Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 81

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Chapter 81

Kaisis nodded and followed me.

I took off my shoes to avoid making noise and walked barefoot into the cave.

The cave was dark.

However, someone had intentionally hung torches, making the path faintly visible.

Someone was definitely inside this cave.

“Even though it’s dim, the light from the stone might give us away. Could you put it in your knight uniform’s inner pocket?”

At my words, Kaisis immediately put the stone in his inner pocket.

Thanks to the thick fabric, the light was no longer visible.

I walked following the torches, and Kaisis followed beside me.

That’s when it happened.

The narrow path widened and soon revealed an open space.

In the clearing-like wide space, people wearing robes had gathered.

Kaisis and I hid behind a large rock and watched the situation.

A large magic circle was drawn on the floor.

That magic circle was identical to the cross-section of a Pimpis flower.

It was a dark magic circle.

I had an intuition.

They were…

A cult of dark mages.

I held my breath and watched them.

I could see people busily moving around preparing something.

They placed clean water and a dagger on the altar, and laid out blue Pimpis flowers.

As I watched the robed people moving with narrowed eyes,

A man who appeared to be the leader of this group climbed onto the dais. Then he spread both arms and shouted.

“We will now begin the ritual!”

Then the people wearing hooded robes bowed their heads toward the dais as if prostrating.

“Today’s ritual goal is to offer a living sacrifice for the great one! You’ve all prepared your sacrifices, haven’t you?”

“Yes, Anton!”

Offering a living sacrifice.

It was horrifying just to hear. But the followers were glowing with madness in their eyes.

“Then bring the sacrifice!”

When the man commanded, two robed people dragged in a child.

The child looking around in terror was none other than Hazel.

The people who dragged Hazel to the altar and laid her down tied her hands and feet tightly with rope. Then they called someone to the dais.

“A pure and good sacrifice. Now, those who brought the sacrifice. Take out the heart directly and offer it to him!”

The two people who climbed onto the dais picked up the dagger placed on the altar.

Though it was difficult to identify them exactly because they wore robes, judging by the expression “those who brought the sacrifice,” they seemed to be Hazel’s foster parents.

“Mom, Dad…”

Sure enough, Hazel called out to her foster parents while sobbing.

“Don’t worry, Hazel. You’ll live eternally by his side.”

“Of course. This is a good deed that will help him.”

It was bullshit.

It was the moment when Hazel’s foster parents raised the dagger high.

I couldn’t just watch this situation any longer.

I created wind to knock the sword from the foster parents’ hands.

Then the people in the cave began murmuring.

I approached Hazel without releasing my invisibility magic.

Meanwhile, the foster parents picked up the sword again and tried to stab it into Hazel’s chest.

“Stop!”

Since only a voice came from empty air, everyone was startled and looked around.

Worried that Hazel would be surprised, I finally released my invisibility magic.

The followers’ faces began to turn pale when they saw me standing in front of the altar.

“A, a Holy Mage…!”

“Why is she here?”

“Capture her immediately!”

When I, a Holy Mage, appeared, they began to take an extremely wary stance.

When the invisibility magic was released, Kaisis, who had been hiding behind the large rock, also revealed himself.

The followers who discovered Kaisis became enraged.

“The Holy Mage brought a knight!”

“Let’s eliminate them all for the great one!”

I looked at the followers rushing out with weapons in an instant and signaled to Kaisis.

“Kaisis, can you handle those people?”

“Of course. I won’t let them touch a single hair on Master’s head.”

Kaisis drew his sword.

Then the followers flinched.

I left the followers to Kaisis and untied the ropes binding Hazel’s hands and feet.

However, the ropes wouldn’t come loose easily.

Finally, having reached the limit of my patience, I cut the ropes with magic.

“Sister!”

Hazel, who had jumped up from the altar, looked at me and shed tears.

“Hazel, come here.”

As Hazel tried to get down from the altar, the man who appeared to be the leader took advantage of the chaos to approach and instantly lifted Hazel up.

