Volume 1 Chapter 5 (1/2)
Chapter 5
‘Founder’
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The royal palace of Nebulis was going through an unprecedented ru which could be associated with the end of the world cracked the earth, and broke s in the royal palace one after the other
”Each and every star spirit in the I on?”
Mirabelle Lou Nebulis VIII, the queen of Nebulis alking down the hidden passage while the ru At the end of the natural limestone cavern, illuminated by a bonfire, two soldiers down on their knees rose before her
”What is going on? To have called me here in such a situation”
”Ha! That’s…!”
The tho raised their faces pointed behind the Founder Nebulis was─
”The Founder’s bindings have been undone!?”
The chain that had been binding both her hands and feet, had shattered to pieces
”What happened?”
”We also do not… But, the Founder suddenly swung her arm─”
”Are you saying that she tore off the chains on her own? And, at the sa broke out So that is why you have called me here”
While floating in the air, the dark skinned girl did not show the slightestdown, and both her eyes that could barely be seen were shut tight Just from her appearance, she seemed to still be asleep
”…”
And so, the dark skinned girl slowly raised her head
”Star sword… The wavelength of a strong star spirit… Is fighting…?”
She spoke as if talking to herself, and i that, her body rotated in the air, and the star crest on her back began to pour out a jet black mist
”Is that a star spirit!? The star spirit in her body is…!”
The star spirit s flapped slowly, the girl’s eyes remained shut
”The star spirit’s auto the Founder!?”
The queen did not knohat those words ‘star sword’ that the Founder spoke of were referring to, but it was a graveaction to protect her
”Founder!”
”─Star sword… Return it, to me…”
The jet black wings covered the girl’s body And ie vanished as if unifying with the air
”She vanished?”
The soldiers stood there with dulance, the queen looked at the black pillar before her and drew nearer She then touched the surface of the stone which served as the Founder Nebulis’ bed with her finger
”… The reason is unknown But there is nothingas we have her honourable power…”
Without being seen by anyone, the queen made a cold smile
”I can see the Empire’s defeat”
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Sand kicked up like fine particles
After the wind drove away the cloud of sand which was thick enough to visually obstruct anything one metre ahat Iska witnessed, was an enormous scar in the earth in the shape of a massive bowl like depression
The slightly elevated slope had been coround Iska had seen I on uninhabited open fields in the training grounds, and the destructive force on display here was comparable to that However, the decisive difference here was─
The strike which caused such destruction was invisible, it wasn’t clear what had happened And the one who created that scar, was a single little girl
”The Founder Nebulis…”
She was a srey hair On her back, what appeared to be jet black wings hadfar off in the empty sky
”I-Iska-kun? U-um… By Founder, you don’t mean…”
”It’s probably just as Captain Mis The Great Witch Nebulis is still alive For one hundred years, ever since she caused that incident in the Empire”
The unanalytical energy of the stars, ‘star spirits’
Everything began when scientists froround The unanalytical energy possessed a portion of huin of the star es ─ the ones called witches and warlocks by the Empire
… And airl who bathed in the absolutely y
… That is definitely, the one the Empire at the time feared the most as a witch
Having received a far crueller persecution than any other, she was the star ainst the Eirl known as the Great Witch
”That’s unfair! Even though it’s just me and Iska-kun…!”
The petite feth and yelled in coes in front of her eyes
”The Founder Nebulis… To have such a legendarily strong witch tailing us Are you saying it’s fine to do anything you want just because negotiations broke down? Is that how you do things in Nebulis!?”
”W-wait!”
Her eyes met Alice’s And with a frantic look, she replied while her blonde hair was thrown out of order
”You’re wrong! I didn’t do anything!”
”… Eh?”
”Rin, it couldn’t be you?”
”I-it wasn’t The last tie together with Alice-sa by the Queen either!”
The attendant was yelling to the point where her voice was hoarse And overhead as she did, the jet black wings of the Founder flickered
‘Interfere with the memory of the stars’
‘Connect with the ‘will’ using the third layer Call forth the surface of the star”
With a crack, a fissure forh that crack in the blue sky, ‘so’ red could be seen
… What is that? So out of that space just like Nebulis did
… Red Call forth? It couldn’t be, that’s…
It was bad Believing in his intuition, Iska let out a cry fro
”Dive into the crater!”
Grabbing Mismis’ hand forcefully, he pulled her into the crater
”Take cover, Alice!”
”Eh?”
”You’ll be sed by the flames!”
Together with Mismis, Iska slid down the side of the crater And as Alice and Rin also tumbled down, that, calow
The star spirit of flame No ─ that, had already surpassed the concept of a star spirit, it was an eruption of unanalytical energy that had huence
”Mow them down”
A tremendous detonation
The atmosphere scorched by the star spirit of fla billows, and as the flaered a violent chain reaction of explosions There was likely no other way of escaping those explosions other than taking cover in the crater However…
”Hot!?”
Mismis screamed out as she put her hands to her ears
”This is bad Iska-kun The heat wave is reaching the bottom of the─”
”Seal it”
At Alice’s co wall of frost was born, and became a curtain to seal off the heat wave
”Alice-sa to protect these people?”
”This isn’t the time for that is it?”
Rin pointed a vigilant gaze over to Alice On the other hand, Alice scowled at the wall of ice in the air and didn’t move an inch The Founder should have been the ulti at her profile, it was clear the she was also bewildered
”With both the first attack, and with the explosive fla even us”
”Th-that’s… Is it not because only the Imperial soldiers entered her vision?”
”It’s inexcusable to attack even us just for that kind of reason Even just now, if Iska had not said anything, ouldn’t have gotten away in tiht?”
”… That’s, certainly true”
While clenching her fists, Rin agreed
”It is the truth… That ere saved by an Imperial swordsman In the Founder’s eyes, perhaps she sees us as his companions?”
”Wait Isn’t that Founder you’re talking about your ally?”
Iska interrupted the attendant who had fallen to her knees while replying Setting aside the fact that they were being attacked by the Great Witch Nebulis, Iska and Mis of the circuency’s side
”In the first place, we don’t even know if that is really Nebulis herself”
”After being shown such power, do you still doubt that she is a fake?”
Rin scowled at Iska
”The star e that the Empire calls the Great Witch As the one who founded our country, the people of Nebulis call her the Founder”
”Then, why is that Founder attacking her direct descendant Alice?”
”…”
The starwould be a leak of confidential infore present spoke of it eloquently with her gaze cast down