Episode 53

Until now, I didn’t care because I thought she would wake up on her own, but not now.

“Linbell, take a look.”

Basil’s crouched presence expands.

The pure white prana swirled from his body and rose from his feet, and the prana spewed over the sword began to circle around him.

Allen whispered softly to her, her eyes widened as if nailed to the scene in front of her.

“That’s prana.”

“… That’s it.”

“Yeah, noble, stubborn… , another terrible power.”

The greatsword burned like the sun, and the knights looked proudly at the waves of power that were getting stronger.

“Such a strong man… .”

“… Amazing.”

“Did you still have that kind of power?”

The elves murmured as if surprised by his strength, but Basil didn’t even look at him and focused on the huge wall.

A white light that even looked divine at first glance flickered. Allen ignored all of that.

“It is one of the forms of power you will gain.”

There was obsession in her eyes. Also, greed, and again.

despair.

“… Can I do it?”

A gloomy despair descended.

“can do.”

“Confucius always said that.”

She hugged pure black forcibly with her trembling hands and whispered softly.

“It was always like that. At first, over time, and… , until now. I am… .”

“Prana.”

stopped talking

“Prana is a noble force.”

“I know. How many times have you said… !”

“So I believe.”

Her eyes were incomprehensible.

“You can do it.”

Prana is the power to respond to blind emotions or vows.

If you have a strong will, you can become infinitely strong, but if the oath that was the source of prana is extinguished, it is a power that can be lost.

“That I can prove enough.”

Therefore, the user who handles power is more important than anyone else.

“You can become nobler than anyone else.”

That is why prana is noble.

That in itself proves that the will has not withered.

“So there is no need to be obsessed with it. Someday you will be able to do it simply.”

She just lacks a chance.

A powerful emotional medium that will bring out prana.

The fuel of anger that would have accelerated her growth.

“But if you are really struggling.”

“I… !”

Allen changed his mind when he saw her overly obsessed with power, unlike the previous life he had remembered.

“You can quit.”

As if she was at a loss for words for a moment, her eyes fluttered heavily.

If my expectations were put under pressure.

If he feels hesitant about the way he wants to be.

“It’s okay if you’re not prana.”

“yes? why… No, then the actions so far have been hard work… .”

Linbell looked up at him with a surprised look.

Seeing the confused expression on her face, Allen realized that she had been entangled so deeply.

“I… , is it because you do not meet the standards of Confucius?”

Allen replied with a face that seemed to be indifferent and spoke of the obvious.

“Because it doesn’t matter.”

“If it’s your talent, it won’t matter if it’s not prana, but magic.”

Plans at the academy are going to go a little off, but what does that matter?

If it’s the sword genius he knows.

I have no doubt that it will produce the same result even if it goes a little further.

“So, there is no need to rush.”

He raised his head to the bright light shining on his face.

When I turned my eyes, I could see the light bursting out from the sword of the knight commander and sending out a powerful slash.

“Even if I take a break, I have enough time to run forward.”

The moment she opened her mouth, the pure white slash slashed the wooden wall.

A great cheer followed.

“Yeah, what a wonder Basil!”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Knight Commander use his power.”

Linbell sighed in the broken atmosphere and was silently silent at Allen’s question.

Allen stayed by Linbell’s side, but never heard her answer.

‘After all, it was unreasonable to change it into a single word.’

If she stays the same after this, Allen will force her to learn magic.

It will be much better than it is hard now.

Allen saw Enelia approaching her from behind and walked towards the knight commander.

Julius, who was surprised by the power of the knight commander, looked at Camilla for a moment and then quickly headed towards him.

“Sir Basil, it was really, really great. Do you have any pain anywhere? Need to rest?”

“There will be no disruption to the battle.”

Julius admired his strong words and praised them over and over again.

“… Did you say that you were the commander of the Basil Knights? If you have that level of skill, you will be ranked at the top of the forest keepers.”

She was surprised by his power, but realized that there were many more powerful people at a level stronger than that in the Great Forest.

“by the way… .”

Natasha frowned as she looked at the revealed forest of divine beasts.

“The closer you look, the more disgusting it is.”

“It’s completely twisted.”

As she said, the appearance of the forest was terrible.

The trees and the ground are dyed black, the carcasses of rotten animals, and even the monsters that have been mutated and encroached by the demonic spirit.

The forest was in such a state of disrepair that it was impossible to recall the original appearance of the forest.

