633 Don’t blame me for killing in self-defense! (2/2)

This object then started to glow red. Heita had a pained expression on his face as if he was in extreme discomfort. However, he was forced to continue with the incantation.

At this moment, a golden wind rapidly approached! Nirou instantly reacted by firing a barrage of bullets with his assault rifle's lock-on capabilities. Not only that, he also brought out a few one-time use talismans that allowed him to cast spells instantly...

Defensive spell, ”Prisoner's Cage”!!

Whoosh! A multiple layered barrier consisting of overlapping spell formations instantly appeared. This barrier definitely gave people the impression of thick and solid.

Seiji slashed his sword against this barrier and caused barely a dent.

This barrier had excellent defensive properties. A powerful magic spell was needed to break through it… Mika's Dimension Shattering Jade would be capable of doing so!

However, Mika's spell wasn't fast enough.

Seiji saw the gray-haired boy toss the glowing red object onto the ground. It then transformed into a bright-red circle with a whirlpool-like shape inside. The gray-haired boy then stepped onto this shape and vanished in a flash of light.

The Spiritual Ability user continued remaining on guard against Seiji as he also stepped on the circle and vanished.

Seiji sheathed his sword after seeing that the remaining two enemies had escaped. Something flashed in his eyes.

This mysterious battle which started for no reason to Seiji ended just like that.

The brown-haired man, green-haired youth, and hoodie-wearing youth trio had all died.

They died in such a pitiful way that seemed like they were burned to death. Mika and Hoshi both vomited at the sight.

Seiji also felt his stomach churning at the sight. He felt even worse when he thought about how his own spell had caused this to the trio.

However, he didn't regret doing what he had done at all.

He wasn't someone who would hold back against an enemy who intended to go to the extent of attempting to kill his friends. Not to mention, these enemies were more monster-like than human.

Still, there was something else that he regretted. He regretted not being able to react fast enough the moment that the enemy launched their attack. Hoshi was almost killed because of this.

Luckily, Hisashi managed to stop the assassin with a thunder-enchanted kick. Seiji felt that could be called a golden… no, a diamond kick!

This was an Inner World, a place where the law had no hold over. Anyone they met here might attack them for no apparent reason at all! Seiji etched this lesson firmly in his mind.

”We could have interrogated them if any had survived,” Hisashi stated. ”But this… there's no helping it.”

Hisashi was quite cold and calm, with no traces of pitying the enemy at all. He simply regretted not being able to obtain any information.

Seiji and his friends all had zero clue why these people had attacked them.

Seiji's original guess was that these people wanted to kill them in order to escape from the Inner World. However, this guess had obviously been proved wrong.

The enemy already had a method capable of teleporting them out of the Inner World. They didn't need to kill others at all in order to leave.

And since three people died here, while Seiji and his friends still remained, that meant this Inner World didn't have the natural law of teleporting everyone out if someone died!

They would discuss that issue later. Since these people didn't attack them for the purpose of leaving… then could it have been the opposite? Did these people attack Seiji and his friends because they wanted to take over this district? Seiji thought about it from another angle.

This ”flower garden” had zero spiritual creatures appearing in it. It was an excellent place to rest safely. That meant it could be used as a base.

A base… right! Not only could this be an excellent resting spot, it would be an excellent location to cultivate in!!

Cultivating would be much easier in a Spirit World. Inner Worlds were part of Spirit Worlds, so…

Wait a moment, was this place really an Inner World? Could this place actually be the Spirit World–Forest Palace's ”Surface World?”

Seiji felt like he had realized everything after having this idea.

If this was the Forest Palace's Surface World, or the portion of the Inner World close to the Surface World, that would explain why there was no natural law of a human dying kicking everyone else out of the world! It would also explain why this place was so huge!!

Seiji felt like he had discovered the answer.

If other factions also possessed the ability to enter this wide location which might either be a Surface or Inner World, then a safe zone where no spiritual creatures would appear would have incredible value. It would be so valuable that people would be willing to fight over it!

A small squadron from a certain faction with sufficient power might have located such a valuable location. But, they saw that someone else was in it already, and misunderstood them to be competitors. And so, this squadron launched an attack without so much as a warning…

'Yep, I think this is a good guess.' Seiji felt that his inference was likely to be on the mark.

It was quite common for humans to kill others all for the sake of obtaining more territory. The entire history of human warfare was the best evidence of this.

The only problem was, these people misunderstood what Seiji was here for!

Seiji and his friends had zero intentions whatsoever of claiming this district as their own. They simply wanted to locate their missing companions and then leave.