Anyway, thanks to that, unlike the others, Cardamite moved forward without much difficulty. I easily cut down a few of the Chatan knights who were in my way and kept running, so I was able to reach the Western Gate of Zeppelin, the meeting point, on time.
As I headed toward the gate, I saw another group of runaway slaves coming from the other side of the street. Cardamite waved his hand as he looked at the two elf women in the lead.
“oh! Siris! Iniya! “I arrived safely!”
Iniya glided down the road as if she were flying and came to Cardamite’s side. She opened her mouth.
“There were a few interruptions along the way, but it wasn’t a big problem.”
“Me too.”
Iniya tilted her head in response to Cardamite.
“Anyway, they were very strange people. “They shouted loudly that reinforcements were coming, so I was a little nervous at first, but nothing happened, right?”
“Same here. “He said it as if he expected an Auror user to show up, but it turned out to be nothing special.”
Nodding his head, Cardamite agreed with Iniya’s words. Although he got here safely, his heart still sank when he first met them.
“It seems like I was aware of it to some extent, but I don’t know what happened… … ?”
“Iknow, right. “I thought I had fallen into a trap.”
Iniya and Cardamite looked at each other and exchanged puzzled glances.
How could they know their plan in advance and still prepare so poorly? This is incomprehensible. For them, who had not heard of Carol’s dictionary work, it was bound to be something truly bizarre.
“Anyway, let’s get out of here!”
“is it so!”
Cardamite and Iniya ran to the western Zeppelin gate in harmony. The castle gate was tightly closed, but with the power of the two Auror users, breaking the castle gate to that extent would be no problem. Of course, as the capital of a country, all kinds of powerful defensive magic was installed at the castle gate, but the magic only works when activated by wizards in times of war. In its inactive state, the gate is nothing more than a thick piece of wood.
Looking at the gate, Cardamite shouted out Aebyeong’s name.
“Haltron!”
Iniya also pulled out a sharp bladed rapier from her arms. The two men fired slashes at the castle gate at the same time.
“Haaa!”
“Turup!”
Two blade auras, silver and red-brown, vibrate the air and spew out with terrifying force. A flash of intense destructive power was about to hit the castle gate.
Pow!
A yellow flash of light flew along with an explosion, blocking the attack.
The yellow flash becomes a whirlwind and repels Iniya and Cardamite’s Blade Aura. The flow of aurors deviated and the trajectory was off. The two Blade Aurors deviated to the left and right, collided with the castle wall and exploded.
“huh?”
“This?”
Iniya and Cardamite looked towards the gate nervously. Black smoke was billowing from the melted castle walls.
Iniya was impressed by the strong energy felt within it. It’s an energy that was completely undetectable just a moment ago.
Iniya lifted the rapier to her chest and licked her lips.
“He has Auror abilities. It seems he was hiding his energy… … .”
Cardamite grumbled softly as he adjusted his grip on the ax spear.
“Well, somehow things got resolved easily.”
A person’s shadow slowly appeared through the smoke. He was a young man with dark hair and a strikingly handsome appearance. The sword in his hand is overflowing with yellow blade aura.
The young man blocked the front gate and muttered.
“Damn, what the hell is this damn country…” … What’s the use of planning a strategy if you don’t listen to it? “Thanks to you, things got screwed up, right?”
Siris muttered in surprise upon seeing the young man’s face.
“Oh, the author… … .”
Suddenly the young man raised his head and shouted over the castle wall.
“Philena! “Surround them!”
A loud reply came from the castle walls.
“Okay, Tethron!”
A soft chanting of incantations followed. Magical power from all directions shakes, twisting fixed mana into new combinations.
“Hast Pen Grade Panthera, I open the curtain of red flame that turns the sky red and the ground black, blocking heaven and earth… … .”
While reciting a spell, Filena pointed the red staff in her hand to the ground. Words came out of her mouth.
“Fire Wall!”
