Chapter 448: Haitiri, Ranger General of Saelariel.

Chapter 448: Haitiri, Ranger General of Saelariel.

What the? My eyes were glued at the scene presented before me, where all I could see was just mounds of rubble and bodiesboth from monsters and people. This blackmarket was just thriving a moment ago, but it had been decimated and left lifeless.

Dont worry, Wisperia and I managed to get the slaves out before all of this happened. Avoided them all with my arrows. The woman responsible scratched the neck of her treant owl, looking proud at her handiwork. One rat hole down, many more to go, honestly.

I turned around, noticing Saoris and everybody elses incredulous faces. All of us were used to large-scale destruction, so none of us were groaning or uneasy with it. We just hadnt expected it to happen here, simple enough.

Oh, and I hadnt had the chance, but I am sorry I nearly hit you, Meoschaera, Muraina apologized. Whisperia felt an incoming influx of mana, so I shot an arrow in your direction. I didnt expect you to be here.

So that arrow was from her. It did feel familiar when the arrow just stopped mid-air.

Neither did we, I replied. It was water under the bridge. Why exactly are you here, anyways, Muraina? This is the Lecartiglio duchy, right?

My job. It was a concise answer. Well, to be more precise, this is Saelariels way to uphold our alliance with Artorias. In other words, my role as a liaison can finally begin and I can actually do something to help outside of running the Hunters Guild. First thing on the agenda, make sure Shaturein is the only underworld inside the country to minimize potential issues like during the Griffonpeak attack.

Muraina was one of the Saelari who actually supported friendly relationships between Saelariel and Artorias, belonging to the Enforcer faction. From what I remembered, their goal was to monitor humankind more directly by interacting with them, assuring travesties like the War for the Faefolk would never happen again.

She didnt talk much about her role in it, outside of acting as an unofficial ambassador, but would this count as one of her duties? Well, I didnt need to think too deeply about it as she continued her explanation.The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.

Once news of the summit arrived, I began preparing my hairetis to cleanse Artorias from the filth underneath. Slavery is outlawed in Artorias, and this is something Caedhul, Loatryx, Saelariel, and Ankor-Nazta agree with. What better way to make sure our alliance is solid than to help Duke Lecartiglio deal with some of his issues, so he doesnt have to send his own troops? She smiled, sounding a bit like a politician with the way she looked at things. You did a good job, Meoschaera. From forcing King Drangleics hand to tell me the truth, to assuring the alliance is sealed. Im now free to flex my fingers outside of merely defending the capital.

You dont have to call me Meoschaera, you know? I sighed. Some people just loved calling me princess. Well, getting to this point wasnt exactly easy, even if King Drangleic and King Fugnarus wanted the alliance. I still have this gnawing feeling that King Elutis isnt too happy about it.

Dont worry, he is, she reassured me. My king has to balance his interests with the enforcers and isolationists, meaning he has to take a hard stance on certain topics. Not to mention his own hatred for what Folschreck did during the war. He is happy he can ally with King Drangleic, and from what I heard, is just apprehensive of your idealistic approach.

Well, it did lead us here, Saori added.

How could we have guessed we would meet two more sin heirs in the span of two days, huh?

I see, well, come on. Lets go up for now. The slaves are probably worried, and I want to hear why all of you are here and why one of your allies is a demonkin.

All of us turned to Vifi as we noticed that her electric horns had appeared on her forehead, albeit they were barely tangible. In fact, her face was pale and she had this sick look in her eyes, to the point I questioned if she was even listening to my discussion with Muraina. Did she even realize her emotions were uncontrolled right now?

Saori and Vifi did just give me a summary of what had just happened when they met ReinYond. Considering I experienced [Original Sin: Yaldaboath] myself with Mom, I could imagine what could have happened. Reminding you of your worst memories and then controlling you within that dreamscape. I had to watch my other half, Hikari, get swallowed up by it, after all.

Unlike Saori and Grimnir, though, Mom and Vifi werent protected by [Hestias Retainer]. Mom, however, had a strong enough soul to endure the damage until I came to free her, but it might have been different for the latter. Vifi looked like she was still affected. She probably saw a pretty terrible memory.

Wanting to cheer her up, I offered her a donut, but she rejected it, stating she wasnt hungry. She was that out of it, huh?

