Chapter 524 – Legion and Visitors

000

“Die, Cleoon!”

A sword swung down from the side of her as if it passed in front of Cleon’s eyes.

Cleon stared blankly at the sword that barely cut Cleon’s hair and passed through the air, then swung the two swords he was holding in his hand and immediately stabbed the Albanians who rushed in from his right and left at the same time.

One for the belly, one for the chest.

“Unbelievable…”

“I-I…”

The guys who fell to the ground collapsed knee-deep in a thud, and then turned to ashes and disappeared on the spot as if they had never existed in the first place.

“Hey, why is this guy so strong?”

“He Must be using an illusion. Or dirty magic.”

Cleon sighed as he looked at the Alban who spoke freely.

“Eh, magic…! I guess so. Cowardly… You!”

“As expected, the fact that a trash like a magic swordsman was at the same party as me is wrong!”

“Is that the end of the horse?”

When Cleon asked such a question to Alvein, the Alban raised their swords and tried to take a step towards Cleon.

Suddenly, she notices that Cleon is behind them, and she is startedled.

Then, he cuts his throat and meets his death her, and disappears like ashes with the wind again.

It’s been like this since before. These Alban run in a straight line aiming for Cleon, swing their swords, and then get knocked down by a counterattack.

Both Cleon and Galatea couldn’t help but look tired of looking at Alvein.

That’s also true, if you cut down one and knock it down, two will pop out from different places, like cockroaches.

“You’re getting tired of these guys… Aside from the fact that there’s no end to slashing and slashing, I don’t like dealing with them because they’re weak.”

When Cleon said that, Galatea nodded as well.

“For that matter, there are a lot of them, so they’re good at blocking roads… If I or Cleon could use magic, we’d be able to break through.”

Just as Galatea was talking while sitting on Cleon’s shoulder, the Albanians blocking Cleon’s path were obstructing Cleon’s path her, blocking the path in the direction pointed by the sword of shadow.

This fake Alvein Corps is an illusion created by the image of the ‘enemy’ that Caliburn has.

Of course, even if compared to the real Alvein, there would be a difference in strength, but even so, being expressed so weakly showed how much Caliburn looked down on Alvein.

Thanks to that, even as Cleon, it doesn’t take much effort to defeat them one by one…

“Saint Burst!”

“Saint Burst!”

“Saint Burst!”

“Stop it, you bastards!”

As Galatea let out a scream of astonishment, an explosion of divine magic exploded in front of her eyes.

In addition, the explosions that burst out of the wrong places are just as powerful as a flash of light that briefly annoys the eyes of the viewer.

As Cleon frowned, when he infused his sword with magical power, the huge blade cut through a part of the group that stood in the way, opening the way forward a bit.

When Cleon jumped in through the gap, Galatea let out a weary breath and dropped her shoulders.

“Haa… Haa… Caliburn seems to really hate Alvein…”

“Well… The image isn’t that different.”

While saying that, Cleon mechanically jumps over his head and cuts down Alvein, who was about to strike down his sword.

“It’s completely different from the wyvern that Galatea called.”

“That’s right… If you compare Wyvern and Albain, Wyvern is stronger.”

Galatea nods her head as if it were natural to answer Cleon’s words, but the shadow that she heard the story speaks from Cleon’s hand her.

[The enemies here are not strong beings, but the most hated beings. So, I (Galatea), the wyverns that the master couldn’t resist because he was helpless as a child. I (Caliburn) is to create an Alvein who holds himself and repeats wrong actions.]

Cleon nodded as if he understood her words of hers.

“But, if we don’t go straight to where Caliburn is, this world will be filled with Albain.”

“I hate that!”

Galatea screams at Cleon’s words her.

Cleon nodded as if agreeing with it, then looked around.

“Hey Albain!”

“What.”

“With your boy.”

“I have nothing to talk about.”

When Cleon called her name her, the Albanians frowned and said that they had no intention of talking to Cleon.

Cleon talks to those Albanians.

“A beautiful woman came to visit you and asked to be accepted as a party member. She said she wants to go on an adventure with a great warrior.

“What?”

“…”

“Beauty?”

“It’s a lie… Are you just going to stop with that?”

Watching Albein stop her attack with a murmur, Galatea murmured incredulously, and Cleon nodded her head and continued the story.

“…Well, no matter how real Alvein is, I wouldn’t fall for this level of deceit. Because Caliburn created an extremely unintelligent Alvein…”

Cleon muttered in a low voice to Galatea, and then spoke to the Albanians this time.

“Yes. Beauty. But with so many Albanians, she’ll be surprised and run away… Isn’t there only one person who can be a member of her party her?”

When Cleon added more words as if to ignite it, Alvein twitched his eyebrows and swung his sword at another Alvein standing right next to him.

Almost simultaneously, all Albanians.

“Damn it! Catch Cleon later!”

“First… Kill the four guys who get in the way…”

“Supplement the party members in the adventurer’s guild, then Cleon!”

While saying that, the Albanians start swinging their swords at each other desperately.

Seeing Albein like that, Cleon was ‘hot’, burst into laughter at her laughter, and continued to go to the place where Caliburn was.

[Confirmed that the hostile factions have begun to eliminate each other. This is the master’s strategy.]

