Chapter 34 – The Princess’ Request (3)

The Infectors jumped up all at once as if they had made a promise.

I once again turned on the shield of the “Light Recording Bracelet” To prevent the effector from attaching to me and Aria.

The sight of so many Infectors piling up on top of the shield was a very disgusting sight.

“Ha!”

Ellie used 〈 Fury Wave 〉 to slam her mace down on her floor.

In the past, I used the skill weakly to detect nearby monsters, but this time I think I used it with all my might.

Quack!

The ground where Ellie hit cracked with a loud noise, as if a meteorite had landed.

And the divine power spreading around swept away the influencers attached to the ground, turning them into dust and disappearing at once.

“Jinu! Please stay still!”

While I was using the shield, Yuria was concentrating her magic in her hands.

〈Dragonia Fire〉

One of the Dragon Knight’s skills is to gather magical power in the hand and fire a simple breath.

Yuria fired 〈 Dragonia Fire 〉 at the Infectors attached to her inner shield, destroying them all.

It was almost dangerous due to the sudden attack, but in fact, the Infector was not a high-level monster in Elion.

The Infector is a monster that appears in a level 30 dungeon. When a person is parasitized by the Infector, the whites of their eyes turn red, their pupils disappear, and black stripes appear all over their body, giving them a frantic appearance.

Although Ellie and Yuria themselves are already strong, the Infector before becoming parasitic doesn’t seem to be that strong of a monster.

I think you just have to be careful about being parasitized.

It seems like the Infector was easily removed thanks to Ellie and Yuria.

“I’ve seen people parasitized by the Infector, but this is the first time I’ve seen the Infector itself.”

Thinking that he had blocked the Infector’s attack, he said as he removed the shield.

“When the Infector becomes a parasite, it enters through a hole in a person’s face. As long as you are careful, you will not become a parasite.”

When I said it was my first time seeing it, Ellie explained about Infector.

If there were holes in the face, would it be the nose, mouth, or ears?

I got goosebumps imagining the Infector living in my body.

At that moment, an Infector flew towards me from the tree.

The sight of the Infector being easily dealt with made me nervous, so I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t even use my shield to react.

“Ice Shield!”

The moment the Infector rushed in, I heard Aria’s voice behind me.

With Aria’s shout, a transparent ice shield as tall as me appeared right in front of me.

The Infector that was flying towards me was blocked by an ice shield and fell midway, and Ellie rushed in and struck down with her mace.

The Infector turned into dust and disappeared under Ellie’s attack.

“Are you okay? Jinu. I guess my skills didn’t work because it was on a tree. I should have found it and removed it earlier, I’m sorry.”

Ellie apologized to me with a worried look on her face.

“Ellie, what do you have to apologize for? It was my fault for letting my guard down. Did Aria give you the shield just now? Thanks to you, I survived.”

I bowed my head and thanked Aria for creating a shield to protect me.

If it weren’t for Aria, I would have been left standing there without any choice but to be attacked by the Infector.

“No. Jinu, you also protected me, right? We helped each other.”

Aria smiled brightly and answered.

“Hey~~. Infector. I didn’t expect to see you here.”

Yuria also came near us, giggling.

That’s right.

Suddenly a demon attack.

If the dimensional gate is sealed, wouldn’t it be impossible to come here unless it’s like Vihamos?

It also seems like a large amount of demons have flowed in.

At this level, we may not be able to say that Infector was the only one who attacked us.

While we were thinking about it, we saw Aria’s group of knights approaching from afar.

“Ah! Her knights are coming.”

Aria smiled brightly at her article and ran towards that direction.

“Wait a moment, Aria!”

I grabbed Aria’s shoulder as she was running and stopped her.

“Jinu? Why are you doing that?”

“Unfortunately, those knights are not people you know.”

The gait of the knights seen from a distance was a little strange, but I could clearly tell the moment I saw their faces.

Judging by the typical Infector-parasitic red eyes and the black stripes around the face and neck, it appears to have been attacked by the Infector.

Is that why you didn’t arrive on time?

“I was parasitized by the Infector. Do you see something different from usual?”

“Ah… I can’t believe it. Can’t we save the people who were parasitized by that creature called Infector?”

Aria asked with her face filled with sadness.

Although I know most about Elion, I don’t know how to save the people parasitized by Infector.

In the first place, the parasitized person appeared as a monster and was simply killed, but there was no setting or content to save it.

She looked towards Ellie, wondering if anything, but Ellie shook her head as well.

“Unfortunately, there is none, Aria. Anyone parasitized by the Infector must be killed on the spot to avoid further damage.”

“You’re right. If it happens like that, it’s already too late. When the Infector becomes parasitic, it almost assimilates into the human brain in the head, so if it becomes parasitic, that’s where it ends.”

While we were talking, the knights parasitized by Infector came closer.

“Then I can’t help it… Should I just attack the head?”

Aria spoke with a sad but determined face.

And the battle with the knights parasitized by Infector began.

In order to fight properly, I also equipped “Gram” And corrected my posture.

This is the first battle I face after training every morning.

First, I focused on one knight coming toward me.

The knight approached me with a staggered gait, perhaps due to being parasitized, and as soon as the distance between me and me was narrowed, he swung the sword he was holding diagonally.

Perhaps because she had been training by constantly watching Ellie’s attacks, the knight’s attack was clearly visible to her, and she easily dodged to the side, decapitating her naturally.

My attack, which could cut down a thick tree in one go, also cut off the knight’s head as easily as chopping tofu.

After a moment of joy that my attack was successful, other knights rushed in.

He widened the distance by blocking the knights’ attacks with his sword or throwing them aside, and swung his sword as soon as he saw an opening.

Although his swordsmanship skills may still be poor, the attack power of the attacker himself was very high thanks to the weapon’s level 20 correction, so he was able to kill one person with a single blow.

