Chapter 872 – Bypass Authentication

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Cleon fell, blown by the wind, and in the air, Galatea and Caliburn returned to human form while being held by Cleon’s hand.

Looking at Cleon, who had lost his mind and could not fly on his own, the two swords crossed their gazes.

Basically, if it is a simple magic that Cleon uses, Galatea can also use it.

The problem is that neither Galatea nor Caliburn have any magic power left to maintain flight magic as a result of pouring out their magic to defeat the Holy Swordsman.

＂Uh, what should I do!?＂

“Calm down. Lila and everyone must have seen Cleon fall right before he fell, so they will definitely chase after him and catch him.”

When Caliburn said that to calm the panicked Galatea, something red came out of the hole in the fortress seen from above, falling like a comet and chasing Cleon.

Whiooooo-

As expected, it was Lila who followed through the wind.

Her hair, which had been tied up with a ribbon, fell with such force that it came undone, and she did not care that her face was shaped strangely by the pressure of the wind, but only cared about catching up with the falling Cleon. Br〉

Thanks to this, after she succeeded in accelerating right next to Cleon, she was able to slow down and match his falling speed.

Without even thinking about saying anything, she immediately stretched out her hand towards Cleon and grabbed his arm.

＂Go, slow down! We have to slow down!”

After hearing Galatea’s voice and checking her distance from the ground, she answered.

“I know! I’ll cast a floating spell now…!”

After saying that, Galatea saw the light of her magic briefly increase in Laila’s body and let out a sigh of relief.

But right after that.

Pick~

＂Huh!?＂

Lila’s magic activates and then stops.

As if a blazing bonfire had been forcibly extinguished by pouring water on it, her magic itself had disappeared from her body, leaving behind only the reverberations of her magic.

The reason was not a high-level reason such as Cleon’s body having been given special treatment or being disturbed by something.

＂Lila, you can’t believe-＂

When Galatea spoke in disbelief, Laila could not feel her magic in her body.

In other words, she-

＂Damn, I’m running out of magic!!＂

Looking at Lila holding her head and raising her voice as if she was ruined, both Galatea and Caliban looked like they couldn’t believe it.

In order to catch up with Cleon as quickly as possible, she had left the potion for recovering her magical power in her bag, as if throwing it away.

Of course, it proved that Laila had a lot going on in many ways.

“Oh, no. This one is also conscious…”

And, for magicians, exhaustion of magical power also meant loss of consciousness.

It seemed as if Lila would lose her grip on Cleon, and she almost fell from him.

By catching her as she struggled, Galatea held her in place so that she wouldn’t fly away somewhere.

“Uh, what are you going to do? Can’t you have one more person come down?”

If Lila can’t respond to Galatea’s words-

＂Bpii-!＂

“Hey! You guys!”

From somewhere, a familiar voice was heard.

And then, at a speed much faster than the speed at which Lila or Cleon fell, something flew in from her side, carrying the two people on its back and grabbing Galatea and Caliburn with its claws.

When Galatea came to her senses saying, ‘Hot!’, She raised her head to see the being that had caught her.

A demonic beast with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion, flying in the sky with huge wings.

There was Gonzalez, the griffin, and Schrödinger, who flew on Gonzalez’s back.

＂You, you!? How do you know…!?”

When Galatea couldn’t close her mouth in surprise and asked him a question, Schrödinger sighed and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

＂That Bingryong? Was it? The guy who came with Lila’s friend told us to fly around here and keep an eye out. It was a big deal on earth while you were away. The palace is almost completely destroyed. Well, I’ll tell you the details once I get down to the ground.”

As Schrödinger speaks like that, he glances up at the sky.

“But… Why is it going up?”

＂…?＂

And at his words, when Lila, who had almost lost her mind, glances up at the sky-

There, Vajra, a fortress in the sky that must have lost its power, was not falling, but was slowly increasing its altitude and rising high into the sky.

Seeing that, Lila stops losing her mind and opens her eyes wide, looking at her fortress.

＂What, what? What is going on?!”

