Sanzen no Souru Supina

■ Night 25: Ambush

The guide to the mukade in the mirror was clear.

The burning smell of beast hair left in space showed that Ashley's tracking was accurate.

Manticola left little trace on the ground because he used the trees as a route to travel, but it didn't even get rid of the stench of the standing beast.

Continuing with the tracking, I began to feel irritated by the footprints left behind.

Perhaps the beast, who has long reigned as the hegemon of this water facility, remembers his strong frustration and anger at being chased and hunted.

And I feel a strong confusion that the hunter is aiming straight for himself without being caught up in any deceptive or disruptive work.

Soon Ashley arrived at the end of the mirror.

It is a temple temple facility decorated with crystals.

At the entrance, Ashley found the rainbow water mantis crushed and the feathers crushed and fell.

If you're going to crush an aquatic insect that has grown to an unimaginable size in the human sphere under a single blow, you need a lot of power.

From the traces, you can see frustration and irritation, and you have lost sight of hiding the traces.

And I smelled that beast.

"Yes. Inside this... he's definitely..."

Ashley raised his spear without hesitation, and raised his shield and stepped into the temple.

There were strong signs of magic in the temple.

Ashley, who had dived through the dead many times and fought the demon clan, felt that it was clear as physical pressure.

But... is this really just a sign from Manticola?

As opposed to the Knights of the Cathedral, the monsters of Manticola - Jeridal - were indeed monsters of great evil.

But then, after a battle with the mighty overlords and demon clans as the Paladins, the signs of demons being unleashed by the Beasts were asked if they were more serious than any other threat… Perhaps Ashley would say less.

The signs of the beasts were, in other words, rough but cunning... the distorted (snoring) smell of fatherhood that allowed women and children to be seen only as targets of sexual exploitation, and there was nothing like grief as the overthrown ideal victims of the overloads.

Is it easy to understand that you can only feel the pleasure of bullying the weak anywhere?

In other words, it is inferior as an evil character.

That was the identity of the signs of the beasts that Ashley knew.

But there's something sad about it here somehow.

Sadness, or grief.

Are the thoughts of the victims killed by the beasts fostering such a scent?

If this is a sign of the Manticola and the Beast clans, there must still be a mighty enemy lurking here that Ashley has never encountered.

Then we cannot send him back to Asuka, Ele, and Love.

After all, Ashley thought it was the right thing to do to get in here alone.

Now, I don't want to be alone.

Because Ashley was already a knight.

Ashley, who continued unabated inside the temple, approached the center of the Great Garden.

There was an amazing sight there.

What a beautiful girl blindfolded and clamped her hands and feet by instruments stopped in Ashley's eyes.

"What do you mean...?"

It was too fantastic and at the same time abusive and fallen beauty.

Beyond Ashley's breathtaking gaze, she slightly walked around and discovered that it was living and alive.

Her whole body was pure white, and she looked like a statue in the distance.

No way... isn't she some kind of sacrifice?

"You ─ ─"

Ashley rushed to her without thinking.

Dive through an arched gate open to the wall.

It was that moment.

"Up there, fool!"

The nodding girl raised her face and screamed.

But Ashley, who was called a fool, already knew that.

S.H.I.E.L.D.: Throw Blanwell onto the floor, twisting his body onto it and falling from his back.

Of course, on his right hand is the Dragon Spear: Sivnir, which was already ready to fire.

With the explosive sound of Gohau, the range of exhaled breath (brace) was quickly rubbed through and a flash struck Manticola's head, thinking it had been a successful ambush.

Too much heat turns gas into a fire ball.

Manticola, struck by the stripes of light, boiled his whole body of blood, exploded and burned out instantly.