Chapter 263 – #59_Salvation(2)
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One.
When the two of them slept for about 4 hours and woke up at dawn.
I went straight to the branch manager’s office at the sudden ringing of my cell phone.
Because Della woke up.
When she arrived at the branch president’s office, Della was sitting on a bunk in a loose white cloth.
Bandages are wrapped all over her body as she sits with a blank expression on her face as if she is half dreaming.
There were many parts that were so damaged that almost no skin was exposed.
“…… Thank you for saving me.”
Della expresses gratitude as soon as she wakes up.
Her expression still seemed oblivious to the sudden change of reality.
No matter how strong of her mind she was, it was not easy for her to live in confinement with her spear pierced in a dark basement where no light penetrated.
While the head of the Sua branch was disinfecting and arranging the needles used.
Eloa steps in front of Della.
Elroa, who rushed down without proper preparation, was not very tidy.
As usual, the outfit is leggings and sports bra that are good for movement, and a windbreaker is worn over them.
Her pink hair, even down to her hips, is tousled as if she had just woken up.
But Tiphareth was Tiphareth.
The soft and fluffy appearance that Siwoo showed last night is gone.
A solemn atmosphere like a well-honed blade and straight eyebrows.
In the atmosphere of subtle anticipation, there was a dignity worthy of the title of military god.
“I’ll start with the main topic, Baron Della Radcliffe. She has a suspicion to you that she cooperated with the cowardly witch.”
“Cooperation? Have you ever had an example of treating an accomplice like this?”
Della pointed to the bandages that were wrapped around her own body and gave her a wry smile.
She laughed, looking exhausted, like someone who had just been rescued from a prisoner of war camp.
“I might have sent you here to cover her,” She said. In fact, none of the 12 wounds penetrated any vital organ.”
Eloah’s point was reasonable.
In fact, Paola had her Della pinned to her wall with the intention of incapacitating it, but did not want to take her life.
“I will tell you everything I know. If there is even one lie, you can judge me then.”
“I won’t do that. There is a more certain way.”
“Gwiju.”
The moment Elroa takes out her contract sword and refuses to tolerate a single lie.
Sensei Sua guessed her intentions and intervened.
Perhaps she made a pact with Della to obtain her unfeigned confession.
If this was a relaxed situation, it would have been the best solution.
But now is not a very good time.
“Your lord conserves power. Didn’t you already set aside a contract for Lord Shin Siu?”
Elroa is currently the strongest force possessed by the Location Point side.
Eloada needs some time before she can retrieve her contract and regain the power of her spirit.
It was Sua’s judgment that it was not appropriate to use up her contract in a state where things might break out.
“If you ask the baron and something suspicious arises, then it won’t be too late.”
“… I see.”
While Sua and Eloa were talking, Della slowly moved her pupils to look at Siwoo.
There was a difference in her ruby-like eyes.
After all, Siwoo was a very impressive figure in Della’s life.
“… After all, he was not an ordinary person.”
The male subject is a witch.
He has the Earl of Gemanai as his guardian.
She has a track record of defeating Della, even though circumstances have not kept her up.
Besides, she is in the middle of an important conversation between the head of Sua and Duke Tiphareth.
A normal man will never be.
Perhaps it was part of a large-scale project experiment in which several witches collaborated.
Della’s thoughts hardened in that direction.
“It’s been a while. I’m sorry I got hit by a car all of a sudden.”
“Okay, would you like a drink if you have one? Preferably with wine.”
When Della seemed to be trying to talk her out of it, Shiu punched her and apologized for her car accident, and Della waved her hand as if nothing had happened.
If she hadn’t met him anyway, she would have been caught by the white knight she’d been tracking.
Rather, being hit by a car is a blessing in disguise.
Della quenched her dry throat by drinking the wine Shiu had brought from her bottle.
Almost half the bottle disappeared into the stomach at once.
“Ha… How I wanted to drink this.”
Della put on her satisfied expression and turned to face Eloa again.
“I will tell you everything I know.”
2.
Why Della risked her life and risked her escape.
It was to inform the location point of the terrible disaster that would happen soon.
In fact, had anyone else been involved, Della would not have been so zealous.
All humans die anyway.
End of life, by starvation, by accident, by disease, by disaster, by war.
In this wide world, tens of thousands of people die every day, more fleetingly than insects.
Even if a disaster occurs now that will involve hundreds of thousands or millions of people, it is only part of a cycle that has been repeated from the past to the present.
There is no duty to stop witches who seek sorcery by escaping the providence of nature from their very existence.
Della sincerely thought so.
But the fact that it was her friend Paola who orchestrated this affair made her feel a sense of responsibility for Della.
She already has a sin that she cannot wash away, but she doesn’t want to be condemned by her other witches beyond the derogatory title of ‘cowardly witch’.
