I originally planned to intervene much earlier.
I was already aware of the movements of the Moben Guild, part of the Medium and Small Alliance, and once I knocked out the guards, there was no room for consideration.
“Clear attack.”
No matter how much I claimed I wouldn’t participate, there was no choice if they approached me like this.
If they want me to join so badly, I have no choice but to oblige.
Hiccough!
“Y-Your Lordship…”
“I’m sorry. I’m just watching.”
“No, it’s fine…”
The Cavalry Commander was one of the rare ‘Residents’ receiving training from Lasty as a Disciple.
A few talented Mages from the existing Elbrite had been chosen by Lasty.
They received education at the Academy and learned magic, and the one who showed the most outstanding talent was none other than the Cavalry Commander.
The very concept of a ‘Mage Unit’ was born due to the case of the Cavalry Commander.
“Lasty told me to watch, but… it was too much after all.”
Those guys are supposed to be top-tier users, after all.
They fought well enough given the circumstances.
[???????]
[What the hell?]
[Huh?]
[Are they really touching Lily? Are they really touching Lily? Are they really touching Lily? Are they really touching Lily?]
[Do they want to die? Ah, LOL]
[Aren’t those guys from the Medium and Small Alliance?]
[This is insane, LOL]
[Wow! Massacre!]
[Shall we kill them, Lily?]
[Why are they touching the sleeping angel’s nose hair…?]
[Hahahahahahahahaha]
[Legend]
[But who is that?]
Swipe.
I poured warm holy power onto the Cavalry Commander whose chest was wide open.
Her body was regenerating rapidly.
The Cavalry Commander fainted from the sustained use of magic and battle, and as I gestured, the soldiers behind me received her.
“Please take care of her.”
“Y-Yes!”
“Move the Cavalry Commander!”
“Hurry!”
Even as the soldiers went back and forth, the four from the Moben Guild didn’t move.
They were neither fleeing nor attacking, just stuck in place.
I spread my holy power gently as I rose from my spot.
“Seems like people here are overly confident.”
“…Lily.”
“I-It’s really you, Lily? Seriously?”
“Insane…”
“I told you we should just leave, didn’t I?”
The four users started to murmur.
Their expressions changed by the second as they were at a loss and soon began blaming each other.
“We’re screwed! What are we going to do?”
“Why is Lily here?! She should be broadcasting!”
“Phew… Let’s just run.”
“No, cultist. Are you saying we should just flee?”
“Do we have any other options, Barbarian?”
[Laughing uncontrollably]
[Why are they fighting among themselves?]
[Laughing uncontrollably]
[They are insane.]
[Let’s just kill them all, Lily.]
[Let’s massacre the Medium and Small Alliance~]
[This is hilarious, lol.]
[What a level, haha.]
“Are we really going to fight Lily? Or do you think she’ll just let us go after things have gotten this far? I don’t think so.”
“You know it well.”
I nodded at the woman’s words wrapped in a purple cloth.
They had already crossed the line and, naturally, weren’t going to let us go just like that.
“Don’t worry. We’ll definitely pay the price for what we did.”
“…Damn.”
“I just want to ask why. Why did you do this?”
Why did they have to harm the guards and pierce the Cavalry Commander’s heart?
The answer came not from the woman called a cultist, but from a muscular barbarian user.
“They blocked our way. If someone is in the way while we’re passing, we naturally have to get rid of them, right?”
“Y-Yeah! We were just trying to pass! If you hadn’t interfered…”
“Huh? If you had said something, we would have let you through!”
“?”
The users looked at me with dazed expressions.
Why is this happening?
“I don’t understand why everyone is trying to sneak past like that. If you had just talked to me, I would have let you through.”
“???”
“What did you say?”
In the first place, I had no intention of stopping those trying to pass through Elbrite.
If I wanted to stop them, I wouldn’t have operated the Eli Academy near the core.
I merely strengthened security and placed ‘minor’ restrictions on transportation to prevent any nonsense from causing a commotion.
Even Ayane, who went ahead, had shortened her route with the help of the Cavalry Commander.
I smiled bitterly.
“If you had asked, I would have obliged. This is painful to see.”
“……”
[ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[Lily is so nice ㅠㅠㅠ]
[Did they pass by earlier?]
[Great Lily]
[Ayane went ahead.]
[Those jerks. How could they trample on Lily’s pure heart like this?]
[For real lol.]
[Pure?]
[Let’s just kill them all.]
“…Then can we pass now—”
“Oh. That won’t work.”
That was only the situation before they made a commotion.
They had already lost trust by causing trouble.
Additionally, the other Medium and Small Alliance members would no longer be able to pass through Elbrite.
