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“I would have done it if I hadn’t come with you! Oh Ho-Hong, I will only trust the wizards from now on!”
Leoni raised her thumb towards Rey and shook her shoulder.
The Silver Cross Knights also smiled brightly and gave Leoni a compliment.
A small cheer erupted when Rey waved her hand with a sad expression.
Even after entering the Forbidden Forest and fighting several times, the atmosphere was friendly.
The Silver Cross Knights, who originally thought they would go through hardships, met by chance, and the skills of Rei and Luna, who joined by chance, far exceeded expectations, and they couldn’t help but laugh.
Eventually, when they approached the ‘limit line’ set by the mercenaries.
Once again, a horde of demons appeared.
The numbers were pretty good.
If you deal with it carefully, you can handle it without casualties, but it took some time.
While the knights were thinking about a formation that could save mana and stamina, Luna looked back at Rey.
There was a look of tiredness in Rei’s eyes.
Luna didn’t want Rey to suffer again by pretending to be a wizard against the monsters, so she just created a magic circle.
Whoops!!
The mana flowing through the magic circle is condensed into one point.
The heat radiated from the lump of mana concentrated at a high density rapidly.
The sudden heat caused the knights to panic and look at Luna.
Luna did not care and performed magic.
In the middle of the magic circle, a superheated ray of heat came out.
aa!!!
4 circle mixed magic, red ray.
The ultra-high heat rays swung sideways, creating a huge flame.
As a part of the forest burned, the horde of monsters quickly turned black and melted.
The superheated hot wire disappeared quickly, but the trace the hot wire passed was already in ashes.
“…”
The knights stared at the landscape that had turned black with their eyes gone.
At least the knights had their eyes open, but the mercenaries were trembling with their faces down on the ground.
Rey heard the sound of the wood burning and turned to look at Luna.
Rey’s eyes were mixed with a bit of rebuke.
After thinking for a while, Luna answered.
“…4 circle magic.”
Its power was not a normal 4th circle, but it was a magic that was classified as a 4th circle anyway.
Then it happened
Rey looked around at Luna’s unreasonable insistence and touched her forehead.
“Ah, well, yes, it’s 4th circle magic. I know it’s 4th circle magic… But still, since it released this amount of firepower at once, it’s a little lacking in mana, and it’s a little hard physically, isn’t it?”
“… Whoops, whoops.”
Luna panted late.
He sighed and exhaled, but his expression looked very tired.
Then, Leoni shouted out loud for everyone to hear.
“bravo!!”
Leoni, who even pretended to wipe away tears, began to applaud.
When Leoni openly shook her head, the other knights also put their swords in and applauded accordingly.
With the help of such a great wizard, I was able to applaud as much as I could.
Of course, Ray didn’t like it at all.
While Ray looked at Leoni and muttered that it was various, Gilland gestured to the members.
“Keep moving forward.”
Shortly thereafter, the guide who was leading the way shook his head.
“It’s hard to get into more than this.”
The ‘limit line’ set by the mercenaries was right in front of us.
The concentration of altered mana became so thick that it was difficult for ordinary people to endure it for a long time.
Gilland, convinced of the situation, sent the guide and other mercenaries back.
From now on, it was the responsibility of the Silver Cross Knights.
“Whew…”
Breathing sounds were heard everywhere.
The tension, which had been lowered by dealing with unfamiliar monsters, rose again.
Gilland took the lead and entered the area called ‘Geum Station’ among the mercenaries.
The further we went, the more bizarre the appearance of the forest changed.
The roots of the trees were dry and twisted, but the branches were swelled up and down as if they were about to burst, giving off a stench.
Looking at the plants that were transformed without even knowing their original form, Rey understood why the Alimo Kingdom had not even found an underground city when it searched the forest in the past.
In such an environment, no matter how much power was put in, it was impossible to search this wide area ‘with certainty’.
Wrath!
The two paladins displayed divine power.
Some of the surrounding pollution has been purified and breathing has become easier.
However, even with the help of the priest, he could not stay here long.
“Three days? At least four days…”
If you wait longer than that, your non-combat losses will increase dramatically.
Gilland didn’t know that either, so he lowered his voice and gave the order.
“Fast forward.”
Everyone proceeded to explore the forest as quickly as possible.
As I headed straight for the expected destination, I often bumped into monsters.
The monsters also became wilder and more ferocious within the ban, and their physical abilities also improved.
Of course, the knights couldn’t compete.
“Pretty sweet!!!”
Rey nervously struck the wild hog’s head, which had been cut off by the knight’s sword, and staggered.
With a popping sound, the bone pain of the Wild Hog, which was hit by the staff, was broken.
The wild hog’s eyes, from which red rays of light were protruding, also disappeared as the bone pain was broken.
Rey frowned in secret as he brushed off the blood on the staff.
There was no problem with monsters, but when it came to warlocks or demons, it was a different story.
Even a warlock that could easily be defeated in the middle of the continent had to work here.
‘If it’s a female car, I’ll have to tell Luna to grind her magic and jump out together.’
