EP.216 Traces of disaster (3)
Raniel has several specialties.
Among them, there was one specialty that was very unsuitable for a wizard, and it was one of the trapping techniques that Raniel learned on the battlefield.
Charrrrrrrrrrr!
That is, dealing with chains summoned by spells.
Chain.
The basic spell, Chain, is a simple spell that simply summons a chain that lasts for a short period of time. Naturally, it is unlikely that the summoned chain would have any special function.
Charuk!
A very simple order.
However, the moment it is in Raniel’s hands… the chain becomes an almost all-purpose tool. Raniel recalled the memory of handling chains on the battlefield.
They tied up Sarah, who was whining, and threw her at Kyle.
Or catch Kyle as he jumps.
Either create a stepping stone for Kyle to leap forward.
‘You wrote a lot.’
I used it so often that it got to the point where the chains felt like my own hands and feet. Raniel swung his arm, thinking foolishly that this might be the state of union between the body and the sword that prosecutors talk about.
Charrrrrrrrrrr!
The loosened chain becomes taut again.
The chain stretching behind Raniel bounced in a large arc.
Wedge!
Watching the chain cleverly slipping through the piles of stones floating in the air, it seems as if they are performing a trick. Although it is a scene that makes the viewer exclaim in admiration…
“······.”
As a person hanging on the edge, I just feel sick to my stomach.
‘I’m very upset.’
Cardi, the elf hanging at the end of the chain.
He frowned, feeling extremely nauseous.
“Do you want to climb up or be chained up?”
In response to a question asked by Raniel a while ago, Cardi chose the latter. It’s been a long time since I gave up all my positions, but I thought it was a bit unseemly to be carried around on the back of a distant junior.
‘More than anything, he’s also the guy I’ve seen since I was young…’
So I chose to move in chains.
And now, Cardi was deeply regretting that choice.
Whoop!
The chain shook, and Cardi’s head snapped back. My vision was spinning. Cardi barely lowered his head to look beneath him. There is Raniel, swinging a chain and repeatedly leaping.
widely.
She kicks the ground and swings the chain.
Just moments away from colliding with the floating debris, Cardi’s body was pulled to the left. He barely succeeded in dodging, but there is more than one thing to avoid.
There are still some fragments left.
Kicking away the fragments and jumping up, Raniel pulls the chain and swings it repeatedly.
Charruk, charruck!
The chain bends one after another.
Cardi’s head also turns from top to bottom and from right to left, then returns to its original position. Is this how a fish on a fishing hook feels? I felt very sick to my stomach.
There seems to be no awareness that they are tying up people.
They are being treated like cargo that needs to be moved, not like people.
Cardi closed her eyes, feeling a very subtle feeling. The sound of the wind passing by my ears was unusual.
‘The speed doesn’t decrease at all…’
Should I praise the fact that the speed does not slow down at all even in the midst of confusion? While Cardi was feeling a very subtle sentiment, Raniel opened her mouth.
“Hey, Cardi.”
Lightning strikes continuously.
Cardi opened her eyes to the sound of a voice heard through the thunder.
“What.”
“I think we’re almost there, but it looks like there’s a barrier around the castle? “What should I do with that?”
Cardi tilted his head with difficulty.
There, you can see a barrier surrounding the royal castle. It was a barrier set up by Cardi himself on the day he signed a contract with the star.
“I made it.”
“How do I solve it? “I don’t think it’s a barrier that can be broken through just by hitting it.”
“…Is there no other choice in your mind other than destroying it?”
“That’s the simplest.”
Is he really a wizard?
In fact, he might be closer to a warrior than anyone else.
With that thought in mind, Cardi opened her mouth.
“There is no need for that. If I touch the barrier, the barrier will be lifted. So in front of me…”
If you drop me off, I will unlock the barrier.
Cardi, who was about to say that, could not finish her sentence. ‘If touched, the barrier is lifted…’ From what I heard, Raniel swung his chains with all his might.
Whoop!
Like a fish on a fishing hook jumping out of the water, or like a cannonball being fired in a parabola… Cardi’s body flew through the air.
Crank.
The chain that had been wrapped around him the whole time was loosened. Cardi looked before his eyes, feeling both an untimely sense of liberation and a sense of floating.
The main gate of the approaching castle wall.
Speed that does not decrease at all.
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Cardi muttered in a lamentable voice as she was used as a cannonball to lift the barrier.
“···I’m going to be thrilled.”
Kwaaaaang!
Even after disarming the barrier, Cardi flew for a long time and landed at the castle’s main gate. The front door, where the ancient elf cannonball landed, begins to open with a screeching sound.
Toad-duk-duk.
Cardi rose from among the fallen stone debris. Even though he was hit by a single shell, surprisingly he didn’t feel sick. why?
Ugh.
A bluish protective shield surrounding my body.
Perhaps it was a protection spell cast by Raniel just before the collision. Should he be thankful for his junior’s concern for his senior’s body?
widely.
After a brief gap, Raniel landed next to Cardi. She landed softly and looked at Cardi, shaking her wrists.
“There was so much lightning. You don’t want to get struck by lightning, right? “I felt like I would get hit by lightning if I added more.”
“···Is that so?”
“huh. It was a headache to look at the fog underneath and calculate the moment lightning struck. The fog was thicker near the royal castle…”
In short, he had his own thoughts.
Cardi let out a long sigh.
“Okay, let’s go in…”
What can you expect from a luggage subject?
