A lake where signs of the Demon King's resurrection were seen.
Simone sat quietly under the shade of a tree, watching El and her companions as they explored the lake.
'Simone, please rest here.'
'It's our job anyway. Simone is just enjoying her rest here.'
'I'll come back and help them for a moment.'
'You can come if you're bored.'
The group was considerate of Simone, who complained of extreme fatigue, and gave her the easy role of 'guarding the luggage.'
Thanks to this, Simone was able to sit still and relax leisurely.
A quiet atmosphere, a clear and transparent lake that cannot exist in reality, a moderately cool breeze, a moderately dazzling afternoon sunlight, and her enjoying my leisure time without doing anything.
The life Simone wanted was one where time like this continued.
'If I'm going to possess someone, I'd rather possess a villainess who's about to be executed.'
She's confident she can do well.
As Simone was taking a proper break after a long time, useless thoughts started to come to her mind again.
“Here? The sky split apart from here?”
“I need to go into the water and check the condition of the seal first.”
“If there is a cause, there is no way we can find it here-”
Ah, I want to live in peace!
When Simone was enjoying the comfort and lamenting her leisurely life for the first time in a long while.
Ss....
"...Huh?"
Simone looked back.
Wasn't that the sound of grass being trampled just now?
"Yes?"
Before Louis could be taken aback by her sudden words, black mana began to seep out from under the ground.
“Huh? Simone?”
“I did. It’s okay.”
Simone spoke in a whisper, and Louis looked at her with a surprised face, then nodded and ran towards Abel and his group.
Abel and his group, as well as El, were shocked by the black mana leaking out from under their feet.
Perhaps she went to explain the situation so that they wouldn't be confused.
The group far away on the lake was looking at the sight of mana gradually rising from the ground, forming a black sea, in amazement.
In particular, El was clinging to Abel with a very anxious expression on his face, not knowing what to do.
Simone closed her eyes and this time, instead of her eyes, she connected the nerves in her fingertips to Mana.
In the process, sweat was already beading and running down Simone's forehead, who had already had a comfortable rest today.
Ten humans ran away, startled by the black mana that was among the bushes.
Simone sensed them with her mana and instantly surrounded them with black mana, then gently moved them to stand close to Abel's group.
“...”
“Wow, Simone, that guy...”
This is really great.
Bianchi clapped his hands feebly in surprise, admiration, and bewilderment.
Simone used her detection magic to instantly bring the scattered men in front of them.
At this point, not only Orkan, but also El, Louis, and the rest of the group were on their guard.
“I’ve never seen anyone use sensing magic like that in my life.”
“Me too. Necromancers are more amazing than I read in books.”
Orkan and El spoke with complicated expressions on their faces.
“This is just ridiculous...”
Are you thinking of applying this while using sensing magic that requires full concentration?
If you were a wizard who used calculation techniques, this would have caused your brain to melt.
Meanwhile, Simone, who had easily accomplished that absurd feat, walked across the sea of black mana and approached Abel and his group.
Actually, it wasn't that difficult for Simone.
A magician who uses the mana he originally possesses by calculating it in a formula.
Unlike them, once she understands the concept of using the mana of death, she can freely manipulate it as if it were moving her arm.
Simone spoke to the group who were still staring blankly at her.
“There are ten of them in total. When I eliminate Mana, Abel, Louis, and Bianchi will take care of capturing these people.”
“Oh, uh, yeah...”
The group took out their weapons while stammering their answers.
In the meantime, Abel looked at Simone with a more moved expression than a blank expression and thought again.
'It's really a shame to leave this power behind. Really.'
Abel slowly began to build up his sword spirit as he planned another operation to join Simone.
Simone sat quietly under the shade of a tree, watching El and her companions as they explored the lake.
'Simone, please rest here.'
'It's our job anyway. Simone is just enjoying her rest here.'
'I'll come back and help them for a moment.'
'You can come if you're bored.'
The group was considerate of Simone, who complained of extreme fatigue, and gave her the easy role of 'guarding the luggage.'
