99. Dark green monsters in a blizzard (5)

“… There is no such thing as a crazy b*tch.”

There was a moment of silence at Arya’s words.

Even if you were the second daughter of a marquis, it was never a good thing to call her a crazy b*tch in front of the count’s eldest daughter….

Rather than showing any displeasure at her friend’s words, Sia Bell twitched the corners of her mouth.

It was not a reaction created by negative emotions such as displeasure.

Rather, it seems that they are not close friends, so she was purely amused by Arya’s harsh words.

Sia Bell raised the corners of her mouth and held out her hand to Arya.

“It’s been a while, Aria.”

Arya just looked down at her hand, but she didn’t hold it.

“Clean it up.”

“After going up to the north, the cold wind probably didn’t even freeze our friendship.”

“It’s not even funny. Siabelle, would you really want to hold that bloody hand?”

Sia Bell bit her hand as Arya snorted her thump.

After a series of conversations, Aria looked over the orcs who lost her life due to her magic, and the count’s soldiers who sat down exhausted.

In the meantime, Shione and I, who were staring at her from behind Sia Belle, nestled into Aria’s eyes.

“Not only Siabelle, but also familiar faces were there.”

She smiled lightly and tilted her head forward for a moment.

In response to our small greeting, my master and I greeted each other in the same way.

Raising her head, Aria’s gaze fell on Shione and then moved to me.

She tilted her head at the sword at my waist, then tilted her head at the bow hanging from her shoulder.

Well, she only saw me defending Adelheit with my sword. I’ve never seen her shoot a bow.

Since the person who cut down the two demons with a sword is holding a bow, you might be surprised.

‘I’m sure Siabelle told me the other day.’

Arya wants to talk to me.

Looking at her like that, if I get some time to talk to her, I’ll probably ask her about her bow as well as what happened in her castle.

I wonder if Aria, too, will be able to talk to me as much as the people who were involved in the royal family before.

After watching me for a while, Aria opened her mouth.

“… Say hello here. Hurry up and sort out the situation.”

“Can you help me? Our soldiers are pretty tired.”

“Of course.”

After answering that, Aria turned her body around, and after waiting behind her, she faced the knights and wizards belonging to the writer.

“Clear the road for the wagons to pass, and move the fallen soldiers to the empty wagons.”

“Yes!”

At Arya’s words, a large number of personnel move in order and carry out Arya’s orders.

Damn it, only now that the situation is over, the raging blizzard has started to calm down little by little.

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The Marquis of Allenar is famous for spears and magic.

The first head of the Marquis family is a magician who pierced the heart of the devil with the beginning of the Isilia royal family.

Although her descendants lost magic, they still had a natural talent for spears.

The spearmanship handed down in the Marquis of Allenar continued its lifeline and solidified the tradition of the Marquis family.

Marquis family did not stop nurturing wizards in order to more surely overcome the cold of the North and the monsters that invaded from time to time.

The wizards of the Marquis of Allenar showed a high level of understanding of magic and mana control, while at the same time, they elevated their characteristics above their outstanding talents.

Overwhelming firepower.

An intense pillar of fire that won’t be shaken even by the cold north wind. A level of lightning that could turn even the rugged souls of the monsters who lived strong on the land of the merciless northern land into ashes in an instant.

The firepower of the northern mages was impeccable even compared to that of the royal mages.

One of those wizards looked at the path that the magic of the north had swept through.

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“… When will you put this away?”

A sorceress who is close to Aria Allenaar and her so much that she rides in one of her carriages.

Ravi Crunelle grumbled as she looked at the orc rolling on her floor.

Roasted orcs in the pouring flames and the corpses of orcs who lost their lives before the Marquis intervened were blocking the road everywhere.

‘Because there might be some living ones hiding there.’

Ravi Crunel smelled her burns and the cool breeze and she started to wander around here cautiously.

An action to check if each orc is breathing or not.

I was walking along the road so slowly.

Discovering the dead body of an orc caught in the eye.

“Hmm?”

Ravi casually glanced at an orc and stopped her.

Wizards tend to excel at insight into objects and phenomena.

Ravi was no different from other wizards.

The more closely he watched the fallen orc, the narrower Ravi’s eyes narrowed.

“This is…… ?”

At first glance, it was nothing more than the appearance of an orc dying from an arrow pierced in the stomach and eventually bleeding excessively.

