123 – carelessness
O’Drox knows all too well how Rain, Solar, and Rian feel for him.
I don’t know the details, but from the moment he was recruited, Lian and Rain had a crush on him as a member of the opposite sex.
It was strange that I didn’t know, and there was a huge difference in attitude between when I was dealing with others and when I was dealing with him. To the extent that even the indifferent Odrox recognized it.
He could roughly guess what Lane was thinking about the situation.
Perhaps he wants to step into the gap between Ron, Lian and Solar. Apart from worrying, if you get over the current situation where you fall apart and need a savior, you will be able to take his whole heart.
‘Thinking that way, his expression looks a bit different.’
It looks like the same expressionless expression as always, but when I got to know the inside story, the width of the eyes and the eyebrows were subtly different. With the feeling of ‘I’m worried’.
He is a person who wants his comrades whom he respects and respects as a human being to be happy. So, of course, I didn’t want the relationship to collapse in this way.
“I’ll take care of this. You go back and do your own thing.”
Lane lifted her slightly lowered head and looked up at him.
With a solemn expression on his face as if he already knew everything, he clicked. and put his greatsword on his shoulder. When Lane fell into the back row for some reason… That’s what Odrox did often when he was in charge of the front row alone. An action to convey the meaning of ‘trust me’.
“..yes.”
Lane nodded and slowed down. It was an action that he could do because he believed in Odrox’s power. But the little mercenary didn’t seem to feel that way.
The saintess and the first hero are also missing. Can the Continental Shield alone be in charge of that disparate thing? No, that’s not the problem. If I don’t take them, my life…
“Ah, yes. Little fellow. You were a mercenary too. Follow the money.”
“Yes.. yes.. Hey, the first hero is..”
“If by any chance someone has tipped you off, tell me. I’ll pay you well enough.”
He took out five gold coins. The swaying mercenary’s eyes flashed, and he turned to the gold coin that reflected the sunlight.
In front of money, he was one-sided enough to give his life.
Five gold coins as barely providing information. There was no reason not to follow.
“That strange person ordered me to take out the first hero, the shield of the continent, and the saintess separately. I said that at the moment when I was the only one left after killing everyone else. Otherwise, he said he would kill me…”
“Even though you said you would kill me, is it not scary to die if you tell me that information?”
“Because poverty scares me more than death.”
“Okay. The money will be paid after the work is done. Take me there quickly.”
“Uh…? But he’s really strong…”
“I’ll give you three more gold coins.”
“This way…!”
..
As soon as Rian and Rain returned, they saw Solar, unable to enter the tent, squatting in front of it and crying. Although Solar has shown a lot of weakness lately, I wasn’t used to seeing her cry and collect her tears. But since he himself made the rash, shouldn’t he be held responsible?
“Solar. Why did you do that? I made the same mistake as before…”
Lane asked.
“No… sorry.”
“Apologies are not for us.”
“No. I’m sorry to you guys too. I just ruined the atmosphere because of me. It was going well…”
“No. We weren’t sure if it would work out either. It was going to explode someday. It just exploded a little early.”
“Ugh… that’s… sorry…”
“Let’s talk about it first. Whether it’s okay or not, we’ll have to face each other sincerely.”
“..still..”
Solar was about to say something, but the words leaked out from between the tents. The terrible sound of flesh being crushed and the sound of water dripping thickly. The gloomy voice that murmured and descended showed that it was not an ordinary thing.
The already cooled head freezes completely cold. Solar, hesitant, hurriedly lifted the tent and went inside, followed by the other two.
“Ah… again…”
The first thing that greeted them along with Lian’s words was the fishy smell of raw food that you can’t get used to. But more important than that now was to look at his condition.
Lane hastily grabs both of his arms and restrains him. Lian hurriedly healed his wounds using healing magic and wiped his face with a cloth. In an instant, the bright red cloth was removed from his face, revealing his empty, lightless eyes.
The eyes that they liked, like looking at the stars in the night sky, were completely blackened. Solar felt that the world was collapsing because she was the cause. That’s why I couldn’t notice something small and foreign floating around in his body.
It was the same with Ryan and Rain. They didn’t notice the curse smeared on Ron’s bloody fingertips. Magi, who appeared feeble and then disappeared, didn’t even notice. They repeated spinning and disappearing around his body that fast, and they weren’t experts in demons and magi.
