Extras are too strong 492
The Golden Branch is much stronger in the western part of the Western Continent than in the eastern part.
This was also because there were more Golden Elf settlements in the West, and because the East was part of the Urfin Empire, so the influence of Silver’s blood was much stronger there than in the Four Kingdoms.
However, that does not mean that the Golden Bough is hesitant to move within the Urfin Empire.
Especially if they were the best, including the high-ranking members of the Golden Bough, they were filled with pride that they would defeat them even if they had to face the Silver Blood Eight Saints.
“So that was your doing?”
The one who asked with a voice full of suppressed anger was a golden elf man with beautiful blond hair that seemed to have been spun from molten gold and a statuesque appearance.
His appearance, which makes him look like he is in his early 30s to humans, tells us that he has lived for a very long time.
Lasanot, one of the Golden Bough’s highest elders and also a great wizard, was confronting the Silver Blood within the ancient ruins.
Aaaah …
Around him, sparkling spirits were singing softly.
They are no ordinary spirits.
These are special spirits that are a fusion of the spirits of light and wind, and then Lasanot’s unique magic.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
The one frowning was a middle-aged man, over 180 centimeters tall, but with a thin, sleepy look and a dirty expression.
The Silver Blood of the Eight Stars, Archmage Tracus.
Lasanot opened his eyes.
“Are you planning to dodge?”
“No, I really don’t know what you’re talking about. What are you saying?”
“You were annihilating our expedition a while ago. There were children of noble blood, but you annihilated them completely without any exchange of prisoners. Even the rearguard.”
“hmm…….”
Trachus scratched his unshaven chin.
“Hey, Black Spirit. Do you know what he’s talking about?”
“I don’t know. I haven’t received any reports. Right?”
Another Palseong who went out to conquer the ruins with him, Black Spirit Master Rene, had an indifferent expression.
The Karian clone said in response to her question.
“I don’t know either.”
“Is that so?”
“You are a bunch of people who don’t know honor. You mercilessly took the lives of your enemies on the battlefield, and yet you can’t even proudly reveal that fact?”
“Wow, that old man is a total wall, a wall.”
Rene stuck out his tongue as if he was amazed.
Tracus also sighed.
“That’s right. Oh, you golden rats, you don’t communicate well. It’s always like that, but I’m tired after seeing you for so long. This is why I don’t want to leave the lab… … .”
“You couldn’t get out of being a slum in your room, so you even made me join you. Oh my, what’s wrong with Karian, having such a dirty old man… .”
“…mister?”
“Don’t you mind if it’s messy?”
“That’s true. But sir… You’re the first woman to call me that.”
“You don’t have any friends?”
“What? Why are you suddenly insulting my personality… .”
“Well, there’s no way a person who lives in a corner of a room would have friends.”
“… … .”
“Huh? There really isn’t any?”
“… There is no one in this world who is worthy of being my friend, a descendant of the great Thracus gods. I am simply waiting for the right time.”
“… … .”
For a moment, Renee looked at him blankly. But her gaze soon filled with compassion.
“Don’t look at me like that!”
“Let’s just say it was my fault. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t apologize! Then it’ll be like I… … .”
“Shut up, you bugs!”
Archmage Lasanot, who had been listening to the tension-free conversation, exploded.
“I was foolish to expect honor from you guys. After all, justice! Truth! Are to be sought through force!”
A dazzling light poured out from Lasanot.
Gugugugugugu!
The ruins are shaking.
The place they were in was a large space with several passageways intersecting, so it could fit hundreds of people. But the place was shaking as if it was going to collapse.
“It hurts my eyes every time I look at it. It’s annoying.”
Renee clicked his tongue and snapped his fingers.
“Who waits patiently for you to transform?”
At the same time, countless dark spirits rose from the ground around Lasanot.
It swallows up the light that Lasanot emits.
[no?!]
Lasanot was surprised.
The light from his divinity is sucked into the darkness.
And that was preventing him from transforming and unlocking the power of the ancient elves.
To be exact, it was delayed, but in any case, it wasn’t much different in a situation where strong players of this level were fighting.
