Chapter 261 – 261. Demonic Front (4)
“Open the door! Hurry!”
Despite knocking as hard as he could, the huge iron door did not make any noise, let alone the slightest movement.
“Shit… !”
Villard, who had been spitting out disgust, was naturally intimidated by the vivid sound of the battlefield coming from behind.
The battles that many people fought with the monsters at the cost of their lives were the battlefield itself, where people died from time to time.
It is completely different from the demon beasts encountered during the expedition to clear the lower-level dungeons near the capital with many things prepared and equipped.
The scale of their population, the amount of ominous polluted mana they spewed out, and everything, this sight full of non-standard beings I experienced for the first time in my life.
The overwhelming sense of intimidation of the vast number of monsters that I experienced for the first time in my life.
Pressed down by that intimidating feeling, the whole body wearing the armor suddenly became heavy, and breathing became irregular.
“Shit… ! Why didn’t my father take me out of this expedition!”
Villard remembered the order of his father, Count Orpah, who was the culprit behind the situation, and gnashed his teeth.
The intention itself is simple.
Marquee’s request for support is a very rare case that you may or may not see once in a generation.
That means that a dangerous situation is unfolding, and even if you contribute even a little to the subjugation of the Witchbeast by participating in this support expedition, as a noble, you can contribute to the family’s honor.
Count Orba had his son participate in this support expedition, and it was to restore the image of the Count Orba family, which had fallen to the ground.
-Participate in this support expedition and make merit. If you damage my family’s honor just one more time, then be really prepared.
He tried desperately to persuade him that the drug case he had been tricked into last year had been tricked into him, but Count Orba’s pathetic and disappointed gaze at his son did not change at all.
Count Orba, who was feverish about something, often vented his anger, saying that he had been swindled by someone and that he had lost more than half of his property. It became a daily routine.
As he was treated with disgrace by the family for damaging his family’s honor, Billard, who was deprived of all authority as his successor and deprived of by his younger brother, lost his place even in his family anymore.
After graduating from Aether, a year later, with the connections of Count Orba, he joined the Krasir Knights, and the result is how he is now in the borders of Mograf.
“Why am I like this… !”
“What are you doing?”
Billard, his fellow new knights, and soldiers, who had been knocking on the iron door and clamoring to let them in at the cold girl’s voice, shook his shoulders.
When he slowly turned his head back and saw the girl talking to him, Villard hardened his expression.
With Erin holding her rapier, having hit her own face with her fist a few days before, breaking out three or four of her teeth, she gave up her fight, including herself. Looking at the people who chose to run away, he asked again.
Even back then it was different.
About two years ago, when she was a student at Aether, she had only seen a nine-tailed fox-beast person scattering beautiful silvery-white colors.
At that time, she automatically stiffened at the sight of a nine-tailed fox girl exuding an incredible density of magical power she had never fully felt.
‘What. That power… ?’
Magical power so dense that I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t notice that power when I first saw it.
Then and now, Billard, who was not at the level of being able to gauge the competence of others, did not notice the cause.
“Are you not fighting?”
“… !”
“Why?”
Erin’s eyes were filled with pitiful feelings as she looked at them.
“You guys are knights. You are a soldier of the kingdom. Why are you running away?”
Knock up
Billard glared at Erin, biting her teeth in the irritation that welled up in her head.
Between her gums, which had barely been healed by the priest’s treatment, wind leaks through the place where the now non-existent teeth used to be.
“… It’s because of you.”
“Huh?”
Erin put on a puzzled expression at Villard’s sudden muttering.
“It is because of you. This is how my life became when everything was intertwined with you!”
“… What nonsense is that?”
“Because of you, because of you… !”
At this absurd situation, as if the man who tried to rape her was suddenly blaming herself for everything, Erin looked at Billard with a stunned gaze.
Soon Erin read his emotional state, and she let out a small sigh.
“I see.”
Pride, inferiority, anger, shame, hatred.
All the emotions that exist in Villard’s heart are lumps of dark emotions that drag his own life to the bottom.
Erin concluded that she was wasting her time asking any further, and turned away.
She then turned her head and opened her mouth, glancing at Villard and others who had fled the fight.
“You have neither the honor to claim nor the right to stand on top of anyone. What is a nobleman, and what is a knight?”
It is so pitiful that the people who came here to help protect the people who exist beyond this are trying to run away, abandoning their role.
In addition, the fact that they were the children of aristocratic families who boasted that they were superior to others by asserting their superior lineage was creating a contradiction.
Someone is fighting desperately, risking their own life, but what the hell is this figure.
What the hell is this feeling.
It’s frustrating because I can’t define the feelings of irritation, disappointment, and contempt welling up in my heart.
“I see you there. How pathetic you guys are.”
With those words, Erin turned her head and ran back into her battlefield.
Awesome!
He cut off the body of the lycanthrope that was closest to him, and walked around the battlefield with the White Ghosts, wiping out the group of monsters step by step.
[Immature things, I’ll say it only once. Listen carefully. The basis of all my magic is to use the mana accumulated in the tail as the source. Its first form is the ‘fox fire’.]
Erin did not have the time to answer each and every word of the nine-tailed fox that spoke to her in her own head.
A state where all the nerves are focused on the battle while defeating the monsters one after another.
But even so, in her head, she accepted and organized the explanations given by the gumiho one by one, and gradually learned how to use her powers.
[The same goes for the summoning of the hundred demons. The beginning of the summoning is to give form and mass to the fox fire made by condensing high-density magic power, and by inserting the spirit of the hundred ghosts that have been contracted, the process of summoning ends and it manifests in front of your eyes.]