It wasn’t that I didn’t expect this kind of situation, but as I experienced it myself, the approach was different.
The Silver Cross Knights also battled, their expressions darkened more and more.
A few hours to move forward, covered in blood.
We were finally able to reach our target point.
“That’s it.”
Gilland wiped the blood from his sword and looked ahead.
A temple-like building, almost completely destroyed, was visible in sight.
As Rey advanced under the escort of the Knights Templar, she looked at the drawings handed to Leoni.
If only ancient dragons and humans really built underground cities.
Even though dragons don’t know, humans must have needed a structure similar to an ‘elevator’ that could go back and forth between the city and the ground.
A structure that served as an elevator was clearly visible in the drawings as well.
‘If the architecture on the drawing is correct for a place like that temple… there must be an entrance to the underground city over there.’
Everyone approached the collapsed temple building with maximum tension.
The knights scanned the inside of the temple building with their sharp senses, but they did not feel popular.
Watching the surroundings, one by one entered the temple.
“…there is nothing.”
“There seems to be nothing.”
The temple was empty.
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Not a single monster was seen, let alone a hostile existence.
Rei looked around the temple.
At first glance, it was just a stone temple, nothing special.
Rey asked Gilland before using her powers.
“I think the destination is here, aren’t you planning on shoveling from now on?”
“wait.”
Gilland approached the pillar in the center of the temple.
After knocking on the pillar a few times, Gilland swung his fist strongly towards the pillar.
Puff!!
The old stone protecting the column crumbled, revealing the mechanism within it.
Gilland had no idea how the mechanism worked, but he knew how to operate the machine from the scholars who studied the drawings.
Gilland took the lost manastone out of the mechanism and put in a new manastone.
“…”
The change did not happen immediately.
but I can’t go
Koo—!!
The ground shook once, and most of the temple buildings that were still in their original shape collapsed.
The building was not functioning properly because it was so old.
Fortunately, however, it did not lose any essential functions.
Tweak!!!
Part of the building’s floor has sunk slightly into a circular shape.
Everyone intuitively recognized that it was the entrance and elevator to the underground city.
Some knights sighed.
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Not everyone was an idiot, so they knew it would be very difficult to escape once they entered the underground city and were chased by the enemy.
A battlefield where escape is impossible or extremely difficult.
I couldn’t figure out what this meant.
There was silence for a moment.
Ray said to Gilland.
“Fortunately, I can’t shovel.”
“…Yeah, that’s good.”
“Once you enter… And if you’re in a situation where you’re going to retreat, you’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices, are you going to enter?”
“…Please pass the message.”
Gilland handed the miniature communication artifact to Rey.
It was an artifact that could only deliver a one-way message over a short distance.
The message delivered through this artifact would be received by the Silver Cross Knights remaining in Rioshko and reported to the superior.
Rey passed the artifact to Luna and folded her arms.
Gilland watched as the knights suppressed their anxious feelings.
Gilland opened his mouth.
“Confirm the existence of the underground city in the drawing. Secure the entrance and elevator. …I will enter the underground city.”
Leoni closed her eyes tightly and then opened it.
The reaction of the other knights was not much different.
After Luna activated the artifact and sent a message, she returned the artifact to Gilland.
Gilland bit his lip and looked around.
All the members were looking at Gilland.
Gilland felt his chest tighten.
I made up my mind over and over again, but nevertheless, conflict arose at the last moment.
Is it really the right way for me to lead them into limbs?
Wouldn’t my stubbornness lead to meaningless sacrifices?
Really, is this the best option?
It was a question that could not be answered.
After contemplating, Gilland hid the trembling of his voice and gave the members a belated option.
“In case of an emergency… if there are people who wish to return to Rioshko…”
Kagak!
A dull sound rang out.
Gilland looked back with puzzled eyes.
The staff wielded by Rey was stopped by the scabbard that Gilland had lifted.
Rey pointed the staff again at Gilland, who was bewildered.
“Hey, the Silver Cross Knights Commander, get well.
“What is that now…”
“You are the leader of the Knights Templar.”
Rey’s words pierced Gilland’s chest.
Rey continued to rebuke while staring directly into Gilland’s eyes that were full of anguish.
“If there was anything to worry about, I had to finish it before departure, and if I made a decision, I should encourage the members even if I put a steel plate on my face.
“…”
“And if there was someone out of the knights, I would have taken it out right away. Do I really have to ask the commander about it?”
At Rey’s arrogance, some members complained that I was going to go back, but then they laughed and beat their chests playfully.
As Rey said, there was no one to come all the way here and say they were afraid.
Everyone looked at Gilland with determined eyes.
Gilland later realized his mistake and clenched his teeth.
Gilland, who suppressed and swallowed all the emotions that gripped his chest, drew his sword violently and aimed it at the sky.
“We will fulfill our mission as the Silver Cross Knights of the glorious Kingdom of Alimo…”
thud!!!
At the same time, the knights stomped their feet hard and put their fists on their left chest.
Gilland ordered, pulling down the lever of the mechanism on the pole.
“Coming in .”
