I’m Stuck on a Remote Island With the Male Leads - Chapter 171

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Chapter 171
“Eun-ji! No! Damn it! That bastard Magical Beast!”
I bolted toward Eun-ji.
Enoch, who must have been nearby, rushed over and snapped a thick tree branch in two.
Kaiden warped in front of Eun-ji, catching the shrunken form in both hands, and I hurriedly took Eun-ji from him to check her condition.
Despite bleeding, Eun-ji wagged her tail cheerfully and looked up at me as if nothing were wrong.
Tears welled up in my eyes. She was a child who didn’t even know how to say she was hurting, even when she was in pain.
‘Damn that Magical Beast. I should have torn it apart with my own hands…!’
The creature wasn’t dead yet. A massive tree branch shot up from the ground toward the sky again. At its tip was the Magical Beast’s head—its true body, it seemed. And it had a Langrid Empire Military Knight clamped in its jaws.
I won’t let this stand!
I handed Eun-ji back to Kaiden and climbed onto the tree branch, running upward along its length.
“Margaret!”
I heard Enoch and Kaiden calling out behind me, but I didn’t look back.
A Magic Circle materialized beneath my feet as I ran. Kaiden, realizing he couldn’t stop me, must have cast a protective spell over me instead.
The tree branch continued to shoot skyward. I ran along the branch and pulled the lever on the Flare.
Then I aimed the Flare at the Magical Beast’s head as it drew closer.
Since the creature had a Knight clamped in its jaws, attacking the head directly was dangerous.
‘I need to separate the head from the body.’
Having made my decision, I immediately pulled the trigger.
Whoosh—Bang!
Screech!
The Magical Beast let out a pained groan. At the same moment, the tree branch cracked and began to splinter apart. The head was gradually separating from the body.
I looked down in panic. It seemed to be at least five stories high.
‘Whether it’s Enoch or Kaiden, either one will catch me.’
If a war hero and an Archmage couldn’t catch one person, then they were the incompetent ones!
With such shameless thoughts, I leaped from midair.
But unexpectedly, it was Eun-ji who caught me—having enlarged her body again. It seemed she had quickly recovered her strength after gorging herself on the Magical Beast just moments before.
I slid down along Eun-ji’s scales and landed safely at her tail’s end.
“Ugh!”
Though it felt like my ribs were broken.
Eun-ji shrank back to her smaller size, and I picked her up and placed her on my shoulder before looking at Enoch and Kaiden.
Enoch and Kaiden rushed toward me urgently.
“Margaret, are you all right?”
“Are you injured?”
“I think my ribs are broken.”
As I collapsed in place, unable to move, Kaiden immediately cast a healing spell on me. Magic truly is the greatest. Thanks to it, I was able to stand again.
“You nearly died. Do you understand? Why do you worry us like this!”
Kaiden helped me up while clearly irritated. Enoch’s face, as he approached, was just as menacing as Kaiden’s.
“As Rodban said, you nearly lost your life. I would prefer you never act so recklessly again. Do you not trust us?”
At Enoch’s words, I shook my head vigorously.
“No. I trusted you. I trusted you enough to leave my back to you. I’m truly sorry for charging in without a plan.”
“Ugh, if only you’d keep quiet.”
Kaiden burst with exasperation, running his hands through his hair. Though he glared at me with displeasure, I was grateful for his embrace, acknowledging the hardship I’d endured.
Just then, the completely shattered Tree Branch Magical Beast crashed to the ground with a thunderous sound. Smoke billowed from behind it. The surroundings fell silent.
As I exhaled a sigh and turned my head, I met the gazes of countless eyes fixed upon me.
Though I’d struggled somewhat, hadn’t I spent months on the Island conducting Monster Extermination operations?
To me, it was nothing particularly special, but it seemed the other Knights saw it differently. When I’d killed the Sea Crocodile swarm, only a few Knights had witnessed it—but this time, the entire Knight Order had seen it.
