episode_0103

“How…?”

Anna’s expression was calm, almost serene, as if she had foreseen the current situation or had incited it.

It was so embarrassing that I thought I was on the verge of life or death.

no way….

“Are you using us as bait?”

I asked him with a suspicious look, but all I got in return was a mocking expression of absurdity.

“Phew. As expected, you say thank you in a crooked way?”

“… I didn’t really mean to do that. I just wonder why I came to this place at such a time when there were no mana detection devices installed.”

“Why is there no mana detection device?”

“What?”

In response to my question, Anna approaches me with a grin and immediately puts her hand into my top pocket.

Rachel tried to block his bold actions with her sword, but she raised her hand to stop him, as it seemed like he had no disrespectful intentions.

After a while.

Anna took out her pocket and held a small bead in her hand.

It was a single, pitch-black bead, as if it had been carved from obsidian.

And only after seeing that did I realize how the current situation had come to be.

A pitch-black bead in Anna’s hand.

The orb that had lost its original white color was a mana detection device assigned today, and it was left over after all installations in the area were completed.

I put it in my coat pocket with the intention of returning it when I met Anna tomorrow.

It may have been a series of coincidences that Anna happened to have one bead left over today, that she had thoughtlessly put it in her jacket pocket, and that she had not slept at night and was wearing the same jacket instead of changing it, but it was unlikely that Anna had intended to do so.

As it happened, the remaining orb was in the top pocket, and it absorbed Daron’s dark magic and sent a signal to Anna.

It’s hard to believe that so many coincidences can happen in a row, but at least I’ve avoided the misfortune of having to hug Deron and jump into the ice lake.

Anna smiled mischievously, holding out her beads as if to show off.

“Here you are? Mana detection device?”

“… I didn’t know.”

“Don’t blame me, I was the bait.”

“I never blamed you. It’s just too weird to be a mere coincidence.”

Anna shrugged and put the blackened beads into her pocket.

“That’s life. It was a strange coincidence that I met you in the vast Daegongyeong. Anyway, I’ll say thank you since I was able to arrest you.”

bang!

Quagga River!

“Fuck! Solve this!!”

Meanwhile, Deron was struggling inside the barrier.

No, to be exact, it seemed like the black magic that had taken over Daron was radiating.

Sticky black tentacles, wet-looking black smoke, and a hideous mouth occasionally poking out of Deron’s face.

The sight was like a writhing in agony, almost like an exorcism.

“Khaaak-!!”

I muttered while looking at that guy.

“But isn’t it too early to be confident that we’ve arrested him?”

Kuung!

Although I don’t have specific knowledge, I do know that magic barriers are high-level magic with advanced techniques, and that they do not have absolute defensive performance.

It also means that the caster’s mana is consumed to maintain it.

The barrier will be released when Anna’s mana runs out, and since it is not an absolute barrier, the barrier can be broken depending on the bastard’s power.

Kwakang!

Kuung!

A situation where you are very likely to suffer a setback if you take your time.

However, despite the worried question, Anna folded her arms with a calm expression and spoke while looking at the guy inside the barrier.

“If it had been even a little bit later, I wouldn’t have been able to guarantee it. Because the rampage would have started. And once the rampage started, the barrier would be useless.”

“If we leave it like this, won’t it eventually start to run wild?”

“Put. It would be like that if it were a normal boundary.”

hmm?

Are there any barriers that have special abilities even within the barrier?

Anna smiled with a somewhat proud look, along with a look of contempt.

“That’s a Clod barrier that purifies polluted mana. It’s a high-level magic that only the most skilled people in the association can use. Is this your first time seeing it?”

A Clod barrier that purifies black magic.

So that’s why you were screaming in pain and throwing tantrums like that?

In the end, exorcism is exorcism.

By the way, since you were able to purify the contaminated mana, it seems that the world of magic is a place with profound and outstanding technology.

Because it is replacing modern science and medicine.

-Kkieek!

-Crrr!!

-Crunch…!

