Haunted Manor – 2
Before the return, there was some kind of mental illness circulating in the estate of Raynus.
It was later revealed that it was not a mental illness, but a form of necromancy.
Anyway, when we arrived at Raynus’ estate, it had already spread to great acclaim.
like now.
“yes?”
An old man who was walking a few steps ahead of us suddenly looked up at the sky blankly.
It was as if she had gone out of her mind, so Xenia spoke carefully.
“grandfather. Are you okay?”
The old man turned his head hard with his empty eyes.
“Where are you?”
“yes?”
“I, who am I? ugh My head hurts so much. Head!”
“Come on, calm down.”
“Heh heh. Kkekekeke!”
It was a momentary change because it was so unrealistic, but I wondered if it was a joke.
However, Xenia quickly grasped the situation.
“That body. It’s not yours.”
“Uh-huh. die!”
“Give it back to the original owner. The only place the heavenly god has allowed the dead is his bosom.”
Xenia drew the holy sword Caesar and swung it like lightning.
The black old man’s body was perfectly slanted.
The old man foams his mouth and falls over.
It was Neril, who didn’t even blink an eye at all, but now she had her mouth wide open.
“hey. Did you kill me?”
“no.”
“No. Now actually.”
“The holy sword Caesar is a sword that can directly damage the soul. This grandfather had a so-called ghost. I just cut that lost soul.”
Neryl clicked his tongue.
“It’s a long-lived thing to see.”
“It sounds really plausible from what you say.”
“I’m going to skip the remarks now. More than that.”
Neryl looked around.
A normal person suddenly went crazy on the roadside.
And the act of rushing with life.
Until Xenia subdue the old man with the holy sword.
Despite a series of naked events, none of the Yeongji residents showed surprise or agitation.
Rather, they each clicked their tongues and chattered.
“Another man possessed by a demon has appeared.”
“Grandpa Deran. How can someone so kind suddenly go crazy like that?”
“What the hell is going on with this young man? Who is doing this?”
“Who is who? Is there only one more necromancer in our estate?”
“Can’t Mariana-sama do that?”
Those were the stories.
Among them, some wondered who Xenia was to subdue a demon possessed so easily, but the overall flow of public opinion was closer to pointing a finger at Mariana.
Then the old man woke up.
“Ugh. What the hell happened to me?”
“Are you okay?”
“……is it. This time it was me.”
Perhaps it had already been seen many times, the old man spoke in a tone more bitter than shock.
“Did she save you? I think you are a paladin, maybe from the paladin of light?”
“yes.”
“ooh. At last, this manor will also be able to free itself from the ghost town’s notoriety!”
He lit up his eyes with a lively face.
I tried to get up, but my body trembled as if it wasn’t listening.
Xenia dried it quickly.
“The spirit of the dead dwells, and you won’t be able to move so quickly. Take a break.”
“I will. Thank you very much. Please save this estate.”
The old man burst into tears.
Xenia comforted him a few more times and returned to us.
“No doubt. What you just saw is necromancy.”
A necromancer cannot simply summon an old spirit into his body.
They can do most things related to the ‘soul’.
Calling in spirits wandering the continent and scattering them in the territory.
Neryl intervened.
“I agree. The question is who the culprit is.”
“Given the local people gossiping, it seems that there is already a suspect, right?”
“A person named Mariana?”
“yes. It is a violation of God’s providence just to summon souls that have already died. How much less did the necromancer call it on his own body and scatter it on the world so irresponsibly. This is why I hate necromancers!”
It’s the first time I’ve seen Xenia talk nonsense.
Priests, paladins, and necromancers were said to be rivals with each other.
‘Aside from that, before returning, Xenia and Ardwin had a pretty good relationship.’
Neryl spoke again.
“Anyway, Maid, what you are dealing with this time is this disease… No, what should we call it?”
“A ghost commotion?”
“okay. Are you going to solve the ghost hustle and bustle?”
“yes. And I think we have to hurry.”
I turned to the commotion I felt behind me.
I see Youngji-min hastily backing left and right.
Neryl asks.
“Who is it?”
“Who would it be? This kind of anomaly has occurred in the Empire, and the nobles will come.”
“ah.”
We looked at Xenia at the same time.
Xenia sighed and muttered.
“It’s the Knights Templar of Light.”
The dispatcher of the Knights Templar of Light who visited Raynus’ territory was a man named Tibr Bain, who occupied a middle rank within the Knights Templar.
He recognized us in the corner of the street… More precisely, he recognized Xenia at once.
The guy, who had been sulking while riding a little arrogantly, hurriedly jumped off his horse.
“Jenia? Are you Xenia?”
“yes. Long time no see. Sir Tibr.”
“I hope to see the vice-captain at a place like this. I heard that you are traveling on a continent for some kind of mission.”
“Have you not heard the details from your father?”
“Yes. The manager just said it was a secret.”
Anyway, Dame Gnome, everything related to the Wicked Witch is a secret.
Xenia just smiled shyly.
Tibr turned the topic around as if he had no intention of asking any more questions.
“Anyway, it’s nice to meet you.”
“Me too. Where else are you going?”
“Of course, I am the lord here. This time, there is a commotion using necromancy here.”
“Ugh.”
Xenia glanced at me as if she had remembered something.
I nodded, meaning you were right.
After seeing that, Xenia said.
“Then I will accompany you.”
“Yes? The vice-captain is on a separate mission…”
“Yeah, but I’m not brazen enough to pretend I didn’t see something like this. If Sir Tivre and I work together, we will be able to solve this in no time.”
