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Sophia pulled the veil at the entrance to the barracks and went outside.
And something completely unexpected happened before my eyes.
“What is this?”
The soldiers of the Allied Forces or the New York State were nowhere to be seen.
But the rebel soldiers were bleeding from all sides and falling to the ground.
The whole place was a mess.
In the sudden attack, the soldiers were fighting without being properly equipped.
And the enemy’s identity is surprising.
‘Are you fighting with the same soldiers?’
He was also a rebel soldier.
However, there was something strange about the soldiers attacking their allies.
Their whole body was covered with a gooey black liquid.
The exposed veins on his face and wrists were bloated and stained black.
The movement to attack, perhaps losing reason, was more like a beast than a trained person.
There were even cases where soldiers in the same situation killed each other.
“Magic Explosion?”
Sophia knew immediately why this had happened.
The symptoms were different from the commonly known mana runaway.
However, it was certain that it was manifested by the soldiers who had magical powers.
The soldiers who did not lose their reason did not feel the magic.
On the other hand, all the soldiers who caused the runaway had magical powers.
From an unidentified plague to an unknown magic runaway.
All of this happened to the soldiers with magical powers.
‘Is it the work of that saint candidate?’
Sophia bit her lip.
That was then.
“What are you going to do now?”
It was Riley’s voice.
Sophia hurriedly looked back.
Riley stood near the slightly opened tent entrance.
Of course, you won’t see it anywhere else.
But Sophia was the first to make a livable voice.
“I told you not to come out.”
“Ahaha. I’m really shy.”
Riley smiled badly and disappeared inside.
After Riley moved away, Sophia started doing her own thing.
She cast magic power through her entire body and cast dark magic.
There was only one goal.
It was to find out the cause of this mysterious mana runaway and calm the situation.
* * *
Flutter!
The flag symbolizing the Church of Pars was waving in the outer fortress of Nouvelle City.
Behind the waving flag, Ethan appeared.
Standing on the wall, Ethan was watching the rebel camp in the distance.
The rebel camps were quite far apart.
However, with Ethan’s developed eyesight, he could see clearly.
The rebel citadel, bound by a barrier, was on fire.
But there was no one to fix it.
‘No, it must be impossible to fix it precisely.’
It meant that it wasn’t something to worry about if the fence was on fire.
“Good.”
Ethan chuckled.
Things were going according to plan.
No matter how long and long the head of the clan flew, in the end, it was on Ethan’s palm.
Ethan had all the tactics in his mind that a dark follower, or more precisely, the head of a clan could use.
So this time, I was able to hit the player.
“There’s no way they really believed in the rebels.”
Ethan expected that the rebels would have a target number of blood relatives.
No, it wasn’t really what I expected.
This was certain.
Therefore, Ethan ran away with the magic of the rebels by disposing of the contaminated eggs that were hidden underground.
It wasn’t too difficult for Ethan.
All he had to do was twist the curse and dark magic accumulated in the tainted egg in the first place and set the direction again.
Above all, the contaminated eggs could not invade the State of Nouvel.
No matter how much the curse was emitted, it could not overcome the tremendous divine power of the new city, and it only leaked to another place.
Ethan took advantage of that.
All the curses and magic that would leak to the wrong place were turned to the rebel camp.
That’s what the tainted eggs that ate the shunin did.
Ethan used the clan’s plan instead of himself.
‘You must have thought of making fun of the soldiers with various curses or magical powers.’
Ethan laughed as he remembered the head of the clan.
Playing pranks was a shallow feat that could be used only when the other person didn’t know him well.
However, Ethan saw through everything about his kin.
So, one step ahead of the clan’s plan, he was able to use it against it.
He was very daring and cruel.
It was unimaginable from the point of view of the clan.
At first, I thought that there was no one in the United Kingdom who could do something like this.
But Ethan was more than capable of doing such a cruel thing.
He had no mercy toward the Dark Followers.
It was natural.
The clan was trying to summon the Demon King, the enemy of Edan’s infirmity.
What can’t they do to stop it?
That was then.
‘That one?’
Ethan, who was looking at the burning barrier, felt a huge magical power churn.
It was so huge that it felt like a tingling sensation on the skin.
Ethan observed the scene with jet-black eyes.
“Is that the guy?”
Ethan felt it.
Among the clan, there was a woman who stood out for her dark magic skills.
Now, the woman was trying to rectify the situation.
“It can’t be that easy.”
Ethan smiled and put his hand on the floor.
I could feel the running magic power in the rebel camp in the palm of my hand.
It was natural, since it was Ethan’s divine magic that boosted it in the first place.
And only Ethan could sense the divine magic.
Ethan once again sent out divine magic.
The magic that was about to be quiet began to fluctuate again.
Recognizing this, Ethan smiled and looked at the rebel camp.
“It’s going to be quite difficult.”
* * *
“What is this… … ?”
Sophia let out a sigh.
The cause of the mana runaway of the soldiers was the mana that soared from the underground.
‘This is not mere magic.’
The magic that soared from the underground was all kinds of curses and dregs of dark magic.
