338 335. Second turn.txt (2/2)

That upset was the ideal gap to start the 'original plan'.

As if the timing was indicated, everyone (...) started to move.

''--It's now!　Dear!

Oh, don't miss!　Maria!

From behind the main entrance, the two girls who had entered the castle from a different route emerged.

At the same time, Ryner took a large distance from Fafner.

''--!　I knew you were coming!　But that's the extent of the surprise!

Even though I was upset that I had abandoned Ryner, Fafner was unfazed by the arrival of a new hand.

He was close to a hundred battles from the battle a thousand years ago, and he was able to read through the magic at this time.

''-- Resonance Magic 《Flame Arrow, Guardian Flame (Aegis)!

Aegis, the Flame Arrow Protectorate Flame!

A magic comparable to 'The One Who Steals the Reason' was unleashed.

In an instant, countless flame-like mirrors were generated and floated around Fafner. Red stars floating in the bright red grand entranceway.

Seeing this, he stops moving.

''This, is this a resonance magic ......?　It's also a Sith and Alty's ......!

The look on his face is one of ”impossible”.

Fafner understands almost all types of magic due to his ability to use the skills of the dead. He also possesses a countermeasure for all of those types. That's why he understands the abnormality of 《Flame Arrow, Guardian Flame (Aegis)》 more than anyone else, and is sincerely surprised by the magic that doesn't exist in the article.

I know the feeling. This Flame Arrow Guardian Flame (Aegis) is the resonance magic of those two people who were the worst of friends - Sith and Arti. Anyone who knew them a thousand years ago would be hardened at first.

''Dia, I've blocked all the escape routes!

'Oh!　--Flame Arrow!

Then, a vicious white light that was too vicious to be called a flame arrow (Flame Arrow) was emitted from the palm of Dear's hand.

Fafner avoided that heat ray by leaping to the side.

However, it reflected the mirror of fire at its back.

''--!　I knew it would happen!

Fafner quickly put the bundled blood tentacles between them and prevented a two-stage heat ray.

However, only the first shot was prevented.

''Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot!

Dia-san continuously shoots the heat rays that seem to be 《Flame Arrow》 incessantly, and without aiming at it either, she continues to shoot them with all her might.

A hundred heat rays reflect diffusely off the flame mirror.

Reflecting and reflecting, reflecting and reflecting, their speed is unnoticeable, and more than a thousand white lines are drawn, trapping Fafner in a white cocoon.

''--Nosfy!

And that's when a large, silver-furred wolf emerged from behind the grand entrance. Its huge body rushed through the bloody foothold without a care in the world and approached me.

Atop that wolf is Rustyala. She was screaming at me, reaching out her hands to the limit.

'--Yes!

I grab her hand, pull her in, and climb on top of the wolf.

A moment later, a voice and magic is released from the white cocoon that should have been completely closed off.

'Let me go or ......!　--Fresh Blood Magic, Early West Saint War of the Second Year of the New Year (Fuzzy Yards West One), Eight Thousand Eight Resonant Arrows (Quadraight Canon)!

Along with the strange magic name peculiar to ”The One Who Steals the Reason of Blood”, a magic arrow that was as good as Dia-san's earlier one - a different kind of heat ray pierced the white cocoon.

While eating that Dia-san and Maria-san's resonant magic on herself, Fafner aimed at me with abandon. But that level of persistence is within the expectation.

''-- 《Dragoon Arder》!

The last one to invade the castle from a different route, the 'Dragonized' Snow, spread his wings and entered in between.

Countering the heat rays of Fafner's heat rays were the wind bullets that pressed down on the 'dragon wind'.

Immediately, I will help that wind bullet. With the thoughts I borrowed from Snow-san, I work on my light magic that has seeped into her blood and draw out all the talents that lie within her body.

As a result, 《Dragoon Arder》 pops with a sound that seems to break my eardrums.

The explosion caused Fafner's heat ray to lose its aim and hit the castle walls. Seeing the castle's shaking intensified like a great earthquake, Snow-san let out a voice.

''...... Nah, I managed it!　With this sword, enhanced magic, and 'Safe Dragonization', even I can fight head on!　Even if your opponent is a guardian (Guardian), you can still go to ......!

