"Areya, you've spoken to Prayer Ri, haven't you?

Silf, who had previously disappeared on the road, appeared in the camp tent of the prayers, and abruptly asked Areya.

Because Aaliyah was just drinking water, it became irresistible.

It is the party of the brave who are now in charge of the watch, and the prayers are to rest in their own tents. But because Prairie has business and is out to be unnoticed, there are only areya and silf in the tent.

"Hey, why did you do that?

"Because I heard it from Prairie. He said he practiced the spiritual world. I've been asked a lot of questions on that. Well, the spiritual world depends on a lot of senses, so I don't know if they ask me indirectly."

Without any delicacy at all, Aliya turns to her inner prayer. Prairie is not so blunt that she has no idea how Aliya feels. Now that I know it, this is the kind of attitude I have.

Aaliyah only seems to be a convenient tool for Prayer Ri. It was both sad and delightful for her.

"So, how was it?

"How about that!?

Aaliyah remembers that time with a silf question, making her cheeks red.

"I don't know... that was surprisingly soft."

"No, I'm not asking you how you feel about kissing, I'm asking you how you feel about the spiritual world."

"... Huh?

Aaliyah tries to think back on the question. Then it was certainly not the context in which I was listening to my oral thoughts. He also blushed his cheeks, and Aaliyah nodded on the spot.

"It's good to be bored, but I was wondering if you could answer the question properly."

"Even if they say... I was refreshed about the spiritual world in the first place, and it was kind of a black world, right?

"Well... it sounds like you should tell me what the spiritual world is first. In short, the spiritual world is the soul of that person."

The spiritual world is the unique world that each person has. Its nature depends on its own character, mental state. If we extend this to the extreme, it becomes synonymous with the world managed by the gods.

Opening the spiritual world with others results in a mixed state of multiple human spiritual worlds. Here, invading the spiritual world of others in their own spiritual world can destroy the human spirit or cause spiritually deadly damage.

What matters is that what is happening in the spiritual world is only the product of an image. Regardless of the shape of the spiritual world and what the strength of the person is, it is the strength of the soul, or mental power, that determines victory and defeat.

"If you don't know the spiritual world, it's the first time I've seen it, but when I was in prayer, I got the hang of it while I was doing something a little roundabout. He's a monster, so if you use the mental world, it's almost special. So, somehow you figured it out?

"It's too abstract and hard to imagine."

Aaliyah was once dragged into the spiritual world by Prayer Ri, but it was an instantaneous event, first and foremost not the place, so it was not clearly felt.

"... yes. Well, I'm going to ask you some questions, so please answer me. His spiritual world I saw was black, but it doesn't make a difference there, does it?

"Yes. Is that the image of the soul in the prayer?

"Sort of. Well, I guess."

Sure, for Areya, I thought I'd say it seemed. Dark hair, black eyes, always wrapped around black clothes, and the weapon used is also black. Clothes and weapons are the influence of Dark Magic, a late outfit in which Prayer Ri emphasizes performance, but there was still a strong impression of black.

Black dyeing all colors. purest and thus the most brutal colour.

(Besides, the prayer belly is black...)

"So there was no such thing as your spiritual world?

"Yes, but I don't even know how to make a spiritual world, and naturally?

"I am..."

Silf thinks about it for a while, then tells Areya.

"To me, the image of his spiritual world is a complete world that does not allow others to exist. Unlike my world, which tolerates the beauty of others. So it seems unnatural that you didn't immediately erode yourself."

In response to the words, Aaliyah frowned. That is to say that Aliyah was naturally broken in spirit.

But soon she switches her mind. Because it didn't start right now. Areya doesn't realize that this cruel thought circuit of hers is the result of a long time spent with Prairie.

"But I was in such a state that my body would move on its own to Prayer Ri's orders, weren't I eroded?

"It's only a product of the image. Just because his mental strength was stronger than yours. That's not what mental erosion is, is it?

