115 – Intuition
Lava boils in a straight line.
The knight of the janbul is on his way here, and tension has risen between the Tianchuk, the witch, and us.
Becky spoke to me in an urgent tone.
“Flan. I guess I need some planning. The more urgent the situation, the more well-planned it is to safely….”
“You always say the obvious.”
“… Is it? No, so what’s the plan?”
That was when she was chattering.
Uhuhuhufu─
Her terrifyingly unpleasant laugh spread widely, and the witch clasped her palms together slowly.
Kung—!
Then a huge vibration occurred.
Everyone’s actions, including me, froze for a while.
The structure of the temple is reversed. The lava pit, which could have been described as a small river, was filled in an instant.
The audience seats in the form of stairs that surrounded us in a circle collapsed and even the walls of the temple disappeared, transforming into a plaza of unfathomable width.
Hood Deuk-!
Black rain pours down from above.
It pools on the floor and slowly gathers and blooms as a human-shaped shadow. And there was never an end to that summoning.
“What is all that….”
Trixie muttered, narrowing her brows.
The plaza was ridiculously wide. More than half of the place was already filled with shadows.
“Flan, this…. This… ?”
Standing beside Becky, she couldn’t even finish her question.
It wasn’t difficult to return the answer. It was obvious what she was curious about.
“Soul Harvest.”
“Soul Harvest?”
Soul Harvest.
Harvesting the souls of the literal dead.
Apparently, it’s a reprocessed form with arbitrary shadows over the soul. The harvest time of the souls varies, but all within 10 years.
In other words, it means that Berkel has harvested the souls of corpses that have been born in the last 10 years. Maybe all of that.
Kung—!
Kung—!
The ground continues to vibrate.
The exterior of the shadows is bizarre.
As if they gave up trying to mold a human, all of their facial features were crushed, and many had more than two arms and legs.
Simply put, existence itself is disgusting.
Uhuhuhufu─
The figure of the witch who retreated far behind the sea of shadow demons is as small as a dot. But you can clearly see her face.
Staring at the corner of the witch’s mouth curling up, I silently chant.
“Get ready.”
At the same time, a purple curtain was placed over the bodies of the three wizards.
“What is this?”
“Huh? This is the first magic I’ve ever seen….”
As if wearing new clothes, the three of them look around. There are infinite ways to change the form of Hera, the spirit of the night, and now it is only surrounded by them in the form of a ‘protective shield’.
Kwaaa!
A tsunami of shadows rushing in at that moment.
Their goal is everything except the shadows.
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Coo-gu-goo-!
Janet’s sword extends in a straight line.
It was only stabbed once, but the number of weaknesses of the shadows penetrated by that single blow exceeded thirty.
“As expected.”
Bastian, a colleague of the Celestial Empire, admired the use of Janet’s unique ability ‘weakness’.
But it didn’t last long.
Shoot ah!
Shadow monsters rushing in like waves immediately fill the empty seats. Bastian is puzzled by their population.
“I can’t see the end.”
“What number… !”
I don’t even think it’s good to earn a lot of points. It’s not that each one is scary, but if the premise of ‘there is no end’ is laid, the story will change a lot.
Even if you have done something, you will never be able to say that you have done it.
“… That’s a flan.”
At that moment, Janet’s muttering reached Bastian’s ears. He looked back and was startled.
The shadow monsters gathered together and what could be described as a tidal wave slammed the entire plan down.
Tianchuk forgot the situation and lost his gaze for a moment.
Bastian clicked his tongue and opened his mouth.
“In the end, he left first.”
“Easy to the point of futility….”
Janet muttered that while wiping the sweat from her cheeks. Giving strength to the hand holding the sword.
Coo-gu-goo-!
She pierced her ground this time, creating a huge crack. As such, the ‘weakness’ of the inherent ability is not limited to living things.
Shadows fall into the crack like rain water in a puddle.
However.
Nevertheless.
Still, the rushing shadows were endless.
Bastian stuck out his tongue. By this point, he had a very serious face.
“Aren’t we all searching?”
“The knight of the flames is coming.”
There is no magic beast that can resist Scarlett’s flame. The moment she sets her foot here, everything will be over.
“Really? Will the wizards be able to hold out until then? It’s only a matter of time before the captain gets hit first and actually dies.”
“We cover that.”
“What?”
“Cover!”
Janet grabbed Bastian by the wrist. There were vertical veins on her forehead.
“If Mine appeared, the story would be different. Reduce the number of victims to a minimum!”
“….”
“Okay, I didn’t know!”
Janet’s serious attitude surprised the other knights beside her. Perhaps it was the extreme situation, Janet was getting desperate as well.
“Okay. Got it.”
If there is a chance to save it.
Bastian didn’t even mention that in this place full of shadow demons.
But then.
A ray of light leaked out between the piles of shadows that were squeezing something. Two lines, three lines…. Soon, the number will increase.
Boom—!
And with a huge explosion, the shadows that were holding down the flan were terribly thrown in all directions.
“What is that guy… !”
“Are you alive?”
The flan that reappeared is still there.
Calmly and leisurely, he is concentrating on something with his eyes closed.
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The shadows that were dealing with the Tianchuk twisted their bodies all at once. All of them changed the target to flan.
A word muttered by the man.
“… Hera.”
With that word, the shape of a bow appeared in front of him.
Plan took out a bright white business card from his bosom. Aim it slowly at the bowstring.
「Magic Magic Blank Check」
An object that I received from Cornette, the president of the Faculty of Magic, one day, a piece of paper filled with her mana.
She can draw as much magic as her magician’s ability, and Plan never doubts her ability.
Goo Goo Goo Goo….
Caught up in his magical power, debris from the road rises into the air.
KigigigiGeek─!
Of course, the shadows do not wait for that.
The advance of the Shadow Demon Beast has begun. It was an infinite wave that reached only towards the flan.
“….”
And flan slowly opens his eyes. He holds the check with his fingertips to further amplify its power.
Magnificent magical power that changes form as if responding to it.
That shape….
Arrows.
It was a result that I liked quite a bit from Plan’s point of view.
A dazzling light streamed from the bow and arrow.
“… What else are you going to do?”
Janet muttered involuntarily.
She had time to mutter so blankly. Because all the shadow demons ran towards Plan.
Even now, arrows hold stronger magical energy.
Tak─
And the moment Flan let go of his hand.
The light spread.
The entire space was dyed in the golden light of magic arrows.
A shock that shook the world.
The group of witch beasts that seemed like they would never be cleared away, the far-off sheep described as the sea, were devoured by golden magic and split in half.
A straight, straight road was formed.
Faced with the dazed witch, Plan started walking.
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The battle continues desperately.
Scarlett, the knight of residual fire, feels it with her skin. The battlefield is covered in blood and shadows.
She swung her sword lightly, expressionless.
With just that alone, high-temperature air currents shake the space, and the ground you step on viciously flips over and bounces into the air.
Every time that happens, the monsters let out a grotesque scream and fade into a handful of ashes.
However, Scarlett was not the only one who maintained her composure in the stormy war situation.
There was one more.
The sound of weapons forged in the shadows colliding, an explosion of magic colliding from all sides.
The sound of shoes resounding in the midst of the chaos.
That sounds strangely clear to Scarlett’s ears. Is it really an illusion that even the shadow demons without intelligence seem to tremble?
No, they were definitely shaking.
Not because of Scarlett’s flames, but because of Flan.
Everyone was staring at the spectacle.
The knight of the flames tightened her hand that held her sword.
“… Flan.”
Something will come to an end today.
Her intuition was speaking.