Chapter 362 - Human From

Julia and the others walked into the lord's mansion, as they stepped past the threshold they all felt a rather weird sensation, Julia, Asma and Marie exchanged glances before they all showed rather cold smiles as Asma put a hand on her dagger the two escorts also caught on what was happening and quickly drew their swords, this alerted the royal guard that quickly took some distance from them as she yelled

"What are you doing?"

Julia showed a smile and spoke

"The mansion is covered by an isolation barrier, the ambushing kind"

"A barrier? What are you talking ab---"

"Welcome my guests!"

The royal guards were interrupted by the king that stood on a balcony, his arms were spread wide and there was a slightly twisted smile on his face the royal guard looked up at her king and suddenly shuddered slightly before she drew her sword and yelled

"Who are you!?"

The king gazed down at the royal guard as his face twisted in extreme anger and he shouted

"Who are you to question me!? SOME LOWBORN FILTH THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE!!!"

Jenny looked up at her king in confusion and anger for a moment before something inside her mind suddenly changed as she looked at her king, then she walked over and stood beside the others in silence before she drew her sword and spoke

"That is not the king of the Klaman islands… I've known him since he was born… And that is not him"

The king was furious and yelled

"Guards! EXECUTE THE TRAITORS!"

The royal guards stepped out of the mansion before they drew their swords before they quickly encircled the group and began inching closer tightening the encirclement, Marie commented as she folded out her tail

"They're quite good aren't they?"

Asma smiled before she commented

"Seen better…"

Julia nodded, there was no tension to be found among the group, well except for Jenny that was facing her former comrades and desperately yelled

"Wake up from your delusions that thing is not our king!"

The royal guards remained silent as they inched closer, then Julia abruptly spoke

"[Judgement]!"

The Judgment skill that normally would have turned all the royal guards into a black stone proved absolutely useless, not because the royal guards were free of sin but because

"They are outside divine intervention!"

Ben quickly asked

"That means we just have to beat them up the normal way right?"

Jey showed a slight smile before she also spoke

"Yeah it does, but it also means that scaly has a hand in this, so no need to hold back!"

With that, she was the first to attack, the 3 royal guards in front of her acted at once, and at the same time, they each attacked a different vital spot with frighteningly killing intent, however when Jey's eyes opened briefly they all froze before the image of Jey melted away, it was but an afterimage, she appeared silently behind them, at the same time 3 blows sounded out as the armor the royal guards were wearing shattered in the same spot, on the right side of the neck, Jey sighed before she muttered

"Too shallow…"

At the same time, the others also began attacking, Asma was the only one that stood still as she dexterity controlled her string fang that struck out and defeated the attacks launched by the royal knights while striking back with frightening accuracy, the string fang stuck their necks, wrists, and thighs, each attack that landed would have hit a major artery if not for the very expensive and effective mana armor they wore, to top it off she also used word magic at them

"[Seal], [Force], [Forcewave]!"

"Die, die, die!"

Ben was full berserk, the royal guards that faced him looked like they had been in a blender, their armor was covered in cuts that leaked blood from below the armor, Ben slashed out with his sword with wild abandon as he disappeared and reappeared around the royal guards, up on the balcony the king saw how his royal guards were being slowly worn down and yelled as he stomped the ground

"Useless! All of you are useless!"

Then he began chanting in what appeared to be a long lost language, however before he managed to finish his chant a cut abruptly appeared on his neck, he clutched his neck trying to stop the blood that was spraying out and collapsed to his knees with a frightened expression on his face, then suddenly his expression twisted before a voice sounded out in everyone's head

[AHAHAHAHAHA!!! Just kidding, this human flesh is so limiting! Ah my vessel won't you soon be mine!?]

As that voice sounded out the blood flowing from the king's neck turned black, it turned into smoke once it left his body before it began gathering into the shape of a man with long claws, horns, wings, and a tail, or in other words, a dragon in human shape, then it turned its gaze over at the royal guards before the overlapped children voices sounded out in everyone's head again

[Come here!]

An invisible force pulled the royal guards up and soon they were stuck to the shape of the dragon spirit, then horrible screams and loud crouching noises sounded as the royal guards were sucked into the body of the dragon spirit until none remained, then the dragon spirit turned its gaze to the group

[Mercury's women huh… Heh, YOU'LL ALL BECOME MY ENERGY THEN I'LL TAKE DOWN MERCURY ONCE AND FOR ALL AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!]

The dragon spirit kicked off the balcony making it collapse and shot through the air towards the group, Asma was the first to attack it with her word magic

"[Seal], [Seal], [Seal], [Seal], [Seal], [Seal], [Seal]!"

The dragon spirit was hit by the 7 word magic seals and slowed down somewhat before Jey and Ben both charged forwards and leaped from the ground and slashed out at the dragon spirit with breakneck speed, the dragon spirit blocked and was sent flying back towards the mansion by the impact, the next instance it smashed into the mansion, the dragon spirit was out of the mansion almost as quickly as it entered it as it charged at the group while letting out a maniacal laughter

[AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!]

"Marie!"

"Got it, [Forging blows]!"

Marie stabbed forwards with her viper spear, unfortunately, her stab missed as the dragon spirit morphed its body to avoid the stab as it slashed out with its claws, Marie didn't block, she didn't need to as Jey appeared and blocked the blow for her while Marie took some distance

[Nuisance!]

The dragon spirit lashed out with its tail, however, it only stuck an afterimage of Jey, as it did Ben appeared behind it and slashed out with his sword carving a big cut into the dragon spirit back

[Annoying!]

The tail of the dragon sprit sent Ben flying back, he crashed against the walls of the mansion and to the royal guard, Jenny's surprise he got right up and charged back at the dragon spirit

"What's that guy made of..?"

Julia that stood next to her tilted her head before she chuckled and spoke

"Oh Ben, what was it he used to say..? Oh right, Gin and bad decisions"

"...Right… Shouldn't we do something, you know help out?"

"I didn't bring my crossbow, besides the barrier weakened for a moment when Ben hit the wall, so he's on his way… As long as he can escape Party's clutch that is"

Jenny tilted her head

Mercury looked towards the mansion before he muttered

"You sneaky, scaly mother trucker…"

[What is it, Mercury?]

"It's the dragon spirit again"

[Ah… Then you should probably go?]

"Nah, it can wait a bit, it's your turn"

[Tch…]

"Did you just click your tongue?"

[Me? No, maybe you just heard something wrong?]

"...Sure, anyways… Are you going to make your move, or are you going to forfeit?"

[Kuh… Why are you so good a chess anyway Mercury?]

"Don't try to dodge the subject it's your move"

[ARGH! Fine, you win! Are you happy now!?]

"I am always happy while in your company Party"

[Fine, fine… Off you go, Mercury]

"Yes then I'll be right back, love you"

Mercury stood up from the table that Party had summoned before he kicked off the ground and disappeared from view leaving Party alone at the table that stood outside the South gate, she pouted for a bit before she sighed and showed a wry smile…

Mercury stopped in front of the lord's mansion before he closed his eyes to feel the surroundings, soon he opened them again and looked towards the lord's mansion before he nodded and muttered

"Nice isolation barrier, it would be a shame if something happened to it"

Then he stomped his foot once sending out a pulse that traveled through the ground before it identified the weak points of the barrier formation, the power source, a few magic beast cores in  the basement of the mansion, then Mercury stomped his foot again and a few seconds later a rock spike shot out from the wall of the underground room in the mansion breaking the central magic beast core into pieces revealing the situation inside the walls