episode_0048

55.

As soon as Anis and Barce sensed that Rachel had used the hero’s power, they ordered those brought from the front line to search the royal castle, but the progress was slow and there was no result.

The problem was that those who returned from the front lines could not have been familiar with the complex structure of the royal castle, but there was not enough space to imprison nobles and officials in the basement, so they had to use the reception room and place separate people to monitor and protect each, so Rachel escaped. Another problem was that there were not that many people to mobilize for the search.

Anis, who had been hearing one after another that no trace had been found even though a considerable amount of time had passed, asked Barche, who was frowning while clutching his staff next to him.

“Still not working?”

“Not yet, just a little!”

Although Anis couldn’t see it, a complex flow of magic power, intertwined like a code, was visible in front of Barche.

It was a flow that was interfering with the magic tracking Rachel, and it was impossible to find the location through magical search until this was interpreted and solved, so Barce was stuck with this interpretation work while Anis sent people to search for Rachel. The work was almost finished.

“No, but at this level, it’s not strange even if it’s a count’s heirloom, so why does Rachel have something like this?! Aren’t you from a Korean-American family?”

“Because the position of the royal maid is not that low. No matter how much you try to be honest, it’s a difficult position, and isn’t it the result of taking care of it in moderation?”

“In the end, it was a bribe! Anyway, what are the practices of that damn aristocratic society!”

Anis tried to make excuses for Barce’s angry outburst, but closed her mouth, thinking that there was no need to defend Rachel. If you think about it, it was true that it was a practice that did not really need to be defended.

“That’s it! I solved it!”

After a while, Barce relaxed his frown and shouted. And when he waved the staff, a blue compass-like shape appeared at the end.

“The direction is as you can see, and the distance is… What, it seems like we’re already outside the castle or the capital? I have to hurry.”

Barce opened the window wide, threw the long cane outside, then jumped out of the window and climbed on top of the cane. Anis also naturally followed Barce and stood behind her on the staff.

On the staff flying at high speed, Barce glanced at Anis behind him and said.

“It’s amazing no matter how many times I see it. Isn’t that uncomfortable?”

“I’m comfortable with this. In fact, it makes me more anxious to ride like that.”

Barche on the staff was sitting on the staff with her legs crossed to one side as if riding a horse, but Anis behind Barche was standing tall with her legs spread out on the staff.

If that were the case, he would either ride the horse standing up, or else he would ride it well while sitting down. While Barce shook his head with excitement, the direction of the blue compass made of magical power in front of the staff turned downward.

As soon as Barce saw it, he immediately turned his staff and headed toward the ground. Then, he narrowed his eyes when he realized that there were more people riding horses in the direction pointed by the compass than he thought.

“You didn’t run away alone? And those… they’re the Knights of the Guard, right?”

“As expected, there was one there.”

Anise muttered that and bent her knees slightly. Barche, who had considerable experience working with Anise, including the memories before returning from the Demon King, immediately realized what Anis was thinking and dived down, accelerating his staff towards the group on the ground.

And the moment the group slowed down and changed direction just above the group on the ground, Anise kicked off her staff and jumped toward the ground.

Although she wasn’t wearing armor, the shock wave caused by Anise hitting the ground at the same speed as she was diving was quite strong.

With a loud noise, a cloud of dust appeared in front of the riding group and the horses stopped with their front feet raised.

If it were a human without magical power, it would have been an act that would have been crushed to smithereens, but Anise was a strong woman fighting for the supremacy of the kingdom, and when she jumped out of the dust cloud, she looked fine except for being covered in dust.

“Ugh! Harin! glass! Stop it! It’s the leader! Bypass the rest!”

As soon as she saw Anise blocking her path, Lorna gave instructions as she had discussed before leaving what to do in case of an emergency.

The two guards appointed by Rona jumped off their horses without hesitation and went out to stop Anis. At the same time, the others hurriedly calmed the horses and turned their heads to try to escape, but a curtain of fire rose up and blocked their path.

“What does it mean that you are trying to take the royal guard knights, the vice-captain, and even the queen, Liana, out of the castle like this? Rachel?”

“This is just the minimum necessary to protest the unfair actions of those trying to seize power by force, Mr. Barce.”

“Oh, really? I think they just look like a bunch of stray cats, don’t they?”

Barche, who was looking down from the staff floating in the air, saw that the knights of the Royal Guard other than Lorna made incomprehensible expressions at her words and realized that they had nothing to do with the warrior.

Unlike Rachel, who hid her reaction with a blank expression, or Lorna, who only flinched as if she had hit the nail on the head, Liana shouted while glaring at Barce with a confident posture with her back straight.

