< Episode 347. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse >
There was only one day of rest at Cromwell.
I immediately prepared to go somewhere with Vivian.
“Is it that urgent? “It’s been 3 years since I saw you…”
Amy looked sad, but there was nothing I could do to comfort her.
“I’m sorry, Amy. “I’ll leave Cromwell to you.”
“Well, there are people who protect me anyway.”
I put my hand on Amy’s head and ruffled it. Her ponytail was undone and Amy swept away her messy hair.
“Are you going to be like this until you go?”
“I’ll be back soon.”
Finally, I said goodbye to Amy and spoke to Morn, who was waiting.
“i look forward to.”
“Don’t worry about here. “Rather, I’m worried about you.”
“This time, Vivian is with us, so nothing will go wrong.”
“okay. Since you defeated Maxwell, you won’t be defeated easily. Still, please take care of yourself.”
Evan and Noah returned to their activity area. It was a movement that was a result of my request to find out Hagel’s location.
“Let’s go.”
“huh.”
Maximin did not show up, and only Isabelle came out to see him off. She also didn’t show her face to Salem, which I thought was really heartless considering she hadn’t seen it in three years.
‘Lewis was entrusted with protecting Amy, and I had Agatha rescue the Named Bow that was behind. On the contrary, since the situation is so hectic due to the war, it will be easy to end it without attracting much attention.’
Together with Vivian, they each rode two horses and left Cromwell. There was a place to go first before finding out Hagel’s location.
‘Swampland with screams.’
Where Eve Millennium’s tomb is located.
This was the place where Luna was.
**
Clud-
Southern part of the empire.
Someone appeared in the blood-soaked land where battles continued all day long.
“at las······.”
The man in a black tuxedo that did not match the battlefield scattered something around. Then, a strange air current flowed in the air, causing the surroundings to flinch.
“Maxwell. “You failed, but I succeeded.”
Bodies buried in the ground began to be pulled out. Soon the corpses began to clump together and flew into the air.
Clud!
Blood flowed from the mass of corpses.
The process did not end all at once, but proceeded quietly but steadily.
Hagel, seeing this, took off his fedora and laughed.
“Come! True chaos!”
Coo!
A gray long arm emerged from the corpse mass and grabbed Heigel. Hagel obeyed and smiled.
“I won.”
Kwasik!
The mass that even Hegel had absorbed soon began to take shape. The figure that gradually emerged looked like a person riding a horse.
[“Come.”]
A rider riding an all-white horse.
A giant wearing a laurel wreath swung a huge arm that had been transformed into a bow.
“What is that?”
The armies of both sides, who discovered this scene belatedly, were in an uproar.
“A monster has appeared!”
“What is that again!”
“First, respond with magic.”
In an instant, concentrated artillery fire fell toward the center of the battlefield. Smoke was thick from the attacks coming from both the Confederacy and the Empire.
Huh-
Something flew through the smoke.
And then something flew past dozens of soldiers.
“arrow?”
“M-stop it!”
An arrow almost as big as a pillar flew out without a sound, blowing people away. It was large in size, but its formidable force tore people apart with just a passing glance.
“W-what!”
“Keuheook!”
The arrows that flew like that went on killing people even after they hit the ground. People who were near the arrows suddenly had seizures or had bubbles bursting from their faces and died horribly.
“What the hell is that monster…”
One of the nobles muttered.
As soon as I realized that it was an outside monster, what followed was a retreat.
“Run! “Everyone retreat!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of drums announcing retreat rang out, and arrows flew in time with the steady sound.
[“Come.”]
The situation of the war began to change rapidly.
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The swamp where the screams were heard was not a demonic area, but it was an eerie place where screams were always heard due to a mana abnormality.
Thanks to this, it was natural that there were no people, and honestly, I couldn’t even understand how Luna lived in a place like this.
‘I lived in a place like this, but how can I have such a cheerful personality?’
Anyway, it took us about a week to get to the swamp area.
“Is Luna here…?”
Vivian looked at the entrance to the swamp with a look of incomprehension. The area around here was uninhabited, so it was extremely desolate, but looking at the swampy landscape, it was natural to be suspicious.
“Let’s go in.”
“huh.”
Fortunately, there was nothing worth being careful about, so we tied our horses to a nearby tree and entered the swamp on foot.
Ugh!
Argh!
As soon as we entered, the screams that greeted us made us frown, but both I and Vivian just walked without showing any expression.
Phuuk-
-Stiffen up.
It seemed like a waste of manpower, but since there was nothing to use, I solidified the swamp area from the point where my feet started to sink.
“Is Luna far away?”
“well. Shall we call you?”
There was a high probability that they already knew that we had entered a swamp. It would not be an exaggeration to call this place truly Luna Pendragon’s territory.
“It’s coming.”
At that moment, something was running towards me from a distance.
“friend! Vivian!”
Luna, still looking the same even after three years, was running through the air with a bright smile.
