229. Defensive battle (2)
‘… Please, there shouldn’t be any trouble with Mores and Logan.’
Strangely today, the feeling of anxiety doesn’t go away easily.
Amelia felt her hands shaking slightly as she turned the pages, and eventually closed the book and sank into the armchair and closed her eyes. And out of habit, she fiddles with the small wooden statue on the table.
‘I should have told Mores to come back right away. No, he should have sent more reinforcements… … .’
It was all in vain.
The prince of the Holy Empire abandoning his territory in crisis. Even though he is young, what will his subjects think of him?
The same goes for reinforcements. No matter how much you think about it, you can’t come to any conclusion beyond the Lilium Detachment.
“Whew….”
Amelia sighed softly.
Reason knows well that he made the right decision. But isn’t that true of the heart as well?
Mores, that child is now in the midst of dangerous demons!
At times like this, Amelia felt regretful that she was the eldest daughter of the royal family. If she had been in the same position as Herna, she would have sent her entire knightly order to punish her father.
“Amelia. Look at this!”
At that time, Mirabelle, the personal maid, entered the study holding a large bouquet of flowers.
“The handsome prince of Rohan sent me these pretty flowers again.”
“Leonard….”
Amelia frowned slightly.
That trash bastard, who was convinced that he had made a connection with himself after the New Year, is persistently sticking to the ecliptic, showing up at various banquets and social gatherings.
The reason why Amelia keeps looking at this disgusting man instead of cutting him off.
It was partly to lay the groundwork for future moves in Rohan, but more than anything, it was to bring his hidden associates to the surface.
Romaine. A gloomy half-masked man.
Leonard’s closest aide and strategist who held the royal family of Rohan in one hand and sometimes performed strange tricks.
‘And the [key] that Romain had… … .’
A device that made it possible to control strange races of people that had never been heard of before, as if they were limbs.
If you do not find out its identity and prepare in advance, it will pose a great threat to Delcross in the future.
While Amelia was deep in thought, Mirabelle asked in an excited voice.
“Where should I put this? How about decorating it here in the study so that I can look at it from time to time while studying?”
Such a terrible sound.
“Just throw it in the trash can.”
“Oh my, why?”
“It’s quite cliché to see the same rose every time.”
“Hoho. Young ladies are usually influenced by a gentleman’s sparkling wit and rich culture. But Amelia, a true and excellent gentleman is always honest and consistent.”
Amelia blinked at her subtle words.
“…Does Mirabel like him?”
“Yes. Why not? He is so devoted to our princess. The more I look at him, the more I see him, isn’t he such a gentle and handsome prince? Looking at him, I think it would be okay to go to Rohan with Amelia in the future.”
It was a scary sounding statement.
At that moment, the afterimage of a miserable woman covered in fresh blood vaguely overlaps the smiling figure of Mirabell, embracing a bouquet of red flowers.
-You are a terrible devil, Leonard! I curse you! Even after death, I will curse you forever! Argh!
Screaming. That scream.
In the end, his tongue was cut off and his vocal cords were damaged, and he vomited like a mere animal’s cry.
“……!”
Amelia closed her eyes tightly without realizing it.
“Ah! Of course, no matter how cool she is, she’s still a lot worse than our princess.”
Mirabelle, who noticed the princess’s blood-stained face, gave a blank expression with a bewildered expression.
“…Yes, Mirabelle. It’s a little early, but I have to stop by for lunch and then go to the Pearl Palace.”
In the end, Amelia, unable to completely shake off the terrible afterimage of the past, carefully picked up the little Saint Aurelion wearing a conical hat and said gloomily:
“As expected, Amelia brought it too.”
A lonely lunch with only two of the siblings left.
A small saint sitting across from us places a wooden statue on the table. She was a bald old woman decorated with white lace.
“I also felt strangely anxious today. I couldn’t concentrate on training at all, so I came back early.”
When I told them I was taking a break, everyone was really worried and took me outside the gym. I just waved my hand and saw him off. I thought all the inquisitors at St. Marsyas were scary, but it turns out that the people are kinder than I thought.
Sisley muttered like that.
Crunch crunch.