Thanks to this, Simone was able to sit still and relax leisurely.
A quiet atmosphere, a clear and transparent lake that cannot exist in reality, a moderately cool breeze, a moderately dazzling afternoon sunlight, and her enjoying my leisure time without doing anything.
The life Simone wanted was one where time like this continued.
'If I'm going to possess someone, I'd rather possess a villainess who's about to be executed.'
She's confident she can do well.
As Simone was taking a proper break after a long time, useless thoughts started to come to her mind again.
“Here? The sky split apart from here?”
“I need to go into the water and check the condition of the seal first.”
“If there is a cause, there is no way we can find it here-”
Ah, I want to live in peace!
When Simone was enjoying the comfort and lamenting her leisurely life for the first time in a long while.
Ss....
"...Huh?"
Simone looked back.
Wasn't that the sound of grass being trampled just now?
But all Simone could see before her eyes were empty trees and a dense forest path. There was nothing else.
“The sound of the wind?”
Simone took it lightly, but it seems that the group chatting by the lake did not think so.
Abel was silently staring at Simone's back.
'Was there something?'
He tapped Louis, pointed to Simone, and said something.
Louis turned his head sharply and looked at where Abel's gaze had landed, then frowned and approached Simone, asking.
“Simone, are you okay?”
“What’s the matter?”
Simone still looked puzzled.
Louis silently glared at Simone, then drew his sword and pushed away the grass that covered the tree.
“Excuse me for a moment. Abel said he sensed something strange around here.”
“Oh, I heard the sound of grass rustling.”
Simone got up and walked through the bushes towards Louis.
There was nothing.
'If there was anyone there, they would have already run away when they heard the sound.'
Simone sat down on the road, but Louis remained there guarding the place until the end and did not put down his sword.
“It looks like a few rats are hiding.”
“Rat?”
“Yes, we just now expressed the opinion that someone artificially brought forward the Demon King’s resurrection.”
Simone frowned.
What does this mean?
“Someone brought forward the Demon King’s resurrection?”
“Yes, it’s just our guess, but El said it’s a very possible story.”
“Where did you get that opinion?”
Simone turned her head and looked at her companions, who were still talking with serious faces.
This is something that never happened in the novel.
No episode or scene suggests that the Demon King's resurrection was artificially brought forward.
In the first place, is it possible to bring forward the Demon King's resurrection as desired?
For what? If we do that, we'll all die together. Why?
Louis realized that Simone's expression was not normal and put his sword back in its sheath.
“The seal that bound the Demon King was cleanly cut off. It was as if someone had cut it with a blade. At least it means that the Demon King himself didn’t break free of the bonds.”
Since arriving here, Abel and his group and El have focused solely on investigating the cause.
But that was all the clues and information they found.
The fact that the day of the Demon King's resurrection is gradually getting earlier is not a natural course of events, but rather a result of someone's intention.
“Who would do something like that...”
Louis clenched his fists. Who on earth would do such a crazy thing, and why?
If their predictions were correct, it would be the worst-case scenario.
In less than three months, four seals have already been released, so the cycle will only get faster, and at this rate, the Demon King's resurrection will come very soon.
This year at the earliest, next year at the latest.
There was not enough time to prepare for the Demon King's massacre and destruction. No, it was already too late.
Simone, who was watching Louis shaking with anger, silently bent down and tapped the ground with the palm of her hand.
“Who did that.”
“...”
“You can just check on that little rat from earlier.”
As soon as she finished speaking, black mana flowed out from Simone's hand and spread out along the ground.
Then, she concentrated all her nerves and began to use her mana to detect anyone hiding here other than the group.
Simone is incredibly good at using magic she has learned once.
“So, for now, let’s seal the other parts...”
Orkan stopped talking to his companions, flinched, and looked at the ground.
El also quickly noticed something and glared at Simone with a displeased frown.
“You used the mana of death.”
