Chapter 168 – But the Bus Flips Over (2)

The Iona bus overturned.

But that doesn’t mean it’s fucked up.

To be honest, I’m not really in a dangerous situation right now.

A road-class vampire who can play with an archbishop alone and win without difficulty even with a cardinal after a little skirmish.

That’s iona

It’s not that I just trusted Iona and followed her.

Iris was also well aware of Iona’s strength, so she wasn’t too worried.

That’s why we can’t call this the worst situation.

Seven archbishops for one cardinal. On top of that, there were about a dozen bishops and an army of undead that would fill the area.

It’s a terrifying force that seems to be able to destroy any large city in an instant, but…

“I” Will be fine.

With Iona’s strength, she would be able to continue fighting on an equal footing for quite some time.

That’s why I’m not dangerous. Iona, determined to risk her own life.

“I’ll block this place, so go ahead!”

Unlike usual, a captivating voice with a mixture of intimidation and coquetry.

To obey Iona’s words, I tried hard to suppress my twitching legs. Then he quickly scanned the front.

The first thing you see is a woman walking staggering as she has one arm missing. After that, there are a lot of faces of the middle bosses I know.

The undead that climbed through the floor and the fishermen crawling from the far shore were bonuses.

Once again, the woman who took the lead… I looked at her strangely familiar face, even though it was definitely the first time I had seen it.

Are you in your late 20s or so? Not befitting her appearance, her white hair, like her old woman, is impressive.

However, the familiar dark red light from her eyes gives a slight sense of incongruity.

It’s the first time I’ve seen it in real life… Even so, I was able to recognize it right away when I saw that facial feature.

Ayla staring.

It must be the narrow-minded cardinal of usurpation, the woman Iona wanted so badly to kill as her sister.

“What are you doing! Come on!”

“Oh.”

Was it frustrating for her to pause for a moment? Iona waved her hand lightly.

Then her body was forcibly dragged, as if her invisible hand had caught her backside.

Is it telekinesis magic?

Carla and Elisha are also in a roughly similar situation, and they roll side by side in the grass with embarrassed faces.

In just a moment, I and Iona got 10m apart.

Between them, a vast amount of mana rose like a wall.

As if pushing us away, or blocking enemies from reaching us.

Through the translucent red barrier, Iona glanced back.

The atmosphere of an unfamiliar fairy who exudes lust just by breathing. But what caught her lips was a familiar sense of mischief.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m not running away, I’m going to call for support. If the Yandel student comes soon, I can buy it, so I’ll ask. Understand?”

“…”

A lie that even a child could not fool.

Going to call support? Where?

There is no point in going to a halfway town. There won’t be any mediocre communication magic tools.

Then, how long does it take to run to the nearest city from the port town on the outskirts?

Even if you use magic, you won’t be able to get there in a few hours.

Countless words come and go in my head. Each one can refute Iona’s clumsy lies.

But I couldn’t answer anything.

I don’t know what to say or what I want to say.

It was just that Iona’s last words, her eyes, and her smile were all hardened, overwhelmed by the weight of emotions contained in all of them.

Carla dragged me like that. On the other side of Iona.

One step. Two steps. Three steps.

Once the inertia is established, the legs move by themselves even without someone leading them.

I glanced behind me, but all I could see was Iona’s back as she let out a short sigh.

Somehow, seeing that appearance that even seemed relieved, the words I wanted to say came to my mind belatedly.

But it’s already too late.

It’s gone too far. Even if I shout here, Iona won’t hear.

Most of all, because Iona was holding up a bloody light of magic power over her pale hand.

“Calm down, Master! Come on, this way!”

I inadvertently looked back at the warm hand that pulled my hand. And a loud roar that resounds

Kwaaang-!

My body stumbles on its own from the hot wind that hits me from behind.

The roaring sound and the number of impact digits are different.

Normally, low-level magic is said to have the power to harm one person.

Intermediate magic can annihilate a well-organized veteran party, and if you come to advanced magic and destroy a fort.

How much magic did Iona use from before? And what about those cultists who get hit and still burn their hostility?

What is certain is that it is too soon for me to intervene.

“…”

Could it be because of being hit in the back of the head by the shock wave? It feels like my complicated mind has been calmly washed away.

