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Episode 103 Touch Me
The cave was filled with filthy dampness. The disgusting, bloody smell characteristic of the demons tickled my nose.
It looked like a cave leading to hell.
‘You’re a lowest-level demon.’
Galahad had already drunk a fair amount of demon blood. He could guess the level just by tasting it. The blood sprinkled here was clearly the blood of the lowest level demon.
“coming.”
Adriana’s voice broke my thoughts.
A pure white aura rose violently. The surrounding mana disappeared in an instant. It was a mana eraser.
An instinctive rejection arose. As a wizard, there was nothing I could do. It was over the moment I touched it.
‘You’ve gotten stronger.’
Galahad frowned and took a step forward instead. He felt a surge of rejection, but he didn’t care.
Adrianna’s aura felt more subdued than before.
‘Have you gotten used to it already?’
Adrianna’s temperament was influenced by the power of her opponents.
It was only a short while ago that I faced the ruler of the Demon Realm and my power went wild. And now I can handle it so freely.
‘As expected, he’s a genius.’
Thump! Thump! Thump! A pang of pain pulsed violently at the back of Adrianna’s head.
Perhaps because it had consumed the blood of a high-ranking demon, the Egg of Pain was full of energy. It urged Adrianna, who was letting her guard down, to strike the back of her head. Galahad lightly ignored it.
A loud noise was heard in front. The demons and beasts were running madly, fighting each other.
The number was quite large.
A pure white aura filled Adrianna’s sword.
Auror was a belief. That is why Auror could not be deceived or embellished.
But Aura is so pure white.
‘How noble.’
Galahad was truly amazed.
Adrianna swung her sword. A pure white aura drew a line in the air.
It was a clean white line.
Creepy-. Galahad’s instinct screamed. It’s over the moment we touch-. He felt it instinctively.
The moment the running demons and monsters touched them, they turned into dust. There was no scream. They just turned into dust and scattered.
As the pure white aura disappeared, all that was visible was a pile of dust.
Even the lowest-level demons can be reduced to dust with just one swing of the sword.
‘hmm.’
Galahad touched his neck for no reason.
Thump······. The egg of pain became quiet.
“Are you okay?”
Adrianna asked, looking back. There was no trace of fatigue on her face. As if this was nothing.
“Did I ever tell you that you are more beautiful than anyone else?”
“Yes, you did.”
Adrianna nodded slightly and looked straight ahead again.
“I will move.”
Adrianna’s back was truly reassuring.
They walked a little further. As the demons became quieter, Adrianna cautiously opened her mouth.
“······What was it like working at your previous place? Oh, if that’s a difficult question to answer, that’s okay.”
Galahad chuckled at Adrianna’s cautious appearance.
“It was a bad company. There were few days off, no honor, and no reward. The salary was pretty good though.”
“It was a bad place.”
“Yeah, it was a really bad place.”
Galahad nodded quietly. The intelligence agency certainly wasn’t a very good place to work.
It was a place that only a crazy person who wanted to marry the empire could survive.
“Why did you work in a place like that?”
“That was for the best.”
Adrianna turned around at the rough voice. Galahad waved his hand with his usual relaxed smile.
“If it’s the best-.”
“The future of a wizard who graduates from the Academy is bright and promising, but at the same time, miserable. Most of them enter the Magic Tower and tinker with magical tools.”
Galahad put a tobacco stick in his mouth.
There was also the option of entering the Magic Tower. However, the current Magic Tower was no different from a factory. Their main focus was magic tools.
“I didn’t want to be the kind of guy who sits in a gloomy room and fiddles with a long stick. Besides, I didn’t have enough magic.”
“What does it mean to be lacking?”
“Because we have to stop the Demon King.”
Adrianna looked back at Galahad. His blue eyes were clear even in the darkness.
“Oh, I did some research on that. The unit members who normally nod when I tell them anything just straight up shake their heads. There must be someone involved in the concept.”