The fairies who lived forever on the mana of the World Tree were uncomfortable with the vague fear of death that the mana of death brought.
Meanwhile, Orkan was speechless in another sense.
'A magic that can sense this wide?'
It was the same at the last Viscount Delang's mansion.
Orkan was quite surprised to hear that Simone used sensing magic to cover not only one wall of the room but the entire hidden room with mana.
As expected, Simone's abilities are limitless.
It is a simple magic that involves absorbing mana into a surface and detecting it, but it requires tremendous concentration as all nerves must be connected to the mana, so ordinary magicians would have a hard time just casting detection magic on a single wall.
But now, Simone had stretched her mana from the shade of the distant trees all the way to the lake, past where Abel and his group were standing.
Considering not only the distance but also the width, it was as large as surrounding two of the Viscount's mansions, beyond the room of the Viscount Delang.
'Is this possible?'
Is this the necromancer? Can the magnitude of one's natural talent be this different?
But there was still something Orkan didn't know.
'One, two, three...There are seven in total? No, there are ten.'
Simone's abilities don't end here.
Her natural talent is not only in the amount of mana but also in her ability to apply it.
Just as she previously covered and detected all of the hidden rooms of the Viscount Delang and connected them to the nerves of her eyes to see the black-and-white space, let's do the same now.
“...gather them all at once.”
“The sound of the wind?”
Simone took it lightly, but it seems that the group chatting by the lake did not think so.
Abel was silently staring at Simone's back.
'Was there something?'
He tapped Louis, pointed to Simone, and said something.
Louis turned his head sharply and looked at where Abel's gaze had landed, then frowned and approached Simone, asking.
“Simone, are you okay?”
“What’s the matter?”
Simone still looked puzzled.
Louis silently glared at Simone, then drew his sword and pushed away the grass that covered the tree.
“Excuse me for a moment. Abel said he sensed something strange around here.”
“Oh, I heard the sound of grass rustling.”
Simone got up and walked through the bushes towards Louis.
There was nothing.
'If there was anyone there, they would have already run away when they heard the sound.'
Simone sat down on the road, but Louis remained there guarding the place until the end and did not put down his sword.
“It looks like a few rats are hiding.”
“Rat?”
“Yes, we just now expressed the opinion that someone artificially brought forward the Demon King’s resurrection.”
Simone frowned.
What does this mean?
“Someone brought forward the Demon King’s resurrection?”
“Yes, it’s just our guess, but El said it’s a very possible story.”
“Where did you get that opinion?”
Simone turned her head and looked at her companions, who were still talking with serious faces.
This is something that never happened in the novel.
No episode or scene suggests that the Demon King's resurrection was artificially brought forward.
In the first place, is it possible to bring forward the Demon King's resurrection as desired?
For what? If we do that, we'll all die together. Why?
Louis realized that Simone's expression was not normal and put his sword back in its sheath.
“The seal that bound the Demon King was cleanly cut off. It was as if someone had cut it with a blade. At least it means that the Demon King himself didn’t break free of the bonds.”
Since arriving here, Abel and his group and El have focused solely on investigating the cause.
But that was all the clues and information they found.
The fact that the day of the Demon King's resurrection is gradually getting earlier is not a natural course of events, but rather a result of someone's intention.
“Who would do something like that...”
Louis clenched his fists. Who on earth would do such a crazy thing, and why?
If their predictions were correct, it would be the worst-case scenario.
In less than three months, four seals have already been released, so the cycle will only get faster, and at this rate, the Demon King's resurrection will come very soon.
This year at the earliest, next year at the latest.
There was not enough time to prepare for the Demon King's massacre and destruction. No, it was already too late.
Simone, who was watching Louis shaking with anger, silently bent down and tapped the ground with the palm of her hand.
“Who did that.”
“...”
“You can just check on that little rat from earlier.”
As soon as she finished speaking, black mana flowed out from Simone's hand and spread out along the ground.
Then, she concentrated all her nerves and began to use her mana to detect anyone hiding here other than the group.
