Episode 366
Episode 121. The Rochshire Tragedy (2)
“Damn it!”
Marlon spat out a curse in the air where the dimensional gate was closed.
However, it was not the time to be venting anger in the air. Ariel was trembling with her back against the collapsed wall, and Yuma was also spitting out the blood that had risen as the aura regurgitated.
After encountering him, only 5 minutes had passed.
In that short time, Yuma and White Dragon, one of the strongest in the human world, were injured. Even if it wasn’t even a big battle.
Yuma let out a big breath.
It’s hard to explain exactly, but Halun was different from the demons I’ve met so far. Although he had tremendous power, he did not use only his power and had the insight to see through his opponent at a glance.
-You know me.
Even the first words Haloun uttered had a chilling edge to them. Yuma looked at Ariel, feeling the hairs all over her body stand on end for the first time in a long time.
“Ariel! Wake! Damn, I didn’t think the cut was this bad. Was it poisoned?”
Marlon didn’t know what to do, so he just put his hand on her shoulder.
“It’s not poison, it’s Magi. It seems to be the kind that works especially fatally for Ariel.”
“What should I do? I don’t think there’s even a healer.”
“Pidgin says there is no way with human medicine in the first place. I have no choice but to take him to the land of the dragons or heal myself… Do you have any leftover dragon herbs that Ariel gave me?”
There was no way to go to the land of the Balaur. Originally, Kriesha was in the nearest Inzvikan, but even she was absent.
“I used it all up. My shoulder is almost healed anyway, but I should leave it there.”
When Marlon spoke in a dejected tone, my car shook her head. Fortunately, in the meantime, this Ariel regained consciousness a bit.
“It looked like a crane I couldn’t see. Healing can be done, so be quiet. Tidy up your surroundings. You have to draw a magic circle.”
As Marlon and Zecca hurriedly cleared the surrounding debris to make room, Ariel drew a magic circle with her trembling fingers.
It was a kind of sealing magic.
Inside Ariel’s body, the ‘encroachment’ she swallowed in the demon cave yesterday was still in a state. She intends to take the infiltrated demonic energy out and seal it with encroachment.
As the magic circle emitted blue light, dark energy began to rise from her shoulders. Energy ran down her shoulders like hundreds of snakes and soaked into the floor.
At first glance, the atmosphere was ominous, but after the magic was over, she let out a deep breath after the pain subsided.
However, his entire body was still covered in cold sweat.
The clearing where encroachment and demonic energy were sealed was so black that even light could not be reflected. It ended quickly, but it was not a magic with a high success rate, and she had just risked her life to heal herself.
“Are you okay?”
“Not completely. I almost died.”
“Sorry, I used too many herbs for no use.”
“It was the herb I was given to use. Don’t talk to me because it’s hard.”
“Thank you, Ariel.”
Yuma looked around stunned, unable to hide his complicated state of mind.
It was fortunate that Ariel survived the crisis, but the devastating landscape of Rochshire, which was devastated in a day, made Yuma’s heart heavy.
It seemed like everything was his fault. Would this have happened if the survey had been delayed by a day or if they had just returned to the Rochshires without camping?
Buildings throughout the city were engulfed in flames, and black smoke filled the sky wherever you looked.
After Yuma ascended to the rank of demon god, he developed a strange sense of ‘death’. Because of this, he knew it intuitively.
There were less than twenty survivors in this huge city. Even that number included the five Soringa knights he had just obtained.
Rochshire is completely destroyed.
I can’t even add the word reconstruction.
At that moment, Zecca grabbed Yuma by the shoulder.
“I’m saying this just in case, but it’s not your fault. you know?”
“know. But… I can’t help but feel that way.”
“Don’t do that. What the hell is that crazy devil bird wearing? Will we have to fight those things in the coming war? Do they pop out of nowhere like this?”
Yuma nodded heavily.
Zecca’s hand holding the Sibelin was trembling faintly. In hindsight, he was afraid of Halun, but Jeka was thinking of his lover, Liz, and the house they lived together.
If it was Hale, not Rochshire, that summoned that enormous demon… If it weren’t for Yuma and other friends, and a person the size of Duran Jacques were waiting there.
He thought he couldn’t have saved Liz.
“Did he say he was summoned? I think it’s an intentional summons.
It seems that someone was tracking our movements and waiting for us to leave Rochshire before summoning them. Is there anyone who can guess?”
“I was thinking that way too.
There are a few people who can guess.”
Warlock Shiram and Ryoka Rollmandi.
Those two were the most likely. However, Ryoka probably did not have this much knowledge in summoning or black magic. Enough to summon the Summer General.
Of course, he could have learned or learned from Shiram, but he wondered if he would have dared to do this to his own estate. This is where most of the nobility of Rollmandi as well as the sheep live.
Of course, the odds on Shiram’s side were much stronger.