Therefore, Della calmly communicated what she knew.
The cowardly witch subdued the red knight.
Through the hearts collected through Dagon’s flute last time, he created a large army of white knights.
Four witches were also sacrificed for the plan, and as soon as the unidentified ‘altar’ was completed, white knights would emerge from the closed rainwater channel in the near future.
To kill more and more people and gather more and more mana.
“…… “
“…… “
Shortly after she obtained intelligence from the pliant Della, who spoke as if she was out of touch with reality.
The branch manager’s office was enveloped in a chilling silence.
Branch manager Sua, who has lived through a long time and has experienced major events in history several times, also opened her mouth in shock.
Even Elroa, whose bones were thick with all her combat experiences, looked at Della with a look of astonishment.
Siu had nothing to say.
“I thought this would be the reaction. But she can’t afford to be this laid back.”
Could it be because she realized that even as she said it, she was ‘already late’?
There was not much enthusiasm in Della’s tone.
Rather than the expectation that the girls will stop her Paola, her self-reproach of why she couldn’t save Paola lingers in her heart.
Elroa, who was in shock, managed to catch her heart and open her mouth.
“… There is still no confirmation that everything you say is true.”
“Which part? That Paola will soon unleash the White Knight and cause carnage, just as he unleashed the Beast of the Deep? That a human with a number close to four has already been sacrificed for him?”
“Aren’t you a close friend of the cowardly witch? It could be a deception to break the fighting spirit by conveying distorted information.”
“It’s an obvious answer, but I bet a witch. If there is even the slightest misinformation, I will take responsibility later.”
The dam is already on the verge of collapsing.
Cracks go where they will go, and it is too late to carry out repair work, so even a handful of rainwater will cause it to collapse and flood the surrounding low land.
It was just like that right now.
“According to what the baron said, the cowardly witch has already subdued the red knight, and has formed an army of clones of the red knight, the white knight?”
“Okay.”
“If so, how much is that number?”
Was it because it hadn’t been long since I woke up?
She left out the most important part.
Said Della, dropping her head slowly.
“One thousand two hundred.”
“Twelve hundred… “
“It’s not just numbers. The spear they are holding is a replica modeled after a red branch.
The closer they are, the closer they are to the red branch, the more they resonate and create a force field-type barrier.
If you don’t have a physical attack system like the Duke over there, you can hardly counter it. I only managed to hit 20 out of 30.”
Della is the archwitch of the 20th hierarchy.
She freely handles fire and heat, and can use magic without rest through relaying ceremonies.
Even Della was stopped by only 20 white knights.
Even if she doesn’t have a good match, could such a thing be possible?
“I already gave too much time. Xochitl did not prepare this plan in a day or two. It has been built up one by one over several decades. We are trying to stop it overnight.”
Paola, who was only able to strengthen and lead the homunculus, reached the stage of duplicating it over a long period of time.
He didn’t stop there, he collected the necessary artifacts and code and collected the puzzle of the picture he wanted.
While witches in the present world believed in one duke of Keter and neglected public responses, Paola had been preparing for a long time with tenacity close to madness.
“It’s already too late to stop her. There is only a very small reprieve left.”
“It is not too late.”
What cut through the gloomy air was Elroa’s bold voice.
“I will handle it.”
“The closed rainwater tunnel spans 12 km. There are more than 6 vertical vents that communicate with the outside. No matter how great the duke is, you can’t stop the rain with one hand.”
Clearly, the cowardly witch had perfected her preparations.
In comparison, it is also true that Sua and Tiphareth’s response was insufficient.
But not all of the foregoing has happened yet.
It’s not that there isn’t a way to respond before the white knights rampage, before they jump out into the present world and massacre civilians.
“So, before I do any more tricks, I go myself. I will kill the cowardly witch and end this whole situation before the plan begins.”
As Elloa said, if you go down the rain tunnel and kill the cowardly witch, everything will be resolved.
However, that means stepping into the enemy’s lair that has been prepared with utmost care.
It means going to a place where the enemy’s power is concentrated.
No matter how well Duke Tiphareth is famous for his exploits and prowess with homunculus.
Can you deal with 1200 white knights, cowardly witches, and red knights at the same time?
“Even the girl did not sit idle.
We have completed preparations to put a barrier across Seoul so that the tragedy of the past does not repeat itself. Even if the cowardly witch launches 1200 homunculi all at once, they can be imprisoned in the barrier for a while.”
Sua did not ignore the situation without taking any action.
Although they couldn’t catch the witches leaving Seoul and couldn’t attract particularly great support, they didn’t have a device that acted as a barrier until the worst happened.
“And right now, I will summon all the witches.”
It was a matter of fighting each other.
When the summoning order was delivered to the artifact prepared in advance, within an hour, all seven witches gathered at the location point.
