"Is this also a night spirit?"
Reiger slowly opened his mouth, his face filled with calm.
But Beluti couldn’t possibly answer his inquiry.
Night spirit?
Is that a night spirit?
How could that be a night spirit?
How could there... be such a large night spirit?
"It seems this is what those mice wanted to send to ."
Reiger didn’t mind Beluti’s speechlessness and silence, and spoke to himself.
"Rumble——"
Below, the black sea that subrged the entire forest surged again, with layer upon layer of giant waves appearing on the surface of the sea, as if an invisible storm had descended here, or the sea god in the black sea was angrily roaring, creating waves of roaring crashes.
Imdiately afterward, the black waves seed to co alive, suddenly gaining consciousness and roaring toward the direction where Reiger stood.
Facing the giant waves that rose high, intending to engulf him, Reiger was like a small, weak bird fluttering mid-air, seemingly pitifully insignificant.
"[Dispel]."
However, facing the black giant wave, Reiger remained standing there motionless in mid-air and directly released an invisible slash, aiming at the opponent.
This slash was enormous; if soone could see it, they would find that it spanned at least a hundred ters in length.
Such a slash, if it landed on the ground, would surely create an eye-catching chasm on the earth; if it landed on a mountain peak, it would undoubtedly cleave the peak in half without a shred of hesitation.
"Boom!"
The massive slash struck the colossal black wave, creating a thunderous crash and dispersing it at once.
Yet, the dispersed black waves still seed to have co to life, not falling back to the black sea below, but instead transforming into countless water droplets, like firing artillery, explosively shooting toward Reiger.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...!"
Accompanied by successive booms, countless black water droplets struck Reiger one after another, exploding in front of him.
In front of Reiger, it was as if there was an invisible wall blocking all the incoming black water droplets, causing them to explode in the space at a distance from Reiger, unable to touch him at all.
"[Dispel: Soul-Crushing Blade]."
Reiger released the slash again, using the one just deployed to deal with the night spirit, capable of directly attacking the soul of others.
The slash landed thunderously in the black sea, causing it to surge, yet seed unable to inflict any effective damage on the opponent.
"For this black sea, my slash is ultimately too small to bring about significant harm?"
Reiger squinted his eyes.
"Your Excellency!" Beluti finally ca back to her senses, hastily saying, "This matter is sowhat strange, we should retreat to the garrison area first!"
Reaching this point, Beluti also sowhat realized that the two of them were probably not running into magical creatures by chance, but rather, soone was deliberately targeting the two of them.
No, it should be said, the target is only Reiger.
Soone intentionally created this scene to attack the savior of the source.
Realizing this, Beluti imdiately wanted Reiger to go back.
No way around it, Reiger was here alone outside the garrison area because of her request, falling into a nearly isolated danger.
If, because of this, sothing happened to Reiger, the savior, then even if she paid with her life, she couldn’t make up for this transgression.
"Retreat?"
Reiger, however, shook his head.
"In the current situation, do you think we still have the possibility to retreat?"
At Reiger’s reminder, Beluti looked around and her expression changed imdiately.
Only to see that outside the black sea, layers of transparent barriers had unknowingly risen, enclosing the entire black sea within.
Even the sky wasn’t spared; a transparent barrier appeared like a do, combining with the surrounding barriers to form a super-sized irregular polyhedron.
Reiger and Beluti were also trapped inside, standing above the black sea, within the barrier, becoming birds in a cage.
"The opponent ca prepared. Since they’ve started making their move, how could they let us leave so easily?"
Reiger glanced at Beluti who was speechless in his arms, unexpectedly smiled in front of her and said.
"Well, now you’re implicated with ."
Reiger still had the heart to joke, saying such words.
"Do I need to apologize?"
Upon hearing this, Beluti smiled bitterly.
"Boom——"
Below, the black sea seed unable to tolerate Reiger being so relaxed in such a perilous situation, once again churning heavy waves, roaring towards Reiger.
"Hold tight."
Facing the murderous black waves, Reiger calmly spoke to Beluti in his arms, as composed as before, without losing his composure.
Just like the black sea before him was the sa as the previous night spirit that was like black water, Reiger moved forward instead of retreating, holding a woman in his arms, rushing towards the overwhelmingly heavy waves.
...
Simultaneously, at the Karedohart Empire garrison zone.
When the black sea descended from the sky, crashing to the ground and swallowing the forest beside the garrison zone, the entire Karedohart garrison was startled, losing the nightti tranquility it should have had.
Countless knights, fully ard, rushed from buildings or various posts, so running on the streets, loudly shouting, organizing the town’s backup personnel to evacuate for shelter, others running outside the town to set up defenses, and so gathered at the gate of Quellus’ residence, awaiting orders.
Inside the residence, Quellus and others were also unsurprisingly startled, and gathered in the hall.
Of course, lo and Naisa were there too.
However, both their expressions looked very unpleasant, and Jelina and Hilune behind them were even more full of panic, on the verge of tears.
No choice.
They couldn’t find their master.
"What did you say?" Quellus’ face changed, saying: "You an, Your Excellency isn’t in the room?"
"...Yes." lo frowned deeply, suppressing the worry in his heart, speaking as calmly as possible: "When we woke up, we only found Jelina and Hilune still asleep, not Your Excellency."
lo’s words finally brought moisture to the eyes of the two Nymph maidens.
"Sorry! It’s all our fault...!"
"We shouldn’t have slept so deeply!"
Jelina and Hilune’s voices were full of sobs.
"It’s not your fault." Naisa’s face was full of worry, but still comforted the Nymph maidens, saying: "You were probably subjected to a magical sleep, that’s why you didn’t notice His Excellency’s departure."
"Magic?" Lilicia listened and imdiately said: "Did soone sneak into His Excellency’s room, hypnotize his maidens, and then abduct His Excellency without anyone noticing?"
As soon as these words were spoken, lo and Naisa imdiately refuted.
"No, it’s impossible."
"What kind of person could sneak into our room unnoticed, and without causing any commotion, abduct His Excellency?"
At least, lo and Naisa did not believe that such a thing happened without them noticing any anomaly.
Even if they didn’t notice, could Reiger not notice?
They knew Reiger’s strength was easily on par with that of a saint, it’s absolutely impossible to abduct him without causing any disturbance.
"I also think it’s impossible." Quellus frowned tightly, saying: "There are protective and alarm spells set up everywhere in the residence, even a saint couldn’t infiltrate His Excellency’s room and abduct him without causing any disturbance."
This is the center of the Karedohart Empire’s garrison zone, and is the residence of Quellus, the highest command officer, the protective chanisms couldn’t be stronger.
A saint might be able to break in forcefully, but to do so without causing any disturbance, that’s absolutely impossible.
And the most important point...
"You just said, the Holy Sword Marfa hasn’t been taken away, but is still in the room, right?"
Pasiphus pointed out this doubt.
"Yes." Naisa nodded, saying: "Lord Marfa is still here."
Saying this, Naisa displayed the Holy Sword tightly held in her arms.
It was asleep in its sheath, dim and without light.
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