Kuro no Maou

On the twelfth day of the month of Xinyang, the sky is already stained with cedar, and soon the night will come and change the day to tomorrow.

Against the backdrop of such a sinking sunset, I push down the street.

The destination is the village of Iles, not Daedalus.

"I thought we'd be there by sundown, but it looks like we still have a little bit."

It's bad for Lily, who's in the hood and clinging to my neck, but I'm really worried about Daedalus.

You ignore the public traffic, so if Daedalus finds me now, you can't help but send me to the worst house.

The biggest reason to go to Daedalus after taking so many risks is the anxiety that swirls in this chest.

I'm not sure, I'm just worried, but I still couldn't ignore this sense of anxiety.

If Daedalus were truly defeated by the human army, the entire continent of Pandora would be engulfed in war.

I'm sure a lot of people will smile that my thoughts are nothing but delusions.

But I know what the ‘invaders' did in the original world, and more importantly, I understand the brutality of the Sinclair Republic, especially those who put up the symbol of the Cross, with this body.

This other world is magical, but it's not a gentle-minded world. Humans have such cruelty that they unilaterally summon me, carry out torture-like retrofitting experiments, and flatten out experiments to kill each other.

If such a jerk comes in large numbers, this Pandora continent will also take a path that is not so different from the history I know.

In other words, my peaceful life in the village of Iles, which I built in another world, is threatened.

In the first place, I came to the Pandora continent to escape the cross, and it would be the worst case I could think of for that area of activity to expand, not after me.

Therefore, I have mixed my own life with my own dangers, with pandora continental crises, and various anxiety elements, large and small, to make me take such action.

I am truly sorry that Lily has been associated with more than half of her safekeeping behavior.

Of course, when he left Enkle Village, he tried to return to Iles Village first, but Lily didn't shake his head vertically as hard as she could.

Even Lily right now, she thinly feels me trying to cross a dangerous bridge and worries me, which is why she chose not to abandon me and follow me.

If someone finds you and you suck, only Lily decides to let you get away with it, I'll put that kind of bullshit on you.

- Is that Daedalus?

The area is already dim, but in my eyes with enhanced vision, I catch the rumored Daedalus Wall standing in black, far away.

So I took off the street and went into the woods.

You can be sure you'll be discovered if you keep walking down the street like this, foolishly and honestly, from here on down to Daedalus hiding yourself.

The village of Rior, which passed some hours ago, was a quiet one with the gate completely closed.

But what about Daedalus?

In the long run, the walls don't seem to be crumbling.

Wasn't there a massive siege, or is the other side of the unseen collapsed?

I lurk my breath and go through the woods, cluttering.

"Wow, that's huge -"

Finally came near the walls of Daedalus.

Precisely assembled stone walls stand in front of you, reminiscent of a cliff.

The forest trees are broken where I stand now, and there is no shield to hide myself within about 500 meters of the walls.

If there is a tall tree nearby, it can pass it on and break in, and if there is a forest or tall grass, it can be approached unnoticed, so it is fundamental to leave nothing near the walls.

The question is, how do we get to the walls by scratching the eyes of surveillance?

Speaking of which, that port town, which was my first infiltration, was easy to carry because of the lack of security.

I was hoping that wouldn't be the case this time.

There's no sign of anyone.

From here on out, it looks like there are no soldiers to monitor.

Thirty meters seems to be a passage above a castle wall, but there is no sign of soldiers patrolling it, and the same is true of the outer perimeter of the castle wall.

Maybe he's patrolling, but he doesn't seem to be constantly monitoring all the outer perimeters.

This is likely to reach the walls without difficulty, and if you have this body and black magic to climb 30 meters of wall, you can clear it.

After that, the problem is:

"He's the one who's tied the line, don't start seeing it so authentic."

Unlike the Shield, the junction is a form of defensive magic that completely covers the subject and has a constant effect.

Disabling external attacks, sensing intruders, and their effects vary over a certain range.

The only junction I have is the flame junction, commonly known as' insect repellent ', which unfolds by Yfried's thumb.

And right now, before me, there's a massive junction here that seems to cover all of Daedalus based on this wall.

It may not shine brilliantly, but it is colorless and transparent for the purpose it sees, but the strong magical flow that inhibits the way it goes can be seen from here, 500 meters away.

My 'insect repellent' is as defensive as the difference between heaven and earth.

Perhaps it is because of this powerful junction that we do not place soldiers outside the gates.

