38. Raid
While following the countess’ spell to find her, the direction never changed.
It’s not because the curse on Tina would have been lifted long ago if she had died… She just seemed to stay in one place, not moving.
Until the moment we reached the end of the empire using the warp device, the compass was always pointing in the same direction.
“What is the Countess thinking?”
As the journey took longer than expected, Elin muttered as if talking to herself.
In the wagon that rattled past on an unmaintained road, Elin stared blankly out of her window.
“Yes?”
When Yuni, who was sitting across from her, heard the words and asked back, she looked away from the window in shock.
“Oh, sorry. I was talking to myself, but I guess I said it too loudly.”
With a shy smile on his face, he looked out the window again.
Froden, who had been constantly checking the countess’s condition before killing her, cleared her throat to ventilate the atmosphere in the carriage where silence lingered.
“Hmmm. She heard that last time she was unilaterally beaten by the countess, but will she be able to withstand it this time?”
“If you are attacked by surprise, I think everyone will be like that.”
“How about assuming that they are facing each other?”
She looked worried for a moment, but she replied without hesitation.
“You can never lose with simple magic. Witches’ magic is unique, so I don’t know what variables will come out, but that would be the difference with or without Young master. If there is Walpurgis, wouldn’t it be enough to keep my foot in check?”
“Originally, there was no story that the countess was a witch. Perhaps for some reason she hastily shed her human mask and revealed her witch form.”
She was nothing more than a human, but before she knew it, she became a witch and tried to curse and kill her own daughter.
Even that was not enough, so she pretended not to have a relationship with her and continued to be ignorant.
She was curious about the Countess’s actions and thoughts, but she did not intend to ask.
There’s no guarantee that she’ll give an honest answer if you dare to ask her, and she might get a counterattack if she’s distracted by such a useless thing.
The opponent is not an ordinary wizard, but a witch.
I am not a person who uses magic that requires a series of processes, such as boosting mana and driving by combining magic formulas.
It was magic that made wishes come true by offering sacrifices. In other words, no matter how sensitively one detects one’s magical powers and monitors them sensitively, there is almost no way to know in advance the witch’s wishes.
In such a situation, it is impossible to take the time to figure out the situation.
“I will not care what the countess is thinking or what story she has. Don’t stop me on the way because you want to know the truth.”
Froden answered the question that sounded like he was spilling earlier.
When Elin heard that, she realized that she was talking to herself, and she laughed awkwardly.
Her delicate features were slightly frowned on her beautiful face, and far from being ugly, I felt a refreshing image.
If Froden hadn’t had Tina, if there had been one other man here, she’d surely have fallen in love with her.
“I didn’t mean to stop either. I was just curious what you would say if this was the setting in the original work,”
“I am a victim. It is unfair. That b*tch is nasty I am not wrong.”
“You are going to pretend to be a victim, right?”
“No, I will sincerely believe that you are a victim and speak up. She’s the one who’s been obsessed with her persecution delusion since the old days and tried to kill her own daughter. Whatever you say, I will not listen.”
“This is selfish. I don’t know how a person can be so selfish.”
“I became such a selfish person because I am a human being.”
He didn’t forget.
The neglect she was receiving when she first visited the Count’s family.
I saw her contempt, insults and malice that her family gave her.
Although her outward appearance changed a lot after that, she could see that Tina’s sunken complexion, which she occasionally sees, hadn’t improved at all.
It was for that reason that she rushed to propose to live with me there.
If I saw more of that scene there, I would want to turn it upside down.
People cross the line really easily once the brakes fail.
The guilt disappears from repeated actions, and it becomes inertia, and you act as if nothing happened. That would become a normal thing to do.
In such a terrible environment, Tina endured and endured.
But the end of enduring after enduring is like this. Froden didn’t want to understand that.
“I have arrived at the border line.”
I was taking an information guild member with me to serve as a coachman and guide for a short period of time on a long trip.
As if he spoke through a loudspeaker connected outside, his words could be heard accurately with a ringing sound.
