Chapter 340 – The Evil Plan

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Swaying body, burning eyes.

The shadow of Cleon, manifested by Wilhelmina’s necromancy, appears in an incomplete form wherever you look, but it pushes Alessios as if it were comparable to the original in terms of will, fighting spirit, and combat skills.

What I held in my hand was a jet-black sword that extended like an extension of my body.

Looking at that form, I felt like I was going to cry because I missed Lyla and Beatrix.

“The magic swordsman…! If you’re dead, stay in the underworld like a dead man…!”

“——!”

When Alexios’ voice mixed with embarrassment and anger was heard, Cleon’s spirit body reacted more violently as if responding to it, and the surface of his body his blazed like a black flame.

Magical power is amplified, and the pitch-black sword becomes more ferocious.

It was to the point where, if they made the slightest mistake, they might even cut down Illenu with Alesios intact.

“What… Is it a soul…! It’s sucking up a lot of mana…!”

Even Wilhelmina, who summoned Cleon’s shadow her to her, could n’t hide her bewilderment as she watched Cleon ceaselessly sucking her own magical power at the same time as her her magic circle her.

“Awesome, trouble…!”

Meanwhile, Solina was stunned to see Alesis, who was on the defensive, and Cleon’s swordsmanship pushing him.

Thanks to Cleon’s time and attention his, he managed to use healing magic enough to close the hole in his body his, but even then, the pierced inside was never intact.

“Solina, are you okay!?”

Rhys, who barely has time to spare, approaches Solina and examines her condition.

The blood had stopped, but her body her could not recover any longer as the consumption of her magical power her had not returned.

“Solina… Shit, the crew too…!”

Reese tries to find a way out somehow, but in this huge battle where magic collides with magic, what he can do as a normal person is limited.

The more time it takes, the more lives everyone’s life will be in danger.

‘What should I do…! Think about it, Reese…! You are the descendant of the watchers who guard this land…! And he’s Solina’s older brother…!’

For a moment, Reese alternately looked at the magic-eating sword in her hand her and the red magic circle floating on the ground.

Dragon’s Magic Circle.

I mentioned before that it was a magic circle for great magicians that melts the mana of those who exist on top of the magic circle.

However, the magic circle is, after all, a technique created by pouring mana into patterns engraved on the ground.

That is, it is a magic.

Reese, who didn’t even have the magic to be absorbed, could move on this, but the others couldn’t.

Even the spiritual body Wilhelmina summoned was said to be in an incomplete state due to the influence of this magic circle.

Then-

If so, what he had to do was already decided.

Rhys stood up, took the sword and put it on top of the magic circle.

Dismissed! And the moment the sword and the pattern of the magic circle touch, a huge rebound hits him.

It was a reward for penetrating the magic circle with an amount of magic power that exceeded the limits of a magic-eating sword.

“Keugh…!”

Without any preparation, if a sword that eats magic is inserted into the magic circle from the outside.

Naturally, the magic circle attacked Reese’s body while throwing red sparks while refusing to be invaded.

The pain was also painful, but as the rejection of magical energy flowed into each nerve running through the body, the body was torn from the inside in real time.

In order to suppress the repulsive force, the skin on the hand holding the magic-eating sword was ripped apart and blood gushed out.

Solina, seeing her brother’s behavior of her, let out a voice that sounded like her scream of her.

“Reese! Stop it! If you do it that way, your body…!”

However, Reese did not stop.

It’s a cruel story, but he understands. His own role, and when he compares himself to others.

Which one has a higher probability of being able to block Alexios?

“It’s okay…! More than me, you guys will help solve this situation…!”

At Reese’s words her, Solina, as well as Layla and Beatrix, who had been on their knees due to her mana being absorbed from a short distance away, also had sorrowful expressions.

Already, his eyes and ears, and nose and mouth.

I could see blood oozing from everywhere I looked.

The reason why Reese can move is because he has a unique constitution that is not born with almost magical power.

I don’t know if it’s a reaction to him, but his younger sister his, Solina, was born with superior magic power even compared to other people.

That’s why, in this magic circle right now, Reese can move, but Solina can’t.

‘All I can do now… Is to defend Solina, her village her…!’

If the two of them had split their abilities into two and were born together, both would have been bound by this magic circle and collapsed.

As for Reese, if the reason he wasn’t born with the ability for magic is that he’s in this fate…

“I will… Protect you…! Solina!!”

Soon, when Reese puts his sword into his magic circle with all his strength his.

Finally, as the pattern on the magic circle cracked, the magic-eating sword penetrated through the gap-

“Lease!!”

Solina’s scream.

If you think that the next moment, a large red lightning strikes.

At the same time, as the magic circle shatters, the pain of absorbing magical energy that was oppressing the party disappears.

