Episode 213 Festival Night (8)
… Cuckoo!
Loud firecrackers resound.
A fireworks festival that lights up the night sky.
Music that resonates across the ground explodes loudly, and dancers dressed as skeletons and zombies perform passionately.
The specialties of the zodiac.
A concert where academy insiders and outsiders mingled and stomped their feet and cheered.
… … And in the pub in front of the newspaper department, strange things were happening now.
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The Corpse Queen put her hand in her bosom and threw it out.
Patter! Patter!
A large number of bone fragments protrude from within the black cloak and scatter on the ground.
Tsutsutsutsutsutsutsutsutsutsutsu… …
At the same time, the black mana emitted from the body of the Corpse Queen dwelled in each bone fragment.
Germination. From the bone seed sprout evil roots and insidious sprouts.
Wood deok! Pudeuk!
A black magic circle appeared on the ground where the bone fragments touched, and soon skeleton soldiers were summoned.
<Skeleton>
Hazard level: C
Size: 1.7m
Discovery site: all continents
– Also known as ‘the one with only bones left’.
It is a common corpse that can be seen everywhere, such as graveyards, battlefields, abandoned houses, sewers, etc.
In the case of rural or underdeveloped cities, they can be found as often as rats.
Skeleton Soldier. The most basic form of the dead disease.
With just one piece of bone, you can use it as a seed to grow the roots and buds of the magic circle and pull it out as much as you like.
It is much easier to carry than a zombie disease that can be summoned through the medium of flesh or a ghost disease that can be summoned through the medium of a piece of the soul.
Even if the flesh is dried well and made into jerky, it will eventually rot and disappear, and the soul will also volatilize someday, no matter how well it is sealed in a glass bottle.
However, on the other hand, high-ranking black magicians who have reached a certain level can mass-produce skeleton soldiers just by scattering small bone fragments that are close to bone meal.
Wood deok! Awesome! Fast!
Bianca and Sinclair’s expressions hardened as they saw the skeleton soldiers climbing up the ground.
They are the academy’s elite, and there’s no way they can’t feel this ominous wave of mana.
‘An undead soldier? From here?’
The two female students gaped.
The woman in the skull mask in front of me was definitely one of the two.
Dark magic strictly controlled by the empire, or a kid who doesn’t know how scary it is to break the taboo on this… … Or he is an absolute strongman who knows it and still has the guts.
However, if you look at the thick and strong bone monsters in front of you right now, they will be overwhelmingly closer to the latter.
“Oh, where did this monster come from? Is that woman the ‘night hound’ or something?”
“It doesn’t matter! We need to call the professors right now!”
Bianca and Sinclair couldn’t even dare to fight against the powerful dark mana they felt right in front of them.
at that time.
“and! Let the performance begin!”
“oh my god! Really great performance!”
“uh? But what about after the concert?”
“wow! Look at the skeleton backup dancers behind!”
“But did you really come from behind? Who is it? Where is the performance team?”
“Kyaaak! The new face dance team is out! The makeup is realistic, oppas!”
The crowd around him reacted quite differently.
Maybe it’s because it’s a Halloween party where everyone is dressed up as skeletons and zombies, so no one is surprised by the skeleton soldiers summoned by the corpse queen.
Who said that man is an animal of mood?
Even if a fire or smoke comes in, if the person next to you sits calmly, you get anxious, but you sit still and die of suffocation.
Such a phenomenon was happening right here at the festival site of the academy.
Academy students who are sensitive to mana may not know, but in fact, 99% of the party people gathered here are outsiders, ignorant of mana, and intoxicated with alcohol and party excitement. couldn’t
But, of course, there are people who can detect an anomaly even in this situation.
“… … black magician? What are you doing!? If you belong to the Imperial Army, please reveal your serial number!”
Saint Dolores, dressed as a night hound, stepped forward.
The divine aura she exuded stopped the Skeleton Soldiers climbing up from the abyss.
Knock- Knock-
Because the aura of the Corpse Queen was so powerful, the Skeleton Soldiers did not die, but after the Battle of Dantalian, they were blocked by the divine power of Dolores, who had awakened to some extent, and only groaned in place.
