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34 – The Sword Illuminated by Moonlight

34 – The Sword Illuminated by Moonlight

Sharen, who was living in a commoner’s house, was the first to sense the energy.

She liked the Spirit energy she felt in the commoner’s house, so she abandoned her good accommodation and stayed there.

Feeling a sudden chilling energy, she immediately used Flight Magic and flew to the eastern wall of the castle where the energy was felt.

The soldiers on the wall were surprised to see Sharen suddenly flying in.

“Lady Sharen!”

“What’s the matter?”

Sharen had no time to answer them.

Because she felt a chilling energy from the end of the horizon.

She had only felt this chilling energy once in the past.

“This is definitely black Magic…”

Sharen became nervous as she felt the same feeling she had when she used black Magic to deal with the Wraith-turned bandits as a request, without knowing anything.

The bandits at that time were like weak monsters because they didn’t perform the ritual properly, so the Wraith was not properly summoned.

But the energy she felt now was on a different level.

She felt that it was made with a proper ritual and many sacrifices.

While she was wondering how to deal with the properly summoned Wraith, the problem erupted without giving her time to worry.

[ “Kuaaaaaaak!!!” ]

“Th-that!!”

“It’s a monster attack!!!”

Numerous monsters, driven mad by the Wraith’s energy, began to swarm in.

Sharen, who had no time to hesitate, unfolded Magic.

“Ignis Pluvia!”

As her incantation unfolded, a red Magic Circle spread out behind her.

And from there, huge fireballs rained down on the monsters.

While blocking the monsters, Sharen shouted to the soldiers.

“Quickly call the others and Lord Ricain! Quickly!”

“Yes!”

“Understood!!”

Feeling that this situation was not normal, Sharen quickly called Ricain and the other knights.

She missed the Wraith’s energy because of the monsters, but she thought it must be somewhere near here, so Sharen began to unfold Magic and block the monsters.

* * *

While Sharen was blocking the monsters outside, the castle began to become noisy.

Calix, who woke up from the noise, opened the door of his bedroom and came out.

“It’s noisy outside, what’s going on?”

“It’s nothing, Lord.”

“Nothing? I think I even heard an explosion?”

Lana calmly said to Calix.

Of course, a big thing was about to happen.

But if she caused such chaos now, Calix’s safety could be endangered.

Now, Calix’s bedroom, where Sharen had even installed special protection Magic, was the safest place.

Then Azel immediately went into action.

“Lord! It’s dangerous to come outside now. Please stay in your bedroom!”

“Wait! Azel!? Wait a minute!!”

Thump-!

Azel forcibly shoved Calix into the room.

Lana was a little embarrassed, watching the bedroom door close with a loud noise.

Is it okay to shove the Lord into the room like this?

But before she had time to think about it, it came.

“It’s coming! Lana!”

At Azel’s words, Lana immediately took off her maid’s skirt and pulled out two daggers hidden in her thighs.

Azel also drew his sword and took a stance.

It was because he had a feeling that he would not be able to communicate with the enemy coming now.

And that feeling was right.

Swoosh-!!

It appeared through the window in the distance.

It was like a black shadow.

It had the shape of a skeleton wearing a black shadow hood, but if you look closely, it was like a shapeless smoke.

And in the place where the eyes were, evil red lights were glaring at them.

It was like the Grim Reaper from the fairy tales she heard as a child.

“This is…”

“Azel, do you know what this is?”

“I’ve seen it in a book before.”

Azel recalled his memories from the Academy.

In the record of the battle with black Magic out of curiosity, Azel had seen this in front of him once.

This was one of the Wraiths that could be summoned with black Magic.

A Wraith that chases and takes lives to the end according to the summoner’s command. The name is definitely…

“『Shadow Reaper』 Yes, it’s definitely a Wraith called ‘Shadow Reaper’.”

“That’s good. Then, you know how to defeat it.”

“That’s…I didn’t see that part!”

“That’s a pity.”

While the two were talking, the Shadow Reaper acted.

Recognizing the two who were blocking him as enemies, the Reaper rushed at them.

“It’s coming!”

“Dodge!!”

The Reaper waved his hand in front of the two.

Azel and Lana hurriedly dodged left and right, avoiding the Reaper’s attack.

“Swoooooosh…”

The flower pot that was in the place where the Reaper attacked was cut off neatly as if it had been cut with a razor blade with a single gesture of the photo.

If you were hit by such an attack, even a knight’s armor would be cut like tofu.

The Reaper looked at Lana, one of the two who had avoided his attack.

It stared at Lana for a moment, then rushed at her like the wind and began to attack.

‘Fast!’

The Shadow Reaper chased Lana as fast as the wind and swung his hand.

Lana barely avoided the attack, but even she, who graduated at the top of the assassination department, felt that it was difficult to avoid the Reaper’s attack completely.

Whoosh-!

Lana, who couldn’t just be hit, threw a dagger at the Reaper’s skull.

The dagger pierced the skull’s forehead accurately.

But…

Swish-

“It passed through!?”

The dagger that Lana threw passed through the skull’s forehead as it was, or rather, passed through.

Lana was embarrassed by the feeling that she didn’t feel any hand taste as if she had pierced the air, when the Reaper’s hand covered Lana.

“Lady Lana!”

When Azel looked, the Reaper’s hand was like a death sentence to Lana, who was floating in the air.

But the moment the Reaper’s hand was about to touch Lana, Lana disappeared.

“Kaak!?”

“Huh?”

The Reaper also seemed embarrassed when the woman he was trying to kill disappeared in an instant.

