Magic Gems Gourmet

Chapter 217

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Chapter 217 – Sword King

Meanwhile, in the port city of Roundheart.

It was a little after the time when Lloyd and the others had escaped from Ed thank to Marco and hurried to the port city of Roundheart.

In one of the rooms of the Leviathan, Lili was waiting for a report with a serious expression on her face.

“Lili-sama. May I have a moment?”

Then, a woman in a white lab coat approached and spoke to Lili.

“Hmm. What is it?”

“Regarding the condition of Christina-sama and Dill-sama…”

“Why didn’t you say that earlier! How are they?!”

Excited to finally get the information she had been waiting for, Lili jumped up and asked.

“F-first of all, Christina-sama is in no danger. If we continue the treatment as is, she should wake up in a few hours…”

“Thank goodness…! Yes, it really is… thank goodness…”

However, the woman’s expression did not brighten at all, and she continued to speak with difficulty.

“However, in the case of Dill-sama, it is different. I think it will be possible to maintain his life activities for a few days.”

“…What will happen after those few days?”

“…As soon as we return to the homeland, we will urgently summon those who can use healing magic other than Varra-sama. But even with that in mind…”

“You mean pray?”

The woman nodded.

Then Lili sat down in a chair, looking lost, and said, “Thank you,” before looking down.

“Excuse me, Lili-sama.”

The woman in the white coat left the room, perhaps sensing how Lili felt.

Lili, left behind, had tears in her eyes and was filled with regret.

“It’s a war. I knew that, but… but whether I can accept it or not is another matter…”

Besides being tired, Lili was also in pain from the wounds she had received from Ed.

“――!”

“――!――!”

…But then she suddenly noticed that there was a noise outside the room.

“Is there… an emergency?”

It would be better to say hectic than noisy.

Standing up despite the pain, Lili ran out into the connecting corridor.

The Leviathan had just been built, so it was filled with its own unique scent.

In the midst of it, Lili hurried to check out the commotion.

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It was just after she had entered the wheelhouse and walked down the connecting corridor.

“You guys, what happened?”

She panicked as she entered the wheelhouse.

The crew had gathered there, and the royal knights who had remained on the ship seemed to be discussing something…

“Lili-sama…! I was just about to call for you!”

“So, tell me what happened!”

“I don’t know. It seems that a huge monster has appeared in the sea, and it is standing at a distance from us, as if threatening us.”

“A huge monster…?

Then, as if to confirm it, Lili approached the window and jumped down onto the streamlined roof of the Leviathan.

The royal knight followed her, jumping down after her as she approached the edge.

“Princess Olivia. Have you contacted the other battleships?”

Lili asked the royal knight as she was hit by the sea breeze.

“It has already been done. All ships are in interception mode, and if anything appears, we will attack immediately…”

“Yes. It’s been too long. It could be a trick of the enemy to make sure that our allies can’t come back.”

“Then we should deal with it immediately…”

“…We should, but we can’t do anything if we can’t see it.”

Even if they wanted to deal with it, there was nothing they could do if it was waiting for them underwater.

When Lili started to think about how to deal with it, she looked worried.

However, the monster suddenly appeared on the surface of the water as if mocking Lili and Ishtalika.

“Aaaaaaaaaa!”

It splashed seawater high into the air, opened its mouth wide, and intimidated with its huge body.

It stretched out a long, thick tentacle and looked at Leviathan with its goggling eyes.

“K-Kraken…? B-But it’s so big…”

Lili was confused. The Kraken that appeared was no ordinary Kraken.

Its thick, grotesque tentacles were very long and large enough to envelop the huge battleship Leviathan.

In addition, its head was also huge and full of an overwhelming sense of intimidation, and Lili felt a great sense of danger.

“The Leviathan can fight sea dragons, and we also have Princess Olivia here. But this size will be a challenge…”

The Kraken that appeared was much larger than the adult sea dragon that appeared in Magna.

Its body, which was probably twice as large, continued to convey its danger.

“However, Lili-sama! If we don’t deal with this quickly, our comrades who are currently fighting…”

“I know! I know! Hurry up and deal with this Kraken…”

The problem with giant monsters is their sheer strength.

They’re tough—hard to hit, full of vitality—and their movement speed matches their size.

It would probably be easy to hit them, but the same went for them.

“Fire a barrage… no, that’s the only way…”

What should be done?

First, let’s bombard them. Lili thought this and tried to return to the control room,

“Cigars? Sorry, but I’ll take one.”

“Ha…eh?”

It was completely unexpected.

Without warning, a man appeared.

He took a cigar from the confused knight’s pocket and lit it with a snap of his fingers.

A burnt smell drifted from his fingers, showing that he had lit the cigar by force.

“Suhh… Haahh… It’s better than before. …Thanks for the treat. Next time I’ll treat you as well.”

His appearance was beautiful.

Although he was a man, he had a feminine beauty, and his silver hair shone like jewels.

He wore a clean white shirt over ordinary dark pants.

He finished the cigar in almost one breath and smiled with satisfaction.

“Ah, you are…!”

Just as Lili was about to pull the dagger out of her pocket, despite her aching body, the man arrived.

The man, with a completely calm demeanor, grabbed Lili’s back.

He moved around her with lightning-fast footwork, gently holding her hands, and then said something no one had expected.

“This is the weakness of one who uses concealed weapons. If something is wrong with your body, your movements will slow down like a baby’s. This is proof that one-sided training is no good.”

