Chapter 220: Red Forget-me-not (4)

“Truly amazing, isn’t it? My Whitey’s scales are so tough they aren’t even cut by an Aura Sword. Not only did you cut it in two like this, but you even burst it…….”

It seems the name of the Viper I just cut with Lion Swordsmanship is Whitey.

Really. What kind of Viper’s name is Whitey?

His naming sense is totally garbage.

Or perhaps he named it that to pretend it looks weak.

“Is there perhaps another talent like you in the Academy?”

Ivan comes to mind, but he would probably be far below me now.

Anyway, Agot kept asking questions.

It was an obvious ploy.

To distract my attention and succeed in the ambush he is preparing now.

“Using cheap tricks, old man.”

When I openly mocked him, Agot feigned ignorance.

“Hm? What nonsense are you spouting suddenly?”

“Just die.”

Only when I raised my sword did Agot open his eyes wide and shout.

“Impudent bastard! The one dying is you!”

At the same time, the bushes surrounding me shook, and small, thin thread-like things soared up all at once.

Silk Vipers.

These guys called Thread Vipers are notorious magical beasts of the Great Forest.

The sight of them soaring simultaneously looked like a heavy rain shower being played in reverse.

Swaaaaa──!

Watching that scene, I remembered Evan asking me this once.

‘Gerard. Have you ever deflected all the pouring rain showers with a sword?’

‘No.’

‘Try it once.’

I failed back then.

But.

‘It’s different now.’

Flash, a warm light cluster starting from my finger spreads through my whole body.

[Starlight], which enhances all abilities of the wearer.

Its true power unfolds in the ‘Night’ filled with stars in the sky.

At the same time, time slowed down.

An illusion as if the surrounding objects surrounding me were moving infinitely slowly.

The shouting sounds and the clashing of weapons are soon completely buried by the sound of my heart thumping.

The movement and tremor of everything within a 5-meter radius where I stand are felt entirely through my eyes, ears, and skin.

In that state, I swung the sword.

Not with the blade, but with the flat side.

Pababababak!

When I lowered the sword.

The Silk Vipers that covered the surroundings were all bounced off.

“You. You deflected all of th-that?”

“Yeah.”

“How…….”

Agot had an unbelievable expression.

He was so surprised he couldn’t even speak properly.

“Damn it. Since it came to this……!”

Agot, who was preparing the next attack, had his neck cut by the sword I threw.

The head soaring into the sky.

Thud.

Roll roll-

The head that fell to the ground rolled and stopped as it bumped into my shoe.

However, coincidentally, the stopped position was in a shape where he was looking up at me.

He was smiling.

“……Keul.”

Then he stops.

Unpleasant.

Whether smiling or not, exchanging gazes with a severed head for the last time wasn’t a very pleasant feeling.

“Damn it.”

I lightly kicked the head to push it elsewhere and turned my body.

It was time to help Rachel.

But there was no need.

Just in time, Rachel’s sword was piercing Gallard’s chest.

“Kuaaack!”

Gallard, whose heart was accurately pierced, died with a short scream.

“D, Damn it!”

Now the remaining one is Gorian.

With Agot dead and even Gallard dead, he seemed to have changed his plan to a desperate one.

Without attacking Rachel, he suddenly turned his body and ran somewhere.

He wasn’t running away.

The place he headed was exactly where Oliver was.

“Dieeee!”

But before Rachel and I could even move, he stopped running and suddenly soared into the air.

Literally.

Like a doll being pulled up in a claw machine.

His body stopped abruptly and suddenly soared straight up.

“Uh? Uh uh uh?”

Looking at his flustered expression, he didn’t intend it himself.

Looking at that place just in case, as expected, Reina was lifting her crutch.

“……Wow.”

My mouth won’t close.

Mana Shield too, Ignition too.

Then that means that is also the 1st Circle.

‘Then is it [Telekinesis]?’

It seems certain.

Looking only at the power, it far exceeded the performance [Telekinesis] could show, but that phenomenon was clearly due to [Telekinesis].

Still, I couldn’t easily believe it, so I let out a hollow laugh instead.

‘Unbelievable, really.’

It’s understandable since [Telekinesis] is a Vision I know well too.

Because it’s a magic I frequently use by grafting it onto Dagger Arts, I know better than anyone how nonsensical that power is.

“S, Save meeee! Put me down, pleaase!”

Gorian, who had now become a star in the night sky, screamed loud enough to make the mountain ring.

In that state, Reina asked me.

“What should I do! Should I drop him like this?”

Drop him?

I scratched my chin.

“Hmm. If he crashes from that height, this area will be a mess.”

“It’s okay! Then I can just drop him somewhere else. Hehe.”

Suddenly, Reina saying she would crash a person into the ground while smiling brightly felt slightly scary.

Is it because she was possessed by a demon for a long time?

I think she has a bit of a psycho temperament…….

‘……Probably not?’

Anyway, since I could get information from the guy, I told her to save him first.

But just as I was about to speak, there was no need.

“Uh?”

“Hm? Why?”

“He disappeared.”

Wondering what she meant, I looked up.

Far away, I saw Gorian being snatched and abducted by the claws of a Grade 2 magical beast, Garuda Bird.

“…….”

Mm. With this, I won’t be able to get information.

What a shame.

“Is everyone okay?”

Following that, as Karina and Yuria returned after dealing with all the Silver Lion Mercenaries, the Naimus Empire’s black scheme ended with their victory.

……I only thought so.

Until the bastard’s severed head wriggled and moved again.

***

Bishop of the Curse Council, Agot.

Possessing a nature that is evil itself and full of malice, he had embedded one secret technique in his head in preparation for his death someday.

