Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga Chapter 286

In the midst of arresting those who surrendered in an instant organized situation, it was Tennessee who noticed the change the fastest.

However, even though she became insensitive to change due to the blessing she gave her, Cheryl also intuited that something had happened due to soaring displeasure, and naturally moved her gaze to Tennessee and opened her mouth.

“Saint?”

“…We have to join Siegfried. He doesn’t feel the devil’s presence, so he won’t know about this situation.”

“Are you the devil?”

“Yes, that’s right. That could be very… serious. Entire! Go first!”

“What? Me? Why?”

“There’s something I have to explain to these people. There’s no time to waste, come on!”

Looking at the faces of the party that stiffened at the moment, Tennessee’s head began to spin at an unprecedented speed. Deeply troubled enough to forget even the noise made by Entire as she hurriedly ran, Tennea tried tirelessly to determine whether she was feeling this kind of pressure because she was close to the being that radiated this evil aura, or if it was this much despite the distance, but in the end she failed. .

Because the last battle consumed too much power? It was obviously not an easy battle, but it wasn’t just that exhausting. That said, it was caused by a pervasive evil energy… There were only two cases she knew of that could mess up her senses like this.

When beings called great demons or grand dukes have materialized, or someone has opened the gate through the power of that kind of being, and the energy of the other world is flowing out.

So Tennessee had no choice but to hesitate. If it’s the latter, there’s a chance they’ll stop it. However, if you collide with the former case, it is safe to say that you just die. The title of Grand Duke was not given by humans, but by those evil demons, and it was because of their strength.

“There is a possibility that it is the Prime Evil. However, it could be that it opened the door to the other world with the help of a demon with such power.”

“…Can be prevented or not.”

“Yes. I want you all to wait for Siegfried to join you.”

Giving room is because she is an imperial citizen. Her purpose was to help, not to force. If they refused to retreat to join them, Tennea had to respect that intention.

“I will go on a reconnaissance trip alone. The saintess, please take them and join the hero.”

Cheryl, without a moment’s hesitation, gave Tennessee an unexpected answer. Then, before she could argue, he began to explain why he had made that judgment.

“Others don’t feel this energy. In the end, either I or the saintess are essential to track it down, but if you attend the saintess, you will inevitably need an escort, and in that case, you’ll have problems with your mobility and can’t do that when you have to retreat quickly. Cases do happen, and fortunately I have the answers to all of them.”

It may sound arrogant, but it was all true. Even knowing that there was an option to just promise the next time together, Tennea couldn’t bear to say it. Cheryl, as if noticing Tennea’s hesitation, added a few words.

“As the minor head of the Ogatorv family, sworn to protect the royal family, this is my duty.”

It seemed that he was talking to himself, not to Tennessee.

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“It looks like it’s moving fast, but why is it all nonsense?”

After entering the canal, it was really frustrating that Cheryl couldn’t encounter the enemies even though she searched for the places where the traces were obvious among the predicted locations first, but that didn’t mean Cheryl’s prediction was wrong. Rather, there were traces of residence or some unknown magical tools installed everywhere, so admiration and applause came out spontaneously.

While looking intently through Magical Poetry, everyone brought out a harpoon, but since it was highly likely that they had exhausted their use at the point where they had already been neglected like this, it was not a very meaningful action. Even so, I checked all the areas I was in charge of ahead of schedule, so I tried to search random locations to make some inference, but I decided to give up because it was already empty from the traces.

“Anyway, the trick is good. Is this what happens if you learn strategy and tactics?”

He is a very greedy kid who frowns about not being able to win in swordsmanship while learning this knowledge. I had no reason to stay any longer, so I opened the map I had in my pocket and looked at the checked locations, and found that Siegfried’s party was quite close to the area they were planning to investigate, thanks to me wandering off the beaten path for a while.

If we can meet, there’s no reason to go back to the rendezvous point. The fact that there was nothing on my side anyway means that there is a high possibility that there is something on other people’s side anyway, so the sooner you join, the better.

