The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190

“I did it after listening to your lecture earlier.”

“What lecture, my ass… What did you make your oath with?”

He hadn’t bothered to ask others about the content of their oaths, but he couldn’t help asking Leonhardt, who was family.

“Hmm.”

At Richard’s grumbling question, he scratched his cheek sheepishly and suddenly cast his gaze toward one place.

The spot where Leonhardt had been before approaching Richard. Annemarie was looking at him with a tearful expression, her hands clasped together.

After staring at her for a moment, he turned his head and answered.

“I made an oath not to deceive myself.”

“…That’s an unusual oath.”

“Is it?”

“But it suits you, brother. I think it fits well… Give me your hand.”

Richard quickly checked Leonhardt’s type. Even though Leonhardt had learned quite a bit of swordsmanship, the result was unexpected.

“Brother, you’re a transfer type?”

“Transfer type?”

“Whether it’s communication, healing, or some other ability… Oh, it’s healing-related.”

“Healing…? This is an unexpected result.”

“It’s unexpected for me too. Well, the person before was a mage but awakened as enhancement type. I heard oaths are originally like this… Anyway, brother, go over there and practice healing the remaining wounds on your neck.”

“Got it.”

Leonhardt shrugged his shoulders and passed the turn to the next person.

Next was Lavinia, who was trembling. Richard thought of the tales of the Duirebourg Noblewoman’s misdeeds that had been rampant in social circles and found it truly surprising.

‘Rita taught her shooting… Did she not just teach shooting? Somehow she’s become a different person.’

Richard silently examined her type.

“Processing type, Duirebourg Noblewoman.”

“Processing type…?”

“It’s the same type as Rita. You learned shooting from her, right? You’ll be able to utilize it.”

Lavinia’s mouth fell open and her face turned red. She clasped her hands together with an expression of not knowing what to do with her joy and stamped her feet.

“The same type as my teacher!”

“The processing types are gathered over there, so please go that way.”

Unfortunately, processing type was a type that couldn’t immediately become combat-ready.

To quickly use form processing or property processing in actual combat required a lot of training, and in the case of mages, they had to learn pollution prevention magic separately.

‘I heard that technique-based users like Rita’s amethyst, who are only skilled in specific attribute processing, can fight right away… but I don’t know anything about that side.’

If only Lindsey Dyce, who had received formal Tritoma training despite being short-term, were here, she would be a great help.

He could only click his tongue in regret.

* * *

The Lindsey Dyce that Richard was looking for was right nearby, hiding and monitoring the situation from a side building that overlooked the Royal Guard Training Grounds.

She had entered the Imperial Palace as Lillieta’s secretary and escort, but since she wasn’t qualified to attend the banquet, she had been waiting in a building near Laurea Hall with other servants.

After the Red Queen appeared, she had come to the designated evacuation site to find the Raskail family and evacuate the nobles, but the situation was more serious than she had expected.

‘This is definitely dangerous.’

Having helped Lillieta prepare for the operation and received special knight unit training under Olivia, Lindsey knew relatively accurately how long that magic circle could hold.

‘Commander Olivia didn’t assume this many. That’s going to collapse soon.’

Even roughly counting, there were over a hundred magical beasts gathered. Moreover, there were a couple that looked exceptionally strong.

‘This isn’t a number that Lindsey and Master Richard can handle alone.’

She reported the severity of the situation to Is’s familiar that had flown over to check the situation and waited for support.

However, collapse came faster than support.

“…!”

A giant-type magical beast with a bear-like head sprouting horns, unusually large compared to the others, suddenly aimed its horns at the door and charged. Horns as thick as a human torso rammed into the training ground’s door.

From that point, cracks appeared in the green light covering the building.

The cracks spread instantly like cracked ice breaking apart. The residual magical power of the collapsed magic circle scattered and disappeared like green fallen leaves. At the same time, the training ground’s door was smashed.

Lindsey jumped up from her spot. Almost simultaneously with her leaping down wrapped in lightning, Richard burst out kicking through the broken door.

He wasn’t alone.

* * *

The sight of green cracks forming and the magic circle shattering and falling to pieces felt unreal.

Despite predicting that the defensive magic circle could break, most people hadn’t really imagined it would actually collapse.

People had prepared while vaguely believing they would be safe. That optimism crumbled along with the fragmenting magic circle.

