050. The owner of the underground city (3)
It feels like my mouth is burning. In addition, her wobbly arms and legs expressed just how tense she was now.
‘What happened to me!’
Beatrice found it difficult to believe the reality unfolding before her eyes.
The fact that the archmage of the age of sorcery created a ‘prison’ with transfer magic in the underground dungeon of the academy, and the fact that the lich sealed in the prison has numerous subordinates…… The fact that he woke up with the Death Knight also seemed like a terrible joke that was hard to believe.
“What are you doing? I have to shoot magic.”
“… ….”
Beatrice’s jaw dropped open at Berry’s sticking to her composure even in this situation.
Already considering them prey, the lich stood at the top of that tall building, looking down at them with gleeful eyes.
Look at the Death Knight slowly closing the siege right now.
Unlike the previous Death Knights who battled Veris, they were clearly under the control of that lich.
─Ugh!
But Beatrice was not an easy level wizard either. After she entered the basement, she took out her first staff and immediately began chanting magic.
The opponent is strong. The numbers are overwhelmingly larger than this one.
Even if the number of Death Knights in front of me is already over ten. It was necessary to do everything in her power to wipe out this endless wave of powerful enemies.
“True flame that breathed primeval life!”
Beatrice’s main specialty is flame magic. Without a moment’s hesitation, Beatrice’s sonorous cry, which had poured a large amount of her mana into this magic, began to resonate in her hall.
Clap clap clap clap!
Whether she knows her sincere heart or not, it is Veris who claps her hands beside her. In response, Beatrice tried to ignore him and continued her incantation.
“Come down here and burn the enemies!”
A group of Death Knights, who noticed her large-scale magic, started charging each other with their weapons. But who is Beatrice?
An elite mage of the Mage Tower, a mage who handles the ‘circle’ in exchange for emotions.
Instantly, a large amount of mana moved from her chest to the circle, and finally to the staff.
───Ugh! Wow!
And then the festival of red-hot fire bursting out.
Intensive enough to burn everything, wide magic bloomed at her fingertips.
“Awesome! It’s Bessie, too.”
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Whether or not he knows her sincerity, Berrys is nodding her head and holding her thumb up even now. Naturally, Beatrice couldn’t help but cry at that appearance.
“This is a dangerous situation! I can’t beat that many Death Knights by myself! This is not the time to be kidding!”
“I guess so. However, the experience must be shared. We need to take some time to cheer.”
Beatrice raised her small fist at Veris’ words, which she couldn’t understand, and pounded her chest. It was because she was so frustrated.
─Chiik!
Beatrice’s flame magic boasted quite an outstanding firepower.
The proof is that one of the Death Knight’s weapons immediately hit by her magic started to melt.
But trouble soon arose. It was thanks to several Death Knights who broke through the wall of flame that had taken over the hall before they knew it and wielded their hideous weapons at Veris and Beatrice.
“Kyaaak!”
It was a nimble movement that even she couldn’t detect. At that, Beatrice was taken aback and couldn’t help but let out her sharp scream.
Wow!
─Suddenly!
But it was Berrys who reacted before she did the Death Knight.
Even if Death Knight is one of the rulers of the dead who have lost their reason in the first place, they are currently being manipulated by that evil lich.
So, this type of attack on the mage fell well within Veris’ expectations.
[ Strong. It will be a very good material. ]
The voice of the lich bursts with admiration in the distance, breaking through the blazing fire magic that set the city on fire.
“I’m opening it.”
But despite Richie’s remarks, Veris just laughed.
Unfortunately, all the strong people in this world have such a personality. How was the Sword Demon in the past? What a mad personality he had that he couldn’t handle mana properly despite his reputation.
“I-I’m fine now.”
Beatris, cradled in Veris’ arms, spoke with a trembling voice. The only reason she was safe from her recent attack was because her Veris hugged her and cut down several of her Death Knights.
Berrys nodded her head and let her slip away. If he can still use magic, there is no need for him to step in and restrict his actions.
“How much more can I use the same magic?”
“…… Now you can do it twice or even three times.”
“That’s enough. The gas mileage is not good, but the performance is solid.”
Beatrice put on a puzzled expression at his confident answer. Enough? No matter how powerful her magic was, she wouldn’t be able to kill all the Death Knights with three magic hits.
“Come on, shoot quickly.”
“…… Yes?”
“Shoot. Just that magic.”
Beatrice was in a devastated mood. She knew it too. In the first place, the magic masters were corrupted during the life of magic. He knew at least that the need for magic was extremely low in order to kill that lich-like necromancer.
But…… Then shouldn’t this man fight the lich alone?
“After.”
Beatrice let out a small sigh. It was because she realized her own shabby power.