That secret technique is exactly [Evil Grudge].

Storing a Viper inside his own brain.

Agot’s head wriggled.

It wasn’t that he was alive.

The Viper sleeping inside his brain woke up as he died.

Smaller and thinner than even a Silk Viper, that snake was blood-red in color.

And it was shaped like a human head with a sharp horn in the middle.

Just looking at it, a Viper with an ominous appearance.

Its name was ‘Death Horn’, and it didn’t possess destructive toxicity like White Venom or Silk Viper.

Hemorrhagic poison causing internal bleeding.

In a way, it might look weak for a magical beast, but Death Horn’s true terror lay elsewhere.

Exactly stealth.

Death Horn was smaller and thinner than even the Silk Viper known as the Thread Viper.

Also, the red scales had a stealth effect, so it wasn’t caught by magical detection or tracking either.

After approaching the target secretly like that, it burrows into the target’s body using the horn, destroying the inside little by little, giving terrible pain and eventually death.

This was the scary point of Death Horn.

Slipping out through Agot’s nose like that and climbing a tree, Death Horn fell down onto their heads.

Because of its small and light mass, its fluttering appearance looked like red hair flying in the wind.

“Are you okay, Michelle!?”

“Yeah! Hehe.”

“Phew. That’s a relief, really.”

“More importantly, what happened?”

“Seems it was planned from the start. The Silver Lion Mercenaries were aiming for Mr. Oliver.”

Voices of various humans were heard.

Among them, Death Horn recalled the grudge its master who gave it a home had just before dying.

‘Oliver.’

‘Oliver.’

‘Kill Oliver.’

It was time to carry that out.

Death Horn fell amidst the humans chattering excitedly without knowing anything.

Thud!

Slither…….

Where is the target?

Fortunately, he was sitting not far away.

People surround the target nearby, but.

It doesn’t matter.

Since no one notices that death is secretly heading toward Oliver.

They were intoxicated with the relief that the battle ended safely and the joy of overcoming it.

Death Horn dug into that carelessness.

Finally reached close range.

As the target entered the range, Death Horn attacked the target immediately.

Coiling its body like a spring, it bounces up using elasticity.

Thrusting its sharp horn forward, it would burrow into the target’s heart just like this using the momentum.

But.

Death Horn couldn’t achieve its will.

Because someone blocked its front.

“Hiyap!”

She swung her staff and struck Death Horn away.

Slap, Death Horn fell to the floor. Shortly after, the staff who swung the staff used some magic toward Death Horn, but unfortunately, magic didn’t work on Death Horn’s scales.

Shaaa!

The enraged Death Horn resumed the attack immediately.

The target was the human woman who interfered with the work.

Bouncing up with tremendous speed, it pierced the skin, rummaging through flesh and muscles, and burrowed deep inside.

***

“Kyaaaack!”

Reina screamed and fell backward.

“What happened!?”

“S-Snake!”

Gerard, who ran over hearing the scream, hurriedly examined Reina.

In his eyes using [Focused Gaze], a red Viper burrowing into her left thigh was visible.

Gerard immediately reached out and pulled the Viper’s tail.

And threw it far away. He didn’t forget to send an aura blade to cut the Viper in half.

Slash!

Immediately asked.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes.”

“Any injuries? None?”

“I think so. Hehe.”

Reina smiled brightly as if asking when that happened.

Gerard let out a sigh of relief.

‘Fortunately, it seems she wasn’t bitten.’

Then others also gathered around Reina and asked for her safety.

Especially Rachel ran over and scolded her greatly.

“What are you doing! I was worried, you fool!”

“Sorry, Unni. Still. I did it, right?”

“Did what on earth!”

“Protecting Mr. Oliver. Hehehe.”

“…….”

“Now we just have to return to Icata. Right?”

‘I can join Shadow! What Unni wanted so much.’

Reina’s sparkling eyes were clearly saying that.

So Rachel couldn’t suppress the suddenly surging emotion and hugged her tight.

“……I only have you, idiot.”

“U-Unni?”

“Be careful next time. Got it?”

“Yeah!”

Oliver is staring at those two with complex eyes.

It was right then.

Reina’s condition became strange.

Tremble tremble, Reina’s body started to seize madly.

“……Re, Reina?”

Rachel made the mistake of calling her real name in her panic.

But she was in complete panic and had no mind to care about that.

And that was the same for others too.

“Michelle! What’s wrong! Wake up, Michelle!”

Tremble tremble.

“Reinaaaa!”

Quiver!

The seizure continued, and Reina’s mouth poured out vomit and foam continuously.

Her eyes rolled back showing whites and convulsed, her body muscles gradually stiffened, and her body temperature became cold like ice.

There was only one symptom.

‘Poisoning.’

Only Oliver and Gerard maintained reason in the chaotic situation, and Oliver, having finished the diagnosis, hurriedly asked Gerard.

“Where is it?”

“What?”

“Where is it! The Viper you just threw!”

“Over there.”

Oliver discovered the Viper cut in two into body and tail.

“……Death Horn.”

The head that should be there, wasn’t attached.

Where could it be?

Finding out wasn’t that difficult.

Oliver looked at Reina who was seizing madly.

Clench.

He clenched his fist until it bled.

***

“Move.”

Rachel lifted her head.

A man was standing tall there.

Wearing a pure white gown with a red cross symbol embedded on the chest.

“You……?”

Man, Oliver.

No.

The Divine Doctor of the Hyde Family, Oliver Hyde looked at Rachel and said quietly.

“Leave it to me from now on. I will definitely save your sister.”

Without fail.

[Time of Destiny].

In front of Ghost Rock.

The time of a man, which had stopped because he couldn’t save the sister he loved, was moving again.

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