Chapter 616 – The Doll’s Knight
While the two main characters are caught off guard, as Seong-il intended, the socialite begins to prepare for a raid on the two boys and girls.
“Ow… It seems to have spread enough now.”
Thanks to Theo and Mila traveling to various pilgrimage cities and causing all kinds of accidents, the news of the revival of the doll knight was spreading all over the kingdom.
“It’s enough to appear in the newspapers…”
Seong-il, who bought a newspaper in a pilgrimage village where he stopped by following Theo and Mila, mumbles to himself while reading the article over a cup of coffee at a nearby cafe.
“…The next city. So, on the way to St. Sevrantia Monastery, there will be an incident.”
After checking the game’s storyline, Seong-il feels that sooner or later, a clash between Xie-gyo and his kids will happen as he intended.
‘When you arrive at the Severantia Monastery, in Chapter 1, the archmage Ruchel, who helps the boys and girls on their pilgrimage, appears, right?’
A character with magic skills that fits within three fingers in the doll knight worldview, 『Mage Lucille』.
Of course, he mastered the magic of all things according to the game setting book. He was well versed in spiritism and archeology, and was evaluated as a true great mage with no weaknesses.
However, unusually, despite having such great magical abilities, Ruchel does not reveal her skills in a way that is completely secluded or hidden.
Because of this, the day he revealed his skills in the fight against the cultists for the first time in decades, the whole continent was in shock.
‘If it’s Lucille, I can trust it. But before that, I…’
Originally, in order to raise the name of the Shinigami, the Church of the Shinigami had planned to rob Saint Severantia Monastery at once.
However, they recently realized that there was something dangerous in the monastery through the revelation of the god of death, and instead of raiding the monastery directly, they were looking for the owner of the doll by raiding pilgrims in the woods a little further away.
Therefore, in the story, the two boys and girls had not yet reached the monastery and could not receive help from Ruchel, but by chance they were able to survive an attack by the cultists with the help of ‘Edwin’, a mysterious thief nearby.
‘I’m using that situation to protect the kids and kidnap Aira at the same time!!’
In fact, it was the only chance for her to abduct the puppeteer Aira with justification, avoiding the eyes of her wise sub-comrade, so Seong-il prepares for the raid event with all her might.
“Careful for blocking variables…”
Seong-il decides to mobilize all means at his disposal to prevent any accident.
A mini-map made in augmented reality using a tracking device, a real-time monitor made using a chrono shield, as well as the surveillance magic of the magic book of all things, and even spreads the emotion to monitor boys and girls.
“Messenger. Go and keep an eye on me, okay?”
“Greung.”
Perhaps thinking that is not enough, Seong-il even unleashes the messenger of destruction to secretly track them down.
‘This should be fine.’
Seong-il, who poured out all possible means to eliminate any possible variables in her, moves her steps on a pilgrimage.
『Ugh~ It’s gloomy…』
“Huh. It seems a bit like that. Shall I summon a doll?』
『That… Is that so? It would be difficult if even wild beasts appeared…”
When the sun doesn’t come in well while walking through the beech forest, which is famous for its extremely dense forest, the two boys and girls summon a sturdy doll, perhaps feeling fear.
‘…Suddenly they’ll appear.’
And Seong-il, who knows that this situation is a precursor to an event, carefully attaches himself to the main character’s group.
『Ohohohohoho!!! The doll owner really appeared here!! Nice to meet you, kids?”
‘It’s here.’
Seeing that the event proceeded as expected, Seong-il takes out the cursed sword and rushes at it.
“Wizard!! Give them ice beads!!”
“Knight!! Block the approaching people!!”
A man and a woman ordering a doll to attack in order to stop dozens of cultists rushing through. Then they take out their staffs and clubs and take a defensive posture.
“Ohohoho!! How cute!! I will stop the dolls!! You go after those kids!! If you subdue those kids who are the owners of the dolls, the dolls will naturally become incapacitated!!”
“Yes!!”