[You’re saying that you’re preventing the ancient elf’s power from being unleashed by the dark spirit?]
Lasanot was surprised and puzzled, but at the same time curious about the phenomenon that had just happened to him.
This was something he had never experienced in his nearly thousand years of life. His curiosity as a wizard overwhelmed his other emotions.
“Let’s see if you’re good enough to show off.”
Rene fused the wind spirit, fire spirit, and light spirit and flew them.
A super-heated blade condensed to the limit strikes Lasanot.
Paaaaaaaah!
The light that reached Rasanoth split into dozens of rays.
Each of those split rays was a super-heated ray. The stone walls of the ruins that had endured for thousands of years were split like butter.
“…uh?”
But Rene, who had struck that blow, felt a chill.
At the same time, a transparent blade rose obliquely from the ground and pierced her.
“Oh, this is pretty good.”
A tongue-clicking voice rang out.
And then Rene’s figure collapses into darkness, and a few meters away, a healthy Rene appears.
‘It’s a good thing I cast Shadow Transfer in advance, otherwise I would have been seriously injured.’
Rene looked at the one who had surprised him.
A golden elf youth was walking out from behind Lasanot.
He was a golden elf youth with bright blond curly hair, who looked to be in his early twenties. His eyes were purple, and he had an androgynous yet handsome appearance that could be passed off as a woman if he were to dress up in a feminine way.
[Keltis.]
“I’ll take care of that black bug. You take care of the wizard next to me.”
Archmage Lasanot clicked his tongue at the words of the golden elf youth named Keeltis.
[Why are you showing such enthusiasm? I understand. I will yield.]
“Isn’t it fun?”
Keeltis smiled faintly and stepped forward.
Dismissed!
Beside it, spirits clash secretly and sparks fly.
Crackle! Crackle! Crackle! … … !
Soon the collision becomes so fast and intense that it tears apart the surrounding space.
“A bug of unknown origin is a spirit master on par with me, the most noble descendant.”
“handwriting?”
Rene opened his eyes.
“I should teach the golden rat a lesson. Why is he acting so arrogant in front of me, the world-famous spirit sorcerer, when he has never heard of him before?”
“Hmm? Black Spirit Master, from what I heard… you weren’t just causing a ruckus in one area and then got sealed… … .”
“Shut up, you slacker.”
“… … .”
“Ugh. You don’t have any friends because you’re so clueless.”
Rene glared at Trachus and walked forward, snapping his fingers.
In the still atmosphere, Rene and Keeltis walk towards each other.
Both sides watched in silence, as if a pre-arranged duel was about to take place.
And the moment the distance between the two becomes close enough to touch… … .
-Spiritualization!
At the same time, the extreme of spirit magic unfolded.
* * *
Kwaaaaang!
A part of the mountain that had boasted its ruggedness for a long time has burst open.
Shhhhhhhhhh!
Countless spirits rise up through the hole that is created.
Thousands of spirits clashed and decorated the sky in a dazzling manner.
Kwakwang! Kwakwakwakwakwang… … !
The rushing thunderbolts are received by rocks, the pouring cold air is blocked by flames, the blade-like wind is blocked by vortices of moisture, and the expanding darkness engulfs the exploding light.
A battle between top-level spirit masters, where armies of various spirits clash on a massive scale.
[It was also in Golden Bough.]
At its center were two people who had transcended the limits of the flesh through spiritization, the pinnacle of spirit magic.
[9-attribute spirit magician.]
Both of them were handling all nine attribute spirits.
[Hehehe. Now I feel like I finally found someone I can play with? Up until now, I was disappointed because I only saw guys who didn’t understand the topic and just kept talking.]
The spiritized Rene was a human figure drawn in pitch-black darkness.
No, the expression human figure is not accurate.
It had two pointed cat ears on its head, and a cat tail wagging behind it. It was a silhouette that looked like a combination of a human and a cat.
[The more I look at it, the more surprising it is.]
The spiritized Keeltis was an elven figure painted in dazzling white light.
It’s a complete contrast to Rene.
If someone had seen it, they might have mistaken it for a scene from a myth where evil darkness and righteous light clashed.