Come on, lass. Grimnir patted her back, prompting her to follow us up.

Revealing our reasons for being here, Muraina sighed in relief that Gael was alive before expressing her surprise that the Prince of Envy would send people in so early after we just exposed the last cardinal of Artoriass betraying his country for the demonkin. While it probably wasnt planned at the start, the fact they predicted us to follow the spies with Shatureins help was pretty frightening. They read us like a book.

You know there are ways to silence sound, right? Do you have ways to let your song bypass them? Muraina asked, understanding what the issue was.

Up until now, the only enemies who listened to [My Darkest Thought] and managed to escape from it were Vifi and her adjutant, HeeRlak. I wasnt so sure if the latter said anything after I healed him, but if he couldnt remember anything due to all the damage he took, like being burned alive, then this ReinYond now knew that my songs need to be heard for them to apply their effects.

My unique Job allows me to affect others through mana, but only if I apply [Music Resonation (Major)]. Problem is, that means I have to really bust out the music and that I can only do so in my humanized form, I replied, talking about the Job skill [Musical Crescendo].

Musical Crescendo: A skill that applies additional effects the longer the bard continues playing any kind of spell songs. Escalation depended on [Music Resonation] and the length being played. Minor: Increases bards stats by 5%. Moderate: Shares the full effects of all buffs on the bard without reaching Major. Major: Songs travel through mana, bypassing any silence fields or sound protection areas

The fact [Original Sin: Yaldaboath] can incapacitate us like that will be a big hurdle for us to overcome, Grimnir stated.

Not to mention [Original Sin: Demiurge], Saori added. If it can perfectly, or almost perfectly, replicate another beings appearance and abilities, that means the two envy demonkin princes will be extremely tricky to fight with. They will be a jack-of-all-trades but with multiple unknown abilities, and even if we could appraise them during a fight, doing it too often will just overload our brains. It is too much information unless Hestias parallel minds skim through them for us.

So the problem lies in that we have to rely on my sister for a proper fighting plan? Neill clicked her tongue, dissatisfied with the reality of things.

If they set up a silence field like what Renee could do, it would prevent me from singing altogether unless I fulfilled [Musical Crescendo]s requirement. That did mean I would need to lose one-third of my stats at least, since Job skills could only be activated while I was a dragonewt. According to Vifi, ReinYond was around her level and power, and the Prince of Envy himself was much stronger and higher leveled than either.

This would essentially turn into the same battle Tasianna, Neill, Renee and I had with Vifi. Although, unlike her, they had time to prepare and might expect me to have something similar to [Musical Crescendo]. In fact, they probably will use those dimensional balls again or some other way to separate me from the main raiding party.

[My Darkest Thought] was our biggest trump card over the demonkin, without a doubt. I had to be in the area for people to listen to me, however Which just made me regret having to take [Musical Renaissance Diva] as my idol job specialization. [Giocoso Dreamer] could have been useful here.

Spreads music through people listening to your songs sounded so powerful. Too bad, but it was for my own survival.

Damn Galg! Damn all dragonslayers!

Well, being able to apply two song effects was still pretty powerful. The combos I could do with the skill made the specialization strong. Choices suck. Why couldnt I get both?

Regardless, we eventually made it to the surface, where I noticed we were inside a lake area coated by a thick layer of snow. No matter where you looked, you could see the footprints of monsters leaving their marks in this white blanket

According to Muraina, we were in a monster-infested area similar to the Belzac forest, called Guimis Woods. West from here was the town, Adrot, under the rule of Count Jabsmorg, a vassal of Duke Lecartiglio.

There is an apex monster inside this forestsimilar to Saoris grandfather before his deathso it made it pretty much impossible to invade this blackmarket without getting attacked by it. The people here made sure to keep their presence inconspicuous, so nothing had happened to them until now. Muraina then pointed at the salamandra having broken through a layer of ice in the lake. Thats why I scared the monsters with my aura, pushing a horde of them to attack the place. Since monsters usually accidentally invade the blackmarket, many thought it was just a normal event, until I found the leader of the blackmarket and killed him. Afterwards, well, a hail of arrows turned this place into history.