And then, a voice came into Lila’s ears.

[Lila! Is this what you want to hear!? I was worried because her magic response was cut off! What you see here is a griffin, right? Are you riding there now? What about Cleon?!]

Lila frowns slightly as several questions ring through her mind at once.

I want to answer, but due to a lack of magical power, I can’t send my voice in the form of a proper sentence from here.

As Lila pondered what to do, she quickly sent her answer back to him as briefly as possible.

[O]

[… What is the answer? Sending me the image of a circle… No… I know that something happened with that… Anyway. The altitude of the fortress continues to rise? Is it okay to escape like this? Or is it better to solve it within something…?]

[X]

When I sent another concise reply, there was no reply from Selena for a while.

[You just said that means negativity!? How much magical power is lacking… Then, I will escape!]

When she said that, she unilaterally cut off communication with Lila.

Immediately after, seeing something shining with a bright light coming down to the ground through the hole where Cleon fell, did Lila really reach her limit?

As she lost consciousness, she lowered her head.

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＂Woopp!＂

The next time Lila opened her eyes, she had a bottle of glowing blue magic potion in her mouth.

And the location… Is it the living room of their mansion?

＂Ah, I woke up.＂

Seeing Sasha, who had placed herself on her lap, trying to open another bottle of her magic potion in her hand, Lila pulled the magic potion out of her own mouth.

＂Chulokkolok…!＂

When Lila coughs due to the force of her magic potion, which almost goes over her prayers, Sasha gently puts down the magic potion she was holding in her hand.

＂Gwae, are you okay?＂

“Why did you come back safely from the fortress? The potion goes to prayer, and you have to overcome the risk of death…”

Lila mumbled as if she couldn’t understand, then stood up and looked around.

There, I saw Amelia, who had also moved some of the furniture in Cleon’s living room, laid something like a blanket on the floor, and was treating Cleon.

With both of her hands on him, the warm light of divine magic radiating from her hands was very slowly healing the numerous wounds on Cleon’s body.

Cleon’s body had reached its limits in many places, to the point where it was not completely protected even by the adamantite armor.

If it really wasn’t for that armor, it might have been dangerous.

Unlike other times, the fact that I don’t have to wrap my whole body in bandages is at least a salvation.

＂What about Kuon?＂

“You’re still at the temple. I decided that the barrier must be maintained until the fortress becomes completely silent.”

When Sasha answered Laila’s question like that, Laila slowly raised her body.

“Beatrix is ​​making various potions in Lila’s workshop. Anatis was there too… Laila asked me to come when she wakes up.”

＂Okay… Thank you.＂

Come to think of it, I can’t see Selena and Diora.

Schrödinger spoke as if something big had happened on earth. Could it have something to do with it?

There were so many confusing things that she couldn’t judge with just herself, so Lila got up.

One thing was certain – the battle taking place in the fortress, the Exiled Church, and Asteris was not yet completely over.

Lila heads to her own room and workshop, where Bea and Anatis are waiting.

When she opened the door and carefully looked inside, she could see that the room, which had been quite messy, had been cleaned up, and that Anatis and Beatrix were standing at a desk in front of them.

“You’re here.”

It seems that she opened the door without making much of a sound, but when Anatis, who noticed her appearance, said so, Bea also turns to look at her.

Immediately Lila came running towards her, and she was looking all over her body.

“Lila, are you okay? What about her body? I heard she was depleted of magical power. Are there any injuries?”

Bea’s hands touched her hair, touched her breasts, touched her waist, and touched her thighs.

There was nothing uncomfortable about her, except that her breasts were pressed against her own body.

＂It’s okay, because it’s okay. Rather, the room…”

“Ah, yes. While I was waiting, I put it away a little bit.”

＂A little…?＂

When Anatis added to Bea’s words as if she couldn’t admit it, Lila’s face turned sour.

Bea was also embarrassed as she spoke to Anatis.

