Chapter 199 – Light of the Holy Sword

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Due to the barrier of the Great War, which was activated by refining the magical power drawn from the spirit vein, the royal road had strong protection against threats from the outside to the inside.

Thanks to that, at least the people of the royal capital won’t have to worry about invaders suddenly jumping in from beyond the walls.

In the previous war, it was a defensive measure created from lessons learned after suffering great sacrifices by the Imperial Army, which quickly closed the encirclement.

Almost 30 years since the barrier was created.

People have forgotten about the peace that the church, kingdom, and barriers provide.

Where people live, trouble can arise at any time.

To live without looking at it and not caring about it, just drive it into a trash can called ‘back alley’.

Perhaps, in that back alley, there is an organization that worships, summons, and works with demons.

Abducting people from the royal capital, extracting their souls and forcibly remodeling their bodies to serve as soldiers.

You wouldn’t even dream that there would be people who would launch a surprise attack on the ‘monastery’, which can be said to be sacred ground.

Of course. A barrier had already been placed around the monastery to prevent screams and sounds from leaking out.

The abbot of the monastery was the first to feel the energy that jumped out of the air as if the shadow of the moonlight was replacing the transfer door.

“Such… The barrier of the monastery that is connected to the spirit vein…”

Her gaze her is the leading female warrior who appears leading the brainwashed women …

I headed for ‘Remilia’, who was making eye contact with the director with a magic spear.

“Could it be… Raymond?”

When her her old friend her, whom she had n’t seen in a while, appeared in front of her in her greatly changed form, her director looked at her with a look of astonishment.

As for Remilia, she sighs and raises the corners of her mouth as she sees her director recognizing her her.

Somewhere, she seemed to be feeling something close to her reassurance that she recognized herself.

“As expected, you’ll find out at once.”

“Why do you look like that… You can’t believe you… Sold your soul to the devil!?”

At the director’s words, Raymond snorted and placed his spear on his shoulder.

In the eyes of her director, that demonic spear seemed to contain more ferocious magic than the spear she used before.

“I sold not only my soul, but also my body. Now I am ‘Remilia’.”

“…Why—why would you do that…! Are you planning to turn this royal capital that child protected into a demon’s lair!?”

When she spoke as if blaming her Remilia, Remilia shut her mouth for a moment, then she turned her gaze into a stern look.

It was sometimes shown in the war with the Empire in the past…

When her comrades her were attacked by enemies, when someone dear to her was severely injured, when she saw buildings burning and imperial soldiers plundering.

It was the look on his face of her when he was genuinely angry.

“Which one is the real devil… Well, that’s not so important now. I’ll ask you as an old friend. There will be a guy named ‘Eustes’ here. Hand him over.”

“… As an old friend, I will politely decline. All gathered here are under my protection. I will not hand over a single one to the devil.”

Tension runs quietly between the two.

Remilia then sighed and instructed the brainwashed soldiers standing behind her.

“…You guys, find Eustes. The rest is fine.”

The soldiers nodded and ran out in all directions. The number seemed to be about 20 people.

“Angels Prison!”

In the next moment, a huge prison of divine magic spreads out, covering the entire space where they were standing.

Iron bars that look like angel wings are spread all over the place, blocking the path of the brainwashed soldiers.

Her divine magic Her, which I had never seen before, was in a much more powerful and ranged state compared to that time.

Of course, even taking into account the advantage of the home ground of the monastery, it could be said that using such a large and advanced binding magic was unexpected.

Remilia slowly turned her gaze toward her old friend her, who had unleashed such magic with her unchanted chant her.

“Are you serious? You’re going to deal with all of us by yourself?”

In order to break this barrier, it would be impossible without subjugating her caster or killing her.

That meant that not a single brainwashed soldier would be sent out from within.

“You are not alone.”

When she said that, a spider’s web stretched from the sky suddenly stuck to the leg of one of the soldiers, wrapped around her body her, and hung it from the ceiling of the barrier.

As if it had been transformed into a living cocoon, it moved vigorously, but then slowly stopped as the web hardened.

The one who lightly stepped into the barrier was Anansi, who ran to stop them while leaving Rosaria in her room.

“A man who sold his soul his to the devil walked into the realm I guarded.”

When Anansi muttered that while looking at Remilia, Remilia snorted at her with a ‘huh’.

“Is it Arachne’s high-ranking servant… ? No way, I thought he was raising monsters inside the monastery.”

“…”

Those words were remarks that accurately touched Anansi’s wrath of her.

“…I’ll make it into a cocoon, inject poison into it, and melt it alive. Human…!”

“Saying things that you don’t know which one is the villain…”

She laughed at Anansi’s spine-chilling threat of her, and she fixed the red magic spear she was holding in her hand and took her javelin’s stance of her.

“I won’t let you do anything! Shine Spear!”

When the director waved her arm at Remilia, an illusion of a divine yet gigantic spear appeared, shooting at her at the same speed as her lightning.

Even if it was her friend her from the past, it was an expression of her determination her that she would not hesitate to take her life her in one blow if it meant harm to this monastery.

However. It was the helpless humans who stood behind her to stop it.

“Kuh…!”

