The Baby Raising A Devil - Chapter 247

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Chapter 247

I glanced at Mina, who had a confused expression.

‘She saw it in a dream?’

If I had a younger sister, would it feel like this?

“Johan makes me think ‘would it feel like this if I had an older brother?’ He also told me ‘would it feel like this if I had a younger sister?’ I’m always happy when I’m with the Three Dubbled Brothers.”

I remembered Mina from my first life, who used to chatter away while resting her chin on Duke Amitie’s knee.

‘She saw things from my first life in a dream?’

How much did she see?

Does she also know that I was previously a powerless Child of the Evil God who would eventually have to be offered as a sacrifice?

My hand gripping my skirt tightened.

“Youngest.”

“….”

“Leblaine.”

I flinched and looked at Johan in surprise.

“Ah… Yes.”

“What are you thinking about so deeply?”

“…Nothing. Just… Oh, what about Isaac and Henri?”

I thought they would arrive first.

With long-distance teleportation circles, distance isn’t an issue so you can’t determine order, but since they were at the battlefield, they should have needed less preparation time than Dubbled’s Soldiers.

“After kidnapping you, Kuhelm withdrew from battle.”

“So the Children of Fate were their target from the beginning.”

“That’s right.”

“Then did they return to school?”

“No.”

I had asked casually, but I paused after hearing Johan’s answer.

For some reason, I had an ominous feeling.

“Then what?”

“While searching for you, they encountered a horde of monsters. And then we lost contact.”

“What did you say?!”

When I shouted loudly, everyone’s attention focused on Johan and me.

Johan grabbed my shoulder and said.

“Father, North, and I—all of Dubbled’s main forces came here not only to rescue you, but also because we need to find Henri and Isaac.”

I covered my mouth, and the Odis students who heard our conversation turned pale.

Emeline ran toward us.

“Lady Juliet too? All the seniors disappeared?”

“Yes, not just the Elysiano Class, but all the students who participated.”

I grabbed Johan and frantically questioned him.

“How… when did contact get cut off! Right after we were kidnapped? Then you don’t even know if those two are alive or dead─!”

“Leblaine.”

“…”

“Calm down. Odis has requested neighboring countries to search. The two princes of Wygzentra, the Princess of Gahong, the candidate for union leader of the tribal confederation Atar, as well as heirs from renowned families across the continent have all disappeared. Each country has their eyes blazing with urgency, so they’ll be found soon.”

“…If Odis is requesting searches to this extent, then the fierce battle with the monster horde must have been tremendous.”

Suddenly, I remembered feeling anxious before the expedition.

‘This was the reason…’

Goosebumps ran all over my body, and my mind became jumbled.

The faces of Henri and Isaac, and… Adrian became distorted and mixed together chaotically.

‘This didn’t happen in my previous life.’

Odis frequently engaging in battles with Kuhelm was something that happened in my previous life too.

Johan, Henri, and Isaac enrolling in Odis Academy and going into battle was also something that happened.

But they had never gone missing after encountering a monster horde.

‘Why on earth has the future changed? Because Mina and I entered Odis?’

If it’s people’s futures, they could change by being entangled with me. But monsters are different.

‘Monster hordes can’t be created by humans, so how… did humans create them?’

When my thoughts reached that point, several questions naturally arose.

I looked at the chief who was kneeling, subdued by the chains of mana.

“Wh, what…?!”

“How did you collude with Odis students?”

“What?”

“Don’t say you never colluded. I already know that you were able to kidnap us because there was a traitor in our unit.”

“I, I bribed them with money.”

“No, I saw the account books of your dealings with Hannibal. You don’t have enough money to entice Odis students who are heirs of prestigious families.”

I grabbed his collar and asked.

“Who is it. Who ordered you to kidnap Mina and me. Who created the monster horde!”

“…”

The chief swallowed dry saliva with a pale face.

I shouted while gripping tightly with my hand.

“Viscount Dubois!”

Viscount Dubois, the leader of Dubbled’s pro-Duke faction and the Dark Bird commander, approached me.

I stared directly into the chief’s eyes and said.

“In my family, once you fall into Viscount Dubois’s hands, there’s nothing he can’t find out. He’s a professional at torture.”

“…!”

“Shall we make a bet? On how long it takes for you to open your mouth.”

I pushed the chief away and stood up, looking at Viscount Dubois.

“Viscount, show me your skills.”

Viscount Dubois smiled sinisterly.

“I won’t disappoint you. Absolutely not.”

Shortly after the Chief was dragged away by Viscount Dubois, agonizing screams echoed throughout the Village.

* * *

At that moment, at some Mountain Foothills.

“Jin, Jin…! Get a grip…”

Princess of Gahong Ryu Honghae held Jin, the Tribal Federation successor whose entire body was covered in blood, and shouted.

Jin, whose abdomen had been pierced by a monster’s fangs, gasped for breath while clutching his wound.

“I’m not telling you to go ahead. You must take care of me no matter what. I’m precious, you know.”

Watching him joke with a voice on the verge of death, Isaac laughed helplessly.

“Even in this situation, you… Fine. I can’t leave you behind anyway.”

Monsters were scattered everywhere. One unit among the 7 battalions deployed in this battle had already been annihilated. They couldn’t even recover the corpses as the monsters had torn off and devoured their flesh.

Those nameless monsters were different from ordinary monsters.

Most Magic and blades had no effect on them. Even auxiliary magical tools like Long-Distance Teleportation Circles couldn’t be used in places where those monsters were present.

The only Magic that could be used was Barriers. And even those wouldn’t work unless used by someone who wielded Ultra-High Level Magic like Henri.

The only blades that could attack the monsters were those infused with Aura. However, since only Elysiano’s Students were Aura users, they were already struggling just to protect the other Students who had become useless.