Adrianna answered seriously. To be able to talk about the King of the Demons-. Galahad felt unfamiliar.
“That fierce rejection is proof. If someone had not suppressed the concept, such a reaction would not have occurred.”
Galahad’s voice rose on its own. Adrianna flinched at that.
“A power that affects the entire continent? Then what about the people of the island at the southern end? I’m quite curious about this.”
Galahad’s words poured out quickly. The questions that had been lingering within him burst out. Adrianna listened quietly to Galahad’s excited words.
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“I guess we’ll have to go south for our honeymoon.”
Adrianna sheathed her sword.
“Could it be that the one who erased the concept is not the King of the Demon Tribe?”
“Is someone else sealing the concept of being the King of the Demon Tribe?”
“Yes. Aura is the power of belief. In a similar way to Aura, the Demon King can also gain power from the concept.”
The Demon King gained power from the concept, so he sealed the concept itself – it was a pretty plausible story.
It’s an opinion worth considering, but it doesn’t change anything.
The Demon King will appear one day, and bring about a terrible end.
“Anyway, we must prepare for the King of the Demon Tribe.”
“Yes, how do you say that?”
“We need to strengthen the North. We need to build a stronger wall and drive out the demons. The most important thing is-.”
Everything else was secondary.
The most important thing when dealing with the Demon King is-.
“It’s you.”
Galahad pointed quietly at Adrianna.
“······Are you talking about me?”
Adrianna’s face hardened.
“The stronger your opponent, the more intensely you burn. Even if that opponent is the king of the demon tribe-.”
Adrianna stared at the finger pointing at her. It was long and calloused.
“You will burn. Blazing.”
Under Adrianna’s sharp gaze, Galahad realized that his choice of words had been poor.
“It’s a metaphor. Anyway, the Magic Tower wasn’t a very good place to catch the Demon King. So, when I was lost in thought, I got a call.”
Instead of answering, Adrianna swung her sword. The long-fanged snake-like creature scattered into dust.
[You still don’t know?]
The voice of the First was heard. Galahad thought for a moment, then scattered mana around.
The Inspector General’s Office wouldn’t be able to reach here, but it couldn’t hurt to be careful. After making sure that no one was there, I opened my mouth.
“I am an agent of the Information Agency.”
Adrianna’s movements suddenly stopped. The dust shook violently.
Adrianna slowly turned her head. What appeared on her face was-.
“······What is the Information Agency?”
It was a little embarrassing.
Galahad let out a sigh. No matter how secretive the Intelligence Service was, its existence was secretly well known.
‘Well, this is the north.’
Galahad nodded.
“The Information Bureau is a secret agency directly under the Imperial Family. Its main purpose is to gather information, but it will do anything related to the Empire.”
“······aha.”
Adrianna nodded.
I was well aware of the northern resentment towards the Empire, so I expected that she would show even a little resentment, but Adrianna nodded obediently.
“You weren’t a thief. That’s fortunate.”
Adrianna felt a little relieved.
“Thief? Why is a thief coming out?”
“it’s nothing.”
Adrianna looked straight ahead with a serious expression.
Galahad pondered the possibility that Adrianna had mentioned. The concept of the Demon King had been sealed away by someone else.
“Is this marriage also a mission?”
Adrianna asked without looking back.
Galahad frowned at the unexpected question.
There was no mission, just a verbal order from the Vice-Minister to marry the daughter of the Northern Grand Duke.
Galahad was the Vice-Chief’s most useful trump card. For such a Vice-Chief to give an order meant that he had already tried everything.
Anyway, the order was correct.
However, there was no trace of the mission given by verbal order. So, it doesn’t matter if you deny it.
“That’s right.”
Galahad nodded.
Because I know that lies will pay the price someday.
Adrianna’s aura rose violently. The cave appeared white.
Galahad continued, coughing slightly.