2.
The ancient kingdom, Arcadia.
As he walked inside the royal castle located in the center of the place, Raniel looked around. The royal castle was immersed in darkness, and an uneasy energy was stirring.
“···Actually, isn’t this the Demon King’s Castle?”
In old fairy tales, scenes of a warrior attacking the devil’s castle often appeared. However, as far as Raniel knew, the current Demon King had no castle or anything.
‘According to the atmosphere, this is the devil’s castle.’
As I was thinking that, Cardi heard Raniel’s muttering and smiled bitterly.
“You’re not wrong. “In some ways, it is the devil’s castle.”
Cardi walked away, still saying something incomprehensible. Raniel walked behind him without saying a word. The royal castle was huge, and several roads appeared before his eyes several times.
“This way.”
And, every time.
“This way. Get out of the way. “I will lift the barrier.”
Cardi took the lead and lifted the barrier. There were so many barriers that it seemed excessive, and the structure of the royal castle was as complex as a maze.
‘As if trying to hide something.’
Sigh.
Another door opened with a loud noise.
Beyond the door was a hallway that had a different atmosphere than before. The moment he steps into the hallway, Raniel feels the atmosphere becoming even heavier.
And also, a little bit of discomfort.
‘···Something similar.’
Raniel feels familiar in the scenery of the hallway that comes into view. Although it was clearly his first time here, he felt a sense of déjà vu, as if he had been there before.
It was when she stood in front of a certain door that she realized the true nature of that sense of déjà vu.
“ah.”
Beyond the tightly closed door, Raniel feels ominous. Facing the even heavier air, Ran El narrowed his eyes.
‘this···.’
I’ve seen a door that looks like this.
That too, relatively recently.
“Red Palace.”
The residence of the 1st Prince, Isaac.
There was a door there that looked exactly like the door I saw there. As Raniel muttered that, Cardi looked back at Raniel with her eyebrows furrowed.
“…How do you know the name of this palace?”
“Is this the Red Palace?”
“okay. This is a palace gifted by the king to a prince interested in magic. So, how do you know the name of this place?”
“that is···.”
Raniel continued his explanation briefly.
About the existence of the ancient kingdom encountered in the royal castle, about something whose identity is unknown… that switches between bodies.
“…That can’t be possible, right?”
Cardi frowned after hearing the explanation.
“He would have already died. “I was cut by Ganicalt’s holy sword and my soul was completely destroyed…”
Without muttering, Cardi looked straight ahead. He touched the gate and opened his mouth.
“For now, let’s keep going.”
Geek.
The gate opens with the sound of something twisting.
The wind blew. The wind that blew brought a bloody smell along with a rotten smell. Raniel frowned.
‘What is this?’
The air is thick.
My breathing became sticky.
“Raniel, I once told you this.”
Cardi opened her mouth as she walked.
“Everything is in balance. Life is death, beginning is end, everything has opposite concepts. But, not as much.”
A story I once heard.
“The stars had to have no entity to balance them. If only someone hadn’t observed it. “If only it hadn’t been brought out as a concept.”
Something that is only born.
“A concept that should never have existed in the first place.”
Something that shouldn’t exist.
“Perfect, the opposite of the providential star. “A concept symbolizing imbalance and irregularity.”
Cardi, who was walking down the hallway, stopped.
“shade.”
The gray barrier glows in the darkness.
There are more than one barrier that sheds soft light. Hundreds or thousands of opaque barriers were holding the entire space together.
“The concept was created by a madman. “He believed that imbalance and irregularity were inside humans, and he used humans as materials to practice gold magic.”
Gray barrier.
When Cardi touches the barrier, the barrier gradually becomes transparent. The barrier, which had been opaque and invisible, begins to shine through.
Raniel took a deep breath.
Her pupils trembled greatly for a moment.
‘What is this?’
What unfolds beyond the barrier.
It is one hell.
“In that, the shade was born.”
Raniel has wandered through all kinds of battlefields and witnessed numerous atrocities, but even she cannot look straight at what is inside the barrier.
Something that has been crushed so that its shape is unrecognizable.
A mangled human corpse.
The corpses are reaching out. Outstretched hands are clawing the floor. There are endless clawed and scratched corpses. It is a road made of corpses.
touch.
A hand trying to pull something down and scratch it.
What comes to Raniel’s mind is the countless black hands that erupt from the lump of waste water when he encounters the Demon King. Something similar to that was in front of me.
I can’t help but feel suffocated.
The demonic energy cannot help but vibrate.
Even though hundreds of years have passed, the thoughts that remained there remain alive and well. Ran El turned his head, narrowing his eyes. There, Cardi is with the same expression as always.
“this.”
Raniel said in a trembling voice.
“Why is something like this in the palace?”
“I told you, Raniel.”
Cardi said calmly.
“Arcadia is a place that is deeply involved with the Demon King.”
3.
“What are you talking about.”
The gray wizard Raniel.
She opens her eyes and glares at Cardi. She holds Cardi by the collar and asks her question over and over again in a trembling voice.
“Explain, Cardi. What is this all about? “Why is this in your kingdom, and that crazy being…”
“I told you everything I could.”
Cardi can’t answer that question.
“All the clues are here. “From the moment I arrived here, there is nothing more I can tell you.”
so.
“See, understand, find out.”
There is no other way.
“That’s how you get to the second contract.”
Because that is the path that will truly reach the truth.
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The ancient elven cannonballs were awesome!
