Chapter 203.
Chapter19.
Bright light occupied the snow, and after a while the eyes opened again. Without realizing it, the sea disappeared without a trace and we stood in the middle of the swamp surrounding the mangroves.” Uh ……”
At best, I thought I’d be back in Tratan, so I looked around in alarm. I don’t know if it was inexplicable, but Callisto also looked around with a frown.
At that moment.” Your Highness!”
In the distance, more than thirty heavily armed knights cut down the vines with difficulty and came over. Fortunately, there was a recognizable face standing in the group.
“Have you come, Your Highness. It’s been a long time, Duchess.”
The aide to the Crown Prince who reached us rudely whispered a greeting. Before he could reply, the Crown Prince asked fiercely.” Where is this?”
“The swamps of the Popoporia Forest near the border.”
“Who asked you that? Why are you summoned here, Cedric Potter.”
“…… Yes? Weren’t you told to perform summoning magic?”
“Shouldn’t it be sent to the Duke’s house? What about the war?”
“Ha, but the wizards …… left in the palace are servants of His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Then, wherever it is teleported to, it should be done to a safe place. What’s this?” Callisto kicked the dirt floor sadly. I stood sullenly at a distance like I didn’t recognize him.
“Ah, no……”
Cedric, who was just doing what he was told, panicked. It was like seeing me early in the game.
“Anyway, I’m pissed.”
Flashing his blonde hair and thinking this in his mind, Cedric replied with a face full of anger.
“Did you know that wizards who can summon magic from a distance are laying on Jigawa? Your Highness?”
“Once you get here, even if you are attacked by a sneak attack and get your male daughter hurt, are you responsible for that? Hmm?”
Suddenly the Crown Prince asked east.
“What, why are you suddenly talking about me?”
I accidentally looked back at them. Cedric’s eyes were round. But more than that, the Crown Prince made a bomb-like declaration.
“Ah, let’s all say hello when we get together. It’s the reserve Crown Princess, to guard her with her life.” I simply opened my mouth.
“What? Your Highness …… is suddenly getting married?”
“This isn’t a dream, is it?”
“Surprisingly, someone is willing to accept our highness ……”
The knights lined up behind Cedric swung instantly.
“Greetings, Your Royal Highness!”
“It’s an honor to meet you, Your Highness the Crown Princess! Hooray!”
Their ecstatic situation made the scene even more frantic.
Unlike me at this moment, the Crown Prince joyfully looked at his men and turned his head towards me.
“Duchess, these people rolled with me on the battlefield for a few years. I will look at them often in the future, and my face will be familiar …… Duke Daughter! Where are you going?”
Never wanting to hear that guy’s foul language again, I suddenly turned and scrambled away. But in an instant, that guy ran in front of me.
Being blocked from the path, I had to stop again.
“Why is your face so red?”
He suddenly put his hand on my face. I slapped that hand aside and said.
“If you keep saying weird things, I’ll pretend I don’t have company. I’ll go by myself.”
“What strange words? For safety’s sake, I just warned the person who will be your subordinate later ……”
“Shut up, shut up!!!”
I dropped his hand and gagged him. The eyes of Callisto who paused for a moment beautifully curved into a half moon.
“Ah, is it a secret love affair? I’m sorry.”
“When did I…!”
“Don’t be angry. I’ll pay attention in the future. Hmm?”
“Heh!”
Callisto peeked at my eye color and loosened the hand that was gagging me. I sighed in exasperation.
When did I say I was in love with you?!
Instead, I said that if it all ended, we wouldn’t be able to be together, only the sound of endgame.
“I’m sorry for bringing him here .”
But looking at the angry me, carefully touching my hand, I couldn’t bear to ask when I did it. Heart thumping.
Suddenly, I was aware of marvelous eyes thrust upon us.
“Uh-huh! Anyway, how do I get back to the capital now?” I scrambled to pull my hand out of his grip and jumped off of him in a flash.
“Duchess, were you threatened by His Highness when you were alone with him?” At that moment Cedric approached me and in a murderous voice, asked.
“Was he? What ……?”
“Then dry cough twice, please. I’ll do whatever I want ……”
“Cedric Potter, don’t talk nonsense and stay away from my fiancée!”
Possibly a ghost knew, the Crown Prince muttered grimly, pouting his chin. Sadly, Cedric walked away from me before he could even utter a sound.
“Report first.”
“Yesterday morning, we received a tip that a massive rebel supply run would be coming through here.”
“Obvious guys. As I expected.”
The Crown Prince looked around with sharp eyes and nodded. I followed suit and looked around. There was nothing stylized to hide a body in the endless damp swamp. Not a suitable place for a battle.
Doubts could be resolved with Cedric’s words that followed.
“Only two wizards and elite troops who can perform multiple movement magic move to hide in a state that conveys invisibility magic.”
“But ……”
“Soon after the successful combat, I returned to the camp and tried to summon His Highness and the male daughter. But …….”
Cedric added nervously.” The supplies haven’t been here for two hours.”
“Why didn’t you just go back to the camp?”
The Crown Prince asked rhetorically with a frown. Cedric replied vaguely.” I thought the march through the swamp was late, and the magic drain exhausted the wizards while they waited.”