The magic used in this junction is white, so incompatible with my black magic, it seems impossible to break through with force moves.

But I'm not alone right now, I have a partner I can count on.

"Lily, is there going to be a hole in that junction?

"Mm-hmm. - Bullshit!

The white magic that Sariel was using and the inherent magic of light that Lily uses (extras) are precisely the source of a separate magic.

White magic is white magic against my black magic, and the magic of light is classified as primitive magic.

But the proximity between the two is certain, and if Lily is better at handling magic than I am, and is compatible with it, she can also interfere with this powerful junction and drill holes.

"All right, let's go -"

I take Lily aside and jump out of the woods and run at full speed through the 500 meters distance.

With this black outfit, you probably won't be able to find me in the distance, maybe, I'm sure, don't find me!

I don't know if my wish arrived or if it was inevitable, but I reached right in front of the walls without stopping in anyone's eyes.

And invisible, but the junction stands here.

Probably the effect of physically refusing to intrude, but it could be an offensive wall protection type like the electrical shock when the crate was opened.

It's more awkward to inadvertently touch your hand than to possibly be who you are.

Well, I'm so guilty, but I really need Lily's help here, because I'm trying to get Lily to come into contact with such dangerous things.

"Please."

"Ugh!

Lily sticks her hands out and touches the invisible junction.

From the tip of the touch, a ripple of white light spreads like a stone thrown into the water.

"Hmm."

Two pairs of feathers, which host Lily's seven-colored light, shake occasionally patterned, and the white, luminous complexion blinks again and again.

It's bad for Lily, who is seriously interfering with the juncture, but the current situation is shiny and unassuming and stands out.

Just because how much surveillance is monkey, Lily, who gleams like a fluorescent light in this dark night, can discover it from a hundred meters away.

The only thing I can do right now, even if I feel at risk, is to spread the robe so as not to leak as much light as possible.

Pretty thrilling, but I believe Lily and wait silently for that time.

I wonder how much time has passed, maybe not even three minutes later, but Lily uttered the word as she felt more than doubled her physical time.

"Aww!

It doesn't mean "Oh, it hurts," it means "it's open."

If you look, a thin bonyard and a radiant circle of light are depicted in the hollow in front of Lily on the face that has been cut off.

A ring the size of which I can afford to go through, I'll try to get my hands in it, but my palms just grab a void and I can't feel anything.

Apparently the interference of the junction has been successful.

"Well done, I'll take care of it later"

All right, all right. Touch your head, Lily, happy as a puppy.

I want to forget everything and stay stuck with it. It's a reaction that bothers me, but I don't have time to give myself up to such pleasure right now.

I make Lily stand by the hood, which has already been transformed into a fixed position when she moves, and I challenge her to cross the line to the walls.

"Go all at once"

Compared to those days when you were climbing the walls of the harbor town, your magic skills are evolving.

Whatever it is, I dominated a 100-metre cliff to infiltrate the Garuda's nest, and if you use the full magic of that time to climb a wall, you can climb a stone wall 30 meters up there in seconds.

I want to dress Lily up before she tries so hard to make a hole in the junction, but she poses purposefully to activate the magic.

"Anchor ejection!

From both palms raised, a black wire knitted with black magic flies along the wall.

On the tip of the wire was a blade with a return, and I felt the palate pierced deep into the heavenly edge of the wall.

At that time, the wire is secured so that it starts with the hands and wraps around the back of the hips, legs and feet.

It's okay with both hands alone, but it's better to secure it to the lower body and stabilize the body when it rises.

"Let's go."

Hearing Lily reply small, I shrink the wire all at once.

The wire pulls me, and I run up all at once in a way that runs straight over the vertical wall.

This' anchor 'is the thing that magically made possible the wire action that frequently appears in action games, hook shots and grappling beams where famous, and the point is the action of hooking up roped things and moving them like Tarzan, or rising vertically like this.

My black magic seems to be material (materialized), such as making bullets, and excellent at manipulating them. If the image is good, it is also possible to create wires that are self-expanding in this way.

With this' anchor ', it is equal to running on a flat ground, such as climbing a 30-meter wall.

I ran in seconds and disappeared the anchor, while I stepped down the aisle of the walls.

"No one..."

I still don't see any figures on the aisle.

With great care, he looked out for the city of Daedalus, which stretches under his eyes from this high wall.

Overwhelmingly vast streets, the largest I've ever seen in different worlds, so much so that I don't know how many Iles villages to enter.

