294 - - The Aldovan

Is it popcorn or ice cream that is needed when listening to the villain's narrative? There is often a scene in American movies where a person is eating a liter of ice cream, but is he or she able to finish it?　The good thing about VR dramas that you can watch from the sidelines instead of participating in them is that you can watch them while eating and drinking.

What I am trying to say is that the story is long. It is nice to know what is going on, but a long story is a long story.

Let me summarize it like this. Priestess Byrne, originally quite old, took the empire's offer to get the throne, a young body, and Princess Sylvia. He had been working secretly behind the scenes to avoid danger, but when his body was destroyed, he came out to the labyrinth after he made a plan to transfer his soul to the censer.

It was the followers who extracted the soul of William and others and transferred it to the empty body of the chief priest Byrne. The former elderly man who switched his own body after making sure that the change of the body of the chief priest Byrne had been successful.

Judging from the reactions of the princess and Sweig, it seems that each of them was a powerful person. --The princess and Sweig's reactions indicated that each of them was a powerful person, but they didn't seem to have much of a claim on the other, and they had already arranged their obedience in the body they took before the transfer.

"From what I'm hearing, it's not even clear that they're from the empire."

"And yet he has convinced the chief priest, Byrne, that he is a messenger of the empire, and has left no room for doubt. When push comes to shove, it's the lizard's tail."

"When he thought that <> was an ingredient for a potion that would work on the Prime Minister, you know. I guess it will end up with him, but I don't know which side he's actually working on."

Galahad and the others have already shifted their attention from the priesthood chief, Byrne, to finding out who is behind this.

"The wards for the six attributes used in the labyrinth were magic, weren't they? I don't think Merlin will come to teach them directly, and I wonder if the people in between are familiar enough with magic to be able to transmit the information.　It's strange that you didn't get to the dark attribute if you learned it on your own."

I have a spirit-dependent warding skill, which is what a chief priest would normally have. And a chief priest of Sadiras would surely have the dark attribute, an intellect-dependent warding spell that prevents the six attributes without testing them. I can only assume that someone taught him that.

"......That would limit it."

Galahad looks up into the air and wrinkles his brow to see if some of them float.

"There's William's soul amongst all these incense burners, you know?　Refrain from attacking unnecessarily. If you drop it, it will never come back!"

And so on and so forth, and the story went on.

"......!"

"Lady Sylvia!"

When the princess took a step forward, she was bounced by an invisible wall and Yuni-chan supported her when she stumbled.

"Hahahaha!　My [warding magic] that has evolved!　Except for Mistiff, no one with the moon's blessing will pass a single step!　There's more than one tablet!"

Well, I thought I would have thought of the dark attribute first. The battle begins again with a limited area of action. No, I'm supposed to cooperate with my partner Mistiff?　--Well, if it's just me, I can go through the wards, but since it's related to Mistiff, I'll wait until the event (nothing) is over.

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Ishvaan, who looks a little dazed, looks up, perhaps reacting to the chief priest's laughter, and leans forward. His chest hairs are fluffed up like this.

is an incense burner that can store souls, just as the name says, and is produced by Ishvaan.

"Ishvaan ......?"

White is making a difficult face. No, this is not the time to be distracted by that furball.

"Ishvan may have created it, but it's human beings who are using it."

"I don't care about human souls, I've slaughtered many myself."

He turns his cheek silently to White, who turns his head away. Killing a living creature, even if it is for the sake of one's own people, is a way of breaking out of the circle of mystics. Both White and Black seemed to be distancing themselves from the Mistiffs, as if killing a living creature meant that they could not be on the Mistiffs' side.

Such an attitude of the Mistyiffs annoys me a little, but it can't be helped that White likes the way the Mistyiffs are. If only there had been no one to bother them, things would have remained peaceful and tranquil.

The men in robes shake the incense burners in their hands, and smoke rises from within, taking the form of Mistyphs and flying through the air. The freedom of Mistyf from the smoke is instantaneous, and she is quickly sucked into another incense burner lowered from the ceiling.

There are many signs of Mistyf. What does that mean?　There are more than you can see."

Perhaps in response to Ishvaan's voice or to the incense burners of the robed men, the black also comes out onto the shoulders.

"The mystiff before me now, the figure is Ishvaan's. But it is not Ishwaan's presence, it is as if--"

"Come on, wake up, Aldo Vern (・・・・)!　The humans are coming in!"

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The sound of a rumbling noise is heard, and the hair on the body stands up on end as it glares at us.

"Ha ha ha!　Aldvaan, the princess's name is Sylvia!　The medium is a silver-white incense burner!　You two greenhorns over there, Swig, are the dark eight-sided censer!"

The chief priest, Byrne, looks up at Aldvaan, holds up his hands, and announces the names of the princess and Suig.

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"Kyah!"

As Aldvarne finishes, Sylvia screams and collapses, smoke escaping from her body. The smoke is sucked into a silver incense burner.

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The smoke that escaped from Suig was sucked into an eight-inch incense burner with a dark impression, as announced by the chief priest Byrne.

