Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 603

603. Did you sleep well?

“I will light a walking fire.”

Encred spoke in the mirror, and Esther turned into a leopard and ran as soon as she heard those words.
If she were a real leopard, she wouldn’t have been able to run all day because her endurance was not good.
But she was a witch, so she could run all day. And Cross Guard was not a long distance if she ran at the speed of a leopard.
Fortunately, she was not in the Border Guard but was walking along the Fen-Hanil River, so it was closer. So she ran in Cross Guard. She
could cross the river with the spell ‘Del Gretcher’s Promenade’.
Thin ice appeared under her running feet and she ran using that as a stepping stone.
She had turned into a human form to use the spell, but her strength was still the same,
so her running speed was much faster than that of an ordinary person. She continued to run, changing from leopard to human and from human to leopard whenever necessary, crossing the river. It was a case of consuming stamina in addition to magical power, but it was still fast.

‘Is it too late?’

It wasn’t that I hesitated because I had these thoughts.
If I stopped because it was late, that would be the end.
Esther ran. Since the traces of Apostle Anella, who had implemented walking fire, were clearly visible, it was easy to sense them and run.
Esther, who had crossed the river and was heading toward Cross Guard, instinctively changed her running direction.
An excellent witch knew how to read the traces of a spell.
This couldn’t be a coincidence. It was related to Encred. So if it was headed this way, it would be right to block any problems in advance.
Judgment and action were simultaneous.
There was no need to wait until the stars rose to read the constellations. The scent of magic was strong.
As she ran, she soon saw the land where the spell had been implemented. There were a hundred dead bodies. To be exact, she saw a pit that had been engulfed in flames and turned into a pile of ashes.

‘A saying of wisdom, a spell of extermination.’

It really is a walking fire.
It is a trace of an annihilation spell that ends by destroying everything around it, even among the forbidden spells and the forbidden spells.
As I approached the pit, a twin-headed human-faced dog rushed at me.
I didn’t hesitate because I already felt the presence.

“Demüller’s Scythe.”

Esther waved her hand. The wind gathered and turned into blades as she followed the seemingly meaningless gesture.

puck!

The two heavy wind blades split apart and passed through the two heads of the monster from the crown to the torso. With a crack, the human-faced dog split apart, splitting its head into three parts. It fell down, spraying black blood and internal organs. As
if it had the strength to run, it continued to move left and right as it split, then stopped.
As it raised its hand, Esther’s gaze turned to one side. It was where the perception impairment spell had been deployed.
She had sensed it with her senses. What would she do if she had sensed it? Of course, it would attack. She
formed a hand seal, directed her magic, and recited the rune to summon the being she had stored in her spell world.

“Come out, Bonehead.”

It was an improved version of the Flash Golem made by the wizard Encred had previously dealt with.
At her gesture, a circle of light was drawn on the ground, and flesh and blood woven into it, creating a Flash Golem.
As soon as the Golem was summoned, it ran without thinking.
The best way to break the cognitive impairment is to use physical force.
The answer, and the most effective method among them.
As the Golem charged, kicking the ground, the thin black curtain rippled and dispersed, and a voice flowed out.

“How dare you.”

A woman jumped out of it and opened her mouth. Esther saw the face of the person coming out, but she bashfully ignored him and kept making hand gestures.

‘This is not normal.’

Ignoring him doesn’t mean I underestimated him. I just thought that speed was important right now.
The magical power I felt from the opponent who jumped out was dizzying.
It was probably proof that he had a stronger power than I had now. It was because he was building up new magical power. A purple spirit energy swelled over the opponent’s shoulder.

“A witch like that.”

He must be saying such things because he claims to be an apostle of God.
As he made the seal, Esther reflected on her current state.
Thanks to Encred, the curse was almost completely erased.
Now, she was rebuilding the world of spells. She had yet to find her previous strength.
Was that disadvantageous? Perhaps. However, that was not a reason to stop.
Of all the countless todays, there was one today when Encred contacted her through the mirror. Esther had come running here every moment of that day.

“Dear Lord, there are two adopted children here who wish to become your children.”

Apostle Anella shouted. She also knew that Esther was no ordinary witch. She instinctively pulled out the sword she had prepared after the walking fire.
Among the corpses, mutated ghouls that had lost their senses emerged.
They were all monsters, and they had dangerously developed physical abilities.
There were also skeletal soldiers that were born from bone reorganization. It was a talent that combined necromancy and the spells they possessed.
Their bodies were burning. They were a group of monsters with burning bodies.
The swords that could not be used together because they would burn each other if sent together with the walking fire, but they could be lethal weapons for those exhausted from blocking the walking fire.
Esther did not allow any of the sparks they spewed.
She did not use her bone heads here. There are times when physical force can be effective in blocking physical force, but not now. She
had to reverse-summon them and collect some magic power.

“Dell Gretcher’s Territory Marker.”

The borrowing spell is borrowing the power of existence. For example, Demueller was a slaughtering being who enjoyed the taste of cutting among the wind spirits, while Del Gretzer was a being transformed from a four-legged beast that lived in the glacier and liked to walk.
And Esther was a genius who knew how to mix the borrowing spell and the creation spell.

“Burn to ashes.”

Anella was an apostle who dealt with disasters, and was particularly skilled at handling fire.
The flames that had caught on the ghoul grew bigger and bigger.
Esther pulled out a spell that had been completed before, though it was not yet refined.

“Permanent frozen ground.”

Basasak.

Ice crystals spread around Esther as if they were born from beneath her feet. The temperature dropped sharply even though there was no blizzard.
If you go far north between the glaciers, you will see a sky painted in indescribably beautiful colors, and a land where your breath freezes.
The name of that land is Permafrost. It is the name for a land that is frozen forever.
Spells are influenced by words. Esther’s spell was no different.
She froze everything within a radius of only twenty steps. The surroundings froze and the flames disappeared.
The burning ghouls, skeletons, and such lost their foundations and shook.

