Chapter 430: Raid’s Outcome

Chapter 430: Raid's Outcome

「Fuh...」

『We won』

Fran, who had released her sword god transformation, recovered the Count who was on one knee. Apparently, even though he was in a daze, he had seen the scene where Fran had defeated the assailants. Rather, he was so surprised by that scene that he lost consciousness for a moment.

Immediately after he recovered, he stared at Fran. The look on his face was not one of questioning, but one of pure admiration and surprise.

「Oi Oi Oi! What the hell was that?」

「Nn?」

「I don't know what happened, but I know something incredible happened!」

Apparently, thanks to the Count's dazed state, our sword god transformation has not been discovered by him.

「As expected of Black Lightning Princes...The one that His Majesty the Beast King favourite. No, more than that now is――」

「Guh!」

Interrupting the Count's words, Fran holds me up.

「There's more!」

There was still signs of battle in the house. The sound of broken windows and magical explosions echoed in the air.

「――」

「Count, go down」

「I can still fight! Damn, are you guys safe!」

10 minutes later

She had repelled the assailants twice and was finally on her way to rescue the others. The aftereffects of the sword god transformation had degraded her fighting strength, but she had managed to win because there was only one opponent and we were two.

「This room!」

「Nn」

We went to Velmeria's room. There was no sign of a battle from inside, but there was also no sign of Velmeria and the others.

「Are you safe!」

「Hey! Frederick」

「...Who in the world, would do such a thing!...」

「I have many guess, but...」

Marquis Ashtner is the most suspicious one, but there is no evidence. I think we should just punch him in the face, but as long as we tried move our soldiers around the capital, we can't afford to be vague about the evidence. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I'm sure they are planning to revolt.

When Frederick and Colbert examined some of them, they found that they had been given large doses of narcotics, just like Hamuls and Gordon.

The narcotics is said to have the effect of stimulating the mind of the person who ingests it and depriving them of their ability to think, as well as making it easier for them to be influenced with magic. Therefore, it is said to be very useful for brainwashing using magic.

「This guy...」

Colbert, who was checking the body of the fifth assailants, suddenly tilted his head. Then he stared at the face of the assailants. That's the swordsman that Fran defeated first, isn't it?

「What's wrong?」

「Miss Fran, do you recognize this guy?」

「Nn. defeated him」

「No, not about it...Oh yes! He is an adventurer!」

It seems that he was a rank C adventurer. So, they were manipulating high-ranking adventurers. There were a few other adventurers that Colbert recognized. All of them were rank C or rank B adventurers, as Colbert remembered.

Colbert, too, is tilting his head in front of the mysterious sword that was stuck in the attacker.

「What the hell is this sword...you know it Frederick?」

「Fran, do you still have that thing?」

「Nn」

「It's from the magic sword that attacked the inn. You'll never mistake this unpleasant looking hand cover for anything else」

Frederick explained to Colbert the similarities between the magic sword that seems to have been controlling Gordon with the magic sword that was stuck in the assailants this time.

「So you're saying that this magic sword has its own will and was controlling these guys?」

「That's a possibility......It's hard to tell because the magic sword I saw at the inn was half destroyed, but I think it was a long sword, and it can freely move itself」

「A sword that can move on its own? But this sword doesn't seem to be moving」

「I guess that means they're not exactly the same thing. Its power feels so much weaker」

As we were talking, there was a sign of Urushi returns to the residence. Now we will be able to track down Velmeria.

「Urushi is back」

「Is that so!」

It was Frederick, the one who shout a cheer when he heard those words, not the Count.