049. Owner of the Underground City (2)
It is an awkward silence. Beatrice, her face blushing, looked at Veris with her eyes watering.
Gulp.
It’s colorless to have played such a prank until now, Veris was looking at her booty obtained after defeating the Death Knight.
It’s a great sword that doesn’t go well with him. Well, it was thanks to the fact that the sword was too big even for Beatrice, who was almost ignorant about swords.
In the end, Beatrice became curious and asked a question.
“Are you going to use that sword?”
“No? Who are you going to give it to?”
Is it like that?
It was the size of a greatsword, which was awkward even for her, but Veris seemed to have the same idea.
“Who are you going to give it to?”
“Your brother.”
“Brother… ….”
Beatrice narrowed her large eyes. When Veris talks about her younger brother, she must be referring to Gunther von Haren, her one and only younger brother.
“You don’t know how much he whined before that she didn’t take care of him. So she decided to bring something useful this time.”
“…… Okay.”
Beatrice ran her greatsword through her new eyes.
Bondy Death Knights all use great swords that make their mouths open. It was common sense like tradition, so this was also a great sword that looked good even at first glance.
The only regret is that the greatsword is still full of dust thanks to the wind and waves of the years?
“I heard that all magicians who have mastered the Circle are like psychopaths.”
“…… What is that all of a sudden?”
“When I look at Beatrice, I don’t feel that way at all.”
Having said that, Veris raised her greatsword with one hand and swung it. She was a very strong person.
“Is that so?”
Whether Veris did it or not, Beatrice blushed again.
Well, this was something she acknowledged to some extent. Originally, all wizards who learned the Circle spent their entire lives exploring and studying only magic and mana without any emotion.
…… Of course, it was the same with Beatrice before coming to her academy. Should I say that she felt that she became more tolerant of emotional expressions for reasons unknown to herself.
“Maybe…… There is also a possibility that the power of the Circle is fading.”
“Is it fading?”
Veris tilted her head at Beatrice’s sudden confession.
Suddenly, what are you talking about? The Circle must be a medium of magic that a wizard belonging to the Mage Tower cherishes for the rest of his life.
Then it was a big deal. After all, they are married, but it would be a lie if they said they weren’t even worried about it.
“Actually, Circles are beings that function by consuming not only mana but also people’s emotions.”
“I know that. That’s why your personality is so strange.”
“…… In any case, if the owner of that circle has feelings that are different from usual…… It also has a negative effect on the circle.”
Verys’s eyes narrowed.
What she says is simple. Recently, I have been feeling emotional ups and downs, and isn’t it the sound that the circle has weakened in the aftermath?
Then why? The question arose out of nowhere. Maybe it was because she met Gunter and Berris after a long time since coming to the academy.
“Then I must return to the Mage Tower as soon as possible.”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
“…… What are you talking about?”
“That…… Relics! I’m the one who’s in charge of transporting the relics.”
After a brief moment of thought, the answer Beatrice came up with was the sound of an artifact. In response, Veris answered quickly, as she had a bit of a stabbing corner.
“I promise. As soon as you leave the dungeon, you will hand over the Stone of Truth.”
“I can’t… ….”
However, Beatrice let out a deep sigh as if Berris’ answer was not the correct answer. It looks like neither this nor that.
At that, Veris couldn’t help but be curious.
“Looks like he really likes me.”
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“Ah, ah, no?”
Veris laughed at Beatrice’s obvious reaction as she turned her head away.
Isn’t that what anyone sees?
───Koo-Goo Palace!
While Veris and Beatrice were passing the time with useless conversation, a loud roar rang from the sky.
With that, the gaze of the two moved to the sky at the same time.
As before, it is a strange sky that emits purple light. However, the surprising fact was that a group of lights similar to stars floating in the sky were gathering toward one place like a meteor shower.
“… ….”
And it was also a place Veris knew very well. Isn’t it the place where the altar was placed, the ring that comforted Veris, who hadn’t reaped much from her past visits to this city?
“Beatrice.”
“Yes.”
“Among the magic, is there such a thing as large-scale space movement magic? For example, something as large as this city can be moved entirely.”
A loud roar accompanied by the movement of the sky that suddenly began was reverberating through the city.
Beatrice nodded slowly at the question asked in that tense atmosphere.
“It is a magic that has been practiced now, but it is written in the literature that such magic definitely existed in the age of sorcery.”
“Then, wasn’t this city, in fact, like a prison in the age of magic? A prison that seals something.”
That was a difficult thing to answer. But Beatrice knew that it wasn’t an impossible sound at all.
Aren’t there countless skeletons in this space that exists inside the ‘door’ right now? If you look at the death knight that appears at the end and the sky that started this turbulent change…….
“Jail… ….”
Even she had no idea what great man was doing. However, if this place is a prison according to Berris’ opinion, wouldn’t it make sense?
For example, it could have been something like this. The great sorcerer of the supreme sorcery era sealed the entire group of demon followers who fought against them and transferred them to the depths of the underground with this city.
And thanks to the disappearance of the symbol of the seal, the magic item Veris brought, the seal began to disintegrate rapidly.