A wall of flame rose up and surrounded the escaped slaves on the left and right. The slaves began to murmur in horror as they escaped the heat.
“Ugh, ugh!”
“hot!”
“Avoid!”
In an instant, it became chaos, with slaves running wild here and there. No matter how much they pursue freedom, they cannot help but become a ragtag group.
The heterogeneous warriors of the kingdoms of Siris and Antares shouted in a panic to calm down the crowd.
“Everyone calm down! Losing order will only cause more damage!”
“Don’t break up your ranks!”
“Block the heat with elemental magic!”
Meanwhile, the wall of flames continued to expand its scope. The massive wall of fire continues to expand sideways, completely enveloping the group of nearly a thousand escaped slaves.
Siris muttered in surprise as she summoned a water spirit to block the heat.
“Oh my god, why is the fire wall so long?”
Originally, Fire Wall is a 5-circle flame barrier spell that installs a wall of flame about 5 meters high and 20 meters long in front.
However, the Fire Wall cast just now was not of that extent. It is an enormous length of almost 150 meters and completely surrounds the rear. How much magical energy would be needed for a flame barrier this extensive?
Siris looked at Filena, the female mage standing on the castle wall, with an expression of not understanding.
‘Was she such a great wizard?’
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Tethron was smiling coldly and looking at the escaped slaves in front of him.
The slaves were all gathered in one place and shaking in fear. It was a natural reaction since there was a Zeppelin wall in front, a wall of flames to the left, right and behind, and any place to escape was completely blocked.
Filena’s voice came through message magic from the castle wall.
“I surrounded them as I was told, Tethron.”
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Now, Tethron is no longer just a monk, but a high-ranking mage, and he sent a reply by activating the same message magic.
“Good job, Filena. “That’s amazing, that Staff of Multiple Cloning.”
“Yes, this is a truly amazing artifact.”
It is true that Filena is an outstanding magician for her age, but it is still not enough to show off magic of this immense power. This incredible feat was entirely the power of an artifact she received from her Silver Sage.
The Staff of Multiple Replication, an ancient artifact whose leaks are prohibited even within the Silver Sage.
This object had the power to replicate the caster’s magic up to seven times.
Magic shows power by rearranging mana through magic and distorting reality. Therefore, even if a vast amount of magical power is given from the outside, magic alone cannot produce any power greater than the original magic. This means that just because a wizard has three times the amount of magic, the same fire ball does not have three times the power. Even if your opponent gets tired after firing one shot, you can fire up to three shots.
However, if you use the staff of multiple replication, you can use one spell ‘simultaneously’ seven times. This was the reason why Filena was able to create an enormous magical fog that covered the entire Chatan Royal Palace.
‘To be exact, the staff simply copies Filena’s Fire Wall and casts it seven times.’
Of course, with such great power, there are penalties that go with it.
“I used it twice, so now I have three left, Philena?”
Filena nodded at Tethron’s confirmation.
“Yes, after that, you can’t use it until the wand finishes charging magic on its own.”
“Three times, that should be enough to use in this battle.”
Suddenly, Filena looked down the castle wall. she grumbled, furrowing her brow.
“Anyway, where are the other soldiers and what are they doing? “If things were to go the way they were, shouldn’t we have already surrounded those slaves?”
Tethron clicked his tongue.
“If it’s the way it is, that’s right.”
After obtaining various artifacts from Serellaine, the guardian of silver, Tethron and his party spied on the activities of the Kingdom of Antares. In fact, Serellaine grasped the situation with her ‘unknown information gathering ability’ and Tethron’s party simply heard about it, but in any case, Tesron’s party learned that Reppenhardt was targeting the Chatan Principality and also a group of Zeppelin slaves. I was able to find out the truth.
Since it was a matter that Leffenhardt kept as confidential as possible, it is not possible to know the detailed plan. However, in order to make something happen on such a large scale, it is inevitable that the movement will leak out. I was able to guess the approximate date, and arrived at Zeppelin in advance to prepare.
