Chapter 166 – #36_The Witch of the Covenant
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One.
Altai Mountains.
This mountain range, which means ‘mountain of gold’ in Mongolian, begins in the Gobi Desert and extends for 1600 km to the plains of West Siberia, crossing four countries from southeast to northwest: Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China.
A crooked river that had just been created ran over the vast land, and beside it sparsely growing birches and larches made a sweeping sound in the strong wind that flowed through the valley.
The peaks of the mountains poked into the blindingly blue sky were topped with icecaps like hats, and wild goats roamed along the untamed slopes along the mountain range.
A short woman stands in the majesty of nature that even non-believers will admire.
Contrary to the mature atmosphere, the appearance seems to have just become an adult, and the youthful appearance fits the expression of a girl rather than a lady.
However, it will take a little while for anyone who sees her for the first time to notice that fact.
This is because the girl’s body hair and eyes are more mysterious than the natural scenery of the Altai Mountains.
Her soft peach-colored long hair and magenta-colored eyes are as glamorous as those of a bewitching fox.
It is not only the girl’s appearance that is magical.
This is a rough terrain where you have to go several tens of kilometers in a straight line to the nomads’ residence.
However, without a proper guide, she stood on the surface of a cold lake where the glacier melted, wearing light clothing as if she were out for a walk.
Her strangeness would be multiplied if she held there a pure white sword longer than her own body.
“……..”
Waves of her magical power began to spread around her.
A magenta-colored magical reflection light hung from the corners of her eyes.
The water surface, which had been mirror-like without a single ripple from the intense outpouring of magical power, was disturbed as if facing a storm.
The barrier behind her, which began to extend from her in the form of a small orb, gradually began to consume the landscape around her.
10M, 20M, 100M, 500M, 1KM, 5KM, 10KM.
No matter how simple the back barrier that Duke Keter was supplying, it would consume a lot of mana if it was unfolded on this scale.
However, the cute impression is not colored, and the straight eyebrows are not disturbed in the slightest.
“You’re here.”
The girl with a small mutter kicked her sleep.
A lake that roars and creates splashes as if a torpedo had exploded.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t any magical action.
The pink girl just kicked her sleep hard.
Leg strength generated purely from the legs caused such a violent explosion of the laws of physics.
The body of a girl who has jumped hundreds of meters across a lake with a single leap rushes towards her destination.
The ground explodes as if exploding with each step.
The sprint that broke through the speed of sound just brushed through it, shaking the larch tree by its roots and breaking the lake.
After running for about 10 seconds, she came to a halt on an alpine meadow full of wild grass.
This is because she found the homunculus, the ‘enemy knight’, who fled to her and buried her body in her subspace.
“……..”
Height is about 2M.
True to its name, she is covered in ominously dark red armor from head to toe.
As if recognizing the existence of the girl stopped by her, he glanced in her direction.
It was injured like that, but it seems to have recovered from inside the subspace.
The vast majority of homunculi have no other names.
This is because all individuals are unique, and once discovered, they are immediately hunted down, and it is inefficient to attach proper nouns to them that will never be called again.
So, what does a homunculus with a name mean?
It means a notorious homunculus that has survived for a very long time.
Just as the outcasts who harmed witches and humans were labeled ‘merit’, the ugly red armored homunculus was given the unique title of ‘red knight’.
A monster created by the witch of creation, who killed hundreds of thousands of civilians since it was discovered in the Apennine Mountains 500 years ago, and who has hunted seven witches who came to hunt her.
-Clap!
A red knight holding up a red spear like his own armor.
At the same time, the eyes that were closed under the helmet opened.
Fifteen pairs of eyes that were twisted in an unpleasant way, as if laughing at the other person, looked at the girl.
Undaunted by the ominous gaze, she gripped her sword.
– Knock!
The grip, crushed by the tremendous grip, made a creaking sound.
“Serious bastard. Let’s make a decision here.”
The girl’s body bent obliquely as she held the grip with both her hands.
There is no need for human skills such as half-swording in front of the physical strength that has reached divine power through the ‘contract’.
All you need is a preliminary posture to hit all the power you have.
“Contract.”
After a short chant, the white sword and the letter of the fairy appear on the side of it, and the contract begins.
One contract, an increase in the strength of the whole body.
Contract two, the increase in the agility of the muscles of the whole body.
Contract three, strengthening the flexibility of the muscles of the whole body.
Contract 4, a single slash transformation of all the magical power paid.
Agreement five, ignoring the gap of mutual.
Contract 6, cut everything with a sword.
The pressure of the mana, which multiplied with each additional contract, weighed on the surroundings.
The red knight also pointed the ‘red branch’ in his hand at the opponent, as if he had no intention of standing still.
“Don’t cut me.”
Standing firmly on the ground, the girl’s legs were full of stability, like a giant tree with roots.
Her forepaws, which held her weight and strength to keep her body from floating, advanced and shook the ground, pushing the ground and adding momentum, and vomit flew from her hind legs as if they were exploding.
