missing child.
missing child.
Kwaaaaang!!!
soaring flames. As Dakia’s fingertips drew a graceful curve, the two lines of fire bloomed again and ran across the ground.
Dacia quickly glanced around. In order to find the existence that must be protected more than anyone else. Because of using Wolfie as a guide, the mother of decay remained with the party in the form of a human instead of a hand.
The reason why she didn’t bother to use other elemental magic but to use the conspicuous flame was because she decided that it was more important to secure her eyesight than to foolishly remain concealed since the Demonic Beast appeared.
Boo woo woo!
The sound of wings vibrating at high speed. Above the flames, black bee-shaped monsters appeared one by one. Wolfie sniffed and quickly clung to Dacia’s side.
Not being sidelined by strong people is an essential virtue for survival. When Wolfi looked at Dacia, Dacia looked at Wolfie’s nose and quickly opened her mouth.
“That nose! Can you smell it right now?”
“Ah yes!”
“The smell of a woman in our party with green hair! remember? Find me right now!”
“okay!”
Gray hairs grew rapidly over Wolfy’s skin. Taking the form of a beastman, she sniffed quickly, following the smell of the green-haired woman. Acrid smoke and the smell of burnt demon beasts. All sorts of smells permeated her nose, but it wasn’t difficult to find the owner of the smell Dakia was talking about. The green-haired woman was very close.
“Nearby! You seem to be with that metal knight?”
Dakia’s sharp expression died. If the Mother of Corruption was with Tergio, there was no need to urgently find the Mother of Corruption. Tergio will protect the Mother of Corruption first, even if his body is completely destroyed.
Whoops!
Then, the priority was to repulse those demon beasts.
low cerebral palsy. Following Dakia’s will contained in it, magical powers flocked like moths that saw the light. The gathered magical energy soon became a small spark and rose to thunderbolt. Dakia pointed at the bee-shaped monsters in front of her eyes with her sunken eyes.
“Break it.”
The white thunderbolt ran rampant like a mad beast and attacked the bee-shaped beast. The first bee that touched it turned to black ash and crashed. Thunderbolt did not stop there, moving between the bees and pushing his body to the limit.
pure white lines. The lines drawn by lightning brightly lit up the night sky.
“Sigh.”
When Wolfie saw the corpses of the beasts falling, he made a firm resolution that he would never arouse the wizard’s heart. Rather than the mages who were always rude, this kind of mage who was normally kind was truly terrifying. In front of the priest, he acted like a meek sheep, but when the priest disappeared, he was kind even when the priest disappeared.
Instead, when the priest named Marnak disappeared, the wizard’s eyes subtly changed. According to what her animal intuition had whispered, what was in those sunken eyes was an incomprehensible horror. It’s such a creepy thing that you can live a long life if you don’t touch it.
“Looks like everything has been sorted out. You said you smelled it earlier? Could you please guide me there?”
“Ah yes!”
The animalized Wolfie sniffed and searched for the scent again. Soon, a faint smell wafted from a place a little farther away than before. The distance seemed to widen a little. Wolfie looked at Dakia and nodded.
“This way.”
Dacia quietly followed Wolfi. silence. Wolfie was the first to open his mouth, feeling burdened by this heavy silence.
“But it is strange.”
“What is strange about it?”
“Those magicians. It looks like the ‘shade bees’ I know, but the way they behave is completely different from what I knew. They aren’t monsters that attack people on such a large scale. Being attacked on a large scale by shady bees, it seems like you’re going through all sorts of things…”
“Please explain in a bit more detail.”
“Hick!!!”
Wolfie jumped backwards in surprise at the two golden eyes that suddenly pushed out. Dacia asked the question again, not caring whether she was surprised or not.
“How did the original ‘shade bees’ that Wolfie knew behave? Please explain quickly.”
Dacia was very serious. The collective action of demons. In some cases, this could also be entangled with worshipers of evil spirits. Oddly enough, there were so many cases where worshipers of evil gods were waiting in front of Marnak’s path.
Wolfie answered quickly, flapping his ears.
“As far as I know, no matter how crowded they are, there are at most two or three, and even if they attack people, they don’t attack anyone unless they are alone! So Scann never prepared for those shady bees when he let people cross the border!”
It was strange. It was obviously strange to anyone. Dacia opened her mouth again after checking the charred corpses of the shade bees.
“Have you seen a shadow bee before?”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen it up close. As I said before, shady bees are monsters that will never come close unless they travel alone.”
Wolfi looked at Dakia and quickly added his words.
“But this is all overheard, so it’s not accurate information…”
“Okay, so please start with the tracking you’ve been doing.”
“okay!”
It is not too late to deal with the current situation after joining Marnak, who went out to search first.
“Please move a little faster. I will take care of the shadow bees that appear.”
“huh!”
The two of them quickly ran through the forest and soon found a metal knight mercilessly slashing at bees the size of a human torso with blue natural flowers gushing out of his eyes.
– You won’t be able to put a finger on it!!!
The green-haired woman, who was smiling brightly, watched the scene leisurely and clapped her hands as if to cheer up.
squeak.
