Chapter 248 – Chapter 248 – Fierce Battle (4)
A place found through succubus scouting.
Many evil forces were hiding, but as if it was connected to something.
In order to deal with the eccentrics who have only one dream of burning and fading flames, we set out to move.
A barrier using a shaman’s circle or witchcraft.
We considered the appropriate location and arrangement through the information gathered from the previous conference hall.
They started working near where they exist.
I’m trying to set up a barrier with the shaman without being noticed by them as much as possible.
In fact, it was a close distance, so that it wouldn’t be strange to be caught at any time.
So, the main forces were on the frontlines, ready to face them if they were discovered.
Thanks to that, for several days, I was in a position to get myself up in the tent.
“Turn it off.”
The smell inside the damp tent.
After simply washing my face with magic, I got up from the cot.
Anger.
When the cloth was removed, a sweet grassy smell, different from the thick tent smell, filled the lungs.
As I was waking up to this freshness I could smell every morning, I heard the soft sound of the wind cutting.
It was obvious who it was that made the sound of being swung so cleanly.
I picked up two protein bars from inside the tent and headed there.
Wickedness-.
It’s not like cutting through the air, it’s to the point where you can believe that it cuts through the paper.
A sharp sound pierced my ears.
At the same time, her red hair, which was pinned with a hairpin, fluttered.
Darae.
Darae, who happened to be located close to my tent, swung his sword every morning in the same spot.
As if it was obsessive-compulsive disorder, the habit from the academy continued even after it settled on the frontlines.
Wickedness-.
Darae, who was wielding a sword while sweating all over, stopped abruptly as if he had noticed my presence.
“Are you awake, Hanjun?”
When I silently threw the protein bar to Darae, Darae grabbed the protein bar as if he had been waiting.
“Thank you.”
After accepting the protein bar, Darae put the sword into the scabbard nicely and put her butt on the grassy field.
I also approached the darae and took a seat.
Once we settled in, we started eating protein bars.
As I was savoring the moderately sweet taste, Darae asked me.
“Are you making good shamans?”
“Well, I’m getting along just fine.”
To be honest, being a shaman is something you can only learn by putting in time as well as talent.
It was a field that I couldn’t even dare to do because I realized witchcraft in a short period of time.
But now I had the means to build my own shaman squad.
Rune.
Learning dragon language from Merlin, he was able to organize a shaman’s team in his own way with the runes he learned.
I had to invest a lot of time in this, too, but it worked as I filled in the empty space somehow with vocabularies.
Just now, in my dream, having been instructed in runes by Merlin as an attribute, I sighed.
‘That dog-like old man.’
As I expected, Merlin hid important information.
At this point, Merlin had been involved in the cultivation of the phoenix, which emerged as the most important substance to the evil forces.
As soon as I realized the existence of the Embryos, I think Merlin couldn’t help but get involved with them.
Tell him to confide in Merlin right away.
Only then did Merlin reveal the identity of her culture.
“Whoa.”
The reason she had been hiding it all this time was because Merlin wanted a war.
And there was only one reason why he wanted war.
‘My growth.’
Because I, who had grown up overcoming major risks, expected to grow again.
Merlin had deliberately not told them about the existence of cultures.
Now that I can handle the sorcerer’s gin to some extent, I even thought about banishing Merlin from my dreams.
As if to repay what he had been hiding until now, Merlin spat out useful information for the war effortlessly.
Starting with the runic defenses that were building the front line, he gave us the facts about how they would be using the cultures.
Narcotic component contained in cultures.
From the fact that I put in a drug ingredient so that I can keep inserting the culture medium instead of ruining my body.
There was no point in kicking Merlin out now that he had told me what the culture was made of.
If Merlin had told me from the beginning, I wouldn’t have come this far.
In the first place, that nobleman was a nobleman who had been dead from the beginning.
At this point where I’m forcibly imprisoned in the sorcerer’s camp, extracting information and learning sorcery.
There was nothing wrong with blaming Merlin.
“Bitter… Like a dog.”
But it’s still disgusting, so let’s mumble swear words.
Darae chewed on the Odok protein bar and smiled.
“You look stressed out.”
“Well, everyone is like that.”
I shrugged and shoved the remaining protein bar into my mouth.
Darae gnawed at the protein bar with a strange smile once again, wondering what was funny about me.
Odok, Odok.
Let’s watch the appearance of the darae.
I wondered why I hadn’t suspected Darae as a woman until now.
She carefully bit into a protein bar with pale pink lips.
