Kuro no Maou

Episode 68: The Curse

The crusaders froze breathlessly.

"Ahhh... the priest..."

When someone muttered so, the soldiers recognized the reality that did happen in front of them, even as they were confused.

Everyone watched Kilvan unleash the advanced attack magic of light the next moment there was black smoke in his eyes.

So it was settled, and the thought was exactly the same for Kilvan, the surgeon himself, and for the soldiers under his command.

But not long before the victory cheered, that demon jumped out of the black smoke with a terrible roar of frozen spines.

The real settlement was decided in just a few dozen seconds.

The devil, with a black bullet of terror that slaughtered those numerous companions, shot through the heads of two white magicians, without difficulty piercing a strong defensive magic.

When the white magician raises a blood splash from his eyebrows and falls to the earth, the demon had already waved its disastrously shaped black blade toward the priest.

The Devil's Roar, the Priest's Prayer, the sound of the Ferocious Blade cleaving the line of light, all echo at the same moment.

And when he realized, the priest's torso was cut in two, and he was dancing through the universe with his upper body scattered with red blood.

"The priest is dead..."

"The devil killed me..."

Upset spreads to the soldiers in Russia.

Kilvan, though young, was quite good as a commander and, above all, gained a great deal of trust from the soldiers under his command by his strength as a high-ranking white magician and not afraid to fight himself on the front lines.

And he had such a strong faith in God that he was inclined to fundamentalism, and the slightly more confident aspect even showed a kind of charisma with his strength.

Such a trusted superior was murdered very lightly.

This flow, which would lose its will and cause the soldiers to start breaking apart for less than a minute, was natural.

"Calm down!

However, a drink by a troop leader stops the foot of a soldier who is about to return his heel.

"Look, in the battle with the priest, that demon is pretty worn out!

Sure, you're about to bend one knee. There was a dripping black outfit.

"I can kill him now! Avenge the priest!!

War returns to the soldiers, and the hand that holds the weapon begins to gain strength again.

"The effect of the junction still doesn't go away, I shot the devil out of here!

Even if the surgeon dies, the magical effect disappears instantly without exception.

Now this Sacred Heart Defensive Wall (Lux Woldefan) that protects them will also continue to take effect unless the magic praised there disappears.

"" Kill the devil!

Soldiers summon together, as if to shake off their fears.

"" Kill the devil! Kill the devil!!

Arrows are loaded and strings are squeezed to the critical and limit.

"Prepare to fire!

A bow (long bow) and a stone bow (bow gun) are directed toward a knee-bending target.

The devil still doesn't move.

"Ha... ha..."

After slaughtering the priest in "Black", he was attacked by a sudden sense of fatigue.

This would be due to the recoil that unleashed martial arts, rather than the massive amount of magic consumed at once in the evolution of the Xu.

Think of it, there have been so many fierce fights when the magic ran out during the manoeuvre experiment that I've experienced this exhaustion feeling that I'm about to fall right now, but it's a shitty situation that it will happen now.

No, should we assume that we were lightly kerried because of evolution, which had the potential to bear the profound instead of the drain of magic if we fought against the priest who uses advanced magic?

But it doesn't change that the situation is getting worse.

Those soldiers are still willing to fight, even though the priest, who is the head, has been hit.

"Kill the devil," he shouted majestically, "you son of a bitch, but the devil would be Temeira."

Where we have done evil things, the future will remain the same with arrow rain pouring down simultaneously in less than seconds.

"Ha... damn"

Don't let Lily be impotent with each other, what did I say, but not at all.

The magic is exhausting the bottom, well, it's the salvation of not having one scratch on my body.

"Sorry, Lily, I think I'm gonna break my promise..."

After fighting Sariel, I promised him I wouldn't do anything unscrupulous anymore, but I really feel sorry for him for breaking it so fast.

"But he and the others..."

With the fingertips that began to return to the senses, the power to grip the pattern again.

"We can't just let them live."

I don't know how many more soldiers I can kill with this exhausted body of magic.