That's what Silf says, while shivering himself. Vague and intense fears, like something in you being rewritten at will, eaten by countless bugs of your own contours.

Even for Silf, it wasn't something I wanted to remember many times.

"I don't think that's why Shirai thought you were so close to him, for example."

"Inside ~?"

Aaliyah makes her face stick as she gives her goosebumps.

"Even if the heavens and the earth flip over, it's not there. They only think it's a very user-friendly pawn."

"I wonder..."

"Me and Prayer Ri are in a relationship between servant and husband by his skills. Or is it the cause?

"... it might be easier to think about that."

"Then why don't you make sure?

One man's voice suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two. It is a prayer.

"Whew..."

"Prairie, were you back?

"Oh, and find me quick. Then I level up with those demons before returning. Oh, Sylph, it's called" Rubbish. "

"haha......"

Silf tries to keep his head down and distance himself from Prayer Ri. Decopin seems horrible to her, inside.

"Prairie, what do you do to make sure"

"Bring Silf into my spiritual world. Silf has a shorter relationship than Areya, and you can see if Silf is going to be eroded in the mental world or not and my skills have anything to do with it?

"No!!

Silf distanced himself further from the prayer mile as he shrunk his little body.

"Why?

"'Cause you could die!

"That's right, Prairie. I don't think it's going to be enough to find out about the possibility of Silf's death until I'm pregnant."

"Aliya, I talked to Silf before I brought you into the spiritual world."

"That's a natural result, Silf. Give up and go die."

"Areya!?

Silf bewildered by Areya's ruthless palm return.

But unfortunately, it is a natural consequence. Because the testimony of Prairie means that Silf acquiesced after knowing that Aliya was dying.

"Well, there's nothing to worry about. My mind tells me it's going to be okay."

"What are you talking about! You're such an illogical person not to say anything!?

"No, I believe you. Judgments and conclusions that are derived reflexively from the accumulation of knowledge and experience."

"Then you're logically denying it! How much experience do you have in the spiritual world in Prairie?!

"Twice. Well, isn't that more than the average human experience around the world?

"That's because it's almost zero!

"Shut the fuck up. You have no right to veto the horn. [M] Give it up."

"No! I said I don't want to! Hey... Ugh..."

Grab the silf without question and prayer inside your mouth. And lay still, closing your eyes. He sank his consciousness into the spiritual world.

"Will this also be called Donadna"

Aliya remembered hah, trying to mumble a song she had never even heard in person.

"Speaking of which, you forgot to tell me what I saw in the spiritual world of prayer"

Aaliyah thinks of the sight in her brain at that time. Sure, just at first glance, I just have the impression that it's a black world. At first, Aaliyah also thought it was a black world where she didn't even know the horizon, but she noticed that consciousness was on the verge of surfacing. To something black that surrounds the horizon.

"That was a stone wall...... no, was that a stone wall?

"Damn... evil!!

This was Silf's first voice since he jumped out of his prayer mouth back from the spiritual world.

"Ah, Silf. Were you alive?"

"You're all salivated and dirty, Silf."

"It must be your saliva!

Silf resents himself in a caustic manner.

"What sucked?

"All of it. All of it! I got stuck in my mouth without a question, and they took me to that traumatic place again, and I've told prayer again and again that it's dangerous because they're eroding me, and they said, 'I can still go,' and they didn't even let me go home to the critical!

"Critical, I could afford it. Maybe."

"That's not the problem!

Prairie leans her neck in a bewildered manner. But not to say critical, it is true that he enjoyed playing in a hurry.

"Eroded, wasn't that the effect of your skills?

"... maybe it's the effect of my skills. Even if it was eroded, it was significantly slower than last time, and I felt like a barrier that only protected me. I wonder if that puts a limit on my skills. Maybe you weren't eroded because of a short time or because you were terribly blunt."

"Blunt..."