“Then shouldn’t you have summoned us when you got back?”
“Whoa, did you give me that kind of time?” Cedric cried accusingly.
“I couldn’t give you supplies for the entire duration of the war without summoning on the magical creatures.”
“This …… male enhancement girl, are you really threatened?”
“Perhaps,” I thought.
But Cedric’s pathetic voice ended with the Crown Prince, who was glared at cruelly.
I looked at the sobbing Cedric with a somewhat guilty look. Because I wanted to get out of the scorching hot island of Aquinaze quickly, I rushed Callisto.
“Why do you always go to far away places to call ……”
Threatening my assistant like a character breaker. I don’t know if I should really be thankful for letting me get out quickly, it’s time to gaze at the Crown Prince with amazed eyes.” …… This is the place to over drill.”
The Crown Prince, who was looking around the silent swampy area except for us, suddenly spat out.
“It’s also possible they’ll change their course of action in two hours. Prepare for evacuation.”
“Ha, but …… expect the margin of error to be about three hours. Frequent visitors to the swamp there …… your highness.”
Cedric retorted that Moore, Callisto ignored him and crossed to the knights. The two young palace wizards leaned on their ornate walking sticks and gasped.
“Hey, when can we use movement magic again?” The Crown Prince asked as he approached them without hesitation.
“Well, it’s been a while since we’ve been using summoning magic, and there are quite a few of them ……”
“So?”
The prince’s face went straight to black, and the wizards became pensive all of a sudden, scrambling to answer.
“Ha, I think another hour or so of rest will do.”
“How about a smaller number? Is it okay to be on the magical creatures?”
“I’ve got about two or three on my own ……”
“Then the male female first ……”
“I’m fine!”
I exclaimed first anticipating what words would pop out of the happening Callisto’s mouth.
“I can wait an hour or so. Right, Cedric?”
“Of course, male daughter!”
Like someone on the verge of fainting, in a moment of boredom Cedric’s face visibly brightened. Only the Crown Prince frowned in dissatisfaction.
“What are you doing? Go back first. You have something to do, don’t you.”
“What are you doing, Your Highness? I’ll go first, the rest of you know when to go back.” I don’t yield to the Crown Prince’s ferocious momentum.” Just go get the other wizard.”
The wizard speaks brazenly to both sides of any consumable his look makes me frown.
“Please! This will still get you in trouble, shame on you, stop it.”
“What’s there to be ashamed of?”
“Your Highness is always so strange! Everyone looks at me strangely!”
“Who dares!”
How can people have such thick skin? The appearance of the Crown Prince who was displaced due to worrying about me, more than 30 people are looking at the Crown Prince with strange eyes. I turned red and became a bit annoyed.
“It’s about an hour. Getting the treatment of help, just go together for a while.”
“Oh. You’ve been taking care of your subordinates for a long time?”
I decided to just ignore it. Cocking his body to look at the distant mountains, the Crown Prince softened his face and murmured.
“…… don’t feel too good.”
“Don’t worry. I can protect myself.”
“If you get hurt.”
He stopped talking for a moment and came back.
“It’s because I feel so bad.”
No words came out of that sentence. I spoke casually after a while.
“…… I heard you changed your plans too? Nothing’s wrong, slow down ……” Trying to talk back and stay for a while, I suddenly closed my mouth.
At the same time, I felt a bit of a strange breath.
It’s wind, not wind, but like something invisible …….
“Click!”
Puffs of heat and pain! At that moment, at the end of the swamp in the distance, a flock of birds in the woods flew in unison.
Probably sensing something unusual, the knights drew their swords one after another.
“There’s no movement within a radius of 2 kilometers.”
A driver nervously reported. As he said, there was nothing to see around the squished swamp except us.” Can you fight the defense ending?”
The crown prince asked a wizard next to him.” Yes! Ha, but it’s hard to last long. Mana ……”
“Now.”
He calmly turned his back and ordered the other wizard as if not to listen to negativity.
“You magical creatures on take the male daughter back to camp.”
“Your Highness!”
The Crown Prince’s words caused me to panic.
“Ha, either I have to use transparent magic while fighting ……”
“Alright, magic-thing on take the male daughter to a safe place.”
“I’m fine!”
“What are you doing? Quickly bring ……”
At that time.” Your Highness!”
Someone called Callisto urgently.
“In, in the sky above! A …… swarm of demons has appeared overhead!” Those words made the crown prince, and I reflexively raised my head.” That’s …… it!”
Like pterodactyls, huge new magical creatures swarmed.
Countless shadows instantly approached and frantically pounced on the bed. The new demonic creatures amazingly spewed out fire. But for us, the flames didn’t reach. Thanks to the defense decision. Looking back, the young sorcerer whom the Crown Prince had ordered to fight to the death was pale and shivering. Isn’t it true that with so little mana left, the transparent shield would have been in jeopardy every time it caught fire. But finally it held, and the birds stopped spewing fire, turned their direction, and flew high.
“What ……”
The sky suddenly opened up as everyone looked up with unaware expressions. It suddenly rained from the flock of birds that rose high like a dark cloud.
“Shoot ah ah ah ah!”
Countless raindrops. No, arrows like rain swooped down on us at the same time.
“Delman’s army!” Someone shouted.