A few strands of her red hair tied back stuck to her sleek neckline.
Above all, the appearance of Darae, who exudes a sweet body with a very fine-looking face, is inevitably a woman.
“……”
Well, these were all things that I saw after thinking that they were all women.
When I first entered the academy and didn’t know anything about it, I thought there was such a pretty guy among youkai.
Among the youkai, there was no such pretty man.
It’s just that they were all women.
“Why is that, Hanjun?”
Perhaps conscious of my staring gaze, Darae revealed her doubts.
Darae curls her beautiful eyebrows and makes an expression as if there is something wrong.
If I just said what I just thought, it would be a big deal.
I looked around.
“No, I want to train hard today.”
“It’s not even this orderly training, it’s just a habit. Now, if I don’t swing my sword every morning, something makes me feel uncomfortable.”
Misread.
Darae, who was chewing on a protein bar as she finished her words, hardened her expression slightly.
“…?”
Let me question the sudden change of expression without a signal.
Darae lifted the sleeve of her clothes and began to smell him.
Sup.
After checking the smell of the sweaty sleeves of his clothes, Darae sidled his hips and moved away from me.
“What’s the matter?”
As if I had a problem, let me ask.
Darae muttered with his cheeks flushed before he knew it.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t notice. Now I realized that the sound of training hard until just now was implicitly expressing the smell of sweat.”
“… What?”
I could smell sweat.
However, it was not a sour or salty smell, but only the smell mixed with the sweet body scent of dried hair.
“It’s okay, it’s not too bad.”
Even if I sincerely say that it’s okay, remembering the smell of sweat I used to exercise with Cha-Ryeok Kim.
Darae still had no intention of closing the distance with me, so she slipped further away.
“You don’t have to lie. Inevitably, there’s no place to wash here… Huh.”
Glance.
He seemed to be worried that I might ask if I could provide a place to wash.
“It could be. But it doesn’t smell like your sweat, and it’s good to take care of it in your own way, so you can stay still.”
“It’s good to leave it.”
Sup.
As if it was strange, she lifted her clothes again and sniffed her.
Then, Darae, who moved to the side, bit off the Odok protein bar with a sullen expression.
At that pretty cute gesture, I smiled.
“Even if it’s not good to take on, it’s a by-product of hard work. I don’t care.”
“Is it.”
Darae looked at me.
“Thank you, Hanjun. For always caring about me.”
“What.”
“I know. The reason why they visit me every morning is because they are worried about me.”
Darae smiled softly, saying, “Isn’t it right?”
“……”
That was true.
Previously, Darae had swung his sword every morning without eating, as if possessed by something.
Let’s see the golden and vermilion eyes mixed with the blade of the sword.
Unknowingly, I approached Darae.
Since then, I have been chatting with Darae every morning like this while eating a protein bar.
“Thank you very much, Hanjun. If… If it weren’t for you, I would have collapsed.”
Click.
Darae grabbed the sword lying on the floor.
“If it wasn’t for the first friend I made, if it wasn’t for you, Hanjun, who looked at me from the side. I would have collapsed by now.”
Darae’s voice seemed to contain only sincerity, and there was no trembling.
“Thank you, Hanjun. For always watching over me and thinking of me as a close friend.”
“… What.”
I held out my fist as I watched Darae rise while grabbing my sword.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re male.”
“I see, this is the friendship between real men.”
Tok.
Darae and I fist bumped.
It was Darae with a hearty smile, but I did not miss the shimmering hidden under the gaze of Darae.
From the moment Darae talked to me until now, he hadn’t taken his eyes off the sword for a single moment.
‘… Shit.’
Even right now, I wanted to tell Darae not to hold the sword.
Before migration, in the process of driving out the evil forces, Darae’s skills with blood on the blade.
I knew nothing about the sword, and it was showing a tremendous rise.
It was a crazy growth to the extent that it was more convincing that he was regaining his forgotten skills.
Sword horse.
It was clear that Darae was recovering from the mania of being a sword horse.
I wanted to tear it apart even now.
The time was not too good to explain to Darae all the truths he had heard from Merlin.
‘Until this battle.’
Everyone will be against the removal of the darae, which occupies a very large place in terms of power.
I was thinking of removing the iron from the next battle somehow.
Certainly, if we win this battle alone, the tide of battle will turn against us.
At that time, I was worried and worried about Darae who was about to swing the sword again.
Gee-!
Alarm bells went off all over our perimeter.
Hearing the alarm, we immediately ran to the designated place.
What that sound meant was that the evil forces had moved.
