Chapter 484 – Nature Spirits and the Clink

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“One two three four, two two three four.”

Using her hands and voice her to carve her her beat her, Grand Miko Tokoyo watches Quon perform the dance she has just learned right in front of her eyes her.

With a fan in one hand, slowly, slowly. It moves as if slowly stretching the flow of time.

For priests and shamans, it is one of the skills that must be mastered along with witchcraft, ‘divine dance’.

It is written that the divine dance is a dance for the gods, but what is worshiped as a god in this temple is a sacred tree with substance, different from the vague light of the saint’s blessing church.

And, it talks about the nature spirit that should dwell in the divine tree.

During the divine dance, the shaman enters into a kind of trance state in which she connects with the trees and receives more powerful revelations from them.

However, unlike incantation, which can be used only with magical aptitude and an understanding of the technique, divine dance can only be performed by following the dance moves.

In fact, to reach the stage of dancing for the gods, it is important not only to cut bones, but also to communicate with the spirits of nature.

In addition to the affinity they had from birth, compatibility with the natural spirits was also important, so shamans and priestesses who could truly perform ‘divine dance’ were counted among the hands.

“Yes. Until there.”

After hearing such an explanation from Tokoyo, Quon stopped moving her body when she stopped her voice her and exhaled her breath.

Sweat on the forehead and back, slightly flushed face as if from an intense workout.

While she was at the excavation camp, when she danced in a shrine maiden’s uniform made to order for Quon, she found out why it was so well-ventilated.

At first glance, it looks like a beautiful red and white color scheme, but if you take a closer look… No, there wasn’t a lot of unscrupulous parts.

The sleeves, which are wide compared to the thickness of the arm, and the part connecting the arm and the shoulder are cut in the middle, and the sleeve is kept from falling off with a thin string.

Thanks to this, the entire armpit area was exposed.

Even in the skirt, there was a hole between the side and the thigh, so if it was slightly out of position, the string of the underwear underneath might be visible.

When I saw what Tokoyo was wearing, I didn’t feel that way about her, but after all, this Miko’s outfit was too revealing.

In particular, what Quon cares about is the side of her chest.

Thanks to the absence of armpit fabric, the clothes that covered only the front of her body were pushed up by Quon’s breasts, unlike when Tokoyo was wearing.

Thanks to that, after finishing her dance, Quon’s sweaty side chest her was exposed in the air, and Quon couldn’t help but blush.

“To, Tokoyo-sama, don’t you think anything about this outfit… ? ?”

She is wearing the same design as herself, but when Quon says that while looking at Tokoyo, who feels that she is barely exposed, Tokoyo covers her mouth and replies with a ‘huhufu’ laugh.

“Well~? It’s a superb view~ About the same?”

“Ugh… ”

Tokoyo moved her fingers suspiciously as she spoke, as if she had already forgotten that she had been scolded by Quon and Cleon before.

Quon was using his handkerchief to wipe the sweat off his body, his face flushed.

“What. Clothing is unavoidable. Because that’s a tradition… But there must be a problem with the dance…”

“Is that so… “

Tokoyo said, stroking his hand her with his chin her as his face her became serious in an instant, as if the mischievous atmosphere from a moment ago was all a joke.

“The action part is fine. There is a sense of rhythm, and there is no problem with the steps… But, of course, the part of communication with the nature spirits. When I’m dancing, my mind clears up little by little, and I hear voices that I wouldn’t normally hear… Is that still not the case?”

“Yes…”

At Quon’s words her, Tokoyo nodded and closed her eyes with her arms crossed.

Even for her Grand Maiden, Quon had no shortage of talent in her eyes.

No, it would be better to say that it is impossible.

If she is of the lineage of the Great Miko at the beginning, no matter how much she has been taught by the Order of Protection of the Holy Spirit and has gone from her original Miko faith, it is not so difficult to regain the connection with her child age her. Won’t

If so, is it her heart that is thought to be the cause?

