077 – For kids, parties are war! #5

077 – Party is war for kids! #5

Pang-, Paa-Aang-!

Huge shocks continued to erupt from the outside of the mansion.

Every time I heard that sound, the children hiding inside the mansion were busy screaming. Even adults were embarrassed and frightened by the current situation.

“What’s happening!”

“I guess it’s true that they said they would get kidnapped if they came to Naru’s party!”

“Hey hey… ! I came because I was told to give you a picture of Morumoru!”

The mansion was large and spacious, but it was full of over 100 guests and children.

Arde, a veteran gold-ranked mercenary cleric woman, twirled her short-cropped hair with her fingers, deep in thought.

“There are too many people inside the mansion. The mansion seems to be built quite sturdy, but if you allow intrusion… .”

If an evil villain invades the inside of a mansion full of civilians, a terrible horror may unfold.

When I came to such an imagination, I doubted whether it was right to bring everyone inside the mansion.

Of course, there was no other way, so Cleric Arde was just concentrating on using ‘Blessing’ to heal the wounds of those who were pushed or swept away during the evacuation.

“Come to me if you are injured!”

Whoops-!

At that moment, a shock so great that the building was shaken hit the wall.

As Cleric Arde was wondering what was going on outside, her partner, Ranger Pac-Man, explained the situation with a rather nervous expression.

“That shock, I didn’t feel it from the outside. An explosion occurred inside this mansion. Did you allow intrusion from the outside by any chance?”

Did the man called ‘Mara’ finally break into the mansion through veteran adventurers, mercenaries, and talented people who are confronting outside?

From the moment Ranger entered the party, he was able to notice with a keen sense that there were many platinum-level strongmen in this mansion.

For that reason, it wouldn’t be strange to describe this mansion as an impregnable fortress.

The strength of the man called “Mara” who broke into such a place and destroyed it was also unusual.

It was to the extent that he slammed the martial artist Enkidus, who was said to be the strongest of the Demon King’s breakthrough party, into the wall with a single blow.

However, Cleric Arde shook his head.

“No, I don’t think the apostate monk entered the mansion. That guy was in a confrontation with Judas. There’s no way Judas handled things so sloppy.”

“Is that so?”

Cleric Arde and Ranger Pac-Man had been on the same battlefield as Judas several times during the war.

At that time, the activity of the king of thieves made it confusing which side was the army of the demon king.

When I heard that such a man gave birth to a child, bought a mansion, and invited people to a party—I wondered if it was an impersonator.

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Judas, whom he met in person like that, was much more human than when he met him on the battlefield earlier.

Maybe it’s simply acting to make it look like that.

Whoops!

Paperweight!

Then an intense electric current burst from the ceiling.

When the lanterns hanging from the hallway and the ceiling were shattered by the shock, Ranger Pac-Man was able to quickly figure out where the shock just came from.

“Upstairs? This looks like a collision of magical powers! Look at the wizards fighting right upstairs! Were there any companions of that apostate monk?”

It was said that the inside of the mansion was not safe either.

sereung-.

shouted Pac-Man as he loaded his arrows.

“Guys! it’s okay! Because the adults will protect you!”

The first thing Pac-Man cared about was the kids inside.

The problem could have been bigger if the kids panicked and ran amok.

However, the children were much calmer than Pac-Man thought.

“As expected, Caesar, you had a malevolent voice. You ruined the party atmosphere. Take responsibility.”

“Hey, is this because of me? It sure seems like the assailants are aiming for me… .”

Caesar remembered the terrifying villain who blew Enkidus away.

He seemed to be targeting himself, who was celebrating his 7th birthday today.

There are all kinds of heroes and strong people in this mansion, so I was able to escape to the inside of the mansion somehow, but if it was my own birthday party at the villa in number 3… .

‘No matter how many guards there were, I would have been kidnapped! Because he’s the villain who blew up Enkidus!’

Thinking so, Caesar couldn’t help but feel cold.

If he hadn’t made a bet with Naru, if Caesar himself had acted arrogantly without admitting defeat, then many things would have happened.

Koo Woo-.

Then there was another shock from upstairs.

click-.

Perhaps because of the shock, the wall of the corridor where the children were huddled together cracked.

Is the mansion collapsing?

“hehehehe… ! It means that the “Miscellaneous Mansion” is being destroyed… ! The job this Sifnoy took back is collapsing… ! The plan to enjoy a honey-like life as the manager of the mansion… !”

Sifnoy making a fuss.

At the moment when even the children were trembling at the fuss, Cecily, who had a good sense of aesthetics befits a noble lady, noticed that the cracks in the hallway were not ordinary.

“In this part, it seems that the wallpaper is torn rather than the wall collapsed? The wind blows through the torn wallpaper. secret passage… ? It looks like the road to the basement… .”

secret passage.

Cecily had some experience with secret passages leading underground.

It was because he had the experience of escaping through a secret passage from Jack, a new thief near Phrygia.

Soon, the veteran Cleric Arde also shouted with hope.

“I heard that there is a secret exit in the thief’s base or in the living room! Perhaps the house of Judas did too! Let’s go underground too! There might be an escape route! Pac-Man, do some scouting first!”

“okay. There might be a trap.”

Shuk-.

