Chapter 288 – The Unusual Companion (Corrected)

000

“Really…! I’ve made friends at best, but it’s just such a nuisance!”

Watching Woodgart return, dragging enemies from the sky, the Dark Elf Sif clicked his tongue and grabbed his spear.

Her eyes were covered with an eyepatch, so she couldn’t see, so she was relying on her hearing her. Her ears her perked up as she chased the sky chariot pulled by goats ridden by the thunder lord’s attendants.

“Wait, if you throw a spear with those eyes and get hit by that stag beetle, it’s a loss of power. I have a bow, so leave it to me.”

However, Freya stopped Sif from throwing such a blind spear and hung her own arrow on her bow her.

“Ah, wait, wait. The guys in this area…”

Sif stopped the spear she was about to throw at Freya’s restraint her, but he hesitated as if he was trying to convey something.

In the meantime, Freya’s mistletoe arrows were fired and pierced the bodies of her flying companions.

Something like lightning exploded from his body her, and he fell off the chariot and collapsed on the ground.

The chariots and goats also scattered and disappeared in the air.

[Awesome. Is this a member of the World Tree?]

Utgart came down to the ground with the sound of his wings his, and deftly joined the side.

Immediately, Freyja’s bow was aimed at the giant stag beetle that came towards her.

Utgart looked at it and paused in mid-air for a moment. Soon hehe, he says while laughing.

[A member of the World Tree. Take a good look. I obviously have fine horns, but I’m not a goat.]

Paschuk! With the sound of slicing through the air, Freya’s arrow grazed Utgart’s side and pierced the ground.

“No, wouldn’t it be nice to apologize Utgart… That’s why he’s angry…”

[Sorry…]

The stag beetle, Cleon, who barely admits his fault at Sif’s words her, intervenes to calm Freya down next to him.

“…Just now, what were you talking about? Are there any changes within the Thunder Lord’s household in this realm?”

When Sif heard Cleon’s words, as if he had hurriedly remembered, he ran towards the place where his family her had crashed to the ground.

Then, there, a member of his family who had already been pierced was staggering and getting up from his seat.

“As expected, they’re still alive…! In this realm, their power is much stronger… All of these guys are maintained by the power of the Thunder Lord. And-“

Then, the metal of the body was twisted and deformed, and soon it was seen that the body began to create mistletoe-like thorns.

Of course, the material was metal, but Cleon and Freya felt goosebumps as they saw it covering him like a hedgehog.

“What is that…?”

“Well, it’s the ability to adapt. If you can’t kill in one hit, absorb the attack and evolve your body…”

Sif backs away from the nimble guy, and the metal follower walks around, creating numerous thorns like the Morning Star, who walks around while scattering lightning.

“…Gee, disgusting…”

Freya also frowned, as if she was offended by such a repulsive form.

[Dangerous]

“…Utgart?”

Utgart must have sensed something, and when he said that, he heard the sound of an electric kettle boiling somewhere.

[I feel a bad wind inside him. It smells like sulfur. And the smell of gunpowder.]

Cleon listened to Utgart’s words and was silent for a moment.

“Everyone behind me!”

He immediately stretched out his hand towards the front, and spread a magical barrier to protect the party.

In the next moment, with an eardrum-piercing sound like ‘Boom!’, Thorns protruded and spread from the guy’s body in all directions.

Hundreds of them, if he had received them as they were, the entire part facing him would have been covered with thorns.

Feeling cold sweat running down his back his, Cleon sighed in relief as he looked at the thorns bouncing in front of them.

“I got it right.”

“They said it smelled like gunpowder, so I didn’t expect it. … Becoming a bomb yourself. He is a dangerous guy.”

When Cleon captures his mana, it explodes from the inside and opens a hole in its place.

From that point on, I could see the figures of my friends slowly regenerating.

“…Gungnir!”

Sif shouted and threw her own spear.

While the spear was flying, it was stained with dark black magic and took on a crow-like form and attacked the Thunder Lord’s followers.

It voraciously devoured the remains of metal, then completely disintegrated its body, turning it into a mass of scrap metal.

Sooner or later, the souls of the family members are trying to get out of their bodies and return to the fortress.

Immediately Sif stretched out her hand her, and a black aura similar to the one that rose from her javelin radiated from her hand her, and she touched the spirit.

If you think that magic power has flowed once, that soul will fly while staggering.

“Did you just manipulate the crab’s memory?”

