Chapter 36 – Episode 36 Demonic Erosion (3)
Wearing her armor and carrying a magic staff and a sword from her waist, Aurora Ariana Karsnia, the empress, spoke in a firm tone.
“For the honor of our ancestors, it would be right for me, as the current emperor’s wife, to step forward.”
“Hey, honey! What the hell are you talking about…!”
Her startled emperor stands in front of her in her fidgety manner.
However, that face was not that of her husband who was worried about his wife, but rather that of a small-minded rat who was worried about her own safety.
What? Why did he, who was worried about her daughter just a moment ago, suddenly look like that…
“Ah.”
Is it.
If the empress acknowledges what she said just now, it must be because the emperor must also participate in the battle.
Pretending not to know would be dishonorable.
…The bowl is small. Is that the emperor?
Contrary to my thoughts, however, the empress smiled benevolently as if she had misunderstood the emperor’s face.
“Dhanson. Your role as emperor is important, so please stay. I won’t allow you to go. Even for the sake of the numerous subjects.”
“Ahhh…”
At the empress’ words, the emperor only then changed his expression to worry and concern.
Was it really that unpleasant? I guess it wasn’t like this.
“Ha, but, to think that a mother and daughter are heading into danger together…”
Cuckoo!
The moment he was about to say something, a roar resounded from inside the huge wall of the ‘Sun’s Nest’.
“…I don’t think there’s any time to convince each other or argue. Your Majesty the Empress. Are you okay?”
“Hero. Although he is old and wretched, he once trained in swordsmanship and magic. It will never become a burden.”
A pitiful body, if you are a pitiful body, most of the women on the continent are no different from mummies.
“Okay. Then let’s go together.”
“Now, wait a minute! Warrior!”
“Don’t worry. Her Majesty the Empress will send you back unscathed.”
To be honest, from my point of view, it was honey, so I intentionally ignored the shouting emperor.
It was such a waste to miss this opportunity to share the joys and sorrows and raise the affinity.
Anyway, I didn’t expect the situation to turn out like this at all… Was the empress’ liking for me higher than expected?
“Mom…?”
“It’s okay. Don’t worry.”
When Elia made an uneasy expression, Aurora, her empress, smiled softly and kindly with her motherly face and stroked her hair.
Hey, Mama…
Oh, this is not the time.
“Then, Empress, please.”
“Yes.”
At my request, she approached the wall and grasped her handle, her magic circle moving with the light, and the entire wall began to glow softly.
If I had gripped the handle, all sorts of magic would have been activated and would have turned me to powder.
Whoops, whoops…!
“Princess. Hand.”
“Yes…? Ah, yes.”
The magic circle’s light immediately wrapped around the empress’ body, so she quickly took her hand.
Elia and Monica quickly come over and grab my remaining hand and arm.
For some reason, it is because the ‘sun’s nest’ is not a place to open and enter.
For security purposes, only those who have been in contact with the imperial family are moved by teleportation magic.
Originally, you couldn’t even bring a weapon…But now that the inside has been destroyed by the boss mob and some of the security magic has been neutralized, it’s possible.
Hook.
Blinking once with the sound of the wind, we found ourselves in a vast hollow like a plain.
-…The descendants have arrived.
-Why are you making us suffer this disgrace?
– I can’t forgive you. I will take this debt with my life.
The corpses who once enjoyed power as the imperial family came to talk with blue eyes.
“…Talking?”
“Don’t be fooled. Her Majesty. They are now eroded by demonic energy, so normal conversations don’t work. They just express their hatred and destructive instincts in words.”
The undead are enraged at my words.
-Are you scorning me!
– Rudeness has gone too far. My mind is clearer than ever, so I will judge this insult on behalf of the goddess.
– Descendants. What on earth did you do until the situation became like this!
‘Master Death Knight’ wearing glittering golden armor, ‘Death Wizard’ holding a magic wand, and ‘Emperor Skeleton’ carrying an arrow on his back holding a sword and shield.
First of all, the number that can be seen is a total of three, the same as the previous car.
However, the momentum they exuded was strong enough to wipe out all the boss-level undead from the previous round even if only one of them stepped forward.
“Goddess. Please bless us.”
While receiving Monica’s buff and holding the holy sword, I calmly took a breath while standing in the front line.
“The Death Knight attacks first, but the fastest is the skeleton’s arrow. Always be careful. Oh, and the Empress has more confidence in sword or magic?”
“Please leave anything to me.”
“Hmm…Well, that’s good. Monica will figure out her skills and lead anyway, so you just have to coordinate well.”
“…Huh? Isn’t that Hero-sama?”
When the empress looked at Monica with a slightly dazed expression, Elia made an uneasy expression.
“Mom, are you okay?”
“That, then! It’s okay! Leave it to me!”
“I’m more anxious… Please don’t step out ahead of your will. You’ll get hurt.”
“Don’t worry. It won’t get in the way.”
As the empress, who said so with her confident face, infused her staff with her mana, Elia, still looking uneasy, let out a sigh and gripped her sword forcefully.