She might as well think that something, a distraction, is preventing her from fully displaying her talents in her.

If he shakes off that hesitation, Quon is surely the owner of a talent that is enough to bloom as a single miko.

Until the five elements start, will she be able to perfect the part…

“I can’t help it. Let me demonstrate one more time.”

“Yes!”

First of all, let her master the movement at least now, and get rid of her thoughts of her.

Thinking so, Tokoyo takes up her fan and exchanges her place her with her kuon her.

Unlike Quon, who still needs the help of her beat her, Tokoyo, even if she does n’t have that, shows this dance that she has already done for over ten years in front of Quon without the slightest distraction.

Until recently, Toko Yoji had maintained a mischievous attitude, but as soon as she started her duty her, her personal feelings her disappeared in an instant from that expression.

Somewhere empty eyes, and orderly breathing.

The way she stood and danced in a dream seemed like she was really emptying herself and trying to put something else in it.

‘…Awesome.’

As her kuon her, it was Tokoyo’s demonstration of her that she had seen many times, but immediately, along with the atmosphere surrounding her, she could feel the flow of her magical power changing.

It was created not by Tokoyo, but by the spirits of nature who gathered around her because of Tokoyo’s dancing her.

One two.

Colorful sparks gathered around her and became lights.

This is the magical light created by the spirits of nature that appear when they dance correctly and perfectly.

What Kuon hadn’t been able to create before, Tokoyo was already creating those lights, making the surroundings so beautiful that they were dyed with aurora.

Staring blankly at the lights, though a little quon, she seemed to be able to understand what she meant.

As long as she is dancing, she shakes off her existence her as herself.

With the determination to give her own body to her children, she must empty her her self her called Quon.

Thinking of such a thing, she felt like she might be able to catch a hint of something, and the moment she tried to burn the flow once more into her fan her, which Quon herself was holding in her hand-

Rolling! And a loud thunderous sound reverberated throughout the precincts of the temple.

As the ages of those who had gathered dispersed, Toko Yodokuon had no choice but to endure her body staggering and nearly collapsing.

“Ugh… “

When Quon unknowingly made a distressed noise at the feeling of something, her breath her being choking, Tokoyo frowned at her as well, placing her hand on the pillar in her room her to keep her from falling.

Fortunately, the sensation was to pass in no time, but Quon opened her mouth to the unsettling sensation that troubled her.

“Bah, what happened just now… “

“It is the warning of the temple barrier surrounding Asteris. When a ghost appears, it is supposed to ring, and the stronger it is, the louder the sound. … Hearing this sound, it seems that a rather powerful one has appeared.”

After Tokoyo said that, she strode forward and opened the window of her room.

“Hop in!”

“Yes sister!”

When I opened the door and called for someone, what appeared the next moment was a large crow that appeared as if falling from the sky.

The guy who flew into the window with a red scarf hanging around her neck her proudly spoke human words as if it were natural, and Quon looked surprised.

“This guy is Yata. My food… Speaking in kingdom terms, it’s a ministry. She usually observes the skies above Asteris while flying with her mate her, a crow named ‘Kara’. In case of an emergency, come and let me know.”

“My name is Yata. A girl with big breasts.”

He spoke while bringing one wing to her forehead as if in salute. Quon listened in a daze, then she patted and covered her chest.

It was only natural that Tokoyo’s punishment would be inflicted the next moment.

Bang! When Yata, who was grabbed by Tokoyo’s neck her, is lifted up, Tokoyo speaks with a very grim expression.

“Where is sexual harassment against someone else’s woman… ? I want to become crow meat… ?”

“I’m sorry, sister… ! I didn’t know that I was a young lady… ! Kek kek!”

“Sat, Tokoyo-sama?! Then I will die!”

When Quon let out a voice of concern over Tokoyo’s punishment, Tokoyo laughed happily and released Yata.