The last shade bee was cut in half and rolled on the floor. After confirming the safety of the mother of decay, Dacia sighed inwardly.
– Are you injured anywhere?
At Terzio’s polite question, the mother of decay shook her head and nodded as if she had worked hard, patting the metal knight on the shoulder.
“You are all right!”
Only then did the mother of corruption, who found Dakia fast closing the distance, nodded with a proud expression on her face. A passer-by would have thought that the Mother of Decay had slaughtered all the bees herself, not Tergio, if only by looking at the expression on her face.
Dacia smiled at the motherly depravity of corruption and examined her body.
“You’re really not hurt anywhere?”
Nod.
“Then, now we just have to wait for Priest Marnak to come.”
rustle. As if a tiger would also appear if you say it, a man walked out of the bushes just before Dakia finished his words. The man’s black robe was covered with the bodily fluids of the monsters.
Marnak, who had come after a fight with the demon beasts, looked over the party with a smile.
“I’m glad that everyone is safe.”
As soon as the Mother of Decay saw Marnak, she hopped and sprinted across the earth toward him. The coin pouch hanging around his neck jingled and rang excitedly.
Marnak naturally pulled back the robes soaked in bodily fluids, making room for the Mother of Decay to dig in. He left the Mother of Decay to rub her face against hers as she pleased.
Marnak, who was examining the party, tilted his head still without erasing his smile.
“By the way, where is Jamel?”
Dacia opened her eyes wide and looked at Tergio.
“Wasn’t Jamel with Terzio?”
Terzio opened his mouth quickly after seeing Dacia and Wolfi.
– I knew that Jamel-nim was with Dakia-nim.
Realizing that Jamel had disappeared, the party’s atmosphere cooled. Marnak calmly looked at Wolfie, who was doing handprints.
“Do you remember the smell of Jamel?”
“Uh uh! for a moment.”
While Wolfie sniffed the tip of his hairy nose, Marnak calmly collected his thoughts.
Could it be that he was killed by demons? No, there was no way that these bee-shaped beasts would be able to pierce the rock that covered Jamel’s body, as long as Jamel exercised his authority properly. There was no way that she, who was very obsessed with life, would not stop using her powers even when her life was in danger.
An ominous thought passed through Marnak’s head.
What if Jamel was attacked in a defenseless state? Without even having time to use the authority. If so, it might have been really dead. Life is so fragile that it can perish very fleetingly in unexpected circumstances.
“Priest Marnak.”
“yes.”
Dacia looked at the tip of Wolfy’s nose with eyes full of worries and opened her mouth.
“This raid. It may not be as ordinary as you think. According to Wolfie, these shady bees aren’t monsters that raid on such a large scale. In addition, it is strange that the border guards of the Northern Empire have not yet appeared after I committed arson on such a large scale.”
Marnak silently listened to Dakia’s story. He understood at once what Dacia meant. worshiper of evil spirits. Dacia was conveying information that a worshiper of an evil god might be involved in this incident.
Marnak laughed bitterly.
“It would be much better if the worshipers of evil gods were behind it.”
“yes?”
“Then at least it will increase the odds that Jamel was kidnapped instead of dead.”
Dacia nodded heavily. After a while, Wolfie frowned and looked at the group. Marnak looked at Ulfi and opened his mouth.
“Did you find it?”
“No, wait. I don’t think you’ll find it this way.”
Wolfie touched the floor with his hand. Due to the water painting, the hair covering her body grew longer. After a while, only a gray fox the size of a man existed where Wolfie was standing.
Wolfie, in full animal form, sniffed quickly, examining the smells around him.
Most of the smell had been blown away by the flames from Dacya, leaving only a smoky smell in the air.
But I couldn’t fault it for that. As long as it failed to cross the border, the original contract went back to nothing. From what I’ve seen while living with them for a few days, they didn’t look like people who would kill themselves right away for not succeeding in their work, but Wolfie wasn’t naive enough to believe them.
He had to prove his usefulness.
All the senses in my body were on edge and I focused on smelling it. The sky seemed to have abandoned Wolfie, and a faint smell pierced her nostrils.
“found!!!”
Wolfie shouted vigorously, wagging his bountiful tail.
“Pick up my clothes and follow me! I think we have to go a little farther than we thought!”
***
“Ha-am…”
Jamel yawned deeply and slowly opened his eyes. She tried to rub her eyes with her hands, but her body wouldn’t move. No, the whole body did not move well. Even his tongue, which worked well, did not listen to his words easily.
“oh?!”
Putting her head down, Jamel found hardened beeswax covering her entire body.
“Ahhhh?!”
Only then did she remember the last thing before she passed out. A tingling sensation accompanied by a booming sound. That was all.
Jamel quickly looked around. And soon, her emerald green eyes trembled.
“Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!”
Countless soldiers, unable to distinguish whether they were alive or dead, hung their heads down, encased in wax.
She realized that she had been abducted into some bizarre space. Tears welled up in both eyes. Tears streamed down Jamel’s cheeks. She moved her limp tongue and muttered in a weeping voice.
“Maddak’s daughter… I’m losing Kunil… I want you to buy me…”