“haha. yes. All right.”
A man named Tibra had a rather displeased face.
They seem to think that this ball was shared with Xenia.
I sneaked between the two of them.
“Then shall we go?”
“What are you? This is not the place for someone like you to intervene.”
uh. It looked like it would come out like that.
At that time, she opened her mouth, exclaiming that Xenia was very displeased.
It was me who was dismissed, but she is paying all the anger.
“Don’t be rude. Sir Tibr. These are my colleagues.”
“Do you, comrade?”
“yes. Maid, the immortal swordsman. And next to him is a woman.”
Neryl says in amazement.
“Do you think my introduction is too rude?”
I quickly persuaded Neryl and whispered.
“I can’t help it. Are you going to reveal yourself as a wretched witch in front of the Knights of Light?”
“no. But what is a woman?”
“You can’t call me a man.”
“You mean that?”
“Then what should I call you?”
Neryl pondered for a while, and answered quite seriously.
“How are you, lady?”
yes. no.
Neryl has decided to use the pseudonym Celia for the time being.
I skimmed through her pigtail list to see if it was a name closely related to Neryl.
but no name
Eventually I asked myself.
“Why Celia?”
“I just put it on my lips.”
“……”
It’s not good to think too deeply about everything.
Anyway, maybe it had been discussed in advance, we were able to stand in front of the lord with Tibr soon.
And we weren’t the only guests.
“Who is this one?”
Across from the lord sat a lady who looked quite modest.
Count Cobalt, Lord of Raynus, opened his mouth.
“I will introduce you. Maybe someone you know. This is Mariana Ain.”
At those words, everyone’s eyes, including mine, widened slightly.
I wondered what a great person he was because he was ranked 7th in the Empire, because the woman in front of him looked only in his late thirties.
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Mariana bowed her head gracefully.“This is Mariana. Please.”
“This is Tibr, the Knights of Light.”
“Likewise, it’s called the Knights of Light Xenia.”
“Made Mohan. A mercenary.”
“Celia.”
Compared to the others, Neryl’s introduction was very quiet, but Mariana didn’t seem to mind.
She greeted us one by one with a smile.
But that smile soon disappeared, leaving only melancholy.
said Mariana.
“I’m not good at turning stories around. So let me ask you directly.”
“……”
“Does the fact that I was dispatched from the Light Paladins also mean that you are suspicious of me?”
Although it was foretold in advance, it is definitely overly direct.
The Count lightly wiped his forehead with a handkerchief.
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Mariana doesn’t have a specific title, but since she has a deep relationship with the emperor, it must be difficult to treat her with care.“How can you doubt someone who is ranked 7th in the Empire? It is the duty of the nobles to report any abnormalities to the Knights Templar of Light.”
“I told you I would solve this problem. furthermore.”
She glanced at Xenia and spoke.
“Because there are a lot of Paladins who don’t like our necromancers.”
Xenia tried to say something in a hurry, but Tibr’s mouth opened before that.
“We just do things according to the procedures given. If Mariana is innocent, there is no need to fear.”
“I never said I was afraid.”
“…Anyway, the ghost commotion in this territory can only be explained by necromancy. Could you please elaborate?”
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Mariana let out a small sigh and started explaining.But knowing what it was about anyway, instead of listening to the story, I recalled the memories before the return.
In conclusion, it is true that this commotion was caused by Mariana.
And the person who found out and solved it before returning was the handsome Kayld.
several months from now.
Kayld meets Neril as a comrade and ascends to the Raynus estate.
It is here that he meets Mariana’s son, Ardwin Ain.
At that point, the number of souls Mariana had summoned increased even more, to the point that nearly 30 percent of the residents were possessed by ghosts.
And those 30 percent of the souls were completely insane and had to mobilize the army.
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Mariana had already been accused of being a criminal and imprisoned, and was being tortured in order to return the souls to their original world.I also joined the party and heard later, but Cald said this to Ardwin, who was crying loudly at the time.
“Ardwin. Convince your mother Ask them to return the souls to where they were supposed to be.”
“How many times have I told you! It’s not my mother’s fault.”
“Even the preliminary investigation by the Knights of Light and all circumstances say that this incident originated from Mariana.”
It is said that Ardwin shed tears like chicken dung, but remembering how tender his heart was, I drew a picture of what it would have been like.
And that night.
Perhaps she felt threatened by the arrival of the ‘hero’, Mariana exploded everything in prison.
He opened the door to the underworld and threw his soul into all Young Ji-min.
At that time, it is said that Serrain and Xenia worked together to solve the problem through ‘Purification’, a great magic that enforces divine providence.
It’s said to be a magic trick that turns everything back to what it should be, whether it’s a curse or something, but I’m not too fussy about it, so I don’t know.
I just remember that Xenia said this in a bitter tone when she was talking about that time.
“Purification is a technique that is difficult to activate even with the power of me or Serrain. Luckily, it worked, but maybe there was a price to pay.”
“What if the price?”
“I do not know. I don’t know what the heavenly god must have taken… But when I see that I and the people around me are also safe.”
There her expression darkened very much.
“I think my life might have been blown away a bit.”
After the purification, Caled and his party searched for Mariana day and night, but it is said that she disappeared without leaving a form.
It must have been a bittersweet quest in many ways.
The only success was to raise Caled’s reputation.
It’s a great magic technique that Zenia and Serrain succeeded in giving up their lifespan, but only Cale’s fame rose unexpectedly.
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