Chapter 216 – Chapter 216 ― Mist, Mist of Swin Lake (5)
Episode 216 ― Fog, Swin Lake Fog (5)
“Roan, it would have been nice if you had worn the armor I prepared for you. What I’m wearing right now…”
Eleanor’s evaluation of the growing armor.
However, I have to diligently raise the level of this armor to make it easier for me.
The pure white armor was so conspicuous that it was dyed black as soon as the wedding was over, so it was too dull. Eleanor’s evaluation is harsh.
Roan smiled silently.
It seemed that Erenia decided to accept Roan’s appearance alone.
“Yes, because armor is better than nothing… I can’t see a single hair on Roan get hurt♡ Because Roan is all mine♡”
It’s cool that it doesn’t sound like a joke anymore. As the saying goes, Erenia was fully prepared.
Surrounding the wagon we rode on were the elite of the Southern Dark Spirit Knights. They were the best knights of Evirgio who followed the Grand Duke to the battlefield.
And what follows is the carriage of the members of the Central Knights who have been escorting me from Basel, and officials including Rumbe, the secretary of the Southern Dark Spirit. And the wagons the ladies rode.
There were already dozens of knights alone.
Do you think you can beat a wyvern even if it appears?
“This is why your uncle said you should go hunting.”
“It’s a big event, in this land.”
“I wish I could tell you honestly.”
“… You’re a vampire Hiding is a virtue.”
Erenia let out a sigh as it was with a gentle smile. I’m not close enough to come to our wedding festivities, but I’m sure you know by word of mouth when it happened.
There is less gossip than the capital, Basel, and there is no such stimulating incident in the boring and peaceful southeast city, which is far from war. Isn’t it the emperor who visited after several decades?
“No matter how someone settles down here, it won’t be easy to find out like you said.”
Eleanor’s expression hardened, but her voice was determined.
“I will always be watching over Roan. Don’t worry.”
“Isn’t that what I’m supposed to say? Eleanor.”
While the couple smiled at each other, the carriage had almost reached its destination.
“Your majesty. I think you can start exploring from here.”
The wagon reached the forest entrance and stopped.
The officials and noble ladies who got off the carriage decided to wait here at the forest entrance.
I caught a glimpse of the secretary general and his daughter, Billin, who were perched on the edge and looking this way, unable to blend in with the crowd.
“It’s a place where the sun doesn’t shine and it’s easy to get lost. Please be careful.”
Guided by the Southern Dark Spirit knights, Elenia and I started walking slowly.
“Then, I’ll look around to see if there are monsters worth catching.”
After her words, Erenia placed a small mouse on her palm.
The mouse, just released from the box, has blank eyes. It has neither whiskers nor feet that would tremble and wriggle in anxiety of an ordinary rat. It’s because I was anesthetized from the time I put it in the box.
And to the mouse standing so blankly,
The awl that Elenir was holding plunged.
Roan frowned inwardly, but the appearance of the demon king was silently watching the scene.
A rat that pierced the scruff of the neck spewed blood,
The red liquid did not wet Erenia’s palms or her clothes.
Her magical energy moved from Erenia’s body and began to gather in her hands. As she muttered something while concentrating, what floated on her palm was a circle and a needle.
It was a figure made of blood, similar to a compass.
The long, needle-like object in the center rotated several times and then pointed in a certain direction.
“It’s where the needle points.”
Erenia whispered softly with her half-closed eyes. The knights held their breath and listened to the words of the best witch doctor in the country.
“The distance is 2 km. Not moving. Power is… It is more powerful than any magic beasts around.”
Some of the knights who were accustomed to hunting lowered their voices so as not to disturb Elenir and began ordering the soldiers around them to follow them.
“He is asleep. Haven’t noticed us yet. It would take an instant for the smell of a person to spread there. After hunting, he was full and fell asleep. I am dreaming. Witch Beasts don’t know people very well. Young.”