And those who spread their arms and block the window with a wall of black magic.

It was just to protect Remilia, who could be said to be her commander her, without her will her.

Even if the body is contaminated by black magic is slowly burned by divine magic.

She was prepared to bury her old friend her.

But- the lives of those whose minds are controlled by demons-

When such thoughts pass through the director’s head, the power of the illusion of the spear weakens without realizing it.

It was also unintentional for her.

“It’s your fault that you’re too kind. That’s why I got along with him, but…”

In the meantime, Remilia, who finished injecting magic into the magic spear, revealed the name of her magic spear her.

[Ge Darug]

Got the card! A red crystal-like substance grows from the window with a raspy sound.

Then, the javelin fired from Remilia’s shoulder her turned into a red flash and flew in a straight line.

That, leaving behind even the sound—

It flew as if it passed between the director and Anansi, and got stuck in the spreading barrier.

“That, spear… I can’t believe it…!”

“Your memory seems to be getting worse because of your age, right? As you know, this is an item used by an officer of the Imperial Army to destroy the barrier.”

At the same time as Remilia explained the effect of the spear, the barrier was broken and the director received the feedback from there and knelt down, bleeding from her mouth.

“Kuh…! You bastard…!”

Anansi was enraged and fired a wave of spider webs, but when Remilia reached out her hand her, the flying spear returned to her hand her and her spear rotated at high speed like the blades of a windmill, blocking her web she of.

“Now. The barrier is gone. Your body, which opened the barrier with the power of [Ge Darug], Is also a mess. There’s no need to negotiate anymore.”

When Remilia says so, her soldiers try to move again.

Anansi tried to stop it, but she was interrupted by moving her body her to avoid the tip of Remilia’s spear, which in an instant pierced her arms her.

Despite evading as soon as she recognized it with her eyes her, she sees that the tip of her spear grazed her arm her and blood gushed out.

“…”

Anansi’s eyes looking at Remilia were colder than before.

But- at the same time, her white hair is dyed red.

Like sucking her blood her.

Anansi, who felt that her anger had become more calm than she could express, decided to kill Remilia in front of her eyes.

Meanwhile, brainwashed soldiers enter the hallway and break down the door to see the humans inside.

“What, what are these guys!?”

“Are they the devil’s subordinates!?”

Those who woke up to the turmoil, but couldn’t come out easily, met them and tried to resist in bewilderment.

It was too much for a womanized body.

And, before long, the devil’s clutches spread to Eustes’s room.

The brainwashed soldier breaks down the door to find Eustes and goes inside to look around.

There was a sign of a person, but it was invisible to the eye.

In her eyes her, she saw a beautiful silver sword that was neatly placed.

The holy sword, Misteltein.

A holy sword owned by Eustes.

Although she had lost her powers due to the demon’s magic in the previous kidnapping case.

Lately, as it slowly regains its power, it can be seen that the lost sparkle is also returning.

And, the light emitted by Mistiltein’s blade felt even more beautiful to those tainted with dark magic.

Like a moth attracted to a bright light, the brainwashed soldier felt the commands being input fade in his head and slowly walked toward the sword.

Soon, even the weapon I was holding in my hand dropped and the moment I tried to touch the sword-

“Ha!”

Eustes, who had been hiding in the closet, jumped out and grabbed her body.

Considering common sense, it was unreasonable for Eustes, who was already sufficiently feminine, to restrain her body for a long time.

Fortunately, she already had a secondary spell to enhance her abilities in her.

“Liza! Now!”

“Yes, yes…! Sand powder that induces sleep! Even you who suffer from insomnia are cool! ‘Sleep’!”

As Liza shouted, something like powder made of divine magic appeared on her hand.

When Liza throws her powder in a pitcher’s pose and hits the brainwashed soldier in the face of her.

She coughed several times before collapsing and falling asleep.

“Whoa, whoa… That was dangerous…”

“Okay…”

Eustes was initially concerned about Liza’s strange incantation of her, but she decided to put it aside for now, and took her Mistiltein from her desk and hung it around her waist of her.

“I’m glad the director told you to protect Eustes first.”

“…Their purpose is me?”

When Eustes heard that, he clenched his fists and looked outside.

There, Remilia and Anansi could be seen fighting a duel, moving at invisible speeds.

“…Are you aiming for a time when Cleon isn’t around?”

“Perhaps… Now, let’s go downstairs first.”

When Liza said that, Eustes tilted her head.

I’ve never heard of a basement in this monastery.

“…Underground?”

“Yes. It’s the basement of the monastery. The basement is physically blocked by a strong iron gate, so it will take a long time for them to enter. In the meantime, if Mr. Perdia brings the maids from the Tromeia family.. .”

“Are you hiding until then… But, if I don’t come out and others suffer…”

When Eustes bows his head as if indignant, Liza sighs and talks to him.

“The most important thing is not to let the enemy’s goals be achieved… Please don’t think of giving yourself up to them, even by mistake. Okay?”

“…Of course. That level of discernment is possible.”

If Mistil Tane’s power had returned even a little bit, she would have been able to join the fight herself.

Blaming himself for being still weak, Eustes followed Liza.

