The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 174

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Chapter 174

Gideon stepped on that foothold and leaped up again. Since there was no way to keep the foothold fixed in midair, the foothold he had stepped on fell downward and scattered into Oaths before disappearing.

Rita continued firing formation bullets. Gid stepped on the footholds that appeared in midair before they could fall, crossing the night sky.

Even though this was their first time using this method of movement, their coordination was perfect as if they had practiced countless times. They crossed through the air at a speed no different from flying, through the sky where paper lanterns were rising like fireflies.

Kiiiiaaak!

The Red Queen, who had reached the fortress wall while dragging her dress hem, screamed in anger as she watched her object of obsession flying away across the sky.

The Red Queen’s ground movement speed was extremely slow without proper feet. Rather than toppling the fortress wall that reached about her waist height and waddling along, she chose a faster method of movement.

The queen’s dress inflated like a balloon and rose up like a hot air balloon.

It might have seemed comical at first glance, but if one were to see what was inside the inflated dress from the ground, they would never be able to laugh.

Countless legs of insects, or innumerable thorny vines writhing like earthworms packed in a jar. The bright red roses blooming throughout those vines were eerie, looking more like drops of blood than flower buds.

Those thorny vines moved independently, pushing and inflating the outer skin and dress hem. Corrupted magic power gathered in dark red formed a shape like a fallen sun, acting like the flame of a hot air balloon to lift the queen’s massive body into the air.

Kyahahahahaha!

The Red Queen burst into delighted laughter as she flew through the sky. Paper lanterns that collided with her tore and burst, losing their light and falling.

The citizens of Rhamcard who had been floating paper lanterns and making wishes finally began to notice the disturbance one by one.

What appeared to them from the ground was the sight of a disc filled with disgustingly writhing tentacles crossing the night sky while harboring an eerily glowing dark red mass of light at its center.

Screams erupted and chaos spread. The capital guard and Tritoma Special Forces who had received orders struggled to somehow control the citizens.

In the midst of this, blue glowing translucent birds and deer emerged from somewhere and dove between the people.

They were Isaiah’s summoned creatures, who had been assigned to handle control outside the battlefield and command the Tritoma Knight Order.

‘Senior Is is also moving according to plan.’

Lillieta confirmed that the blue birds were flying between buildings delivering news and information while the blue deer mingled with the fleeing crowds to control the flow, then looked away from below.

Since they had made the Red Queen move by flying, the commotion in the city wouldn’t be a major problem if they left it to Isaiah.

‘We need to focus on entering the battlefield.’

Rita fired formation bullets in sync with Gid’s movements while looking ahead.

The magnificent circular arena was approaching.

Rhamcard Arena.

That place was the battlefield that Beacon had selected and prepared to face the monster.

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The Hooded Man stood on a building’s terrace, looking up at the night sky.

In the alley below, terrified people were screaming and fleeing in all directions, but no incidents of being trampled or crushed to death in the crowd occurred.

This was because the capital guard positioned at key points and countless blue summoned creatures that had suddenly flown in were controlling the flow of the crowd and rescuing people who were about to fall.

In the night sky where paper lanterns floated up like clusters of stars, a black man carrying a sparkling light purple dress was flying while stepping on golden footholds.

Behind him, the red mad queen flew in a bizarre form, bursting into laughter.

The man watching this scene muttered.

“Too smooth.”

He raised his fingertip and pointed at the sky. Then he quietly commanded.

“Fire.”

The man who had been standing beside him like a shadow moved the iron cannon that had been set up in advance. The hooded mage placed his hand on the barrel.

The cannon fired while wrapped in black light made no explosive sound whatsoever.

Something so black it could blend into the night sky shot up from the barrel’s end. It rose in a straight line and pierced through the Red Queen’s flailing forearm.

Immediately after firing, the mage, the man, and the cannon were all enveloped in black ripples and disappeared from that spot.

Dark red blood splattered like a meteor in the sky.

Kyaaaaaaaak!

The Red Queen screamed and stopped in midair. The queen, clutching her wound with the hand holding the flower, clenched her long torn mouth and rolled back her eyes. Her paper-cut-like hair stood on end.

Gideon, noticing the disturbance, landed on the roof of a nearby tall building and stopped. Lillieta got down from his arms and looked up at the Red Queen with rolled-back eyes, spitting out a curse.

