Chapter 855 – Battle of Vajra -11-

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“Yes, I confirmed that the magic incineration reaction of all shells has disappeared. Aine, you can go back to earth like this.”

After Lila scans her outer area and coughs softly, Selena quietly hands her magic potion.

After a bloody battle with her teacher, Aine succeeded in subduing her and, carrying her injured body, successfully completed her mission.

As a result of attaching the neutralization magic tool made by Laila to the magic incineration shell, it did not fire and just became an unexploded shell left in its place.

Thanks to this, it no longer functions as a cannonball, but it still remains in place, so the fortress treats it as an obstacle.

“So, the calculation is that it will be impossible to load mechanically until the obstacle is cleared.”

“Indeed. There was a reason why the shell was not destroyed or dismantled.”

Aine nodded her head in admiration as if she now understood the full story of Lila’s strategy.

“It’s the result of a snowball fight with blueprints that stayed up all night.”

Layla hums, proud of herself as she places her hands on her hips.

It seemed as if her nose would get higher and longer, like a doll in a fairy tale when it tells a lie.

“But, is it okay for me to return to the ground like this? Still, there may be countless enemies inside the fortress.”

Aine’s expression was serious, and as she looked at Lila, she seemed concerned rather than repulsed by her words,

“If you’re worried about my injury, that’s okay. My arms, legs, and head are still moving.”

In fact, her wounds had been fully recovered to some extent thanks to her extraordinary self-healing powers, a trait shared by the Bangui Dae.

Her clothes were torn and tattered here and there, but her serious wounds were nowhere to be seen.

She seemed to be disobeying Lila’s instructions to force her to retreat before the others.

However, Lila met Aine’s gaze and shrugged her shoulders once before sighing.

“I know you can still fight. “It’s not for your sake to retreat now.”

As she said that, she was pointing at her teacher, his younger self, who was leaning against the wall in her hallway, losing his mind.

“You can’t take her and go inside her, right? I would feel reassured if you were with me, but you actually want to take Mr. Quartz to a safe place somehow, right?”

＂That’s…＂

At Laila’s words, Aine hesitated for a moment.

Because it was just as she said.

However, because of her personal feelings, she abandons the group risking her life for Asteris and goes back alone ─

As she was the leader of the anti-guitar group and was taught by Quartz, it would have been a path she could not have chosen.

However, Aine, who had her true feelings pointed out to her, looked at her teacher who had lost her mind for a moment and then looked back at her Lila.

＂Because I plan to destroy all the transition doors that connect the outside and inside areas as I pass through them. I like to think that I can never come back to this place again. Therefore. The only way to safely leave the fortress is now.”

Lila speaks as if giving her one last push on the back.

“Are you okay. Don’t worry, we and Cleon will properly block this fortress.”

“… Sorry. And thank you.”

Aine lowers her head and says so.

She had nothing but gratitude to Lila for understanding her situation.

“By the way, how do you plan on sending it back? Could it be that they cast a flight spell and tell you to fly outside…”

When Selena asked that question, Lila shook her head as if who would do such a stupid thing.

“What…? That’s by using a portal. By now, Bea will have spread the magic circle of the returning dragon in her earthly mansion.”

＂…?＂

After hearing Lila’s words, Selena blinked her eyes blankly for a moment and made a curious expression.

＂Why do you look so strange, you…?＂

“Lila? You haven’t forgotten, right…? In order to block the fortress, Miss Kuon and the great shaman worked together to strengthen the barrier of Asteris.”

It is a confrontational system that exerts physical force.

As such, it was natural that passage between the inside and the outside through magic also became difficult.

If that were possible, there would be no need to force open the barrier to pass through the imperial barrier.

“Because of that, in order to be affected by the Scroll of Convocation, we also had to come out of the barrier and wait outside Asteris?”

＂──.＂

After Lila listened to Selena’s explanation, this time she made the same expression Selena had made a moment ago.

“… Is there something I forgot?”

“Now, wait a minute! There’s no way you’ve forgotten it!”

“… I forgot.”

Diora looks at Lila’s reaction and smiles as if things have become fun.

“Wait a minute, you were planning on solving your return through that portal!? Then you’re saying there’s no way for us to go back!?”

＂Ugh… Wait, method. I will find a way…”

If the portal is not opened to pre-designated coordinates, there is a high possibility of an accident occurring.

Therefore, unless it was installed in the location of the mansion, there was a high possibility that it would fly away to a strange place.

Lila thinks and explores. Now, the closest dimension to safely travel to is-

Stretch out the thread of magic, reach anywhere, reach anywhere! The portal that her magical power reached was…

＂Heh, is it Helix…?＂

Selena sighed as if she was dumbfounded by Lila’s words.

“Well, it’s probably safer than the fortress or Asteris.”

“… I’m sorry, Aine! The only place I can send you back to right now is Helix, a rural village a little… Far away from Asteris! I’ll come pick you up after I drop the fort. Do you want to wait there!? “

In response to Lila’s flustered voice, Aine also looked at her as if she was dumbfounded.

＂Eh…? However, as a half-ghost, I have a mission to protect if anything happens in Asteris…”

“I worked non-stop for three or three days, so I can take a break! The biggest mansion in the village we arrived at is our house, so if you go and tell them what’s going on, they’ll let you in! Then I’ll send it to you!”

“Now, wait!”

Before Aine could say anything, Lila waved her arm and Aine disappeared along with the quartz sound.