However, when he came out into the hallway, he saw a larger number of brainwashed soldiers approaching Eustes than he expected.

“No way, there are already so many…”

When Liza bites his lower lip, grabbing the cross he wears around his neck her.

He plucks out the tip of the cross and creates a blade of divine magic.

“Five.”

At the tip of a small piece of wood, a sword of light resembling a rapier was created.

“Is it time to admire…!? We have to somehow break through and get to the underground door!”

“Ah, ah. Got it.”

Eustes also pulled out his iron sword at her words.

The iron sword could be coated with holy water in advance to disable their armor and inflict damage, but since it had a physical form, it could pierce their bodies and lead to their death.

“…Should I only use it for defense…!”

Eusthes knew that too, so while swallowing her saliva, he made eye contact with Liza and nodded her head.

And the moment the two of them started to step forward at the same time-

Charleureuk! They feel that something is caught in their leg.

“Eh.”

“Uh?”

The two of them looked down with such silly voices.

From behind, they saw the brainwashed soldier they had defeated, extending a chain of dark magic and grabbing their legs.

“Hey, wait!”

“Why already!”

At the same time, the bodies of the two were suspended from the ceiling by chains against gravity.

Liza threw her nun’s uniform inside out, blocking her view of her, and Eustes dropped her iron sword.

“Gwa, are you okay? Mr. Eustes!?”

Liza struggles with his leg while talking to her, but Eustes looks at the brainwashed soldier approaching him.

“You fool, Eustes. These children are ‘brainwashed’. Even if they fall asleep, controlling their brains to move their bodies is nothing.”

“That voice… You must be Ishtal from Astarote…”

“That’s the correct answer. I guess Cleon told me this and that? It wouldn’t do anything to tell a guy like you.”

At her words, Eustes gritted his teeth and clenched his fists while grinding.

“Half a hero. Sinner’s blood runs through his body. Alas, your father was a really annoying man. He interfered with our commerce and ruled the back alleys with money.”

“…”

Eustes remembered her dead father at her words her.

Although he was a trashy man of the lowest level, Astarothe was unable to come to the fore thanks to him holding the commercial power of her back alley.

“And you too… Whoa. But, it’s different now. I never thought you’d be our trump card.”

When the brainwashed soldier reached out and tried to grab Eustes’ face, Eustes rejected it by shaking his body.

“…You mean you still have things to protect? Your body, your pride, your soul. They’ve already been dropped to the ground by us. Rather than continuing to live like this and suffering shame, I’d recommend dying cleanly?”

When Ishtal said that, Eustes glared at her.

“…Because of a devil like you… The kingdom’s people are constantly suffering…!”

“Yes, because the devil’s job is to torment humans.”

When Ishtal shrugged her shoulders as if for granted, Eustes raised her voice in exasperation.

“Deceive people, seduce them, prevent them from meeting their families, and eventually take away their ego and soul… Such evil deeds…! I will never forgive them!”

“Haa… So? What’s possible while hanging from the ceiling? Hero?”

However, Ishtal speaks as if Eustes’ behavior is ridiculous.

“Look carefully. You look… You’ve become so weak and cute that you can’t even swing a sword properly, right? And thanks to that, I think you’ve come to know the joy of being a ‘woman ‘ to some extent… Don’t pretend to be strong, Eustes. No, no. Justina. You are not a hero, but a Bunny Girl girl.”

Ishtal’s image was reflected in the eyes of the possessed woman.

As she said, her long hair was pulled down on her by gravity, and she felt ashamed when her clothes her turned inside out, revealing her breasts her.

But even so, Eustes could not accept her words of her. No, she had grounds not to admit it.

“I… No. Wrong…! Obviously, my body has become a woman, but my mind hasn’t changed… To cherish someone, to protect someone…!”

Her heart beats hot It was felt that the ‘magical organ’ that fluctuated inside her was trying to produce an unusually large amount of magical energy.

“I will wield the holy sword, even if I have to shave my body…! That’s my noblesse oblige…! This is my path as a hero!”

As if responding to Eustes’ determination of her, the Mistil Thein hanging from her waist her shone strongly.

“Oh…! No way, the power of crystal!?”

When Ishtal raised her voice in panic, the chains of black magic that restrained Eustes’ body her gradually disappeared and Eustes descended to the ground.

If you hold the silver sword that emits strong light, Mystiltane, and swing it toward Ishtal-

A ‘cut plane’ appears in the space as if scissors cut the space.

He cut off the clothes of black magic that wrapped around the brainwashed soldier, and destroyed the magic stone of black magic hidden inside.

Even so, her body was unharmed with no scars left anywhere.

“This…”

“What, what happened, Eustes!?”

Liza, along with Eustes, also fell to the ground, fixed her clothes and looked at her her holy sword her.

“I don’t know! Neither do I. But for some reason, my body seems to be overflowing with mana.”

“Well, then. That means I can defeat all the other soldiers too!”

Liza spoke as if she could see hope, and Eustes nodded her head in bewilderment.

“…Let’s go, Mistiltein!”

[──♪]

The holy sword glowed and made a sound.

Dimly, it seemed that she could hear her voice of her.