106 – new
“driving me crazy.”
After I was swept away by the shock wave and all my limbs were ripped off, the first thing that caught my eye after I finished restoring Eoyeongbuyeong was the surrounding landscape completely devastated, like a wasteland somewhere in the kingdom.
For a place where all kinds of criminals gather, the buildings that were built in their own way were destroyed with their entire outer walls or were completely unrecognizable.
The pavement along the main road, which was well-maintained for walking, was completely destroyed, and piles of dried earth and pebbles were scattered all over the place.
Where would that be? Remnants of buildings that had been horribly destroyed and exploded were scattered all over the place, and hundreds of pits of all sizes were gaping open.
It was like that everywhere I could see.
Since they had to walk for about 30 minutes to get here, the area ruled by the lord probably wouldn’t have suffered that much damage, but it was more correct to say that the slums were all destroyed.
Looking back at Serena’s last expression in her memory and Charlotte’s reaction to Serena, it was rather a miracle that only this much was broken.
I thought to myself, “Should I have dried it sooner?”, but then I remembered in which world the two of them were fighting, using body enhancement, and changed my mind.
‘What can I do to stop the two of them from fighting with determination and even strengthening their bodies?’
The last time I heard Serena’s body strengthening efficiency was 1/256 second or 1/512 second.
Charlotte can also use body enhancement with the same efficiency as Serena, so at that point, a human like me who can’t use body enhancement is virtually impossible to even recognize.
Wherever I go, I can’t catch up to an A-class adventurer who is never in a position to kneel, and even an S-class adventurer who is proudly recognized as the top-ranked adventurer’s guild. How can someone like me?
If the two of them decided to fight, they should be stopped before they clash in earnest, and once the fight started, it was fortunate if they weren’t bounced back by the shock wave like before.
It was the same when I ran into Serena here.
After I had finished assessing the situation, before I could tell Serena to calm down, the two collided with all their might, and the shockwave alone flew away for a while and rolled around.
If they were still able to raise their voices, they would have tried to stop the two of them, but unfortunately, their necks turned around three times and their vocal cords were weak, and to make matters worse, a large stone fell on their upper bodies and failed.
I couldn’t get rid of it with my own strength.
‘The result is this.’
He let out a deep sigh. I should have stopped when Serena walked by. I never really thought that Charlotte would provoke Serena back there.
After seeing me and Charlotte sticking together, I even heard that kind of provocation in the yard where my eyes went round, so I wouldn’t attack and cut it.
I looked around to see where the two of them were, like a walking natural disaster.
Circumstances, it wasn’t too late yet. I can’t help the things that have already been smashed, but I have to protect the ones that remain.
Finding Serena and Charlotte wasn’t too difficult. Both of them were preparing to slap each other in a flashy way.
Serena floated in the air with the World Eater’s sword wrapped in magic the size of several buildings and was about to be plunged down, and Charlotte drew a red magic circle on her palm with her right arm stretched out in front of her.
‘Wait, the red magic circle?’
I hurriedly checked again, wondering if I was mistaken. Certainly, what was drawn on Charlotte’s palm was a red magic circle.
It was a magic circle for purgatory.
My head was pounding and I felt sick. It seemed that he was really determined and wanted to kill Serena. The moment that thing explodes here, an area of a city is ridiculously blown away.
And unless the Royal Wizards use purification magic to purify it over several months, it will continue to be a burning hell for several years.
Serena, like me, seemed to confirm what kind of magic Charlotte was trying to use.
The magic that was wrapped around the World Eater’s blade began to compress infinitely. A storm of mana raged from the blade and wrapped around Serena’s body at random.
Soon after, Serena’s body was wrapped in blue flames. Seeing that, I clutched my forehead. Of course I knew what kind of technology it was.
‘driving me crazy. Shatter the moon this time?’
It looked like Serena was really determined and wanted to kill Charlotte. That, too, was a technique no different from Purgatory in terms of power.
The moment it lands here, not only will the surrounding area be blown away, but a canyon large enough to fit the entire capital of the kingdom will form.
We can’t help what has already happened, but shouldn’t we stop what can be prevented?
I took a deep breath. Serena and Charlotte could hear everything I whispered here anyway, so the size of my words didn’t matter.
I only need to convey my will to prevent the worst situation where Purgatory and Moon Breaker collide head-on.
Serena, engulfed in blue flames, began to accelerate downward. The red magic circle drawn on Charlotte’s hand emitted a deeper light.
