175 Episode 45: Wisteria (1/2)

”GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

- From my mouth, there are often growls that are not my own.

”Yikes! Yikes!

- From my own mouth, the laughter that doesn't belong to me stirs up.

I know what caused it. Bad Spirit Demons that crawl out of the forest, drive spirits crazy, and drive people crazy, more than the bottom of Nara. 'It', which I possessed, is trying to leave my body alone.

- Andorra's lead swordsman. What a prick.

Wisteria persuades herself and desperately connects the consciousness that is likely to disappear with it. Thus, although he manages to conjure up resistance to the rule of the Evil Spirit (Demon), the other power is mighty and cannot move one finger of his hand satisfactorily.

And, as I grinned at this little resistance, further evil spirits' laughter echoed. Are you trying to clear up the depression (puffiness) that has been held up so far, the evil spirits raise their voices to the scabbard. At the same time, body mutations gained momentum.

My arms, my legs, my back, and my face are turning into something that people have to do. They change.

The mutation caused severe pain. If you get your arms ripped off alive, your legs ripped off, your back stabbed through, and your face burned, I'm sure you'll experience this pain. If my mouth moved, I would definitely have screamed.

But now Wisteria doesn't even have the freedom to scream. I just had to endure the pain that could never end - although I knew there was no point where I endured it.

Cage Castle Battle Without Reinforcements, if you can capture the current situation. I can't keep falling just because I endured it, I'm just putting ruin ahead of me.

It would be easier if you gave up. But wisteria gives up, which means the evil spirit gets complete freedom. In that case, this human city will easily disappear.

I'm in a hurry to at least get out of the city, but my body still doesn't move.

- How did this happen?

Wisteria asks no one. The evil spirits (demons) laughed at each other for a while so that they could answer the question.

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Andorra, the kingdom of the forest.

Wisteria's home, full of water and greenery, is present in the vast Catalan desert.

The majority of that area is occupied by the tree sea, and many of the inhabitants are of the same elf species as Wisteria.

The Golden Empire (Imperium) - there is no city covered with gold and silver as the humans speak. Both gold and silver are unnecessary for forest life. The people of Andorra have gone through time peacefully in the woods, protected by a bond stretched out on several fronts.

It's just not like Andorra didn't have a threat like that either.

The name of the threat is called ”Naruto”. Bottomless hole in the heart of Andorra, in the deepest part of the tree sea.

There is always a lot of magic (mana) erupting from Nara, and it is that magic that survives the desert's just vast forest. In that sense, Nara's presence is inseparably related to Andorra.

On the other hand, the magic that erupts from Naruto was too dense, with the drawback that it easily drives the Spirit crazy. The Kings swordsmen to whom Wisteria belonged, whose main task is to crusade the mad spirits around Nara.

For an elf, the Spirit equals a friend. Having that friend in your hands is a severed thought, but if you neglect to crusade, the mad Spirit will flinch all over Andorra and wreak havoc. It was said to be a much greater scourge than the warcraft outside, which from time to time invaded beyond the boundaries.

Wisteria was the youngest generation of Andorra's elves and a newcomer among the Swordsmen, but in swordsmanship and spiritual handling she shrugged off the ancient one's elves and every now and then gave credit in spiritual crusades.

It was the crusade of the mad Supreme Spirit (Phoenix) that took the name of Wisteria in particular from high. When the disaster, which was thought to be attributed to dust (kaijin) by half of Andorra, subsided with less than a tenth of the damage assumed by the activity of Wisteria.

Praising the achievements of Wisteria, King Andorra gives the young elf the title of lead swordsman (Gladius). The head of the nation's finest swordsmen. In other words, Wisteria was recognized as Andorra's best swordsman.

I was not willing to rejoice in the honor I had earned by discussing the Friendly Spirit, but it nonetheless became Wisteria's pride to have been recognized by the Great King. That was also because my late father, who taught me the sword, and my late mother, who taught me how to deal with the Spirit, were recognized.

With that pride in mind, Wisteria will continue to advance to the task, and the name of the new lead swordsman (Gladius) will be known to all of Andorra.

The days, arguably smooth sails, came to an abrupt end, however.

Evil Spirit (Demon). It was possessed by a being so called.

I don't know who the evil spirits are. It is said that both the devil that leaves from the bottom of Nara and the spirits who were killed resent him. Wisteria considers the former, but many take advantage of the latter theory because many of those possessed by evil spirits belong to the Swordsmen.

The symptoms of those possessed by evil spirits vary, but one thing we have in common is the habitation of those who do not possess themselves.

Wisteria will not leak into that example either, and will be plagued day and night by unidentified voices. There was no point in resistance or prayer (sometimes).