“I’ve never seen that border before!”
The gloomy atmosphere was gone for a while, and Elin stuck her head out the carriage window to see the borderline she had never seen before.
There were only a handful of wagons trying to cross the border. She came back inside because the day and time were ambiguous, so she said that there were only 5 teams in front of her, so it would pass soon.
After the previous round of screening, she was ready to cross the border. Then, with a sudden explosion, the carriage overturned and flew away.
The guild member who was sitting on the coachman’s seat exploded and disappeared without leaving a trace.
Because I was protecting the wagon with protective magic just in case, I didn’t get seriously injured.
Froden came out of the carriage with Uni, who was bewildered. Elin, who was bewildered by her, also spurred her door.
All sides had already turned into a sea of fire, and blood and pieces of meat were splattered everywhere, creating an atmosphere where there was no separate battlefield.
The signal flares fired by the border guards guarding the border were twinkling in the clear sky.
Usually, only a small number of people were inspected and guarded, so the troops I saw were far away from the border here.
“You think my body alone is terrifying.”
There was a witch laughing eerily among the countless corpses.
She wears an old-fashioned dress and has a pipe in her hand. The witch who now enjoys the situation, her cruel smile hanging over her lips, was the witch who had beheaded her with her Walpurgis the other day.
If you look closely, you can see that her witch’s neck is lined and uniformly finely scarred.
The witch took the pipe in her hand to her mouth and inhaled the smoke from her.
She came in through the airway, caressed her lungs, and her smoke flowed from her seductive lips like carbon dioxide.
The decadent appearance of her matched perfectly with the horrendous scenes around her.
“Because a witch like you might attack. In the end, I think it’s fortunate that I prepared for it.”
Froden moved swiftly and wielded Walpurgis before her witch could use her magic. She
The moment she thought she had cut her torso, she had no sense of the tip of her knife.
Unlike the result of her body being split and internal organs spilled, there was no blood on her sword.
“It’s enough to be attacked like that once.”
At the end of her words, her left shoulder trembled. She had no sign of it, and her bones were dislocated and her excruciating pain came.
“As expected, at that price, that is the limit. I really envy people who were born with a lot of destiny.”
“Explosion.”
The illusion magic that Froden had slashed was gone, and her witch appeared elsewhere. And at the same time, the place where the witch’s body was located exploded, and her fragments flew in all directions.
The body exploded, the flesh scattered, and pieces of internal organs fell to the ground, but there was no red blood anywhere.
“Be cocky. Use magic on me With that much skill?”
“Defense.”
After that, Yuni flew away with her shield and collided with the wagon. At the same time as the blast sound was heard, Elin, who had been quietly holding her breath this time, burst the witch’s skull while wearing her gauntlet.
Elin was startled when her head exploded with one punch, but she still didn’t see her blood splattered.
“Ellin! Guard!”
At Froden’s cry, Elin raised her arms and crossed them, and her gauntlet took care of itself and wrapped around her entire arm as if to protect it.
It is an item of magic engineering made for her who cannot use her magic. Fortunately, she was not seriously injured because her defense magic was also installed. Her
Her writhing in shock Her witch looked at her and put her pipe in her mouth.
The smoke grew thick and her body blurred, and soon the sky was filled with countless alter egos.
It was a moment when I could see how dangerous witches who were determined and prepared to attack were.
“Crazy b*tch. You really have to grind your teeth properly.”
I have a rough idea of how she came, but I never thought she would come so quickly.
She thought that if she suffered one death she could buy her time though.
I moved her magic and forcibly put her shoulders back together, but she didn’t move properly.
“I don’t like wasting time. I’ll kill you first.”
The witch’s pipe was pointed at Froden. At the same time, arrows made of magic began to form next to the numerous clones.
As she faced the vast number of magic arrows, she broke into a cold sweat.
“Goodbye.”
Starting with those words, arrows were shot towards Froden at high speed.
Using her magical powers, she raised her cognitive abilities while striking arrows at close range at high speed.