＂It’s okay, this much! Lila did more when she was younger. Because I’m used to it…”

“It was worse than this? It’s no longer a person, it’s just a den where orcs live…”

“Well, I think it’s cleaner than that though! Anyway, the important thing now is not how dirty my room is, but about the sky fortress!”

Layla raised her voice with such intensity, and Bea nodded her head.

Anatis looked back at the two people, still maintaining her intelligent and cool eyes, then turned her body and looked at the desk again.

Then, there-

[…

A woman’s head was seen quietly looking at the three people, including Lila.

The problem would have been that it was just her head.

Lila was taken aback for a moment, but she soon realized that she had been in her living room a moment ago.

When she confirms that it is the same as Arnia, she breathes a sigh of relief.

“What is it? It’s an automaton… Seeing as it’s the same type as Arnia, it looks like it was taken out of the fortress.”

“Huh. Senior Cleon’s swords told the story. She thought she would know why the fortress was rising into the air, so she tried to ask… But they said she couldn’t answer unless she was the one with the final command.”

At Bea’s words, Lila feels like she’s heard such a story before, and she approaches the desk.

And, only her head is left to talk to her.

＂Arnia No. 2. We are Cleon’s colleagues. You do know that Cleon has not yet regained his consciousness, right? So, on Cleon’s behalf, we will listen to the story, so if you know why that fortress has become so strange or why it won’t fall, please tell us.”

Then, the automata looked at her Lyla and spoke to her with her emotionless eyes.

[The target is determined to be Laila Flame Watch, a dangerous person ranked S in the church’s database.]

＂Above, dangerous person rank S…? Does that mean that’s how the church views it?”

Being considered a dangerous person by the enemy was a complicated feeling in many ways… But at least it might be better than being looked down on.

“Oh, come to think of it!”

And as if she had finally remembered Lila, she looks back at the two.

＂The cult members we brought from the fortress!?＂

“As for those people, Selena and Diora took them. It means locking it in an appropriate place.”

There was also her little one… Bea looked a little worried, but she thought it was because she didn’t know what Mea had done, and Lila nodded.

And again, I look back at the automata that was arbitrarily named Arnia No. 2.

“Anyway, if you understood what I said, give me the information about the fortress!”

[… Certainly, according to the information registered with me, you are identified as a colleague of Cleon, my new supreme commanding authority. However, that alone does not determine whether I should hand over the information to you.]

Suddenly, a tendon appeared on Laila’s forehead.

“Calm down, Lila, let’s stop making the fireballs you’re trying to make with those hands of hers. I don’t want to faint because my magic power is depleted again!”

When Bea tried to calm Laila down, Arnia No. 2 continued talking.

[But one thing. There is a way to bypass authentication.]

＂… Bypass authentication?＂

[Yes. In order to determine whether you are suitable as a representative of my commanding authority… You do what the commanding authority wanted to do on behalf of you, and bring the results to me.]

“Commander… Was there something Cleon was trying to do?”

When Lila was a little embarrassed by a story she had not heard, Arnia No. 2 continued the story.

[He knew that the information he was looking for was in the personal terminals owned by members of the ‘Leader Order’. So, it was originally planned to be recovered after the battle was over… But as he, who was a leader, fell from the fortress, the terminal has not been recovered at the moment.]

＂Leader… Among the cult members, he is the one who talks about the guys in the owl mask.＂

When Anatis said that, Lila frowned.

Cleon knocked him down, but his body could not be recovered and fell to the ground before Cleon.

“… Therefore. Find the body and retrieve the terminal… Is that right?”

[That’s right. If you do so, I will recognize you as my representative in command and hand over information regarding the current state of the fortress.]

At her firm words, Lila lets out a deep sigh.

＂… I can’t help it. If you give me that information… I have no choice but to go and come back quickly.”

“Senior Cleon might wake up before then…?”

“Anyway, the information Cleon wanted was contained there, right? Then it is right to go and come back in the end.”

Laila said that and left her workshop, and Bea followed her out of her room.

Anatis remained quietly in the room, looking down at the head of the automata that had finished speaking.

It’s as if she is appreciating the value of that existence.