chapter 97
97. Demon World War (7)
Cian enters the infirmary of the Brace family where Pablo is again.
I went out for a quick walk, but the situation was the same as before.
“Ahh… Please open your eyes. Hehe… Hehe… .”
Sarah is lying unconscious on the bed, sobbing with her face buried in Pablo’s arms.
The priest of the duchy turns his head away from the woman as if watching a scene from a tragic movie.
and.
“Have you gotten some fresh air, Your Majesty?”
Iris was standing there looking at Cyan with worried eyes.
“Yes. I think I got enough rest.”
“I feel a little better… I guess I won’t lose it. Sorry.”
“This is not something Iris needs to apologize for.”
Cyan pushed Iris aside and walked towards the priest, who was now turning his head away from the present.
Only when we get closer does the priest turn his head towards Xi’an.
Said Xi’an.
“I ask you again, is there really no way to save my father?”
“… I feel ashamed. If it was a backflow reaction, I could have tried to fix it, but since it was a magical reaction I had never seen before, if I touched it wrong, my father would have… .”
“… … .”
Sian lowered his head and bit his lower lip.
‘… After all, is that the only way?’
It was a draft that I asked the priest about just in case, but now even that small hope has been shattered.
As he learned more about the situation, the conclusion in Si-an’s mind became more solid.
“Confucius,”
At that moment, Iris placed her hand on Cian’s shoulder, who was feeling distressed, and said.
“Don’t worry too much. The party members who received the stitches are coming this way quickly. I’m sure we’ll get there in time.”
“… … .”
I was grateful for Iris’s comfort.
Deep down, Iris herself probably knows that what she said wasn’t certain.
Cyan smiled sadly to reciprocate her feelings.
And then, Cyan immediately turned around and left the medical room.
After leaving the medical room, the next place I headed was Si-an’s personal room.
Cian slung the scabbard containing the Orichalcon sword displayed on the wall at his waist.
After that, I went through the drawers and picked up various items.
‘You should only take what you need. You can’t take too much.’
Once I had decided, I had to leave as soon as possible.
If there was any further delay, the traces of Darius’ magic he left behind would disperse into the air, making it even more difficult to track him.
It was around the time when I was hastily sorting and packing all the items.
“What are you doing now?”
“… … .”
A cold voice was heard from behind Xi’an.
It was Iris.
He was staring at Xi’an clearly, as if he was angry.
“… I was just gathering the supplies I needed to go out to meet Mr. Perry.”
“Don’t lie. Are you preparing so hastily to meet Perry, who is only coming in two days?”
Cyan remains silent in response to Iris’s objection.
Then Iris spoke again.
“Your Majesty, what you are thinking now is a very stupid idea. It is a very stupid and foolish idea, to the point of going to die without any meaning!”
“I think there is some misunderstanding, Iris.”
“What misunderstanding? Have I only seen Confucius once or twice? You are planning to leave for the Demon World alone!”
“… That’s not it.”
“Is it comfortable to always hold it in and hide it, trying to solve it on your own?”
“… … .”
“You are not the main character of a play. The main character of a play always survives, but this is reality! If you go to the Demon Realm, you may not be able to find Darius. Don’t go!”
“… Then what should we do? Are you saying we should just leave my father to die like this?”
“There must be another way. Saint Perry is also running fast-”
“No. She came from the continent next to the Lyanna Empire. She won’t be here for two days.”
The Empire’s space travel magic circle is currently on cooldown.
In the end, it’s just a matter of riding a horse and running.
It only takes two days to ride a horse from Lyanna’s Empire to the Duchy of Brace.
You said you started from the center of the next continent?
Saint Perry would never arrive on time, Cian thought.
“I’m sorry, Iris.”
“… … !”
Cyan put his foot on the window ledge.
The intention was to jump off.
“-That won’t do!”
Pot! Iris quickly stepped on the path and reached right in front of Cian’s nose.
Iris tried to knock out Si-an by hitting the back of his neck.
But her blade was blocked by Cyan’s scabbard.
-Tang!
“I’m not weak enough to be taken advantage of anymore.”
“this!”
Cyan turned around and jumped through the window.
-Kuhung!
The impact of the fall from the third floor caused a great impact on the ground he stepped on.