"Well, I don't think that's in the boulder. There's no way you don't realize that feeling of soul shattering."

So Aaliyah showed some satisfaction. The time that Aaliyah was going to the spiritual world in Prayer is quite short. In contrast, the previous time Silf and Prairie were going to the spiritual world was about five minutes.

"Speaking of which, I think you're pretty defenseless while you're in the mental world, are you okay?

"That's right. So it's not something you can always use."

"No, it's not a problem. You just have to observe the outside with a thousand eyes, and you can detect and defeat the enemy."

In the prayer I casually said, Silf opens his eyes.

"Ha!? What are you talking about!

"That's my dialogue, Silf. You'll be able to detect magic, too."

"There's no way you can do this without your body moving!

"No, we use it in the spiritual world. with the feeling of expanding it to the outside world."

"So I can't believe in the spiritual world..."

So Silf says and often contemplates.

"... Depending on your mental strength, can you do it? If you imagine yourself in the spiritual world, you create it only as an imaginary product..."

"Well, anyway, don't worry about that."

"Ha..."

Areya, who doesn't know what the spiritual world is, has no choice but to convince herself for now. It is Silf who still does not fall into his heart.

(Theoretically possible... but I can't believe biological organisms do it...)

Silf was wary that even the image he once described as a "monster" was underestimated.

(Already in spiritual power, there's no comparison between those goddesses, maybe they're stepping one foot into God's realm...)

McCard Empire, Fort Lilib.

"Holly Wave!!

A turbulence of white light emanates from the stick of the demon ball held by Pearl. It swallowed up the skeleton crowd with ease as the earth streamed down the walls. Swallow skeletons lose their power as undead and turn them into just skeletons.

"Ooh..."

"... is this the power of the brave"

A sight that has to be described as overwhelming. The soldiers of Fort Lilib marvel that the legend left by the previous brave men was not an exaggeration.

She's not the only one.

The arrow that Skeleton shot fell to the ground, bounced against the wall of light without even reaching the walls. The magic unleashed is reflected and bounced like an exhausting mirror, only increasing the damage to the skeletons.

"Dear Aoi, it is not time to rest..."

"Mm-hmm."

To the soldier who cares about his health, the sunflower answers plainly with a clear face without a single sweat. The wall of light covering the fort was the junction of sunflowers. There are also junctional manipulation aids for the Holy Sword, and if a powerful demon was an attack to the extent of a skeleton anyway, it would not have been broken if it had been gathered like a mountain.

"Aoi! I'm going another shot!

"Mmm!"

Only in the front part of Pearl Hill, the sunflower broke the line.

"Holly Wave!"

Another, white, glowing turbulence. The same thing was once done in the Kingdom of Rising Sun, but the current combination of the two is of different quality. With only two brave men, he had stably established the fort's defense battle.

"How reliable..."

In fact, the soldiers at the end of the McCard Empire were anxious about the strength of the brave. A brave man for them is an ancestral brave man, and it is the stereotype of a brave man that brings his people together to challenge them in battle. That summons more than twenty brave men, and they don't even move to gather their companions. "Aren't the brave weak? Isn't that why we numbered" that kind of suspicion was spreading somewhat.

It was worrying.

Actually, how about that? Only two of us can handle the vast crowd of over 10,000 demons and even afford them. The soldiers were in love with the way the legend presently appeared.

And most importantly, their morale...

The doors of the castle walls open with a heavy twist.

Hearing the sound of a blur, the soldiers who were serving in the defense went out of their way.

"Are you going? You still going?!?

"We just got back!?

What emerged out of the door were five hundred knights and a young man standing on two feet on the earth. As soon as the door opened, they jumped out toward us and the Skeleton crowd.

Forgetting even the task of defense, the soldiers climb themselves out of the walls and the audience cheers as much.

"Come on!

"Awesome! You're running faster than a horse!!