He was already using this land called Rochshire in various ways.
They sacrificed ogres or created demon dens in secret cavities.
However, if he had summoned it, it was unlikely that a demon the size of Halun would have known about it. As an apostle of Hwa, Shiram must be full of the energy of that evil god. Halun also spoke as if he did not know who the summoner was.
If so, who the heck did this?
Until the Dragon Horse War broke out, humans did not know the names of the demons and generals of the underworld. In other words, it meant that it was an act committed by someone who at least knew Halun’s name.
Thinking that far, Yuma gritted his teeth as if he remembered something.
“Lot “What?”
“I must meet that bastard.”
“No matter how crazy that person is, he is still in the position of serving Zeil, so is it necessary to do something like this? If a person dies, it would be a loss from his point of view. It means Hwah is getting stronger.”
“It certainly doesn’t mean that he summoned Halun. But that Saibi has the power of foresight.
I know the name of the Underworld Demon.”
Yesterday in the lord’s chamber, Lot provoked Ariel by saying this.
-Thanks to the little foresight the Light imparted. And I saw their future for a moment. The times that the mercenary prince of magic and the white dragon will go through.
Whether it was a story stemming from foresight or a word uttered as a directive from Rizol, it didn’t matter.
Right after that, Lot said that he would leave Rochshire and informed him that there was a map in the lord’s room with the black magic ritual marked on it.
As if he had known in advance that this would happen, he subtly persuaded Yuma to go out of Rochshire, and he himself escaped as well.
Of course, this alone did not mean that Lot had summoned Halun. However, it seemed that the assumption that he ‘knew’ that this situation was going to happen would not be wrong.
Even if Lot really didn’t know, the Xilgyo Temple was a place he had to visit at least once. Moreover, even if the culprit was revealed to be Shiram, the whereabouts of the culprit could not be identified.
Yuma briefly explained this to Zecca. I didn’t say that Maria was Lil’s reincarnation.
“I don’t think he knew. And maybe destroying Rochshire could benefit the Zeil Church. It’s not a problem that can be quickly concluded.”
“Which side?”
“Because the whole empire will be in sorrow now that Rochshire has reached this point.
It seems that they want the ‘total amount of pain’ felt by all of humanity to increase, even if people’s lives are reduced.”
I couldn’t just worry forever in the ruined city.
Yuma stopped thinking and decided to search for survivors first. Those pitiful lives that would surely not be even twenty.
Just in case, Malone stood by Ariel, and Yuma and Zecca scattered and started looking for people.
As the two roam the ruined city, they once again realize Halun’s powerlessness. The terrible strength that emanates from that girlish appearance.
It is not known exactly how long he was summoned to Rochshire, but at most it was less than 24 hours. In it, cities were razed to the ground and hundreds of thousands were horribly murdered.
It was rare to find a corpse that retained its intact appearance.
Demons in the underworld usually turned the dead into demons or used them as sacrifices at times like this. However, Halun did not leave any traces of using humans as if his only purpose was ‘genocide’.
It was literally a disaster.
Usually, in a murdered body, the feelings of the person who killed him were bound to remain. Especially in a massacre like this, it couldn’t help but stand out even more.
However, the gruesome corpses of those killed by Halun showed no feelings of malice or hatred.
In other words, Halun killed people as if he were taking a walk. At least in Yuma’s eyes, it seemed that way.
“Let the living come out!”
“No one!”
They screamed for their throats to burst, but they hadn’t found a survivor for over an hour.
Unbeknownst to them, there were a few survivors who had heard the voice. However, the survivors are unable to move or react to the voices in extreme fear.
The first living people the two met were those outside Rokshire while Halun was summoned.
“Sir Yuma! How could this happen…!”
It was the garrison of Rochshire which was on outer patrol.
They were belatedly aware of the situation and had just returned to the territory. And, facing a reality that was not like a dream, he heard the general circumstances of Marlon and Ariel in the central square.
Everyone in the garrison, including knights, soldiers and officers, could not hold back their tears. Half of them couldn’t even raise their heads because there was no way to appease their empty hearts.
Seeing that, even Yuma choked up.
They all had homes, families, and lives in Rochshire. That was until three hours ago when they went out on patrol.
That also meant that it took only three hours for Halun to destroy the entire metropolis by himself.
“Don’t cry. We need to find survivors…”
However, even Yuma’s voice when he said that was watery.
Starting from this day, the entire empire fell into sorrow for a long time. Relatives and family members of those who were in Rochshire sang songs continuously, and memorial services were held on every street.
And Empress Asuka Rose proclaimed the succession to the throne. So that Hella Rose can start preparing for war in earnest.
It wasn’t just sadness that covered the entire empire.
revenge. Even the hearts of Westerners who did not experience the War in the Underworld are filled with that heavy and sharp mind.
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