274 - - The Unexpected Development

The beast of the seal is brought forth.

Two girls appear.

A black frilly one-piece dress and headdress, her light blonde hair flowing. The girl's smooth arms and legs, doll-like white face and blue eyes. The same two faces.

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The girl A.L.I.C.E., on the other hand, holds out a silver dagger in each hand with a blank expression and a languid look in her eyes. Liddell, on the other hand, smiles a little and holds a test tube in her palm.

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It was returned lightly with a laugh. You're not going to infect Liddell with English, are you?

The sound of multiple footsteps with a metallic clang of footsteps approached us, perhaps due to the light that had appeared when the two appeared.

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As soon as the enemy appears from the corner of the corridor, Liddell throws a flask. It used to be a test tube, but the container seems to be different depending on the medicine or the number of subjects.

<< subject<>. ......Dead for Master? >>

"What the hell?

While I was listening to the enemy's cries and watching our boy (Liddell) attack, I heard a disturbing whisper from A.L.I.C.E. Slender daggers were thrust into the enemy's throat one after another. Half of them crumble to the corridor, and the rest stop, startled or alarmed.

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Peter attacked in the same way, and the remaining enemies fell to the floor in no time.

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It is said that the standard practice these days is for Peter to sprinkle abnormalities and for A.L.I.C.E. to instantly kill the victim. The number of abnormalities that can be specified increases with the level of skills, and the more difficult the specified condition is to be applied, the more effective the instant death will be.

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I think A.L.I.C.E. will soon have cat ears too, and I quietly think of Peter's taste when he talks about guns.

"There he is!"

Over here!

We moved through the building toward the head of the family's room, striking blows to any enemies that came out. Ignoring those who did not die, I run. Naturally, they follow you, but you run without stopping. The master of the house seems to be in his office, in the southeast corner of the second floor, which is confirmed by the information and skills Peter has gathered.

The two men smile wickedly at each other in front of the ornate door.

And then the words are spun.

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As the two Alice's clasped their hands and foreheads together, the effect of the appeared, and when the hands sounded twelve o'clock - in this case, it might be zero - we saw it too. A black obelisk hides them. As the startled enemy stops to watch, white fingertips emerge from the jet-black stone, followed by the edge of a skirt and a slender knee. The beast of the seal, , reappears from the obelisk.

"I will stop your time, too.

With a smile and words spun from a small mouth, a mirrored lake of illusion appears at Alice's feet, and the hallway brightly lit by candles and the battle stage with Alice at the bottom of the lake in the dark cave seem to double up, alternating in a mysterious state.

Small animals made of water float on the surface of the water with a small sound. Rats, rabbits, turtles, flamingos, and so on. The turtles might be sea turtles. ...... was it Alice in the Land of Mirrors that came out?　I read this book a long time ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy. The number of rats is as usual high, and they increase their range of movement as the lake expands like water overflowing from a dish.

The bandits!　Gah!"

On the way toward them, an enemy who had gone out of his way to trample the small water animal blew it up. The animals explode one after another in a chain of explosions, engulfing enemies who have stepped into the lake or whose feet are covered by the lake.

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Illusion magic is a magic that becomes more powerful and effective the more enemies there are. I wonder how far this dark lake extends. It goes everywhere beyond the walls, but we are on the second floor. I wonder what it looks like from the garden.

"d*mn you!　Monsters!"

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I am puzzled, but Peter seems calm. As I look at the enemy through Alice, I am convinced that this is what a battle with Alice in large numbers would look like. After all, there were only two of us when we defeated Alice.

Fearing an explosion, the magic bounces around the magic swordsman who has attacked Alice with magic. I think, though I don't say it out loud, "This lake is good for bouncing magic so that it doesn't land on the surface of the water. I remember doing the very same thing. No matter... ......

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Peter, who seems to have thought the same thing, asks me, his voice subtle with a laugh that seems to end in a "wow".

It was found out much later that if you gather all of them with the same attribute, they absorb and heal that attribute, and if you gather more than two thirds (・・・・) of them with the same attribute, they nullify that attribute. Usually, it takes twelve people to make a .

"Hmmm... ......"

Alice laughs. It is a strange voice that is right in front of you, but you cannot tell where it is coming from, the lake or the darkness. It sounds like the tinkling of a bell, and before you know it, red and white rose petals are dancing in the air.

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M on the way! The amount of M! I can't feel the effect because I haven't lost any amount.

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Peter smiles and looks toward the enemies approaching from either side of the corridor. While I was a little distracted by the fantastic scenery, one of the enemies got confused and slashed at my friend, one was poisoned, one was paralyzed, and it was pretty bad.

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Peter and I are giving orders. The order in which Alice listens to commands is the order in which you set them up, or the order in which the original Alice's level is higher. If you really want to break the other Alice's order, it is quicker to un-integrate her, but if you have a high liking for her, you may keep her integrated and suppress the other Alice.

In the case of Peter and I, we did not set the order and A.L.I.C.E.'s level was higher than Peter's, so Peter's order has priority. However, the order that can be used in both cases is valid. I am not going to give orders because it would be too much trouble, but I was just spitting out a few lines to match Peter's.

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As he puts his hand on the door, he stops moving and listens to Peter's words.

It's pretty egregious to play with <<<< sealed beasts>> and enemies>>.

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I look back and see no enemy in sight, just a bunch of frogs darting left and right, being chased around by water animals.

"I wonder if they're dissecting them or bottling them up."

Alice murmurs in a whisper and tilts her head cutely.

I open the door pretending not to have seen it, and Peter is in the mood to laugh without speaking. The first half of the dissection is definitely Peter's A.L.I.C.E.!　--The second half is Liddell: ....... I noticed that the Krulkan was bottled and displayed on a shelf with small jars of jelly beans and other things. .......

"Who the hell are you?"

I answered without pause, and Peter laughed in my company.

The most important one came to the desk guarded by two knights, but why are all three of them standing at the desk where they work? Well, it's probably because the lake is encroaching on this room too.

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As expected, Peter did not expect this meeting.

But for now, that was just a bonus. The assassin, perhaps realizing that we have been detected, sits down with his weapon at the ready. It is correct to say that the assassin was a nervous-looking man with the air of a secretary, and he was pretending to be a civil servant and was mimicking the appearance of an assassin by keeping a low-profile position. Unfortunately, he was too suspicious when he was standing normally in the middle of the lake.

One of the knights slashes at me with his sword, I catch him with my sword and repel him to the side. In the meantime, an assassin stepped in, but Peter intervened and took him on.

The victory was short-lived.

I should have brought a little less equipment. It's much less than the equipment from the gods, and the cloak makes my stats drop dramatically, but if I think about it, the wyvern coat is also a cut above the other equipment on the market nowadays.

Peter is in a good mood because he got the skill stone he was hoping for, and fortunately, the same skill stone dropped on my side. It seems to be better than the assassination stones I got when I destroyed two places in King's Landing.

I look down the hallway, thinking that if I drop any more equipment, it's more likely that I can't keep up with Peter. There is no one in the hallway.

Peter seemed to be checking Alice's movements during the battle.

"Wahahaha!　Tasukete ee 〜〜〜〜!"

And then a familiar voice from outside.

Peter and I looked at each other and went to peek out the window to see a battle going on between Alice and Leo.

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So you're treating Alice as an enemy because she's not in your party, I understand.

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Underneath Alice floating in the air, Leo is running away and the fallen figures are disappearing one after another, as if the time limit for reviving them has passed.

The two of them stand side by side, staring in amazement at the unexpected scene of carnage and at Leo running away, half-crying.