I shouted with all my might, before the two of them could cause a cataclysmic collision of Purgatory and Moonbreaker.
“Both of you gmaaan!”
After that, everything went smoothly.
Hearing my shout, Serena hurriedly extinguished the flames wrapped around her body and landed on the ground.
Charlotte’s reaction was no different from Serena’s. Charlotte, who had destroyed the fireball that was just about to be created again, quietly stood next to it with her arms folded under her chest.
In contrast to Serena, Charlotte had a confident look on her face, as if she had done something wrong.
In fact, Serena didn’t seem to feel guilty about destroying this area. I just showed my respect for the lord I serve because I came.
Neither of them seemed to have any feelings about the fight that just blew up an entire city block.
“Serena.”
“Yes, lord. Please speak.”
“How did you get here?”
And, it was me too.
It’s definitely a pity that the residence was destroyed as a result of Serena and Charlotte’s fight, but if the people who used to live here were definitely the location of the victim, that wasn’t the case again.
Staying here for a few days, I could often see a human proudly claiming to have committed a crime in the city and hid here.
No one pointed it out, but rather competed to brag about what crimes they had committed.
Probably most people here are like that. When I put together the information I had ripped from the blond man who had attacked me with alcohol, it was more like a conviction than a guess.
In the first place, there were enough justifications, so if the lord put his mind to it, it was by no means impossible to push away at least this kind of slum.
Because this slum played the role of collecting such people so that they would not leak out, I did not feel the need to demolish them by spending time, money, and troops.
So, I decided to pretend I was doing the lord’s job instead.
“Have all the black blooded monsters been subdued already? I don’t think so.”
The order I gave to Serena was to catch and kill all black blood monsters, and Serena was not the type to go looking for me even after violating my order.
I wondered if all the black blooded monsters had been annihilated, but I quickly erased this possibility from my head.
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Just a few days ago, news had been heard that they had appeared all over the continent and were subjugated.
To say that the black blood monsters were completely subdued, it would have taken at least a month since they last appeared.
So, the remaining possibility is either that Serena disobeyed my order or she had a reason to come to me like this, but the former is not even likely, so it’s probably the latter.
“I have something to say to my lord, so I came here even though I knew that my lord ordered me to annihilate the black-blooded monster. I will definitely pay for the sin of disobeying your order, even at the cost of my life, lord.”
Serena’s answer was as expected.
“I don’t intend to punish you for coming to see me, Serena. It must be serious enough that you have to tell me directly anyway. What’s the matter?”
In response to my question, Serena quietly raised her arm and held out the gauntlet wrapped around her left forearm.
“You want to see this?”
“That’s right.”
Serena was wearing silver armor, the symbol of the Royal Knights.
The armor of the Royal Knights was all made by Charlotte herself, so it was the same as saying that something related to this armor was also related to Charlotte, so a pair of bloody eyes glanced at the gauntlet.
I examined the protruding gauntlet. The adamantium-mixed Orichalcon that wrapped around his fingers like a glove glowed silver as usual.
My gaze went up. I could see the seams and protrusions engraved on the forearms, as well as the ruggedly protruding patterns. And even the slightly dented part.
There are no special features
‘Wait, are you crushed?’
I looked at the outstretched gauntlet again. The forearm was definitely dented. He glanced at Charlotte, and Charlotte narrowed her eyes as if she had noticed this fact.
First of all, the fact that the armor of the Royal Knights had been distorted wasn’t much of a surprise.
No matter how much it was an alloy of adamantium and orichalcum, it was bound to break if it received an impact beyond its limit.
It’s just that the upper limit for reaching an impact beyond that limit is so high that it is incomparably higher than that of ordinary metals.
What surprised me was that the wearer of this armor was Serena.
Even meteor impact magic can be received head-on if mana is wrapped around the body, and unless it is Charlotte or Christine class, it is the strongest swordsman who is hard to even scratch, let alone get hurt.
That Serena crushed the alloy of Adamantium and Orichalcum while she was covered with mana?
“This…….”
My hand stroked the dent in the gauntlet. I could feel Serena flinching every time I moved my fingers, but I didn’t mind.
“Did you notice, lord?”
“Yeah, at this level, it’s weirder to not notice. What happened?”
Serena raised her arm. Serena’s eyes met. The blue eyes looking at me contained an unwavering conviction.
“A new black blood monster has appeared.”
