"Site Investigation... What Ruins?

Setuna had no choice but to question words she could not have imagined.

"You know the ruins were unearthed in the envoy's forest basement, right? It was exposed in the aftermath of the battle between Lady Setuna and Niewe Raam-Alsur."

"Oh... speaking of which, that happened too"

That was no longer a distant old thing for Setuna.

It was at the beginning of this year that there was a battle with Neewe. In the middle of January, the battlefield was transferred to the Forest of the Apostles by the driving of Neewe, who attacked to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Royal Summoners School. If the battle were to take place at the ceremony venue, it could have involved countless of them. Regardless, if it did, Setuna would have made an immediate spatial transfer and induced Niewe, though. As long as Niewe's aim is Setuna, he has to go after Setuna.

Anyway, the battle in the Apostle Forest was fierce, destroying the earth and exposing some of the ruins hidden underground. After the battle, a fact-finding team was dispatched to the Apostolic Forest by the testimony of Setuna, a carriage in which excavation surveys of the ruins were carried out. It goes into Setuna's ear to the point where it was revealed that the ruins were of such magnitude.

"The excavation has progressed, and we found the entrance to the ruins."

"Ho."

"I see. You're going to explore the ruins, aren't you?

"Yeah, I checked near the entrance to the ruins, and they said it's likely that it's a labyrinth that's gotten pretty deep in, so it's a new convoy."

"Well, then I get it"

Setuna nodded softly and narrowed her eyes.

"But why did a white feather arrow stand on me?

"I don't know what's going on inside the ruins, and it could be the Imperial Devil's Nest, right? The Forest of the Apostles was home to frequent Nests of the Imperial Devil."

"You mean the ruins in that basement could have been the Nest of the Imperial Devil"

"That's what I mean"

"In an Imperial Demon opponent, the normal power of war is unforgivable"

The Imperial Devil, though not much to see these days, is a being called the natural enemy of mankind. An alien monster, a monster that does not have negotiations with humans, unilaterally turns hostile, and kills. Even small Imperial Demons have the power to lightly outperform human adults and use their peculiar abilities. There is no other way to ask an armed summoner or a summoning armed user to escort you if there could be a large number of such things lurking, even though even just one can afford a regular person.

"Yes, so I thought I'd ask Master Setsuna, who would be sparing time"

"I'm on a long vacation."

"Well, that sounds interesting."

"Miliu, how long have you been..."

When Setsuna is taken aback by Miliu, who made her peek into her face from behind,

"Right. I'm coming too."

"Setuna's escort is at your disposal."

"You..."

Setuna had nothing more to say than that even Sheila and Urk appeared behind her back.

"Faria is going to the magician's office, and Ruufa says she's busy preparing for the wedding, so we're not convening it."

"You called it in."

"Yes."

Ain nodded with a smile.

Perhaps the goodness of hand-wounding should just be referred to as a military teacher.

Setuna agreed to join the fact-finding team as an escort, taking off her hat on Ein's arm.

The Apostolic Forest was a small forest lying further south than Karan, a city south of the Wang capital Gandion.

It was - because the battle between Setuna and Niewe is so intense that only a few grown trees appear to be the remnants of the forest, and only the earth that has been destroyed and exhausted is spreading.

"Wow..."

"Kolya Hidashi..."

Miliu and Sheila seemed to have lost their words to the destruction trail as far as they could see.

In fact, Setuna herself was so terribly devastated that she could see it. Once the depressed and lush forest should have spread, and the sight could still be remembered. But the landscape in that memory had been completely lost from sight, and it had to be known that the two of them would pull it off.

"Setuna did all this?

I'm not the only one.

Setuna said she was outraged, but shut up that most of it was due to full-fledged attacks by black spears. It is no lie that the terrain destruction has progressed as a result of Neewe's indiscriminate attacks, and the forest has vanished because Neewe has chosen this forest as a battlefield - I will leave it to you.

"Neewe's Edge of Thurst was also extremely powerful."

"The black spear that took it in got even stronger, didn't it?