No matter how sturdy this body is, if you shed a lot of blood, you will die, and no matter how your neck flies, you will certainly die.

But I'm not going back.

Keep killing.

One more, and I'll take you to hell!

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!

More than an evolutionary curse, the curse of hatred and intent to kill flows into me again.

Put a murky live in the body seeking rest, and jump up.

Already, a large number of arrows released arrive in front of you.

There is not enough magic left to instantly deploy "Black Shield", the means to prevent it is so precise that it wields a spell.

I shook up my jaws wide to drop some more arrows, ready to eat a few, at that time,

Dodo doo!!

From right in front of me, a bright red flame blows up.

What is this, enemy attack magic? Did something explode?

instantaneous instant death to the Red Lotus covering all of his sight, I think,

"... is this defensive magic?

I'm not taking any damage from this flame, and if you look closely, you can see that not only is the flame blowing up off the ground, but it's spreading like a wall.

It is probably the advanced range defensive magic 'Firewall (Ignis Lampert Defan)' that generates a huge firewall so far.

Whatever this magic was, the rain of arrows, which flew right in front of me, was swallowed by the flaming wall and completely burned, protecting me.

But who the hell is this advanced magic?

The only thing that immediately comes to mind is Lily, who is my partner on the only side I can think of.

"You were in danger."

That voice, heard from behind, was the voice of a clear girl, but soon found out that it belonged to someone else apart from Lily.

"Well, who..."

Looking back, a bright black figure approaching with a light foothold.

No, that's not a shadow, it's just a complete blackout, like me, from the top of my head to the tip of my leg.

A triangular hat like the one worn by a fairy tale witch, a pitch-black robe with soft feathers, a longscepter (staff) with a strange shape to see, and pale watery hair and brilliant golden eyes.

only met once, but her name looked unforgettable and distinctive,

"Fiona Soleil!?

"I missed you, Ice Candy guy"

"A, what ice cream..."

The same half-eyed, faceless statement to the appearance too suddenly, so much that I'm about to forget all about this situation now.

"Oh, I'll curse you before I forget"

"What?"

What is he saying in so many ways? And not long before I wondered, I heard a short chanting melody from Fiona's little lips.

"Curse (Dispel)"

"Huh!?

The moment the word of the curse reached my ear, I let go so that I could be bounced the wax that I was so naturally gripping it that I thought it integrated with my arm.

I bowed to my knees like a broken puppet as I was released from my hand and made a noise and fell to the ground.

With the benefit of the strengthening of the flesh that has been given to us so far, the magic has stood even in the sky, without which it is only natural that the body will cease to move.

I thought I'd fall as-is, but my body wasn't on hard ground, and I was hugged with the arms of a soft, warm man.

Embraced by the witch's chest, all that covers her sight is the darkness of the robe and I can't see her face, I didn't even have the power to move my head in the first place.

"You use a lot of dangerous stuff, it was a light frenzied (basark) state"

"... thanks to you the priest could be killed"

My body doesn't move, but I can manage to speak out.

"Did you help me?

"Yes."

"Thank you, but this place is dangerous, so Mr. Fiona needs to get out of here, and I'm not gonna resent you for leaving me."

"Then there's no point in us being here."

Who else...

"Look, the adventurers are here to save the village."

When Mr. Fiona holds me up, there's no flaming wall there that was roaring until earlier.

"Oh, oh..."

A group of inflexible adventurers composed of diverse races stood there, each with a weapon in his hand.

"If you kill one, it's a gold reward!

"Hiya - I'll hunt you without leaving!!

The adventurers roar and storm towards the Crusaders.

In a human unit that has already lost its commander and has not a single magician, it is impossible to beat these adventurers, no matter how many.

I've been pushed this far by one of my opponents, and if reinforcements come, you'll intuitively understand that they're not very hostile, the soldiers already show their backs and start breaking apart simultaneously.

"... Mr. Fiona"

"What is it?

"Later, I asked..."

