Chapter 194 – Larsen Manor – 5
Layton, the city of the Larson estate.
The magic beams shot from afar and the barrier of the castle wall blocking them.
In the midst of flashy attacks that often appear in science fiction movies, like battle scenes between ships wandering in space, the soldiers on the walls of Layton began to fall one by one.
“Kkeuk, kkeuk!”
As the bodies of the fallen soldiers wriggled, grotesque sounds flowed out.
The eyes are already turned upside down and start to become congested, and a liquid colored with a strange color that is not thought to come out of the human body flows out from the ears, nose, and mouth.
And what made them so.
An oak stick that fell next to what was once a human called the Guard Captain, now a man who fell and started wriggling his body along with the other soldiers.
The blue magic flowing from the top-notch magic crystal fixed on the top of the staff slowly began to turn black.
Like a viscous liquid, the black magic that flowed along the walls began to gradually erode the surroundings, engulfing even the soldiers who were still trying to escape.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“Sah, save me!”
“Mom! Mom… !”
“Ah, boss! Captain! Wake up!”
A soldier who just screams, a soldier who calls out for help, a soldier who calls his parents.
Even the soldier who stretched out his hand until the end while watching the fallen guard commander.
As the black magic seeps into their bodies, they begin to scream and escape from their human form.
“Kh, rrrr!”
The skin swells and boils pop out.
While the body lost its human form and turned into a monster, the black magic continued to flow.
Black magic flowing from an oak tree staff. It eroded the walls and moved slowly as if it were alive.
It started flowing into the city.
* * *
It was Avon Franz who noticed first.
Instead of concentrating on the attack, William Bohrin decided to take charge of the defense, carefully examining the city.
A huge difference in power.
However, as the saying goes, a cornered mouse bites a cat, he was unforgiving in war and waited for a sign of attack.
“Power.”
When the captain of Layton Castle’s guard used his oak staff for the first time, Avon, recognizing the sign, raised his hand and signaled to the knights.
As the golden magic wrapped around Avon and his knights, waiting for a response at any moment, a strange figure began to appear in Avon’s field of vision.
“…”
The soldiers on the wall began to fall.
His pupils couldn’t see the entire castle wall, and he couldn’t explore it in detail because of the wall’s defenses, but Avon’s fingers twitched at the sight that Avon, who had been strengthened with magic, began to see.
It’s strange to call it exhaustion.
Considering the wave of magic they had felt just a moment ago, even if it was easily pierced than they expected, it was consumed too quickly.
There, that magic wave that I felt a while ago.
“William.”
At Avon’s words, William, who was looking down at the castle from the sky, fell to Avon’s side in an instant.
“Did you see something?”
“Well.”
William frowned at him.
The moment Avon noticed, it was William who was looking at the castle wall from the sky.
“I don’t know the detailed grade, but I saw him trying to use a staff with magic stones embedded in it, but he fell down after that.”
At those words, Avon frowned at him.
It was certain that it was not simply exhaustion of mana.
“I’ll have to see for myself.”
Golden magic began to creep up all over Avon’s body.
With a lightly knit body, she flies through the sky with William and comes close to the castle wall.
The attack has already stopped, and only the barrier of the castle wall is shining translucently.
“…”
“Paulette Larson. Are you crazy at last?”
Short time.
Being so close, I could feel it clearly. The black magic that began to erode the city began to contaminate everyone in the city.
* * *
“Nimi.”
“Le-sama Leo?!”
I could see Triana getting flustered by my swear words, but that wasn’t the case.
I wanted to finally counterattack the wave of magic that I felt momentarily, but I felt uneasy at the presence of magic that I could feel subtly.
In addition, the movements of his father and former Count William were also the same.
Immediately, her body floated up, looking at Triana looking up from underneath her.
“Join the Golden Lion Knights.”
“Ah, I see!”
After overhearing Triana’s words, she immediately raised her magic.