At my resolute declaration, the four users gritted their teeth and gripped their weapons again.
Centered around the cultist user, they formed up as if they were accustomed to it.
“Let’s go with the third operation.”
“Ugh… suddenly why are we facing a world boss?”
“…Shit. This sucks.”
“I’m the one who got hit, so I don’t understand why you’re cursing.”
“Shut up!”
Understanding!
The first to move was the user Levin, wielding Clo.
It seemed he received a massive buff from the woman ringing the bell behind him, and his speed suddenly accelerated as a barbarian charged forward like a tank.
Grrrrrrrr…
And even further back, there was the man loading his bow.
Each one of them was in the top 20-30 of users.
Thanks to the buffs, their power and abilities were enhanced, so it was unlikely that any users could stop them.
Moreover, compared to the earlier scuffle, their coordination looked quite impressive.
‘Well…’
“Die!”
“Let’s take down Elbrite too! You dog…!”
Crack!!!
‘That was all, but…’
■
The crazy woman, cultist woman, and lunatic girl.
The woman called Suessu by various bizarre nicknames was in a rather troublesome situation.
A few months ago, she had obtained the reward “Faithful Door” from a hidden quest conducted in another world.
This faithful door was a passage connecting her to the “God” she believed in and followed, allowing her to receive His omnipotent power and authority through it.
Of course, this process required sincere faith and some sort of cost.
But for Suessu, whose personality had changed through a hidden class advancement, that kind of cost was nothing.
Thus, for the sake of more power and faith, she joined a medium and small alliance filled with stinking fools, but she endured.
‘Still waiting for ‘that day’.
She needed to amass as much faith and power as possible before the day He arrived.
‘But…’
Crack!!!
“Uh…?”
What is that?
The monster in front of her wasn’t something impressive Lily did.
Lily simply reached out her hand calmly, and one of the fools behind her crumbled into pieces.
Even if he was a defenseless archer, he surely had all sorts of buffs stacked up, including legendary and mythical equipment.
“What, what the hell! Shit!”
And just like that, he was crushed.
Unlike swinging a hammer or spear, she simply made a gesture and he crumbled away.
The fool’s death was nothing to Suessu.
What was noteworthy was that the barrier created by ‘Him’ didn’t even resist and just crumbled away.
Instinctively, Suessu strained for ‘His’ power and stepped back.
This was one of the finest decisions she had ever made in her life.
“Wow? You’re pretty good.”
Crack!!!
Suessu, Riven, and even the barbarian, dumber than all the fools…
Ben, and even the barbarian who is dumber than the idiots.
A white something fell from above the three of them.
I couldn’t see it earlier because it was too fast, but now I could make out some details.
‘Hammer…!’
Lily summoned a hammer from thin air and swung it down!
“Looks like you have some skills. But it doesn’t seem to be entirely your own power.”
Riven vanished without a trace, turning into blue particles.
The barbarian turned into a chunk of meat, but there was no sign of regeneration.
Wriggle, wriggle.
He’s trying to regenerate in his own way, but he’ll be dead soon enough.
“……”
“Is it okay to check?”
“The God said, ‘Light is the miserable candle flame of a pitiful candle. Darkness is the world that devours everything.’”
“Mm?”
“That person is one who even defies death, so you are but a candle before the darkness.”
Clunk!
A strange door opened behind Lily.
Whoosh!!!
“!”
The overwhelming darkness that burst from the door swallowed Lily.
‘Gotcha!’
Drip…
“Mmph…”
Suessu wiped the blood flowing from her mouth and began to flee at high speed.
The ‘faithful door’ is a passage that receives the enormous power and authority of that person, but could also be used for offensive purposes if handled well.
The risk was high, but in a situation where I didn’t want to die, I had to use something.
“Phew… Phew… Damn idiots, I told you to run…!”
“Is that so?”
“Traveling with a barbarian made them all as dumb as him. The three of them are just plain foolish…”
“That’s quite unfortunate.”
“True…”
Huh?
Suessu turned sideways, and her eyes widened as if they might pop out.
Even though she was utilizing that person’s power, she never thought they could actually stop Lily.
She thought merely dragging it out would be fine since the power gained through the door had its limits.
If a real crisis came, she believed that person would protect her.
Grrr…
That’s what she thought.
Until she saw the ‘strange skull’ held in Lily’s hand.
“…Hmm. It wasn’t the Silence of the Dead after all. Well, if it’s that demon race, they wouldn’t have given such ‘shabby’ power.”
“Ah, oh no…”
Smiling, Lily lifted the dead skull that was still dead.
“Say hello. It’s ‘that person.’”
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