Led by five hundred horseback riders was Ryudo Shinzaki, one brave man who ran the ground with his feet. The horseback riders, who are in the shape of following the brave, are dressed in deep red gear.

"Now you're Captain Husserl's squadron of blood!

I knew the knights were taking turns.

"I envy you. If I'd taken the knight test too..."

Become part of creating a legend. Being led by the brave meant it.

A conical formation using Ryudo as a battle collides from the front into Skeleton's sidelines. At the same time, about ten skeletons blew up scattering fragmented bones.

From the fort cheers again.

The dragon dogs barely slowed down and tore through the overlapping white bones.

"Ugh... la... ya... ma... si... no!

"... Zushi?

Zhuhi was suddenly outraged as he watched the struggling Ryudo. Aoi tilts her neck like that.

"I want to come forward and fight too!

"Mage, weigh yourself..."

Aoi sighed in dismay. It's that kind of operation, so I can't help it. More importantly, it is Zhuxi who is defeating Skeleton the most at the moment. Then Sunflower wonders if she should be in a better position to envy herself because she can't even let me shoot her bow and is even thoroughly defended. But she was unspoken.

"Don't worry about the neighborhood, okay?

There was another voice from behind them sending another thermal gaze with the soldiers.

"This operation isn't just a doom, it's a maneuver. One way or another, I want you to make a stand out move."

"Mr. Golden Castle...... Oh, no, I know that."

Zhuhi wandered over Keido's words. She also understands, of course, the main point of the operation, and what she said earlier is only stupidity. I didn't want to complain.

"No, I'm sorry about this one. What a fixed turret and shelter I'm just letting you do now. It's gonna get boring."

"No, I understand it's a responsible job. I can't help it."

"Mmm."

"Okay, then I'll keep asking. Tell me when it gets tight."

Keido sighs in his heart as he looks at Pearl and Aoi's back, who have strained and resumed their work.

"... I'm glad they're not people"

"Hmm?"

"Keido? Did you just say something?

Keido answers the two with a pungent face.

"No? Do I have an empty ear?

"I'm sorry. Did I"

The two people, who were not heard enough to discern that they were the voices of Keido, were honestly convinced and bowed before turning their backs.

Keido leaves the spot early, keeping his mouth shut.

(Asshole or I...! Why do you say things that allow you to bathe in cold water? Forget it now!)

Shaking his head, Keido, walking alone, took a deep breath and sent his eyes to the battlefield.

(One A rank, one B rank, plus one out of the minimum C rank standard. Though the target is a flock of miscellaneous fish, it's overwhelming. I don't think it's my turn.)

Pearl, the sunflower alone fulfilled the meaning of Yang Dynasty in twelve minutes. A junction where no attack passes, a range attack by overwhelming magic. Its appearance flashy has more effect than numbers.

The repeated raids of Ryudo were aimed at improving the morale of the soldiers. Being led by a brave man of immense power is an unparalleled feat for the knights, and it brings exhilaration to the soldiers that the knights of their own country, together with the brave men, show the activity of armor cuffs.

(All I do is deal with surprise attacks and other unintended attacks. In any case, let me make the most of this situation...)

"Keido!

"Wow!? What the hell!"

Keido speaks up and marvels at the sky that suddenly appeared behind him in the transfer of spatial magic. I was just out of luck thinking about the unintentional hit.

If you think calmly, metastatic magic can be prevented by the junction of the sunflower, so an ambush by metastasis is not possible unless you are an extra operator except in the sky, which is allowed to pass.

Keido, who raised his pitiful voice, coughed up and clouded his tea, facing the sky.

"... is something wrong?

"It's an urgent requirement, Prime Minister Indella is here to see you."

"'Urgent' or...?

There is no appearance of an emergency situation occurring around Keido. That is, it meant movement outside the fort.

"Have you come?"

As Golden Castle and the sky entered the conference room, Prime Minister Indella took his eyes off the desk and turned around. It seems calm at first sight, but the voice is pregnant with the color of the tension.