Snow was amazed at the power he had drawn out. But now was not the time to be impressed, Rastiara instructed him.

'Snow!　We're not the guardians (guardians) today, we're our backup!

'Yes!　I'm the little fish on the stairs from the sky--!

Rastiara and my riding wolf make it to the stairs and run up the stairs at a brisk pace. As they move, Snow-san also uses the central stairwell to head up.

'Wolf' and 'dragon'.

We move at a speed that makes the most of that 'demon return', but Fafner, who is wrapped in vicious magic, cannot chase after us.

This is exactly what was planned.

We left Fafner behind and proceeded all the way to the upper floors.

The second floor, third floor, fourth floor, fifth floor and so on - along the way, there were times when blood dolls and that ”something” stood in the way of the stairs. But it was blown away from the side by Snow-san, who flew through the stairwell to match the altitude Sera was advancing at.

''--[Dragoon Arder]!

A wolf's legs run down the stairs that are neatly vacated by that 'dragon wind'.

Occasionally, an enemy that has escaped Snow's magic will attack us, but we will handle it with Rustyala's sword and magic.

Our sprinting never stops.

From the fifth floor to the tenth floor - and then on to the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth floors.

'...... Rastiara, Sera. That went well.

Honestly, things are going better than I expected.

I was able to smack the Fafner guy with his most hated - first-time, sustained, high firepower 'magic' - using Ryner as bait.

He was also able to, by accident (・・・・), cleanly separate the two sides. Maria, Dear and Ryner holding down Fafner. The four of us, Rustyala Sela Snow and I, who take your father's body from Ragne.

Perciona's absence would mean that the soldiers outside were well commanded by her.

'Right!　Snow is good too!　It's looking good!

'Ehehehe ......!　I can do my best now!　All those scary enemies, but no fear either!

Praised by Rustyala, Snow-san suddenly increases the momentum of her flight and magic.

But his voice echoes as he chastises us for our tone. The blood in the castle we run in shapes and forms, becoming mouth and throat, emitting sounds.

'--Masakana (・・・・)'

It was the voice of Fafner, who should have been fighting downstairs.

'You've turned the tables on me so far without thinking, ....... But, Nosfy,” he said, ”you really thought you could get away from me. Do you really think you can escape me?　No. Do you think they're getting away with it now?　...... There's nowhere to run in this castle. It's all in my stomach.

I knew it, but his voice - even in faraway places - can reach me, even in faraway places - magic.

'Nosfi, do you remember what Kanami said a thousand years ago ......?　This me, the real value of the power of The One Who Steals Blood's Reason is not ”manipulation of the dead.” ......!　That the most troublesome power is in 'Idenshi manipulation' - and the 'labyrinth building' that goes with it!

No matter how much he shouted, the 'Blood Stealer' Fafner had no means of traveling a long distance at a moment's notice.

But there is one nasty power instead.

It's the power to 'summon' someone else in another place.

''--Kuhahaha!　I didn't think you guys would choose to fly inside the castle and not outside it, but ....... I've got it all set up in here too. One hell of a thing: ......!

Blood rains down at the sound of his voice.

Not on the steps of the castle where we run, but in the central atrium.

'--, ------ ----!

It was a screeching voice that cut and caressed his skin with a blade.

Not of a person, but of a monster.

The most distinctive of them all - the voice of an insect.

With a rain of blood, a lone insect-shaped monster flies in from the upper floor.

Its shape is close to that of a bee, and the insect's unique compound eyes and hard-looking joints are noticeable. It has six sickle-like paws and four thin wings. Two large stingers between its legs. They were about three times the size of the one we're looking at, and their color was ochre. It's a stinging, disastrous, eerie monster.

''--Do, [Dragoon Arder]!

Snow unleashed a spell against the monster in the sky that had swooped in and attacked him.

But the monster moved at a right angle in midair and easily avoided it. And without stopping, the monster moved at right angles once more and charged at Snow below.

Its scythe-like paws swung and clashed with Snow's great sword, causing the metal to strike.