“Haa, I’ll have to work harder. Rom. I think I’ll have to overdo it, so give me a massage after this fight, okay?”
“…I told you not to say that before the fight.”
She frowned when she saw Elia planting her flag out of habit, even though she had said that in the past, she smiled mischievously and firmly gripped her sword.
“Kukuk. When you’re nervous, there’s nothing like this.”
“Now, wait. What is a massage?”
I laughed awkwardly at the empress’ question that broke the mood.
“That…You know, I’m not good at massage, right? So…”
“…You mean a hand massage? Like you did for me.”
“Oh, of course…”
“Rom?”
The ghastly voice sent a chill down my spine.
She turned her head slightly and saw Elia staring at her with her sad eyes.
“What do you mean? Did you give mom a massage?”
“Yeah… Last time? You said you were curious…”
“You don’t massage anyone. Except when you meet a girl you like…”
“Keuhmm! Kkeuhm! Come on! Let’s focus!”
I hurriedly cut off Elia’s words and faced the boss mobs while holding her pounding heart.
-Geuuuuu… Foolish… Descendants…
– I will punish…
-Dedicate your life…
Fortunately, the boss mobs were maintaining a suspenseful atmosphere.
“No, Rom. Please explain? Why…”
“Rom-nim. Why is Elia like that? Maybe ‘massage’ has a special meaning…”
Not ours at all, though.
“All, relax.”
Monica, who was worse than her, even said such a thing.
“Whoa…”
“Rom. Talk to you later.”
“…I think I have something to say.”
The cold voice of Elia staring at her and the voice of Empress Aurora, who hid her thorns in her soft tone, pierced her ears, and her dry saliva went over.
“…Everyone, tense up.”
Monica’s voice was still emotionless, but she sounded somehow pleading.
“Whoa…”
Only then did we take our stance, raising the tension as we watched the three boss mobs slowly approaching.
In a quiet space, when the three boss mobs approached silently within a certain distance, Monica’s sonorous voice rang out.
“Battle, commence.”
“Whoa…!”
“Haap!”
Elia and I run out at the same time, and the empress follows a beat later.
And at the same time, an arrow flew toward the empress’ forehead.
Pacan!
“…Uh?”
Looking at her face, who had not even intuited her own death, I hardened her face earnestly.
“Take it easy, Your Majesty.”
“…!”
At my words, her face turned red.
“…Don’t worry. This will never happen again!”
I nodded as I saw the process of hardening my face, which was stained with shame, with determination and determination, and ran to Elia, who was confronting the Death Knight.
“Your Majesty. Skeletons are the second priority. Please aim for the Wizard first.”
Empress Aurora, who was about to cast her magic toward the skeleton that was shooting arrows again, tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand Monica’s words.
“Yes? Why? Magic takes a little time, so wouldn’t it be better to deal with the archers a little faster?”
“That…”
“Don’t vomit at the commander! Your Majesty!”
When I shouted out in anger at the slowing down of the battle tempo, her face turned to bewilderment.
If possible, I would like to be a little gentler, but combat is not something that can be done.
If you do that in a situation where each other is dying, you may endanger not only yourself but also the entire party.
“Uh, uh…?”
“Hurry!”
“Ah, I get it!”
Right after I fired a simple magic at the Wizard at my urging, Empress Aurora made an expression of realizing why she had to target the Wizard first.
Kwajijik! Kwajik!
Not only did the arrow she had just aimed at between her eyebrows pierce through the magic with plenty of her demonic energy, but also the Death Wizard’s offensive magic flew without a chant.
Kuaang!
The Death Wizard’s magic was blocked by Monica’s holy shield and scattered.
“This…?”
“They are intelligent beings, so of course they cooperate with each other. Besides, the Death Wizard can use most magic without having to sing it separately. If it’s a large-scale magic, it will take a little time… Anyway, did you know? Your Majesty. It’s not against them individually, it’s against one party. If we had targeted the archers first, we would have been exposed to the wizard’s mass magic.”
“Ah, I get it!”
“Just in time, the Death Wizard is preparing a large-scale magic. Your Majesty, please prepare a large-scale magic.”
“Yes yes!”
As if her mind had changed after hearing Monica’s quick explanation, the Empress nodded her head and hurriedly cast a spell.
At that moment, the skeleton’s bowstring was again directed at Empress Aurora.
She will not be able to react because she is casting right now, only looking at her wizard.
Will Monica stop it?
“Rom. Is it possible?”
It wasn’t until she heard Monica’s voice that she realized she was preparing something of her own.
Is there anything I can do?
“Hook…!”
“Geuuuuu…!”
Kaga Kang! Caggu play!
The problem is, even though it’s a pincer attack with Elia, it’s the damn Death Knight that overwhelms us.
Caggu play!
“Elia!”
“A few seconds is fine!”
“Hryaaaaap!”
After quickly exchanging opinions, she jumped into the skeleton’s line of sight, instantly boosting her physical abilities.
Quaggagak! Kachang!