If you look closely at the inside of the barrier, you can see thin blue lines running through its body, as if electricity is flowing through it.

And soon, the stems began to grow thicker and stronger, and began to spread throughout the entire interior of the barrier.

“Khaaah—!!”

The writhing of the black magic gradually diminishes as the screams of the thing grow louder.

The attacks that were pouring down as if they were going to shatter the barrier began to lose their strength, and soon.

-Keeeek—!!

With the final scream, the blue lines that had covered the inside of the barrier began to disappear.

At the same time, Anna snapped her fingers, and the dome-shaped barrier gradually disappeared from the top.

Deron Kelly has been revealed again.

Black magic slowly consumes the user’s body and contaminates their mind, eventually turning them into a monstrous beast with only their instincts left behind.

As if to prove it, symptoms such as prominent black veins, blackened pupils, and rotting and decaying parts appear.

Before the barrier was established, Deron was like that, but after the purification barrier was lifted, he showed no symptoms.

The black spots that had appeared like hives and the black veins that had spread like lightning had disappeared, and the eyes that had once burned with pitch-black flames had now revealed clear blue pupils.

of course.

“Fuck… ! What the fuck… !!”

The turbid anger contained in those clear blue eyes was still there.

He waved his hand in the air as if he was trying to use black magic, but all that appeared was dust.

“Damn it!! How dare these bastards-!!”

Kwajik!

He broke the wooden stick that was standing next to him and sharpened the end.

Then he runs towards us, screaming in evil spirits.

“ Die- !!

of course.

But the one without black magic was no longer a threat.

He raised golden mana in his left hand, which was not holding the sword.

I had no intention of swinging my sword at him unless he was a threat.

Because there is someone else who can handle the guy.

Phagec!

I fired a lightning spell at the guy who was rushing at me.

“Ugh-!”

Chijijik… .

A person who was directly hit by a brain attack trembles violently and falls down.

A cloud of smoke rises above the fallen man’s body.

As if to announce the end of a tenacious, vicious, and wicked relationship.

Kyle Bellaron, abandoned by his family and whose life or death is uncertain.

Blund Rospell, who was abandoned by his family and lost his mind.

and.

The instigator of all events.

From the son of a duke who reigned at the top of the social hierarchy and was treated with splendid honor, to Deron Kellid, who became a low-class criminal who was treated with no respect anywhere and ended up on the street in misery.

It was a truly fitting end and a truly lawful punishment for the evildoers who had trampled and abused a life to the brink of death.

also.

It was a truly absurd yet wonderful ending to a story about a house full of stray dogs that put a perfect period on the story.

Those who should not have light lose it as is, and through complete downfall, they settle their evil deeds and apologize to those who owe them money.

Of course, it would be a more perfect ending if he directly apologized to the person he owed money to and reflected on his actions, but this would be enough to heal the wounds in Lumiang’s heart and prepare him to move forward from his painful past.

Anna looked at the fallen man and asked.

“What are you going to do?”

Asking about the disposition of the guy.

Since he attempted to massacre even the good citizens of the land south of the Grand Duke’s territory using black magic, it would be right to ask the owner of the land about his punishment.

He answered while looking at Lumiang.

“I guess I should hand it over to someone who wants to judge it.”

Who would want Deron Kelly’s judgment more than anyone else?

Logan, Duke of Winterfell.

I plan to take him and face him.

I plan to hand him over so that he can be personally punished for his crimes, and at the same time, I plan to gauge his intentions regarding Lumiang.

If Lumiang officially joins our expedition and heads to the eastern part of the Grand Duchy, we need to understand his father’s intentions before we can avoid any trouble later.

If it were against his will for Lumiang to join us, the other members of the expedition would be put in danger.

That’s why.

“I’ll be back. Everyone is waiting at the dorm.”

They put a hood over his face, tied him up, and headed straight for the castle.

I headed to the Great Castle again, leading the regretful character who was the root cause of this situation and could put an end to all the stories.

Back to where it all began.