My Illusion Is Survival - Chapter 47
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Chapter 47
The moment thick black smoke swept through all directions in an instant.
“Dan, danger-!”
“Cough! Kheuk! S, save me-”
The knights who were engulfed in the black smoke at the closest range finally collapsed to the floor, unable to continue speaking. Their appearance, scratching their throats and writhing on the ground, was already abnormal.
“Wh, what is this! I never heard about such a thing!”
The retainer’s face turned pale, as if he hadn’t expected something like this.
“How much longer until the Holy Maiden arrives!”
“She should arrive soon! She said she was coming with His Highness the Crown Prince, so probably soon-!”
At that moment, Azel’s cold gaze swept across the crowd.
“How foolish. If it’s the Holy Maiden, she’s already arrived.”
“That can’t be!”
“Can’t you tell by seeing the divine power mixed in the formation? That formation applies to everyone without distinguishing friend from foe. You bastards are also trapped rats in poison just like us.”
“…!”
“The Crown Prince planned to use you from the beginning with this intention. Probably only after everyone in the manor dies by that thing’s hand will he come bursting in with the Holy Maiden.”
I looked at the retainer who was turning pale and slowly collapsing to the floor, then clicked my tongue openly.
“Why, why would he do such a thing?”
“What else could it be? To gain justification for dealing with the Duke and the Prince.”
“…What?”
“If those two die due to a magical rampage, there would be no need to dirty his hands further, and even if they survive, it would provide justification to kill them.”
I added while looking at the Duke who had turned deathly pale.
“The Crown Prince intends to pin everything that happens here on the Duke.”
From the beginning, the Crown Prince never intended to let anyone here live.
‘But surviving tenaciously is also my specialty.’
No matter how much curses rose to my throat, I was determined to survive somehow.
“Azel, could you break through the wall for now?”
Instead of answering, Azel raised his sword and aimed at the wall with the formation carved on it. However, that wasn’t what I wanted.
“No, not that side, over there.”
“Weren’t we going to get out?”
When I pointed to the wall between rooms instead of the outer wall leading outside, Azel expressed his doubt.
“If we break through there, the entire manor might explode. You saw that rat bastard carrying magical energy in bottles earlier, right?”
“What? Rat, rat bastard?!”
The retainer squeaked in surprise, but I naturally ignored him.
“If I were the Crown Prince, I would have planted magical energy throughout the manor. So that if we forcibly break the formation and escape, those would explode together.”
If that happened, the entire Egmund Duchy would become a wasteland, but the Crown Prince wouldn’t care about such trivial things.
‘He’s probably even planning to abandon the North entirely.’
If the Holy Maiden was with him, even if she couldn’t purify the land tainted by magical energy, she could at least prevent the magical energy from spreading far.
“Certainly. The Crown Prince would do that and more.”
“Right. The problem is why even the Holy Maiden went along with such insane behavior.”
“That woman is crazy.”
“…Haah.”
A sigh naturally escaped at Azel’s matter-of-fact confirmation.
‘Yulia, you fool. How did things get to this point….’
If I could, I wanted to grab her by the collar and shake her right now.
“Anyway, let’s hurry.”
As soon as I finished speaking, Azel’s sword cut through the wall in front of us.
Thud-!
While people flinched at the cleanly cut wall section, we ran toward the opening.
However, before completely leaving the room, I shouted toward the Duke.
“If you want to live, run!”
“…I,”
“That person is no longer the Duchess you know! You still have things left to protect, don’t you? If you want to protect them, run.”
“…!”
“Right now.”
The Duke, who had been briefly staring at the Duchess shedding bloody tears and spewing black magical energy, finally turned around at the end of the corridor.
Since the Duchess was blocking the middle of the corridor, the Duke couldn’t follow us.
“My child- My child! My dear child, where on earth are you?”
Leaving behind the mournful cry of the monster, we ran and ran again.
*
“Why is it still so quiet?”
Outside Egremund Manor.
The Crown Prince, who had emerged from under a black tent, spoke about the quiet atmosphere outside.
