“Wait… for real?”
“It appears to be ‘for real.’ It seems to reconstruct itself after taking a certain amount of damage.”
Recalling the thunder spear as it flew back to my hand, I regrouped with Garm and Nidhogg, who were nonchalantly gazing up at the situation.
Noticing me, Garm grabbed the hem of my coat tightly.
“King-kun! That… it’s that kid, but it’s not that kid!”
“Wha—what do you mean…?”
“There was no feedback when I punched it!… Read more
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Kaguya prepared a spell in an instant, but Seere mocked her in return.
“Feel free to fire. I’ll just teleport away, and you can destroy this magnificent castle to your heart’s content…”
The thing that interrupted Kaguya’s brief hesitation was the screams of the Explorers.
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaah!!”
“Dammit! Why here!?”
“Mana… I’m… out…”
“Haah… haah… AAAAAAAHHH!”
Battered and bruised. Surrounded on all sides.
There were no better words to describe their situation.… Read more
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“Yee-haw! I’d die if I had to do that a few more times!”
Shaking out her right hand, Linfa Neville landed on the tiled roof of a house.
“But… I managed to cancel it out!”
[UWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!]
Suddenly, a cheer erupted that rivaled the previous explosion.
It was a massive roar of support from the people visiting the Sleepless City from other countries.
“I don’t really get it, but it looks like that monster isn’t invincible!”
“My Explorer level is definitely gonna go up if we take that thing down!”… Read more
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Chapter 5: The Wind Spirit Hresvelgr
The moonlight vanished.
A mud-like mana covered the entire capital, forming a massive dome that imprisoned the Sleepless City and blotted out the sky.
And yet, out of place amidst the crisis, the city continued to sparkle with an orange glow, illuminated by its own magical lights.
It was a scene of “Pandemonium.” Faced with a phenomenon akin to a natural disaster, the trapped citizens began to scream in terror.… Read more
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Natural Black Onyx attracts and traps any mana. Even if it’s a curse, which is a collection of negative mana.
There is a never-ending demand for it as ornaments for royalty and high-ranking nobles who are always at risk of assassination, and its value continues to soar even now.
Such Black Onyx was hidden under the guild’s floor. Aleu was not so dull as not to feel a chill at that fact.
“The fact that you don’t have nightmares means you aren’t from the Sleepless City.… Read more
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For Furcas himself, as long as his boredom was relieved, he didn’t care about the outcome.
But somehow, every one of the King’s movements appeared more painful than anything else to him.
The Corpse King, having returned to the main stage after many long years.
His way of being… his distorted way of living, hadn’t changed in the slightest.
Keeping a half-breed of demon and angel by his side, holding hands with a wolf belonging to the Primordials, and continuing to walk with a dragon, another part of the Primordials, on his back.… Read more
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At that same moment.
Garm’s mouth fell wide open, and Furcas’s eyes widened slightly.
Both of them were looking in the same direction. Even without following their gaze, it was obvious what lay ahead.
“Ah… I see.”
Garm’s small lips trembled. Looking out into the distance, she narrowed her large, moist eyes.
“So that’s what I meant by ‘nostalgic’.”
Nostalgic. Garm had indeed felt that way about some strange magical power.… Read more
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“That corpse… is it a Greater Demon?”
“Yup, yup! Because my—this lowly fellow’s—role is hunting traitors!”
He stabbed the thing he called a Greater Demon’s corpse with his sword.
He looked at the thing, which would have looked like nothing more than a lump of meat if he hadn’t said otherwise, with eyes full of accomplishment.
“It seemed like they were looking for various things… but ‘Evil-Immediate-Slay,’ right!?”
“Traitors…”
“Yeah! It seemed like they were trying to do something using humans!”… Read more
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The carriage carrying us arrived at a place where rubble was scattered about like an ancient ruin.
With the magical lights emitted by the Sleepless Kingdom, Shechem, visible in the distance, the carriage was blocked by debris and came to a halt.
“Good work.”
I stepped down from the carriage, grabbed the scruff of the man who had driven us, froze him, and shattered him.
Casting aside the shards of ice that had turned red, I began to explore the area with Nifl and the others.… Read more
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Chapter 4: The Knight
“Tch… Seriously, this isn’t worth the pay!”
“Stop whining! Just run!”
Several men, their soles stained with blood, panted heavily but showed no sign of stopping.
In the leather bags each of them carried were numerous stolen goods, stuffed to the point of bursting.
“Over here!”
“Oh! Saved at last!”
At the edge of the outskirts of the Sleepless Kingdom, a single carriage waited.
The one waving from the driver’s seat was one of their comrades, who had positioned the carriage exactly as planned.… Read more