"Ha ha ha!　Even without a true name, with a medium, you've got this!　I've got the hair of the king, and I've got the best incense burner!　All that is left to do is to dispose of the empty vessel and you will have a puppet who is obedient to me!"

"Oh my God, ......!"

Yuni supports the princess's body and glares at the chief priest, Byrne. Oh, and just as she was about to fall, Sweig supported her with his knees as if Galahad was manipulating a soccer ball, and before she collapsed, he grabbed her by the collar and laid her back down.

"Stupid ....... Aldvaan is supposed to be dead."

White murmured.

"Is Aldvaan's soul in Ishvaan's body?"

It seems that only the body is the same that the hunter served, and that Sadilas has protected and concealed.

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Huh?　Is this your white friend?　I thought you said this one was an old friend. When the hunter mentioned Aldvaan's name on Mt. Parthin, he was quite surprised, but his reaction after that was not so strong, because he thought he was dead?

When he was sleepy, he was curled up so tight you couldn't even see his claws on his hands and feet, but now his sharp claws are making marks on the hard floor of the cave. The wagging tail sends not needles but spear-like hairs flying toward us at high speed. Cal and Galahad block them, and we are unharmed, but the hairs are sticking into the wall.

"Ah!　A spirit in human form, not a mystiff, is in the incense burner over there!"

Yuni-chan points to many incense burners hanging down, but I can't tell which ones. And what is rising from the censer is not smoke but a spirit. ....... No, but it looks like smoke, because they are censer!　

"You, I need a little help!　But do not touch me, this is my fight!"

With that, White rushes across the boundary.

I have a down arrow on my status.　Mr. White, you mean the status of borrowing?　Next to the HP bar, which is the icon that appears when a person is in an abnormal state, there is a flashing downward arrow that indicates a decrease in status. By the way, White lent me his abilities at the tournament, but could he do the opposite?

"Aldvaan!"

White grew larger and larger and was almost as big as Aldvaan when he got there.

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"You killed my people!　Why? !"

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The two animals enter the battle with great vigor.

They aim at each other's throats, swinging their claws and baring their fangs.

As the two swap positions, the incense burner shakes and the spirit wanders through the air.

"White ...... must have been big!"

"Galahad, you're starting to sound like Homra, aren't you?"

Camilla looks at Galahad with streaming eyes.

"I see, so this is the true form of the <>."

Cal is admiring the white.

Then a snake emerges from a cuff. Yes, Kulurkan is a too, and he might be impressed if I show him what he looked like when we first met. I already have a distant memory of it.

"Hasfarn, Hasfarn?

Black is frozen on his shoulders in shock. He had a fight with White, but he seemed to have a bit of a crush on Hasfahan. The other Myspheans usually disappear when Hasfarn's name is mentioned, even though they express their gratitude.

I am rather sympathetic to Aldvarne's point of view. I have mixed feelings about Mistiff, even though I genuinely want to play with him. I don't forgive the robes for making White and his old friend fight, it's that simple. I'm going to stay quiet until White and the others are done, since he stopped me, but now, what can I do?　

"Bah, no way!"

Chief Priest Byrne is dismayed.

"Well, I'd be surprised if a mystiff the same size as a guardian beast suddenly appeared."

"I'm sure it's completely unscheduled."

Galahad and Eagle talk while keeping an eye on developments. In the meantime, Aldvarne's attacks are coming our way, but we are able to defend against them without any danger at all, similar to the gesture of brushing off raindrops. Well, if White had not been there, we and Yuni would have had more powerful skills, and we would not have had this much time to spare.

"The Mystiffs over there are starting to move, too.

Looking around at Camilla's words, I saw that Yunika's mystiffs had just attached themselves to the censer containing the souls of the princess and Suig, but when the censer shook with the impact, the souls were transferred to a different censer.

"We have to break all the empty censer, don't we!

"Yes!"

The knight of the zodiac suggests that the souls should not be transferred even if the censer is shaken.

"The tablet must be broken to break the boundary. When the empty censer is gone, if there is a stone tablet in the censer containing the soul, it cannot be attacked. We should refrain from dropping the empty censer until we find the tablet and break the warding."

Unless you are prepared to lose the souls of your mystiffs and princesses. Come to think of it, we have souls, but Mistiff has no vessel.

"Yes, sir!"

The distance was quite far, so we could hear the sound of White and the others fighting, and it seemed that the knight of the constellation who was closest to us could hear us because we were shouting more loudly than usual.

Black, find the tablet.

"Yes, it's an emergency. I'm listening!"

Black runs through the wards in a huff.

He guides Mistiff and the others away from the attack, and at the same time deals with the attack on himself.

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"Shut up!　It's just a quiet place, Mistiff, just my heresy!　Those humans are just the way they are!"

They yell at each other, shift positions, and bare their fangs at each other. Their white fur is stained red in places. I guess Aldovan is in a similar state, though I can't tell for sure because he is black.

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That was a long time ago!

Two of them keep their distance.

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