Natasha pricked her ears for a moment, then opened her mouth to Allen.

“You don’t even respond to such a fuss… , isn’t it too strange?”

Allen agreed with her.

Not being attacked or attacked on the way is understandable. It can be said that it is to strengthen the defense here.

But even the trees that covered the forest have already disappeared, so you don’t even check?

‘Sensing is… Are you stuck?’

As if he had taken some kind of action, he could only go as far as his sight could reach.

After thinking about it for a while, she saw Julius and Basil who started approaching this way, and answered.

“We divide the people.”

She suggested splitting up, saying it would be too inefficient to stick around in the Twisted Woods.

“There may be some dangers in the forest, but it would be inefficient for such a large number of people to travel as a group. So, how about dividing the number of people appropriately?”

He was making excuses like that, but his intentions were clear.

‘Isn’t that enough to go together.’

The number of elves was only about 100, and in the end, splitting the number of people was just a roundabout way of saying let’s search separately.

“Since we are small, the way Prince Allen and Julius divide people is… .”

As Allen expected, she fell in love with the elves and made a choice for them. As soon as she finished speaking, Julius opened his mouth as if it was an opportunity.

“Brother, I will go with the knight commander. Are you okay though?”

Allen knew Julius’ obvious intentions, but he readily accepted it as if he was going to do so.

‘The knight commander is loyal only to his father.’

He entered the family on certain conditions to his father and assumed the position of commander of the knights. Julius’s actions not knowing this would all be useless.

“Yeah, wouldn’t it be okay if I took the 8 knights instead?”

“Do it.”

Allen brought 8 out of 15 knights, and the soldiers were divided exactly by 150.

‘You’re too naive.’

Meanwhile, Julius showed that Allen was worried about choosing Camilla. Allen had no intention of disturbing him, so he picked just about anyone.

After all, their role was nothing more than search and shield.

“Are you finished?”

When the division was finished, Natasha opened her mouth.

“The one who finds a warlock or a divine beast first sends a signal.”

“Then we can’t know each other’s location, can we?”

As she beckoned, an elf waiting by her side handed her a pouch.

“Throw this in the air and you’ll see it from afar.”

When Basil opened her mouth while looking at the small pocket, she saw Julius muttering in the shape of his mouth.

‘Seed. Ah. Balloon. Sun?’

“It would be better to show it in person. If you throw it up like this… .”

She lightly tossed the yellow-green seeds upwards. The seed, which was going straight up to the sky, gradually slowed down and the moment it reached the height of the wooden wall.

The seeds exploded with a loud bang.

-Startle

The knights were bewildered at seeing the seeds exploding for the first time in their lives, but as the elves did not respond as if they were familiar with it, they quickly regained their composure.

“You can just throw it, so it won’t be difficult to use.”

As if she had no expectations, she handed out seeds to the knights, including Allen and Julius, in an official manner.

“I don’t know what threat there may be in the forest, so if you see something, signal immediately. then,”

In her body, a powerful spirit, who could not even dare to contract with Allen’s affinity, surrounded her.

“I will go first.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the elves quickly disappeared into the hole made by smashing the wooden wall.

Even if the forest has been half-hardened, those who are familiar with the geography of the forest will not find it difficult to search.

‘I’m not sure if it really sends a signal.’

As they disappeared, Julius also looked at Allen and opened his mouth.

“Brother, then I will go to the center.”

His gaze was directed towards a corner of the air.

‘Are you using the map function of [System]?’

Julius quickly left with seven knights, including the commander of the knights, and half the soldiers.

He also has the knowledge of the ‘original’, so he will be able to find the location of the warlock separately.

Even if it’s not, you’ll soon find a clue or something.

‘Cause he’s that kind of guy

A knight standing next to Allen spoke as the representative.

“Where would you like to go?”

The elves will move based on the original forest map.

Julius will use the system to find the warlock.

Do they pretend to search until they find something, or do they search the forest based on the information in the Black Book?

“we are… .”

That’s when Allen was about to tell them about the decision he had made.

“Wait, wait a minute. there! Please go over there.”

Bestla suddenly interrupted.

Breaking the tacit unwritten rule.

“Ahhh… !”

“Please, please, kill me… .”

“Save me, save me, save me.”

A life dies in an endless scream.

“Ouch… Kek.”

hair stone-

The corpse, whose life force has been sucked out, is scattered on the floor. Carnel, who had sacrificed another elf, turned his head nervously.