“What kind of cat thief suddenly came back and tried to use his strength to get all the other women away! No matter how much you think about it, it’s Barce who is being unreasonable!”

Liana was talking about a warrior, but the knights of the Royal Guard accepted it as a story about the regime or the queen.

It was strange that she had to say she was a woman, and the words were a bit awkward, but thanks to Liana’s usual poor impression, the knights of the Royal Guard were convinced that she had chosen words again in a strange way.

What is important, even if it seems a little lacking, is that Liana, the princess, proudly displayed in front of Barche the same intentions as the royal knights who joined this group.

The knights of the Royal Guard, who were doubting in a corner of their minds whether Liana, who had a not very good reputation, really understood the situation, were deeply impressed by the confident attitude that Liana showed, and completely erased the doubts they had about Liana from their minds.

Barche found it absurd that the morale of the knights of the royal guard suddenly increased after misunderstanding the meaning contained in the words, but he had no intention of solving the misunderstanding by telling the knights of the guard who knew nothing about the hero.

Instead, Barce fired a spell at the arrogant Liana. A streak of bright blue lightning stretched out from Barche’s fingertips.

“Keueuuuu!”

“Marian!”

“Trigram, it’s okay! It’s bearable! Rather, the princess!”

Barce frowned. The knights of the royal guard, whose morale had suddenly been greatly boosted by Liana’s words, spared no effort to block Barche’s magic and were trying to somehow protect Liana and escape from this place.

It would be safe to attack unilaterally from the air like this, but even if one or two of the royal guard knights could be defeated, it seemed impossible to prevent the rest from escaping.

If I could use the hero’s power, I would be able to wipe them all out right away, but Rachel was constantly blocking that. Barce clicked his tongue and withdrew the magic power he had been using for flight and went down to the ground.

There was a high possibility that it was a trap, but the guards knights, who judged it to be an opportunity that would be hard to miss, took the risk and rushed towards Barce.

However, as the guards had warned, Barce had not dug a trap and came down. Barche, who came down to the ground, was simply overwhelming the Royal Guard knights in skill.

While keeping the approaching opponent in check with light magic, it explodes with a powerful magic blow that is even more powerful due to its close range, rendering it completely incapable of combat.

It was a very simple formula, but it was not something that wizards, who usually had no skills in close-range hand-to-hand combat, could accomplish.

“Kkeuch! What kind of wizard…!”

“Defeating the Demon King is not an easy task, so that’s it.”

The Royal Guard Knight, who remembered that Barche left to defeat the Demon King with Annis and Elise, and that there was not much time left until his return, made an expression of absurdity at Barche’s words, but that was because the Guard Knight was the one who told the Demon King the previous time. It was a reaction that came from not knowing that memories and experiences had been taken over.

Barce, who felt like he was playing a foul, suddenly thought of how powerful the destiny given by the goddess must be, to the extent that the Demon King, who has no idea how many times he has suffered such regressions, has never been able to win and survive until now. My face hardened.

“Ugh, even the leader?! No matter how much the leader says, Harin and Yuri have already been breached?”

“Damn it! Stopped by just one wizard!”

While the Royal Guard Knights were unable to defeat Barce, who was blocking their path, and two more Guard Knights were hit by Barce, Anis, who, like Barche, had grown in an irregular manner due to the enormous experience from the previous round, chased after them and swung his sword, killing the remaining Guard Knights. It was quickly subdued.

After all the other royal knights had fallen and Lorna came into direct sword-to-sword combat with Anis, she immediately noticed that Anis’ skills had increased abnormally. Since Rona often exchanged swords with Anis in a position that could be considered a rival, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of difference right away.

“Chief, what on earth did you do, like this…”

“What did you do? Didn’t you become this weak because you neglected your training as a knight and played around with the warrior?”

Aside from Anise’s improved skills, it was also true that Rona had spent more time as the warrior’s bitch recently, and the time she spent sharpening her sword had also decreased. So, Rona closed her mouth and couldn’t reply to Anis’s words that hit the nail on the head.

Anise looked at Rona with a mixture of anger and disappointment, flicked her sword away, and stabbed Rona in the shoulder, who missed the sword, with the tip of the sword.

Similarly, on the other side, Barce was piercing Rachel’s thigh with an ice blade created at the end of her staff.

“Aaaah! Lorna! Rachel!”

Although the wounds were not fatal, Liana screamed as she saw the two in a state where they could no longer fight.

There was nothing more they could do for Liana, who had no combat skills, and Anis and Barce did not pay much attention to her and thought the matter was over, when a girl with purple hair fell from the sky and shouted.

“Stop the violence!”