Even though Seo Yi-seo, in Cadmus mode, started eating next to her, Amelia couldn’t willingly reach for the food for a while. Because her scary afterimages were still eroding her mind.
Sisley stared at her for a moment and spoke as if comforting her.
“Don’t worry too much, Sister Amelia. Actually, I had a good dream last night.”
“Nice dream?”
Amelia adjusted her posture and took a listening attitude. No one in the royal family knew about her younger brother’s occasional precognitive dreams.
“Yes. A good dream. A bell rang above my head, and then I realized that Saint Aurelion appeared before me in person. He was wearing a red cone hat and for some reason had a long white beard. And then a kind downpour of rain. There was heavy rain and laughter.”
Amelia tilted her head.
Cone? mustache? Heavy rain?
Doesn’t it seem a bit different from the image of him portrayed in the public eye?
“He smiled and told me that if the children of the Holy Family continue to be good children and pray hard for Brother Mores, they will soon provide him with great help.”
“help…….”
It was too awkward to be considered a precognitive dream. Still, isn’t it a story of small comfort?
As Amelia’s face turned pale, Sisley clenched his fists at her.
“Big sister Amelia. And now there’s me too, right? I’ve been hearing a lot of people say I have talent these days. I’ll quickly become as strong as Brother Logan and continue to protect our entire family.”
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Amelia, who was looking at the fern-like white fist, eventually burst out laughing.
What on earth are you doing with those cute hands that are perfect for wielding a meat knife?
“You still have a long way to go, Sisley. You need to become stronger.”
“More here?”
“So. You see the imperial palace knights every day, right? To become like them, you have to become much, much stronger than you are now.”
“hmm…….”
Earlier, I swung the flail and destroyed the scarecrow with just the wind pressure. The knight commander said that not only among squires, but also among lower-level knights, there are not many who show such power.
However, after pondering for a moment, the little saint soon came to a clear conclusion.
Well, anyway, the stronger you get, the better it is, isn’t it?
“Okay. You mean to work harder in the future, right? Leave it to me!”
The sisters smiled sweetly at each other as they shared a conversation that would probably have horrified the Knights of St. Marsyas if they had heard it.
* * *
Meanwhile, Logan, who had left for Sigismund Territory, was currently riding alone.
‘There’s not much left now!’
Sigismund was a distant place. If you travel from the ecliptic at your leisure, it will take about 15 days.
Even though he had been urging the detachment to speed up from the beginning, Logan could not hide his anxious expression from start to finish.
-Don’t worry about us, go first, sir. I’ll follow shortly.
In the end, the Holy Knights who set off together came to suggest that to Logan.
As the Lilium Detachment was accustomed to long periods of movement, the Paladins had excellent physical strength. If you make full use of your innate divine power and run a horse, you can move at a speed that is more than twice that of an ordinary person.
But even so, the speed was not enough for Logan.
The youngest Dekaron Knight and Sword Master in existence on the continent.
Logan’s use of Auras allowed him to constantly accept and materialize the Auras around him, making it almost impossible for a horse to feel his own weight.
In addition, it constantly imparts strong divine power to the horse. That’s how you can continue a long forced march without almost resting, sleeping, or eating.
-Then, let’s meet at Sigismund Territory!
Normally, Logan would avoid this type of forced march, even if it meant thinking about his words, but this time, the situation was a little different.
Anxiety.
The anxiety that had been slowly growing since leaving the ecliptic had now turned into a feeling strong enough to tighten my body.
“I’m sorry, Roxana! Just give me a little more strength this time!”
When I patted its white mane as if to comfort him, his Rottweiler, which was running vigorously, let out a small cry.
‘It’s different from what you or Sisley feel. ‘This isn’t a premonition or anything.’
Logan was well aware of the extraordinary premonitions that sometimes appeared in children of the Holy Family.
I thought I was far from that, but now my heart was beating strangely fast and my mouth was burning with tension.
He knew where this feeling came from. When a large battlefield awaits right in front of him.
-If you safely bring Mores to the imperial capital, I will return all remaining funds from the subjugation team’s activity expenses as your pocket money.
Seonghwang’s words, which I heard before leaving, kept lingering in my mind.