“To be exact, it was a role that died in the North. As an excuse for the Empire to advance into the North. Isn’t that the combination that the North hates the most? Because he was a noble of the Empire and a wizard.”
Adrianna’s head snapped back. It was a sharp look in her eyes.
“It is not right to use human life as an excuse.”
It was a perfectly correct argument. Galahad laughed bitterly.
“I don’t enjoy my duties. Those who enjoy them are bound to make mistakes. It’s my principle to exclude emotions.”
After a fight, there were no more demons, but Adrianna looked straight ahead again.
“······What will happen to you if I don’t get married?”
The marriage failed -. It’s probably a story of being driven out of the North as well. The information bureau will probably send you to deal with the aftermath. It’s only useful if Galahad is dead.
Even though Galahad was great, he wasn’t good enough to take on the entire intelligence agency.
There’s a high chance you’ll die. Even if you survive, you won’t be able to stop the Demon King.
A broken engagement was death.
To be honest, it would be easier to marry Adrianna.
Because her character was upright.
However, such tackiness was not to Galahad’s taste.
“I’m going back to being an agent.”
It wasn’t a lie. I was an agent until I retired.
“Oh, that’s a relief.”
Adrianna sighed deeply. Galahad winked at her.
“But that won’t happen. My mission success rate is close to 100. You will marry me.”
Adrianna’s eyebrows shook at the confident voice.
At that moment, monsters poured out from the front. Clap, clap, clap – the sound of creepy footsteps filled the air. Terrible monsters poured into the small cave.
“Back-.”
Adrianna spoke briefly and stepped forward.
“Okay.”
Adrianna’s eyebrows shook as Galahad hid right behind her without refusing.
No matter what, he hides so confidently.
“Even your back is beautiful.”
Adrianna couldn’t help but laugh at Galahad’s shameless whispering.
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‘Eraser.’
Galahad muttered quietly while looking at Adrianna’s back.
Even though she had killed quite a few demons, her pure white aura did not fade, but rather burned even brighter. To her, the demons were like fuel.
As the demons piled up, they became more intense. Even though the demons continued to pour in, her steps did not stop for a moment.
It wasn’t simply a matter of force. No matter how great one’s force was, in the end, one was still human.
Fighting countless monsters in a dark cave covered in blood on all sides must have been mentally exhausting.
But Adrianna never backed down and kept moving forward.
‘Heroes.’
It was the appearance of a warrior who could only come out of legends. It was indeed a sword that would stab the king of the demon tribe.
How far had they advanced? A completely unexpected situation awaited them.
“This-.”
Adrianna’s eyebrows lowered. Her characteristically indifferent voice trembled.
Galahad had some questions.
Even if a passage was made with the blood of the demon tribe, it would not be enough to shake the entire North. Furthermore, it was a problem that could be solved by clearing the blood in the passage with Adrianna.
I couldn’t understand why they used the ruler for something like this. I don’t know what kind of group Dawn is, but the ruler, a high-ranking demon, wouldn’t be a common card. The exchange rate didn’t match.
The answer to that question was at the end of the passage.
‘So that’s why.’
What they faced at the end were countless crossroads.
‘There wasn’t just one oyster.’
Galahad looked into a nearby cave. It was barely big enough to fit a fist. And it was full of blood.
‘It must be a monster. Did you use a small monster?’
The exchange rate was strange, but I didn’t know they would use such a trick.
Galahad’s eyes narrowed. This was not a structure that could be built in a day or two.
“What do we do now?”
Adrianna asked in an impatient voice, her indifferent face slightly broken.
“Keep calm. Excitement is a German thing that slows down your mind.”
“······yes.”
Adrianna nodded slowly. Galahad looked around.
“Ant hole? That’s really sincerity.”
To remove the passages stained with the blood of the demons, Adriana had to erase them herself, but there were too many of them.
At that moment, Adrianna held her sword firmly.
“Even if the cave is physically destroyed, the blood of the demons will remain, so the Mana Path will continue. The concentration in the north will inevitably increase. That’s why I said it can’t be stopped.”
