Arni didn’t understand the situation when Lexie first pulled him over.
She didn’t know that Lexi had already been replaced by an assassin.
He was an escort knight who had been with him since long ago, so he followed his guidance without question.
However, Arnie couldn’t help but feel something strange in Lexi’s unusual attitude.
“Why, why are you doing this? what about those people? I can’t just leave the injured people behind!”
“Be quiet, lady. The witch is listening.”
Arni got goosebumps at the sight of Lexi talking with her eyes shining.
scary.
Fear was first felt at the change of Lexi, who had always been kind.
The current Lexi was completely different from the one she knew.
A visceral dread ran down her spine, the feeling you get when someone you know changes suddenly.
“Wait, wait! Start by explaining what’s going on! Lexi, why would you suddenly do that? You are weird now!”
Although he instinctively sensed fear from Lexie, Arni did not utter a word of doubt about her.
A story that I will listen to because there will be circumstances.
Lexie snorted at that.
“miss. Do I still see you as your escort knight?”
After escaping from the group of monsters and dragging Arni to a place where no one was, Lexi finally revealed her true colors.
“ha. I was crazy about the damn kid, but I thought Benjamin would give a damn too.”
“Lexi… … ?”
“It will be fine here. Listen carefully, lady. you will die here And the corpse will be sent to the Sanctum Keep disguised as if it was killed by the Witchbeast. The North Sea Sword King will be very angry at that appearance. Blinded by anger, to the point of declaring war on the empire.”
“Um, what are you talking about… … ?”
“It means I am an assassin sent to kill you.”
Lexi wiped her face with the palm of her hand as if taking off a mask.
Then, a completely different face appeared from below.
“The seed of the demon I received is a doppelganger. It has the ability to change into the form of the person it kills.”
“… … !”
I don’t know the exact circumstances, but one thing was clear.
The fact that the Lexi in front of her eyes is an assassin who killed the real Lexie who has been with her since she was a child and took the place, and now wants to kill herself as well.
“My real name is Tara. If you meet Miss Lexi in the underworld, please say hello. You have to know the name to do that, right?”
Jureuk.
“Oh, are you crying? Are you afraid of dying? Do not worry too much. I’ll finish it without hurting you.”
Tara brought her sword to Arni’s neck.
As I said before, it was to cut his throat with one blow so that it would not hurt, but in fact, Arni had a different reason for crying.
“… … no.”
“yes?”
“I’m not crying because I’m afraid of your sword. I’m crying because I’m sorry I didn’t even recognize Lexi’s enemy.”
To Arnie, who was only at home because of illness, Lexi was like a family member.
It was so resentful that I had been laughing and talking with the person who had hurt Lexie for days and days until now.
“Ha, about half a penny you can’t even spend. Do you mean that there is pride in the form?”
Arni’s appearance aroused Tara’s anger.
“Abominable year. Then go to hell.”
Looking at the falling sword, Arni closed her eyes tightly.
But time passed and the pain did not come.
When she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was Tara’s hand holding the blade.
Blood was flowing from the hand that could not completely block the attack.
However, despite the painful look, his hand held the blade tightly as if he would never let go.
“sorry. It’s a bit late.”
“Noah… … ?”
It took me a while to figure out the situation at the moment.
“Cow, your hand… … !”
“are you okay. Other places hurt more, so this one doesn’t sting.”
Tara hurriedly tried to pull out the sword, but the sword held in Noah’s hand did not budge.
“You are weaker than I thought. I thought dark knights were more scary people.”
Kuina, the dark knight Noah met for the first time, once teased him with a wide-eyed clone technique.
Compared to that, it wasn’t that scary.
Dig!
Only then did Tara escape from Noah’s hand, exhaling sword energy.
Knowing that the movement of the aura would bring out the sword energy, Noah raised his hand accordingly.
“To think of using swordsmanship now? You must be quite upset, right?”
“Everyone, shut up!”
“Well, if I had that ability, I would have only fought one-sided battles. It must be the first time I’ve ever held a sword to someone else.”
A demonic ability that transforms into someone else’s form.
It seemed clear that Tara had something to do with Benjamin.
“You seem to be acquainted with the traitorous Coast Guard captain, but I need to tell you a story.”
“Hey, am I for you? What can you do like that!”
Noah’s body was already full of scars even before he came here.
Even the aura is faint, to the extent that standing still seems like a miracle.
It was certainly strange that he was holding the sword, but common sense made no sense that he would defeat himself with such a physical condition.
‘I’m not sure, but if I don’t approach you!’
Tara tried to form an intangible sword by widening the distance.
Kiyiying!
A collapse phenomenon that occurs when multiple intangible swords form simultaneously in the same space.
But it was not Noah who caused the phenomenon.
“Noah.”
Mia appeared after blocking Tara’s attack.
As long as he moved anyway, it was discovered that he was hiding. There was nothing to be gained by hiding further.
