106 – You are not alone this time.
The Knight of Zanbul walked through the center of Berkel.
The miasma of the purple mist was still there, but the female knight stepped forward without hesitation. She was undoubtedly a living flame, controlling the atmosphere around her with her own.
“….”
Walking and walking like that.
Scarlett discovered darkness. It was a black mountain.
“Hey.”
She called something out loud. At first glance, it was a strange act. It was as if he was talking to himself in front of a mountain.
But it wasn’t.
Scarlett called it by its name.
“Death Dragon.”
A race that has been considered strong without disagreement since ancient times. The Transcendental Body, revered as a god by some and considered a demon by others.
Dead dragon. Dragon.
The identity of the black mountain was its huge body. Even if only the black skeleton remained, the size of each of the bones was enormous.
Among the monsters, the one with the highest score in the subjugation system.
The dragon opened its mouth.
“… Has another year passed?”
The jaw joint rattles and exhales purple breath, and the poison mist spreads in all directions. It was a poison that would have melted the entire body of a normal human.
But Scarlett calmly nodded her head.
A being that can neither live nor die. The four dragons were resurrected every year, and whenever the subjugation festival was held, it was the knight of the fire that cut off the beast’s breath.
“Yes.”
“That’s right.”
The dragon nodded at her words. Even that small movement caused the surrounding magic power to cry loudly.
The empty eyeballs in the skull peered slowly at Scarlett. It might be a foolish act to call it seeing, but the evil dragon was clearly seeing through something in Scarlett.
“Even after being resurrected, it is still boring….”
The dragon’s voice echoed reverently and solemnly. The surrounding rocks vibrate and shake.
“Don’t worry too much. I will kill you again soon.”
Said Scarlett, leaning her body against a rock.
Since the deadly dragon emits a deadly poison mist just by breathing, it was a monster that must be eliminated for the safety of Berkel residents.
The dragon’s jaw rattled. He probably laughed.
“The Knight of the Zandbul. Are you my companion again?”
“Yes. No one will come this year anyway.”
The expression ‘cannot come’ would be a little more accurate.
Scarlett’s pauldron and the dragon. Despite being the two elements that can get the most points in the subjugation system, no one challenges them.
For a simple reason. Because it’s close to impossible.
Reaching the center of a dangerous area where it is difficult to stand on your feet, and fighting after arriving, are stories that do not work with common sense.
But then.
“Human. Scarlet Judith.”
What the dragon said to Scarlett.
“You are not alone this time.”
It was quite unexpected.
Scarlett pondered over the meaning of the words for a moment.
And the next moment.
“… !”
Feeling the energy of others in a dangerous area.
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A day has passed since Plan took the representatives to the danger zone. This case has garnered a lot of attention and is currently generating a lot of controversy.
Inside the academy, which oversees the subjugation system, meetings were held dozens of times a day to decide how to deal with this unprecedented event.
Thanks to that, the academy’s business is temporarily paralyzed.
Shop, Library, Mage Tower, Knight Faculty…. It was a natural procedure because everyone’s interest was in the subjugation system.
“Something needs to be done right now. Shouldn’t there be a representative who was taken to a dangerous area despite not wanting to?”
“Even if I didn’t want to, it doesn’t mean I wasn’t prepared. Didn’t you write a memorandum before starting the subjugation system in the first place? Nor did Plan use the foul.”
27 Conference halls shared by the Faculty of Magic and the Knights Faculty. The themes of all those spaces coincided with one now.
Controversy over flans moving together to the danger zone.
“It was a very high level magic. Even if the distance is short, the fact that a large number of people have been moved is huge.”
Even those who thought Plan was reckless acknowledged the level of the magic circle.
“However, the method used is vicious. Doesn’t that mean we’ll all die together?”
However, it was the method of use that caused controversy.
No matter what records of the subjugation system, there was no representative student who teleported many people at once and set the destination as a dangerous area.
“With the representatives entering the danger zone, they go back and forth…. Your thinking that way is much more malicious. What kind of children do you see the delegates as?”
In danger zones, journalists are unable to relay the current situation, so people are busier than ever, letting their imaginations run wild.
As a result, Merchen Academy became very crowded. This is because the floating population has increased in order to pick up something.