“Damn it.”

The queen had bled. Soon her kingdom would arrive and infinite soldiers would be born.

Rita grabbed Gid’s arm as he urgently pulled out his communicator.

“Rita?”

“Let’s make her obsessed again.”

“How?”

“Remember back then? Near the end of the subjugation, when the Red Queen suddenly went berserk and we had a really hard time. Wasn’t that practically close to an obsessed state?”

“…That was more like a frenzy than obsession. Even after seeing blood, the Red Queen didn’t stop and only targeted Luca, nearly killing him. And you’re saying you’ll do that?”

“Even if we can’t help the soldiers appearing, we have to prevent the kingdom from spreading here. You’ll cover me anyway, right?”

“This is crazy, damn it.”

Gid, after cursing briefly, calmly asked instead of stopping her.

“Method?”

“I’ll apply form processing to Zamiel’s bullets.”

“I have no idea what our Matan is trying to do again, but fine, I get it. Cover? Or interfere?”

“Cover. I need to move immediately. Does Senior Is have time to spare?”

“You want me to leave the interference to senior? Got it.”

Gideon wrapped her in his arms and held up his hand mirror. While he quickly communicated with Is, Rita created Zamiel’s bullet.

She embedded one contract bullet at her feet and carefully generated an execution bullet. Though she had never attempted this before, she was confident it would work.

‘I’m already familiar with Zamiel’s bullets, and I’ve used grappling bullets too.’

She processed and attached a string made of Oaths to the end of the execution bullet.

‘Grace, no, Gnewg, measure the range and cast enhancement magic on my arm. The target is the heart flower the Red Queen is holding.’

[Measurement: Distance from user to target is 189m. 195m. 191m.]

‘That’s enough.’

The distance kept changing as the Red Queen moved the arm holding the flower. Lillieta roughly estimated 200m and determined the length of the Oath string accordingly.

Meanwhile, Isaiah, who had heard Gideon’s communication, moved.

He created a bird summoned creature large enough to carry a person, then put a Mage Gunner Special Agent on it and sent them flying into the air.

Wolf Stormguard, riding the blue bird with a tense expression, gripped his magic gun tightly. Even without his separate control, the bird automatically flew and approached near the Red Queen’s face.

Then, the moment the Red Queen opened her clenched mouth, Wolf aimed at the inside of her mouth and fired.

The Red Queen closed her mouth with an angry expression. Wolf’s Matan bounced off her clenched teeth and flew out.

The summoned creature controlled by Is automatically dodged the monster’s swinging arm. Wolf loaded another Matan with a pale face.

Rita concentrated on processing the Oath string while watching the scene from the corner of her eye.

‘Good, it’s working. We can avoid the situation of a kingdom being established in the city.’

When the Red Queen in combat mode opened her mouth to make a specific sound, a kingdom would be built around her.

It was a mechanism similar to a magic spell. Therefore, if they could somehow make her keep her mouth shut, they could delay the kingdom’s arrival.

But it was difficult to prevent her from calling soldiers.

The mad queen with her mouth closed shook her two hands holding the heart flowers. As if shaking off pollen.

Then paper pieces fluttered down from there. As those papers fell, they sprouted arms and legs, grew heads, and grasped weapons.

The card soldiers summoned by the queen.

They landed with rustling sounds on the rooftops of buildings on the ground. Gid, who had been watching this, groaned and spoke.

“I can see what the Red Queen’s new ability is.”

“What?”

“There are some with different builds among the card soldiers. Don’t tell me those are… the King and Jack from playing cards?”

Rita loaded the hastily completed bullet into Silver Grace while checking the ones Gideon was pointing to among the soldiers that had landed on the rooftops.

One was an elderly man in fancy clothes wearing a crooked crown and holding a large sword. Like the Red Queen, he had faces front and back and four arms.

The other was a young man wearing a luxurious hat and holding a halberd. He also had faces front and back and similarly had four arms.

Both were three times larger than ordinary card soldiers and had actual human-like bodies instead of bodies made of paper cards.

Shapes that resembled what was drawn on King and Jack cards but grotesquely twisted and stained dark red.

Among them, the King began running toward them across the rooftops with gleaming eyes, while the Jack looked down at the humans fleeing on the ground below and then jumped down.

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