Chapter 69 – 069. Encounter With the Devil (5)
“This…”
The sudden change in Erin was taken aback by Alex, who was preparing to fight beside her.
“Eh, Eek! What are these tails and ears!”
Erin, who had been puzzled by the change in her condition, felt a strange sensation in her back and head that made her feel strange.
Her present self was that of a ‘fox beastman’ with nine tails.
This was the second time she had been transformed through semi-forced awakening by the intervention of her nine-tailed fox, but this was the first time she noticed a change in her own condition while maintaining her sanity.
“Wake! Your change is embarrassing to me too, but for now, just focus on dealing with that demon!”
“Ah… Yes!”
Erin suddenly came to her senses and grabbed the rapier again.
Even though she was able to take her first attack due to Erin’s obvious gap, the reason why Lira, the succubus, couldn’t surprise her was because she was also embarrassed by this situation.
‘What is that mana… Where did you get that amount of magic attribute…’
Her sudden and explosive increase in the amount of her magic power was a little hesitant at the state of her Erin, but now Erin was very embarrassed by her own change.
Her original plan was to transfer some of her magical powers she had collected to her Erin, and after accusing her of being the culprit of this series of raids, she attacked more humans to restore her magical powers. It was a thought to gather.
Lyra saw her Erin’s condition and her eyes lit up.
‘If only I could exploit all of that magical power.’
It’s not unreasonable that she can raise her own rank to mid-level, which is nothing short of her lesser demon.
A temptation that is too great for her to reject and keep her cool begins to dominate Lira’s mind.
“You have a good one. I must have your power.”
Like a hyena with her delicious food in front of her eyes, Lyra licked her lips and flew towards her Erin, flapping her own bat wings.
“I won’t let you do it your way.”
Alex, who got into Lyra’s path as she was flying toward Erin, swung her sword at Lyra, interrupting her flight.
Lira, who had managed to avoid Alex’s side slash by stopping her flight and pulling herself back, glared at Alex with a frown on her face.
“It’s annoying. You.”
Lyra, feeling her annoyance at Alex interfering with her, drew the handle of her sword from her waistband and swung it at Alex.
“A succubus with a sword?”
“First time seeing it? But it’s weird You’ve never seen us demons, but you talk as if you’ve seen them?”
Erin quickly made fun of her body while Lyra was talking to Alex, and Erin’s physical abilities, which had entered a ‘nine-tailed fox state’, were much higher than usual.
‘If the enemy shows an opening, don’t hesitate to attack. Otherwise, you will die.’ Eun-hyeon’s education ingrained in her body makes her body move conditioned reflexively.
She moved into Lira’s empty field of vision in an instant and though she swung her swift side slash towards her neck.
Kaaang!
“Oh… ?!”
A black curtain rises from the ground, blocking Lyra’s side and blocking Erinn’s attack.
“This…”
“‘Shadow… ?'”
Alex muttered softly when she saw the familiar black curtain in her eyes, and Erin also saw a black figure rising from the floor and put the impression on her mouth as it came to mind.
“Okay. It’s ‘Shadow’. It’s the black magic that your older brother, Erwin, used.”
“Oh… Are you fast?”
At Lira’s mention of Erwin, Erin shuddered and gave her obvious agitation.
There was no way the devil would miss such a small gap in Erin.
“You can’t touch that!”
“Oh… !”
Hearing Alex’s cry, Erin was startled and pulled her body back and quickly distanced herself from Lira.
Missing her golden opportunity to absorb her Erin’s magic, Lira narrows her eyes and starts glaring at her Alex.
“You… Do you know about me?”
She was able to say this because she obviously knew about her own abilities.
“I’m seeing you for the first time, but I’ve never encountered one of our kind before…”
Lira, who had been deep in thought, put on an expression that she realized something about her.
“Has anyone told you about our race?”
“…”
Alex doesn’t answer, but his stern expression and silence proves Lyra’s guess is correct.
“Who the hell are you? Can you tell by looking into your head?”
“If you knock it down. I guess you can tell.”
“Oh my, is that a tone full of confidence that you will never lose? Be cute.”
Lyra’s face begins to grow chilly as if she is having fun at Alex’s words.
“I want to kill you.”
With those words of her own, Lyra spread her own bat wings and soared above her.
Seeing her floating in the air and beginning to deploy her large-scale magic power, Alex, who felt unusual, kicked her building around and started jumping, and in an instant, Lira flew up to her floating sky above her. It was about to reach and swing her sword at her.
[I, the dreamer, request the manifestation of the forest as a member of the world of dreams here.]
