Chapter 121 – 121. Chasing the Necromancer (4)
“Next.”
Ugh
“Next.”
Ugh
“Next.”
“Ouch…”
“Eunhyeon, let’s get some rest. It seems that the princess is not feeling well.”
After presenting the coordinates based on the map in her head, Illyana teleported to a nearby village, where Eunhyun used her detection technology to check if there were any suspicious movements.
If not, set up a barrier in the village and repeat the process while teleporting to another place by presenting the coordinates again. When it was the sixth time, Eleanor wondered if Eleanor had gotten motion sickness due to frequent teleports and changes in the environment, and her insides turned upside down and she vomited. .
“Mi, I’m sorry…”
She realized that only she was in a bad condition, and Eleanor, as if embarrassed, apologized to her.
“It’s okay. Let me rest for 10 minutes. What is the condition of the barriers Illyana installed?”
“There are no other problems yet.”
“How are you?”
“Ummm, about three-quarters? I still have room. I also brought magic crystals, so I’m going to use them when I have half of them left.”
“While teleporting four people at the same time like this, in succession… ? Do high-ranking wizards all have abilities that are beyond common sense?”
Observing the stark difference between regular digit wizards and high digit wizards right in front of her eyes, Eleanor murmured with a complicated expression.
Teleport is one of the higher ranks of space magic.
‘Psychokinesis’, which manipulates objects by interfering with space, and ‘Meteor Strike’, which summons and drops meteorites, one of the materials that exist beyond the sky, are also among the spatial magics.
There is a huge difference between ‘Meteor Strike’, which summons a meteorite to your place, and ‘Teleport’, which reverse summons you to a specific place.
As for magic, Eleanor, who only had the cultured knowledge she had learned in Aether, didn’t know the detailed theory about it, but she knew that teleport magic varied greatly in magic power consumption depending on the number of people to be transmitted and the distance traveled.
“Illyana is a special case. Other high-digit wizards can’t teleport like Illyana.”
“Special… Is it a case?”
“Do you know why Illyana’s nickname is ‘Black Witch’?”
“Uh… No? Why?”
Eleanor shook her head and asked again.
Come to think of it, she had no idea why her nickname came to be called the ‘Black Witch’.
She hadn’t been particularly curious about her until now, and she was a person she thought she wouldn’t have a relationship with.
The Black Witch, a daughter of the ducal family and also a friend of Rio de Olivion, had a strong impression that she was the one to be captured the most in the Kingdom of Pernias, so I didn’t know anything about her history.
Curious again, Eleanor listened to her, piqued her curiosity.
“Illyana is literally born as a witch.”
“Witch… ?”
Eleanor tilted her head at the unfamiliar story of unknown meaning.
“Witches are… Is it literally like that? She is that… That she possesses people and causes harm… Oh, I’m sorry! She didn’t mean to insult Miss Illyana, she… I remembered the stories of witches in books and legends…”
“No it’s okay.”
Illyana nodded her head calmly and accepted Eleanor’s apology.
Despite her insults, Illyana, whose face made her not feel bad at all, was the attitude that she was rather uninterested in such treatment.
If you think about it, now that the great hero who saved the world is called the ‘Black Witch’, you can see the point of view that all bad impressions or stories about the ‘witch’ have disappeared.
“A ‘witch’ is a human being, but has the characteristic of being born with innately excellent magical powers among humans. This is similar to how the nobles of the Kingdom of Fernias have a sense of privilege because they are nobles, and therefore they are the chosen ones with innately superior magic power.”
“… Don’t be sarcastic. First of all, I am also the daughter of a noble of the Kingdom of Pernias.”
“It is not sarcastic. As I talked about the ‘Sacred Tree of Fernias’ before, those who were born with outstanding magical powers are human beings who were created in an acquired environment by the Sacred Tree. But witches are different. It is not an acquired factor, but inherits excellent magical power from birth. Do you know the difference?”
“Are you saying you had a natural talent from birth?”
“Well, yes. Besides, magic isn’t the only characteristic of witches. Princess, what do you think of when you see Illyana?”
“Hmm… ?”
I don’t understand the intent of the question.
Eleanor tilted her head, gave no answer, looked at her eunuch, and then at Illyana again.
Her youthful, resilient skin and wrinkle-free face and body made even Eleanor envious of her beauty.
“I can’t believe you’re over forty, right?”
“That, that…”
“… Hey.”
When Eunhyun mentioned the specific age, she saw Iliana’s snarling eyes and Eleanor was even more startled, and she had to look at her.
“Women who inherit witch blood stop aging when their bodies grow to a certain point. The cells of her body are eventually gradually damaged due to aging over time, but the witch’s magic is to stop the aging of the body by preventing cell damage.”
“That…”
“It was because of this part that the perception that ‘witch’ possessed men and caused harm was established. The appearance of witches who do not age, maintain their youth for a long time, and live long lives is attractive and beautiful even to those of the same sex. Even though the witches didn’t intend it, there were a lot of men who fell in love with witches on their own and couldn’t wake up, so a lot of problems arose at the time.”
In addition, rumors were also rumors that were forcibly spread by many countries as an excuse to capture witches in order to use and study their characteristics for extremely external reasons.
Eleanor looked at Eunhyun for a moment.
Isn’t there one other person besides Illyana who doesn’t age physically?
The person named Eunhyun.
Riod, who remained a legend at the same time as them, also maintained his body’s youth through steady training, but the traces of time were clearly engraved on his body.
However, Eunhyun and Illyana are different.
