43 Episode 43: The Dark and the Crusading

"Hey, what happened!?"

Now something incredible has happened in front of me.

Suddenly a horizontal tornado appeared and blew the demons in the front.

Not just our Knights, but our adventurers are baffled by the sight we have now.

Isn't that what adventurers do?

No, in the first place, a horizontal tornado or something. It's impossible.

I don't want to see such an insane phenomenon.

"Hey! Can you do something like that with magic!?"

I ask the court wizard, who had refrained by my side, for an explanation.

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But the wizards just stood still with a flashy look.

"Answer me!"

"Ha!? Oh, no, I'm sorry"

The wizards, scolded by me and finally returned to me, bow their heads.

"I don't care about that! What do you think!? Am I magical!?"

But the wizards shake their heads beside each other.

"No, I've never seen magic like that. Perhaps, you can't use that kind of magic in the magical kingdom of the Four Heavens, in the wind of Lancaster."

The wizards take the example of the wizard of the magical giant Angelt, but I don't know if it would be awesome to be explained like that! Damn, this is why he's an expert.

"So you're saying that the tornado earlier is not magic?

But the wizards also shake their heads beside each other.

"No, I've never even heard of a tornado that occurs sideways. Probably a magical force."

"Either you can or you can't!

Oh, no more, this is why we can't have a conversation with the experts! Come on, man!

"Probably a lost item with the power of Lost Magic"

"Lost item!?"

Lost item, it's a magic item with terrible power, created by ancient civilizations that perished a long time ago.

Very rarely is the value of a sole excavated from ruins and the like immeasurable, and is assumed to be worth thousands of gold coins and tens of thousands of gold coins depending on the rejection object.

And I'm telling you that there are even items inside that are worth more than they can be replaced with gold.

The Wizard says such a lost item was used in this crusade.

"Lost Items…"

If this were just a crusade, the existence of Lost Items would have been a joy.

Anyway, this massive crusade has confirmed the appearance of many S-rank demons.

However, there must not have been any Lost Items on this crusade.

Because...

"This crusade will be troubling if you don't fail..."

Yes, because the massive outbreak of demons currently occurring around the Wang Capital is all caused by this me, the Knights of Towmel Tuccano and the Marquis of Tuccano...

"Use the scouts to find adventurers using the Lost Items of the Day"

I give immediate instructions to my deputy.

Because anything that interferes with my plan needs to be eliminated in a hurry.

"And as soon as you find it, finish it and take the Lost Item."

"Ha!"

My immediate men are on the move.

They are like-minded to me.

In other words, it is the presence of the side that deliberately causes a mass outbreak of demons.

"I don't need extra impurities for my beautiful plan"

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"All right, good things. I was able to deceive the Knights eyes and move them out of their sight. And then we'll prioritize the demons that seem as powerful as possible."

Ahead of the magic trigger, I set my sights on the S-rank demons and begin my action.

I already have information from the Alliance on the demons of S-rank that I want them to defeat as a priority.

I just had a sighting, I don't even know where he is, but if he's moving around on a smudge while using exploratory magic, I guess he'll find it soon.

"I found it while I was saying it!

Confirm clearly stronger forces ahead than the surrounding demons.

"That's... Gold Tiger!

Gold Tiger, as the name suggests, is a tiger demon wearing golden fur, a demon that many people sought for fur from its beauty in previous life.

"This is a good start. He's going to make good money."

Is that it? Speaking of which, I heard that Gold Tiger was overhauled and extinct for fur, but he was alive.

"Well, details are good."

Either way, Gold Tiger is a crusader, so it's good, right?

They've also confirmed this one by Gold Tiger, and they're on their way to prepare for a battle.

"Well, I don't know how to take him down"

Fighting Gold Tiger is quite a hassle.

Anyway, he will disable or significantly attenuate the magic of light attributes with his prized golden fur.

Wind attributes, but lightning based magic close to the attributes of light is also incompatible with Gold Tiger for those reasons.

That's why the operation to paralyze you with electricity isn't working, is it?

I only thought of him as an enemy in my previous life, so I just knocked him out, but when it comes to knocking him out as intact as possible like this one, the difficulty increases.

"Oh, that's why the adventurers defeat the demons with wisdom"

ensure the best possible condition of materials within limited conditions;

One day I will remember the good condition of Gold Tiger's fur that I saw in my previous life, and still pay tribute to the creativity and hard work of the adventurers.

"I can't lose, either!

Yeah, I'm an adventurer now.

Then let's crusade Gold Tiger in as beautiful a condition as we can!

"All right, no magic to hurt weapons or fur. Let's end this place with a fight!

I activate attribute enhancement, which is the superior magic of physical enhancement magic.

However, it is not attributes such as fire or water that will be enhanced this time.

"Multi-stage physical enhancement, physical boost!!"

Physical enhancement magic Superphysical enhancement magic that further specializes in the performance enhancement effect of the flesh, that's the physical boost.

Instead of consuming several times more magic than normal physical strengthening magic, this magic can increase the ability of the flesh several times more than physical strengthening magic.

If your normal physical enhancement magic effects are 3 to 5 times stronger, your physical boost will do more than 10 times better.

Besides, it is a specification that is infinitely enhanced only for magic.

"Let's go!

I simply head to Gold Tiger. [M]

But that speed is not what it has been.

"Huh!?"

Look at me suddenly starting to accelerate a few times faster, and Gold Tiger gets on guard and slows down.

But that's bad.

I can't handle my speed with the Gold Tiger that's slowing down against the accelerating one.

"Yikes!

I jumped into that pocket shortly after Gold Tiger was bewildered, half-rotating my body around to the side of Gold Tiger.

Gold Tiger rushes to find me when the enemy that should have come in front of him suddenly disappears.

"It's late!

When I was horseback ridden by Gold Tiger, I grabbed my head and twisted it as straight as I could.

"Huh!?"

Gokiri, with the sound of Gold Tiger not even screaming and hanging up.

"Phew, if you don't want to hurt your fur, you just have to destroy the contents!

Yeah, this could be a good way.

It doesn't look scratchy at all, either, and we'll destroy the prey from the inside at this rate.

"Hmm, there are other S-rank reactions"

The reaction is outside our crusade area, but, well, the guild wants us to take down S-rank first, and just go. Come on.

If you knock it down, it won't be money.

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"Oh, my God, Captain Towmel, the S-ranked demons around Wang Capital are going to turn down their reaction with great momentum."

"What!?"

Below me, waiting in the main unit, an incredible report arrives from my men.

"What do you mean!? It's an S-rank demon!? Somewhere you say another Knights is in the crusade!?"

The S-rank demon is a very unbeatable opponent unless he is also a massive group sweep by the Knights or an S-rank adventurer with some kind of trump card.

That's what's taking them down with great momentum!?

"No, we have no information that any other Knights are joining us, nor has the scouting soldier confirmed what it looks like."

"What are you talking about?"

No, in the first place, the S-rank demons moved outside the crusade area, except for a few of the fastest legs, which are part of the crusade, as if they had never been defeated in this crusade.

"How many were defeated?

Seven reactions have already disappeared.

"Stupid!?"

How much time and damage do you think it will take to crusade one S-rank!

Besides, it hasn't been two hours since the massive crusade started!?

"What the hell is going on!?... no way!?"

Yes, that horizontal tornado that happened at the start of the crusade, it must have been to draw my attention!

Did you turn your scouts' eyes towards us so that someone wouldn't detect an intensive crusade against the S-rank demons!

"No way...... our plan is noticed!?"