＂Phew…＂

＂… That was reckless…!＂

Seeing Lila sighing and wiping the sweat from her forehead, Selena reacts with shock.

“Oh, it can’t be helped. Anyway, sending it to a safe place came first. Aine will take care of it.”

“It’s a hopeful observation, but for now, I have no choice but to believe that and move forward.”

Dio also seemed to feel a little worried by Lila’s words, but since it had already happened, and she really couldn’t leave the injured Quartz alone, Lila’s current judgment could be said to be suboptimal.

＂More than that, the person who fainted…＂

From a while ago, Diora was looking at the unconscious wizard girl ‘Mea’ who was being dragged around by Lila tied tightly with a rope.

Lila hadn’t paid much attention to her for a while because she was concerned about Aine, but she suddenly remembered her taste and felt a shiver run down her spine.

＂Wait a minute, Diora… I can’t believe you, that kid too…”

As Lila’s eyes changed to an expression of disbelief, Diora moved the fingers of both her hands suspiciously, trying to take it to her Mea.

＂Kuhk… You left a defenseless girl like this in front of me… It’s no different from setting a meal on the table…!”

“Wait a minute, someone stops that idiot!”

In the end, when Lila shouted like that, Diora lowered her raised hand and shrugged her shoulders.

“It’s a joke, a joke. No matter how much I do, I don’t get excited about a fainting girl… Or even a girl who was my enemy. What I was trying to say is… She didn’t have to kill. Boy.”

When Diora said that, Lila and Selena fell silent for a moment.

Her eyes are those of a soldier, a knight.

Their eyes were filled with doubt and caution about the survival of beings that could potentially threaten them.

“It was an enemy who tried to kill us with clear hostility, right? Do you need to save it? Let me tell you, it’s probably useless if you’re going to use it as a hostage. The Exile Church guys don’t care about hostages.”

Diora speaks from a calm, yet natural perspective.

Lila listened to her and answered while looking her directly in the eyes.

“Don’t worry. Even if he comes to his senses, he’s just an annoying and noisy kid who runs wild.”

As Lila said, even if she were to wake up again like this, it would be impossible for her to run amok like before because there is a magical seal placed by Lila.

Moreover, her staff, which allowed her to use magic of the five attributes, was also destroyed.

“There is no need to kill a neutralized enemy. On the contrary, there is a reason to keep it alive. “You could take this guy and make him public about the Expulsion Church, right?”

＂… Indeed…＂

As if not paying attention to what Lila said, Diora nodded her head at what she said.

＂Because the cultists are hiding in the back of history, in places where light cannot reach, they live their lives doing whatever they want. If we want to give them a shot… We have to somehow drag them out to a place where the light can reach.”

I didn’t know that Dior and Lila were even thinking about that.

Unless there was an order to ‘capture her alive’, her mission as a knight was focused on ‘killing’.

“… Okay. If Lila says so. But if this guy wakes up and poses some threat to us…”

“Okay, I’ll handle it then.”

Only then will we know the meaning of Lila’s treatment.

Diora, knowing that her eyes were sincere, lifted her body and took her hand away from Mea.

＂Yeah, what? Although I know that it is best if no one dies.”

Selena let out a sigh as she looked at her reaction, saying, ‘It’s inevitable because of her job.’

It seemed like they were glad that their difference of opinion did not turn into a major conflict.

“Okay, so everyone got enough rest, right? As I said before, everything will be destroyed as it passes through the transfer gate.”

＂You mean… To prevent unexploded shells from being disposed of? ＂

When Rio Mess asked Laila Ge, she nodded her head.

“Yes, that’s right. If even one shot is fired and lands, it’s our loss. If you want to waste time, you have to use any method.”

As Lila spoke, she placed her hand on the southern transition door in front of her and breathed her own magic into it.

Then, Lila’s red magic mixed into the magic circle that was shining white mixed with blue, and it began to slowly blink.

“Now, hurry up! It will break down automatically over time!”

At Lila’s urging, her companions quickly climb up the transfer gate.

And finally, when Lila stood next to her companions, she felt as if her body was floating, along with a sense of space being twisted.

The next moment, when she noticed that the scene unfolding before her eyes had changed into something completely different, the transition door beneath her feet finally blinked and disappeared completely.

But the problem, more than that dizzying feeling, was the changed appearance of the scene.

＂… This is… ＂

In the inner area, the space where the southern transfer door extends, there were traces of blood stained and wiped off wherever you looked on the walls, floor, and ceiling.

Even people without information about the facility could tell that something had gone wrong here.

＂… Wait Lila? Is it right to move this over here…?”

When Selena speaks with concern, Lila closes her mouth for a moment and then looks back at her.

“Yes, I understand that the southern transfer door is the fastest to get to the data room…”

She herself chose the transfer door closest to her data room through her blueprint, and didn’t seem to know why there were such ominous blood stains in this room.

“Anyway, let’s go outside. Even if I just stay here, nothing will change.”

The transfer door beneath her feet had already disappeared, and there was no way back.

Although her group hesitated a little at Lila’s words, they had no choice but to move forward.

And, the moment you open the door of the closed room and go outside-

[Geeky Geek…]

Then, a strange and unpleasant sound was heard.

He stopped moving and froze, without saying who was first.

In the end, we looked at each other-

“… Who will go out first? Shall we decide with rock, paper, scissors?”

Lila smiled sheepishly and raised her fist.