‘Monstrous magical power…’
After what happened in Portreon, Luna began to possess magical powers beyond the scope of humans. She probably felt like all of Ouroboros’ magic power had not dissipated and remained in her body, but she didn’t even know the exact thing.
“How have you been?”
“huh! Vivian, it’s been a while! “You’ve grown a lot!”
It was originally bigger than you.
For reference, Vivian was one year younger than me, so Luna, who was the same age as me, was my older sister. Although I don’t believe it.
Luna seemed very happy to be reunited with Vivian after three years. Vivian also loved her Luna, so when she shared her story in Cromwell, the thing she talked about the most was about Luna and Lucia.
“Are you feeling okay?”
“huh! “I’m fine!”
Vivian began to smooth Luna’s hair as if she were a younger sibling. Even when she was in Cromwell, she looked like that, and it was somehow a reassuring sight.
“Which side is the house?”
“excuse me! Follow me.”
Luna started running in the air again. Looking at it again, it’s incredible magical power.
The reason I bothered to visit Luna was because of a special device in her house. This was something I had heard about at Portreon, but I also learned that there was a separate means of contacting Hagel here.
“Here!”
“hmm······.”
The house she guided us to was a wooden house with a gloomy yet mysterious atmosphere. It was a form that used the inside of a tree that had grown with roots extending from a swamp, and the more I looked at it, the more pitiful I felt for Luna.
“Luna, can we go to Eve’s tomb first?”
“mom?”
Luna tilted her head and then gestured.
“It’s nearby. Follow me!”
As I followed her, I noticed something clumsyly made of tree vines. There was a small monument in front of it, and it looked cute despite being made with poor workmanship.
“This is it!”
Tomb of Eve Millennium.
When I actually saw it, I felt strange.
In fact, it was Eve, not me, who protected Luna in Portreon. Of course, it is true that the entire plan itself was a collaboration between Eve and Maxwell, but they kept it.
‘If it weren’t for Eve…’
Maybe I should have killed Luna with my own hands. Just thinking about it was a terrible situation.
As I got closer, I could see Eve’s figure through the tangled vines. I could feel her magic faintly, so it seemed like she had put a preservation spell on him.
“thank you.”
Thanks to that, Luna survived and I didn’t get ruined.
As I was mourning for a moment, Luna suddenly asked me.
“Are you trying to turn your mom into an undead?”
“······You have a great imagination.”
Sometimes, I would laugh out loud when I heard the 4-dimensional Luna’s words, and this was the case in this situation.
“I thought you were trying to make me undead again.”
“No way.”
After paying my respects, I headed to the house next door. As I entered her house, I was struck by the simple, but neat interior, and the image of Luna naturally living here.
“It’s inside there.”
As I entered the house under Luna’s guidance, I saw a communication artifact that I remembered seeing before. Luna explained that she used to carry it around, but now she can’t drop it from her body.
“But Hagel isn’t responding. “What are you going to do?”
“I have to open it.”
It was the result of thinking about what I could do right away to find out Hagel’s location. Three years had already passed and I couldn’t stop the Knights of the Apocalypse from appearing, but I wanted to at least figure out Hagel’s location in advance.
“Can you help me?”
“of course!”
Luna placed her hands on her hips and spoke triumphantly. She soon sat down with her and began to disassemble her communication artifact.
“All we have to do is find the place where the signal occurs, right?”
“yes. “That’s enough.”
So we began decomposing and analyzing the artifact in earnest. Because the artifact was not simply connected to Hagel’s, it was difficult to find out.
Thanks to this, I was able to work in my spare time, get a feel for how Luna lived here, experience Vivian’s improved cooking skills, and get the rest that I couldn’t get in Cromwell.
“how! “I want to learn too!”
When Luna made a snack with the ingredients she brought in her expansion bag, her eyes widened and she begged Vivian.
“I want to learn how to make it too!”
“I’ll let you know.”
Sometimes I deviated from the analysis of the artifact like that, but it was all good. This is what we want to live for in the first place, so happiness comes first.
“uh?”
Luna, who had been learning cooking from Vivian for a while, quickly turned her head and looked in one direction.
“Why are you doing this?”
“Someone came in.”
Someone came into the swamp?
I immediately put down the artifact I was fiddling with and stood up.
“I will go.”
“Go together!”
“me too.”
I was going to go out on my own for a little while, but I guess it wouldn’t matter. To be honest, with the power of the three of us, there was nothing to be afraid of.
“Quick.”
At that time, Luna muttered and gathered her magic power.
“It’s already ahead.”
“yes.”
I felt it too.
Someone approached us at incredible speed and soon arrived in front of our house.
But there was something familiar…
“Knock knock, are you inside?”
“ah?”
This voice is definitely…
“Is Adrias Cromwell in there?”
“It’s been a while.”
I opened the door, walked out, and said hello.
And the person who received my greeting drew a line with his characteristic narrowed eyes.
“Hey, it’s been a really long time. “Disciple.”
Burial Castello.
The worst wizard who had left his position as head of the Department of Magic and disappeared was smiling at me.
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