ALL NOVEL chapter 9
9 – Lucia
Maybe it was the effect of the lavender tea Lucia gave me?
After drinking the tea, the symptoms of anxiety that I thought would last for a long time disappeared like a lie.
I don’t know if it’s because of the amazing efficacy of the tea, or because of the mental state that has improved a lot since meeting Kir…
After calming down to some extent, I confirmed that the departure time was delayed and headed to Jack and Jenny waiting outside the inn.
As if the troops marching to battle with the Demon King’s army had already passed, the village became cold again,
With him, Iluen was nowhere to be seen.
“Karl, are you okay?”
“Yes. Are you okay.”
“If it’s difficult, would you like to take a break today and start tomorrow?”
“No. It’s okay, so let’s get going. Sorry. You are very late because of me.”
I apologized to Jack and Jenny and headed to the designated area for the quest we received from the Adventurer’s Guild.
“Thank you very much. Lucia.”
“No. You’re welcome.”
“I heard the effect of that tea was really good?”
“I’m glad it worked. Are you okay now?”
“Yes. But how do you know that?”
Lucia took one of her vials from her bag and showed it to me.
“In my hometown, I dry lavender or various tea leaves, put them in a glass bottle like this, and store them for a long time before eating them.”
“Hmm.. That car was this…”
The glass bottle Lucia held out was full of purple dried petals,
It seemed like the scent of the tea I drank earlier was still leaking out, even though it was sealed with a stopper.
“When I have similar symptoms like Carl’s, I often make tea with it.”
Similar symptoms to mine…?
So you’re saying that Lucia suffered from anxiety like me?
Lucia said that she did not want to speak of her own painful memories, she did not speak her words anymore,
So we were walking towards our destination quietly, listening to Jack and Jenny talking again.
How long did it take…
Since our party started late, we were the only ones in sight going forward,
Instead, it was often seen that wounded adventurers, knights, and soldiers were brought from the front.
“Does this seem to cause more damage than I thought?”
At first, Jack walked confidently, but when he saw the crowd of injured people, he seemed to be frightened. His pace slowly slowed down.
“First is safety, second is safety, so if everyone thinks they are in danger, they should run away. Understand?”
“Yes…”
If I knew the battle would be this fierce, I would have just acted as a hero…
Around the time when I was hesitating at the thought of whether I should go out to support even now with this kind of regret…
“Quack! Is human koop. Catch the human!”
A group of dozens of armed orcs appeared and shouted at our party,
I don’t know how they managed to break through the other adventurers’ party ahead, but they didn’t even see a trace of battle.
“Jack, you and I are in the front, and Jenny and Lucia are the back support in the back. Especially! Jenny, you have to keep treating Jack.”
“Ugh… Yes..”
I don’t have to worry about getting hurt by these orcs.
Originally, if I dealt with my skills, I would be no more than a fistful away from those orcs, but right now, as a B-class adventurer, I needed proper acting, so I had to adjust my strength.
“Karl…Don’t do that, let’s retreat. Oh.. There are too many orcs.”
Jack looked at the number of orcs and tried to convince me that it couldn’t be done, but
We already had no retreat left.
“I think it will be difficult to retreat…”
“What?”
There were a lot of monsters that shouldn’t be behind us, and the adventurers and troops that should have been fighting in the front went where and the monsters were pouring in.
“This is… How did it happen! What about the other adventurers? What about the knights? There was also a former warrior party member!”
Because of being surrounded by monsters back and forth, Jenny had already lost her temper, and Jack was also in a state of fright at the trembling of the sword he was holding.
On the other hand, Lucia…
“Karl, I’ll do my best to cover your back! In the meantime, orcs ahead!”
I don’t know if she alone can stop the monsters behind her, but it seems like she’s summoning her spirit from the way she gathers her mana with her hands.
“Then hold on for just three minutes. Lucia.”
“Yes!”
“Jack, you stick by Jenny and Lucia just in case.”
As if Jack had waited for my words, he approached Jenny and Lucia, holding his sword and guarding his surroundings.
“[Undine]”
In the meantime, Undine in the form of a young girl, made of water summoned by Lucia, appeared in a strange place and was confused, but she smiled broadly when she saw Lucia.
“[Water Barrier]”
Shuaaa~
Continuing, Lucia shouted at the monsters behind her, and Undine raised a barrier of water there to stop the monsters from approaching.
I knew that the water barrier wouldn’t do much damage to monsters, but
If only I could defeat the orcs in front and give them enough time to go to the back… That would have been enough.
