My Villains Episode 204
45. Into the Fog (4)
Two days passed after I left the Oressa Tavern, and there was good news and bad news for those two days.
First of all, the good news is that Utequai and I’s levels have risen.
It must have been thanks to the experience gained from dealing with the vampire lord Tenbierma, his second wife Ganesh, and countless lesser vampires.
So, looking at the current party’s level, I was level 26 Utequai and level 25 Ellen was level 24.
Average level 25. If the scenario wasn’t twisted, it’s a specification that you can clear chapter 4 without difficulty…
The problem is that this chapter is ridiculously twisted. It’s because of Saitz, a spell thief with a dark knight on his back.
The bad news had to do with this twisted scenario.
A group of about 30 people diligently made their way through the dark forest.
As I moved from the lead, I sighed at the black silhouette visible through the misty fog.
“…hah, rot.”
After about fifteen steps, the black silhouette took on its own form. Then, sighs and curses similar to those I had spat out came from behind.
“Are you sick again?”
“What the hell is this…
What appeared was an Oressa pub, a wooden building with one side of the wall and flags broken off and the roof half collapsed.
“…already three times.”
As Archer Cole, who was following him, said, it was already the third time he had left the Oressa Tavern and returned to Iri after wandering through the fog-covered forest.
It was strange.
I deliberately walked only eastward along the sun, but then came back to my place. And three times in two days. Yeah, that’s the bad news. We were unable to get out of the misty forest as if we were trapped in an invisible maze.
When I glanced back, Mungchi was breathing with a deadpan look. As much as he was quite active as a guide during his last journey, it seems that he is worried about not being able to use his strength right now.
Ellen, on the other hand, could not overcome her annoyance or frustration and swung the wand at once.
“Archuire en-sara!”
As if responding to his sonorous voice, sparks flew at the tip of the wand, and two streams of flame sprang up, forming an arrow.
The two flaming arrows thus formed were fired, one to the north and one to the south.
Hwareuk!
It was only for a moment that the two streams of fire swallowed up the white vapor and shook the fog. The trail created by the flaming arrow was filled up without a trace by the fog that came from somewhere.
Ha good.”
Ellen, who had a sneer on her face, raised her mana with a face that said, ‘Let’s try it somewhere.’ And it was pouring out the tongue-twisting spell like a rapid-fire cannon.
“Quod papillon! Ventum avem!”
Light green wind entwined his left hand, and at the tip of the wand, a butterfly spreading white light spread its wings.
“Saltare!”
At Ellen’s command, the ‘spirit of dance’ and the ‘frost butterfly’ drew a circle as if playing tag. A white butterfly spreads cold air down its wings, and a light green wind spreads it in all directions.
Huung-
Rain poured down as it shot behind the seori butterfly swimming in the fog and the dancing spirit. The sprayed cold air caused the water vapor to condense into water droplets.
The scene of the white butterflies swimming in the air and scattering the wind and rain was quite beautiful, but
“Ah-chwi!”
“Damn, does anyone have any towels to dry?”
“I wonder if there’s anything like that left… No one enjoys that spectacle.
The mercenaries shook their bodies as the cool rain, close to sleet, poured down. Some of the older ones even secretly glanced at Ellen.
“Ellen, don’t strain yourself.”
At my persuasion, he slightly bit his lower lip.
“It’s definitely not an ordinary fog, but I can’t feel any magic. Something is wrong.”
“…yes, it’s definitely strange. Let’s find another way.” I tapped Ellen on the shoulder and she whipped my wand around. The mana was harvested and the spirit of dance and the frost butterfly disappeared without a trace.
Feeling anger, fear, anxiety, etc. flowing behind my back, I raised my voice with a deliberately nonchalant expression.
“Let’s take a break here for a while! Let’s warm up inside.”
Entering the half-collapsed tavern, the mercenaries lit a fire in the fireplace and began drying their cloaks and boots.
I put my butt roughly on the damp table. For a while, U Tequai and Cole approached.
“They disappeared again.”
“……How many?”
“It’s two this time.”
Cole added a few sentences to Utequai’s short words.
“One of our mercenaries and one of Max’s porters.”
“Who is our mercenary?”
“It’s ‘Enio’.”
Enio was a mercenary from Albibton and a young man who was good at handling long spears.
“Has anyone seen it this time?”
“yes. Behind him were Gidon and Dervish, and when they both got here, they noticed that Enio was gone.”
I quietly shut my mouth.
In my heart, I wanted to pour out a double curse, but I couldn’t further stir up the already cold atmosphere.
The ominous fog that enveloped the forest seemed insatiable enough to lead us astray. A total of seven mercenaries and merchants disappeared into the fog over the past two days.
No one noticed the disappearance of their comrades, even though they packed up their ranks. Even the bundle, which was no different from a human radar, could not sense the presence of the missing person.
My head was pounding, so I pressed my temples and called the vampire Kelsenne.
