< Episode 404. Crisis in the mountains >
After clearing out all the chimeras, we returned to the Huxiang family mansion. The streets were overflowing with people and everyone was chanting Mushid and Birbak.
“Long live the Huxiang family!”
“Long live Mushid Hushang! Long live Verbak Huxiang!”
It was such a crazy scene outside that it could be heard even from inside the mansion.
“sorry. “I feel like I stole all of Adrias’ balls…”
“I don’t care.”
What would I do with a ball in a desert like this?
In the first place, I didn’t organize the chimeras hoping for something.
“Well, maybe you want something…”
Mushhid appeared in a very low-key manner, probably because he was nervous about my attitude, and asked if I knew anything rather than compensation.
“Do you know anything about those chimeras?”
“You mean monsters? “The only thing I really know is…”
It seemed like he misunderstood the question as asking about the identity of the chimera. Seeing her vaguely trailing off, I felt like I needed to ask a more specific question.
“Do you know when it appeared or where it appeared?”
“ah! “That’s what I heard from our tribe members!”
At that moment, Bubak came forward and said.
“About six hours east of the city there is a huge sand boulder. Those who witnessed it said that it crawled up from the ground near the rock.”
“Was there anyone nearby?”
“They say there was no one other than our tribesmen.”
I thought it had something to do with the emperor, but maybe they were together? Then, it seemed likely that the Emperor would be where Evan was.
‘He may have gone to check the traces of gluttony left in Zakata.’
Should I go back?
For now, I have to wait for Evan to arrive, but I feel a little anxious.
We must quickly overcome the obstacle called the emperor and find arrogance…
Thump thump!
There was a knock on the living room door and a voice came from outside.
“What?”
“Chief, someone has arrived!”
“person?”
“He is said to be Adrias’s person.”
“Hurry and take him!”
Mushid answered almost as a spinal reflex.
By the way, he is my person. Who came?
“Oh oh? Noah!”
Soon the door opened and two people entered. And towards them Luna ran, holding her evil snake in her hand.
“Ivy, Noah.”
These are people you never thought of.
“haha! welcome. Adrias, we will leave for a moment.”
“yes. thank you.”
Looking at Hu Xiang and his wife who were leaving of their own accord, I bowed my head slightly and then saw Sister Claire approaching.
“It’s been a while, both of you.”
“What are you talking about? I saw it a while ago.”
Noah grumbled and quickly sat down in a nearby seat. Because she had come to see Nevro’s past, she had forgotten that they had last seen and parted ways with Cromwell.
“Whoa.”
As soon as Ivy came in, she started smoking a cigarette. It’s really been a while since Ivy. But I didn’t know you would come to see me with Noah.
“It’s been a while, Ivy. “I didn’t know you would come with Noah.”
“Uh, it’s been a while.”
Still looking cool, she threw the cigarette she had just used a few times on the floor and extinguished it by rubbing it with her foot.
“Are you sure you don’t know that I was working for Cromwell?”
“Ivy under me?”
“Not under you, Cromwell.”
That’s what it means. I’ve never heard of it. When?
“I lost my job and got a job with the help of my younger brother.”
“Welcome.”
Ivy is always welcome. It takes a bit to hate warlocks, but…
‘You must have known, right?’
Seeing as Luna didn’t show any emotion, it seemed like she already knew everything.
“I’ll give you the information first.”
After Ivy and I finished our conversation, Noah opened his mouth. When I asked her why she came, it seemed like she had come all the way here herself to deliver information.
“It looks like there was an uproar here once too, and now chimeras are running riot all over the continent. “The scale is beyond imagination.”
“All over the continent?”
It doesn’t only happen in Shaiya?
Just as I was slightly frowning at the unexpected scale, Noah continued.
“It also appeared near Cromwell.”
“Are you okay?”
“I guess I came because you’re safe, right?”
Noah said that and soon his face hardened.
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“What’s important is what goes behind it.”
“Is there anything more important?”