"Well, yeah"

I affirm as I narrow my eyes to the same dressed lem who said I would participate in the investigation. The black spear. It absorbed the edge of thrust and the three relatives that the edge of thrust was taking in, making it complete. It goes without saying that it will take a considerable amount of time for the black spear to wake up from it, and consequently lose its precious existence.

Some of the ruins are among the ruins of destruction that should be called the site of such an apostle's forest.

Setuna and the others had come here as escorts for a fact-finding team to investigate the interior of the site.

The investigation mission is created with Gandia's intelligence department at its centre, headed by Will Weed of the intelligence department, followed by Jean-Jackwar and dozens of other intelligence department humans. Will Weed, Jean-Jackwar, is a former colleague of the former intelligence department Meath-Siren, who became an intelligence agent with Setuna, and has asked Setuna how Meath-Siren has been doing recently. Meath-Siren was on duty in the Dragon House and was supposed to have spent some time hiding in the Dragon House as caregivers for Nage Rae-Gandia, Leona Lewe-Gandia and Gracia Leia-Gandia. That was supplemented by Miliu and the others who stopped at the Dragon House on the road to recapture the Wang Du. According to their story, Meath was swung all day as Gracia's playmate and looked mentally exhausted.

In addition, several members of the Bureau were accompanied by the General Staff, which was the most important department in Gandhia. The General Staff is not solely responsible for the military. It is the role of the General Staff to gather various information, base its strategy and devise tactics, both inside and outside the country, of which Allegria-Scene is the director. Ein became deputy director and August-Sancian, who previously served as deputy director, has been reassigned as general manager of the Royal Palace Guard, Urban Guard. The Chief Administrator was served by Avril-Sancian, Augusto's real sister, but was held accountable for the Gisellcourt raid, with his resignation, Zelbird-Kernall, succeeding him. Zelbard, as we know, had followed Giselcoat's rebellion and had died in battle at the Battle of Maldar, leaving the Chief Administrator's seat vacant. Instead of Avril returning, Augusto became the carrier to be appointed, because even if the Gisellcourt raid was orchestrated by Gisellcourt, the fact that it happened will not disappear and Avril's blame will not disappear again.

And Augusto was elected chief administrator in order to reward Enjour for the hard work he had long done playing Nares-Ragnahorn. Augusto hasn't been back in King's Capital for a long time, not to serve as a nurse's aide during his therapy, that is. With the publication of the passing of Nares-Ragnahorn, he was finally able to complete his mission of playing Nares.

Avril, who was closed on his way back to the chief administrator, somehow became Setuna's subordinate, and his royal life had been decreed for Setuna to use as he liked. As for Avril-Santhian's treatment, Setsuna was all at her disposal, and Setsuna was haunting her head about what to do with her.

I was tempted to board the investigation team's escort, also because I could turn away from the fact that I had to think about such things.

Setuna and the others' role is to escort non-combatants from the intelligence and staff services.

The people in the intelligence department are never powerless. It is also the job of the Intelligence Department to infiltrate other countries and obtain and manipulate information. He says he doesn't serve in weakness, and in physical ability, he can call himself more than a soldier in general. But if the Imperial Devil is the opponent, it's not the story. The Imperial Devil is not just a vicious creature. I have no hesitation in killing humans because of their peculiar abilities. It's a horrible existence.

"Dear hero, can you escort me to another privilege?"

Will-Weed and others were terrified that Setuna would follow as an escort. He's not the only one. It was like everyone in the investigation team was even afraid of the presence that symbolized Gandia's luxury. It's no longer a familiar reaction for Setsuna. He grinned.

There's nothing wrong with that.

"Yes, you can use Setsuna."

No, sir.

"Huh?"

"I will not forgive you for using Setuna."

Urk broke in between Miliu and Setuna and glanced at her. Miliu looked like he had been taken aback.

Setsuna also looked at Rem, Sheila and her face, then looked at Urk and noticed her eyes shining strong. Whether or not it is because Urk's emotions are expensive that he emits a strong light sometime. Though it is only futile to think beyond not even knowing if there is a connection between her emotions and the luminosity of the Demonic Stone's eyes.

Setuna was somewhat disturbed by the advance of the site survey.