“No, there’s no such thing as a ruse… This is because Caliburn was so underestimating the intelligence of the Albanians. Perhaps if Galatea could return to her original form, she would be too excited just to show it. I would have passed out or something.”

After hearing Cleon’s answer her, Galatea also bursts into laughter.

[Then, while the enemies are fighting, I will guide you to where I (Caliburn) is.]

001

The path the sword guided was the way to get out of Elessia.

However, the reason why the space is distorted is the same as the boundary of Elesia, so I could see that the road that should have led to the forest was the one that led directly to the rather old ruins.

“This place…”

If you look at the space Cleon is familiar with, that passage, for a moment, it will be the past, when he was still a party with Alvein- and,

When Albain was enjoying an adventure with a pure heart before being stained by the holy sword and the power of the hero, he remembered passing through this place with Quon and Albain.

“…Remains of Mirror Lake.”

As Cleon muttered, what came to mind was the memory of the adventure Quon had left after receiving the oracle of the holy sword related to Alvein.

The ceiling of the ruins spread out in front of me could see the water of the lake spreading over the ruins, and the floor was a little wet due to the nature of the space under the lake.

“Grip.”

“…Cleon.”

When Cleon unknowingly said such a thing, Galatea looked at Cleon with a little sad eyes and called out his name.

Cleon, too, covered his mouth with one hand at the words that came out of his mouth.

“I’m sorry. Missing you… Doesn’t mean you want to go back to those days. Really… It’s literally been a long time.”

Cleon speaks to Galatea like an excuse.

“Because Alvein can no longer return to the pure boy he was back then. Now, let’s go pick up Caliburn, who will be waiting inside. According to the pattern so far, it should be where we found Caliburn at that time. “

[I can’t feel any reaction from hostile beings from the inside. Master.]

The voice of the sword of shadows was heard as if grabbing Cleon’s legs as he tried to move his feet.

When Cleon tells her to return to her human form, her shadow sword melts in Cleon’s hand as it did before, and then collapses…

As it was, it took on a human form.

“…Yes?”

However, Cleon wriggled his eyes for a moment when he saw the sword in human form.

A part of her body, which had been gray until earlier, was colored.

It is colorless, but some of the areas identified by her hair are mixed with green.

At the same time, even though the eyes and mouth of her had not yet been created on her face of her, parts such as her nose of her gradually revealed their shape of her and added ‘humanity’.

“Your face.”

[Master. When her own body is fully formed, it cannot save me (Galatea) and me (Caliburn). So, please consider this as a time limit.]

Clearly, although she would prefer her own existence her to be established, she deliberately gives her warning to her Cleon her.

Cleon was still unsure of her intentions.

Really, did she value the existence of the two of them more than her own?

Could such a self-sacrificing existence of her self exist?

[Continues guidance. Just like before, you can go to the place where Caliburn is and wake her up.]

Taking the form of a human, he leads Cleon through the depths like a guide giving directions.

The more she looked around her, the more that scene, Albein and Quon came to mind, she brushed her hair to erase it.

“Shall I erase it?”

“…You’re kidding, right?”

When Galatea spoke of Cleon like that, Cleon looked back at Galatea with her wry smile.

“Well.”

Galatea just shrugs her shoulders, but Cleon sighs and doesn’t answer her question.

Then, as the shadow sword guided me, when I reached the innermost part of the ruins, I found that Caliburn was asleep with her pedestal embedded in it.

It was the same as Galatea that lost its color and became like a stone.

“Here you are, Caliburn. Is it in the same state as Galatea earlier?”

[That’s right. I need to go inside and wake up.]

“Do I have to stab my heart again…”

While Cleon said that, she turned to her Galatea who was riding on her shoulder her and spoke.

“Something’s going to happen to my body from now on, but it’s a measure to save Caliburn.”

“Saying that makes me even more worried…”

Leaving Galatea saying that, once again she asks her shadow her to pierce her own body her —

In order for Cleon’s body to burrow through the sieve once again, only her soul was taken out and channeled into Caliburn.

002

Sasha looked up for a moment at the woman tall enough to cast her shadow on her own body her, then suddenly came to her senses her, opened all her doors, and bowed her head to tell her said hello

“Oh, long time no see…!’

As she speaks in her tense voice, her visitor looks at her in silence for a moment before talking with her mouth raised.

“Yeah, it’s been a while. So- Sasha. Was it? Sanasia Rufenwolf.”

At the woman’s words her, Sasha nodded her head and shut her mouth for a moment to try to figure out why she was here.

No matter how much you think about it, the answer won’t come out, but since the other person is the other person, all guesses may be meaningless.

So, she musters up her courage for a moment and asks her a question.

“Hey- what did you come here for today?”

“To see Cleon’s face- And. I have something to tell you.”

“Cleon is a bit busy right now… Don’t come out of the room.”

“Huh? Yes?”

When Sasha says that, she puts her hand on her chin and puts on a slightly troubled expression.

“Oh, then can I go inside and wait?”

However, as if she had no intention of going back, she smiled at Sasha while talking, and Sasha nodded her head with a slightly nervous expression.

“Yes, yes… Great Sage Sophia.”

The mark of the woman called that was burning so intensely that it could not be defeated by the mark in Sasha’s eyes in her.