“I can’t let that happen.”

The man whistled and looked somewhere. At the man’s whistle, the waiting followers released magical beasts.

Then magical beasts burst out from the darkness.

“Attack that woman!”

The magical beasts growled and looked at me.

The man handed Hazel over to her foster parents and said.

“You quickly offer this child’s heart to him.”

“Yes, yes! We understand!”

Hazel’s foster parents raised the dagger high toward Hazel again.

The man closed his eyes and muttered in a strange language. The more he did so, the stronger the black light emanated from the dark magic circle.

I immediately drew up my magic power.

And I bound Hazel’s foster parents and the leader with binding magic.

Protecting Hazel while simultaneously dealing with magical beasts and followers was too overwhelming.

“Hazel! Hide!”

I shouted while looking back at Hazel, then turned to face the magical beasts.

Purifying magical beasts while maintaining binding magic wasn’t easy. But I had to do it.

I continued to maintain the binding magic to buy time for Hazel to escape.

Meanwhile, Hazel, who had gotten down from the altar, began running somewhere.

Whether unfortunately or fortunately, the magical beasts were only looking at me.

“Yes, target me instead.”

As I was confronting the magical beasts, one of them charged at me.

I immediately shot my magic power. Then the magical beast hit by my magic returned to its original animal form.

I felt my magic power weaken for a moment.

I turned around in surprise. Fortunately, the foster parents and the man who appeared to be the leader were still bound.

The binding magic had almost been released.

I struggled to maintain the binding magic while purifying the magical beasts.

But something was strange.

Among the beast-type monsters, there was a strange form mixed in.

It looked almost like a person….

“Don’t tell me human Masu Transformation has spread even to the Empire?”

As I muttered this, the monsters simultaneously rushed toward me.

I quickly drew up a large amount of magic power.

First, I had to deal with the beast-type monsters.

Since treating humans who had undergone Masu Transformation consumed a lot of magic power.

So it was right to deal with the beast-type monsters first, which required relatively less magic power.

I shot light toward the beast-type monsters, and several of them returned to their original forms.

But a few rolled their bodies to avoid the light.

My accuracy dropped because I was trying to shoot magic power while maintaining the binding spell.

Now what remained were two beast-type monsters and three humanoid monsters.

The humanoid monsters looked particularly dangerous among them.

That’s when it happened.

A humanoid monster made a gurgling sound and then roughly vomited something out.

It was a sticky-looking black liquid.

The black liquid that the monster vomited flew toward me.

I immediately deployed a defensive spell.

The golden barrier that was hit by the liquid began to slowly melt away.

Damn.

When the black liquid fell to the ground, the floor began to melt with a hissing sound.

I didn’t know exactly what the liquid was, but it seemed to be something similar to acid. It looked like it would be terrible if it even grazed me.

I quickly purified the two beast-type monsters first.

Now only three humanoid monsters remained.

But it didn’t look easy to purify the humanoid monsters after having used some magic power.

The humanoid monsters even seemed to communicate with each other through gurgling sounds.

The humanoid monsters approached us.

“This is troublesome….”

The humanoid monsters began gurgling fiercely.

One of them stretched out its hand part with a cracking sound, then the horns that sprouted from its hand merged into one, taking the form of a giant sword.

It seemed that unlike beast-type monsters, humanoid monsters had various abilities.

A humanoid monster that spits acid-like liquid and a humanoid monster that modifies parts of its body.

Then what would be the ability of the remaining one?

I stood facing off against the humanoid monsters while keeping watch on the remaining one.

That’s when it happened.

The acid-spitting creature began shooting black liquid at me again.

I hurriedly tried to deploy a defensive spell.

Then, the one whose ability I couldn’t identify opened its mouth grotesquely wide and….

“Kieeeek-!”

It screamed.

Following the creature’s scream, violent vibrations began to occur and a ringing sound started coming from my ears.

“Ugh…!”

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