She discarded all the plans she had made just a moment ago and started over from scratch.

You don’t have to go to the academy or a nearby city to apply for support, right?

I immediately took out the crystal ball connected to Iris from my inventory and blew her magic into it.

Now. Crackle-

Unfortunately, the crystal ball only reflected my face on the smooth surface and didn’t spit out Iris’s voice. All you hear is noise you don’t know.

But. Space movement is blocked, but there’s no way we’ll leave the means of communication alone.

Of course, there are still ways. I said that if I break the crystal ball, Iris will come looking for me no matter where I am or what the situation is.

“Suck!”

Clink!

I threw the crystal ball to the ground, and colored smoke rose from the wreckage.

Judging from the aura I can feel, it’s not normal smoke, but it seems to be a transformation of mana.

Seeing the smoke stretching across the sky unhindered by anything, Karla exclaimed in amazement.

“Master! If you break it here… !”

“Anyway, space movement is blocked, so you can’t even come all at once. I don’t even know how far the barrier is.”

“But…”

“And even if Iris came alone, it would be difficult. It’s much better to just warn you that the teleport is blocked.”

Iris is a much smarter person than I am. She will surely take heed of my warning and come fully prepared.

For example, by asking for help from the professors at the academy or the Good God Church.

If you sell my name, and if you reveal the fact that you are my slave, it is possible enough.

In the meantime, we have to stay away from here as much as possible to ensure safety…

Guung-

By the time I thought about it. Suddenly, the air around me became strangely heavy.

A sense of resistance felt throughout the body as if entering the water.

… It’s a feeling you already know.

He raised his mana and circulated his entire body. Shoulders a little lighter.

It seems that basic resistance is not enough.

Then the only thing left is the regular method.

I squeezed her core while recalling what I had learned from Carla at the academy.

Pounding. Pounding.

A heart that beats vigorously and radiates magical energy. He released the mana he had accumulated in the image of striking the surroundings at once.

Cadeuk!

The sound of something breaking. At the same time, the feeling of pressure that had surrounded me suddenly disappeared.

As if Kara and Elisha were also released at about the same time, they let out a breath they had been holding back.

“It’s a curse on you.”

“I know. It seems like a curse that restrains the body, but luckily it doesn’t seem to be a very strong curse…”

“… Master?”

Carla cuts off my words while running. When she turned her head to find out what had happened to her unresponsive behavior, she stretched out her index finger and pointed at the sky.

“Uh?”

The five-colored smoke suddenly stopped without going up without any problems.

More precisely, I only realized it when I saw the acting that had slowed down so much that it seemed to have stopped.

That the curse of restraint that had just escaped was fired at a signal to be sent to Iris, not to us.

We were just caught up in it.

Of course, it is impossible to bind mana with a curse.

In the first place, the curse itself is magic that is premised on being shot at living things.

… However, if the results exist in front of your eyes like this, the story is different.

Doing the impossible with magic. We call it a miracle.

Not an ordinary curse, but a curse that took another form of authority would be able to restrain even the flow of mana.

I hurriedly looked around.

Just as expected. My eyes met with the mysterious woman who was accompanied by countless undead.

A guy who constantly bites his nails for what he is so anxious about.

Even though it is quite far away, the gloomy atmosphere can be felt all the way here.

Sawtooth nails Sophia.

An expert in curses and manipulation of the undead, an archbishop of narrow-minded usurpation.

She looked at us as she stopped and smiled with her white, plump lips.

“… Carla. Can you do that?”

“I’ve been trying since before, but I can’t.”

If that signal doesn’t reach Iris, it’s only a matter of time before we’re in danger too.

For a moment she turned her head toward Iona.

The wall of magic that still stands firmly holds the cultists in check, continuously ejecting weapons made of blood.

That said, only Sofia crossed over the barrier.

I don’t know how he got around it, but if there’s only one, it’s worth trying at the level of an archbishop.

Because Carol is also with me now.

We glared at the lead of the group of undead running towards us.

The ghouls still have flesh attached to them, suggesting that they were the Beasts who lived here a few days ago.

Looking at their half-rotten ears and tails, I lifted my staff.

“Everyone ready for battle.”

First of all. We need to take this guy down.