It makes you feel as if time has stopped in that state.
“You… Did you inherit the witch’s blood?”
“No. Since I am a male, I cannot inherit witch traits. I am a completely different case.”
As an apostle of the goddess, Eun-hyeon’s body, which has divine power inside her body, maintains the body age of her early 20’s when she was appointed as an apostle.
The case itself is distinctly different from Illyana’s basic physical characteristics and Eunhyun’s divine power.
“Anyway, what I want to say is that Illyana’s birthplace and sense of using magic are special because other wizards cannot surpass them.
“Incredible…”
‘Come to think of it, the results of the analysis of the dolls in the dungeon at that time were also the same.’
Eleanor recalled the time when she had analyzed Illyana’s combat power as 77,000 in the dungeon.
At that time, she recalled how Illyana was out of her standard when she compared herself with others, and this time she realized it anew by listening to Eunhyun’s explanation.
“… Hyuna. I think it came.”
When she said this to Illyana with a hard expression, Eunhyeon hardened her expression, and Rio De, who had been quietly listening to the conversation, also stood up.
“Where is the location?”
“The third village I visited.”
“Let’s go.”
“Huh.”
Ugh
As soon as they were transferred to the village using a teleport, an incident occurred.
Cooong!
A large number of monsters with huge bodies suddenly appeared in the air and landed on the floor, making a dull noise and shaking the ground at the same time.
Ooh oh oh oh!
A minotaur holding a huge iron ax in one hand and spitting out a roar while pounding his chest, an ogre that smashes buildings like a baseball bat, and trolls and orcs, all of which have a huge size that can crush humans so easily. Demonic beasts appear en masse and begin to sweep the small village.
“Unbelievable…”
Despite her expected reaction, Eleanor, who had witnessed her plight, murmured blankly.
“I don’t have time to be like this. Riod, Illyana. I will take the princess to subdue the witches and ask for help from the villagers.”
“You?”
“I will go after the alchemist and necromancer who caused this situation. As long as they have the ability to move in space, they’ll run away as soon as they feel an upset with the monsters being sorted out. You have to deal with it before you feel the change.”
“There’s no way you’ll win, but… Be careful. If you scratch your body before marriage, I really won’t let you go.”
“Nothing to worry about.”
Hearing Illyana’s concerns, Eunhyun smiled and nodded her head.
“Then go.”
With Riod in the lead, Illyana and Eleanor followed him, and Eunhyeon also moved to find them.
It deploys magic throughout the village to spread its senses and activate its powers to process the information coming into its head.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Accident acceleration]
The riots of the monsters, the movement of Riod and his party, the screams of the villagers, and a lot of information rushes into his head, and he quickly sorts them out through accelerated thinking.
Then, in front of the wreckage of a collapsed building, a woman is holding a man by the crotch of his pants, and the scene where a woman in the man’s company is standing still next to her is transmitted to Eun-hyeon’s head through sensing.
I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but it didn’t take long to guess that at least the woman was begging the two men for something.
Eunhyun moved quickly toward that place without hesitation.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Time Acceleration]
As I quickly ran towards it through the acceleration of my body, I heard a sound.
“Help me. Help me. Please save me.”
“Gig-kick, why me?”
“Marius, it’s a waste of time, so hurry up.”
“Ah, okay. I tried to have some fun, but bear with it, hurry up…”
A dark-haired man laughed at a woman who grabbed the man by the crotch of his pants and begged for her life.
Soon after kicking the face of the woman who grabbed his pants, Eun-hyeon, who activated the metamorphosis from behind the dark-haired man, appeared.
“Uh?”
When Eun-hyeon appeared from behind the man, the brown-haired woman next to him, who had been urging him with a sullen expression, looked at Eun-hyeon and made a blank expression.
Soon after, the brown-haired woman, noticing the sword in Eun-hyeon’s hands, hurriedly called the dark-haired man’s name.
“Marius!”
But it’s too late, and Eun-hyeon’s sword touches the man’s body.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Imae Nando (魍魎亂刀)]
The process of amputating first the man’s right arm, then his left leg, then his left arm, and finally his right leg with a two-handed sword took less than two seconds.
“Uh… ?”
The man called Marius was unaware of what had happened to his body until, in an instant, the balance of his legs collapsed and the man’s torso collapsed on the floor.
Soon after, the man’s complexion turned pale as he stared blankly at the sky and then faced what had happened to his body at the emptiness of feeling nothing in his arms and legs.
“Uh, ah!”
The sight of a man with only his torso in a state of panic, shaking his torso and floundering, was laughable.
“What… What. You…”
The brown-haired woman who had been glaring at Eun-hyeon with her astonished and fear-filled eyes suddenly moved her gaze to face herself, and she stepped back little by little.
However, Eun-hyeon took off his nonchalant gaze from the woman, and with a ferocious look, inserted his sword into the shoulder blade of the man who had amputated his arms and legs.
Eun-hyeon recalled the information she had found out through the bandits and compared the information to the appearance of the two.
As soon as she had established in her head that the black-haired man in front of her was ‘Marius Holton’ and that the brown-haired woman had an unknown last name, but was ‘Lenat’, Eun-hyeon took action.
“Quaaaaagh!”
As he inserts the sword and rotates the handle to swing the blade embedded in the man’s shoulder, the man begins to scream terribly.
“I finally met you.”
“Turn it off!”
Eunhyeon asked with bloody eyes that would pierce his throat if he didn’t give a proper answer.
“You, from whom did you learn necromancer?”