In other words, the beginning of all of the nine-tailed fox’s skills is no different from the activation of the fox fire.
[Depending on how skillfully you can manipulate and handle the fox fire, the power and range of the magic that you can use vary greatly.]
Kruck!
Abandoning the means of walking on two legs, a lycanthrope ran towards Erinn through quadrupedal walking.
The speed at which he runs, spurring the ground with murderous leg power capable of tearing apart the area hit by the blows of his feet, is terrifying.
But Erin did not tremble in her fear.
[Try to bestow your fox fire on that sword. Infuse her magical energy and maintain its shape, so that the energy spreads evenly throughout the sword body.]
Executing the nine-tailed fox’s instructions, I blew fox fire into her rapier, and the burning blue flames covered the whole of Erin’s rapier, starting from her arms.
Krrr!
At some point, the lycanthrope, which came close and came within range of her, swung her arm with the force to tear Erin’s head from her torso.
Erin flexibly avoided the attack by twisting her waist, and the blade of her slender rapier pierced the lycanthrope’s neck.
Kreuk!
The demonic beast’s blood, which pierced its neck and spewed blood from its mouth, was wrapped in blue flames and evaporated as it was.
As the whole body of the trembling wolf-type witchbeast burned as it was, the menacing eyes did not lose their fighting spirit even in the face of death.
Although she stretched out her hand to attack Erin.
“Ha!”
With her penetrating state, I applied power to her rapier and slammed it down on her, splitting it cleanly in two.
The reason why it can show the power to rip tough leather, flesh, and bones with just one cut is not only because of the power of the divine beast bestowed on the rapier as advised by the nine-tailed fox.
The real reason is the performance of this sword, which accepts all the power of the divine beast he has opened.
“Awesome…”
Erin was stunned, and she looked up at the slender, pure white sword body that was engulfed in blue flames and showed off its spirit.
Even though she used it more violently and violently than the rapier she used to use, which had already been broken, her slender and fragile-looking blade shone brilliantly, letting her know that she was strong.
The more she used it, the more Erin realized how great of a weapon Eun-hyeon gave her as a gift.
‘Thank you.’
[Huh, come now, what thanks…]
‘Thank you very much. Really like it! Hyuna!’
[… Such a shameful year.]
Using some of his powers, the nine-tailed fox, who thought he had finally realized how great he was, realized that Erin had no regard for him in her heart and shuddered at her betrayal.
Due to her gratitude for her grace, Erin, who was confused and distracted, did not hear what the nine-tailed fox muttered at the end.
The more she used her nine-tailed fox power, the more she got used to it and the easier it was to organize her monsters. At the moment, she found Eira in front of her and ran towards her with a happy expression on her face.
“Sisterhee hee!”
“Eh, Erin!?”
Ayra raised her voice, startled at the familiar voice calling her name, and turned her head in the direction her girl was running.
The sight of her approaching him with her smile as she wields a rapier clad in blue flames and overwhelms her demons is a very bizarre sight.
“Sister! Are you okay!? You’re not hurt!?”
“Are you okay.”
Eira gave her a wry smile at the sight of her close brother who was overly concerned about her.
“That power, in the end, I decided to show it in front of everyone.”
“Yes.”
When she saw the girl smiling brightly, she smiled happily herself and nodded her head.
Ugh
And many people around were startled by the wave of magic that they suddenly felt, and looked in the direction where the wave was felt to confirm their identity.
An adventurer who noticed the identity made a surprised expression.
“Teleport… ?”
On the continent, there aren’t that many beings who can use eight-digit high-ranking spells.
Eira let out a sigh of relief when she found the figures of the two appearing inside the complicated high-ranking magic circle.
“You are here.”
“Ah… !”
A woman with gorgeous blonde hair and a sacred priestly robe, and a person covering her entire body including her face with a dark hoodie, were the people Erin missed because she hadn’t seen her face up close for a year.
“Miss Eleanor! Oh… !”
“Shhh.”
Erin, who was about to call her own brother, was stopped by Erwin, pointing her index finger to his mouth.
Although she is said to have been revived as a spirit, only Artia knows about her resurrection and only tolerates it, but Elvin’s resurrection is a matter that her kingdom can accept sensitively.
“Alvin. Please.”
After giving her order in a voice that was not audible to those around her, Alvin shook her head and slowly walked forward.
“All right.”
The black hood covering Elvin’s body gradually transformed, and the shadow covering her whole body gradually transformed into pitch-black armor, revealing the appearance of a dark knight.
“What, what is it? That… ?”
Erin gave her dumbfounded look at the drastic changes that had taken place in her own brother in the span of a year.
“I signed a contract with him.”
“… Contract?”
“The oath of the master and servant to be faithful in the future.”
The way Erwin said it was like a faithful knight serving his lord.
Upon hearing Elvin’s words, Erin frowned and muttered.
“… Kill me.”
“What?”
“Death! Hyuni’s first article was supposed to be me! Why cut it off and have her brother take it away!”
“You idiot! Quiet!”
Although she had warned her sister a few seconds earlier that her identity should not be revealed, her sister, Erin, was cool enough to strip her of any clues about her identity.
Elvin had to look around her to see if the people in her kingdom had noticed her true identity.
“Even what, that armor! It’s so cool on the subject of her brother! Unlucky!”
“Oh, shut up!”
Erwin exploded with incomprehensible jealousy, annoyed by Erin’s outrage at losing her reason, finally swearing.
The conversation between brother and sister, who were reunited in a special way after a long time, started as a fight that evoked nostalgia for the past.