The cultist responds with a loud voice to Aira’s cry, then ignores the doll’s attack and rushes towards the protagonist.
Awesome!!
“Kuh…!!”
However, the doll is not an idiot, so it launches a merciless attack on the assailants who try to attack the owner.
Three or four cultists who were hit directly by iron rods and ice beads fell down in an instant, but since there were so many cultists, they were able to move closer to the children little by little.
“Profit!! Fireball!!”
However, surprisingly, these children are not just children, but children who have learned a little bit of swordsmanship and magic.
Thanks to this, they protect themselves by attacking cultists with a fairly strong posture and attacking them with magic.
『Overpower the enemy and protect the owner!!』
Dolls who want to protect their owners according to the code of conduct instilled by the doll knight in the past. However, when they return to their owners and try to subdue the cultists. An army of wooden puppets catch their ankles.
“Where! You guys should play with me!!”
Aira holds the main character’s ankle with an army of wooden dolls she has worked hard on. Thanks to this, the two main characters are endangered by cultist attacks.
‘I’ll have to step out soon.’
And Seong-il, who saw that, thinks that he should come forward and sort out the situation.
“The power of the earth will bind my enemies according to my will!”
“The wind will be wet and cold and will transform into a blizzard!!”
“The trees become an army and attack the enemy according to my will!!”
A chant that flows from someone’s mouth like a waterfall for a short period of time.
At the end of the quick but pious cry, a trunk of a tree springs from the ground and entangles the cultist’s feet, and a blizzard blows to make them suffer, and the tree standing on the roadside becomes an ent and starts to attack the cultist.
‘What the fuck?’
While he was about to run into Aira, Seong-il, who saw the sudden magical bombardment, stopped for a moment and looked at the scene.
‘Did I do something wrong?! But, I haven’t tried anything since I came here?’
Seong-il, who was desperately trying to leave less of a footprint in this world, putting in all his efforts to prevent the game from being swindled.
He must have been like that, but when a situation he didn’t know about suddenly occurred, he felt his spine get cold.
‘What the fuck is it? What should I do?!’
While Seong-il agonizes over it, the mysterious man harasses the cultist by continuously casting spells in the darkness under the beech tree.
‘Keuk… It’s the Middle Ages… But… It’s just because that mysterious man launched a defensive offensive to protect the children…’
Assessment of the exact date of birth. In fact, rather than actively subduing the cultists, the mysterious man was focusing on debuffing or summoning cultists near the children so that they would not harm Theo and Mila.
‘If those cultists get a little farther away from Theo and Mila, the mage’s attitude will change 100%.’
Seong-il instinctively senses that if the children’s safety is guaranteed, the wizard will unleash a ruthless barrage of magic on the cultists.
Because of this, Seong-il realizes that if he continues to stand by and sluggishly like this, he may blow up any chance he has.
‘I don’t know the fuck. Let’s fight first!!’
Although the situation is twisted, Seong-il secretly puts the cursed sword and wooden doll on the floor, and then launches himself in the direction of Aira.
‘…The children are protected by the wizard, so I pretend to help their dolls and secure Aira’s recruits!’
Having made a decision, Seongil uses the special ability of the Incomprehensible Ring, 『Blessing of Nazarus』.
Wooddeuk…!!
Then, an improved acceleration and strength spell applied to Seongil’s body. After that, a film of steel begins to form on his skin.
Suuu…
Finally, invisibility to mute. In an instant, Seong-il, who is wearing five powerful buff magics, stealthily but quickly rushes behind the cultist guarding Aira.
“Benefit!! I mean to subdue it quickly!!”
A picture of Aira wearing a grotesque tiara and yelling at her goblin minions.
‘First of all, the cultists.’
Before Seong-il subdues Aira, he raises his hand, strengthened by his internal power, and slashes the cultist protecting Aira’s neck with force.
“Ouch!!”
A cultist who was watching the front to prepare for any possible attack on Aira. The guy falls down on the spot after being attacked by Seong-il, who is secretly like a ghost.
