57. Adults are lethal in many ways.
Southern part of the Laceanian Empire, Witspic Mountains.
A strange story has been circulating here for months.
There were rumors that a legendary headless knight would appear and attack passersby.
At first, it was thought to be just a rumor, but as the number of victims increased, there was now talk that the Pasa Brigade might have to step in.
A woman was leisurely strolling along the foot of the mountain.
She was a beauty with rich blond hair and brown skin.
You walk leisurely through the thick fog. Suddenly, black shadows appear from all directions along with strange noises.
“Why did you come to my house! Why did you come! Why did you come!”
“They came to cut my throat! They came! They came!”
It was a truly eerie atmosphere, and a truly un-eerie line.
“What is this? It’s not like I’m supposed to laugh… … .”
The woman waved her hands in disbelief.
A simple hand gesture caused a whirlwind to blow and the heavens and earth to shake. Everything around was swept away.
As you walk a little further, a strange creature that looks like a mixture of all kinds of monsters appears and starts talking nonsense.
“Should I give you a red guillotine or a blue guillotine?”
As expected, the creature was blown away with just a simple gesture.
The woman clicked her tongue.
“What the heck is this?”
It’s too twisted to be hell, too inconsistent to be this world, and too chaotic to be necromancy.
A similar situation continued for a while after that.
How much further did it move like that?
Finally, the object of her search appeared.
He was a large knight wearing pitch-black armor and a cloak.
The upper part of the neck was empty, without a head, and instead a voice was coming from the helmet held in his right hand.
The headless knight of legend, in his own right.
However, the dialogue is still very strange.
“If you give me one neck, I won’t eat you!”
“So, why on earth are you saying such strange things?”
The woman sighed and snapped her fingers.
pop!
In one blow, the headless knight was shattered into pieces and scattered in all directions.
The headless knight who brought terror to this area cannot even touch one of her fingers.
Compared to the immense power of the great wizard, Eleazar de Ripplacion, the abilities of such a small creature are insignificant.
The shattered headless knight soon disappeared into black dust.
Eleazar wiggled her fingers through the dust. Something flew out and caught it in her hand.
A pitch-black cube with darkness flowing like waves on its surface.
“That’s right.”
It was a transcendent body after all.
It doesn’t have much magical power yet, so it won’t be able to summon future companions with just this. However, if it fills up enough darkness, it will be able to do its job.
“It is indeed as Tesranak said… … .”
Eleazar, who had been mumbling, made a puzzled expression.
“… …Why is this here?”
Tesranak didn’t tell me anything.
All they did was give the order to collect it.
There was a time when I shook my head because I couldn’t understand at all.
Suddenly her earrings sparkled faintly. It was a long-distance magical communication signal.
“Lord Eleazar.”
Eleazar replied, fiddling with his earrings.
“What’s going on?”
“Mr. Jedex… … .”
Her face hardened as she listened to the story that followed.
“What?”
***
It’s been three days since we arrived at the territory of Jestrad.
Today, too, Lapiselle was diligently practicing swordsmanship in the outdoor training ground of the mansion.
“Eight! Huh! Yuck!”
The red sword draws a beautiful arc across the air.
Although all the rays are artistically spread out, seemingly seeking only aesthetic satisfaction, anyone with even a little knowledge of swordsmanship will feel both admiration and fear.
Wherever the lines intersected, flowers of death were blooming.
How many times did he swing his sword?
After pausing her sword for a moment, the ashen-haired girl, Lapiselle, took a deep breath.
“Haaah… … .”
Awakening the Aura does not mean that the training is over.
Rather, we have only just reached the real starting point.
So, I will just continue to practice diligently every day and practice without being ashamed of myself!
“… … That’s what my sister said.”
Of course, Serati waved her hand, saying that she had just heard it somewhere, but Lapiselle knew that it was nothing more than modesty.
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Aren’t you actually still studying new realms in a secret training ground today?
‘Come to think of it, Baros and Levon are busy these days too… … .’
All three of them did not leave the mansion’s secret training grounds all day long. They only came out during meal times and when they were sleeping.
‘Everyone’s condition looks a bit strange.’
The state of Baros, Serati, and Levon that I saw during mealtime was quite strange.
There doesn’t seem to be any change in stamina or aura, but it’s definitely different than usual.
‘But I don’t know what’s different.’
***
A secret training ground inside the Jestrad Mansion.
Today again, Baros, Serati, and Levon were sitting on one side of the training ground, muttering.
Baros raised his sword in the air and raised his spirit.
“Huh!”
A blue aura forms around the blade and sways.
But this was only Baros’s pure speculation.
The external aura and chaos energy stuck on one side of the body did not move at all.
On the other side, Serati was practicing her swordsmanship.
“Ta-at!”
Concentrate on the flow of aura while swinging the sword in succession. Then, concentrate your mind to send the chaos spirit along with that flow.
Levin was meditating with his legs crossed.
“… … .”
Immerse yourself in your own imagination and search for and find the connection between chaos and yourself.
Statically, dynamically, or extremely internally.
Everyone was constantly looking for ways to make chaos speculation their own, through various means.
