The Great River area of Baelrisor (The Lungs of Flame) was famous for the formation of a vast economic zone from the upper to the lower reaches.
– This river, which meanders left and right across the southern part of the Akrad continent and heads to the sea, connects the North Korean Republic with its waterway.
The Fire Dragon priestess, Friede, had explained it that way before.
It is said that riverboats transported products from the mountains to the sea, and marine vessels transported products from the sea to the mountains, so the area around the Great River Belisor has always prospered noisily.
＜Oltaris＞ is a fishing village located in the upper reaches of such a river economic zone, and it was very noisy from the entrance of the village even in the early morning.
“… … .”
However, right after entering the village, no, even before entering, I had to feel a strange feeling in my stomach, as if it was twisting in an unpleasant way.
A sense of incongruity?
No, is it a feeling of deja vu?
But what kind of dread is it? The moment Miria crossed the stone bridge to go to the association branch of ＜Altaris＞, that unpleasant feeling of incongruity was revealed.
“Heh.”
It all started with a strange smile from a man who passed me close enough to get his collar entangled.
Would my heart beat twice?
Instinctively, as soon as I crossed the stone bridge, I stopped.
It also stopped walking about twenty paces away, at the end of the bridge on the other side. At the same time, the world slowly began to stop.
“Come on, it came cheap… … .”
“Hey, hey… … .”
“Mom, so… … .”
The voices of fishermen negotiating the price of fish at the fish market, the cries of children running carelessly through the alleys, and the voices of mothers and daughters whispering harmoniously.
one, one, one.
All of that, as if it were a fabricated fantasy, was cut off one by one, and the village was enveloped in an eerie silence.
“What are you doing stopping there?”
After walking ahead and explaining various things about the village to Aki, Miria looked back and only her voice echoed in the world where the second hand stopped.
Sensing something strange, Aki trembled and hugged Miria tightly, exposing her fangs.
About 5 seconds until this point, cold sweat formed between my eyebrows and dripped down the bridge of my nose when he let out a laugh.
“Fufufufufu, it’s strange that you remember it. The magic of this great senior.”
Then, a woman wearing a dark blue robe walked out of the alley to the right of him.
With a playful smile on her face, she was bewitchingly tying the living wriggling whip. Among her peers, she was number 4.
“What is it~ You have a very cute face than I thought. It’s too good to kill.”
As if to block the retreat, a black witch with a robe that was excessively large compared to her physique appeared from behind.
A dress designed to be put on and taken off in seconds at any time, the number she had been given by the great Turaina was number 5.
“On a mission, Belita. Stop thinking about doing weird things.”
“I know~ that’s what you mean.”
It felt like everything happened in an instant, like an explosion from that point on.
Witches in red peaked caps broke through the veil of dawn and surrounded us, pointing broomsticks menacingly.
Had that been all, I wouldn’t have been surprised. The fisherman, who had just been cutting fish into pieces, stumbled along with the cleaver, and the children running through the alley approached holding sharp stones.
“Thank you, Goblin Slayer. For bringing this guy as per the contract. pay twice as much. Three times if you want to get out of bed and play.”
He looked over my shoulder at Miria and winked one eye.
I didn’t look back.
Miria was silent for a while, as if trying to grasp the current situation, then tilted her head and answered coldly.
“What are you talking about? Who are you?”
“No, why all of a sudden? between us.”
“Hey, believe it or not, I never signed a contract with a guy like that. What I said—”
When Miria desperately protested, I didn’t ask him what was going on behind the scenes. Instead, he just glanced over his shoulder and smiled.
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Just like how Lista did that to me in the past.
“—I know everything. don’t worry.”
And before he could finish his words, he concentrated his magic with both eyes. The world where the dawn light was dark loses its color and turns into a series of numbers.
The supernatural powers of denial entwining people’s brains and souls with tentacles that are not visible to ordinary eyes were clearly captured. Is it a 3-star possessed spirit?
In the past, it would have been too much to just annihilate twenty, but now, even if you blow up a hundred at the same time, your mana is overflowing.
“Bell Curious.”
The space around me shuddered faintly, and a red wave exploded. Silent screams erupted from all directions.
The possessive spirits, which had been stuffing their disgusting mucous membranes and film-covered tentacles into their eye sockets, nostrils, and mouths, were engulfed in the flames of transcendence at once and sobbed.
Scary to reach the wave of flame, people fell one after another onto the stone floor like a puppet whose thread had been cut.
‘Seven times of possession… … ?’
‘At once?’
As soon as Number 5 pulled off her robes, her body swelled enormously, fur and claws sprouting from its terrifying gullet.
“I’ll stop this guy, go!”
When Miria called out as she drew her sword, the boy ran forward and reached out into the air at the same time.
The ancient flame that burns the darkness of the dimension was built in the form of a stone scepter. One goal, number 7, the owner of the Spirit of Possession.
The gap is closing at once, and the reverberation of the inertia created by stepping on the ground with my foot, and I try to crush his head by weaving all of his waist and arm core into one.
Whirliriririk!
I heard a sharp punch in the air, and suddenly something wrapped around my throat.
“Where are you looking away!”
An ominous sound came from the cervical vertebrae as it held my breath and pulled me to the outer wall.
He may have died just like that.
Had he not lowered his head in that instant and had not twisted the supernatural ability that had been scattering magical light from that whip with Bell Curious.
