Episode 115 Darkness about to be revealed (2)
After clearing the monsters easily, Ray and his party were having a conversation with a group of mercenaries.
In order to know the exact situation, it was best to talk to those who were at the scene.
However, the expressions of the mercenaries talking were not so bright.
It may have been because they were overwhelmed by the spirit of the three people who defeated the wyvern in an instant, but it was because they didn’t know anything even if they were themselves.
Looking at the mercenaries who consistently replied, “I don’t know,” Ray scratched his head.
This is difficult.
If you don’t even know the mercenaries who must have fought monsters from the beginning, you need someone who knows the situation well, it’s correct to say that you don’t know the current situation.
Ray shook his head and said.
“First of all, we need people to carry the corpses of the monsters to the Holy Land. I don’t know why the monsters are rampaging, but there’s no law telling them not to come again next time, so the academy needs to be vigilant.”
“Monster skins are good materials for armor. There will still be reinforcements coming, so we can leave it to them.”
The mercenaries felt puzzled by their words.
If you are an adventurer, of course you have to pay attention to the rare material called wyvern leather.
However, natural questions began to arise from their words that they would transfer it to the Holy Kingdom without hesitation.
Is it someone related to the Holy Kingdom? If that’s not the case, is it because he’s so talented that he doesn’t like the skin of a wyvern?
Ira felt strange at the sense of heterogeneity she had felt from before.
As for the total mana, she was more sensitive than Ray, and she was even uncomfortable with the flow of mana she felt earlier.
But I couldn’t figure out what the heck was going on.
It was too big.
If it was a magic circle of a tolerable size, you would notice it just by looking at it for a moment, but the flow of mana you felt right now was very different.
The amount of mana that moved was also positive, but the mana that moved freely was repeating the movement over and over again with rules.
I’d felt it before, but at the time it was just a little nerve-wracking, but not as bizarre as this.
In the end, Aira couldn’t stand it and called Ray.
“Ray, let’s talk alone for a second.”
Seeing her unusual expression, Ray followed her without saying anything else.
After leaving the mercenary party with Iriel, Ray went out and asked Aira.
“what’s the matter?”
“…Silent.”
Blocking out the leaking sounds with magic, she opened her mouth.
“…since I’m only in the forest, I don’t know what’s going on. So can I just tell you what I felt?”
“huh.”
She sighed and said.
“Whoa… A wide range of areas, including this area that you now call the academy, have been captured by the magic circle.”
“…A magic circle?”
As Ray frowned and said, Aira nodded.
“okay. That’s a very sizable magic circle. At first, it was a weak flow of mana, but as soon as I caught the monster, it became serious.”
At her words, Ray looked around.
Spreads mana widely to classify all disparate mana around.
It was to the point that even Ray felt a little difficult about the enormous work.
Alien mana was all about magic.
At that moment, the magic artifacts that existed around him and the mana flow of those who used magic were captured by Ray’s spirit.
There, Ray began to classify all the detailed flows, but even after time passed, he could not get any sense.
Ray shook his head.
“I don’t feel anything. If it’s a magic circle, what kind of magic circle is it?”
“…you don’t know that. However, since it’s a magic circle of this size, it won’t be easy to overcome. Don’t think you’re done with just one or two buildings. At least one or two regions will have to be prepared.”
“…”
Ray’s face became more serious than before.
In one or two areas, let alone the injured, the number of deaths is beyond imagination.
As a result, the Holy Kingdom would suffer serious damage.
You can expect aid from the Lessian Empire or other kingdoms, but it will be impossible to maintain supremacy between kingdoms any longer.
Originally, is it possible to set up such a large-scale magic circle without anyone knowing?
After thinking about it for a while, Ray said to Aira.
“How about starting to erase the magic circle now?”
“impossible. In order to interfere with the magic formed by the magic circle, about 30% of the magic circle had to be destroyed. Moreover, unless you know exactly what the magic circle was drawn with, it will be all the more impossible.”
If it had been drawn with chalk or bone powder, it would have been erased long ago.
However, looking at the fact that the magic circle was activated, it means that it was not erased and remained there.
‘Even I can’t cancel this level of magic. Besides, in the current state where I can’t even feel the magic circle, it’s the limit to block it, let alone cancel it.’
Ray started looking for things he could do now.
However, even so, the things that could be done in the current situation were very limited.
Among them, the priority was the evacuation of residents.
Ray gritted it.
I couldn’t do anything more than this now.
“I need to evacuate the people. Can you find a high place around here where everyone can see it?”
“i get it.”
Ray hurriedly entered the store.
Then I saw Iriel and the mercenaries talking.
Ray grabbed Iriel’s wrist and dragged her out.