But the results were not very satisfactory.
“Is that okay, Serati?”
“No. Sir Baros?”
“It’s not working… … .”
The two men sighed and stared at Levin, who was meditating.
Levin noticed the gaze and opened his eyes with a bitter expression.
“Me neither… … .”
The three of them slumped their shoulders.
It was good that I received the chaos aura from Karnak, but I just can’t seem to find a way to unite it with my own aura.
Since the chaos speculation itself was unprecedented, there was no way to get hints from records left behind by ancestors.
Suddenly, Serati asked Levin.
“Haven’t you had any flashes of insight or something?”
“… …Why do you think I would realize that?”
“I think he’s a genius among geniuses who will become the future King of Martial Arts, so I think he can do that much… … .”
Levin’s expression crumpled.
“No, isn’t that guy, Muwang Levon, the villain who tried to take my body? Why are you comparing me to him?”
“That, that’s not what I meant.”
Baros looked down at his sword and sighed again.
“I really don’t know. How do I do this?”
Levin asked.
“How did Lord Baros make Dark Speculation his Auror?”
“I’m trying that right now and it’s not working.”
“No, that’s not it. I’m talking about when I was a Death Knight.”
There was a question asking if it wouldn’t be possible to apply the existing method of granting dark speculation, but Baros clicked his tongue.
“That doesn’t help at all.”
“why?”
“Have you seen Dark Knight or Black Servant? Do you think those authors have digested the dark speculation themselves and made it their own?”
During his time as a Death Knight, Baros really did nothing.
Karnak spread it out for them, fed them, and even digested it for them.
This means that at the time of receiving the dark speculation, it was already in the completion stage.
“I just had to swing it around.”
The expressions on Serati and Levin’s faces as they looked at Baros changed strangely.
Are you saying that he calls himself the world’s strongest prosecutor?
Well, it’s not a lie, since all the gentlemen stronger than Baros are dead.
“That’s why I told you over and over again. It’s not that I’m good, but I’ve come this far by sticking by the side of a good young master.”
Anyway, it is difficult to continue like this.
This chaos does not remain within the body all the time.
If you do not make it your own, it will be released back out into the world and disperse over time.
“Isn’t it too much of a shame to just let this precious energy go like this?”
***
Eventually, Baros returned to Karnak.
He was practicing magic alone in his office.
“master.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Let’s also grant chaos to Lapiselle.”
Karnak was impressed.
“Are you okay? If Lapiselle’s memories come back, won’t it be just me who gets her neck cut off?”
“Just because her Aura level increases doesn’t mean the chances of her memories returning increase, right?”
“That’s true.”
However, when his memories returned, King Mu of Siphras also became closer to his former skills.
“Then what you should be careful about is memory, not strength. In fact, it’s to our advantage if Lapiselle’s skills increase.”
“That too, but… … .”
Baros spoke directly to Karnak, who was still feeling uneasy.
“To be honest, I don’t know how I can unite the chaos of my aura with my own here with my abilities.”
If you look closely, Baros’s talent was on a similar level to Serati’s.
He wasn’t ugly at all, but he wasn’t so good that other people would tremble.
It is true that he has great talent, but he is not a genius among geniuses like Lapiselle or Levon.
“Then what about Levin?”
“Sir Raven is still too inexperienced, and above all, his genius lies outside this area. You know that, my lord.”
“but.”
Levin’s talent was in developing existing things into something better.
When it comes to creating something out of nothing, Lapiselle is far superior.
“Actually, didn’t Lapiselle already do something similar?”
During her time under the control of the Demon Sword, she mastered a new technique that allowed her to perfectly transform the dark speculation into her own aura.
Even though my memory was a mess and my soul was in a tattered state, I only had my innate senses.
“Thanks to her, I was able to learn how to awaken my own aura.”
So, this time too, Baros’s opinion was that Lapiselle would be able to find a way.
Karnak, who was listening to the story, looked puzzled.
“Wait, isn’t that the sound?”
At that time, Lapiselle was able to turn speculation that was not his own into his own.
And Baros learned that method and awakened the Auror?
“Then why don’t we just do it that way now?”
“This is a little different.”
Lapiselle’s way is to make external energy into her own aura.
At that time, there were no other controllable auras in Baros’ body.
But now, in addition to the chaos speculation, there is also an aura that was originally present.
When you try to absorb external energy in that way, it clashes with the existing aura. So instead of being absorbed, it bounces back.
“I don’t know how to prevent that collision.”
“But isn’t it similar? I think it would work if you roughly apply it.”
“So you’re saying you can’t find a way to apply it?”
The difference between similar and identical things is bigger than you think.
“If I told you, Master, that since it’s the same as reviving a corpse anyway, how would you feel if I told you to raise a ghoul in the same way as raising a zombie?”
“You’d be mad if someone who doesn’t know anything about necromancy were to talk nonsense. Okay, I get it.”
In the end, Karnak also agreed to grant Lapiselle the power of chaos.
There is no dark aura in the chaos itself, so she won’t feel anything strange.
“Anyway, it can’t be bad to have a colleague, right?”
The evil spirit king Karnak
