Chapter 269 – Chapter 269 ― Elements of Restoration (2)
Episode 269 ― Elements of Restoration (2)
“Right now, we cannot fill that gap with our own strength. I need some time. Even destroying the source connected to it is absurd. The quickest solution is to destroy the contract.”
Amelie’s eyes as she said that were no different from those of any other wizard talking about magic.
Hearing her words, Roan felt frustrated. He tried to track down the most important artifact to get rid of the very contract, but failed.
“Fiora sets out to find the token of that very pact, but she has disappeared.”
Amelie’s face hardened at Roan’s words.
She has already heard her news about Fiora.
The story of her disappearing near the southern border.
Amelie didn’t know much about Fiora’s swordsmanship, but she knew how deep, ancient, and refined magic she possessed as a mage. A person like that is missing.
It is not easy for her to disappear without a trace unless she disappears voluntarily or someone repeatedly prepares and catches her.
“If Fiora-sama had set her foot in the forest, I would have known. Because the forest transmits all my movements to me. Did you say Suin was with you?”
“That’s right.”
Amilie shook her head like a wedge.
“Then it is even more certain. The two of them have never entered the forest. Headed elsewhere, or…”
Amelie muffled her words, but everyone else could guess what she said after that. However, it was difficult to easily guess the situation in which two or so talented people were beaten by someone.
“The bigger the contract is, the more difficult it is to move the proof of the contract carelessly. It would be even more so if the target was the king of dragons, all of the demons and humans who were sealed away. Has anyone ever told you this story?”
Roan’s focused eyes narrowed.
“This is the first time.”
“It must be because it is a very old story.”
Amelie’s eyebrows drooped slightly in concern.
“In the era when magic was natural, in the era when it was like air, this fact was natural, but now much has been forgotten about the origin of magic. The more things are hung, the heavier the weight in proportion. It’s the basics of magic, but now it’s an era where you can’t know it.”
“The proof of that contract is an artifact excavated somewhere. Moving to Sprouse was inevitable.”
“Then someone would have to bear the side effects.”
A thought flashed through Amelie’s words.
As if Helen had thought of something similar, her dark blue eyes turned to Roan.
“The fact that Schlaner never came out of the palace…”
“Looks like you have something to chew on.”
“Shortly after hearing that a human mage had secured the artifact, Fiora infiltrated Sprouse to find out about him. Hearing that he was moving south with the artifact, Fiora followed him, but in fact, the wizard was said to be living in seclusion in the palace.”
Anxiety lingered in Amelie’s deep eyes.
“Have you ever been close to the palace where the wizard resides?”
“Yes. There is.”
“Didn’t he feel a strange presence? You might have felt it.”
“If it’s a strange sign…”
“Anyone who uses demon-connected powers will shed signs similar to the by-products of the rift we are looking at. Haven’t you ever felt the similar sensations you feel in those objects near the palace?”
It felt like I was stabbed in the back.
Amelie was pointing out all the situations she had never seen before.
“How can I… Do you know?”
“There are several ways to address the side effects of mishandling contracts.”
It suddenly became like a lecture on magic, but I couldn’t get as valuable advice as this.
Since it is precious information that is difficult for ordinary people to obtain even after several generations, magic knowledge that could not be passed on to the world of demons was transmitted through Amelie.
“Among them, the most harmless method is to build a magician’s territory and then pour the side effects he received into it. It’s very old and cumbersome, but the effect is certain.”
“What is Wizard’s Territory?”
Aina asked.
“It’s a virtual space concept for wizards. It strengthens the power of magic, filters out and purifies the power that interferes with itself.”
“Like the Dark Forest?”
When Roan asked, Emily said yes.
“Okay. From a broader perspective, the magic cast in this dark forest can also be seen as the territorialization of the goddess, and I and the dukes of the previous generation can all be said to have maintained that territory from collapsing.”
“Do you feel the magician’s power in the wizard’s territory? So, Amelie-sama, are you asking what you felt near the palace?”
“If you let go of the power, of course the territory will be stained with the power that the magician mainly uses.”
“Amilie-sama’s guess is correct.”
Roan recalled his memories of going to Merde’s palace. The stench and evil energy felt beyond the strong magic field that was said to have been used by the dragon’s magic stone.
Malice that was difficult not only for Helen, who used holy power, but also for Urtellia, who had no holy power.
To think that was Schlaner’s, the demon’s trace that Schlaner wanted to use.
“The human palace was surrounded by signs like this one. It was similar to the demonic aura I felt in the eastern part of the continent.”
“If Fiora-sama had entered it.”
Emilia’s expression darkened even more.
“That wizard must have noticed Fiora-sama’s existence right away.”
She felt her heart drop in her chest.
I hoped,
Did I really let Fiora die?
“Even if someone walks in or out of a house, it leaves a mark. The wizard’s domain is connected to the wizard’s magical power. Rather than a house, it is safe to consider it an extended limb. If someone who pays attention to such a place enters and leaves, he is bound to be noticed.”
Roan said nothing, clenching his fists tightly.
Seeing her dissipate, Amelie spoke in a soothing voice.
