Mountain Escape (3)
Harley quickly grasped the situation as she calmed the power she had raised to conserve energy.
Its presence was so noisy that Harley could sense it, but there was still a lot of distance left, and his speed was not that fast.
‘At this rate, the next 10 minutes? Compared to the power you feel, it’s at a normal level. He seems to be quite a big guy.’
Also, seeing that he was able to penetrate the obstacles of magic tools and feel the spirit of battle in that distance, he was a guy with superior sensing ability than I expected.
Harley turned her head and looked back at those who had not yet noticed the approaching crisis.
“Whoa… whoops. No, Mr. Harley! What is it? I knew he was originally strong, but I didn’t expect him to be this strong! And that flying axe!”
“After all, that notoriety… No, there is a reason for the fame. Now that I look at it, the rumors seem to have diminished.”
“…more than I thought….”
While they are exhausted, they are in a hurry to reorganize, but they are arguing with easy-to-follow stories.
“hehehe, Bordeaux… come all the way here…”
“I can’t help it, Hans. Let’s get things back first.”
“My friend… I said I’d give you beer to fill your stomach when you go back…”
Rangers and Dwarves mourned over the dead body of their comrades.
“Marcus, how many streets are left? Didn’t I say it’s been a while?”
“The battles were too frequent. Of course, it is bound to be delayed. But in a day or so, we will be able to get out of the mountains.”
Even those who are discussing the future.
As much as they had a lot of experience, even after the fight was over, they were doing what they had to do and preparing to leave…
No matter how you look at it, the situation was not very good for a direct battle with a strong enemy.
I don’t know if they’re alone, but if they run into that guy now, they won’t last long and die soon.
‘It can’t be this way either. We need more time.’
It was a vague story, but fortunately, there was someone in the party who could overcome this situation.
Harley grabbed their attention by clapping to spread the word, then opened her mouth seriously.
“Uh-huh! friends? Unfortunately, the situation is not very good right now, so I think we need to move a little bit faster!”
…the aftermath that brought out the madness still remained, and the tone was more exaggerated than usual, but now it wasn’t a big deal.
“Harley? What’s going on? no way···.”
As it was the situation, everyone in the party seemed to have the same thoughts, so everyone focused more on the content of his words than on his tone.
None of Harley’s warnings so far have been wrong.
Their atmosphere, which had been slightly relaxed, was pulled tight and the tension increased.
He was ready to move and briefly explained the situation to the party who looked at him.
And there was someone who came straight forward at Harley’s words…
“10 minutes? Five minutes is enough!”
It was a Dwarf, Zhaonic, who had a record of evading monster movements once.
***
Azerion Empire located in the middle of the continent.
The city of Tobea, which is one of the imperial territories surrounding the capital Jeron, was somewhat distant from the capital, but enjoyed a prosperous position as a transportation hub in its own way.
Little by little—
A wagon crossed the town’s wealth and stopped in front of the front door of a mansion.
After a while, the wagon entered through the open door, bypassing all subsequent security procedures and sprinting inside.
Eventually, across the garden, the door of the carriage stopped in front of the building opened…
Slowly—
Inside, a beautiful woman with her long, shiny pink hair neatly tidied up carefully stepped down.
With a soft smile, she looked around with a bright face, and entered the mansion with calm steps.
“Are you here, lady?”
“It’s been a while, Terry. Do you know what Andrew is doing now?”
“You are in the playroom now. May I tell you?”
“Yes, can you tell me that I will be waiting for you in the second floor study?”
“Yes, I understand.”
Naturally, she greeted the employees walking around the mansion, and she slowly went up to the second floor and walked down the hallway.
The moment you set foot in an area where no one could enter except those who were permitted to do so.
Woo-
The sound of a special barrier, along with a strange vibrating sound, passed through her body in an instant.
and.
As if changing a mask, the benevolent smile on her face quickly turned into a sticky and sultry smile.
“Hmm~ Looks like Olivia is starting to move? This might be a little cumbersome.”