“Go, thank you, married woman whose name I can’t name… “

“Stop talking nonsense and report the situation!”

When Tokoyo screams so loudly at Yata, who has been punished and does not speak much, Yata speaks while flapping her wings.

“A large nobleman appeared in Turtle Alley. I don’t know how it appeared after hiding inside the barrier, but one of the nearby knights is responding.”

“The allies? It’s reckless to be alone against a large noble… Once I got it Share your views with Kara.”

Upon receiving Tokoyo’s order, Yata nodded his head as if he understood, took two steps back, and one of his eyes his went wide open.

Then, a semi-transparent image is projected in front of his eyes.

What immediately appeared in it was-

“”Cleon!?” That’s it!”

As if it was only natural that he was there, he confronted the nobleman with a red sword, blocking the nobleman from escaping from inside the alley.

“I said I was going out with Herti-nim this morning… “

“Wait, then, isn’t there Mr. Herti nearby too!? Kara!”

[Yes! The top lord of the Dark Dragon Company is also nearby! Knights, it’s amazing skills, but if you become a large noble, as expected, normal weapons won’t work… ]

As if understanding, Tokoyo took out his jade from the pocket hanging over his chest his and shoved it into Yata’s beak.

“Kek! Keck!”

“Come on, swallow quickly! Because there is no time!”

Then, Yata staggered out the window as the illusion disappeared and—

Pop! It was to make it huge enough for a person to ride with the comical effect of smoke bursting out.

When Tokoyo climbs on Yata’s back, she looks back at Kuon.

“We have to go help Cleon! I’ll come back, so Quon is here-“

“Now, wait… !”

As if she was expecting what she would say next, Quon quickly got up from his seat and ran to Tokoyo’s side of him.

“… Me too, I’ll go… !”

“However-“

Tokoyo would have said such a thing for her kuon her, but since she knew that Cleon was dangerous, she could n’t keep quiet about kuon.

“Cleon is my family! Please… !”

Tokoyo could n’t refuse her request her with a more earnest face than ever.

“Eww… Ah Okay.”

“…It’s okay. I, too, am not taken lightly.”

When she stretches out her hand like that, a beautiful red bird wrapped in flames descends and rides on her shoulder her, as if a meteor falls from her sky.

“Oh oh!? A beautiful phoenix!?”

“This child… ! Aren’t you crazy Yata!? Hurry and Takuon! The more time passes, the more irreversible it becomes!”

As Tokoyo said that, she held out her hand to her kuon her, and kuon grabbed her hand her and rode onto Yata’s back with Tokoyo.

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Cleon slowly wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at her nobleman, who was kneeling on one knee in front of her eyes.

Although she is pushing back with her sword and magic, somehow keeping him from getting out of this dead end.

‘Magic and kendo only make me hesitate with pain. It doesn’t seem like it’s doing any real damage.’

As Cleon thinks, her nobleman shrinks her body for a moment and then moves forward to rampage again.

Cleon clicked her tongue and once again stretched her black chain toward the guy’s body her.

Charleuk! And when the chain jumps out, the nobleman grabs it with his other hand and tries to free it.

As soon as it touches the skin, sparks fly out, and a strong paralyzing effect will cover the nobleman’s body.

Maybe he got used to the pain, he forcibly removed the magic without paying attention to such things.

“Cheet!”

The next moment, after avoiding Kang-Wan’s fist that was swinging at him with a back step, he swung an intense rounds kick.

The taijutsu strengthened by his magical power his was a powerful blow that left a black afterglow, and the pain was much stronger than the spark from before.

Thanks to this, the nobleman let out a thick scream from her mouth her, and after hitting the wall with the impact, Cleon could see that the wall cracked.

The strength of her body was clearly different from that of the nobleman she had dealt with before.

No, maybe even compared to ‘Kshat’, who had been struggling just before, he felt her body weakening her.