Just then, Henri, who had been maintaining Barriers all day, swayed and collapsed.

“Elder Brother!”

His pale expression and the dark red veins bulging all over his body were signs that Henri’s Mana was nearly depleted.

Naturally, Henri’s Barrier disappeared.

Immediately, monsters began appearing one by one in the vicinity.

A monster that had been sniffing around stared intently at the Barrier.

Soon it charged at once, and with a heavy friction sound—thud!! Juliet coughed up blood.

Ryu Honghae said with a pale face.

“You might feel like dying, but don’t release the Barrier. Don’t release it even if you die…!”

The 1st unit was annihilated facing two monsters. Jin had a hole pierced through his stomach.

There was no way they could handle the five monsters that had now gathered.

Juliet gritted her teeth and shouted.

“Calling that thing a friend…! How’s Henri?”

Isaac, who checked on Henri, clicked his tongue and said.

“It’s fortunate he’s not dead.”

“Damn it… Honghae, take care of Jin, Hayton, and Adrian. Get the other Children ready too.”

Ryu Honghae looked at Jin who was covered in blood and unable to move, unconscious Adrian, and the numerous Students trembling in fear.

“You’re going to release the Barrier? No way, how can we escape in this state? Even escaping from two of them would have been impossible without Adrian…”

It was Adrian who had defeated the two monsters.

Without his Power that was on a different level from Humans, all of Odis’s units would have already been annihilated.

Juliet muttered.

“I’m not releasing it, it’s going to collapse. Soon.”

“H-how long?”

“…30 minutes at most.”

“What?! We need to hold out until reinforcements arrive─”

Bang─!

Bang, bang─!!

The monsters threw themselves against the barrier.

Juliet barely managed to hold them back, but blood vessels began to bulge on her body just like Henri’s.

“We won’t last even 5 minutes.”

Isaac hurriedly supported Henri.

“Isn’t there a way to escape?”

“….”

“If we get away from the monster horde, we can use the long-distance teleportation circle. Isn’t there really a way to escape?”

“…It’s impossible with human power. Maybe if it were the power of something inhuman.”

In the end, it meant they had to face the monster horde head-on.

Bang! Bang!

The barrier shook violently, then soon with a sharp crack─! and a piercing rupture sound, Juliet collapsed.

The gaze of the massive monster hovering in mid-air slowly moved. Toward Juliet, whose blood vessels bulged all the way to her temples.

Grrrr, a chilling growl echoed low, and then it charged toward her.

“Juliet─!”

Before Ryu Honghae’s scream could even echo, a crow fluttered up into the air.

At that moment.

“Pur. Bune.”

That voice rang out, and a massive activation seal appeared above the students’ heads.

‘This voice….’

Where Isaac’s gaze reached, crack-like light gathered into human form.

Soon, where the light disappeared, brown hair fluttered.

“Pur, Bune…!!”

Another shout echoed through the mountain, and strange smoke began rising from beneath the ground.

The smoke gathered into human forms, and countless soldiers wearing horned iron masks appeared.

The phantom army recorded in history.

It was the moment the Phantom Army first appeared on this land.

* * *

Odis Academy.

Bang─!!

Empress Yvonne, pale as death, opened the door to the Academy’s Grand Conference Hall.

The Academy Principal and professors already seated at the table, along with the authorities from various nations who were Odis parents, rose to their feet.

The Imperial Consort, breathing heavily, shouted toward the Academy Principal.

“What news is there of Andre?”

“That is….”

“I’m asking what happened to my son!”

As the Imperial Consort screamed out, the Academy Principal shifted his gaze to the magic mirror.

“We’ve found the location of the students who disappeared from Dubbled. However, even Dubbled’s Soldiers are no match for those monsters… For now, we’re connecting the magic mirror to observe the situation, so please calm down…”

“Calm down?! How can a mother stay calm when her child is in mortal danger!”

The Academy Principal broke out in cold sweat with a darkened face.

Monsters that even Dubbled’s Wolves couldn’t handle.

Each nation had sent military support, but they couldn’t guarantee the students’ survival.

Even Cardinals from God Neriad’s Shrine had arrived, and a Professor activated the magic mirror that had completed transmission preparations with Dubbled’s assistance.

The magic mirror captured images of Students covered in blood.

People in Power from various nations who had obtained the few long-distance teleportation circles that Dubbled had released to the Market and arrived at the Academy let out loud groans.

“Ah, aah, Honghae…”

Concubine Juwol, the 13th consort of Gahong and Ryu Honghae’s birth mother, covered her mouth with trembling hands.

Thick veins bulged on the fists of Bishar, son-in-law of the Atar Tribal Federation leader.

His son clearly wasn’t in proper condition from what they could see.

That’s when it happened.

[Pur, Bune…!]

At the same time as the familiar Voice was heard, Empress Cecilia, who had stepped forward to observe the situation in place of the Empire’s Emperor Alexandre, entered the Conference Room.

She muttered upon seeing the magic mirror.

“Leblaine…?”

At her words, people in the Conference Room began murmuring.

“Leblaine? You mean Lady Dubbled?”

“Wait, what is that?”

Smoke that had gathered beneath Leblaine’s feet transformed into human shapes, and a great army wearing iron masks appeared.

“Long-distance teleportation circles? She summoned Soldiers using teleportation circles?”

“Even so, didn’t they say Humans are no match for those monsters? Rather, they should teleport Mages…”

“No, look!”

As someone shouted, people’s gazes focused on the magic mirror again.

The Phantoms in the magic mirror leaped toward the monsters.

But…

“Didn’t they say Humans were no match for them?”

“That’s what we heard, but…”

“Then what is that?”

The Phantom Soldiers were taking down those massive monsters as if they were handling sheets of paper.

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