Chapter 384 – Meigar, the Warmest Wizard (13)
The road to Achildern was not smooth. Maya looked around with a sharp expression on her face, her fingers filled with magic power. The knights looked around several times with their nerves on edge and put their hands on their weapons. It was because the demons, who felt menacing magic from the moment they left the boundaries of the magic tower protected by the magic circle, continued to flock to them.
Ash sat in the middle of the party and continued to cast auxiliary magic on the knights. It was best for her, who specialized in her research her rather than her elemental magic her. Meigar was very offended by the idea that her self-portrait was just like an escort or attendant escorting her Ash. The thought ran through her head that the seat Ash was sitting in should have been her own.
Even now, Meigar imagined herself sitting there and being a hero. Her knights her escorting her, and countless humans praising herself for her return her. She wanted to become a wizard who was respected not only by Ahldern but also by humans.
“There! That’s it!”
People moved according to the direction of Ash’s finger his. Meigar sensed something subtle in Ash that she couldn’t. She says that she feels a little bit of magical energy, similar to a magic circle, but she couldn’t quite believe it for Mei. Maygar was hoping that Ash’s “Feeling” Was wrong.
An eerie aura hovered around. The world had sunk to the point where she wondered if she should be more concerned about ghosts than demons. Maygar, who was in front of her, frowned at her. It was because the place Ash was heading was the grave of Ahildern. She reacted very negatively.
“Hey, are you sure about this? Is it okay to go this way?”
“Yes. I can feel the energy from this side.”
“This is a graveyard. Do you see what I mean? This is the graveyard where the ancestors of our Ahildern are buried, so you’re saying we’re going to bring all these people to such a place? If you go inside and there is nothing, who will be responsible for that?”
“Miss Mei. You’ve always shown sharp reactions to Ash-nim from before, so please stop fighting your emotions. How did we talk about this with Ahildern…”
“Ash ‘nim’?”
Maygar opened her eyes and looked at the knight. Her knight her cowered at Meigar’s knight. He was also a fairly high-ranking person in the kingdom, but she was not a human comparable to a high-ranking wizard like Mei.
Meigar met the knights’ unkind eyes, but she only slightly raised her eyebrows and didn’t react much. She said, looking around her with her calm face.
“I will speak. Wouldn’t it be comfortable for you to talk to the royal family of Ashildern?”
Ash smiled as if he was relieved by her remark her. The knights were also doing nothing, so she let out a deep sigh as if it was fortunate that there was no friction with Ahildern. Meigar and the other wizards entered the village again to obtain permission to search the graveyard.
“Miss Maya!”
“Miss Maya! Please look this way!”
Meigar shuddered at the intense cheers she heard whenever she walked down the main street of Ahildern. It was because it was a sweet sound that sooner or later could be heard by all mankind. She did n’t hide her giddy expression of her, but she rather she smiled and looked at Ash proudly. Ash’s eyes lit up as he heard her Meigar praising.
“Be great. Maya!”
Meigar felt bad again.
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“I got permission.”
A few days after being stationed in Achildern. Meigar brought good news and bad news to her party of knights. She brought a box full of various items, but inside was a glass with a distinctive shape. Ash looked into the inside of her box, as if more curious about the goods than about the news she had brought.
“Miss Mei. What magic item is this cup? I feel a very strong magic power.”
“Don’t mind. Does it matter? Anyway, I spoke directly with the royal family and got permission. I was able to search the inside of the graveyard. There are two conditions.”
“What is it?”
Everyone focused their attention on Mayga when he said that there were conditions. She said.
“In the depths of the tomb, there is a space for royalty and those who have left a legacy, but only Ash and I will go there.”
“Wouldn’t that be dangerous?”
“It would be more dangerous for all the knights to enter that narrow space? And you intend to tread on the graves of our ancestors with the feet of knights?”
“…All right.”
So, the search party was organized again. As soon as Ash entered the tomb, she pointed in the deepest direction. Maygar kicked her tongue and went down to the basement with Ash. The knights were facing the two with uneasy faces. Ash was smiling broadly with his face pinned down, as if he was happy going with Mayga.
“What are you so excited about? Do you know what will happen when you go down? Could it be full of demons already?”