“Uh!?”
As his colleague fell in a bizarre surprise, the cultist who was covering Aira raises his weapon with a startled expression and looks in the direction of Seongil.
“Hi?”
Seong-il blows a terrifying storm of telekinetic power at the cultists who are surprised to see him, tying them to the spot.
Awesome!! Goof!!
“Gup…”
Seong-il binds them up and knocks them down by hitting the cultists’ stomachs with their fists once in a while, as if beating them.
‘Oops!! If I subdue it too easily, will I get suspicious?’
Come to think of it, there is a mysterious and powerful magician active in this area. Because of this, Seong-il realizes that he is in a situation where he has to act ‘in moderation’.
“How dare you target children? This phantom thief Edric will take care of you guys!!”
“What are you talking about? Crazy guy!! Doll army!! Subdue him!!”
Stunned at Seong-il, who spits bullshit out of the blue, Aira orders the doll to subdue Seong-il with a ferocious expression.
‘Moderately… Moderately…’
Seong-il tries to fight by competing with the doll in moderation without being too overwhelming. He directs an image of attacking a doll by running around the perimeter like a boxer doing outboxing.
“Profit!! Like a rat… Kuck!!”
While trying to swear at Seong-il, who drives the doll while running away quickly. At one point, the Doll: Wizard subdues the wooden doll and starts throwing cold beads at Aira.
“I… Protect me!! Now!!”
Perhaps recognizing that the situation is unfavorable, Aira throws away the dignified appearance she had shown a while ago and shouts loudly to those around her with a puzzled look on her face.
“Hmph!! You’re done now!!”
“Yes!! Are you a cult? I know everything!!”
Theo and Mila succeed in subduing all the cultists who attacked them thanks to a mysterious man.
They approach each other’s dolls with angry expressions and shout at Aira.
‘Shall we finish soon?’
As soon as it seems that her situation is going to end as she had intended, her holy day stops procrastinating and starts attacking her Aira in earnest.
“Don’t… Stop it!! Stop it!!”
However, no matter what they do, Aira’s doll cannot defend against her holy day’s attack. Seong-il skillfully evades her doll’s attack and approaches Aira.
“Get some sleep.”
He then lands her Aira a hard blow to the back of her head, knocking her out.
“Kuh…!!”
An intense shock felt in the neck. In pain, Aira feels her surroundings darken and collapses in her seat.
“Knife!! It’s now!!』
Seong-il, who sees this, sends a signal to the cursed sword to encourage him to act.
“Are you okay?”
After that, Seong-il suppresses all the enemies around him and pretends to be careless. After that, he naturally turns his back and walks towards the children, asking them how they are doing, creating a ‘cool’ phantom thief.
“Ah!! Phantom Thief Edric!! You helped us!! Thank you!!”
“Huh!? Over there!!”
While Theo and Mila approach Seong-il and express their gratitude. A bizarre-looking wooden doll holding a sword appears and runs away carrying Aira on her back.
“Chit!! I thought I overpowered them all!!”
While carrying the cursed black Ira, Seong-il gave him a transparent ring to make him invisible, so the children collapsed because they couldn’t catch him.
“It’s okay. Where are you not hurt!”
“That’s right!! Edric-sama!! Thank you!!”
Theo and the others probably thought that the wizard who saved them was Edric.
“Um… I’m not the only one who helped.”
“Eh? Really?!”
The time when the children constantly thanked them and corrected their opinions. From the shade of a beech tree, someone appears in front of them.
“Whoa… A cultist in the vicinity of the Holy Land. The world has become ugly.”
‘That person…’
A man wearing an outfit that was familiar to Seongil. A scholarly man who looked like a nice middle-aged man was holding a magician’s wand and looking at the party.
‘Fuck… Isn’t that Ruchel?! Shouldn’t this person appear now?!’
After seeing his outfit, Seong-il realizes that the man in front of him is Ruchel, a sub-mate from Chapter 1 and a powerful great mage.
