TCIWTFY - Part 2 Chapter 178

Katzen northern border.

The iceberg was much larger and quieter than Medea expected. The wind blew fiercely as if cutting through flesh...

"Here it is, Your Highness. The last traces were found at this point."

Medea stood in front of the cliff where Cesare was believed to have fallen.

Under the dark ice wall, there is only a pure white snowfield.

There was no blood, armor, or even a trace of life.

This is because the pure white snow that falls incessantly has covered all the traces of the disastrous battle.

"Is there a way to go down the cliff?"

"We could take a detour along the side of the mountain range. However, at the bottom of the cliff, bladed ice columns rose like a forest, making it impossible to enter the point of the fall."

Only by passing through that icy field can you reach the point where the cage fell and investigate the barrier.

Medea turned her gaze down at the cliff.

Some things shimmered like starlight scattered over the snow under the cliffs.

Upon closer Inspection, it was the blade of a sharp pillar of ice.

Hehehe-hing-

Silva, who was carrying Medea, took a step back and cried.

He shook his white mane vigorously, as if he didn't want to step through the sharp ice.

Terrence continued.

He tried various methods to dig under the ice wall, but none of them were successful.

"...It means you have to deal with those ice first."

"Yes, Your Highness. But this time it will be possible. I brought enough magic stones to replenish my magical power."

Swaaaa.

A red flame flickered in Terrence's palm.

But his face was still pale.

He hadn't fully recovered his magic yet, and he was the one who warped Medea and her companions with his movement magic to the northern border.

"Sir Terrence, in reality, they have melted so many ice pillars with magic."

Medea shook her head.

"Then, Your Highness, do you have any idea how to get rid of those ices?"

"Let's go down there for now."

After a while, Medea bypassed the mountain range and stood at the beginning of the ice field, at the bottom of the cliff.

She reached out and touched the ice pillar.

The bitter cold was on her fingertips.

Pillars of ice that seemed to pierce the sky rose up like a bamboo forest.

Under the intertwined pillars, the frozen ground was connected like a huge glass plate.

'The pillars are structurally connected to each other.'

Medea's eyes turned to anger.

'If you create a crack in that tightly connected ice terrain, you have a chance.'

"Neril, bring me the gunpowder. Sir Terrence, can you drop the gunpowder exactly at the point I'm talking about?"

"Yes?"

Medea turned to Terrence.

"It creates cracks. I'll reduce the number of times we use the magic as much as possible."

After a while...

Wow!

A loud roar echoed through the quiet mountains.

It burst out from the edge of the ice field, and snow and ice fragments bounced up.

Bang bam bam!

The ice sculptures that bounced off hit other ice pillars, creating a clear and cold resonance.

However, in this vast field of ice pillars, gunpowder only removed three or four pillars.

"Gallo, Menil! Focus on hitting the center of that empty spot. Sir Terrence adds diffusion magic to the vibrations."

At Medea's command, the knights moved swiftly.

Kung-! Kung-!

The aura pulled out by the knights knocked the ground like a hammer.

Jijiji...

The slight tremors created by Terrence's diffusion magic resonated on the ground and echoed into the canyon.

"Crack... It's spreading gradually."

Kakang!

The ice pillars that had risen like mountains could not withstand the violent waves and collapsed in a chain.

In an instant, the ice pillars standing in a straight line fell like dominoes, drawing a path on the snow.

"After all, you tell me! I thought you had a trick! What are you doing! Let's go in!"

With Gallo's cry, the knights passing through the aisle spurred their horses.

He thought he would consume all the magic stones here, but when Medea opened the way like this, everyone's eyes showed signs of relief and hope.

Then, in shredding the reactivated warlock's barrier, the 1st Princess played an active role without exception.

"Terrence. Doesn't it seem like the reverberation of the sound is a little different here?"

A disparate sensation of space subtly twisting grabbed her ankle.

"That's right, here it is. Only at this point, the flow of black magic is colliding with the energy of nature. Your Highness has found the entrance to the barrier."

Terence swallowed his admiration.

The knights who came and even the wizard himself sensed a gap that they almost missed.

'I see... Is it a proxy chosen by God?'

"Everyone, get ready for battle! If it's the same barrier as before, as soon as it's shattered, what's inside will pop out."

Before breaking the barrier, Terrence added.

It was the same when he hit the Golden Tower.

The moment the barrier was broken, demons and test subjects jumped out and attacked them.

"You protect Your Highness."

There was no answer. However, the Agemas nodded with sharp eyes.

Oh no!

Terrence worked the magic.

It was the moment when the barrier of black magic, which had been tangled like a black net, was torn.

The knights swallowed their breath as the barrier and the space of reality overlapped like a transparent puzzle and broke down.

Everyone fixed their swords and held them in their hands.

They were prepared for things that would protrude through the torn net.

"...!"

Where the barrier disappeared, they were greeted by traces of a fierce battle.

The corpses of demons were scattered everywhere, and...

Dried dark red blood stains.

The carcasses of the beasts were even more creepy because they were not even rotten in the snow.

In between.

"He's here!"

They found the body of the warlock.

He was dead with his eyes wide open.

"It's Cesare's."

A dagger stuck in the heart of a warlock.

And even the torn pieces of armor lying beside the body.

All of them were engraved with the coat of arms of the 1st Prince.

"Find our lord! He might be around here!"

Alpha shouted urgently.

The eyes of the knights lit up in unison. The clue was now clear.

Cesare is still alive!

***

A few days later.

In the place where the barrier was broken, several small military barracks were now erected.

"Stall?"

Unlike that day, when the barrier was broken with all our might, the search for Cesare had not made any progress for several days.

"There are only traces of demons. I can't imagine how the lord handled all of them."

Alpha stuck out his tongue.

Not only did he defeat the warlock with a knife stuck in his back, but he also annihilated the demons in the barrier.

All they found in this neighborhood were traces of how intense the situation was.

'...If you are in this state, can you really be alive?'

Alpha tried to erase the ominous thoughts that kept blooming in his head.

The more the search continued, the more pieces were revealed rather than the possibility of survival.

The morale of the group sank more and more into a deep swamp.

"Still, keep going. You have to find the boss's corpse and go back. I can never leave."

"Blizzards are unusual. It would be better to stop the search here without a shift to night."

The conversation between Gallo and Alpha was getting more and more nervous.

The snowy mountains were dark even in the bright morning.

After the sun went down, the darkness was thick, making it difficult to even recognize the people in front of you.

In this situation, Gallo, realizing that the search was impossible, nodded and let the searchers return.

"Sir Neril, what did you find?"

Neril shook her head as he returned.

She held out a red smoke grenade in her hand. Seeing that it hadn't been used yet, Gallo let out a small breath.

"But do you want to spread the rain?"

"Gallo, wasn't Her Highness with you?"

"No, I thought Her Highness was with you...!"

Neril's voice scattered like a scream at his answer.

The blizzard that hit the cheek hard was getting stronger and stronger.

The figure of the 1st Princess Medea was nowhere to be seen.

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