“No one expected it, not even Fiora-sama. How could he have thought that humans would have such knowledge in the distant past? Even I don’t know the specific formula for territory building magic. I just know there was such magic.”
How did they find out the ancient information that even the forest fairies did not know how to use? I was stunned by the opponent’s unexpected move.
The fact that it was unavoidable because it was knowledge from the distant past that no one knew was comforting.
More than this,
There is no choice but to rely on the fact that Fiora’s skills are so good that she can destroy any existing swordsman or magician’s trap.
I have no choice but to trust Fiora.
Thinking so, Roan clenched his fists once again. ‘Will’ comforted Roan’s back.
Don’t fall into deep despair.
Keep your head up.
You just have to find out what you can do next.
“We can’t destroy the proof of the contract right away, but instead we got a clue as to where the artifact is.”
“Okay. It’s something that’s not easily moved, so it’s most likely to stay in the human palace you mentioned. Because that space would be the safest place for that wizard.”
I don’t know what method to use, but in any case, if you break into the palace, you can get the artifact. Should I say that I have earned my own income by finding out that?
“If you can’t get rid of the fabric, you’ll have to find a way to deal with the holes. There is no way to get rid of the contents of the basket.”
“I guess so.”
Roan looked down at the cliffside, at the pile of garbage that radiated evil energy in the darkness.
“May I approach below?”
“If there is a blessing from you, of course.”
When Amelie nodded her head like permission, Roan jumped straight down the cliff.
Aina followed through the narrow gap in the cliff, leaping like a goat, and Helen followed her down the trail with Amelie.
Roan checked things before everyone came down. All heavily rusted and broken items.
If there is another thing in common, it is that they all use electricity.
“Your Majesty, what the hell is this?”
Meanwhile, Aina, who had come close to Roan, bent over her and observed the object on the ground. She did not dare to lay her hand on her ferocious aura.
Beneath the transparent cylinder is a metal pedestal with several unknown buttons attached.
It was a blender.
“This transparent thing must be glass… How did you make the glass into such smooth curves?”
“… Hmm.”
You may open your mouth and tell a strange story. Roan was silent.
He named it ‘Nipple’, but
In fact, there was no visible gap in this space.
As in Basel’s imperial castle, the gap the goddess said is not visible, and in the end, only things that are by-products seem to remain. There was an odd cell phone in Hwangseong.
Seeing that Amelie had come all the way down the cliff, Roan let the stars shine. The pile of hideous objects revealed under the warm light looked more gloomy than before because of the shadows.
“I’ll break the blessing for a while.”
In order to know how Roan’s holy magic affects things, you need to unbless them.
The moment the blessing was removed, an evil energy that made it impossible to breathe squeezed Roan’s throat. Roan closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them.
Sheer malice towards life.
Such is the trace of ‘greed’.
An energy that turns off the will to live and denies the beauty of life.
It was the first time he had come close to the mark left by the gap since he found Elenia’s cell phone.
“That’s strange.”
“Ugh, what?”
“… Get used to it.”
“What?”
It was a rare sensation.
Roan felt a strange longing in front of objects from another world as huge as this. It wasn’t just because he saw a familiar object.
Aina took a few steps back as if she was suffocating, but Roan was still staring at the rusty metal objects.
It was such a bitter feeling, similar to realizing that people in the city have finally returned home while smelling the fumes.
“Roan.”
Amelie, who had been staggering for a while due to the effect of canceling her blessing from a distance, came closer with the help of her escort.
Roan finally came to his senses,
He stretched out his hand toward the items the gap left behind.
‘Star Blessing’.
A soft light flowed from Roan’s fingertips and began to fall to the ground.
“It is like when priests bless the land in the spring.”
Helen looked at the sight and said to Aina.
“Like that, when the blessing permeates the land, that land becomes a land that can reap a lot of harvest.”
“Then, could Your Majesty be able to make this polluted land like that?”
“Well… I do not know. It doesn’t glow that way when you’re purifying something that’s been stained by demons.”
Hearing the whispers of the two, Roan added more strength.
A halo of light spread like a ripple from beneath Roan’s feet. The light covered the trail of the nearby gap, covered the object behind it, and scattered like concentric circles on the surface of the water.
However, the light became noticeably weaker the farther it stretched out. After about 10 meters away, the light faded away.
The air, which had been breathable thanks to the blessing, was once again filled with thick displeasure.
“It’s strange. Blessings are not heard.”
Roan stretched his body and looked around at the forest fairies.
“The blessings have definitely purged something. Because it gave me a feeling.”
“It’s not because there are too many things. If so, even the things under your feet must be in a purified state.”
Helen tested several small objects that fell near Roan and bestowed her holy powers on them. Just like when Helen tried to use a blessing near the royal castle, her divine power was scattered in vain.
“Demonic power counteracts divine power. When the holy power takes its place, the demonic power is pushed aside. Like water and oil. However, the flow of power that I felt was like the master’s divine power pushing away the energy that dwelled in this area and then melting away powerlessly… It felt like that.”
“It sounds like what you felt was right.”
“Yes?”
Seeing Amelie’s wry smile, Helen widened her eyes.
