< Chapter 1 - Pleiades #5 >
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“Ugh··· gasp······ khuuk.”
How long has it been since I started walking?
At first, Yuder was walking ahead, but at some point, he was walking side by side with Cordelia, but now he was completely behind and panting.
Finally, Cordelia turned around and asked, worried.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Haah… Heh… It’s, it’s okay. It’s not okay… Huh.”
I was barely able to continue speaking while lying face down, but I felt like I was going to vomit.
Cordelia spoke with a slightly dazed expression at the sight of Uther, whose whole body was drenched in sweat.
“You’re really weak.”
“Ugh… Stop talking nonsense… Carry me, carry me.”
“what?”
“Pick me up. I have to go within the time limit… Huh.”
Yuder, who had completely fallen down and was lying on his butt, stretched out his hand like a zombie.
“Ugh… Hurry up.”
“Whew, really.”
As Uther flailed his arms again, Cordelia sighed deeply and walked over to him, turning her back and sitting down.
“ruler.”
“Ugh.”
Uther buried himself in Cordelia’s back, almost collapsing. Uther was drenched in sweat, so the smell and feel of him were not very pleasant, but Cordelia was more surprised by something else.
“Hey, you should gain some weight. How can a man be so light?”
“Old sound, old pulse.”
“It’s just plain water, plain water.”
Cordelia jumped up from her seat and picked up Uther. Since Uther was lying down on her back, it would have been difficult to even pick him up if she didn’t support his buttocks properly.
“Huh… Don’t touch weird places secretly.”
“You, right? Take good care of your hands.”
Cordelia, who had accepted Uther’s protest, strode forward again. Since it was a lonely road anyway, she didn’t really need guidance.
And so on for another ten minutes or so.
Cordelia, who was looking into the distance, asked Uther behind her.
“Hey, isn’t that it? It looks like we’re almost there. Don’t fall asleep.”
“Huh? Oh… that’s right, over there, over there. It’s almost exactly like what I saw in the game.”
At the end of the winding path next to the cliff was a cave entrance big enough for two people to fit through. Although it was worn down by the wind and rain, it was obvious to anyone that it had been touched by human hands.
“Let’s go quickly, Yellow Storm. Come on, come on.”
“This is real.”
Cordelia growled softly, but her steps were hurried. She wanted to go in as soon as she saw the entrance.
“Temple of the Sun God······.”
“Wouldn’t this place have been guarded by knights two hundred years ago?”
“I guess so.”
Two hundred years ago.
The Sun God Cult, which had always been at the forefront of battles against demons, suffered a devastating blow from the archdemon Angrius and virtually collapsed.
Thanks to this, even the temple that had been sealing the powerful demon known as the Red Moon Raizegang was now a forgotten ruin with no one guarding it.
“Now let me down.”
“I guess we’ll have to go quite a bit further inside?”
“That much is okay.”
“If that’s the case.”
Cordelia, who got off Uther’s back, cast light magic and entered the cave one step ahead.
And that was the moment.
“Oh… can you feel it?”
Cordelia turned to Uther and asked, and Uther nodded with wide eyes.
“Oh, I feel it. You too?”
“Oh, me too.”
The moment I passed through the cave entrance, the air around me changed.
To be exact, it felt like a ‘divine power’ was filling the cave.
‘That’s what it felt like.’
In the game, it was just one line saying, ‘You can feel the divine power of the sun god.’ But when you actually felt it, it wasn’t something that could be expressed in words like that.
“I feel like my mind is being purified.”
As Cordelia spoke, looking around with sparkling eyes, Uther nodded as well.
“At this point, it seems like it’ll be just like the game. I don’t think I’ll have to worry about monsters.”
The divine power of the sun god had the power to drive away monsters belonging to the devil.
Cordelia, who had agreed immediately as Uther had done, began to take the lead again.
“From here on out, I’ll take the lead since I know the way too.”
“Still, just in case, be careful.”
“Yeah, you too, watch your step.”
The inside of the cave was wider than they had thought, and the statues of the sun god were carved here and there, which surprised Uder and Cordelia.
“Why do all the poems and deities look so scary?”
Cordelia, who was leading the way, spoke with a trembling voice. It was already scary because it was dark and dark inside the cave, but with the scary statues of the gods in such an unexpected place, it felt like I had entered a haunted house.
“Cheer up, we’re almost there.”
Furthermore, unlike the other divine beasts that were just statues, the Red Moon Raizegang was a real demon. Even though he was sealed, his fear was incomparable to that of the divine beast statues.
“They all came.”
After passing through the winding alley, we arrived at a fairly large, hemispherical room.
A sealed seal containing the Red Moon’s Raizegang.
Strangely enough, unlike other places, the entire room was filled with a soft light and was not dark at all.
“The entire room is a facility for sealing.”
Cordelia said with narrowed eyes. As expected of a sorceress, her ability to sense supernatural energy was far superior to that of Uder.
However, Yuder had experience in Hero Chronicles 2. He nodded once and examined the magic circles carved into the ceiling and floor.
“Okay, it’s just like what I saw in the game.”
In fact, even though he came this far, he was honestly not without his worries.
Set up a magic circle and summon a demon.