[How can a human have such power? Even if he has elven blood, it is absolutely impossible… … .]
[human being?]
Rene tilted his head.
She has fought the Golden Bough several times so far.
But this is the first time I’ve heard of a golden elf calling a human a ‘human’ rather than a ‘bug’ or ‘pest’.
[Is it an ancient species I don’t know about? Or a monster created by the hands of the gods?]
[Wrong.]
In the pitch-black darkness, the silhouette of a pure white mouth creates a splitting smile.
[It was human malice and greed that created me.]
And then, as if drawing a line in the air with ink, a pitch-black trajectory began to appear.
Phew! Phew!
She quickly returned to Keeltis’s back using high-speed maneuvers and attacked.
But at that moment, the spirit that Keeltis had placed behind her caught her and slowed her down. Keeltis escaped during the gap and attacked from above.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
Trails of light and trails of darkness race across the sky.
[That’s fast… … !]
Keeltis groaned.
Having transcended the physical body through spiritization, they are capable of fearsome aerial maneuvers.
Keeltis also made full use of this trait. He created super-fast movements by fusing wind and fire elementals.
But Rene was faster than him.
Pot!
Rene takes one of the spirits he had placed in advance, and accelerates further while changing its orbit as if bouncing off the air.
Pot!
Doing the same thing over and over again… … .
[Caught.]
In an instant, Keeltis was caught up to.
Kwaaaaang!
Keeltis bounced off.
[Nero!]
Her specialized spirit responded to Renee’s call. A dark spirit in the form of a black cat appeared on her shoulder.
-Spirit fusion!
And countless spirits are sucked into the spirit of darkness, Nero.
The moment when the tremendous power gathered and was about to be shot at Keeltis… … .
-The Spirit’s Coat!
Keeltis straightened his posture and spread his arms.
Then a golden light pours out like a halo behind his head.
[what?]
The moment René flinched, two large wings of light, like butterfly wings, spread out along Keeltis’ outstretched arms.
Rene, who was momentarily captivated by the sight, attacked a beat later.
-Dance of the Dark Cat!
Countless shadows of black cats danced at supersonic speeds as they flew toward Keeltis.
hook.
But at that moment, Keeltis disappeared.
[This is… … !]
How could such a prominent presence disappear in an instant?
The moment when Rene panics… … .
Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Light began to pour down from the sky.
[ah.]
Rene looked up at the sky.
Keeltis, who was looking down at her with her back to the sun, had spread her wings and was emitting a terrifying light.
[If it had been night, it might have been your victory. But unfortunately, it is daytime now.]
The moment Keeltis proudly declared and was about to attack… … .
-Spear of the Radiant Monarch!
A spear of light shot out from deep within the mountain, piercing through a thick layer of rock and flying towards him.
[this……!]
Keeltis quickly turned the power he had gathered on his wings to defense.
There was a huge explosion.
Kwaaaaaaaah!
Hundreds of spirits surrounding the area were swept away at once.
An explosion hundreds of meters above the ground hits the ground.
Mountains collapse and forests burn.
The ultimate spell was a creative spell that was improved to be focused on one point, unlike the reference spells that specialized in causing large-scale destruction.
[… Karian.]
“Was that useless interference?”
The one who slowly flew up through the hole in the mountain and asked was the handsome blond youth, Archmage Karian.
[I want to brag a little bit, but… honestly, it was a little dangerous a little while ago.]
“There’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s the other person.”
Karian looked up at the sky.
As the explosion clears, wings of light emerge like beautiful fluttering cloth.
[Archangel Karian? You were here too?]
“Step back, Keeltis. The world fragments of this ruin have already been acquired by us.”
Karian said, spinning the fragment of the world that was emitting a brilliant light above his palm.
[We were fooled.]
“As expected, you have some sense.”
[hmm…….]
Keeltis seemed troubled.
‘What the heck? This guy?’
Rene felt uncomfortable with his attitude.
This one has only three palseongs.
In particular, since Karian is notorious even among the Golden Boughs, wouldn’t it be burdensome to deal with him along with the other two Eight Stars?