In the meantime, Lana, who teleported with the dagger she had thrown, fled to Azel’s side.

“Lady Lana! You’re safe.”

“Hoo, I thought I was going to die.”

Lana, who had escaped to Azel’s side, took a breath.

The Reaper was still looking around, unable to find Lana, as if he hadn’t found Lana yet.

“What should we do? That Reaper monster seems to be a ghost-type monster that I’ve heard rumors about.”

“Yes, I think so.”

Lana and Azel had also learned at the Academy.

There are monsters like ghosts in the world, and they can only be dealt with with ‘equipment blessed by the Order’ or ‘divine Magic’.

“With my current equipment, I have no way to harm that monster. Do you have any, Azel?”

“…………”

Azel pondered.

He wondered if it was right to show it here, something he hadn’t even told his Golden Knights colleagues.

“Azel?”

“……”

After hesitating for a while, Azel made up his mind.

He was going to use it to save the Lord who understood him and the friend he made for the first time here.

His father would surely understand.

“Lana…I want to ask you one thing, trusting Lana.”

“Yes, Azel, please tell me.”

Azel stepped forward.

The moonlight coming in through the broken window began to shine on her.

“I hope you will keep what you see from now on a secret.”

“I will keep it a secret. I swear on the honor of the Ansus family…no, the Lord.”

Smiling as if satisfied with Lana’s words, Azel grabbed his sword.

And she used her Blessing.

“Moonlight that leads me, Goddess that guides me.”

The world became quiet as if the commotion until just now was unbelievable.

The green moonlight shining in the castle began to be sucked into her sword.

“Dwell in my sword, give me the power of purification.”

As soon as she finished speaking, her sword began to shine with the power of moonlight.

This is Azel’s Blessing .

With the ability to create a sword blessed by the moon, she could exert stronger power when fighting on a moonlit night, thanks to this ability.

That’s why her nickname was ‘Knight of the Moonlight’, and this was Azel’s ability known to the Golden Knights and the Prince.

Azel’s hidden true ability of her Blessing was not simply getting stronger when fighting at night.

Her sword, which gained the power of moonlight with a sword shining with moonlight, gained a powerful power to destroy evil.

“Kaaaaaaa…”

The Reaper finally recognized Lana and Azel.

And he felt it instinctively.

That emerald-like sword shining green with moonlight was his nemesis.

The emotion of fear began to sprout in the Shadow Reaper, where there should be nothing.

“Poor Wraith…”

Moonlight began to overflow from her sword.

The Shadow Reaper chose to run away with the interpretation that he had to survive for the mission.

He ran away much faster than when he rushed at Lana.

“Return to where you should be!”

Azel swung the Moonlight Sword at such a Wraith.

A blade of green light spewed from the sword flew towards the Reaper.

No matter how fast the Reaper was like the wind, it was night now, and it was the time of the Moon Goddess.

“Kaaaaaaak!!!!”

The Reaper, caught in the moonlight blade, was purified with a bizarre scream as his whole body was torn apart.

The castle, where the Shadow Reaper had disappeared, became quiet again.

* * *

After the Reaper disappeared, Azel began to panic.

“Lady Lana! What should we do with this?”

“Deal with it?”

“I want to hide my Blessing!”

“I see, that’s what you’re worried about.”

In this world, the ability of Blessing was kept secret even from one’s own lord.

Lana also did not tell the Princess all the abilities of Blessing.

Lana, who thought that Azel also wanted to hide the ability of Blessing due to personal circumstances, told Azel how to do it.

“I think it would be like this.”

Azel was embarrassed when she heard Lana’s thoughts, but she decided to follow Lana’s words because it would help the Lord’s reputation.

And 10 minutes later, Calix was running in the castle.

“I can’t forgive you. You monsters! How dare you hurt my vassals!!”

What Calix saw when he opened the door was Lana and Azel, who were covered in wounds.

They said that they fought to protect Calix, but they were not enough, and Calix encouraged their struggle and stepped up to call other knights.

Then Azel…

“Just in case, please take my sword. Lord, it will definitely be helpful.”

Calix, who had no weapon, took her sword according to Azel’s words and went outside the castle.

It was a little strange that Azel’s sword was emitting green light, but Calix thought that it was treated with luminous paint to make it visible at night, and he took it out without thinking.

As he was about to go out like that, Calix met Ricain and the knights who had come to clean up the situation outside.

“Lord!”

“Are you safe!?”

“Yes, I’m safe. Azel and Lana are injured inside. Please treat them.”

“Yes! I understand.”

Just when he thought the situation was settled and was about to feel relieved, a piece of the Shadow Reaper reacted to the energy of the Moonlight Sword that killed him.

“Kaaaaaaak!!”

“That’s!!!”

“Protect the Lord!!”

The small piece of Shadow Reaper, which suddenly popped out of the darkness, flew straight towards Lord Calix.

At the sudden appearance of the guy, Calix reflexively swung the sword Azel gave him.

“Aish! You surprised me!”

Swish-!

“Kieeeeeek!!”

The Shadow Reaper, who was already so weak that he didn’t even have the strength to kill an ant, was purified and disappeared by Azel’s sword that Calix swung.

A moment of silence flowed among the knights and the people who saw the scene.

And they began to shout.

“Did the Lord just cut down the Wraith!?”

“The Lord himself has defeated the evil Wraith!”

Calix couldn’t keep up with the situation at the sight of the knights and people cheering suddenly.

“…What happened?”

That day, another song about the Silver Dragon of Crone was created.

It was a song about a young lord who defeated an evil Wraith.

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