“That’s right. I’m glad if it went well.”

When Sif shrugged her shoulders, Cleon looked back at her as if she was okay.

“…Is there a chance of failure?”

“Very low. About 10%?”

“It’s pretty high…”

When Cleon answered like that, Sif said, ‘Ahaha.’ She smiled and looked up at him.

“He’s a very cautious type.”

“If you think that our location might be discovered, it’s inevitable.”

Sif nodded at Cleon’s words her.

“Don’t worry. Those who haven’t lost their memory will be tortured if they inform the lord of their failure, as they do. You won’t be able to talk about us so easily.”

“That’s good, but… More than that. Freya.”

Cleon picked up one of the thorns that burst out from behind and scattered everywhere, and looked back at Freyja, who was watching.

“…Don’t you have something to say to Sif?”

“…”

Sif tilted his head, but Freya looked at Cleon and Sif for a moment, then approached Sif.

“…Sorry for trying to ignore your advice. Next time I’ll be more careful.”

“What?!

When Sif shook her hand and said it was okay with her apology her, Utgart spoke too.

[Okay. Both of you need to be more careful.]

“Don’t you tell me…”

Sif catches such Utgart as if his head hurts him, and he decides to carry it himself.

“But, Utgart too. If you hadn’t told me about the smell, it would have been too late to hit the wall.”

[It would be fortunate if Cleon-sama had helped… Is this a pilgrimage to the Holy Land? There is a legendary being by my side.]

He spoke in a slightly thrilled voice, and Freya still treated Utgart as a strange being.

“Anyway, I knew I had to be careful with this. Let’s hurry up and move. The sound of the battle just now might bring other people around me.”

[…Great. Then, this time, scouting.]

“You stay still…!”

When Utgart tried to step out again, Sif caught and suppressed it.

Freyja took a step forward with Cleon as she pondered when this tumultuous journey would end.

001

“So … Luca Peru is saying that her parents sold their souls to that sorceress named Crowley?”

“Yes, that’s right… That’s not only theirs, but also my soul to be born later… So, I’ve been a slave to Mr. Crowley since I was born… Hehe…”

When Peru Luca said that, she smiled innocently, and Gray tilted her head in disbelief.

“How can you sell your soul?”

[It is to hand over the ownership of the soul. In the magician’s experiment, the human soul is a resource that is more precious and valuable than the human body. You are selling the right to decide what to do with that soul.]

“Ugh, something is difficult.”

At Hermes’ words, Gray’s shoulders drooped.

Gray walks with Peruluca and asks various things about her.

Certainly, she had her own curiosity her as well, but her suspicious eyes her toward her Peruvian Lucca had not gone away.

“…Those parents died shortly after I was born, being used for experiments using souls…”

“I-I see. I’m sorry for asking such an unnecessary question…”

Amelia found out the truth behind the sudden tragedy, though she spoke apologetically.

Peru Luca immediately shook her head.

“It’s okay… Because they’re blinded by gold, they’re selling their souls… Whoops, even if they die…”

Peru Luca let out her low, sullen laugh her as she spoke, and Amelia looked at her and said, ‘Ah, ha ha … Ha …’And let out her dry laugh.

Gray, on the other hand, was about to walk, paying attention to keeping his own stride the same as he walked, as if he had already grown tired of Peruluca’s story her.

“Something. I’m bored. Peruluca, what kind of magic can I use? I want you to show me.”

“Bee, please don’t talk like a cheater, the trauma will come back…”

Peru Luca shuddered at the dry gray’s attitude of her, but she immediately pulled out the bent wand tucked in her waist of her.

“Oh, most of the magic Crowley taught me was curse magic…”

“Is it a curse magic? For example… Put a curse that makes you fall easily…”

At Gray’s example, she answers while tilting her head.

“Uh, yes… I don’t put on a curse like that. I’m a curse that causes mental illness…”

“Heart disease…?”

“Yeah. Like making others jealous, suddenly getting very hungry. Being arrogant and not seeing the surroundings…”

“Is it possible for someone else to do that…?”

When Amelia questioned the kind of magic she could not easily believe, Peruluca nodded, raising the wand and pointing it at herself.

“…Sir, are you thinking of putting a curse on yourself!?”

“Uh, yes. It’s me, I’m the one who put the curse, so I can always get rid of it… But which one is better? Sloth, anger… I think walking around will be a problem. ..”