The walls surround such a vast city, a fortified city of tremendous size.

At a time when it's not strange for ordinary people to be on the floor already, the corner of what seems like a residential area only sees a little light, but the big street pleasure streets are brilliantly lit.

Among other things, the Daedalus Royal Castle, built in the deepest part of the city, is glowing at first sight.

The area around the royal castle is further surrounded by walls, from here the ground and ground floor parts are invisible.

Still, light is leaking from beneath the walls, illuminating the appearance of a royal castle with a spire stretching high in heaven into the dark night.

If that were all it would have been, a breath of admiration would have leaked into the beauty of the giant capital, Daedalus.

But the moment I saw a certain ‘flag’ raised in the glowing royal castle, I swallowed the breath that was supposed to leak.

"That... symbol of the cross..."

Turning to the main entrance of the royal castle, the face of the nation, was not the Daedalus flag representing the emblem of the black dragon imitating the Dragon King Garvinal, but a symbol of insanity that was also abominable to me, a flag with the symbol of the cross painted in large measure.

"You're lying... so you're saying that the human army was about them"

If you look closely, there are flags flying across the city that vary in size but have the same design.

This sight was a terminal manifestation of the fact that Daedalus was occupied by an army of crosses.

"Chi, damn it -"

Worst case scenario, a real nightmare, the one thing I feared the most has come true.

It was established that the symbol of the Cross is not a cult group composed of very few human beings, but a nation called the Sinclair Republic.

Deep down, despair spreads in my heart.

Aitsura, such an outrageous yatsura, has really come to the Pandora continent in large numbers.

The occupation of Daedalus is nothing more than the fact that there are no more forces in the territory capable of fighting against Yatsura.

Daedalus, a large nation, which has thus been lightly occupied.

Yatsura will not stop until he has conquered all of the Pandora continent, and its execution will not be such a distant future.

So what do we do? Fight? Running away?

"Damn......"

Dragon King, much stronger than I am, led and torn up to the army, I'm not the one who can do this, it's impossible in a magical world for an individual to beat a nation.

Then run away, but where do I run away from, where the hell does he not come from, exist in this world?

No, no, no, I'm gonna think about it, but I can't get my head around Locke.

I can only imagine what a cross-bearing jerk is pushing at me.

I don't know how to...

"Chrono!!

――

Lily jumps into my chest and hugs me all the time.

"I'll help you with the bullshit, Lily, and Chrono thing.

Even if the bad guys come, Lily will protect them!

It seems like a dialogue with no clapping, but Lily, a fairy who understands people's hearts, felt my anxiety, even without words.

……

I hug Lily with both arms, who can see her breasts.

The little warmth I feel on this chest and arm will bring me back to sanity, healing my anxiety.

Oh, shit, you showed Lily a cool toko.

"Thanks Lily, I'm fine"

Yeah, I'm not alone anymore, and I can't just think about myself.

Like Lily said she would protect me, I have to protect Lily again, too.

I was robbed of all my original life by Yatsura, here again, I built in another world, and I am absolutely sorry that Lily would rob me of my life with everyone in the village of Iles.

"It's dangerous here for now, let's get out of here"

"Yeah."

The Daedalus occupation has not reached any village by means of an information blockade.

As it is, Yatsura comes to every village in Daedalus territory unprepared for anything.

Thorough fights, maybe not, but enough to escape.

If Daedalus domestic is no good, there is only a foreign country to escape.

I don't know if the central group of urban states, starting with Sparda, who are virtual enemies after all, will accept it very much, and still have no choice but to do anything but illegally immigrate.

First of all, give this information to the nearest village, no, I don't know if you will honestly listen to me, who is only an adventurer in Rank 1, this would be the shortest route to work for each village, telling the village chief of Iles village, who is the only one you know.

I started going around again, and while I was thinking about what I was going to do, I tried to activate the anchor again to get down the walls.

"- Here, what are you doing?

I heard voices.

Small but cool and beautiful, the voice of a girl.

Before I thought that voice sounded familiar, a single figure instantly appeared in my brain.

Looking back, there's a little girl standing there with the same dimensions as I imagined.

Girl with long silver hair, red shiny eyes, cross emblem coat and bare skin peeking from it is pure white, fluffy and beautiful.

She's the one who showed me absolute power, the symbol of overwhelming fear, the name of which I can never forget.

"... sariel"

Seventh Apostle Saliel, the strongest being as far as I know, stood here.