Chapter 103

Chapter 103

Touch

The cave was full of dirty humidity. The demon race unique disgusting fishy smell fully tickled the nose.

It was an appearance like a cave heading to hell.

‘It is the lowest-rank demon race.’

It was Galahad who drank the demon race’s blood quite. One could infer the grade just by the taste. The blood sprayed here was clearly the lowest-rank demon race’s blood.

“Coming.”

At Adrianne’s voice the thoughts broke.

Pure white aura violently rose. The surrounding mana disappeared in an instant. It was a mana eraser.

Instinctive rejection rose. As long as a mage one had no choice. Because the moment touching the end—.

‘Became stronger.’

Galahad furrowed his eyes and rather stepped one step forward. Although rejection violently rose, did not care.

Adrianne’s aura felt sunk than before.

‘Did one adapt in that time.’

Adrianne’s nature received influence from the opponent’s power.

Facing the Magic Realm’s ruler and the power running wild was only a little while ago. Yet already handling so freely—.

‘As expected a genius.’

Thump! Thump! Thump! the pill of pain violently jumped on the back of Adrianne’s head.

Whether because ate the high-rank demon race’s blood, the pill of pain was high-spirited. Urged to stick a strike on the back of the head of the letting guard down Adrianne. Galahad lightly ignored.

The roar in front revealed its appearance. Demon races and magic beasts crushed each other and ran like crazy.

That number was quite many.

Pure white aura fully rose on Adrianne’s sword.

Aura was belief. Because of that aura could not be deceived or decorated.

Yet aura such pure white—.

‘Noble.’

Galahad sincerely admired.

Adrianne swung the sword. Pure white aura drew a line in the air.

It was a clean white line.

Chill—. Galahad’s instinct screamed. The moment touching the end—. was instinctively felt.

The charging demon races and magic beasts the moment touching became their dust. There was no scream. Just became dust and scattered.

As pure white aura disappeared, what is seen was all piled dust.

No matter how a lower-rank demon race, making into dust with one sword swing—.

‘Hmm.’

Galahad tidied the neck for nothing.

Thump······. the pill of pain quieted.

“Are you fine.”

Adrianne asked while looking behind. There was no faint fatigue on that face either. As if this is nothing.

“You, did I say more beautiful than anyone?”

“Yes, you did.”

Adrianne who lightly nodded stared at the front again.

“I will move.”

Adrianne’s back appearance was truly reliable.

Walked a little more. As the demon races became sparse, Adrianne carefully opened her mouth.

“······How was the place worked before. Ah, if a question difficult to answer it is fine.”

At Adrianne’s appearance full of caution Galahad laughed with a keul keul.

“It was a vicious company. Rest days also few, because no honor there was also no reward. Although the annual salary was quite many.”

“It was a bad place.”

“Right, it was a very bad place.”

Galahad quietly nodded. Certainly the Information Bureau was not that good a workplace.

Only degree a crazy guy saying will marry the empire can roughly endure.

“Why did you work at such a place?”

“That was the best.”

At the thick voice Adrianne turned behind. Galahad held a leisurely smile as always and waved his hand.

“If the best—.”

“Although a mage who graduated the academy the future is promising to a brilliant degree, at the same time pathetic. Most enter a magic tower and fiddle with magic tools.”

Galahad put the cigarette in his mouth.

There was also the option of entering a magic tower. However, the current magic tower was no different from a factory. Their main force was magic tools.

“Did not want to become a guy sitting in a gloomy room and fiddling with a long rod. Along with that the magic tower was insufficient for me.”

“What does insufficient mean?”

“Because one has to block the demon race’s king.”

Adrianne turned to Galahad. Those blue pupils were clear even in the darkness.

“Ah, investigated a bit regarding that. If my story the unit members who nod anything made a serious face and shook their heads. It is certain there is an existence that intervenes in the concept.”

Adrianne seriously answered. To think of being able to talk regarding the demon race’s king—. Galahad received an unfamiliar feeling.

“That intense refusal is counterevidence. If not someone suppressed the concept, such a reaction cannot come out.”

Galahad’s voice rose on its own. At that Adrianne was startled with a heumchit.

“Authority that influences the entire continent—. then the residents of the island at the end of the south over there? This is quite curious.”

Galahad’s words quickly poured. The questions held until now burst. Adrianne quietly listened to the excited Galahad’s words.

“Anyway the honeymoon would have to go to the south.”

Adrianne shook the sword.

“Couldn’t the one who erased the concept not be the demon race’s king?”

“Is it that someone else is sealing the concept called the demon race’s king?”

“Yes. Aura is the power of belief. In a form similar to aura the demon race’s king might obtain power from the concept.”

Because the demon race’s king obtains power from the concept, sealed the concept itself regarding that—. it was a quite plausible story.

Although an opinion worth considering, what changes was nothing.

The demon race’s king will appear someday, and will bring a terrible end.

“Anyway, we have to prepare for the demon race’s king.”

“Yes, how?”

“One has to make the North strong. Erect the wall more solidly, and drive out the demon race. What is more important than anything—.”