As if reciting an incantation, Eleanor’s low voice continued for a while.
However, the object to be hunted did not know what he was doing or what kind of guy he was, ending with the words that he was young.
In fact, just being able to know what a monster 2km away is doing is amazing magic.
Roan, seeing Erenia’s magic for the first time, was impressed.
“Awesome. You mean you can figure that out?”
“… Whoops♡”
Eleanor smiled lightly without breaking a single drop of sweat. The blood that became her figure was scattered in the air, and Erenia threw the corpse of a mouse into her box as if nothing happened.
“Then we will move. Your Majesty, Your Highness.”
Vice-captain Turko, who came out to escort Roan as an acting knight commander from the Central Knights, took the lead of the emperor and his wife.
I think it’s difficult to see because it’s a durahan.
He manages to make his way through the woods without getting caught in grass or trees.
The formation was the order of the knights of the Southern Dark Spirit, Turko, Roan, and Eleanor surrounded by knights.
As if they are accustomed to hunting, they find their way without hesitation. However, in order to match the speed of Elenir, the formation inevitably moves slowly.
When Eleanor didn’t go in the direction he said for even 5 minutes.
Roan, who was most sensitive to movement and feeling, stopped. When the emperor stopped, everyone had to stop.
“Why a…”
“Shh.”
Roan raised his hand to block Erenia’s words.
His eyes narrowed.
You have to concentrate as much as possible.
Because,
Because strange signs aren’t just in front of you.
“Turco.”
“Yes.”
To the emperor’s low voice, Lee In-ja of the Central Knights also answered in a whisper.
“Prepare your back.”
“Yes.”
He didn’t ask
After confirming that Dyurahan moved to the back of Elenia while glancing at the knights on the left and right, Roan gave an order to the knights of the Dark Spirit of the South.
“It comes from the front.”
“… All right.”
The knights in light armor dyed all black bowed their heads to Roan. Soon, they too guessed what Roan had told them to prepare for.
Ujijik in front of a distance.
The sound of the forest being pushed came faintly.
All sorts of birds could be heard screaming and escaping the forest noisily.
The bodies of all the knights who heard the sound were extremely tense.
Roan looked back at Elenir.
There was no smile on his face, which always wore a soft smile. Her face was white.
I saw soldiers rushing from the battlefield,
An unknown being approaching from the forest is a greater fear than that. Besides, didn’t she say it herself? It’s more powerful than any magic beast.
It was Roan who held his trembling hand.
“Prepare the magic.”
“… Uh? … Yes.”
The virtue of an outstanding wizard is concentration.
Eleanor’s expression suddenly changed when he came to his senses in his hot hand. The expression of a cold, sunken wizard. She slowly opened the pouch next to her. It is to take out the creature.
And in an instant, by the time the sound becomes a tremendous roar.
Roan opened his eyes when he realized the identity of the thing that had finally appeared in ‘Detection’.
But time is precious.
Roan took the demon’s identity out of his mouth as if growling.
“It’s a wyvern.”
And then, like a lie, the sound that covered the forest stopped. While the knights frowned and wondered.
Roan’s thunderous cry echoed through the forest.
“Stomach!”
Everyone’s eyes turned upward.
When Roan first found the wyvern, his emotion was ‘absurd’.
Ha fuck,
Catch something that big?!
How did the demon lord’s father drop that?
At first glance, the length of the body is the same as that of a building.
The tens of meters tall body was incredibly agile.
Each one of those teeth is the size of a forearm, but the biggest problem is that there are no way to defend it since it has wings. If that guy picks up with his feet, people will be crushed.
There are big orb troll knights in the knights, but no matter how much they are, they only defend against attacks from the air by raising their shields.
And while all these thoughts became electrical signals in my head and raced terribly through my brain, the wyvern’s huge body was mercilessly plunging into their place from the air.
‘Am I going to crush you!’