She glanced out the window in the hallway and whispered softly.
I had expected this from the time the Undead moved around, but when it came to reality, I couldn’t help but worry about it.
As long as he had been with her for a while, he had fully recognized that ability.
If it was a companion, it was a very reliable existence, but when faced with an enemy, it was Olivia, the Banshee Queen, who was more reluctant.
Originally, ghosts as undead were agglomerates of specific thoughts, and it was not difficult to detect if they were strong above a certain level thanks to their own flesh.
‘But the ghosts led by Olivia are different. She can temporarily remove thoughts from them except for the specific purpose of gathering information.’
It is difficult to detect a simple spirit body that has neither specific desire nor intent to kill.
Of course, if that happens, the individual’s thinking and discriminating ability will decrease, and it will be difficult to even extract useful information…
He was also one of Olivia’s organs.
The pink-haired woman made her way through the hallway, organizing her thoughts.
It was easier for him to detect them because of his birth, but not many people would be able to notice them easily.
‘Well, it’s not that humans don’t have the ability to learn. I will not be able to perform as well as the previous generation.’
If we paid special attention to the barrier, we would be able to prevent their intrusion, so the high-ranking officials who already knew that the Immortal King had been resurrected would have taken separate measures for each important facility.
It was the same right now.
Barriers installed throughout the mansion are standard, and especially in this area that has just been entered, isn’t there a security facility that mobilizes all possible means?
shudder—
She opened the door on one side of the hallway and entered the study.
‘The purpose of the current Immortal King will be the same as that of the squadron, so it can be seen that Olivia is moving accordingly.’
To make the continent a land of death was like an instinct that naturally follows as he becomes the immortal king.
By accepting the heart of the Immortal King, he gained enormous power, but rather became engrossed in it and more blindly pursued greater power.
‘But now the situation is different from before. The influence of the denomination as well as the forces established in various places has grown significantly. Perhaps this time as well as before, it will end at a line that inflicts great damage.’
And that’s what their ‘Oath of Inverse Heaven’ wanted.
It was also the reason why she ignored the immortal king’s signal and rather hid deeper.
‘I don’t want to join that immortal army again. Dirty, smelly, and nothing delicious.’
In the previous generation, he was summoned to the earth, but somehow he became subordinate to the Immortal King and followed him, but he did not want to do that again after three hundred years had passed.
Isn’t his position different from the other undead under his control?
“Well, I guess I’ll just have to buy it in moderation for a while. The Immortal King must be busy thinking about conquering the world~? Would you care about the parasites of a society like ours?”
When she, who does not know the true purpose of the ghosts that spread around the world, was laughing and pouting alone.
smart-
“Sister Siana, I’m here!”
“Come on in.”
A smirk with dark blonde hair and green eyes opened the door of the study and entered.
“Hey— you’re still beautiful today, sister! But why did you come all of a sudden?”
The smell of alcohol and perfume was vibrating from his body as he approached with a grinning smile, but he didn’t distort a single expression and instead smiled brightly.
“Mr Andrew~? You’re just playing like that after you’ve finished your work, right?”
“Ah… that’s it?”
Contrary to her soft voice, Andrew Weaver, a young blonde in her cool purple eyes, smiled awkwardly and scratched his head.
“It seems certain that the head of the Brokoslac clan has changed, but it is not easy to find out about him.”
“Let’s just listen to what we find out.”
“Yeah… First of all, my name is Heinz. The force is enough to subdue a single Jinhyeol by itself without taking any damage. A little over a month ago, he suddenly appeared in Talaria and devoured the clan in an instant… His whereabouts before that are unknown.”
Considering the fact that the inside of Clan Brokoslak is completely controlled by the “Pure Blood”, and that Heinz has not been known since then, it was great enough to find out the extent of it…
“Aren’t you too relaxed? I think I gave you enough time.”
To Siana, who did not know such detailed circumstances, it just seemed like a stern expression.