Iriel salivated at the powerful appearance.
“Eh?”
He quickly began to explain the current situation to Iriel, who had been dragged out.
The fact that they do not know the existence of the magic circle spread throughout the academy and the magic used in it.
And it means that we have to proceed with the work to evacuate the people.
Should I say that she is the strongest among the saints of all time?
Without showing any signs of embarrassment, Iriel silently listened to Ray’s words.
Then he hardens his expression and makes a decision right away.
“…it would be good for the people below to evacuate to Shillien, and for the people here to evacuate to Gehel.”
At her words, Ray nodded and said to Iriel.
“Maybe we will need relief supplies. When reinforcements arrive from here, tell them to go back and issue an emergency order.”
“All right.”
Ray came out again.
If an emergency decree is issued, all steps to the academy will be cut off.
If we close the border and seal the entrance, the damage will be reduced.
And, as a saint, she had enough authority.
If only I had been here, it would have been more difficult.
It was a moment when Ray felt reassured about her presence.
‘All that remains is to issue an evacuation order.’
Even if I knew the existence of the magic circle late, I found out too late.
No, if it wasn’t for Aira in the first place, no one would have known.
Even if he said it suddenly, it was his job to do his best to increase the number of people who would evacuate.
As soon as he came out, he was taken aback by the huge cliffs he saw.
At the top stood Aira.
When I asked for a high place where everyone could see it, I was even awestruck by the woman who made it.
But surely anyone at this height would be able to see him.
Ray climbed the cliff while sticking the dagger in his waistband.
He doesn’t know how to activate mana into his body. He also doesn’t know how to use fly magic.
That’s why I had no choice but to believe in only one body and go up.
It was a different dimension from the way he climbed the trees in the Elven Village.
Drive the dagger into the cliff and take it out while leaping.
The sight of him climbing the cliff while repeating the action was almost miraculous in the eyes of the people around him.
He reached the top and raised his mana.
It was the mana he decided and raised so that it could be heard throughout the academy.
The tremendous fluidity was enough to catch the attention of the surrounding wizards.
Ray shouted loudly.
“Everyone, evacuate to Gehel right now! We could all die if we stayed here!”
I said it with earnestness, but people’s expressions didn’t change that much.
“Didn’t you see the monster attacking you!? It’s worse than that!”
However, even if he suddenly said that, how many people would be able to evacuate, leaving their homes and shops behind?
Some seemed to be evacuating, but most people just admired the sudden cliff and the young man who climbed it.
“You seem young, but you are very talented…”
“To make a cliff… isn’t it the chief mage?”
The cry of one with such power caused a small number of people to flee.
There was only one.
If you admired it, you would have admired it, because only a handful of people evacuated following his words.
Ray gritted it.
He threw off his robe.
Then white hair and lake-blue eyes appeared.
Even though he wasn’t dressed in sincerity, it matched the saint’s appearance to anyone’s eyes.
The aristocratic children of the academy could not be familiar with his appearance.
Of course, only nobles with titles could attend the christening ceremony.
There was no way the children of nobles without titles could attend.
They just waited in the lobby for the baptismal ceremony to end.
However, it was different in the case of the people.
It was because everyone could hear the heart-pounding words Ray said at the baptism ceremony.
No one else knows, but the people couldn’t forget that look.
He is not a saint who has seized public opinion for nothing.
Ray said while looking around with mana again.
“I command in the name of a saint! Everyone get out of here! If you disobey, you will be punished accordingly!”
In order to create a dramatic situation, magic is manifested in the air.
Ray lightly cast magic toward places where there were no people who did not respond to mana.
Blades of invisible wind hacked through the building.
In an instant, several small buildings collapsed.
Quaang-!
The merchants who were afraid of the noise were the first to follow Ray’s words and evacuate.
In the first place, the saint commanded the people in his name.
Even if you insist on not leaving, you will end up in prison.
As if the previous events were lies, residents hurriedly began to evacuate.
In line with that, as if to attack them, Ray continued to cast magic, aiming for a place where there were no people.
Sukkuk- Kwaaang-!
For now, it was best to evacuate by force.
Ray was just as embarrassed by the many things that suddenly happened.
From the rebel forces that happened before, to the necromancer Bone Dragon.
That has continued until now, and the monsters have invaded the city and the magic circle has spread across an area.
It was natural to know that there was someone who was aiming for the Holy Kingdom after coming this far.
However, I couldn’t figure out who was aiming for the holy kingdom.
If anyone knows, there will be only one.
He is a courtesy necromancer that he has captured before.
‘When I go back to Selonia, I’ll even tell you what color panties you’re wearing.’
That perverted thought was enough to bring chills to the necromancer.
