episode_0161

“Now, now, everyone! Calm down a bit!”

“To think they would start rampaging again as soon as they woke up…”

After Leon left with Lucy to discuss strategies for attacking the .

The dwarves who had fainted began to wake up one by one.

That alone wouldn’t be a problem, but the issue was that the awakened dwarves started rampaging without any order.

“Tch… there are too many, so the prepared sleeping poison is insufficient!…”

Seollin immediately used sleeping poison to put the rampaging dwarves back to sleep the moment they started, but she struggled quite a bit to completely subdue them because there were so many dwarves rampaging.

“I shall purify you.”

In this situation, a calm voice was heard.

Rebiya, who was being protected at the rear by Baekryeon, was quietly praying with both hands clasped tightly.

“You who are lost and cannot see ahead, I accept your darkness, I shall purify you.”

Brilliant divine power rippled like an explosion.

The miracle of divine power caused by Rebiya spread to the dwarves, and the movements of the dwarves who were wildly and violently rampaging began to stop.

Then, they collapsed as if they were dolls with their strings cut.

“Oh, what happened?”

“Lady Rebiya? Did you do that?”

The gazes of Baekryeon, Seollin, and Dain all converge on Rebiya.

As everyone’s attention focused on her, Rebiya blushed as if she were embarrassed and covered her face with both hands gathered for prayer, saying,

“When Lucy-nim and Seollin-nim examined the dwarves earlier… there was a strange mark on the fainted dwarves….”

“So, you erased all the marks with that just now?”

“Yes, yes! That…, I felt a similar energy to the Master of the Magic Tower that I saw in the Magic Kingdom before… It would be difficult to erase it one by one, so I thought it would be okay to explode the divine power at once.”

She spoke lightly as if it were nothing, but Baekryeon and Seollin could not hide their surprise inside.

They knew Rebiya to some extent.

Therefore, they also knew that she was ignorant of combat.

In such a chaotic situation, to immediately judge and come up with a solution…

“What’s going on?”

“I felt Lady Rebiya’s divine power exploding, did something happen?”

“Ah, Young Master Leon. Lucy-ssi. Have you come?”

“It’s nothing much. The dwarves who had fainted woke up and suddenly started rampaging… but Rebiya solved it.”

Leon, who had finished talking with Lucy, returned to his seat and looked around at the chaotic situation and nodded as if he understood.

“Although they were suppressed by being knocked unconscious, the influence of the did not completely disappear. So, is it okay now?”

“That’s right. It was resolved by Lady Rebiya’s performance.”

“More than that, Lucy, why didn’t you say anything? You said there was a strange mark on the dwarves. Shouldn’t you have been able to feel it too if you are a nun like Rebiya?”

“Oh my? Was there? I didn’t see it?”

When Seollin frowned and glared at Lucy, she shrugged as if she really didn’t know.

Seollin didn’t seem to like Lucy’s appearance, but she knew that there was no point in arguing further in the current situation, so she shifted her gaze from Lucy to Rebiya and said.

“Honestly, when Leon tried to bring you along, I couldn’t understand why he was going through such a troublesome thing to bring you… Now I understand. You anticipated this situation?”

“That’s right. Goodness… The most useless people in this group are not me and Lady Rebiya, but just me alone.”

“N, No, that’s not true…”

Rebiya’s face turned red at the pouring compliments from Seollin and Baekryeon, and she bowed her head deeply.

…No, I just brought Rebiya as a lucky charm, but somehow she became a prophet who predicted the aftermath.

Well, it’s not cool to say no to this kind of thing, so I just passed it over and turned my gaze to Lucy, who was next to me.

“So, you really didn’t know?”

“I really didn’t know. Maybe… Rebiya-nim is chosen as a saintess. Maybe she reacts more sensitively to demons than I do. In the first place, no matter how much I receive the goddess’s mercy and perform my duties as a nun, the fact that I am a mixed-race of blood fiend and succubus will not change.”

Hmm….

In other words, she can be used not only as a lucky charm but also as a detection agent… That might be good.

I can detect physical signs, but I am ignorant of this kind of thing. Originally, Lucy would have detected this interference, but if she can detect something that even Lucy cannot detect…

“…Rebiya.”

“Y, Yes!”

“Good job. You saved us.”

“!!”

Rebiya showed an amazing technique of bowing her head while keeping it lowered to my praise.

“Then… I’ll summarize what I talked about with Lucy. The is probably divided into an intangible form that is invisible to us and the main body. What I met was the former.”

“Then we should aim for the main body?”

