I'll take care of it.
"You don't have to tell me."
From the front of Ledo, there were several imminent giant reddish brown lizards. It's a demon called Dungeon Lizard, lurking in this underground labyrinth. There were also a few snags on the ceiling and walls behind them, with Aria pointing the blade there.
Ledo leaves Aria behind and walks to the lizard when he kicks the ground. Stick out your dagger, chant.
"" White columns, fangs upside down. "- [Frost bite.]"
The white frost passed straight through the ground, raising fangs to a crowd of lizards.
"Pigau!!
Redo approaches the lizards who freeze from under their feet and are no longer able to move.
"If you're this much of a demon, you can afford it! - [Unmerciful Rock Spear (Klee Gerahi)]"
The moment the lizards opened their mouths to spit venom, the spear produced by the magic unleashed by Ledo was protruded from the floor and skewered.
At the same time, behind her back, Aria held, her synonymous presence, the long-shaped weapon of the ice blade - [Snowflake] - was swept away. It is a weapon called Grave with a thick wide blade at the end of a long pattern, but a huge snow crystal scattered about as much as a man's head in the orbit where it was shaken.
And just for a moment, those crystals blast forward as they scatter cold air.
A white wind blew down the corridor cooling the lizards to ultra-low temperatures on every ceiling and wall.
"The boulder is the best cold air attribute in the kingdom. I think it's a little too much..."
Redo looked back and smiled bitterly when he saw the tragedy. Aria stands against the background of a corridor that has completely frozen and has become a world of extreme cold.
'Cause if you do, you won't be attacked from behind for at least a while.'
"... Indeed"
Aria leaves Stasta and Redo to move on.
"Oh man..."
Battle ability is impeccable and you can make accurate decisions. Ledo also understands that it is not haphazard to have risen to S-rank at this young age. But...... it was Ledo who was feeling so frustrated.
I can party with pretty much any guy...... Redo follows Aria with stupidity in her heart.
Already, the two of them were moving up to four levels underground. Although we encountered demons several times along the way, we eliminated them without any particular problems.
"You're not here."
"I was forced to travel to the edge of the king's capital because I went without a knight."
"Central...... back? There are many exits and ways out...... the Central District is better"
"Right. If I could, I'd like to exchange information with a friendly knight..."
Many of the guys whose general knights are from aristocracy and privileged classes and hostile to adventurers on their own, but some of them treat them like Collieve and Leccan without separation. As for Redo, if you can meet those knights, they're quick to talk about, but reality doesn't work that way.
"... Someone's been coming for a long time"
Ledo nodded silently at Aria's words and, just in case, set up his weapon.
You can hear the conversation from the darkness ahead.
"Ouch... it hurts!! Damn it!! What the fuck are those guys!
"That strength in that number. It's decided to be a fucking adventurer!
"You guys, be quiet! What the hell would you do if a demon came out of a commotion!
The knights would be based on their voice and the content of the conversation.
Redo got lost hanging the magic of [Transparency (Invisibility)], but this magic only works for him, so it doesn't make much more sense than he can hide Aria's appearance.
Even more unfortunately, there is no divide back and forth. The corridor behind us is still extreme cold hell.
"Oh, shit."
"... there's nothing we need to hide from"
Aria revealed herself before the knights with dignity when she sensed that Ledo was looking for a place to lurk.
"Huh!! Shit! Come on over here, too!
"Kill him! Don't let him go!
"You idiot! I'm wounded. I can fight in your shelter!
That was three knights. Did the knight in the middle get hit badly, telling the story of the abdominal armor crushing apart and the considerable impact on his abdomen, although there was no blood flowing. I support him with my shoulders from left to right like that. The two knights don't seem to have any major injuries, but it feels like a full creation.
"Uh, no will to hostile this way"
Redo sheathed his sword and told those knights yes.
"Which mouth! Because of you adventurers, I am!
The man in the middle can roar.
"Hey, calm down! If we fight now, we'll be the ones at a disadvantage!
"Exactly. Me, too, she's S-ranked. But I'm not willing to do any harm."
That's what Redo told Aria by pointing her finger.
"... if you trust me. Those guys from earlier are one of you! So we split the foursome party into pairs and pinched them! You lick me!
"A pair?
I wondered if Redo had engaged the Zexes... they seemed to fall apart in concertation, but they shouldn't do anything to split the party when exploring the Demon King on the boulder.
Then... who attacked these knights?
"Me and her are the two of us from the beginning. I think another set of adventurer parties are diving here, but that should be four of them. What the hell attacked you?
"Can you believe it! Though that fucking kid and the old man would be one of you!
"... I don't know those two"
"Lie to me!
"Where was he attacked? What's the situation?"
To Ledo's words, the knight on the left and right looked at each other, then the knight on the right opened his mouth.
"... east on the crossroads in the corridor ahead. They ran into each other during a fight with something and got caught up in it. Be careful, if you're not one of them."
"Thanks. Be careful and go back."
Ledo and Aria nodded at the knight's words and started walking as they were.
"What do you think?
"Suspicious... something is caught in the fight"
"Right. But if those two are Demon Kings... why didn't they realize they were Demons? It's so easy to understand."
"... I don't know"
Redo and Aria exchanged words while running down the corridor, but in the end they agreed that they wouldn't know unless they tried.
At the moment when the knights were at a crossroads, Redo sensed a wave of magic exiting from the back of the corridor as he exercised much magic.
"...... Huh!! What is this magic wave?
"I think it's a magical exercise with an unusual amount of magic."
