Vol 10 Chapter 3 (1/2)
Slayers:Volume 10 Chapter 3
The Flowers of Battle Blooht of Solaria
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(Note: Please refrain fro QP/Diana's translation here without her consent)
The night in Solaria was unusually busy Given the disturbances which had been going on for almost two days, the noisy town seemed natural
Many onlookers gathered at the place where we had fought The guards were busy keeping theation of the scene
We saw theht sky
Our destination was the same shrine that Gourry and I had previously sneaked into The situation was not entirely the sah, since it wasn’t just the two of us - and ht, not for clues
There was a chance that there would be some important facilities in the base mazoku-human chimeras like Zord and Zain
Our purpose: Destroy them completely
Of course, we had thought earlier about just invading the castle, tying up Laavas, uy for good
To tell the truth, I was the one who suggested that plan, but Millina protested against it As far as we knew, Laavas certainly was the ainst hih with this as long as there was a chance that Laavas was not the real mastermind
Millina also blew me off coldly when I mentioned that if Laavas turned out to be innocent, we could just say “Oh, sorry, my mistake! ♡ Hohoho!”
So that e chose to target the facilities of this castle instead Regardless of whether Laavas was harboring any dark secrets, it was clear that the place was an important base for the masked men in black
We could kill two birds with one stone by weakening the ene some clues about the revolt What was ht now because the men in black - Zain included - could have left the preht took place right before, they wouldn’t expect us to attack right now, so the tiuard down All in all, it was a really good chance for us
”There it is,” I murmured quietly from inside the wind barrier
There was the shrine building, which had a do my spell, I steered us towards it
Though the darkness of the night and the swirling wind fro us uards, I could make out that there were fewer of them than last time
The four of us touched down on the roof
”Millina Cast another barrier of wind to surround us”
”What for?”
”Noise”
It see, she created a wind barrier around us
And then
”Dam Brass!”
Kwaaang!
The destructive force ofsound was all but erased by the barrier of wind surrounding us We headed inside the building through the hole using Levitation Just like before, we could only see darkness; but this ti a bit more violently
When I was about to chant a spell to create light in front of us, however--
--suddenly we heard a big commotion
”What happened?”
”You! Don't move!”
The door which led out of the rooh it, shouting
”H How did they find us?! Even though we muted all the noise?”
”They heard a pile of rocks falling down in here, maybe?” Luke answered sarcastically to my embarrassed yell of a question
damn… So that was it
The barrier could only erase the sounds directed outside, beyond the roof, but it ht not have been able to
It ht’ve been a really loud crash
Hret past events now!
I chanted a spell quickly and fired it at the soldiers ere advancing on us with long steps, turning the the arranged chairs to the side
”Sleeping!”
Thump-thump! The soldiers fell down on the floor one after another, like a row of dominoes'
I figured there were no hu them, because they succumbed to deep sleep easily Even more soldiers dashed into the room, but the spells Millina and I cast put them to sleep too, and the feho escaped our spells were knocked down by attacks from Gourry and Luke
In the end, only the unconscious bodies of the soldiers remained around us, lined up in a neat row
Last time, there had also been two of the masked men in black around, but they weren’t here this ti to do with the tiht have been some other reason we didn’t know about Like, for instance, that they had made preparations for our attack just now, somewhere down in the basement
Anyhow, I chanted ain
”Lighting!”
The light flared to life I threw it toward the ceiling, where it re in the air and illu
There were chairs lined up in roith an aisle running through the center of thee altar set up in front of a statue of a God
It looked pretty good to be used as a real chapel Even looking at it up close, I would never have guessed it was a fake one if there hadn’t been for those guards
Maybe there was a secret door so to find it
”Dam Brass!”
--Booom!'
I struck with my amplified spell into the aisle floor!
But it revealed nothing but eround, surrounded with ripped-up pieces of the floor
”damn Not here”
I just hoped that my spell could open a way towards the hidden facilities below I chanted another one right away
”Hey you're not planning to blow up everything here with ht place, are you?” Gourry asked with a pale face
Of course I wouldn't do such a silly thing
I slammed my hand down on the ripped-up floor
”Bephis Bring!”
With e into the ground
I figured that we could find exactly where the hidden facilities were by using that spell a few more times, if I aimed carefully
But there was no need to cast Bephis Bring twice like that, it turned out
”Gotcha”
At the end of the tunnel I had just dug right in front of us, a thin ray of light was shi+ning through As I suspected, those facilities were hidden much deeper in the place
So after widening the tunnel with the spell again --
W-Wait a second
Just before I rushed into the hole as quickly as possible using Levitation, I changed my mind and cast another spell instead
into the tunnel
”Fireball!”
Boooom!
Paying attention to the withdrawing fla the Levitation spell Gourry and I followed the Levitation, too
There was nothing there except for a straight corridor Parts of the ere blackened by my fireball
I casted that spell because of the sudden feeling that weinto an ambush, but no one was here On the other hand, I could have just invited more enemies with the sound of the explosion
Anyway, in this narrow place, it could give us a hard ti in with swords drawn So it was better to move somewhere else as quickly as possible
I chanted a spell again
”Dam Brass!”
-- Boooom!
By guess, I blew out one side of the wall
I have surprisingly good guessing skills!
There was a pretty huge place beyond the hole in the wall
As we dashed in there, not checking as inside beforehand
”Ah Ah?”
Inside the huge roo the clothes of a sorcerer Their faces were full of fear, and they were staring us ide eyes They did not look like the type of icians who blow up stuff here and there They seemed more like simple researchers
But it was not only the sorcerers that were there
In the room, there were a number of crystal tubes used in the creation of chi liquid--
Thisthe “fruits” of the mazoku-chimera research Ain a tube There was also a woman whose neck was transfor a distorted body
It was beyond doubt that they - these people, ere human once - did not become materials for this experiment by their own free will
”YOU bastard!” With a sudden cry, Luke seized one of nearest es by the scruff of his neck
”Uhuhhhhhh!”
A sorcerer, as close to the door opposite to us, hastily stretched his arm towards the knob
A metallic sound pierced the room A knife could be seen embedded into his back, thrown by Luke
“Aagh!” The sorcerer's body collapsed weakly to the floor