114 – Knight of the Ember
We advanced slowly but carefully.
Even the maze-like terrain was not a constraint for us. This is entirely thanks to the combination of ancient runic maps and fantasy maps.
After passing through various terrains like that, the moment we finally reach the part that can be called the end.
My vision was stained black.
“Children, are you by my side?”
“Evil! Someone stepped on my foot!”
“Be careful, then.”
“Stop, stop stepping! You’re doing it on purpose!”
An unknown space unfolded.
Darkness fills everywhere. Nothing was certain at the moment, except that the flat floor would touch the feet.
However, according to the map, this must have been the center of the temple. I focused on the aura around me.
It didn’t matter if my vision was dark. If I can see the energy, it’s as if I have eyes.
“….”
It wasn’t long before I measured the space.
As I felt, it was a wide, circular space.
A place surrounded by terraced seats, where a theatrical troupe might appear and perform.
But then.
Pang-!
Suddenly, a very small light source appeared. It revealed only the middle part of the space.
“Everyone, don’t move.”
Instructing the other three to stay still, I slowly moved towards that point.
Ddubuck─ Ddubuck─
Only footsteps resonate in the quiet space.
“Looks like someone else is there?”
An alluring voice reached me from the front.
I looked straight ahead.
There was no sense of murder at all, so there was no reason to be on the alert.
“This is the magician’s energy…. Oh, too.”
Soon after, a female knight who seemed to have molded a red rose into a human appeared.
Janet.
He was a cadet at the leader of the Tianchuk.
In the darkness she left behind, there were three knights of the Celestial Empire.
“Sure it is. I knew I would meet you here.”
She nodded and took a step closer to me. And she suddenly held out her hand.
“It’s been a while. How about a handshake?”
I looked at her quietly.
Of course, Tianchuk is not weak. Because it was the group that people talked about as candidates for the championship in unison.
Currently, our scores are similar to those of Tianchuk, and they must have had no choice but to visit this temple in order to get points by avoiding the dragon.
Your teleportation magic was interesting in its own way, so I gave it to you first.”
Janet was in good shape so that her reputation would not be in vain. He had no visible injuries and showed no sign of fatigue.
She immediately withdrew her hand.
“Well, good. Flan. Then I will suggest something else.”
I quietly listened to her words.
“We want your score.”
“….”
“Give me at least half. Then I won’t touch you until the end of the subjugation. Promise.”
She mischievously stretched out one of her little fingers.
“How are you? That doesn’t sound like a bad suggestion.”
I returned the answer calmly.
“You are short.”
“… Hmm?”
She slowly ran her red hair through her hair.
She rummaged through her inside pockets with her graceful movements, then took out one of her coins and looked at me.
“I just want to settle things peacefully. This is a dangerous area, a space where you never know what might happen, but what could be more important than peace?”
“Janet.”
I called her name quietly.
“I would have said it was short.”
Gently, anger began to boil. It wasn’t like a bad feeling towards Tianchuk.
“If you want to beg for points, you have to say something respectful.”
Keep it simple.
I wanted to look at the ancient rune treasure, but the fact that I was spending time on other people was uncomfortable.
“Looks like you’re kicking peace yourself. Rather, don’t you know that you are in a crisis situation?”
Janet thought for a moment and then lowered her head. I put one of her hands on the nape of her neck and she bursts out laughing.
“As expected, you are full of confidence. I don’t like that kind of thing about you. However, I have no intention of giving up the championship just because of that.”
Janet continued.
“We could fight each other fiercely and compete for points. But don’t you hate that too?”
Ting─!
Janet flicked her thumb and raised a coin into the air. It floats very high and then lands on her fingers without a problem.
“Please think carefully and answer again. Let us go in peace Peace with each other.”
I watched Janet habitually flip a coin, then shot it far away with telekinesis.
“….”
A moment of displeasure crossed Janet’s face.
There was silence for a while.
Despite not having coins, Janet pretended to flick something with her thumb.
Everyone in this space had their eyes fixed on Janet’s now empty fingers.
“Hey, flan.”
Of course, Janet was the first to break the silence.
She pursed her lips, holding her body still. And she slowly raises her eyes only to look at me.
“You are kidding….”
However, the words did not come to an end.
A fleeting moment.
Wedge-!
A black shadow flew like a snake from the direction the coin was fired from.
It targeted me, and I easily avoided it. Following this, a clear intent to kill fills the space.
It was a change that occurred when two different characters appeared.
I knew the guy next to me as soon as I saw him.
That she is the one who handles countless shadows, and that she is the devil who arrogantly observes me.
The guy on the right just stares at us. The witch on the left giggled and continued her words.
“By the way, do you feel bad about coins? What piggy bank do you know me as? . Hmm.”
I didn’t bother answering the witch. Because the demon in my head was nothing more or less than a bug.
I asked Janet instead.
“Is that your group too, Janet?”
“It can’t be. In the first place, both of them are demons.”
Everyone’s eyes turned to the two demons. Their faces were not visible because they had their backs to the light.
Janet pointed her sword at them.
“Show me before I pierce you!”
Then, all the darkness in the space disappeared. At the same time, everyone’s faces cooled.
One of the two had a very familiar face.
Although he is now an infallible demon, he was definitely someone he once faced as a knight.
I slightly narrowed my brows. It wasn’t anything else, because I couldn’t remember her name for a while.
I just barely remembered it.
“… Was it Ella, her name? “
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“Yes. I must have honorably executed it with my own hands.”
Janet muttered in disbelief.
Ella. She was reborn as a demon.
Perhaps he received a mysterious power from the devil, but he was exuding an incomparably stronger aura than before.
Still, I was ridiculed.
“No matter how you look at it…. It looks like he didn’t kill him.”
“On second thought, yes. I remembered. I left her limbs paralyzed while holding her breath.”
Uhuhuhufu—!
Then the witch let out a goosebumps laugh.
“Is this how it feels when all the pets that have been out of the house come back? Welcome everyone~”
“I must have shown you the future. You didn’t even manage to run away.”
“Ah~ I was quite surprised by that trick. That was my favorite crystal ball.”
Snakelike shadows wriggled toward us. I watched the secret movements quietly with my eyes.
“What is your name?”
“Call me whatever you feel comfortable~ We won’t be seeing each other for a long time, right?”
Plan nodded her head quietly.
“Well, that’s it. Introduce yourself in a moment.”
I took everyone back a few steps. Janet looked at me with a puzzled look, but after meeting my serious gaze, she did so.
“No one has arrived yet.”
Hwareuk─
Next moment.
I heard the sound of something burning.
It was a small but strangely clear sound.
And the next moment.
Cracks embracing heat formed vertically on the wall.
Quaaa!
Space split in half in the red black air.
“… !”
Shock on other people’s faces By the time I was young, a pit had already been dug in a straight line in front of my eyes.
If I hadn’t pushed them back, they would all have faded into a handful of ashes.
The craze comes a beat late. Soon, lava is pooling there, and the heated air seems to warm the skin.
A space that started to heat up with extreme high temperatures.
A small river of lava.
A place that no human could ever set foot on.
There was a female knight who walked indifferently.
Step by step, I could see her in the distance as she casually stepped her foot deep into the lava.
Scarlett, the Knight of Remnants.
“… The rest, listen when he arrives.”
I just muttered that.