[Give me a chance to give sweet rest to the weak creatures.]
To whom is it a prayer requested?
Without even time to question, the dark red energy that had been gathering around Lira began to fluctuate.
[Succubus Unique Barrier]
[Forest of Dreams]
The violently shaking demonic magic attacked Alex and Erin as they tried to attack Lira.
“Ugh… !”
“Kyaaak… !”
The two men, who swung their weapons wildly at the dark red mana that was like fog and removed it, looked at the surrounding environment that had clearly changed and made a dumbfounded expression.
“Here… ?”
“Where… ?”
Without any hint of movement, such as floating or floating, the surrounding background completely changed.
It was a heterogeneous change, like the ‘realization of a fantasy world’ that Eun-hyeon showed in the past, but the smell of the dirty brothel and the cold, sharp wind that stings the nose tell us that it is not a fantasy.
“This is our own forest, accessible only to our dreamers, the succubus.”
The dense forest and the turbid air, obviously different from when I was in Pernin.
The most heterogeneous thing is the quality of mana that is dissolved in the air of this area.
The mana that exists in normal nature tends to be blue or green, but the mana in the forest here has a dark red color, and just breathing in the air in which this mana has melted seemed to make me feel bad.
“This is a ‘dream world’, a space that only our species can enter.”
It shows hallucinations to people and kidnaps and traps people’s mental bodies in this space where only dreamers can enter.
As long as they exist here, the state of Alex and Erin, whose souls are empty, is like falling into an eternal sleep that never wakes them up.
In other words, the current Alex Erin meant that it would be impossible for her to wake up and return to reality unless Lira, who had dragged them in here, let her out again.
“Why did you bring us here?”
“I was curious. Who sold you information about our species? And it seemed like I had to change places to deal with you guys. If you keep fighting there, you might end up getting involved in a fight and killing people.”
“The devil… Are you worried about humans?”
“Yes? Then of course don’t worry. They are all things that will be my nourishment. Shouldn’t you grow it and eat it? Whoops.”
She cares about people and thinks of them, but it’s never the emotional part, such as affection or being for someone.
They see it only as food or livestock to be absorbed with their own magical energy.
Just as humans raise cows, pigs, and chickens and use them for food, Lyra is seen as a precious resource that can extort mana from humans.
“I love this country! No matter how much the aristocrats suffer damage, the high-ranking nobles rush around cheaply because they are in a hurry to hide the fact! Because if rumors spread that demons are infiltrating the capital, the center of the kingdom, the national loss would be enormous! Thanks to that, I can comfortably exploit mana from people. What better environment could there be? Kyahahaha!”
“To my brother… What have you done! You… You made my brother a warlock?!”
Seeing that she was a demon, mentioning Elvin, and using the black magic he used, Erin could easily guess that fact.
“Huh? Ah, I think you’re misunderstanding something. It’s true that I raised him to become a wizard and gave him the black magic book, but it was Alvin’s will that made the final choice.”
“What… ?”
“I said that I needed the strength to protect my little brother. Saying that he, as a commoner, has no ability, the Court Magic Division… Was it Magus? However, even after joining there, the way he treated himself was the same as when he was in Aether.”
Surprisingly, she was ahead of many of the aristocratic children. Erwin, who achieved as much achievement as we did, even after graduating from school and joining the Magus, she was no different from being subjected to numerous checks from the aristocrats.
Being deprived of their place by her commoners, lagging behind in their careers than commoners, and unable to bear having commoners over their heads, they forced and suppressed her Elvin a lot.
As a commoner, he achieved tremendous achievement by joining the Court Magical Corps, but he became independent under his father, Renion, and he wanted to become very successful, save his younger sister who was abused and abused at home and at school, and make her live a happy life. ‘S dream continued to fade away.
“That’s why she wanted more power, and as a result, she dabbled in black magic.”
The most fundamental reason for Erwin to become a warlock was because of ‘Erin’s salvation’.
“Because of me…”
“But it is really strange. I thought that if you knew all about her Elvin, she would have vengeance against the knights and the kingdom that killed her brother like that. You said you were finer than you thought?”
“…”
“Thanks to that, I pretended to be a thief and deliberately pretended to be a criminal in order to convince you that you were the culprit of this raid, but the people of the kingdom were so incompetent, they were aiming at the people involved, but they didn’t even suspect you? That, too, has become a waste…”
Previously, when Eun-hyeon and Erin stopped by a clothing store together, a nobleman took expensive clothes and jewels without paying for them due to his ridiculous ideology of electing people and his power.
The father of a student who became a hot topic in Aether when he indiscriminately assaulted a commoner who was in charge of cleaning as a cleaner at Aether school.