It is not possible to place the entire garrison on emergency alert. If something smells strange, there is a possibility that Reppenhardt will notice and stop the revolt.
Therefore, all preparations were focused on maintaining peacetime conditions but being able to respond quickly if something happens. Only a small number of commanders were informed of slave incitement, and the rest focused on reorganizing the command system and moving troops to a designated location in case a rebellion broke out.
Since they knew it in advance and made a plan, it would have been normal for the army to capture all escaped slaves throughout the Zeppelin area, but as it happened, the Zeppelin troops did not move according to their plan.
“This damned Chatan army, they can’t even do what they were told to do in advance?”
Tethron gritted his teeth. When ridiculing soldiers on the continent who lack discipline, there is an idiom that goes, ‘These guys are like the army of a Chatan country!’, and I was able to painfully feel why that was said.
‘But how can all the soldiers move in such a mess?’
I don’t know if it’s just the people below who are messed up… … .
‘How come even the knights are so late? Even the Zeppelin Knights, the leadership team, are only half able to move properly.’
Even the lowly prince, who is famously a court wizard, is indifferent. Now, I could tell because Tethron was not just a simple knight, but also a high-ranking wizard.
If the Grand Wizard Lord Hajil used magic, there would be no way not to feel the effects wherever Zeppelin was, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t detect the magic.
Filena spoke carefully.
“But Tethron, can’t you say that even people who are the best knights of a country or court wizards are just lazy and procrastinate? Could it be that they were pulling some kind of trick?”
“What tricks did I have to do to make something like this happen?”
“Well, that’s true too.”
In the end, Filena simply blamed the current situation on the high level of fermentation in the Principality of Chatan. As long as they didn’t know Carol’s existence, that was the limit they could infer.
“Well, now that things have come to this, the others will have to give up.”
Thesron, who was sighing, suddenly brightened his eyes.
“Anyway, the only thing that really matters is one demon lord. “Just catching that female elf is enough as bait!”
Tethron’s cold, shining black eyes turned towards the brown-skinned elf girl in the distance, who was working hard to block out the heat with elemental magic.
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Saaaa… … .
Pure white cold spreads everywhere. Iniya continued to focus while holding the rapier. Her Auror skill, Breath of the North Sea, blocked the fire wall activated by Filena and began to consume the flames.
Little by little, the heat lowered, and the escaped slaves looked more comfortable.
“Haha, haha… … .”
“I feel like I can breathe a little bit now.”
“I think I’ll buy it. “It’s not hot.”
However, Iniya did not look very comfortable.
‘Oh, just stay where you are! Then, I hope you will protect me carefully.’
She has already reached the level of mastery when it comes to controlling the cold fog. As she wanted, she could freeze all objects within range and prevent cold from reaching any parts that were not needed.
The problem was that the ‘things’ that were supposed to be protected kept moving as they wanted. If you try to extinguish the fire with a fog of cold, the slaves keep making noise and interfering with the control. Since I had to readjust and move the auror particles every time, my concentration was greatly wasted no matter how much I tried.
Thanks to the hard work of not only Iniya, but also Siris and other warriors of different races, the heat of the Fire Wall was significantly reduced. Although the situation was like a siege as the heat continued to rise from the heated ground, the escaped slaves were no longer harmed by the heat.
So, as soon as the heat subsided, Iniya withdrew her aura and looked toward the castle gate. If you want to get out of here anyway, you have to head towards the castle gate. Even if that female mage named Filena hadn’t built a siege, they weren’t in a situation to back down right now.
‘If this is enough, I put out the urgent fire.’
It is rare for an idiom to be applied so closely to reality.
Iniya and Cardamite looked at Tethron, a human youth blocking the front of the castle gate, with calm eyes. The two exchanged glances at the same time. To break down the castle gate, you must first kill the author.