“The intruders eventually entered the forest.”

“already? I thought it would be muffled for at least a day… .”

Carnell was annoyed by the plan that didn’t go as planned.

“I can’t believe that the Reinhardts support the elves. What? Did you arrive so quickly?”

weird.

This was obviously strange.

It was like the fact that people who were already on bad terms joined forces, and it was also why they moved so quickly. Yes, as if knowing the current plan.

“Did the plan come out? Can’t it be?”

A few days ago, the headquarters felt alert that they were being watched and handed him an artifact that would block his view.

The celestial eye he knew would not be able to block it with this kind of artifact, but it was capable of blurring his vision.

If it wasn’t for that, I would have felt someone’s gaze if I had scouted here… .

As I turned my head to the heavy voice, Inyeong, dressed in gloomy black armor, approached me.

“no… , it’s okay. It is still.”

We are mobilizing all the personnel to carry out the raid in the mountains, and we are working on it.

After a while, the divine beast will be completely corrupted.

“What are you worried about?”

Still, Carnell was ominous. yes, this, this… .

“Irrational.”

Anxiety that no matter what you do, you will reach a certain end.

“Irrational… ?”

thoughts are organized

“Malloc, when was the first time the warlock was subjugated?”

“maybe… , is it four months old?”

“Yeah, that was the problem.”

From then on, I should have noticed the anomaly.

“Isn’t something strange?”

“Were the ceremonies in the West so passionate that the countess responded?”

Focus on villagers, not cities.

They abducted the elderly and women rather than healthy young people.

Not as a curse, but as a disease.

Make it appear natural, not artificial.

“But how did I know, I went out of the count and got away with one warlock.”

“Isn’t that a coincidence?”

“Yeah, it was just a coincidence.”

Then who is the woman freed from the curse after that?

“Is that girl a coincidence? No, did one commoner escape the curse in the first place? by luck?”

Mallock didn’t answer. Didn’t Carnell say it was luck back then?

But Carnell continued talking as if he didn’t care about his answer.

“The same goes after that.”

How long after the curse had spread, the countess came back and killed the witch.

The troops were dispatched less than a week after the large-scale ceremony began in the Shinsui Forest.

“What about next time? Can we stop it before the ceremony is complete? Or are you going to break the barrier even now?”

As Carnell continued to doubt his doubts, Malok couldn’t say no. As he remained silent, Carnell’s eyes turned to the warlock who stood there awkwardly.

“Where have they come from?”

As his eyes filled with madness turned toward him, the warlock stiffened.

“Speak quickly.”

“They were divided into three groups… .”

“right now.”

As Carnell’s eyes turned cold, the warlock immediately knelt down and shouted.

“One of the humans is where the other brothers gather, and the elves are coming to the middle of the forest! Finally another human is going ‘there’!”

“there?”

His eyes twinkled with interest as he pulled out the heart of the corpse that had been lying on the floor for a moment.

“Did you seem to know?”

“I don’t know!”

“Hmm… , What. It’s good that you crawled into your own death.”

A by-product of the experiment before planning the fall of the divine beast.

The place where the chimera magician who was collaborating with the research died, and had no choice but to seal it up.

They couldn’t handle it either, so they sealed it up, so I didn’t want to stop them if they found it on their own.

“What are you planning to do?”

“That’s it… .”

Carnell looked back with a smirk. There, a divine beast the size of a small garden was struggling, dyed half-black.

“It’s all for him.”

“Stabilize your drinking right now!”

“Sacrifice! Bring more sacrifices!”

“Please save me, save me… Crackle.”

Shinsu will become the magical beast in the legend that he brought, and will become the vanguard for the temple.

For that.

“You unleash all your minions and make them face each other. And secretly lure them to their respective destinations.”

“Oh, I see!”

The warlock hurriedly took up his skull-adorned staff and ran to fulfill his orders.

“Malloc, you go to the place where the brothers are and take the time. Be as persistent as possible.”

“i get it.”

Mallock nodded his head in earnest without objecting to his command.

Carnell turned his head as Malok also disappeared to carry out his orders.

“If this plan ends in absurdity, then… .”

His eyes turned black.

“I cannot stand still.”

never.

He shouted at his compatriots in a sticky voice.

“Give it to everyone except the minimum number of people for the ceremony.”

If it was for him, there would be no delusion in his actions.

“The time has finally come.”

Even if the price is life.

“Hell-Kritika.”

for the one who praises him.

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