"What happened?

To put it bluntly, it's an emergency outside the country.

"Abroad...?

I had guessed that Keido was a problem outside the fort, but Indella's words were unexpected because he nevertheless thought it was only a move within the McCard Empire.

(Is this who I have a bad feeling about...?)

"Currently, the Empire of Ziehan, the Duchy of Canadi and the State of Jerusalem are under attack by the Demons"

"Oh my God... Isn't there an island country that leads to the Empire? Get off the border with the Demon Realm or something."

"Nor does it mean that the three countries are adjacent. What the hell is this..."

"We don't know where they're going. There's nothing we can do about it."

"No, that's not the problem..."

Indela and the sky, Keido had a sense of crisis more than two worries.

"Four countries, not even facing boundaries, are under attack at almost the same time. Don't you think I can smell the plan?

"I'm sorry, Master Keido. The opponent is a demon, not a human. I was hoping you'd keep that in mind."

"I told you the problem wasn't there. It would be easier if I cleaned it up with a coincidence. I think it's better to think of it as a planned move, but I think it'll come a little tighter?

In response to Indela, who still doesn't seem convinced, Keido opens the thread a little.

"Perhaps there is still a continuing report... of raids outside those four countries or. When that happens, Indela. As Chancellor, prepare for the worst."

"But..."

At that time, a sound close to the alarm sounded indoors.

"What!?

"It's a magic tool for mutual communication!

This happened to Indela, who ran into a certain demonic tool and performed some kind of operation. The magic tools of this world's intercommunication are closer to Morse signals than phones. It takes some time to receive and read the sent message.

However, Keido could have guessed more or less its contents.

After finishing his reception, Indela turned to Keido in the face of tension.

"… it appears that the Ausa Empire, the Kish Republic, has confirmed the approaching of the Demonic Nation"

"Definitely. Let's think about what's going to happen."

Keido speaks out in a mild tone, but Indela reacts badly. In her face, she even saw the colour of despair.

The fact that the Demons are strategizing means that at least the intelligent ones are taking the lead. Intelligence is a human weapon, the only element that beats the Demons. Because of its lack of intelligence, the Demonic Nation did not use magic moves, which is why humans could fight the Demonic Nation, which is inherently far better than capabilities, and because of its lack of intelligence, humans could fight with a single spear: the brave.

Without that advantage, human defeat becomes intense.

"Due to proper!

"Hih!?

Suddenly he was slapped in the back and Indela screamed unconsciously small.

"I don't know what to do with the Chancellor like that. Your slow judgment leads to the slowness of the country."

"But"

"Let's think positive. Fortunately, there are thirty brave men this time around. If I only summoned one or three people, that might be the end of it, but this time I can also organize an operation as an army of brave men. Rather think about it as lucky as you are to form an army of brave men. Keep your perspective on the worst, but don't even have to put it down to feelings."

"... right"

Indela took one deep breath and gently slapped both cheeks with her hands.

"Sorry to show you the ugliness"

"Okay. You got no problem with the sky?

"Keido. No problem."

To confirm Keido, the sky nodded without looking wolfy.

"So let's talk about this again. Six of the twelve nations currently in the human race, the McCard Empire, the Ziehan Empire, the Duchy of Canadi, the Elsamul Nation, the Ausa Empire, and the Kish Republic, are under attack, but it's hard to imagine stopping here."

"Nor do the six countries have anything in common, so I think you're right. Worst of all, every human state could be attacked by demons..."

"The worst thing that can happen is that all countries will not be raided, Prime Minister. to be raided even by the former state."

"Former country...? No way!"

The sky, leaning on his neck for a while, sees Keido in a hazy manner. As Indela also guessed, she nodded at Keido.

"Yes. The worst part is that demons are attacking the territory of the former Rising Sun Kingdom or. There are no brave men there, and now there is no decent army. If so, definitely go to hell..."