“That’s right. The main body is probably in the underground of the World Tree.”

“The legend of the Orcs, you mean?”

As expected, Baekryeon and Seollin both seemed to realize what I was trying to say at once.

“So, we will divide into 3 groups. Actually, even if it’s 3 groups, it’s practically the same as 2 groups. It seems like the battle will proceed with 2 of the 3 groups being half-joined.”

“I see. I roughly know what it will be like. Are Seollin and I on the same team?”

“Move with 3 people including Rebiya. Rebiya’s support ability will greatly enhance your abilities.”

“M, Me?!…”

Rebiya looked at me in surprise.

“That’s right. Do you remember the buff I gave you when I went to face the Orcs before? Give that to Baekryeon and Seollin. Of course… you shouldn’t become incapacitated after using it once, so please divide your strength appropriately. Is it possible?”

“…I, I’ll try.”

“Then what about the rest? You will probably face the intangible form. Who will find the main body?”

“Lucy will take it. And…”

My gaze stopped at Dain.

As a result, everyone’s gaze also gathered on Dain.

As everyone’s attention focused on him, Dain looked at me with a dumbfounded expression.

“M, Me?…”

“I need your help. You will probably have to go deep underground of the World Tree. And underground is the dwarves’ specialty. I hope you can help Lucy not get lost and move forward properly there.”

“M, Me?!… Th, That…”

“You don’t have to refuse. I can do it alone. But… this operation can only be used once. If this operation fails, the will hide its main body in a more difficult place to find. If that happens… we will not be able to stop the .”

He said he would guide us to the dwarves’ underground city, but it seems burdensome to ask him to join us on the journey to defeat the .

Lucy added an extra hit to Dain, who was hesitating like that.

“Did you see? Your race was going crazy due to the influence of the . Can you really stop that alone? Until our warrior defeats the ?”

“!!”

“Isn’t that a threat, Lucy-ssi?”

“I’m just telling the truth. Baekryeon-nim.”

It sounds a bit rough and like a threat, but it was true.

If we don’t stop the , we can’t guarantee that this kind of situation won’t happen again.

In addition, we were lucky to be here this time, so we could stop it, but if something like this happens again when we are not here…

“…I’ll say it in advance, I don’t have the same monstrous combat abilities as you guys.”

“Lucy and I will take care of the battle, so don’t worry. You just need to take Lucy to the bottom of the World Tree, deep into the roots… and somehow guide her to where the ‘s main body is. If you do just that, I will solve everything.”

I thought I heard Dain gulping.

That’s how nervous and worried he must be. I didn’t rush him to answer and waited for him to choose on his own.

After a moment of contemplation, Dain decided.

“A, Alright. I will follow you… and cooperate in the subjugation!”

“Good. It’s decided.”

* * *

“Hoo…”

“Indeed, there seem to be quite a few good resources here?”

The dwarves, who were in charge of investigating resources and creating underground tunnels in the empty Orc territory, wiped the sweat from their foreheads and took out the food they had brought to munch on.

“I wonder if Chief Dain is okay.”

“I know, right. To take humans to the underground city…”

“…I touched the holy sword, so I have no regrets…”

Holy Sword.

According to legend, it is the legendary sword made of the most perfect metal.

Dwarves, especially very experienced dwarves, can tell what materials went into the weapon just by touching it.

The dwarves here were also dwarves with some experience, so they were so shocked just by touching the holy sword that it was new to them.

“Keuh, my body is itching. I want to hammer right away!”

“Who isn’t? I’m overflowing with ideas after touching the holy sword.”

[I would like to ask you something.]

“Huh?…Waaaaaaaah?!”

The dwarves screamed loudly at the sudden voice and rolled their bodies.

Then, they hurriedly picked up anything that could be used as a weapon, such as hammers, and aimed them.

“M, Magic beast?!”

“It’s so big!… What the heck is it?!”

“There is a Blue Tiger habitat nearby…”

What was in front of their eyes was a very large tiger.

It was also a white tiger with clean fur, a tiger that they had to look up at for a long time. It looked at the dwarves for a moment and said.

[A group of humans must have passed through here. Can you tell me where they went?]

“H, Human group?”

“Are you talking about the warrior group with the holy sword?”

[That’s right.]

“If it’s them…, they went to our underground city…”

“Hey, hey, why are you telling them that!”

The others were horrified and stopped the dwarf who was blurting out the truth without realizing it because he was so surprised.

The giant tiger looked at the scene and groaned as if in trouble.

[Rest assured. I am…]

The tiger’s words were not finished.

Kwaaaang!!!!