A blow that cuts through space.
Because it was so neat, the sword swung without sound or wind cut through the air at an invisible speed.
At the same time, a dark red barrier sprouted from the end of the red branch that was competing with her girl.
2.
The back barrier that had spread on a huge scale was lifted.
As if tightening a noose from the edge, each time it became smaller, the traces of destruction created by the slash were restored.
Even the lake that was blown away completely by the aftermath of the black wind.
Even the mountain ranges that were severely cut like cheese across the range of the slash returned to their original state.
The barrier disappears and what remains is the peaceful and idyllic alpine meadow as usual.
The Duke of ‘Eloati Ferret’ silently summoned his courtesy, the ‘Contract Sword’, and clicked his tongue.
“Tsk.”
Missed again
Even the slash that cut down the enemy knight along with the mountains hundreds of meters away could not pierce the barrier created by the ‘red branch’.
“Were you thinking of running away in the first place…”
Suddenly, she jumped out of space, so I wondered if she was ready to fight.
Immediately after defending against the slash, the red knight disappeared through the gap in the dimension.
Homunculus have a unique ability to cross dimensions.
During her inactive period, she hides inside the sub-space, and when she becomes active, she travels around the world and plays a game.
In particular, the ability to distort the ‘red branch’ made it possible to use the means of escape more precisely, and as a humanoid, the highly intelligent red knight used it very appropriately.
This is the reason why Eloah couldn’t take the supply and demand even though she clashed with enemy knights 7 times during the one-year chase period and won all 7 times.
Even if you win in a fight, if you give a very small gap, you will run away.
This time, the rough terrain for a month had become meaningless, but Elroa didn’t show much irritation.
It is enough to chase the prey that escaped again.
Normally, tracking down a particular homunculus in this wide world would take an enormous amount of time, but Eloa’s case was a little different.
Since the 5th crash she has had a means of tracking her down.
By consuming one of the 12 “Contracts,” The contract with the red knight was completed.
The content of the contract is that “They can determine each other’s position.”
Therefore, Elroa could vividly feel the presence of the red knight far away.
Even though there is an error value of about tens of kilometers, it is already rare that the scope of the search is narrowed.
Based on experience gained from hunting hundreds of homunculi so far, there is a limit to the homunculus’ ability to leap into space.
There is a cooldown, and the cooldown increases as the distance of the leap increases.
The red knight, who used to jump over the space and run away, ran away at a fairly long distance this time.
In other words, for the time being, it was impossible to sneak away.
Elroa immediately ducked her and began her gallop.
As she ran, her body, accelerating more and more, moved several kilometers per minute, approaching the speed of sound.
[Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!]
Elroa stopped her run when the alarm on her cell phone suddenly rang.
She lived in a remote place for a while, and when she came to a place where her radio waves were caught, the mail that had been pushed back for a while arrived.
“……”
And after checking the subject line of her mail, the duke stood there stunned.
[Sir Tiphareth, Ea Sadalmelik, who invaded Gehenna, was killed by Baron Amelia Marigold]
[Announcement of death of Public Achievement Ea Sadalmelik]
[Death of Sadal Melik]
Dozens of emails with similar content had arrived.
Duke Tippereth was the founder of location points all over the world, and all information about her homunculus and her exploits flocked to her.
In addition, to Eloa, who was trying to steal her Ea by turning on the light in her eyes, reporting about her Ea had a higher priority than anything else.
There were dozens of emails, but they all meant the same thing.
The feat of killing the apprentice witch of Eloa 100 years ago, that Ea Sadalmelik died.
Dead?
The bitch who ran away like that cockroach.
Even if you chew her fingertips carefully and kill her, it won’t be any fun.
You said you died suddenly?
Elroa felt the strings that were barely holding her together snapping.
Two scenes came to mind at the same time.
She is her own self who allowed her apprentice witch, ‘Raffy’, to go out to her world.
The image of herself screaming while hugging Raffy’s body, which is cooling down in her shabby warehouse.
After that day, she swore.
To live to take revenge on the villain who killed the naive apprentice witch who didn’t know anything and robbed her vessel.
But her revenge is over.
No one can accuse the dead of sin.
Without any atonement or requiem.
She was deprived of the right to ignite her emotions and to express her sincere anger, and she ended up in a rush.
“Rafi… Rafi…”
Eloa, her legs weak, sat down on her floor and called out the name of her beloved disciple.
Eloa, who muttered blankly for a while, barely gets herself up.
Nothing is certain yet.
It may just be a rumor.
The truth must be determined immediately.
After Eloah took out her citizenship card to return to Gehenna and infused her magical powers, she threw herself into the nearby blue river.
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She got some fan art after a long time!
The identity… Is Della Radcliffe, drawn for the second time by the mentally shattering nerd!
I’ve felt it before, but I thought you were really good at drawing slightly scary women!
Another piece of fan art can be found in the fan art gallery of the notice.
Thank you so much again!!!