…… It’s a tight fit.
Then, what is the existence that will appear at the end of this current?
Beatris caught the group of lights pouring down from the sky in her eyes. The golden mana used by the priests of the holy kingdom, the high-density compressed white mana, and the purple halo, completely different, were directed toward that lofty altar.
“It feels like something is being released.”
As if aware of Beatrice’s worries, Veris was expressing her peaceful thoughts.
In addition to the fact that the city of the Age of Sorcery was located in an underground dungeon, it also intrigued Veris as he had to deal with an unknown enemy.
“That… ….”
──Koo Goong!
Beatrice let out a blank voice. It was because the group of lights that had flocked to the altar of the tower soon began to diminish and soon changed into a single figure.
To evaluate the impressions calmly, he was not an ordinary person.
Compared to humans, it was larger, and most of its size was covered by large black robes. At least, the fact that its existence can be confirmed is that thanks to the fact that the body was not completely covered by the robe, the shape of a pure white bone was visible in the middle.
“The disaster of the age of sorcery… ….”
Beatrice was very aware of its existence.
She is in charge of research in the age of magic. She was, therefore, already aware of the terrible calamities that killed so many people, and brought them back to life falsely.
“Rich… ….”
The purpose of this city, facility, is now clear. This wasn’t just a city built by people from the past who had nothing to do.
…… It’s probably just a facility built to confine dangerous beings deep underground. Or that the city itself was transferred to this underground place with great magic.
“It’s fun. It’s fun.”
Perhaps she was aware of this terrible situation, Veris muttered in a voice full of curiosity.
A lich appeared at the top of the tower right away. Not only that, but figures resembling the Death Knight that Veris defeated earlier are appearing one after another all over the city. What a reaction like that!
“Uh, what should I do? We now…… !”
In fact, it can be said that there was a way to live. However, since Lich was released from the seal and a number of Death Knights ruled by him appeared, Veris and Beatrice could be said to be dead.
“What should I do?”
“…… Yes?”
“We have to fight. To me, it seems like the only way to survive?”
“… ….”
Beatrice gave Veris a blank gaze once more.
The opponent is a rich man. Of course, there is no certainty because it is a specter of a very old past. However, given the circumstances, there was no such thing as a monster in her head, so in a way, it was a certain fact.
Is that all? Even if the death knight with blue eyes glowed right now, it was overheated.
‘Fighting…….’
Beatrice raised her hand and placed it on her own chest.
I could still feel the circle, the symbol of the wizard belonging to the Great Mage Tower, spinning around her heart.
But…… Even for Beatrice, the great wizard of later times, the existence of the lich was enough to instill fear.
How can the information about the lich remain until now when the sighting was cut off hundreds of years ago!
Whirick! Chin!
[ Kkeukkeuk. ]
The dark entity that floated down slowly descended from the tower, and soon stepped on the ground and faced Veris.
He laughed in a voice that sounded like scratching iron. Unlike the Death Knight, who couldn’t even speak properly because he had no vocal cords, the Lich, a symbol of darkness, was speaking normally.
[ Thank you. Thanks to you, I was finally released. It’s been a while since the first stage of the sealing was released, but the third stage of the sealing has been released so early! ]
Facing him at his feet, Beatrice’s body trembled like an aspen tree. Just by facing it, you can feel the formidable mana and power.
A presence of darkness. The most evil being recorded in history has appeared in the basement of the academy.
“Hey, Skeleton.”
“?”
Beatrice doubted her ears for a moment.
It was thanks to Veris who threw words at the lich that sounded like she was trying to provoke the enemy.
“What the hell is a skinny skeleton bastard talking about?”
[ Oh, my God. The young child is not afraid. ]
The skeleton in the hood of the robe smiled eerily.
[ I feel good thanks to the unsealing, so I will specially make you a Death Knight. I am the best necromancer in the church. ]
“Then let’s ask one more question before becoming a Death Knight.”
[ …… What is it? ]
“This city, we have come to the conclusion that it is the facility that sealed you. It’s true?”
[ Kkeukkeuk! They are smarter than you think. Right. It was created by Heimdall, a human archmage in the past. Tearfully, maybe he was thinking of turning the undead back into humans, but he sealed us away without killing us. hehehe. ]
Veris nodded at the overly kind Richie’s answer, as if saying that she was in a really good mood was an understatement.
The general situation has been grasped. The purpose of the existence of this city located in the underground dungeon of an unknown academy was ‘sealing’.
Cutely, Veris took the ring that was the medium of the seal and broke the seal made by the archmage Heimdall.
If I didn’t, something terrible could have happened. Lich is such a famous catastrophe that even Veris knows about it.
Maybe…… The fact that the dungeon guided Veris back to this place, and the fact that Veris felt a strong pull, didn’t actually mean that you should get rid of the cheap things.
“This is a killer fish.”
Sureureung!
Verys, who threw away the greatsword, quickly drew it.
The dead don’t talk.
I absolutely had to stop this talkative undead from going out and bragging about the fact that Veris was the kind person who broke the seal.