The Branded Female Fencer
Guilty Sword of Oath, Part 57 ~ Hachi Forest ② ~
"Rock, can I get through that path?
"Probably."
"Then let me show you around."
To Miriazal's suggestion. Lockroof glanced at Stelvese, but saw that she would say nothing, and gave her permission.
"Fine."
"Then please do it right away."
"... follow me"
Sooner or later, Rockroof ran out. He is such a giant bird that he is inherently out of sight. Make sure that flies Jung-min. Go through the woods filled with traps, but Miriazal follows suit. Later, the lag serious, rake, and jabberwock continued.
And Stervese remains standing on the spot unchanged. Rafferty also naturally remained on the spot. No matter how good he is as a human being, he can't follow the footsteps of the powerful warcraft that represent the continent.
Rafferty glanced at Stervese, reluctantly asking.
"Aren't you going?
"It's not necessary. I know what lies ahead and what once happened. To a concubine who knows until the time of the outbreak of calamity, would that be a useless behavior?
"Then I wonder if my men would have had to die a useless way if you would have told me what was once going on in this land."
I felt the air chipped and the sharpness increased in Rafferty's words. This was not because of the cold in the Eight Forests, nor was it a killer of sharpness that everyone would notice.
But Stelvese did not change his expression to this unwieldy attitude of Rafferty either, but he answered it as a matter of course for her.
"It's useless. Your strength as a group of lords through this battle should be improving instantly. What is missing from the Temple Knights, who excel in their individual skill, is their experience as an army. With it, the Temple Knights become the strongest knights on the continent in both fame and fame. If the Lord praises those who died in the process for their useless sacrifices and commanders, they will not be saved."
"... I said something far-fetched. Please forgive me."
"Good. Being angry with your concubine that way is an emotional testament. My concubine is lost, my dear emotion. How can I be angry when I feel that it is something I am not comfortable with?
All the time, anything out of your reach is teething. "
"You have experience, too?
"Even if you have a thousand eyes, you don't have a hand that reaches a thousand miles away. Do you understand?"
Listening to Stervese, Rafferty just bowed her head. That's what I was ashamed to hear about the foolishness. The number of regrets, that number is only for the years spent. I still realized that I was hiding my own grief and my own grief, as well as Stelvese's.
And with such Rafferty beside him, Stelvese snapped to himself.
"Well. Look at what's ahead. Does Miriazal realize the truth? You will know that you have no hitter than you realize who Calamity is. In a way, it's the hardest to destroy, that one. Whether even a concubine can kill him."
Stelvese crushed such things in a meaningful way.
And four warcraft head for the deepest part of the Octave Forest. They were traveling at high speeds as the unusual air wrapped around them, but eventually their speed slowed naturally, to the point of nature and early walking. If the time when the trap was no longer seen was taken as the seventh layer, this was an area of even greater danger. No enemy has a clear intention. That's why I feel extra dangerous.
The area is filled with cloudy air, which should also be called air, and I even hesitate to breathe. Plants that were more disastrous than the earlier sixth layer could get in the neighborhood, and I even wondered if they would strike at us all at once. A mushroom of some unusual kind opens its mouth with teeth, like a human, and drips from the edge of its mouth. Seeing the soil around it rot, the salivating secretion fluid is probably corrosive. Despite the absence of signs of life, strange screams, hissing and people screaming around were heard, and when the annoyed jabberwocks skipped the kill, they stopped perfectly, but often resumed. Four old strong men crooked around various battlefields, but this place was filled with suspicious signs that just made it seem useless to stay long.
"The air is starving."
"Oh. The forest is too deep to reach the wind or the light of day. Besides the suspicious spores flying around. We'll be fine, but if humans get in, we'll have suspicious organisms breeding in our lungs and we'll be done in a flash. The air here is poisonous. Weak creatures must also remain breathing."
"Your mouth stinks, huh"
"Huh? Did I say something?
"No, I'm talking to myself"
A line that fought Calamity's division had previously told Miriazal such a thing. For Calamity, who lived with the air here intact in her lungs, her lungs would be tamed with the air here. Naturally there may be no choice but for humans in the outside world to feel a strange odor in Calamity's exhalation.
Eventually they move on with the lights magically lit. And further back, now there's no sign of any creatures around. A world dominated by silence, where only dead plants exist around. All I could hear was their footsteps and exhale.
Continued