‘A special method is needed to deal with a strong nobleman?’

And I remember what I talked to with Hertie last night.

Obviously, along with magic, you said you need a special sword.

Not a holy sword or a demonic sword.

If she can’t get that sword right now, then she can do nothing but stop this guy from here.

“Herti. It’s ok?”

“Yes, yes… Because Cleon-nim is protecting you.”

Fortunately, the nobleman is targeting Cleon first.

Even after changing into her nobleman, her respect for Herti did not disappear, or there was another cause.

If so, would it be better to let Hertiman escape to the outside of the barrier and ask for support from the temple?

“Schrodinger. How is his body?”

“It’s seriously not good. The body is human, but the soul within it melts and blends into one. If it goes like this… It will be impossible to get your body back to normal.”

“Shit…”

If that happens, he really has no choice but to kill.

He became a nobleman, and although he said he followed them, he took his own way to avoid being eaten by demons.

The moment when the fact that he had to kill such a human weighed heavily on Cleon’s chest her.

“Cleon!”

Hearing the voice from above, Cleon looked up at the sky, and two people jumped down from the top of a huge crow that appeared to block the sun’s light.

What landed lightly on the ground was Kuon wearing a Miko’s costume – and Tokoyo, the Grand Miko.

“That voice… Is it Tokoyo-sama?”

“Mr. Herti! I’m glad you’re all right…!”

Then, Tokoyo instantly grabbed the amulet in her hand her, and Quon grabbed her her Galatine.

Cleon also stood in front of them, holding the sword, looking at the nobleman who was about to get up and talking.

“It’s Toko. That guy doesn’t listen to swords or magic at all.”

“Also… If that’s the case, that guy is a special nobleman called ‘Hungry Ghost’. However… Those guys wouldn’t be able to appear unless it’s a five element system that fills them with magical power…”

As Tokoyo bites his lower lip, he prepares to blow the amulet he was holding in his hand.

“Cleon. Quon. If it’s okay for the two of you to cooperate, even for a moment, tie that nobleman’s feet. Then, I will use magic to restrain you.”

“I get it. … Let’s go, Quon!”

“Yes!”

When Cleon’s voice rang out, Quon answered and the two of them jumped forward.

Cleon strengthened his legs with magical power, and Quon used the flames sprayed from the Holy Sword of Flame as propulsion.

The nobleman went on a rampage and tried to knock them down with his hands, but they weren’t the two of them.

When Cleon’s red sword was swung hard, the nobleman’s hand came out with a strong impact.

There is still no injury, but if the nobleman whose body is sufficiently unbalanced is staggered and tries to step back.

In the gap, this time, Quon quickly ran around the nobleman, making footprints of flame.

Then, after leaping into the sky, with a blow, an intense pillar of flame swept over his body.

“Kaaaaa!”

“…A great combination!”

Along with such praise, Tokoyo threw the four amulets he was holding in his hands with magic power.

If it doesn’t go towards the nobleman itself, it flies precisely to the four corners centered on the floor he is standing on.

“Four square pillars!”

Her eloquence her bursts out at the same time as the quickly forming hand sign.

A translucent wall is created around the talisman, and it succeeds in trapping the nobleman inside.

“Kuaaaaa!”

After the flames disappeared, the nobleman, who also seemed undamaged, ran amok in it, trying to break down the wall, but the space gradually became smaller, so he couldn’t even move.

And soon, perhaps because of the power of the barrier, the nobleman’s movement slows down, and within a minute, it comes to a standstill.

My eyes were open, I was breathing, but my body and thoughts seemed to have stopped.

“This will be fine for a while. … But if you don’t purify the demons…”

Tokoyo speaks while wiping the sweat from his forehead.

However, Cleon frowned and talked while looking at the imprisoned nobleman.

“However, this guy’s ghost said he couldn’t be purified even after undergoing the temple’s purification ceremony.”

“… !”