“what? Does the real witchcraft just disappear?”
Bell Curious destroys supernatural powers, but cannot interfere with reality. In other words, the object that was trying to drag me to the wall and break my neck bones remained the same.
“Blood, blood… … Pipi———!”
At the moment he struggled to raise his voice, the sun parrot that was protecting Aki from the other side spread its wings of flame and rushed towards the owner of the whip.
“What is this bird?!”
The whip’s restraints loosened slightly, as if the opponent was taken aback by Fifi’s counterattack.
the gap.
gap of that moment.
As soon as he escaped from the whip and broke the magic square with his palm, the flames followed the whip like a snake and aimed at the owner holding the handle.
“——!”
Type 2, Wolf.
The attitude of preparing for a breakup.
As soon as he lowered the tip of the pole and kicked the ground, the whip flew again and immediately broke the magic square with the palm of his hand.
The flames of annihilation spread like a prison at specific coordinates, leaving no room to escape.
At that moment when he tried to respond by memorizing a chant, the stone sergeant stabbed him with all his might and slammed him into the outer wall.
The last trembling of life was transmitted to the palm of the hand through the stone pole, and then it was cut off.
“You pitiful junior. Are you trying to save idiots who have no value in a situation where I have three noses?”
At that time, 4 magic squares were woven from both palms of number 7 in an instant, faster than anything I had ever seen in my entire life.
“If we had swept the whole area with that flame, we could have finished it all.”
I doubted my eyes.
Using 4-star magic with double casting? that fast?
“I don’t have the slightest bit of qualification. A person who gets caught up in superficial emotions like you doesn’t deserve to use those eyes.”
The moment the magic square shattered with a muddy muddy sound, a disgustingly colored slime bound my limbs and choked my breath, while at the same time a sphere that gave off a strange stench flew in.
“The important thing for a wizard is that he is a cold-hearted person to the point of being selfish!”
As liquid trickled down from the orb, the stone road melted, spewing ghastly vapors.
Could it have been an intensely corrosive liquid that could melt away at once, like a human body?
I just wanted to recover my breathing, but I choked again, and because the blood was not supplied to my head, I couldn’t pierce the two magics with the Bell Curious… … .
Then there is only one way.
It may be a number close to desperation, but this is the only number that can be used in the moment when it is not even 1 second.
unfolding of power.
The sense of expanding mana outside the body… … The sense of bringing out the infinite power welling up from inside the body and the source of transcendence running rampant outside the body.
Just as Shar’kath did in the past, the same image is overlaid on reality. An image that is simply pressed down with overwhelming power, without the need for any technique or technique.
At that moment, a dimension centered on me seemed to be twisted in an immeasurable haze, and the ancient flames raged in a storm, burning the power of denial that was about to attack my body.
“hmm… … ?!”
The power that shuddered in the whole area was oxidized to ashes like a lie, and tremendous heat swirled. The eyes of Number 7, who raised both arms in front of her face, narrowed in the heat.
“It’s called a firestorm… … ?”
He just didn’t use any magic. couldn’t write
But what is it?
So, does that mean that mana was deployed as flames? That moment of bewilderment marked the end of the game.
“───?!”
Jeseo Susan Ran-yeon. Chains of clear flame rose from the ground and pierced the soul of number 7. The rune engraved on the chain binds all abilities and powers.
“This… … .”
The magic that the clever junior used 300 years ago… … In the end, he died at my hands, but even thinking about it again, he was a waste of time.
‘Come to think of it, from one to ten, something is strange… … .’
Is this kid a follower of Rin?
It’s like using stick arts and using this magic, but as far as I know, only Turaina knows how to use that magic, right?
That’s why Turaina taught her how to use only a youngster called ribardin, which was created by human body synthesis… … .
Kaaang!
On the other hand, on the other side of the bridge where claws and blades collided one after another while flying countless fireballs, the eyes of Number 5, who had transformed into a beast, narrowed.
Number 4 is dead and number 7 is incapacitated… … Here, we have no choice but to prioritize the goals He gave us.
After smashing the goblin slayer’s sword with his claws, he spurred the ground and threw himself at the baby dragon that was crawling around crying. It was put down when Miria started the battle.
With the leg strength amplified while wearing the body of a beast, it was enough to secure that whelp with one step and leave the village with the next three steps.
A whelp can’t resist, and neither the dragon’s guardian nor that goblin slayer can react to this speed… … ?
His face fell to the ground.
Miria had thrown an iron rope with a hook on it to catch her, but I didn’t understand. You can overwhelm the power of this state right now? That silver level adventurer?
No, wait.
Strange. weird.
The body, the body that had been transformed by witchcraft, somehow returned to human form. Unseen and unquenchable flames, accompanied by an excruciating pain from the lungs.
At that time, the last thing I saw in front of my eyes was an object that shimmered in gold, red, and vermilion. The stone spear that Lane threw as hard as he could shattered the skull and scattered the brain water everywhere.
The stone head soon consumed its head with flames, and at the same time, scattered red particles and disappeared.
“Ah, ah, aww… … !”
“Aki! It’s okay, um, it’s okay.”
It was only after seeing Miria pick up and caress Aki, who had burst into tears, that he burst out with relief.
One knee was bent in the ensuing crowd, but still, everything was sorted out, so I had time to look back at the one whose soul was bound in chains.
He said, catching his slightly rapid breathing.
“Before I kill you, I have a few questions for you.”