However, in return, Rhys suffered such great wounds that his whole body was stained red with his own blood.

Soon, he fell into a puddle of his own blood with a fluttering, miserable sound.

Somehow, with her body and magical powers restored, Solina gets up and runs to him, though she continues to try her healing magic her.

Reese’s body his, whose magical energy was not fully restored and whose core was burnt due to the rebound, was not easily healed.

The muscles of the body and the eyes were dry and twisted, and the only thing left intact was the bones that were relatively unaffected by magical power.

“Why, healing…! Reese, no…!”

However, Reese’s hand somehow grabbed Solina’s arm of hers.

And, even as he was dying, he was worried about his sister his and left words.

“…It’s okay, Solina… That magic… To stop Alexios… To protect everyone, use it…”

Soon, when the power drains from his whole body his, his hand his falls to the ground according to gravity.

When the vitality disappeared from Solina’s expression of her, the members of the guard who had no choice but to watch it cried out the name of their captain.

“Bea… Can you move?”

“…Somehow.”

As if there was no time to be immersed in sentimentality, Bea and Layla thanked Rhys’ sacrifice from the bottom of their hearts, then looked at Alesis and Cleon, who were fighting in another dimension right in front of their eyes.

Thanks to the cancellation of her magic circle, Wilhelmina’s magical power her to construct Cleon’s body will also be restored.

Cleon’s body her still looked like a shadow puppet with limbs.

“Wilhelmina. Can’t you make that shadow more elaborate?”

“I’m doing it… But, the size of the soul to be summoned is so huge that it requires a lot of magic power. Besides, that spiritual body doesn’t care about my magic power, and it draws and uses magic at random.”

Thanks to this, even if the magic circle disappears, the recovery speed cannot catch up with the consumption speed.

“Let’s join in, Laila. If you do that, we’ll be able to reduce the burden of Cleon’s magic consumption of her.”

Lila nods her head at Bea’s words her.

Soon, the two of them simultaneously raised their own magic tools, the staff and the sword.

Cleon, summoned by necromantic magic, would not have enough willpower to share his words her.

He was just following his instinct her to destroy the enemy in front of him.

But, even so, if he really is Cleon.

The memories of fighting together with them should be engraved on their bodies.

“Let’s try ‘that’ after a long time.”

“That’s what you mean. Okay.”

Even if you don’t specify something separately, the two of you will start casting each other’s magic at the same time.

“The serpent’s path. Purgatory progresses. Whispers of temptation. Paradise expulsion.”

“Open. The pit of hell. A beast of destruction that has reached the end of 36 deaths.”

When the chanting of the two resonated like a song, Cleon’s spiritual body momentarily stopped, then glanced back and looked at the two.

“Chi-it…! Have the wizards recovered…! But, it’s foolish to show an opening… Magic Swordsman…!”

Alexios wielded his own rapier, not missing Cleon’s momentary gap.

Without looking back, Cleon raised his sword and blocked the rapier’s trajectory.

“What…!”

Alexios, horrified that his attack trajectory had been read, tried to back him up to increase his distance.

“A monstrous fellow…!”

However, he would never understand that, judging from the current pure body specs alone, Cleon, the spiritual body, was inferior to the physical body of Illenu.

Cleon simply ‘remembered’ Illenu’s sword.

The swordsmanship Alexios used was not his own swordsmanship his during his lifetime his, but her swordsmanship suited to Illenu’s body her.

As for her her swordsmanship, Cleon, who had fought alongside her, knew better than Alexios.

Cleon’s attack flowed like a sword dance.

As Cleon pushed his sword as if restraining Illenu’s sword, which bounced immediately afterward, his handguards collided with one another, making a harsh noise.

“Kuh… You bastard…!”

The moment Alexios tries to shake him off, he responds to the sensation of magical energy flowing through the ground and air.

“Infernal Bane!”

“Flame Beast!”

The magic Layla manifested is magic that covers a wide area where the ground cracks and flames soar from there.

As long as your feet are on the ground, dodging is difficult.

Reluctantly, Alexios dodged the pillars of flame rising skyward by leaping and rising into the air.

However, escaping into the air is always a handshake.

Realizing that humans can’t fly was a story after becoming a good target and prey.

“Attack!”

When Beatrix’s sonorous voice resounded, Alexios hurriedly turned his head away from the heat he felt behind him.

There, there was something like a huge crocodile wrapped in blue flames.

However, its torso was much thicker, and its mouth opened wide like that of a hippopotamus, and it grabbed Illenu’s body her with its mouth her.

It was a form of magical power created in imitation of the demons of hell, but the blue flames restrained Alexios and fell to the ground.

“Keugh…!”

Alexios was in pain from the shock and heat that hit his body while spitting out silent sounds from his mouth.

Then, Cleon, who had been waiting on the ground, drew his sword and charged him.