Simone is incredibly good at using magic she has learned once.
“So, for now, let’s seal the other parts...”
Orkan stopped talking to his companions, flinched, and looked at the ground.
El also quickly noticed something and glared at Simone with a displeased frown.
“You used the mana of death.”
The fairies who lived forever on the mana of the World Tree were uncomfortable with the vague fear of death that the mana of death brought.
Meanwhile, Orkan was speechless in another sense.
'A magic that can sense this wide?'
It was the same at the last Viscount Delang's mansion.
Orkan was quite surprised to hear that Simone used sensing magic to cover not only one wall of the room but the entire hidden room with mana.
As expected, Simone's abilities are limitless.
It is a simple magic that involves absorbing mana into a surface and detecting it, but it requires tremendous concentration as all nerves must be connected to the mana, so ordinary magicians would have a hard time just casting detection magic on a single wall.
But now, Simone had stretched her mana from the shade of the distant trees all the way to the lake, past where Abel and his group were standing.
Considering not only the distance but also the width, it was as large as surrounding two of the Viscount's mansions, beyond the room of the Viscount Delang.
'Is this possible?'
Is this the necromancer? Can the magnitude of one's natural talent be this different?
But there was still something Orkan didn't know.
'One, two, three...There are seven in total? No, there are ten.'
Simone's abilities don't end here.
Her natural talent is not only in the amount of mana but also in her ability to apply it.
Just as she previously covered and detected all of the hidden rooms of the Viscount Delang and connected them to the nerves of her eyes to see the black-and-white space, let's do the same now.
“...gather them all at once.”
"Yes?"
Before Louis could be taken aback by her sudden words, black mana began to seep out from under the ground.
“Huh? Simone?”
“I did. It’s okay.”
Simone spoke in a whisper, and Louis looked at her with a surprised face, then nodded and ran towards Abel and his group.
Abel and his group, as well as El, were shocked by the black mana leaking out from under their feet.
Perhaps she went to explain the situation so that they wouldn't be confused.
The group far away on the lake was looking at the sight of mana gradually rising from the ground, forming a black sea, in amazement.
In particular, El was clinging to Abel with a very anxious expression on his face, not knowing what to do.
Simone closed her eyes and this time, instead of her eyes, she connected the nerves in her fingertips to Mana.
In the process, sweat was already beading and running down Simone's forehead, who had already had a comfortable rest today.
Ten humans ran away, startled by the black mana that was among the bushes.
Simone sensed them with her mana and instantly surrounded them with black mana, then gently moved them to stand close to Abel's group.
“...”
“Wow, Simone, that guy...”
This is really great.
Bianchi clapped his hands feebly in surprise, admiration, and bewilderment.
Simone used her detection magic to instantly bring the scattered men in front of them.
At this point, not only Orkan, but also El, Louis, and the rest of the group were on their guard.
“I’ve never seen anyone use sensing magic like that in my life.”
“Me too. Necromancers are more amazing than I read in books.”
Orkan and El spoke with complicated expressions on their faces.
“This is just ridiculous...”
Are you thinking of applying this while using sensing magic that requires full concentration?
If you were a wizard who used calculation techniques, this would have caused your brain to melt.
Meanwhile, Simone, who had easily accomplished that absurd feat, walked across the sea of black mana and approached Abel and his group.
Actually, it wasn't that difficult for Simone.
A magician who uses the mana he originally possesses by calculating it in a formula.
Unlike them, once she understands the concept of using the mana of death, she can freely manipulate it as if it were moving her arm.
Simone spoke to the group who were still staring blankly at her.
“There are ten of them in total. When I eliminate Mana, Abel, Louis, and Bianchi will take care of capturing these people.”
“Oh, uh, yeah...”
The group took out their weapons while stammering their answers.
In the meantime, Abel looked at Simone with a more moved expression than a blank expression and thought again.
'It's really a shame to leave this power behind. Really.'
Abel slowly began to build up his sword spirit as he planned another operation to join Simone.
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