Her brows furrowed as her head throbbed and the feeling of overloading her brain.
In order to speed up the slow-moving time of the slow-moving arrow, he forcibly manipulated his body using magic.
As she fired the arrow with a creaking and unnatural movement, her left shoulder went off again.
With minimal movement, he only avoided vital points and struck down arrows that obstructed his movement path.
Sometimes the arrows that burrowed into the ground were blocked by the protective magic gaiter.
In the meantime, the durability of the leggings began to decline due to the continued attacks, so I hurriedly cast protection magic on my shoes to block them.
Because it was an improvised magic, I couldn’t completely block it, so my body bounced slightly into the air in shock.
Several arrows pierced his body.
She cast her protection spell once more, this time with determination, and leapt high into the air.
When she cut off several of the witch’s clones nearby, she found Yuni preparing her magic.
The witch also noticed her sudden movement of magic and tried to attack her by spinning some of her arrows at Uni, but before she knew it, Elin appeared and blocked her arrows with her body.
Trusting her strong body, let’s destroy her arrows with her fists. When the witch tried to get her attention on that side, Froden took advantage of the slack and started cutting through her alter egos.
Inevitably, the arrows were diverted to get rid of him first.
An explosion occurred in front of his eyes as he strode as if he was flying, stepping on the arrows attacking in the air.
As soon as I turned my head in the burning pain, arrows rushed in as if I had waited.
I blocked the first arrow with the black side rather than the arrows coming in front.
The arrows followed Froden, who was rapidly falling down, using the recoil from the impact.
As soon as I landed on the ground, I pulled my body back with a back step, and then the magic arrows pierced me with a bloody look.
Proden’s body was also damaged here and there from the continuously generated arrows, so he wasn’t fine, but he earned enough time.
“The Great Explosion.”
The explosion magic created by the genius mage of the Mage Tower, worthy of being called the Archmage, mobilized all her magic and covered the sky.
The explosion accompanied by a deafening roar struck the witch’s alter ego as well as her body.
The witch hastily used a wish to stop the explosion, but in return, she allowed Froden to come close to her.
“Wait a minute! If you save me, I will help you…!”
“I don’t need it.”
Froden ignored her and she mercilessly swung her Walpurgis, splitting her head off.
This time, the red blood that should have flowed from the living creature began to flow, as if the witch had definitely hit it.
Her head was split in half and the body of the witch who lost her life vanished in vain.
At the same time, Froden collapsed as if her strength had been exhausted, as if her body had reached its limits due to her excessive use of magical power.
As she was bleeding with arrows all over her body, she felt her eyes blur.
“Potion! Where is the potion!”
“Calm down, Elin. Please take out the extras you put in the space called your inventory.”
“Oh, that’s right. Here you are!”
Elin, who was making a fuss, and Yuni, who seemed calm but her voice trembled, approached.
The uproar soon followed, and the potion came into her mouth and she started pouring the half-remaining contents into the wound.
The potion sprayed on the body healed the wound, and the potion that entered the mouth was absorbed into the body and began to flow instead of blood.
Naturally, thanks to the potion, her shoulders returned to normal with a groaning sound.
“Is the witch definitely dead?”
“Yes, he is dead. Beside her, her face is split in half, and she is dead, hideous.”
“That’s a relief.”
Froden sighed.
She’s been looking down on her witches since getting Walpurgis, but she’s realizing this once again.
Witches aren’t easy opponents, and you shouldn’t even think about fighting one-on-one unless you’re in a surprise attack.
She was fortunate that she had no combat experience.
Across the devastated border, seeing the brightly shining signal flares, Froden raised her body.
“Let’s get out of here first. It’s a headache when the border guards come and start questioning you.”
Her potion must have softened her body to some extent, but she decided that there was no difficulty in moving, so Froden chose to escape from this terrible scene.
It was a relief that the fight with the witch ended faster than expected and the garrison hadn’t arrived yet.
Looking at her receding frontier, Froden thus escaped the Empire.