Adrianna took a deep breath at Galahad’s calm explanation.
“Didn’t you say that as the concentration in the north increases, the demons become stronger?”
The North was barely holding on to its front line. If the Demons became stronger here, it was clear that the balance would collapse.
Adriana became impatient on her own.
“That’s right, I guess this is the territory of the Demon Tribe.”
Adrianna’s heart sank.
The entire North had become the domain of the Demons. It was a hopeless story.
I wondered why he was talking about such a serious topic so leisurely.
“If the North becomes the territory of the Demon Tribe, we won’t be able to endure it.”
“I know that too. The North will remain the territory of the Demons. They will probably retreat to the walls they built against the Empire. There will probably be two castles left.”
Adrianna bit her lips at Galahad’s words.
“I’ll stop it. For now-.”
“This is not your place to solve.”
“Then what should I do?”
Galahad was always the one who had an answer in any situation. It was clear that he would come up with a solution.
Then Galahad opened his mouth.
“Now, mana flows from places of low concentration to places of high concentration.”
“I know that.”
“No, you don’t understand. Can’t you just think of the answer?”
Adrianna’s eyebrows furrowed at Galahad’s remark.
What does it matter now if mana flows from low to high?
“Oh, you were Gilbert.”
“How could you say such harsh words-.”
“Okay, let me explain again. Mana flows from low concentration to high concentration. So how do we stop the flow of mana?”
Galahad snapped his fingers, as if he had just raised an interesting question.
Adrianna pursed her lips.
“The answer is simple. Just create an area with a higher concentration.”
Adrianna pondered Galahad’s light-hearted answer for a moment.
‘That’s right. Mana flows from places with low concentration to places with high concentration. To stop that, you just need to create a place with a higher concentration of mana.’
Adriana, who had been quietly admiring the sight, suddenly had a question.
‘Didn’t you say that this place was as dark as the Demon’s territory? To be higher than the Demon’s territory······.’
“······Are you saying you’re going to create a magic mirror?!”
Adrianna’s voice rose on its own. Galahad shook his head at that.
‘also-.’
Even if he was Galahad, he wouldn’t have created a demonic realm to avoid the demon’s territory, right?
“Who would want to make a magic mirror for good?”
Galahad shook his water canteen and raised the corners of his mouth.
The problem was the passageway made of demon blood.
The blood of the Demon Tribe will cause mana to flow and increase the concentration of mana in the North.
However, the blood of the demon tribe was not a problem for Galahad. Rather, it was a helpful tool.
‘If I hadn’t gone hunting with the Grand Duke, I would have been in big trouble.’
Galahad muttered a joke and examined the water canteen.
There were three buckets of high-ranking demon blood. The quantity was sufficient.
However, there were a few minor issues.
First, Galahad’s condition was not very good. Second, the blood of the high-ranking demons was very bad. When the two were mixed, it became a big problem.
‘I got like this after drinking six sips.’
The egg of pain kept beating roughly. The sound was so loud that it rang in my ears.
If I drank two more vials of the blood of the high-ranking demon here, the Egg of Pain might go wild.
A solution to that was needed.
Fortunately, the solution was right in front of us.
“Adrianna.”
There was an unusual lack of composure in Galahad’s voice.
Adrianna felt something was wrong with the atmosphere.
The situation was such that the North could collapse at any moment.
It was clear that even Galahad would not be able to resolve this situation lightly.
“I have a favor to ask.”
“Yes, anything.”
Adrianna nodded firmly at Galahad’s serious face.
At that, Galahad’s mouth opened slowly.
“What if I act strangely?”
Strange behavior. It was clear that Galahad was up to something.
Adrianna chewed her lip and waited for Galahad to speak.
“Please touch here.”
The place Galahad was pointing was the left chest.
“With bare hands.”
Adrianna’s eyebrows shook wildly.
Fantasy, Fusion,