Chapter 738 – 738. Holy Sword Durandal (2)
Cooong!
The huge basilisk fell forward and collided with the ground.
It was clear that he had not fainted, but had completely stopped breathing, but those around him, unable to believe the sight, put on a bewildered expression.
“Well, did you catch it… ?”
The wizard adventurers, who had been attacking the Basilisk with long-range magic attacks, observed the Basilisk with fearful expressions.
There was no longer any sign of life in the completely charred torso.
“Okay, got it!”
“Waaaaa!”
When someone shouted and spread the conviction, the surroundings cheered in relief and joy.
In fact, it was the three people, Erin, Ayra, and Cha Han-seong, who contributed decisively to steadily inflicting damage on the basilisk and putting it to rest, but more people felt joy that the monster that had turned the territory into chaos had reached its end.
When Young Ji-min and the adventurers were relieved and cheering that the huge monster that had threatened them had disappeared, Erin immediately headed for Eira and Cha Han-seong.
“Ayra sister! Cha Han-seong! The attack just… !”
“Eww…”
She immediately tried to ask her circumstances, but as soon as the sword he was holding disappeared, he felt extremely dizzy and fell to the floor.
“Hanseong-ah. Great job.”
Eira supported the body of Cha Han-seong, who was falling down.
Passing out, he couldn’t hear Eira’s kind voice.
Eventually, she smiled as she saw Erin approaching.
“Thank you. Erin. For helping me.”
“Lol. Are you okay. Older sister than that. That attack from Cha Han-sung earlier…”
“That… I don’t know the details either.”
It was the first time Eira knew that Cha Hanseong was able to use the holy sword.
“…”
“Sister? What’s wrong?”
“Huh?”
“I feel like something is bothering me.”
“Ah…”
As if Erin didn’t like something in her, she realized that her thoughts were showing on her face.
She blushed in embarrassment.
She actually has some marks on her face, but in Erin’s case, she can read the emotions of others.
So, she felt sorry for Eira’s feelings.
“Oh, no. Something like that…”
Embarrassed, she hurriedly denied it, but Erin immediately understood that it was a lie.
It was easy for Erin to notice what she was feeling sad about.
It must be because she kept secret that she could use the holy sword.
Why didn’t you say
Eira had quite a few feelings about her chahanseong.
She was sure that the same would be true of Cha Han-sung.
She told him that she had a secret, she knew.
But she thought that one day he would tell her all his secrets.
But now I have a question.
When will it be
The time when he directly tells his heart and tells his secrets himself.
“… Whoa.”
Eira let out a sigh without realizing it.
She tried to show that she was fine, but the inside of her was so obvious that Erin could feel it.
“Sister.”
“Huh?”
“For now, take a break.”
“… Huh.”
It was a series of hard fights.
My body is as heavy as a thousand pounds, and I appeal to you to stop resting.
Even though she was barely holding on, if there was a bed in front of her, she wanted to lie down and recover from her fatigue.
“What about Erin?”
“I’m trying to find Lily unnie first. She has sister Lily with her lord.”
The origin of the incident was Count Eprate, the lord of the Earl of Eprate, who was actually played by the devil.
I never thought that Count Ephrate would pose a threat to Lily.
Although Lily was an ordinary person with no fighting abilities, she is also a succubus who can possess and manipulate people’s minds.
Moreover, her aura or smell, which she had, was very peculiar, so it was easily captured by her Erin senses as well.
‘It doesn’t seem to be hurt.’
“I will go first. Her older sister is resting with Cha Han-seong.”
“Huh. Please.”
Eira couldn’t help but nod her head.
The fight is over.
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“Release me.”
“…”
Lily did not respond to Count Ephrate’s request.
He didn’t have the strength of a knight, but even so, as long as he had the physique of a strong man, it would have been easy to run away from a female maid who was weaker than himself.
Even so, the reason why Count Ephrate didn’t choose that method wasn’t because he didn’t see Lily as a formidable opponent.
‘Even if I root this woman and run away from her anyway, Arthia’s knights won’t give up on themselves.’
If so, it would be much more helpful for him to escape by enlisting and attracting this maid here.
This maid is a woman who is strongly trusted by Eira, Cha Hanseong, and Erin.
As long as he embraces Lily, he can successfully coax the pursuit of those three people out of the way.
Upon hearing Count Ephrate’s proposal, Lily did not respond and just stared at it.
However, just by not showing any intention of refusal right away, Count Ephrate saw hope.
Not refusing would mean that Lily is thinking about her proposal now.
Kyaaah!
“… Tsk.”
Feeling the situation of Yeongji, which is being devastated by the riot of the rampaging basilisk, seemed like a tantrum.
The feat of building an insignificant outskirts territory from nothing and having grown to the point of being recognized as the Earl is collapsing overnight.
