72 Tue – Invasion and Erosion(1)
“But Reina! It’s late!”
“I’ll come to hear more stories and stories. Does it make sense to not even investigate?!”
Late night shouts rang out.
The city of Lihelm, located on the outskirts of the continent, used to be a fairly large city founded by a large number of people who gathered to explore the ancient labyrinth.
Although now the continent’s hegemony has shifted to the center of the continent due to the cessation of the labyrinth search, the interest in it has dropped and it has lost its former glory and has become a quiet periphery city.
“You said you were already photographed by the vice president. You stood out more here, what if you get expelled!”
“…But it doesn’t matter. Before the vice president leaves, I’ll just listen to the details.”
She clenched her teeth. As a wizard of this world, a career in the center of the Magic Society that shakes the power of this world is what everyone wants of course.
But it was something that some people might value more than others at times.
“I’m sorry, Deputy Director. For now…”
“Wow, that’s a big deal!”
But before she could even leave the office, a desperate man’s face appeared from the communication area buzzing on the deputy director’s desk.
In response to a series of problems, the deputy director rubbed the head that was still missing.
“Yeah. What’s going on? Bob. I’m not going to let this kind of fuss over trivial matters such as arrears of regular workers’ wages.”
“As part of the Kwanliso, the wizards working in the Labyrinth Guard have lost contact on a large scale!”
“…What?”
However, the news this time around was not easy.
His wide-eyed eyes met Reina, who was listening next to him.
“Right now, you’re probably in the mansion with the warden. You’ll be leaving early tomorrow.”
“I, I will come after listening to the story. The deputy chief will contact the mayor and send an investigation team as soon as possible.”
“Yeah, yes.”
Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the deputy director changed his stance.
After finding out the position of the vice president like that, she hurriedly grabbed her coat and kicked out of the office.
‘It was never a light issue…’
As she traversed the street at night, she bit her lip in anxieties that gradually approached her.
It is obviously a labyrinth where nothing has happened for a long time, but the moonlight fairies who were restoring power there sent even small children and delivered an urgent message of salvation.
Therefore, the deputy president’s attitude, which was so calmly dealt with, was absurd in common sense.
Of course, this was a thought that Reina could embrace because the current vice-president did not know that she was preoccupied with other places she could not even imagine.
“Come on, wait! This is Orne-sama, the head of the Blake Society’s lab…”
“Reinada, the research wizard of the society! Come on, we need to see the president, no, the vice president!”
Panting as she ran, she shouted at the guard who was blocking her.
The guard flinched at the momentum and made way for the ice.
She walked right through the mansion. It seemed like things had already happened anyway, so there was no need to hesitate.
“What are you doing!”
So, even when the bewildered warden appeared and yelled at him, he opened his eyes and stared at him.
“Ha…Didn’t you get a communication line? It’s happening now.”
“Did something happen?”
The eyebrows of Warden Ornae, who was confronting her in the hallway, twitched.
At about the same time, the old butler was rushing to grab something and stopped in an unusual atmosphere and noticed it. In his hand was a telecommunication device that someone was shouting.
“Yeah, deputy chief. What the hell is going on?”
The warden with his tongue accepted the crystal ball and received a report from the vice-director who appeared on the screen.
Reina was listening quietly. After all, even just listening to this, the director’s face hardened on his own.
“Rice, it may not be a star.”
The warden broke out in a cold sweat and tried to deny reality.
It was shocking to hear the news in a state of exhilaration and excitement saying that it is now going up to the center.
“Director. There is a problem with the lives of the wizards. And there is a testimony of a fairy who was rescued from the labyrinth saying that this morning, a problem broke out!”
“therefore?”
“Let’s meet the fairy boy first. You have to show proper behavior at the very least. This is no easy task!”
Reina shouted at him who didn’t do anything, as if frustrated. However, the condition of the small intestine became increasingly strange.
His eyes trembled more violently, and cold sweats flowed more violently. It was a look that did not match the attitude that was usually authoritative and overbearing to subordinates.
“That, that… that…”
“Really. Both.”
It was then that the vice president appeared. With a neatly trimmed beard and sharp eyes, he always had a sense of weight, but he took control of the scene with a very solemn voice.
“It seems that the problem is serious. Warden. Go to the lab with her.”
“ㅇ ㅖ…? Yes?! But!”
“Are you going to disobey me now?”
The vice president’s eyes twinkled and he pressed his small intestine, whose face became pale.
Reina wondered why the warden had such a reaction, but she quickly turned her nerves off. Because that’s not what’s important right now.