“Still, being together with Meiga-sama is reassuring.”
“This place is normally closed and only open when someone dies, so I haven’t been in a few times. You never know what’s going on inside. Okay?”
“Yes.”
She nodded her head again and hardened her expression as her meigar ended sternly. Maygar looked at her and she squinted her eyes once more and then started walking in front of her. In the deepest part, there was a staircase that went down one more level, and there was a theory that the ancestors intentionally built a deep and large tomb in hopes that Ashildern would prosper.
Maygar thought of the hypothesis and moved her steps down the stairs. As I approached the deep sanctuary, which even royal families do not often visit, I felt a strange smell emanating from it. There was also a strange sound that could be felt by the sensitive elves. She didn’t walk a few more steps, and Ash sniffed her and squinted her eyes to see if he had sensed it too.
“Miss Mei. This…”
“Stand back.”
Maygar said with a frown on her face. There was a strange smell coming from beyond the grave. A fishy, disgusting smell that can never be emitted from an old grave. It smelled of rotating meat and blood. Meigawa and Ash cautiously moved forward. Just in case, Meigar was approaching with minimal light, her huge magic shield erected in front of her.
In the tomb, where no light could enter, vision was secured only by shining magic. Meigar prepared her hand with offensive magic, and she said to Ash.
“Hey, shine some light.”
“Yes.”
Right in front of my nose, the smell of blood came up with the sound of something being torn apart. I could see the tomb a little further, but I didn’t have the courage to go without the light. Following Meiga’s command, Ash gathered mana in his hand and fired it.
The sound of meat being eaten seemed to be heard more clearly along the light. Maygar frowned as she checked the scene inside the tomb. Ash covered her mouth to keep from screaming. Mei, who prided herself on living a long life, also had to bite her lip to keep from being surprised.
The place was already full of corpses. Demons were eating each other and living a tough life. They looked around with their eyes wide open, then ripped open the stomach of their fallen comrade and ate the intestines. The demon sat down on the rotating meat, bit the demon’s neck as it tried to escape, and looked around.
They raised their heads following the bright light. Seeing her struggling as if she wasn’t used to the light, Meigar didn’t hesitate. A magic circle formed at her fingertips. A red orb floated up and spewed flames that rolled like a tidal wave.
“Keeeeek!”
“Kyaaaaagh!”
Demons engulfed in flames were rolling on the floor screaming in agony. But she didn’t stop. Ash put her protective shield on Meigawa and herself so that she would n’t be hurt by the heat in front of her eyes. Red flames filled the hall, spiraling out of control. Even though no screams could be heard from within, she continued to look into the tomb with the flames on.
Shapes that seemed to dance in the dazzling flames appeared blurry and then disappeared. As she snapped her fingers, the sparks died out. Acrid smoke rose from the charred tomb. Nothing was visible, so she had to clear the smoke. As her Meigar moved aside her to her side her chanting her spell her, Ash followed her and casually clung to her wall her. The smoke gathered in one place like a swarm of rats. Maygar gathered the smoke to one side and then she spoke to Ash again.
“Fire.”
“Ah yes.”
Ash lit up again. She was nowhere to be found in the tombs of her ancestors, which were as bright as daylight. The skulls of demons and pitch-black ashes burned to the ground. It was a horrific sight that made me wonder what would happen if a person were cremated over a campfire. It was a shock to Maygar that her own grave her had been defiled in this way.
And she was relieved at the same time. If this tomb hadn’t been blocked, those demons would have come and wreaked havoc inside Achildern. Ashildern’s tomb was always sealed until someone entered it. These crude demons couldn’t break the seal.
“But you eat each other, you disgusting devils.”
Meiga muttered that while looking around her. She then fixed her gaze in the corner. Ash also stood there blankly, staring in the corner. Where the two looked, there was an existence that shouldn’t be here.
There was a woman lying reclining without a single wound in this place that had been destroyed by fire and demons were rampaging. Tattooed all over her body her and emitting a feeble golden glow, even at a glance, she had an atmosphere that made her seem out of this world. Ash said, pointing her finger at her.
“That’s it.”
Maygar looked displeased at the remark and said,
“I know.”