“Ah— look at me, sister! Is it because my abilities aren’t that comfortable? Thankfully, this time, as my abilities got stronger, I was able to observe it indirectly, but it’s not yet to the point of directly tracking the blood!”
He contributed to the opening of the abyss and obtained karma, and was able to complete the fourth reinforcement of 「Track Observation」.
‘I didn’t move directly, but there was less karma than I expected.’
Still, it was enough to strengthen the unique skill by one step in combination with what I had gathered before.
Thanks to this, it was possible to indirectly ‘see’ even the strong who reached the Jinhyeol level by specifying the time and place or the people around them.
‘No, it’s not like Jinhyeol-class vampires are walking around peacefully. It disappears all of a sudden, and in the blink of an eye, it appears somewhere else, so how do you figure it all out!’
It was only because he was lucky that he caught the moment when Heinz entered Talaria.
In other words, his ability was close to a kind of CCTV forensics.
Even now, there are dozens of his eyes scattered all over the continent, and if the conditions are right, he can change his location and read the past at any time…
‘It means that I am the only one who has to look at each of them. No matter how much your mental power has been strengthened, in what time period have you been analyzing it all?’
However, it was impossible to remain still when the superior said something.
“Well, I’m not sure… When I saw the direction I arrived in the capital Talaria, I thought that I had departed from the nearby city of Rappella…”
“Don’t say anything you’re not sure about. It just seems complicated.”
When Andrew heard the pin-zan after saying one more word and became gloomy, Siana frowned and fell into trouble.
Those who had been planted in the Kingdom of Thalia during a clash with the previous denomination had fallen away in an instant.
In addition, as Clan Brokoslak began to gain more dominance under the new regime, it became more difficult to master than before.
It is a natural fact that the plans we had been preparing for were twisted in many ways.
Something special was needed.
“I can’t help it. The risk is too great to come in contact with him again, so we have no choice but to rule it out.”
“yes? Are you all right, sis? Weren’t you allied with vampires?”
“Because we have formed an alliance with the Upersh Clan. By the way, their political position was not very good compared to their armed forces, so it would not be a bad idea to overthrow Brokoslac and entrust the kingdom of Thalia to them.”
They are a clan that operates across the continent with their base in the Empire, and they are typical vampires who live in the dark of the city.
“Um… I think I said that there is Holy Blood over there too. Wouldn’t it just cause more damage?”
“Anyway, it’s just a ghost from the past that hibernated waiting for the day to die. In addition to that, there are four more True Blood in the Eupersch Clan besides Bisk Eupersch, who has properly inherited the Holy Blood, so we will be able to finish the work before the Holy Blood of Brokoslac wakes up.”
After saying that, Siana smiled a little while her purple eyes were shining brightly.
“It’s okay to give a little help from our side.”
“Well, let Siana-nim take care of that. Then, as I did before, can I periodically check the movements of the high-ranking people?”
“Fufufufu, let me do that.”
As she smiled as insidious as a black screen plotting a plot, Andrew, who had been paying attention for a moment, opened his mouth cautiously.
“By the way, who? The horns came out…”
“···ah? Oh man, it seems that my mind is so relaxed. I’m always nervous outside, so it’s like this when I only come here.”
“Ahahaha— That’s right. It’s also important to relax. I said something.”
“no. You never know what might happen, so it’s always good to be careful.”
The pair of sharp horns that had sprouted from Siana’s head slowly shrank again and disappeared.
“Then, shall I go?”
“Make sure you play in moderation, Andrew. Or would you like me to play with you?”
“Ah… I will decline that, Sister. Because I don’t want to die yet.”
Having said that, Andrew Weaver slipped back and hurriedly opened the door and disappeared outside.
It looked like she was scared of herself by anyone looking at it, but she didn’t really care because it had always happened.
And she, who was left alone in the study, was summoned to the continent three hundred years ago, the demon succubus Siana—.
He took out a communication magic tool to contact the Upersh Clan.