The more I think about it, the more meaningful it becomes. He clearly did not say ‘help Sigismund’, but ‘bring Mores back safely’!
‘Lee Seong-jin already has several records.’
Even at this moment, there is no telling what that guy who just left is doing.
‘Please don’t do anything rash until I get there, Seongjin Lee!’
Hee hee hee!
Based on the divine power pouring in once again, Roxana increased her speed even more and let out a powerful cry.
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“Ouch! It’s the Glatzer Troll!”
“Don’t be surprised! They are our allies!”
A familiar scream followed by an explanation.
Seongjin looked back at Orden with a tired face.
“How long are you going to keep surprising us with the same situation? Didn’t you contact the territory in advance?”
Then Orden cried out to Seongjin with a tearful face for the first time in a long time.
“Now we are moving faster than the entire West, sir!”
Ah, I see.
Since I was used to radio on Earth, I had forgotten about the times here for a while.
Boom boom boom!
Bingsu No. 1 was literally running without hesitation. Every time I took a step, the scenery changed quickly, and even the slight hills were a step with long legs.
“…Sir, I really feel like I’m going to die.”
Sir Valery, who was constantly self-healing with divine power, groaned from behind.
Seongjin and his group, who was in such a hurry, completely covered the distance that would have taken half a day on foot in less than an hour.
“Aaaah! Glatzer…!”
With a loud scream, a narrow ice wall appeared before their eyes. While the height is almost the same as the size of shaved ice, the entrance is small enough for one person to barely pass through.
“That is the final gateway to the territory!”
“good!”
Seongjin quietly held the ice heart in his hand and concentrated his mind.
〚Would you like to fuse object 1?〛
okay!
“Stop, Grand Duke! If we continue like this, we’ll collide with the ice wall!”
With the frightened voices of the soldiers flowing through one ear, Seongjin moved the scroll in resignation.
〚Temperature scroll: Activity (ice separation) -/- Sleep (ice fusion)〛
Quang!
As soon as the ice monster hit the ice wall, it froze and fused.
Damn it.
At that time, Seongjin and his group had already jumped onto the ice wall. The soldiers gape as they watch them gliding high.
And even before his body was pulled by gravity, Seongjin immediately started separating the shaved ice and the ice wall.
〚Object 1 is fused to ice. Do you want to separate the object?〛
Of course!
〚Temperature scroll: Activity (ice separation) ——- Sleep (ice fusion)〛
Kurrrrr!
The ice wall separates and Bingsu No. 1 reappears. As soon as Seongjin and his group landed on its shoulders, the ice monster started running like a storm again.
Boom boom boom!
“What is that….”
The dazed soldiers looked up at the ice wall.
There, the ice wall was standing empty, convex on the outside and hollow in the same shape, like the shape of shaved ice, like the mold of an ice monster.
“If the enemy can pass through the ice wall at this speed, not only the ice wall base but also the territory…!”
Orden, seeing the fearsome movements of Shaved Ice No. 1, mutters as if he is concerned. Then Seongjin shook his head lightly.
“No, that won’t happen!”
The place they were really trying to attack was probably the Canyon Fortress.
Didn’t they try to slowly gather the Lycan Slopes in front of the third ice wall over several days and then concentrate all of the territory’s troops on the ice wall base?
Even if they had passed through the ice wall base in this way, they would not have been able to break through the numerous troops gathered there at once.
But the situation is different in the empty canyon fortress. If we had been able to attack in this way, we would have been able to reach the territory in one go.
“But the guy who invaded the fortress had poor piloting skills, right? He must have been the enemy’s main force.”
“…okay.”
Seongjin confidently shrugged his shoulders towards Orden, who looked much more relaxed.
I dare say, it would be hard to find someone as good at using the Ice Heart as me, right?
And they finally arrived at the entrance to the estate.
Hundreds of soldiers were lined up there, probably the fourth troop that the guard commander was assembling.
“Your Majesty!”
Although he seemed a little surprised to see the group appearing on Shaved Ice No. 1, Sir Sebastian soon greeted the group with a calm face.
Then he delivered serious news.
“Ice Wall Base has fallen! It is said that Vincent and the Wolf Knights are currently remaining in the rear, holding back the enemies while the troops retreat!”
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