The Knight I’d just saved appeared to have been caught by Kaiden below. Though covered in blood and grime, his condition looked good. He limped toward me and offered his Expression of Gratitude.
“Thank you, Young Lady.”
At his words of thanks, the Knights who had been watching uncertainly suddenly raised their Swords high toward the sky and erupted in cheers.
Waaaaah! Flone! Flone!
The Knights continuously shouted my name in acclamation. I touched my ringing ears and turned to look at Enoch and Kaiden. They each patted my head in turn.
The casualties appeared to be around seven. I’d heard that when a Magical Beast of this magnitude launches a Surprise Attack, even a well-armed military typically suffers dozens of casualties.
Now I understood why the Knights were so overjoyed.
‘I seem to be more impressive than I thought. At this rate, won’t I get scouted by the Knight Order?’
Of course, it was absurd, but I entertained such useless Deep Thought while checking the Cylinder of my Flare once more. I’d used all the Ammunition in the Cylinder. I still had a few spare Ammunition rounds left….
Still, now that the Langrid Empire was within reach, the Flare had done its job.
Enoch, who had been watching the Knights tidy up the ruined surroundings, muttered.
“The Magical Beasts’ movements are suspicious. We should investigate.”
“It’s strange that they evolved into such an odd form. There shouldn’t be any Magical Beasts with such bizarre shapes Inland.”
Kaiden agreed with those words. I also added my thoughts.
“Didn’t it seem like they were being drawn here by something?”
Before my words even finished, the Knights brought forth Rodban in a bound state and knelt before Enoch.
“We found this in Your Highness Rodban’s pocket.”
The Knight handed Enoch a strange Stone Block.
The black Stone Block appeared to have been worked, yet remained jagged and unpleasant to look at. Wrapped tightly with Rope and fashioned into a necklace form, it resembled some sort of bizarre talisman.
Eun-ji, perched on my shoulder, bared her Fangs and glared at the Stone Block.
“When the Magical Beasts swarmed, this Stone continued to glow. It seemed as though those creatures were lured by this light.”
“Ugh! Ugh ugh!”
At the Knight’s testimony, Rodban, gagged, shook his head violently and struggled.
Kaiden, observing the Stone Block in Enoch’s hand, whispered in a low voice.
“It’s a Magic Stone.”
Enoch and I looked at Kaiden simultaneously. Kaiden stared intently at the Stone Block, then suddenly frowned deeply.
“Wait. That thing—the old man seems to know about it.”
When he said “the old man,” he meant Jenas. Kaiden gazed into the midair as if conversing with Jenas, saying nothing.
After a moment, Kaiden uttered a curse. He glanced around cautiously, then lowered his voice.
“It’s a Magic Stone that the Peony Faction distributes among themselves. Apparently, it emits a wavelength similar to the Magical Beast Mother Body.”
A Magic Stone distributed among the Peony Faction? Why on earth would they distribute such a thing?
“If it emits a similar wavelength, then it’s an object capable of evolving Magical Beasts just like the Magical Beast Mother Body.”
Enoch answered, having listened quietly to Kaiden’s explanation. Evolving Magical Beasts? My mind went blank.
So those terrible creatures that were on Alea Island would now spread their influence across the entire Continent? I asked Kaiden again.
“Why does this Magic Stone emit the same wavelength as the Magical Beast Mother Body?”
“I’m not entirely sure of the exact reason. It’s a special Magic Stone developed by the Rohade Family long ago, like the Tentationem Flower, but apparently it didn’t have this kind of power initially. It seems the power contained within the Magic Stone must have been corrupted by some catalyst.”
“A Magic Stone corrupted?”
“I hear the spirits of some dead Test Subjects are bound here. Remember how the Magical Beast Mother Body on Alea Island was energy formed from gathered vengeful spirits? Think of it as similar to that. They’re the same vengeful spirits, after all. Isn’t it natural they’d emit similar wavelengths?”
