She Professed Herself The Pupil Of The Wiseman

Chapter 6 - 5: Return Trip

Without even time to scream, the black mass closed the distance and the unfortunate quick-footed hobgoblins were soon torn to pieces and sent flying through the air.

It arrived all too soon before the eyes of the ten trailing hobgoblins. Without any time for them to take a stance, the black longsword had already scattered their entrails and bodily fluids around, while the eyes popped and tumbled around on the ground.

The Dark Knight caught up to the last group containing the archgoblin.

With a reverberating dull metallic sound, the archgoblin raised its voice mixed with uneasiness. The archgoblin was wearing heavy clothing, so although it was on the slower side, it had the strength to persist. The archgoblin was particularly crafty in that it surrounded itself with hobgoblins to raise its own survival rate.

However, it was a foolish idea before an armor spirit filled with murderous intent. If one wanted to survive, there was no choice but to run in the opposite direction the instant one faced it.

The Black Knight whose momentum had not dropped even the slightest bit passed through the last group while mowing them down.

This all took place in an instant. The hobgoblins had become lumps of meat without even understanding what had happened. They had worn death instead of armor.

In the end, not only the fast footed hobgoblins ran out of luck, all the goblins that had been perceived as an enemy by the walking disaster had simply ran out of luck.

「Whoa, come on. Tell me this is all a lie.」

「Commander……..what in the world is that.」

Graia with both eyes opened wide stood still as the tragedy unfolded before his eyes.

The Black Knight who had won easily over a goblin platoon did not cease moving. Shaking off Graia's expectations, it dashed towards the fort with its momentum intact.

A black assassin's dagger approached the goblin fortress. In the face of absolute death, the goblin fortress fell into a state of panic. One goblin after another ceased to exist, leaving only dead husks that coloured the scene.

Unable to move, the deployed forces waited on the cliff with blank surprise and eyes opened wide to the tragedy unfolding before their eyes.

They were knights. Overcoming the battlefield time and time again, they were proud of the skills they possessed. Up until the present, they had never before encountered a demon that inspired such dread. However, they prided themselves in mustering up the courage in their hearts to come back and secure victory.

As for fear, those who knew it were able to overcome it.

However despite all that, veteran warriors with long military service had their hearts and minds shaken by fear of the Black God of Death below.

They did not want to stand in front of that. Such hopeless fear grasped their hearts and minds, and hung over their pride like a finger.

It was not fear anymore, it was a curse.

Their hearts and minds broke. Just imagining standing in front of that sword cut off all their hopes. Every swing of that black flame extinguished a light of life.

However, there was no need for the knights to get involved. The goblin's force showed no resistance nor were they able to run away as a single swing of a sword changed their path to one leading straight to hell.

The Dark Knight who finished the execution bowed to Mira and returned to black fog. At the same time, the knights timidly advanced in formations to begin inspecting the fort.

「That thing, what was it?」

Graia's party was walking from the wooded area towards the fort in a cautious manner. Before long, they joined the other troops. They received a report that there were no surviving remnants of the goblins forces in the interior of the fort.

Mira and the knight troupe turned to walk towards the capital of the Arkite Kingdom, the Lunatic Lake.

When the subject of the Dark Knight's strength came up, the knights smiled wryly and were relieved from the bottom of their hearts that it was not an enemy. Mira gave off the sense that such unnatural strength was commonplace.

「I never would have thought that its true strength was like that.」

「Our turn never came.」

「When I thought about what could have happened at that time, I felt relieved. Miss Mira is amazing.」

「So cute.」

「You……」

「Err, um…. that is….」

「Anyway, I wonder just how strong it was.」

「Oh, yes. That's right. If it was an adventurer, I would guess that it would be as strong as the 『Genji』the Strong Hammer or 『Kazari』 of the Crimson Scorched Earth?」

「No, not at all, it surely wouldn't go up to legend class.」

「Is that so?」

「There cannot be such a monster that would willingly form a contract.」

「I know right~?」

Hahahahah! While the conversation talking about Mira was getting heated up, said person was talking with Graia about the country's present situation.

Mira obtained information about the current situation of the Arkite Kingdom. Right now, eight of the nine Elders who were keystones of the national defense were absent. Each of the towers had delegated representatives. Also, Mira confirmed the fact that Danbulf had not been alone in his disappearance thirty years ago.

In less than one year, all the nine Elders of the Silver Linked Towers had disappeared. Soon, however, the master wizard 『Luminaria of Calamity』 had returned from her disappearance ten years later.

Based on Luminaria's advice, this affair had been discussed behind closed doors by the upper echelon of the country. They officially announced this as the Elder disappearance case. Until then, those especially talented re

The hunter's thirst for blood reflected in its eyes and it carefully judged the distance between them to not let its prey escape.

Mira thrust out her right hand towards her opponent. And a feeling identical to that of a skill's activation was felt at that moment. The saber dog's pupils were now dyed in obvious fear and its body was crushed into a large red flower from its impact with many trees.

After all, the opponent was a lower class monster that was not comparable to hobgoblins. The skill Mira used was an initial skill of her second class 【Sage: Shock Wave】. It was merely a technique to send a shock wave forward, but if an expert on Mira's level were to use it, weaker beings would be blasted away.

「It looks like there's no problem.」

Because Mira was capable of using summoning arts, she used Sage Magic only as an experiment. And the experiment gave her the conviction that skills were able to be used in the same sense as the game.

Mira roughly brushed away the sparks that had fallen onto her and she hurried away without looking back.