Yet Keeltis looked away from Carian and gazed down at the hole through the ruins, pondering.
Kkwaaaaaaang!
As Keeltis pondered this, part of the mountain burst open again, emitting a blast of super-heated light.
Two archmages soar along the trajectory of the burning atmosphere.
[Tsk.]
For a moment, Rene clearly heard Keeltis click his tongue in disapproval.
[What the heck, you cornered bastard, were you pushed?]
Trachus’ hair was singed and the hem of his robe was on fire.
In comparison, Lasanot looked fine.
In fact, it was difficult to tell whether his clothes were intact or not, as he appeared to be nothing more than a dazzling lump of gold, having unleashed the power of the ancient elves.
“I’m sorry! I was just exploring.”
[It was being pushed.]
“I told you not to!”
[No friends and can’t even fight… How can there be such a pitiful being?]
Rene shrugged and shook his head.
Keeltis opened his mouth.
[Elder, please step down.]
[Keltis, what are you talking about?]
[There is no point in fighting any longer. The world fragments have already fallen into their hands, and hasn’t Carian joined them?]
[Huh. It’s not even the main body, it’s a doll. If you and I join forces, we can defeat these guys… ]
[Yes. If it was a real body, then I don’t know, but is there any reason to take such a risk with a doll?]
Lasanot flinched at Keeltis’s calm question.
He clicked his tongue, his head cold.
[… I see. You are right.]
For Golden Bough, Karian is enemy number one.
It is placed higher than the Samsinjwa.
But no matter how I thought about it, it was not wise to take the risk of capturing just one doll instead of Karian’s main body.
[Let’s admit defeat today. Enjoy the joy to your heart’s content for a short while. Until the day of your well-deserved destruction!]
Keeltis and Lasanoth led their surviving men back.
Rene, who had been de-spirited, was dumbfounded.
“Why are they so arrogant even when they lose?”
“Well, isn’t that always the case? Even when you get beaten and taken prisoner, I’ve seen you act arrogant.”
“That’s true, but… … .”
Rene sighed and asked.
“But who is this guy called Keeltis?”
“The successor.”
“hmm?”
“It is one of the secret weapons that Golden Bough created through repeated bloodline crossbreeding and even using forbidden secret arts that have been kept since mythology. If we only look at spirit magic, it is one of the top ten in Golden Bough.”
“somehow.”
“But I haven’t shown my full power yet.”
“What? That?”
“They have so much of their stockpiled mythic resources that they cannot even exert their power outside of their habitat without the World Shards. Just like the Golden Elves who have lived much longer.”
“… This is fun.”
Rene smiled with narrowed eyes. It was a smile that made one feel chills when looking at it.
“This is yours, Trakus.”
Carian threw a fragment of the world to Trachus.
“Then I’m busy, so I’ll leave now.”
And Karian withdrew his consciousness from the doll.
The doll, which had returned to its original state, was caught by the Karian clone as it was falling apart, and was carefully placed into the subspace backpack.
“Then let’s withdraw as well.”
“ah.”
“why?”
Renee tilted her head. Trachus raised his hand as if to grab her, but then hesitated.
“…I’m sorry about earlier.”
“what?”
“That… I mean, I interrupted without realizing it earlier. I didn’t realize it was a bluff to boost the morale of our troops, so I ended up saying the right thing… … .”
“… … .”
“Why, why but?”
“No, I just thought you probably don’t have any real friends.”
Rene took a deep breath.
For a moment, I wanted to pick a fight with this guy, but when I heard him say that, I lost my courage.
‘This loner is a great wizard… … .’
Why is reality like this?
Tracus was moved.
“Hey, are you there?”
“what?”
“Do you have any friends?”
“It exists.”
“Talk to me without Karian.”
“There are many more besides Karian.”
“Don’t lie! You just woke up!”
“It was enough time to make friends.”
“I found it funny,” added Rene, who gave a laughable look.
“Well, the only friend who knows my true identity is Karian.”
“Look at that!”
“Is that something to be proud of? Do you have any friends who don’t know your true identity?”
“… … .”
Trachus was silent.