Roan’s ‘detection’ and ‘politics’ kindly conveyed the Wyvern’s intentions vaguely. Skills also work against monsters. However, it is impossible to be happy about this.
I don’t have enough time to talk.
Roan hugged Eleanor.
Commands burst from his throat at the same time.
“Spread!”
It was a short remark, but the knights fully understood his command.
There was no fool who had to stop the emperor or jumped in for him. If the emperor dies, he dies, and if he runs away, he runs away.
Like chicks met by a hawk, the knights scattered all over the place.
However, Roan is holding Eleanor.
He had no intention of running away anyway.
It was unreasonable to follow the knight’s full speed with Eleanor’s footsteps.
He gritted his teeth and lowered his head as he hugged Erenia.
The Wyvern didn’t even scream to warn of an attack.
What I hear instead is the sound of the wind like a typhoon
The screams of the forest from the pressure created by the huge body being slammed into the air.
Dirt, leaves, and twigs rose into the air, obscuring the view.
“Huhhhhh… !”
The sound of holding back screams came from Erenier’s gritted teeth. In that brief moment, Roan concentrated his holy power as if he was praying more fervently than ever before, holding Erenia’s head with his hand and pressing it down.
Not too long ago, I met the goddess and was recovering.
Holy power, which had risen to about halfway, surrounded his body and overflowed like bursting water.
And just before the body of the wyvern crushed the emperor. The knights who were worried about the emperor, who managed to get his body out, witnessed a miraculous scene.
An explosion that seemed to shake the earth’s axis.
The knights had to buy themselves first before doubting their eyes. Everyone curled up like worms.
The ground shook and trees were broken and uprooted. Trees that have grown for hundreds or thousands of years are weapons in themselves. The knights clenched their teeth and focused their attention on the objects around them. The emperor’s order means to live on your own. I can’t lie here and die.
Even so, what occupied one side of their thoughts was doubt about what they saw.
What did I see
Was it really created by Her Majesty, or Her Highness the Empress?
What is that?
Can you stop the wyverns with that?
I think it’s blocked?
The knights’ visual acuity is excellent.
They are the ones who can quickly pass by enemies even while on horseback or on horseback.
And what they saw, the body of the wyvern trying to crush the emperor was crushed like tofu by a certain dome-shaped magic. The sound of the explosion and the tremendous wind came from that impact.
And their wandering thoughts were soon volatilized.
This is because the wyvern whose breastbone was crushed was unable to fly up intact again.
They began to prepare for when the wyvern swarmed the land.
“Eleanor!”
“Ha ha… Ugh…”
Although the ‘star cloud shield’ blocks the wyvern’s torso, it cannot alleviate his shock 100%. Like an airbag, the fate of being crushed by that gigantic monster has been prevented, but bruising on his face and limbs is unavoidable.
The shockwave of holy power reached the inside of the dome as well.
Roan was also strong enough to bite his teeth.
The power passed to Elenir, who was held in Roan’s arms, must have been less than that. Even so, it would not have been easy for an ordinary wizard to endure.
But it’s not over.
It’s not over until you stop breathing.
Wyvern did not die,
Enraged and wounded giant monsters are close to natural disasters. You have to block it before that.
“Eleanor! Wake!”
“Hey, Roan…”
“It must be suppressed! Eleanor!”
Shaking his head several times, Erenia’s body trembled slightly. Roan swept Elenir’s shoulder and arm several times.
Perhaps thanks to that, Erenia’s red eyes soon cooled coldly. When she opened her mouth again, her voice was much calmer.
“… Suppress…”
As Erenia tried to look around her, Roan pointed at her somewhere. Although hidden in the forest, the wyvern is within ‘detection’ range. It also means that it is close.
“A hundred meters, over there.”
It’s right in front of you.
Upon hearing those words, Erenia hurriedly searched for her pouch on her waist. However, she had a frustrated face.
“Doesn’t exist.”
