(EP.68) Casting Shadow # 4
068 – Shadows on the Arc #4
There are quite a few ruins in Gracia, the city of the church.
And most of the relics in any world have academic value.
It was the same for Goseong, which was located outside the Ark and on the northern outskirts of the city.
Me, Mirna and Elgar arrived in an area commonly called the ‘old castle ruins’.
“Is this really the place to do homework?”
Elgar looks around.
In Elgar’s clear blue eyes, the bricks stacked high and the thorn bushes surrounding it are reflected.
“It’s creepy.”
Beyond the dark walls, even though it’s not yet evening, the overcast gardens and corridors, cramped corridors and smashed stone statues abound.
“Is there anyone but us?”
At Elgar’s question, I also looked around.
Several irregular footprints can be seen around the old castle ruins, which are full of mud and weeds.
When I tried to scan it with my finger, Mirna, who was vigilant in all directions just like me, said.
“Looking at the fact that the mud hasn’t hardened, it’s a new footprint. But it doesn’t seem like there’s anything like being popular.”
It was just as Mirna said.
It would have been normal if there were already 9 teams other than us here to visit. Their faces were nowhere to be seen.
Did you go deep inside first?
At that moment, Elgar sighed.
“No one else—!?”
Soon a loud, loud roar erupted from her mouth.
It was more like natural thunder than a human voice, so my ear standing right next to it was suffocated with tinnitus like a gunman without earplugs.
But Elgar clicked his tongue as if he didn’t even care about such a thing.
“No response. It seems we are too late.”
“Where did all the people who arrived before us go?”
I asked Elgar, picking my stuffy ears. However, finding someone’s school uniform robe that had fallen to the floor, Elgar only replied, “Well.”
Then he pulled out a huge ax out of the air and snorted.
“It’s funny that such a seemingly obvious trap was set. It’s funny to go into such a seemingly obvious trap. Not the butterflies that rush to the web.”
For something self-helpful, he confidently steps on the mud and begins to move forward.
Mirna also followed them, so I had no choice but to follow them.
“Hey, Tae. If you think something will pop out, don’t do anything and just stick to Noona’s back. okay?”
Elgar, who was the first to take the lead, said jokingly whether he was trying to reassure me.
To that, I responded appropriately, “I do.
He was full of will to fight aggressively because the level of experience gained and the level went up as much as he shot down and defeated the opponent with magic.
“Then let’s go inside the fortress now.”
Elgar stood in front of two very large doors. Two gates that are unlikely to have been used for several decades.
There was a gap between them, big enough for one person to fit in. Beyond that, it was absolutely terrifying darkness.
Shh.
Elgar plugs her nose.
“The smell of rot vibrates. the smell of death. The smell of corruption. There’s something in this. Hey Mirna. What do you think?”
Mirna, who was looking around anxiously at Elgar’s question, trembled.
“It seems to be the perfect place for undead and ghosts to hide. They like old, broken, quiet places like this.”
Saying that, Mirna’s body was trembling little by little.
Of course, except for my sensitive semi-fairy sense, it was barely noticeable, but Mirna was probably frightened.
Actually, Narmi, Mirna’s younger sister, had said it.
Her older sister was born into a necromancer line, but she fears things like ghosts.
Such a person would be very mortal to wander around the ruins of an ancient castle like this.
“Then I’ll go in first.”
Tossing a torch into the darkness, Elgar slipped through the cramped doorway.
“Ugh. it’s tight It’s narrower than I thought.”
Her breasts were flattened along the way, and it looked quite difficult, but her breasts were very soft and soft, so she seemed to have somehow managed to get out of it.
“Come on, let’s go one by one.”
At Elgar’s signal, I decided to send Mirna first.
“You go in first. I will be guarding you from behind.”
“It is.”
Mirna, too, seemed to find it quite difficult to enter through the narrow door, but it was not like Elgar, so she went in and stood with her feet in the dark interior.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Now all that’s left is me
It was then that I, too, was about to step into the citadel.
ㅡGraaah
Pascheek, Pascheek.
Something broke through the ground.
They took the form of men in old, rotten armor.
What can be seen through the armor is bare skeletons.
―Greez!
Five enough? Heat?
I do not know. The important thing is that the guys found me and started running towards me. Mirna, who was waiting inside the door, shouted.
“It’s a skeleton! Please come in here quickly!”
Even if Mirna hadn’t shouted, I was also thinking that it would be better to go inside the fortress.
That’s why I’m putting my body in the cramped gap. Skeletons approaching me sooner or later grab my leg and pull me in the opposite direction.
ㅡGooo!!!
“What… !?”
Thanks to this, my body could not enter the fortress and was pulled outward.
aww aww.
I don’t know how this kind of power is possible to monsters that have no muscles and only bones.
“Help me!”
“I’ll grab you!”
Then Mirna grabbed my hand tightly.
In the end, I felt like my body was being torn apart by Myrna pulling me from the inside and the skeleton cubs pulling me from the outside.
“Hey… !!!! torn ah ah ah… !!!!”
If I go on like this, I will become Tae/Oh or become Tae-Oh. Anyway, it seemed certain that my body would stretch and tear.
