◈ Episode 97: Banquet of Flames (2)
The sudden appearance of the fire giant turned the banquet hall into chaos in an instant.
“Um, what the hell is that!”
“Aww! Run away!”
The people were frightened and scattered here and there, colliding and entangling each other.
Most of the people gathered here were people without any ability. As a result, he was unable to maintain his reason in a sudden situation and fell into a panic.
The giant looked at those people and then opened his mouth wide.
When the mouth, full of sharp fangs like the jaws of a beast, opened, what could be seen inside was wriggling flames.
Like the scarlet fire that burns the hottest at the bottom of hell.
The complexion of the people watching the scene turned pale.
The people present instinctively felt it.
What is that giant going to do now?
Kuhwaaak!
A fire so hot that even the skin could be cooked even from a distance spurted out toward the center of the banquet hall.
At that moment, the guards moved.
Since it was a banquet hall where important people gathered, the guards to prepare for any unexpected situations were all knight class.
“Suck!”
The guards in black suits pulled out the swords worn on their waists and swung them right away.
Even if the number of guards is not large, considering that one knight can play the role of dozens of mercenaries.
Now, the stability of this banquet hall was by no means low.
Caang!
The sword wielded by the first guard hit the flames.
The aura contained in the sword cut through the flames and deflected them in the other direction.
Roaring!
A long stream of fire turned and engulfed the ceiling of the banquet hall.
The fire spread as if drawing concentric circles along the ceiling, burning up all the chandeliers hanging in the air.
The chandelier melted and fell to the ground, unable to withstand the heat of the fire.
“Blood, blood!”
“Run away!”
Kwa Dang Tang!
Screams rang out everywhere. People in panic bumped into each other, crashed and fell.
The people who were running on top of it stepped on it, got tangled up and fell over and over again.
The banquet hall was quickly filled with chaos, reminiscent of a pandemonium.
At that time, Seorn’s teachers moved.
“Avoid everyone! Come this way!”
“slowly! Move calmly!”
Spirits appeared from all over the place and blocked or cleared the debris from falling from the sky.
The wind spirit helped the fallen, and the water spirit extinguished the burning ceiling flames.
Other mages did not stand still. Spells were implemented everywhere, and magic was fired at the fire giant.
The fire giant who fired the first breath blocked such magic with his body.
“Stop everyone! We have to defeat that monster!”
“Where the hell did they come from?!”
“Buy some time! Evacuation of people comes first!”
Ludger stared at the figure of the fire giant.
It’s the first time I’ve seen it, but that energy is definitely familiar.
It was clear that it was a high-ranking fire spirit that he was facing at that time.
‘Advanced? no. Stronger than that.’
At that time, I felt that it was at least a high-ranking spirit, but seeing it now, its majesty is quite different.
At that level, it seemed close to the highest level of spirits, which are said to be born with an extremely low probability from the essence of nature.
‘The highest level must be the level right below the elemental lord that represents each elemental attribute. To hire such a guy.’
On the continent, spirits are divided into grades.
From the lowest level to the highest level.
Among them, high-ranking spirits belong to the 4th and 5th tiers in terms of magicians, and the highest level ones have power close to the 6th tier.
And above that was the elemental lord.
The fire giant who has now invaded the banquet hall is the highest level spirit that can be said to be directly under the elemental lord.
Seeing how strong that case was, the attack magic that was immediately manifested was unable to properly hit him.
‘Where is Esmeralda?’
Rudger rolled his eyes. The most suspicious is the girl Selina told me about, Joanna Lovett.
However, her appearance has not been seen since the appearance of the fire giant.
We have to find her.
The moment I was about to think that, the fire giant who had been hit by magic moved again.
oh oh oh!
The fire that had not yet been extinguished from the ceiling stretched and fell down as if responding to the giant’s cry.
It felt more like a thick liquid with high viscosity rather than fire.
As it fell, the guards hurriedly moved.
“Don’t harm the guests!”
“Cut it down or get rid of it, whatever you want!”
One of the guards who shouted that immediately swung his sword and cut down the falling drops of fire.
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“uh?”
Eventually, all I could do was let out a breath filled with doubt.
The thick sparks he cut with his sword didn’t cut properly, but rather stuck to his sword.
If that was all there was to it, it would have stopped at blowing the aura into the sword and brushing it off.
However, the story would be different if the sparks attached to the blade spread to the body of the guard in an instant riding on the blade.
Roaring!
“Quaaaaagh!”
The guard, who was trying to hit the falling drops of fire, was engulfed in flames in an instant and rolled on the floor.
Even the superior physical ability of a knight could not exert any power at this moment.
The power of fire possessed by the highest level spirits, though different from ordinary natural fire, was very different.
Extremely high-temperature jade salt.
In an instant, the guard’s body melted away and turned into a pitch-black pile of ashes.
The complexions of the other guards who saw the scene turned white.
“Everyone beware! Don’t touch it!”
“If you hit it with a sword, throw it away! Otherwise, you die!”
But maybe it was because the call was a little late. After the first victim, as many as three more guards were burned to death.
Ludgar frowned at the sight.
‘It’s also an element used by spirits. It is different from normal fire. That’s rather close to magma.’
For a Buddha, it has a distinct shape, and its calorific value is unimaginably high, even though it is small in size.
In fact, if you look closely at the fire giant, you can see that there are a lot of dark things like sunspots all over the body.
