episode_0173

“Please wait a moment, Your Majesty.”

Luke realized that Elin’s gaze was unusual.

He hugged Elin from behind.

That was the right choice.

If I hadn’t hugged him, he would have run out and swept all the monkeys away.

“That’s what Germ wants.”

But you shouldn’t try to take it easy.

“If we kill all the southern creatures, won’t the ecosystem inevitably be destroyed?”

“… … Then what should we do?”

Elin is trapped in a back hug position with Luke.

The anger gradually subsided.

“We need to find the entity controlling the animals.”

The ability to mass brainwash is usually removed by destroying the main body.

Of course, the main body will be Gernom.

“… How do I find it here?”

Ellen tilted her head.

Look here, monkey.

Look over there, there’s a monkey.

It seemed impossible to find Gernom among the beasts that surrounded the entrance so noisily.

“You can use spatial awareness.”

“… Teacher.”

Elin glared at Luke.

I just came back from the West doing some crazy thing called separating dimensions.

Didn’t Luke push himself so hard that he started bleeding?

If you try to use spatial awareness to search through such a wide space, your head might explode.

“No, Your Majesty can do it.”

Of course, Luke didn’t want to meet that end here either.

“Just expand your spatial awareness. I’ll help you operate it, so just pump out your mana at full output.”

A magic that completely perceives everything that comes within range.

In order to create a new dimension, you had to practice to the extreme anyway.

“… Okay. I’ll try.”

Elin closed her eyes.

When trying to perceive such a large space, visual information is rather a hindrance.

Woof… .

A wave of mana that spreads faintly.

Things within a hundred steps are clearly perceived.

Cheolkeong-

Then I heard the sound of something filling the mana heart.

“line―”

“Shh. Focus. I just connected my mana heart and the princess’s mana heart.”

If concentration is lost, Luke might die.

Compared to Elin’s mana heart, Luke’s is very weak.

“You can keep increasing it. I am helping you.”

“… … ”

Hwaaak-

If Ellen squeezes out the output without thinking.

Crunch.

Luke controls the magic so it doesn’t go astray.

It doesn’t put a strain on your body.

Because so much magic power was being handled, a lot of concentration was required.

“Whew… You’re doing great.”

Naturally, my breathing became rough.

“Ugh… .”

Elin shivered.

It was because Luke’s moist breath touched my ear.

When I developed spatial awareness, I felt it even without seeing it directly.

Luke hugged Ellen tightly from behind to keep her from moving.

A very close posture with whispering.

“Focus. It’s shaking…!”

“Hnk… !”

I’m going crazy.

Every time I whisper, the rough breath that comes with it sends a chill down my spine.

Rather, it seems like Luke is the reason I’m losing focus… .

Wooow-!

Elin’s ears turned red as if they were going to burst.

Before long, magic had expanded beyond the territory of Deneb.

Of course, the people who are running away from inside.

Even the monkeys flocking in from outside.

It feels like the Southern Great Forest itself is entering my head… … .

“Hoo… hoot… .”

… … Luke’s hot breath kept coming into my ear.

“Haaah… .”

Luckily, before my concentration was brutally broken.

“Car, found.”

The evil magic was exposed.

“2 o’clock. Lying on top of twin trees, entangled with each other.”

Luke smiled, wiping away the sweat that had formed.

I was so amazed that I succeeded in performing a difficult spell in one go.

side.

I kissed Ellen on the lips.

“Hmph…?!”

Elin screamed hoarsely.

I was held tightly in Luke’s arms and couldn’t even jump up.

“You did a great job, my lady.”

I feel aching with damp breath.

My mind briefly flashed with the ecstatic kiss.

The sweet compliments that make you feel like you’re melting in your mouth conclude the story.

“… … !”

Suddenly, my lower body got wet.

* * * * *

The Duke of Deneb in the Southern Great Forest.

Mazel was amazed.

“2 o’clock. Lying on top of twin trees, entangled with each other.”

If they are entangled twin trees, then 50,000 steps is a further distance.

Is it possible to detect it by standing still?

“Hoo… .”

“Huh…!?”

If you were to look at it from the side, you might mistake it for something obscene.

With heavy breathing and soft moans.

side.

When we pressed our lips together, Princess Berthain shivered.

It was a somewhat embarrassing sight, but I pretended not to see it as much as possible.

What’s important now is not the two’s love affair, but finding the culprit.

Squeak-

Instead, Mazel pulled the bowstring taut.

Deneb is a hunter family that has survived in the south for generations.

The long term is, of course, archery.

Hwaaak-!

A pure aura forms on the arrow.

It is common sense that an object cannot maintain its aura once it leaves your hand.

But what if we dramatically shorten the time it takes for an object to leave?

Deneb’s archery was the embodiment of this.

Joowook-

A straight line that seems to cross the world.

Wheaaa …

An arrow shot so fast that even sound couldn’t keep up.

grasp!

Deneb’s secret energy pierced through everything in its path.

“… You were right.”

Mazel was convinced.

There was life in the place Elin told me about.