“Crazy people…”
I cursed without thinking. Kaiden sighed and unleashed a barrage of curses against the Rohade Family.
“Why did they distribute Magic Stones like this among themselves?”
“You know that Mana exists in our bodies like air, right? When a dimensional gate opens, it collapses. The flow breaks down, so ordinary people can’t use Mana at all. And it seems they wanted the power to handle it completely.”
Kaiden furrowed the space between his eyebrows and paused intermittently. It seemed Jenas was probably continuing to speak inside his head.
“This Magic Stone is precisely the thing that controls that collapsed Mana Flow. While ordinary people couldn’t even touch Mana, they planned to use this Magic Stone to dominate the Continent. …That is, until they realized the Experiment had failed.”
Dominate the Continent? It was an absolutely insane plan. I was so dumbfounded I could barely speak.
Jenas probably said something similar. But his scale was even larger—it seemed he wanted to dominate not just the Continent but dimensions themselves.
A brief silence fell between us. We each wore complicated expressions as we stared at the black stone resting in Enoch’s hand.
“Does that entire Force possess objects like this?”
Kaiden nodded at Enoch’s question.
“If they emit the same wavelength as the Magical Beast Mother Body, it’s truly dangerous. We must collect them all.”
At Kaiden’s response, I pressed my forehead.
Damn it. So now I had to find and destroy not just the Blood Scripture but all the Magic Stones possessed by the Peony Faction as well.
Just then, Eun-ji descended to the floor, climbed up Enoch’s body, and peered curiously toward the Magic Stone. What was I going to do with that curious nature of theirs?
“Eun-ji, that’s dangerous…”
Before I could even finish speaking, Eun-ji simply swallowed the Magic Stone whole.
“Eun-ji!”
“Chirp! Chirp chirp!”
Rodban, who saw this from afar, thrashed about violently. Regardless, I patted Eun-ji’s back.
“How could you just eat anything you find like that!”
Shocked, I scolded Eun-ji loudly. The creature looked up at me with a displeased expression, flicked its tongue, and then let out a burp.
“What? You even digested it?”
Kaiden looked down at Eun-ji with an expression of utter disbelief.
“Check Eun-ji’s condition for me. What if there are side effects?”
As I fussed over it anxiously, Kaiden clicked his tongue and examined the white serpent’s state.
Meanwhile, Enoch issued orders to the remaining Knights, excluding some, to prepare for departure.
As the command fell, the Knights moved in perfect unison, clearing the battle debris and beginning preparations to depart once more for the Langrid Empire.
“No problems at all. It’s completely fine? Seriously, what exactly is this creature?”
Kaiden picked up Eun-ji and examined it carefully from different angles, then flicked the serpent’s nose with his finger. Eun-ji puffed out a small flame from its mouth with an annoyed expression. What was with this creature? Was it going through adolescence?
“If we need to find and dispose of those Magic Stones going forward, it would be solved if this creature just ate them all.”
At Kaiden’s words, Eun-ji snorted and looked up at me. Its expression seemed to say it was begging to be entrusted with the task.
I gazed at Eun-ji with a somewhat complicated feeling. Lately, Eun-ji seemed just like a young dragon entering adolescence.
In any case, since Kaiden was searching for the Blood Scripture and Enoch was searching for Alea Island, it seemed Eun-ji and I would have to help with destroying the Magic Stones.
Even without seeing it, the path ahead was clearly going to be grueling.
Why must I endure such trials…!
“Mmph! Mmph mmph!”
At that moment, Rodban thrashed about violently once more. Enoch Aster Klaus Langrid, growing irritated, instructed the Knights to remove his gag.
The moment the gag came loose, Rodban screamed out.
“Damn it! My, my Magic Stone—what did you do with it!”
“It appears you’re readily admitting that this is a ‘Magic Stone,’ brother.”
“What?”

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