Cleon rushes at lightning-like speed and tries to swing his sword.

“—Wait, Cleon!”

It was Lyla’s cry that stopped Cleon.

The moment right before the winner of the battle is decided.

When Cleon’s black sword stopped right before it touched Illenu’s throat, with exactly 2mm left.

The area was enveloped in silence.

“…Breaking Illenu’s head won’t completely stop Alessios. Wilhelmina. You suck blood from Illenu’s body her and bring out the Alessios inside of her.”

If you don’t do that, Alexios will be resurrected again someday.

If you don’t follow the correct order, it won’t work.

Then, Wilhelmina also nodded her head while barely raising her body her, as if to what extent her mana her had recovered.

“Damn it…! Damn it, quit it! You’re going to… Absorb me! Wilhelmina!”

“…Yes, that’s how it should be, if it can stop you.”

Wilhelmina approaching her own side of her.

Her fans gleamed, and the next moment she was locked in the neck of the fallen Illenu.

“Alessios Torbalti… I serve you according to the rules of my own people…!”

“No!!!”

As Alexios’ screaming voice resounded, blood flowed from Illenu’s neck into Wilhelmina’s mouth her.

Solina, who stared at the scene blankly, shed tears as she looked at her own brother’s chilled corpse her.

“…With this, Alesis…”

The next moment when Lyral was about to let out a sigh of relief with the solution to the situation right in front of her eyes.

Whiik! Something in her comes flying toward her.

When Cleon’s shadow quickly cut it off, it was clear that it was a standard sword used by the guards.

“What-?!”

When everyone looked at the place where the guards were gathered in bewilderment-

There, I saw the figures of the guards who seemed to have lost their reason with reddened eyes.

“The condition is strange…!”

Bea must have noticed the seriousness of the situation, so she grabbed her sword and looked around…

The guard who threw his sword at the party grinned madly while twisting the corner of his mouth viciously.

“That’s great! I never thought they’d even let me use the sub plan!”

“Could it be- Alexios…?”

As Wilhelmina looked at it in disbelief, she saw each of them burst into madness as if madness was contagious to the guards around them.

And they felt a group of humans approaching from the direction of the village toward the ruins where they were.

That number is a little over 100.

…It was about the same as the number of villagers remaining in the village.

“—No way, you…!”

“It’s been 800 years, Wilhelmina. The reason why I prepared this plan… Couldn’t have been prepared for the time when I was defeated in Illenu’s body…!”

“What have you done…! You monster!”

When Solina shouted that, Alexios, who had borrowed the body of a guard, only shrugged her shoulders and replied.

“It’s simple. I manipulated the bodies of the maidservant and her daughter and mixed my blood little by little with the drinking water of the villagers. Little by little, no one noticed. Controlling one Illenu is the only way to control all humans in the village. It’s more difficult than controlling it, so it was a sub plan to the end… Now that the situation has turned out like this, there’s nothing we can do about it.”

Seeing his mean smile his, the group was at a loss for words.

“What do you think of humans…!”

“Weak, imperfect… A race to be dominated.”

Alessios answered a question that was not Solina’s her.

It was at that time that Illenu, who had erased Alexios’ curse from within, groaned and stood up.

“…Here… I… Yeah, my head went blank all of a sudden… The ‘it’ inside…”

Illenu grabbed his head his, feeling confused and embarrassed at the same time, as if he had some memories.

But soon, when she feels something on her shoulder her.

There, a spirit in the form of her black shadow was watching over her.

“…Cleon?”

Illenu, who had no face and no words, recognized the true identity of that soul at once.

Layla speaks in a very urgent situation without even sharing the excitement of the reunion.

“…You have to burn all the villagers to finish off Alexios…!? Someone tell me I’m kidding…!”

“How can it be…!? Mr. Wilhelmina!”

At Layla and Beatrix’s words, Wilhelmina is lost in thought for a moment.

At that time, Solina staggered to her feet.

She could not even hold a weapon in her hand her, as if she had no more fighting spirit.

“…Alessios…”

And, in a low voice, he calls the enemy’s name.

“Alessios…! Alessios!!!!”

Slowly, as her rage her grew and her voice her escalated, Layla noticed signs of her mana her about to run amok in her her, and tried to stop her.

“No! Solina! Get your cool back!”

Even Layla’s restraint her was overshadowed by Solina, who struck and blew away the head of the soldier who was clinging to Alessios, who was standing in front of her with her fist on her.

“Sol, Lina…?”

When even Illenu shrank, as if being intimidated by her anger her, Wilhelmina spoke.

“…There is a way. But the risk is just as great.”

“There’s no more dangerous situation than this. Let’s talk.”

At Beatrix’s urging her, Wilhelm Mina nodded her head and talked about the strategy—

It was to make everyone look sad once again.