Pac-Man reloaded his bow and tore the torn wallpaper further.

The door to the passageway was completely revealed before I knew it.

It took about 5 minutes for Pac-Man, who had been inside, to return.

“Everyone come in. The way to the basement is correct. It’s not an escape route, but it’s sure to be a large, safe space. Just a little odd… . Anyway, come down! The basement is probably the safest!”

At Pac-Man’s words, everyone rushed down into the basement.

There was a much bigger and deeper place in the basement than the mansion seen from the outside.

It was a structure with cold stone walls made of hard stone and stone pillars supporting a high ceiling.

Looking at the accumulated dust, it looked like a space that had been neglected for a very long time, and it was spacious enough for hundreds of people to enter.

What was unusual was the meaningless patterns carved on the walls and stones, and the huge stone statue in the center.

The height of the stone statue is about 5 meters.

It was a hideous figure holding a skeleton in one hand and a dagger in the other, but the most bizarre thing was that the statue’s neck was decapitated as if it had been cut off by something sharp.

“This… . Often found in sanctuaries… It looks like a god… .”

Cleric Arde was able to recognize that this place was the sanctuary of a certain god or Demiurge through his experience of visiting various churches and sanctuaries.

I don’t know why there is such a thing in the basement of the mansion, but the important thing is whose sanctuary it is.

It was difficult to recognize the god because his head had been cut off, but honor student Tywin quickly figured out who this place belonged to.

“I am Nocturne, the Demiurge of robbers, deceit and murderers. This is the statue of Nocturne. I heard that all Nocturne statues were destroyed during the Idol War five centuries ago.”

As a shaman of Efar, Tywin was intrigued and looked at the idol of the dead god.

The thing that drew the most interest in Tywin’s eyes was the dagger held in the statue.

As for the dagger, it was a real thing, not a stone.

The golden scabbard was studded with jewels and had a bird of prey pattern engraved on its wide side.

Its shape was curved like a crescent moon.

It looked like something very valuable.

It would be nice to see it as a ceremonial knife used for ceremonial purposes or during ancestral rites to the gods.

It could have been something called the “Artifact of Demiurge”.

Then Naru shouted.

“Oh, that’s the same as Hina’s crescent moon sword!”

* * *

“Lightning. Operation. transform. arrow. Tracking.”

El Cladeco chanted magic.

Then, four arrows of lightning seemed to appear in the air and charged at Brigitte.

“defense!”

Kooung, Pajijik-.

Brigitte quickly cast defense magic and blocked the arrow.

Brigitte was not hurt, but the interior of the mansion was gradually being destroyed.

‘El Cladeco, like a wizard who runs a workshop, you don’t seem familiar with combat. If it’s a simple duel, I think I can win seven out of ten… .’

The problem was that the place was not good.

mansion.

If this was a plain, Brigitte’s firepower would have been poured in to subdue El Cladeco, but it was ambiguous to project Brigitte’s destructive magic in a mansion full of guests.

“Cladeco, if you suddenly attack, you can say everything I said was right, right? You, too, have been scheming with the devil!”

“It’s not a dirty trick. I’m working for a cause. Professor Brigitte, if you are a magician who seeks the truth, you will understand what I have to say.”

“yes? Then why do you start attacking all the time?”

“… Well, Professor Brigitte wouldn’t listen to me kindly. To be honest, I don’t want to fight. Combat is not my specialty.”

Bluffing?

lie?

Brigitte quickly assessed the situation.

El Cladeco, who had been attacking at first, didn’t actually want to fight.

If he was deceived and stopped the offensive, there was a high chance that Cladeco would hit Brigitte in the back of the head.

Brigitte was suffering from the [curse of exhaustion] that made her unable to die, but she was not invincible.

If it’s the golden wizard Cladeco, there’s a high probability that he’ll have developed magic to temporarily seal the immortal Brigitte.

While confronting each other with that feeling, Cladeco lowered the small staff to the floor.

“It is true that I am doing somewhat unethical research. But I don’t know what you mean by holding hands with the devil.”

“Don’t be fooled.”

“I am not lying. I was just collaborating on interests with the members of Tenebris. Professor Brigitte, you and I who have studied the homunculus may be able to collaborate.”

“Cooperation?”

“Maybe we can save Judas. Professor Brigitte would know what happens when Judas, who killed the demon king and stole the bowl, reaches level 50 and transcends it.”

“… … .”

“A vessel that dwells in the worst wicked. It flowed into Judas through the mad king Savrnak. If a person with such a vessel reaches 50 and transcends—”

El Cladeco deliberately did not finish his speech.

It must have been meant to make Brigitte derive the story behind it on her own.

And Brigitte was also someone who could easily draw that conclusion.

“… Judas’ soul and personality will be obliterated, and only the transcendent body and Nocturne, the god of resurrected robbers, will remain in the world. “Nocturne’s bowl” literally means Nocturne’s bowl.”

“Professor Brigitte, if Demiurge Nocturne is resurrected on this planet of Pangea, everything will be destroyed. Yuda, it is inevitable that he will reach level 50. It is only a matter of time.”

“… time.”

time matter.

6 years since Naru came.

The forbidden realm of space-time magic.

Brigitte could sense that she was now faced with a choice.

It was a moment of choice that decided the fate of many things.