“There seemed to be several explosive sounds earlier, but it’s been too quiet since then. Don’t tell me there’s a problem?”
“That shouldn’t be the case. The Holy Maiden said she definitely felt magical energy.”
“Then isn’t that more of a problem? The Duke couldn’t have died already. By now, she should be running around frantically trying to stop that monster, so how can it be this quiet?”
Anxiety flickered in the subordinate’s eyes at the Crown Prince’s point. If things had really gone wrong, he would have to bear the Crown Prince’s wrath alone.
“Let me check once more-”
Just as the subordinate’s expression was about to darken, someone came running into the Crown Prince’s tent.
“What’s this commotion?”
“I apologize! However, I have something urgent to report, so I committed this rudeness!”
“What is it?”
“I just confirmed a telegram left by Brio Creck, and he says Azel Viotz is currently inside Egremund Manor.”
“Who? Azel Viotz is inside there right now?”
The Crown Prince’s expression became even more sensitive at the unexpected name.
“I don’t know the detailed circumstances. But according to Brio Creck’s telegram, it was Azel Viotz who saved the Prince from the attack during the day.”
“What kind of nonsense is that?”
Just as his sharp eyes were about to contort, another person opened the tent and entered.
The pale-faced intruder was the Holy Maiden, Yulia.
“What is this sudden behavior, Yulia Francis?”
The Crown Prince’s tone toward Yulia was cold, because even if she was the Holy Maiden, she couldn’t intrude into the Crown Prince’s temporary quarters without permission like this.
However.
“I heard the news. That Azel Viotz is inside there.”
“…So?”
The Crown Prince unconsciously hesitated at Yulia’s somehow eerie attitude.
“I heard he wasn’t alone, is that correct?”
“What does that matter?”
“I need to know if a pink-haired woman was with him.”
“What?”
“I said I need to know if the woman I’m looking for is inside there.”
Suddenly, Yulia’s eyes turned toward the Crown Prince.
Her glass-like transparent eyes were not beautiful but rather chilling, so everyone in the tent naturally lowered their voices.
“So it was all your doing, recently mobilizing even Holy Knights from the Temple to search for some woman.”
“If you know, then please give me an answer now. I’m getting quite anxious.”
“You there. Do you know anything?”
“…They say there were two women and one man together, but since their faces were covered with robes, they couldn’t confirm their hair colors.”
“…Ah….”
A sigh escaped from Yulia’s lips.
“Of all things to miss the most important detail.”
“So what do you want to do about it? Who is this ‘pink-haired woman’ anyway, that you’re searching so desperately for her?”
Upon hearing the question, Yulia smiled faintly.
“She is a foolish and ignorant one who needs guidance.”
Though the smile on her lips clearly showed Yulia’s unstable psychology, her eyes still sparkled with faith.
“One who dared to doubt my faith.”
Excessive faith sometimes manifests as madness. For the first time, the Crown Prince held back his words when faced with Yulia, who seemed unaware of what expression she was making.
“I think we need to change our plan.”
“Change it? How?”
“I’m going to go in myself. So I can find her directly and drag her out.”
If Elpis had known, it would have been cause for despair.
*
“Hmm.”
When I suddenly stopped in place, the three people’s gazes immediately turned toward me.
“Is something wrong, Miss?”
“My ears just suddenly felt a bit itchy.”
I added jokingly that someone must be talking about me, but somehow the back of my neck felt cold.
‘What is this? Is it just my imagination?’
Then Dekan asked me.
“What do we do now?”
“Let’s go underground. I’m planning to escape the manor through the underground.”
“Seeing how they’ve blocked both the walls and ceiling with formations, wouldn’t the underground be the same?”
“It probably will be. But there’s still a way.”
Dekan’s concern was valid. However, I also had something in mind.
“Have you ever heard of earth force?”
“Earth force? Are you referring to the inherent power that the earth possesses?”
When everyone’s attention focused on me, I began to explain calmly.
It was finally time to use the transmigrator’s wisdom.
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