Muraina smiled wryly, nodding with us as if she agreed only, I had a feeling she was dissatisfied with how we answered. She looked at Saori. Do not worry, I know my role. If it is for the future generation, my bow will bring upon death, once again. If there is somebody hard to kill, then let me be the first to land a hit.

Guuuuuu

Oh, speak of the wind. We all turned around as a low growling could be heard deeper in the woods.

With the sound of stomping snow and moving trees, the figure of a red-furred creature was slowly approaching us. The people Muraina saved stopped eating and began shouting and shrieking, having identified the creaturea truck-sized fox monster with the mouth of a crocodile.

It sniffed and barked, materializing a brown magic circle, looking like it was intimidating us, or maybe it was readying itself for a battle, as I could feel we had encroached into its territory. We either ran or we had to fight it, there was no other option.

I had received a letter that a certain adventurer under the name of Hestia had recently obtained the rights to become a rank A hunter. That she killed multiple rank B grimgarians in the Elyonda siege. So much credit was given to her and her sister, but only a certain Fargryneill chose to take her trial. She then turned to me. I dont need to test your might, but I have to as part of my job. Alone, in your dragonewt form only, for you are a hunter. This is the apex predator of this place, a rank B. Wont you finally join our ranks, Hestia?

Mana Eyes.

Level: 18

I stood up. Sure.

Theodore wanted me to become a rank A anyways to have people respect me as a Champion, so why not do it now? I had expected to duel the guild master for the rank, but she was right that I was a hunter. I hunted monsters, not humans, beastmen, or demonkin. My speciality has always been these creatures.

I reapplied my spell buffs and let my parallel minds play [The Will to Fight and Survive] and [Dragon Fire], combining these two spell songs to severely reduce the foxs fire resistances. I then turned into my minor form to regain some of my stats, before cracking my neck.

[Music Resonation (Moderate)] [Humanize (Minor)] [Various Spell Buffs] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

I readied myself to snap my fingers.

Territory Release Magmakammer!

Suffice to say, Ive fought tricker enemies in my lifetime.

Experience for development Jobs has reached multiple breaking points.

[Star Idol]: Lv. 1 -> Lv. 30 | Reset accumulation finished | Prestige 7 Lv. 18

[Fire Mage]: Lv. 1 -> Lv. 35 | Reset accumulation finished | Prestige 12 Lv. 0

[Tyrant Hatchling]: Lv. 1 -> Lv. 30 | Reset accumulation finished | Prestige 9 Lv. 20

Prestige requirement achieved! Job max level has increased. Experienced accumulation and reward quality increased.

[Star Idol] Max level -> 35

You may spend your prestige points when you are ready

Job evolution has begun for [Fire Mage]. Please, choose from the below option to continue leveling your development Job. Your choice of Job evolution will affect your unique Jobs future evolution and your choice of prestige awards

[Inferno Mage] [Wildfire]

You have chosen [Wildfire]. [Fire Mage] will now evolve into [Wildfire], resetting your level and prestige level. Prestige Points: 2, retained. Max level -> 25. Evolution bonuses given: [Mana] [Intelligence] [Wisdom] Development Job: [Lightbearer]

Development Job [Wildfire] replaced with [Lightbearer]. Max level -> 25

After a rather bumpy flight back to Griffonpeak, once we couldnt take the waterway any longer, I handed the spies and fire blessed over to Griffonpeaks knights before going to the hunters guild to update my rank with Murainas letter of recommendation. She couldnt come with, as she still had work to do and wanted some time to prepare for the big day, which I didnt mind.

All that mattered was that we got another ally for the real battle.

With our duties done for the day, we all went back home and had a long soak in the hotspring before it was time for dinner to update everybody on what happened. I also made sure to check on Gael and Vangrim, making sure they were alive, before it was finally time for bed.

Once morning came, Fleindia came back to us as we had to prepare for our next destinationLecartiglios capital Gransromusfor my next concert. As scheduled, Tatsuya and Kyouya arrived at the capital, but to our surprise, there was another person traveling with them.

Princess Hestia. Princess Fargryneill. A tall black dragonewt kneeled before us, donning a full set of dragoon armor and a halberd. I, Midirn, have come to you under the orders of my father and Loatryx. I will aid you in the battle for Aureolis!

Our raid party has grown once more.

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