Chapter 89 - Chapter 14: The Last Flame #4 (1/2)
Chapter 89 - Chapter 14: The Last Flame #4
As the morning sun came up, the world changed.
Spider Forest, which had expanded greatly under the green moon, returned to its original appearance and instead of roaring wildly, the beasts and monsters fell into a deep sleep.
After the encounter with Amita, the attacks stopped and the party took turns to rest.
Daphne, who was the last person keeping watch, explained the matter to the three lycanthropes who had woken up.
Caitlin and Seira were embarrassed by their actions last night. Felicia comforted them, then gave orders to Robin. She thought they had to send more news because the situation was worse than when Karma left.
After Robin left in beast form, the party ate breakfast, then headed to Spider Forest.
They didn’t encounter any beasts or monsters like they had during the wild night. The ones they did encounter were sleeping in a half-exhausted state, so there was no fighting.
In-gong led the way using his mini-map.
They were able to find Amita settled on the transparent wall of the barrier. The raccoon standing on the rock scowled at them.
”What, why did the number of people increase again?”
Amita’s sharp gaze headed to Green Wind as she stood next to In-gong. Green Wind, who was holding In-gong’s arm in an actualized state, declared words that were similar to Carack’s,
”Talking raccoon, I was beside Master yesterday. I should also get my share.”
It was the elegant tone of voice that had first appeared on Enger Plains, but Amita frowned as they didn’t like the contents.
”You are a guardian. Why should I make equipment for you?”
Green Wind shook her head at Amita’s words and answered with an unconcerned look,
”I belong to Master and Master is mine. Well, yes, that’s right. So, I can receive Master’s praise. I want to become stronger so that Master doesn’t get hurt.”
Then after finishing her words, she smiled at In-gong. The look in her eyes was asking for a compliment.
As everyone gazed at them, In-gong stroked Green Wind’s head with a somewhat awkward expression while Amita was speechless.
Carack noticed and suggested quietly,
”I just wanted to tell you, this but one of my colleagues left the forest to call for support. He was with us yesterday.”
He was talking about Robin.
Amita simply growled instead of answering and glanced at those they hadn’t been able to greet yesterday.
”8th Princess and her aide?”
“Seira.”
“A talking raccoon is amazing!”
The first was, naturally, Seira, followed by Caitlin. Caitlin had exclaimed before realizing her mistake and all eyes fell on her.
Her cheeks turned red with embarrassment.
“I am the 8th Princess, Caitlin Moonlight. It is an honour to meet you, the last blacksmith.”
If he only looked at appearance, the calm Caitlin resembled the 4th Queen Elaine.
However, her cheeks remained red and after the greetings were finished, her eyes were filled with an aspiration that was difficult to express.
Amita laughed and asked,
”Why, what do you want to say?”
”C-can I touch you?”
Caitlin asked carefully and Felicia blinked in shock by her sudden behaviour. However, Seira just laughed with embarrassment like she had been expecting it.
Chris was Caitlin’s emotional anchor and the reins that controlled her. In Chris’ absence, Caitlin had no choice but to act differently from normal.
Amita seemed embarrassed but they nodded readily.
”I’ll allow it.”
“Thank you.”
Caitlin rushed toward Amita with a bright face and carefully stretched out her hand. Her hands moved naturally to their head and Amita closed their eyes like they were enjoying the touch.
Green Wind narrowed her eyes at the sight and asked,
”Master, do I act like that when I get praised?”
”No, you are much worse.”
Green Wind’s eyes widened at his answer, but In-gong just stroked her head a few more times. She then frowned, but her face soon became peaceful as she smiled broadly.
Felicia interrupted this strange atmosphere.
”Hmm, hmm. About that… Let's cut to the chase.”
Amita was now held in Caitlin’s arms. Amita chuckled and said patronisingly,
”You can hug me as well. I’ll allow it.”
“There is no need.”
Felicia seemed somewhat hesitant, but she refused, opening her fan.
However, thanks to Caitlin, Amita was feeling better, so they didn’t mind.
”Tonight, they will attack the ward. So, I’ve set up my own plan.”
Amita jumped from Caitlin’s arms and pulled out a piece of paper from thin air. In-gong didn’t know if it was inventory magic like his or a magic tool, but he focused solely on the piece of paper.
On the paper, there was a rough map of the terrain around a blue flame.
”Until now, the enemies’ pattern can be broken down into two major phases. In the first phase, the beasts and monsters, that were driven crazy by the spirits of insanity, will attack the boundaries of the ward. It is literally just attacking ignorantly. You should’ve seen the force of the monsters yesterday.”
They had rushed back and forth and definitely seemed crazy.
Amita glanced at Caitlin and Seira before saying to In-gong,
”The lycanthropes are susceptible to the spirits of insanity because of the wildness in their instincts. I hope you have prepared a method to counter that.”
”We've been preparing.”
The group had discussed the specifics last night. Amita looked satisfied at In-gong’s blunt answer.
”When the ward is moderately weakened, the white giant appears in order to destroy it. Did you see the white giant last night?”
”Yes, a white light was shining from its whole body.
”It is made out of all the crazy guardians. The purple aura joins them together.”
The white giant had reached an estimated height of 20 meters. It was much taller than the zombie dragon, so he had been perplexed about how to deal with it.
”The pattern has been kept over a few days, so I think they will be doing the same thing tonight. My plan is clear and simple.”
Amita put some coins made of red metal on the paper. They seemed to represent the enemy’s movement path.
”By deliberately making a hole in the ward, the monsters will be guided there and you will defeat them in order to prevent the ward from weakening.”
Amita laid a blue metal plate in front of the red ones. Then they took out white metal plates and continued talking,