To put it bluntly, she doesn’t have the power to defeat that lich. She knew for herself that she was in no position to worry about others on such a subject.
“I’ll go.”
Soon after, Beatrice fired several large-scale fire magic with a sonorous chant again.
They didn’t have any effect at all, though there were no Death Knights that were annihilated, but they also looked like they had seen massive damage to weapons and armor.
“Well, I am at my limit now… ….”
“Yes, well done.”
Veris, who had, in her jargon, used her magic to the limit for her ‘dope’ of her Beatrice, looked at her with her satisfied gaze.
Her reasons for raising her, or her obligations to raise her, were slim. However, as a colleague with her, it was a very peaceful and calculated act of thinking that if she took care of her like that, she wouldn’t have anything left.
“So, are you my chalian now?”
Veris swung her sword once and brushed away the ash she blew off thanks to her fire magic.
Because Beatrice was already exhausted and out of breath, she was being forced to do things even faster.
──Geugh!
With a terrible sound, the Death Knight started running toward Veris.
Perhaps it was because the faded magic flames no longer had the power to harm them, it was an extremely ferocious move.
But who is Berris? No matter how old she is, even if she is holding an iron sword for payment with chipped teeth, she is a being with power that cannot even be compared to that of the Death Knight.
──Ugh! Fuhuaak!
A white halo of light was reflected in the sword, and soon a brutal slash was fired.
A simple technique that literally pours mana into a sword and shoots it. However, the result was simply beyond common sense.
[ …… Eh? ]
The lich let out a hollow sound that didn’t match its terrifying appearance.
That’s because it was such an absurd and absurd scene.
“I feel sad these days. It’s been a while since I acquired the skill.”
“… ….”
“If I kill you, will I get a passive skill?”
Berris, who annihilated four Death Knights with a single stroke of his sword, is not even hiding his unsuitable gloomy state of mind. Witnessing his overwhelming strength, Beatrice’s eyes wavered.
‘Th-wasn’t that power?’
Following the first release of the seal, the overwhelming amount of skeletons, it is Beatrice who witnessed the battle between Death Knight and Veris, the second release, up close.
At that time, I thought that his strength would be similar to that of the Death Knight, because I had exchanged swords with the Death Knight several times…….
He was strong. To the extent that common sense cannot be expressed in words.
Once again, Beatrice could see that Gunther’s words were completely true. This man is strong. Maybe he was the strongest man in this empire, or even on the entire continent.
‘I might really have to become a maid.’
Thanks to the sound of my thumping heart, I’m afraid that Veris, standing in front of me with a sword, might hear it. Beatrice grabbed her heart and looked at his back.
‘Shining…… Person.’
He was full and overflowing to the point of not being able to say that he had a brilliant light flowing through him. She is the one who headed to her mage tower on her own in order to become a person worthy of that light.
Then, she awakened the Circle, and her impoverished mind naturally made Veris’ mind clear and made her think of staying away from him.
‘No… ….’
Beatrice realized.
I didn’t hate that man myself. No, on the contrary, I tried so hard that his eyes would bleed in order to become a person who could fit in with him.
When he realized the forgotten past, he naturally felt his whole body lighten. No, it wasn’t an expression, her body was really getting a light boost.
─Pakan!
“…… Ah?”
Beatrice’s face was stained with bewilderment at the sound of something breaking.
A strange feeling suddenly felt. It was a good thing to say that something within her had broken within her heart, within her body.
Chuck.
Beatris raised her staff towards the lich who watched the situation from afar, not the Death Knight who blocked the leisurely veris.
She only wants one thing.
Now, it is to escape with him safely from this terrible place of sealing.
“Three lights illuminate the sky… ….”
“Magic?”
Soon after, Beatrice started chanting. As if Berrys noticed her abnormality due to an unexpected sudden action, she distanced herself from the Death Knight and soon came down by her side.
“Please turn the lives of my enemies into nothingness.”
The short chant marked the end. Not even a single drop of mana, exhausted enough to feel a great sense of loss, began to gather toward her staff.
Beatrice’s eyes lit up at that strange phenomenon. A user who loses all of her mana will lose her sanity and fall into a state of exhaustion of her mana. But now her mind is perfectly clear.
Right now, Beatrice was using her magic without the Circle’s help. She even uses the high-level annihilation magic that she challenged all the time she was in the Mage Tower!
‘Ah… ….’
Beatrice realized.
I don’t know why. Her circle is broken.
However, what made up for the loss was a deep emotion that brought tears to my eyes. Even she didn’t know what the feeling was called.
──── Pieeeing!
Three orbs appeared in the empty space where nothing existed.
The red, blue, and white spheres, respectively, were very similar to the sun and moon that lit up the sky.
“Eternal annihilation.”
The sphere slowly and quickly flew towards the lich in the tower.