#206. How long do you think it will be?
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“What is this again?”
Alex was perplexed.
I thought I could barely breathe thanks to someone sweeping away the shadow monster climbing up the castle wall.
Why is London suddenly covered in fog?
And it was because I couldn’t bear it because I was anxious about what kind of disaster this might bring.
It wasn’t just him. The other Magus Guild players were also watching the fog with anxious eyes.
It was at that moment that everyone’s familiar sound rang out.
Dang-
“This sound…!”
“no way?”
It took a while for Alex and other players to look surprised when they heard the strange sound of a bell that sounded like a thousand pieces of metal colliding.
Soon, their faces were strangely contorted.
Dang-dang-dang-
It wasn’t just because the bells, which should normally have been heard at intervals, resonated at oddly fast intervals.
It was because strange shadows appeared on the side of the hill that had been covered in shadow monsters a while ago, but now were covered in mist.
The ghosts of London, made of shadows as well as the monsters, but in the form of definite people.
From one of the thirteen shadows at the forefront, a strange idea resounded throughout London.
[I ask you, witch.]
[Is this a righteous fight?]
“Ναί (Yes).”
[Is this a fight for the weak?]
“Ναί (yes).”
[Is this a fight to defeat evil?]
“Ναί (yes).”
[Can I swear to God that it’s true?]
“I can’t swear to God, but I can swear by my soul and my honor.”
[Then it is good. According to the ancient oath, we will draw out our swords to protect this land.]
At that moment, Alex was so surprised that his eyes popped out.
The ghosts of London, like the monsters a little while ago, were seen only as hazy shadows in the fog.
It was not only because their appearance gradually became clearer and formed a distinct human form.
A thousand knights all wearing shiny metal armor and holding swords.
Among them, 13 knights stood out and the crowned knight at the forefront caused an earthquake in Alex’s pupils.
“…that.”
A ghost wearing a crown?
There were dozens of them in the British Empire. There are several kings who have demonstrated bravery as knights.
But as far as Alex knew, only one king had ever worn such a sword.
“I can’t believe that, that, that, that! Eek Excal…!”
Kwagwagwagwang!
Unfortunately, Alex’s cry was swallowed up in the air.
This is because the moment the crowned knight swung his sword, the starlight that exploded from the tip of the sword swept away the shadow monsters.
But that was just the beginning.
As the knight wrapped in sun-like light rushes in, the monsters burst out on their own, and the monster whose eyes meet with the knight holding a sword as transparent as glass turns into ice cubes.
When the knight holding the bow deflects the string, the zigzag arrow pierces the head, and when the one-armed knight extends the spear, the nine times larger blade pierces the monster.
Other than that, a knight wielding a sword of flame or a knight who deflects monster attacks with his muscles, etc.
Thirteen knights, each wielding various strange weapons such as swords and spear armor, go wild.
And watching the thousands of knights fighting the monsters along with them, Alex swallowed dryly.
‘oh my god.’
The fact that the metallic sound that announced the gloomy hour, which had been thought to be the sound of a bell, was the sound of their weapons and armor.
More than anything, the identity of the thousand people he finally realized shocked him.
Because they are those who are handed down through folktales and folktales rather than history books.
Before dragons were resurrected and opened the Bronze Age, they were the beings that represented the power of the Silver Age, which ruled the world.
“―Magic Knight!”
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[Is there really such a thing as a magic knight?! Isn’t it something that comes out of a children’s book?]
“Of course.”
Shir laughed.
Then, he tossed the contents of his pocket into the magic circle and continued languidly.
“The world at the end of the Silver Age was a mess. Even if it’s a great witch or a saint, if you make a move, your life will fly away.”
It is said that great witches and saints were the absolutes of the Silver Age, but they are basically desk bites.
Due to the nature of magic that consumes a price, not only was it vulnerable to battle unless it was prepared, but it had to suffer tremendously when it met an incarnation.
“So we had no choice but to find a Guardian to fight the enemy and protect us instead.”
A human weapon armed with all sorts of magical weapons and magic tools to counter witches and priests.
So, sometimes as a guardian of faith, a witch hunter, a warrior of witches, or a heretic, a master of battle who created countless legends.
That’s the Magic Knight.
They were the strongest warriors of the Silver Age, who were unmatched in hand-to-hand combat until the seven dragons’ masters appeared.
[In short, magic knights were like armored infantry armed with state-of-the-art weapons in the Silver Age?
] At that time, it was also popular to create superhumans with magical blessings or curses.”
[It’s an X scam!]
Shire naturally said to Yuna-gyeong, who was frightened.
“What do you do with that much? If anything, he was at the level of a high-level player that kids these days say.”
[I buy things that can transform ordinary people into high-level players?]
“Unfortunately, mass production is not possible.”
[They even tried to mass-produce them?!]
“Of course, if they weren’t knights who had been physically and mentally trained to the limit, nine times out of 10 would have gone berserk or self-destruct, so we ended up with a small elite group.”
[Witch sister, what the hell did you do in the past?!]
“It’s nothing special. At best, I dreamed of conquering the world.”
Indeed, it took a while for him to put on an astonished expression at the words of a demon king of the Silver Age.
Yuna-kyung shook her head excitedly.
And he clucked his tongue as he watched the thousands of magic knights driving the tens of thousands of monsters up the hill.