In addition, the holy woman’s divine protection was also appropriately blocking negative dimensional emotions such as the fear that the black magician’s powerful aura exerted on the people around her.
Also, the sight of the skeleton soldiers stumbling around made the audience think that it was a performance of some kind of dance team.
“Oh, it looks like performance art.”
“Is that a flash mob or something?”
“Ugh! You mean a performance in which an unspecified number of people gather at a specific time and in a specific space and do the same thing without any purpose? I heard that it’s the latest trend in the ecliptic!”
“Wow, it looks like the real thing!”
Even guest singers and dancers on stage began to imitate the action.
“What are those people? When were you recruited? It’s the first team I’ve ever seen.”
“I don’t know, but it’s pretty hip. The quality of makeup and props is amazing.”
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“More than anything else, the audience seems to be responding well.”
“… … Shall we try too?”
As professional dancers dressed as zombies and skeletons imitate the stuttering movements of the skeleton soldiers, more and more fervent cheers erupt.
Firecrackers exploded everywhere and the music grew louder.
Now the audience’s eyes are moved back to the center stage.
… … However, in this situation, Dolores’ expression gradually hardened.
‘Oh, it’s incredibly strong. what is this guy? No, are they human in the first place?’
The woman in the skull mask in front of her was a terrifying force that could not be handled with Dolores’ divine power.
Quilty, or Dantalian, I thought I had become much more skilled, but it was still a long way off.
The black magician woman in front of her looked like her age, but she possessed incomparably powerful mana.
This kind of ominous and dangerous mana was something I only felt when dealing with demons of the Demon Lord class like Dantalian.
It is natural that Dolores alone is not enough.
‘… … At that time, the Hound of the Night was with me.’
Dolores thought through a cold sweat.
I feel anew how much he has fought against the fearsome enemies, and how heavy the weight of that sense of duty and burden was.
On the other hand, the corpse queen knew right away that the night hound that appeared in front of her was a fake.
She also noticed that Dolores was the owner of the girls’ dorm room she had been to before.
The Corpse Queen growled.
[Where did you steal the night hound?]
“… … what?”
Dolores asked, frowning.
Are you a night hound? Dolores herself was curious about where he was.
However, the skull-masked woman in front of her almost assumed that Dolores knew the night hound’s whereabouts.
[A trace of a night hound was found in your room. It’s already on the way to check it once.]
At that, Dolores’ expression hardened even more.
‘No one has ever entered my room before?’
Dolores, who values privacy, does not allow anyone to enter her space.
Not only do they clean themselves, but they tend to repair furniture and facilities themselves when they are broken.
This is the same when he is at the home of Quo Vadis or when he is in the dormitory of the academy.
Dolores couldn’t figure out why the enemy in front of her would make such an outrageous misunderstanding, but she decided that wasn’t the point.
“I don’t know what you mean, but I don’t think you’re looking for him with good intentions. It is clear that if you are not a black magician belonging to the Imperial Army, you are an enemy! If so, I can’t tell you anything.”
[…] … him? What’s your relationship with him?]
The Corpse Queen asked in a sharp tone.
Dolores answered after some thought.
“Soul mates.”
and.
… Kwak!
Upon hearing Dolores’ answer, the Corpse Queen exploded.
[okay? If so, I’ll tear that soul into very fine pieces and turn it into a disease of the dead!]
The intense rage, the source of which even the Corpse Queen herself couldn’t figure out, made the mana of darkness boil even more.
Exploding fireworks, earth-shattering music, and a burning party night that everyone goes crazy for.
Among them, a witch and a saint are in sharp confrontation.
… … and.
“stop.”
There was a voice intervening in the midst of the two women’s war of nerves.
A thick, low, metal sound like scraping the vocal cords with a nail.
“… … !”
[…] … !]
Both the Corpse Queen and Dolores took a half step back in surprise at the appearance of the new person.
A man wearing a plague doctor mask and wrapped around his body in a black cloak.
Bikir.
It was the moment when the real night hound appeared.