Suck!! Shook!! Months!!
“Pleasant love liquid!!!”
While Lucia’s water barrier was holding back the monsters, I cut down the orcs one by one and continued the tough battle, even worrying that the monsters from behind might cross the water barrier.
When I met orcs clad in thick iron armor, I would slice them one by one, using my swordsmanship so as not to be seen by the other party.
“Whoa…”
After defeating all the orcs in front of me, I had no time to catch my breath and had to run again to deal with the monsters behind the water barrier.
Jack and Jenny just stared at me in disbelief as I took out so many orcs in less than three minutes and ran back.
Fortunately, Lucia didn’t seem to see my fight scene because she was paying attention to the water barrier…
“Lucia, keep the water barrier up.”
“Yes!”
After talking to Lucia, I immediately jumped high and crossed the barrier, where monsters that couldn’t do anything because of the water barrier were teeming with them.
While the opaque water barrier blocked the party members’ view for a while, I showed my skills to my heart’s content and slayed the monsters faster than the orcs.
It was only after the surrounding area was stained with the blood of monsters that the water barrier was slowly lifted and the figures of the party members appeared.
“Knife…”
“I don’t have time. Let us quickly retreat to the rear.”
Jack seemed to be opening his mouth to say something, but I knew what he was going to say, so I ignored him and walked towards the village.
Anyway, there’s no way that many armies and adventurers who went to the front will be wiped out in this short moment…
It seemed that the number of people fleeing or retreating after being injured was far less than the number that somehow escaped.
“Damn it…! We were tricked!”
“It’s like a f*cking warrior party!!”
Then…
Those who appeared to be knights retreating from the front were swearing and walking with limp legs.
When the word “Warriors’ party” Came out, I grabbed them without realizing it and asked them.
“What is going on up front?”
“What? Are you an adventurer? If you don’t want to be killed as well, run away!”
“What happened to you?”
“Looking at it now, don’t you know? Almost all have been annihilated. Annihilation…”
“Annihilation? So many armies annihilated?”
“It’s not exactly annihilation, but most of them are surrounded and isolated by the demon king’s army, so it’s the same as annihilation! It’s all because of that stupid ex-hero party!”
“When it comes to the former warrior party… Are you talking about Elf Illuen?”
“Yes!! This is what happened because of her!”
To annihilate because of Iluen…?
What the hell happened up front…
*****
“Where the hell are you…”
Iluen, one of the former warrior party members and one of the princesses of the Elven Kingdom, checked each and every one of the people gathered in the Horon Kingdom’s Lexen Manor.
I couldn’t find the hero Carlos in the end.
Of course, she knew that the hero would not be participating in this battle as a private activity, but
She From her point of view, with a feeling of grabbing at least a straw, she searched and searched for any warriors who might have participated in the battle.
“What? Did you really not participate?”
I looked around the marching procession from the front to the back, but there was no way to find the warrior.
As much as she expected from her, her disappointment came back even bigger.
“Haaa.. If only I knew this would happen…”
Iluen had belated regrets with the fact that the hero was not here…
Three years ago, if I hadn’t abandoned the hero so coldly…
‘How dare you touch a human subject? It’s like a filthy lowly race…’
The warrior who suffered from the marriage of her saintess Emilia and her crown prince Chris came to her as well,
At that time, she thought that since the demon king was gone, she would no longer need him, and she was returning to regret that she had driven him out.
How hard she tried to stay in that hero’s party…
In order not to be expelled from her party when her own incompetence was discovered, even though she was an elf supremacist, she seduced her hero and gave her body to her, tenaciously enduring in her party.
However,
Even though she endured that far and defeated her demon lord and accumulated her honor, she was not selected as the next successor to the elven kingdom.
When she heard that the Demon King had reappeared, she looked for a hero and sent a party application to Arjen Kingdom, but it was all useless.
After all, she drove a nail through her hero’s chest three years ago…
“Illuen-sama!!!”
“Yes! Did you find the hero!!?”
“That… It’s not that…”
“Other than that!?”
A knight from the Green Wood Knights dispatched from the Elf Kingdom as a reinforcement for the Horon Kingdom approached Illuen and gave a report with an unusual face.
“There… ahead… Dantalion, the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s Army, has appeared!”
“What!!!??”
Surprised by the report of her knight, Luen’s scream-like loud voice made the other knights around her focus their eyes on her at once.
After a while, the shadow of death was hanging over the army and adventurers gathered here.