Chapter 448

The day to celebrate the 5th day of training with the saintess.

Asilie was the first to notice the change.

“Eldy. I think there’s a problem.”

Even though I was not yet awake, I couldn’t help but wake up, so I got up in an instant.

outside the dark window. A fireplace just starting to burn. Asilie’s cold hand, which can tell that she has returned from scouting the surroundings with her equipment on since dawn.

No matter how drunk I was, I could guess what the situation was.

“Demon King?”

“I don’t know exactly. But there are traces other than ours added, and it doesn’t look like it’s out of the woods.”

It’s not even worth the time to ask trivial questions. Even if it’s just a thrill, it’s better to go to vain than to be hit in the back of the head. After hurriedly putting on my equipment, I sent Laika and my car to the ruins and, together with Asilie, headed to the place where the traces she said were found.

No conversation was necessary. From the moment we left the house, we didn’t exchange a single word, but as All of my tracking techniques came from Asilie, we were able to move to the destination easily, working hand-to-hand.

Asilie gestured that the trail had started here and suggested the next direction, but I shook my head and pointed at my eyes and the floor.

There was no need to check further, so the traces of magical power remained.

Even on the battlefield of Levien, magic that left such a mark was rare. No, at least not when I saw it. Even if this is a trace left by the Humans, it is a wise decision to be vigilant.

Making a quick decision, we cautiously left the place in case we could be tracked back, and only after we were sure that no one was following us, we cautiously headed towards the temple. It wasn’t very pleasant to move like this from dawn, but if it was really a demon, it was a golden opportunity to find the traces of them in advance, so I started to feel a little lifted.

There is a high probability that the signs that suddenly appeared and the traces of huge magical energy meant space movement. I don’t know where or how he warped to this point, but there’s no way even a fairly well-rounded wizard could pour out that much magic in one shot and stay fine.

Of course, there can be such a guy... I just hope that such a guy is hanging out on the front lines. If that kind of guy gets mixed up in a special operations unit like this, he might die of injustice.

Under that assumption anyway. Now that they haven’t fully recovered yet, we need to surprise them so we can gain an advantage. He wouldn’t be able to properly use half of the traps he had laid out all over the place, but it would be better than waiting for a wizard with that level of skill to fully recover and head to the temple.

Perhaps because of the preheated body and tension, our steps towards the temple were quick.

Thanks to the explanation of what Laika’s solo visit meant in advance, by the time we arrived, the saintess and heresy judges had already completed all preparations and were on the alert.

As soon as Asilie and I showed up safely, they sighed in relief but came to us with firm faces and listened. After I finished explaining the situation, the saintess spoke with a serious look on her face for a long time before talking.

“If we had used the teleportation magic, we wouldn’t be able to properly use the magic for a day or two, no matter how short it was. Not only that, but leaving the traces without minding the tracking means that we didn’t expect them to predict their movements in the slightest. It must be.”

Even though it was an enemy, it was hard to call it carelessness. If I had joined late or at least not heard from Jin, I would have been stabbed in the back of the head, so treating me like an idiot for not expecting this is too harsh an assessment.

Since the saintess knew that fact, she was close to citing grounds for agreeing with my proposal for a surprise attack.

I was able to guess his skill just from the heretic judge’s response. If they had been surrounded, they would have been in the worst case scenario.

“Surely they’re the ones who protect the backside of the saintess!”

It was a provocation that I wanted to try, but the Heretic Judge just snorted as if it wasn’t funny. Ha, are you saying that this kind of provocation won’t come over?

It was at that time that a heavy mace flew aiming for the head of the captain who was about to jump forward with the feeling that it would not be easy.

Unintentionally, he pulled out another hatchet from his waist to block it, but the captain, who was crushed by an uncontrollable force and flew back in the direction he came from, looked at the person who had just thrown himself and smiled.

“Who is this, the saintess?”

“Your filthy mouth explains a lot, you filthy apostate. How dare you blaspheme, even if you can’t try to repay Epaga’s favor?”

With her eyes shining dimly with overflowing divine power, the saintess Deoni Veere struck the ground with her mace, not paying attention to the two platoon members flying towards her.

In just one small action, the floor the two platoon members were standing on cracked and rose, interfering with their actions. The captain blew a whistle in small admiration at the exquisite use of the vocal technique, but Saint Deoni still kept a cool attitude and only opened her mouth.

“Your sins don’t even deserve Epaga’s judgment. I’ll crush your souls like this so that he doesn’t even know that you guys existed.”

“Hahaha! That’s interesting! So let’s try to find out who is dead? On a fictional day, you’re the one with half-open eyes, can you tell the difference between my soul and yours?”

While he quickly loosened his shoulders and neck and adjusted his posture, he heard the sound of a flying dragon flying above him, but the captain didn’t care.

Anyway, if you put your nerves up to deal with the saintess, it wouldn’t be difficult to deal with the sudden intrusion of that kind of monster, so it’s not even worth being vigilant.

Thinking so, he was about to jump forward at any moment, but he shouted

“Lee!!”

The captain had no choice but to raise his head reflexively at the sound of shouts from above and the unidentified presence.

Originally, there should have been nothing but the blue sky...

“The blasphemous one!!!”

For some reason, there was a human race holding a heavy two-handed ax while aiming for the top of its head and falling.

Why would you, a human, say that...?

Even though the sense of crisis that he could die instantly if he made a mistake, his instincts moved his body instead of his head, which he had to think about.

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