died in vain…
“Ouch… Ugh…”
I was on the ground sobbing while holding the crystal ball before I knew it.
It was more painful than I could have imagined.
I didn’t expect it to be such exquisite timing.
Didn’t know that Schluse was just about to become happy again, but he took away the chance…
“Whoa…
I just swallowed my tears and caught my breath.
I couldn’t find any useful information.
But there were clear results.
The stuffiness that has always been nestled somewhere inside my chest is gone.
Doubts about who I am and who the owner of this body is, flew away at once.
The anxiety that had been oppressing me no longer disappeared, and a calm and quiet sense of guilt filled the place instead.
That alone was enough.
‘Let’s take a closer look…’
It’s like I’ve looked through the past with this, but there were too many parts that were skipped by fast-forwarding in the middle.
If you look closely, you might get some hints.
As if possessed, I refocused and rewinded the memories of the past.
At that moment, my hand fell off the crystal ball with the sensation of being pulled back.
“Erika?”
“Haaa…”
There Erica sat there, breathing heavily.
Water dripped from her hair.
The white clothes were soaking wet, so all the underwear inside was showing through.
“It’s almost 2 hours… But it’s not coming out, what are you doing, you fool…”
“·······?”
An hour passed?
Then what was the spell that was meant to support my body?
Damn it. It was already activated and then disappeared.
It seems that it was activated when the sensory interlock was intense in the middle, so it passed without noticing it at all.
“Schluss······. Save Yulia······. Please······.”
“What?”
Something, whether water or tears, ran down Erika’s cheeks and fell.
What the hell are you talking about?
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At that time, an intrusive sentence appeared before my eyes.
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“Hamm…”
Erica opened her mouth and yawned.
Soon, her mother’s sharp eyes flew in and Erica turned her head away and turned away.
In front of others, even yawning was to be done like an aristocrat.
But there are only butlers and maids here…
“It’s been 50 minutes since His Excellency just entered.”
“I’m going to pick you up soon.”
Erika stretched out and stood up.
She had to remove Schluse’s hand from the crystal ball before the hour was up.
It is said that if you keep your hands on the crystal ball for too long, you will fall into a state of trance and become a disabled person.
The last minute was an hour, but in fact, 50 minutes was already dangerous.
I know that Schluss’s mental strength is not normal, but will he be able to withstand that crystal ball?
I didn’t really want to try it.
“Then I’ll come back.”
“That’s it.”
As Erica climbed into her boat, her maid began slowly pushing her pedals.
Looking at it, I’m sure it’s not crazy already.
Erica exhaled nervously.
Quang!
“Kyaaah?!”
At that time, there was a great vibration with a roar.
Black smoke was rising from behind the mansion’s walls.
I had never heard of a binge like this before.
This sound was heard when the terrorists who broke into Imperial University self-destructed.
‘No way!’
Erica hurriedly checked the state of the barrier surrounding her mansion.
As expected, the barrier had already been shattered.
Erika quickly developed a new barrier technique.
Her power output was slightly weaker than when she originally guarded the mansion, but the spell that unfolded in less than 10 seconds completely covered the mansion in an instant.
It took less than 20 seconds from the damage to the barrier to restoration.
“Butler! Has anyone broken into the mansion?”
“Wait a minute, Deputy Count… No. The guards said not a single rat could come in.”
“Whew…”
There, the butler’s report drove a wedge.
Even as she sighed in relief, Erica couldn’t help thinking that something was wrong with her.
If Asylum’s fanatics were aiming to break into this mansion, shouldn’t they wait close to the wall and pour in right after the explosion?
Recovering the barrier in 20 seconds is on the fast side, but 20 seconds was enough time to jump in from 100m away.
‘Wasn’t the sum right?’
It must have been simply a matter of timing.
Erica decided to put her doubts aside and thank her for her good fortune.
The follow-up attack was more of a problem than that.
I just used up all my mana in the barrier spell, so if another self-destruct attack was applied, it was no longer possible to restore the barrier.
Still, now the guards are on full alert, and the Imperial Police must have been dispatched and running.
There was no point in being attacked helplessly.
“Lieutenant Count! Evacuate to the building quickly!”
“Erika-sama too-“
“I can’t. I’ll take Schluse out.”
“Yeah, but the safety of the young lady comes first.”
“Ah! You can’t just go quickly!”
Even at this moment, time was passing.
If left alone, Schluss might really go crazy.
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Erica grabbed her maid’s hand and urged her to head for her cave.
She was the moment the maid froze, not knowing what to do.
“Huh?”
Hearing the flapping of her wings, Erica suddenly looked up at her.
A pigeon was flying high in the sky.
It seems that he came inside the moment the barrier was broken and got trapped.
However, the bird’s appearance was familiar to my eyes.
“Huh? Those red eyes, somewhere…”
At that moment, the dove disappeared without a trace, and a black figure suddenly appeared.
A fluttering black cloak.
It wasn’t until the figure began to move that Erica realized it was a person.
“Mom! Yulia! Avoid!”
Kooung!
As it crashed, a loud landing sound rang out.
Erica, who briefly covered her eyes with her arm from the gusting wind, hurriedly rose to her feet on top of her boat.
She was sitting there, her butler, maids, and even her mother, staring at one place with startled eyes.
“Everyone, don’t move, or I’ll cut your throat.”
“Huh…”
A man wearing a black hood stood there.
With one hand holding Yulia’s hair, the other held her dagger to Yulia’s neck.