[Anyway, looking at this, I can understand why the London battle system was the strongest magic in the Silver Age.]
Although there were differences depending on the blessing or magic tool, it was clear that each of the thousand or so magic knights had power comparable to that of a high-level player.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to sweep the shadow monster like that.
In particular, the thirteen knights at the head of the ranks were displaying strength close to that of a duke in their 80s or a high-ranking player in their 90s.
This is enough power to wage an all-out war against a teenage guild or a clan of the Seven Dragons.
If he was able to summon such knights in the distant Silver Age, it would surely deserve to be called the strongest magic.
So it was.
That is why Yuna-kyung couldn’t help but put on a dumbfounded expression at Sir’s words.
“What nonsense is that?”
[That’s bullshit?]
“The effect of the confrontation system hasn’t been fully demonstrated yet, so why are you saying that?”
[…Yes?]
Shire raised her finger and pointed forward at Yuna-gyeong, who was blinking at the meaningless words.
Yuna-kyung, who inadvertently turned her gaze to that finger, was disgusted.
A knight of the blue dragon clan.
A player in the Magus Guild.
Even ancient magic knights there.
It was because the shadow monsters that had failed to break through the Sea Serpent Earl Castle, which was guarded by that enormous power, were gathering toward the tower built by the witches this time.
When Yuna-kyung catches her breath at the rush of monsters that seem to knock down a mere thick bean tree at once.
[AxeJoT (Turn over).]
Kwaaaang!
With a strange echo, the world turned upside down and the monsters that were rushing at it fell into the sky.
Yuna-kyung was startled as she stared blankly at the monsters that flew into the distant sky and became stars.
A pillar made by the stacking of Shir and the five houses she was in.
It was because the ghost of a short woman with cute freckles was sitting on top of a chimney made of mirrors that rose sharply in the corner.
But that was just the beginning.
[DiKaBra (return).]
The ghost of a woman with a cold expression appeared on the chimney of a clocked house and chanted a spell, and the waves of monsters rushed back as if reversing a video.
[RaroRurir (Be delicious).]
A ghost wearing a hat made of cotton candy turned the monster clinging to the cookie house into a cookie.
[AhvaCo (Look out).]
The monsters attacked each other with their eyes blackened by the spell of the spectacled ghost
[Ozrs (Release).] When
the ghost of a woman holding a bunch of keys appeared, the limbs were disassembled like a puzzle. Monsters tumbled across the floor.
The ghosts of the five women who swept away the monsters that flocked to them just by memorizing each spell once.
Even five wasn’t all.
The ghost of a woman who appeared in the 23 towers built by witches and the 27 magic halls that make up the axis defeated the monsters simply by memorizing a spell.
Yuna-kyung opened her beak as she watched the number of ghosts increase by 54 to 81 instead of just 27.
Shir laughed at her.
“Think about it. There’s no way I would have lost to a magic that only summoned a few swordsmen.”
The quality and quantity of the corps, including magic knights, and even the knowledge and depth of magic.
The empress of the Roman Empire, who had reached its pinnacle in the Age of Silver in all respects, languidly continued as she watched the confrontation that even she could not overcome.
“Avalon is not just necromancy. It is a compilation of soul magic and time-space magic.”
[Time-space magic?]
“Yes.”
When do people die?
Is this the moment your heart stops?
Is it the moment when the soul leaves the body?
Or is it the moment when the soul passes into the afterlife?
By thoroughly digging into the gap, the boundary between life and death, the boundary between this world and the next world, and the boundary between the past and the future are twisted to create a space.
It’s called Avalon.
Sir, who made Yuna-kyung dazed by his simple explanation, continued his speech lightly.
“In other words, Avalon is a magic that creates a pseudo-underworld.”
[Similar… what?]
“Isn’t it sometimes in Shinhwa? Like the Garden of Eden or Mureungdowon, a place that is real but not real. You can see that it was realized through magic.”
[I don’t know what you mean…?]
“If it’s hard to understand, just think of it as a space infinitely close to the afterlife.”
Seeing Yuna-gyeong, who made an expression about 3 times more dumbfounded, Sir laughed.
“That’s why there is no need to call out spirits as difficult as necromancy here. We pay a small toll, and they come on their own.”
[They?]
“I mean all the souls from past to present who have the will to protect this London.”
Since the toll is expensive, it’s a bit difficult to see the spirits passing from the future.
Cyr, who made a terrifying noise, poured out another contents of his pocket and smiled meaningfully.
“In that sense, I ask, how many souls do you think will lend their strength to defend this London?”
Yuna-kyung didn’t have to answer that question.
The souls of successive witches of the 27th lineage of magic that have already increased to three digits have appeared to protect their descendants.
And the blue shadows that swept like a tidal wave over the millions of monsters that covered London already gave the answer.
“Remember. Magic requires a price, but that’s why it’s a mystery that you can do anything if you have enough money.”
[…]
I’ve been here for hundreds of years.
came back to protect it again.
Thousands… no, tens of thousands of knights in blue cloaks.
Looking at the spirits of the blue dragon clan, Yuna-kyung couldn’t help but think in a daze.
I don’t know what kind of witch Shire was in the Silver Age, so even after dealing with this kind of X-cheating X-cheating magic, she ended up being sealed.