He gave Lili some sound advice without worrying about the current situation.

Then he said, “Sorry,” and took a step forward as Lili, who was drenched in cold sweat, looked on.

“I checked on the way, but your marshal is in a hurry to get here. Leave this octopus and the city’s monsters to us, and you should prepare to return to your country.”

“Th-That’s why I asked who you were…!”

“I am the commander of the Black Knights and the father of the king you worship.”

“…Huh?”

A single statement that made no sense to Lili and the royal knights―after saying that, he strutted off as if he owned the place and approached the Kraken that had appeared nearby.

“Come on, come on. You should listen to your ancestors, you know?”

Today was a day of many visitors―suddenly, another person appeared.

She had jet-black hair flowing behind her and an endlessly seductive smile.

She was dressed in a robe that was jet black like her hair, but the bumps and hollows in it made it seem more difficult to find a man who wouldn’t be tempted.

Who on earth is she… Lili and the royal knights wanted to ask again, but…

“Wait there for a moment, okay?”

As soon as they heard her voice, they lost the ability to move their bodies.

Their bodies weren’t heavy, but for some reason, they couldn’t move their legs… or rather, they were made to feel as if they shouldn’t move them.

Also, strangely enough, they found it difficult to speak.

“Fufu, thank you.”

After making sure that Lili and the others had stopped moving, she walked forward after the man.

“What do you think?”

“What do you mean?”

When she asked the man, she poked him in a dissatisfied manner and said, “You know, right?”

Then she looked out to sea and pointed to the giant Kraken.

“No, I thought that didn’t sound like you, Sylvia.”

“What do you mean it didn’t sound like me? What do you mean?”

“That’s why I thought Sylvia was asking about the Kraken, right?”

Cain pointed at the giant Kraken.

However, the Kraken strangely stopped moving, as if it had stiffened.

“Yes… that’s right.”

“That’s why I said it didn’t look like Sylvia. A sea dragon of that size might have been a bit troublesome, though.”

Oh man―Cain said, shaking his head.

Meanwhile, Sylvia has no idea what Cain was thinking and was confused by this slightly mismatched conversation…

“…I’ll ask you again. What about the Kraken?”

“Hah.”

Cain sighed deeply and headed towards the port city of Roundheart.

“Hey, you… So the Kraken…”

Then Cain answered Sylvia, who was following him, by pointing to the sky.

“There’s nothing you can do about it―it’s already over.”

When Sylvia looked up at the sky, she saw a single cut in the spreading clouds.

If that’s the case, she thought he should have said so in the first place, and she let out a frustrated sigh. Then, she followed Cain with a light step.

A few seconds later…

The giant Kraken was split in half from the top of its head and disappears into the sea.

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…As expected, the Kraken from earlier was Heim’s―and the Red Fox’s―plan.

It was clear at a glance that the port city of Roundheart had gathered many Heim soldiers and planned to attack at the same time as the Kraken.

Using the proliferation of Ishtalika Knights in the suburbs of the royal capital as an excuse, this large army of Heim soldiers had come down the main street of the port city of Roundheart almost unharmed.

However, they suddenly stopped. No, they subconsciously felt that if they didn’t stop, they would die.

“Ah, I’m sorry, but you can’t go through here. In hand-to-hand combat, even if the opponent is Arche, I won’t lose.”

The corpses of the Heim soldiers piled up.

Sitting on top of them was a handsome man with a large build, his entire body covered in jet-black armor.

He raised his hand to the sky, and in his hand was a huge sword.

“But don’t pray to God. You can’t do anything. If you want to pray, pray to the Grim Reaper―pray for me to die.”

He thrust the huge sword into the corpses like a sword stand and looked at Heim’s great army as if to say he’s been waiting for them.

“My name is Rivein! Rivein Lance! I am the eldest son of the proud Lance family, and a general in charge of an army!”

Then, a young man introduced himself to Cain.

…Whether Cain responded to the introduction or not was another matter.

“They’re all little demons. No matter how many tens of thousands of beasts there are, it makes no difference in the end result.”

He looked down at Heim’s entire army and stood up wearily.

The next moment, Cain suddenly disappeared.

“…Huh?”

Cain appeared behind Rivein and effortlessly sliced off his head with a jet-black greatsword.

It was so natural that it seemed as if he was breathing, and without any hint of killing intent or fighting spirit, he easily defeated Rivein.

“Behold! The Sword King, without equal.”

Each word weighs heavily on the Heim soldiers, and they feel a deep-seated fear.

Without exception, they broke into a cold sweat, and their limbs began to tremble.

“Behold! Nothing can stand in front of me.”

Was it instinct?

Even Heim soldiers who had been influenced by Anon and the others were naturally filled with fear in this way.

“The person reflected in your eyes is the strongest swordsman in the world. You should rejoice without restraint and use it as fare for the afterlife.”

After speaking, Cain threw Rivein’s head away and raised his sword to the sky, swinging it toward Heim’s great army.

Then, a ray of light fell on the overcast port city of Roundheart.

At that moment, the strongest sword that could kill even the sea dragon with a single stroke… attacked Heim’s great army.

It was truly a power beyond human comprehension.

It was at a level that could not be reached even if one spent a lifetime training, and even if one tried to match the technology accumulated by the United Kingdom of Ishtalika, it would be the height of folly to face it.

Roundheart was a port city with a long history.

Needless to say, it was that day that turned this city into a pile of rubble.

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