"I hate boulders when my bad luck goes on so far... but I need to be sure"
Redo and Aria proceed east. As we progressed, it became apparent that the corridor was badly destroyed by combat. Above all - it's on Ledo's nose...
"It's a (...) smoke (...) ru (...) smell (...) (...) of fire (...). This... could be a big win."
"Isn't that a big hassle mistake?
"Don't say that...... Anyway, if you're fighting the Zekes, cover them, if you're not... let's see how it goes."
"... yeah"
I hear battle noises coming from the front.
Ledo and Aria let themselves lurk behind the rubble of the collapsed ceiling.
It was certainly a middle-aged man and a girl, as the knights had said, fighting ahead. Those two are fighting some kind of skinhead youth.
"... what do you mean?
Redo looked familiar to the girl. There's no way I can forget. But I felt uncomfortable.
"Someone you know? You don't look like a demon."
"I know, but that's the big problem"
Redo had the certainty that the girl in battle was a grimm. They use magic to summon flaming swords, and that's the same thing.
Yet, no matter how you look at it, Grimm (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...) (...).
"I don't know about that man, but the girl is definitely a Demon. I'm a demon..."
"You only look human...... no way transformative magic?
"... maybe. However, the magic of changing appearances is basically difficult and cannot be exercised in parallel with other sorceries. Of course, there are unknown skills and magic possibilities that the Demons possess."
"Either way, if that girl is a Demon - that man is a Demon, too"
"... Demon King, maybe"
"Something's not what I imagined"
"I don't know yet..."
Ledo and Aria observe the battle of those three men crumbling. To be clear, the movement was beyond the scope of a person.
The skinhead youth moves so fast that even Redo can't chase it off, but the Grimm and his fellow-like demonic men are taking it flat out.
"What do we do?
"... see how it goes. It's only dangerous to leave now."
"But...... ba (...) le (...) and (...) ru (...) mi (...) i (...) eh!
Ledo and Aria kicked aggressively to the ground, dodging left and right.
Soon, a skinheaded young man who noticed the presence of the Reds had stuck a knife on the floor where the Reds were formerly located.
That's just it, the floor is smashed and the rubble dances.
"Whoa, whoa! The tour fee is not free, mortal!! You can pay for your life!!
Redo didn't miss the screaming skinhead youth eyes stained bright red and her pupils lengthened.
"Damn, we have to do this! Aria, don't push me!
"You don't have to tell me!
Thus began the battle of the triplets.
Dragon College underground.
[Tower], Director's Office.
"Director Akalis."
"Mm-hmm. Leadman."
I sat in a chair and answered to the young man in white - Leadman - who Callis had entered the room without raising his face from the monitor on the desk.
"Example data. I'm done analyzing..."
"That's fast enough."
When Callis deflected the monitor, he invited the lead man. Reedman sat down to the chair in front of Callis' desk as recommended.
"Coffee?
"... I'll have it. It's going to be a long story."
Callis poured the coffee from the pot that was on the desk into the disposable cup and gave it to the lead man.
When Reedman spoke a little to it, he started talking.
"First of all, it was already decoded for a reason that was quick"
"Decoded?
"Yes. I was probably doing decoding work at the point of capturing it on that mobile device. To be clear, that mobile device itself is already in heritage class. You just need to convert dragon language data thanks to"
"I see... they got it from the Demons. Well, it's possible."
Callis didn't cover up what Redo told him, he told Leadman. He can be trusted, and Callis knew very well that all the freaks in this [tower] were just like him in the first place.
I threw away my money, my status, my honor, only the kind of guy who wants to satisfy academic curiosity but lives for it. If you're a concurrent engineer, you'll be proud if you know it belongs to the Demon Clan, but he doesn't exist here.
"So, what's at the heart of it... well, I thought it would be quicker for you to see it, and I brought it"
Leadman handed Callis his mobile device. Callis plugged it into his own terminal and had the data displayed on the monitor.
"This is... what?
Although Callis has some knowledge of the technology of the old world, the specialization is somewhat of a magical structure or mechanism. The data is like some kind of blueprint, and there's something else going on, but Callis didn't know what it was pointing to.
"I can make some assumptions, but as far as I'm concerned, I was wondering if the blueprints of an object and the data to control it were most likely."
"Blueprint and control. Sure, it looks that way... but the question is, what do you control with your blueprints?
"This is just another guess too... I thought this was... how to make a star (...)"
"... this again"
Callis laughed unexpectedly. The blueprints of the stars are also... troublesome objects.
"Yep. Blueprint and control data and access code for that star. I think these are included."
"Access code?
"... Perhaps this star has been activated somewhere since (...) Ri (...) Ri (...) Up (...) Ra (...) and (...) Oh (...) Ri (...)"
"It's an ancient blueprint. I guess I wrote it to make it, naturally. But isn't it already decaying?
There is not a single relic of the old world that is still in motion, but its number is small.
"That's... this access code, it still seems valid. [Heavenly Wheel Wall (Ring)] It seems like it can be used on that still living network that was found in the analysis."
"... you tried?
"No way. It's up to me to get that permission."
"I see. Speculate from blueprints and control data on the stars and their characteristics and uses and report on the items that have been compiled. Better not move it poorly yet."
"Okay. I was wondering if I could submit it by the end of the day."
"Please, and needless to say..."
"I understand, Director Callis."
That said, Leadman left the room with his mobile device.
"Oh man, have you come with an artificial star to a network that is still formed and more alive than ancient times..."
Callis shrugged so, looking up at the ceiling.
The giant objects that floated in the sky of the king's capital, and the stars of the night sky far ahead, suddenly seemed to Callis to be creepy objects.