The door broke, and grotesque forms peered into the interior filled with humans through countless eyes.

“Enhancement types, follow me out!”

Richard shouted, drew his sword, and burst out.

“Hiyah!”

“I’m a mage, how did this happen—!”

The newly awakened enhancement-type oathbinders followed him out, shouting battle cries or screaming.

About a dozen of them stood firm at the smashed doorway. Oaths dyed in various colors blocked the surging magical beasts.

About half a dozen processing-type oathbinders behind them created anything with their oaths and threw them, while a similar number of transfer-type oathbinders, particularly those who had awakened as healers, positioned themselves behind them.

The remaining people hid behind makeshift barricades, and the guards surrounded them.

Though crude and rough, the somehow-formed oathbinder formation clashed with the horde of magical beasts.

It was better than having no formation, so for a moment they seemed to hold well. They were even momentarily encouraged by the fact that oathbinders truly weren’t corrupted.

“Aaaaah!”

“My, my arm!”

“Aaaaah!”

But soon screams erupted from here and there. There was no way newly awakened oathbinders with no combat experience could fight properly against several times as many magical beasts.

“Damn it!”

Richard cursed and pushed back the unlucky mage whose arm had been torn off after awakening as enhancement type, taking his place himself.

Transfer-type healers including Leonhardt and priests from the Shadea delegation quickly attached themselves to him, attempting treatment.

The casualties didn’t end with just that one. The number of people bleeding and suffering serious injuries increased rapidly.

Richard pushed or grabbed such people and threw them back while somehow holding his position, but he instinctively knew he wouldn’t last much longer.

There were too many magical beasts, and they were too diverse. He had never fought a monster that suddenly spewed thorns from its mouth.

“Young master!”

Just then, Lindsey Dyce, wrapped in lightning, broke through between the magical beasts with nimble movements and partially filled the gap.

“Wow, I’m really glad to see you, Lindsey. I wouldn’t have been this happy to see our Jeremy.”

Richard spoke jokingly while already covered in blood. His amethyst Jeremy wasn’t an oathbinder yet.

“I should have made Jeremy take an oath too.”

“You didn’t know it would be like this. If I had known things would get this bad, I would have suggested group oaths for the amethysts.”

Lindsey Dyce’s joining provided momentary breathing room. It was also fortunate that the main gate of the Royal Guard Training Grounds wasn’t large enough for several magical beasts to enter at once.

What wasn’t fortunate was that not long after maintaining that state, the sound of breaking glass came from inside the training ground.

“Kyaaah!”

“Monsters are getting inside!”

“S-save me!”

The magical beasts that broke the glass began entering by breaking and pushing aside the furniture and boards that people had used to block the windows.

The guards surrounding the temporary barricade drew their swords with tense expressions.

As a result of discussions with Richard and the Empress, most of them hadn’t taken oaths.

Rather than having the guard knights, who had combat experience and guaranteed skills, awaken to strange types and completely lose their military power, it was judged better to face magical beasts using only pure physical strength and swordsmanship without using aura when necessary.

It was a decision that wouldn’t have been made if there had been even one Beacon who had lived through the Ash-covered Era.

“Never use aura! If aura touches magical beasts, you’ll be corrupted!”

The Captain of the Guard shouted a warning while swinging his sword at the front. The front paw extended by a human-sized bat magical beast collided with his sword.

“Ugh…!”

Against the black magical beasts not covered in aura, it was no different from a flat club. Instead of being cut by the sword, the magical beast’s front paw crushed it with overwhelming force. The Captain of the Guard skillfully deflected that monstrous strength to the side and barely managed to block the first attack.

There were those who lacked such skill.

“Uwaaaah!”

“Damn it!”

One Guard who was in danger of being stabbed by a Card Soldier’s spear unleashed his aura. The sword wrapped in sword energy simultaneously cut through both the magical beast’s paper spear and body. At the same time, the Guard’s entire body began to writhe.

“Hey! The oath, make the oath! Put your hand on your neck!”

A comrade nearby shouted while pushing back a magical beast, but it was too late.

The Guard who had quickly swollen grotesquely became a new monster and looked down at those who had been his comrades.

“Hans!”

The one who grabbed him to stop him, panicked by the magical beast’s tremendous strength, instinctively drew up his aura. And soon he too began to have his limbs twist as his back started to swell.

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