Sian ran while the dust flew.
“Stand there!”
Iris was confident that she could catch up with Cyan.
No matter how much Cyan has grown, Iris herself is still a demigod who has surpassed the level of the 6th star.
He never thought that he could escape from him due to the difference in his magical power.
but.
As if he had been waiting, Si-an ran and gestured something in the air.
At that moment, Iris had no time to wonder.
“Now is the time!”
“I’ve been waiting for you, bro.”
Flutter!
A being with a translucent white coat appeared from thin air.
He immediately covered Cyan with the blanket, took out another blanket, covered himself with it, and disappeared from sight.
“What the heck… … !”
It was a disaster for Iris, who lost sight of the cyan before her eyes.
*
“… I survived thanks to you, Loria.”
“What are you doing with this? He’s the one who made me a lot of money, so I deserve this level of service!”
Tavern Luteo.
Cian was able to reach the Night Raven’s stronghold with Loria using a teleportation magic tool.
Cian, who had sent Stitch to the Night Raven before being discovered by Iris.
This was something he did because he had anticipated that the quick-witted Iris would not let him go.
… a familiar bartender bows to Cyan while wiping glasses.
“welcome.”
“See you again.”
L’Utio, a tavern with red lighting and a variety of alcohol on display.
The reason Cian came here was not simply because it was closer to the Demon World than the Duchy of Brace.
“Loria. The content of that stitch is true, right?”
“Of course. Oh, it’s a bit expensive, but… I’m doing it because it’s you.”
Loria takes Cian’s hand and leads her to the end of a dead-end wall.
Soon the bartender pointed a remote control with a magical device at them.
With a beeping sound…
-Kugugu!
What had been a dead end wall until just now opened into a door.
Beyond the door, a fairly wide space spread out. It was the secret space of the Night Raven.
“Follow me.”
Step by step – step by step –
Cyan followed Loria for a few minutes.
Stop. Loria stopped in front of an iron door and chanted a spell.
-Keeing!
The iron door slowly opens in response to the order.
As soon as he looked through the door, Si-an was amazed.
“Is this… the long-legged friend you were talking about with Stitch?”
“That’s right. If you go somewhere and tell people, you know? Even if you’re my older brother, I can’t let that go.”
“I know.”
The two of them walked slowly through the iron gate and inside.
…dozens of overlapping geometric magic circles that fill the entire floor.
All of those spells were advanced spells involving teleportation.
“The magic books I obtained one by one from the black markets that Hyung-ssi told me about! This is the universal teleportation device I implemented using them. Whether it actually works or not will depend on whether the information Hyung-ssi gave me is correct.”
“It will probably work. It’s the heirloom of the British Dukes of the Kingdom of Esteria, which was destroyed and disappeared decades ago.”
The British Dukes, who were part of the Kingdom of Esteria, were a family of space magic.
This is a family that disappeared along with the kingdom that was weakened by the aftermath of a civil war and was invaded by a neighboring country several decades ago.
Due to the earlier than expected downfall, the Britti family lost their traditional magic.
The great magicians who had long ago predicted that their clan would perish escaped from their clan in preparation for it.
The unlucky escapees were killed during their escape by the British House’s pursuing party and soldiers from surrounding countries, with all their belongings taken away.
The magical books and other items that were stolen in this way were being traded illegally on the black market.
‘This information is something I got by raiding certain black markets myself while playing as Ariel.’
There was no way anything could go wrong.
After Cyan was possessed by this world, certain human relationships and history changed.
But what happened before the ice is still the same.
The Briti family’s space magic books, lost decades ago, are sleeping in a black market that Cian knows about.
In fact, the evidence was the magic books that Loria had obtained by raiding the black markets.
“Start right now. The destination is the land that has become a demon realm near Arene in the northern ice zone. Not the edge, but the center.”
“Eek?! Are you really going to do this? If something malfunctions and your body gets hurt, I can’t take responsibility?”
“Okay. You don’t have to take responsibility, so hurry!”
“Okay… Then let’s begin. Go inside the magic circle, hyung.”
Cyan walked to the center of the magic circle without hesitation.
Then Loria shouted.
“… It begins!”
-Wooosh!
As the magic circle began to activate, a red light spread around it.
The destination was the Demon World.