It was a very dangerous and special task that could not even be compared to checking human relationships or terrain.
‘Be confident. We’ve already confirmed many things on our way here. Furthermore, Yellow Storm is using magic right next to us. So we can do it. Magic is real in this world.’
Uther, who had been talking to himself as if he was trying to console himself, steeled his resolve and looked back at Cordelia.
“Yellow Storm, get ready.”
“Just wait a minute and look over there.”
Because all the supplies were inside the skirt.
As Yuder turned around awkwardly, Corderia completely detached the hem of her skirt and laid out the things that had been tied to her thighs and calves on the floor.
“It’s done.”
“Wow, you hid all this inside your skirt? It looks like Doraemon’s pocket.”
“Be thankful because it was hard. Don’t be ungrateful like Jingu.”
The two people who had been exchanging empty words prepared to add a new magic circle without saying who would go first.
“The best thing to do is to carve it into the ceiling and floor, but that’s difficult. So let’s draw a magic circle using a magic potion mixed with a catalyst.”
“Now, the magic potion.”
Cordelia poured a red liquid into a wide paper bowl. At first glance, it looked like blood, but it was a pure magical potion made from a mixture of various herbs.
‘It’s fortunate that Cordelia comes from a famous magical family.’
If not, it would have been difficult to obtain the materials to make the drug.
“Give me a pen.”
“I took it without telling my father, so don’t break it. Okay?”
“okay.”
Cordelia, who had confirmed it again, held out a pen made of griffon feathers.
‘It’s definitely Uther and Cordelia.’
It wasn’t the Yellow Storm possessing Cordelia’s body. It was Cordelia recalling the Yellow Storm’s memories.
Cordelia’s appearance, worried that she would be scolded by her father at any moment, proved it.
“Not accepting it?”
“I have to accept it.”
Instead of teasing Cordelia to draw it herself, Uther obediently accepted the pen.
No matter how fun it was to tease the yellow storm, there was a time and place to be careful.
“Let’s get started.”
“Okay, fighting.”
From now on, it was Yuder’s turn.
Cordelia shook her fist slightly as if cheering, then crouched in the corner and watched what Yuder was doing.
I had to draw a large magic circle that would cover almost the entire floor, so I couldn’t get in the way.
About an hour like that.
After finishing drawing the magic circle while sweating profusely, Uder gestured to Cordelia.
“Let’s get started. Come this way.”
“Huh? Oh, yeah!”
Cordelia suddenly looked startled at Uther’s call and came running towards him.
“why?”
“No, just.”
In fact, it wasn’t just that. Cordelia was once again impressed by Uther – or, to be exact, Outboxer009.
‘As expected, Outboxer 009.’
It was kind of obvious since we had come this far, but I still didn’t think he would really memorize the entire magic circle of Bellastine.
“Why? Do you feel some new respect? Is this how we should be number one?”
“No, I can do it too. I just stepped aside to exploit you because you were playing around too much.”
“I guess so.”
Uther smiled, and Cordelia pursed her lips, feeling embarrassed for some reason.
“Anyway, let’s get started. I need your help again. After all, I don’t have much magical power in my blood.”
“Okay, I get it. Can I just drop it over there?”
“Yeah, you don’t need much, so don’t make the wound too big. It’ll leave a scar.”
“Huh, why are you worried?”
“I know.”
In fact, both Uderna and Cordelia were extremely nervous.
Because the Red Moon’s Raizegang was a powerful monster that could only be defeated in the second half of the game.
No matter how many times I’ve done it in games, trying to do the same thing in real life would make my hands and feet tremble.
That was also why there was more unnecessary talk than usual.
“Anyway, let’s do it.”
“Okay, let’s try. I think you can do it.”
Cordelia, who had made up her mind, stood at the ‘entrance’ of the new magic circle that Uther had drawn, took out a needle, and pricked her finger.
“Move, magic circle of Belastin.”
As Cordelia hummed softly and dropped blood, there was an immediate reaction.
The magic circle drawn by Yuder glowed red, and the entire air within the seal began to vibrate.
“Yellow Storm! Get back!”
Yuder, who had shouted loudly, looked back at the center of the seal, and Cordelia also took a step back and glared at the center of the seal.
The seal was breaking.
Not only the magic circle drawn by Yuder, but also the magic circle drawn on the floor and ceiling of the seal began to glow. It was a brilliant golden color reminiscent of the sun.
“Outboxer! Back off!”
This time, Cordelia shouted. This was because the density of mana in the seal had increased rapidly. To Yuder, who was now worse than Villager A, the air inside the seal was no different from poison.
But it wasn’t called Rotten Water Outboxer 009 for nothing.
Yuder, who had anticipated this situation from the beginning, quickly took out the mask he had prepared at home and covered his mouth and nose.
It was something similar to a portable oxygen respirator placed in places like airplanes, and it was something that even the Bayer family, who frequently fought against monsters, had only a few of.
“Coming!”
Uder shouted.
And at the same time, the space at the center of the seal began to break. A crack appeared in the air, and soon a huge being appeared with a dazzling light.
The Red Moon’s Raise River.
Undead – powerful blood demons that command vampires!
A large red being with the head and wings of a bat glared at Uther and Cordelia.
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