It was literally like an incarnation of living magma.
‘I heard that spirits usually show the mystery and grandeur of nature.’
It is said that there is no specific form of the spirit, but there is a certain regularity.
Basically, spirits take the form of humans, animals, plants, or other deformed structures.
It is the same as the level of the spirit increases.
The level of a spirit changes depending on how much the energy of Mother Nature is absorbed.
The higher the level of the spirit, the stronger the energy of Mother Nature, and the more it does, the more it goes beyond its form as a living being and becomes something else.
A long time ago, Ludger had once witnessed the elemental lord of water while wandering the world with Master.
What I saw at that time was quite different from what people speculated and talked about in the world.
oriental dragon. Or a mixture of giant whales.
The being that was bigger than an island and moved on the surface of the sea, scattering countless white manes like huge sea fog behind its back.
Because it was literally embracing the wonders of nature.
However, the fire giant in front of him did not.
To put it bluntly, if it’s close to an existence tailored to human senses, it’s close.
It possessed the highest level of power, and it was because it took the form of a ‘human’.
A human figure with arms crossed. Although he is big, his appearance is more like a bizarre lump of fat than a muscle.
The black spots on the body made the appearance of such a fire spirit even more hideous.
‘A twisted spirit.’
If I had to express the spirit that Esmeralda commanded, there was no other way to explain it.
Rudger stared at the figure and realized something was wrong.
‘Has no lower body?’
The lower half of the body was barely visible compared to the giant’s unusually bloated upper half.
That’s because he didn’t have a lower body.
And right away I could see why.
That he wasn’t properly manifested right now.
‘It must have been summoned as a medium.’
When summoning a spirit, a spirit consul can manifest the spirit in two ways.
The first is to summon spirits through the magic of the contractor.
However, when using this method, wizards who are sensitive to magical power could immediately recognize the identity of the elemental lord who summoned the spirit.
The second method to use in that case.
That is, using a medium to summon a spirit.
It depends on the type of medium, but if it’s a top-notch spirit, you won’t be able to properly manifest it unless you use a very expensive gemstone.
‘But the advantage of calling it as a medium is that it doesn’t reveal who the user is.’
The method Esmeralda chose was the second.
And the medium that summoned the fire spirit now.
‘A silver tray placed on the table in the banquet hall.’
It must have been the tray that Joanna Lovett had secretly brought in the middle.
Even though it was imperfect, it wasn’t an ordinary tray enough to manifest the highest level of spirits.
It was fortunate that he had found out Esmeralda’s identity, but the current situation was quite difficult even for Ludgar.
You can’t go after Joanna right away. There’s nothing I can do about her even if I’m chasing her in the first place.
‘For now, this is not the time.’
Rudger looked around.
The guards are eagerly dragging the giant around, and some wizards are also hitting him with elements using water and ice.
In that dizzy situation, Rudger found a person who could not evacuate.
‘That’s… … .’
His expression hardened in an instant.
* * *
‘What’s going on?’
Renee opened her closed eyes.
I remember going around serving diligently a while ago, but my memory after that is vague.
Something exploded right in front of her eyes, the last thing she saw.
Had I fainted?
Raising her upper body while holding her messy hair, she finally realized what had happened in the banquet hall.
“What, what is it?”
The center of the banquet hall.
The place where the party should have been in full swing was a mess.
Among other things, it was the gigantic flame-bearing being near her.
‘government ordinance? Could that be a spirit?’
A huge fire giant.
A giant with a level so gigantic that she couldn’t even fathom her level was fighting against the banquet hall guards and magic teachers.
What the hell happened while you fainted?
‘It’s not the time like this. We have to run away!’
Rene tried to lead her body, but felt the pain running down her ankle and frowned.
‘Everything, legs.’
Did you get hurt while passing out? There was a wound on her ankle.
The depth of the wound was not deep, but no force was applied.
‘I-I have to crawl and run away!’
At that moment, the fire giant scattered flames around.
He must have intended to get rid of all those flying flies that annoyed him at once.
“ah.”
Line saw the scene and realized.
It cannot be avoided or prevented. Each small fireball was powerful enough to reduce a person to ashes.
Rene closed her eyes tightly before dying.
At that moment, Renee felt something covering her body. And even the feeling that her body is being strongly pulled somewhere.
‘what? does not it hurt?’
Rene carefully opened her closed eyes.
and could see
The figure of Ludger looking down this way.
“Rine.”
“Rudger, sir?”
“Are you okay?”
why is he here now No, did you save me now?
Rine desperately turned her head, realizing what had happened.
Rudger had saved her life.
Even while blowing the body.
“Sir, sir… … !”
“Stay still.”
Line’s face turned red and struggled, but Ludger was unmoved.
He backed off to a safe place holding Rinne in his arms, and immediately checked her leg.
“The wound is not deep. There is a recovery medicine, so wait.”
“… … .”
As soon as he saw Ludger taking out a vial from his bosom, Line felt a strange sense of déjà vu.
‘what?’
Obviously, Miss Ludger and her don’t have much contact.
To be honest, I didn’t have much to do with him.
But at this moment, in the way Ludger saved her from a crisis and even treated her.
It seemed to her that she had seen this scene somewhere before.
“teacher.”
“Why?”
Line didn’t know why she was saying this, but she really wanted to ask.
“we. Where did you not meet?”