Other things were all secondary stories.

The most important in facing the demon race’s king—.

“It is you.”

Galahad quietly pointed at Adrianne.

“······Me?”

Adrianne’s face stiffened.

“You burn more intensely the stronger the opponent. Even if that opponent is the demon race’s king—.”

Adrianne stared at that finger pointing at herself. Calluses were full on the long finger.

“You will burn. Brightly.”

At Adrianne’s axe eyes Galahad realized the word choice was not good.

“It is a metaphor. Anyway, the magic tower was not good as a place for catching the demon race’s king. So when fallen into pondering, contact came.”

Adrianne swung the sword instead of answering. A magic beast of snake form with long fangs scattered into dust.

[Still not knowing?]

First’s voice was heard. Galahad pondered for a moment, and scattered mana around.

Although there is no way the inspection room reaches up to here, there was nothing bad being careful. Confirmed certainly no one and opened his mouth.

“I am an agent of the Information Bureau.”

Adrianne’s movement stopped with a tuk—. the dust greatly shook.

Adrianne slowly turned her head. What rose on that face—.

“······What is the Information Bureau?”

Was a little embarrassment.

Galahad let out a groan. No matter how the Information Bureau is a secret organization, that existence was secretly famous.

‘Well here is the North.’

Galahad nodded.

“The Information Bureau is a secret agency directly under the imperial family. Although the main purpose is collection of information, if something related to the empire does any matter.”

“······Aha.”

Adrianne nodded.

Well knew the North’s antipathy regarding the empire. Because of that expected would reveal even a small antipathy, yet Adrianne obediently nodded.

“You were not a thief. Fortunate.”

Adrianne rather even softly relieved.

“Thief? Why does a thief come out?”

“It is nothing.”

Adrianne made a serious face and looked at the front.

Galahad pondered the possibility Adrianne said. Someone else sealed the concept about the demon race’s king—.

“By any chance, is this marriage also a mission?”

Adrianne asked without turning.

At the out of the blue question Galahad furrowed his eyes.

There was no mission document. Just the deputy director’s verbal order of marry the North Grand Duke’s daughter was all.

Galahad was the deputy director’s most usable card. That such a deputy director gave an order, it was the story of already using all moves.

Anyway, the order was correct.

However, a mission given as a verbal order leaves no trace. So even if denying it is fine but—.

“Correct.”

Galahad nodded.

Because knowing a lie someday pays its price.

Adrianne’s aura roughly rose. The cave looked white.

Galahad softly coughed and continued the words.

“Precisely speaking, it was a role of dying in the North. As a pretext for the empire to advance to the North. Isn’t it the combination the North most dislikes. Because an empire noble and even a mage.”

Adrianne’s head turned with a hwaek—. it was axe eyes.

“Using a person’s life as a pretext is not right.”

It was extreme orthodoxy. Galahad smiled bitterly.

“I originally do not enjoy missions. Because one who enjoys is bound to make mistakes. Excluding emotion is my principle.”

Although no demon races because caught a bunch, Adrianne looked at the front again.

“······If I do not marry what happens to you?”

Failing the marriage—. it would be the story of being chased even from the North. Probably the Information Bureau would send cleanup. Because Galahad has use only if dying.

Even if Galahad is excellent, not to the extent of facing the entire Information Bureau.

With high probability would die. Even if surviving would not be able to block the demon race’s king.

Broken engagement was death.

If saying honestly the marriage with Adrianne would become easy.

Because her character was upright.

However, such cheapness was not Galahad’s taste.

“Would return as an agent.”

It was not a lie. Because was an agent until retiring.

“Ah, fortunate.”

Adrianne deeply relieved. At that Galahad furrowed his eyes.

“However, there would be no such matter. My mission success rate converges to a hundred. You will marry me.”

At the voice full of conviction Adrianne’s eyebrows shook.

Then, magic beasts poured from the front. Squelch squelch— unpleasant footstep sounds fully spread. Terrible monsters poured into the small cave.

“To the back—.”

Adrianne shortly said and stepped to the front.

“Understood.”

At Galahad hiding right behind without refusing Adrianne’s eyebrows shook.

Even so hiding so confidently—.

“You, even the back appearance is beautiful.”

At Galahad shamelessly whispering Adrianne could not hold and laughed.

*

‘Eraser.’

Galahad softly muttered while looking at Adrianne’s back.

Even though caught quite many demon races, the pure white aura far from thinning burned more brilliantly. Because to her the demon race was fuel.

As the demon races piled rather became more intense. Even though the demon races continuously poured, her steps did not stop even a moment.

It was not simply a problem of military force. No matter how excellent the military force eventually a human.

In a dark cave where all around is covered with blood, fighting continuously pouring monsters one had no choice but to be mentally hard.

Yet Adrianne advanced without retreating even once.

‘A hero.’

It was the figure of a hero that would appear in legends. Indeed the sword that would pierce the demon race’s king.

How much advanced. A completely unexpected situation greeted them.

“This—.”