‘I brought it, but it’s not in very good condition.’
Noah’s remaining aura was very thin.
If you spend more aura on defense or evasion here, you will be knocked down again in a few seconds.
Mia, who did not know that her condition would be this bad, stopped Noah several times on her way here, but Noah did not listen.
“thank you. I’m sorry, but please help me a little more.”
“All right. How can I do it?”
“Protect me and Arni. It just takes a moment.”
A powerful one-shot without thinking about defense or evasion.
Lacking an aura, Noah left his and Arni’s lives in the care of Mia, intending to end the fight in one blow.
‘I can do it now.’
Kiyiying!
Realizing that Noah was preparing something, Tara hurriedly attacked, but Mia blocked them all.
Mia, who doubled as an escort for the princess, was basically a person of considerable skill.
Moreover, the battle of the Dark Knight is originally a battle of stealth and one-hit death.
There was nothing to be afraid of if they moved while revealing each other.
“this… … !”
Tara was furious, but that didn’t change anything.
Breaking through Mia’s defenses takes time.
That said, he couldn’t leave Arni behind and run away.
If you fail in your mission and return, the only thing left for you will be death.
But then.
Whoa!
The dark moon began to oscillate like mad.
At the same time, the energy of a powerful demon soared into the sky from afar.
“Benjamin! Did you really do it!”
“That… … ?”
The power I feel from that one guy is stronger than the combined energy of all the monsters I can feel from Island 4.
Arni, who had not learned rigid body technique, was to the extent that he sat down clutching at his chest just by his presence.
“hahahaha, since that came out, everyone here will die without me having to use my hands. I don’t intend to die either, so goodbye here.”
Squeak.
Tara completely erased his presence and disappeared the moment he decided to run away like an excellent cancer knight.
“… … It’s not detectable by me either. It looks like he really ran away.”
“are you okay. Rather… … .”
It was only necessary to buy time, so it was possible to face each other, and if a dark knight the size of Tara made up his mind and ran away, he couldn’t chase after him.
Rather, the Demonic Beast that appeared in the sky was more important.
“It will be better this way.”
Noah wiped the blood from his hands with his clothes and held Arni’s hand.
As the warm aura permeated, her shrunken body naturally relaxed.
“I’m sorry I missed you after making a big statement. Tara, I will catch that guy someday.”
“yes? yes… … .”
Arni replied, surprised by Noah’s words, as if he was thinking of something else.
I wanted to, but unfortunately, I didn’t have time to pay attention to other things.
‘Doesn’t it look like she has more auras than Ursula-senpai, who used Elemental Tae?’
It is said that spirit tae can use infinite auras, but humans handle them.
Because of this, Ursula could only move her aura up to where her sixth sense reached.
On the other hand, that Witchbeast was bringing Auras from far away from the 4th island.
Moreover, the aura continued to grow through the tentacles that extended in all directions.
“It’s way too much for someone like that to suddenly come out.”
That was something that had already gone beyond the limited express category.
“I don’t think it’s a disaster… … ?”
“It’s not even a disaster. At least not yet.”
Mia, who had actually seen the disaster-class monster, denied Noah’s guess.
However, a mutant that continued to grow in that way could reach a truly catastrophic level in no time.
In the first place, the current state alone was enough to submerge the Crescent Islands, so there was no meaning to such a classification.
“What’s certain is that if we don’t stop that, we’ll end up before Theodore-nim gets there.”
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“Camilla sent someone, but they won’t be able to come soon, right?”
According to MuiMui’s prediction, those who went to the sea defense boat would be able to return around dawn.
The distance is too far, and you can’t come without the defense line at all, so it means that the realistic limit is about that.
It must have been the words of MuiMui, who lived here and experienced a number of big waves.
That witch meant that only the people here had to deal with it.
“missing child. Take Arni to the port. I’ll join you right there.”
“With all due respect, I don’t think it’s a good idea in that condition.”
“Did you forget too? My original specialty is monster hunting.”
I can’t fight for long.
However, as long as that monster continued to grow stronger in real time, there was no answer if they fought for a long time anyway.
Despite this condition, Noah was confident that he could help in that fight.
“Veronica is there too, and although she doesn’t look well, I can feel the auras of the twins and Ursula. Those people should be able to defeat him with just a little help from me.”
It is one of the highest level of power in Night Ray.
It could be said that it was the only hope in the current situation where all the main forces were out on the maritime defense line.
“request.”
“… … All right. A lost child is a tool, and the iron rule is to move the tool as the owner thinks.”
“Don’t talk too much. To me, you are always ‘Mia’, not ‘Veronica’s maid’. Maybe Veronica will too?”
Mia didn’t blink an eye at Noah’s words, but there was no time to drag on such a story.
“I will come back as soon as possible after taking Arni-nim.”
“okay. I’ll be waiting for you.”
Noah watched them leave, then turned around and ran towards the magic beast.