After I defeated the fourth knight, I looked around and saw that Eli and Yuria had already taken care of the remaining knights.

After all, it’s my character!

Very strong.

Among the corpses of the knights, some died with pieces of ice stuck in their heads, so it appears that they were treated with Mr. Aria’s magic.

Fortunately, it was a low-level demon, so I was able to catch it without difficulty.

In addition, the fact that the parasitic person was unable to demonstrate his or her full potential also played a role.

While we were catching our breath, we saw a knight walking from afar.

I thought it was a knight who had avoided the Infector’s attack, but looking at it, unfortunately, it was not the case.

“Even Lord Zetsu… This can’t be right.”

Judging by Aria’s reaction, I think the person coming now is the driver who yelled at me.

Looking at the numbers, it seems that all the knights who traveled with Aria were all hit by the Infector attack.

It’s probably because they were ambushed like us.

They must have been embarrassed to see a creature they had never seen before suddenly attach itself to a colleague’s face and go into the face hole, and the vicious cycle would have been repeated with another person being parasitized in the gap.

I took the lead in sending that driver named Zetsu.

The Zetsu Knight came up to us and I prepared to swing my sword.

“Ah…Lia… King… Lady…”

At that time, Aria’s name came out of the mouth of the Zetsu driver who discovered her.

I was surprised and took a step back, widening the distance.

“Kwaaaaa!”

Then the Zetsu Knight stopped in his tracks, placed his hands on his head and began to cry out in pain.

In a situation where I didn’t know what was going on, I looked at Ellie and Yuria, and both of them were looking at me with the same surprised expression on their faces.

I think this is my first time seeing these two.

The Zetsu Knight must have been unable to bear the pain, so he fell to his knees and continued to scream, and soon began to bleed from his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth.

We held our breath and looked at the grotesque sight.

Soon the Zetsu driver began to chuckle and spit something out of his mouth.

Judging from the black object, it was clear that the person spitting it out was Infector.

As soon as the spat out Infector hit the ground, it tried to fly towards the Zetsu Knight to parasitize again, but Yuria ran faster and stamped it with her leg.

Due to Yuria’s attack, the Infector turned into dust and disappeared.

Thud!

Zetsu Knight, who spit out the Infector and lost consciousness, fell to the side.

“Lord Zetsu!”

“Ellie, please take care of 〈 heels 〉!”

When the Zetsu Knight fell, Aria ran out and I asked Ellie for 〈 Heal 〉.

When the Zetsu Knight lay down on the floor and Ellie used 〈 Heal 〉, the Zetsu Knight’s face, which had turned blue, came back to life.

However, the shock of removing the Infector from his body was so severe that he did not come to his senses right away.

“This is the first time I’ve seen a parasitic Infector detach from a body.”

“Well, the only way was to kill the Infector on sight.”

She was worried that there might be some Infector left in her body, but Ellie examined her body with her divine power and found that this was not the case.

What happened?

Even in the Elion game I was playing, there was no setting or story about a person parasitized by Infector coming back.

“Hey… Could it be because Lord Zetsu is an Auror user?”

While we were pondering, Aria, who was watching Zetsu, offered her opinion.

“Auror user?”

It was an unfamiliar word to Ellie and Yuria.

“An Auror user is someone who swordsmen can put magical energy into their swords. I guess they call them Aurors.”

“You mean this?”

After hearing my words, Yuria put her magic into her sword Caliburn and created an incredibly large sword.

“It’s my first time seeing an Auror Sword this big… As expected, Jinu-san, you are beyond my common sense.”

“Then Aria, are you not an Auror user other than Zetsu?”

I said, looking around at the corpses of the knights we killed.

“No. There are also Aura users. But among them, Sir Zetsu is the highest sword expert knight. I was wondering if that was the reason why only Sir Zetsu was able to fight against that being called Infector.”

It is said that humans with a lot of magical power can resist the Infector’s parasitism…

“That may be true. Most of the people I’ve seen who were parasitized by Infector were ordinary people who could barely control magical power. If there was someone who could manipulate magical power as well as this person, I might have seen a case where they resisted.”

When I looked towards Ellie, she said:

“Aria, can your father also handle Aurors?”

“Yes. He may not be as good as Lord Zetsu, but he will be up to Intermediate Sword Expert… Ah!”

Aria seems to have sensed the intent of my question.

“Then maybe it’s the Infectors that are eating away at the Kingdom of Britinya right now.”

Nothing is certain yet, but when I saw the influencers suddenly running at us, I began to understand the story as it unfolded.

“I don’t know why, but it seems like some of the Infectors are intelligent.”

Infectors are low-level demon monsters that play the role of causing confusion in a dimension by crossing the dimension and living there as parasites.

It utilizes the parasitic creature’s original memories to use a sword if it is a swordsman, or simple magic if it is a wizard, but it is not particularly intelligent.

However, attacking us as systematically as we did now is impossible without intelligence.

They probably tried to parasitize the king in an attempt to devour the kingdom of Brittinya, but they failed because he resisted like a Zetsu Knight, and instead seem to have turned to parasitizing Prince James.

Seeing as they sent an Infector here as soon as they told us about our location yesterday, it seems that the wizard named Angelica that Aria mentioned was also hit by an Infector.

It’s a total mess.

Invading Brighton Castle, relying on the help of helpers, was a mistake.

“This is… An awkward situation.”

“Mr. Jinu.”

While I was wondering what to do, Aria called me.

“I’ve always thought you weren’t an ordinary person, but today’s incident has made it clear to me.”

Aria took a breath and continued.

“Ellie and Yuria, who have powers beyond common sense, and who also know in detail about the existence of Infectors… What is Jinu’s true identity?”