“Come this way.”
He took the warden and Reina to the underground laboratory in the basement of the mansion.
Reina admired herself. It was a private laboratory and it was full of pretty decent facilities for the theme of underground facilities.
“ah..?”
“It’s amazing. The patterns they engraved on their body from a young age are continuously influenced by magic as they grow up, and they grow into a special organ. It was a very good material to study magic blood.”
However, Reina was speechless at the sight unfolding before her eyes.
“Uh…how could this…”
No, it was not at the level of being speechless, but to the extent that I lost my mind in a moment of shock.
The eyes of the boy with the severed head floating around in the test tube, playing with his body, were lifeless.
“Okay, you have to do it in moderation.”
-Non-lethal mode-
While she was so shocked, he pulled something out of his arms, aimed it at her and fired it at her chest.
There was no time to respond by casting a spell. The needles fired at once pierced her clothes and pierced her body, stunning her with a strong electric shock.
“Dae, you are amazing. What the hell is that precious thing…”
“It’s something that will protect my body in case I don’t know. Don’t worry about that, Orne, take care of yourself.”
“Lord, are you dead?”
“no.”
He slapped Reina who had fallen down with his foot and smiled at the warden’s words.
“This time, we need to find the data obtained by dissecting this native fairy, and the test object to be applied. If possible, as a being with magical powers.”
“no way…”
“I’ll lock it up and use it. First, I’ll deal with the problem that I don’t know what it is. I wonder what’s going to happen to these guys who didn’t even make it to the conference.”
Ignoring the startled warden, he put the gun in his hand back into his arms.
He was quite meticulous. This gun is what he now obtained from his temporary ally.
It was an object for sniping units or players in this world who might be in danger of their own lives.
‘No matter how much stupid wizards try, if my magic and these weapons are combined, there’s no problem. The remaining question is the right to kill?’
With a grin, he pushed the warden out to solve the problem that had arisen from the outside.
[Don’t be vigilant. This is a theoretical story, Roses. Never, never be vigilant]
“I know! That’s why I’m moving with such extreme caution! No swordsman or wizard will ever be able to touch my body!”
Left alone, he was annoyed by the whispering voices in his head.
*
“Search quickly!”
“What happened to the search magic?!”
“Now everything is ready!”
It was already late at dawn, and quite a few people left the city and entered the forest.
This forest, which has not been developed as farmland, was designated as a prohibited area due to the existence of a labyrinth, so it was not a suitable terrain for a large number of people to move.
“Deputy chief. I wonder if we brought too many people…”
“I couldn’t help it because of the commander’s orders.”
The deputy commander laughed bitterly at the words of the city garrison who was with him.
It was because the director, who had not reacted much when reporting, suddenly communicated and urged him to get things done quickly.
‘What else did that Reina do? Should I have waited too?’
Confused, he looked around for nothing.
A dark and gloomy forest. It was a space that would have felt awkward if it hadn’t been with nearly a hundred people.
I wondered if there were too many, but it was not easy to think that in this area where complete stabilization has been achieved, even if they were independent wizards who were not recognized, it was not easy to think that there would be problems with the group.
“Navigation Magic!”
“It’s ready now!”
“Okay. Shut down! Stop acting!”
He stopped all personnel to cast search magic.
A couple of wizards were seated in the middle, unfolded a piece of paper with a complex magic circle, and stood in a triangle.
“Oh. That one.”
“A magic that the Eucaleria Society, which deals with magic circles, confidently demonstrated. It can detect anything larger than a certain moving size.”
He shrugged his shoulders in response to the garrison’s surprise response and explained the magic.
Suddenly, the magic was over. According to the intentions of the wizards, a light magical wind spread with the wind in all directions.
“Now, the things that get stuck will appear on the magic circle, so let’s cover the map. The scale is the same as the map.”
According to his orders, the prepared map was covered over the magic circle.
Unsurprisingly, the reaction started coming soon.
“Oh! Maybe these shiny dots… these…”
The gleeful garrison commander pointed his finger at the spot where the glowing dots appeared.
However, the garrison commander, who was excited soon, was speechless.
“Hey, what is this…”
The same was true of the deputy chief, whose face turned pale for a moment.
A commotion spread among the left after confirming the result. The dots that floated on the map increased one by one, and dozens, dozens, and hundreds of them began to float up without knowing how to stop.
The dots come together, as if to form a plane.
“…this.”
Only then did he see something in the eyes of the deputy director, who opened his eyes from the magic circle.
The dark forest, the black waves that hid themselves in the shadows of darkness.