Adrianne’s eyebrows fully went down. The unique indifferent voice fully trembled.

Galahad had a few questions.

Even if making a passage with the demon race’s blood, not to the extent of shaking the entire North. Along with that if erasing the passage’s blood with Adrianne it is a resolved problem.

Could not understand using the ruler for only this degree. Although not knowing what kind of group dawn is, a high-rank demon race ruler would not be a common card. The exchange ratio did not match.

The answer to that question was at the end of the passage.

‘It was because of this.’

What they faced at the end was numerous forks.

‘The tunnel was not one.’

Galahad examined a nearby tunnel. It was a tunnel degree only one fist can enter. Blood was full there too.

‘Would be a magic beast. Did one use a small build magic beast?’

The exchange ratio was strange, yet to think of playing such a trick.

Galahad’s eyes narrowed. This was not a structure possible in one or two days.

“Now how?”

Adrianne asked in an urgent voice. The indifferent face was a little broken.

“Calmly. Excitement is a poison that makes the head slow.”

“······Yes.”

Adrianne slowly nodded. Galahad examined the surroundings.

“An ant tunnel. Really sincerity.”

To erase the passage painted with the demon race’s blood Adrianne had to erase by hand, yet for that the number was too many.

Then, Adrianne firmly held the sword.

“Even if physically collapsing the tunnel the demon race’s blood remains, so the mana path will continue. The North’s density will inevitably rise. So said cannot block.”

At Galahad’s calm explanation Adrianne softly inhaled breath.

“If the North’s density rises, didn’t say the demon race becomes stronger?”

The North was currently barely maintaining the front line. If the demon race becomes stronger here it was clear the balance would collapse.

Adrianne became urgent on her own.

“Right, this degree would be about the demon race’s area.”

Adrianne’s heart sank with a cheolleong.

The entire North becoming the demon race’s area—. it was a despairing story.

It was a question why doing so leisurely such a serious story.

“If the North becomes the demon race’s area, one would not be able to endure.”

“I also know. The North would become the demon race’s area as is. Probably would even retreat the castle wall erected toward the empire—. about two castles would remain.”

At Galahad’s words Adrianne fully chewed her lips.

“I will block. Once—.”

“This is not an area you resolve.”

“Then how should one do?”

It was Galahad who always put out an answer in any situation. It was clear there would be some move.

Then, Galahad opened his mouth.

“Come, mana flows from low density places to high density places.”

“That I know.”

“No, you did not understand. Don’t you not immediately recall the answer.”

At Galahad’s pointing Adrianne’s eyebrows furrowed.

What correlation is mana flowing from low places to high places now.

“This you, was Gilbert.”

“How such harsh words—.”

“Come, I will explain again. Mana flows from low density places to high density places. Then how should one do to block mana flowing?”

Galahad twitched his finger. Exactly as if posing a really interesting problem—.

Adrianne tightly closed her lips.

“The answer is simple. One just has to make an area of thicker density.”

Adrianne briefly recalled Galahad’s light answer.

‘Right. Because mana flows from low density places to high density places. To block that one just has to make a place of higher mana density—.'

Adrianne who softly admired suddenly a question rose.

‘Didn’t say this place is as thick as the demon race’s area? To be higher than the demon race’s area······.’

“······Is it that you make Magic Realm?!”

Adrianne’s voice rose on its own. At that Galahad shook his head.

‘As expected—.’

No matter how Galahad there is no way making Magic Realm to avoid the demon race’s area.

“Who good would one make Magic Realm for.”

Galahad shook the water bottle and raised the corners of his mouth.

The problem was the passage made of the demon race’s blood.

The demon race’s blood would make mana flow, and raise the North’s mana density.

However, the demon race’s blood was not a problem to Galahad. Rather a tool that helps.

'If not went hunting with the Grand Duke almost a big matter.'

Galahad muttered a joke and examined the water bottle.

There were three bottles of the high-rank demon race’s blood. The amount was enough.

However, there were a few minor problems.

The first was that Galahad’s state is not that good. The second was that the high-rank demon race’s blood is very vicious. If the two mix it became a quite big problem.

‘Even with drinking six sips became like this.’

The pill of pain continuously roughly jumped. How large that sound it echoed in the ears.

If drinking two more bottles of the high-rank demon race’s blood here the pill of pain might run wild.

A solution for that was needed.

Fortunately the solution was right in front.

“Adrianne.”

There was no leisure at all unlike usual in Galahad’s voice.

Adrianne felt the atmosphere is unusual.

It was a situation where the North might collapse right now.

No matter how Galahad it was clear one would not be able to lightly resolve this situation.

“I will ask one.”

“Yes, anything.”

At the serious Galahad’s face Adrianne firmly nodded.

At that Galahad’s mouth slowly opened.

“By any chance if I do strange actions.”

Strange actions. It was clear Galahad is trying to do something.

Adrianne chewed her lips and waited for Galahad’s words.

“Touch here a bit.”

The place Galahad pointed was the left chest.

“With bare hands.”

Adrianne’s eyebrows roughly shook.