He kept muttering something, but couldn’t decipher it. Aside from the low voice, the content of what was being said was constantly changing rapidly. As if reciting the present from the past, going from the present to the past, or drawing an impossible future, he was saying something abstract.
There was no resistance to their gestures. That made them uneasy. Because it seemed like he had given up on everything.
Solar also just looked at him but couldn’t say anything properly. I tried to talk, but it didn’t seem to reach him. Moreover, since he hadn’t really revealed anything about himself, they couldn’t do anything about it.
All three were thinking the same thing. You have to apologize and get better before you go back to square one. Even if you solve the situation with a temporary measure, you will have to live without knowing anything about it and being careful about your behavior.
At the moment when the slightest hesitation dwelled in their heads, as if they were aiming for it, demonic smoke entered the tent and began to form the shape of a demon.
Except for the horns and vertical pupils, Ereon, a demon who is so beautiful that he surpasses the Myrsene Luminen Promius.
Ereon, obsessed with Solar’s magic, could not restrain himself and approached them first.
“Looks like a failure. I didn’t expect there to be all three of them… I need to scrap it.”
“..discard? What do you mean?”
“Ah! The first hero.. That’s why it’s a rain guard, right?”
“You’d better answer my question first.”
The corner of the devil’s mouth slightly lowered when he saw the shining fist filled with holy power. No matter how much he created an illusion, that was dangerous. Since the nerves are connected to the body, the blow will go to the body as well.
The amount of holy power contained was unusual. Did the saintess help?
I knew instinctively that if I got hit, I couldn’t even pick out a bone. For the devil, who considered dying with the magic of Solar as his final purpose and value of existence, the attack was to be avoided.
“Yes. What were you trying to ask?”
“What do you mean by discard?”
“So..”
“Don’t roll your head.”
It reached the neck of his illusion. At the same time, the sound of something cooking and a burning sensation invaded both her virtual image and her body. Not only was I caught trying to roll my head, but I felt like I could just die if I did something wrong. There was no meaning of puppet. In this situation, virtual images are just tools to kill oneself remotely.
Was it too hasty The moment Ereon, the demon who closed his eyes for a long time and then opened them, dispelled the false image and tried to devise a strategy again, Solar said.
“Even if you run away, there will be no point.”
Even though he was talking while looking at him, he could tell that he was talking to himself. The magic power shed without even realizing it made Ereon ecstatic.
Perhaps because he was distracted by that pure magical power, Ereon did not understand the meaning of Sola’s words.
“Ha ha.. Ha ha.. I look forward to seeing your face when you convey the truth that only I know.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“It’s better to put it off as something to enjoy later.. Kkeok!”
The devil tried to disappear with the smoke while revealing his composure, saying ‘I have the upper hand’, but such composure did not last long. It was because Lane and Lian’s narrow-minded attack had strangled her whole body.
Her half-disappeared body is trapped in a translucent film that emits silver light. A lump of holy power that loses its strength. But I still had to endure it. If you use magic…
With that thought in mind, she began to recite the incantation, but Rain squeezed her throat and forcibly cut off the magic halfway through.
A black mass imbued with magic and mana fell to the ground with a thud. Sola annihilated it with a simple magic.
“wait for a sec..”
“What’s your purpose?”
“Let go of this.. let me answer..”
Can not be done. Losing one’s life through holy power. Even if you die, you must die with Solar’s magic. Because that is its purpose.
I thought it would be okay if it was an illusion, but it was a mistake. I couldn’t think deeply because I was distracted by the magical power. I thought that the strength would not change even after the breakup, but I didn’t know it would be this much.
That’s why Ereon begged them in a servile voice that didn’t respond. If there was a momentary gap, they would be able to escape and reorganize, but no matter how much they searched, they could not find any gaps.
His figure came into the eyes of the devil, who was looking for a solution while rolling his eyes like that. It’s already broken and stretched out. But I couldn’t do anything with him here. This is literally an illusion, and in order to stimulate him and destroy him even more, he needed magic.
Revealing the facts and making a gap between them? No, no. This should be used to shake them up. It was too much of a waste to spend begging for my life in a place like this. The only gap between the first hero and his party. Without it, it would be next to impossible to see Solar’s magic.
Power enters the hand holding the holy power and tightens the neck. From the mouth of Ereon’s body, which was hiding somewhere, blood mixed with demonic energy and mana began to flow.
Are you greedy? Or is it life prolongation? One of the two had to be chosen unconditionally.