After hearing Cleon’s story, Tokoyo looked at the man a little surprised and muttered,

“Then…! Could it be that you are a blood-cursed nobleman?”

“The curse of blood… ?”

When Cleon questioned her words her, Tokoyo nodded her head.

“…During the Five Elements Festival, the magic power in the air becomes stronger, and demons and nobles stronger than usual appear. That, our temple, and the troops of the royal palace. Lastly, the knights work together to protect the residents from harm.”

“If the festival is the cause, it should be stopped, or people should not come out, but… No. Magic doesn’t get stronger because of the festival, so it’s useless.”

“Yes. Besides, usually we can control the situation. … But, in the past few years. I don’t know if it’s an accident or an incident during the festival, but there are cases where blood flows… ”

“Blood… Are you?”

At Tokoyo’s words, Quon nodded his head once more.

“Yeah right. … Human blood that flows out during the Five Elements Festival has the property of attracting demons. Perhaps, it was in response to the magic power in the air. … Thanks to that, not one ghost dwells in such a person, but many.”

“…Indeed. What Schrödinger was talking about was ‘something like that’.”

Since there are several ghosts inside a person, it was inevitable that the difficulty of purification would increase.

“…By the way, what happened to all the nobles who were cursed with blood… ?”

“If you can’t purify yourself with a purifying ritual… I have no choice but to seal it. Right now, in the sealing area of ​​the temple…”

Cleon had no choice but to turn a little darker at Tokoyo’s answer.

“But, how to purify those cursed with blood. I heard there are.”

At that time, Hertie’s voice was quietly heard from behind Cleon and Tokoyo.

Cuon also looked towards that direction, and Hertie cautiously stumbled towards Tokoyo and stood in front of her to talk.

“Isn’t it? Mr. Tokoyo.”

“Ah, yes. Right… Mr Hertie. You know it too.”

“Then… Why not take that approach?”

When Cleon asks her a question, Tokoyo sighs heavily.

“…In order to purify a nobleman who has been cursed with blood, we need the powerful purifying power of a divine tree. … But, as you know, over the past few years, too much magical power has accumulated in the ground, and even the peaches grown for medicine in the temple are not growing properly.”

And Tokoyo’s gaze was directed towards Quon.

“…Remember? I explained to Quon why she would if she were to become a shaman.”

“…Yes. It was that the two shamans had to perform a ritual together to release that magical power.”

There was no way she would forget Quondo, so she nodded her head slowly.

“To be precise, the ceremony should be held on the last day of the Five Elements Festival. The magical power gathered in the Five Elements will flow into the leyline and accumulate more magical power… If I do it wrong, this time I might lose my sacred neck.”

“… !”

Quon and Cleon both look surprised at the same time, but Herti nodded her head as if she knew to some extent, as a factor in the Orient.

“…To think it was such an urgent situation…”

At Quon’s words, which seemed a little shocked, Tokoyo spoke with a slightly forced smile.

“…It’s okay! If Quon is able to dance, her ritual itself isn’t that difficult! Ego! Let’s take this nobleman to the temple for now, and let’s do the next training!”

“…Yes!”

Kuon nodded her head as if she couldn’t waste time if that was the case, and the moment Yata and Kara descended from the sky, two crows were about to come down to move the noble seal sealed in the barrier.

[No. No way. It can’t end like this. Dark Magic Swordsman]

Hearing a woman’s voice coming from somewhere, Schrödinger hid in Cleon’s pocket, bristling the hairs on her whole body her.

“This, this voice… ! It’s Darwin!”

“Darwin—regressor!”

Cleon frowned and grabbed the sword.

Then the next moment-

The nobleman who thought he was trapped inside the barrier and couldn’t move suddenly moved, and only one arm became gigantic and pierced one side of the barrier-

It was being swung towards Cleon.

The moment when Cleon managed to block his body with his sword in a very sudden and unexpected attack-

‘Quick’

And when you hear something cracking-

“Kuh, no way… !”