“uh. “We are mobilizing our organization as much as possible to collect information, but the chimeras’ movements are unusual.”
“How specifically?”
“The direction of the advance is all toward our territory.”
There was definitely something to this…
No matter how you think about it, the fact that people are coming from all directions to target Cromwell can only be seen as intentional.
“The number is approximately 200,000.”
“200,000…!”
Luna, who was next to me, looked surprised and pointed out a finger. Luna, if you were to count all 200,000 with those small hands, even 100 years would not be enough.
“You’re crazy.”
“That gave me a headache. “That’s also why I came to you as soon as I found out.”
200,000 chimera troops…
I was confident that I would eventually win if I fought to my limit, but it seemed to me that the real threat had not yet appeared.
“We are currently trying to figure out who did it, but the only guess we can make is the Empire. “To be exact, the Rodelen royal family.”
“We think the same thing.”
“What, did you know?”
What I was worried about was the empire itself rather than the 200,000 chimera army. As a necromancer, I was able to overcome the simple quantity in the end, but the superhumans were different.
If the chimera was indeed the emperor’s, it was possible for superhumans under the emperor’s orders to attack Cromwell.
“Please keep a close eye on the empire’s movements. “I especially ask you to focus on superhumans.”
“Why is the imperial family targeting Cromwell so much?”
Watching Noah ask questions as if interrogating me, I naturally thought of original sin.
“The thing the emperor wants is for me… ah.”
As I was talking, a fact suddenly occurred to me.
The original sin was mine, but it was clear that the emperor was unaware of that fact. That’s probably why they’re targeting Cromwell, not me.
“I guess I should go back.”
Capturing the emperor was important, but protecting Cromwell was more important.
“Important stuff? what is that?”
“There has been an item in the family that the emperor has been targeting for a long time. “I have it now.”
“That’s why you’re doing something like this?”
It feels a bit excessive, but I fully understand it. Because the emperor knew original sin as a kind of key and had unconventional thoughts.
‘I guess I act strong to the extent that I know the importance of original sin.’
There was no romance there, only a blind desire to trample and steal.
“Me and Luna will go back to Cromwell first. You two, please come with Evan. “He’ll probably be here soon.”
“okay.”
“Oh, please bring your godfather and Maximin with you on your way. “They are both nearby, or will be here soon after doing their business.”
He stood up and muttered. He became impatient because there was no law against using superhumans if he was using the chimera to openly target Cromwell.
“Confirmed.”
“Be careful, Adrias.”
Noah nodded at me and Ivy patted my shoulder and said.
Soon Luna got up after me and we went outside.
“Ah, are you done with the story? “I will speak to the tribal leader.”
“no. We have to go back right now, so we’ll just leave. “Please take care of just those two.”
“yes? yes. “I will tell the tribal leader.”
When I suddenly announced that I was leaving, the tribal chief’s subordinate guarding the door looked embarrassed, but soon sent me off with a salute typical of a desert tribe.
“It’s urgent, it’s urgent!”
Luna walked ahead, waving her short legs. She looked cute and she seemed to cheer me up, so I wanted to watch her a little longer, but right now, as she said, I was anxious.
“Luna, I’ll take the Krivmacher.”
“oh! good!”
If it were Navro, I would have used the space movement magic right away, but it was too much for me. Even though my magic skills improved, it didn’t mean I could do what I was bad at because I became better at what I was good at.
-Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
“shut up.”
In an instant, he placed Luna on the summoned Krivmacher’s back and followed him.
“Let’s go to Cromwell.”
-······.
Krivmacher, who looked a little upset, spread his huge wings and flew up.
“It’s a dragon!”
“It is the dragon that protects the black scorpion!”
I felt the already noisy street become noisy due to Krivmacher’s sudden appearance.
“Mr. Adrias!”
Mushhid must have heard the news, and he came outside late and was heard shouting.
“thanked! Please come back anytime! Adrias is the eternal benefactor of our Huxiang family, no, the Black Scorpion!”