However, Ravi was able to find an uncommon wound beneath the bloodstain that had cooled and hardened.

Several stab wounds were left around the arrow stuck in the stomach.

It was not a stab wound left by the sword.

This kind of self-injury made me sick of being a wizard, so I could affirm it.

“Magic?”

Generally, the wounds that magicians who control the wind leave on their enemies showed this type of cut.

Sharper and stronger winds than blades.

Irregularly, but deeply engraved magic that inflicts fatal wounds, just like the wind that blows.

To her eyes, this cut could only be seen as a result of magic.

‘But this object.’

It’s not the orc we caught.

Besides, we burned the orcs with exploding fire, not wind, so we didn’t subdue them with wind….

Ravi pulled out the arrow stuck in the orc’s abdomen.

Then I was able to confirm it with my own two eyes.

The inside of the orc, centered around the place where the arrow was stuck, seemed to have burst out of magic from the tip of the arrow.

Even at the disgusting sight, Ravi looked at the arrow without a hint of displeasure.

‘… Did the arrow contain magic?’

Ravi was shocked.

The Marquis of Allenar, famous for the high rank of a wizard.

Although it is called the 2nd unit, he is well versed in magic enough to proudly assume the position of leader of the magician unit belonging to the Marquis family.

No matter how he looked at it, he could only see that someone had put magic into this arrow and caught the orc.

‘Who the hell?’

It would be impossible for anyone other than an elf blessed by the spirit to put such powerful magic into an arrow.

Who the hell could do such an eccentricity?

Ravi looked around her again, giving her a wide look.

‘I’m not a member of the marquis family.’

It was our mages who swept the orcs, not the archers.

Moreover, we wizards did not deal with the wind.

Then it must be that a member of the Countess Cianella, not the Marquis Allenar, made the orcs like this….

“Three in total.”

Among the people of the count family, there are three of them with bows.

Lady Cianella with platinum hair and the man she is supporting. And even an extremely ordinary-looking woman who collapsed from exhaustion.

Ravi habitually took out her notebook and a pen from her inside pocket.

“Except for one person.”

Even if a man awakens mana, he may not know that his weak body is strengthened through operation.

Since mana is overwhelmingly lacking or detailed adjustments are impossible, it is an established theory that magic cannot be handled after all.

Except for that man with the bow.

Which of the two remaining women do you think will be able to do this—

‘… Lady Cianella.’

She wasn’t an ordinary woman like that, but the second daughter of a countess whose armor was dyed red like her older sister due to her fierce battle.

I’m sure Aria-sama told me her name-

Ah, Sione Cianella.

Slowly.

In the notebook, I opened the page that summarized the information of Countess Cianella’s people mentioned by Arya.

The characters listed are Siabelle Cianella and Ray.

One was a close friend of Arya, and the other was the name of someone Arya became interested in at her princess’ coming-of-age ceremony.

「Ray / Cianella’s exclusive attendant

1. Killed two demons.

2. Skilled sword handling.

3. According to Aria-sama, she appears to be able to operate mana uncharacteristically.

4. Hiding something.」

… If it’s Ray. I think Lady Cianella called that man Ray earlier.

‘It seems that he can manage mana uncharacteristically.’

… If so, what if?

Ravi shook her head to clear her suspicions that had passed by for a moment.

Anyway, physical enhancement and magic are completely different fields.

Even if mana could be operated internally, it would be impossible to create miracles with willpower.

Ravi moved her pen while crumpling her forehead.

Instead of unreasonable doubts, let’s start with the obvious facts─

Crunchy.

「5. I haven’t looked at it properly yet, but at a glance, he’s handsome.”

The little Ravi didn’t stop and wrote the name of the new person on the next page.

「Sione Cianella / Second daughter of Count Cianella」

The pen tip moves non-stop and draws simple cursive characters on white paper.

「1. Appears to be able to work magic on arrows. Like the Elves, she may have great skills in archery and magic…….」

Afterwards, Ravi secretly watched Ray and Sione from behind for a while, then continued her notes.

「 ★ Ray / Cianella’s exclusive servant」

「 ★ Sione Cianella / Second daughter of Count Cianella」

“Hmm… ….”

Ravi nodded her head at the asterisk engraved in front of her name.

She closed her notebook and put it back in her inner pocket, examining her orc’s wounds again.

The young lady and her attendant were enough to arouse the wizard’s overflowing curiosity.