Any of these names sounded dangerous, but soon Peruluca swung her wand as if she had made up her mind and fired magic at herself.

The color was a suspicious pink.

“What kind of curse is that?”

When Gray came closer and asked if she was a little interested, Luca Peru opened her eyes after feeling the pink light covering her body her fade.

Her eyes of her were stained pink, like the magic she had shot at herself.

Then, Peru Luca looked at Gray and Amelia for a bit … And then, with her meager body her, she put her hand her on her lap her.

“Woo, Wooheung…♡”

She snorted to the fullest and she glanced at the two of them.

“…”

“…”

Unbeknownst to her, Amelia and Gray stopped in their tracks.

The cold wind blowing in the wilderness felt even colder and stingier.

The cold sweat wouldn’t stop flowing.

“…”

And Peru Luca, her face was so red that she felt like she was going to cry at any moment.

“Is it magic to become a clown…?”

“Ah, no… The magic of becoming a succubus-level attractive woman and a slut who can charm men…”

Amelia didn’t know what to say at Peru Luca’s words, but Gray shook her head.

“Even Cleon-san doesn’t serve that kind of thing… “

“Who is that!?”

Then, when the name Cleon came out of Gray, Amelia was able to feel the traces of her magical power that had been pursuing her all over again.

“…Gray, maybe, Cleon might be here.”

“Really!? How do you know the sword…?”

At Gray’s words, Amelia closed her eyes as well.

Then, Cleon’s pattern emerged from under her clothes, emitting a soft light.

“The mark of dominance…!”

Peruluca saw it and jumped at Amelia in surprise.

But when Gray slashed it away, he let out a whimper and backed away.

“What are you doing, this suspicious guy…!”

“Mi-sorry… But, it’s the first time I’ve really seen that…!”

Luca Peru looked through the dictionary in her bag as she spoke.

“That…?”

“Master’s book, the ‘Book of the Law’… It’s like an encyclopedia containing knowledge on various magic… I stole it after Master passed away.”

Looking at Peruluca talking proudly, Gray spoke casually.

“…I wonder if there was a way to use more proper magic there? Rather, magic such as breast enlargement or butt enlargement would have been able to enchant men more.”

“Sir, it’s noisy…”

And, soon, when you open a page, the pattern of the stamp of dominion was drawn there.

The details were a little different, but along with Crowley’s explanation that it was a pattern found in a clan of dark horses.

[Only a magic swordsman guided by a magic sword with the power of the stars can use the power of the imprint of control. Very interesting.]

It was also written with personal wishes.

“…A demonic sword with the power of the stars… Are you referring to the ‘Galatea’ that Cleon possesses?”

At Amelia’s words, Hermes stepped forward.

[Not sure. However, I believe that there is no doubt that Cleon and the magic sword that Cleon possesses are also special beings that are different from others.]

“From earlier, Cleon, Cleon. I’ve been saying, but who the hell is Cleon?”

Soon, the moment Amelia tries to kindly answer Peruluca’s question, who is concerned that there is a part of the conversation that cannot be followed.

The light went out above their heads.

“…”

The three of them looked up at the sky at the same time.

Then, in the empty sky until just now, I saw tanks gathering and looking down at them.

“…It’s a flying tank. How does it float?”

“…Everybody wore armor. …Looks like they’re tall for a dwarf…”

At Gray and Amelia’s respective attitudes, Peruluca replied with a fright.

“They’re all from the Thunder Lord’s household, and the armor is just a makeshift body. To defeat it completely, it must be destroyed in one blow.”

“In one blow, yes!”

Amelia jumped high the next moment, holding the blue wolf’s ice hammer.

A leap impossible with human muscle strength, of course, the thunder lord’s followers were also surprised by the action.

The next moment, when Amelia swings her hammer in the air, the people around her also fall to the ground at once.

All of them were hit by the hammer’s ice magic and Amelia’s divine magic at the same time, and their whole bodies were contorted.

“…Is this going to work?”

“Oh, that’s incredible strength…But it’s amazing…! With this, I might be able to do it!”

The next moment, unless their reinforcements arrive.

Gray looked at him and spoke quietly.

“…Pe, Ferrluca. The captivating magic from earlier. I’m going to try using the sword again now…”

“…M-I’m sorry. I can only use the same magic once a day…”

“It’s a useless sword…!”

In the face of a crisis that came to the surroundings, the princess and the detective decided to stand up against each other.

Along with the sorcerer who was a slave.