Episode 997
“ah….”
The first thing Merlin saw when he arrived in the village was Uncle Philip, who had always greeted him so affectionately, being stabbed by a sharp blade.
Choaaaah!
Uncle Philip, who had been stroking her head with a warm hand, fell to the ground, clutching his hole in his stomach, without even being able to scream.
Phew!
The knight who stabbed Uncle Philip took out a pitch-black stake with cold eyes, as if he was dealing with an insect rather than a person.
He pinned Uncle Philip’s hand and stake into the ground.
“Kkaaaaaaah!”
Uncle Philip screamed, but the knight paid no attention and just got up.
The knight immediately sought his next prey. The child whom Uncle Philip had been protecting. He drove rusty black stakes into the child’s hands and feet.
“Eww!”
It was mind-boggling to see the child who usually teased and taunted me screaming and spurting blood from his hands and legs.
The heat that enveloped the village, and the blood spattered on his body, all seemed like a dream.
Toouk.
Merlin, unable to bear the dizziness, knelt down on the spot. The scene of slaughter he was seeing for the first time was not something he could endure as a young man.
Thud thud.
The knight who had driven the stake into the child’s body began to approach with a twisted smile as if he had found himself.
“iced coffee….”
It was as Merlin’s lips trembled as he looked at the knight’s thick hand falling on his head.
Phew!
Mrs. Mela saved herself by pushing the knight away with her body.
“Oh, ma’am… .”
“Quick! Run away! Go to Sella!”
She waved at Sella to run while she was blocking the article.
Phew!
However, Auntie Mela was unable to block the blue light emanating from the knight’s sword and was split in half.
A pool of blood splatters on the floor. I never imagined that so much blood could come out of a human body.
“madam?”
I never dreamed that Auntie Mela, who always stopped children from teasing her and gave her dried fruit, would die with her legs missing.
“hurry….”
Even in the midst of all this, Auntie Mela waved her hands, telling me to run away, and then she died. I knew that people were dying, but seeing it in person completely made me lose all sense of reality.
“You idiot!”
Another of the knights gestured fiercely at the knight who had killed Aunt Mela.
“I clearly told you not to kill me!”
He furrowed his brow, saying that he must be captured unconditionally.
“I’m sorry… .”
“Ugh!”
Merlin ran into the village as the knight in front of him bowed his head.
When he saw Auntie Mela’s death, the only thing on his mind was Sella.
“Sella!”
I ran towards the house, calling Sella’s name, but all I could see around me were villagers impaled on stakes. I felt like I was in the middle of hell.
‘for a moment….’
Merlin stopped running home. He felt a familiar wave of mana in the center of the village.
‘It’s Sella!’
Sella was the only one in the village who could use such pure mana. It seemed like she was fighting the knights.
‘Wait a minute. Now that I think about it…’
Why don’t other people use magic?
Mana is moving as usual, I don’t know why people don’t use magic.
‘No, I don’t have time to think about that right now.’
Merlin bit his lip and ran to where he felt Sella’s mana.
Quaddududuk!
The knights are thrown back and fall down with their breastplates crushed.
Celada. She was using fire, frost, and telekinesis to protect the fallen villagers and push back the knights.
“Sella!”
“Where have you been!”
Cella bit her trembling lip as she continued to search for herself.
“Still, I’m glad you’re safe.”
She hugged herself, saying that she now felt relieved.
“I’m sorry.”
As I was held in Sella’s warm embrace, the trembling of my heart subsided as if everything up until then had been a dream.
But this situation is not a dream. Even now, the smell of smoke and blood is reaching the tip of my nose.
“Stay back for a moment.”
Cella blocked the knights’ path after sending them back.
Quaddududuk!
As she stretched out her hand, the magic of the Muyeongchang was activated and the knights who were rushing towards her were crushed along with their swords.
Kugugugugugu!
The knights coming from the right were blocked by fire, and the knights on the left were trapped in frost and could not move.
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The sight of Cella blocking dozens of knights alone reminded one of an iron wall, even though she was a magician.
“Haaah… .”