“Have you heard anything?”
“Hmm, maybe two?”
It’s only been a day since the incident, but a big change has taken place at the academy.
“Where did you get this information? Are you verified?”
“It is most likely a scam…. But I bought it once.”
How far do you know what’s going on in the danger zone? Do you know the detailed status of the representatives, not the score? What was the outcome of the meeting?
The information power itself has been established as a fashion and power, and even groups that predict the current situation as if writing a novel have appeared, and even those selling fake information have appeared.
Meanwhile.
The popular tea house “Roin” In the Faculty of Magic.
“Another day has passed and the score in the Faculty of Magic hasn’t gone up. It could be that he’s already dead.”
The third princess, Yoo Shia, is stirring her drink with a luminous straw, but in fact, her true interest is not in the drink, but in the stories around her.
“I heard you already dispatched a few regular knights. And it’s Flan, not anyone else, and he must have a plan.”
No matter where you open your ears, it was a story about teleportation magic circles, danger zones, and flans.
“Isn’t that too carefree? Looking at the score status, the Tianchuk score is still going up like crazy.”
“I mean, no matter how much we talk here, things don’t change. Let’s just wait.”
“It is easy to say. The next event is hosted by the Imperial Family…. If there is no flan, there is no one to leave.”
The Imperial Family. Authority that reaches the sky.
After the subjugation, those lofty bloodlines began to take an interest in the academy’s representatives in earnest.
“The Imperial Family…. Oh, but is that really true?”
“That the second princess showed interest in Plan?”
“Yes. That.”
“I don’t know that much. There are so many rumors.”
… The third princess is also interested. As she muttered that, she left her seat, but when Yusia noticed her familiar face, she stopped.
It was a male student.
“Ah, Yusiah. Would you like to go outside and talk?”
“Yes. It’s possible.”
As soon as she left her building, the boy changed her expression and she spoke very politely.
“You have succeeded in infiltrating the dangerous area.”
He disguised himself as an ordinary male student, but in fact, this man was also a member of the ‘Wilderness’ organization.
He continues his report step by step.
“Currently, several members of the organization in the wilderness are deployed, and the princess can fully observe the current status of the subjugation system.”
“Ah, that’s great!”
Even after reacting with a bright smile, Yoo Shia suddenly became concerned about Plan.
“Sir Plan…. I wonder if you’ll be okay by now….”
“Are you sure you want to move right now?”
“Of course.”
“Yes. Then I will guide you.”
The leading member of the organization suddenly turned politely toward Yoo Shia, as if he had an idea.
“Oh, the third princess.”
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He asks with a serious expression on his face.
“Did you participate in the prediction again?”
“Yes?”
“You have achieved 10,96 times, right? As if that was interesting, the second princess also participated in the prediction this time.”
The second princess. Aurora.
At that mention, a troubled expression passed over Yoo Shia’s face for a very short time. However, as the expression suggests, it was only an instant.
“Um…. No. I did not participate.”
“Oh, is that so?”
“Let’s go first.”
“Sorry. I was just talking too long.”
The two started walking again.
A piece of fluorescent paper shone in the princess’s pocket.
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It was a cursed area.
Insidious purple fog, deformedly twisted grass and trees, and the cries of monsters can be heard constantly from somewhere.
I’m in the danger zone of Berkel.
Even the flow of mana has a unique beat. I counted it and calculated the time.
A day has already passed in the danger zone.
“Hmm.”
Because it was a magic circle with so many people, the transmission was not good. Everyone who was swept away by the teleportation magic must have scattered.
However, as for the three representatives, I took care until the end and sent them to the same place. So my group is in a situation where I am the only one who has fallen a little.
No worries at all.
Signal, Survival, Stay Calm. Since all three elements have been taught, it is enough to join the three from now on.
However, the reason I didn’t move for a day was because I was completely engrossed in the two maps.
“….”
A fantasy map, an ancient rune language map.
I superimposed the two sheets and quietly observed them.
Each map seemed completely unrelated, but when put together, it became another new map.
The location it points to is also Berkel’s danger zone.
Something tremendous related to the ancient rune language must be dormant here in the danger zone of Berkel.
“What will it be?”
Finally I took my steps.