I just blew it up exactly.

Towering.

As evidence, even the monkeys who had been madly climbing the gate stopped.

Ugh…?

He scratched his head as if he didn’t know English.

Woof woof!

He sees soldiers holding swords and crossbows at the gate and runs away in a panic.

While the brainwashed monkeys are receding like the tide.

Sniff sniff.

Leo jumped down the gate.

I checked the sign that should be right at the entrance to Deneb.

“… Absorbed.”

The sign had already been destroyed.

Gernom absorbed more souls.

“This adds strength to the princess’s guess.”

Luke, who followed late, added.

Ellen nodded, rubbing her slightly uncomfortable thighs.

“Just playing around. Just until it’s too much.”

Elin seemed to know Gernom’s intentions.

The annoyance caused by being forced to follow someone in an awkward position where you can neither sit nor stand.

A fierce pressure that threatens to crumble if you let your guard down even for a moment.

A tight battle, but not so tight that you won’t be able to breathe.

I just want to see Ellen struggling hard.

“Aha, I got caught.”

From far away, Gernom’s voice is heard as if in surprise.

“I thought your intelligence was a bit low. You’re sharp? Good. Very good.”

Wedge!

Mazel fired his arrow once more in the direction of the voice.

grasp!

“You got this right once, right? Let’s stop doing boring things.”

Germ rising from the floor.

He grinned while catching the arrow shot by Mazel.

“I’ll tell you since you got the answer right. I’ve already been completely resurrected, and Kalchad’s plan is almost complete. When you guys make that ridiculous demon seal thing? ”

Uttuk.

Gernom continued, breaking the arrow.

“You get it? This isn’t a waste of time or anything. It’s just ‘play’. So enjoy it. Please entertain me as much as you can.”

“… … ”

“Hmm. I’ll give you credit for not stupidly compressing the space even though it’s right in front of you. It’s better than the monkeys here, right?”

Ellen’s expression was crumpled.

That wasn’t even a compliment.

In the first place, I wasn’t happy about being praised by Gernom.

“Okay, I’ll give you a hint. You already know what I’m going to do next, right? ”

I’ve been hit twice so I’m expecting it.

Gernom is going to cause some crazy trouble in the East.

Ellen and Luke have to stop it.

“The hint is… a clone. Shall I show you?”

Exactly.

Let’s snap our fingers.

Another Germ rises from the ground.

Gernom reached out to his clone.

The clone also extends a hand.

match!

The moment we high-fived, magic flew like sparks.

“You can’t tell who’s who just by looking at them, right?”

“That’s right. They’re both real.”

“Is this true or false?”

“Now here’s the problem. ‘Find the genome’. Solve it wisely?”

Gernom, talking nonsense on both sides.

Squeak-!

Leo swung his Dragon Sword and simultaneously cut off the head.

This time, Gernom did not regenerate.

Passus-

A body that returns to the earth.

“They were both clones.”

I had kind of predicted it from the moment it emerged from the ground.

As expected, the Germ here was a clone.

In other words, it means that he controlled all southern creatures with just his clone.

“All other secret task forces have been dispatched to the East. Follow them quickly.”

“… … Yes.”

Luke and Elin jumped into the portal.

To the East, which will probably be the last front.

* * * * *

The eastern landscape was no longer so strange.

Not because it’s peaceful.

As serious as the West and the South.

Phage crackle-!

The Howard siblings struck the sea with lightning.

“Ugh… !”

Every time a wave crashed down like a tsunami, Tristin blocked it with a barrier.

There were also monsters that looked like lumps of filth that collapsed.

“Gewoore… !”

There were also creatures that managed to escape.

Crunch-

The knights of the saint’s escort, led by Zero, cut down the remnants.

A saint who assists from behind by pouring out divine power.

“You’re finally here!”

Aurora waved when she saw Luke.

I see you getting up from your wheelchair.

It was already clear that he was drawing on his divine power to its full potential.

Aurora ran on her temporarily unharmed legs.

“The crowds are endless. What about other areas?”

“It’s too long to say now.”

“No way… … ?”

“I solved it. For now.”

Luke added, not seeming to be convinced either.

It would be a problem if Gernom went back and resumed his raids.

If we even consider that possibility now, we cannot defend the East.

“Please briefly explain the situation.”

“We haven’t figured it out yet. Black masses are pouring out along with the tidal waves that periodically surge in, attacking the coast.”

Aurora pointed to the clump that was slowly advancing.

“I don’t think we should let them into our territory, so we’re defending them with all our might.”

“Well done.”

As expected of a leader of a country, the saintess was doing a good job.

but.

“Was it originally such a distinct human figure?”

“Huh? What is that… .”

Aurora’s eyes narrowed and she froze.

What was pouring onto the shore now was not a lump.

“There has never been anything like that… ever.”

“… This is driving me crazy.”

In an instant, Luke realized why he had given the hint as a clone.

“You came right away!”

“I’ve been waiting for you!”

“Let’s have fun together? Hahahahaha! ”

Hundreds of Gernoms were coming up from the shore.