But she too seemed to be growing tired, and she raised her trembling hands and wiped the cold sweat running down her forehead.
‘I can’t believe Sella is having such a hard time… .’
Among the Para tribe, Sella possesses great magical power. I don’t understand why someone who doesn’t get tired even if he uses magic all day is already sweating.
“That’s amazing.”
A middle-aged man who appeared to be the commander of the knights nodded while raising his face shield.
“According to what the wise man said, they shouldn’t be able to use magic, but that’s the extent of it. They’re a race that sold their souls to the demons. They’re like beasts.”
He clicked his tongue, saying he had no choice but to admit it now.
“Demon? What nonsense are you talking about!”
Cella glared and ground her teeth.
“Information has come in that your Para tribe is connected to the Demon tribe. I was confused while taking on this mission, but now it is accepted.”
The Knight Commander nodded, saying that he could now use his true power.
“I can treat you like monsters.”
“What are you talking about? Then, if they attack, should I just stick my neck out?”
Cella stomped her feet roughly, trying to come to her senses.
“… It doesn’t matter what happens. A knight has no choice but to follow his lord’s orders.”
The commander of the knights said that since the order had been given, there would be no refusal, and pointed his sword at Sella.
“If you are captured obediently, I will not kill you.”
“So that’s what happened in the end. You collaborators.”
Sella bit her lip and brought her hands together. Mana was rubbed roughly like sandpaper, and a huge explosion occurred in front of the Knight Commander.
Kuwaaaaaah!
But even in the face of the powerful explosion, the Knight Commander did not waver at all. He simply shook off his blackened armor as if it had not been affected at all.
“Since you rebelled first, I will also go strong.”
As the Knight Commander nodded and brought down his sword, a blast of wind with a red aura poured down from the sky.
Oh my god!
Sella gathered her mana to build a wall, but the Knight Commander’s sword strike was so powerful that she had no choice but to be pushed back.
The two villagers she was protecting rolled to the feet of the knight commander.
“You are the master of this village.”
The Knight Commander said that it was definitely different and lowered his sword again. It seemed that he was going to capture not only Sela, but all the Para tribesmen here.
Wooooow!
Sella didn’t seem to have the energy to answer, and instead blocked the Knight Commander’s attacks one after another, using her mana like a mirror.
Judging by his skilled fighting style, it seemed like this wasn’t his first time fighting a knight.
Kyaaaaah!
She protected the townspeople until the end, blocking not only the sword attacks of the knight commander but also those of other knights.
“Wouldn’t it be better to just give up?”
The Knight Commander shook his head, placing his foot on the heads of the villagers lying at his feet.
“Not only you, but these people will be hurt too.”
“don’t worry.”
Sella shook her head calmly and folded her hands.
“No one will get hurt anymore!”
As she spread her mana, a blue light spread throughout the village and the bodies of the fallen villagers began to glow softly.
“This is….”
The Knight Commander’s chin trembled as if he had noticed Sella’s plan.
“Next time I will come to you.”
Cella chewed her lips and cast a multi-movement spell.
Woohoo.
But the magic circle lost its light just before it was completed and faded away into nothingness.
“under?”
Cella let out a sigh, looking at her hand where the light had disappeared, as if she had never imagined such a situation.
“There are two things that the wise man considered most important while preparing for this operation.”
The Knight Commander raised his finger at Sella.
“The first is to block your magic. And the second is… .”
He looked at the darkened land and snickered.
“It’s either a movement magic or a complete blocking of the scroll.”
The Knight Commander shook his head, saying that there was absolutely no way he could escape.
“ah….”
Sella bit her lip as she watched the village begin to burn again.
‘shit….’
I barely managed to draw in external mana and use movement magic, but I didn’t expect it to fail so miserably. It seemed like there was an excellent sorcerer among those who planned the raid.
“It’s the end now….”
It was when the Knight Commander was about to strike down his sword at Sella, who seemed to have lost all strength.
“Sella!”
The villagers who had fallen at his feet grabbed the commander’s ankles.
“Run away!”
“We are fine!”
“These guys won’t kill us!”