With the sight of victory, I was relieved and fell asleep without being able to remain any more conscious.

"Later, I asked..."

Leaving that word behind, in Fiona's arms, Chrono let go of consciousness.

Fiona firmly supported Chrono's large body, which securely deposited all her weight, with its slender arms.

Around, the voices of the crusaders fleeing with screams echo the anger of the adventurers driving them away.

In such a training ground, Fiona's appearance of gently embracing Chrono was a beautiful occasion as if it were a single famous painting.

But there is one here who does not make it good.

"Away from Chrono"

Beautiful, but the voice of a girl who makes a cold impression somewhere can be delivered to Fiona's ear.

If I looked up, there was a beautiful girl there who blinked her wings brilliantly in seven colors when she showed up there.

Lily, who followed the Fountain of Light, arrived at the village of Iles at this moment, precisely at Krono.

"... who are you?

"Come on, get away from me."

Even Fiona, who is naturally fully open to boulders, found that Lily's dialogue contains thorny nuances, although it is not explicitly aimed at killing.

You just can't forgive a woman other than yourself for holding Chrono's body, even if it wasn't Fiona for some personal reason.

"Go ahead."

Whatever it was, to Lily, who stepped down in front of him, Fiona offered Chrono a great deal.

Lily holds Chrono lightly, just as she did during the Battle of Sariel.

When Chrono's figure was thus fully handed over, Lily gradually turned her fairy smile to Fiona.

"You came earlier than I thought, thank you for your help"

"No, because it's work"

"The vigilante and adventurer of the Quaal must be, but you say the same goes for you, the man from Ark?

"... did you know"

"You didn't mean to hide it in large part. The guild card you showed Chrono wasn't from this continent."

"Oh, could it be the fairy that was with Mr. Chrono then?

"Have you noticed by now?

"You were so cute"

Lily exhaled one thing, and speaking of which, this woman kept saying strange things when she was talking to Chrono, too.

"I don't care about me, are you more of an enemy than that? Are you on my side?

Fiona responds coolly with the same unchanged expression, while Lily seeps slightly killer.

"Now, I'm a Rank 1 Adventurer."

And as always, take one plate out of the hat and give it to Lily.

It is indisputably a guild card on the continent of Pandora.

"You, are you a traitor to man?

"I have come to the Pandora continent as just a mercenary.

But the rice wasn't delicious, so I quit. "

"… yes"

Lily has seemed kind of silly that she was wary of this sleepy-faced witch opponent.

This ridiculous reaction is not acting or anything, because Lily, the fairy, knows what she really means.

Even at this moment Lily knew that Fiona was just thinking about ice candy because of her mental sensitivity (telepathy) ability to read minds.

"Well fine, if it's ice candy, I'll feed you as much as I want, so don't betray me"

"Is that true? It's a promise."

"I think I said something sooner," Lily regrets slightly after Fiona's awesome eatout as she embarks on herself.

(But turning this woman against the enemy is a pain in the ass, if you'll stay an adventurer, I've never done it before)

Lily was watching, that flaming wall that saved Chrono.

And the magical identity, Chrono, of course, did not notice the other adventurers who accompanied her, and only one Lily from above had noticed.

Arre is not the 'Firewall (Ignis Lampertdefan)' as Krono thought, it's not even advanced magic if it's not range magic in the first place.

It was just Ignis Shield, a junior defensive magic and fire shield.

(Naturally the same magic works differently with the user, but knocking out so much power whether it's just junior magic isn't what level of talent is anymore)

Either you have talent beyond the reach of the people, you use a special technique, or you are born with a physique/trait, only Lily realized that a witch named Fiona possesses a terrible magical power.

It's just lucky that Fiona isn't the one with the ‘witchy’, belly-black idea, that her nature is just a cannibal.

"The world is wide with such a weird witch."

Lily sighed at the feeling of weakness and, in order to give Chrono a rest, headed first for the guild, which was right around the corner.

Behind you, bring a black witch who can give thought to the refreshing sweetness of ice candy.