Does the tug-of-war line feel this way?
“What are you doing? It’s really funny.”
Then, looking at me, Elgar burst into laughter and grabbed Mirna’s waist.
Then, after giving it a little force and pulling it, my body completely entered through the cramped door. Thanks to this, I was able to breathe a sigh of relief while stroking my legs and waist that seemed to stretch.
“After all, I lived thanks to you.”
Elgar smiles hehehe at my thanks.
“It was so exciting to be pulled over. Aren’t you tall? Your legs must be long.”
I almost ripped it, what kind of joke are you making like that?
It was a very sensible thing to say.
I’ll go back later and take a look.
odd profit. bang.
Then, behind my back, the door to the fortress was completely closed. Seeing that, Elgar pushes or pulls the door as hard as she can.
“I don’t even blink. Should I smash it and see?”
Mirna shook her head.
“no. That wouldn’t be a very good idea. The morale from the outside is getting stronger. Perhaps the soldiers of the old Gracia Castle ruins who were buried in the garden are constantly being resurrected as dead.”
“You mean if you open this door, they’ll come rushing into the citadel?”
“It’s like that.”
As Mirna said, there were quite a few signs from the outside. From the sound of scratching the door to a series of unknown screams.
The thought that the weedy garden we just walked through would be full of skeletons gives me quite a chill.
“It must be a trap. A trap to push us into this citadel.”
“Okay what let’s go. Professor looking. Gotta score is not it?”
Elgar, who raised the torch, boldly moved forward again. I’m glad I came here with Elgar-” I thought.
It’s really reassuring to think that we’re the same ally.
In that sense, Mirna didn’t do much.
After the loss of her father, Aleister Draco, who became rich, to Professor Balan, she looked like any other ordinary girl.
In this situation now, would Narmi be more helpful?
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi must be sleeping in a deep consciousness somewhere in that body right now.
“Shh… .”
Elgar stands tall.
At the same time, Mirna and I also stopped walking.
“Be quiet. Because there seems to be something in the front of this hallway.”
Elgar, who was walking down the cold stone walled hallway, pointed forward with her finger.
We were curious about its identity, but it came to us without any need to step forward.
“Ugh-.”
It was in the form of a human.
His face is very pale and his arms and legs are flabby, just like a zombie. In fact, it’s no different than a zombie.
In front of the narrow passage, a couple of such guys are advancing towards us. Now I see they are wearing Ark’s uniform.
Was it the students who entered the castle before us?
“It’s not easy to wield an ax in such a cramped hallway.”
Elgar put down the axe and held out her bare hand. Mirna, who was standing behind Elgar like that, shouted.
“I will still be alive. It looks like you’re being manipulated by a spell, so you shouldn’t kill it if you can!”
“Don’t kill me. It’s harder for me.”
wow.
It was when Elgar clenched her fists and adjusted her posture.
I was convinced that it was now my turn to show off my skills. Pointing the Imp Tail Wand down the hallway, I try to mumble a spell lightly.
—Paymon.
Puchong-!
A bullet of compressed air was then fired like a bullet from the tip of the wand.
puck.
“Aww!”
The body of the Ark students who were hit by it collapsed greatly and only trembled. I wasn’t satisfied with that, and smashed a few more shots of magic.
Fusiung, Fusiung-.
puck, puck.
Bang, quadang.
As the three of them collapsed and the situation was cleared up, Elgar lifted her fists and opened her mouth roundly, “Oh-.”
“Isn’t this magic worth using? Tae-oh, since when have you been able to perform such a trick?”
Elgar admired the consciousness of the people lying on the floor. It seems to have good power and accuracy.
“It lacks lethal power. I think it’s just right for subduing them by living instead of killing them. Youngchang seems to be simple too. How many more steps do you think you can use?”
At Elgar’s question, I looked into my inner self as if contemplating a little.
Surprisingly, this magic consumes quite a bit of stamina.
Even though Marmar’s tail wand controls the amount and power of magic like a faucet, chanting and firing magic makes you feel quite tired.
“If you use it without a break in the future, it will be about one or ten feet.”
“A lot more useful than the rumors? If this is enough, I might be able to get a job in Barza’s Golden Army. Did you learn anything here at the Ark?”
Barza’s Golden Army is the pride of the Lioness family.
Should I say it’s like an elite unit that only hires quite talented people and gives them the best equipment?
Being able to get a job in such a place would mean that my skills are quite useful in practice. Of course, the rarity of magicians and spellcasters may have also played a part.
Of course, this can be taken for granted.
The Paimon that I have acquired is an advanced destruction spell from the Demon Lord Angmar.
It is a more luxurious and splendid spell compared to most wizards’ fireballs and wind blades. My power is weak because of my low hierarchy, but… .
“When did you learn this magic? Isn’t it strange that you had the talent of a wizard? With this kind of power, would it be on the 2nd rank?”
Elgar continued to be interested in my spells, so I explained it in moderation.
“Well, it’s better to go ahead than explain it now.”
So hesitantly, he hurried his steps. Because I thought it wasn’t good to be in one place for a long time.
In fact, from the back of the road we had passed, we could hear the growl of an unknown being.