“Please leave!”
The townspeople blocked the path of the knights and the commander, shouting for them to flee from here.
“These things!”
The knights ran to Sella, trampling the already wounded with their feet and swords.
“iced coffee….”
Sella looked back and forth between the villagers falling and Merlin trembling behind her, then ran backwards as if she had made up her mind.
“I’m sorry. I really… .”
Selah nodded, her body and Merlin’s, wrapped in blue light.
“I will definitely save you!”
She left those words behind and disappeared into a flash of light.
“Did you change your method of drinking in the meantime?”
The Knight Commander narrowed his eyes as he looked at the frozen ground.
“This is definitely a dangerous species.”
He nodded with cold eyes as if he would never let his guard down again.
“Clean up quickly!”
***
Phew!
When Merlin opened his eyes again, he saw a dark forest of unknown origin.
“Ugh….”
Cella vomited black blood from her mouth, as if she had been overdoing it.
“Sella!”
Merlin approached Sella, his hands trembling.
“Are you okay…?”
“Aren’t you surprised?”
Cella smiled as if she had never vomited blood, reassuring herself.
“I, I’m fine. But Sella… .”
Merlin bit his lip as he looked at Sella, who couldn’t even raise her arms properly.
“I’m okay too. I just overdid it a little.”
Cella patted her on the back and told her not to worry.
“Let’s move faster than that.”
She could barely raise her weak legs.
“Huh? Let’s rest here and then move….”
“If you forcefully activate the teleportation magic, there is a high chance that your location will be revealed. We need to get out of here first.”
Cella cast a spell to erase her traces, saying that leaving this place was the first step. She seemed to be a little more at ease now that she had escaped the magic interference formation.
“Oh, I see.”
Merlin lowered his head and looked down. As he breathed in the still air, his heart grew heavy as he thought of the villagers who had been captured by the knights.
“It’ll be okay.”
Cella hugged herself and smiled softly.
“I’m sure we’ll meet again.”
She kept repeating to herself, not to herself, that they could live together.
“Let’s go.”
Sella quickly gathered her thoughts, took his hand, and walked towards the lights of the village in the distance.
The blue moonlight shining behind the young mother and daughter flowed down like tears.
***
“surely….”
The king nodded as he looked around at the Para tribesmen imprisoned in the palace prison.
“The eyes are different. You could really consider it a monster.”
He looked at people as if he had been brainwashed by the wise man and muttered that they were monsters.
“I killed a few for the sake of example, but I captured most of the people in the village. No, I captured Para.”
The Knight Commander nodded calmly as he looked at the people with stakes driven into their arms and legs.
“Hmm… .”
The wise man narrowed his eyes as he examined the Para tribe, who had ropes tied around their necks like slaves.
“Was there a blonde, red-eyed woman who seemed to be the leader of the village?”
He nodded to the Knight Commander.
“I was going to report that part to you anyway.”
He bowed his head to the wise man.
“There was a woman among the Para tribe whom the wise man spoke of. She was….”
The Knight Commander told the story of how Sella had saved people and ended up escaping with Merlin.
“Haa, that doesn’t feel good… .”
The wise man shook his head, frowning.
“Huh? What does that mean?”
The king approached the wise man, his chin trembling.
“The woman that the Commander of the Knights missed is the most important person to us. She is a member of the royal family of Para.”
The wise man shook his head, saying that he could have supplemented the insufficient number of Para tribe members with royal blood, but it seemed that he had failed.
“Hey, what do you want me to do now!”
The king waved both hands as if asking for an answer.
“You don’t have to worry.”
The wise man shook his head calmly.
“After hearing the story of the Knight Commander, I think he will come on his own.”
“You said you would come on your own?”
The king blinked his eyes, as if he did not understand.
“Yes. Isn’t there some really great bait here? If you use it well… .”
The wise man laughed as he swept away the iron bars of the prison where the Para tribe was imprisoned.
“I’ll bite the needle as I please. But….”
He smiled faintly as he looked at the king who seemed older than him.
“I would also like you to give me some authority to move other articles.”