Steedman and Esanna dragged Kell Senn out of all the silver swords stuck in his body. However, due to the aftermath of the Um ‘interrogation’ two days ago, he was unable to use his strength at all.
Well, it’s only natural that he spent all his remaining energy on repairing his wounds.
I stared at Mibu, who was kneeling in front of me, and opened my mouth.
“Kelsenne.”
Kelsenne trembled as if struck by lightning and quickly opened her mouth.
“yes yes. Please speak.”
The sight of her trembling at every word made me feel both satisfied and regretful at the same time.
The satisfaction of having conquered a powerful vampire and the regret that it would have been nice if they had been a little more rebellious.
“I’ve been wandering on the road for two days.”
Kelsenne was wearing a frayed cloak over a chiffon surcoat that was close to rags. Compared to the noble lady-like behavior of the past, she looks like a beggar.
“You really don’t know how to get out of here?”
“Yes, I don’t know. Really.”
Despite such behavior, the long eyes and thick lips still gave off a yo-yo atmosphere.
“really?”
“Yes, really. I can swear by my existence. I really don’t know.” I stared down at Kelsenne, who was bowing her head.
To be honest, this vampire’s beauty was very much in line with my taste, that is, Kim Seung-soo.
Of course, compared to Ellen or Heila, her status was inferior, but… Kelsenne’s mature atmosphere in her mid-30s and her alluring face and voluptuous body were enough to attract attention.
Also, his soft voice was quite audible, and I also liked the expression of emotions that closely resembled humans.
Of course, the best part was the fact that it was possible to restore quite a bit of knife quality on its own. Besides, since she’s a dirty vampire bitch, she could have ruined it at will without needing to notice anyone else…
-Yes, it’s the best toy. I wish I had captured the other two as well.
“…… Ugh”
……
Uh, something is blank.
I felt sleepy, so I blinked a couple of times. Then he swallowed the saliva on the tip of his tongue and opened his mouth.
“So you don’t even know who’s controlling this fog?”
“……Uh”
Kelsenne, who was holding on to the hem of her skirt until her fingertips turned white, answered with difficulty, looking more terrified than usual.
“I don’t know. But I can guess. It will be one of the two.”
“Either one?”
“yes. ‘Achillemnur’ or Saits. There are only two of us.”
‘Achillemnur’. The unfamiliar name reminded me of the story Kelsenne had confided.
The ruler of the Guistol region, Count Mattianver, had been like an incarnation of desire since his youth.
It was basic to enjoy gourmet food and silk, and he embraced women whenever he felt like it, and was obsessed with gaining power and enhancing his honor.
It was because of the Count’s desire that he intervened in the war of succession when the 6th king of Milanol, ‘King Jun-eom’, died. The desire to gain greater territories and powers.
However, there were the king’s riders by the side of Lionel III, the heir of the previous king, and there were also great nobles with whom he had a good relationship until then.
Eventually, with the death of Prince Arlot, the claimant to the throne, Count Mattianver suffered the first real defeat in his life. He lost all farmland city forts outside of Gistol and locked himself in Raven’s Cliff, his hometown.
And after more than 20 years, Count Mattianber, who collected mysterious spellbooks and studied the evil power, sacrificed countless lives to be reborn as ‘Vampire Lord Tenbierma’.
As a vampire lord, he was insatiable even though he gained an ageless body and mighty strength. He knew that he would be reduced to ashes if he prayed for a high-ranking priest, so he wanted more power and authority.
Thus, Tenbjerma began to reach out to the power of the second dimension to fully fulfill her infinite desires.
That second dimension was the ‘phantom realm’, a dimension of evil and a world of dreams.
This was Tenbierma’s plan.
With the power of a vampire lord, he would penetrate the dimensional passage to bring in the fantasy world and put the drawn fantasy world under his control.
It was a somewhat absurd plan to fill the entire middle world by gradually inflating the ‘dream estate’ filled with one’s own desires.
But the surprising fact is that Tenbierma almost realized his plan.
He actually descended the fantasy world on his nature and
completed the ‘dream territory’ at the cost of a lot of blood.
And just before the territory was completely swallowed up, the spell thief Saitz appeared. With a dark knight named ‘Achillem Nur’.
“As you know, the dark knight is a terrifying monster and at the same time a powerful mage.”
Kelsenne barely calmed down her trembling body and continued.
“At least the fog flowing from the Dream Mansion can be easily controlled.”
“…Then the only answer is to wander forever in this fog?”
“That’s not it.”
At Kelsene’s words, I narrowed my brows.
“No? You say you don’t know how to get out of here?”
“That’s right, I don’t know how to get out. But I know how to break this fog.”
The vampire with the face of an alluring woman cautiously raised her head and whispered.
“You can destroy the Dream Mansion.”
“…how?”
“Crow’s Castle. Kill the owner of the estate there.”
I closed my eyes tight.