The distance grew so quickly that the last words sounded almost faint.
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“It’s black magic.”
Diene Alven looked at the Chimera’s broken body lying in the vacant lot with a serious expression. It was a sample brought by Isabelle as an example.
“Chimeras are not necessarily created with dark magic, but this is certain.”
“It’s not just black magic… it’s quite complicated, isn’t it? “How did they mass produce something like this?”
Lucia muttered as she received Diene’s words. It was a question that could have arisen because their ears had already heard about the chaos that had occurred in various parts of the continent.
“It’s hard to believe that there are over 10,000 units of this type of thing, even though one Mara is quite high-level.”
“Umm…”
Amy, who was listening to their conversation, touched her lips with a worried expression. She then returned after wiping out her chimeras alone and spoke to Isabelle who was drinking her tea.
“It’s hard to believe, but the news is that chimeras from all over are marching towards our territory. The estimated number is as many as 200,000…”
“Don’t worry too much.”
Isabelle smiled at Amy, looking as if she had not been through a battle at all.
“Numbers are meaningless in front of me. “In front of not only me, but also powerful people who have surpassed a certain level, even if the opponent is an army of 1 million, it is meaningless.”
Everyone’s mouths fell silent at Isabelle’s arrogant-sounding words. However, I had no choice but to believe that these were the words of Isabelle, who had actually leisurely subdued an army of nearly thousands of chimeras alone.
“What we need to worry about is the intent of the person who did this.”
“ah!”
Everyone nodded as if they understood Isabelle’s words that struck the core.
“You are correct. Chimera is the result of a wizard. “For those guys to come here as a group, there must be someone’s intention.”
“The intelligence organization believes that the Rodelen royal family is influential…”
As Amy spoke, she thought of Adrias. He had already heard of him to some extent, but the Emperor of the Empire and the Cromwell family had already crossed an irreversible river.
“I will contact my father first. “As long as I’m here, my father won’t be able to ignore this place.”
Amy bowed in gratitude at Diene’s words.
“Thank you for caring me.”
“no. “Compared to the help I received from Adrias, I just feel sad that I can’t do anything myself.”
“But thank you again.”
“I’ll go call you right away.”
Diene went straight to make contact, but soon stopped when she saw someone approaching in a hurry.
“Representative of the lord.”
“What happen?”
Amy’s assistant, Maria, took a deep breath and spoke in as calm a voice as possible.
“The empire is on the move.”
“yes?”
“There is information that the troops of the retreating empire are targeting Cromwell. “There is news that even those who were defeated in Morhaime are gathering.”
“······.”
Everyone froze at the unexpected news. But the information Maria conveyed did not end there.
“Auror Masters are twelve, Warlocks are approximately twenty. “The number of superhumans is over thirty.”
“······Are superhumans also participating in the war?”
“I’m not sure, but based on the movements identified, it seems likely.”
As the bad news piled up, the complexions of those gathered in the room turned pale.
“200,000 chimeras, plus imperial troops and over 30 superhumans.”
“With this, it is clear that the chimera belongs to the imperial family.”
Lucia said with a laugh. She looked astonished at the unbelievable difference in power.
“Representative of the lord.”
“Please speak.”
“I think you should consider taking refuge in Morhaime.”
Maria coldly advised. Amy also felt like what she said made some sense.
“But what about the residents who trusted us and have remained in the territory until now?”
“······.”
Maria didn’t answer. There was no way for the residents of the territory to flee due to the chimeras already approaching from all directions.
“If we stay here anyway, we’ll just die together.”
“If I run away, will I survive?”
“At least there will be a possibility.”
Following Maria’s words, Louis, who had been watching quietly until then, spoke up.
“You can buy it. “As much as I promised you, I will keep it.”
As Lewis, who had already become Amy’s escort, spoke confidently, everyone’s eyes turned to Amy.
“jeon······.”
After thinking for a while, Amy slowly began to open her mouth.
< Episode 404. Crisis in the mountains > End
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