“……You cast this spell without any preparation or sacrifice?”

Anella was truly surprised. There was a spell called Disaster Snow Storm. It was a golden spell, but it could not be used without a frozen sacrifice. It required freezing a part of the caster’s body and offering
it. But now, a spell of similar power was coming at her.
Although the spell’s range itself was not that wide, she couldn’t help but be surprised by this alone.
But she didn’t intend to just take it, so as she spoke, she moved her magic, formed a hand seal, and chanted the spell.

“The Flame Dancer of Merak.”

She also recited the spell. With it, the flames that arose from Apostle Anella’s body spread in all directions.
One side was engulfed in flames, while the breath of another froze.

Whew.

Even the wind felt like a blade, frozen in place.

“Sickle of the Wind.”

Esther spat out another spell. It was a reconstruction of Demueller’s scythe.
Anella’s eyes widened. She’s implementing a different form of spell here? She’s implementing the legendary spell called Permanent Frost?
To cut to the chase, several more spells were exchanged, but Esther won and Anella died.
The difference in skill was not great. In fact, in a fight with a wizard, if there is no overwhelming difference, the victory or defeat can be determined by how much preparation is made, but neither of them could prepare in advance to block the other.
Strictly speaking, Esther was at a disadvantage because she was exhausted from running.
However, her sense of handling spells and the creative spells she created using them made up for the difference.
To put it simply, the difference in genius was stark.
It was early winter, so naturally, spells that lowered the temperature were more useful than fire.
A great witch was able to make even her surroundings work for her.
That’s why there’s a saying that no one can beat a witch in a witch’s hut.

‘I overdid it.’

However, it was definitely a burden on her body. Esther’s whole body was shivering. She needed to eat seeds that added hot energy, or wrap herself in a similar energy.
At the very least, she needed the thermal leather cloak that Rem wore.
She couldn’t go far right away, so she headed to Cross Guard.
Finding Encrid wasn’t hard. It wasn’t for nothing that I gave him the spell object I made.
She arrived just after finding traces of the tool I made. Even though she was wearing a robe that kept her body temperature, her whole body was shivering. It felt like the early winter wind was reaching her bones.
It was cold. It was the first cold I’d ever felt in my life.

“Esther?”

He saw a man named Encred standing before him.
He was the same. His blue eyes pierced the darkness of dawn, and even though day had not yet broken, there was a fire in him that did not go out.

“Hug me.”

Esther said, losing her mind.

* * *

Encred instinctively hugged Esther. Her flesh was as cold as ice. Her face had turned pale and her hair was covered in frost.

“Lua.”
“I’m up.”
“Call the lord and bring me all the hot stones and such.”
“Okay.”

Luagarne jumped up and Encred picked up Esther.
I don’t know what happened though.

‘I feel like it might have something to do with me.’

It was a feeling.
After that, I laid them on the bed. I had seen a few people with frostbite before.
It was when a crazy nobleman set out to dig up herbs from the polar lands.
It was really crazy, but there was nothing he could do because Krona was in a hurry. He went out as a guide, and three of his companions died from frostbite.
Even the one who survived had to cut off his toes.
If a priest who passed by hadn’t helped them, wouldn’t they all have died?

“You have the sun in your heart.”

The priest had said that. He said that after seeing Encred barely holding on while everyone else froze to death.

“If I leave it alone, I think I’ll freeze to death.”

Encred lay down on the bed with Esther, talking to himself. He covered her with a blanket and held her in his arms, saying:

“Prepare some hot water, Thelma.”
“Yes? Oh, yes.”

The innkeeper woke up early in the morning and suddenly saw a woman coming towards him, and he also saw his hero embracing her.

‘lover?’

I didn’t know that.
The atmosphere felt strange when I went out, so I happened to sneak a peek, and Encred noticed me and called him over.

“Not too hot.”
​​“Yes.”

Encred took off Esther’s robe and took off his own top as well and held her in his arms.
The body temperature inside the robe was still cold.
He deliberately avoided looking at her body. He didn’t want to gouge out his eyes.
He held her for a day and night, and had Luagarne soak her in lukewarm water. He took her out, dried her, and held her again.

“I can’t hug you because my body temperature is low.”

Since Frock’s body temperature was lower than that of a human, Luagarne could only worry.

“I scraped everything from the city.”

The lord brought some hot stones. This poor city was overflowing with drugs and gamblers, but there was a lot that was lacking when you actually looked for something.
This would change later.
Encred held Esther in his arms for two days. Only then did her body temperature slowly return. Her face also began to regain some color.
When Encred, who had been repeating the cycle of sleeping and waking up with Esther in his arms again at dawn, opened his eyes, he was able to meet her blue eyes, just like his own.

“Did you sleep well?”

Encred asked.

“Why? Us? In the same bed?”

Esther asked back, her memory having momentarily been cut off.

“Because there is nothing better than this to restore lost body temperature.”

She didn’t really hold the sun, but at least she was the only one who could hold Esther.
She lowered the temperature around her just by breathing. It was as if she had brought a curse from somewhere.
Encred held on well, but not everyone could. Thelma couldn’t even come close because she was cold even when she was near her.
When she held Esther, Will would rise and stir inside her body.
The artificial coldness emanating from her was proof that something was not normal. She
had clearly done something magical, but there was no one to ask. What could she do? She had no choice but to hold on.
But it was also awkward to talk about it in detail.
Encred opened her mouth as if it was nothing.

“You used to hug me often when I was a leopard.”

At those words, Esther looked into his eyes for a moment in silence.