With the momentum of the fall, the monster passed by Snow and changed direction again downward. It's unusually agile, even though it's in the air. Against that movement, Snow stops it in midair and mutters a word.

''What, eh ......?　Could it be, brother ......?

I asked my brother to the monster.

The blood answered it.

''- Yeah. This is Glenn Walker's true form, the true identity of the ”monster” who killed his own family in just a few years of his life. In other words, a pseudo 'half-monster'. You're just about to become a compatriot who's going the same way as me: ......!

In a somewhat happy voice, he told me about Glenn's background.

Although Snow-san and Glenn are brother and sister, neither of them are adopted by the great aristocratic Walker family and are not related by blood. It's a good thing that you're not the only one, because you're not the only one.

And that turmoil has had a significant impact on the battle.

It's an aerial battle that is normally Snow-san's sole occupation, and he's all about defense. Even though her eyes are catching up with the large monsters that are flying around in all directions, her body is not moving to attack.

''This is ......!　Rastiara, let's help Mr. Snow: ......!

We had been doing well up to this point, but here I felt Fafner's move sting a lot. In the face of their incompatibility, I approached Rustyala to rescue him.

But--

”Nosfi!　Good!

Before we could make a move, it was denied by the man himself, Mr. Snow.

Mr. Snow was defending himself for only a few seconds. He immediately released 'Dragon Wind' in the air and went on the offensive. He also returned his expression to its original optimistic one, asserting that he could afford it even if Glenn was his opponent.

''It's okay!　Serra, you go ahead!　This is just like the 'original plan'!　All of us will do our best to help Nosfi, with all of our thoughts and feelings, to get him to Kanami!　Just think about moving on, Nosfi!

He then mentioned all of our 'original plan'.

In other words, our 'original plan' was to 'use the Foozeyards army to enter the castle from all sides, and for now, all of us will attack Fafner and somehow get me to the roof.

Unlike the first raid on Foozeyards Castle, this raiding operation was decided in just a few minutes.

We don't have a convenient 'future vision'. There is no promise of absolute victory. That's why we decided that this was the best thing to do.

And now Mr. Snow is working properly according to the 'original plan', which was for each of us to think and act on the spot. He is shouting that he alone is enough.

Sera, who was in a wolf state when she heard that argument, first hung her head and agreed. Following that, Rustyala, who was on top of her, nodded and shouted back.

''Alright, Snow!　Win that weird Glenn!

'Yes, Lady Rastiara!　Teach my brother a lesson!　I'll catch up to you soon!

Snow-san replied like a subordinate, releasing the magic power in her body.

It was her own all-out effort during 'dragonization' that she herself had always avoided.

That is now assisted by the ”one who steals the logic of light” and it is being demonstrated without any cost.

The only thing that makes her a dragon now is her wings.

The limbs remain human.

However, the magic power becomes the dragon itself.

It is neither a man nor a monster, but a powerful yet completely different kind of magic power, just like the one that steals logic, is generated

The authority of violence that once made an entire continent admit to being the 'strongest' without question, is now born here.

'Aaaaaaahhhh, aaaaahhhh, aaaaahhhh ---- ！！！！'

Dressed in 'Dragon Wind' and 'Dragon's Roar', Snow reached a speed greater than Glenn's flying through the air and performed a self-destructive body strike.

It's a battle method suited for her with confidence in her endurance. However, it's an uncharacteristic battle method for a woman who should lack courage.

Her opponent Glenn might have had the same idea.

He seemed to have been struck by a false sense of security and received that body blow.

The siblings, overlapping each other, flew into the sky - but not directly to the side, colliding with the atrium fence and destroying it. Still, the momentum didn't stop. Snow gripped Glenn's hard joints tightly and continued to fly right up beside him.

Like the fence, he destroys the blood wall of the castle. Even so, the momentum still doesn't stop. He also breaks the walls of the room behind the wall, shattering everything and anything he can find, and then he goes further and further back.

--Before the two of them are out of sight, Sera, who has become my foot, has already started running.

Over the twenty floors and further up.

As planned, I just run towards the top floor for the ultimate goal of 'I will cast a spell on your father'.