As powerful damage rang through the entire sword, Cleon’s body could not stand the spot and he was pushed back.

“Cleon!”

As Quon quickly approached him, Tokoyo raised her voice in bewilderment.

“Uh, why!? I should have stopped it inside the barrier!”

“It’s Darwin’s medicinal effect! He’s doing “Research on evolving living things”! This nobleman was strengthened by Darwin…!”

Schrödinger answered her question with a trembling voice, and the nobleman was about to break the barrier and come out.

“Cleon, are you okay?”

“Ah…However…The sword-“

When Quon approached to check Cleon’s condition, Cleon looked down at his sword in resentment.

There- the master’s red sword with a visibly large crack trembled.

“Meow!”

And the cry of Bahamut that entered Cleon’s ears.

A nobleman who advances like a chariot, despite the obstacles of Tokoyo’s talismans and her food spirits.

And Herti stood in the path.

“Herti!”

Cleon moved her her body her toward her once again—only this time, with the will to do something about the guy with her words her, he tried to swing her sword her.

However, Quon tried to capture Cleon.

“No… Cleon! As long as the sword is in that state-!”

In this state, if Cleon once again parryed the nobleman’s attack with his sword or tried to receive it.

Certainly, the sword would not be able to hold out any longer and would break in two.

If that happens- the nobleman’s thick arm will pierce the sword and attack Cleon.

Even so, the time was too short for her to reach that point and use Galatin instead of Cleon.

Pounding. And Quon’s heart raced.

No, if we continue like this, Cleon will be seriously injured again.

And, even Herti behind him.

Pounding. The pulse of her chest, the worst thing that fills up in her head is Cleon’s bleeding of her.

Himself as a priest. Could he not be able to protect Cleon even by himself using the holy sword?

[It’s okay.]

At that time, a voice like a breeze flowed into Quon’s head.

Why is it so far away…

Along with the sound of the branches of the sacred tree shaking, such a voice was heard.

The moment I heard that voice, as if time had slowed down.

Next to Quon’s head- a light green light appeared.

It was small, like the light of a candle, but it certainly gave off light.

[Believe in your potential. Quon.]

[For the person you want to protect, use your power]

[If you wish-]

And, that light grew bigger as it lit up little by little…

The next moment, Quon moved his hand and shouted his name his at Cleon.

“───!!”

Then, as if waiting, the flames that appeared next to Quon flew towards Cleon and jumped at the sword he was holding in his hand.

Next moment-

Awesome! When I thought I heard a voice, Cleon’s sword cut off the nobleman’s hand.

Unlike before, when a hand was really cut like clay or cake, not even blood flowed from it.

Cleon himself couldn’t help but look at his sword and nobleman in confusion when something unexpected happened.

The next moment, the nobleman stopped on the spot and said, ‘Fire!’ And starting from the cut, a light green flame burned the nobleman’s whole body.

“That, like that… !”

Quon worries that his own flame killed people, but-

Soon, as if burning the skin, the gigantic nobleman’s body was burned, and the flames disappeared-

In that place, he returned to his original form of a man who had been terrified until now.

Judging by the horns still on his head, the ghost didn’t seem to have completely disappeared.

“Bah, what happened just now… “

“God, it’s amazing, Quon! That’s the nature spirit! But even though I didn’t dance… How?”

A dumbfounded Cleon and a delighted Tokoyo.

Quon sat down in his seat as his as the armor created under the influence of Galatine disappeared from his body as if his tension was released.

“…Where I can’t see, something great has happened…?”

Herti tilted his head, as if he didn’t know what had happened.

Anyway, in order to raise Quon, if Cleon tries to head there.

‘Fall off!’

And once again, a loud sound rang out from his sword.

“… “

And, dang-

The heavy sound of iron falling to the ground.

The master’s sword held in Cleon’s hand.

It was cut neatly in half.