As soon as I hit the two arrows fired at the moment with all my might and immediately spewed blood towards the Death Knight, the guy who overpowered Elia for that short time spun around and kicked my blood.
“…!”
The empress, who looked at me with a surprised expression, dyed her face red again and devoted herself to casting.
“The Death Wizard’s large-scale magic casting is almost finished. But, Your Majesty, please continue casting.”
Immediately after Monica’s sonorous voice resonated, a wave of her dazzling divine power exploded from her body.
“Goddess, here is a young servant who establishes your will.”
The large-scale divine power that came like a high wave drew a certain pattern, brightly embroidering the space like a cluster of sparkling stars, and then, like a constellation, it lit up her surroundings.
“When you come, I will greet you with a bright light.”
-Geuhuhhh…!
– Servant of the Goddess! What was this! To intimidate this emperor in the name of a goddess!
– I resent, I will curse! O heavenly goddess! Watch! Tearing a four-year-old child to pieces!
As the entire ‘Sunshine Nest’ becomes a sanctuary and the space itself begins to reject evil, black smoke begins to rise from the bodies of the boss mobs.
I can see that the power of the Death Knights that Elia and I were dealing with has noticeably decreased.
-Geuhhhhh… Fire… Storm…!
“Rom, Elia, Your Majesty, within a radius of five meters.”
“Hyaaaaap!”
“Haaaaap!”
“Huh? Huh?”
Seeing that the empress was burning again while casting, he quickly put it on his back and ran to Monica. Totally a troll. Is it because you lack practical experience?
But even in the midst of this, the soft and plentiful texture is amazing.
A good scent also emanates as if enticing.
Kuhwaaaaa…
“What is not permitted shall not enter.”
Immediately after, the firestorm created by the Undead Wizard and the translucent barrier created by Monica collided violently.
“Your Majesty. Did the casting stop?”
“Ah, no… I kept it close…!”
“Oh, that’s extraordinary.”
“…Eh? Ki, kikikuk…?”
He gave her a smirk and patted her on the back as she looked at her with a bewildered expression.
“The magic duration ends in 5 seconds. Rom, Elia. Get ready.”
“I was still doing it.”
“Whoa…!”
“5, 4, 3, 2…Now.”
With Monica’s signal, she threw her body into the hot space where the flames were still burning.
“Huuk…!”
“Kuh…!”
A temperature that Elia and I can barely withstand.
Monica’s conducting is exquisite… But it’s also true that sometimes I feel like she’s too hard.
– Big uh…!
“Get a little drunk!”
“Haaaaap!”
As soon as he broke through the flames, he swung his sword at the Death Knight he faced, but the guy surrounded by dark red demonic energy easily blocked our attack.
“…Fuck.”
I thought about it earlier, but isn’t the difficulty too hard? No matter how much it was, I should have fed it once or twice, but I still haven’t been able to inflict plausible damage.
“Your Majesty. Send the magic to the Wizard.”
Oh, it seems our wizard’s large-scale magic chants have just finished.
“Whoa… Here we go! Instant Meteor!”
“…Huh?”
“Uh?”
“What?”
Me, Elia, and even Monica stared blankly at the sight.
A fireball the size of a body was created on top of the empress’s head, and unlike its dull appearance, it quickly approached the wizard, leaving behind an afterimage that was invisible to the naked eye.
“Sleep…!”
“Mom…!”
That went too far.
Sensing the damage, Elia and I gritted our teeth and barely shook off the Death Knight, then ran into Monica’s barrier with all her might.
Kuwaaaaang!
Shock and heat wave so intense that the entire cemetery shook.
“Ah, Mom! Did you decide to kill everyone!?”
“Mi-I’m sorry…! I just wanted to use the strongest one…”
“I have to shoot that considering the situation and terrain!”
While Elia, who had run out of patience, was nagging the empress, who was sweating profusely, I was appreciating the hazy heat storm created by Instant Meteor.
The outer walls of the ‘Sunset’ were sizzling and melting, even though they must have been coated with all sorts of magic to be incredibly strong. Isn’t this level of power comparable to Owen’s 1st round wizard colleague?
“…If I can’t, one or two of them must have died.”
Death Wizard, the most watery body, is most likely dead, and the Emperor Skeleton is a little uneasy, but it must have been driven to a dying state. The Master Death Knight would have lived for sure.
“Whoa… Huh?”
At that moment when I loosened my tension a little, the instinctive alarm bell rang noisily at the thrilling intuition running down my spine.
“Khaaaaap!”
Without thinking, she spurred the ground with all her might and bounced off.
And so, the moment that stood in the way of Elia and Empress Aurora.
Cheng Kang! Kazijik! Fu-wook!
“…Cheuk!”
“Rom!?”
“Rom!”
The sword that broke through Monica’s barrier, weakened by instant meteorite, went through both legs and neatly cut them in half, and an arrow pierced her right chest and ripped out her lung.
“Shit… Is the difficulty level true…?”
Enduring the pain, he raised his head and saw three undead with shining eyes.
