NOVEL NEXT chapter 73
73 – Rumors
While Irene was approaching Ballack, Lucia ran to Gilbert, who was injured while fighting Ballach, and treated him.
The warrior, Kir, and Elaim all circled around Balak as if to surround him, fearing that he might escape.
“Even if you ignore the Four Heavenly Kings, Balak, you are ignoring them.”
Balaq straightened his sword and prepared for Irene to attack at any moment.
Unlike Ballark, Irene, who was holding a regular sword as her weapon, was focusing on magic rather than sword…
Quad Deuk!
The more she concentrated on her mana, the more ice formed around her, which gave an idea of its power.
“I don’t know about the hero, but did the four human beings know what to do with me? Foolishness is…”
Ballack laughed at Irene and said, but his legs were busy moving backwards as Irene approached…
It’s not because she’s lost to Irene or because she looks strong, but because she’s been distracted by the murderous blood flowing from her eyes.
Wheeying~
Before I knew it, Irene’s cold air was spreading around her on the wind and freezing faster.
Ballack was also affected by it, so steam was spewing out of his mouth every time he breathed.
“Freeze”
Sueuuu!
The cold air that flowed from Irene’s body quickly headed for Ballack, and he lightly dodged the magic, but…
Kwagagagak!!
The cold air followed Ballark to the end, freezing everything it touched on the spot.
At last, Ballark swung his sword and tried to block the cold pursuit, but
His attack just passed by like slicing smoke in the air.
“Damn it…”
Bewildered by Irene’s unexpected attack, Ballack started swearing, and then moved at high speed to evade the pursuit of the cold air.
“Ice Wall”
I tried to block the speedy Ballach by building a huge wall of ice to block his escape, but…
Evil!! Bang!!!
He swung his sword to open a hole, and there he was able to avoid the cold attack completely by avoiding his body.
And then Ballach’s attack…
Sock!! Months!!
Irene instantaneously created ice and used it as her shield to block Balak’s sword.
She counterattacked there using broken ice shards, but Balak easily blocked it.
“Ice Block”
Boom!! Bang!!! Bang!!
After blocking the counterattack, Irene pulled her body back as much as possible to the continued attack of Ballack, summoning blocks of ice.
The chunks of ice waiting in the air headed for Balak.
Balark easily avoided the first few chunks, but as time passed, the accuracy of the falling ice chunks increased.
Later, I couldn’t avoid it, so I swung my sword and split the ice in half, only to stop it.
“Ice Shelf”
While Balach was blocking the falling ice blocks, Irene, who concentrated her mana, prepared a huge magic…
Even though it was broad daylight, everyone’s eyes turned to the sky as soon as the surroundings were colored with darkness.
“Damage!”
The hero unknowingly screamed loudly and lifted Lucia and Gilbert on his back to avoid a huge block of ice bigger than an iceberg summoned by Irene.
Boom!!!!!!!!!!!
Behind the earth-shaking tremors, fragments of huge icebergs were bouncing in all directions.
I don’t know, but it was such an enormous range of magic that half of the barbarian village was destroyed.
Irene kept her eyes wide enough away from this huge block of ice, in case Ballach would strike back,
I waited and waited for him to get out of the ice block.
And how long did you wait…
No matter how much he waited, when Balak did not come up, the warrior approached the place where Balak was supposed to lie and looked for his presence.
Should we say that he disappeared like a person who never existed, rather than died under the ice?
Even Kirr, who is sensitive to presence, went out and wandered around, but he couldn’t even figure out where Ballark might be.
In the end, Irene was able to find the space where the magic circle was drawn only after Irene summoned the huge ice.
“Magic tools…”
Kir looked at the magic circle engraved on the floor and spoke softly,
Irene looked around the area where the magic circle was engraved, looking for traces of Ballack.
“It is a high-level magic tool that teleports you to a remembered location. Somehow… When I was crushed by the ice, my mana fluctuated momentarily…”
Kir pointed to the magic circle and briefly explained to Irene about the magical tools used in the demon army.
Irene’s expression hardened after hearing this, and she returned to her usual expressionless expression.
*****
“Brother!! Brother!!”
Prince Chris was looking at the person who broke through the door without his permission with a grim face,
Because there was a woman other than his wife, Saint Emilia, lying on the bed he was lying on.