Because of this, she tried to suppress the magic from the underground using dark magic.
‘Can’t I stop it?’
Surprisingly, she tried to control her magic with dark magic to no avail.
The magic that came from the underground tore apart her control of dark magic and ran wild in all directions.
Sophia’s forehead frowned as she closed her eyes and focused.
She decided to quietly peer into the magical powers underground.
Then, something strange appeared in her eyes.
As if his magical power had been stimulated by something, he ran wildly in all directions and became angry.
Its grandeur was beyond imagination.
‘This is not a normal magic runaway! Why?’
Sophia, who was concentrating, opened her eyes and turned her head to the new state.
“no way?”
It was impossible to forget this violent and intense energy.
A priest named Ethan he encountered during the daytime battle.
That was the feeling I had then.
* * *
morning has come
Meanwhile, among the soldiers of the New York State, what had happened in the rebel camp was spreading.
“Did you know there was a fire over there all night?”
“okay. I heard some strange noises, but what the hell is going on?”
“I found out that the rebel soldiers turned into monsters and killed the same side, causing an uproar.”
“What? Did people turn into monsters?”
“It’s terrifying. If you go over there, won’t even a normal person turn into a monster?”
“Ah, please. Pars-sama will protect us.”
The soldiers shuddered at the eerie rumors.
As Ethan headed towards the wall, he listened to the soldiers’ conversation.
‘The rumors spread well.’
Actually, this was Ethan’s intention.
It was because it was necessary to raise the morale of the soldiers of the Nouvelle City.
Of course, the fact that a person turned into a monster could cause fear.
But what was important was that rumors spread that the rebels had suffered damage.
That would be of great help in the battle to come.
“I did what I was told to do, but did something really happen to the rebels?”
Knicks suddenly appeared from behind.
“If you are curious, you can go and check it out yourself.”
“No, I’m more worried about my father than I am curious about.”
Nick’s face darkened.
‘By the way, was Shunin the stepfather of this guy?’
Ethan flinched as if he had just realized.
“Are you worried? I don’t think we were that close.”
Shunin confided to Ethan also about the Knicks.
The plan was to join hands with the Dark Followers and put Nyx in the saint’s place to roll the Nouvelle state to my liking.
‘Honestly, he was a cheap guy even if he died.’
Even going back to that time, Ethan would have killed Shunin.
At Ethan’s question, Nix smiled bitterly and nodded his head.
“yes. To be honest, he was a very difficult person. He also had high expectations of me. But I’m worried that it will suddenly disappear in such a confusing situation.”
Ethan smirked.
When I heard about Shunin, Shunin always treated the Knicks as a tool.
But Nyx was now worried about Shunin with a pure heart.
‘You’re such a stupid person.’
Anyway, it was already spilled water.
“I can’t help it. The problem before us right now is the rebels, so we can’t afford to search.”
“yes. I know it well. First of all, what do we do with that nefarious dark follower?”
Nyx clenched his fists, burning his sense of justice.
In any case, the Knicks continued to spread rumors as Ethan told them to, even while worried about their adoptive father.
My job is to be a straight-forward guy, so I put Ethan next to him, otherwise this guy would have been tangled without mercy.
Of course, the Knicks weren’t the only ones helping Ethan’s work.
“I will assure you. It is true that something big happened in the rebel camp.”
“Right!”
Another voice was heard from behind.
This time it was the Romon family’s twins, Chloe and Charlotte.
The twins both smiled confidently.
“Priest, there is nothing to worry about.”
“Because we checked it ourselves.”
The twins also moved in accordance with Ethan’s will, becoming hands and feet.
“Are you sure? So what’s the big deal?”
When Nix, who had a keen ear, asked that question, the twins folded their arms and said confidently.
“We don’t even know what it is.”
“Right. So I came to check with Priest Ethan.”
Nix sighed in disbelief.
“Isn’t it strange that you are sure that something big has happened but you don’t know what it is?”
“a! There was a lot of magical power in the rebel camp. So I mean. Priest Ethan, what the hell happened over there?”
“right. Are you sure it has something to do with Priest Ethan? Please tell me quickly!”
Chloe and Charlotte were convinced that what happened in the rebel camp had something to do with Ethan.
“I just returned the gifts I got from the Haup estates back to them.”
“Did you give it back?”
“A present?”
All three of them shook their heads at that.
Soon, the twins opened their mouths to see if there was a corner to stalk.
“Oh, I see!”
“Did you ever use what the dark wizards used in the Haup estate?”
“yes. you’re right.”
“Wow! answer!”
Ethan nodded and Chloe and Charlotte clapped their hands together in delight.
Nyx regretted the riddle like a wrong person.
But in this respect, it was only natural that the twins were ahead.
“Something I saw in a book came out!”
Chloe and Charlotte’s hobby was exploring old books.
This had happened several times a hundred years ago, so it must have been recorded in a book.
This is because the magical medium used for curses and dark magic could sometimes reverse it.
And the Chil Heroes did the same thing.
However.
“what? It is strange to think about it.”
The twins, who were overjoyed, suddenly showed their doubts with sharp eyes.