But now, the priority was to embrace all the possessions and get rid of the body.
“What would you like to do? If you’ll let me go, I’ll make an excuse without regret. As a maid, I can give you money that she will never touch in her lifetime.”
“…”
Kyaaa!
As Lily continued to stare at her without answering, it was Count Ephrate who became more impatient.
The basilisk wiped out all the adventurers and soldiers, turned the territory into a scorched earth, and the thought that he had to quickly get out of his body before he was swept away by that disaster grew stronger as time passed.
“There is no time. If you’ll accept my offer, quickly…”
“Why?”
“… What?”
“You are the lord in charge of the people of this territory. But are you saying you’re going to abandon your people and run away?”
“…”
Count Ephrate was annoyed.
She wondered who she was now and why she had put herself in a situation where she had to run away, she was saying that this woman was what she really thought.
His impatience made it impossible to make a cool judgment, and he did not hide his annoyance in front of Lily.
“Are you saying that you know my situation? What can I do in this situation?”
The condescending attitude was very natural.
Even if Lily was arrested as a commoner maid, not a nobleman, she is still a noblewoman with the title of count.
She predicted that if he would press a little and appease her with her money, he would be able to get her over with her hand.
So far, among the people she met, there was not a single one who hadn’t come over with money.
If there was one thing Count Ephrate couldn’t overlook, it was that Lily was no ordinary maid.
The premise was already wrong.
“Wrong.”
“What?”
“The action you had to show was to keep your feet busy in order to somehow save the people.”
“… Would you have done that?”
In fact, Count Ephrate went straight to the adventurer’s guild under Lily’s watch and issued an emergency call-up order to the adventurers.
A huge demon that suddenly appeared.
He placed a huge bounty on the subjugation of the Basilisk, and ordered the soldiers to move busily to evacuate the villagers.
That judgment and action must have been a thrilling action in the eyes of the villagers.
“That was our order. You didn’t come up with it yourself.”
It was Aira’s decision as a necessary measure to hastily evacuate the villagers and subdue the Basilisk.
It was nothing more than using Count Ephrate, who had the authority to rule this territory.
“If you were really a proper lord who cared for the people, you should have been busy trying to save them even now. I’m not offering you a deal to get me out of here.”
“…”
Listening to Lily’s sermon, Count Ephrathe clenched his fist, biting his teeth.
‘Dare… How dare a maid preach to me?’
Even though he was still full of annoyance at this situation where a commoner preached to himself as an aristocrat, he became angry.
“What more to do in this situation? Do you really think Artia’s knights can defeat that monster?”
“Of course.”
Lily answered without hesitation.
Count Ephrate gave up this fief.
Although they put a huge bounty on the adventurers to subdue the Basilisk, they didn’t think that Artia’s knights or adventurers would be able to defeat that giant snake called the Basilisk.
But Lily is different.
Although others may not know it, Lily has no hesitation in trusting Erin.
As for Erinn, no matter how powerful and terrifying she is, she will defeat the basilisk and solve this situation by any means necessary.
“As expected, you don’t see the people of this territory as the ones to lead and protect.”
To Count Eprate, the territories are a labor force to be consumed and a resource to earn money.
He met Lily’s gaze.
The emotions in her eyes were those of contempt and disgust.
Count Ephrathe, noticing her gaze, distorted her expression.
“Four years… ! What!?”
Negotiations, proposals, whatever, Count Ephrate, who was so angry, raised his hand to slap Lily on the cheek, but he couldn’t put the violence into practice.
Her two eyes met with her who had activated her dream demon’s eyes.
Earl Ephrathe, his whole body rigid, could not move with his hands held high.
“It’s okay. I thought from the beginning that you would be this kind of person.”
So, I wasn’t disappointed at all.
“This… Case!?”
Count Ephrate was stunned.
He is aware of Lily’s special eyes that are restraining him from moving his body.
Isn’t it the devil’s power that he used to dazzle other high-ranking nobles in cooperation with him?
“This evil… !”
“Shut up.”
Lily forcibly shut Count Ephrate’s mouth.
“This was my last chance.”
After those words, Count Ephrate’s vision went blank.
Due to Lily’s mind manipulation, he was forced to lose his mind.
About 10 minutes after Count Ephrate collapsed and lay on the floor, Lily heard a voice calling her from afar.
Kyaaaaagh!
The ground vibrates violently and a dust wind rises and scatters around.
When I turned my head to the center of the commotion, I saw the basilisk, which had been rioting just a moment ago, screaming as its entire body was covered in blue flames.
Cooong!
The basilisk’s massive body bent forward.
Seeing that, Lily was convinced.
‘You won.’
Defeated the Basilisk.
“Sister!”
Lily slowly turned her head in that direction.
She noticed Erin running towards her and she smiled softly.
“Sister! Get some rest and go home!”
“Huh. It should be.”