It was around the time we almost arrived at the investigation point of Siegfried’s party that I began to see something strange in my eyes as I hurriedly moved in admiration for not encountering a single common monster, befitting an underground waterway under the kingdom’s capital.

“…why does the mana move like this?”

It’s not magic. The magical energy was moving rapidly in a specific direction through the wall of the waterway, but that direction was not where Siegfried was expected to be, and there was no wizard with the ability to move that kind of magical energy.

If it was on the ground, I would have smashed the wall right away and opened a straight passage to find out, but it didn’t mean that it was underground, so I moved forward, slicing through the large stems of magical power that caught my eye with my sword. To be honest, I don’t know how helpful this will be in front of this amount of mana, but it felt more comfortable than doing nothing and neglecting it.

However, while moving like that, strange things continued to happen. He hadn’t met Siegfried’s party.

“Has there been a battle before?”

If it had passed without incident, it wouldn’t have taken this long, so I moved a little faster thinking that Siegfried’s party might have drawn a raffle.

“Eh, Ega, Assistant Professor?!”

“Why are you coming out of there…?”

In such a hurry, I ended up running in a straight line to the middle tangent point, and what I faced was a Siegfried party without Siegfried.

“Somehow it happened. Princess Eselua? Did you find something?”

I answered moderately, but the atmosphere was unusual. At first glance, Cheryl, the saintess, and Siegfried were nowhere to be seen, even if it was the few traitors who had been captured. Before even thinking about what their absence meant, Eselua hurriedly explained.

“There was a problem at the point where Sir Sheryl was headed. She went out on reconnaissance alone and sent the rest of the party here, so Siegfried hastily followed with only Tennea.”

“Is it a problem?”

“It is said that demon worshipers may be trying to incarnate the Prime Evil.”

“That bird… Hmm. What kind of offering do they have?”

If we simply summoned them with an advance payment, they would be in a hurry because we hit the front line, and if we couldn’t summon them with an advance payment, they wouldn’t even be able to properly summon them yet. Even if the stems of magical power I had been slashing all over were the aftermath of such a summoning ritual, compared to Ingladio, they were at a level that could only be described as new blood, so they weren’t too threatening.

However, the words Eselua uttered while biting her lips exceeded my complacent predictions.

“Maybe they didn’t just come to the capital to escape. Tennea… told me from the battle at the Headquarters of the Holy Light Cross that the devil worshipers may have already prepared most of their offerings.”

At that moment, I managed to stop the swear words from coming out of my mouth with great patience.

Yes, no matter how much it is, the Holy Cross and the Warriors Party are not idiots, and there’s no way they couldn’t have predicted this situation while seeing corpses without a drop of blood left everywhere. I didn’t feel that sign, so I guess I didn’t expect it either?

“…The demons I met were manifested through the medium of blood. The demons the hero encountered were different.”

If it had been really unpredictable, they would have had to taste my unpredictable anger as well, but fortunately, such misfortune did not happen to them.

“That’s right. The thing I was most concerned with was sacrifice through death, but what kind of method did you use…”

Okay. So what I do is simple.

“Princess Eselua, please lead them upstairs and inform the academy. I will follow the warrior.”

“But it won’t be easy to track down…”

“Everyone has their own way.”

Of course, it is difficult to find those who moved unexpectedly on the stone floor, no matter how quickly they moved and left traces.

However, the flow of magic that I could see right now was so clear that it didn’t matter at all.

“Well, then we’ll go together…”

“I know you’re worried, but it’s slowing down. Even if we run away at any chance.”

Siegfried seemed to be quite concerned, but I was also taken aback by the unexpected situation, so I cut myself off like a knife and ran after the magic I could see.

Did they say that curiosity kills the cat?

Fortunately, Cheryl, the long cat, had no chance of dying from curiosity, but the possibility of her dying from noblesse oblige was very high, so I hurried as much as possible.