“Huh? Who… was there?”
“Don’t you know what knocking is?”
Her former appearance disappeared everywhere, and now she has a chubby body just like her aunties, and even when you look at her face, she pours out her irritation at her younger sister Lydia, who looks older than herself.
Her prince and the woman who was lying in her bed hurriedly left her room, dressed in her skimpy clothes, so as not to show her face to Lydia.
“Knocking is not important now!”
“Then what else is important other than invading my privacy? I’m already annoyed by Edward these days…”
Unlike Chris, who enjoys entertainment at the prince’s villa every day, Edward, who is the second prince and is aiming for the position of crown prince, goes directly to the battlefield and leads the army, showing an extraordinary appearance.
As a result, the current nobles as well as many people shouted for the replacement of the crown prince, and Chris was literally standing on the edge of a cliff.
“Did you hear that!?”
“What?”
“This time, a deal to appoint a new hero in the Great War!!”
“What!!!?”
Chris, who was sitting leisurely in a chair drinking water, dropped his cup to the floor.
Then he approached Lydia to hear about the new hero, grabbed her by the shoulders, and asked again.
“That… What does that mean! A new hero?”
“I don’t know! I just heard Strange rumors circulated that a new hero was being recruited due to the current hero’s neglect of duty.
“What… What is it… That… Is that possible?”
Crown Prince Chris couldn’t understand.
The process of selecting a warrior is very careful and complicated, and it takes a long time.
Even if a warrior who received an oracle appeared, he could not be immediately appointed as a warrior.
After gaining enough education and experience as a candidate for a hero, he is officially appointed as a hero and fights against the demon king’s army…
Now, there are no previous steps, and it didn’t make sense to blindly appoint a warrior.
“You must have heard something wrong. There is no candidate for a hero, so what kind of hero are you appointing?”
“That’s right, I don’t know. Anyway, the Great War is very busy right now because of the hero appointment ceremony!”
Crown Prince Chris thought Lydia was wrong and she tried to spill it, but
The more I watched Lydia’s reaction, the more she trusted her words.
“Ah! If you don’t believe me, oppa will send someone to find out!”
When Lydia didn’t trust her until the end, her brother, Chris, tried to leave her alone, but…
“Wait!”
The catchy voice of Chris stopped her and turned around again.
“No, where did you get the new hero… Yes. Suppose there is a new warrior. What are you going to do with it?”
“That’s why he wants to wield power in the empire again with the hero on his back. Or not….”
“Or not?”
“No way.. To create a new warrior party?”
“A new warrior party?”
“Yes. Then… Only the hero is different… It’s not much different from the old warrior party, right? Then people will think of it as a real warrior party…”
After hearing Lydia’s words, Chris pondered her thoughts.
Saint Emilia’s goal is not to bring peace to the continent by defeating the Demon King’s army, but rather to have a happy ending.
It will be her goal to somehow revive her own standing and spread her own reputation throughout the continent as well as her empire.
“Isn’t that bad news for us?”
“No! Not bad news for us either!”
“Why?”
“Our empire will be reborn as a nation that has a warrior party like before, so I can become an official warrior party again like before! Oppa can also use it to take down the second prince!”
Hearing Lydia’s words, Crown Prince Chris pondered.
3 Years ago…
When the former warrior party was in this empire,
What did he do to his reputation, including his empire…
I still can’t forget the nostalgia of that time, when I was respected by all the people of the empire as the next emperor instead of being pushed aside by the second prince like now.
“That..Then..What should I do?”
“What can I do! If you decide to use me as a warriors party again, oppa can sneak in a spoon too!”
“A spoon?”
“Yes! We should actively support the new warrior party and spread the word throughout the continent as well as the empire to support it!”
Of course, the Great War will provide support for the warrior party, but if the crown prince steps forward and actively supports it at the imperial level…
With the support of people no less than the current King Edwin, he was able to bring back the lost power of the Crown Prince.
“Wait for now… If my predictions aren’t wrong… Emilia will definitely call me today or tomorrow…”
Even though Lydia hadn’t become an official warrior party yet, she was already thinking about the things after becoming a warrior party in her head, and she fell into happy imagination.