And Viscount Berman, who participated in Erin’s father Renion Hersha’s embezzlement and turned a blind eye to his accounting information manipulation, is also the father of Marva Berman, who harassed Erin the most in Aither.
All of them were targeted and attacked by Lira to show her connection to Erin.
Lira had already infiltrated humans since Elvin was in school, so she collected a lot of information over a long period of time, and through that information, she was using the dark parts of human society perfectly.
However, Riod, who was in charge of the investigation of this raid, knew that her Erin always stuck with her Eun-hyeon all day long, but there was no way he could doubt her.
“The thing that encouraged my older brother… Is it yours?”
If Alex was shocked by Elvin’s story from Lira, she asked Lira about her Ashton, hiding Erin behind her, who had a blank expression on her face.
“Brother? Ah! That lump of inferiority complex!”
“That’s it. That kid’s mentality was better than I thought, and I used that man to make him turn into powder and burn with revenge. It also failed. Why?”
The attitude of tilting your head and not knowing what really happened.
Lira does not know that Eun-hyeon intervened in the abandoned warehouse where Ashton kidnapped Erin and prevented the worst from happening.
Alex was sure.
In the plan of the succubus called Lira, the variable of the existence of ‘Eunhyeon’ was not considered at all.
That’s why she still doesn’t know why her own plan went awry.
“Erin. Wake. Did you forget what he said?”
“… I know.”
“That guy?”
Lira tilted her head.
Hearing Alex’s words, Erin gritted her teeth and gripped her own rapier again.
Eun-hyeon, the ‘guy’ Alex talked about, believed that she could catch the devil and remained in the prison alone.
She must repay that trust, thought Erin.
She said that she had to let go of her past self, who was in despair in her self-pity.
“If you stay here, you will all die soon. No matter how strong your magical powers are, in the end you fall into the human category. This is a world only us dreamers can enter. Unless I send you back to the original world…”
Blasphemy!
“You will never…”
Beginning with cracks in the air, I forcibly squeezed through the cracks in the small holes, and finally broke the cracks and a huge sphere of prominence appeared.
[Six digit upper magic]
[Prominence]
Kwaaang!
“Kyaaaaagh!”
As she sentenced Alex and Erin to her death penalty for her confident demeanor, she let out a scream as the orb of her red flame swung over her.
The sphere of flame that engulfed the succubus floating in the air exploded, and the storm of heat contained within the sphere engulfed the surroundings.
The damage in the aftermath was relentless even to Alex and Erin.
“Kyaaaaah!”
“Keugh!”
[Tsk.]
A woman’s voice, her little tongue, echoed in Erin’s head.
A curtain formed in front of Alex and Erin, who had been protecting their faces with both arms in the scorching heat, and began to protect them.
When the strong gust of wind, which lasted for a few seconds, dissipated, a woman began to walk out of the broken crack.
The ‘witch’, wearing a black hat and dark-colored clothes that clung to her body, frowned as soon as she entered the dreamy forest.
“Why is the air so thick here?”
“What, what… What! What the hell… !”
The witch, frowning in blatant displeasure at the tainted mana dissolved in her air, found a succubus in the air uttering her gibberish without knowing why.
“Found. Is it you Something strange was going on in Pernin.”
“This, Illyana Kennifer… !”
There was no way she was unaware of the existence of the ‘Black Witch’, the most powerful magician in the Kingdom of Lyra, who infiltrated Pernin and collected all information related to the kingdom and its nobles.
She had many questions about how she was able to enter the ‘Forest of Dreams’, a space only for dreamers, and why she came here, but at the moment, in Law, that was not the important thing.
The most important thing is that that woman who is no different from a specialist in her magic battle is now in front of her eyes.
“You said you were planning to catch Hyun-i and suck her spirit from him?”
“Uh, what is that…”
Hyun, who the hell are you referring to?
To be exact, it was Eun-hyeon’s plan to get information about the devil by deliberately getting caught and depriving her of her energy, and on the contrary, striking the back of the succubus’s head to get information about the devil.
“It’s done.”
As Illyana slammed the tip of her staff on the floor, her three magic circles rose from her center and began spinning around her.
Seeing the sight, Lira puts on her look of astonishment.
Even among high-ranking wizards, Illyana’s expression when she cast a triple cast and triple spear, which was said to be possible only in a small percentage, was very unusual.
As if you are very angry about something.
“I have to go beyond what I can pass. Whose spirit do you dare to cross?”
“…”
“Come on. Just for you! It’s this fuckin’ meal!”