Golden magic. No, these days, when the color started to fade gradually, the bright yellow magic light glowed all over her body, and she quickly flew through the sky and started heading towards the place where her father and former Earl William were.
“Father.”
“Here you are.”
I looked at the two people who were staring at me quickly approaching me as if I already knew them, and I lowered my head slightly and immediately looked at the city.
I was speechless at the sight.
“Have they really gone that far?”
The road to hell unfolded.
The black magic that had begun to overflow from the walls had already begun to erode half of the city.
“The victims…”
“There it is.”
I looked at the place my father pointed with his hand.
As before, monsters emitting ominous magic moved their bodies amid the black magic that swallowed the city, destroying everything around them.
No, that’s not it.
“Magic attribute? Are you coveting magic power?”
“I guess so? Both the black magic and those monsters seem to be coveting magic. Even if they don’t have magic, they’re swallowing all living things.”
I looked at the situation in the city at the words of former Count William.
The black magic that seemed to come out of a movie was swallowing people while covering the city as if it existed in real life.
“Well…”
The black magic that was devouring people seemed to be swallowing them indiscriminately, but it was steadily prioritized.
But in the end, it didn’t change to swallowing everything that moved.
Taking a closer look there, it seems that the magic stones near the wall defense system have already been eaten, and the barrier surrounding the wall is disappearing.
“What are you going to do?”
Hearing his father’s words, I turned my head and looked at the two of them.
They were looking at the city with a nonchalant expression, or looking at me, waiting for an answer.
“My father…”
“I am no longer Count Franz.”
Before I could finish my words, my father shook his head.
The former Earl William was also looking this way with a smile.
“The situation is the situation, so I am participating as a general in this war, but you guys have to make the choices about what will happen next.”
“Because we are only helping those who are in short supply.”
With a shrug, the former Earl William agreed.
“I’ll give you advice or help with the lack of labor, but that’s it. The choice for which you are responsible must be made by you.”
At my father’s words, I looked down at the city for a moment.
At first glance, the black magic seemed slow, but seeing how it eroded the entire city, it was difficult for commoners without magic to escape.
Even during this conversation, dozens of commoners were being eroded by black magic.
I nodded my head as I saw my father and the former Earl William waiting for my answer in the quiet sky.
“I will take command first.”
“I get it.”
“Big. To be in the position of being ordered by a kid you saw as a baby.”
With a wry smile at the playful words of former Earl William, he opened his mouth while looking at the knights waiting in the distance.
“From now on, I will be in command of this battlefield.”
My voice began to echo under the sky.
* * *
For Jane, a commoner in Layton, this day was a very special day.
Fathers and mothers that still come to mind. And husband. A sad day when you lost the family that was everything in your life.
And the very one who met a new god… Very special day.
“Eh, run away! Even if only you… !”
Losing parents
“Jane! Jane! Even you!”
I lost my husband.
“Heo-eok, hee-eok!”
There is no reason to live.
She ran to her husband’s last will, but sprained his foot and fell to the floor.
“Ah!”
Jane opened her eyes, letting go of her groan at the pain that invaded her whole body, and stared blankly in front of her.
One woman has fallen, but no one cares.
“Eh, run away!”
“Ah!”
To live with their families… Sometimes she sees people running away alone, and when Jane looks at them as she sits down in a daze, she already realizes that she has no reason to live.
“Kkeuk!”
“Ah…”
Hearing the sound behind her, Jane blankly looked behind her.
The moment when the black mist and the monster that devoured her parents, her husband, and her child overtook even Jane.
The black fog and the monster screamed and retreated at the light from the sky.
Jane lifted her head in her daze.
Faaaaat-!!
What came down from the sky was light.
The golden god came down from the sky and looked at the poor commoners crawling on the ground.
“Be purified.”
He bestows blessings on poor commoners.
By looking and beckoning, light descends.
Her fractured bones reattached, new flesh sprouted from her bleeding skin and breathed new breath into her weary body.
Oh oh.
Oh God.
Jane’s chest, her chest empty.
God has descended.
