It's not even dawn yet. The members of the Special Selection Unit "Astral" were already in position. The toughest battlefield on the front line - that's the front line.
While maintaining a sense of tension, Special Selection Unit Astral proceeded. The front line was Lydia and Abby. Delk and Howard are the medics. The rear guard consists of Flor and Ray.
Henrik and Carol are operational commanders, so they're standing by the base to watch the battle.
I've done this operation with this member more than once. I have fulfilled all my duties with certainty. But there is nowhere else to be found ─ ─ the battlefield.
They're standing in a place where humans die flat.
First, proceed to the entrance to the forest.
"This is...."
"It's awful....."
It was the smell of death that Lydia and Abby felt as they entered the woods. Although they are two people with experience in combat, they have never come to a place where the smell of death has floated so far.
The Special Selection Unit "Astral" then entered the forest. It was still dark before dawn, but Lydia had activated a wide-area interference magic system.
The magic name is Perception Field, the area of perception. It is also a magic that Lydia is good at, and Ray can use the same magic.
Lydia in the front and Ray in the rear to understand the surroundings by expanding the perceptual area. Fewer bodies rolled on the ground retained human prototypes.
Nevertheless, we must proceed without care. I don't know why the soldiers at the base were so exhausted... we all understand that.
It is obvious that if you continue to fight in such a miserable place, and you see your companions dying needlessly next door, you will come mentally.
Still, the courage that the Special Selection Unit "Astral" endured until its arrival is to be commended.
……
Ray understands this tragedy just as Lydia understands it, as Ray also expands her perceptual domain. When I look down, I see a corpse and an eye. Even adults say this sight is unbearable, Ray simply stares at the eyes.
A void that does not dwell in anything.
Ray didn't get upset when he saw the inhaled orbit, Cancer. But he thought it to himself. Somewhere this sight feels previously-visible...
"Twenty meters ahead. Enemy shadow. We are ambushing. I'll set it up."
Copy that.
Catch the enemy.
Lydia perceived the opponent's presence earlier than she perceived it. With that word as a sign, all of them rush through the earth at once.
Run.
The leading Lydia quickly developed her magic.
Primary Material Encoding Supply Material Code
Materials Code Decoding
Material Code Processing Deceleration Fixed Lock
Embodiments Materials
"─ ─ Ice Thousand Sword Ice Cycle Blaze
Ice swords appear in both hands.
A synonym and symbol of Lydia-Aynesworth, it is also known as Attribute.
She flashes as she slowly lowers her posture and accelerates.
He shook his ice sword relentlessly at his opponent's neck, but he wouldn't drop it. Apparently, the enemy didn't have a single rope either.
"Looks like you're pretty good at it. But...."
Analyze it. Avoiding Lydia's attacks with instant defense should be a tough move. In the first place, I feel uncomfortable with the fact that I avoided taking the first one.
It was by no means an arrogance, but a pure question. In addition, the anomaly is that Lydia cut herself without screaming or pretending to treat her.
The expression of anguish didn't even come to mind.
Just staring at us, it's as if you're unconscious of your mutilated arm.
"Everybody, it's going as usual. Follow me."
Copy that.
Afterwards, Lydia was at the forefront of the fight and finished the fight here for now.
"Is this what this is about?"
When you wave the ice sword, the blood adhering to the ground is dropped vigorously. The battle didn't take long. Lydia and Abby destroyed the enemy mainly on the front lines, and the rest were dealt with by the Central and Rear Guards.
Speaking of Ray, I stopped him with ice and didn't do anything directly to him. Lydia tells me it's her job.
"But it's weird. It was as if there was no fear. Besides, I will not give priority to the treatment of injuries. I don't know what's going on..."
Flor also expresses his thoughts on Abby's words.
"That's strange... I don't know what you're talking about or what you're missing as a human. In the first place, it can be said that the magic realm is broken by the runaway" Overheat ", but this is like ─ ─"
And the words continued as Ray murmured.
"It was like a puppet. I think so."
Yes, not just Ray, but Lydia, too. There was intervention by a third party in the current battle.
"Ray was right, they were manipulated. There was a slight leak of someone else's primary material, Primateria."
Lydia starts to speak eloquently about the results of her analysis.
"In the first place, it's blocking the sensation of pain. It is impossible to say that there is no fear. Maybe someone's manipulating it like that."
"Psychic interference magic?
Howard slightly tilted his neck, saying so, but Lydia's expression remained sharp.
"Ah... I guess so."
She could not elaborate because it was only possible yet. However, she thinks that the amount of the primary material "Primateria" is small for the magic of the mental interference system.
Meanwhile, Ray is staring at the opponent he was fighting earlier. Just be quiet without changing your complexion. It's like you're feeling something.
"Ray, are you okay?
"Yes, no problem"
"I see....."
Lydia had a complicated chest. If Ray is disturbed here, we can stop participating in the operation. But Ray is sure to be a fighter.
He was becoming so central that Astral, a special selection unit without Ray, could no longer be imagined.
Conflicting emotions.
Swallow it and Lydia gently strokes Ray's head. It was a very gentle gesture, as usual.
"Back?"
"Yes"
Using that as a signal, the Special Selection Unit "Astral" pulls off the front line. As it stands, I pull it off by saying that there are no other enemies nearby... only Ray felt a slight sign at that moment and turned around.
Ray, what's wrong?
"No... nothing"
It must be because of your mind. And Lydia doesn't feel it, it must be because of her mind. With that in mind, the Special Selection Unit "Astral" was safely pulling off the front line.
I didn't know there was a hostile presence nearby....
Ah, no. My secret was perfect, wasn't it?
"Yeah. Definitely perfect, but apparently he's really out of standard. Maybe it's true that it's beyond Lydia-Aynesworth."
"Phew... I'm in a hurry. But you've got a good idea of how much power you've got, right?
When the girl asks, the man lightly lifts his glasses and responds.
"Yes, I know what the approximate members are capable of, but I still can't see the bottom of them."
Really… Some of the seven magicians are like us, but they're special. "
"Lydia-Aynesworth. She is also a kind of singularity. You should be careful to kill him."
"That's right. Let's go back."
Yeah.
So the two beings dissolved in the darkness of the forest, and vanished.